skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do I? There are a lot of great companies, why should I waste time on Google? Working there is not as fancy as you think.

>> Everyone is busy, that's a terrible excuse not to brush up on your interview skills.
I believe that their approach is arrogant, they just don't value candidates time.

I have a confession to make, I spent some time at Google. And after I left I was interviewing people using their approach and I regret it now.

P/S/
When you interview for a company, you actually taking more risk that the company (talking about folks who are headhunted into interviews). If it doesn't work out, you will be out searching for a job, you career growth may be slowed down. And what is the company risk?
The cell modem chosen [0] is a bit disappointing. With support for only 4 LTE bands (2/4/5/17), its going to work less-than-ideally on every US carrier. Zero sub-GHz bands are supported, meaning lousy indoor and rural coverage.

Good LTE band support is something you might take for granted if you are used to using flagship Android or iOS devices.

[0] http://simcomm2m.com/En/module/detail.aspx?id=84
Can anyone share their experience about performance gains? Especially when using hash indexes (not the default btree) with many insert per seconds.

I think sharding may help, as I currently have very high CPU loads
> urther examples of disrespect include when I argued that we shouldn’t let a cosplayer in blackface on our stage for a parade, keeping in mind that Riot is a global company. I was repeatedly called racist by my colleagues, who tried to convince me that it was an acceptable practice and I was overreacting.

This...can't possibly be true. Is this true??
I would like to know this as well. Case in point, when I was a kindergarten teacher, kids wouldn't have a concept of race. I'd have white girls asking me if I could put their hair in braids like "the tan girls."

But by 4th grade I'd be teaching about slavery, racism, etc, and the kids would be then learning about a concept that was utterly nonsensical to the non-racism-indoctrinated kids. So I'm wondering what would happen if I never taught about racism at all.
What I'm asking is whether you had a coherent argument about weaknesses in SGX based on Yogesh's research that would keep it from functioning in Signal's contact discovery scheme, or whether you saw the letters "SGX" in a thread and posted the first link you could find about issues with SGX. Maybe you should find a better link? They're out there.
The neglected benefits of the commute
I see "real" exception support as an attempt to solve deficiency of resource management on errors in a shared memory model. But it never actually solves it, only puts a burden on people to manually deal with it (sort of like manual memory management) and introduces a lot of accidental complexity into everything it touches. Such problems are way better solvable with killable isolated processes and message passing (actor model). Otherwise discouraging use of panics and primitive support for exceptions is good enough. It helps avoid too much manual error propagation in certain rare cases. Real exceptions are still not a solution though.
Now I’m wondering about the damage of all those Windows crashes and blue screens :-)

Seriously though, the sky is blue, the sea is blue, how come we’ve evolved into beings affected by blue light??
That's an awesome idea -- as someone who rabidly hates whiteboard interviews, to the extent that I'm looking at the responses in this article as a note of who to consider applying with next, I would love the challenge of "explain a complex concept you're already familiar with". I've never gotten that in an interview before.
To oversimplify the issue a bit, it boils down to which you believe is more auspicious for both the planet and humankind: (1) a mix of housing with more dense housing, or (2) a mix of housing with more suburban single family dwellings.

While there are many arguments for #2, I believe most of those arguments are more emotional than real. In fact, in the world of many young dual income families on the SF peninsula specifically, lots of families spend approximately zero time in their yards.

While I recognize that individual families should, of course, have the freedom to splurge their resources on dwellings that are underutilized, as a matter of social policy, it is foolish to promote a suburban lifestyle as some kind of ideal when it turns out the reality is very different.

(Due to a family health issue, I once had a year where I needed to be available at home, but I did have MUCH time to garden. It was shocking how extremely rarely most of my neighbors' yards were used. Even the majority of yards of families with children were unused, both weekdays and weekends.)
I wonder why they bothered with the smash - broken glass would make people take their car to a dealer. Just the "failed jimmying" might have gone if not unnoticed as a police issue procrastinated in fixing. Maybe they were just frustrated auto thieves.
It's not really "Forbes". The article was written by a "Forbes Contributor", which is an unpaid blogger. I elaborate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17728614

I agree with you, back in the "good old days" Forbes was a respectable publication. Not any more.
These aren't merely "bad ideas". It's hate speech advocating for violence against a historically oppressed group. There is no slippery slope; we know what hate speech and anti-semitism are, and those are the rules being applied here.
>I am refuting the misconception that shedding light on bad ideas makes them go away.

It doesn't make them go away. It allows them to be refuted - which hopefully stems at least some of the indoctrination that would otherwise occur only in private.

