skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. They didn't talk at all about any QA processes that should have or would have caught issues, or what they have instituted since.
>I find it very suspicious that a wealthy European man would choose to live in a wartorn country.

This is the classic example of: "Out of ignorance comes certainty."

You're essentially saying that because you cannot explain the behavior of one individual, then the explanation is likely/must be X.

You don't know = ignorance

It must be X = certainty.

Just as an FYI, he moved there long before it was a wartorn country. He chose to stay. Just as so many wealthy Sri Lankans who could have left did not. Why focus on the wealthy European and not the wealthy locals?
their private valuation is probably somewhere around 4 to 6B now
Amazon is flirting with paid search on Alexa
React.js is the view layer for a website, ReactNative is the view layer for a native app. In both instances you could call back to a database, but React doesn't provide any of those abstractions. Neither is really a full featured framework, and both focus on the View.
Couldn't this run the risk of the company owning the IP? Even if it was after work hours and on your personal equipment, you're still using company resources (office space) for the creation of your IP.
glad to see this as the first comment
I like working on index cards because if I screw up a note I can just throw it out and start again without impacting any other notes. Notebooks give me anxiety; my fear of somehow "messing up" the notebook causes me to underuse it. And the sortability/filterability of cards sometimes comes in very handy as well.
Not really complicated. Just sounds like she is a shitty human being.
> That's the thing though, if spending two or three weeks right now to learn Rust will save you months of technical debt and futzing around with crappy standard libraries and language weaknesses in the future, then the prudent move would be to ditch the weak language in favor of Rust, regardless of its learning curve, since the end result will be a significant net-positive.

This. There's a really good point on tradeoffs in Rich Hickey's talk on "hammock driven development":

"Most developers use the word 'tradeoff' to describe parts of their software that suck."

If you haven't evaluated the alternatives, it's not a tradeoff. And if you are sacrificing long term maintainability for two weeks of productivity, you most certainly haven't thought it through.
Okta's report on SaaS productivity app usage
That's actually a very good reason altough I can foresee this getting messier if we consider backwards compatibility.
I would say this is relatively typical. (Background: I did a masters in philosophy at Pitt).

Edit: I would also say that it's unfortunate that parts of philosophy are this hand-wavy. For instance, at one point in the paper, the author describes hallucinating that you see a letter in your mailbox as being phenomenologically just like actually seeing one. Daniel Dennett has a well known discussion in the first chapter of Consciousness Explained arguing that hallucinations are phenomenologically quite different from normal perception. Perhaps the author would say it doesn't matter, that's just a contingent fact that doesn't undermine the specific point being made, but 1) I'm not confident that argument works, and 2) either way, it should be stated explicitly.
He was living in Beijing. As a Chinese-speaking westerner who lived there for a year, I can tell you the air pollution alone is enough to do it. While reports seem mixed on whether he loved his gig like you did, I imagine his family's culture shock was probably creating a great deal of stress as well similar to how you described.
"Involved" is a stretch. He runs an email service that was used to send the emails. One of his users sent the hoax emails.
This is one of those articles that feels both completely obvious and useless at the same time. Surely if you want to implement a system, that's a goal?

Goals help because they are a way of saying "I will do this by then", and you can measure your progress. Systems help because they keep you going after you've reached the goal. The hard part is knowing the difference, and then actually doing whatever you need to do to reach the goal or implement the system.
So is iron. At various temperatures iron changes its crystal structure from body-centered cubic to face-centered and back again to BCC and the amount of carbon that dissolves varies in each crystal structure, and you can hack the system by shock cooling to control the hardness of steel over a ridiculous range. That's a one line metallurgy degree, or "this chemistry fact resulted in the industrial revolution".

Water is also unstable, I can't keep track of how many non-hexagonal ice structures exist under some weird pressure and temp diagram. 12 or so, maybe. You put ice under a couple hundred MPa and it gets all funky.

On the topic of allotropes its depressing when you think everything out there has allotropes except thankfully maybe the nobel gasses like helium and then oh God there's liquid helium-II which isn't really an allotrope but its conceptually similar.

It seems that most of learning chemistry is learning nothing is stable and nothing is as it superficially seems. Plutonium is scary creepy but for better or worse its not unusual.
This just seems like progress to me. I wonder how it correlates to the big mac advertising, which I do not recall seeing lately. While in the 80's however, I got a 7" flexi single of the big mac song and the menu song. I think marketing just went on to chase the low fat, then low carb market next. The big mac was neither.
https://ir.netflix.com/common/download/download.cfm?companyi...

Look at the bottom line. Netflix lost 126 million dollars in 3 months. Revenue per user is negative and going down. Needless to say, this can't last. Either price more than doubles, or ads come.
What did you work as? A lot of Western foreigners in Korea work as English teachers, which indeed rarely offers any sort of long-term promotion path (see my longer comment).

