skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry I didn't see your reply sooner. if you see this in time to edit, please tone it down by two notches, come on. The OP (of the article) is here answering questions, and we're one community. you yourself are the article author in a few years if you want to be.

You know "what does this person do" because they are up-front about it: what they do is "Winnie, helping parents navigate the world with their children." Apparently within their network people really want to do that, and lots of VC's have kids, etc. (Many of the most famous ones do, often in the same age bracket.)

So welcome to our community, but please be a civil member in line with our rules. There's no distinction here between people. you can talk to VC's. you can literally talk to the blog author, they're here answering questions. people on this forum aren't born into wealth or the like (arguably for the most part they have had access to superlative education, but on the other hand much of it is self-taught.)

so try to be civil :)

I also share your frustration and agree:

> when every one of the most talented engineers that I know has to hustle to get these sorts of doors opened?

what is likely also at play (though the author can clarify for us) is their past enterprises or other businesses they had similar roles in. i.e. their track record.
A couple of alternatives I considered before suggesting an API.

1. Just use UTC and that it's a feature for the next vesion. It might be a way to start a conversation with early users.

2. Make a system call to the users operating system to determine future dates.

3. Make a system call to the server operating system to determine future dates.

Finally, time zones are hard. How hard? Really hard. By really hard I mean that Apple screwed up on it a few years ago: http://wccftech.com/iphone-daylight-saving-time-bug-how-to-m...

People got over it. Good luck.
I should have said, "guarantees that it can evaluate it at compile time if needed, such that you can use it where the compiler expects a compile-time constant expression". Yes, the compiler can choose to defer it until runtime in some cases.
Wow, I remember now :D
I get cold hands - more appropriately, a cold right hand - if I'm using a wired mouse. A wireless mouse keeps my hand warm.

That said, the suggestion about fingerless gloves is spot-on. Some folks just get cold easier: For me, cold hands could just be related to hormones (female here). Chronic due to the recurring nature of it all, but seriously not a big deal.
Cookies are stupid, kill monsters instead in Clicker Heroes!

https://www.clickerheroes.com/

(Once you understand the meta-game and the meta-meta-game, it becomes seriously addicting)
thanks for being here to answer questions! for the VC who reached out to you via email, who you deferred and then ended up participating in your round - did you have a past relationship with them? from where? where did they hear about you from, if you know?

I think we're trying to get a sense of what it takes to 'poop rainbows' (as my cousin comment said) and have VC's ask you to tell them when they can write their check :)

All information here is appreciated. We all aspire to be you!
As someone who just transitioned from university to a pretty much unrelated programming job, it occurs to me that I could have gone into either web development or computer vision, to use your example. Either way I would have been joining a team as a junior developer with only hobbyist experience and expected to learn on the job. Perhaps if you lowered your salary expectations and were willing to accept a relatively junior level role you would be able to break into that area of work, and with your existing experience would be able to work your way up more quickly than a truly junior dev like myself.
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It downloads everything by default.
SQS FIFO Queues with Exactly-Once Processing and Deduplication
Curious how you guys got training data for this. Did someone have to go through and rate whether or not a sentence was quality or not? And how many training examples did you use? You say it was "difficult to develop a large set" but I'm curious how large that set actually was.

Edit: Also, do you think more data or a "better" or "more sophisticated" model would make the results better? I would guess more data would trump better model, but not sure.
You seem to be missing the fact that powershell is just designed better. Take powershell vs bash. Bash operates primarily on strings. In powershell everything that is interacted with is an object. This wont really effect you in day to day interactions, but it is incredibly useful when you decide that you want to automate something. This combined with the fact that powershell is built on the .net framework means that there is a simple way to extend it from C#. You should give it an honest try sometime. Its not really that much more verbose in everyday practice and it has lots of tools around it that make life simpler.
It isnt until you've fully understand your own point that you can easily explain it to someone else.
> much of a counter-argument.

I wasnt making one
Meet the 19-year-old Kiwi making $5000 a week using stolen credit cards
I completely agree.

Start high and work your way down until you get consistent conversion ratios that match up with your personal goals.

OR start low and then keep increasing the price until you hit a conversion wall.

Both ways work!

This is an amazing read on the subject:

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...
How about just a paid phone number. Charge 10c/min.
I probably would be willing to take a salary hit. Thanks for the advice.
TL;DR: he buys stolen credit cards from the dark web, buys products from Amazon and other big retailers, then sells the products on for cash. He has employees helping with this, and hopes to grow his earnings from $5K a week to $50K.
Personal anecdote:

I had crippling pain along my left side. I saw several doctors about it; they prescribed drugs that helped the immediate pain but didn't solve the underlying problem.

