skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the nation’s most prestigious award for scientifically gifted high school students, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, called the Super Bowl of science by one American president. From its inception in 1942 until 1994, the search recognized more than 2000 precocious teenagers as finalists. But just 1 percent ended up making the National Academy of Sciences, and just eight have won Nobel Prizes.

8 out of 2000 is a lot higher than most any other sample group.
> Here's my gripe with this interview process. It encourages engineers to spend months and years into learning and remembering optimal solutions to textbook problems.

Wrong. Questions aren't designed to be memorized. It shouldn't take months, or years, to prepare for this stuff if you already have a CS background unless you're really slow.
> Ironic because Lisa Randall didn't win a Nobel Prize in physics. Yet.....

And given her current work and experimental results there is no reasonable prospect she ever will, unlike people that you know that would win sooner or later (unless they died)

> For every Lisa Randall who revolutionizes theoretical physics

She did not revolutionize Physics. Not even close. She barely made a dent.
This may be a shot in the dark but try looking for doctors who interact and are cheerful(to their patients). The referral thing between the patients is very strong so more patients will come and will feel good which works as a catalyst(Both the parties will have a good amount of dopamine flowing).
And eventually the variety and number of patients will increase and so the doctor will have more practice and become better!

In the far off rural areas where connectivity is almost nil,The doctors rarely go to the hospitals and the doctor's assistant does more work,becoming at par with the doctors in a few years.
Facebook is definitely the most vulnerable. I don't know why everyone puts them in the same class as Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Facebook could easily go the way of AOL Instant Messenger and Myspace. A single person probably couldn't create an operating system to rival MacOS or Windows, or create a search engine that could rival Google. But a single person could EASILY create a social network that rivals the Facebook.

I was a college freshman in 2005, and an early adopter of facebook. After 10 years, I'm definitely burned out. I wouldn't be surprised if others burn out after 10 years as well.

Mark Zuckerbergs says that the idea behind facebook was that you could just type someone's name into facebook.com, and then find out information about them. But as the network got larger and larger, facebook has had to increase user privacy. Now if you're not "friends" with someone, you can't really find out much about them, or even send them a message. And what if you delete a "friend" after you contact them thinking that you won't need to contact them again? Then you have to send them another friend request!

It gets very awkward after 10 years. You end up with too many friends. Then you delete a bunch of people. But maybe you delete too many.

The only way it works is if you never delete anybody. But if you never delete anybody, you'll end up with thousands of friends. The problem with this, is that if you want to post anything you have to comfortable sharing with everyone you've ever met.

And the same goes for the feed. If you end up with 1,000 friends, you get all this crap in your feed that you don't care about.

Facebook is fucked and it's going to $0. Same goes for Snap Inc. Those goofy fucking filters will only stay novel for so long.
Like, this account has a password length of 4, so attack that? Makes some sense. Although if it truly is 1 in 10 accounts, you could just attack them all this way, and go with the 10% that succeed.
Say, for example, that my "side-project" was a HIPAA-compliant SAAS-software tool for doctors that they relied on every day (24x7). It needed to be deployed across multiple availability zones, and the team needed to be "on-call" for whatever didn't work, whenever it didn't work? How would that, for example, square with doing it in parallel with a 9-5? Or, are you talking about doing a project that people don't really really need?

I have to imagine the failure rate of pushing a product that people don't need would be high, and the ability to support a product that they do need would not be compatible with the side-project concept. Am I wrong in thinking this?
I'm led to believe that JA (the agricultural coop) is one of the strongest lobbies in the country. The government had a lot of work cut out for them to sell TPP.
I want to avoid getting into a political spat on HN, but I think that reinforces my point that everybody is spying on and sabotaging each other regularly.

We're obviously on different ends of the political sphere but I try not to be too judgemental about it because I'm well aware that there's propaganda on all sides.

