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When I interviewed with Triplebyte I had applied to actually become part of their staff. I was told I'd go through the standard process and then afterward we'd talk about what Triplebyte does in-depth and what the responsibilities would be. Guillaume was kind, engaging, and interested in how I approached a problem. The Australian dude (Buck) took over toward the end and he was very dismissive - he didn't seem to care what I said. It was kind of a let-down because I had crawled his online presence when researching Triplebyte and I was interested in asking him about his charity contributions. I had a good time talking to Harj about buckling-spring keyboards like my beloved Model M in the in-between moments.

I found out later I didn't pass the interview because my solution to the coding exercise didn't work at the end of the hour. We had continued past it and I thought I was safe because I was complimented on its organization and straight-forward interpretation. I finished it that night:

https://github.com/blitmap/coffeescript-snippets/blob/master...

https://github.com/blitmap/coffeescript-snippets/blob/master...

I had fun but I felt like they got more out of it than I did.
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Perhaps a better title would be "The Truth About NYT's Level of Scrutiny toward Wikileaks Tweets".
I had one renter complain that they couldn't get the wifi network and password (and again ask for a refund), so I just gave in and put it in the listing. Airbnb has a way to enter it securely, but most guests never figure it out. Airbnb should probably text the wifi network and password automatically when a property is booked

Update: I'm on phone with AirBNB support about this right now. Frankly their phone support is pretty poor, eventhough I'm a "super host." They can't seem to answer basic questions about how the wifi network and password is provided to guests
This could be a cultural design thing. A lot of these apps (Airbnb, Lyft, etc) are from the US, where getting full marks in school is a frequent occurence if you study reasonably well.

In France for instance, it's very rare for a student to go above 15/20 or so at the college level (I graduated in the top 10% of my class with a 12/20 average; the top ranked student, whom I was friends with, had a 14/20 average).

But when I graded homework as a graduate student for an american university, the professor told me I was too harsh, and after adjusting my criteria to match what she wanted, I found myself giving many 100/100.
I love how the NYT turns their own ignorance of technology into some condemnation of WikiLeaks. That tweet is perfectly fine. What exactly do they believe "bypass" to mean? Of course their own misstep here is only referred to as "a honest misunderstanding" of the generic "press".

The article then goes on to explain what should have been researched from the beginning and delivers the brilliant sentence

This should not come as a surprise.

Right. Here is the salient excerpt from the WikiLeaks release linked in the tweet (!):

These techniques permit the CIA to bypass the encryption of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Wiebo, Confide and Cloackman by hacking the "smart" phones that they run on and collecting audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.

You turned a tweet into a press article, didn't bother to read the referred article and then have the audacity to depict that as some sort of deliberate misinformation campaign in yet another article instead of simply admitting you rushed for the clicks. On the upside, it is now much clearer that it's maybe not only WL that is in the business of misinformation..
Can you clarify what "the program" refers to? Is this the new variant where demo days are discarded in favor of mock board meetings (as discussed in the blog)? Or is the demo day/mock board meeting just the last piece, and the underlying program is the same? Thanks.
The quote literally said "that NEW iPhone".
Attribution is one. In your own words leaked techniques are so primitive they simply cant be the stuff CIA is using, ergo _You_ personally wouldnt attribute this primitive piece of malware DLL injecting itself into a random text editor as state actor attack = success.
how many apples per hour does a worker pick? If you paid a worker an extra $20/hour you don't get $10/apple at the store unless the worker only picks two apples an hour, now, does it?

Not paying farm workers acceptable salaries otherwise things at the grocery store will cost 5x don't seem to pass the math smell test...
No. The numbers don't work. A typical apple picker (the most labor intense/apple part of the work) can do 1000 lb/hour [1]

So even if you had to pay domestic workers $30/hour, and you could pay migrants nothing, that still only comes to charging 3 cents a pound more. Not $8.

[1] Just an example, but others say the same: https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/jobs-making-money/side-gigs/...
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Lotus Notes didn't have video, and sound or real-time chat functionality. It does integrate a spreadsheet, decent word processor, calendar and task list. Google Docs with its Calendar and Gmail integration is close enough.

Integrating different use cases is different from interoperability. For example, make it easy to share a file on drive via email and chat does not require drive to be integrated.
Likewise meet (new contacts, social net) vs chat (known contacts, rooms) might be a good split if they interact nicely together.

Splitting chat from email is a stretch, much like with voice from text or from video. Or simple images.

What Google is doing is create apps that do not work together with each other.
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Lack of experience, probably the #1 reason. I think I just assumed every accelerator more or less followed the standards set by YC or very close to it.

