skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I think it'd be fine to e-mail back and say "sorry I don't have time to work on this with my current schedule, could I do an in-person interview instead?" That's me though, I would hope the rest of the industry is willing to work with people. Even just the response to the e-mail would tell me that they're competent enough to know their time management and that they have limited bandwidth. At some point you need to make a sacrifice of time though. Even if your hotel and plane ticket are being paid for to fly out to the place of business, you need to take that time off to go in for the interview.

I'd prefer to do a lot of that at home personally.
Not cool how they frame the story to make it sound like the municipalities in question were responsible for making the plane.
Forums are typically considered social networks, although I suppose the definition is debatable. Whether users discuss their daily lives is not the standard, though. On Twitter everyone just kvetches about the news, and it's still a social network.
The problem with the BFS/DFS questions is that you're playing a forced game of knifey spoony: They expect you to write it in the recursive fashion and then try to stump you with "oh but how does that do on large structures?!" .. Stackoverflow. Then they'll try to force you to do tail recursion.
Palantir does not do data collection in that sense. They're much closer to IBM than you realize.
I'm the founder of https://www.recapped.io, a collaboration platform between buyers and sellers.

You can streamline the entire sales process (or freelancing/contracting negotiation) with an evolving page that guides buyers.
Superficially reminiscent of QF32, although that one didn't result in a cabin breach or any injuries - the wing did cop a fair bit though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32
It means free early feedback. For example I'm working on a JavaScript based editor like Atom and vscode, and when I announce it will be very fast and it will be possible to edit GB sized files without any lag. And it will be very thin, less then 10 MB in size. And use less then 100 MB of memory. If it wasn't for the other similar projects I would have no idea about these requirements.
Whether you have an account or not, Facebook is collecting information about you. They should at least tell everyone what they are allowing developers to do with the data
In the bay area, I'm currently paying 5 people 2k / mo and I've been paying them that much for about a year. They are incredibly hardworking and work about 12 hours / day. I mainly recruit from CalWorks (a public assistance program that provides cash aid and services to eligible families that have a child(ren) in the home), which is the same place that Amazon gets alot of their warehouse staff from.

Every-time I pay them, I feel a sense of guilt/discomfort. 2k / month is really hard to live on in the bay area, especially when you have kids. I want to pay them more, but its all I can afford with my current salary.

By "Work" they are learning and teaching each other JavaScript (Node, React, ReactNative, Vue, Redux, GraphQL) and building out some of my ideas. Hopefully they can find a job as a software engineer soon, it would change their lives permanently for the better!
Thank you for understanding this. I've been looking for someone to point this out.
This is the case of the arsonist that just burned down your house, matches in hand, saying, "Clearly, you need a better fire department."
> I still can't get over the fact that their official mobile app stops rendering comments past a certain level of nesting. There's no indication that anything is missing, no "continue this thread" link, nothing... the comments just aren't there.

More than that, half the time I go into a reddit profile on my desktop and try to click a link to a comment, it just doesn't work. Literally does nothing. They changed the rendering a short time ago from straight links to some type of JS, and now profiles are broken half the time.
I second pluralsight.

Anecdotal: I tried learning angular2/TS through egghead but found I wasn't grasping simple fundamental concepts though the videos were quality. Tried pluralsight and they start from a point that gradually built my confidence in my knowledge. Been doing more and more courses on there pretty decently.

I will continue to checkout egghead first and pluralsight second if I'm not grokking it.

Disclaimer: Prior company provided egghead license, current company has a pluralsight employee license.
Which in your case is nice. But you never know when it's going to end, or they're going to start evaluating you on how much vacation you take.
>when I was in college

Show me one person in this country with two kids who makes $14/hr and doesn't feel like they're struggling. College is easy, I survived on <$9/hr in college but you don't see me pretending that what is supportive of a college lifestyle and what is supportive of normal people with normal lives are the same thing.

>Had I lived more rural in an area where entry level homes are <200k and not 600k+, that would of gone much farther.

It would've gone a bit further but certainly not 'much.'

>That being said, as an avid hiker, I spend a significant chunk of my time in places best labeled as "Nowhere, really".

Somehow I think even you realize that using 'I hike' as a proxy for 'I have familiarity with rural areas' is pretty lame.
If I have a chicken and you don’t, on average we have half chicken each.
"or example, FoundationDB only requires N+1 replicas instead of 2N+1 to achieve N failure tolerance"

Wait, don't you need 3N+1 to tolerate N number of failures for it to be Byzantine fault tolerant? Is that not a goal of FoundationDB?
Yes, always showing, due to decades of Microsoft bugs with their toolbar which would inevitably get stuck showing but masking the underlying window or stuck hidden.
Exactly. It's rather revealing that Facebook is his example of a well functioning forum for the exchange of ideas.
He missed one step - he forgot to activate the "ditch switch", which keeps the plane floating longer by closing various things.

