skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yep :)

Unfortunately, the dearth of tools means everyone (coming from as many directions) feels like they must rebuild every tool - so there is a bit of a convergence right now - which spreads every tool thin. But the market for 'RNA-seq tools' is but a fraction of 'biochemical scientists', which itself is still a 'tiny' market to produce high-tech software for.
Can you expand on this and provide some technical details or links?
Really? I get asked if I got some side project in most of the interviews... besides it is a good way of improving the skills he says is lacking
> It sounds like your argument is that the ability to become an engineer or physicist is an in-born trait, which no amount of study and work can overcome, which sounds absurd to me.

Do you have evidence of the contrary? Of the top X% of highschool students who make it to engineering programs at my university, roughly 40% fail or switch majors. If they can't do it, how do you expect average or lower people to?

It is simply not feasible.
Yes, that's a shame. Facebook isn't currently pushing it, and who knows they might just abandon it. I don't understand it though, given that animated is such a boon for react-native users and this would only increase shareable code. It also plays in another ballpark compared to its competition.

In the webpackbin it demonstrates the use if you want to test it. You install it with: npm install animated --save
It's not, but it resembles BQ a lot in the central part of the query execution, where it transparently performs work on your behalf on thousands of other machines that you don't have to be aware of. Is that correct?
Yeah. I'd chop a couple of the oldest jobs off my resume and look for companies with a culture of mentorship and training.
I'll throw you a better analogy, identifying and hiring an outperforming programmer should be much simpler than identifying and hiring outperforming investment managers because there is relatively little effect of chance on programming output and measurement of success is mostly objective.

Yet we know that hiring for programmers is utterly hopelessly broken beyond all belief, industry wide.

Therefore its very unlikely that people of a similar cognitive and training level that utterly failed at hiring programmers could possibly select outperforming investment managers given that being an even more difficult job. No one in HR or management is going to be selecting outperforming investment managers.

Its possible that someone outside HR and management is better at selecting the best programmers. Certainly plenty of advice from outsiders is given to hire more of coincidentally highly politically correct demographic group A or group B. Or perhaps ivy college admissions officers magically know how to pick future great programmers (LOL). Professors and college advisors might put forth a weak argument in their own favor. Still, money seems to talk and greed means management and HR, however awful they are at selecting programmers, none the less are the best skilled at it, regardless how low that skill level is.
As long as the user has set a password on the phone, there is still a Something You Know component.

Mobile Outlook already has the ability to require a password on the phone.
Are you letting random advertising Javascript run? I don't. Noscript disables most of that.
My experience is that Chrome uses more battery than my Firefox, by a lot. Of course, Chrome is what I use when I just want a site to work, not have to wonder if I turned on enough Javascript.
"That in combination with unrestricted submarine warfare really did mean German conduct in the war was far crueler then the Allies."

Both Britain and Germany tried to prevent the US from shipping arms and supplies to the other country, via whatever tools they had available. The US either chose to not even try to ship supplies to Germany, or if they did, since British naval power was in the form of ships,so they could turn away US merchant-ships without blowing them up. But with US shipping supplies to Britain, the only tool Germany had available was the submarine warfare, which is a much blunter tool.

From the perspective of an American citizen, I think that the 'unrestricted submarine warfare' pretext was bogus. The US should not have shipped supplies to either side, and then there would have been no submarine warfare against US ships.
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Every one of my worst-bug-ever stories starts with something stupid I did in C.
I'd say go for a mid-level position. Most mid-level positions are really junior positions anyways given the way most companies define mid/senior positions. When interviewing look for feedback practices that can help you learn, like regular code reviews and peering. Every developer is constantly learning and some companies embrace that more than others, if you can find a company that takes it seriously then it shouldn't really matter if it is a junior position or not.
> unrestricted submarine warfare

Just like America in the Pacific during WWII, eh

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/juddoeni.asp
Hey thanks for the feedback. You're right, and reading that again it sounds stupid. I was frustrated just at not getting at least a brief explanation of why for the rejection, maybe that is asking for too much, though.

YC definitely was not the make-or-break for us, it just sounded like a really good program, and my cofounder and I were, imho justifiably, disappointed at not getting accepted.

We've had other offers, and we turned them down because we wanted to wait to see if we got into YC or not. So I at least hope we weren't looking for validation. We've (at least in my eyes) already gotten that from other investors.
Yes! here is the link ShowYC.com
They are biased but ime they're pretty honest about it, and still aspire to a high standard of truthfulness in reporting. It's not a regular part of my media diet but I'd say they have far more integrity than (say) Infowars or Democracy Now.
It's worth noting that Bismarck was against annexing Alsace and Lorraine, as he feared it would create an unnecessary adversary in France.
>raising your own family inside the family home is OK too

Sure, is OK, but is not ideal, and is done mostly by necessity, for economic reasons.
> You are bullying people into following your cultural prescriptions.

