skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on the job, but for outage response, being able to understand a problem, and update or write new code in a reasonable amount of time is kind of a useful skill. Discussing it on a board with others can be useful, if the code isn't complex. Of course, that also depends on the environment; if you're in an environment can't actually push any code, even emergency fixes, quickly, then it doesn't help a lot.
> serious question: Why do people like to do work or leisure in pitch black rooms?

I prefer low light, not pitch black. Generally speaking I want my monitor to be the main focus. Same for TV; if I care about the viewing experience I dim the lights. I might even prefer pitch black honestly, but due to the reasons being discussed, the contrast is just too great.

> Don't you feel clumsy, sleepy and uncomfortable when everything is dark?

Nope

> How can anybody go more than 10 minutes without needing to use vision to interact with their surrounding environment?

Not sure, tbh. I imagine it has to do with not wanting to interact with the environment most of the time. Ie, what am I going to do with my banister? It's just sitting there.. why do I need to interact with it? Most of my house is the same way. If I'm doing X, rarely do I need to interact with the rest of the house or room.

Does it bother you that there are things behind your head that you can't see?
Or conversations.im? Matrix + riot leaves a heap of meta data about you on the federated server. If that server is compromised, so are you.
Is there anything to learn from the experience of "The Melt"? It seemed they started with a grilled cheese focus, didn't do so well, and pivoted to burgers. Now they seem to be doing well (however this is only through observation, I have no idea of their finances). It would seem Mac & Cheese would find a similar issue of being too narrow / too niche. Granted, if you don't intend to have in-person location ordering be a big piece of the business, then maybe that is irrelevant.
MoviePass also saw increasing revenues when they dropped the price from $50 to $10....

As far as being “cash flow positive”....

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/dropbox-may-have-intentional...

A closer look at its financial statement shows the online storage company's free cash flow would have remained negative that year had it followed a more conservative accounting method shared by some of its main competitors.
That's because Dropbox didn't include principal payments for its capital leases in its free cash flow statement.
If Dropbox had accounted for the $139.5 million in capital and financing lease payments in 2016, it would have recorded negative $2.1 million in free cash flow that year — instead of the $137.4 million positive free cash flow it disclosed. Its free cash flow for 2017 would have been $169.7 million under this method, almost half of the $305 million it disclosed in its filing.

These are real expenses, that would be like me telling my wife that we would be cash flow positive with our current income if we moved to Seattle - as long as we don’t include rent.
The simulation conjecture is a funny way to get around to Intelligent Design.
Way to catch some sophisticated thieves, and if they don't show up anyway. Then stop going to that dealership.
Notice that the OP's love language of "Quiet stability" is not listed there.

It's sorely undermentioned and often told that it's "wrong" in common western culture, even though tons of people (especially men) within it have that love language. That arbitrarily enshrined list of 5 is absolutely not representative of everybody.
It does. Desktop app is desktop, end of story - no GSM connection and/or phone number should be required.
I think what you're doing is great! Keep it up!
Holy Crap. This is amazing. Lot of folks have tried to make a general purpose visual programming solution and it always sucks. However, if we narrow the problem to

1. Show some data on a grid based on user input.
2. Let user select a row.
3. Provide different buttons to take actions on the selected row by doing an API call.

Then your tool solves the above problem extremely well (based on the tutorial I saw). And I guarantee you that any organization with tech teams have need to create plenty of such 'mini apps'.

I recently started a new job as a technical lead and I am going evaluate this tool seriously. Due to the nature of the business, we will be prefer an an on-premise solution. Do you have existing clients who use your on-premise solution? How are the updates to the tool distributed? And most importantly, what's the pricing like? Feel free to reach out to me via email.

BTW, you guys have done FANTASTIC job on the main page design/copy. It's been a long time since I saw a product website which instantly sold me on the idea. Well done!
I also can't help myself from reading opinion pieces from Matt Levine most days of the week.
More stressful, sure. For many people, whiteboard coding is disproportionately more stressful than typical work, and that’s the problem.
There are also no guarantees that the environment outside of the simulation has anything in common with the environment inside of it. Perhaps that universe doesn't have particles at all. Maybe they are simulating this universe because they are curious about what a universe like ours would be like.
Still don't understand why anyone would get either option over a Volt, from a purely "green" standpoint.

I absolutely get the appeal of Tesla from a quality and technology standpoint though.
That is the core of their business though and that fact seems pretty clear from basic research, what did you expect? If you find advertising/tracking reprehensible, why would you agree to an interview in the first place?
Youtube, Facebook and company have a ridiculous amount of false positives, for the money (and the people, they have quite a lot of human moderators) they throw at the problem. Also, they enjoy complete market dominance, so even if you want to move out of youtube... where are you going to go?