I guess it wasn't on the checklist?
Neopets was run by Scientologists
I've always thought the "accounting for X" deaths metric was silly of things that kill you over time. Wish they reported life expectancy changes. Perhaps it has a negligible impact.
Worth noting that what users say they will do and what they actually end up doing frequently diverge.
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The first part of your comment relates to an ideological view I disagree with, but at least is a fair argument to make in advocating we go about our lives and not concern ourselves with issues of low pay -- that the market is self-correcting and best to leave it alone. And I'd argue we structure our society in the way that we think achieves the outcomes we want. A normal debate to have.

But it does bother me when workers are pitted against one another, like you pitting underpaid warehouse workers against the military. We see this a lot. Fast food workers should try to negotiate for higher pay because teachers make X. Etc etc. If you think military pay is too low, then argue for higher military pay.
Couldn't agree more. This peacenik virtue signaling bullshit is the naive privilege of spoiled children. "I want my freedom, but I don't want my hands to get dirty". Maintaining and propagating the liberal, enlightenment values we all know and love takes military dominance, whether you like it or not. The USG and military have lots of flaws, but I can assure you you will like its replacement a whole lot less.
That's pretty close for what was basically an off-the-cuff estimation. He chose those two numbers because their use in the real world gives him a reasonable point of reference.

The calculated value of 74 bits is pretty close to the mid-point of his estimation.
> we have terminated relationships before with very big government agencies when we had doubt about whether our tools would be used for unlawful purposes.

Let that sink in for a moment, folks. Then go back and read this other part.

> trust in the government ... is at the heart of the palantir philosophy

So, at Palantir they trust the government that they know is trying to use their product unlawfully. With all due respect, I think many of us are a little more sparing with our trust.
I love the Nook HD+ too. The article points out a few other examples of 3:2 displays.
Department of Cybersecurity is the NSA
Good catch, this is a leftover facebook pixel from back when we were experimenting with FB ads. Just created a GitHub issue to rip it out
I'm going to guess that the majority of people working in Amazon warehouses are well into adulthood, probably have kids, don't have above a high school education, and likely lack general computer literacy in the first place.

How should they move into software engineering?
That sounds like a tautology to me.

Most people do not define worth based on monetary cost; you are using a very narrow economic definition. If you can't get past that word, then please substitute "value", or "usefulness", or some other equivalent above.
You can certainly apply and enforce such regulations on mainstream media, both TV and online. The world will benefit even without US getting onboard with it, and without the need to police every last website.
I think if they can talk you through some code its more relevant than if it was written by them or not. Maintenance of other peoples code is usually more difficult than understanding what you wrote yourself.

The best interview I had from a technical perspective was when I was asked to bring in my laptop with some of my code. , talk a bit about it and add a quick feature. No pressure as I knew the code and the framework. I felt like I could show off what I was good at. It would have likely caught out impostors as well.
I'd go further and say: The current name is outright cringeworthy.
> emails you're receiving in Gmail

I'm sorry but if you care about privacy, you shouldn't be using Gmail.
The problem is that no one gives a shit about code quality at such companies.
HN has a different audience and moderation so i m not sure its just your name. When people are posting with real name, it changes the dynamic, the post becomes part of the social signaling, which can lead them to refrain from saying some truths, or to support things they don’t really believe but align well with their real life identity.
Is there a way to subscribe to certain keywords?
I'm a cyclist, and I largely agree. I think it might come more down to meeting some sort of quota, but the goal of "looking progressive/green" is still the main motivation.

Many bike lanes Austin has added or "enhanced" in the past 5 years I've lived here were wastes of time and money, or even worse than what was present before.

The cycle track on Guadalupe is a good example of an "improvement" that was actually worse. It's not deserted, but I almost never use it because it makes cyclists much less visible. Far too often a driver will turn without checking for oncoming cyclists. No thanks, I take the lane. Not that I'm that much slower than traffic there anyway. The speed limit is 35 mph and it's downhill, so going 30 mph isn't that hard. It would have made a lot more sense to add the cycle track on the uphill side of the road, though that wouldn't solve the visibility problem.

(The installation of the cycle track also greatly increased the number of wrong-way cyclists. I've found that these cyclists firmly believe that going the wrong way is safer. The statistics show quite clearly otherwise.)

