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"What most people really mean when they say someone is a good fit culturally is that he or she is someone they’d like to have a beer with."

This is never how the companies I've been at treated culture fit interviews. Maybe I've only been at good companies, but typically we're only screening for dealbreakers and red flags, and the "culture fit" interview is little more than a chance to relax the interviewee between grueling tech interviews and have a low-pressure chance to sell them on the company; if they happen to offer up an offensive statement or shoot themselves in the foot, then that's on them.

The only situations where I've seen people cut based on culture fit questions, they've done something really odd. Comment on an interviewer's looks. Talk unreasonable shit about current company coworkers or policies, or spill confidential info. Indicate unwillingness to work with people of certain political persuasions. Outright racism or sexism. So on.

"Like to have a beer with" is a terrible hiring criteria, even if it might be useful when playing both internal and external politics. But "I'd never be willing to tolerate this personality in everyday work interactions" is a very valid reason to cut someone from consideration, and that should be considered in every interview.

Almost every toxic coworker I've come in contact with worked on a team that specifically did tech-only interviews, and didn't take culture into account. YMMV...
The valuation increase in the FAANGs are a historical anomaly. I’ll bet you that Amazon will not 6.5x in the next 5 years.

I am not saying that Amazon is a bad company, or working there is a bad idea. Just that reversion to the mean is a powerful force.
Woah there... govt subsidizes what? This isn't about subsidies (except for loan guarantees), it's about unsecured credit and debt that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. That (like credit card spending, 8 year car loans, and payday lending) is a recipe for rising prices and high eventual bankruptcy rstes, but it's not govt subsidy. It is regulatory capture.
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I'm guessing that being Muslim might have had something to do with it. I'm sorry they couldn't join you regardless.
Dante's Inferno is a good place to start, but I am looking up the Catholic teachings I have read about in the past... (edit: refer to comment above, no need for me to copy/paste it twice)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)
Well, by using the internet, pretty much everyone is a consumer, even though they don't necessarily know of it.
Bad news: visa renewal does need you to go to an embassy again. There's not even a reduction in the paperwork.
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ThreeBallot was broken (and the fix unworkable).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot#Broken_Encryption
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The tech giants didn't take his website down, the RSS feed is still live and can still be subscribed to in the podcast of your choice. How did the tech giants determine anything?
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Wait, explain the connection between liquidation preferences and valuation?

Or is the argument that these companies get very high nominal valuations but the terms on the rounds they raise include punitive preferences?
Not that trivial if your deployment involved data migration steps like DB schema changes.
He can speak all he wants to. No one stopped him from publishing on his own website.
Looks awesome, just one thing about the website if anybody knows them personally. The motto under the Product, "Secure login, open, easy." is mostly hidden by the photo.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749937
Every article I read on this confused "location history" with "location services", if you are aware of the difference you shouldn't be surprised that location data is still being sent to their servers.

The Google experience is all about apps backed by the cloud, that's when their apps are at their max utility, I get why some people might not want that but that's no cause to ascribe malice to them.
Liquidation multiples and preference gives the investor protection when things go bad (and also a kicker when it goes well). Let’s say you put in $100M and have a 2x liquidation multiple at a $4B valuation.

Even if the company falls apart and sells for $100M you still get your money back. If it declines to $200M you get all of that before anyone else.

In reality terms vary substantially. In this case, Doordash had just raised and didn’t need to raise again. Depending on how desperate investors were to get in, they might have gotten clean terms.
If you know how people are going to respond, you can take advantage of it. You get a related practice in double-tap bombing attacks, where there's a second bomb set to hit the predictable batch first responders.

In this case, you can predict where people will evac to, and time your follow-up bombing flights to hit those areas before there's time to evacuate from them.
That is a very sexy snippet.

I love well written clojure code
the ps/2 models 25 and 30 were sold in large numbers to educational institutions, so my guess is that it was paired with some sort of weird education-related recording and playback software.
Good idea. There may be enough impact and vulcanism events with reasonably good dating to search for the former as a cause of the latter.
I accidentally bricked one when I walked across a carpeted room and zapped it with a static charge.
Also known as a racket.
Obviously happiness can be increased, but it can't be solved. You can't get yourself, much less all of society, to a particular place and just say "welp, that's it, perfect happiness is achieved forever". Not with infinite resources and political power could you do this. It goes against human nature.
The current HAL works via dynamic libraries that get loaded into your process and talk to kernel space with a platform specific API. The passthrough support is just opening both sides in the same process, loading those legacy libraries, and wrapping the libraries in the treble API. So it actually uses IPC where both sides are in user space. That's what they mean when they describe it as 'in process' in the documentation.