With the same rate of false positives there will be enough community rage (I guarantee someone is going to find a way to have your system ban the top 10 streamers of your game after 2 days you put it in place) your players (both good and bad) will go somewhere else. :)
Thanks, the person in question resides in CA, my profile of course says I'm in Boston. Either way, I really appreciate your answer.
I wonder if some of these savings should be set aside to directly go towards cleanup operations - processes to scrub CO2, reduce ocean acidification etc
No password, no problem: Yahoo rolls out new, phone-based login
It seems like there are two things at play - whiteboarding interviews vs. using whiteboards in your day-to-day job.

If the test is to see how well a person works in a whiteboarding interview to solve a problem, then it should be a simulation of collaboration, while trying to avoid the Clever Hans effect.

Otherwise your DP whiteboarding problems are worthless.
Good list. I would add growth opportunities, too.
It's interesting to apply this argument to those who lost limbs and want to use prosthetics. Does it make sense? Why or why not?

(I'm not sure, but the answer doesn't seem so clear-cut.)
1000% this. My experience, being close with some very high achievers in my life - some being CEOs, some being average Joe's at 9-5s - is that what determines success is not really the individual. This idea of the lone Atlas to raise the world on shoulders is false.

Innovation and genius happens when the environment is fertile and you have many great people working together to stand upon each other's shoulders. Of course, being outstanding is a prerequisite. But the highway to greatness requires more than that.
Calling this a "system" or "platform" is probably being very generous. It sounds like a very loosely related glom of Domino databases that grew up organically, probably with a little custom UI sprinkled on top. Notes can be infamous for that kind of thing, worse than Excel even, since it is more powerful...
Coal only needs peaker plants when demand spikes. Wind and solar additionally need peakers when production slumps.
Nay, unless the candidate wants the whiteboard. Even Google doesn't mandate whiteboard anymore: you can write your code on the provided Chromebook. Some people choose whiteboard, though, for reasons unknown. I think whiteboard (or a sheet of paper) is reasonable for what it gets used for IRL: for sketching out what you're going to do, by drawing or writing very high level description, but it sucks for everything else.
At the "cost" of federal debt perhaps.

Not collecting taxes on something that might otherwise be taxed is not the same as someone taking your money via taxes and using it to pay for something. What does it cost you if the government doesn't tax your local church?
Thanks. Readers should also note that the main topic is about the closed loop apparent "revolution." In reality it really can be dangerous, exactly because of the explained sensor problems which are real. To clarify to those that don't know:

The sensors are big things with the needle permanently in your body. You don't want three needles permanently to be sure that at least 2 from 3 work. If you have only one, you have a real problem if you trust it blindly.

Yes, it's good that some people try. But there are real risks, due to the current limitations as explained.
I was a fan of this palindromic short story (also in honor of the year 2002): http://spinelessbooks.com/2002/palindrome/
Those companies were created at a very different time and are 79 and 216 years old respectively. I can't think of any other moderately successful tech company that has started in recent memory which is named after the founder, although perhaps there are a few examples. In my mind, it takes a certain amount of arrogance to name a tech company after yourself; you alone cannot possibly make it great (unlike a law firm, consultancy, hedge fund, etc.) and naming it as such severely discounts the perceived worth of other employees.
Since the beginning, they have been rather heavily underestimating delays and potential problems for each step on the hardware side.

In this case, if we consider that it is still the 1st half of August, so a lot of companies are closed or on reduced activity with reduced personnel; that after the schematic is finished, the PCB has to be drawn, the PCB has to be built (that's quick), the PCB has to be populated with chips (it can be quick... if everything is in order, otherwise add a small delay); that the first boards have to undergo some minimal amount of testing before the full run is produced and shipped to customers to ensure that at least its major parts are working kind of OK ; that there was no prototype board before this run (IIRC) ; that if this testing does not go well, major issues will have to be found and corrected before shipping, possibly implying ditching the existing PCBs, correcting the schematics, rerouting the corresponding PCB parts, and starting a new batch of boards... I bet there is very little hope they keep their promise.

And globally, considering that their reports are always 95% about software and 5% about hardware which seems to be more and more outsourced, we can say it is one more time the case of a bunch of software developers and software designers underestimating the amount of work (people, time, and the cost of iterations in hardware compared to software) and the amount of experience needed to produce the hardware side. As it has already happened many, many times in similar projects, with similar goals, with similar people involved.
Well. I'd rather not have anyone suggest tox. The whole "we use nacl so we are safe" attitude from a couple of years ago seems to still be around. Good on them for using nacl. A shame they don't seem to realize that you can write bad crypto with it.

