skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Social Network featured a lot of analog soundtrack from Trent Reznor. e.g. Swarmatron music analog instrument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuM4yBFI03E
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I once bought a sandwich in Italy, it required 3 lines... one to buy a token for the sandwich, the next line to use that token to order the sandwich, and the 3rd line to pick up the sandwich.

Italy is not a place for innovation or efficiency.

I am not a huge Uber fan, but some of the points here neglect to mention how broken the country of Italy is.
right. that's just it. the center of mass of electronics manufacturing, and, yes, design too, is within China.

even Japanese and Taiwanese electronics companies are having products created and manufactured in China.

so, now, how does any other country really have the ability to do that work?
OK, so I just went back and read carefully about that point. I don't think that they actually say clearly that they looked only at sea and lake salt. They talk about contamination pathways for sea and lake salt. And they mention lake salt from Malaysia and Iran. But Methods has:

> A total of 17 brands of salt from Australia, France, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, and South Africa were purchased from a Malaysian market.
I presume they only hire about a third of the people who try out for the same reasons you mention; the only candidates are the jobless or people willing to screw their current employer and moonlight while "working from home".

Sounds like a recipe for a bunch of bad candidates.
Ah.. I had assumed that meaning behind "Ron's piece" was that Ron hailed from Houston... and that JMJ dedicated the piece to Ron because of the recent tragedy.

:/
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In the context of this blog post, it's a group of people (or individuals) who work to improve the developer experience, usually including testing, code quality work, and practices. It sometimes also includes tooling, release work, frameworks, etc.
It ensures consistency, but how do you know that whatever you're measuring for is actually correlated with job performance?
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> Making Amazon Great Again

Heh.
It is only generic if you completely drop the context of the discussion (Spring and dependency injection). My point is that Spring brings DI/IoC concepts which help build healthy projects.
That's going to be great for tourism. Not.
Maybe, but doesn't a claim like "a 30-minute conversation with someone is a strong indicator of job performance" deserve scrutiny of its own?
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> What about when you know what the concept of big O is, know why it's often touted as important, and disagree that it's as important as it's touted?

What if you're ​having a conversation with someone about local politics and you're convinced the local zoning rules don't encourage growth in the way they think they do. Do you force the subject of conversation so you can make sure they know just how wrong they are? Not if you want them to walk away having a good impression of you.

Instead if the talk turns to zoning you put out feelers to see if they'll want to talk about the larger issue, and only engage in the conversation if it seems like the time for it.

The analogy isn't perfect, but if the interviewer wants to talk about the larger issue, you're probably well matched and will have a great interview. If not, and you know enough about runtime complexity to discuss the tradeoffs, then you know enough to just answer the textbook big-O question and move on.
But 'the department' is nothing more than all the professors grouped together.
This is a discussion about the Russian government, it doesn't really have much to do with Russian people in general.

That is what the person I replied to actually said, and the comment I was clearly referring to; the point being of course, that a discussion of the Russian government has no more to do with the Russian people than the Russian government does.
Back in my student days there were really extensive textbooks that no one of us read and short brochures on the subject published by university that was the real source of knowledge and how to apply it in practice.
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They had a good estimate, but not in real time. All of the information was delayed.
No. I don't use business cards. If I did, the answer would still be no.

What use cases or pain points do you imagine this would solve?
> 5. Team Hyperloop West

Oh man this would be amazing. The 5 to get to and from San Diego can be a pain in the ass, and the train has been having lots of delays and raising prices lately. Hyperloop here would jump-start a public transit revolution here in SoCal.
> It's also clear that eliminating this class of problem is not in the interest of the miners, hence the opposition to SegWit

Most miners have been supportive of SegWit for at least a year, see the HK agreement: https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-con...
The agreement was that they'd support it if it came with a 2mb hardfork, and it never did. Sergio Lerner released segwit2mb recently, which the miners support, but many Core devs were vocal about their opposition to that.
Silent Phone is both Android and iOS compatible, and we have used CBR codecs since we launched (in 2012).
We are using SimplyStatic (https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/) for genrating a static site from WordPress. It has many options which make genrating and deplying a static site with WordPress easy.

If you want to host site on S3 you can use the fork of Simply Static https://github.com/kennu/simply-static-s3
> There are numerous (more subjective) attributes that an unstructured interview does help gauge, from culture fit to general social skills to one's ability to handle stressful social situations. I'd hypothesize all of these are probably better measured in an unstructured (or structured) interview than in most (any) other way. To recommend the complete abandonment of unstructured interviews (which is done in the final sentence of the actual paper) is ridiculous.

