skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creating an audit system and locking down "God" mode seems like something that would save Uber a lot of major headaches down the road. How often do Uber employees need to legitimately track someone's information other than in response to a customer request? I'm guessing about as often as the average Google employee needs access to a specific user's search history, which is to say, fairly rarely.

Without locking down such access, you get incidents like these (and this was even when Google purportedly had strong auditing): http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369188,00.asp

> Google this week confirmed that it fired an engineer who accessed the Gmail and Google Voice accounts of several minors and taunted those children with the information he uncovered.

The public sector has its fair share of these too: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-01-22/news/os-law-e...

Here's a URL to the plaintiff's declaration: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3227535-Spangenberg-...

Lots of tidbits there...including how all payroll information is apparently contained in an "unsecure Google spreadsheet"
As a former real estate appraiser, I am very Interested in your methodology and approach in valuing homes. Lenders require appraisals, do you find that the value you place on each listing come close to the appraised value?
Anybody have tried this algorithm compared to simpler strategy, like average of word vector, for document classification task? Or compared to using skipthought sent2vec pre-trained model?
You can get basically this for multiples of $99 if you buy a bunch of Google Asus OnHub's on eBay and backhaul them over Ethernet with the latest firmware.

It has no knobs what-so-ever, but it's as good as Ubiquiti for far less $.
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It's possible to have a %100 rate when you haven't been around long.

100% owner also means they bootstrapped and were a solo founder.
Fair enough. But to a non-intellectual, it must seem crazy that the supposed intellectuals can't tell him whether a drug works or not, or whether eating fat or sugar makes you fat.

Part of being non-intellectual is believing that there are simple answers to simple questions.
Jay-Z backed JetSmarter raises $105M to become Uber for private jets
I <3 you guys in every way :P this is a perfect example of why:

No defensiveness, no push back, just a prompt to start a conversation with a potential user to better their product. :)
> I wish solving our problems was as simple as dismantling our governments

I can understand that. It's certainly a topic for debate, not one where one side has proven to be right or wrong.

Johnson wasn't really in favor of dismantling government oversight on everything. He has stated he's in favor of agencies which protect environment, health, water, etc. He wants market-based solutions like a carbon tax where they will work better than heavy handed regulation.
My God. It's like I think, "It would be interesting to work out X ..." and a few months later DeepMind's announcing some results in the area. Cool / Frustrating.
In Founders Den, a private club that relies on the power of persuasion
You're missing the point
Someone added all this into a goodreads list, so that you can mark them 'read later'.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/106375.YC_s_Winter_Readi...
I would have said the same thing about OSX a decade ago. I wish someone would throw a lot of money at it. Apple has money but OSX keeps getting worse.
This exactly. And he turned it down. This is nowhere mentioned in his interview and it's an important point of his own failure as a CEO.

He thought he could make a better deal back in the good days, overestimating the value of his company and NOT selling when the time is right. I don't buy it that he sold to Fitbit because Fitbit promised to keep the employees, this is exactly the bullshit I expect him to say to an interview to paint his story a courageous one.

Pebble was an amazing startup with a lot of potential and good ideas (I find their short developer manual in C as one of the best introductions to C programming with practical examples ever written), but the CEO overestimated his company's maturity and value. Which is a shame. Let's hope Fitbit keeps alive some of the legacy.
I refer you back to my other comment about this asinine comparison
async-await is in neither of those, though TS does support it and downlevels it to ES5/ES6.
The key difference is the telephony company needs to know who I want to talk to so they can connect me, which web sites I want to load so they can retrieve the data from the server, and where I am so phone calls and data are routed through a nearby tower. People aren't going to be as upset about a company having data that is necessary for their core service to be provided. Does Uber need to know where I sleep in order to catch a ride from my office to a bar for happy hour?
I think he meant "frequently the drawings are faded".
Anyone know if colleagues of GraphQL address this somehow? Like Falcor, om.next, Datomic, DataScript, Relay, Neo4j etc?

(I know some of those might not be the same, just throwing in a bunch of names vaguely clustered in my head)
Oh that was years ago. IIRC, I was started at $55k / yr plus stock options in 2008, which at the time had similar exchange rates to the USD. Seems low on these days, but was around $10k more than what I'd been earning as an engineer.
> Somewhat alarmist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave#Effects_on_health

Microwaves can't hurt you unless you focus the hell out of them, right at yourself. Even then, they can't make you experience the health effects that this handsome fellow was talking about (insomnia, really?). You might get buzzing in your ears if you're right next to a radar dish... and that's about it.

FCC guidelines on radio emissions are pretty strict. If people were baking themselves with their Wi-Fi routers, someone would've filed a lawsuit by now.