Then I read on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072780/ that wearing a wrist brace AT NIGHT helps overcome carpal-tunnel. A good wrist brace cost me about $20; I've worn it every night since, and the carpal tunnel has gone away for me.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned William Herbert Sheldon and his famous Somatotyping. This fell out of favor but he was systematically cataloging body features as a function of criminality.
audio for now. we kicked around a few ideas re vlogging but decided to start here.

we'll definitely include office hours/q&a tho!
Its a very different culture. College is affordable for most people - in the US it means you're willing to go into a lot of debt or have either well off or poor parents. There's a huge pool of extremely competent people in the US without a degree due to familial reasons.
It's true that the C circle in the Venn diagram leaks out of the C++ circle a bit, but I find in practice most of it is contained quite well inside the C++ one.

My current hobby project is a language VM that compiles cleanly as both C and C++. It took very little effort to get it working in C++ despite hacking on it for months as a strictly C project first.
k. thanks!
They live on in a small tool they built... The Yellowdog Updater, Modified.

Now just known as yum.
Stay away from anything remotely stressful for a while, slowly build your tolerance for stress back up, pay attention to what your body and mind are telling you and don't let anyone force you back into the same situation.
Don't most C compilers compile C at compile time? That's what makes them C compilers.
Exercise is the perfect cure if the problem is lack of exercise.

In this guy's case, he tried exercise. Various types. He biked to work. It still didn't fix things.

His problem was cold. There's probably not much else that could fix that.
What if I actively don't want to think about my code in the shower? Work/life balance and all that jazz.
cool. thanks for the feedback
Clickbait headline. She was asked if we would reach "the singularity" in her lifetime and she said no, not in her lifetime (which arguably is on average 18 more years).
completely agreed!
I gave a presentation called Testable Software Architecture [1] a week ago with very similar recommendations to this article.

Decoupling is essential in order to have fast, maintainable tests that give you confidence to deploy continuously.

My two favourite techniques for this is a ports&adapters architecture where we plug in fake adapters for the majority of the tests. We then use contract tests to be confident that the fakes behave the same as the real services.

[1] https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/8567-testable-software-...
A simple Go package to fetch lyrics from Wikia
yeah, I like stories from behind the scenes people as well
> I pretty much only program in C++ at work and Rust at home now, and I think Rust is hands-down a better designed language. It just feels more coherent and consistent.

C++ turned out kinda... good -- considering that it started out as "tacking classes on C".
> Unlike a lot of other people who seem to use good technology as a means of achieving money.

There's nothing wrong with this. In fact many pure tech projects fail completely because they don't understand how to make money, ultimately helping no one.
Add to that the disparity of food, housing cost. Its FAR FAR lower in countries I've visited, even in downtown cores, and the quality on both are generally better despite being cheaper.

I'd argue you can live a far better, less stressed and more fulfilling lifestyle in most countries in the EU on 1/3rd of the income as in the US.
Looks awesome, but something really weird is happening with the scrolling on Android Firefox.
This is a simple scrapper package to fetch lyrics data from the Wikia website. It's my first Go package and I'm sure there are a lot of ways to improve it. Suggestions, issues or PRs are welcomed!
The Reverse Creation of Big Data
FWIW I found biking terribly aggravating for RSI. It really is not an ergonomic position. I'd recommend nearly anything other than biking. Swimming, weight lifting, basketball, etc. Anything where you aren't still sitting.
Tkinter would have given you a basic Unicode capable GUI without the hassles of the console.
One of my projects for this weekend is to move off GMail for my main email address. It's too much of a risk.
> instead care about class

my hero!
Often, when I'm struggling to find energy for after hours projects, I find that it's because I'm neglecting ancillary tasks such as eating nutritious meals, exercising and giving my brain down time (usually these can be combined by cycling etc), and planning my work in advance so that the barrier to start each day is low. Other times I'm overwhelmed by stress or sheer number of tasks (which can again be mitigated with more planning)

A sibling comment says that lack of energy indicates low motivation and that you should find a new project. With due respect to the commenter, this is not useful advice. If you are interested in completing a project, you have enough motivation to do so - what you may not have is the right environment around you. So identify what's stopping you from working, and get rid of those road blocks. Some times they aren't obvious and can take some time to identify, but keep paying attention and eventually you will spot them.
Sounds like a poor use of a shared resource since the only one of those exercises that requires a squat rack is a squat. I guess it's fine if there's no one else at your gym.
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The North Pole is an insane 20C warmer than normal as winter descends
>The more you value your out-of-the-office life and the more enjoyment you gain from it, the less negative impact your job can have on your life.

