skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope Spotify succeeds. I've mentioned this before on Hacker News, but as an artist, the algorithmic playlists are amazing. On a good week I get ~4,000 new listeners. It's incredible. Discovery Weekly drives the most but Release Radar and Radio also send a good chunk.

Apple Music on the hand hasn't even verified my artist profile— which I need in order to view analytics. So I don't even know if people listen to me there.
Meaning that you will be able to apply for 200 open positions that never pan out, instead of just 100?

I tend to measure my ease in finding a new job by the brevity of the timespan between deciding to look and accepting an offer. Around here, that's usually 2-6 weeks. I don't usually apply to university positions, but for those I have attempted, I frequently see a delay of months between the time of application and their first attempt to put together an interview. None have ever been able to establish initial contact in less than 5 business days. Also, the postings frequently have bizarre requirements, such as requiring a masters in CS and 10 years of experience in C and Matlab, in order to write a glorified CRUD app that requires neither.

The teaching positions might be different, but I have personally never found any year to be a good one to be looking for a university job.
I really hope your post gets upvoted a hundred times!

Despite loving cool tech, I have nothing like Nest in my house for exactly the reasons you stated.

Maybe Honeywell should move downmarket with your post as the basis for their marketing. I might actually consider it then.
I agree, it seems like this might have something to do with it. I recently heard some speculative but reasonable (I thought) theory about early Levant humans.^ Basically, elephants were these people's primary prey until populations dwindled and the lifestyle died out.

We often note that our bodies are so weak relative to animals' but that really understates how game changing the human species must have been. First, bodies have all sort of potential that most people never experience because we don't grow up outside and chase elephants. More importantly, people are is good at figuring things out. We're impressed by inquisitive animals, bears or honey badgers, relentlessly try to get what they want by trying everything. That's nothing compared to humans.

A hippo-or-walrus-like thing might avoid getting eaten by a cat-or-bear-like thing by having really thick skin. Humans can't be deterred that way. We don't need to wait until we evolve longer teeth.

Real people must have been a holy terror.

^Fascinating old human stomping grounds... Early Sapiens predate neanderthals in the region. A rare situation where they displace "us," or at least people with skeletons similar to ours.
If you'd have to bet, do you think it's going to go significantly up or down within the first few days?
"what goes on your skin goes in your body" amirite?
What sorts of things did you miss out on? Is starting a company still a valid option if you have a senior/mentor and are familiar with best practices? How do you get those things so that you are successful?
Eh, I tend towards “let’s not touch this if it works”. I’ve already had to upgrade from Webpack 1 to 2, and 2 to 3. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Is this bad? If you are working on something without any metrics you should be skeptical, regardless of promotion systems.
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> "The tools are not the same on every platform."

Any common examples?

> "It’s not very idiomatic for JavaScript projects to use Make."

While I agree that popularity is a factor in picking a tool, it shouldn't be a deciding factor. Going by popularity is precisely how we end up with a new Build System of the Year(TM) every few years. The fact that we've gone through 4 fairly prominent tools (Gulp, Grunt, Broccoli, Webpack), all of which contending to "fix" the previous, and none of which have proper DAG or incremental builds (which Make has had for decades) is damning evidence.

In other words, I think Make could be (and I wish it was) idiomatic for JS.
Give a low cost phone I can put it on and I use it. At least make a Raspberry Pi distro to develop on.
So I guess that would be a compound annual shrink rate, CASR, of 132%.
For Android Simulate color space is the option in the Developer options.

If you don't have developer options enabled you need to tap on the "Build number" 10 times in the "About phone" settings to enable it on Android.
I think GP is talking about Type I errors; where you go hunting for correlations that are p<0.05 in a data set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors
Spot on. I'm sure it'll have a positive impact on conversions.

BTW we'd love to hear more from you. Email is on its way :)
I never did figure out what was supposed to be wrong with MeeGo/Maemo. Always thought it had a lot of potential and some great UX ideas that were nowhere else.
Cryptos for the Snap Generation
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I've spent a few weeks working on an extremely high priority business issue and the only artifacts are a few issue tracker stories, my team's slack channel, and a "huge thanks to @...." on a public chat. If you're at a high enough level that you can't value someone's contribution from those artifacts, then you need to be trusting those under you and asking about people... you'll be missing why high performers are leaving.
Just wish the Nokia 1 had a modern set of radios inside it, not the bare minimum.
When Stars Were Born: Earliest Starlight’s Effects Are Detected
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485672.
You may not like secondary and tertiary sources, but they absolutely are well-defined categories, and Wikipedia's overtly declared mission is to be a tertiary source, which why original research and most direct citation of primary, rather than secondary, sources is restricted by policy.
LSD Study Reveals Unprecedented 'Harmonic' Reorganization of Brain
24d10 has a normal-ish distribution. The scheme you suggest will produce a uniform distribution.
Google is losing its mind. Funny that as essential as chat app is for an internet company, Google fails to push a consistent one to the market because of internal politics.
> If you could design Word/Excel from the ground up to optimize for efficiency and usability, but with zero prior user expectations, the UI would probably be radically different.