Well, based on what? Is there any evidence for any of these hunches?
It enables such designs, by making it easy for someone to add more crap into your ball of mud. Not everyone on your team is as smart or experienced as you. When their back is against the wall with a deadline...just throw some more beans in there, who cares how they're wired together, it's all handled by Spring!

Well, you care when you have an unexpected complex circular dependency or you need to refactor and you suddenly discover how complex your dependency graph has unintentionally become.

By "decoupling" and "modularization", I'm not talking about at a code-level by using interfaces. In my opinion, that kind of decoupling and modularization isn't very important, especially when it comes to application glue--because the glue (Spring) is what decides the backing impl's of all those interfaces. That's where the important dependencies lie, and that's where your big ball of mud accretes.
I wouldn't propose to do it in Lisp. Batch programming is done better in languages like Go, especially if you are already feeling comfortable with a batch workflow. You can write web servers and command line tools in Lisp, but it would be a huge investment to learn that and it is not clear if it pays back for you.

Essentially for anything slightly complex one would use an interactive programming style and 'only' deliver the application in a batch style.

Racket is more oriented towards batch programming, compared to popular Common Lisp development environments.
More in the sense that we don't realize how spoiled we are (and how the standards have improved). I don't even have to leave this table to see the effects of share issuance or buybacks from a public company, and it's all updated in close to real time for me.

It's not that you couldn't make a _pretty-reasonable_ estimate, it's just that the ecosystem is much improved and easier to roll up for the indices we follow today. The Wilshire is from the 70s and the first flavor of the S&P came 30 years after the Dow (and was 'only' 90 firms). If you read Security Analysis (first edition: 1934) you can still see some of this in action; it mentions how only some statistical services (paid!) would calculate/estimate the current number of shares outstanding.
Performance a priority for MySQL? Just moments ago I spoke with some friends about their database performance problems with big joins on big datasets in MySQL. Switching to PostgreSQL solved the problem. And for a customer, simply upgrading from MySQL to MariaDB improved the performance 5-fold after just a 15 minute install.
Very first paragraph of the introduction.

> Accordingly, it is expected that products originating from the contaminated water bodies are also loaded with MPs.

This sentence is the entire premise of the study. Testing non-waterbody-derived salts would not provide any valid data in pursuit of that hypothesis.

Furthermore the entire body of the abstract, introduction, and discussion discusses marine microparticles, impacts on aquatic health, and whatnot.
Could you start with an existing community? I don't know if it's an online fan forum or a Christian singles site -- but there might be some way to jumpstart your initial user base. (Choose wisely...)

The other obvious idea is promotion. (This obviously works better if you have some capital.) Maybe flood a college campus with incentives and "free trial" offers. Or host a swanky event which can only be attended by people using your dating site.
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If you build stateless horizontally scalable service (and you should) - you are almost always going to be blocked on DB. On the app server front you just keep adding more machines behind load balancer.

As I look back, if we had used RoR or Python we might have moved faster with no negative impact on scale. We would have spent more money on extra servers though!
I am just going to leave this here for anyone who cares to hear my POV:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-art-of-c...
I seriously doubt that his startup failed because the whole page was being refreshed. More likely, it was a multitude of reasons, one of which was a bad UI, which he then blamed on the full refresh rather than the real problems with it.

I'd suggest that a better question is "Can a startup fail because its product is an unnecessary SPA?". Users most definitely see differences between the two, mostly that a bad SPA is unusable where a bad multi-page website can still be useful.

Go with your gut instinct. Server rendered with JS and AJAX sprinkled where it makes sense is a much nicer user experience and can also be extremely powerful where it counts.
In the few remaining minutes after we agreed that it was possible to correctly deserialize a tree serialized in this way, I did not produce a linear time deserializer.
Kudos to the creators for getting the CMS field definitions right by allowing arbitrary amounts and types of fields!

It's so annoying to me that so many CMS's and static site generators start out with the assumption of 1 big rich text / markdown "body" for content and treat everything else on the page as miscellaneous stuff (meta-fields, yaml front-matter, etc).
Basically just /r/personalfinance's wiki in a nice font.
Candidates doing a few minutes googling to find this, but will they put in the few months to get to the bottom of every aspects of it?
Politicians _always_ promote the success of their own policies.
Are you sure are it shouldn't? Based on what principle? Should I never use proofs in my decision making?

Your comment is dangerous
Yes! We have written a new package and compiling with the G++-6 -Wall -Werror .... and clang-++-4 -Weverything -Werror finds different bugs and different diagnostics.

Although I have a long gcc bias I do use clang first as it is still faster to compile. Gcc still generates faster code for our codebase (and more importantly: faster where it matters to us) but they are pretty close and if I really had to decide between one and the other it would hardly matter.