I'm not bullying anyone. My "cultural prescriptions" are just not using language that excludes people.

If people are so attached to that language that they won't stop using it even though they know it makes people feel unwelcome, then people will be excluded no matter what. I'd rather exclude people who care so little for the feelings of others that they can't bother to not use a word, rather than people whose only transgression is to not be part of an in-group.
Their example of 'shared it with marketing companies, including a San Francisco firm called Segment whose website offers to "collect all or your customer customer data and send it anywhere."'

Thats just an analytics provider.. I wonder if this claim is true, based on that example. Bose could just be collecting app logins, crashes, looking for usability pain-points, etc. Consulting agencies just throw that crap everywhere because it sounds good to a client.
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Ironically because we are in the EU I was able to find a job very easily.
Where do you live and what type of jobs do you apply to?
Jeff,

Could you highlight the differences?
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It's a memory bank attached to a neural network.
If you read Carlota Perez, this is consistent with a particular technology wave being near maturity. As markets/industries/economies mature, the number of new opportunities decreases significantly and they become progressively harder to spot, but the speed at which the few successful opportunities grow, the size of their markets, and the eventual valuation of the company increases. Basically, the whole population already has the prerequisites for technology adoption, so if somebody discovers something genuinely new, it'll spread very quickly. This is counterbalanced by there being very few such opportunities.

The mature technology wave also tends to incubate the next wave as well, like how digital computers grew out of the dying gasps of mass-produced factory manufacturing, and the Internet grew out of the dying gasps of desktop & workstation software. It's likely that whatever comes next will incubate & get initial distribution on top of the Internet.
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Hmmm. So, they're saying they should hire people with basic training in the necessary skills but who did not hatch out of the egg already knowing everything they will ever need to know. They then imagine they might need to invest time and energy into something I will refer to as 'training' that will help those people reach full productivity over time. And, they will risk that some of them might not work out perfectly.

This is truly shocking and innovative. Maybe they could come up with something so we can move heavy loads without using rollers and a way to prepare food so we don't have to eat it raw.
/snark

If you needed evidence that SV occupies a hermetically sealed mental bubble, there's your sign.
This would be very interesting to see from a security stand point of view. We are introducing another attack vector. ex. Imagine if you could phish someone's brain.
They're not focusing on Haskell commercially, but in Microsoft Research where they employ some of the main Haskell devs. A lot of their research has gone into F#, C# and .NET libraries (like LINQ).
First you have to know what to look for. As many cases of autism are unexplained, there appears to be no symptoms to look for. Big leukaemia would be detected while taking a routine sample during pregnancy as done already for testing of blood immunoreactivity alongside known viral and bacterial infections. (Full blood group test preferably.)

However to find less obvious immune reactions first we need to know what are we looking for and when. (during pregnancy or after)

To find out requires a comparable effort to human genome project. That is progressing as ImmGen project (currently mouse stages), Human Immunology Project (ImmuneSpace) and probably some others, but getting precise and numerous enough samples during pregnancy is problematic.

Parallel research is going into toxins in utero, later immune reactions after exposure to toxins and so on. Yet more is going into studying infant microbiome esp. gut microbiome which would be related to method of delivery, feeding, exposure to chemicals and so on.

Any of the above might prove crucial. Or all of them. It is a young and exciting field.
I'm getting to the point where I start planning an alternative as soon as a big company buys a tool I'm using. Wunderlist was spot on for my work patterns, oh well.
> It is very visible in communist economies - the companies are owned by everyone so people care about them as much as they care about the pavement on the street or a public toilet.

In existing and past "communist" economies the companies are NOT directly owned by people who work there. They are owned by the government who employs the workers.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-18-0-0-0-1.html

So they don't have 18.0.0.0/8, but they do have 18.0.0.0/9?
No, see, market logic is only sound when it doesn't suggest that laborers be paid more. If that happens, there must be something wrong with the market.
I started leaving my laptop hibernated with visual studio or gdb stuck at the break point where I was off. The feature to anottate variables and pin them also helps for when somebody bothers you mid debug session.
Yes, they should be. They are (under the covers) mounted as network shares, so they should now appear with DrvFs.
How well is Pale Moon patching disclosed Firefox vulnerabilities?
new tech & research usually make little business. but are often a win for everyone.
Germany: too big for Europe, too small for the world.

It's worth reviewing the run-up to WWI. The pre-WWI model of Europe, an endless struggle between Great Powers which had gone on for a millennium, is Putin's model of the world. That's because it gives Russia a role in the world. As an economic power, Russia is in 12th place, behind S. Korea. In a peaceful, trade-based world, Russia is a bit player. Especially since the price of oil tanked.