That said, a lot of US citizens, especially the flavor you find on HN are not big fans of the NSA either.
Instant gratification exacerbates the network effect, but it's not the root problem. A decentralized social network could provide the same upvotes and be just as addictive.

I think the root problem is economic. There's no profit to be made in a perfectly competitive market, so companies that build barriers to entry such as closed networks and refined proprietary software have the resources to outcompete companies that don't. Slack can hire a lot more engineers than mIRC.
They did. It was called Trillian IM. Let you talk to people on many networks. Those networks started obfuscating where possible. The asymmetry of between reverse engineering and developing gave IM vendors an advantage. They collectively also had more developers. The result was lowest, common denominator experience with plenty breakage at times.

Most users voted against it by using competing offerings. Anyone doing this kind of thing needs a lot of labor. May be willing to operate at financial loss.
This isn't a VC forum. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Anything goes as long as it gratifies intellectual curiosity.

Here at HNHQ we take pride in the site not being limited to technology and startups. Somebody post some Flannery O'Connor!
Compilers for languages with full-width integers need to represent full-width integer literals while compiling, sure. I'm not sure that it's:

a) all that common to need full width integers while compiling even these languages, and

b) all that problematic to use boxed numbers in this context, or big_int.
I think it was last year that McDonald's Japan had to stop selling fries in portions bigger than small since their potatoes were imported from the US, and that supply was cut off due to union strike action in a US port. Any kind of single-sourcing is a bad idea.
It was fairly obvious how it worked for me since the cursor image was blurred http://imgur.com/a/XdL4u

OSX non retina
This is exactly why I disagree with the 24/7 work style that some startups have. I use a large fraction of my spare time (i.e. nights and weekends) to randomly drop myself on other hills.
He says "Then, a few years later, they finally quit their job, but only after having spent years in an industry they didn’t enjoy, and that didn’t really advance them toward their long term ambitions." It seems to me there's a glaring oversight in his statement, which is that they could very well have gained some valuable domain expertise that will serve them well if they later decide to found or work at a startup. I mean, VC's so often mention the importance of domain expertise and the way you usually get that is working at an established company first before you f(l)ounder around at a startup.
Leave it to a computer scientist to leave out the quantum tunneling metaphor. Well, here it is:

skips current hill

"I know somebody."
Belated but here you go with a Windows build of f3write (built on Cygwin64).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1muc0aghqjwsso4/f3-6.0.zip?dl=0
Famines are caused by bad governments, failed states, and violent conflicts. Not because there isn't enough food.
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Find me a talented engineer in the Bay Area who started a company and now can't find a job. We have $5,000 referral bonuses and severe engineering shortages so I'd love to refer him or her.
Who do you want to work with? A person who can regurgitate CS trivia or a person who has interest and track record in solving interesting problems?
> Wrong. Questions aren't designed to be memorized.

Do you know that 'detect a cycle in a linked list' question? I can't imagine many people being able to answer that without having seen the question previously.
North Korea's missile launch 'may have been thwarted by US cyber attack'
I'm aware. My point was that I don't consider it deception for someone to try and convince people to get rich the same way he or she got rich.

Assuming he only does it because he's an investor is assuming the worst. He can probably only invest in a half dozen companies per year, so encouraging everyone he meets to start companies would be a very indirect Nd unnecessary way of filling the top of that funnel.
Would you please not post uncivilly to HN? Personal abrasiveness, which this comment veers into, is something to be avoided.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14128052 and marked it off-topic.
Refugee Code Academy: Bringing Coding Bootcamps to African Refugee Camps
Using a feed reader and the rss feeds from indeed (for whatever your search terms are) is a good way to have a constant list of potential places to apply.
As a fun warm up-question, I always ask the candidate what editor and keyboard they use. The candidate who geeks out about their plugins and cherry switches inevitably passes all 5 rounds; the candidate who uses eclipse with maybe a vim plugin will go on to fail about 75% of the time. It's a good filter too; I'd say 1 out of every 20 candidates expresses strong convictions.