This 1000 times. There was nothing physically challenging about the work that burned me out. I wasn't starving to death, I could stop doing it at any time (in theory), and it would have been perfectly manageable for someone in a stronger mental state than me. It was the all consuming, this-work-is-my-life attitude that allowed it to become something so crippling.
I suspect that if not for the internet, one wouldn't even know the cocoons existed.
The first draft is for me to figure out what I want to say.

The second draft is for me to say it.

The third draft is to fix all the mistakes I made in the second draft.

The fourth draft is to fix all the mistakes I missed in the third. Around here, it's finally good enough.
Well, reading the rest of his tweets, it helps when your "firewall" doesn't NAT all traffic _inbound_, unrestricted. giggle
> using a jet fighter to shield your infantry from the rain

Great imagery, and similar to the thoughts I had when reading that series. They can imprint arbitrary images on human retinas, you'd think they could at least disable computers if not suborn our networks completely. I suppose that their... mental handicap could prevent them from coming up with the idea of our computers "lie" to us, but that seems a little flimsy.
Interesting when you say "However, in more rural areas the satellite system can well end up the cheaper choice."

You mean a satellite system can well end up your ONLY choice. If you're rural there are no choices besides dial up and satellite. Satellite is a reseller selling hughesnet.
So—to be clear—you're implying your physical health is entirely unrelated to the emotional health.

If that's not correct, I can't follow why you just discarded the entire article.
Then don't. There are only so many hours in the day, this is about fitting as much as possible into them. If you want to take a break during your shower, or go to get coffee with friends every day, that's cool, but there are people with many things going on and they enjoy doing it all. To each their own.
But there are thresholds of danger.

Right now I'm re-reading Churchill's The Gathering Storm, which covers the pre-WWII era and ends with him being appointed PM. Just past the part where Hitler tells a British official that Germany had achieved air parity, which was true, which was a shock since the government had been insisting they were far behind. But this was in the mid-30s, about the right time for the government to start ordering large numbers of Hurricanes and Spitfires. Nazi Germany didn't become really dangerous until a few years later ... and with a little will and force (unfortunately, France had structured her army so that the latter wasn't an option without total mobilization, see this excellent and short book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811714608/) could have been stopped at that stage and for a while later, but....

Now, we're swimming in a sea filled with the Internet of Shit and evidently a greater potential for ugliness for which we don't have things like Hurricanes, Spitfires and Chain Home radar as an answer. Hmmm, Chain Home development also started around then, 1935, and was barely ready in time for the Battle of Britain, and early use of the first few systems revealed a need for coordination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowding_system.

Then again, maybe we can hack up stuff reasonably quickly, do major league routers still use FPGAs for flexibility at speed? But we should start now, like the Brits did when they got serious in the mid-30s.
with the vampire taps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap
Facebook actually sucks at most things, but it doesn't matter as long as the stock goes up and it generates more revenues.
Unnecessarily cruel, but not necessarily untrue.
> But the real killer feature IMHO, which was released in Urchin 6, was individual visitor history drill-down. If this sounds potentially, um, sensitive, that’s because it is. Google wouldn’t touch this feature and it was summarily axed, never to return.

Any word on what this feature was? And do others currently offer an equivalent?
Or maybe there's no problem at all and the Bloomberg reporter doesn't know what he's talking about?

Some quick Googling suggests that Toyota outsources up to 70% of their parts. (http://artoflean.com/index.php/2014/01/07/444/)

VW is much more vertically integrated. (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/06/how-volkswagen-is-run-lik...)

"How can this be possible? How can VW look so uncompetitive
from a productivity standpoint, yet out-earn all of its
competitors?

"Ah, that's the magic of VW's corporate structure."
This is really great! It has all the features I need. Going to get my team to start using this right away. EVERY team should be using this product.

Thank you sir!
If the fullest extent at which they can exploit my activities is to show me mostly irrelevant shit that I'll never buy, then I'm not worried about it. It's be like worrying about all those 'psychics' that pretend to know what you're thinking by repeating what you've just said back at you. Whatever power they find there is an exploitation of other peoples' careless ignorance, which is something I do dread on occasion.
You can live in the very core of berlin for around EU1500/mo, and much cheaper in places only a few blocks away from the subway that will get you to work in 1/4 the time. Food costs are about 50% less than in the US, for better quality. You can travel to any other city and other countries by fairly inexpensive train or cheap flights. You can spend 1600 on room/utilities, 400 on food, 100 on transportation and have 1600euros a month for whatever you want at that salary, with no worries about your health or looking after your kids.

But you probably won't have 4000 square foot house to store your 4 cars in.
Google gave me http://www.spanamwar.com/mainsalv.htm on that salvage.

