skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the hardest part is getting some kind of hiring flow anyway. Knowing who to contact is the biggest obstacle. But once you've got someone...

First: actually read the resume and letter. Learn about the experience this person has. Unless you're hiring out of a bootcamp, the candidate has worked on something and you should not be walking in blind. (If he or she hasn't articulated it in the resume and letter, then I wouldn't expect to have initiated an meeting.)

I don't use challenges, homework, riddles, quizzes, etc. anymore. Again, we're not starting from scratch. I hear it and wonder, "Do you really think I haven't yet figured out the difference between fifo and lifo?" (Or, "Here's a little, 5-minute challenge. Just a little date math." Oops. Forgot the leap second.)

I focus on problem decomposition. I ask about problems that the person has worked on. I talk about my own systems and have him or her opine on it. We brainstorm. These discussions get into things like:

* What was the situation? Why was it a problem? Was the solution obvious? Was is tricky to intuit, or was it a lot of work to implement?

* What were your constraints? Were they natural or derived? (Perhaps it was a very-low-resource environment, or there was real-time requirement, or it needed resistance to a type of attack, or it required strict regulatory compliance.)

* What was the mental model and how did the individual arrive at it? Did it change during implementation?

This structure has worked for me at most levels of hiring. I can ask a very junior person who, say, writes SQL to generate reports to talk about a particularly challenging report, or one that is particularly elegant. If he says, "I changed the order of operations to get the rows down from 4 quadrillion to 400,000" then I know that, conceptually, he knows about cardinality.

I can ask a director to talk about a project that he ran with a remote team in the same way. If the drop has to happen in sync and you have people in 4 time zones spanning 10 hours, did he wake people up or did he use some kind of technological orchestration?

Also, I think it's worth noting that quite a few very good programmers do not keep very public profiles, so I really don't trust the greenness of a github profile.
I don't know anyone and I know a few snapchat addicts. They've sold, what, a few hundred?
I faced this problem in real life, not with a sofa, but with a bed mattress platform. Just out of grad school, my wife and I were moving in to an old craftsman-style house with a staircase that made a 180-degree bend at a landing with a fairly low ceiling. We squeezed the mattress through because it was bendable, but the platform was rigid and no matter what we did it just would not fit. Some measurement revealed that it would not go through the upstairs windows either. We ended up sawing the platform in half (it was made of wood covered in fabric) and re-assembling it upstairs. I screwed L-brakcets to the two halves and connected them with bolts so that we could easily repeat the process when it came time to move out.
Archived at https://archive.fo/DhAB8

Screenshot without comments: https://i.imgur.com/LbqmLV4.jpg

Hope this helps.
Yeah, absolutely. To be clear, we haven't ditched the concept of a CMS altogether, we've simply shifted the paradigm to get the client's focus back on managing content instead of managing a site.

Our current setup is using a static site generator (we're Rubyists on Middleman - https://middlemanapp.com/ - but take your pick here) to build the actual site. However, the content itself lives in a cloud-based CMS (we're on Contentful, but Prismic and Siteleaf are also good choices) - this is what the client has access to. During the build proc, the SSG polls the CMS and grabs all the latest content to package into the static site.

On publish of any piece of content in the CMS, a webhook hits our build proc (either Codeship or Netlify) which in turns fires a rebuild of the site (which in turns pulls down the latest content).

For us, the best part about the setup is that it's virtually impossible for the client to break the site. They could certainly make it look like hell - but they can't break it. On top of that, if they somehow, someway, manage to break the build by simply editing content, then the new site is simply never deployed.

Let me know if you have any more questions - I love talking about this stuff.
And what happens when the big corporations start getting into the business?

What are the drug cartels going to do? Attack some giant montasanto farm in the middle of flyover USA?

...with their guns?

And what happens when montasanto highers a couple off duty police officers to protect their investment?

The cartels have no power in anywhere but the border.
I'll be sure to lurk HN tomorrow for it!

Also pleasantly surprised to see Kashiwa Daisuke mentioned in that screenshot
Sheesh. Have we really gotten to a point where a job can't be a job? I would love to make my own games all day long, but I'm not financially independent yet, so I work for other people.

Sometimes their projects work out. Sometimes they don't. I definitely feel bad when they don't, but I also do the practical thing and keep moving forward with my life.

There comes a point, after years of experience, where you just have to shrug your shoulders and accept that you aren't the one running your clients' show. You can provide feedback. You can be there when they need you. You can do everything in your power to make it a success.

But it's not your thing until you own equity in it. The emotional separation is 100% justified.
What's wrong with keeping the proceeds in China?
Imagine if someone asked you: Highly complex software project A costs $x/KLOC, highly complex project B costs $10x/KLOC, and therefore isn't project B wasteful? It's impossible to answer based on that information, and you probably know far more about software projects than you do about underground urban transit projects.

