skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s an example: while interviewing a man for a comptroller position, he asked me if I was familiar with financial statements, like a balance sheet. This person knew I had been an entrepreneur for years. When I simply replied yes, because I found the question so mystifying, I was met with laughter and a five minute lecture on why balance sheets matter. A lecture that would have been more fitting for a high school level finance class than an interview with a CEO who carved out a precious 30 minute slot to speak with a candidate.

That is brutal. I don't understand how someone could be so tone-deaf, especially in a job interview.
Do you need a framework at all? I think you could get away with just plain JavaScript and include Handlebars if you want a templating engine.

Maybe add Jquery if you want something just above plain JavaScript.

Edit:

Another benefit of Handlebars is that if you ever do decide you need a full framework, you can use Ember and leverage your Handlebars templates.
DNA provides window into early Aboriginal history
It's been interesting working with larger companies through Triplebyte. When we started, we were mostly working with smaller startups making early engineering hires. The challenge for these them is letting engineers know the company exists and why it's interesting.

Bigger companies like Facebook don't need to let engineers know they exist, a huge number of engineers have already applied to them at some point. What they've realized is the way to hire more is to find the good ones that are sitting in the resume review stage of the hiring process, not getting looked at because they don't have stand out credentials.

One thing that's struck out to me in a surprising way about the average startup hiring process compared to larger companies is speed. We've found the larger companies are actually faster to move on the first step of booking a call to speak with our candidates. This completely reverses when it gets to bringing someone onsite and making offers though. Bigger companies take longer to do both and this is where startups have a hiring advantage.
Einstein ...

Do you want a complete list ?
If I had money/power, I would assume every device and account I have is compromised in some way.

Back to pen and paper we go, until that can be compromised too.
Hi, I'm the author of the post. Happy to answer any questions or criticisms folks have.
Never said to remove politics from the discussion. The point that you started with was how the technical topic had influence from politics (from another time).

My point, don't make blanket inflammatory accusations of a current political party that just came into "rule" [I'm letting you get away with that claim] in the last two months). If you're going to interpolate, make a claim to the political action that occurred and what you feel is going to happen.

Right now we're seeing a lot of changes, to make a bold statement there is a direct cause is reaching. (It's because of the "fascist party" we have.. they ran under the conservative/right-party) To blanketly label the party/group of people "in power" that corresponds to the labels being thrown at it leads me to believe that your comment was motivated to just repeat the same catchphrases that are pushed in the left/liberal media.
I'm always interested to hear why people decide to start a business... especially more unconventional types of things. I'm a big fan of meditation in general and am actually a current Simple Habit user. Some mindfulness stuff gets a little too "new agey" for me, but this is more like a helpful tool.
https://www.owasp.org/
I see many people here who accept this as generic wisdom but I don't remember them releasing non-redacted documents (outside the cablegate shitstorm). Are there precedents? Are there sources where they say this is their philosophy?
> ...plus many more I've not thought of

Several more are in one scene of one Simpsons episode [1]. Homer is trying to determine who his soul mate is, and goes into Moe's thinking it might be Barney.

Barney said that he was more of a chum.

Homer turned to Lenny, who said he was a crony.

Carl said he was an acquaintance.

Other people at the bar said colleague, sympathizer, compadre, associate, and contemporary.

Finally, Homer turns to Moe, who unleashes the perfect term for many modern friendships: "I'm a well-wisher in that I don't wish you any specific harm".

[1] Season 8, Episode 9, "The Mysterious Voyage of Homer" (3F24).
In addition to reading Swift benchmark code, mixing unsafe C with Swift aren't complicated to learn and offer more performant. In contrast to Adobe AIR + C API (ANE).
Glad to chat if you throw your email into your profile
Pretending you can ignore politics in any discussion other than a technical seminar about compiler optimization is in itself a political position: you are supporting the people who can afford to ignore politics at the expense of those who can't, endorsing the status quo whatever that happens to be.

This post is about people who are worried about being banned/being banned from the country who previously could enter and how YC is trying to help them. It's an explicitly political post. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it.
Talk about directly the issues and what has happened, and what you think is going to happen (give reason, don't just emote out with fear).

Don't just blanketly throw the entire group under the bus.
There's a big input/output issue here. Which they address, but nonethless which makes the project failure not surprising.

The inputs and outputs for a brain/neural network, e.g. pictures as inputs as recognized object as outputs, are clear. They are not clear for a chip-restricted view where your input binary stream is a post-transformed signal from an Atari joystick, and the output is a pretransformed signal to a display where the pong paddle moves. These complex transformed inputs and outputs at the chip-restricted perspective tremendously reduce the likelihood of making sense of anything.

