skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! I love (external) recruiters.

Why?

Besides being incredibly interesting people, their sole purpose in life (as a recruiter) is to find you a job at the highest salary possible.

Why? Their commission, and their company's profitability, is wholly dependent on it.

This is important. They not only know how much you're worth in your given market, but because they are salespeople, they are likely connected to recruiters all around the country (US) that can provide you with that information in any market. They will also attempt to keep a long-running relationship with you, as they know that, eventually, you will be in the position to buy their services and are more likely to get that sale if they help you out now.

They literally benefit on both sides of the fence.

Recruiters helped me get to that coveted six figure land in leas than two years after graduating school. They helped me land jobs at some of the best companies in the country. They've taken me out on so many free lunches. They're great.

Now, I don't like all recruiters.

Robot recruiters are pretty useless (the ones recruiting from India for massive orgs that can afford to waste money). They collect your resume and go poof. Avoid them.

In-company recruiters are nice people, but, unfortunately, have the exact opposite motive: to hire as many people as possible as cheaply as possible. They will say whatever they need to say to get your body into a seat. They are the kinds of salespeople I don't like working with, since they work purely on volume and don't have time to get to know you.

This is how I got screwed by Google and regressed in my salary curve. (Mind you, the decision to work there was mine. I mean, who doesn't think about working at a place like that?)

So I usually go around them by messaging managers on LinkedIn and establishing rapport that way. By going this route, those recruiters become a formality instead of a gate, and you are way more likely to get paid at or over market. They are also much nicer to work with, since all they need to do to get their checkmark is move the process along and get your offer signed.

That is how I recovered from my mistake at Google and had one of my best working experiences to date.
This was how I read it as well. A person feeling their way into this level of business, makes some bad hiring decisions and either chooses advisers poorly or doesn't have the skills to listen well. It's a sad outcome but certainly not unheard of.
I err.. never thought I'd be talking about this seriously.

We (3 companies ago) used to use postgresql databases backed by a huge netapp filer.

Performance was as you would expect, horrible but tolderable. Why was it tolerable? Because high availability was more important than performance at the time and native HA wasn't in PostgreSQL yet. (8.1 had just come out)

The first DBA ever on staff was an absurdly knowledgable guy (and paid handsomely for being so knowledgeable) and his first and strongest recommendation was, in this order:

1) Upgrade to the latest PostgreSQL to get a better vacuum implementation.

2) Get the data off the filer.

I highly advise against it unless your application caches tremendously well.
You're asking the reverse of the question I'd be asking. Purpose, money, and satisfaction are so vague and general, you'll never find an answer from those premises alone. What do you care about? Music? Your family? Friends? The environment? Cooking? Poverty? Writing? Abstract mathematics? I hope at this point you have an idea of some things you enjoy or excite you, and you can work forwards from those. But with what you've given us, there's just not enough to work from. Aimlessly looking for purpose is kinda an oxymoron.

From the things you enjoy or excite you, start thinking about how to make that your day job. Or alternatively, start thinking about how to have a chill flexible day job that allows you to do those things more in your own time. Try things out that you already think are cool, and maybe something will stick. Then you can work towards that.
Or a lot of content farms and other bs that is using adsense.

There are decent sites too of course, but you cab target then manually I believe. Arstech for an example.
The Z3C wasn't a bad device. The Z5C is awful, primarily due to a processor that overheats at the drop or a hat, causing the entire phone to be unacceptably slow. (neither are even all that small, but by 2017 Android standards they're tiny)

More crucially, their support is awful - I had to send both a Z3C and Z5C in for repair shortly after receiving them, and in both instances they kept onto the phones for more than a month because they didn't have available parts. And with the Z5C refused to admit that it overheats. On that basis alone I can't justify buying another Sony device.
Good to know. I just visit the website but I'll check out that app
The demo page[1] has some really nice examples, cool stuff!

[1]: https://tg.pl/drab
That's not 41%, that's 4.1%. When asked when there would be a 90% of AI, the median answer was 2075.
> a) is just throwing up their hands at the problem of projects that store binary blobs like image data in their repos, and b) is not taking this as a signal that more serious sha-1 attacks are on the horizon and they should speed up their hash-replacement efforts.

As @tytso points out, there is ongoing work to replace the use of SHA-1. Also, yes, SHAttered raises serious concerns about the safety of SHA-1, but that doesn't mean everyone has to immediately work on the switch (and honestly, it's questionable how much it would help - throwing more developers at a problem doesn't necessarily help). Should Stefan Baller drop the work he's doing on submodules because SHA-1 is more imminent now?

It's also worth noting Linus isn't really a core Git dev any more, he just submits patches occasionally. Junio Hamano is the primary maintainer.
Worldwide, 2G is being shut down, not just the US. The primary reason is that carriers want to re-use the 2G spectrum for 3/4G.

