skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is part of what the advice is trying to say.

The noise looks like noise. It's the guys who say "Sup babe?" to every girl on dating-app-de-jour.

Standing out from the noise isn't hard. But it does mean at least writing a cover letter for each job app that shows you've done more than just copy/paste your generic details and cv into every role on $jobSite's new listing page this morning before you left for work.

Saying "Hey, I see you like live music, wanna go see $coolBand next Thursday? Oh, and I really like your hair in your 3rd pic :-)" isn't gonna "win you the girl", but it's going to be much less likely it be insta-deleted than "Sup babe?" sent to everyone.
Extensive discussion of median Amazon worker's pay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877987
I finally get it. Thanks for enlightening. You're right, that's... just completely inexcusable! I'm kind of shocked. Not even a message. Wow.
Google Cloud Gold support worth it?
We're a startup on their silver plan and I'm having a horrible time with support. Their last response was over 3 days ago on an issue that I've been able to reproduce consistently. I hate to pay more money with this experience but if it helps not being ignored then we'll have to pony up the cash because this is really hurting us.
Didn't downvote you, but I believe the excitement is over FoundationDB's ability to perform ACID compliant distributed transactions without sacrificing performance -which to my knowledge no current RDBMS or even NoSql can do.
Me to. There are a lot of comments here lamenting it, but while all of their points of how good it was may be true, there are applications around today still written in PB that cause IT people pain.

Cerner's CoPath Plus is written in PB and it's atrocious. I had to pull the CoPAth VM servers out of the DC because we needed to move them, and if the IPs changed, Cerner couldn't tell us what might happen. Literally I was told, "we don't support changing IP addresses, we don't know what would happen, we'd have to reinstall the application on new servers and move the data."

I asked how much that would cost. They said $25,000. For four VMs. The main app server, a DB server, and two webservers that serve reports to the outside world. $25k to reinstall the app we already paid for and pay a support contract for.
Lost httpd.conf file located apache [closed]?
Sometimes I want to see what’s popular on Reddit as a whole without the politics, video games, atheism, anime, etc. circlejerks.

There’s some surprisingly entertaining stuff that floats to the top. I don’t always want to see the posts on /r/gardening but when somebody grows a zucchini the size of a baseball bat, yeah I’ll look at it.
>ex. Ethereum to compile your code...

but that's just a roundabout way of doing reproducible builds.
> best known metadata storage engine for a distributed filesystem, hopsfs

Not even close. I don't even see anything I'd call a filesystem mentioned on your web page. I missed FAST this year, and apparently you had a paper about using Hops as a building block for a non-POSIX filesystem - i.e. not a filesystem in my and many others' opinion - but it's not clear whether it has ever even been used in production anywhere let alone become "best known" in that or any other domain. I know you're proud, perhaps you have reason to be, but please.
I agree with voidmain’s comment as secondary indexes shouldn’t be any different than the primary KV in your case. Almost seems that you’re focusing on a SQL/Relational database architecture but storing your data demoralized anyways. Odd combination of thoughts.
> Chat/Buzz/Hangouts/Messenger/Duo/Allo and probably more

Too bad Google dropped XMPP federation; they could have used it between their own apps. Just imagine a world where Google users could talk to other Google users!
A couple bits of feedback:

1. At least in the title of this post it is called an "Online Community" but it really feels like a job board. Is it really a community at all? I expect to feel disappointed.

2. Wait... is it a job board, or an internship matching system?

3. I got about 5 duplicate questions.

4. The timed questions with a big code block and multiple choice were stressful, in that there was some dense code to read and I couldn't decide whether to understand the code first or read the questions first.

5. It wasn't clear to me that the timer was actually a limit, and not just a suggestion (i.e., something to pace yourself to do all the questions in the time limit)

6. The SQL questions felt like very normal SQL questions. They seemed easy enough (assuming I got them right!) simply given past experience with database driven websites.
How are you gonna prevent anarchy?

Cats and dogs living together...oh my. Let me clue you in on something. In free societies there's risks and individuals make bad decisions, and we live with it. We don't need someone policing everything.
Bingo. You end up becoming like all the other industries dominated by white men at positions of power (Law e.g.)
They still have an enormous amount of more mundane code doing stuff like shuffling CSV's around.
Please name one country that bans their carriers from implementing a message system without e2e encryption.
Yup, same thing as meccano. Now that I think about it I had an erector set growing up, beats me why meccano came to mind first. I missed out on lego robotics, but those look really cool too.
I almost completely disagree with you. At a company I worked at, we made the mistake of hiring someone who was a core contributor to a language you have very likely heard of and just as likely have worked with. It didn't work out. The skills required to be a professional software engineer writing business logic are not identical to those required to write excellent core, library or framework code. Different beasts, and both should have respect for one another.

