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Agreed. For business I always prefer hotels because I know what to expect and it always has the services I need. For vacation (especially with large groups) AirBnB is much better because I'm able to book more custom housing (entire houses, multiple rooms connected with a shared space, etc).
My sentiments exactly, although I've heard even worse (not through Triplebyte) - people put through 6! onsite interviews, so I can't help but feel like I circumvented something. I think though that this is to be expected, because Triplebyte is selling an alternative narrative to the hiring and recruiting folkways of the Valley and many companies will be trying to fit a square peg into a round hole around what Triplebyte is doing.
That's true. In this case, the cohort of people with Apple stock in the mid-2000s is also the cohort of people who survived the dot-com crash a few years earlier, so they were much more of the mentality to secure their homestead rather than taking the risk that funds would continue to flow in to service the mortgage.
> Why would there be a war?

There'd be a war because of ports, military facilities, oil, and, because, politically California may on average be more slightly liberal than the rest of the US, but overall it looks a lot like the US as a whole, with very liberal coastal enclaves and an ultraconservative inland agricultural heartland, and much of the latter would revolt from California to stay in the US in the event of an attempted Calexit.
I wouldn't be so sure, recent mid-tier phones have started to finally surpass a flagship phone from a few years back... (when it depreciates to same price point)

Durability is also improved. I'm talking about newest of Samsung A and J series compared to older S models here.

You also get the vastly updated software which will be hard to get on the old device.
Just as interesting to me as the tech stack is the business stack. There have to be some really tightly-managed pipelines of deals because Opendoor is fronting capital to buy up the houses. Interesting scaling challenges there on the capital side.

If Opendoor works out how to quickly vacate the newly-bought property, then automate much of the project coordination activity that is done to flip the property by automatically scheduling and bringing in contractors and inspectors, that could lead to some really interesting returns. Even if the sprucing up is not to flip for huge amounts, just the usual repairs and freshening changes, combined with an empty house to show, could easily lead to semi-automation of a buy-low sell-high, high-volume business of conveniently buying a lived-in house, and selling a nice-looking, nice-smelling, high-curb-appeal house for much higher than the original property owners could bring. Automate the scheduling of staging and unstaging, and goose the numbers even more. I can see all sorts of other follow-on monetization streams from this simple change in the process you guys introduced, thanks for the thought-provoking write up, I look forward to reading much more about your successes in the future.
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Real estate costs in Shenzhen rose dramatically as well. It's not much better than Beijing now
You can mount ACD as a filesystem in Linux and run your own Plex server, I've been doing it successfully for a few months now. I followed the instructions at https://amc.ovh/

EDIT: More up to date instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...
Goodreads reviews are still pretty inflated. Anything around or under 3.5 or so probably has some big flaws.
I wouldn't even believe the salesman that anything other than 10 will get them into trouble. I'd just refuse filling it out.
I found it utterly useless. But what made me finally give up on it for good was their G+ username (handle) policy.

They had already decided the first X characters of my handle (FirstnameLastname______) and then I had to add something to it. And not at all any of the usernames I wanted were taken. Some are still not taken. I realised this worthless piece of software/service isn't worth the time and Google has been proving it since then.

I tested Allo and Duo the day it was released. That's it. Work has GSuite so have to use Hangouts.
Hangouts isn't going anywhere ?

We've all heard that many times before and with so many other apps duplicating Hangouts functionality I wouldn't be so confident.
This is why I wish system design questions were more common. I couldn't care less if you can do a bunch of palindrome algorithm problems on a white board. I do care if you understand the scalability, maintainability, and implications of your code. And if you understand how different data structures work and are used. Most whiteboard problems fail spectacularly at this.
> And the notion that SF is more affordable than Vancouver is just laughable if you've lived in both places.

I have lived in both SF and Vancouver and I don't find it laughable at all. I also now live in NYC and have previously lived in London, UK. My experience may be anecdotal but it is representative. Of all the places I have just listed, I saved the least amount of money when I lived in Vancouver. To be clear, the amount of money I put away each month after all expenses was lowest in Vancouver.

In fact, the number of devs being recruited from Vancouver down to SF should be an indication of how much more financially attractive it is to work down there. I can't even imagine someone from SF choosing to make the move to Vancouver.
And the fact that it's leaking other user's and not just yours (in fact, in order to get your own you'd need to have two Tinder accounts).
If anything worried me it would be fundamental research more than startups -whether the new admin affects fundamental researchers coming in would be a bigger issue than a few entrepreneurs having to work harder at home. Missing up on start-ups is not all that. Uber, AB&B, etc. are nice to haves, but aren't making fundamental discoveries --they are changing how we use resources we already have rather then providing new things.
How do I keep other threads from competing with my render thread for CPU?
I'd like to see some kind of shader demo category, like 1k GLSL or something :D!
Former Village Capital graduate here.

