skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, but if you're given 20 minutes to do something you can do in 2, are you sure you should be making mistakes?
This is such a great news. I had seen, FoundationDB guys present in new england database summit couple of years ago. Their demo reminded me of sun microsystems famous demo of screwing their hard disk.
Just to be clear, the author is Python Pandas creator and main maintainer. He knows what he is talking about. These are great news.

Hope they get a lot of funding.
>It’s in widespread production use at Apple

Anybody know if Apple migrated any projects from Cassandra to FoundationDB?

Or was every project using FoundationDB a greenfield project?
I'm guessing, but I'll guess that you live somewhere on the coast. I work in research and I make a very good salary in my city, but I only make ~65k/year. My roommate, with many more years of experience, makes 70k/year, and the only people at his company that make more are the senior architects and executives.

As is quite normal in this industry, both of us occasionally have to put in large amounts of unpaid overtime in order to make deadlines. That doesn't translate into more money or career fulfilment for us, because the city we live in has a very low ceiling for this sort of thing. Not everyone lives in LA, SFA, or NYC.
They are, slowly. Swift is open source, clang is open source. They are moving parts of the xcode IDE into open source, like with sourcekitd and now recently clangd.

I don't think they will ever move 'secret sauce' into open source, but infrastructural things like DBs and dev tooling seems to be going in that direction.
Isn’t that how you get a popularity-driven echo chamber? If only certain points of view will get upvoted or avoid downvotes, only those points of view will be posted or get discussed.
What country has launchers and a disdain for space debris regulations? I don't think there are any.
It's about 1 in 10000 every year.
"Why doesn't the far-right just "pull itself up by its boostraps""

Umm, why would they do that when they can instead use reddit?

Reddit sells itself as being a strong supporter of free speech. THEY SELF-identify as being a neutral platform.

If the censorship supporters want to interact in a censored forum, then they can make their own subreddit and moderate it how ever they feel like, or make their own website.

The right doesn't need to do anything, because reddit wants to be neutral.
The Outer Space Treaty sets the rules for (this) space. All countries with launch capabilities (and many others) are signatories. Each country administers the rules by delegating to some agency. This happens to be the FCC in the case of the US.
> F-35 as a plane is mediocre compared to say Su-57

Su-57 is still in infancy stage and judging from Russian problems, there's high chance it won't be around soon.
True, but it's worse and goes much deeper than that: the iTunes team thinks that QuickTime was a good inspiration for a UI.

The Interface Hall of Shame: QuickTime 4.0 Player

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm

Apple's long romance with skeuomorphism peaked with Bob Bishop's APPLE-VISION, and went downhill from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiWE-aO-cyU
You mean, with common IDE plugins, you end up with one implementation of refactoring functionality per IDE. That's what's being avoided here (because, for one thing, there are far more IDEs than you think, and they don't deserve to be second-class citizens.)
I think some of the other sites you linked are great examples.

So move the elevator pitch for Clojurescript to the top of the page. "Clojurescript is a compiler for Clojure that targets Javascript" is an explanation technically, but you might want to write something more about why you'd use Clojurescript.

For example, the first words you see on Elm's site are "A delightful language for reliable webapps.". So you'd use Elm to make webapps, and it should be enjoyable to use. Ruby says "A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write." Note how none of these focus on how the language is implemented; most users don't care. The language could have a compiler written in Brainfuck to compile to Lua, but that's all under the hood.

So write a sentence or two about why a programmer would choose Clojurescript for a task. What kinds of things does Clojurescript do well?

Also, I'd suggest motivating the snippets the way Elm does, where the user isn't left guessing why a snippet is there. It's explicitly explained.
Bezos' duty is to keep costs low and profits high and indeed he does his job well, just look at their stock.
That last line was a tad overdramatic.

Happy to discuss this, though (and i assure without any downmodding!) I disagree with you in part. One issue is the amount of time required early in the process. A whole day of whiteboard exercisis plus prep time is a lot to ask wheon only, say, 4% of the people who go through it are offered a position. Keep in mind that unlike the bar exam or med boards, devs go through this every time they apply. This pushes a tremendous inefficiency out onto the field and almost certainly deters people fromapplyingfor jobs at all.

Which brings me to my next point- who is doing the majority of the complaining? Tech companies are constantly bemoaning the shortage of good developers. Im ok with a company not hiring me because i wont spend 40 hours on their unpaid homework assignment or exam. Seems they need to accept that just as i may not be hired, they may not do any hiring, and their own processes are the reason.
Fair to say fl studio is the PHP equivalent in the DAW world? So much music has been made using it but it is highly frowned upon in the industry and considered to be the noob's tool.
I think they both tie together... the thing is, extremism and toxic behavior is not what a lot of people are looking for when it comes to social media (as seen by the top group lists). However, toxic personalities often are very loud ones, and they often get out-sized attention by the press. This can negatively affect an entire site if one isn't careful.

