skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artsy is just getting past the 200 people mark, and I've been running our OSS team navigator for the last 2 years. I think we've got maybe another a year or two's worth of time left before it needs a considerable re-think. Was kinda hoping this would be OSS, as it's what I had in mind.

However, if you are looking for something in the order of Home but much simpler, check out https://github.com/artsy/team-navigator/
What do you think the ever-growing set of safety features it is illegal to sell cars in the United States without is for? The idea that nobody cares and nobody tries to enforce safety is quite questionable -- there's simply a lot more driving going on, and not only by highly trained professionals. It's a harder problem.
Yes, conflict resolution is for most workloads a pretty small fraction of total resource use so you usually don't need a ton of resolvers (I think out of the box it still comes configured with just one?), but it can scale conflict resolution horizontally.

The basic approach isn't super hard to understand, though the details are tricky. The resolvers partition the keyspace; a write ordering is imposed on transactions and then the conflict ranges of each transaction are divided among the resolvers; each resolver returns whether each transaction conflicts and transactions are aborted if there are any conflicts.

(In general the resolution is sound, but not exact - it is possible for a transaction C to be aborted because it conflicts with another transaction B, but transaction B is also aborted because it conflicts with A (on another resolver), so C "could have" been committed. When Alec Grieser was an intern at FoundationDB he did some simulations showing that in horrible worst cases this inaccuracy could significantly hurt performance. But in practice I don't think there have been a lot of complaints about it.)
This is great feedback, thank you! I completely agree. We're actually working on publishing more information about the product. Have some videos coming out about specific use cases, are building out feature pages, and just did our first webinar today too.
Dwarf Fortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence (2016)
Lots of real world problems are troubleshooted in less than that time, under more pressure, and have far more variables to consider/are far more difficult, like build failures. The scenario here sounds like it's as relaxed and simple as you can get without it being so easy it tests nothing. Are you assuming the interviewer always yells like he's Sam Kinison?
You could argue that, but there's no real evidence for it and it's been studied with music, television and video games. All have been blamed, using the argument that you'd have to be naive to assume that killing people in a video game doesn't have an effect on someone's likelihood of killing people in real life, or listening to angry music makes you more likely to hurt people.

The list of murderers who've listened to 2Pac is quite long, for example.
Maybe it was the same binary. Pretty sure you had to operationally manage the roles separately and now they are integrated.

On the other hand, I don't really know.
The thing is, you don’t really need to theorise about how to stop school shootings. It’s been done. It just required people to prioritise children’s lives over a minority hobby.

(I’m from a country where owning a gun is legal, but controlled, and has no school shootings. We used to have less control, and school shootings happened.)
> perhaps these tiny satellites could be allowed to self-track (using GPS)

Not so sure GPS would work well up in space, given that the signals are aimed down at the planet's surface.
Careful that gpu support is shaky at best under Linux (things should improve with kernel 4.17)
Cars have a function to society other than killing things (and the threat thereof).
> dehumanizing the candidate into a “code monkey.”

Bingo.

A hiring process that attempts to convert the multidimensionality of humans to a handful of numeric variables is essentially trying to hire the best drone out there, not the best human fit for the job.

I learn more about candidates from the types of questions they ask me, and their reply to open-ended questions I ask them, than from any technical grilling test.
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Start by convincing the American public that it is bad then.
> the cost of design and implementation on such large scale of tens of thousands of planes, outweighs any outcry caused by few crashes that occur per year

Or it would remove money from where it could be better spent. There are some light aircraft (such as some experimental ultralights) that do have parachutes. Frankly, I'd prefer to fly in an airliner or other planes that don't have such warning bells and red flags all over.

Here's an example: What would the effect be if all passengers who board a plane or cruiseliner were required to wear life jackets before take off just in case of the remote chance of needing to face a disaster over water?

And a possibly more controversial example: Helmets and bullet vests can save some lives. At what point should the focus be on legislating on their mandatory use, versus fixing the problems at the source?

I'd class parachutes, helmets and bullet vets as PPE in the chart over here - resources and attention is always finite even before we get into the topic of freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_hazard_controls
As you comment on a moderated, curated fucking news feed...
That would be awesome.

Initially friends list matchers like that were an opt-in voluntary thing, but more recently applications have been more insistent on getting FB information to gather network data.

I'd love to see that sort of an offering die off, it's not like you can't post "Hey world, really into Overwatch right now, anyone want to join up?" on your feed yourself.
That might have it's use, too.

Echochamber sounds bad, resonant frequency response sounds neutral, and it's needed for harmony. The real problem then is kakophonie, noise, and choosing the instrument to play on with a nice timbre, noise floor, etc. The internet is large and finding the right venue and audience is difficult.