Word and Excel have so many options, I am not sure if there is an intuitive way to design the UI.

At some point, software of a certain complexity is going to have a learning curve. Making it so that things are placed naturally along that curve is probably the best that can be done.

Excel also needs to be optimized for power users, and those power user optimizations align with much different UX goals than making something easy to use and discover. There is this weird cliff in the middle of Excel use, where doing basic things is pretty simple thanks to the ribbon, doing slightly harder things is frustrating, and then doing all this super cool advanced stuff really fast is actually pretty damn easy if you watch a couple hours of youtube tutorial videos, but there is no chance of figuring it out on your own!
I haven't been interviewed by you, but the initial process is stellar! Applying and going through the code challenges was very smooth. Plus the fact that on completion, if the applicant passes, are pretty much guaranteed some form of an interview, is great.
hey! Thanks for the honest feedback, we are trying to play with phoenetic and just show some keywords and not domains, we'll look into it :)
Already has but not at that address. They pussied out and pulled the entire thing with a promise they'd come back on their Twitter account. So... we took over the project, it wasn't hard. By all means test it out at https://thebuckhacker.com oh yeah we use SSL and HTTPS protocol unlike the original site!
Well, that all depends on what the opening trade is!
Also there is no guarantee that an engineer who passes the interview will end up getting a job through the platform (speaking from experience).

I'd guess a very large portion of that 40% just end up getting a job the old fashioned way.
I think you're right, but I'll add that it's a great book to read and understand in a sort of "better at protecting from hacks by hacking"-style of learning. Understand and learn about the darker way of thinking and how power works so that you can navigate around these issues.

A lot of the book is simply explaining Psychology of people trying to gain power or in power what you need to do so you can manage politics. Things like not making your boss look lesser than you or not realizing that, yes, everyone has their place and you can't just say whatever you want AND ALSO get whatever you want. For a lot of people this needs to be explained and proven and the stories in that book provide good, if not a bit hard to relate, examples of the laws.

(Reading the book now on Audible. Pretty interesting, but the parent is totally right that it advocates a pretty dark/negative world view.)
not really, we are automatically showing only avaialable domains ( checking this against an API before displaying the results)
Glad to hear Discover Weekly works out that way for you as an artist.

As a listener, I'm quite happy about it too. Sure, a lof of there is a bit meh to me, but I've easily discovered 50 new artists that I like a reasonable lot through that channel.
Yup. The Google promo article [1] from today is good on the background for why these things happen. How can you show technical impact on a chat product that scales from 20 million to 80 million users? (numbers made up) Sure, there are challenges, but they're very easy to look at and dismiss as not that hard. If you launch a new chat app it's very clear something happened.

I'd also add that it's a often a lot easier to build and launch something like this with Google infrastructure than it is to get a new feature suggestion taken seriously by someone two levels up and an org over.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241
It would be super interesting to see if Dropbox and Spotify do well and set an example for profitable tech companies to go public. Companies like Twitter & Snap went public too early IMHO. It’d be a great signal to young entrepreneurs to chase a business model early on.
Co-occurrence networks for Shakespeare's plays
I remember hearing about this in my numerical analysis class.

1. I remember hearing the system was only designed for XX operational hours but was being run over the operational spec.

2. The time was stored in base 10 so the calculation errors added up over time or something like that so if they had used some base 2 timing scheme it would haven't have had issues with rounding errors.

My class was in the mid nineties so the details of my 25 year old memory is pretty hazy...at best.
Future Proofing Our Cloud Storage Usage
- ChromeOS, Android, Fuchsia

- Android, PWA, Flutter, Chrome Apps

- Gradle, ndk-build, Gradle experimental plugin, blaze, Soong

It is not only the messaging team.
Wonder no more! The answer is: YES, the idea of a single "authentic" identity is fundamentally flawed. Cheers
You guys should skip this. On google i/o there is plans to introduce "Google Verb" which is a new chat platform something using AI something which lets you communicate using only verbs and culturally vetted smileys.