I consider it one of the biggest waste of my time ever!

I'm hoping the program has grown more and I know Ross works hard and I congratulate him on keeping the program going. If you're an international company, perhaps their programs outside of US are more valuable since there are no other options for you.
But if you're US based, I would do my homework before joining them.

Why?
1 - the program was so disorganized. We were forced to follow this automated Powerpoint slide progression. If you needed it more time on one of your slides you copied the slide twice, to give yourself double the time. So basically we spent 3 months optimizing our pitches around this auto powerpoint process.

2 - we were used to build credibility for Village Capital. They would shuttle us around to their potential LPs to show it was a viable program. That's not bad in itself, however, it felt like we were providing more value to Village Capital, than Village Capital to us.

3 - Very founder-unfriendly terms. As I said we were one of the two top finishers. However, their financing term (which we only learned the details pass the half-way into the program) was nothing short of usury. We were forced to do a down round (by 4x) OR do the revenue share financing, where we would pay back 3X the money they loaned us.

I decided not to write about our experience, but given the reach of HN, I decided for the first time to publicly speak about it to warn other founders who might be interested in their program.
With this setup you run your own Plex server and mount ACD as a filesystem.
That's a terrible answer. Sexual harassment happens everywhere, some places are certainly worse than others but gender segregating the whole world would be awful. There needs to be a change in the culture coming from the top down to make it clear this kind of behavior is unacceptable.
I had an awesome video-interview with Triplebyte in January but they didn't decide to move forward. No complaints though as they gave a solid heads-up on what to expect, my interviewer was super positive (I felt like he was actually rooting for me), and they gave me solid feedback on my strengths and what concrete actions I should take if I choose to reapply in the future.

These guys are the real deal, so it's pretty neat that they're expanding out to big-names! I wish them the best!
Thanks for responding (and for Redis)! That makes a lot more sense now, would love to see the older commands get new, more powerful versions :)
"$600 CAD/month for a bedroom in a house that's close to frequent transit and in a low-crime area isn't hard to find if you don't have your heart set on living right in downtown Vancouver."

(Has not looked for an apartment in Vancouver in the last 10 years)
It was never an explosion risk, it was fire risk, they haven't been banned because they don't use latest batteries.
That said, the lower end phones don't either.

The trade-off for the flagship phone in case of iPhone is battery life - it is noticeably shorter.
You mean the same Canada whose police would pick up drunk First Nations men, drive them out of town and let them freeze to death?[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths
A couple of reasons:

1. Moving, especially to a different country, takes a huge amount of money and effort. It's reasonable for someone to want to fix a problem with where they are rather than go through that.

2. It's not actually an argument at all. It does nothing to demonstrate any merits of the thing being discussed. It's really just a more polite way to say "shut up."

Consider, hypothetically, that every evening, an agent of the state would come into each person's house and punch them in the nose repeatedly. Would you object to this? Would you find "if you don't like it, you can move" to be a good argument in favor of this system?
Actually, IIRC (and correct me if I'm wrong) for accounting purposes, gold counts as "cash & cash equivalents", so if it bought $1B in gold bars, AirBnB's cash wouldn't change.
You do not even have to be too conscious about security as a company. A lot of contracts with companies and/or government agencies in the EU (at least in Germany) require that you handle data according to EU/German laws. If you use a SaaS which does not host in the EU it is a lot harder to satisfy those requirements. To be compliant it is a lot easier to spin up your own Mattermost in a data center here.
I think use-case for Google Cloud SQL, RDS, Heroku, etc is a bit different from Citus and other distributed databases. It seems that Cloud SQL has very limited scalibility (32 processors, 200GB of RAM), so it might not be very good at usecases that your working dataset is in order of terabytes or more. Citus on the other hand has horizontal scalability and you can add more CPU power and RAM by adding another machine to your machines.

If my data were at order of 10GBs, I would choose Cloud SQL, RDS, etc. At order of 100GBs, I would try both Cloud SQL, RDS, etc. and Citus, etc. to see which one fits my usecase. At order of terabytes, I would choose Citus or some other distributed database.

(I'm a former Citus employee and Current Googler in a non-Cloud SQL team)
Another reason why you really do not want to work outside in Canada in the winter:

Metal gets brittle when it is cold. This will lead to tool breakage (health risk) and bolts snapping rather than turning. You really should not work on a car at temperatures < 5C and preferably you should work in a heated garage. Below -10C it qualifies as torture, not work.