Conflate them at your own peril. Our experience with trying to make things work with this candidate was not very successful, and it was one of the two (out of dozens) of hires we made that we had trouble with.

Candidates should find sane companies that test based on competence and not on glorified SAT like algo teasers. Companies should find sane candidate who are competent at doing the job they need done. Many parties in both camps flop at this search process.
Will any of these layers on top be open-sourced? FDB itself is rather low-level and will result in duplicate efforts building another SQL/data layer.

It's rather interesting to see how many companies have been using FoundationDB silently this whole time...
Mutability is a huge differentiator for some languages.

And dynamic dispatch is already part of Smalltalk and Objective-C, I believe.
Yup, I've got an implementation of http over packet radio I've been working through and came to the same conclusion. Header contains the signature, base64 the message for verification.

Even though it's super low bitrate(1200bps/9600bps) since you have a binary foundation w/ base64 you can send raw binary to get low over-head but then easily verify+decode since base64 is well supported across a wide range of languages.
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Not sure if you could use language, as that would include English and Spanish, which I presume would make up a large percentage of their non-EU users (unless people are reliably set to the regional variants of those languages?).
Most grant discussion has been going on over SSB in the #ssbc-grants channel. (It has over 1,400 messages that I can see)
Also, 30 minutes is long enough to just do a few take offs and landings to stay current on the cheap, or just for doing short lessons or flight reviews. I could definitely see a flight school having one of these around just to meet those needs as cheaply as possible.
Signal has a desktop app that syncs with your phone, and if you use Facebook messenger, caprine is a great desktop version.
It isn't faster than not re-requesting the resource at all because it was previously downloaded from the CDN which is what the discussion is about.
I have to say that Allo was pretty cool. But without encryption is becomes useless.

And they aren't going to get people to adopt to a new messanger without forcing them. Most people just use the default messanger, that's why iMessanger works. The only reason I use other messangers is because texting will not provide me the one thing I want.
Wrong. This is a naive thought which is thoroughly divorced from the market reality. There's no free lunch, and no qualified candidate below market rate -- if you don't pay in one form, you will pay in another form. Companies which do not allocate budget properly to hire competent employees pay for it with their bottom line.
This is a solved problem. By entities other than google. SMS works fine on every phone. Whatsapp and Messenger also work fine. Choose one or two and use it.
What does the world die from?
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If messages are end to end encrypted, Google cannot use them to target ads.
Good one. But let's say I want something mutable, so complex won't do.
I wish Apple just became a customer instead of buying and burying this for 3 years. Glad to see it come back but community momentum is hard to rebuild.
This is a good idea though, it gives you some flexibility in trading off range and payload. Probably maximum take off weight is the limiting factor here. But if it's just me, and I have 200 lbs of extra payload, why not load that up with 20 gallons of fuel and a tiny ~25hp generator.
Reproducible builds you can cryptographically verify without doing the building yourself.
Care to elaborate? There's apparently some powerbuilder work in my near term future and I have no idea what to expect (good or bad).
Losing all thrust shortly after takeoff is a particularly nasty emergency. Pilots of single-engine airplanes talk about the impossible turn for a reason. It’s really closer to a 270° turn than a 180° turn and requires aggressive maneuvering at low altitude to avoid a stall-spin accident, which has claimed many lives. Unless the pilot is particularly proficient at the maneuver, common advice is to plan on landing straight ahead until reaching 1,000 feet AGL.

Having multiple engines makes it not twice as safe but thousands of times safer, at least with respect to losing all thrust. (Multi-engine aircraft have other ways to kill you.) A multi-engine turbine aircraft — turbine engines being far more reliable than pistons — is so unlikely to lose all thrust, i.e., in all engines simultaneously, that they didn’t bother training for it. This worst-case scenario happened anyway.

The Southwest incident took place in the flight levels. Altitude is insurance and gives lots of time to consider options. The airplane still had thrust from one engine so may have been capable of (slow) climbs and certainly of level flight. The big unknown in the moment was whether the airframe would hold together, so they still wanted to get on the ground as soon as possible.

Given the choice of emergencies, one would take the Southwest circumstances easily. Both pilots did great work managing terrible situations that could have ended up much worse. Loss of all lives on board was in the realm of possibility for both.
Not affiliated to the below company. I came across it a few days back. Have not used it either. Just passing it on hoping it will help.

https://www.envkey.com/ helps manage your team's secrets and configuration.
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As I understand it, it's like that everywhere at scale, not just on AWS, it being a property of operating at scale.

Or are you saying that AWS is particularly unreliable at scale?
Support for E2E is very different to E2E by default like iMessage.
I believe the "d" in the GP comment was not a typo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16874734
The documentation ( https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/technical-overview.html ) sells the product, but doesn't give a deep enough explanation. As a closed source product, that's understandable.