I'm seriously considering using it as a dog whistle and skipping the experience deep-dive (which tests if you are a good story teller), the systems design questions (which tests if you can sync to the interviewer's sense of judgement), and the algorithm hazing (which tests social anxiety). But I'm worried there is some kind of discriminatory correlation baked into that metric.
It's fairly impressive that the php7 core team was able to release something that competes well with HHVM from a performance perspective.

I assume they are working with significantly fewer advantages and resources than Facebook, so that's a pretty nice result.
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The idea from what I gather is that the country is capable of supporting itself, and did for centuries, and shouldn't let industries wither and die for short term profit that would kill off industries that allow that ability of self support.
Actually, off-topic tangents are usually fine as long as they aren't generic or inflammatory. Yours wasn't too bad but it did have elements of both.
>> Slightly off topic - Is it still a concern in 2017 that spammers will get hold of email addresses which are displayed publicly on the internet?

Depends what email provider you're using. But most modern email providers (Gmail, Yahoo, AOL) are so good at spam filtering it makes no difference. We run a high traffic website (1 million visitors / month +) and have posted Gmail-hosted addresses directly on webpages and had nothing hit the inbox but legitimate mail.

>> Is it worth the effort to put stuff like this behind a form with captcha and all?

Contact forms are still worth CAPTCHA'ing, because you will get bots that fill out these forms, and because the email is coming from your website's address, your email provider will not block it. We forgot to protect a contact form behind CAPTCHA recently, and the employee whose inbox it passed messages to drowned in SEO spam link emails until we fixed it, from bots filling out the form that thought they were filling out a website comments box.
That's very cool, thanks for sharing!
Delegate the fun work. Delegate the stuff _you_ want to do.

It's harder than it sounds.
I'll quote the last sentence of his post since I think it's the strongest argument to why this is not a particularly interesting security issue:

A realistic answer would be to point out that if leaking the password length allows breaking it, then this is a poor password to begin with, and you should probably fix that.

(Aside: I wonder how many systems have censored Pornin's last name.)
My bad. Rectified on the blog.
Page Rank is not rocket science. Sooner or latter someone else would have come to the same conclusion (using incoming links to asses popularity).

I don't doubt that Larry Page is a talented man, but he was in the good place in the good moment. Now Google is in a dominant position and there's no place for any competition, but if Google never existed, we would have some other company doing similar things as Google. Maybe they would have appeared one year later.
>> Well if you theory holds how did Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Guido van Rossum, Dan Bornstein and on and on ended up at Google?

You realize they got hired because of their fame and expertise? They didn't have to go through intense whiteboarding. And even if they did, they would be hired even if they didn't solve a stupid N-Queens problem?
I was as surprised as you. Here's an example of a quality BuzzFeed article:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/fake-news-spreads-tru...
Can you recommend a better article on retail availabilty of Kaby Lake Xeon?

> Intel kind of quietly slipped out the Kaby Lake Xeon E3 processors right smack in the middle of its Technology and Manufacturing Day last week, and it did not make a big deal about it.

This is relevant to customers buying Xeon E3 hardware. Over the last few weeks, OEMs quietly added Kaby Lake Xeons to some existing devices. Because the chips are compatible with existing motherboards, there were no new devices to be announced. With little coverage of this announcement, it is easy to end up buying an i7 Kaby Lake or a E3 Skylake on a device, if you did not know that E3 Kaby Lakes are now shipping.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
So your argument is essentially, "we created those agencies for that purpose, therefore it's ok what they're doing". You don't see how that doesn't actually follow?

> Spying on foreign powers

Foreign governments would be one thing (IMO still probably wrong, especially so if it's an ally), but US agencies are spying on all foreign citizens.

