skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty stupid claim.
The scrum master has to have a fundamental understanding that 8 hours of work is not one day. It's generally interrupted by meetings, helping out a coworker, crisis mode on some bug and also generally fucking around with coworkers. When a Dev says 8 hours that should automatically be translated to 16-24 because they won't actually be able to be "heads down"
This is addressed quite well in Robert Coram’s Excellent _Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War_ with the life shaping question:

“Do you want to be somebody, or do something?”

You will be a really big deal at FANG but you are not likely to do as interesting work as you would in a smaller mildly successful company.

https://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/031...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategi...
Lots of countries in Europe have nothing remotely resembling the US credit scoring system and people there obviously live comfortable, modern lives and have access to financial services.
As a Venezuelan, I'm curious to know what about this article makes you think it's a "propaganda piece".
> Pokemon Go's AR was a joke…

If you think of AR as video overlays on reality, for sure.

If you think beyond video, Pokémon's AR was a home run. My kids know where Pokémon are most likely to live. They know where the gyms are. Their reality has definitely been augmented.
Thanks. Yeah, I'm years overdue in updating the Bitbeam site. But I do use Bitbeam all the time in my work.
If you're using a rope, you aren't soloing. (Yes, there is rope soloing, but that's always specified.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17420230

Aren’t you kind of the one lowering it?
> a communist society with appropriate consequences in place is completely plausible

Example?
How Alexa mines open data
The 360/91 would throw an "imprecise interrupt" error indicating that the error occurred somewhere in the last (dozen?) instructions.... which caused me untold hours of grief. Which branch ended up here?
Pharmacy is regulated state by state. What they did may be ok in that state, or may be marginally ok. At the least, they didn’t just dump them into the same bottle together.
I disagree. I have no interest in fungible dollars when the alternative is miles which can be used to get outsized return on experiences.

I have plenty of ways of making money, and trying to optimize for a %age of cash back is not particularly interesting.

Miles and points on the other hand can be used to get experiences that would otherwise be completely out of question due to their price. It adds something meaningful to my life.

Flying to Australia in first class on Emirates is more memorable than making $1,500 of cash-back.
I used Gridbeam to make the fume hood for my 3D printers: https://twitter.com/hugs/status/824090649540562946
Twitter could have easily banned him, and others like him, if they had the will to. It’s their platform and they’re free to exclude anyone they like.

The fact that they don’t is, in my view, rooted simply in a desire to remain neutral in an attempt to prevent their MAU growth from declining and resulting in lower advertising income and less attractiveness to investors.

In other words, it’s a business decision. Twitter could choose to be more restrictive in favor of civility, but it would be bad for business.
How feasible/infeasible would it be to permit firefighting aviators to emit a regulatory alert beacon to any nearby drone and, if necessary, a regulatory override? Maybe it would trigger some kind of landing function? It's hard to imagine any kind of override function that doesn't introduce new hazards, though.

If drone manufacturers could work with global spectrum allocation and emergency response agencies, maybe they could avoid big legislative hammers.
I'm somewhat aware of the scope of the issues. Mental health and addiction are often overwhelming when you don't have someone to help you with them, and so a case worker can definitely help. But one of the big reasons common solutions don't work is they're not comprehensive solutions.

For example, if someone is mentally ill, maybe they just need medication. But still don't have any income and perhaps no housing. What happens if they get mugged, or lose their meds, or forget to take them? Now they're unstable again. They need housing, and some small bit of income, food, security, and assistance. These are all resources, and providing them _all_ gives someone a much better shot at getting better and staying that way.

But it's also a misnomer that most homeless are addicts or crazy. One out of every 30 children in America were homeless in 2013, a disproportionate number being LGBTQ. 12 percent of homeless are veterans. In 2009 there were >535K homeless families. In fact, mental illness and addiction are the third and fourth most common reasons for homelessness.

Homelessness disproportionately affects children, destroying their education and keeping them in a cycle of poverty. If we focused more on providing them an education as well as food and shelter, this would have a big impact on outcomes of future homeless. Is providing these things simple? No, but the decision by the population to commit to actually providing them, is simple. The work will get done if we decide to.

We went to the moon on a whim. Surely we can feed and educate some kids.
Well done. The occlusion is far better than I would've ever thought possible with a single camera on current mobile hardware.

Whenever they get the form factor right for AR, I think we'll get to see some really interesting apps
> and I have found the documentation a joy to work with.

> Maybe look at the source code?

My co-workers sometimes think I'm a magic supergenius with how easily I've been able to answer some of their Django questions. It always comes down to one of those two things: A vague memory of something I'd seen in the docs just scrolling through it in the past, or having seen the same problem they have now and used pdb to step through Django code to learn how parts of it work.
Because Amazon has decided to leave a profitable business to others?