G++-7-not-quite-released appears to have better C++17 support. We may be the only people who care yet :-)
80% of Americans below the federal poverty line have cellphones. (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census...)
The sample size is too small to do any useful feedback and humans are too complex to be mapped/binned in the way interviews attempt to do. Not only that but things that happen after hiring may have a bigger influence on the success/failure of the hire than the factors the interview is looking for. E.g. who you end up working with, internal politics, the specifics of the job.

Kahenman's work on the illusion of validity comes to mind. It kind of boils down to our hiring process must be right because we're doing it.
I think you're a new engineer - R has always been math, from the bottom up. Python is the relative newcomer to math.

Go was exciting before Docker existed.

JS has the browser, and then had Node.

Scala has functional programming and the JVM. Spark is not really a "Scala thing" (although it is written in Scala). You can use other languages with Spark.

Tomcat is hardly the first thing that comes to mind with Java.

What a bizarre perspective you have!
I feel the opposite. Some of Jarre's individual tracks will certainly feel dated - e.g. Computer Weekend for example, and frankly a lot of the Images album. Interestingly it's largely the most playful ones, that toy with sounds that now sound overused and "too obvious", and because many of them come off of as childish.

While I love Kraftwerk, a lot of Kraftwerk's sound fall in the "Images" category for me - they are as iconic as Jarre for those who listen to electronic music, but many of the tracks are also much simpler, and fit a pop-music model much closer, to the extent that it's easier to hear their direct influence on a lot of synth-pop for example. As a result, on one hand they sound more familiar, but much of their music has also often been placed in an era by people influenced by it in a way Jarre's music hasn't.

Some of Jarre's newer music, ironically - to me at least -, seems more likely to be affected by the same effect. E.g. Metamorphoses, Geometry of Love and Teo and Tea all have tracks that on hand more timely for when they were released, and at the same time that to me already date them more.

Jarre was classically educated, and in a way I think you could say that his more classically inspired compositions date better than his more pop/dance inspired pieces, because the former follow a structure that - while the instruments were new and different - is a structure we recognise from music that is quite timeless. Sure, they don't sound like they're meant to be played in a club tonight, but I think kids who haven't heard them before would have far more problems placing them in the right decade than with Kraftwerk.
There's some equally off-putting gimmickry in the podcast series too. I think they're trying to compensate for the lack of on the record interviews. Should have just hired Adam Curtis...
Not, for example, when they decide to run all of the trains in one direction only, yet neglect to update the schedules displayed on screen in the stations, so anyone looking to head the other direction is stranded for an indeterminate of time. (If the surface transportation was any good, that wouldn't have been such a big problem.)

Milan has as many problems as anywhere else in Italy, and it's not immune from their insane strikes, either.
They don't. In fact they even did an experiment and admitted some people at random, irrespective of how well they did in the interviews. Those people were found to perform about as well as the legitimate interview "lottery winners" hired during the same time period.

A lot of people (anecdotally, the majority) at Google have the "impostor syndrome", and the news of the experiment did nothing whatsoever to quell the symptoms. Now they don't know if they are, in fact, not impostors, but they do know that on average they perform about as well. :-)
Of course it does. However the article and perhaps the underlying paper may be as useless as the interviews they are criticizing.
Been there, done that. You should avoid dealing with large clients if your main target is small biz niche and vice versa.
Probably he's referring the "real time" part. Electronic ticker tapes were invented in 1867, and were relatively prevalent by the 1870s. (The Dow was first calculated on May 26, 1896.) But even still, for average investors, most information back then would have traveled at horse, train, or steamboat speeds.
This is similar to what the Wifibroadcast people are doing to make low-cost First-person-video from drones:

https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/wifibroadcast-analog-like-tr...
It's funny to me because on one hand you have specialization where larger companies will typically abstract database work to the DBAs and application work to the developers creating some sane interface for interop and edge cases. And then on the other hand you have things like "full stack developers" who leverage new tech like kubernetes to essentially stay "that one guy who does everything".

"Jack of all trades master of none" and all that. What's the natural conclusion to this or does it stay this way forever?
> or someone with the ability to work two jobs at once for an extended period of time while you hold your tryout.

This is the part that's crazy to me. If you think you can accurately judge someone based the work they perform after a full normal workday/week, I have some beachfront property on the moon to sell you...

I have a feeling their conversion rate is so low because a lot of people get another offer during their trial and immediately jump ship.
According to `man ps` on my Mac, there are nearly seventy of them - how many did he want you to know?!
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>> re-read a text book about a year after I had finished the class...
>> it really helped me deepen my understanding of the topic generally.