If we know the adaptor functions for the signal to the first layer of neurons in a simple convolutional neural network, for example, and the output layer is indentifiable, it might be easier to track which neurons track which features, etc.

But there might be no clear intermediate output layers to a brain, so you might have a look at inputs and outputs wrt various subnetworks to see which is most likely to be the true functional subset corresponding to some definitely-occuring function (another obstacle to define). Or assume a function is occuring and see which neurons classify it under the most circumstances. But with so many connections that sounds like a big rough game to play too.

I can see how this project if successful would be another step to creation of the sentient robot overlords but I'm curious as to what people see as the more immediate medical applications would be. Some of the biggest breakthroughs in brain health in the last 20 years have been about getting rid of clots (current best is arguably manual labor) and immune modulation and new biochemical drugs whose effects would require excruciatingly sophisticated and accurate biomolecular connectomic models to model and may be a long time away.
If there was an interview day in London, UK. I would actually apply in a heartbeat.
Does that not require that other major nations loosen their policies in conjunction with this, in addition to cultural aspects of self-promotion as well as failure and access to *capital.
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I try my best to be mindful of my unconscious bias with respect to nurses and test engineers. My point is that these roles are typically less paid than doctor and SWE roles.

I'm all for having more male nurses and more female doctors and SWEs. I think this is a necessary step to solving the pay inequity gap.

It's not obvious to me that nurses should be paid the same hourly rate as doctors and software engineers. My understanding is that it's cheaper to get the education to become a nurse versus being a doctor. But I'm not an expert in this field.
I appreciate the reply and admit "unduly" is occasionally a fine line, but on HN we have to err on the side of not allowing it because of the compounding effects. To get it right you really have to be scrupulous and the hivemind doesn't do scrupulosity, it does pile-ons.
PathNet: what general artificial intelligence may look like
If you are curious to hear more about this, you can read the following articles, for a start:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/23/movies/european-minds-who-...

(and the related documentary)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1991-11-03/the-sovie...

>If something is going on at the moment that is relevant, name the specific thing. Trying to blame the whole group now is just silly pandering.

Huh yes, how about the current executive order ban on muslim countries, and the general eagerness of the current administration to purge the US of many kinds of immigrants who are there completely legally? Many of my Iranian coworkers - most with PhDs from US universities - are affected by this. Many academic conferences I participate in are experiencing problems because organizers or speakers didn't get visas. Several professors are telling me they had to pass on promising applicants due to visa concerns. Anyone in an academic/research environment right now will tell you these things.

> Why did you feel that it was necessary to inject political commentary into this? I'm really tired of hearing armchair politicians or regurgitation of political pundits. This is hacker news not r/Politics.

And I'm tired of techies thinking politics can be refactored into its neat own class, properly abstracted out of any other activity they take part in. Everything is inherently political, and aspiring to "change the world" through your startup or work is obviously so.

Regarding your unhappiness with me calling the current regime fascist... well, when the president in power has insinuated the assassination of his opponents, encouraged his supporters to engage in violence, been spinning outlandish lies about the former president wiretapping him, etc, well I call that fascism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Where are people gonna go?

There's no evidence that China wants to open up like that.
There is also https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython which integrates a Jupyter kernel into org-mode's #+BEGIN_SRC/#+END_SRC blocks. It can display the results of the execution of such blocks much like Jupyter Notebook.
Sand Won’t Save You This Time
Neither developer is lazy. They both work hard and solve a hard problem. However, the naive developer is perceived as taking a long time on an easy problem for no good reason, and might not even be allowed to finish. The wise developer is perceived as taking a disappointing but reasonable amount of time on a surprisingly difficult problem. That the wise developer achieves this by acting disingenuously and wasting a lot of other people's time tells us something about a social phenomenon we see in the comments here, namely that programmers care quite a lot about how they label the difficulties they face, and they feel most comfortable with labels that classify the difficulty outside their area of professional competence.

Obviously the absurdity bothers me. I didn't enjoy being the naive developer, and I don't think I would enjoy being the wise developer, either, if I were capable of it. That means I'm doomed never to work alone. Right now my team is eight months into a project that was supposed to produce a prototype in three months, and we are yet to produce anything beyond a handful of disconnected demos. If I was doing this project by myself, or if I was leading a team of people like me, we would have been relieved of responsibility a long time ago. But we're fine because we have a couple of wise developers who are capable of communicating the difficulties in the manner described above, by essentially teaching other parts of the company that they don't know how to do their jobs.