There is value in being told to have hit the wrong tone.

This is why shorter messages and twitter are important, it allows a finer grained ... censorship? (Zensur in German also means grade, shool mark). That's why many people, I at least, discuss online, looking for light conversation, so emotional feedback should be welcome as ''the basic unit of exchange in communication''.
One of my favorite "slice of life" anime series out there is PlanetES[1]

It does a great job of illustrating the potential impact of this on humanity in the not too distant future, and some of the jobs it creates (space trash collectors).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
> Starting with the weakest reason first, but one that's also very important. Space is really big.

Geostationary orbit is approximately 22,200 miles above the surface. At that height, the usable sphere for a satellite is 8,630,000,000 square miles. Certainly a huge deal of that isn't overly usable (polar, etc.), but nonetheless.

That's my trivia for the day.
I wonder though if you could do "regenerative braking" in electric planes, i.e. spin up a flywheel anytime you descend, and then tap that energy next time you want to ascend. Doesn't really make sense for planes that cruise at altitude, but could make sense for hobby craft.
So here's the issue with companies like Cloudflare - they live under US law. What about parts of the world where sex work is regulated/taxed/legal? (ie Australia?) Does this mean CloudFlare can't be trusted to be an "internet" thing as much as a "US" thing?
>For instance, if enjoying a drink a few times a week was universal, but almost no one owned a gun.

1 in 3 own a gun in the US. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-three-americans-own...

1 in 2 had a drink in the last month: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-co...

From that same source, 88,000 people die annually from alcohol-related diseases, making it the 3rd leading cause of death in the US.

Culturally, guns and drinking are the same order of magnitude in the US. From a death count though, alcohol dominates.
This supposes that there's a viable alternative. If there isn't, the companies need to build that risk into their plans so they don't make investments which don't achieve returns soon enough.
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I interviewed 54 women at Coachella, they all said they'd been sexually harassed
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Two things:

1/ Of course Google has something very similar (actually, much larger in scale, since their team is much larger)

2/ Unlike Stripe, Google has products (AKA GSuite, Google+, etc) in the space. So, they do a lot of dogfooding of their own products for their internal directory. Many companies run on Google's version of what Stripe made.
“Poetry is like bread, It should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.”

And yet, do the vast majority of humans actually read poetry? Perhaps they access it tangentially in Bob Dylan or The Beatles, but more likely than not, they're consuming Netflix or cable TV or much less high art than poetry. What are the top most sold books on Kindle, for instance? So many are romance novels, not Earthy, gritty, brilliant poetry like Neruda's.
Whether or not the mechanics are capable, the standards of training and inspection are probably not the same.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance...

> The work is labor-intensive and complicated, and the technical manuals are written in English, the language of international aviation. According to regulations, in order to receive F.A.A. certification as a mechanic, a worker needs to be able to “read, speak, write, and comprehend spoken English.” Most of the mechanics in El Salvador and some other developing countries who take apart the big jets and then put them back together are unable to meet this standard. At Aeroman’s El Salvador facility, only one mechanic out of eight is F.A.A.-certified. At a major overhaul base used by United Airlines in China, the ratio is one F.A.A.-certified mechanic for every 31 non-certified mechanics. In contrast, back when U.S. airlines performed heavy maintenance at their own, domestic facilities, F.A.A.-certified mechanics far outnumbered everyone else. At American Airlines’ mammoth heavy-maintenance facility in Tulsa, certified mechanics outnumber the uncertified four to one. Because heavy maintenance is labor-intensive and offshore labor is cheap, there’s a perception that the work is unskilled. But that’s not true. If something as mundane as the tray of a tray table becomes unattached, the arms that hold it could easily turn into spears.

> There are 731 foreign repair shops certified by the F.A.A. around the globe. How qualified are the mechanics in these hundreds of places? It’s very hard to check. In the past, when heavy maintenance was performed on United’s planes at a huge hangar at San Francisco International Airport, a government inspector could easily drive a few minutes from an office in the Bay Area to make a surprise inspection. Today that maintenance work is done in Beijing. The inspectors responsible for checking on how Chinese workers service airplanes are based in Los Angeles, 6,500 miles away.

> Lack of proximity is only part of the problem. To inspect any foreign repair station, the F.A.A. first must obtain permission from the foreign government where the facility is located. Then, after a visa is granted, the U.S. must inform that government when the F.A.A. inspector will be coming. So much for the element of surprise—the very core of any inspection process. That inspections have had the heart torn out of them should come as no surprise. It is the pattern that has beset the regulation of drugs, food, and everything else.

