skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ausbildung is often just an entry point to further education. For example there is something like integrated Ausbildung and university study. After a shortened Ausbildung an University education follows. Don't have actual numbers, But some 70000+ should be in this education track.

It's kind of misleading to think that the Ausbildung is just there on its own and a dead end.. With an Ausbildung one then makes a Meister, Fachwirt or Techniker. Which then may allow them to go to a University.
> Aldi on the low end and Trader Joe's on the high end

Trader Joe's has limited selection and is mostly on the cheap side, often even cheaper than Ralph's in SoCal. Its the place I go for cheap produce that just happens to be organic/natural/etc... (though I don't really care about the latter).
It's interesting to hear these stories, because when I was looking for a job, naturally I talked to all my friends that had worked at Amazon at one point. Out of maybe 6 people, 4 had some pretty negative things to say. These are all career SDEs/SW/SDETs, but on very different teams and divisions.

I once had a coworker that walked into the building, and said that morale was so low people would start crying when they were paged. Gave back his signing bonus and resigned immediately.

Completely anecdotal stories obviously. Not saying you're wrong, but you may be the outlier?
For all the complaining and pessimism I usually exhibit, this is a pretty exciting time to be alive. This gets me excited in a giddy little-kid way. I hope that I live to see the first human colonization of other planets.
> protect against someone with access to the OS or hypervisor.

> I haven't heard that they were successful.

Isn't it rather trivial to prove that a database can't be secure if the OS or hypervisor is compromised? (I mean, how could it be, since the OS/hypervisor can read/write all memory, pause execution, alter execution, etc. by its very nature?)
Where do you work? I'd like to place it in my "don't work for these assholes" file.
The Sahara desert is infinitely more hospitable than Mars. It's easier to get to. There's air to breath. There's water.

The main reason to terraform Mars (other than making humanity a multi-planet species) is that no one cares about Mars. If we want more water on Mars, we just throw a few hundred icebergs into it. And ignore the sonic booms, devastation, craters, etc. They can be fixed later.

But living on Mars is another prospect entirely. It's expensive to get there. Once there, you're damned closed to dying every minute of every day. If you forgot something on Earth, it will be 2 years before you can retrieve it.

It's sexy in science fiction, but the practicalities are pretty bad.
>We can survive in Martian temperatures that occur on Earth with nothing more than well-insulated clothing.

But we need pressurized suits to survive on Mars. Mars is really not a smart place to colonize. Clouds of Venus are much nicer.
So glad about this, it always looked terrible on any Macs as it wasn't really designed with 2.5K-5K screens in mind.
Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people
> Windows has not improved in any way that is relevant to lawyers since Windows 2000. What is the point of upgrading?

Security, for one thing.

I agree that others have missed the mark (lacking encryption, not compatible with heavily-used formats like PDF). My point is that this article does not demonstrate why lawyers will actually adopt use this startup's new technology.
Why not just use Medium for academic papers?
Yes, I use the same task for each interview as well. I just use r/dailyprogrammer as a resource for challenges. They're well illustrated and usually provide sufficient context.

You're right about real-world problems. They often require a ton of context to grasp.
I used it in OCaml well before there was a Groovy. But what's interesting here is that you get it without compiler special casing and without macros, as a natural consequence of how the type system works - in a way that generalizes to other problems.
Ask HN: What are your favorite Apple iOS HealthKit apps and devices?
As the years go by and I am starting to think that maybe, just maybe I will not live forever, I am starting to get more and more interested in the Apple iOS Health app and I am looking for ideas how best to use it and how to get the most of all possibilities and data that can be collected and analyzed, so what are your favorite applications (and devices) and how do you recommend to integrate them and use them...

Thanks a lot for taking the time!
We got a few Wegmans in Massachusetts, same thing. It's crazy on weekends.
I agree with Mackey, I don't have a good word for it. Fascism is not a good word for it, it means "an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization." This usually results in government control of industry, but that's not the defining feature of the ideology.
25 yr old fresh Comp-Sci grads are way cheaper to employ than a 40yr old with 15 yrs experience. I see these types of interviews and hirings as straight up Ageism and cost cutting measures, without actually having to say 'Only college grads apply'.
I found the talk slides, but no followup

https://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2015/sites/def...
> I struggle to see the scenario under which that is considered a failure.

Wasn't Whole Foods valued at over $20 billion a few years ago? If you bought Whole Foods stock at that point (either as an outside investor or an employee) it might feel like Amazon is buying it for $13 billion because Whole Foods has been having trouble staying competitive in the market.

Of course, if you actually started the company $13 billion may be a very big success if your goal was to sell.
Tash. (And of course there's a wiki for that.)

http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Tash
Yes, apparently the AHA is still committed to science.
"Can I use it both on a Mac and a PC?