You can buy a Samsung/Chinese 3G candybar format phone for $30, which gives good battery life.
I concur. Perhaps after a certain level, most people fail to notice the details. And whoever designs these phones are actually people, so... you get the point.

On the other hand, Apple is known to be obsessed with design even in the most unusual places. Have you ever looked at a motherboard for a MacBook? It's just beautiful; the colors, the arrangement. But not everyone will notice.
Motorola and Amazon Will Bake Alexa into Moto Mods and Phones
Here's a quick question - isn't StatefulSets and PersistentVolumeClaim the exact opposite of how fault tolerant database systems are generally built ?

The kubernetes StatefulSets project is actually trying to build a usecase for Postgresql-on-s3. I think its the wrong abstraction to go after in most usecases for database systems including things like ElasticSearch. I dont think that even Aurora is trying to solve this using persistent storage.

You dont really care about solving underlying persistence... you make the whole system fault tolerant : which includes high availability, failover, etc.

IMHO kubernetes still has problems in orchestrating an ElasticSearch/Zookeeper cluster for high availability. The problem of discovery, load balancing, etc are bottlenecks.
Well, just by looking at a glance, kqueue seems to pose similar problems. I mean, the problem mentioned in the OP:

1. Kernel receives some data, and wakes up A
2. A reads some data
3. Kernel receives some other data, and wakes up B (cause A didn't call `epoll_wait` yet)
4. B reads some data, leading to a race condition (out-of-order reading).

kqueue's `kevent` seems to be more or less similar to `epoll_wait`, in that it doesn't seem to provide a way to notify the kernel the "we're done" signal. Am I missing here? Does `kevent` also signal the end of the exclusive access?
Thank you for the insights into the company. I don't know whether this is common in VC backed companies, but I am surprised at the lack of governance around spending of company money for personal gain. 500K on a ghostwriter when you are trying to steady the ship and then make it move full steam ahead??! That sounds insane and if I were an investor I'd kick that CEO's ass.

Moreover, very surprised Index Ventures poured $40M into this company. What were the reasons that motivated such a sizeable investment?
Btw. do you guys know that MSFT building next version of Skype with React Native? Mindblowing, innit?
I'm interested in that theory too. If anything, bot would like to make an expression of being a wealthy macbook owner using safari.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13404758
I replied above - I haven't actually gotten to try an X Compact. But had to send a Z3C and Z5C in for repairs (both were faulty when I received them) and the experience was bad enough that I don't trust Sony for support any more.
How do you differentiate between them?
That's also true in many other developed nations in regards to education, such as Canada, Japan and Britain, which have between moderately and very expensive education systems. Britain for example now has arguably the most expensive university costs:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/24/uk-has-hig...

"Britain has the world’s most expensive public university tuition fees, surpassing the average in US equivalent institutions. While student fees can be higher at many ivy league and other top colleges, the £9,000 annual charge for attending an English institution pushed the British average above the US’s public colleges for the first time, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said."

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/62a1d4e0-9213-11e5-bd82-c1fb8...
It sounds to me like the problem isn't that you lack motivation, it's that you lack anything to be motivated about.

Motivation tends to materialize in our soul in 2 ways:

1) We start something new, and interesting, that we've never seen or done before, and it excites us for a short period of time (days, weeks, even months) to pursue it. Eventually, the luster and novelty wears off, and we're left feeling a "lack of motivation".

2) NEED. True motivation, the kind that persists, comes from need. When you really need something, you'll find motivation. The problem is, from the sounds of it, you haven't convinced yourself that you truly need anything more than what you have.

Have you seen the movie Inception? Perhaps the biggest underlying narrative in that movie is that an idea can grow, and consume you, even change you. You need to form in your mind somehow, that things aren't good right now, and that you need to change for them to improve.

I could ramble on and give examples, but basically that's what I believe about motivation.
EBS isn't a network file system.
>AMD on the other hand may eat intel's lunch by releasing powerful multicore processors for half the price all because they don't waste space on the die for things like integrated graphics.

If that's all it is isn't that going to be pretty much a simple knob for Intel to turn to respond? They already have Xeon which doesn't use the space on graphics.

The main reason for pushing iGPU on desktop so hard was so the same chips could be pretty much used on mobile I guess?
Eh, bots these days use a good distribution of user agents strings and you can define the type when buying traffic typically. There are ways of finger printing browser engines but that's not done for ad bidding.
Plus even if it comes into play bots will just shift to virtualised windows stacks.
"Pure Google Android" is their second most visible USP claim, right after the vintage branding.