I dislike the reality and am intentionally painting an unflattering picture of it, but I'm not trying to assign blame or disparage any party, because I don't have a solution. I just thought I'd present it as a way of seeing things.
If he had had some "goods" on Trump (e.g. a video in which Trump had said some rude things) I'm sure he would have released that too. Fortunately for Trump his henchpeople were smart enough not to get phished.
Yeah, I'd prefer that something like this hooked into existing system functionality as much as possible.
I don't understand. If I compare this (courtesy of klochner):

"In short, the microservice architectural style [1] is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API. These services are built around business capabilities and independently deployable by fully automated deployment machinery. There is a bare minimum of centralized management of these services, which may be written in different programming languages and use different data storage technologies."

To this:

"Distributing an application by putting different components on different nodes sounds like a good idea, but the performance cost is steep. [..] How, then, do you effectively use multiple processors? In most cases, the way to go is clustering (see “A Better Way”). Put all the classes into a single process and then run multiple copies of that process on the various nodes."

It looks like a direct contradiction. Personally, I think microservices are indeed a bit crazy and the latter is a good advice, but I am no MF.
You're being a bit broad with your brush strokes there. The United Arab Emirates (of which Dubai is one) has a female labor force participation rate of ~46%. While that is low compared to the ~50-60% you'd see in most OECD countries, it's not that far off places like Poland (48%) and better than, say, Mexico (45%). It's definitely not Iran (15%) or Saudi Arabia (20%).
For those who thing this will unseat SV, no, quite the contrary, showing this flexibility will just make people want to work more with Ycombinator and here.
While I wouldn't say that the US is worse than China, I think your statement is just as dangerous (possibly more).
The point about assuming women are not ambitious really hits home. That is the perfect example of social bias against women in leadership.
They could fix the review process by weighing the review by the amount paid for the stay (or some similar formula). So your buddy who "pays" $20 and then writes a fake review would have their review dwarfed by real users who pay the full price.

An interesting question is: is it better to optimize for more inventory or better quality?
This phenomenon is what drove Henry George to write "Progress and Poverty," nearly 140 years ago. To quote from the introduction:

> But just as such a community realizes the conditions which all civilized communities are striving for, and advances in the scale of material progress—just as closer settlement and a more intimate connection with the rest of the world, and greater utilization of labor-saving machinery, make possible greater economies in production and exchange, and wealth in consequence increases, not merely in the aggregate, but in proportion to population—so does poverty take a darker aspect. Some get an infinitely better and easier living, but others find it hard to get a living at all. The "tramp" comes with the locomotive, and almshouses and prisons are as surely the marks of "material progress" as are costly dwellings, rich warehouses, and magnificent churches. Upon streets lighted with gas and patrolled by uniformed policemen, beggars wait for the passer-by, and in the shadow of college, and library, and museum, are gathering the more hideous Huns and fiercer Vandals of whom Macaulay prophesied.

He identified the reason for it as being the higher value of scarce lands in the midst of progress, and the tendency of private ownership in land to make this inevitable. To take your example from (2) ― if the land on the side of the road demanded great payments for its use, good luck building a shelter there. (This goes hand-in-hand with zoning laws, one of the tools wielded by the landowning class, but which didn't exist in George's day.)

[0] http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/George/grgPP1.html
How does the matching process work on the other side? How do you figure out the correct interview loop and position to match a candidate with when you're working with large companies that have so many different groups inside them?
When humans come into conflict, and they always do, it's not happiness that decides the winner, it's power. The societies that exist today are the ones that survived, not the ones that are best for their constituents.
You are right, the regular/context-free comment was a typo.
You are also correct about c being non-context-free[0]. I have just seen many explanations of language hierarchy online mistaking type-checking for language complexity that it is a pet peeve of mine.

[0] http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2007/11/24/the-context-sensitiv...
And there is one fewer now
The end-to-end refresh of our server hardware fleet
I'm a C++ guy with minimal knowledge about web development. For me this is enlightening. I like details on how things work "under the hood".

Please develop it further and also provide information about how the front-end interacts with the back-end at different abstraction levels with lots of diagrams and details.

