skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're asking him to build a complete application, front and back, that does just what their app is supposed to do

Are we reading the same post? They want basically two API endpoints, one to receive a POST upload and another to return all the things that were uploaded. You could do this in Django (which they want you to use) in significantly less than 100 lines of code. It seems like an ideal little sandbox.
No it still wouldn't work for someone with a current job. That's a huge risk if you're responsible for supporting a family. If you quit and the new job doesn't work out, then you're kinda hosed.
What was your programming level when you left the job and started working on these projects?

I view myself as probably a 4/10 at this point, really never having built a super complex application from start to finish. And that's the fear holding me back. However I feel it would light a big fire under me to improve in a lot of ways, be super efficient with my time, study hard and put it into practice. Any advice about this "imposter syndrome" feeling would be appreciated.
Lobbyism is just 'someone making a case'. It's not unreasonable for individuals or groups to 'lobby their cause' to politicians. It just has a bad name because it can be abused.

And yes, it's not unreasonable for nation-state actors to take steps to thwart American intervention in whatever.

Though often, the state in question is not elected, which begs a serious question of legitimacy -> if you're going to make a 'moral equivalence' argument of tit-for-tat interference ... it's hard to do if one side is a dictatorship. :)
It's funny that you call it "semi-ancient" history, given that the US is still occupying Iraq to this day.
Yes, this was the overwhelming sentiment from a post that was on the front page just yesterday.
Even if this was a fairly paid gig, I'd be out of there the second someone holds complexity up as a good thing. Doing more with a simpler stack has always been my goal. After all, I'm not trying to impress people with how complicated of a system I can design... I'm trying to deliver a product, simply and effectively.
With an alphabet size of A, the number of passwords with N characters is equal to A-1 times the number of passwords with fewer than N characters, plus 1.

This means that if you allow at least uppercase and lowercase letters in the password, setting a minimum decreases the search space by less than 2%, assuming the minimum equals the maximum.

If we even increase the maximum a tiny bit above the minimum, this decreases exponentially. Allowing a length of 8-20 instead of 18-20 only increases the search space by 0.0007%.

So you have to ask yourself whether that tiny fraction of a percent more security for you against brute force attackers (which a proper password of that length is already secure enough against) is really worth having your money in a bank with easy to hack accounts. As a customer, part of the cost of all those hacked accounts is going to find its way to you eventually.
RT - just makes up things out of thin air with no root in reality.
Spiegel, LeMonde, Guardian, NYT dont do that. Usually there is some fire before the smoke
I'm sure you realize that it takes 6 months for the average person to become productive at a new job. If you can't factor that in to a new hire you're probably working at a typical coding sweatshop.
Just throwing this out there: you can learn a lot by working with current Amazon engineers, and having Amazon on your resume can be a big deal for your career. We train you on our stack, and as complex as it might be it will take less than 3 months.

https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/473568/sde-intern/job?mobil...
I had to do this for my current job. For me it the task was about 4 hours of work and not a big deal. The main caveat is that I was also in the process of my current work project being discontinued. That means I had 4 months to basically do whatever I want while still collecting my salary so spec work wasn't a problem for me. If you have a job, family and other obligations outside of work, completing a project like this is extremely challenging.
People still actually trust wikileaks? Assange just admitted that the Trump campaign approached him for the Hillary emails, yet that wasn't reported. Their unbiased release all of the information narrative fell over years ago. Now they're more or less tools used by Russia to sow dissent amongst the US and western / NATO nations.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/julian-assange-wikileak...

So why didn't wikileaks mention that?
Why don't you just call me a Russian bot or a paid shill and we can reach the logical conclusion of this exchange?
> Vinyl records, board games, paper notebooks, brick-and-mortar bookstores

All of which are less accessible to people with disabilities than their digital counterparts (at least when the digital counterparts are done right). For the latter three, I'm thinking in particular of blind people (and people with severely limited vision like me). True, a lot of computer and mobile games are not accessible to us, but some are.

All of these tools are also inaccessible to people with mobility impairments. For example, in his book _Hit Refresh_, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella writes about how some high school students helped his oldest son, who has severe cerebral palsy, more easily enjoy a wide range of music, by developing a Windows app that uses a sensor in the wheelchair. That would have been impractical with vinyl records.

> Using analog tools in teaching

This is where the author's preference for analog may inadvertently exclude some students that are there in the room. True, putting something up on a screen doesn't automatically make it accessible. But at least there are possibilities, without requiring someone to transcribe. For example, when a teacher has prepared a slide deck in advance, they can make it available to a blind student by email before the class period, and the student can then review it with a screen reader. Accessibility for content being shown on a screen in real time is still a largely unsolved problem, but a solution is feasible.