Being a car mechanic is hard enough on the body when working in the best possible setting.
Thanks, I was unaware of that.
The EFF guides cover these questions; click the link.
Wifi network and password in the Airbnb listing description, is this a normal thing to do?
(as a Non-american), what I am sensing is, either bend over for the inspection or buzz off and leave your things behind, guess I ll just never visit NYC, anyway Paris is better for vacations :P
I'm aware. But the important features for a small company (external auth, ldap) are on a paid tier for Mattermost. Its good that mattermost can tie into gitlab's authentication via ldap (no ldap group permissions though with the OSS tier).

Edit: Gitlab doesn't officially support SSO on top of SSO (AD/LDAP, etc), so its at your own peril: https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/sso-gitlab.html
I recently booked a place in an apartment complex, and when I arrived, there were big signs at all the entrances saying it wasn't a hotel, that it was for residents only, and anybody found to be renting daily/weekly would be arrested as trespassers. I was only staying there for a couple of nights and didn't have time for the hassle of arguing with Airbnb at the time, so I just took the risk.

After my stay, I reported it to Airbnb. I didn't want to leave a review because I didn't want to deal with the fallout if Airbnb banned the host and they knew I was responsible. Airbnb ignored the report, the listing is still active, and none of the reviews mention the problem. I wonder how many other guests reported the problem to Airbnb without leaving a review as well.
What are you wondering about, "if true"?

That the Intel ME can be neutralized?

That the Intel ME on Librems has been neutralized?

I can't tell.
The sobering conclusion we can draw, is that there are helluva lot more vulnerabilities where those came from that no-one's discovered.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831996
As a Google customer (of both Compute/Container Engine and Cloud SQL), I'd rather use a Mysql instance hosted next to my application on Google's network than a Postgres instance that's an internet-hop away in Amazon's cloud. If I was currently running my apps on AWS that's where my DB would live too (and I'd be using RDS Posgres there).

The other reasons listed are an order of magnitude less important for my cost/benefit calculus (though things like cost and support will definitely matter to orgs bigger than mine).
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Their site did apparently start out as a wiki. Wikipedia (another site whose name derives from their use of a wiki) says:

"WikiLeaks was originally established with a "wiki" communal publication method..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Staff.2C_name_and_fo...
Maybe transcoding won't be needed eventually for a majority of users ? A lot of media right now exists in h264 which newer devices can anyway play. Since AV1 has broad industry support, it might be also become ubiquitous.
It's high when considered in isolation, but that's silly. When comparing places you should consider all costs, not just the local taxes.
As long as https://appear.in is independent, I don't care what Google does with Hangouts. Appear.in doesn't even require a login!
What motivates me personally is not that I think Google Postgres will be better than RDS (which is great for us so far), but because I want to move to GCP for other reasons (pricing, better UI & cli, GKE, BigQuery) and the managed Postgres RDS was the only thing that was important enough to keep us on AWS
Well there are tons of interesting tech work done in China, targeting only Chinese market though :) its a self contained market

I can walk around and pay for everything with my cellphone nowadays in China, but can't really do that in Bay Area.
The time to snark about a preliminary study is when you have something better in hand.
I never understood why cgo was an option instead of doing what most languages do.

The only reason I see, was having an easier way to parse header files.
Yeah, I understand the motivation but it doesn't help when you just want to call a model method with just a single argument.

They are also dog slow :(
this looks quite clever, opening doors via a code? nice. that would certainly get my attention.
One thing, are you guys doing any modelling using graphs? or is all your data normalized and stored in relational DBs?
Interesting you mention the idea of fasting. I'm learning more about it now. My roommate, who is not diabetic but interested in low-carb anyway, has been investigating this for a while and has brought it to my attention. Any tool I can add to the toolbox is worth considering.
Authority figures are regularly given a sort of indoctrination on induction. It's us vs them, they're criminal scum, etc etc. You can't have a civil conversation with a cop, even an off-duty one, about how criminals might be driven to criminal acts by things beyond their control and how they're still people. They simply choose that lifestyle and therefore are unequivocally The Bad Guys. It's in the entire culture, one person isn't going to change it. I do generally dislike cops, and I know there are still some good ones - but they're holdouts, and even they usually only hold out so far or so long before they fold to the cultural expectation for them to be overbearing bullies and thugs. Good people don't become good cops, good people lose themselves becoming cops.
I haven't used Glide (only govendor) so I'm not sure exactly how it works.

Are you checking your dependencies into your repository (we do this, it works very well).

If not, are you pinning specific commit hashes? Is that even possible in Glide?

AFAIK those are the only two ways to get even close to reproducible builds.
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If there is a move of any importance into Canada (doubtful to me as a Canadian) it will not be to Vancouver with its outrageous real estate prices, and very few tech companies, but to the Greater Toronto/Hamilton area, which is where 90% of these types of businesses are. Amazon, Google, and IBM are all already here or around here [Google is in Kitchener/Waterloo]. Apple is here for sales/marketing only (at least when my worked there 6-7 years ago).