I for one will be on Verb, at least until Skype Edge is out.
I disagree with that as an example of a "misplaced faith in evidence". That is coming to the wrong conclusion due to committing a false cause logical fallacy. Drawing the wrong conclusion should not be confused with a "misplaced faith in evidence". It seems that the religious really want to use the term faith in regards to science so as to imply that scientists "stoop to their level". That argument is seemingly often made that scientists have a blind faith in science. Certainly it happens that a scientist will hold onto beliefs against evidence, will doctor evidence to confirm their belief, and will cherry pick data to prove their belief that they hold despite evidence. But those are all actions that are antithetical to the scientific process. while and endemic to religion.
If we were solely concerned with punishment it would probably be far cheaper to sentence them to 20 lashes and send them on their way.
Yep - JRE #1073
Pysho pass anyone?
I'm so glad that you support the UK! But it would be lovely to set the default currency as £ (or €) rather than $.
Whether prisons are effective for deterrence is an empirical question.

As it turns out, they're not particularly effective. The people who go and hold up a convenience store aren't doing it because of a reasoned cost-benefit analysis based on risk of capture, differential value of prison vs freedom, and future discount rates. They're doing it because they don't do those things.

That leaves three real reasons:
1) Reform
2) Reducing society's exposure to criminal elements
3) Punishment as a moral good in itself, as a way to rectify injustice.
Oh, that's just a pun on 'faith'. The 'faith' in 'misplaced faith' isn't religious faith.
On the other side of this, I love how easy it is to find new music on Spotify! Every week, the "Discover Weekly" playlist nets me at least one or two new artists I end up loving.
I chose to exclude those on purpose, I am not sure if people are that much interested in them, considering especially that some are quite expensive. I think however that some short ones like .win .rocks can be allowed.

Particularly, I don't mind using such domains, we started for e.g revive.social and I don't see any problem with it
So the easiest way to describe that 0.24 is 'you get the support of one of the best people in the world at file security'.

I'll get that might not be attractive to you. You are likely not a good customer for him.

To me, it takes a lot of data and not much amount of my time to make that value proposition waaaaay worth it.
sorry about that. linkedin changed their pdf export a bit yesterday and it broke our import. should be fixed today or tomorrow.

would love any other feedback you have. did you end up completing a resume?
One problem is that the islands are eroding [1], so any property built on them is doomed. You can delay the inevitable for a little while by pumping more sand in, but sand is running out [2].

More abstractly, The World really reminds me of the semi-serious "skyscraper index": the idea that big skyscrapers break ground right before a recession starts. The last time anyone cared about something as silly as The World was the eve of the Great Recession, and with renewed interest just as the warning signs are flashing that the bull run of the last 7 years is ending, this looks like irrational exuberance rather than sound investment.

But hey, maybe this time will be different.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/...

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...
I abandoned the process.

I took the backend test expecting programming and SQL, but it was hard-core DevOps and SysAdmin. Had nothing to do with programming a backend system. I know a little about working with command line and admin, but using tools to orchestrate 100 servers isn't something I know about.

My impression is that it's built with a very high failure rate built-in, targeting people who have a very specific and easy-hire background. I'm not really sure if someone of this talent level would really need Triplebyte.
So adding memory was cheaper than fixing the leaks?
My current job
I ask first. If they say "no", I just let them stick with the old price. I may then ask again in 6 months and see if I get a different answer. I also sometime just cancel the billing and let them continue to use the service with the understanding that there will be no support. You gotta experiment.
You can even make the case for a brand new effect called the Elop effect whereby you continually throw away the previous OS and development model and replace it with a new non compatible OS and development model.
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The story behind the photo of a teacher in Ghana showing Windows on a blackboard
DiGiorno trolling Papa John’s about losing its NFL sponsorship
The thing I like about Simply Piano is that I actually do it. But a lot of that is because I can do it on a little keyboard plugged into my phone on the train.
(I'm making a separate comment from the INTERMEDIATE explanation)

I'm a big fan of Make, but appreciated your detailed criticism, and found myself nodding in agreement.

#3: I like to stick MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-rules in my Makefiles, for this reason. This, of course, has the downside that I can't take advantage of any of the builtin rules.

#7: There is a 3rd-party GNU Make debugger called Remake https://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/bashdb/files/remake/ It comes recommended by Paul Smith, the maintainer of GNU Make.
My experience with Duo is that the video chat quality is far better than Hangouts, especially on mobile devices and poor hotel wifi. Not sure what it's doing differently but I think it optimizes for lag-free video/audio vs quality.
Yeah, it interprets "functional" in "functional programming" using the more general definition of just being, basically, not broken. Which, I get it, it's fine. I'm a bit disappointed in the narrowness of the returned results, but I also don't expect it to just know my intent, either.

The site you linked gave me an amusing one that's really simple: unctionalprogramming. Reminds me of the word "unctuous."
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"Capital" is generally defined as something like "productive output reserved for future productive capacity". See for example most of Schumpeter.