It's remarkably similar to this summer's recovery of a British World War Two bomber: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/08/missing-world-..., but technology, of course, has progressed.
It's not a talent problem. It's a culture/ management issue.
This is a C compiler implemented in C++ template metaprogramming. (Well, technically constexprs, but similar)
#5 is all very well, but I don't think helping devs write test is a substitute for actually having QA people. Testers should have a mentality of "I want to break this", and like it or not, the developers just won't think like good testers.

Do Test Engineers at Google do this kind of work as well?
Can someone please critique my developer resume after startup layoff?
Hi!

I recently got laid off from a startup and I'm looking for a new job. It was purely for funding reasons and not performance based, I can get recommendations from my managers. I'm wondering if there is a way to communicate this on my Resume. Also other than the two major projects I worked on I'm curious how to talk about all the other minor day-to-day work and smaller projects I worked on at the company.

The last time I asked for resume help from HN it was very helpful.

It's been a while since I've done this, I would appreciate it if anyone could give me any feedback on the content or styling.

Please be as rude and nitpicky as possible!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8h9xo6rax1bte03/jahamed_peach_resume.pdf?dl=0

Thanks again so much!
Abandoned 737 Plane
Not so much a poor use of a shared resource as a required use of a poorly equipped gym.
If anyone is interested in that salvage story, read here: http://www.spanamwar.com/mainsalv.htm

Amazing that this could be done in 1912.
You could do this since at least XP!

You just needed to go in to the properties of the window and increase the screen buffer size (both width and height). It's one of the first things I'd do upon installing a Windows machine.
Because it's not just you reading this?

I found the reverse engineering part interesting too. Like I said, it's incredibly well done. But it's also legally problematic and anyone reading this should understand the risks they are taking. Fighting an FAA enforcement action will be far more expensive (think 5 figures) than just paying the money to do it the legally correct way. If someone does it wrong it might cost them their life (see paulmd's comments above).

Pilots operate in an complex regulatory environment and things that may seem okay from the outside are not okay to the government. It's so complex that otherwise well meaning and law abiding pilots each year run afoul of the various regulations, and there are few legal protections afforded to pilots facing an enforcement action. A good example of this is the relevant FARs about reimbursement for business expenses when flying yourself. They're not the same as driving and being caught breaking them could cost you your certificate.

Whole books are written about aviation law and attorneys specialize in it. And all pilots are expected to be familiar with them. But the devil is in the details, and that's where they'll get you,

He says he didn't put it in his plane, so he's fine. And it was a super interesting technical read. But others reading this need to understand the ramifications of doing this or something like it to an actual airplane is just asking for problems.
In Asia, We can have 1 to N maids to take care kids
She's a lot more popular than your average person, and more tied into SV than most. Her resume includes Google, Youtube, Twitter, and Postmates before founding her own company, plus she's got 35K followers on Twitter and had a TechCrunch article written about the startup. I think a lot of what she wrote is applicable but she also moves in spheres the average person doesn't.
Thanks for the comment! There were a few hundred sentences of each, collected internally from from a wide number of descriptions.

Yes, I'd definitely agree- more data is what we need here for further model improvements.
This angers the LeCun
Perhaps Google tracks the changes to the dependencies, and reruns tests against a a real service when it changes.

That's how I would do it, at least.

If you have task-oriented build system with dependencies (like Google does with Blaze), it'd fit right in.

Though depending on how you deploy, you may have old and new services at different versions. Assuming a level backwards/forwards compatibility may be reasonable.
I'm sure tensing up due to cold doesn't help. However, for me an ergonomic setup (in particular mouse and keyboard) has done wonders. Pain isn't 100% gone all the time, but it's not crippling agony where I can no longer make a fist.

The other thing that makes a huge difference to me is sleep. Days I don't sleep long /well my wrist and fingers hurt more. I don't know if this is due to giving the body more time to repair or feeling more relaxed (less tense) throughout the day.
Are you actually able to not be confused by piping objects? In Unix everything is a string so I just pipe text to sort and then unique...etc. PS always complains relentlessly. The GUI features and .NET integration is nice though.
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My suspicion is that it's not that Facebook sucks at machine learning, but that they are scared of public backlash when their algorithm accidentally takes a story from Breitbart and classifies it (arguably correctly) as fake news. At that point Facebook is derided as a tool of the liberal msm (after all it's run by liberal Silicon Valley technocrats), and from there eyeballs go elsewhere and Facebook is harmed.

Better for them to feign ignorance and lie to themselves.
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Great point! I considering using fasttext as a baseline, however in practice fasttext really didn't work well at all with the small data set, much worse than the tfidf baseline. I think Fasttext's classification approach might not work well with such a small dataset. I'm not sure but I suspect its because it tries to learn embeddings - but there just isn't anywhere near enough data for that. I'd love an outside perspective on this.
Their news feed sucks big time, and its' not just a facebook issue, most social media outsmarted themselves with ML.