skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Aline!

Regarding diversity, have you needed to steer away from any particular anonymous interviewing techniques because that technique heavily favored a particular demographic? A silly example would be that you no longer allow people to do tests at 8:30 a.m. GMT on Tuesdays because only a certain demographic did disproportionately well in that timeslot. If yes, can you give an example?

Side note, I really liked the interview you gave Software Engineering Daily. That was the first time in a long time I heard about an attempt to make technical recruiting better that actually sounded better to me! [1]

[1] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/10/19/interviewing...
I think this is definitely a worthy experiment if you'd like to dig more into it. The poster (I believe) is very thin on details, so more eyes are better.
Ask HN: Tech space – what do you appreciate in your marketing/growth colleagues?
Looking back at all your jobs and/or freelancing gigs, what were qualities that you respected in people working for the marketing/growth team in that company?

I see a lot of engineers and founders in the tech space (un)intentionally dismissing their marketing colleagues, or thinking a marketer's work is less important than theirs whenever they approach a deadline.

And I have also seen a whole lot of marketing departments working overtime (even if colleagues working for engineering, QA or support teams in those companies have strict closing hours), with very little project management in place and with Management not looking for solutions for their workload or overtime. Would it be fair to assume that marketers would need help with project management also?

Writing this, I also wonder if there is such a huge difference in salary levels to support the "engineers" vs "marketers" discrepancy that I often see in workplaces. With all the time marketers these days spend on analytics, tracking & a/b tests, I find it hard to believe their work requires less analytical skills then an engineer would intrinsically have. But that's probably another discussion.
The DAG-chain argument is kinda valid but misses the core point: I don't validate an entire codebase every time I commit. I just validate the diff. If later on a commit comes into the codebase that has some sort of evil action then it means that a host of possible scenarios can be ruled out (such as someone else easily faking the commit as me).

But if you want to get my key you have to get into my dev machine. There is a class of people that can do that, but it substantially raises the bar. Really what I would like is to make it so my Github account only accepts signed commits, so that it is impossible to impersonate me without my key.
Sarcastic Samantha app will roast your bad ideas
i don't really get the mobile first...mobile sucks i almost always want the desktop version of a website on mobile too..
Notary – Cryptographic signatures for Docker deployments
"We're looking to hire some rock star executioners."
I agree; there definitely should be a discussion about the whole system. Personally I would favour a system with a report option for comments that violate community guidelines or even laws, and a comment score that doesn't affect the visibility of your comment (at least not in an absolute hidden/visible way)
Could you expand more on the prospects of wireless transmission of electricity. I've seen some stuff about this but have had a hard time finding sources talking about it, I'm quite intrigued.
You know when you start by calling your opponents positions "propaganda" that it kinda impeaches your argument before you've even begun.

Bitcoin has already gone from 1-4mb max blocks this August, going to 8mb is unproven.... and it does reduce security because it increases centralization. The great firewall of china is a real thing, and I've seen first hand that 1mb blocks have trouble crossing it. Absolute number of full nodes is not a relevant measure in this issue... miner centralization is.

Untested is true... the 700 nodes that were spun up in the past could of days are not running a test network, and thus it is untested, and also 700 insta-clone AWS instances that are there just as part of the attack do not constitute testing.

The fact that BTC1 is months behind is in fact a problem, its one developer has clearly been working on his alt, and there's no indication that the code will be maintained going forward-- especially since it is months behind already.

I think it's hilarious to rephrase "Wanting to steal the bitcoin of SPV wallet users" as a "feature" of "not having to upgrade." BCH put in replay protection and did a good job of trying to be a good citizen and still people lost money.

You guys are flagrantly pushing malware that hides its nature and ARE going to cause people to lose funds... hell, you guys have been talking about straight up attacks on bitcoin as part of your attempt to launch your scam coin.

It's not hostile to disconnect incompatible nodes that are going to cause a hard fork-- you guys keep redefining terms and putting spin on your actions in a way that tells me that you know you're supporting a scam.

Nodes that do not follow the consensus rules will be disconnected anyway, this is the way bitcoin works, disconnecting immediately simple saves the network a lot of effort to discover the incompatibility... but hiding it is great if your goal-- as has been stated by you guys on multiple occasions-- to attack bitcoin.
The thing about teaching is that you can be star just by having one success story. If you are a vital part of the success of 2 people you've already clearly contributed more than your share.