As an endorsement of this comment, 'ChuckMcM has the deepest/broadest knowledge of an enormous range
of hardware/engineering issues of anyone I am familiar with who posts frequently on HN.
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Possibly so, but this is filed as environmental monitoring, so I think most people in the field this article is written for wouldn't have your same uncertainty.

Salt derived from underground sources wouldn't be at risk of microplastics contamination.
I would argue that the value of Ted Talks is their ability to spark conversation, and introduce people to new ideas. The quality of Ted Talks varies greatly, but on that wide spectrum, there are definitely a few things to learn. Is the science always infallible? Of course not, but I do think most Ted Talks provide a platform for learning.
Free as in gratis, not free as in libre. It looks like most of them are under a "Non-Commercial" license.
I'm not sure what scale your looking for, or do you plan to purchase or run your own VPN.

I have seen may guides to using the following devices:
Raspberry Pi
Ubiquiti Edge RouterX
PFsense SG1000
Tiny Hardware Firewall

Those are just off the top of my head.

We also have some larger commercial units to extend our network across public networks to put remote sites on our network.
> For this use case only precision matters. Extremely low recall is fine.

Only if you have arbitrarily large amounts of time you can spend interviewing. Most of us don't.
Not only that, but (in my experience as a Google engineer), factors relating to the location of data (distribution and disk vs ram, etc.) often greatly outway algorithmic performance. Constant factors often dominate variable factors.
Title needs to be annotated with "[PPT]".
> The most commonly used index - the one that is shown in the news or discussed with your Uber driver. should be index that provides essential information for the average person.

Seriously, why? Those discussions are no different from discussion of sports scores, and equally as relevant to the decisions people make. So who cares if they are talking baseball, the dow, sunspots, or astrology? Or Apple vs android?

(BTW I realized the Dow indices are nonsensical as a teen ager, so am not defending them in the slightest)
Ok, yeah, that's pretty ridiculous. In concept, though, I think these kinds of trials can be a win-win.
From my experience, I'd say Google's interviews need to ask harder questions and last longer.

Today they ask fairly easy questions (given a list of integers, find the subsequence that has the following property etc. - basically leetcode medium level) that you can solve fairly easily using basic CS 101 knowledge. However, it ends up (again, IME) being a race against time where you have to whiteboard code a simple solution in 20 minutes approximately.

I'd much rather have them as questions that take real insight to solve, but have the interviews last 90 minutes or so.
What the Heck Are These Electronic Devices in Trump’s Situation Room?
Now I just need to understand flow networks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_network
Maybe the people don't agree with you about what's in their best interests. You may believe that getting money for yourself regardless of any other consideration is the "correct" way to vote, others may disagree.
Can someone explain how whitestormjs is "react-like"?

Is there some sort of virtual Dom for threejs that gets updated?
That's not UB. Argument evaluation order is unspecified, not undefined.
Hey billionaires are people too.
Honest question: why? What reason could they possibly have to do this?

> Keeping America safe and enforcing our nation’s laws in an increasingly digital world depends on our ability to lawfully examine all materials entering the US

Key word: materials. Data does not fall into that category.

All I see is "extreme vetting". What, specifically, does that mean? How is any data a threat to national security?
Two points then:

1. When you made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069152 you may have thought it "clearly" referred to the sentence by burkaman, but multiple people thought you were refuting burkaman and referring to snowpanda's comment.

2. Even though you were referring to burkaman's comment, he was directly talking about the sentence that used the word prejudice, and arguing that it was not prejudice. Your claim in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069723 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14071992 that burkaman was not saying anything about prejudice is untrue. He was directly refuting a claim of prejudice.
I also found this distracting. The worst is trying to scroll up a little bit and have the text jump in Brave on iOS.
Yes, but even when this is done well, there is still the question of what's measured vs what results in hiring good candidates and not hiring the others. Turning away a huge number of false negatives is also not optimal, especially in a situation where talent is scarce.
Of course that's also true of Smalltalk, as the modern versions are different and evolving independently (Pharo actually doesn't call itself a Smalltalk but a language and environment derived from Smalltalk.)
Different indices are not substantially identical.

Different ETFs tracking the same index (e.g., SWPPX and VOO) are likely to be determined substantially identical. (I don't know that the IRS issued guidance on this yet.)

Yes, they choose different indices precisely because of wash sale rules.
If the stuff online on Quora etc. are to be believed, the hiring committee will disregard such trivia interviews (and possibly send a node to the interviewer asking him/her to correct their technique).

Not sure how well this works in practice though.