This is what's wrong with TED Talks, and with pop sci / pseudoscience in general. It's all excitement, no truth. See also, "power poses": http://www.chronicle.com/article/When-Big-Ideas-Go-Bad/23854...
C# + js /w react a plus

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Long time HN listener, first time caller. I've used Ubiquiti products in multiple deployments over the last few years, in both business and residential environments. I have nothing but praise for their hardware quality as well as software features, stability and ease of use. This includes EdgeRouters, PoE switches and UniFi AP's (AC-LR and PRO models). Very satisfied customer, and with lots of experience and headaches involving various mgfs. configuration interfaces or hardware quirks, my only regret is not trying out Ubiquiti products sooner!
We use them for EMG data/interpretation as well.
Your comment seemed absolutely bonkers to me until I thought: what if I could still use my 2015 macbook pro in 2023 and be happy. That would be awesome, though unlikely since nothing on my laptop is user servicable.
Pardon my ignorance, but does Node improve as the V8 engine (or Microsoft's Chakra engine) improves?

Also, when/if GraalVM becomes public, would Node then be more suitable for CPU intensive apps?

I love javascript but never quite grok'd it as a server side language. I wouldn't mind using it, but have never found a good use case and this article hasn't really convinced me to delve into it.

Edit: I have found that it has been pretty neat for some command line integrations, but lately, I have been falling back to Ruby.
Certain Citibank cards (not all though)
If "Foo" represents anything at all complex or stateful (e.g. a database connection, a model of some data, an HTTP server, etc.), and you might want to extend it later, it's going to be messy.

If you assume there is only ever going to be one implementation of "Foo", then there's nothing to be gained by using an interface over a struct with private fields. If there are other implementations, then you have to update every implementation in sync with the interface every time you add or change a method. That might be very difficult or even nigh impossible if they're in different packages maintained by different people.

My point is to be very careful with how you use interfaces. They're designed to represent abstractions that apply to multiple data types. Looking at the standard library, Reader, Writer, Stringer, http.Handler etc are all pretty useful as interfaces. database/sql/driver has the Driver interface, which is about as complicated as you should allow an interface to become. Notice that nothing in database/sql implements the Driver interface -- it's strictly for polymorphism, to consume external implementations -- and nearly every type in database/sql is a raw struct.
IIRC OnHub devices are also compatible with the new Google WiFi devices.
My Citibank MasterCard provides one-time use CC number.
Open-RethinkDB meeting notes and FAQ (Dec)
Discover stopped offering them a few years back. At one time I had three cards that had this option and they all slowly stopped, basically saying their fraud detection was good enough the extra trouble wasn't worth it for them.
Yeah I have been working nearly exclusively on a Retina Macbook since they were released last year. I really love the keyboard on this computer, and I think that the newest iteration of the keyboard is a significant improvement on the Macbook's. I know a couple people who hated it when they first tried it, and still hate it.
Developer here. We weren't exactly expecting this to become as popular as it did.. Just survived being #1 on Reddit – sheesh.

It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.
So are the following:

-Tesla

-Eero

-Pluot
What if Tesla made wearables?
You know what they say about hindsight and perfect vision.

Sounds like Eric thought the company could have survived. I give him props for sticking with it as long as possible.
Thanks for the heads up on this – should be working again now.
16GB SODIMMs. Actually it was about this time last year that they started to become available.
What are competitive rates for an appsec engineer?

I'm a tech lead who's always been interested in appsec(very passively), but it always seemed like a long journey from here to there. And I was under the impression the rates were pretty similar which made the task seem more daunting.
Can you provide a more clear link to evidence of your claim that Yglesias deleted 3000 tweets about Obamacare? I see images of a few tweets deleted. Perhaps Twitter is showing us different messages below the message you directly linked.
Great article. See also the linkedin comments: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-your-own-anycast-networ...
Google is no longer developing its own self-driving car: report
Would Open Mesh be a good alternative to his setup?
I am wondering if there are any implementations of translating Swagger API configurations (or similarly RAML, JSON Schema) to GraphQL. For example, it could be integrated with the API Gateway in order to translate GraphQL queries to ordinary Rest API calls on the fly.
On mobile, you have to click the "show full article" to, well, show the full article.
It really irks me that not only this is unnecessary, but possibly devious, a dark design pattern:

You want to see what's inside, but you haven't decided if you care, however by clicking it you're tricked into thinking you do (after all, you are the one clicked on it, now you're invested, it's not like it was the carefully crafted headline /s).

Do I exaggerate?
Kubernetes 1.5.0 Released
> The parity of the ports at each end of the connection was required to be different: you couldn't connect an even port to another even port, or an odd port to another odd port. "Homosocketuality" was strictly forbidden by internet protocols! NCP's mandatory "heterosocketuality" was called the "Anita Bryant feature". [2]
> ...
> [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422813

Well, that's a whole distasteful part of computer history I was blissfully unaware of before now. As someone fairly young (in my early 20s), it's sometimes hard to remember that things like this are very recent history, so I guess it helps to have some perspective every now and then.
Ts is great on the backend. And if it gives you only "some typing", you are doing it wrong.