Many of the comparisons in the article seem to be similar to that, and with projects that seem far more complex, technically and politically, than what most of us deal with. Other than the fact that all the projects mentioned are called 'trains' or 'subways', and I assume are mostly underground, I don't have enough information to say they are comparable at all.

Sometimes, there is no way for the layperson to analyze the situation on their own.

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What is going to happen in 2017
Catch-22. I read it once back in high school and didn't really understand it, but I read it again a few days ago and found it to be both an absolutely hilarious and sobering book.
> If nothing good comes from it, rewrite the rules and try again.

The problem is, that's not the way it works. Bad regulations are rarely replaced in our political system. Bad regulations often get votes or legalize rent-seeking by interest groups, such as unions, who have political clout. It is much harder to reverse bad regulations than to avoid them in the first place, and that's why it is so important to oppose them in their early stages.
yes, what mashable said!
Yanis Varoufakis "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future"

Varoufakis fascinates and inspires me in that he studied math and mathematical statistics at a high level and moved into Economics at a high level (he's a professor and recently he was greek finance minister) yet resists the tendency to reduce everything down to a shity mathematical model.

He does a better job than most at exploring the factors that contributed to our current political and economic situation (the book was published before trump's win but deals with analogs in greece and europe).

And it opens with his childhood memories of hiding under a blanket to hide the sound of democratic radio from fascist ears.
> How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

Great book. The advice is rather obvious but it really gets you thinking about how you interact with people. For example I've learnt to be vastly better at people's names now, it still take conscious effort but it is fairly habituated now.
Google password manager passwords.google.com works very well for me. I also use a veracrypt encrypted container with a plain text file containing my sensitive notes and passwords, stored on my Linux laptop and backed up onto an encrypted bucket on AWS S3 in case my laptop dies or is stolen or destroyed.

This works very well for me, and I'm in control of my passwords.
It's pleasing to know that long copyright terms provide incentive for dead authors to produce new works.
> Why the focus on union

New York City's unions, particularly public and construction unions, are strong. In my limited experience, at hearings and meetings involving New York infrastructure, the "ayes" are supplied by the unions. The "wealthy, powerful allies and donors" are more present at zoning and related private-development discussions.

Unions are visibly and numerously present at New York's many off-season elections, e.g. judicial primaries and participatory budgeting polls.
It is a feature, not a bug, that American government moves slowly. Magnified by how much faster our world turns cmp to even 50 years ago.

This feature smoothes over the jagged lines of voters opinions. It also frustrates the righteous and unrighteous, because both desire bending to their values immediately.
I also love Google because they are supportive for their open source oriented employees. Apple is a bit secretive.
Show HN: Hosting from GitHub, like GitHub pages with auth
"The Book of Wisdom" by David Heinemeier Jinglemeyer Schmidt Hansson
I'll try writing about what I'm learning, I really like the sound of that! Another one of my new year's resolutions was to start writing things anyways - I feel like I frequently write entire essays in my head, but I never put them to paper.
From the article:

China also has something called “grey” income, which means income
earned (or acquired off the books) in China that is not reported
on income taxes and that is held by its richest families.

If the money can be laundered by buying a house overseas, grey becomes green!
ApoE4 variant that triggers early onset Alzheimers protects against parasites
How did you market your product? Im always very curious about how startups approach companies when they are developing a prototype
Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Y. Bhargava (I believe he's on HN). Highly recommend, easy read and really enjoyable.
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss.

Wonderful fantasy that treats the reader as an adult and doesn't over explain. It has perfected world building, doing so organically rather than through exposition as is common in the genre. A lot of people I know came out of the woodwork as fans when I posted about this book. They mostly wanted to lament the delay of the third book, something I wasn't aware of when starting #1!
You didn't try hard enough. Dual numbers are extremely useful. You can use them to calculate derivatives easily. I'm thinking about making a video demonstrating how these numbers can accelerate machine learning.
> New York City's unions, particularly public and construction unions, are strong

Good point; unions seem stronger in NY than in other parts of the country.

However, if you are a New Yorker, I don't think you mean to claim that the wealthy and powerful aren't the beneficiaries of corruption.

IMHO, unions give workers power, balancing the scales a little. Power can be used for good or bad (or almost always, for both), but I certainly wouldn't exclude working-class people from it for not being angels. Why should they be held to a higher standard than other powerful people? If we are going to fight corruption, why pick on the working class?
Mahan ("The Influence of Sea Power upon History") argues that a nation that depends on ocean-based commerce requires control of the seas. The long term view requires China to exert such control. Apparently someone in China studies history.

This must challenge the dominant force, the U.S. Navy.

It is only a matter of time and circumstance that guarantees an attempt to shift of the balance of control and, as that shift is a fundamental power struggle, it implies war.

