skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I passed the quiz and moved on to the phone interview.

Overall I don't think it was a good experience for me.

The interview was pleasant but long. Since they are more of a recruiting firm than anything, they are able to ask questions in a way that an organization looking to hire won't. It allows the candidate to be more candid and detailed with their knowledge and expectations. I thought it went well enough but I did not proceed to the company matching phase.

It is _very_ clear that they are looking for a specific type of developer - a type which I reckon probably doesn't need Triplybyte in the first place. I am not a web/rails/whatever developer, nor am I a senior engineer with very niche skillsets like low-level systems, etc.

The feedback I got was mostly positive, but contradicted itself in odd ways (pro: "we like your DB skills" / con: "work more with DBs") and really just translated to "you aren't marketable to startups and don't have the pedigree / experience needed to throw at our larger clients."

I suppose if you have an popular or incredibly niche skillset that is in-demand, but are having trouble getting the attention of companies for whatever reason (it happens), TripleByte is a decent shot. But if you have more general experience / a skill-set that

Ultimately they are a business and they have to operate this way, so I understand being turned down. I was, however, disappointed that I was 'let down' in a way by the vision I was pitched of what TripleByte claims to do / be.
Alright :) But it won't help you detecting emerging trends until it's late already, and in hiring you likely cut away people like Steve Jobs if you measure them scientifically. But if your goal is predictability, hiring replaceable corporate drones, then maybe...
*18 million to 71 million in 3 years.

If you contrast this with 51 -> 92 for ad supported MAUs in 3 years it seems like they have been successful in converting a lot of ad supported users to premium ones.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sergey

As others have noted, I would have liked to see what my page would look like before/when setting it up.
> I think the way you measure teamwork is at the team level by having a consisitent set of team-level metrics the entire team is judged against. This means individual personality and career path variations don’t matter as much.

Interesting management approach. My questions are:

1. How do you account for new team members in a team's metrics? A new junior dev will take some time to become productive so do you add the new member's progress to the team's metrics by making it responsibility of one or two experienced teammates? For instance, you might have internal progress indicators like - by month: 1 the junior should have read access to certain repos that are crucial to a good understanding of the application architecture; by month 2: made a certain number of commits; by month 3: written X number of tests etc.

2. How do you use these team metrics to recommend promotions and raises for individuals?
I have had exactly the author's experience at prior jobs. Quite literally the EXACT experience.

I didn't realize it at the time, but I was put on a project that was doomed to fail from day one. I was looking at it optimistically. It was a problematic system, and I knew I could improve it dramatically.

What happened instead? My improvements brought to light a lot of horrible stuff, and the new code was catching and alerting on previously hidden errors. This lead people in high places to believe I was reckless and shipping dangerously bad code, when it reality, it was not any worse off than before.

This led to my downfall. It was a sad lesson to learn, but office politics are everywhere. It's so important to recognize when you're being backed into a corner and given projects that are designed to fail.
True but I should specify that my targets do the job in 1 to 3 lines. No magic bash.

Also, I use javascript where it makes sense: I rely on Browserify to resolve the web of `require`d files.
Haven't checked directly but from comments above seems they are profitable in terms of cash flows?
So that we understand you better - what exactly are you proposing as the mechanism of these power interests pushing this book? Are you suggesting there are specific people who are actively pushing this book, who are not directly tied to the marketing of the book? Or that are directly tied, but since they are "power interests" or some such, they are trying harder than they do marketing other books?

I mean, I think you're wrong. But more than that, I think you're not saying something well-defined. What does it mean that "cultural power interests that are interested in stability" (paraphrased) are pushing the book in a way that's more than just marketing? Who exactly is doing this? Is this coordinated? Is this more than just "some people like this book so are talking about it", which is a much more innocuous way to phrase that?
> How is that not an almost providential view of history?

In about every conceivable way?

"Providential" means that there is some divine guidance or care, so it is (a) about the cause of what happened and (b) that this cause is somehow divine in nature.

Saying that "real calamities have decreased dramatically" is not saying anything about causes, it is simply making an empirical observation about the world. Which could certainly be wrong, but even then it is not saying anything about divine causes.

Of course, Pinker does say something about causes, but these are about as far away from "divine intervention or guidance" as possible. In fact, it is about as secular as you can get.

Of course, you may be of an opinion that such a "lucky streak" so to say is so highly improbable that it must be divine intervention, but that is purely you, because it isn't luck and it isn't divine intervention. The entire argument is that we have found something that works really well, empirically.