> ...

> Airline mechanics at U.S. airports who perform routine safety checks and maintenance tasks before an airplane takes off report that they are discovering slipshod work done by overseas repair shops. American Airlines mechanics contended in a lawsuit last January that they had been disciplined by management for reporting numerous safety violations they uncovered on airplanes that had recently been serviced in China. Mechanics in Dallas said they had discovered cracked engine pylons, defective doors, and expired oxygen canisters, damage that had simply been painted over, and missing equipment, among other violations.
JQuery CDN SSL has expired and breaking dependent websites
A google search says yes.
To clear this up:

If I ask for five years of related experience, I mean that if my list includes an object-oriented language with a well-known framework, I expect to see someone who has worked with an object-oriented language with a well-known framework and has perhaps dabbled in the particular one I mentioned.

Instead I get many resumes from people who have never used an object-oriented language to contribute to any software project that wasn't assigned by their professor. They haven't got five years of experience, period.

Does that help?
I was one of the Onion Kickstarter backers and got one of the first ones. It was seriously a disaster for the first year.

Zero support, even in the forums (which are still such a JS mess they don't work on my iPhone). For a lot of users, the microSD slot didn't work. For many others, wifi was a nightmare.

It's gotten significantly better over the months, but it's still not ready for primetime. The good news is that the Onion folks are still actively working on it, and many of the issues have been addressed via firmware updates. But it's still flakey as hell. I've never been able to get its native GUI to work; even the new one released last week.

On one hand, the base unit is only $5. On the other... you get what you pay for.
Well, I'm not a physicist, but hydrogen gas is two atoms compared to 1 atom for helium gas.
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I have no idea, we solely use it on desktop. I know Amy on Twitter though so have asked her in case she wants to chime in.
(I'm the author.)

We regularly discuss this :) I'm not sure yet how valuable open sourcing it will be in the long run. Part of what makes Home work well for us is how tied it is to how we actually work day-to-day -- that regularly changes as we grow and learn. As an open source project, we'd feel a commitment to keep it working for the existing user base, which might perversely hold back progress on Home and be a net negative for the community as Stripe itself tries new ways to operate.

For now, we intend to continue sharing the lessons we learn from Home and similar tools so that others can benefit from that, and to keep open sourcing it in the back of our head as we design the underlying APIs and infrastructure so we have optionality if it makes sense down the line.
Advice: Hold kaggle like contests -- ML/AI developers/enthusiasts come flocking to these. When you are at it, please don't make it suck like Kaggle.
Just make XYZ_2, XYZ_3 etc. Communicate on different platform whose username is which. Have new usernames assigned original privileges of their owner.
What exactly makes JavaScript a better target for languages such Elm (apart from GC and DOM access which are supposed to be implemented sooner or later) ? You realise that JavaScript itself is also compiled/transpiled by the browser engine(i.e. v8) before it executes, right?
They're not native apps?
> ..."build the things that people want to use" culture causes people to experiment, to hone their skills, and to develop

Maybe it depends on the size/stage of the company to some degree. In the startups I've been involved with (< 10 people), developers have little - if any - time to experiment with things that fall outside the core product.

Company hackathons (as mentioned in Stripe's case) can be a good outlet for that kind of creativity, but the kind of quality you mention ("immaculate attention to detail") doesn't come out of hackathons. The company's leadership still has to make those things a priority (which, by definition, deprioritizes other things).
> one of our more structured approaches involves a chat bot that helps schedule lunches among Stripes who are least likely to know each other

Anyone know if this chat bot is available for Slack? I kinda want to install it for our team
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I noticed that abstract ideas that otherwise make no sense has the ability to survive by simply changing their definition to fit whatever context they are being used in.

"IoT" is only one of those buzzwords that means different things for everyone. Free cookie to whomever guesses the other one...
Yes, that is exactly what I am trying to say. You cant use Occam's razor to decide and demanding that other people instantly go with seeming easier solution is manipulative. It relies on people being unwilling to criticize or call Occam's razor use as bullshit - due it being repeated often.
My first exposure to computers was with a Commodore 64, on which I had also first learnt to code. I wasn't even aware of the 2600 until later. Compared to what I could do on the C64, 2600 BASIC _was_ useless. Doesn't make it any less of a technical marvel, though.
Setting aside the dubious wisdom of entrusting your launch payload to North Korea, it would be against several laws for a US company to do that - even through proxies and subsidiaries.
99.9% of candidates are not calling any shots in this employer’s market. Unless you are a celebrity, widely known as a top candidate, the employer is pretty much going to be dictating the interview process, the job description, the compensation, and the terms of employment.