> Every single country is doing it to the US

Yeah, source please. And scale matters.
If your side project is a HIPAA compliant SAAS tool for doctors, than it's hardly an MVP, so it's probably a poor choice for a side project.

However, if you build software for doctors that avoids the regulatory compliance problems, then get it expanded out to 14 hospitals, then raise, then have staff, you can then go back and do that HIPAA compliant SAAS solution that you initially wanted to.
Which pretty much describes my path over the last 3 years
> As a US citizen, and given how things like 9/11 were funded, this is exactly what I want NSA to be doing. This is thier job.

Do you know what 9/11 really is (the intentions, terrorist involvements, etc)? Never. Neither do I. We just (have to) believe what the main stream media says about it. That's it.

Given that the ThinThread project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread) was discontinued 3 weeks before 9/11, I suspect that there is a high probability for NSA to be involved in 9/11.

To get yourself motivated, I would suggest you to see Person Of Interest, the complete series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_%28TV_serie...

Thanks
What's strange about it? Most nations have such a policy goal, regardless of how merited (or not) it is.
I have a friend who memorized all of these types of questions and answers. It worked because he got offers from Google, Facebook and Uber, amongst others. The key is to pretend like you're figuring it out on the spot and not just regurgitating it from memory. I plan on doing the exact same thing when I look for my next job. It's unfortunate, but the reality of the state of our interviews.
Check for understanding by not asking book questions and expecting book answers. Ask variations on book questions.

For example, in junior math the prof went carefully through deriving the Fourier Transform. On the final exam, the question was to derive the Hyperbolic Transform. This was straightforward if you understood the FT, but not if all you could do was parrot it.
No risk, no reward.

I'm not going to convince a banker that -

but maybe that's why there are bankers and that's why there are people who race sailboats solo around the world.
He invented the glider, IF he was first (but this is unlikey, the paper airplane may extend nearly as far back as paper, as toy hot air ballons do - in China.) Nobody invented all transistors, nor all aircraft, but it's reasonable to give the Wrights special attention.
Farewell, NES Classic Edition
This looks good, can't wait for the scraper feature.
MIRA QUE PASA CUANDO ENCIENDES 6000 FOSFOROS a LA VEZ
I was being ironic - I forget that Americans still don't look for irony energetically. But it's still a good question, whether we have functioning democracies, or not.
I agree that it's reasonable in theory to have some of this stuff going on.

I also agree that it's reasonable in theory to do incidental collection.

But the problem is that the NSA began doing a lot of this stuff without democratic oversight, and officials lied to the American people about it.

The deception and lack of democratic oversight makes the programs not OK. The secrecy and lack of auditability create way too much potential for abuse.

The intelligence services would never tolerate a system that offered a complete, unalterable log of all surveillance so that courts could decide in hindsight if agents needed jail time for breach of protocol or inappropriate use of the tools.

So instead we get this utterly backward system where there is great ceremony around the FISA warrants which are issued (and once in a while denied) but meanwhile any agent in the midst of an investigation can easily enough cast the net over whomever he/she chooses using incidental collection.

Police states are bad/dangerous because they make it possible for the regime to intimidate and persecute political enemies. We've seen so many hints of this lately that I'm shocked anyone can support continuing the status quo.
I figured that problem out on my own the first time I heard of it. It wasn't Floyd's algorithm, there are many solutions.
Like I said, it's not regurgitation. There's a reason companies try to keep their questions secret.
Yes, Buzzfeed has a well staffed news operation that has covered some huge stories.

In fact, Buzzfeed seems like one of the few news operations with a business plan: clickbait and "sponsored content" successfully subsidising actual news output. The problem comes either when a news story conflicts with an advertiser's promoted content, or when shareholders start insisting on better returns and look at the news operation as a liability.
I get your point, but getting it regulatorily compliant seemed (to me, at the time) easier than just dodging the question. A pain in the yatkova, to be sure, but it made sales easier to just hand them my basic-docs book (or fill out the questionairre) and say 'yes', 'yes', 'yes', than to fight with the provider's issues with their upstream issues.