Porn offends some people as well (and is not meant to be viewed in certain social scenarios, of course). Reddit has a "safe for work" and "not safe for work" category, and as far as I'm concerned this dividing line is probably better than the no-nudity-period type policies of Facebook (which leads to dramas over non-pornographic nudity, eg breastfeeding photos, a famous Vietnam photo, etc.). It seems like cute pictures and jokes drive more growth to me at first glance then porn, anyways.

Managing "toxic behavior" is a lot trickier, from what I see -- over-heavy moderation also can lead to issues. But "growth at all costs" social media, without checks, leads to factors such as bullying, abuse, and harassment listed as negatives in articles on your growth prospects.
> Much of this data can still be obtained through scraping without the API.

Of course, but then you're violating Facebook's TOS. And then battling their preventative measures.

Not a great course of action.
Yes it is. It's a subagency of the DoD and it exists to develop new technologies for the military.
That amount isn't much in the US.
Sources? Googling only returns a bunch of random threads with people insisting it's possible.
Hold on -- is the FCC an international body? I'm struggling to understand what Swarm did wrong here -- they launched from an INDIAN launcher after they didn't get permission to launch in the USA.

Seriously -- what power does the FCC hope to exert at this point? We live in a world where launchers exist in other countries ...
No, the first amendment of the constitution of the United States (which describes the US government's responsibilities in regards to freedom of speech) has nothing to do with Reddit. Freedom of speech as a concept can be applied to anything: reddit, the government, hacker news, you or I.
No, DARPA is DoD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Department_of_Def...

If you doubt Wikipedia, here's a DOD org chart from inside government:
http://dcmo.defense.gov/Portals/47/Documents/PDSD/201509_DoD...
You should be working on trying to take back ownership of your relationship with your users from Facebook, and remove the API from any future business plans. Implement your services off of Facebook, and email your app users telling them your services have migrated to your website or mobile app. If it wasn’t obvious already, the API is being ground into dust, and it will only further deteriorate after GDPR takes effect.
I apologize, it is there. I assumed it wasn't because the search "Telescope" showed some apps ending with "scope", then some astronomy apps and after that a bunch of non-related games. Thanks.
So what does Facebook get out of it?
Funny you should mention that... my first exposure to reddit was exclusively through /r/programming. (To give a sense of the scale of the site at the time, I distinctly remember a post celebrating 65,536 subscribers.)

At some point shortly after, they added the ability to create subreddits, the site blew up in overall scale, and I was completely oblivious to it all for years, being that I only read /r/programming.

Point is, the site gives you a lot of useful ability to curate what you read.
The Supreme Court ruled that the fairness doctrine was justified given the scarce nature of the radio spectrum. The doctrine never applied to cable TV and certainly wouldn't be able to be applied to the internet.
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Can you actually purchase an Apple ARM SOC or make your own SOC with their processor for product development? If not, then I wouldn't classify them has a competitor since they only allow for internal usage.
Is it known whether Apple runs this code in production?
USGOV does this also... They learned it of us.

BUT, why would they NOT work on interesting projects for the gov? Projects are projects.
Thank you. I for one don't care, I'm french and I live in Spain.

People SHARE their life on FB. They don't expect it to be private.

When journalists tell them Facebook is "selling" their data, they believe it because many want to believe they're victims of capitalism (that's even more true in Europe because the economy is mostly in a bad shape). Instead, they fall victim of politicians who want control (EU politicians now have POWER over american companies! how exciting), and of journalists who don't like competition (journalists work for TV stations or newspapers who sell... ads).

The only thing that has value on your Facebook page is the ad. Not your photos. Not your comments. Not your sexual or political preference. Only the ad.

We've all been fooled.
Reddit is not profitable. Your strong communities are supported by investors hoping to get a return on their investment. If the growth stops, the investment stops, and the servers go away.

The fact that the communities are strong matters not.
It’s way too easy for a part-timer like him to pretend this was no big deal and he could have done it too.

The author’s FAA credentials include[0] Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Airplane Single-Engine Land (ASEL), ATP Airplane Multi-Engine Land (AMEL), ATP Helicopter, Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI), Multi-Engine Instructor (MEI), CFI-Instrument (CFII), CFI-Helicopter, and CFII-H. He flew as First Officer for a regional airline.

This is not Joe Random PPL.

[0]: https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/resume
Over a dozen indictments say otherwise.
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Thanks for clarifying that your opinion was humble while insulting me. I was thinking of when I was getting my first job out of school, when I did three final interviews and landed one. The thing with the homework is that it typically comes well before the final interview and often even a phone interview. Often it would be the very first step in the process. I only had one application require a substantial (say, 4+ hours) amount of homework, but I had a lot more give 2 to 3 hour assignments.