Or more likely, it's pushing its costs onto others. We call this a "predatory customer" where I come from.
Generalized Reversible Computing
Public services are charged with protecting broad public interests: public infrastructure, land that if burned will cause floods the next time it rains, and the most houses, and conflagration to neighboring communities. It's entirely appropriate that private firefighting takes a backseat to public firefighting. It's no different than private security force having to take a backseat to the local police, or the FBI.
Your comment on the public not knowing the difficulty of climbs reminded me of a great piece about a juggler, which includes this: "Jugglers don’t have to perform difficult tricks to entertain people, because audiences generally don’t know what’s difficult."

http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-...
Walking in a straight line on the sidewalk is very easy. Walking on a narrow ledge somewhere very high up isn't.
> My proposed solution here is to try to capture the spirit of Python’s slice syntax rather than the exact syntax itself. We can accomplish this using an alternative syntax where we use double square brackets and commas in place of colons: array[::-1] => array[[,,-1]], array[:n] => array[[,n]], array[-5::2] => array[[-5,,2]], and so on. This might not be quite as concise as Python’s syntax, but it only requires two extra keystrokes per slice and I think it’s as close as we’re gonna get.

I wonder if it makes more sense to write a babel plugin to support the python syntax. Since everyone using es6 features are transpiling anyway.
I've interviewed at lot of companies, a lot of which I had no intention of taking.

The interview process I think says a lot about a company. I was very put off by the processes of 2 of the big companies, so much so I'd never consider them again as I think it's a bit of an indication of how they operate in general.

I found smaller companies tend to have a much more honest conversation with you, and offer a lot of intangible benefits.

That said, if I were looking for money and benefits, the big ones are hard to beat.

Oops, forgot to answer the question. I work for a...smallish company now as I have for years, in a niche market. I appreciate the recognition I get, the freedom I'm afforded, no micromanagement, no stack ranking, etc. That's worth more to me than a larger salary, and having a known name on my resume at this point in my life.
The company was founded by the same type of people, I'm not sure why it gets so much credibility as a took other than through great marketing. Nowadays there are much better tools to use (namely Snowplow, Segment)
Show HN: Blip – Chat bots without programming
Eh, misleading article title. It's interesting to see an Alexa use case with local governments, but it's really a showcase of that and not a general piece on Alexa and data mining.
Pagination doesn’t require a total page count to still be useful. You might remember Google’s UI in its first 10 years or so, which had pagination but not a total page count (if the number of pages exceeded 10 or so). You can use a ellipsis or a word like “many” and people will easily understand.
Name ANYWHERE like Berlin. Surely that's the question? You can't swap Berlin for anywhere, surely? It is majorly disingenuous to choose Berlin, or Rome, or London, Or Paris, or Tokyo and ask for a similar place. There is NOWHERE like these cities. There can't be. That is their unique charm.
I also thought that was weird? The about page is not for testimonials, it's generally a place for information about who made the site/business right?
Maybe if there was a browser feature providing an API for marketing consent.
Ask HN: What can Amazon do to help with the plastic crisis?
The abuse goes much further than merely serving people ads.

Harassment, intimidation, stalking, identity theft, profiling, targeting based on political opinions or interests, blackmail, evisceration of privacy, and subversion of democracy are all enabled by such "innovation".

As more people become victims of these, and such abuses are publicized, the opposition to such surveillance will grow.
Please don't name-call or post shallow dismissals here. Those are two of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
How is this specifically a Valley euphemism?
Are you basically asking "Why does no one want to share specific details of their company's difficulty complying with a giant new regulatory framework?"?
Text of the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Only seems to apply to companies with 50k+ California-resident users, or $25mm+ in revenue. So there's likely much less of a chilling effect on small businesses than GDPR. (IANAL, though, and with the speed this was pushed through, lawyers should take a much closer look in the coming days before anyone jumps to conclusions.)
I liked your story and would like to help you with the signup flow, however I live outside the US so I thought I would just run your homepage through Google DevTools Lighthouse Audit for you.

Seems that you have a few easy wins to get your site up to scratch. Compress the images, add a basic progressive web app to impress Googlebot and put in a few of the other minor fixes (e.g. 'uses document.write()') and you should be there with an accessible site that ranks well.

Google's mod_pagespeed will fix the images for you and tidy up the downloads, mushing the scripts together to reduce the js startup time. I think you can also get rid of the polyfills for older browsers.

Maximal accessibility isn't about making the site for blind people it is about making the site work for those that have high data rates and poor 3G connections. However, the ethos of accessibility is on-brand for your product.