Building a chain of islands in the South China Sea is clever. Islands are harder to sink than carriers.

Destablizing support of forward deep water ports (the Phillipines) weakens the ability to maintain a forward presence.

Building a "great firewall" against electronic attack minimizes the problem of electronic infrastructure attacks.

Building nuclear and hydro power sources reduces the dependence on foreign coal, making blockades less effective.

Slowly, the weakest points are being reduced, area denial/area defenses are increasing.

The Navy knows this is happening. They will have alternative strategies. That won't matter, of course, because the new administration "knows more than the generals (admirals)". No doubt the new administration has a "secret plan" which will solve all of the problems.

TPP was a diplomatic attempt to align many nations in an economic coalition involving all of the end points of trade. The ability to throttle/cut off trade by economic means rather than military means would allow a diplomatic solution to the power struggle, avoiding war. "Economic coalition" is not a term of art for the new administration. Diplomacy is not even in the new dictionary.

It won't be "just a naval war over there". A power grid shutdown for a week will lead to starvation rather quickly. You can't get food without trucks. You can't get trucks without gas. You can't get gas without electicity. We can't even distribute water to Flint WITH everything working. Feeding NYC without power will be an impossible task. "Any Society is Three Square Meals away from Anarchy".

We could avoid all of this with proper diplomacy, respect, and negotiation. But we won't.

God save the King.
Interestingly, both projects were conceived many decades ago and died during the bad times of the 70's.
I recommend the Merrill/Garland NVIDIA technical report from March 2016, "Single-pass Parallel Prefix Scan with Decoupled Look-back", as the current state of the art for scan on GPUs.

https://research.nvidia.com/publication/single-pass-parallel...
What's the source of their Vancouver assertion?
Amit is indeed phenomenal. It seems like I've been reading his stuff since forever. To me he's one of the guys who made the internet interesting and useful. And it seems to me that everyone at least mildly interested in creating games must have read his hexagonal grid articles!
Tony Hsieh on what he would have changed about $350M downtown Las Vegas project
I hate wordpress. Always having to be updated, plugins that fall behind or also need to be updated, duplication of images instead of using original and styling or scripting it instead - same image creates 30 images in some templates.
Change a template and things break. I've never understood why people keep touting it.
I'm using Vault (vaultapp.xyz). It's open-source, simple and free and meets all my needs. Disclaimer: I'm a developer for Vault.
Same problem with keeping money in Russia--political and financial capital are one and the same. Consider Khodorkovsky [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
"Cut and cover" being what exactly? Trenching down from the surface and then filling in above the tracks? Hardly seems practical beyond a fairly shallow depth.
Yes, surely, legitimizing the power of violent thugs and drug dealers over the populace they have terrorized for decades is better than maintaining at least a semblance of the rule of law. The latter is hard and expensive!

Not to go all Godwin up in here, but appeasing violent ambition hasn't worked well in the past and it wont work here. The rare cases where it has worked have been political in nature, driven by groups with legitimate grievances, not an abundance of greed.
That making enough oxygen for one person, using electrolysis, requires 2000 kwh per day.

That earth's forest area decreases by 13 000 000 hectares per year.

And that we add about 75 000 000 people every year.
How is it "held"? I've seen reports of raids where they find houses stuffed full of cash, but how do you get $2T in cash to Canada? At some point this is getting converted to electronic funds and that is where the "laundering" is happening.

As to why they are buying hard assets in Anglo-sphere, possibly because they are worried that the said Anglos may pull the plug on the fiat currency in a Great Reset at some point in the near future. I guess the silver lining here is that the Chinese corrupt set are bullish on the continuity of rule of law over here.
Mother of god, I need to be able to race in STK in my area. I could race to a new destination before driving there, to ensure I don't get lost; kinda like that feature in Google Earth.
Summary: humans with ApoE4 variant living in Stone Age conditions with high exposure to parasites and pathogens, which cause their own damage to cognitive abilities when untreated, had better cognitive performance than others in same condition without variant and than humans living in clean urban settings with variant (ApoE4 variant carriers face 4x risk of Alzheimers and other other age-related cognitive declines in clean environments).
You forgot to say Spoiler Alert!
Headline seemed a bit vague to me, so what this update does is make cars released with gen 2 hardware inline with the autopilot features of gen 1 hardware. So lane assist, crash breaking, etc for cars released late last year.