Having said all that, I certainly agree that we need to moderate our content consumption for our mental and social well-being, and moderate screen time for a good night's sleep if nothing else. I spend a lot of time in front of a screen, though I can only read it up close and use a screen reader most of the time for web browsing. I think I'll start spending some time away from the screen before I go to bed. Yes, I'll be listening to music in digital format, but as far as I know, the ear can't really tell the difference.
Spiegel and Guardian aren't part of a state-sponsored program with an explicit goal of destabilization. It's not difficult to understand & imagine what the difference is between both creating story lines & hyping / targeting those stories for maximum damage versus straight journalism.

The US interferes with elections and those states combat those attempts. Other states interfere with US elections, and we must combat those attempts as well. Welcome to the game, not playing is not an option.
Hey, so I'm a PhD student (in Physics) at Harvard that has been looking into these issues (as graduate council president in the department), and I really don't like the bickering that occurs between (roughly speaking) die-hard academia pursuers and the others that feel there is a lack in support for non-academic jobs. Here are by far the most compelling issues that I think need to be fixed that both sides should be able to agree on:

1) Professors really, really need to be open to talking to their students about what they want in their career and what's sort of career path they are considering. Not having this discussion is prevalent but honestly somewhat outrageous.

2) Internships really should become more widely accepted within greater academia (i.e., outside CS). There are a huge number of great arguments for them, including

a) Exposure. There are a huge number of PhD candidates that have actually never had a job, or even just have never been exposed to what their greatest-interest career is post graduate school.

b) Their length is a drop in the bucket compared to the total length of a PhD. (3 months vs 5.5 years average in my Dept)

c) professors worry their graduate students will become less interested in research after an internship. My thought: great! I am super happy that person found something that makes them happier.

The biggest argument against internships has always been something like 'professors can't just be super flexible with their students, they have their own constraints (grants, etc.)' I'm not proposing that professors go through crazy great lengths to make sure their student can get an internship. I simply think that should become an accepted part of the culture and be an ok thing to discuss with your adviser. Right now, students are literally scared at the reprocussions of even bringing it up.

Disclaimer: I interned at Waymo last summer.
We'll never get there by saying "we're not there yet, so it's fine to discriminate on race/culture/nationality under _our_ terms, because we're doing it for the right reasons".

The whole concept of calling people wrong for cultural appropriation, for example, it's just racism. If you want to keep racism, then keep doing that.

Same here: "you don't have the right ancestry so you can't do this". It's racism. We can keep it; I'd rather not.
I wonder how JetBrains shared the license for their IDE with Android the license. As far as I know IDEA community edition is open-source, but I'm wondering if they license allows what Android did with it.
Unless you caught it yourself, color is a particularly bad way to determine the kind of salmon you’re looking at; Fish farms feed their fish a steady diet of red dye to colorize their flesh: https://qz.com/358811/heres-why-your-farmed-salmon-has-color...
I think the spirit of the TOS of humanity (e.g. Article II paragraph 4 of the UN Charter) would banish offensive war and the threat of war. These threats are _worse_ coming from the president. His being the president doesn't make these things more allowable, only our deference to hierarchy does.

Mere legalism is failing us, let alone the spirits of legalism. I'm not happy about it.
Ask HN: When do you sell your stock grants?
I'm just about to receive the first chunk of stock from the publicly traded company that I work for. I'm wondering when to sell, and how much. I'm a very risk averse person, so my instinct is to sell it all as soon as I can, since the unvested grants are about 10X my current net worth and I don't want to be too invested in one company.

Lots of my coworkers seem to just hold their stock though. Am I crazy that that's a bad idea? My mind always flashes back to the scenes from The Smartest Guy in the Room, when the CEO of Enron was encouraging his employees to put their 401k's in the company stock.

As a bonus question, at what point do you get a financial advisor? It seems like it'd be a reasonable time to get one, but I don't want to pay a bunch of fees for basic advice.
So, if you aren’t an infant and don’t have a severe disability?
Nice project.

Shame that the history of the maturity model looks like this:
https://github.com/LappleApple/feedmereadmes/commits/master/...
Even when editing in the web UI you can - and should - set a commit message so one can actually understand how a document evolved without going through the diffs.
That's besides the point. The poor guy just wants a life outside work.
> There's nothing stopping someone on US soil from exercising their first amendment rights in the same way to subvert an election.