But one is enough; some of the most famous scientists only got where they were because they had a specific advisor. Neither the teacher nor student would ever have accomplished half as much working alone.
I was sure it will be a very illegal substance by that name.
Unfortunately, no. This is not possible with Add-ons.
A friend of mine just published a book in a technology press editorial. The royalty for the book is about $1 US Dollar. And the book is listed on Amazon at $50 USD paper-back.
QArt is also worth mentioning: https://research.swtch.com/qart
Academic librarians, who negotiate terms with publishers, are obsessed with privacy and academic freedom. Bless 'em. In theory, publishers don't know who's downloading what. The librarians I've talked to say they delete their logs daily, if not several times a day.

As for geographic location, academics tend to travel a lot. Last I heard (from reading the court docs in Elsevier's lawsuit against Sci-Hub), they stopped using proxy connections a few years ago. They just log in using stored credentials, grab an auth token that lasts X minutes/hours, and download articles from whatever IP is convenient.
Executing Parallel Statements to Improve Performance
> Notably, Maine allows inmates to vote and Maine is overwhelmingly white. Vermont is the same way.

Being overwhelmingly white is probably part of the reason; if you don't have a visible black underclass to subjugate, you don't take steps to subjugate them. In discussing the thesis of felon disenfranchisement as part of “the New Jim Crow”, pointing out that states without a notable visible black population don't engage in disenfranchisement is in line with that thesis.
Also, it's very notable that none of the people supporting the 2x scam understand bitcoin, either that or they tell lies about how it works to support the scam.

If you take the time to read the white paper and listen to the people who are explaining how things work you won't fall for the propaganda that has you posting this kind of nonsense.

But I do credit you for admitting that BTC1 is months behind.
This isn't even a problem that's limited to hiring out of schools. I went to a pretty small school in flyover country, and (much as the article outlines) the hardest part about getting a job was certainly not the interviews, it was getting attention from anyone.

Now I'm working at a local tech company near where I went to school, because I only had local connections from internships etc. Recently I've been looking to move on to a new position and, despite having friends inside of multiple companies (Google, Apple, MSFT) refer me, I've gotten exactly one interview.

If anyone is open to suggestions on how to get more attention, I'm all ears. Until then I suppose I get to shotgun application pages endlessly.
Interesting, anyone has seen the code/.jar?
This is the core of my thinking on the matter.

How big could life forms like these become? Interesting thoughts require not only a complex brain, but also sufficient time for formulation. The speed of neural transmissions is about 300 kilometers per hour, implying that the signal crossing time in a human brain is about 1 millisecond. A human lifetime, then, comprises 2 trillion message-crossing times (and each crossing time is effectively amplified by rich, massively parallelized computational structuring). If both our brains and our neurons were 10 times bigger, and our lifespans and neural signaling speeds were unchanged, we’d have 10 times fewer thoughts during our lifetimes.

If our brains grew enormously to say, the size of our solar system, and featured speed-of-light signaling, the same number of message crossings would require more than the entire current age of the universe, leaving no time for evolution to work its course. If a brain were as big as our galaxy, the problem would become even more severe. From the moment of its formation, there has been time for only 10,000 or so messages to travel from one side of our galaxy to the other. We can argue, then, that, it is difficult to imagine any life-like entities with complexity rivaling the human brain that occupy scales larger than the stellar size scale. Were they to exist, they wouldn’t yet have had sufficient time to actually do anything.

http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/can-a-living-creature-be-as...
Show HN: Product Substitutes – what software top companies are replacing
Portland cement is also incredibly brittle (and thus short-lasting) compared to the natural lime-based concrete used pre 19th century.

Here's a great explanation of the differences: http://limes.us/about-saint-astier-nhl/what-is-natural-hydra...
Flopstarter. A platform for bad ideas
Isn't this one of the primary reasons why those particular schools are "elite". Because of the alumni base and "connections" you can make at these schools? It sucks but I feel like most students enter college knowing how this system works and therefore try their darnest to get into one of those elite schools. I went to a school that had career fairs with 50 kids standing in every line waiting for their resumes to be put into a trash pile. Save for 5-10 students who may have gotten professor recommendations it was a complete waste of time. Only now am I getting reached by recruiters from the Big 4. Honestly I can't even fully wrap my head around having that kind of opportunity at 22-23 years old.
Yes, the landingpage atm is not sellings worthy, it's high on our backlog to have it redone.

Too bad you didn't checkout the tool itself
Thats.. not a sufficient response..
disruption that is unnecessary and only going to happen because this "fork" is literally malware.