Facebook and EA have presence in Vancouver, and Amazon has some there, too. But I get the impression that Facebook and Amazon are merely interested in using Vancouver as a 'feeder' office for getting candidates long run into their Seattle offices.

In any case, the wages are lower here which means talent still continues to emigrate. Also -- the weather. I work for Google Waterloo and I suspect there are far more Canadians working for Google in Mountain View than there are here in our largest Canadian office.
My experience working with Triplebyte has been great. I found them through hackernews from a post about visualizing the timeline for a job search [1].

Unlike most people in this thread, I thought their interview process was much more relevant and tangible to real engineering applications than most companies I've interviewed at. I was not presented with any gotchas or arcane algorithms questions.

Finally, the big draw to them as an engineer is that it significantly cuts down on the amount of time you spend on the phone with other companies before going on site. I'm still holding a job (hence the anonymous account), so looking for other opportunities was somewhat prohibitive to me.

[1] http://kellysutton.com/2016/10/20/visualizing-a-job-search-o...
But, this could also be quite positive for the bay area. By reducing the number of jobs, It might finally provide the housing relief the bay area so desperately needs.
I sync my org files to gitlab. Is there a way to sync org files via git with orgzly?
Although ICE does have border search authority, the people who will normally perform border searches (and possibly ask you to unlock your device) are neither TSA nor ICE, but rather CBP! They're the people who staff the front-line immigration and customs checkpoints in the ports and perform the interviews there.
> Most likely not next year.

In Germany and many other European countries, when the government resigns (or the government is mistrusted by parliament), there is the possibility of immediate new elections.

Is this totally impossible in the US?
Probably like Magic Leap
I'd love to see proof it's due to Trump. Unfavorable gov'ts don't seem to hurt countries like China, Iran, etc
Happy to chat more. Twitter is probably the best place: @haydenlee37, or find my email on my website: haydenlee.io.

Next steps: finishing a few basic requirements (master client, scene objects that are defined in the HTML and are always owned by the master client).

Then I'm thinking about how to make it more flexible on the networking side, potentially let people only use websockets if they don't want to do P2P / WebRTC.

Will be making tutorials for it too.

I'm thinking I'll aim for one major feature a week.
> give a link to download your contributed translations

Well, that wouldn't really help anyone. They would need to publish all translation data to help anyone make a competitor, which is not in Google's interest.
Let me ask the opposite question: why does it bother you that they bring gender into it?

As for why they do it, it's because women have historically been oppressed, and a lot of people now try to pretend like it's all over and done with when it clearly is not.

Does it even matter why? They do. It's there. You can be thankful for what they're doing to draw attention to problems you face, or you can be upset that they haven't explicitly included you in the group they focus on. I don't see why you'd pick the latter.
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I don't use swift in a backend context, but from the iOS side:

* The debugger & indexer fails often.

* Build times are slow and source kit (the 'IDE features' server/library) has performance/stability problems.

* Scaling your CI is pretty bad since your stuck with apple hardware & their OS. There isn't an 'AWS' for apple hardware. MacStadium is so-so.

* You also don't have full control over your build chain, and decisions made by apple xcode can screw you over in when they change something in an update.

* Migrating your code from one version to the next can be a multi-week event.

I wouldn't use swift until it matures as a language in a few years. On backend you rarely need something that is not garbage collected. I would stick with python, golang & java. Maybe use rust or C++ if you need it.
Yes, it is wise to do that. If you don't want the overhead of running your own SQL instance, you definitely don't want the overhead of running it on kubernetes; it's quite tricky (but the addition of StatefulSets in 1.5 has made it easier).

If you're running a CloudSQL instance, you can use a sidecar container to manage proxying the connection to the database: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloudsql-proxy

"The Cloud SQL Proxy allows a user with the appropriate permissions to connect to a Second Generation Cloud SQL database without having to deal with IP whitelisting or SSL certificates manually."
The average software engineering salary is somewhere around $75k here though.
You've missed the part where he is actually donating this money to either you or grandkids, instead of saddling you with debt.
I'm sure Cali would be able to leave, they just wouldn't be able to take their assets with them.
>in some boats, you pull up the centerboard to reduce that drag.

Oddly enough I'm writing from such a boat right now :). Though in our case the main purpose of having it retractable is to allow navigating shallow waters (like smaller marinas).
It's particularly interesting given that having a DUI on your record is not disqualifying for entry into the USA. The US denies entry for what it deems crimes of moral turpitude, a relatively nebulous concept, though one a DUI does not fall under.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_turpitude