Yes, as long the computer runs the Google Chrome browser (which you should be using anyway)."

Why should I be using the Chrome browser 'anyway'?
Your comment rests on the implicit premise that investors were getting no return worth talking about. There's a big space between not getting and adequate return and squeezing out every last bit of profit.
Has a thread on Hacker News ever benefitted from such an unsubstantive and generically ideological comment?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14565772 and marked it off-topic.
While the terms have expanded to also include non-state actors and actions by states outside of their sovereign jurisdiction, “Terrorism” and “Terrorist” were originally terms for, respectively state actions authorized by the highest level of government for the control of the citizenry, and the government actors shaping and executing that policy.

And while those are perhaps not the terrorists your government wants you to be concerned about today, it remains a common form of terrorism (see, for a relatively clear current example, Duterte's fairly overt campaign of terror in the Philippines.)
Yes, because even during sales the margins are still high. They're just less high.

In fact, as JC Penney proved to consumers, you often make more money setting prices at $50 and having frequent sales at $30 than you do setting the price at $30 but having no sales.
Heh... I knew this looked familiar. Per the note at the end of the article, it should probably be tagged "(2015)". Previous discussion under a slightly different title:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686217
Funny thing is, 18 years after my first programming job, I've yet to do a single whiteboard interview. (the bulk of my career has been contracting or CTO-level work for smaller companies; I've never taken a "startup lottery" job)
AWS Named as a Leader in Gartner’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic Quad
The Elephant in the Brain outline
From my university I can read it for free, in one image:
https://i.imgur.com/gzDCT8u.png
I'm seeing this where I live too, near Boston. Many of my Amazon deliveries have been coming in white Amazon vans for a little while now. I still get things from UPS occasionally but it's increasingly those white Amazon vans.
I think pressure is much more of a problem than temperature. Thermal insolation does not fail catastrophically. Pressure regulation kind of does.
Since they're keeping everything in git, maybe the modernized version could just be a branch---commits rebased on top of a more conservative base.
Why would I strike for that? I'm salaried and typically work about 30-35 hours a week. I sit right next to my boss and he has no complaints about my hours or my work so I would be crazy to ask to work more hours. I'm actually shocked at how much they pay me for such enjoyable work.
Since the article doesn't mention it, Whole Foods is apparently:

> an American supermarket chain exclusively featuring foods without artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, sweeteners, and hydrogenated fats.

I was waiting for this to appear (a common grocery store with seen-as-healthy stuff) but it already exists. TIL.
Arianna Huffington’s fix for Uber: Work less, sleep more
"but the result is code that is robust, bug-free, unit-tested and will likely never have to be revisited. "

That was me. I did less work upfront but they did less rework later. The rework costs several times more with potential to disrupt customers. My compromise to speed it up was prototyping in something dynamic to get an idea of the solution with basic tests. Then, convert it to static, efficient, and clean code w/ more thorough tests or analysis.

I'll fail a whiteboard since it will be some bullshit. If I get asked, I'll probably do it in Prolog or Brainfuck just to mess with their heads. The, type same thing into computer interpreter to show it works. If they gripe about readability, refactor the Brainfuck piece by piece into something that looks like, but isn't, C# or Java. "Just one more thing..." (writes use atomics in top) "...and now it's immune to concurrency errors since it relies on atomic operations."

I'll fail most of the tests but might also get an offer for C# or Java job by confused, impressed, and/or skeptical interviewers. It would at least be funny outcome to show up telling the company, "No I don't know C# or Java. Here's the Brainfuck I wrote for the interviewers. You didn't ask them to hire for that? Well, here's my resume. You want me to build something real for you?" ;)
i've been helping my friend with his channel and we were pitching for amazon to buy whole foods a few months ago:

https://youtu.be/fvZ8mGZZins
I'm not sure that I follow. Does high LDL cholesterol not increase your risk of cardiovascular disease?
Sending everyone positive vibes have a good day
But they do (in some cases anyway) own the liquor licenses.
I could, but doing so would likely involve teaching you a good chunk of crypto 101 while you try to tell me I'm actually wrong so you can be right, which would be enjoyable for neither of us. It would be more efficient for you to just take a introductory course on cryptography from someone more qualified than me. I'm not trying to be rude here, it's just clear that you've learned about password hashing and then assumed based on that one exceptional case that slowness is how all of crypto works. It's not, and you shouldn't make claims about all of crypto if the only thing you know about crypto is that password hashing works by being slow.
> If it's specifically about feedback on the whiteboard exercise

That's exactly what I am asking for. I am not looking for feedback on me personally, but I would like to know why I failed the whiteboard.

If I did something wrong, or inefficient, I want to know this. It's such a good learning opportunity, it's a shame for it to be wasted.

And it won't even take that much time. Just send me a quick email.