If this were an actual employee‘s market, the friend might not be so underemployed.
Of course there's a need to make that calculation. The military's calculation is based on people's willingness and reluctance to work for them, and they offer to pay because they have to. The military would be happy to have you work for them for free, if you think what they do is so important.

Your point is that working with the military is good, because being ruled by China would be worse than the current situation. So the moral benefit you're proposing extends insofar as we prevent China from taking over the US. How much do you think Silicon Valley needs to cooperate with the military to prevent replacement by the Chinese?
The motivation is rather different. If you ask Redshift users, the motivation is mostly that they're already using AWS and depend on their services. That's the case for GCP as well, I would love to hear from the Google side of the story but AWS customers don't usually use BigQuery for their analytics stack because as the author explained it's not that easy. That's why BigQuery is not getting enough attraction from the outside, even though it's a cool technology.

We all agree that Redshift is not scalable at some point and people switch to other technologies when they need to but that's not the point. Creating a Redshift cluster is dead-easy and getting the data in it is also not complex compared to other solutions if you're already an AWS user.

The case for Snowflake is different, they also use AWS but they manage your services. Although they did a smart move and store the data on their customers' S3 buckets in order to make them feel like they "own" the data but it's possible only because AWS lets them to that way.

I believe that AWS doesn't try to make Redshift cost-efficient for large volumes of data because they already have the advantage of vendor-lock and making money from their large enterprise customers processing billions of data points in Redshift. That's why there are many Redshift monitoring startups out there to save the cost for you.

On the other hand, AWS is smart enough to build a Snowflake-like solution when their Redshift users start to switch BigQuery and Snowflake and the companies such as Snowflake needs to be prepared when the day comes. Cloud is killing everyone including us.
It’s a more effective deterrent than doing nothing at all.
Low effort comment - but I appreciate this breakdown of the story metagame that surrounds any event that receive coverage and that a big function of changing society is changing the structure and tropes of stories we tell.

As one of those immigrant New Yorkers, I too wonder what would have happened if we'd gone down that road.
There is little evidence that chess or music instruction makes people smarter
Has anyone every wondered about how weird some cryptos sound?
21 Million, AAA Coin, A Token… the list goes on

Is it worth interpreting something into it (e.g. "weird" names because its more about just doing an ICO than the actual project) or am I being to critical?
I don't think the motives are ulterior. After all, Spacelink, with 4,000+ satellites, was approved recently, too. It's all about trackability.
>The thing is, you don’t really need to theorise about how to stop school shootings. It’s been done.

It's still theorizing because there are no comparable countries to the US that have done it when it comes to the number of guns already out there (300+ million) and the importance of the 2nd amendment to many of the citizens.

>It just required people to prioritise children’s lives over a minority hobby.

If you see it as a "minority hobby" rather than a right, this makes complete sense. Would you also suggest banning protests in response to violence and death at protests because it's even more of a "minority hobby" than gun ownership?
Have we reached the point where plain http seeks not welcoming. If the site above doesn't require you to login why do you think you need https? Is the only reason to hide your visit to that site from your isp?
Facebook may not have started doing everything they're doing now, but they do have it now. Any new competitor is not going to be judged based on what Facebook was 10 years ago; they're going to be judged against it now.
>One time I couldn't implement a skiplist, and the feedback I got was "we were concerned about your problem solving skills".

I think you're overthinking the feedback you got.

If it was at one of the big names, they have the luxury of being picky. They can't hire every qualified candidate, so they have to reject most of them. As the interviewer, the company policy likely dictates the interviewer give a reason. Which puts the interviewer in a bind because it implies that there was a good reason for rejecting you. So they'll put canned statements like what you got.

I recently got rejected. And one of the reasons given was something that 3 of the 5 interviewers had explicitly told me they don't care about. I recognized it for what it was - they feel obligated to give some reason, so they nitpick after the fact even though they told you they were not going to nitpick.
Definitely. But this is not a laptop with cooling issues, in this case we are talking about a professional benchmark setup. If cooling was an issue during this, it would just add an other negative point to the bunch of irregularities in this review.
If the author comes in here, let me say: thank you for Feather. I am currently using that for a project on very slow servers and it is helping me quite a bit.

My question here is this: like the creator of Vue.JS has done, could Ursa Labs go the way of Patreon, and have potential personal, academic, or corporate clients simply donate to ensure contributed support and production of great tools for data science?
(I'm the author.)

Check out https://www.donut.ai/ -- the company behind it is up to some neat stuff.
You can get a 172 refitted with a 2L turbo diesel engine which gives about a 38% improvement in range. [1]

[1] https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2015/february/p...