skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who went through the Triplebyte interview process not long ago, I actually had a positive video screening experience with Guillaume as my interviewer. He was definitely focused on getting as much signal from the interview as possible in the time we had (which is a plus imo, since I don't have tons of spare time to waste). IIRC I didn't complete 100% of the coding part, but he seemed genuinely interested in how I was approaching things and the underlying algorithmic concepts more than in the nitty-gritty of the code itself.

That session was overall certainly energy-intensive, but then no more than a good interview session with someone who knows what they're doing interview skills wise. But at a more general level only Triplebyte would know about interviewer variance and whatever secret sauce they have to maximize SNR during the screens, so I can't speak about that.
>non-breeding, though genetically connected, "end" populations may co-exist in the same region

This reminds me of the Riemann surface associated with the complex logarithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_logarithm#The_associat...
Unlikely, but that's not the point I'm arguing.
How can they be considered a hack when they get baked in the BCL in so many places as well, not for interop purpose?
Small minded to think or act like a cabal
Wow, I'm glad they brought up the iOS Gmail app redesign as an example. It took the Gmail team 7-8 releases over a 3 month period to finally restore functionality, but the app is still a user experience eyesore despite all the praise for Material Design. If you're changing the color scheme of an app people use every day, don't make it BRIGHT RED. Otherwise you receive reactions like this:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/V5muFb9...

If anyone is looking for an alternative, I'd recommend AirMail, or try using Charles Proxy and forcing iTunes to download Gmail 4.4 (the softwareVersionExternalIdentifier you'll want is 815948715).
This is what I wanted to know, and what I suspected. Thanks!

Assuming you carry E&O, would you mind telling me who you buy it from?
It's my bad. I used broad strokes where finer ones were needed.
Meta is pretty bad and snark is really bad. Please don't post meta snark.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836006 and marked it off-topic.
Some says the October "Restoration" [1] has been finally put down today. I hearily agree.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Restoration
'But the flaw is this: "All you need to provide is a driveway or parking space where the mechanic can work"'

But you can do quite a lot of things with just some space and some tools. Oil changes, filter changes, brake jobs, battery changes, rotate tires, etc. And, if the vehicle called is capable of a tow, this might presumably supplant both AAA and Jiffy Lube type services.

Expanding on that, as someone who has been the proverbial "busy professional", I would have happily paid a premium to have someone come and do my oil changes while my car was parked at work to prevent having to take the half hour out of my day for routine maintenance.
Yeah, I wish there was another operating system. Mac is tied to expensive hardware and I just can't get myself to like the overall UX of Linux
There's no reason an IQ couldn't be negative. Granted, I don't think the IQ test is properly calibrated for this and I don't think real world data perfectly fits the bell curve as designed, so it's kind of moot point.
I live in condo in Bangkok where a couple of units are being rented out on Airbnb despite the warning signs.

Most of the inhabitants are people with 9-5 jobs who wish to enjoy a quiet evening after a long day at work. Having tourists next door doesn't help.

People coming home drunk late at night, kids playing soccer in the hallway, Scandinavian women walking around topless and in thong at the pool* - Airbnb guests treat the condo building like a resort, which it isn't.

The walls and doors are thinner, there's no carpet in the hallway and there are less elevators than in a hotel.

Here's a message to everyone considering renting an apartment on Airbnb: GET A GODDAMN HOTEL ROOM!

Thank you SV for "disrupting" my quiet evening [/endrant]

* I know some might actually enjoy this, but Thailand is a conservative Buddhist country. Respect that please.
I'm just curios, disregarding performance aspects, what is there to like about w10 over, say w7? Two things that have put me off upgrading to w10 is the inconsistency of the UI, and the fact the user has less control over the system in a variety of ways.
I've met a Londoner in Seattle (which is about 2 hrs from Vancouver), said he felt "at home" with the weather in Seattle... I'm guessing they're about the same, though I suspect you're right, given the UK's one big island ...
Replying with sockpuppets will get both accounts banned, so please don't do that.
Scala doesn't require the semi-colon at the very end, but it does allow for them if you really want two statements on the same line.

Edit: and yes, that line separation works fine, both compiled and in the REPL.
Bill Clinton warns US and Britain face an identity crisis amid nationalist surge
> are we proposing education testing before casting a vote?

I'm curious, have there been any known attempts to condition the right to vote on passing some kind of IQ, education, or rational thinking test? If so, how did they work out?
Is it not suspicious that both mattsolm and redstallion were created minutes before these comments were made. And both focus on promoting YourMechanic. It's okay to have competition, no need to be shady about it.
I highly recommend you read Joel Spolsky recent post on why exactly US based companies do this.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...