It could be all lies, but then why should they? Given the current market situation it is quite clear that absence of brand "improvements" will create more loyalty than the add-on ever did.
Recruiters don't get paid if you don't get hired. They are not incentivized to get you the highest salary, they're incentivized to get you hired.
Yeah, best results are when you pay for search ranking. It works well enough.
If we're just talking about this particular attack, the two files don't even resolve to the same SHA-1 in Git:

$ sha1sum shattered*
38762cf7f55934b34d179ae6a4c80cadccbb7f0a shattered-1.pdf
38762cf7f55934b34d179ae6a4c80cadccbb7f0a shattered-2.pdf

$ git hash-object shattered*
ba9aaa145ccd24ef760cf31c74d8f7ca1a2e47b0
b621eeccd5c7edac9b7dcba35a8d5afd075e24f2
Abbott and Mosley – Renaissance
If you are interested in deployments of databases on top of cluster orchestrators, here are some interesting projects:

* Postgres automation for Kubernetes deployments https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon

* Automation for operating the Etcd cluster:https://github.com/coreos/etcd-operator

* Kubernetes-native deployment of Ceph:
https://rook.io/
Here a couple of my favorites.

http://ficly.com/stories/1456 - be careful what you wish for

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beasts_and_Super-Beasts/The_O...
Isn't this the same girl that the Deniro/Anne Hathaway movie was on?

After reading the article, this movie version had the same issues as this real life founder.

If only she had watched the movie about herself maybe she wouldn't have bankrupted herself.
It's Fox News so only right-wing people are even listening to this crap.
Well, Nokia/Microsoft has been making those for years. This new one has been branded 3310 to bank on some assumed nostalgia, but it's just a direct continuation of recent devices like the Nokia 105:

https://www.cnet.com/products/nokia-105-2015/preview/

The Series 30+ operating system on these devices is kind of weird. It's basically a generic clone of the old familiar Nokia Series 30/40 phone UI, but made by MediaTek instead of Nokia itself. I guess what happened is that the internal featurephone OS teams were terminated when Microsoft acquired the business, and they just picked up the closest replacement from the Chinese clone masters at MediaTek.
Question is, is buying those historical AMD CPUs which support ECC a good idea?

So far, none of the modern ones are confirmed to support ECC.
I'll pick out a thread here: the toxic culture. When businesses fail, it's regarded as obvious that the toxic culture contributed to the downfall. With successful businesses like Uber or some bank you recently read about, it's assumed that somehow these behaviours are what makes the companies profitable.

My own theory is that toxic culture is a drain on every company with one, like a parasite on a host organism. Sometimes the host is strong enough to survive, sometimes it isn't.

I've worked for toxic tech and toxic finance companies. In both cases I felt that poor decisions were made that a healthier culture could have avoided.
Seconded - I have the x-compact, which I mainly bought for dev stuff, but have ended up really liking it. It's nice and small, battery is pretty decent, and camera is very good.
It doesn't really matter where to register your domain. What you want to consider could be your flexibility regarding their DNS system. The better the DNS system, the faster is the first page load of your website.

For example for STOMT (https://www.stomt.com), we have our domains registered at AWS, like our servers. But our nameservers are on DNSMadeEasy because they have a much faster DNS-system.

Let's have it clear, this is overengineering. We're totally down for speed and that way we saved people between 30-90ms.
And this decision doesn't suit your criteria to save money.
I like to remind people that Joseph Fourier figured out the Greenhouse effect about 200 years ago, well before there was any good indication we were turning the Earth into Venus
I tried it once for a month and I got results, probably more than 10% (To sell a music album). I was super specific with the demographic, I guess that helps.
I sent a Z3C in for replacement due to water damage, and a new one was delivered very quickly. Two days, according to the old tracking messages in my email.

This was in the EU though.
Event Sourcing is a technical term, it's the idea that instead of mutating your database, you should instead have a log and insert a new log entry saying that you changed this value to that, etc. The idea is that this helps you do cool stuff like temporal queries (i.e. make a query "as the entire database looked like a month ago") or look at historical values and changes of things. This matters a lot in some fields. Of course then there's the matter of how to do this efficiently. You can build event sourcing on top of a regular RDBMS but if there is database-level support (as in PumpkinDB), then maybe some things are more efficient. Read more:

https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
I guess you're old enough to remember when everyone felt sorry for those people whose jobs required them to carry pagers.
I was actually at a political event yesterday where some derp derp conservative was going on about how this stuff is all hoax.

Meanwhile, we are in upstate NY, in late February, sitting outside enjoying the 80 degree weather which is warmer than Los Angeles.
> Well not necessarily true for small inputs. Hash a single byte for example. There is no collision in sha1 for that so you can build a 1:1 mapping of hashes back to input examples for that case.