Going forward as an opensource product, I hope to see some clarity on the "how it works"... Distributed, performant ACID sounds good, almost too good to be true. Not that I doubt it at the moment, I just want to understand it better :)
Thank you, I hadn't realized that was actually part of the spec. I also hadn't realized how long it had been since I actually read that document.
A data plan will be required on Android according to the video[1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/PCh-qRYMAKk?t=3m39s
A more focused data warehouse product that is priced on a better model and is more scalable and efficient and cheaper than any of the existing options. $500M means they'll be around longer than most of the startup customers that try them.

Anyway, at this point I'm just repeating myself so I suggest you actually try them if you care for a better model. It works for us at 600B rows of data that was too expensive with BigQuery and too slow and complicated with Redshift/Spectrum.
So are you saying the information in the article I linked is false? That's great but it doesn't seem to have the problem licked, based on the information there.
Not sure what you mean about deploy/rollback difficulties. It is of course something to consider, but generally speaking modern rdbms have the most sophisticated tooling around this in the ecosystem.

Versioning and compatibility are of course concerns but that is true of any scheme you come up with.

If you think you haven’t exported “business logic” to your data store in any case you are wrong.
Hydrogen is worse than electric on almost all fronts. Others here have covered the storage issues, but there's also the issue that generating hydrogen is very inefficient compared with just storing the electricity in batteries.
I'd like to see some of these studies.
There is a regular recurring grant process:
https://viewer.heropunch.io/channel/ssbc-grants?showAll

The grants issued this month are for client maintenance/features, hosted pubs, and on-boarding.

FWIW, most SSB talk happens on SSB, and "Funded" has a very different meaning to the VC world.
how does iMessage get away with it
I learned my lesson with Twitter. I never rely on anything external anymore and if I use something, I make sure I have a replacement available. Never again.
Is it even possible to be completely unbiased?
CREATE USER X IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD

Googled that and not one result on the first page mentioned PostgreSQL. I don't think this approach is a common one at all. More to the point, I'm not sure i've ever seen that set of instructions anywhere, ever, for pgsql. Every tutorial and intro focuses on running 'createuser'.

Oh, yeah, and you'll need to be root to go in and futz with your pg_hba.conf file, then have permissions to write it out and restart the server (probably as root).

This 'createuser' approach hasn't been a '5 minute experience' - it's been the approach that is promoted as the default answer/approach almost everywhere I've ever looked for several years.
Heavy alcohol use is tied to all kinds of problems, yet when alcohol was outlawed, it was a disaster.
It has to evolve, not revolve. Like cars did (and they're still -far- from perfect).

Our remarkable bodies weren't designed by engineers, they survive now because, earlier, so many didn't. Are we smarter than evolution, because we like to think we are? Time will tell.
Can you go into why they were shelved? Were they normal technology and business reasons - or related to ML directly? I ask so that potentially others can learn to either navigate around those in the future.
>Do we even need social networks anymore?

Shockingly, it turns out the world includes people whose habits and preferences differ from yours.
That makes sense, and I figured as much.

I just like to make a pitch for competitiveness being a positive trait whenever this comes up!
Or they could just do what Apple did with iMessage and just basically use the user's mobile phone as the SMS gateway. SMS I send from my laptop actually get routed to my iPhone and sent to my carrier as a normal SMS using my own plan. This also has the big plus the SMS actually will originate from your mobile number (rather than the SMS gateway's number). Can't see why Google could've gone down this route given Apple has done it with huge success...
I didn't have to answer any hackneyed technical questions or take any tests to get a job. The most technical thing I did was explain how a data structure I wrote works, which came up naturally in a conversation about what kind of programming I have done.

If you can demonstrate that you understand programming concepts and can learn, then it's not much more to assume you can write code. If you need someone who can hit the ground running with some specific technology, then you might need to go deep into it, but not to find out if someone can program.
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Cars (assuming you mean level 5 autonomous ones) are another one of those things which we won’t really be getting for at least 20 more years. 90% of the problem is solved, the remaining 10% are exponentially harder, so no one has a foggiest clue how to solve them, let alone solve economically enough to make the cars viable on the market.
The Future of Elite Schools, Continued
Self-improvement: web app to track daily regrets
Tell that to $250 hr SAP and Salesforce Architects/Developers, or to Baby Boomer COBOL programmers who are given ever increasing incentives to post-pone retirement.

