skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a deep topic but one good treatment of is in the works of David Deutsch: https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dgerman/hector/deutsch.pdf
In disclosure, all the companies were upfront about the full interview process. That said, in this job market, there isn't much leverage to say no to a prospective job or to make demands of the interview process unless you're already a rockstar.
Crazy that Soundforge was built with such a small team.

Playing around with Soundforge as a teenager in 1998 and looping samples together was super inspiring for me. Anyone could make professional sounding music from their computer, and using it also piqued my interest in building software.
I'm new in ICO but it seems to be a great way for investing. I try to follow the latest news in this field to reduce the risks. Not so long ago I read review about NuCypher ICO at https://icopulse.com/blog/nucypher-ico/. This project offers greater privacy and data security, primarily in the implementation of transactions in tokens. I belive in beginner's luck and something tells me it would be a win-win project.
Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science
Not sure why this is downvoted, this is well documented.
There's approximately zero chance that RedHat will support backports of huge, many-contributor projects like NumPy or Django that are dropping Python 2 support (see: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/neps/dropping-python2.7-pro... and https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/2.0/). They just can't - there aren't enough hours in the day.

Five years from how, you don't want to be explaining to your CEO why it's literally impossible for you to integrate with a third party SDK because your stack is so ancient and petrified that new code can't incorporate it.
This only sort of works. Reddit being a combined system, subs tend to leak into each other. If you are into something very obscure, benign, and uncontroversial, like, fountain pens, you're probably fine.

If you're into anything gaming related, good luck. I've been on some subreddits of popular games and it's basically just like the rest of Reddit. In particular, Reddit's system just doesn't work well when there's a lot of users. And the drawback is that these subreddits tend to dominate the space so people do not make private, limited gaming BBS boards as much anymore.
>> Why do they have to choose only one? Just offer options for people who don't want widescreen.

Isn't the answer kinda simple? If Apple were to decide to offer non-widescreen laptops and they sold like hotcakes, everyone would follow suit. For better or worse, Apple sets the trends on laptop form factors.
Will said what I wanted to say, but: me too. I'm super happy about this and grateful to the team that made it happen!

(I was one of the co-founders of FoundationDB-the-company and was the architect of the product for a long time. Now that it's open source, I can rejoin the community!)
> It's a dangerous trend for both society and reddit itself.

Wouldn't squashing the voices of the "right-wing contingent" just lead to an (already implied) echo chamber of leftist thought?

Your one single comment sums up the problem I have with user-moderation systems like reddit (and HN).
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What makes you think progressive enforcement is not going to be the norm here?
Those subs only last long if they manage to stay under the radar. I am afraid someone in here might know someone who works for Reddit and... you know the rest ;P
I love that site! So informative and humorous at the same time.
I highly recommend this blog:

https://medium.com/@deathmood/how-to-write-your-own-virtual-...
+1 their products and UX were top notch.
>I'm sure there's a blockchain solution out there somewhere

Don't be silly. GPDR is going to save the world, solve all of the internet's problems and bake you nice warm croissants in the morning.
The best "work environment" tech job I ever had was at an investment bank. Didn't disrupt anything (quite the opposite) but got great experience with databases, unix, C, scripting, working with internal clients, determining requirements, managing projects, etc.

9:00 - 4:30 daily hours, no nights, no weekends. Full benefits, good salary, good yearly bonus, quiet office, great people who were there to get a job done and then go home.

Had to wear a shirt and tie but that's not the worst thing in the world.
That's sort of the inherent flaw of aggregators. There's a lot of shit that gets vacuumed up into the general site, but the onus is really on the user to dig through and find what's meaningful to them.
You run that risk with any assignment that's at will, whether it's explicitly stated or not.
How is that different than BigQuery then? GCP and AWS are also third party companies.
The initial checkboxes (where you select news sources) are really slow. There's a half second lag for me between touching the screen and seeing the checkbox get checked in the UI.

Are you rendering the checkbox as checked only after a server trip returns?
I can't look at that many things at once so I use the keyboard to switch between them. It's quicker than moving my head.
I actually disagree with this. I find that customized Reddit leads to the same feedback loop/conveyer belt feeling that made me quit Facebook out of annoyance with always seeing the same ideas propagated out again and again. Browsing Reddit without an account lets you avoid the urge to comment on things and also turns you on to loads of new things that you otherwise might not've found on customized Reddit. Granted, I still have an account I use sometimes, I just get more enjoyment out of the front page when I don't have any control over what I'm seeing.
Which would be fine, if the community had a way to control themselves. But moderators are literally chosen by being the first person to squat on a particular subreddit name. There is an incredible amount of inertia to controlling a popular "domain name" (eg popular brand names), and no recourse if the person who squatted it first turns out to be a huge shithead.