With noexplicitany and strictnullchecks, you can get really nice, typed code.

Even stringly typed code can be typed now, with keyof.
What kind of reply would you want? Would a simple "no thanks" be enough?

I have been in the situation before where replying to everyone with anything meaningful is simply not feasible. Maybe for a recruiter whose full-time job is that but not for a hiring manager who also has to balance their regular duties as well.

I have spent much more time on the applicant side of things than the hirer side so I understand the goal. It can be frustrating to not get anything. If it is a job you really want you may be inclined to hold everything else off until you hear something just on the hope that maybe they haven't gotten to your resume yet. So a little closure would be nice.

So maybe a better question for you is what are you trying to accomplish by getting hiring managers to reply to all candidates? Give them closure or provide feedback? If the former than maybe a simple "no thanks" will do.

By the way, I am speaking clearly to the scenario where a candidate sends in a resume and doesn't hear anything back. In my opinion, even if the hiring manager or recruiter does a phone call the candidate deserves a clear "no" email at a minimum.
> If an applicant takes the time to apply to your posting, why not give them a follow up regardless?

I'm not a hiring manager, but as the CTO I do review a lot of resumes incoming for technical positions we are hiring for.

The vast majority of applicants do not appear to be taking any time at all aside from selecting their resume to upload and clicking submit. It doesn't seem like they even read the job requirements, since 90% of them do not meet the minimal requirements we post. Some of them are not even developers, but they apply for a developer position.

If someone does appear to be relevant and did also include a cover letter relevant to the position, I will respond, regardless if they're a fit or not.

For me the biggest pain is the sheer amount of irrelevant submissions, which makes you numb after a while. This is why I don't believe in job postings anymore and mostly do headhunting.

Hope this helps!
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I have tried to use the site a handful of times and every time the offer has been uncompetitive, the site has been buggy, or the employee responses have been confused and wrong. It's actually laughable.

What gives? Or perhaps a better question is: Is this a common experience? Are these growing pains that you are aware of? I've rarely had a worse experience with a startup.
I grew up as the son of a bookseller/publisher, who bootstrapped her own small business in the field. I just get tired of clueless people saying that publishers add nothing of value, when publishers add plenty. I'm not justifying Elsevier's scummy practices, but too many people just flatly state that they bring nothing to the table.

It's both an insult to what publishers do bring, and something of an own-goal: if you want to replace a scummy operator, you have to understand what they bring to the table so that you can replace it with something better. It's identical to the people who scream about Apple and Google taking a 30% cut of app store sale - these people are clearly clueless about business and are shouting to the world their ignorance about what that 30% gets you.

> And academia is already about networking; collaborations, at least in CS and Mathematics, are a big part of research

Academia also has a lot of political backstabbing and competition for dwindling grant money. But Elsevier's role isn't finding collaborators - it's finding reviewers, which is a distinctly different thing. You also can't find blinded reviewers yourself or via known associates, because that takes away the blind.
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I run Technical Operations at Revinate. We are based in San Francisco but my team is 100% remote. I'm based in a small town in Kansas.

For 2017, I want to hire more engineers with Kubernetes, CoreOS, and Go experience. My team has deep Linux systems administration experience but we've automated ourselves out of most of the day-to-day admin work of yesteryear. Our future hires will be heavily focused on automation. We've already automated builds, testing, deployment, monitoring, and metrics in a Kube/Docker pipeline. I expect to automate load balancing and hardware deployment in 2017. I also expect that we will adapt many of our non-Kubernetes data services for running containerized in Kube.
of course it is a convenience for me, I was talking about myself and not about anyone else! My point wasn't in pointing out if someone is right or wrong, it was just explaining why I haven't raised issues on Firefox ever. It seems they now support github login, so now, if I encounter an issue, I will raise it. I do allow telemetry stuff to contribute my share :)
Broad is part of the problem. It's very difficult to get qualified reviewers when you haven't narrowed the scope. One of the primary problems with PLOS ONE is that it exasperates problems already seen in other journals that cover too much. Why would you expect a specialist in awake single neuron experiments to be able to review and MRI study? Sure, there are some really good people out there, but for the most part, such reviews are going to be arbitrary.
> You can ship a fully compliant USB-C 3.1 cable for probably 40 cents more than a cheap version. It makes no sense to start a rollout this way, especially from a company like Apple

You're talking about the company that no longer ships power cables with a little plastic clip to keep them tidy and now sells the extended lead as an extra, both of which have been in every one of their laptop chargers for 15 years+
The article talked about Opendoor being able to increase liquidity. However a lot of real estate illiquidity is due to people who refuse to sell at market value for irrational reasons.