I think a better solution is for drivers to get used to cyclists being on the road. Driving slower for a couple minutes at most before you can safely pass a cyclist is nowhere near as bad as most drivers seem to think it is. Some drivers become livid...
As someone currently living in a "banjo playing area" (Bozeman, Montana), yeah, $14 will barely cover a studio apartment in town. You could afford an apartment in the next town over, but it would be a good 40% of your income, and now you either own a winter-capable car or walk 5-6 miles for the bus. The next city out to the west, well, you can't get a house for less than $400,000 (basically a retirement settlement). Go east you're going to be stuck on the wrong side of the pass about 1/4 of the winter.

You've got to get somewhere around 30-40 miles out of the city to buy a house on $14 an hour (assuming the 20% of income rule of thumb).
Developers aren’t allowed to do anything with data that Facebook collects while you are not logged in. They never have. The information in those private posts intended for a private audience is only relevant to people that have Facebook profiles and are either developers or have a Facebook account.

Further, even if they did allow developers to use this data, it’s still a private discussion behind an authentication wall. I have seen it argued that taking such posts and publicly posting them is a violation of GDPR, and it may well be because of how broadly this law is written.

Live by the sword, die by the sword. It isn’t OK to ask people to violate the GDPR just because it suits you in a given situation.
When in doubt, add /feed and it probably works: https://inthemesh.com/feed/
May I ask how you were able to archive the page even though it requires authentication?
Call me naive but how is this not a self-fulfilling prophesy? If we parade around with our chest out, perpetual looking for a dust up, is that not what we're going to find? When you can engage in multiple simultaneous "conflicts" and that becomes the status quo, how exactly more of the same a wise decision for going forward?

Given the USA's history, the better question is: why wouldn't Russia and China do that?

Put another way: If you were the Native Americans wouldn't you still be wishing you embraced the gun sooner rather than later?
I still think that's an awful name.
Minor nitpick: API stands for "Application Programming Interface". There are plenty of private APIs in use right now all over the world.
Looks like they're using the Robotiq 2-finger gripper: https://robotiq.com/products/2-finger-adaptive-robot-gripper
I'm sure that lawmaker came up with that idea all on his own, too.
The fact that one cannot delete or modify the history of a feed one "owns" is a show-stopper. Of course, people can always mirror stuff, but that is no argument against modifications.
Guns are a bad analogy because manufacturers have no control over their use post purchase. If gun manufacturers could take back their guns (ban users) when somebody threatened illegal violence the analogy would be closer, and it would be quite reasonable to expect them to do so.
What if a well-connected local VC has a poor opinion of me?
I dislike tech interviews as much as the next guy, but let me pitch my two cents from the startup world.

The company I currently work at has very few employees, and each new hire is a big cost. If a new employee does not work out, that can be a major dent in the budget. We still haven't figured out a great way to interview, and we are open to new ideas, as we have had hires who looked great on resume/interview who did not end up working out.
Yea I was trying to think of a way of putting this that didn't sound too trite, but I think you've nailed it. This process is decent way to combat nepotism or BS'ing your way up. There's a bit of elitism to "if you can't hack the technical interview, you can't hack the job", but this is why some of these alternate ideas have been tried like the take home exam.
I wonder if moving to a different file format for compilation might minimize the impact of this? For example, what if source code were stored as a single SQLite file? What impact would that have?
As long as the top-level commands don't have to be manually wrapped in (), I like this idea.
My Grandma definitely skipped from a corded phone to an iPad with Facebook and right over email. It's still too complicated for her.
FoundationDB stores 2N+1 copies of some "coordination state" and does a consensus algorithm whenever it is updated. But this state doesn't contain a copy of your data; basically think of it as storing a replication configuration. It's very small and rarely changes.

In the happy case, replication takes place using the replicas and quorum rules specified by this configuration. For example, you might require writes to succeed synchronously against all N+1 replicas of some transaction log. After N failures, there will still be 1 replica remaining with the latest transactions. But in order to proceed after any failures, you have to do a consensus transaction against a majority of replicas of the coordination state, to specify the new set of N+1 replicas you will be using. And you also make sure that the 1 replica you are recovering from knows you are doing it, so that it won't continue to accept writes under the old replication configuration.

There can't be two partitions capable of committing transactions, because (in this case) you need either

(a) All N+1 replicas of the log, so that you can commit synchronously, or
(b) A majority (N+1 out of 2N+1) of the replicas of the coordination state, AND 1 replica of the log

Sorry if this isn't a great explanation. Anyway it does work. I expect that you could rephrase this as an optimization of a consensus protocol, though I think it would be hard to build a performant and realistically featureful implementation that way.
The headline falls into what I would characterize as a "useless fact". The number is meant to manipulate you into clicking the article based on the belief that Amazon is unfairly compensating its employees. While I'm not an advocate for Amazon's work practices, this article provides no further analysis than a copy pasted line from a financial report. We need more context and analysis if you actually want to understand whether that number is or is not unreasonable.
I love the name, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttlebutt
Does anyone remember a comedian that did a comedy special many, many years ago centered around Googlewhacks? I remember he got a tattoo of a Texas ID on his arm.
I did chuckle at the part above about the "best software engineers in high school," but can't argue with the results.
A lot of the changes FB made were breaking changes that occured overnight a few weeks back that they didn't warn any developers about... That's a pretty good indication of how much they care about their developer ecosystem.