There have been plenty of instances where someone just turns off a subreddit, now nobody gets to use it, have a nice day. Let alone the more subtle problem of a toxic person who should not be moderating a sub in the first place.
I would really like to have access to an antenna chamber like that one :-). Lately I've been building/programming/characterizing SDRs and that generally also includes antenna. I realized I had forgotten most of what I had learned in school about electrodynamics so I've been refreshing all of those neurons as well.

The simplest solvers for Antennas do a great job on dipoles or other simple structures, and less well on antennae like the one on the Pi. I found it humorous that a well used tool was called 'Microwave office'[1].

I tried to do some genetic antenna design using a plotter, some conductive ink, and a simple S meter but it is really difficult to reliably connect the plotted antenna to the test fixture.

What I have learned, which matches the author, is that there is a lot of subtlety in antenna design that is not obvious by the traces they use on FR-4 or other substrates. That rabbit hole goes pretty far down.

[1] http://www.awrcorp.com/products/ni-awr-design-environment/mi...
Maybe, but I've done charity work in south West Virginia and welfare depression is a serious issue in former coal country. You want to see the people do just anything but they've lost all motivation. It's not everybody, but it's a big enough percentage of the population to cause a lot of problems.
Imagine doing that with 7 dice... 7/6 probability!
Your wish is granted!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877395
I mean, thedonald complains about non-white people existing. Latestagecapitalism complains about US healthcare being clusterfuck.

There's kind of a difference there.
I'm interested in politics, however /r/politics has awful comment quality and isn't a great sub to visit.

I'd also like to hear about people's favorite subreddits in terms of comment quality, as I'd happily read a passionate and informative stance on something I'm usually not interested in compared to what I read on /r/politics.

Edit: I meant to use it as an example -- I'm actually interested in any type of subreddit, I meant to explain! So thank you for the suggestions and I'll definitely check them out :)
That's probably because the rest of the job posting doesn't sound that difficult.

And you may even say you want "rock stars", completely forgetting that actual rock stars don't need 5 years of experience to do an exemplary job with a new tech stack.

Most job postings are complete BS, cut through that and the quality of candidates will likely improve.
I've had multiple comments detached (as you can see by my comment history) for calling out companies that suck to apply for in the monthly hiring threads. Either the people who posted must have complained so they removed it, or HN doesn't want people to know some companies suck to deal with when it comes to hiring process.
Typically you'd use a ceramic antenna on a product like this. What is the difference in radiated efficiency between this antenna and a ceramic one? I'm guessing there are other design considerations though, such as cost and circuit board area consumed.
Hey, we should get lunch some time!
We've seen with facebook that have real names doesn't improve the level of discourse that much.

I think it's the protection (or at least the apparent protection): you can't be a jerk in person in a public place without exposing yourself to immediate negative repercussions. That's why online forums with harsher moderation are usually much better (one of the best examples being /r/askhistorians).
Nvidia should provide Vulkan extensions to access those I suppose. So they should still be accessible. There is some plan to converge Vulkan and OpenCL into one coherent combination.
From what I've seen, it's only tricky for some people because the instructions are shitty - pictures only, low detail, all the parts and fasteners bundled together instead of pre-sorted, etc. A certain amount of trial and error is to be expected.

And if it was that hard you wouldn't see so many people with so much Ikea furniture out there. :)

The robot was "fed a kind of manual, a set of ordered instructions on how the pieces fit together" - if all it was given was pictures of the real manual, that would be quite cool, but I'd love to see more details here.
Why is there a limit at all? When you hash the password, it should be a fixed size no matter the password length. Make sure you're not just storing the password on its own.
This is both a blessing and a curse.

I think that fine-grained subreddits naturally tend towards echo chambers, because it has become easier and easier to find and interact with people that think just like we do.
> I'd be concerned that, at a non-tech company, I'd be seen as a IT rather than a software engineer.

Depends on the company. Where I am, IT is in charge of maintaining the computers and networks so that the software developers can develop software in and for other departments.
Yes, but that needs to be balanced by the distorted form of reputation people get even when they are polite and thoughtful due to the lack of any emotional channel in text-based web forums. Add to that the fact that in real life, people have many sides to their personalities, which are inhibited or eccentuated in different contexts; but the impression the web gives of people lacks those contexts.

Then, consider the good that anonymity has allowed for; think of all the things people have able to speak out about anonymously which would have gone unsaid.
The code itself is deterministic but usually bits are are interleaved and scrambled with a long time varying pseudorandom sequence. If you pass a short repetive sequence in, it will look random coming out.
Agreed, I built a group of waterproof outdoor cameras with the Pi Zero W, that thing is a true gem.