Unless of course you change the definition of "almost" to be "the exact opposite of".
I agree with the criticism of Pinker's use of data.

However, I think his main thesis still stands: humanism and science are winning strategies for human flourishing.

I think this his main idea (the benefits of science and humanism) is an idea worth exploring and defending, but I don't think collecting a bunch of measures of progress and saying "see, humanism + science works!" is the best way of doing it.

I'd rather see someone approach the problem by focusing on what is lacking, what are the major outstanding problems and then demonstrate that these problems persist because we have not attempted to tackle them using science to guide practice and humanism to guide our values.

This approach seems more mature and sophisticated than just saying "gee whiz! look at all the goodies we got now!"
I had a great experience with Triplebyte as a candidate (now hired employee), but I'd love to see them expand to other categories. Remote-friendly companies is a big one, but even more important is different skill levels. Right now triplebyte is oriented around finding the best, instead of finding everyone and helping employers get a candidate whose career path matches their needs.

Their process is fantastic. I can see them replacing first round interviews entirely at some companies if they can look for all the candidates companies need, not just the most senior.

I'm glad to hear they're expanding.
The mentioned issue has the following statement which makes me wonder whether concurrent use on sync services is supported atm:

> I was going to add tests for "concurrent" access of the same file in phase 2 of these changes. Phase 2 is refactoring the saving process entirely to make it asynchronous and robust to file sync services.
Let's ask all the employment wage slaves how happy they are and then conclude that they do not become happier above 105k based on self report.

What a joke.

A person making 500k or more or someone with high net worth is going to have a more full life (not needing to work, help community, help family)
If you don't mind me/us asking ... what did your grandpa do to acquire his wealth? Was he an entrepreneur?
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I won't be too surprised if Comodo decides not to do business with Trustico after this.
They might have bundled the compensation of their engineering team in that.
Hundreds of sites infected by the #ionCube #Malware
He's raising a child, from what I've heard.
Plenty of people do.

Do we really want everyone to answer with a list of their favorite books every single time someone mentions a book that they like? Is that advancing the conversation in any way?
> On 16 March 2016, Australia's largest telecommunications provider Telstra announced, controversially, that Elop would be joining the company in a newly created position as Group Executive Technology, Innovation and Strategy.[72][73][74] Since joining Telstra, the company's share price has dropped by around one third.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#Telstra
WAY up.
I'm with you on that. I've been a Spotify Premium member since day 1 of US availability, with no intention of switching to others. The only alternative I've even tried is TIDAL, through their trial, to see if the lossless quality was worth the $10 extra a month, but didn't renew beyond that.

This may be one of my first "buy and hold" stocks simply for the personal reason of loving the service.
It's certainly a humorous anecdote and arguably a practical solution to the problem.

But when the mission of the code expands beyond the original use case, this element might be lost. It's best to encode these limitations/constraints into the design of the program, whenever possible. However for this case I cannot imagine how to do that. When that's impossible, it's ideal to advertise these limitations as a design feature coupled with the intended use cases. Therein lies the only hope of discovering this before it causes problems.

These days, the vast, vast majority of our code can and should undergo unit testing and have sanitizer tests enabled for that unit testing. We should be extremely cautious about whitelisting/bypassing those checks (but at least those are more explicit signals).
I don't disagree with you. The US has an outrageous drug policy as well.
But how do you remember when to use $^ and $<
There is no refutation in this piece. Borges stated that he would use Leibniz's Theory of Indiscernibles, which holds that objects cannot differ in name alone, but then never mentions Leibniz again. I feel this piece is often given to philosophy students to find out who is really BSing in class or who has really understood the essay form where you state your thesis and then defend it. Thank you OP for reminding me of the days of my youth.
That's a reductio fallacy. If you want to play that game, it was being deployed to that specific place that caused their deaths. Or was it enlisting in the first place? Maybe merely having been born?

This is a strictly technical examination of the proximate cause of their deaths; it makes no claims about their ultimate cause. Whether or not a missile system with an accurate clock might have hit the target, it is unambiguous that this one missed specifically because of clock drift.
The problem with good news is that most people's political positions are built on a narrative that everything is terrible.
> My main point is that you shouldn’t feel sorry for cryptocurrency investors; many know exactly what they’re gambling on.