Going forward, I expect the vendors to modify their kernel drivers to export the treble API over binder IPC directly while in kernel space.

So I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up that interprocess RPC only ebds up getting used in systems before Oreo.
It is pretty obvious that nothing electronic is more secure and transparent than paper. Blockchains show the only thing that potentially could provide a solution. At this point in time for a secure election, it must be paper. If you want electronic, it is either going to involve a blockchain, or something even more radically different than anything that has been done before. If it isn't either of these two things, then I guarantee that it is less secure than paper, regardless of any efficiency gain which is moot.
No, I get what a preference is; I'm wondering what the connection between them and valuation is.
Biggest mistake is to make buzz feed articles that people spam all over hacker news so we end up black listing them.
That may buy a little time, but unless or until the numbers actually start falling it doesn't actually solve the problem.

It's not asking them not to exist, I can't foresee compulsory euthanasia camps, it's merely asking them to limit procreation. China shows it's doable - though I'm sure there's better ways to achieve limits. At least that gives our future generations a chance of experiencing some of the things that make life interesting with still functional ecosystem and wildlands.
They dont. You don't need power management for a lot of embedded systems that are high assurance. Power is generally plentiful in high assurance situations for a lot of reasons.
It's still the same case now, Norwegian Airlines doesn't participate in PreCheck (just flew to Europe last week).

However, you can sort of mitigate that if you're also a member of Clear. At my local airport Clear lets me use the PreCheck lines even if the ticket isn't PreCheck (which is contrary to my understanding of how it's supposed to work, but I'm not complaining!).
That's because there are far more people jockeying for teaching positions than there are positions available.

Imagine what they could be doing if more people were going to college.
> everything I say gets sent to some remote server.

Why do you think everything is recorded and sent to a remote server?
I find the lack of granularity annoying. Your search history is generally less sensitive than your location, but both are bundled up in 'Web & App Activity'. There's no way to get Google to remember my search queries from my phone without it also creepily recalling every single location I brought my phone to. This feels almost like a dark pattern, like bundling a newsletter subscription when signing up to service.
> Given that something like one in twenty or so adults in most parts of the country are probably carrying a firearm at any given time

I think that’s a gross overestimation. I would guess that most CCW permit holders hardly ever carry in practice (source: used to have one).

There are states where you don’t need a permit to own a pistol at all. In others, you may not technically need one to take your gun to the shooting range (because after all, if you own one, you should practice) but...

If you’re stopped by police in a context where you don’t need a permit, it’s still always better to have one. If the police aren’t aware of the law or the particular permit exception you fall under, the best likely outcome is you get put in a cage while they figure it out. Having a permit helps avoid that.
Very frequently that argument gets made for teams and organizations where that kind of representation is pointless.

Does your cloud ops team rolling out container clusters need 51% female representation to bring the female perspective to devops? How exactly is diversity going to help there?

Don't get me wrong, having an environment where women feel welcome, instead of a locker room boys-club, is quite sensible if you want to open the doors to that 10-20% pool of candidates that otherwise would not be enticed to join you. BUT, the argument that diversity of genitalia, melanin, and sexual orientations will somehow make Docker work better is nonsense.

There's plenty of evidence to show that super homogenous groups perform exceptionally well, and there are countless examples out there of teams that excel without any kind of "perceived" diversity among them. There's likely diversity of thought between them, but that's not what anybody cares about today.
The short answer is yes, you can do that, but it starts to get nuanced rather quickly. The context of this is a desire to go “serverless” and that solutions like this only give you serverless for the relatively easy parts of your stack. If your goal is to go “serverless” I take that to mean a few things listed below.

1) you don’t have to manage infrastructure
2) you don’t have to think about infrastructure (what size cluster do i need to buy?)
3) you pay for what you use at a granular level. (GB stored, queries made, function invocations, etc)
4) scale to zero (when not in use, you don’t pay for much of anything)

Most things don’t hit all of these points, but typical managed services hit very few of these points. Sure, I can use a managed MySQL, but it only satisfies 1 of the 4 points.
Can anyone be specific about what diversity, exactly, gender involves? Will the list sound like anything other than a list of stereotypes? Which perspective is it that one gender has but the other doesn't? I doubt anybody is thinking about tetrachromacy...
Indeed, one of my arguments was the same one used at Etsy: our userbase happened to be disproportionately female.