Your question made me search my email to see if I missed something. I had't it just mentioned the amount and no details.

Other reason was, in their interview they did a great job selling us on how they have a network of investors as well as the largest hospital system in the world (partnering with them) where it will give us access to so much more than just their capital.

At the halfway point, we had a Webex call when their finance person took us through their financial terms. We still thought we were okay, since they indicated they would follow up on our existing seed terms. Well, they renegade that when the time came! Telling us, this would be a new term since our old term closed a while back.

Afterwards, I remember arguing with them when it came to their term sheet and using YC as the benchmark. It didn't persuade them.

So, the learning lesson for young founders who read this. Do your due diligence for the lessor known accelerators. Not just on financial terms. But overall benefits of the program.
Buying a home is much, much more complicated than buying "an item", even if you leave out the complications of a mortgage.
The housing price has deflated substantially in the past year because of a one-two-punch of a foreign buyer's tax and the Chinese government cracking down on rich Chinese people smuggling their money out of the country into foreign real-estate systems.

Vancouver's market had a reputation of being driven by Chinese cash... and whether that's true or not, perception is reality when it comes to markets.
Part of the announcement was that additional contextual auth capabilities would be added.
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(Anecdotally) It gets easier as time goes on, and you can use intermittent fasting [1] to halve the amount of days with restriction and still maintain a net loss.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13825676
> How big a machine do you need to run notebooks effectively ?

- not too big. I've run tests with performance vs. sampling of data and for the models we use we can sample a significant amount (i.e. use a fraction of the full training data).
- If we did need a bigger machine, we're using ensemble models that parallel train nicely.

> Why a notebook...Why not a Python script

I was originally going to use a Python script, but I found it useful to have the notebook output inline performance charts and metrics. It's easier to contain them in the notebook than output a bunch of image artifacts that have to be added to VC. This way I can pull open the notebook and scroll through to check all my visual metrics.

I'm not opposed to ditching the notebook for training entirely, but for now it works just fine.
that sounds alluring :)
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No, they are not. What is important is how much you can buy using your average salary. Buying power is important. And the prices in India are much cheaper.
You are very right that other lightweight markup languages could provide syntax for everything that org-mode does. But what would possibly interpret that syntax?

The fact that org-mode is tied to Emacs is both its weakness but also its strength. By sitting on the Emacs interpreter, org-mode imposes no limits to what you can achieve. The synergy with other Emacs packages is enormous.

You also forgot to mention one of the coolest features of Org: exporting your documents to whatever format you may want, e.g. html, latex, markdown, odt, reveal.js, - and it's possible to hack the export to fit your needs usually with modest effort. Here's an example of workflow to collaborate with Word users, for example: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2015-06/msg...

And here a recent blog post on exporting org to jupyter notebooks: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2017/01/21/Exporting-...
You have to remember that India culture and western culture are so different that you can't compare them whatsoever. The meaning of friend is completely different there. People behave differently to friends and to strangers alike.

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I absolutely despised putting a small paragraph describing experience along with a blatant list of skills instead favoring working it into bullet points under each job... it felt like fluff.

However, when I did that, I started getting MUCH better response to applications. Having it at the top made it easy to connect my skills to keywords in postings for a recruiter who likely spends, maybe, 30 seconds reviewing a resume.
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We still just check them in directly. Not great, but it works. You can at least have github render the notebook at any point.
Something I've been working on in my spare time is a database of grocery staples (about 200 items, plus 80 common cleaning/toiletry items), their costs (per item, unit price, per package), and where you can get them for that price. Regular everyday price, not sale prices.

Aldi not only outcompetes most supermarkets -- including ones that are traditionally considered inexpensive like Market Basket -- but can go toe-to-toe with warehouse clubs and bulk services like Amazon Subscribe & Save. Having spent far more time in supermarkets than I'd care to admit, it's pretty obvious as to why:

* The stores are smaller. They pay less in rent.

* They have a limited selection of inventory. Don't expect lots of pre-prepared food, and fancy pre-made items. In fact, expect very little. It's mostly staples with some extremely common packaged convenience foods.

* As a result of the first two items, they don't need much in the way of staff to cover the store. They're spending their time restocking the store as stuff runs out, so things don't run out. However if you want some items, your best bet is to go at open.

* Which is 9AM. They also close at 9AM. Not running 24 hours means lower costs.

* They have few registers. My local store has four. However they don't bag your groceries. Your groceries get dumped into another cart at the end of the register, and you go pack it yourself. The speed in which a person can be checked out is VERY quick as a result.

* You pay $0.25 for a cart, and get it back when you return it. The upside is no one is outside rounding up carts.