I suppose you are saying that if you know that the input size is sufficiently small, you don't have to worry about collisions, which is true. I was interpreting "for small inputs" to mean that if you give a small input to a hash function (which can take inputs much larger than the space of the output), that you can still reconstruct the small inputs uniquely. Unless the hash function is deliberately designed to provide unique 1:1 mappings for small inputs, I would think that it's not true that you can uniquely reconstruct small inputs because they will likely map to the same value as a large input would (i.e. 'a' might hash to the same value as some 14821-byte string).
This feels like the invention of gunpowder, to me – but for the art of deception rather than war. Up to this point, a politician could say a different thing depending on who was in the room, and we would get an occasional peek at that: like HRC's public & private positions on Wall Street, or Romney's 47% comment. But now there can be 220 million different things to say in 220 million psychometrically-crafted rooms. That feels disruptive.
How do supermarkets get payments from suppliers?

I thought they got paid by customers and they paid suppliers.
Foxconn builds much more than just iPhones and its clones though, so I doubt the investment would be that high. They also build the new 3310 which is rather different so clearly they're able to accommodate different form factors.

According to wikipedia:

> Notable customers and products the company manufactures include BlackBerry,[5] iPad,[6] iPhone, iPod,[7] Kindle,[8] Nintendo 3DS, Nokia, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
I've been using Android since the HTC G1 and I'm planning to switch to the iPhone SE after Apple's rumoured March event where they are said to be introducing a 128gb model. I've had it with big phones and lack of OS updates (even on a current-gen flagship Galaxy S7). As far as I know, the only smallish Android phones available make huge sacrifices in performance and storage space, and if my S7 still doesn't have Nougat after 6 months, you can forget about some inexpensive small Android phone.
Gleaning value from their advertising will become the dialup of this generation as entrenched manipulation and adblocking grow concurrently and they can't thwart either group.

AOL still milks dialup, but the debate has long-shifted to how they could possibly be getting away with it. That's Google/FB style advertising in another decade when 1 in 1000s of clicks is an actual person you want to pay to reach but they continue to use contrived metrics to justify billing for 100s.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/10/facebook-to-audit-advertising...
I can't wait for Russia to compete with our massive small dick complex and build more nukes, I was hoping my recent move to a small town would save me, but at this rate they'll have a nuke for areas populated with just tree frogs.
What makes me mad about these kinds of data based climate change arguments is that they don't engage with the data in an honest way.

The huge problem is 1880 was one of the coldest years in history. That cold period was caused by volcanism, several volcanos erupted causing a cold period that lasted from the 1600s to the late 1800s. This period is known as the little ice age. The worst of this period was in 1816 which was known as the "year without a summer." The Earth has gradually been warming since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

So when we track from the little ice age to now and say the world as gotten warmer and present this as unusual or surprising findings, you know that they are not being honest with you.

I'm not saying that climate change isn't happening, I'm not saying it isn't man made. All I'm pointing out here is that proponents of global warming aren't engaging with the facts in an honest and forthright way.
I have bought lots of different smartphones but I use an ancient Nokia every day.

That 3310 will definitely be bought and tried to see if it works better than what I have right now.
The enterprise clearly watches everyone. "Computer where is commander riker" etc
I think that rewrites happened, it's just that they were called "the next game." If you were gonna rewrite, you might as well change the costumes and sets some, and sell to everyone all over again.
What is magical about 1880-1910 as the implied "normal" average baseline? Why not 1600? 1400? 2500 BC?
That was the promise with Motorola too, but since Lenovo bought them they've been a little weaker on that. I'm skeptical on promised upgrades now.
Can I use WhatsApp if my phone is rooted or using custom ROM?
That is a bit of a myth that recruiters always get you the highest salary. They are competing on price, just like every other transaction in any other business. If they try to maximize salary, some other recruiter with a cheaper candidate will get the gig, and they will get zero commission because you won't get the job.

And like you said, they look for long-term value. Which means they want a reputation for bringing a good value to the companies, not always bringing in expensive candidates.

So you cannot have it both ways... if they benefit on both sides of the fence, then they cannot always be maximizing the benefit to the side of the candidate.
What is "auction pressure?"
Low wages? The US has among the highest wages on the planet. To go with nearly the highest GDP per capita and nearly the highest disposable income levels.

The US has higher wages than: the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea.
Networked disks are fairly normal for production databases - fibre channel SANs are networked disks - but this is quite different to network file systems.
I invested approximately $400 into a standing desk. Probably the best $400 I have ever spent. It helps me with my horrible neck pain (developed from leaning towards LCD all the time) and the added bonus is better alertness and focus.
I'd go one step further and posit that the majority of people who shit on other people's work probably have never shipped anything themselves.
Yea I realized after my lament that is probably the case, we have reached "peak smartphone" until the super-flexible screens can become a reality... Maybe then we'll see the return of the physical keyboard and cool things like retractable/foldable/slidable devices again.

My beef was mainly that I went through the top rated devices on GSM/PhoneArena recently... Basically the only smartphone with squared edges or a unique design was the Galaxy Edge, the Xperia XZ, and the Xiaomi Mi Mix.