"Resources" would be any factors of production. Traditionally these are land, labour, capital, and ... well, things vary, but "entrepreneurship" is what the page I'm looking at argues for:

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/economic-definition-four-fact...

Answering your question: "capital" is a subset of "resources". "Resources" are a superset of "capital".

The question of what ought to be considered as factors of production is ... an interesting one. The list largely comes from cost accounting, and economists picked the items which dominated the cost-accounting sheets, which was pretty much "labour". Capital and other elements were added later. Much of the foundations of this seems to come from Alexander Hamilton Church[1]

Among the interesting alternative discussions I've run across of factors of production comes from Count Leo Tolstoy, in What Shall We Do Then:

https://archive.org/stream/whatshallwedothe00tolsrich#page/1...

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Notes:

1. And yes, there appears a possible connection to the other A.H.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_Church#cite...
What is he doing now? I can't find any information.
> But the real calamities have decreased dramatically, and life has improved so incredibly that it is not even funny

How is that not an almost providential view of history? I don't see how the charge is misplaced.
Even I hope so. Discover Weekly and their curated playlists are some of the best I have seen across all music services. Even their cross platform support is the best. Play Music has a terrible app and web UI. Even Apple Music doesn't fare any better.
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The crux of this problem in my opinion is that long term results aren't tracked.

It's hard enough internally to track someone's performance over the course of the year or two after they get hired, it would be even harder to do it if you are a recruiting company.

It's especially sensitive because employers are weary of sharing employee performance data to third parties because of the high risk of a lawsuit (there is clear precedent for these lawsuits.)

Once that data problem is bridged, it blows the problem right open for data to be explored and figure out what exactly predicts a top performer, in any field.
true stop-the-world garbage collection.
The only advertisements I see on Reddit anymore are from triplebyte. I'm not even looking for a job (still a student), and I won't be for at least another 9 months.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/swastika

:)

> - Exclusive content: Publish supporter-only content on your BuyMeACoffee page to encourage more donations.

Would BMC host this content? What would happen if the content went viral?
- geography probably plays into that.

- family size.

- at around $2-5 Million in assets you could live off the interest and do what you want for work or not.
Polar Vortex breakdown: Icy Europe, balmy North Pole. The world upside down
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Blockchain as a solution, part 1 – importance of being Crypto-*
While that has a lot of issues for open source projects that need to be fixed, most of the ones I can see there are projects that have hundreds or thousands of contributors maintaining them. From my reading of the question, OP is asking for projects that need more maintainers (ie because there are far too few). Are there smaller projects listed on codetriage as well?
It seems a somewhat complex issue. One the one hand companies that control the internet and the infrastructure in use often spreads across state lines and regions. The other hand is that it is very difficult to claim the internet infrastructure and needs of a place like Washington or California are analogous to the needs of much more rural parts of the country. I generally find myself against states rights in terms of civil liberties or personal rights and in favor of them with regards to business in their de facto economic region except in the case previously mentioned such as the violation of rights.

It seems plausible that the FCC shouldn't be able to regulate or control policy on net neutrality and that their control of the internet is basically because at the time questions of regulation came up there was not better place to stick the internet. However, now that the internet has become an effective necessity I'd imagine placing it's control under something more akin to the Public utilities commission may make the most sense.

edit: Maybe the real solution is public internet projects, I have heard of several that seemed to go quite well.
"Demonstrating impact" of course meaning that you need to find peers willing to quantify your help in order to help you through the promotion process.
The scud missile lead to their deaths, not the software. There's no absolute guarantee it would have intercepted it, plus rebooting a deployed machine regularly is an acceptable fix when it's live in the field
It's currently PostgreSQL 9.6.3 compatible. I imagine they'll aim for 10 at some point (logical replication isn't built in in 9.6.3)
I recently learned in my security class that certificates are the way by which domains are publicly identified. But I don’t understand why there hasn’t been any alternatives besides trusting these companies to issue certificates...
Now multiply that 267 people hired by the average headhunting fee of 20 thousand dollars and tell me that this is "low".
John Kenneth Galbraith introduces the idea of the "bezzle" in The Great Crash: 1929. That's the apparent increase in monetary wealth created by ... "creative accounting" and/or other means.
This is not the world we want.
this is a highly enjoyable read, and i am glad i found your pet project since I am trying keto diet myself :)

however i can't say that i agree with your main thesis. It's pretty wild if you think about it that someone would work at Google with all those perks yet focus on such petty negatives. No x-mas gift? join the 90% of all other companies. No "Senior" title before 3 years? This is not at all unusual. At least your company had a framework for promoting employees and they were willing to give you a chance every 6 months (even if its not a perfect evaluation, it's a system that may get improved over time). Nope no sympathy here but i do hope working on your own gives you more happiness! I did find your project details helpful and inspirational