Thus the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the war in Ukraine from 2014 to now. Putin's desire to be a player on the world stage drives this.

The post-WWII world was, for a long time, two superpowers with nuclear overkill capability glaring at each other but not doing much. That was surprisingly stable. But it is not, historically, a normal condition.

Right now, it's all too easy to bungle into a major war. Likely possibilities are N. Korea vs S. Korea and the US, China vs. somebody over the South China Sea, and Russia vs. Ukraine heating up.
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Is that a negative? Seems like if you're the candidate and you don't work out after 6 months, you wouldn't have to claim you were fired. You can just say you completed the apprenticeship and decided to move on.
We can't even get enough qualified resumes. Pay doesn't even come into play. And my associate engineers make more dough than my parents ever did.

You should try hiring once, before dropping such simplistic statements.

The upcoming H1B squeeze won't help.
White CS grads do. not. want. to work in boring tech such as QA, etc.
Remove Eastern Europeans and Asians and we're back to outsourcing whole departments to their home countries.

That's reality.

The US is utterly failing in creating enough homegrown talent, university education is far too expensive, everything below is useless as there is no good education available below.

Just a little bit more and some other country/region will take that whole business, that's how the economy works. Unlimited salaries never happens.
DRM in web browsers is anything but standard.

Edge uses PlayReady,
Chrome uses Widevine,
Safari uses FairPlay, etc.

As a content producer, you have to get licenses to use each of those technologies and run servers for them separately. It's anything but standard.
It's not obvious when a company is going to be added to an index. The strategy may work, but there are no guarantees.

https://www.indexologyblog.com/2015/07/07/inside-the-sp-500-...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/krantz/2013/0...
Wasn't it purchased by Amazon? I don't have a source unfortunately, except this reddit thread: https://redd.it/668ffg
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Is it really worth saying that Lotto winners "Identified the correct lottery numbers"? It's true, I guess. But it doesn't really have any value, if that's all you mean.

(And yes, I understand that you agree with the conclusion there. But I'm saying what's the point of the verbal gymnastics in the first place?)
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I love it too, excellent feature!
Have you actually received offers at the junior/mid level? Or are you just thinking of applying?

I wouldn't worry about "years" too much. It's very very easy to work a number of years and still be a "junior" skill level. I see it all the time. It's not even a criticism of the person at all; if your job is "perform minor fixes/improvements to this web app" and you do that for 5 years, for example, you're not likely to have technical skills beyond the junior level even though you've worked for many years. This is not a problem. It just means that if you want to move your career forward you will need to find a position in a more tech-oriented, forward-moving, mentorship-based organization.

A senior developer at a non-tech organization can easily translate into a junior or mid level developer at a major tech or tech startup.
I don't blame the bureaucrat who denied this claim. While food is clearly required for your health, and there is a strong connection between healthy diet and general and specific health issues, including death, pharmacies don't dispense food. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that insurance would approve supplements, not food, for malnutrition since that is something traditionally associated with health care.

What would you say if the family was providing unhealthy food, and the doctor prescribed a year of vegetables from Medicaid? I agree, that would be a great program, but federal agencies can only do what they're specifically allowed to by law. I would imagine there is much data gathered on what conditions Medicare patients are suffering from, and i presume if malnutrition is common, that would be addressed in agency reports and in congress.

I'm not sure what data you're envisioning 'screaming' to responsible parties or what method they would be encountering this data by.
Perhaps they're no longer web scale?
No matter what someone has said, we don't get into personal attacks like this here.
What Amazon has done is created the first DevOps free experience. I am sure Microsoft/Google and others will be on the bandwagon very soon. This product is VERY VERY good for someone like me who hates DevOps
My how things change. At one point in the late 90s, I had an entire MIT Class C subnet at my house.

Now, I've got 5 static IPs from Verizon FiOS on some ancient grandfathered plan. Years ago, they "changed" the addresses, prompting me to ask, "what part of 'static' is not clear?"
> CPanel looks nicer than their UI.

And yet, while reasonably pretty, cPanel sucks. It's actively harmful to effectively administering a webserver.

Maybe how it works matters more than how it looks?
The latest 10 episodes are free. If a new one is put out, the 10th oldest is no longer available.

You can buy his discography for something on the order of $50. Remember, if you think his shows are worth a dollar, Dan and Ben would love to have it.
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When you get a fake tan, how much of what chemicals is your body absorbing that all don't cause cancer?

Something like 70% of Americans are vitamin-D deficient. Get some damn sunlight.
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I'd vouch for them, they've been around for a really long time and while I don't subscribe to their politics I've never come across blatant lies or propaganda* in >10 years of occasional reading, which is more than I can say for a lot of agenda-driven news sites.