This category is broader than you imagine and now includes unsophisticated individuals who can't tell the difference between the blockchain and a bike chain. Lately, I've been hearing a lot of "invest in bitcoin" talk from people who are not well-informed, and do not know what they are gambling on. What's illegal for penny stocks should be equally illegal for cryptocurrency - the Feds should crack the whip.
Yes. It suffered from the same problem as all of Nokia's home grown software. The performance was shockingly bad - in an era of jelly scrolling, it was still using janky scroll-bars.

It was clearly made by disparate teams who didn't talk to each other. The design language was all over the place, the radio performance inadequate, and there was no sensible way to develop or release apps for it.

Nokia made brilliant firmware, and amazing hardware. But they simply didn't have the ability to design beautiful, usable software.

Personally, I'd have gone with Android. But you don't hire a Microsoft guy for anything other than getting in bed with MS.
I'll never understand the portion of the population that reads a relative ranking and then declares that its not true because x still exists there...

"amongst the least corrupt" != "free of corruption"

It's like saying X is among the best schools in the region and sends the most children to university and someone rebutting the statement with "yeah, but billy went there and didn't graduate and didn't go to university."

It's as if their brain is a computer program that's designed to purposely misinterpret information and then argue against the information for the sake of it.

Sorry for the rant. This type of nonsense has been building, or least becoming more obvious, lately in the public and political spheres and I needed to flag it for my sanity.
“I think we need each other."

This is the epitome of cognitive dissonance. Deluding oneself into thinking Facebook "needs" them, when in actuality it's Facebook with 1000 times the power. Did anyone seriously believe this?
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I was hoping this would identify TLDs that fit into the company name. Like a company named "Untame" with website of "unta.me"
Ginger actually has physiological effects though.
I couldn't make out anything on the pages. How different was the alphabet?
Only 1 person? Wow, we use it in our interview process
This cutoff where more money doesn't bring any more happiness ... maybe it's true, maybe it's not. Personally, I would like to do the experiment and then find out.
Oh, yea -- and a headphone jack. Apparently that's a killer feature now.
Discover Weekly will suggest a song I loved 10 years ago and completely forgot about. It's really great stuff.
depends on how that person got to making 500k or more ... they could be working like crazy, and taken out tons of loans to give their family a fancy life, thus being miserable and stressed out (golden handcuffs) ;)
You seem quite happy with your Nexus 5, but most people don't want to root their phone and install another OS on it. I'm happy to trade some control over my phone for assurances that it will have an up-to-date OS that gets security updates in a timely manner.

Other reasons to spend $1000 on a new phone are a larger screen or nicer screen, waterproofing, more than 2GB ram for better multitasking, better performance in 3D games, better camera, more than 32GB of storage, etc, etc.

Many (possibly most) people also pay for their phones monthly over two years, so the difference between a $1000 phone and a $700 phone is only $10 a month. That's a much smaller commitment than $300 up front.
My recollection matches with yours, except I learned about it in the first week of Embedded Systems 101. If it isn't a standard part of the curriculum at every college embedded systems class, it should be! It really drove home the point that bad code can kill.
Owned his own small plumbing business. Built a reputation of doing excellent, reliable, honest work and was certified to do unusual things, like medical gas in hospitals.
I'm not suggesting that be the baseline. But I think it's important to put things in perspective. I am pulling these numbers out of thin air, but suppose you're making $100K/yr as a faculty member vs $300K/yr in in industry. Although I made those numbers up, I don't think they're unreasonable. And yes, you generally take a huge potential pay cut to be an academic, but CS faculty are also generally paid good living wages.
I had a similar experience, but, having interviewed with several companies outside of triplebyte I'm not too upset about it. The old hay about companies "looking for someone with 10 years experience in Go" applies. In the end it seems like the only way I can get a job is the really old fashioned way (via friends network).
I like Weird Al Yankovic's version: Money can't buy happiness, so I guess I'll have to rent it.
Btw, there was another murder of a journalist few days ago, this time in Slovakia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/slovakian-jour...
I think taking either side of this bet would be foolish. You can usually (but not always!) bet on a Day 1 bump for a normal IPO, but there's no historical data for a direct listing of this size, and Spotify might overprice it just because, hey, why not, they get more money and without underwriters the strong incentive to underprice disappears.