Individuals exercising their first amendment rights do not have the same reach as a propaganda apparatus of a major nation state. It's ridiculous to say that one person has the same reach as a government propaganda machine.
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Wasn't Twitter bragging about how they were interfering with the Iranian elections a few years ago? Seems extremely hypocritical of them.
SWE is SoftWare Engineer. It's the same thing you know as SDE.
Unfortunately the links you posted don't provide any evidence or suggestion that RT or Sputnik promoted these stories.
Caesar mixing his Celts and Germans also leads us to wonder if England really was Germanized in the 5th century with the Angle invasion, or if the east of the island was already Germanic when Caesar first visited.
I followed the links to find out which governments the Hillary campaign had been working with. Neither of them did this. I'm not sure why your post was downvoted.
>"People have said..."

Stop right there. This is not the place for that. We all know the who desperately claims that again and again, using those exact same weasel words, and he's a pathological liar, so you embarrass and discredit yourself by parroting him.
React native! Sublime to edit text (mostly the React app, but you can modify Android/ios if you want). I have the node CLI compiling code in one terminal, and then pointing all that to a Genymotion android emulator. Pretty smooth! Not having to compile the whole android app that only serves as a container to the JS is a godsend!
Looking at their vacancies, getting hired equals an unpaid position with 2-5% equity. Maybe the landlord and local supermarket accepts equity with a 4-year vesting scheme.
I've always assumed that "Wild Caught" was used a purpose so the fish could be farmed, but then let loose and caught in the "wild". But maybe it's more difficult to do that.
There’s a difference between “shitty interview” and “predatory, unethincal (and possibly illegal depending on where they are) practices”.
Advertisers themselves aren't much more immune to advertising than everyone else. In fact, I believe adtech industry scams itself internally just as much as it does that to everyone else.
Maybe predatory is a strong word. Many OSS projects would characterize them that way though, I think. Your point about impact to the ecosystem is a fair one, but in some cases it is more co-opt rather than contribute.
No offence, but with a megabyte of text per speaker I feel I could do better with word n-gram Markov models (even bigrams), and random path choice.

I think deep learning is great and all ( and I'm meaning to learn it ) but shouldn't it be able to do far better than Markov models, or other simple things?

Image captioning? Incredible. Deep Mind winning video games? Incredible. Style transfer? Incredible. With one exception ( I saw on HN ages ago, sorry I have no link -- it basically generates novel text using deep learning, across all sorts of genres, such as "academic paper", "math paper", "novel", "film script" and I found the results remarkable and interesting ) I question if many text applications are doing better than Markov.

I think the issue is there is something fundamental and sophisticated about human language which our current deep learning models, with all their omniscient benevolence ( or whatever ), are missing. There's something deep about the structure of language that we are not modelling yet in deep learning as far as I've seen. When we do .... boom ... computers that learn from the internet and amaze us all. Then we'll have something to shine, smile about or fear.

Sorry for the digression and what may be inapplicable comparisons. I can get impassioned about this topic.
> separate APKs based on language resources

While I'm all for smaller applications, this seems backwards.
for the US: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf
Colliding Neutron Stars Could Settle Cosmology’s Biggest Controversy
Surely this is the same paradigm that would have opined Copernicus's heliocentric incorrect and the geocentric model accepted by the masses the correct model(?)

Is it not scientific method to prove correctness, not simpleness?
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This isn't about the larger issues of interviewing methods.

This "company" is

1) Not a company at all, just 4 cocky and extremely naïve college students who think doing a 3 month internship at Amazon makes you "one of the leading React developers in the world."

2) is asking "interns" to build their entire product before they even consider "hiring" them

3) Has a weird idea what "hiring" means because they won't even bother to pay people they "hire" for 3 months because they think expecting a paycheck in return for labor is "toxic."
I think they are talking about Jade Helm 15, and RTs coverage of it.

For example: https://www.rt.com/op-edge/272920-us-army-jade-helm/
RT and Sputnik are weapons of information warfare. It would be rational for USA's society and government to end their toleration of Russian media in domestic space. The only legitimate reason for Russia to have US news media arms is to show public discord and private confusion. I don't know why this even needs to be discussed. There exist some foriegn nation's who's objectives and values align with the US, but Russia is not one of them.
Yes indeed.

I suppose my main concern is that if learned prejudices (against race, religion, ideology, age, economic status, etc.) cannot be eliminated by regenerating brain matter, then a potentially fatal error could arise for society since some prejudices can be virtually insurmountable for many humans. Such an error is often solved naturally when the leaders of the previous age die out.

Just like when a computer system has become corrupted or broken, turning it off and on again can be the most simple and effective solution, so can death and rebirth be an effective solution for when our collective mental processes become corrupted.
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>there are a large number of other forces

Like Hillary being the worst candidate in a lifetime.
I have known a couple of people, including my father, who went through a program run by Seventh-Day Adventist hospitals. My father had smoked for about thirty years at the time. The other guy had probably smoked for about half that.
I've done that and it does work as a filter in general.