I audit everything these days and you are not doing badly compared to a lot that I see. Always room for improvement and premature optimisation is the root of all evil, hence my suggestion of just letting mod_pagespeed do it for you.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/
Yup I agree, best gym I signed up for the owner refused to do any personal training with me until I showed I was serious by doing the circuit he provided me twice a week for a month.
This is such a perverse view of what competence is, but I can understand where it comes from, since to support unions, you pretty much have to believe that competence doesn’t exist and that life is just a random series of outcomes.

I know that I’m competent, because I have enough experience to understand the problems that exist in my field, as well as how to effectively solve them. There is no randomness or luck involved.
Have you ever written about your experiences in the wholesale drug market?
Juan de Fuca
Baby steps...in order for that to work there'd have to be some kind of interoperable API standard adopted by all doctors in pharmacies that the system understands (I am assuming there is not). In an ideal world there'd be basically no humans involved as soon as the doctor prescribes, obviously...
Huh, that makes it even stranger. How do you e.g. share flats? Buy tickets for a concert as a group? Buy a plane ticket as a group? This is basic stuff...
Similar with me, background in mostly C/C++/Pascal, etc. - joined Google and had to write Java - what surprised me mostly were: Killing app due to GC stress, Dependency Injection, Checked Exceptions and using various containers (map, set, etc.) as an interface without assuming concrete implementation (or maybe not so). Didn't graduate well from this "program", but give full respect to Java now. Back to C++ land for me, and it's been good.
External - and that's really good info, I don't spend much time at all speaking with clients
Dell's XPS is comparable in size and performance to the MBP and has 32Gb of RAM available. Does the standard DDR4 they use effect battery life? Possibly, but that's a trade off I and others would take for our $4000 laptops not to grind to a halt when we spin up a few docker containers.
Flying Saucer would do

https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer

For more controlled results you could use Prince.
Also: lightning is bright and fast. It's difficult to see the branches that aren't as bright as the brightest few.
Then, generally, give the user a bunch of filtering options and limit page depth to less than ~1000 entries
Are you staying an engineer all your life or eventually be an exec? Do you want to be well paid or influential? Are you a PhD who likes doing one thing in depth, or are you a get-sh*t-done person who likes multiple interesting projects? Do you plan to change jobs a lot or stay one place for a long time?
Is the act of leaving a dockless bike just sitting there on the sidewalk not illegal? Is it not littering?
"DDR4 would drastically decrease it from the 30 days of standby time that they get now to less than one week"

Fine, I'll take 32Gb of RAM and a less than a week of standby time thanks.
Yoi Carrera – Me Compre Un Full (Studio Session)
3800mm Five-Fold Net Coated White Board Paper Machine
Language and culture both matter when dlooking at a country - the US joining with several countries with a culture of corruption and massive distrust of the government would not likely end up well for the US.
>you couldn't pick it up that quickly. I don't see how this is them being shortsighted; it sounds like you just not delivering on the promise of your "fundamentals".

I never failed any take home assignments, so this isn't about me. I am speaking more generally and not about me personally. My point is fundamentals don't change, frameworks do.

Edit: For some reason I can't reply to your response of this question. But no problem. I see your point and I do agree with what you're saying. Thanks for clarifying.
Come on, there's no need to attack somebody like that just because your experience is different. Instead, share your experience so we can all learn from both sides. There isn't nearly enough information in seibelj's comment to draw a conclusion either way.
Having only read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, this isn't at all what I expected out of this. I'm going to read more of Ellison now.
I remember reading that your subconscious is often more accurate than your conscious part of the mind (it was one of the books from Ramachandran or Oliver Sacks), so this makes some sense to me. Guess it's important to deliberately "let it loose" to delegate some of your control to your subconscious.
Nah. Don't really have any desire to other than the occasional post.
> I never failed any take home assignments, so this isn't about me. I am speaking more generally and not about me personally.

It was generic "you", the hypothetical person who was having trouble with take home assignments but not interview questions that you were talking about initially. All of my points were about that hypothetical person, and not you personally. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

> My point is fundamentals don't change, frameworks do.

Yes, that's what I was addressing. Companies aren't asking about frameworks when they give you a take home question, they're asking you to learn the framework if need be, which will be easy if you know the fundamentals. I'm not sure where you're getting lost on this point.
Or, you know, you could just not make fake ID's.
For a lot of people it’ll be their first time being exposed to a concept.
Maybe they mostly go after American companies because mostly American companies are in violation?

And it's not as if EU companies go without scrutiny. Due to the still-fractured market, most are small enough so their antitrust matters are localized to one country, but if you check the EU website there are still plenty of cases, they're just not sexy enough to make the news - like the a recent case "Commission fines maritime car carriers and car parts suppliers a total of €546 million".