By propaganda I mean stories whose only purpose is engender attitudinal change, eg gleefully reporting on sex scandals but only if they happen to your political enemies. Obviously they have a pretty orthodox Marxist/communist agenda but since they're completely open about that I don't consider it manipulative of their readership.
Or... recruit and hire minorities. Measure the the results.
Engagement and its discontents
Society is far more analogous to culture at large than the political order is.
A plug for 2Do (http://2doapp.com, iOS/Mac/Android) which supports CalDav and scraping your IMAP email for keywords that trigger todo item creation. It has reliable sync with 3rd-party CalDav servers, including self-hosted. The developer is super-responsive.
We are truly living in a modern fall of rome

What on earth does this have to do with the fall of Rome? Why do you think the empire fell?
As parent mentions, comparison with ==/=== are "broken" for arrays or classes. Or more accurately, they now do reference comparisons instead of value comparisons. This means you have to replace a lot of this (using Flash/ActionScript as the example here):

function updateIcon(id: int, ...) {
for (var icon in icons) {
if (icon.id === id) {
...
}
}
}

With, say, something like this:

function updateIcon(id: Ptr, ...) {
for (var icon in icons) {
if (Ptr.compare(icon.id, id) === 0) {
...
}
}
}

Or:

function updateIcon(id: Array, ...) {
for (var icon in icons) {
if (ObjectUtil.compare(icon.id, id) === 0) {
...
}
}
}

Assuming you want to preserve the exact semantics of the existing code. If you miss a single comparison, your code will still compile. You will get no runtime exceptions, because == and === are still legal. It'll just have a subtle runtime flaw that will only manifest itself if two interop sites construct the same pointer value as different Ptr or array instances without interning (read: caching/leaking Ptr or array instances, which has it's own problems.) You cannot override == or === to do the right thing (tm) either.

In the unlikely event you do a large refactoring or conversion completely flawlessly, your coworker's muscle memory will, rather understandably, still end up causing problems.

function updateIcon(id: String, ...) {
for (var icon in icons) {
if (icon.id === id) {
...
}
}
}

This is less refactoring, and just works(tm), because String ==/=== already compares the value of the strings. No muscle memory to update, easier to print in debug and trace statements, etc...
The fonts are all off. Looks as though antialiasing is turned off, and the kerning is all wonky. It's also inconsistent -- look at the spacing between the top of the boxes and the headers.
(Created an account to post this) I downloaded the app on android and listened to a few songs on Spotify to find out what information was being sent.

While the app is running, the app sends a HTTP (edit: HTTPS) request every time the track information changes or the volume changes.
When the track information changes it sends the artist, album and song name. When you change the volume it sends the new volume level.

Every request includes standard meta-data such as

* An _anonymous-id_

* Device serial number

* Information about whether wifi or cellular are connected and carrier name

* Device name, model and manufacturer

If there is interest I will write a blog post about potential ways to stop the data collection without removing the app :)
Are you serious? Invading a neutral country, burning the the entire village of Louvain, executing 6,000 civilians in reprisal strikes were all things Germany was forced into doing? Belgium actively tried to German soldiers because they were being invaded! That's a reasonable response to being invaded! I have no idea how you can write something like this.
Some points:

1. I see this as a public-spirited project that favors consumers over a rapacious corporation.

2. At a time when farmers can't even repair their own tractors any more (http://modernfarmer.com/2016/07/right-to-repair/), this hack will probably result in legal action.
1. No, you still need a Redshift cluster, which performs the work. A better example would be something like Athena.

2. That's not really a big similarity. Having many machines coordinate for data processing is a really common thing. So if BQ and Redshift Spectrum are similar, than so is Athena, Presto, any mapreduce-based system, Spark, etc.
Hacker News is not the place for religious flamewars, so please don't comment like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We certainly have these triggers and it's possible! The Middle East is in chaos, and it's causing conflict between US and Russia, as well as the China-US conflict.

Europe has been fighting vicious wars for centuries, climaxing in WW2. What's kept Europe peaceful since WW2 is the realisation that if they go to war again they might destroy everything! WW 2 was enormously destructive. However the US was not destroyed as Europe was by war, so they have maybe not learned these lessons yet.
More profiles beyond the SV Bubble.

Ben Chestnut Co-founder and CEO of @mailchimp (aka mailkimp aka mailshrimp), seems a worthy subject. > https://twitter.com/benchestnut?lang=en
CodeCommit is about 10% where it needs to be in regards to other competitor features. They only support a single archaic code review tool (ReviewBoard). Once they manage a better UI and add additional features around their hosted git, should be a better sell.

As is, I wouldn't use it without an extreme organizational requirement.
Are there plans to open source titus?