If everyone I've ever known tells me vaccines are evil and I never am told or shown otherwise - I'll grow up continuing to think vaccines are evil. If you refuse to let me speak about vaccines that only further proves that you're evil and trying to hide the truth - and strengthens my indoctrination. Now, poor arguments against anti-vaccers also serve to strength the indoctrination so there's some bad with the good... (Also just to be certain on things: "you" and "I" are used generically for easier writing, I support and believe in vaccines.)

There are also plenty of bad ideas that do die to public scrutiny - think of anytime anyone has ever been talked out of "doing something stupid" because they shared what they had planned to do.
But this article is just explaining operator overloading, right? Doesn't everyone learn that halfway through semester in C++ 101?

And operator overloading has nothing to do with DRY, in fact it's generally better to avoid it except for in very niche situations, like adding __add__ to a matrix type.
The Toll of America’s Obesity
That argument works well in relatively small social groups where people generally can be relied upon to act in good faith, and where there are social disincentives to clinging to bad ideas after they have been refuted.

When you have a small group with social bonds, you don't have to worry about a bad actor constantly repeating their already-refuted arguments to people who haven't heard the refutation.

But when you have the whole internet as your audience, no matter how many times you are refuted, you can say it again and a whole group of people will be hearing it for the first time.

I have been on the Internet since the 80s. What I have personally found is that a lot of its social norms were lifted from academia, and they work very well as defaults in a new social media context. Like Hacker News when it was first launched.

But eventually, every "social medium" on the Internet has its "Eternal September," when the number of new folks in any conversation outweighs the old hands. At that point, the social norms that worked for the small, cohesive group no longer work.

And worse, there are specialist parasites who exploit people's reluctance to change their social norms, and the act in outrageously bad faith.

Sites like HN have survived by changing. For all of the popularity on HN of "unrestricted free speech," HN is actually moderated, and that's why it works.
No, not true at all. Engineering and academia are still solidly Matlab. You have to keep in mind that these people are not programmers, they are used to Matlab, and they don't want to learn another language. It's just a small proportion of new faculty and some grad students that use Python. Statistics is all R.
> The properties of the simulating universe ... could be literally unimaginable ... within the simulation.

Totally. This is an area that religion claims to address—believers in a religion [1] could frame God as The Simulator and a divine revelation as a message from the simulator, perhaps regarding the purpose of the simulation—that otherwise there is no way to know.

The author of the paper describes a limitation of this line of inquiry:

> The type of simulation ruled out is very specific. Perhaps that is the price one must pay to make any kind of Popperian progress.

It reminds me of this:

> For were I to praise [God] ... I would find that my praise of Thee can befit only such as are like unto me, who are themselves Thy creatures, and who have been generated through the power of Thy decree ...

It's an area that's inherently challenging to explore from inside the simulation!

[1] Disclaimer: Baha'i here, watch out

[2] Baha'u'llah — http://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/p...
Has string theory made any testable predictions yet? They’ve had 20-30 years and it seems with every generation of particle accelerator they simply discard the current version of the theory and make the strings/membranes/whatever smaller and/or occupy yet more dimensions to justify them to still not be testable.

Is it really worth articles saying “string theory may not be compatible with X”, when it could just be “unproven/unprovable hypothesis doesn’t work with new data”
No one has mentioned Google App Maker which comes with GSuites Business and Enterprise. Retool seems to be in direct competition.
Little goggling showed a proposed 3000 MW transmission line coming in at about $1.6M/mile. At a 1000 miles that would be

1.6X1000 or $1.6 billion

$1.6b/3000W is $0.53/W capital cost.

That doesn't seem crazy.
That’s a great guide! Thanks for sharing it.

I’ve tried a couple of these things so far. I moved teams to try and cut out some infrastructure improvements but got foiled when the other side of the company decided unilaterally to change cloud hosting providers (My boss left the company after that).
Please add me to the list of people to talk about the install on EC2 Instance options, docker would be preferable though.
>Whether it's worth your time messing about with this is a separate matter entirely.

Yeah, transaction fees can really eat into your gains unless you're a very good picked or are interesting millions.
its the last recourse for the alt-right because other platforms censor them. I'm sure if you posted far-left stuff on there it wouldn't be censored either, but there is no point because most social media platforms don't censor far-left thoughts anyway.
out of curiosity, how low are you going in terms of temperature?
Plausible. On either choice, is the NYT a far left paper?

Btw, I don't think the accusation of its political leaning holds water, in saying plausible I mean I think you're right that the other person believes social justice headlines indicate left wing when to me, they just indicate normal middle of the road democrat positions.
> Nationalism feeds into that

How?
Partnership Principles for Startups
It's equally plausible that our single bit is far too high-level of an object for them. Why not just simulate everything that makes up our bits? (germanium atoms, etc)
This is similar to an AWS DeepLens community project called ASLens https://aws.amazon.com/deeplens/community-projects/ASLens/
This sort of thing illustrates the biggest issue with web hosting, domain registrars and the internet's infrastructure in general; everything is privately owned by companies who get unlimited rights to decide who and what they want to host.