It's highly informative.
I don't like it either, but it's probably unsurprising given that neither corporations nor users tend to upgrade to new Windows versions in a reliable fashion.

I think using ad-based monetization was short-sighted and will damage their brand in the long term, but presumably they did the math and decided it was a good idea anyways.
Yes. Run a VM, it's so much better.

And then convince the company to move to non-proprietary tools.
W-w-w-w-who is Edison C-Carter?
National slurs are not allowed on HN. We've banned this account.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830748 and marked it off-topic.
correct link:

https://newnxa.blogspot.com/2017/03/leap-year-example-2-this...

Fails on years before leap years were instituted or the Gregorian/Julian switch, of course, but it handles future basics properly.
The problem is that the majority of people simply don't care.
I think the weird metaphor is that by being at arms length, you can fit a lot more people in the group hug, and that's good for attracting (and retaining) top talent.
Just installed Windows 10 on a new machine - amazed at when I did custom settings, every last setting needed to be flipped over.
True. I'm not saying Lily Drones was a scam, they could've made it to production under sane management, but there are other projects attracting a lot of funding even though they are bound to fail from the start.

I'm not sure if the people responsible are even aware that it won't work - they might be 'scamming' without knowing, due to lack of common sense. It's really sad and enrages me more than it should.
You can't do single-purpose political accounts here. Also, trolling with a username is trolling. We've banned this account.
Canonical is a for profit company that ships a distribution of Linux. Linux has many very free alternatives. Ubuntu has a very nice user experience, and that's why people choose to use it.

Edit: corrected the company name!
There is a big difference between Edison and what is going on with these projects. It's not merely that somebody found a way that it won't work, it's they showed the laws of physics will prevent it from ever being a reality. These projects are not billed as research projects. They are billed as "let's just make it" projects.

Anybody can come up with an product that if made would change the world. The hard part is coming up with a feasible idea that will change the world.

Not a single one of the projects listed in the parent ever produced a viable working prototype. They sold a promise they could not keep. Yet keep taking money.
Right, it is definitely not convex in any way and gradient descent is basically useless (and not very interesting because all it really means here is try perturbing each count by one and look for improvement). I left that there as an initial attempt at solving the problem but I don't use it in my solution (except for the call to `gd(iter(gd(v)))` where I explore the neighbouring solutions to each sample point, which is probably not necessary).

The basic idea instead is to treat each letter count as a random variable, and ask what the distribution of each count is. In particular, each letter count can be expressed as a sum of (a mapping of) the other letter counts, so if you know the distribution of all other letter counts you can improve the distribution of the letter of interest. Initially assume uniform for all counts, then iterate until convergence. The images in that repo show the distribution of some letters at various stages. After doing this for about 10 iterations you stop seeing any improvement (the letter distributions are as 'peaked' as they are going to get), at which point I drew samples until I found a solution.
The barcodes on the private label products in American Aldis usually have a barcode on ever possible side, with a bigger than usual surface area. Cereal boxes will have one on ever side for example. It makes checkout fast. A full cart can be scanned in under a minute.

On the other hand I hate the shrink-wrapped produce. I get that it avoids scales, speeds checkout, and reduces waste from customers handling for the "perfect" produce, but three peppers wrapped to a styrofoam tray feels so wasteful.
>"we have no free will"

I preface this by saying I haven't thought about this much or know much about the subject, but I would argue that a stochastic simulation model would generate what we consider "free will". I mean if they ran the simulation multiple times there would be a different outcome so our "decisions" would matter at that point, and affect the outcome.
You are looking for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB edition.
Can we? There doesn't appear to be a limiting principle in your argument.
Most successful/useful/business extensions usually request oauth access to the backend Gmail API from the user anyways so its not as big of a concern as you might think.
Not if you are using Enterprise LTSB.
Great idea but I don't think it's broad enough. You might want to pick a popular product that uses a broad spectrum of ingredients that better represent what people regularly use . The Thanksgiving meal comes to my mind at this time.

Take a clue from the Big Mac Index or the Christmas Price Index.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Price_Index
I'll probably setup a Slack channel for those interested in talking more about this. I'm not part of the program yet, but very interested in it, and I'd be happy to meet you if you have similar interests. btwelchy_gmail
A lot of the join functionality can now be simulated by using functions to effectively create views or map reduce data to distilled output. We've got a lot more to come on this front. Functions was just first on the list.
Google Cloud Next talk with details about Android apps on Chromebooks
How would you implement graphemes compatibility if you can have unlimited number of code points combine into a grapheme? Designing an efficient storage solution for such text seems like a nightmare.