If you're not working for a huge bank, stay away from this until it stabilizes.
I found my current job on LinkedIn.
The Matrix Experiments. A fascinating experiment into measuring dishonesty
If the Scud had been brought down earlier in it's trajectory it would have not been near people regardless of any randomness in it's landing.
Just call any Michelin 3 star restaurant in an expensive city and ask for a reservation for one at a table, not the bar. It’s not at all illegal to deny this. Number of people in your dinner party is not a protected class.
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> It's the content of the review you need to look at if you want to figure out whether the book's any good or not.

True. Doesn't mean it's worth his time to read if the style is distracting. He's just hoping to find a better-written review.
I think it’s more realistic saying under a certain amount, your financial situation negatively affects ones’ happiness
A question that immediately popped up in my mind was "how is this different from Patreon?". Searching here, I'm clearly not the only person to ask this, and the answer you gave seems to be "this is for one-time payments rather than recurring payments".

It might be worth writing this or conveying this in some way explicitly, since this seems to be your big selling point.
From Simulscribe, to Edison Jr, to Doorbot, to Ring, to Amazon
Same. I'm a Spotify lifer unless something catastrophic happens to their service or media availability.

The only alternative service I even debated about was Apple Music when they first announced their streaming service, but there is no clear advantage to their service and I hate the Apple Music UI.

I hope they find a way to help a bigger % of the revenue get into the hands of artists and start cutting out the big record companies who just middleman everything. But other than that, no complaints.
Given how much easier it is to destroy things than to build them, that things have gotten so much better over such a long period of time would seem to indicate that there is some causal force at work and that it isn't merely a string of incredibly good luck.
I thought I remember reading this story in the past but it also talked to the real time requirements and there wasn't enough time to free the memory. Not sure if I am making this up or not though. Either way, it is a factor that cannot be ignored
AMT for one. If you get a sudden windfall in the form of stock options, the IRS requires you pay tax UP FRONT for the full amount. Even if those stocks are not liquid at all. So say you worked at google in the early days and spent 10k of your savings to exercise your stock options. Those stocks are worth 100 million dollars, but google is a private company and you are still uncertain of it's future.

The IRS will demand you pay tax on 100 million dollars right that minute. Obviously, this would be impossible since you cannot sell your stock, and it's value is only based on speculative appraisals.

Say you somehow got a loan to pay that tax up front. Say the tax was 20 million dollars. Then google goes belly up and your stock becomes worthless.

Too bad so sad! You are on the hook for paying back that 20 million dollars.
ISPs can certainly charge Netflix more for more bandwidth. If a video provider wants an Internet connection, it can get bids from companies like Cogent, HE, Sprint, and maybe even Comcast. NN says, among other things, that Comcast can't say "hey Netflix, if you don't pay up, we'll throttle that traffic that you try to send our customers from your lovely Cogent connection".
One can hold that under a limited, federal government structure there are things the Federal government must not do (because it is either explicitly barred from it or it is not one of its explicitly enumerated powers), and that the same constraint applies to the States.

For instance, under the US constitution, freedom of expression limits all levels of government.
I was in both two large corporations and the Army all of which sometimes are disturbingly similar to prison.

The way the world works is someone does something stupid or incomprehensible where the most minor detail includes topic X. The report of the foolishness goes up the infinite hierarchy of micromanagers to someone who wants to make a statement to his superior of his great leadership skills by permanently "solving" the problem by banning whatever topic X is. Then months or years later the individual event of stupidity is long forgotten but the weird written order against topic X will remain for all eternity...
I've understood this to be the explanation for years now. I'm not sure if this is common knowledge, but it's what the Google Voice community has come up with to explain why we constantly get shoved to new platforms that absolutely suck.

I mean seriously, every time google voice moves to a new platform it loses several features. It's one of the reasons why I avoid Google whenever possible. I went with Office 365 Enterprise over the Google solution for my business, and I use Linux as my primary desktop.

Do you know how badly you have to mess up for a Linux user to look at your offerings and say "Well, I trust Microsoft more"?
Hey bloggers – would you use this?
Hey hackernews bloggers!

My friend and I are brainstorming some ideas for writers and bloggers and thought this would be a good place to ask.

Would you use a customized “checklist” app that would take you step-by-step from no blog to a successful blog, tracking your progress on a dashboard and showing you exactly what your next step would be?

Please leave a comment to let me know :)

Thanks!
I don't have experience with Maemo, but Meego was not particularly slow or awkward beyond being a young, immature mobile OS. In fact my N9 was remarkably stable considering the circumstances of its birth. And in fact I know several non-tech people who really liked their N9's, minimal ecosystem notwithstanding, so it had potential beyond a hardcore geek audience.