Look at BCH for an example of a responsible fork. They did the right things and still people lost money, but they did at least do their best.

BCH is an ideological fork for bigger blocks and no segwit. I think they are wrong, but they did it in a relatively responsible manner.

2X is straight up malware.
Privacy and risk mitigation are the biggest threats to the decentralized web
Please put your current location. We'll be asking about where you want to work later in the flow.
This is a great photo:

http://static.politico.com/ce/b4/b97e9c2c4b7bbe65a225751c7f6...
There is "work" that needs to be done, but "work" means something completely different.
Some JS features are faster on Chrome and some on Firefox. Additionally, while Firefox is killing it on CSS and some layout stuff with Stylo and WebRender, JS is the area where Firefox isn't dominating.

It's trivial to explain the speed difference without assuming it intentional. In Inbox's case, sparse arrays were an issue initially[0] (and like many of the perf issues, it's been fixed[1].)

There will always be perf trade-offs. If you find any where they chose X over Y when X and Y are equal on Chrome, and X is faster than Y on Firefox, then let's talk about anti-competitive behavior.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8495498
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087963
Search for the top alternatives for over 40k B2B software products.

We’re doing a couple of things here that this community might find interesting:
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Note: There’s switch data for roughly 1k products (out of a total of 40k)
I’m unable to install the Streak gmail add-on in my GSuite org. The “install” button is just disabled. Is this due to a gradual rollout on Google’s part? I haven’t been able to find any settings in my admin section that would enable this.

Also, are there any downsides or missing features of the add-on version compared to the extension version?
I’m far from convinced we can already draw that conclusion.

People currently are willing to spend quite a bit more than necessary to own an extension of their home (and, in some cases, their ego) that brings them to work.

If self-driving cars become affordable, I am not sure that will change. For example, people who can afford to will still want to store stuff (sports equipment, spare sets of clothing, and baby seats) in their cars, just as they do now, so that they have to move it less often.

Also, for driving to work, I don’t see self-driving cars make more than one trip a day, and cities would likely prefer most self-driving cars to park during the day, rather than circle around town.

So, given that we don’t really know the effect self-driving cars will have, I don’t think cities can start guessing at the required infrastructure, given that it will be expensive and take decades to build.

On the other hand, cities can do one thing that is known to be good, regardless whether self driving cars will need less parking: build more and better cycling infrastructure.
Understanding Brute force (2005) [pdf]
There are actually two overlapping long tail effects here: top schools and huge companies. Only one quadrant of this 2x2 grid works well for on-campus recruiting.

For everyone else, there’s a discoverability problem: it's hard for students to discover exciting startups, and it's hard for startups to get in front of and filter for the best young engineers.

It's not irrational for companies to hire from a small set of schools: there's just no other way they can effectively allocate resources. That's why there's opportunity for companies like Triplebyte and Interviewing.io to innovate in new ways of screening, and as a result, get more data and insight while making the process better for both engineers and companies. A similar example would be what we learned about bootcamps vs. recent college grads, which other companies couldn't have learned yet because they just reject the bootcamp grads as a broad heuristic: https://triplebyte.com/blog/bootcamps-vs-college
There are some schools that break the mold. Particularly in Boston. Maybe not completely breaking the mold but the tail is quite longer. I went to a top-100 school and many of my class mates are at companies like NASA, Tesla, Google, Twitter and iRobot.

At the same time, as someone who has tried, the name definitely doesn't get you in the door like a top 5 school might. You need to work harder to prove yourself. (a LOT harder) And Google sure as heck has never gone to my alma mater's career fairs.
It's easily proven-- go there and look at all the /r/btc brigading going on. The subreddit is full of trolls. And of course whenever one gets abusive and is banned they cry censorship.

Now look at my comment you are replying to-- -3 -- an attempt to downvote it into oblivion with no actual responses (other than yours) to the points I made.

There is censorship going on, but the ones crying the loudest are the worst offenders.
RIP Firebug, brings back great memories of learning HTML / CSS / XPath selectors. I use Chrome developer tools these days (not a huge fan but it does work) but Firebug will always have a special place in my heart as a GREAT debugging tool.
Not only that, but even if you were to get 100% word accuracy, context is still important for choosing between multiple possible meanings.