Any time you define an upper limit, someone will come up with more emojis that will require larger number of code points per grapheme.
For people who are outraged by this I recommend you buy the Windows Signature Edition OS.
I use gopkg.in. Personally I would like to see the community avoid adding more to the 'go' tool. It is already doing too much. I think the solution provided by gopkg.in is better than other more conventional methods (e.g. npm or maven like). I love Go. But it is ironic that 'go fmt' was designed in from the beginning. And now we are still dealing with semver and package dependencies. I went with gopkg.in because it made the dependencies a non issue from the tooling point of view. It is made possible by having 'import' direct from the repositories, which archive different versions and tags. Perfect for something like gopkg.in. I am probably in the minority.
W10 gets rid of w7's endless, sneaky "upgrade to w10" crap.
volume pixel (voxel) is already a term of art. I'm not aware of jargon to decouple the sampling precision in different axis, though that probably exists too.
He seems like a stand-up guy to me (not that that implies innocence), so this is of course mostly a misunderstanding from what I can tell (since two well-meaning people can still end up in a lawsuit over misunderstandings)
When i was a kid i had a windsurfer, one of the first "no nose" boards that could barely keep itself afloat. You have to keep these moving if you want to stay up. And they like to move. Comming from racing lasers and hobies, one day I attached a telltale atop the mast. The wind is 20knots, im tacking slightly upwind at 25knots (call it 70* across the wind) and the telltale is pointing strait back. Wtf. So i put one on my hand and hold it away from the sail... still strait back. How it is possible for me to be, from my perspective, racing directly into a headwind. I get the basic physics, but as a teenager on a board it's pretty much magic.

If you really want perspective on sail and wing theory, forget the ropes and booms. Get an airfoil you can hold in your own hands. Feel the effects yourself. Be warned, windsurfing has an evil learning curve imho probably moreso than kiteboarding.
A number of reasons:

The legality of California seceding is dubious[1]

There is a history in the US of attempted secession leading to war

Around the world attempts are at secession are often associated with violence

There's probably more, but I don't think any of these are particularly controversial.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States...
What is surprisingly here is that the reality conformed to reasonable expectations. For a country that has witness too many violations of the democratic process, this is huge.
Koreans have absolutely nothing to feel embarrassed about. I - and I'm sure many others - have actually gained a huge amount of respect for SK over this as it confirms the strength of your democracy and justice system.
I'd argue there's a maintenance cost to consider as well. Functions are "serverless" from the dev point of view, where the dev needs to maintain App Engine services, scaling strategies, and so on. It's basically the next step up in the abstraction chain: On prem (you build) > Compute > App Engine > Functions.
In theory, a centreboard is a type of keel, when describing its purpose and action.

However, in practice, nothing that is not a fixed structural element of the hull is ever referred to as a 'keel' [edit:1]. Thus, a reference a keel can be taken to mean a structural keel.

A centreboard will only ever be a pivoting blade that rotates down from (and up into) a housing inside the hull, and such a blade will only be described as a 'centreboard', unless the meaning is otherwise clear. [edit:1 redux, 'swing keel'.]

More rarely, dinghies will have simple 'daggerboards' that slide straight down, and likewise they will only be referred to as 'daggerboards' in any circumstance where ambiguity might occurs.

Keels are usually weighted, of course, but there's no distinct word for an unweighted keel, structural or otherwise.

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1: nicwolff reports, as you might have noticed, that a (deliberately) heavy centreboard is referred to sometimes as a 'swing keel', a term with which I was unfamiliar. So, matters are less cut and dried I'd initially represented them to be. However, I think this leaves the presumption that a keel will be structural largely intact.
I didn't say it was impossible, just maybe not entirely practical (due to time or inclination, etc)
Elon Musk guarantees South Australia 100MW in 100 days or it's free
As a power user, pay for Windows 10 pro. It's not free like regular windows 10, but "look ma, no ads!"
Price to performance is a bit debatable.

Yes, you can absolutely get that much storage for that price. Though what your application needs in terms of memory/cores varies quite a bit on the application. We've seen customers that were spending $800 a month on RDS, migrate and get 2-3x performance boost for the same dollar spend.

Don't disagree at all that if you're at a lower volume of data that RDS is a great option for what you get. Depending on your application needs though as you scale and need more data in cache or more cores doing work, though this all depends on your workload. You can have 3 TB of cold storage and that work fine for your application and cost you under $1k a month on Aurora, or you could have needs with 100 GB of data that you need all queries served from cache in milliseconds. It's very unlikely you'll get that for $260 a month on RDS even at as little of 100 GB of data. It just depends on your application workload, for as long as you can you should just keep scaling up because it's much easier.