That was annoying, but considering I was unemployed and job searching full-time, it was manageable. If it becomes more common, as seems to be happening, it'll absolutely become an issue for anyone who has to do more than a couple of job applications, which probably includes most people trying to move up in position or relocate.
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It happens to a lot of us and sometimes fear that is just how the industry is. I have heard senior engineers just stop interviewing and often switch jobs via their network/friends.
Plus potentially a bigger keyboard with more rows. If Apple had done that with the new MBPs they could have had room for both full-size function keys and the Touchbar. C'est la vie.

Edit: after posting I realized something was missing. I meant had they done this and increased the diagonal to say, 17 or more inches.
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The hiring process is a response to the fact that employers cannot trust a single word candidates say about their experience. This isn't paranoia

Here's the thing tho': my CV is honest and my track record is pretty good: some small companies and some name-brand, well respected in their industries, known for probing interviews, over about 20 years. There may be some bad actors in the global candidate pool. But seriously, asking me these questions is like tearing my CV up in front of me and calling me a liar to my face.

I am not in the market right now and hope not to be for a good while, but I dream of being asked a stupid whiteboard question, solving it, then throwing the board eraser at the interviewer's head and walking out...
> There’s no reason we can’t be as strict with cars.

There is. Money and lots of it. "Oh, poor, working class person; you can't afford $5000-6000 per year in exploratory inspections? Well, no car for you then. We really can't be too safe, you know..."

As an airplane owner, there's no way in hell the public would stand for the amount of maintenance and inspections given to aircraft for their cars.

"Every year, completely remove the interior of the car, pull up the floorboards, lubricate and check tensions on all control cables, check the engine compression and visually inspect the valves, ..." I think my A36 has ~50 hours of mandatory inspections (at $105-125/hr) every 12 calendar months. That's before anything gets fixed (and of course, whatever gets broken during the inspections is also fixed on my dime).

I'm not even sure that it particularly contributes to the good safety record, since most of the fatals are pilot-induced (just as most of the fatals on the road are driver-induced).
> When free people refuse to weaponize technology, tyrants will, and free people will be at a disadvantage.

There is no guarantee that the Department of State will not use said technology in a non-tyrannical fashion. In fact, we have decades of evidence that it will use it in a tyrannical fashion (And then lie their pants off about it), whenever it serves their interests.
That's what I meant. Ideally, job offers should have the largest possible diversity of biases (this is better for both sides). That's very hard to happen on practice for many reasons, one of them being that a few companies concentrate most of the offers.

If you are not one of those companies, your focus should be on making sure you are not biased the same way as them. Other means of avoiding rejecting good candidates have a much lower return.
Americans are generally pro-military, save for ultra left-leaning types. The fact that only 3000 people signed out of a population of ~100k(which already clearly trends leftwards), tells me that most people did not actually have a problem with that project.
I truly believe GDPR will have a similar impact as cookie pop-ups: extravagant annoyance for 0 benefit.
The best tools are the once you build yourself, because they will work 100% to your own specs... I build AI power robots to trade the market for me, and would never use "automation" tools, especially hosted by 3rd parties, because they will steal my ideas...
> they'll just go to a country without regulations

There may be some amount of regulatory tourism, but I don't think any countries for some time will be havens. All the countries with a commercial spaceflight industry have a vested interest in not creating a debris cascade.
Thanks for the feedback! We're open to a change. Let me know if you have any thoughts.
> $300k, $400k+ a year

Amazon, Facebook, Google? Those are hard salaries to get in my experience. I'm reasonably well respected in my field; attending conferences, speaking, leading meetups, and tirelessly researching computer science in my free time. Can't get a job at those 3, but going to try and take the hedge fund route I guess (I'm in NYC).
So what exactly is wrong with this amount? And what amount would be the correct amount?
> 4. Removal of vacation time (unlimited PTO means you have no vacation days)

That's just not universally true at all. Using my current employer as an example, they have been very good about encouraging employees to take advantage of unlimited PTO.

Managers take PTO and encourage people that haven't taken it in a while to do so. Even the CEO goes in front of the company at all hands every once in a while and tells people "I just came back from a week vacation, you guys should too, remember to take time to recharge". It's something you have to get right in the company culture early on, granted.

I personally am so spoiled by this that the thought of having a set number of vacation days gives me anxiety. I don't want to count vacation days. It's not that I take a ton of vacation, I'm not a big traveler. But I like knowing that I can go to my manager and say "I'm taking friday off cause I'm going on a road trip this weekend" and he can just say "cool, just put it on the calendar" without worrying about counting days.