* They provide no bags. At all. Though they'll happily let you take the empty boxes items came in.

Compared to the local BigCo supermarket chain, they come in at about 40% cheaper, even if you're buying store brand from the BigCo chain. On many items, they undercut both the local BJs and Costco, despite not selling that kind of quantity. They do it by providing exactly what you need at a grocery store, and nothing you don't.

Even compared to Market Basket -- which I do love and still go to for some things -- they still easily come in 15% cheaper. There are some things I can't get at Aldi (so I'll go to Market Basket, as I'll go to Trader Joe's to get high quality produce easier), but damned if they aren't a super efficient setup.
Things have changed a bit for ALDI since 2011.

They're sinking $1.6 billion into store expansion and renovation. I live near one of the prototype remodel stores and it's really nice.

https://www.ft.com/content/41644020-ee28-11e6-930f-061b01e23...

They also take credit cards now.
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I regularly scan the MIT Press site for upcoming books and yes, I purchased, read and donated it to my local public library. History of technology is my thing...
Cool! Really happy to hear you've found it useful.

And yeah... 0.x is definitely too magical. A lot of the changes in 1.0 are to make things more explicit and less magical. So even if there's a bit more typing, you'll feel more in control. 1.0 will also be adding a theme system which will hopefully preserve the "really easy to get going feel" while making it much easier to program whatever your project dictates once you deviate from the norm.
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Which means 'consumer' have no idea what app to use and when
(and also learning that you better not to get used to any of them)
Honestly, most package managers just bring their own problems. I'd rather commit source code than troubleshoot npm, pip, nix, maven, etc errors all day long. The only package manager I've found that works reliably has been Cargo (Rust).
This is changing the subject slightly, but Tahoe, especially S. Tahoe, is a total bargain. There are few destinations which offer what Tahoe does for the price. I will never understand why other alpine destinations can demand higher prices. There is quite a bit of supply in Tahoe though.

I do think people have unrealistic expectations, but my house is pretty damn nice. My cleaners are amazing. I'm pretty happy to stay there myself.
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The saving grace here is that there are alternatives for all those services and I can switch pretty easily at any time so honestly it's less urgent to me
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That's something I've always wondered about evolution in general. Why isn't there a continuum of species? For example, why are there chimpanzees and humans walking around as discrete species with nothing "in between". Seems unlikely that a few chimpanzees gave birth to human babies (or I guess some ancient human ancestor) one day, and then we just branched off and evolved separately leaving the rest of the chimpanzees behind. Why didn't the "better" DNA get fed back into the chimpanzee gene pool and the whole species evolve?

Obviously I know nothing about biology, but I'd love a high level explanation. It's the one thing that's always bothered me about evolution, because nobody ever explains it, and it seems like magic.
Ask HN: How to prepare for interview for a high school data science internship?
Hi HN. I am a high school senior who has a couple of years of experience in Python, C, Go, and web development. I have a group interview coming up for an internship at a nearby data science startup[0] and would appreciate some pointers. I've received an interview schedule that looks like this:

Introductory Note : 10 mins session :
Learn about the hiring process, expectations and ask questions. We will also share important announcements about our upcoming events and workshops that students can participate in.

Data Model Hack : 20 mins session :
Students will be given a set of topics to choose from and have to define a real world data model and resource list for that data model

Data Wrangler Challenge : 60 mins session:
We will split the students in groups of 7 or 9 and have them complete a data wrangling task

Informal : 15 mins session
We will take feedback and answer any questions

Final Interviews : These will be scheduled off campus or over Skype for candidates who qualify the Scrum and Hack tests. We will announce the final names and schedule for these in by March last week.

Does anyone have any tips for preparing for this interview? I'm pretty confident in my programming skills, so data wrangling using Python should not be too difficult unless I am misunderstanding what data wrangling is (I assume I will most likely be given a text file or web page that I have to parse and extract data from). When they are referring to creating a data model, do they just mean construct a database schema given a real world object or is it something else entirely? Also, what exactly is a resource list? Google isn't returning anything useful. It would be awesome if anyone familiar with these terms or the hiring process could elaborate or give some advice.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[0] https://www.bigparser.com/
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As someone who grew up in a rural small town in the midwest before attending a top 15 university and starting a company in Silicon Valley, I really don't appreciate the perceived stereotype of my hometown.

BI just noted that the problem is a bit more widespread, it also affects the affluent "masses" in the Hamptons:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-hamptons-are-facing-an-op...

(Unfortunately, yours seems to be the prevailing attitude towards my "roots" here in northern California with its conflicting culture that purportedly prides itself on being free of stereotypes.)
I did grow up on the east coast, and have, so far, lived my whole life here.