We very much focus on when you start to encounter that ceiling where scaling up starts to become prohibitive and performance is key not just storage–which can be as early as 100 GB, and is increasingly common the further you get beyond that.
Dude. Your articles are pretty good, but flooding HN with archived links like this is silly. Looking at your profile, you've posted _12_ of your own articles to HN in the last day+, and 37 in the last week. Why are you doing this?
Libreboot calls on AMD to release source code and specs on new Ryzen platforms
Little tour of multiple iterators implementation in Rust
IBM stores one bit in one atom
Sanjay Gupta? Al Roker? I really have no idea.
>I don't know why its so uncomfortable for conservatives to admit that illegals play a role in our economy[1].

I guess I'd call myself a conservative (I think) and I don't get uncomfortable at all admitting that, but that doesn't mean that the fact they do "play a role" is right or correct. You're implying something that I think is quite dangerous: that the US economy can't function unless we allow people to break our laws to be here. That sounds like a caste system by another name. I genuinely don't understand arguments from the left that attempt to minimize the importance of State Sovereignty in the context of these debates. "Native borns" used to be able to find that work...until we started importing illegal immigrants willing to work for fractions of the cost.
The answer is the legal field at some point acknowledged a problem and made an effort to recruit more women. The tech field is still mostly wrestling with no problem here status.
I think one thing that causes conflict here is that there are a lot of things that aren't blatantly racist, but rather subtly racist. For instance, casually assuming that a minority student is less capable than a white student is the sort of thing someone might do without thinking of themselves as racist, but it is still actually racist and harmful. Subtle racism like this still needs to be identified and opposed, and I'm interested in how that can be done without making people feel so uncomfortable and judged.
"Paying to get rid of ads? Preposterous! I want my free Windows. Windows has always been free and no ads, why did it change?!?!" - HN
On the Origin of Extinction
I truly think these things are overblown. This article references "sync" providers, but having sync disabled I've never seen the ads they show. I also disabled Cortana and most of the new W10 stuff but never looked back after switching.

Edit: I do have Windows 10 Pro, which other users mention does not show ads.

W10 has multi-desktop support, which is great when you're doing distinctly different things with an overwhelming number of programs open. It also has better use of windowing if you use those features (snap works by quadrant, etc). So by pressing Win+Ctrl+D it creates a whole new desktop (empty taskbar), and you can switch between them with Win+Tab. I don't use this often but it was amazing the few times I reached for it.

Another small thing which bothered me but I've learned to rely on in W10 is if you have two monitors and are moving your cursor from the left monitor onto the right monitor near the top of the screen, it will be "blocked" at the rightmost edge of the left monitor, preventing your cursor from changing from the left monitor to the right monitor. This is useful for quickly minimizing or closing applications on the left monitor without mistakenly moving the cursor onto the right monitor.

I have not yet found anything which I've "lost control" over except item-level customization of the left-hand side of the start menu, which is where pinned programs would sometimes end up. Having the entire right-hand side of the start menu plus the task bar is really sufficient though so this isn't a big deal.

There are some other welcome improvements like the process list and/or performance monitor are improved, I can't remember specifically what wasn't available before though.
This sounds exactly like life at a bank I know in the capital markets division.
> The conclusions is backed by data. The data is in the link. Go look at it. See? Glass Door says women are underpaid. That's data!

The data shows there is a difference in pay.

Underpaid means less pay for the same work.

That's not the same thing. Not even close.

In fact it is intentionally misleading.
George W. Beetlejuice
Is it possible to add some dynamic behaviour? like update 'Likes' in gatsbygram photo.
False positives are way more expensive than false positives. Any filter that is not heavily biased towards false negatives over false positives would likely be terrible for the business goals of interviewing. That is a baseline fact.

I am not sure why you think women and people of color are extra bad at whiteboard problems. In my experience the applicant pool for technical and engineering fields is heavily biased towards white, asian and Indian males, but that happens way before the stage of the whiteboard interview.
Pandas Cheat Sheet [pdf]
As far as I can tell, 10 has no killer feature, but has incremental improvements in a few areas that will be more relevant to some than others. It has better built-in support for modern hardware: common examples are USB3, NVMe, high-dpi monitors and touchscreens. It has some improvements under the hood in terms of security. It has DirectX 12 for gamers.
WebAssembly is much better than JavaScript and XUL, which were/are both used to build browsers. Furthermore WebAssembly VMs are distinct entities from browsers.

I know you were joking, but the joke shows old biases that should just go away.
I believe that the boats where the keel lifts up do not rely on the keel weight to stay balanced. They are also easier to capsize (regardless of whether the keel is lifted) than the ones with a fixed heavy keel that lowers the center of the mass.
> Remember that these documents are just the company's assertion of their opinion on the ownership of your work in your off hours.

Not if you sign it.

> Which is that you sign this agreement or you don't get the job, period.

That's a pretty crappy perspective. If you don't like the terms, negotiate. If you don't understand the terms, get your own lawyer to read it.