I wonder if this will hurt them more than they gambited for though. They've clearly thrown a lot of resources at the messenger API to encourage third parties to make bots. It also seems like WhatsApp's strategy to monetize is increasly focused on businesses somehow integrating with the platform.

As a developer, though I know WhatsApp still operates as a separate entity it's still ultimately owned by FB. And even though FB and WhatsApp still have incredibly dominant market share, stuff like this makes them look like very flaky foundations for third parties to build anything over... GDPR is going to hit FBs bottom line in europe and all their growth is coming from developing markets where user ARPUs are tiny... Long story short, I don't think times are going to be sweetness and light for FB in the near term, and so this is a time where they'll want as many friends as possible. But stunts like this won't win them any friends in developers!
Feeble minds desire leadership. In the absence of leadership they will devolve into chaos and the least feeble among them will discover that they can lead the mob. In the absence of leadership.

Lead your community or it will destroy you. Put another way, make the future you want. This applies first and foremost to humanity. The clever devices of metal and silicon are secondary. Always.
Take an economics course. It should be eye opening. Honestly, it should be required reading for anyone that debates politics and economics.

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec...
I heard these guys are paying themselves a salary of $1M/yr each
Sticks and stones.
> I don't see how the FCC even has jurisdiction over this. I guess they have jurisdiction over communications with satellites within the US, but not over the satellites themselves. And practically speaking, they have no enforcement capabilities in this realm.

They have jurisdiction because they have historically had jurisdiction. If not the FCC, then some other agency would do it.

And methinks you underestimate the enforcement capability of any US government agency. They can simply ban people, companies or countries from doing business with the US government. For something like an aerospace business, no US government business means bankruptcy.

And that's just to start. This can escalate into things like export restrictions, restricted countries, or munitions export controls. And once it's in the realm of munitions, the guys with guns can show up.
What if the number of boxes are even?

Or do you get around this by not deploying an uneven number of boxes?
>For example, is there an alt-earth in an alt-universe with no mobile phones, but also no poverty?

Probably not. A society with no poverty would be so much more productive than ours that it would invent fun things like mobile phones pretty quickly.
I also agree with the parent. It is the United States Military that defends American interests including the corporate interests of Silicon Valley, polices the seas and keeps a big enough stack of big enough sticks to make anything remotely resembling an invasion of American territory look like a suicide note of nation-sized proportions.

It isn't Peace Corps. keeping the world at relative peace.
I've added it to my TTRSS instance, their initial articles look interesting. Will yet be seen if the content holds up on a regular publishing basis.
The idea that these "hate speech" venues have caused deaths is thrown around quite often, but I wonder if a connection has been found in even a single case. Gaping chasm between rhetoric and reality.
Thanks, didn't know about Betalist, will check it out.
Agreed! They didn’t even mention the manufacturer of the airplane but mentioned the relevant government initiative at least twice. Reads like a city hall press release.
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The Windows installer has Lorem Ipsum instead of EULA text... https://twitter.com/stijnsanders/status/987042633691394050
> I'm a measly PP-ASEL and while I applaud the captain all the "hero" and especially the "only a fighter jet pilot could do this" articles are ridiculous.

I'm not yet an expert in any field, but given the number of times I hear something on the news containing lacklustre research/reporting (including from reputable organisations), none of this surprises me. I'd go as far to guess that nearly everything covered with publication deadline has quite a few major errors or omissions. I'm not suggesting that the stories are "false" per se but more that they're usually superficial since organisations think most of the audience aren't experts and therefore don't care.

I don't get my aviation news from the news but on the other hand, the general public don't care about aviation news enough to follow what we follow.
I've been lurking and reading here for many years and have finally found the place to jump in.

I want to submit https://postwith.me for consideration. Our Twitter profile (@postwithme) describes it as: "Building a better social community through civility, data privacy, and a meaningful exchange of ideas."

I wrote it as a side project over the past several months and then launched it a few weeks ago when the Facebook stuff was happening. It's getting a fair amount of traction and increasing engagement. We are still way within the "do things that don't scale" phase.

From a tech standpoint, it is completely serverless. S3/CloudFront hosting a React front-end (React Native apps almost done), API Gateway with Lambda functions, DynamoDB and Redis.

Happy to answer any questions about the site or the tech stack.