To be honest, the atmosphere when I arrived was not that great -- a case could have been made that it was a hostile workplace environment. However, my colleagues saw themselves as loyal to the company, and they didn't see themselves as discriminators. To their great credit, they found ways to moderate both their their behaviors and their mindsets.

This approach won't always work. Some people are more entrenched in their attitudes and had there been someone like that there, maybe it would have been uglier and more difficult.

But sometimes, one at a time, people can change.
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Higher multiples and preference means that you have less downside and higher upside in the investment -> higher valuation.
Personally I could care less. There are literally billions of words that sometimes mean their own opposite.
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> Well, why can't you just make the food less spicy, but advertise it as more? I don't mean you should lie- just slide your spiciness scale down a bit so that what you call "hot" is actually mild and what you call extra super hot is just sorta-hot, for you, but not for the customers.

Some dishes like Thai Green Curry are based on green chillies (and Red curry on red chillies). Adding less chilli just dilutes the flavour an makes it weak (but still hot). You cannot really substitute the chilli with another milder ingredient like capsicum (bell pepper) because the flavour will change completely.
It should be profitable. Tesla doesn't spend any money on marketing. Maybe it is not "profitable enough" compared to the other vehicles but without it how will Tesla become a car company for the masses and get considerable size.
I’d say something more nuanced. Serverless is increasing commoditization of one layer of the stack at the cost of de-commoditizing a high layer of the stack. This is what makes it a hard decision to grapple with. You’re getting very real benefits from it, and potentially paying a very real cost sometime down the road when being locked into the propietary system bites you.
That kid is a genius.He knows that no system is secure and perfect.If he is not hired by anyone he will be one of the most prominent hackers there to come in future.
This is such a weird criticism of the "supply chain blockchain" concept.

I assume that the blockchain record just acts as evidence that a given person entered something incorrectly. The blockchain just acts as a database that is under no one company's control.

I know nothing about these projects but that seems obvious. Where am I wrong? How do I have to "trust someone to enter the data"?
It is worrying to see China on the economic offensive in its marginalization of Taiwan. Has Beijing ever behaved so aggressively in the past?
Isn't gender a social construct anyway that is fluid and changes based on one's feelings at that specific point in time?
Man, if this doesn't highlight the potential threat of a large Google China business then I don't know what does. How does Google plan to both serve the Chinese market and maintain uncensored non-Chinese search engines which mostly show results asserting Taiwan is a separate country?

Am I supposed to believe the same Chinese government who, for example, sees the extradition of Jho Low to Malaysia (mastermind of a multibillion-dollar embezzlement of Malaysia's public funds) [1] as a "bargaining chip" would somehow not try to use its market access as leverage over Google's non-Chinese search results?

The more I think about Google in China, the more I'm shocked that Google either hasn't considered these scenarios or, even worse, doesn't care.

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysia-says-china-harbors-1md...
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Would you be willing to share how the team is different now compared to at the start? What areas have changed for better or worse ('areas' in the sense of 'overall technical competence', 'ability to meet customer needs', 'team morale', not just 'diversity', I mean.)
I wish the media would hold the same hue and cry over telco tracking. ISPs are unrepentantly shady about their collection and resale of PII but nobody bats an eye...
> really love your guys styling.

Agreed. A fresh twist on the typical drop shadows.
Judaism has no hell, ask any religious Jew. (I know a few and have had this very discussion with them.) Ghenna was a burning trash heap, not a place of torment. Death is a silencing end, not a torturous punishment in the bible, including the teachings used by the Jews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell

Also, christian Churches don't teach Jewish theology, they teach a version of Catholisim, and eternal burning hell fire of punishment is found in the Vatican's own Catechism of the Catholic Church.

"1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire."615 The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs."

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2O.HTM

This is a purely Catholic teaching, and other branches of Christianity, derive many of their myths from the Greeks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell#Greek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_Hell#Roman_...