The first thing to note is that furnace filters are not HEPA filters. The second thing to note is that HEPA filters don't filter out the same things as activated charcoal (from what I understand).
Hey, I know it's hyperbolic, but let's not call for violence against people.
That's for long term air quality though. The speed at which they remove pollutants is much lower than a filter.
Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15559025
An easy enough solution might be to take a cut when money is moved in to or out of Flattr, but to take nothing when moved between Flattr accounts.
Thanks, that was a nice explanation.
The 20s to early 30s is the healthiest time to have a child, for both the child and the mother. Now, you can have children in your late thirties and beyond, but that can get more difficult depending on the specific health situation of the parents.

Also, there is a problem in parity for how having a child affects men vs women. It is easier for a man to become a parent and maintain a career than it is for the mother.
How do we know for sure that we're not in the Matrix? Can we be sure? Does the very fact that we question our reality confirm our sentience or are our thoughts merely the output of algorithms we've been programmed with from the outset?
> - click logo to try and get to main site
> - sent to blog.flattr.net instead

This is everywhere. FAQ pages, wiki pages, blogs etc. I hate this trend.
Well put. Glad there are rational people in the discussion.
Clinton's involvement with the Magnitsky Act gave Putin a lot to be specifically angry about, versus Trump who has a lot of existing ties to Russia (not to mention the campaign being filled with people who also had their own positive ties to Russia). It's possible that they did not have the specific goal of influencing for one candidate, but they had a ton more to gain from one specific candidate winning over the other. I think it takes some naiveté to assume they didn't have a focused effort on behalf of one candidate over the other.
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We're adding sync support to Worker (which has GPU support) at Iron.io soon! This will allow you to run long running background jobs (current behavior) as well as sync serverless/faas Lambda-like functions within a single API.
So an app with the camera permission can use the camera?
>I feel like the fury over it is very reactionary.

I think the fact that the core of our democracy was attacked with a vast and sophisticated operation by a foreign government to potentially prop up a candidate both friendly to and quite possibly compromised by that foreign government should lead to MORE fury than is currently happening.
Even if that was reasonable, did you stop reading after the first sentence?

>...Authentication system that only allows authenticated users to upload photos but all users to view photos -Automated testing -Code coverage does not need to be complete, just generate that some critical functions of the system have tests attached to them. -Write-up on the systems design pattern choices

They are basically saying "make our entire product."
Siren of Shame – Build Monitor
I stopped using Waze last year after it started consistently giving me bad directions that would add 30-60 minutes to my commute. After a few weeks of that, I just gave up. Before that, it would periodically give me bad directions and I assumed that it was sending me on crazy routes because it didn't have any recent data and it needed a victim to check the traffic.

The time it sent me along a street with 2 school zones during bus time was the worst, tho.
Influenced has two sides, negative and positive. You have to account for both when establishing a cause for an outcome.

Just the other day I heard two kids around the age 10, a boy and a girl, talk about a life as a programmer. The boy wanted to make a AI so he could become rich and the girl wanted to make a AI to help make her social life better. The answers could not be more stereotypical gender defined. Men are valued and gain social rank through the pursuit of money so thats what is being imprinted onto the boy, women for their social skills.

A world where both women and men is valued based on the same ability, that is the ability to get money, would be a world where you would have 50/50 in all professions.
I would not hold stocks from the company you work for. In a downturn, there will be a threat to your salary and your investment egg simultaneously.
> all the interns that have to put up with this sort of crap

There are clearly some (such as at the company in the post) but in my experience software internships have gotten really good in the past years since so many companies are competing for talent. Most places that I’ve seen in SF, interns are paid a pro-rated fulltime salary, but since they’re only working for 3 months they have few day to day operational responsinsibilities and get to spend all their time on interesting projects of their choosing (that are also also still useful to the company).

It’s pretty much the best job I can think of, I wouldn’t feel too bad for them.
That message was lead by the Bush-Cheny administration. Multiple press orgaisations repeated that message, it's true, and practices could have been better. But it can be very difficult to arrive at the truth when you are being very deliberately and relentlessly lied to.

Which gets us back to the issue of Russian propaganda through social networks.

Washpo admit they got it wrong, at least.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/12/...
> Does your team conveniently ignore broken builds?

> Plug in our USB siren, the blaring lights and audio will have build-breakers cowering in fear.

USB siren: https://sirenofshame.com/products

GitHub: https://github.com/AutomatedArchitecture/SirenOfShame
There's a lot of complaining, but it's commonly held even outside of HN that tech interviewing is badly broken.
Pretty sure this is also illegal in the USA as well.