I always ask for feedback, so one company said something along the lines of "you didn't use OO, and you didn't name functions very well for someone with your experience"

That was like a lightbulb moment for me.
I remember first using your service almost a decade ago and then, drifted over to DO over the last few years.

Good to know you folks are going strong - all the best.
For a young person or a company it is not important what the majority is doing. Talent in software development is in high demand and a dual education (Ausbildung or Studium, or a combination of both) is for many companies an attractive way to get well trained staff in software development. For software developers this is a good alternative to a computer science degree, which is not that much about practical programming.
We do whiteboard problems.

We want to hear what you think about when you write code. The actual amount of writing is pretty minimal, setting up the problems on the board is actually more writing than the solutions. There are certainly other ways to do it, but one of the most important thing we evaluate is whether you are willing to give it a go. If you are standoffish and unwilling to participate that is quite telling of how you will be when you are given tasks that aren't fun. Not all tasks are fun.
Have you ever tried to change the protocol used by a running production system? I agree that in greenfield development an agile / iterative approach with a loose process works reasonably well. Once you have a running production system with lots of interconnected components, change gets really hard and really scary. Tools that help manage change in those cases seem useful to me.

Re: formal verification in general, most of the research has been moving towards making it easier to use and giving programmers some of the benefits of verification for free. I don't have any problem with the compiler telling me that my code is going to crash before the crash happens in production. That's unquestionably a valuable thing. Idris (and other languages) are trying to give you those sorts of benefits without reducing productivity or breaking your brain. It might not be there yet, but the progress is exciting.

Finally, both of the problems you identified (complex interactions and edge cases) are things that formal techniques are well suited to address... so I'm not sure how they support your case. Again, the only problem seems to be that the cost outweighs the benefits. But the cost is decreasing quickly.
The problem is prison gangs can still communicate. Often times isolation is used to prevent gang leaders from interacting with other prisoners and giving orders / running the gang. By allowing communication, gang leaders can order footsoldiers to carry out assaults, thefts, etc.

These aren't nice people, they are criminals. They will take advantage of anything you give them.
As someone who drinks Bulletproof coffee (ala Brain Octane oil), how does this fit in? Is the concentrated coconut oil in brain octane oil also just as bad? Or is the fact that its very concentrated mean it contains less of the negative qualities?

I feel like what this article is saying is that, just guzzling oil isn't good for you, which is obvious, but in small doses, is it ok?
i just watched 3 random presentations, and i was surprised how low quality these videos are.

I mean, they might have an amazing product, but the delivery could be a show stopper.
What do you guys think?
I'm not pissed at you, because this isn't important enough to be as salty as you are, but I've been writing code for about 25 years (about 10 professionally) across a wide array of low- and high-level fields. I'm very good at writing code and building systems and I can't reverse a linked list offhand. I understand linked lists and I understand their storage and runtime characteristics, and I could figure reversing the list out given a minute to think, but I'd have to go figure out how to do it on-the-spot because I have never needed to write one from memory in my life at any level. Google exists.

Your post is uncharitable and kind of mean.
Are there caveats for encrypting Redis databases at rest? The main attack vector I'm trying to thwart is becoming a pastebin dump.
Open data is a concept separate from free and open source software. However, they have similar concerns such as copyleft: GPL for source code and ODbL for data both require changes to be published.

Outside of copyleft, Creative Commons 4.0 licenses (CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-SA 4.0, CC0) from 2013 are good licenses for open data: https://theodi.org/blog/cc-40-and-open-data
Give me digital receipts so I can easily track my spending, food intake and waste and I'll be a happy camper. Everyone already tracks sales via loyalty programs.
At first building tools for corporate transactional practices, but we have big plans for other practice areas.
YES! for the first 2 questions. My go to question is reverse an array (without using any library functions).

Instead of asking a quirky question, it is better to have them solve a simple problem and judge on logic and structure.
I'm certain this will be downvoted to hell, but it's absolutely correct. Even Antarctica is more appealing. There has to be a money making, gold rush, get rich reason why anyone would settle Mars. My pet theory is that Mars, a much more shallow gravity well than Earth could serve as an industrial base for processing material from the rest of the Solar System.
These look nice! But I have to say, it is a little bit unexpected that the alphabetical sort by author name sorts by the author's first name.
To be fair, it was an incredible interesting article about how most, if not all, cases of spontaneous human combustion were likely caused by external flames.
This enables them to very quickly scale out AmazonFresh, which to date is only in about a dozen areas, to every single area that WholeFoods is in.

If you have not used AmazonFresh its pretty clearly a competitor for the same income level people as a Whole Foods customer and already offers a ton of organic/fair trade/etc stuff at Whole Foods level prices.

They can also leverage the WholeFoods brand for items, bringing additional customer trust to the quality.