As an example, I was being directed by Google Maps to a new place, and I asked it "What is the ETA?" It responded, "From Wikipedia, the estimated time of arrival or ETA is the time when a ship, vehicle, aircraft, cargo or emergency service is expected to arrive at a certain place." It was a completely valid answer to the question, but not one that any human would give.
I apologize, but when I double-checked I didn't see a specific question in the parent comment.
London – Still the #1 FinTech Hub
https://www.pachyderm.io/open_source.html does something really similar.
Point being that if he actually knew Excel then he'd also know that Excel supports named columns just fine. With statement like that, he presents himself as ignorant of the basic features of their main competitor, which is not exactly great way to win the power-users of mentioned competitor.
Good desk and comfortable chair makes you more fat, that's all.
But can it open two files with the same name? If so, they have Excel beat.
I am an Oracle consultant specializing in inventory/manufacturing and give you this perspective.

Oracle offers two main products - their legacy, on premise E-Business Suite application, and their new Oracle Cloud offering. The functionality, maturity, customizability, and usability of these products is very different. With EBS, it is super customizable and there is a whole host of open API's you can use to create transactions. You can access the database directly and change data there if you want. Very simple to create custom programs on top of the ERP system and report against it to do what you want. I see companies truly make this their own and succeed with it.

Not so much yet with Oracle Cloud. The inventory / warehouse management systems are nascent and the API's are very limited. They may have some of what you want but there will be something for which an API does not exist and it will be a show stopper. You cannot access the database and building on top is difficult.

Of course, each of these is a $500k+ investment to setup and manage per year. Oracle will try their darndest to push to you to Cloud, but if you truly want customizability you want EBS. If you have further questions or need help feel free to email in profile.
He may have answers to those issues, and I understand he may want to keep them under his hat until they are thought out.

But know this-- if you want a chance at success, peer review is going to be needed when you are ready. And a lot of testing.
Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020
> when everybody who has gone through Econ 101 knows that shifting the supply curve to the right will result in a new, lower equilibrium number of killings.

Your argument was that increasing the cost per killing would reduce the amount of killings, thus implying the opposite - that decreasing the cost of killing would spur demand for it. Perhaps this was not the argument you actually intended to make, but when I pointed out that the bidirectional-causality of economics wasn't necessarily the best paradigm for analyzing this, you doubled down on it.
Didn't Jeff Dean come from a 'long tail' school for undergrad?
Sure, some studies have been run, though as an earlier commenter noted, replicability has been called into question.

http://www.indiana.edu/~abcwest/pmwiki/CAFE/Wang%20-%20Sweet...

(summary here: https://books.google.com/books?id=evc6jaibNd8C&pg=PT52&lpg=P...)
Baffled every time that Siri has actually been shipped by Apple to be used in production and not as a pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha.
Another variation is when a significant cohort comes from another company. Similar to how people from the same school speak the same language, people from the same previous company speak the same language.

This is neither good nor bad. It makes recruiting and onboarding easier early on. But it is a thing which a company will eventually grow out of.
The drone ship was quoted as having no hard feelings about the incident. When asked to comment its only response was, "of course I still love you."
My point is not that markets in water and hearing aids can't fail, it's that "the demand curve is almost completely inelastic" isn't an explanation. Water and sewage are generally provided by public utilities (in non-rural areas, at least), but the conventional justifications involve the "natural monopoly" of the associated infrastructure, not the shape of the demand curve. People in developed countries would pay almost anything to have flushing toilets, but septic systems (to which infrastructure arguments don't apply) are usually provided by private companies.
> who are we to judge a great mind? we simply cant.

It's not like these "great minds" are alien superintelligences. How much smarter do you think they were than the average person, in terms of IQ? Maybe 2x maximum? Seems quite possible to judge. Tesla was not a Singularity.
I had a slightly different issue (non-traditional major for the field I was trying to get into), but I found that it significantly improved my response rates to put my education section at the bottom, instead of the top, of my resume. It made it less likely that a recruiter would dismiss me out of hand based on my education before forming an opinion based on my skills and experience.
Try switching to

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Doesn't require a CR and therefore less likely to be submitted accidentally.
Why Bitcoin Matters More Than Blockchain
This image [0] of the setup used for "The Mother of All Demos" [1], [2 - video] reminds me that the way we currently use computers and desks may not be the only way.

The keyboard and mouse controls are on a panel that is connected to the chair so they stay in the correct position relative to your body even if you turn one way or the other.

Just thinking about this video sometimes gives me shivers.

[0] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Willi...

[1] http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
> Since the person behind this project is the sovereign of a nation-state

No, the son and heir apparent (and First Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Defense, and...) of the sovereign of a nation state. King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are not the same person.