The bible is clear that when you die, you are either asleep, like King David was (Jesus referenced his bones) or burned up and gone forever, the lake of fire from Revelations.
Best of luck! We still use RethinkDB under a lot of our tech stack, and love it. Great platform and I hope it continues to improve under open source care.
I think he's saying that the valuation would be lower if the liquidation preference were lower. This makes sense since a higher liquidation preference reduces the risk of the investment, thus allowing you to grant a higher valuation.
20MHz is not a lot, but a DSP is quite different from a regular CPU, so I wonder if it's powerful enough for decoding low-bitrate MP3...
The fusing wires almost certainly are, unless you're dealing with a nation-state or, possibly, a major corporation.
This hearsay but I've heard restaurants hate all of the delivery services. They take a cut and decrease walk in traffic which usually buys high profit stuff like alcohol and fountain beverages.
The horse is very much alive, despite the beatings it constantly takes from people who are incapable of seeing the value of a diverse workplace.
Exactly! It's a good competitive business decision. When your team lacks diversity, you've got massive blind spots.
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UBI please. Let's end this surveillance in the name of penny pinching while organized crime is allowed to exist.
Founders may trade a higher valuations for investor preferences. A Stanford professor of mine who studies VC noted that preferences a few years ago were most prevalent when just pushing startups into unicorn terriory.
The users of the product that my team makes are overwhelmingly male, in fact I don't know that I've ever had a female user. Should I refuse to hire women on that basis?
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Do either IPFS or DAT/BeakerBrowser solve this problem?

(They are both protocols for distributed web apps based on immutable content.)
There's a sign bit, just like binary floating point. The details about how to do the math are up to the implementer, but I'm sure any bignum algorithm would work fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point

I can't say I'm a huge fan of the standard defining two separate encodings, one that uses a single binary field, and one that uses a series of 10-bit fields. There's no way to distinguish them either.
The Arch wiki is probably the closest thing that's actually maintained. I'm personally not a big fan of Arch, but it's worth installing it and messing around with a bit so that you're able to distinguish the arch-specific instructions in their wiki from things that apply generically to the same daemons when configured on other linux platforms.
I use google maps on iOS without logging into google — why can’t I see my recent search history reliably on the local device?

I feel like there’s a tipping point where “we have the strategy that data is delivered to/from the cloud” becomes a way to punish users who turn features off for privacy reasons ...
I don't think anyone in this comment chain is saying "we don't want women building stuff". Rather, some commenters are uncomfortable with the assumption that moving from 15 males to 11 males + 5 females is necessarily an improvement.

Maybe 5 of the original 15 males were gay. Does that change your perspective? I find this whole way of thinking unsettling. Doesn't it simply depend on who these people are as individuals?

I'd also be careful with the argument you've (implicitly) made. It doesn't seem to follow that the distribution of gender of programmers should match the distribution of gender of users. Besides, there must be software projects where 95%+ of users are male or female.

In general, I think most of us here agree that gender discrimination is bad, people being discouraged from making career choices due to gender is bad, and sexual harassment is bad. We may disagree on the frequency with which these things occur or how to fix them, but I think we're a lot closer than it appears from these contentious comments.
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90% of the attendees were women. Given that correlation implies causation in the world of social justice, doesn't this demonstrate that there must be rampant systemic sexism in the field that keeps otherwise eager men from breaking in? Where's the uproar?
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon did the same thing, except if you didn't correctly identify the ocomotive, it just dropped the game into a limp mode so you could still trial the experience without the manual.

And also it didn't hurt that railway enthusiasts knew two-thirds of the locomotives by heart anyway.
Women are not automatically making you a better perspective on that, genders are not some kind of homogeneous religious group where everyone thinks the same. Companies should just hire competent workers, trying to fill quotas is a meaningless task.
What’s ycombinator’s policy in their startups, is it friendly to secondaries ?

aren’t the founders common stockholders ?
If a company already has a large PHP codebase, then it's probably the right choice to stick with it. And it can scale just fine, easily as well as Python or Ruby if you dig into how to do it right.

But to manage scalable PHP (or any language, for that matter) you still need smart programmers, a lot of whom will have been through most of the serious academic works in the field. They won't love working with PHP (I never did), and it might mean greater flight risk (yup!), but they might join the job anyways (at least half a dozen people that I know with those creds that joined up with the last project I was on where we had no choice but to deal with PHP) because of other reasons, like liking the company, people, or goals.

I've worked with a dozen different languages over the last 20 years. PHP is not one that I'd pick for a new project, but TBH, it's not the worst I've had to deal with. My experiences with the Visual Basic, Perl, and R code that I've had to interact with were actually far worse (typically because the people that code them are not as solid in software engineering), but I wouldn't judge people that use them just based on having done so. Unless we're spinning up new prototypes, very few of us actually get to choose the technologies that we use.