Further, this makes PrimeNow delivery cheaper for them. Again, if you have used AmazonFresh you know that you can add PrimeNow-style Amazon stuff to your purchase for the delivery slot. This brings that capability to every WholeFoods location and expands the reach of people buying PrimeNow items (e.g. people will add things to their grocery delivery at a lower threshold than they will pay $5 and reorder on PrimeNow the same thing).
* Customer goodwill
* Company brand
Another important reason circle avatars are bad: https://twitter.com/chordbug/status/875348114160459776
Blockchain could help musicians make money again
That's also the explanation for base 60
Science or as N.N.Taleb says Scientism? There is an entire state in India where Coconut Oil is a main ingredient (Kerala) for centuries.
It's so easy to call out all the problems.

Let them die.

I'd go die on Mars. It's Mars.

I think there are just different kinds of people in the world. Some of us hear "It's Mars," and that's all the justification needed. Nothing else matters. Not the cost, not the danger, not the practicalities.

Your opinion is equally valid. But it's important to recognize the flipside.

On Mars, the frontier exists. I've wished for it all my life.
Hi Justin,

I think I'm probably within your core demographics. I read everything on the aforementioned site and I'm still unsure as to what you guys are building. Can you provide us with a bit of a snapshot?

I'd love to be excited given that I'm a fan and I work in the field you're entering, but so far I'm just very confused.
Very many are available on library genesis among others. The pirate bay is a bad place for books.
Ok, and where does the article claim that it is a dead end (or even just suggests that)? It gives a brief overview of the most important features and nothing more. It seems like you are debating against yourself here.

(Just out of personal interest: What is this "first shortened Ausbildung then university education" with 70k+ people in it called?)
I'd guess that it is because people don't like reddit/4chan/meme type of comments here.
An atmosphere full of sulfuric acid and no ground (with all the resources you can extract from it) is far worse than a low-pressure environment.
What's "information density"? Is there a formula for that? Googling didn't turn up anything
There's been increasing evidence that high cholesterol is a symptom of cardiovascular disease, not the cause.

Editing because lots of people want sources.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4513492/

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/panel-suggests-stop-warni...

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/6/e010401

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherosclerosis#Accelerated_gr...

This is a group I was unaware of until providing you links: http://www.thincs.org/index.php
One thing I would really like as a 7 year old Linode customer is something like Amazons VPC, because that could really ease a lot of my deployments.

They do offer private lan networking, but that is shared with all the other customers, if I don't trust the internet, I won't trust other Linode customers.

Does anyone have experience with a hosting provider that offer something similar?
This has nothing to do with understanding backpropagation (which (correct me if i m wrong) is really the core of DL). In fact in the old days backpropagation was all about "propagating the deltas" and nothing about vectorizing.
I agree. I've purchased a lot of things from Angry Robot[1]. It's a similar story: smaller market and mostly SF, but I've enjoyed a large number of their offerings. You purchase in UKP via Paypal (no need for Paypal account), but the conversion has never seemed to have been a problem.

[1] https://www.angryrobotbooks.com/
I wonder what happens to Whole Foods business code of conduct, including the “Online Forums” approval requirement I dislike.
Do you work for a company that has - as part of it's employment contract - that you cannot do work for anyone other than them?
I appreciate this stuff immensely. In one of my interviews, the interviewer was teaching me stuff. He asked me if I knew about this and I said no I haven't used it. Then he showed me how. It was a good experience.

Edit: I remember now. He taught me how to use Pry. Now I use it daily.
Yes well women are oppressed, so when women finally get a win vs men you have to complain about it. Women make less than men, so a female suspect won't be able to afford as good of a lawyer as a man. Therefore, giving them lesser sentences to compensate for this is only fair.
I'm glad when I see I'm not the only one who thinks living on Mars would be awful. I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see any ideas on supplementing the 62.5% less gravity. I can't imagine what that'd do to your body after years of living in it. But the lack of nature (and Internet for that matter) would drive me crazy. I'm already too old to enjoy my PlayStation for more than an hour or so.

Maybe once we're able to terraform the planet to resemble the world we evolved on, or build enough Bio-Domes for his million people to enjoy (keeping in mind it only takes one Pauly Shore to ruin a dome), and compensate for the lack of gravity somehow, then I'd consider going.
He's not complaining about using vectorization in code. The problem is papers and even explanations targeted at non-experts, often use obfuscated math in place of clear explanations. I've complained about this before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953530

Mathematical notation is basically a programming language. A programming language with weird symbols you can't type to search for, single letter variable names for everything, and no comments. And it's written by programmers that are obsessed with fitting everything into a simple line and making it as small as possible, no matter how difficult it is to read. Any programmer understands this is incredibly bad practice. And even if parse every step and perfectly follow what the code is doing, without explanation, it's pretty difficult to figure out why.
and this isn't even the best random shit on Wikipedia