If you were able to dodge that, then, salute!

EDIT: And, I will admit, there has been an amount of conflation of the term 'side-project', and 'startup' and 'mvp' and 'project' and 'product' over the (esp. last two) years that confuses me from time to time. I often lose the thread on context. My apologies if my comments reflect my lack of appropriate modern contextual understanding.
New method for 3-D printing extraterrestrial materials
Just out of curiosity to see how I do, how would you rate using stock Intellij IDEA and a Macbook? Additionally am interested because some top algorithm competitors (of which I am not one) have this very setup.
That animated gif is ridiculously misleading. To someone who doesn't know what's going on, it would look like this can hallucinate Emma Watson's face out of a 5x5 px image.

Instead, this is essentially a fancy 2x upsampling, and the gif shows every other frame as a super-resolution result. In fact, if you look at details like her eye, it's not even doing that great of a result (unsure if this is supposed to be impressive given the current state-of-the-art).
HHVM was released in 2011, while PHP 7 was released in 2015. So perhaps in that extra time there was additional techniques, optimizations, and technology that allowed PHP 7 to stay comparable in terms of performance to HHVM.
It's all a variation of the 500 questions listed. Nobody memorizes code line by line. But there are enough hires at Google and FB who memorized algorithms and solutions and got in.

Do you want to work with people who memorize solutions or do you want people who are innovative, genuine problem solvers who've solved interesting problems?
How the Rise of Social Media Fostered a Culture of Remote Working
That's true. 1 in 10 does surprise me. I'm also curious where they got this traffic data from?
I wonder what this can do for astronomy.
Silicon Cowboys: The story of Compaq computer
A ‘Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion’ in North Korea
What kind of hardware would I require to do this project on my own?
>no matter how you engage with it, you end up pushing their message. Whether you're a die hard feminist, or someone who finds this divisive, you are being manipulated by cynical marketers

strikingly similar to the pepsi ad team strategy
On macOS, you can literally copy and paste tables from Safari into Numbers. Numbers can export to Excel, if you need to.
Watched 1.25 videos (basically, where he drops philosophy and ought to get into real explanations), and am starting to feel dissatisfaction I always feel when try to learn about this stuff from programmers. What I always expect is mathematics, explained informally for easier understanding. What I get is not mathematics, I can even say he is starting to sound mystical. For instance, he says "bunch of objects". He understands, that "bunch" is a weird term (actually, not a term at all) and it might seem he could use word "set" instead, but he can't. Why he can't? He doesn't really explain, he just starts delving into some weird narratives of "set-theorists everywhere see set-nails, because they have a set-hammer" and "because paradoxes". But if you actually studied set theory (and I guess every programmer does at some point, or at least should to) you know ZFC was basically created to help to get rid of these paradoxes, so it still isn't clear why a "bunch" isn't a "set".

So you go to the Wikipedia and learn there is a word "class" (no more complex than a word "bunch" at all, in my opinion) and there exists simple, very much set-theoretical explanation of what is (or might be in different set-theory systems) a class, and why it might be not a set sometimes.

Then he starts with arrows, and again, from the explanation it isn't immediately obvious why he can't use a word "function" instead (and it is immediately obvious when you read definition of category on Wikipedia — and I got used to the fact Wikipedia isn't the best source by far when trying to learn math).

So, my real complaint is these guys are consciously not using mathematics (because math texts are "scary" — and, yeah, I agree, they often are) when essentially explaining mathematics. Category theory isn't some different discipline, it isn't "superset" of mathematics — it is mathematics. Informal is good when it isn't "imprecise", otherwise it's just useless and harmful. I sometimes think it might be easier to actually get used to (once more all over again) all math-talk and read something like "Categories for a working mathematician", instead of trying to decipher all these "simpler" informal explanations.