That said, I know this is really dependent on the company and have been in the opposite position at a company where PTO wasn't counted but was culturally discouraged, so I get where people are coming from. But I wouldn't just flat out dismiss the idea like so many on HN do.
Are people not deciding what people should watch / read / consume?

Netflix chooses which shows to show in its spotlight section / email blast. TV stations decide which shows to put in prime time slots.

Newspaper editors decide which articles get placed where. Your friends decide which articles to share in their feed (and thus expose you to them).

Companies advertise their products on TV, create retail spaces in our neighborhoods, to entice us to consume their products.

If you’re worried about a world in which people decide these things for others, the sad reality is: we’re already in that world.
Author here. Thanks for sharing our post. It’s one of the many reasons why we’re so excited about the future of Postgres.
"Every single company holding your data in a central place is mining it today and selling the information to advertisers."

That doesn't mean it has to be that way in the future though. There are centralized social networks that are charging money for their use, and they are not selling to advertisers nor are there any.
The lie in America is that everyone is good at everything and those who don't succeed aren't trying hard enough. This lie is used to make people who aren't talented believe it's due to a moral failing or character flaw and thus talented people are morally superior.
I think you can read a lot of intent and purpose of a website if the default is directing people to cat pictures.

Regardless of defaults, I doubt there is a single metric that show that porn on reddit is more popular than cat pictures. There is doubt in any method that collect metrics, but if we define them as insignificant then the same metric can not later then be used to say that porn is significant on reddit. Uncertainty cut both ways. Subscriptions can be bots, could be mistakes, might be from users not reading the site, or simply made up. Same goes for view counts or "activity".
>It's worse than facebook because there's no one to have responsibility to be accountable.

Yeah, it is worse because if you screw up, you don't have anyone to blame but yourself.

You have complete control over your data.
> "There are some items to do from memory, with the two pilots cooperating so that they can agree on which engine is the dead one and should have its thrust/fuel lever cut off, for example.

Airline training stresses the use of the autopilot in an emergency, which frees the human pilots to concentrate on the checklists and not pulling back, for example, the thrust lever on the running engine."

This comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_235#I... (https://avherald.com/h?article=48145bb3)
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I think there are a couple of misconceptions about FOIAs, our software and the law in general here...

- FOIAs cannot be used to obtain specific information about persons, this kind of information is protected. In the EU under the GDPR however, you can get some of this information (about yourself only) -- but I think law enforcement agencies are probably exempt from this (not sure, but would make sense.)

- Our software does not make decisions on who is or is not a criminal in an automated fashion (or indeed any fashion). In fact, law enforcement can not make such a decision at all, ever -- only a judge in a court can deem you a criminal. Law enforcement can merely decide that you are a suspect. (And again, this is also not something our software (or any software anywhere) decides in an automated fashion.) So there isn't really a 'chain of reasoning' here

- When you actually ARE accused of a crime (this would happen in a court, and only if there is substantial evidence against you), you will be told what the crime is and why you are suspected of the crime. Thus the 'chain of reasoning' will be presented to you, and be available for verification by anyone participating in the court case (including, depending on country, e.g. a jury)
They're an American company, they follow American laws, including FCC regulations
Second that, without an electric screwdriver with alan key attachments. Without it packed furniture is a serious pita. With it you feel like an unstoppable cyborg.
They've made a video for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyAllUhDxXk&feature=youtu.be
> Hold on -- is the FCC an international body?

Do all employees of Swarm live in international waters?
I worked with a guy who had pretty bad autism and social issues. He was a great guy to work with, incredibly smart and a really nice guy.

He wasn't going to come to any works nights out or even lunches and like you said certain accomodations have to be made, e.g. access to a private quiet room for him at certain times... Able to work from home when he had to etc.

His father had to go to his interview with him, luckily the company allowed this. We have since gone our seperate ways but wherever he is working now got a great developer. I'd happily work with him again.
Wouldn't jump to that conclusion, given that this number is a median, not a mean. The minimum full-time salary could also be $28,446 and yield the same median number, depending on how Amazon pays their bottom rung.
Some feedback on the quiz:

- a few of the questions were very good, and either spoke to key high level concepts, or were specific while being language agnostic. (e.g which one of these layers wouldn't you need, why wouldn't this type of classifier work on this data).

- too many of the questions were hyper-focused on the minutiae of word embeddings, tensor flow syntax, SQL queries, and recommender schemes.

- many of the questions were constructed vaguely enough that "I don't know" would be the technically correct answer even though I don't think that was what you were going for.

metadata: recent PhD with serious grad courses in ML and working in DL/CV for the past year using a non-tensorflow framework (PyTorch).