In for instance the "state aid" tax preference cases cited in your link, the EU has also launched investivations into European companies like IKEA and Fiat cars.
Yeah the doc can put a "do not fill before [date]" and schedule scripts out for three months.

Both CVS and Rite-Aid have an arcane system where controlled prescriptions are kept "offline". Their websites will not show the scripts as available to refill even if the doc has prescribed ahead of time. So one has to call to confirm the script was received, then call every month a refill is needed.

But even worse...Rite-Aid requires a mandatory 30 day wait (per 30 day script). So that means on the day of refill...one needs to rush over early in the morning to get the refill, otherwise will risk missing a dose.

CVS is a little better, allowing a 3-5 day early fill. But they also have their secret "offline" system for controlled substances. It's still a royal pain.

So for Amazon...very little effort is required to succeed...simply show scripts that the doctor has sent over on their website...and offer a 2-5 day early fill....CVS/Rite-Aid won't stand a chance....
Well, knowing that you need to profile is one step. But then you have to know HOW to profile.

Many years ago, a team member got asked to figure out what the performance implications would be if a specific application were to be changed from PostgreSQL to MongoDB (Mongo was very early at the time). That's a very difficult question to answer in general, but the way he decided to approach the problem was: create two programs. One would ask to connect to PG, grab the current time, run a query (once!), grab the time again, disconnect. And that's it. The other program would do the same for Mongo.

His 'findings' pointed out what some people were already expecting, that MongoDB was magically faster than PostgreSQL. Which was odd, as they both were running a single instance, with a simple data type, which PG should have zero problems handling.

I pointed out that he was measuring connection time too, which is slow on PG. He said that wasn't the case, because he started the timer after connecting to PG. I replied with "No, you are starting the timer after asking to connect to PG, you don't know if the connection is made at that point. Run a simple query first to be sure." He wouldn't accept that.

Turns out that not only that was correct (the mongo library would connect immediately, the PG one would defer until needed), but none of the DBs had indexes defined. So no numbers made any sense, the tested query was not based on any observed production queries, it would only be run one time, etc.

I have not seen a more meaningless 'performance' testing since. But the Powerpoint graphs looked pretty, were only management in the room, they would have likely be convinced to migrate.

All that, for a badly written application, that a single box with SQLite would have zero problems handling.

One the other side, I had a coworker implementing some simple, but effective, profiling of a Rails application. Slow path was traced to the caching code, specifically the code that generated the hash key. That was replaced with a better version and we got massive speedups.

Alright, I think I'll add some questions on profiling in my current team's interview process.
I just think Amazon has a really good position for that. What are viable policies and technologies it can use to solve the plastic problem?
That they have.
Dan Luu had an excellent blog post that you might be interested in:

http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs
>Most high-street pharmacies in the UK

>PillPack seems to do that, but 'on the Internet'. shrug

Leaving aside the fact that 'on the internet' is a huge and important distinction (you should check out this company Uber, it's like a taxi but 'on the internet'), you seem to be saying "there's this great service available to us here in the UK, I can't imagine why a company in the US would want to replicate it shrug."
A little movitivation against depression
Counterintuitive to assumptions being made here... you can easily be more of a cog at a 50-5000 employee company than a 5,000+ person company.

The medium companies generally have a single true line of business and are focused on tuning & turning that crank, turning $3M/yr to $10-100M/yr. Doing something else makes you a trouble maker, and budgets are watched.

The bigger companies will have $100M-100B/yr revenue, so they'll do pretty insane engineering on the old product lines ("let's reimplement PHP with a modern VM!"), and take moonshots to enter new markets big enough to make a dent ("Let's give internet to everyone in Africa.") So both quality of life can be better and the projects can be more interesting and career defining.

So yeah, I'd go to bigco, or if a medco, one with enough ridiculous growth/funding to do insane things. But not a lot of years of your life that startups are easily doable, so I switched from R&D to startups, and can always go back later :)
It seems this discussion comes up fairly often, and the solution is almost always some variation of "make driving too expensive and/or too inconvenient...

Driving is subsidised in about a zillion different ways in the US; it's already hideously, ruinously expensive, we just don't realize it. You wouldn't have to artificially raise the price of driving to make it less appealing, you'd only have to make the actual costs more transparent.
Recently I implemented a wrapper function that given an object returns a Proxy which has a get method that recursively calls itself with the accessed object path and finally returns the object and logs the full path. (The code is not complicated and only about as long as this post, but it's hard to type code on a phone)

The reason for this is to give me logging for this part of the application to aid in extracting it out to a separate service. That is, to see what from this part of the application is actually being used/called.

Edit: I meant to say that I wanted to share this because previously I hadn't yet found an interesting use for a Proxy.

Also, I thought of another use case: in the get method you could return a percentage of the time a different object, i.e. an A/B test.