I also think going below the OS level is perhaps outside the common understanding of what full-stack development is. Enlightening nonetheless.
In a scenario where more YC companies set up shop in Vancouver, and US investors follow to bet on the next Slack up here, then this will naturally change as a function of supply/demand.
> aren't going away anytime soon

Reading the news, I would not bet too much money on that either.
Ask HN: Has “You Don't Know JS” Convinced Anyone Not to Go with Typescript?
Almost finished with the series and two major points I received were:

1. Implicit coercion isn't all that bad because once you understand it you can leverage it's power.

2. Javascript pseudo-classes aren't worth using because the code is hard to follow and they aren't real classes. Using "delegation-oriented design" patterns like Simpson's "objects linked to other objects" are more true to the essence of Javascript, and thus should be used.

Based on these two points it would make sense that Simpson isn't a fan of Typescript, which emphasizes strong types and classes.

The thing is...I can't remember a time where I really needed implicit coercion. And with Typescript making classes work more like traditional class oriented languages, what's the real problem?

Am I missing out on leveraging the "full power" of Javascript by choosing Typescript?
Shilling my own library here: http://simulacra.js.org

No template syntax to learn, one function API, 5kb gzipped.
I posted the suggestion above before reading this. I don't think you can get smaller than JavaScript + Handlebars. This is the route I took for pages that need to run in slow mobile devices.

You can even precompile your Handlebars templates as an optimization and include a smaller subset of the Handlebars library that is just the runtime without the compiler.
I don't think I agree. I know many CEOs that aren't familiar with these concepts in silicon valley. Additionally, being on the same page as your interviewer is key, so giving a quick background summary before talking about an item is common.

The author comes across as someone who's looking to find fault so I wouldn't be surprised if she read too much in to this (then again I wouldn't be surprised if she was spot on). I can certainly see people having the same reaction in this interview to men.
And Determinism is the faith of rationalists.
Similar errors are in airplane pilot flight manuals, and believed whole heartedly by pilots.
I think about this a lot. One of my own theories is that we always want more. A columnist here, South Africa wrote about how when he was in high school he just wanted enough money to take his date to a movie and have enough money to buy popcorn. In college, he wanted enough money to buy a crate of beer, as a young employee he wanted enough to buy the cool car. Get the drift, somehow we always want more.

People in the village are not immune from wanting more but the pace is slower. They are more patient. They exercise, not by going to gym but walking 10km to say hello to a neighbor then walking back. Food is organic, all cows eat grass and roam free. Little of the food is highly processed. They also manually process their food. The thought of spending half a day pounding millet for supper has me getting so impatient and thinking surely there is a better way. They have accepted.

Sorry I went on a bit of a rant, but this is topic close to my heart.
> best sorts of trolls

Good to know that you were just trolling.

> I told them what they were doing wrong that

You do realize that just because you say something is wrong doesn't actually make it so. Right?

Who is "them", by the way?

> argument ineffective

Nope, the nuclear industry's existing strategy, which closely follows your ridiculous suggestion of admitting things that aren't true, has been extremely ineffective and has backfired. They thought that if they created standards that mandated extreme, one could say ridiculous levels of safety, the public would accept nuclear power as safe. The opposite happened: the high safety standards were taken as evidence of how terrible all this was.

And they backfired even worse in that the standards were so high that "keeping the public safe" using those standards actually exposed them to worse danger than looser standards would have. Oh the irony!

And yes, I also used to believe your take that, well, every once in a while there are horrible accidents. And unlike you I used to believe that those accidents, even if rare, were horrible enough to rule out nuclear power.

That is, until I looked at the actual numbers (and later the WHO reports on Chernobyl). And found out that not only are the amortized numbers ridulously better than anything else. Even the "catastrophes" were (a) both much less catastrophic than I thought and (b) other power sources had much worse catastrophes than I knew (because those aren't reported) and (c) most of the catastrophic effects were actually indirect and due not to radiation but to fear of radiation.

Did I mention the irony?

So I came around to the view (expressed very well by others in this thread) that not using a power source that is (a) safer than any other available on the planet and (b) >1000 times safer then the most widely used and readily available alternative is morally/ethically completely indefensible, downright repugnant.
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Why do you say that? I did not downvote you.

And would be interested real and objective criteria for assessing which country is "worse" ethically or "worse" by some criteria you select.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europ...

(Europe != European Union)
Which particular fascist regimes do you have in mind? In news from Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
This is incorrect. There was an opt-out phase where the Windows 10 install started automatically in the middle of work. I've experienced this myself, there's a moment where Windows 7 just shuts down and starts installing Windows 10 and I had to wait 30 minutes until I could press "I disagree" to the EULA and then it would start rolling back the Windows 10 it just installed.