Even outside of that it's very easy to run into a glass ceiling as a foreigner though, yeah. There's relatively few companies where you can work your way up into lead or management positions - though this is often because foreigners simply don't acquire the Korean skills they'd need to manage Koreans. There's some amount of luck and strategizing your career path involved to make it work, and that does leave you with narrow paths to the goal. Engineering and market research/business are probably the easiest fields at least.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not really blaming anyone for failing to make it work and getting out. There's a lot of wishes/desires (in choice of job, in choice of lifestyle, etc.) that are legitimately and totally incompatible with life in Korea as a foreigner, yet have nothing wrong about them.
Oh my god, you've described every single one of my issues with Python packaging.

The whole setup.py/setup.cfg situation really is ridiculous. Having to import the __version__, read() the README, no markdown support on pypi, MANIFEST / MANIFEST.in files, tox.ini, what a mess.
That way android is stuck with tons of 4th-party software publishers that are not even professionals in programming. Stores are full of working evolutionlessware. Why don't they just present "ok/nope" dialog and fail a system call after "nope"?
For me, I like the professional pipeline and stunning visuals of Unreal, but would not recommend it to anyone not doing this full time with a team. Unity I think is more accessible and can easily be made to look great as well, and is well suited for small teams or single developers.

Specifically relating to VR, I have worked and made full projects in both, and I prefer Unity and would highly recommend it over Unreal for VR, but you should try both and see what feels more intuitive for you.
> it takes several weeks to become proficient in its use

Weeks? That's nothing. It takes months, if not years, to become proficient in C++, for example.

(I understand that you are talking about the training of the existing employees, but still.)
Reflecting on the Role of Social Network Platforms in Our Lives
I'm not sure if you meant this to be a condemnation, but it certainly is the future I'm hoping for. This is interesting content based advertising. I much prefer it to the PPC sewer we have now.
> They did everything right following the crisis

They were radio silent for MONTHS longer than they should have been. No "we're sorry", no "we're looking into it and will update you soon", nothing, for MONTHS.
Flux supports Linux.
And if you can't tell what it's all about or make sense of what's said, then wait until you feel such despair yourself (after a loss, because of depression, betrayal, existentual anxiety, loss of faith, etc., and try again).
How will she ever fit into silicon valley culture without all these things ?!
> Novice programmers shouldn't have blogs. A blog is a public platform, a soapbox, for sharing your thoughts.

Either you believe that people have the right to air their opinion/experience or you don't. How accurate it may be is somewhat irrelevant. If they do have a blog, people can contact them or otherwise reply in public, calling them out should the be spreading BS. Who decides when people have enough of whatever quality you deem satisfactory to be allowed to share their thoughts and experiences with the world? People being full of BS is not a problem which is unique to the internet, it's just easier for them to post, and easier for you to ignore than someone standing yelling something at you.
I don't see what this comment brings to the discussion. I think it's obvious that the salary discrepancy and the skill discrepancy don't match up. Since salary defines 'market value' of a developer it's worth exploring why the market behaves this way. And I say this as a developer and also as someone who's got input on hiring decisions.
You also can't change the launcher.
Practice, he just said fizzbuzz is a good example, if you choke up implementing fizzbuzz and consider it high stress situation. You don't deserve to a job, not even as a junior. I can understand if you were told to implement a red-black tree or some esoteric algorithm.
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From my genealogical perspective use paper, please!!!

Writing is a true anchor.

Future generations will enjoy your handwritten, authentic writing.

If ancestry .com is bad now for linking generations (where blind faith can often lead to incorrect trees) wait till all our electronic words is available 100 years from now. Writing will be greatly appreciated by your yet unborn great great grandchildren.
Offline Netflix is a thing now.
> It is fun, but sometimes you really do say in an interview, "Yes I've used X but not deeply" knowing full well you have a weekend to get up to speed or you've spent a week playing with framework "x".

I think having the confidence and knowing that you just need a weekend to get yourself up to speed is what makes you a good coder. The more I progress in my career the more I surprise myself how quickly I can switch from one language to another or pickup a framework that shares some basic concepts as one that I've used before.