The whole forward secrecy seems to be unresolved still. They have session keys,but other than that there is no rekeying.

And then we have the whole issue with it relying on supernodes for much of its functionality (offline messages, mobile phone client rs) which leads to it having a subset of the issues many have with signal.
That's actually not hard to explain to your insurance or the police at all. This happened to me 5 weeks ago. The car was parked directly in front of my entrance door and the key was basically on the other side of that door.

The scene of my car not being where it was supposed to be was so surreal that I did not even realize it was missing the first time when I walked out the trash. I basically walked around an invisible car.

Only when I wanted to leave the house and thought, well shouldn't my car supposed to be there did it dawn on me that something is amiss.

When I went to the police, the first thing they asked me was how far my keys were away from the car. My insurance was asking the exact same thing.

Remarkably the car was found when the police in our neighboring country stopped a driver under the influence of drugs.

Getting the car back (still ongoing) was so much hassle that I almost would be happier if it would not have been found.

It goes without question that all my keys are now stored inside a metal box when not in use.

I was a bit worried that the box does not shield the signal enough. The best way I could think of to test it was to put the key inside the box and hold the box to the steering column and try to start the car. It's probably not foolproof but I hope it is enough.
I suspect the reason Ian hasn't claimed the bounties himself is because Project Zero has very specific disclosure rules. Once reported, a vulnerability gets released to the public in 90 days, even if unfixed for example.

Part of the requirements for joining apples program is probably to agree not to disclose vulnerabilities at all once discovered.

It makes sense when you think about it. Google pays Ian a salary to find bugs and treat them the way project zero wants. If Ian went to Apple, they would pay him a reward to treat the bugs the way they want. Trying to claim both is double-dipping.
> The fact that it's "at least as [secure]" as something that stores chats in plaintext on their servers (Telegram) is not exactly news...

probably news to most people... because most people appear to be trusting it....
One particular expectation when whiteboard coding for an interview is that there is little/no downtime, you must be making progress or talking about your thoughts. Incidentally, 50% of my thought process then becomes "How do I talk about what I'm thinking about? Oh no, I'm only thinking about talking about what I'm thinking about..."
As a former air traffic controller and now data scientist, nothing in this career field is ever done under any real pressure.
Correct. I realized that opening line set the wrong tone and was unnecessary.
What are some microsensors that can be used to detect concentration of a protein or molecule that can then be used to make a "decision"? E.g. aggregated proteins or concentration of a particular mRNA or 4-HNE or lipofuscin accumulation?
This has been my experience as well, I was surprised to read about some of the issues that were posted. Been using azure app service for about 50 .net/core services for over a year with 100% uptime. Guess I'm just lucky!
"Teachers don’t get social security, and unlike firefighters or police officers, most retirees earn modest pensions of about $55,000 a year."

$55,000 is a modest pension? That is a lot more than social security is paying. Maybe we should move teachers to SSA?
"They would finish their PhD when they have made a difference in the real world."

By that metric, most fundamental discoveries in the last 200 years would not have been enough to finish a PhD.

Even Hamming's error correcting codes took 10+ years for Bell Labs to implement it. And even then it was because they had no other alternatives and were in a bind.
In countries with lack of proper regulations elevators are crashing more often, that's what I would expect. But I don't think elevators crash as often as software in India.
Letting candidates to do actual coding on a computer.
Does the Go race detector catch all data races?
To put things in perspective, though, Zuckerberg is CEO of an international company that's constantly under attack by state-sponsored actors. He also spends $10 million on physical security.

In contrast, a non-famous person probably doesn't have as much to worry about, hence why I personally don't cover my smartphone camera.
So do you have conclusive numbers showing the number of high end phones that are Android phones and if so, who are selling them in volume if not Samsung? How many loaned crappy phones does Samsung sell to bring down the ASP if I’m fact they are selling high end phones at any sort of volume?

If high end Android phones were selling at any appreciable volume, Apple wouldn’t be taking as much of the profit share in the smart phone market as it is (https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/02/apple-con...)
Signal immediately asks for your phone number. Dead giveaway that they are not about privacy. So I assumed its a honey trap.
I'd venture it's because of the comment's intention not actually being in the spirit of helpfully answering the question.
> schwinn: were the filmstrips enough to convince them, or did your bosses want to see numbers/stats like how many were dropping off your site for each x-seconds of delay?

There are some great stats on bounce rate / abandonment on WPOStats: https://wpostats.com/

This is my favourite:

> 53% of visits to mobile sites are abandoned after 3 seconds according to research from Google's DoubleClick.

One thing to note, to those stakeholders who are aware of web traffic stats, is that if a site uses client-side analytics (e.g. Google Analytics) and it hasn't loaded the analytics script by the time the user abandons the site, they won't be tracked, so the bounces won't be affected – it'll be like they were never there.

