skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like its own little ecosystem. There are two built-in games and more will be added.

Whether it's novelty, morbid curiosity, or some mixture of the two, it's been well demonstrated that people will look at things if there's something newsworthy and scarce about them. The million dollar homepage certainly got people to visit the site.

No one's (successfully) tried to get it in an app format, and it wasn't easy getting it to pass Apple's requirements.
Oh I dunno, maybe read it:

https://www.23andme.com/about/privacy/
could they even? They d have to send a letter to all the relatives of each of their customers that their partial genetic information is stored in their computers.
“These people” such as Hillary, Bush, Cheney, usually started off a mail service outside the Whitehouse to get their campaigns organised. Over time their entire entourage is using that mail server.

Then they get into Government and we expect them to transplant their entire support network into the new environment. That is not going to happen.

What is needed is for the mail server that someone starts up to support their campaign to be secure be default with Whitehouse-level security made easier than not using it at all.

The hard part is getting people to use S/MIME certificates so that messages are encrypted end to end and you never have to quarantine cleartext on your cloud service.

Surely there is an entrepreneur in the HN crowd ready to take this on?
bad move, Go team!
I've been using Xubuntu for years now, and am very satisfied. The comfort of Ubuntu packages/support with the same good 'ol XFCE UI that doesn't shove the latest flashy mobile touch interface in my face.
Even if they arrest you for nonsense reasons and release you without filing any charges?
I should've said conventional loan products. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.
That was in the 60s, there was a anti-establishment sentiment then from upcoming baby boomers and such, even in mainstream journalism, that today is missing (heck, even anti-Trump people can be seen cheering for deep establishment figures and other career politicians, as long as they throw them an anti-Trump-only bone).
Was anybody else thinking these tools would be great for general development and debugging purposes? Anything that uses the network or file system anyway. The fact that they can detect malware reads as just an aside to me.
"People who don't agree that this is good are just dumb nerds, but UGH I'll get downvoted for this opinion"
Is valuation what really matters? I mean, I understand from an investment perspective and from the perspective of people who were hired at that time that valuation matters. But, from a business health perspective, doesn't number of users and revenue matter (a lot) more? Aren't they up from 2014 on those metrics?
We moved the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936041, since that article is the original source (pointed to by this one) and was posted earlier.
pretty much the entire deep learning community is still using python 2.7. I have moved onto python 3.6, but Julia is still an unsafe bet because it has an unreliable community behind it.
Eh, Shoprunner isn't terrible. It's close, but the value more than makes up for it.
And it has to keep up with Gnome/GTK too. I heard it's not easy.
How is the current reality not feasible? It seems rather successful or at least sustainable in hundreds of cultures.

Economically, the current system has flaws but is self-sustaining. UBI at even low levels like $10k isn’t possible unless you somehow double tax revenue. For example 330M in the US = 3.3T. In 2017, the total revenues were 3.4T [1]. So just for basic levels, revenue would have to increase and that would really hose the economy and you would be able to raise 6.7T for very long.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305...
_you can only fix one of these things!_

seriously the reason scooters were addressed was because 3 companies decided to dump all of them sometime near the end of march and they had no legislation against it. and it was causing problems with pedestrians.

i find these articles annoying, why not harass midwestern cities with large opioid problems about doing X, when they haven't "solved" the opioid issue first.
Y'all are haters. Haters I say!
Genealogy sites have no way of confirming the DNA submitted belongs to the person submitting it. Trash left on the street is considered abandoned property, so fair game for identity thieves and insurers alike. However, unless you know the person lives alone and has had no other guests between trash pickups, you can't be sure the garbage DNA is theirs. More likely an insurer might try to get a sample during a house visit or, stalking out the target at a cafe, or a hairdresser appointment, you name it. Life insurance companies can come to your house and get your EKG already, a swab would be easy.
I admit that this is certainly possible (Google recruiters wildly underleveling people, at least relative to their expectations if not their actual qualifications, and not clarifying this before passing the candidate onto other recruiters).

If it's happening, it's a very different problem (no less real of a problem, though) and process fixes at this stage wouldn't help.

Also, this interview performance should have been enough to disqualify this candidate for the role he envisioned, too. If only because, if he was actually intending on applying to be a director of engineering, the right answer to question 3 is something like "I think there's been some sort of mistake."
Facebook is especially strange in that regard.

To this day it just feels weird writing people, I only know from the meatspace (friends&family), there. It's such an utterly different MO compared to my usual Internet-interactions that I sometimes struggle how to express myself just because I actually know these people.

That's why I kinda liked having the Internet and meatspace firmly separated, since they started bleeding into each other it feels like everything has just gotten needlessly more complicated and hostile.
Yeah, I don't use it for Whole Foods. I already have an American Express blue preferred cash back, which gets 6% on groceries. I only use the prime card for Amazon, restaurants, and places that don't take American Express.
That seems to be a non sequitur — I suggested no such thing.