I would never describe the summers as "hellish" nor the winters as "ball-shriveling". I thoroughly enjoy the tremendous variety through all the seasons. I would say there isn't "1 week of pleasant weather", but rather, a year of tremendously varying, enjoyable weather.

But, of course, that's sort of the point - to each their own.
I'd like to see some data for that 80% urban population statement. Unless the definition of "dense suburbs" is outlandish, I can't see the percentage getting that high. Most studies I've seen put the US at a fair rural to urban split that up until very recently has always favored the rural population. It is only in the past 10 years that we've approached 50% urban to rural.

I know this to be true in North Carolina, and various readings about elsewhere make me believe it to be the case for the greater US.
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Hmm, my version of Discord either points me at the friends list or restores previous state with 2 or 3 taps max to message a friend. (top left hamburger menu, tap friends, pick a friend)

Is what you describe specific to iOS version?

What is missing most is video chat.
Any plans to go international, particularly state side?
> It feel like it helps me mark the time internally, and reminds me that I'm a pretty small part of nature overall.

You know, I don't think I ever consciously had that thought, but since you mentioned it - I think I wholeheartedly agree with the statement.
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Most people use Plex for pirated content. If Plex uses S3 or GCS as the backing store, then they are hosting and delivering their users' pirated content and opening themselves up to all kinds of legal problems. If they're just providing a way to stream content from some external storage, they have a lot less liability.
It's only a problem if his competitors aren't.
In your position, I'd get the book, read it, evaluate, and then consider whether to get the larger package.

Basically, if it seems likely to lead to a profitable idea, then $299 is trivial. If it doesn't, then just the book will be fine.

For me, it was clear from reading the book that I had an idea I should pursue. You'll probably either get that from the book, or not. If you do have something to launch, then you'll have a better idea if the rest of the package is worth it.
Also planning to build a "compatibility plugin" which should make upgrading pretty easy.
Ask HN: Where to give an algorithm talk
I have prepared a talk for a particular algorithm for a classic problem. It is something can be taught in an algorithms class, because it uses simple techniques. The talk should be interesting for anyone who took an algorithms course and enjoyed it.

It is entirely theoretical. The material itself is not applicable to day to day work. It is also not impressive enough for an academic talk.

Where should one give such a talk, and who should I contact?
Because when you're in school, you're not at work?

You'll find that walking in the park, going to the beach, or doing all the other "free" things in life, leave you with financial debt as well.
Yeah. Inhaling hot particulate matter is going to put some level of unneeded stress on your lungs. I think that's pretty well-established.

what comprises that particulate matter may be incidental to its health effects -- grain size probably matters more than grain composition.
I think this has been posted here before -- I always sorta thought if they had people with image processing skills instead of people with racking servers skills, they would approach this problem in a completely different way.

Racking and maintaining hundreds of mac pros over a fleet of commodity Linux servers (which they probably have already anyway) doesn't seems sustainable.
And one that the world has basically been through once already. But the first time it happened in the insular world of corporate and university mainframes.
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I have been an Airbnb host for a while and if you follow your reviews closely, you can tell when someone leaves you low star ratings. In the host dashboard, you only see aggregate stars, but it will break it down as x 5-stars, y-4 stars, etc for each category, so if you know that before your last guest left a review you had 20 5-stars and 3 4-stars and now you have 4 4-stars it's pretty easy to figure out where that came from.
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This is probably a much better way to do it. One of the food delivery company does it this way (I think it's grubhub/seamless). Three questions before you're given an option to review: 1. Was the food on time? 2. Was the order correct? 3. Was the food good? Only then is the person given the option to review.

The problem with star based rating systems is that they're INCREDIBLY subjective. I oftentimes read yelp reviews that are 3 star reviews where the person raves about the restaurant and then complains about a minor issue. I have a similar issue with app store ratings where I've had a rash of people rate one of my apps 1 star with the review text reading "I just downloaded this, I'll raise my review to 5 stars if love this app".
Unless you completely refuse or are unable to comparison shop, I don't get the Aldi thing.

Aldi is a cool store, but the stock is really haphazard, especially produce, and the meat sucks.

If you're really saving a lot of money, you're eating a lot of processed crap.
> and get more people to review honestly

This. Something I hate is when people think that 5 stars have to be given "by default". For me, an uneventful stay in a clean place should mean 3 stars. If the place is specially nice or the owner was really kind, 4 stars. And 5 stars should only be for my _favourite_ places.

I stopped doing airbnb when, for several times, I booked 4.5 star places and they turned out to be honestly crappy.