One is bolted to a utility pole outdoors, 200+ft away from the nearest WiFi access point through several walls. It's not a high link speed, but it works with nothing but that little triangle PCB trace cutout for the antenna.
While impressed with the existence of this, it's still difficult to remove an arm and leg to pay for this.
The same thing happens to the dating pool as you get older.
>The solution was to split off new user groups into more specialized subgroups. The initial set of subreddits were effectively curated by Reddit itself, based on the categories of stuff that was showing up in practice. User-generated subreddits didn't come until later.

Everyone wanted tags for posts (myself included), and when they announced subreddits, there was a lot of belly aching. I thought the choice of using subreddits was a technical one to make the site more easily partitionable but they gussied up the reasoning behind the concept of communities. I think they made the right choice.
You would love it in New Zealand.

If I have my ticket on my phone and I'm flying on a turboprop, I can literally arrive at the airport 5 minutes before they close the door and board the plane. I've done it before.

Even flying international is easy, took me a grand total of 10 minutes to go through security a few weeks ago.
Is it, though? There are so many other ways that someone might not be a good "fit." Maybe you found another, slightly better candidate who is willing to accept a lower offer. Maybe a manager or individual contributor feels that their position is threatened by the candidate. Maybe they don't attend weekly happy hour.
What if your unpopular view you wouldn't express in real life is something abusive towards others? i.e. trolling.
As we get a lot of use out of Slack, I've created a bot which notifies people of incoming requests in Salesforce through Slack, based on a load score calculation.

They can claim ownership directly in Slack or assign it to someone else (who in turn gets notified in DM by the bot). It has cut response time in half across the board.
Looks really clean.I built something similar http://newsofworld.org. It's not an app but a real time responsive site.Click on category , country etc. and you'll get news as it comes in.
Longtime fan and users of Zapier.

In my previous company, we were heavy users of Zapier. Literally, the easiest way to automate most SaaS companies' internal business processes.

It worked so great for us that we thought to automate some flows also for our customers (onboarding, retentions).

Ie.

- Send a Slack message when a user is stuck with your product and send him some helpful emails

- When there's new `signup fail` event, send a Slack alert to your Customer Success team AND to my engineering team.

- Send a Slack alert and an email signed by your Product Manager when a longtime paying customer reply to your NPS survey with less than 6

Zapier deals well with internal data but not so well with customer data (ie. events or interactions performed by the end customers).

So, I've created a product that does just that. A few public interactive examples here (no need to signup to play with it)

- https://app.plainflow.com/workflows/recipe-send-tailored-onb...

- https://app.plainflow.com/workflows/recipe-slack-notificatio...

Curious to hear your thoughts.
Your talk was one of the best talk i've seen , and i keep mentionning it to people whenever they ask me about distributed systems, database and testing.

i'm incredibly impatient to have a look at what the community is going to build on top of that very promising technology.
Short screens! Exactly. I'm going to start using that one.
Time pressure always make me perform a lot worse, on programming tests as well as iq tests.

I did an iq test that was not timed and got 10 points higher, which is quite significant and also much more how real life problem solving works as a programmer. I'm never under any time pressure in my job.
Why people stopped doing solutions that are universal?
Does everything need to have react as as dependency is now?
Is that true? I’ve never had a contract that forbade me to work on side projects for cash.
>Wouldn't squashing the voices of the "right-wing contingent" just lead to an (already implied) echo chamber of leftist thought?

That implies it's only possible to be "right-wing" or "leftist".
Asking that question on HN got you a lot of downvotes. Interesting.
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>I really can't call everyone who has a decent resume, its way too time consuming.

Even if you have, say, 100 resumes you consider "decent" (which to me would be an impossibly high number) then you need to be able to rank them, so you can pick, say, the top 10, and invest some followup time in those.
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> We've seen with facebook that have real names doesn't improve the level of discourse that much.

Yeah, okay. How about: real names + no private gardens.
This is why I don't think it is. For far, far, far too long, startups have treated user data, privacy, and security as an afterthought. Now, they are going to be required to give consideration to those things. This can be nothing but a good thing. The age of "move fast and don't care about user data" is coming to a close, and all should be happy.
the_donald or the like has never leaked into the many subreddits I frequent.
What ever happened to neutrality? Moderators shouldn't be promoting an ideology left or right. I understand that Reddit admins themselves don't want to promote an ideology either -- they want to remain neutral -- but they are sacrificing their platform to people who don't hold he same ideals.