In abstraction, I will say that there always is an education system of some sort that trains workers, but that system may be formal, may be informal, may be public, may be private, etc. acknowledging what role the citizens want a formal education to serve is an important discussion, imho. This is a discussion we are not really having in the US right now — at least not in a frank way.

That said, I think education should exist to train future members of society. Work training is a part of that, but there are other elements as well (social skills, communication skills, life skills, etc.).
What's so great about going to uni to learn to solve the same problems in the same way as everyone else? That doesn't seem like a way to achieve anything new or interesting. Also, tons of people graduate without even being able to really code. I'd much rather hire someone who, on their own volition spent 4 years teaching themselves programming, doing their own projects, making things that are interesting, learning about new tech, etc than someone who just showed up to school and did their homework. I also think that self-taught people have a much greater ability to teach themselves new things when they have to. (Your prof won't always be there to tell you exactly how to solve the problem.)
> Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place

Agree

> especially newer coders

Totally agree

> women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.

What the actual F*?
A farewell to free journalism
If you don't like it, don't subscribe to it. I don't see why people need to be snarky.
> ... I have maybe two essential applications that don't run on Linux. I would switch it over in a heartbeat if I could,

They don't run under wine? (or in a Reactos vm? I assume they don't make sense to run in a vm, as if they did, you'd already run Windows in a vm?)
Interestingly, SpaceX is one of the very few companies that does rocket launches but not commercial or military aircraft. And they have recently released concept videos of Earth-to-Earth transport. How long before they make a real jump into commercial aviation?
Well, Shannon yes.

Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Brian Kernighan, on the other hand, aren't of the same caliber as people like Shannon and Feynman (and the Manhattan project all-stars).

They've had a huge influence on programming, and on IT, but not always for the better from an academic and quality perspective (e.g. Worse is Better), and more as pragmatic hackers and tinkerers than deep thinkers.
1. Go already has a brand and logo recognized by everyone.
2. Go is a programming language, not a brand, I as a developer don't really care what the brand look like. So, to the community and the GO team: please don't make this a big deal!
$30k in 4 months is practically a 6 figure income already, and not uncommon for CS sophomores working at larger tech companies. I think you're really overestimating the skill needed to get that level of pay.
In order for equity to be worth it for employees at a Startup you need to be within the first 10 people and the company needs to be north of the $500,000,000 range.

To illustrate, give the best odds. You join within the first 10 people, get 0.7%, after 6 years of dilution you might be down to ~0.2%.

If a company runs a tender offer with a valuation of $200m, your stock is $400,000. Is that a lot? Well considering you probably make 50k-100k less per year in salary at a startup vs a "big company", for 6 years time and considering that you also get other compensation at a big company, that isn't really that rewarding.

Now at $500m, your stock is worth $1m. Its now something worth 6 years of paycuts.

But this is such a narrow window. You have to get lucky to be one of the first 10 and join a company that will be worth half a billion dollars.

If you are not one of the first 10, you need the company to be worth ~$5billion to have your stock be worth it. How many of those are out there?
I've been using Target a lot lately and have been pretty happy with it. Free 2-day shipping on pretty much everything with their store credit card, with the option to painlessly pick stuff up in-store if I need it the same day. (I actually prefer this to PrimeNow since the selection is terrible in my area.) Variety is nowhere near the level of Amazon's, but the quality control is way better - I consistently get new, unopened items that match their descriptions, which is more than I can say for Amazon.
I've got a couple years of yoga as interpreted by basic-AF white ladies under my belt, turns out being in a room with a dozen other people just breathing is in fact my jammy-jam.
the Bagavad Gita, the sutras though...

I'm pretty hardcore existential-naturalist (existentialism actually was a reaction against naturalism by I am a born syncretic) and as a result the anarchy of LeGuin's the Dispossessed or Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread present more or less identical praxis but with out the need for faith in anything more than my neighbors.
Presumably negotiating with competitors will save even more.
Biologically speaking, blue light performs a very specific function in your circadian rhythm. It's possible that your lights and phone are not bright enough for it to be an issue; the sun is insanely bright. I do kind of doubt that the contrast has anything to do with it though.

There are a lot of feedback loops in your body though, so it's entirely possible that your body produce the protein that triggers the breakdown of melatonin though.

Other theory: you bulbs are blue, but are missing the particular blue that causes meletonin to be broken down by the body.