The solution is to require all hosting and domain companies to act as utilities, and require neutrality in regards to any content that's legal. They're not private forums or homes, they're the internet equivalent to the electricity company or the water company. They're the internet equivalent to a phone service provider or ISP.

Why do/did ISPs have to deal with net neutrality while large hosting companies and registrars get free reign? The power company can't cut off your service because you offended someone online or what not.

If you want to argue the internet is a place for free speech, then it needs places you can host content/register domains/whatever that act like a public square, not a shopping centre.
On-Demand Startups – Their biggest challenges
It's the same people who are downvoting you, it's anonymous people that can't handle different political views. Yesterday it was Alex Jones, now it's Gab, Voat will be next, then The_Donald etc.

Sticks and stones is a foreign concept to people reporting these sites. They want everyone to agree with them. And since most of the major hosting companies have that liberal culture going on, they will happily ban them.

Now watch my post get downvoted and flagged :)
> "shower-thought"

It strikes me that the lack of conviction in the people that the Pioneer fund itself is selecting (as evidenced by such a low amount of money for such a high percentage, and lock-in) means that all that they will get is going to be half-baked shower thoughts. Ultimately, you get what you pay for.
We have our long term retention (SEC compliance) with Smarsh, but everything else is 3 months or less. And even after implementing Exchange, we still have a lot of applications in LN that will be retained until someone decides the cost to re-write them is cheaper than licensing and support for LN.
I have a dog, have lost dogs in the past, and understand how sad it is. But man, there are so many dogs in shelters getting killed because of overcrowding that it boggles my mind that people can be so selfishly fixated on their needs that they don't think about the costs of their decisions (suffering of the surrogate dogs, the clones that don't make it, and the disgustingly high monetary costs here).

Life is full of death and sadness, people and animals you care deeply about don't live forever. Being able to deal with grief and continue living your life is an important skill to develop. I'm not sure that grasping to maintain what is ultimately unmaintainable is a healthy way of handling it. The clone won't be the same dog, if anything it's going to make it harder to grieve and move on with your life.
$15k in tax isn't that big of a sign on bonus then, since I'm assuming it's a $37.5k grant? When paying $XXXk in tax starts sounding crazy for a company to do as a sign on bonus, that is the time to go RSU, because it's triple crazy for your employee to pay the exercise cost themselves.

In practice, unless the cost is so cheap that doing an 83b is not hard, then an RSU is no different than an option to an employee. The employees will only exercise when there is some sort of liquidity.

No employee is going to have the capital to exercise any other time either, because it's only to get more expensive with AMT as time goes on.

By RSU I mean stock that is granted only when you have met the time requirement as in normal stock options, and when the company is liquid (acquisition or IPO). Cheap stock options that don't expire when you leave also work too.
Every time an interviewer has told me something like this, they then nitpick syntax and appear to be primarily concerned with "does my whiteboard code compile" sorts of problems. And getting stuck / asking for help feels like I get docked for getting stuck. Same with less optimized. So it's hard to trust such an explanation - clearly my interview would be better if I came up with the perfectly optimized solution, or gave a lecture on the options rather than trying to discuss options.

So it seems to me entirely reasonable to still be nervous.

Mind you, I don't have a better answer, but I don't think just explaining that suboptimal is ok and it's a discussion really helps.
This constitutes the main critique of the idea. Besides pacifist arguments against militarization of space as a commonwealth for all of Earth.

21st Space Wing out of Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs already bears the brunt of the duty. With a dedicated total staff of approx 20K air men and women.

DoD recommendations remain to be seen for a sixth branch. But I believe the design is for a much bigger and permanent institution. Space based communications comprise GPS systems, navigation, timing, broadcast and a whole lot else. Russia and China already have tested ground to orbit based missile capacity. And space systems are inherently fragile: only a few satellites need to be taken offline for there to be wide disruptions in service.

The big question is can it be done with the efficiency we are now witnessing in private sector New Space enterprises. Or will we see the same bureaucracy that is plaguing the F-35 rollout.

Personally I feel if it can be done "ahead of schedule, and under budget". It could provide security for all of humankind's peaceful expansion into the stars.
Australia has a huge depndency on air and road freight with massive diesel subsidy to truckers and more air miles per Citizen than many other economies. We also have long hot dry weather. So the fine particulate matter issue here. Brazil has inadequate health funding and high humidity so gets mould..
I wonder if such a tool exists for creating responsive animations from websites as if recording screencasts.
A 1 hour commute costs you 2 hours a day. That's almost like working an extra 7 weeks a year with lower productivity and increased wear and tear on you.
And if you can't tax externalities, do you just throw your hands up in the air, and say: 'Welp, I guess coal is here to stay?'

Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
I used to fix cars for a living. Sometimes it involved “cracking” alarm & immobiliser systems.

My clients all claimed they broke/lost their keys to their car - most of the time they were believable (car stuck in front of their driveway, etc). Sometimes less so, but I’d do it anyway because I needed the money and I had no proof of the contrary (innocent until proven guilty right?), although given the sad conditions of the cars I really doubt anyone would bother stealing them.

Car security is based on obscurity. There is very little cryptography involved (if any), and where there is, the car’s “computers” would happily install new, untrusted firmware through the diagnostics (OBD) port, which means you can do pretty much anything - program new keys, disable the immobiliser or alarm completely (by installing patched firmware) or even rewind the odometer.

I’m frankly surprised it took this long for “high tech” car theft to appear, unless it’s been going on for a while but executed perfectly so nobody would find a trace.

Happy to answer any questions if anyone’s curious.
Twitter says Infowars hasn't 'violated our rules.' That's not the case
It’s only used for people’s passing. Not current events.
I'm nowhere near Gladstone, but I have a lot of exposure to the planning & approval process for Australian mines.

Firstly, it is unlikely that the mine manger has less power in the modern era than they did in the days of old. Mine managers wield enormous power under law and in practice.

Secondly, the real issue here is likely that nobody cares about small limestone mines, but the economies of scale in Gladstone are such that the mines are projects of importance at the State and global level. Local groups with real power (enough influence to get council moving) can still sway mine operations quite convincingly, larger mining companies have had some experiences with fighting real local opposition and it is not a profitable exercise. But the flip side of that, once a mine operation gets large enough it can no longer please everyone, and when the State & local governments support your operation, the people who are not pleased feel very powerless. Nobody likes that situation, but there isn't a straightforward resolution.

The idea that globalisation is responsible is a bit tenuous. Make the case that councils are blinded by greed, that is an easy one. I will politically remind the reader that the State government, who takes the cut, is also the same group who needs more money to fund schools & hospitals. EDIT And mining corporations usually spend lavishly on local projects to suppress organised opposition on council.

tl;dr; I have observed the process and don't believe that globalisation has broken the chain. Local government still has sufficient power to yea, nay or influence operations. State governments have absolute power to yea, nay and influence operations. They are responsible, not some shady globalist in Shenzhen, America or Japan.
> if they followed a traditional IPO the wouldn't have gone public at the same price but had a bank to back stop their share price at that level.

TFA:

> At Spotify, we chose more of a free market approach.

and

> we didn’t need to raise capital to fund our growth.

These are the 2 key points that people are going to miss. The reason to use a bank to underwrite your IPO (and make the market) is to backstop the price. The company isn't "leaving money on the table" when they price "too low" and miss the first day pop. They are buying insurance against internal pricing error.

I would like to see an independent analysis, not a supporting article from the CFO of the company that could afford the risk.

Please excuse me if my own armchair look at it is hopelessly naive.
Cold emails – resist the urge to sell
State dependent learning is a bit of a factor too. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve presented anything on a whiteboard at work, yet just about every company asks these questions during interviews. A screenshare would be a better representation of on-the-spot problem solving, if that’s what you’re testing, because I’m at least in an environment I typically work in.

Whiteboard coding interviews are one thing that I have to go out of my way to practice for and get better at over time when interviewing (ie over the course of a few failed interviews). I don’t feel more skilled or smarter by the end of the set of interviews, but I inevitably do better at these kinds of problems. Should the interview be testing my competency at day-to-day work skills or how well I’ve practiced my interview skills, because whiteboard coding problems only achieve the latter.
If we're in a simulation, it must be running on a simulator. That simulator is presumably not just a natural feature of the universe - that's just "laws of nature deeper than we have discovered so far", which I take as something different from "simulator". In fact, the simulator (by my definitions) has to be an artificial construction - that is, created by an intelligence for a purpose.

That doesn't necessarily get you intelligent design of life, but it does get you intelligent design of the universe.

I, too, find it amusing that we've decided that God doesn't exist, that the natural universe is all that exists. And then some people decide that we're in a simulation, that the universe is an artificial construction created by someone outside of it (but who totally is not God). I'd find it even more amusing if I thought that the simulator people had a reasonable position. (To me, "you can't prove me wrong" does not imply "therefore I'm probably right".)
For cluster headaches, a high rate of oxygen (like 10-12 liters per minute) acts as a vasoconstrictor, which can relieve pressure on the nerve.
But the taxpayers are beneficiaries of these higher debt payments, through their pension funds and 401k accounts.

Or so we are told, every time taxes are cut for the wealthy.
What do you think of a bakery refusing to make a wedding cake for people they disapprove of?