IT is by far more lucrative in the long run. It's just the structure of RSUs and stock options that gives start-ups the illusion of relatively larger comp gains.
Depends on the storage engine afair, but both innodb an myisam have either index or global metadata based solution for this. I think in myisam its an estimste if you use count(*) so you need to use count(id) to get an exact value. This is all well documented
I love the idea of demoralized data :)
You just need integrity hashes and public key signatures, not a blockchain.
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Maybe use a different dataset with the levels of the oceans, and see if you can find the lowest point on earth (Challenger Deep) from the peek of the Everest ? :P

And now, do Adagrad, RMSProp, RMSProp + Nesterov and Adam, and maybe Newton, BFGS, L-BFGS and conjugate gradients, and then coordinate ascent :)

It would be a pretty good educational tool to teach people the different gradient descent methods, though it's probably too simple of a problem for these methods to be at all useful.
Anyone have any links or experiences as to why TunnelBear/RememBear is dodgy? I can't find anything online that's definitive.
Another example: Kekule 'said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9#Kekul%C3%A9...

Musicians commonly report waking up with song ideas fully formed. We shouldn't be too surprised, really; the complex sentences out of our mouths (more often than not) arrive without any conscious thinking. Jung said that our egos are like planets orbiting a Sun they're unaware of.
Overly specific job requirements are sometimes used to game the immigration system.
Thanks for the feedback here. Much appreciated.

1 & 2. It's.. both. From the inside it feels like Slack + job board + GitHub-like profiles

3. Investigating this issue now, thanks for flagging

4-6. Noted, we'll keep updating the UI & question bank. Knowing this about how the timer feels is especially useful
The carrier does not have to implement anything specific for Google. Apple's implementation shows how to do hybrid messaging apps without putting any burden on the carrier. They use the standard SMS system provided by the carrier where necessary so no changes needed by the carrier as they just process it as a normal SMS. And when both sides have Apple devices the messages are exchanged securely via IP which carriers can also process as normal IP packets. Google could easily do the latter securely while offering an opt-in (or opt-out like Apple) option to fall back to insecure SMS.
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This is nice, but I'd prefer to use mobx-state-tree to reason about models and the logic around them. The ability to use middleware to implement things like undo [1], is really powerful.

[1] https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx-state-tree/tree/master/packag...
I dislike traditional phone screens enough that I hone unusual solutions for them. And when they get evil enough, I put them in a public repository.

Here's my FizzBuzz:

https://github.com/ubernostrum/interviewer-hell/blob/master/...
...which is a goal of management, not labor.
Is that an onerous requirement? Even my 70 year old mother has a data plan these days.
It's statistically possible, so why not?
To add on: your design is fine. Work on pinpointing what burning problem you solve and how your solution is better.

I had a hard time imagining the answers to these, so maybe you could start with today's default solution - Slack plus integrations to every other tool - and point out the problems with that that you solve.
Fuck that would be awful.

I have 0 stars on Github. Don't use twitter. Don't have a blog. Only a few coworkers I even talk to.

I spend my time writing code and interacting with my family, not trying to win popularity contests. Now if you're looking to hire celebrities instead of programmers, you're maybe onto something. I'm not a self-promotion artist. If I were, I would work in advertising.
Audiobooks. For me there's no better way to take my mind off the journey than that. Mostly on the topic of business or what ever specific thing I'm working on at that moment. Audiobooks and a notebook to scribble down ideas and learning is such a brain booster.
No she had a role in "Growth" at Upwork.
not a fork. they got it via an escrow
If it's true that Google was prevented from making a good iMessage-type service by pressure from the carriers, it seems like a market failure. If Google was actually willing to build something and users wanted it, but some third party had leverage to prevent Google from doing that, it seems like the market is broken.

I don't know if this actually happened (obviously), but it really bothers me if it did. It makes me want to boycott RCS and the carriers somehow. I don't want to reward them for winning the battle to make my Android phone less useful, less encrypted, and easier to toll.
Take a job at a 'less good' company and build up your CV by working?
I don't think most maintainers of open source projects would agree with your optimistic expectations about the reasonableness of the vast majority of people.
So now they are just going to directly sell this information?
Challenging power that might or might not be legitimate or have jurisdiction is prudent and responsible.

Claiming random regulatory body has a "ruling" just because some guys typed something into a document isn't responsible.
So yet one more source of notification I can ignore. Between work emails, sms, slack pings and the other 90 systems this just seems like another "meh" not going to pay attention to. Eventually you get overloaded and actually need to work without distraction
I don't understand this at all. It reads like PR boilerplate:

"Used by 99% of Stripes in the last month, Home is the source of truth for who we are, what we’re doing, and why—and a platform for enabling individuals and helping them get to know one another."

If it's the intranet/homepage/directory, of course everyone at Stripe uses it. If this is something worth talking about, let's dig into the real metrics around engagement and usage. It's strange to me to see a YC company so distracted by something this far outside of their core competency, especially to the point they would announce publicly all of the time and effort they put into it. This seems like a pure vanity project at best, and at worst evidence that Stripe is misdeploying resources as they scale, which happens and is often unavoidable.
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