Proficiency isn't about knowing everything, it's in having the ability to learn quickly.
> Overly terse named types and keywords that don't communicate their purpose, like Vec and Cell

i'm of the opposite view here; though, i think i get where this is coming from.

for me, if i look at it from a "broader timeline perspective", the length of keywords (like say "function" in JS) is mildly annoying to me. especially if they're high frequency.

over time, familiarized keywords essentially "fade into the background" and afterward just occupy precious horizontal space, but provide a valuable sort of visual shaping or pattern.

given this, i love the elements of terseness in rust syntax. my identifiers are what i want to be more expressive and descriptive. this combos well: terse keywords and stdlib elements contrast excellently with longer identifiers and make it easier and faster to read (for me).
I'm going to have to agree. I recently cut the cord and now when I watch network TV (via my DTV tuner) commercials feel really jarring. One of the reasons I cut the cord and got off social media is I began to feel as though many of my thoughts were not my own anymore because I was subjecting myself to daily brainwashing . the further away from those services I get, the more abnormal they seem.
I think you mean the electro-chemical cell. Batteries are just bundles of electrochemical cells (and 1 cell can be a bundle). I am far from an expert on this, but tighter packing of electrochemical cells could improve density.
Yeah, I saw it asa way to flesh out the anti-social nature of Dom. And I'm not sure if it's the same episode as her Alexa chats, but the scene of the lawyer's apartment going all haunted (via hack) certainly isn't a strong endorsement for smart homes.
Walmart has been trying to get into the car biz for a long time. Here's an example from 2002:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/retail/2002-04-23-walma...

Here's an example from 2008:

http://adage.com/article/news/wanna-buy-a-car-head-walmart/1...

(Nitpick, but it's "Walmart" not "Wal-Mart".)
They are still on mainframes running TPF, where DB2 is not an option. The database is TPFDF, a KV datastore.
The last 2 versions of Android (Marshmallow, Nougat) have switched to the iOS model of asking for permissions only when they're requested by the App.
I actually played the amazing game Monument Valley after seeing it in House of Cards. Although from what I can recall this wasn't paid placement so much as the writers just loved the game.
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do you search for code theft? 80% of the code submitted for my interviews is 100% copy and pasted. When they put in effort, they remove the comments and rename the variable.
Still, there are very interesting details in his text, one just needs enough patience to read through. Pity that he, wanted to "leak" fast, hasn't had somebody more capable of presenting his info. There are nice examples of how brittle the systems he worked on were, and the broader public surely does need a "disillusionment" about them.

He personally seems to have expected everything to function like in the movies, and it can be clearly seen how he is always surprised it isn't so, up to the point that they could have all died in the submarine just because of the fire that started due to the toilet paper!
I don't feel sorry for anyone involved.

First the guy had it coming anyway and should have seen it coming, that his disqualification would be hidden forever.

If the company had a live coding interview, his incompetence would have stood out immediately, if he couldnt come up with a FizzBuzz in his own free time

Also, the author acted negligent to his friend if he knowingly let him go into that mess without warning him about the consequences.

Maybe I'm interpreting the term friend wrong but the author should have warned him anyway that he is not ready, given what he'd known about the guy.
You're welcome!

TL;DR They're changing the market dynamics but their cells are boring aside from being cheap and will probably stay that way for a while.

So first of all, yes they will change the market dynamics; anyone selling as many batteries as they (plan to) do will change the market.

Secondly, the gigafactory's cells aren't that interesting (right now) aside from being cheap. The cell lifetime is atrocious, between half to a quarter that of the market standard. The energy density is not great, around 220 Wh/kg for the best cells and 190 Wh/kg for the worse ones; this is slightly better than the cutting edge fifteen years ago. The power density they claim is unacceptable given what it does to the cell life. And since the cells are larger, they require new cooling systems.

Musk is a fascinating guy, for sure, but he's just as human as the rest of us. An absolutely gargantuan amount of cash has been piled into battery research in the last 11 years, with zero appreciable gains in energy density. If the Gigafactory ever produces a high energy density cell, it'll almost certainly be because their partner Panasonic (which is one of the few battery companies on the cutting edge) made a breakthrough and licensed it to them.

Finally, the battery market is a very strange thing: many makers of the 'good' cells won't sell to anyone except a few specific clients. These clients buy the cells (on paper) to make things like power tools or electric vehicles or battery packs. However, these clients vastly over-buy, and then sell off their excess stock to resellers. Anytime you buy a powerbank, or a loose 18650 cell for an e-cigarette, or a battery pack for an ebike, you're almost certainly going to end up with cells that have been resold at least twice.

As such, the easiest way that Tesla could absolutely revolutionize the industry is by simply saying "hey, if your needed capacity is more than $25K per year, give us a call" and selling directly to businesses. They could even put up a quote on their website à la SpaceX. Unfortunately, I've got a feeling that if Tesla did that their partners at Panasonic would make heads roll, but you never know.
In college, when I had finished reading Murphy I could hardly get out of my chair and leave the apartment to go to class to discuss it.
Yeah, but the time to compile is much shorter than that. No-one bothers with the "correct" metric, just the "compiles" one.

This probably explains the popularity of interpreted languages.
umm...say, a PID loop?
If you're in the US ur gettin ripped off. I live in a really low cost of living area and make around 70. Most of my friends with 3+ years make around 90
Wasn't Samsung one of the battery manufacturers for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7?
Reminding myself that perseverance is the only thing that works.