Whole point of gen2 hardware is it should allow fully autonomous cars, even in rain which others likely wont be able to do, once the software is fully figured out. Next year will be exciting to see how quickly they can push updates towards that goal, as well as how quickly regulation can catch up.
Didn't realize the soon to be governor of Missouri was an author.
Hackers And Painters - Paul Graham
Apparent saltiness increases when you use it to finish because it's usually consumed before it's dissolved into or been absorbed by the media. If you salt very much at the end of cooking, especially for liquids, use less than you think is needed, and give it good time to mingle and meld.
I've been using Duolingo to learn Italian. It was awesome up until about 40% fluency, then it lost its effectiveness. It was a great way to learn basic vocabulary and sentence structure, but after that I learned more by just reading my news in Italian.
I second this. The first book was a little slow but the second and third were two of the best and most thought provoking books I've ever read.
Supervolcano Campi Flegrei Stirs Under Naples Italy
The biggest thing with Arduinos specifically is that the cheap ones don't really have the capacity to negotiate proper web services. They can't handle HTTPS, you are not going to be deserializing JSON in RAM, etc. By the time you pay for something like a Yun, you've spent more than a Pi. Also (prior to esp* WiFi breakouts) WiFi integration used up most of your I/O and cost 30+ dollars.

I've been playing around with a couple of CHIPs[0] that are cheaper than most Arduinos and come with Bluetooth, WiFi and USB built in, a bunch of memory, and run ARM Debian. They use NAND for storage so you don't need a SD card for the OS, and the forums are pretty active for a pretty recent hardware platform.

Other than still trying to get some SPI stuff integrated I've had no problem doing stuff I wouldn't want to use a Pi on and could not really use an Arduino on. I believe they're of better specs than anything but the latest Pi, maybe that as well.

For $9, I've been very happy with it, but I can't compare it to the ESP as I have a few laying around and haven't used them yet.

[0] https://getchip.com
Because we know genetic loci do not affect the phenotype in purely orthogonal ways (this is known as epistasis), there is a huge risk of having unforeseen second order consequences. In state space even on simple models like NK model for low K, epistasis can have profound effects on fitness metrics and survivability as organisms attempt to hill climb.
Exponential growth. It's something few people outside of science/engineering learn.
Compare free market food production with any other system. Starvation in the world is in countries without free market agriculture.
They mostly wanted to lament the delay of the third book

Yeah, waiting for book 3 of this series is starting to remind me of waiting for book 4 of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series back in the day. :-(

Anyway, at least he isn't up to "waiting for the next Christopher Snow (by Dean Koontz) book" territory.
Office Depot's WorkPro Quantum 9000. Available for ~$300. More adjustable than the Ikea Markus and, in my opinion, significantly more comfortable. Has held up very well to daily use for 3+ years so far.
If they're getting fed by a food bank, then they are getting fed.

Making steak cheaper than it already is isn't going to make any difference.
"The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Life" - It connected a lot of interesting dots and provided for me what I consider the first plausible process by which life could arise out of the soup. There is an interesting twist about the 'one thing' that, had it not happened, we'd probably still be separate bacteria cells.

And adds an interesting twist to the more provocative Buckminster Fuller question which is whether or not we actually exist or are we just a bunch of co-operating cells. Sort of the ultimate bee hive where our constituent worker cells are constrained to hold on to each other rather than fly about.
Wonder how this correlates with the current growth of the US economy, and maybe more relevantly, how the top 1% seems to be increasing its wealth much faster than the rest.
We already know why she used her own private email server — to use her Blackberry

Her stated reason for the request was that she didn't want to have to carry multiple devices. Apparently, she (and her "expert" staff) couldn't figure out that you can access multiple accounts (and servers) from not only one device but even within one app.
This is a great one to remind us that we help to shape the world that politics have to operate within. We are not just subject to politicians.
This extended my boundaries of what a 'big problem' encompasses by several orders of magnitude. It also paints a terrifying picture of society, one which is entirely alien to my culture. Specifically the narrative of 'if we can't live everyone should die' / anti-escapism was both shocking and bizarre. My christian cultural tradition dictates that the proper reaction to near-extinction is to build an Ark. My sci-fi experience has numerous examples of this trope, and to find it so rigorously and repeatedly rejected was disturbing to say the least.
Credit-Card Scammers Flock to Online Shopping
Is a Tesla bought today designed to be software upgradeable to full autonomy?
Holding the proceeds of theft from a government in the government's currency is like lending the loot from a mugging back to the victim. The PRC can't freeze funds held in US dollars.
HSBC is complicit in laundering the money. They have been fined to that effect, but I doubt it's curtailed their activities much.

I'm sure many other banks do the same.
Seems almost like cheating to use a 3D printer to make some of the parts.
Have you seen any positive things in your life after reading Dale Carnegie's book?
Maybe because ML is starting to enter its own uncanny valley, where we can't quite decide whether to view the results as machines or minds?
The State Dept IT tech was wrong about FOIA. Whether an email is subject to FOIA disclosure depends on the content and recipients, not the infrastructure. Clinton's personal emails would not have be FOIA-able even if it did go through State servers. There are also exceptions for some work emails.

The question of what is subject to FOIA is complicated.