For example, "I paid X so I won't sell below that", "I added a pool plus 100k in renovation so I should get that much of a premium", "I'll just wait a few months and see if prices get better".

A big function of realtors is to console and convince people to sell at a realistic price.

This behavior makes it harder for OD to improve liquidity, and in fact liquidity could take a hit with no realtor therapy for sellers.

I predict a major issue for Opendoor will be seller sticker shock. Many will balk at paying 8-12% in fees even if it's in their best interest.

Willingness to paying more for convenience or speed is not a constant. See mental accounting from University of Chicago, or ask any realtor about seller psychology.
This would be a fantastic fit for open/public/research databases.
what is a good way to connect router or access points OVER WIFI. i dont have wired backhaul in my office and it would be fairly cumbersome to build one.

are there APs with two radios each - one for backhaul and one for service?
Uber seems to be company founded by sociopaths with a hiring process that stacks the company with sociopaths.
Rewind the Red Planet
Meraki is completely cloud based. ￼Firmware upgrades happen automatically although you have some options about when they get applied (and you get notification before hand).

Having built a software platform that integrated with the big enterprise wifi vendors, I can comfortably say meraki's is the most intuitive and easiest to use.
The toolset for something like this is there (row level security, column based permissions), but to get to something equivalent as described there you'd need to build something using the available infrastructure...
Even if all USB-C cables were the highest spec and worked with anything USB-C, further multiplexing the port with Thunderbolt 3 adds yet another whole layer of messiness. Not only are Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C cables not interchangeable but there are a whole bunch of interop issues surrounding Thunderbolt 3: http://plugable.com/thunderbolt-3/ gives a good overview.
Moon is a hell of a last name for a NASA scientist.
Icymi, there are several dockerfiles you can use to install unifi on a Linux box.
From earlier today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13158468
> I got a variety of responses including that I should install the open source dd-wrt firmware... No, no, a hundred times no...

Silly. If the author doesn't want to follow good advice, too bad for him.

I'm using WRT1900ACS with DD-WRT. It works like a charm.

> if I buy a product then I expect it to work as advertised and not need to implement hacks to keep it alive.

It's not a "hack". It's installing a better quality OS on the device. Again, if the author doesn't want to do that, there is no reason to complain.
>People who can be micro-managed and used as resources

This might explain why companies want H1Bs so much. Places like India and others tend to produce very pliable candidates who will just take orders and execute. I think this is a much bigger factor than wages.
Could your neighborhood give you cancer? Startup uses gov data to map risks
The opposite; nothing happened for many years and people kind of accepted that the "new" models were just slight refreshes to the existing 16GB-limited line.

But when Apple finally introduced a brand new generation, and it was still limited to 16 GB, that really set everybody off.
Since when is Uber a YC company?
> we need mechanisms to compare researchers working in different subdisciplines, for researchers to "prove" to the community at large that they're doing good work.

But the acceptance into those journals is decided by editors, with the same thought process of the hiring committee. What makes their decision any more valuable?
Typed in "5x5", found nothing. However rare of a performance, Draymond pulled it off last season so it should be relatively recent.
A safe space of YC companies.
Critical thinking above all, ability to solve new problems, ability to deliver applied theories, and ability to ship. Beyond that, we're looking for hardware experience, statistics experience, heavy math skills, digital signal processing, machine learning. Python / C / C++ and ruby for some apps.
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From the you-can't-please-everyone dep't: in a weird way, the non-functioning map made the discovery process a little more fun. The map just started working for me–I didn't know that it was supposed to–and I was slightly disappointed.

Tho I support using satellite imagery and nothing more.

Brilliant site, and very well done. Thanks for putting it together and sharing it.
As long as Bill Gates understands atomic energy as "clean energy", and even wants to build small micro-size atomic reactors for home owners he should just retired, and does what he understands best - as this is clearly way over his head. They should start to use his properties as long term dump site for his micro-sized atomic reactors. Maybe he should visit the ground atomic disaster ground zero zones in Ukraine and Japan for a week.
Also still no multithreading, which causes callback hell in the first place
I'd still ( and have ) used node for cpu intensive stuff. If you have a long running computation that can be broken down (mine was 500-2000 steps), you can break the single process by `setTimeout(...,0)` the next step, so other stuff can serve pages. Or, you can break it out into a c job.
I do not think number of API requests per month for $x is an accurate way to determine if $x is cheap or not. You are missing concurrency measurement. What was your highest requests per second on the sampled month?
On the contrary, I think adding political boundaries would remove some of the power of the concept.
Wow. I can't believe an Uber employee would come out and make this argument. It feels like the kool-aid is spilling over.
Ideally real experience, but often just longetivity.

Competence and good communication skills assumed.