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." -- Calvin Coolidge
The kind of person who will install this app (as a non-pregnant person) is the kind of person who will give up their seat without being asked.

Edit: having said that, if they are looking at their phone or reading then maybe this app would work.
And I was saying the iphone didn't start out with an appstore...
And yet, the battery production capacity is apparently nowhere near enough to supply companies like Tesla, making them become a battery manufacturer themselves. Which plays right into the parent comment - the battery business is huge, and Tesla could probably pivot from a car company to a battery / energy company easily enough. They kickstarted electric cars, the established companies are trying to catch up, but are doing so in part thanks to Tesla, their open patents, and soon enough, their hugely scaled battery manufacturing capacity.
I would say it takes care of the categorization problem. Searching, not so much, unless you spend an unholy amount of time maintaining your index.
There are no features that are never needed by a small team. To make our business model work we do need to make some features exclusive to EE. The definition we use is: is this feature more relevant for organizations that have more than 100 potential users? We thought this was the case for timetracking but we were wrong and reversed the decision.
Years ago, I was saying that China's Great Firewall was the prototype. Meaning, on an international scale, involving international participation including especially the companies then selling them the equipment and services.

Nothing I've seen has changed this basic perception.

P.S. Although, now, an increasing amount of the expertise and technology are internal.
How are the arguments against React Native today? A few months back we still had a lot of people saying that it underperforms with super complex stuff (ie. Enterprise Grade stuff). Has it improved?
Starting from scratch in any language that isn't a clone of a language you already know with slightly different syntax would take a few weeks.

A few weeks seems like a good trade to me for the safety rust provides for a lot of applications.
Didn't they already do that once though? The problem was the new battery was bad too. If lightning strikes twice you generally don't take a third chance, at least not when the PR is this bad.
I recently tried out a couple Netflix competitors and the Netflix UI/UX is so far ahead of all of them it's almost hard to believe.
..Who is secretly owned by Apple.
I've always really liked how the Submariner looks, and apparently so did everyone else, because there are about two billion different varieties of homages to it.

While I have no doubt that the Rolex is well-engineered, it's hard for me to believe it's literally a hundred times better than my Invicta Pro Diver, and I won't feel too bad if my Invicta gets stolen...Most people just assume I'm wearing a Rolex.

That said, if I had a lot of spare cash I'd probably end up buying a legit Submariner, and if I were eccentric enough, the Paul Newman variety of the Daytona.
You still have to visit and purchase the vehicle from a dealership though.

>CarSaver then will connect customers with a local, certified dealer and schedule an appointment to visit the dealership. If a shopper doesn’t contact the dealership, an auto adviser reconnects with that shopper.
No one else seems to agree with you, but I do.

What's the moral of the story? Don't be Bryan or else I might rat you out to your employer?

People have different ethics, so I hope we can all agree to disagree instead of starting an argument. But if I know someone, even if I don't like them, they're a friend. No matter what problem you have with a friend, you don't take that problem to their job.

Yes, he's a fraud. Yes, the truth was told. But I prioritize people I know and I don't rat out my friends.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try it out
I've settled on virtually the same thing. Safari, medium nib, Noodler's Black. The Lamy pens can be had very cheaply and write well. I have several of the Safaris in various nib sizes as well as an AL-STAR, which is virtually the same thing but with a slightly larger metal barrel (which looks a little nicer).
I like this idea a lot, though the Amazon reviews for that particular product appear to be pretty negative. Have you used a workflow like this?
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+1. I think people are comparing it to high level languages.

Also they think knowing to write the code is the same as knowing to code in that language. It's not true at all. It's quick to be able to write C code. Being able to produce something worth being on prod however, takes month.
Please stop equating pedophiles with sexual predators.

The American society has worked past the "black man sexual predator boogeyman" and the "gay man sexual predator boogeyman". (Well, kind of)

Perpetuating this stereotype harms real people that are actively seeking help from therapists and other mental health institutions.
>due to the long history of pushy shady salespeople, which if my last 3 visits tell me anything, is still very deserved

It's hard for me to understand how people get pushed around when they're walking into a situation where they may be on the verge of spending tens of thousands of dollars.

The car dealership industry is hyper-competitive; if any part of the transaction makes you feel uncomfortable, let them know and take your money elsewhere. Dealers are a dime a dozen.
Microsoft did a lot of things right with Windows Phone 8, it was a great OS and it's a shame it never took off. Unfortunately their timing couldn't have been worse, they showed up late to the party at the peak of their unpopularity. It never really had a chance.
Resources to easily understand the science behind time travel
The alternative is we could send our best and brightest developers to write social media apps, online shopping & high frequency trading algos. :)