So ultimately, bounce rates in analytics tools can typically be significantly worse than reported when web performance is poor.
Do you design clever search algorithms during outages?
I guess it depends on your field, but I've definitely seen that happening in Physics and Math. I have many friends who continued school to pursue a PhD while I left to work in the industry. It's a mix of:

* dropped out (some changed field completely)

* failed to pass their defense

* were miserable until they obtained their PhD

* managed to obtain their PhD after a looooong time and a lot of financial trouble. After that followed a long quest to look for a job (humanities).

* was uber successful and loved it

Note that these are people I know from all over the world, not just one country or one school.

The one guy that was uber successful absolutely loved what he was doing. The others either did not have the passion, or found out later that they did not enjoy doing research that much, or worse loved it but could not afford being poor.
3% for so little cash is not enough to fund projects in anything besides short term software plays with an acquisition exit strategy. This is a valuation of ~100k which is less than what a bay area software developer makes in a year.

+5% for 20k is not that much better, it's a valuation of less than half a million.

If you want a biotech, or a hardware company, or something that really moves the needle, you'll have to put more money in there. Things that really change the world need a longer runway. Things that change the physical world need 5-10 years of burndown funding, and a team of 5-20 people.

20k buys you an hplc. Or a really cheap shuttle run. What is the expectation beyond that? Further raises on an early seed? Even let's say there's a 5x bump in value, to raise 1-2m to do something real and hire people takes on the order of 20-40%... And I've seen more than one companies fail to raise a series A with a risky and dangerous new idea because there had been too much seed dilution.

I couldn't do some really basic cancer drug research on $60k - i had to stop renting a lab and move to my garage, deal with multiple equipment failures from out of pocket, and suffer 3-and-going-years of delay due to having to get a job and reequilibrate personal finances and lose time to work on it, and I'm continuing work on a dribble as and when I can afford to do it... $20K would not have covered my animal studies, which themselves were low-n and strictly "proof of principle". Even this project had its initial phases funded through the traditional academe, and I don't see such a low investment getting any such a thing to a point where a for-profit would have a saleable asset (be it IP or otherwise) or at least a product and cashflow to convince series A to throw in when so much equity has already been given.
> Here in downtown Amsterdam we called the police because the rear window of someone's car had just been smashed outside our office, and the police's response was "Has anyone been hurt? Nope? Then we're not coming".

Amsterdam currently has a big police shortage, that's why. It's not normal, it's just a problem in Amsterdam.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/07/amsterdam-is-not-lawle...
We're adaptable, sure. But we're not some collective. There are hundreds of millions of peoples lives that are tied up in the ocean. There are entire cultures. Those things don't adapt easily. Turn the ocean into plastic mush, and while I in my literal New York ivory tower will be fine, the fishermen will starve.
Not sure what you mean by this. Most retirement accounts are investment portfolios. I don't think they meant that people should reinvest their entire portfolio in the offering, or invest money they couldn't afford to lose.
The message received from the police was:

The message they passed on was that there was either a burglary attempt or that my car was involved in an accident. They gave the police the exact coordinates of my car...

So I would hope that when presented with an automated report that the car was involved in an accident along with the exact coordinates, that they would come investigate to see if the driver was injured in the accident and unable to call for help.

I can believe that if someone witnessed a car break-in, that they'd give that a lower priority and if the thief is no longer there, that they wouldn't come out at all since there's not much they can do about it other than agree "Yup, someone smashed your window, now go clean your glass off the sidewalk".
That feeling when an article published by one of the largest professional engineering organizations in the world has no data to support its claims.

Also, what does this even mean:

>It’s likely no accident that women, underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ people, and other underrepresented groups in the tech industry are among the more prominent voices speaking out through recruitment channels, Luo says.

Why is that no accident? Is there some different moral matrix people who belong to these groups judges the world by? Is there any evidence to support that claim (or whatever claim they're trying to make).

So glad I dropped my IEEE membership (I used to get this trash mailed to me).

And for the record, the claims could very well be true, but the article does nothing to prove it, other than using two people as an example. And I wouldn't be surprised to learn they were invented (or friends of the author).
Didn't even read the article: calling BS. Model 3 is easily twice as expensive. It is a better car by all accounts, but the steep price differential will make it safe from becoming the "green car of choice".
Rents in San Francisco are very high -- high enough, in fact, that this silly, obviously-false hyperbole is unnecessary.
My favorite interviews have been those that had a small project as a screener and then proceeded to have you modify and/or explain decisions regarding the project at the in-person stage.
Right. The application process appears to openly prioritize marketing skills, which puts it in serious conflict with the stated goal.