The biggest change I've noticed is just how political the city/country subreddits have become. A few years ago, they used to be more fun places but now nearly all the content is very hateful and polarizing.
The internet is not your save space. Neither is reddit. If everbody were thinking your way, those posts would be downvoted into obliviation. I am sorry that you have to face the fact thst many people don't share your personal value judgement of what is considered to be racist/sexist.
What is the video part like?

For a full remote position, you'd think video chat would be a common thing.
Awesome - the code is up on github: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/
I find it interesting that Google seems to allow GPL (though they ban AGPL). I know at many companies the GPL is an anathema that would be the first entry on a list like this one.
Jeff Hawkins walks through a proposal that the neocortex is a location processor
Can the sentences for this article get any longer?
Very nice. Getting the pairs of wooden pins into the holes for all three cross-pieces of the chair is impressive. That's a tough planning and force-feedback problem.
Still a nothing burger, it's paid political propaganda on those default reddits, paid teams pushing bs and noise.

Share blue for example was given a budget of 40+ million a year to do just that. (Over 100k a day)

The other paid campaign is 'deplatforming' (their term). They do your best to silence opinions which don't match the paid script.
I'm not saying anonymity doesn't have its place. But that I think it's a major factor in the particular problem being discussed here.
For anyone who was curious: I found this instructable that includes MATLAB code to generate the data for the image to be burned to the data side of a CD. http://www.instructables.com/id/Burning-visible-images-onto-...

This was all I could really find, unfortunately...
Flask has built in web server so it wasn't an issue, but I've set up nginx and apache before and would be able to do it as well if needed.
Yeah, it's a really fun set of tradeoffs to play with. You're correct to a first approximation. Channel bandwidth is is easier to come by at higher frequencies (a 20MHz wide channel at 150MHz would be a giant swath of the band, but a 20MHz channel at 5GHz is very small relative to the centre frequency).

But... then you start encountering higher path loss. To make up for that, you need to increase transmitter power (whether by increasing actual power, or by using higher gain antennas, etc) or by adding redundancy to the data stream (e.g. FEC). The added redundancy chips away at your bit rate, but corrects errors.

In practice, whether you get a better net transfer speed on a narrow lower-frequency band or a wider higher-frequency band is going to depend on a lot of factors. Sometimes it pans out, sometimes not.
Yet, you're still collecting it, and it doesn't seem like you're taking steps to protect it.
Agree, this looks like it works, but even in the demo there's a big delay between typing and showing up on the screen.
Real talk? There is nothing wrong with being in IT. Imagine if someone said "I would be concerned I'd be seen as a carpenter and not a woodworking artisan".

You're a carpenter. You nail boards together to serve the business interests of the company. Even if the boards are SQL queries or ReactJS or whatever.

Companies need tech. You can bring value by making everyone's jobs better with your technology - sand off those rough edges on everyone's workflows. Demonstrate your value.
What does "private garden" mean here? People have no problem showing up on public Facebook groups, visible to all, and posting racist stuff in their real names.
One more vote for being able to use your app w/o signing up. My current RSS reader doesn't require a signup...
To the best of my knowledge (n.b.: I am not an expert, though I follow this field) there still aren't any direct competitors to the breadth of what FoundationDB can do and do well.
How does this stack up against HBase and Cassandra, which seem to have gotten traction already in the same areas that FoundationDB seems best suited for?
Bring a portable sinus rinse bottle (like a neti pot) and rinse after flying. It usually helps with the air from being in a plane for a while.
> Then, consider the good that anonymity has allowed for; think of all the things people have able to speak out about anonymously which would have gone unsaid.

Of course.
I hadn't heard of FoundationDB before, so I did some digging into the features: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/features.html . It seems to claim ACID transactions with serializable isolation, but also says later on that it uses MVCC, slower clients won't slow down operations, and that it allows true interactive queries. I didn't think an MVCC implementation could provide that level of isolation, and I'm not even sure how you provide that level of isolation and those other guarantees with any implementation, am I misunderstanding something?
Correct. Sorry about that. I'll fix that to have instant feedback and uncheck only if server throws an error.
By "right-wing" he means the particularly virulent ur-fascist type of characters.

If you don't think that is a problem then... well, I can't help you.
I've been actively working on a media literacy guide for engineers, contributions welcome:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer

(Think Reddit influences so much of engineering thought from things like r/learnprogramming to all the cryptocurrency subs)
Seems incredibly biased to say that right-wing moderators are dangerous to society. Just because someone has a more conservative outlook, doesn't mean they are a menace. A little bit shocking that needs to be pointed out.
It's under Apache 2.0 for those curious: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/master/LICENSE. Also, side note: it looks like this was a private GitHub repository for at least a couple months, since they have pull requests going back for at least that long. I find this interesting, since Apple normally "cleans up" history before open sourcing.