I have 6500k 92 cri bulbs for most of my lighting and it definitely screws up my sleep cycle if I don't remember to switch to my 3000k area lighting. I have a really flexible schedule so I didn't notice how screwed up my schedule was for a while.
Beware, he was using the term "bottom up" in a meaning that diverges from current mainstream usage of the term: the bottom is the language, not the architecture.
>Flask has a stigma for not being that good when building larger apps

If it has such a stigma, I've never heard or read about it.
> Actually Gnome3 is currently the only desktop environment which gets Wayland somewhat right.

Maybe true, but Ubuntu 18.04 has reverted to Xorg as standard?
There are other downsides, too.

I have a cousin who found out, in his 50s, after his mother and father had passed away, that he was not related to anybody in our family. It crushed him.
Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9609091.
Ask HN: Practice YC interviews
Anyone want to practice YC interviews via Skype?

Email me or post your email/Skype in this thread and we can connect up to run practice interviews.

Matt.crlist@gmail.com
Exactly, Wikipedia was great long before it was toxic, and I don't see the rise of micromanagers on the site to have been that beneficial, certainly not enough to justify the negatives they cause.
Don't forget, you should be interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you.

If you choose to pursue a company with clearly distopian hiring procedures, you are part of the problem.
...and if inflation goes up, so does the cost of borrowing, unless banks are planning on loaning people money at below the inflation rate. There's no free lunch, unfortunately.
Try farming out the auth to a middleware. That's what I do and it works really well.
What changed to make StackOverflow to be less useful than it was?
Bonds are priced according to the market's best expectations of how much inflation there will be.

If there is more inflation than the market expects than you will lose money. But, are you smarter than the market?

Otherwise, if you only care about avoiding inflation just buy anything that is not a direct cash equivalent. Gold, iron, rocks, stocks, vespene gas, whatever.
>> If I interviewed with a CEO or VP of Engineering, and that person asked me questions about my resume, I'd run away

What else are they going to ask you about? If my resume highlights my notable accomplishments in XYZ and the VP of E asks me if I have any interest in doing XYZ then I am going to consider the VP of E to be a total idiot or incredibly distracted.
I'm thinking strict moderation goes hand in hand with size of the population; in low population environments, little to no moderation is sufficient. The people govern their own culture, and with sufficiently low immigration rates, they can adequately teach newcomers the culture.

But as the population increases, driveby-posting becomes the norm rather than the outlier, and large swathes of newcomers can join at once, the culture cannot be taught at a rapid enough pace to survive. It either degrades, or enforces itself by means of an iron fist.

My thinking essentially stems from eternal september. Wikipedia's early success did not require heavy moderation, but once it became the predominant wiki, it's survival, I think, neccitated it.

The details may have issues, but the overarching idea, defending the culture from the unwashed masses, might still be correct.
You can get started pretty quickly with Jekyll+ [1] and self host it at no cost [2] using now [3].

1: https://github.com/Wiredcraft/jekyllplus#quick-start

2: https://github.com/Wiredcraft/jekyllplus#installation--devel...

3: https://zeit.co/now
> I think this is a symptom of the most desirable jobs having a daunting number of qualified applicants.

A big factor I didn't understand until recently is that smart companies filter out qualified candidates, because they have more to lose from a bad hire than they do to gain by a good one.

The big 5 tech companies hiring bars are so high and there is so much random noise in the process, that they miss a lot of good hires. But those candidates can try again in 6 months.

> what are some strategies you use to interview with multiple companies, prove yourself and get competitive offers that you can compare without exhausting yourself with all of the parallel interview processes?

It is important to realize that it's somewhat of a numbers game and an offer is not guaranteed, even if you are the perfect candidate.

Therefore:
* Prepare, prepare, prepare
* Apply to several companies in batches
* Don't get too emotionally attached to any specific opportunity
* Keep at it

It can be brutal, I know. Keep trying.
currently in china, was in bangalore last week..

China feels almost like a first world nation at this point (albeit a weird one).

India, even in the most prosperous/developed city is still essentially a crappy 3rd world place.

I don't think India will naturally follow the progress China has made, and I definitely don't think amazing manufacturing will suddenly spring up from nowhere in India.
They have already announced this as an eventual goal.
Your name is transferred to other relatives (your spouse, children, parents), and it does end up in press, documents, reports, yellow-page type sites, and other locations you haven't touched. Depending on your level of celebrity, it can also get plastered in news and projects you do not come in contact with. In this case though, they narrowed down a suspect, but did not bother him until they had two pieces of abandoned DNA that directly matched the killer. This is not the first time a black sheep has been found, by the DNA of relatives wealthy enough to afford a $100 test (now probably cheaper). The moment they mentioned he has a daughter and granddaughter when they announced the capture yesterday, I knew they probably triangulated him by a relative's DNA. The article today proved it.
Check out Sanic if you want an async python framework with a similar API to flask
Did you ever attempt to use PyPy? Flask works with it, and in my experience the handful of times I've needed Python to be more performant, PyPy got me there easily.

My use-case was I was doing a heavy part of an ETL pipeline out of MySQL and it was taking an unreasonable amount of time. PyPy was a roughly ~8x speedup, which ended up being faster than doing direct manipulation with MySQL via the cli (!!!).
Don't forget the assets that are going to evaporate when interest rates go up. And, the insane premiums for health insurance since you don't qualify for assistance there either. Oh and don't for get insane day care during the summer and after school.
>But for Go, this logo is the one that I acknowledge:

> https://blog.golang.org/gopher/logo.png

Check the link again. They pulled the rug out from under you.
I find it true that most coding challenges are either about math, or simple algorithms, such as path finding, DFS/BFS, tree traversal, etc. I think it's because they're simple to explain in a quick way, and don't involve the person needing to know libraries or frameworks.

That being said, most of the coding I've done in my life has been all about integrating different libraries and frameworks together. I don't see a lot of complex algorithms, which is good (because they are complex, and probably someone else already wrote it better, with less bugs and better performance). I'd never want to work with someone who rolls their own red black tree into production code just for the lols.

That being said, I don't think it's a great way to evaluate candidates, because it's not what most people do all day. I find problems about integrating systems, and understanding complex topics like networking, databases, testing, protocols, and APIs to be much more useful.

To find a good middle ground, I like to ask design questions, and then give people a "library" of functions they can call with prototypes, and tell them what they will do. This focuses on the logic of putting it together rather than off by one errors in loops, which still happens to me all the time. Those kinds of bugs are easy to fix when you can actually run the code, but a right pain on a whiteboard.

I'll never forget the look of surprise on the interviewers face when I was doing an intern interview and asked "can I use stdlib calls like memset and memcpy, or do you want me to write loops?" I think just asking the question gave me huge interview points. (and yes, I got the job.)

Let me finish by giving an example of what I thought was a good coding assignment: Write a service that listens to rabbitmq and rotates the images 90 degrees and post them back to a different queue. This wasn't about writing code to rotate images either, it was about knowing how things work, and stitching them together correctly (with the right error handling and failure modes).
What’s the use of Facebook if I can’t use it for my professional benefits?
> It seems like it's pretty normal for people to get equity from big companies.

Right, but equity at big, established companies generally isn't worth potentially $1M+. From what I've seen, it's around $20-50k/year and a calculated part of the compensation package.
I don't like the current debt-based economy where almost infinite amounts of debt can be created in the first place.
Weebly was founded in 2007. Their series A was in 2007 and their series B was in 2011. Isn't it likely the bulk of employee options were granted before 2014, before their big Series C? I wouldn't be surprised if their Series B valuation was south of $100M, maybe way south of it. Perhaps it took awhile for those options to go liquid, but I doubt those employees were banking on those options, anyway. They were such early employees that they just wanted to build a great company, and the rational ones knew the options were lottery tickets.
This is fantastic. Often I am wondering should we start test how good engineers are in asking questions for search engines. I am not going to write the perfect compilable code for them, I have a tools to tell me if I forgot the semicolon in line 31. I don't need to remember standard library 100% and recall all functions' signatures - I have a docs for that. But I should be able to ask meaningful questions that get me closer to the answer and I should do it efficiently. We have tools now, we should start using it instead of memorizing things.
Same. I don't know if they're trying to mine bitcoin on my browser or what, but it inspired me to block JS entirely for all of nautil.us.
Actual usable lifetime is significantly longer. There's a good compendium of information here:

https://www.nrel.gov/pv/lifetime.html

If you want to do a deep dive, the open preprint of "Photovoltaic Degradation Rates: an Analytical Review" is a good start:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51664.pdf

It's from 2011 so is a little dated, but later studies have found about the same degradation rates. It's good because it uses data from large numbers of real-world solar installations. Most degradation studies are reporting on only a small number of modules and/or use artificial accelerated aging conditions.

The median degradation rate for crystalline silicon PV modules was found to be 0.5% per year. This would imply more than 40 years for the median module performance to decline to 80% of original rated output. I personally use 30 years as a more conservative rule of thumb, especially since modules appear to follow a degradation "bathtub curve." But it is clear from field data that the median solar module produces useful power levels far longer than 10 years. I suspect that modules designed for durability can achieve median lifetimes over 50 years.
Also, it requires opengl 3(iirc), so you can't even run on a lot of older computers(2012 era?). I can't on a x201.
This is inaccurate. Oral tests are effective around 8-12 hours from use.
The world's thinnest phone case that is completely transparent
Oh my god, I looked up "help vampire" and it's so insightful and true. I've noticed this kind of behavior on Quora especially.