skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What did the ads lie about? That fresh mozzarella tastes good?
I have been coasting for nearly two decades from experience from running Slack.
It is false advertising, simple as that. Nobody is going to do anything about it though, because our politicians are bought. Best thing you can do is boycott and hope they will change.
Making sure we’re tackling “classism” and not just “racism”.

A lot of times this means focusing on people who don’t have college degrees (or recruiting directly at community college), speaking to local activists and anti-poverty groups, and making an effort to hire not as many referrals (who will often be of the same socioeconomic class/status).

The biggest part though is making sure 10% of our roles are explicitly entry level no experience needed, or sometimes just trivial experience (like 1 year working in an office environment).
Not sure why you're being down voted. For the vast majority of jobs, recreational drug use is commonplace already.

I'm not sure the solution is to ensure that the minority that get caught are unable to ever go back to being productive, effectively being forced into finding alternative means to pay their rent/bills/etc.
Save the Planet with Cyber
Haskell is a great language to learn as an introductory language with the right teacher and text. Read Hutton's book and come back here and tell me you found it to be too difficult for a beginner.
Most interesting bit is their consensus protocol.
Awfully important though. Consider the all-powerful god who can create a universe, and all he thinks about all day long is us.
I see you mentioned something like. Make sure you’re still excited after 30 days (or fire fast).

That's a big NO-NO for me. 30 days is way too small for any company to make a decision on a hire. It just means your process for hiring is not good. We must start with firing people who were responsible for the that bad hire first.
Do you think this interpretation would pass the "put 10 random people in a room and ask them" test?

I think the majority would expect to get the advertised speed unconditionally (in particular: not conditioned on using it a lot). And I suspect that most of the people expecting the opposite would be doing so because they heard about someone else being burned by the wording, as opposed to figuring that out for themselves tabula rasa.
I have a diversified retirement portfolio, thank you very much.
I think with a good business side you can get away with mediocre first technical hires, which you will probably end up with.
I won't comment the book.
But my personal feeling is that you need a working environment first. And for that, you need to follow the advice at this resource:
https://medium.com/@dogwith1eye/setting-up-haskell-in-vs-cod...
with my comment (cf Olivier Rossel). If you are under Ubuntu, forget about the brew paragraph. Just curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh

After all that, you will have an editor that can run/debug some Haskell.
We the People? This is why voting is important, but I’m afraid that even if everyone participated, most people still condone treating prisoners like crap. “Othering” really helps justify it in people’s minds: “oh, it’s fine to treat them poorly because they’re monsters, and everyone knows only Bad People go to prison”. Never mind that a lot of prisons are stuffed full of nonviolent drug offenders whose only crime was possessing a plant and maybe being the wrong skin color.

We have a long way to go. Treating our inmates better requires Americans to have some semblance of compassion, and considering how we can’t even agree that everyone should be able to see a doctor and not die or go bankrupt from an infection, I have sincere doubts that we will ever make things better for prisoners in our lifetimes.
That's the canonical definition of an MVP.
I suspect few physics students would agree with you about the didactic value of LL. The audiences for the two types of books couldn't be more different.
It seems like this might be the precursor to doing a real test (probably small/regional) with a real brand. If the response was extremely negative I'd think that they'd shelve it altogether.
Yeah, I’m sorry to say it but I agree with what some other people have been posting.

I would have been excited to be part of a pre-vetted community. Will there be a separate space for the people on the advisor track to be able to communicate and form a community?

Letting everyone in makes it feel like YC is going from “Harvard” to “Khan Academy.” Both are noble endeavors, but completely different brands.

And to your point, it was never about credentialing. It’s about the network. Isn’t one of YC’s main selling points the YC network? (This is repeated in YC branding.) Now people are comparing it to those Facebook entrepreneur groups that everyone can join.

Feels like some serious damage has been done to the YC brand.
How is making prisoners pay for the prison any different than a court fining someone convicted of a crime?
DragonflyBSD Threadripper Tests
I think you are misunderstanding what many (maybe most) funds actually say they are offering. The investment is often positioned as an asset class with low correlation to other asset classes. Whether they actually offer this or not is a different story but many funds are not out promising to beat the S&P 500 every year. Indeed if you look at something like REIF from RenTech they are trying to offer lower volatility than investing the index itself.

It should be noted that many (if not all) investors in hedge funds already own significant diversified stock holdings. They likely already own other asset classes with less correlation to the stock market like certain types of real estate.

Just to pick a practical example from recent headlines. Elliott Management undoubtedly points out to potential investors that buying sovereign debt and litigating defaults has little correlation with the S&P 500. So when is building a truly diversified global portfolio an allocation to hedge funds (or PE or VC) is often looked at through the lens of correlation, and not necessarily absolute return relative to the S&P 500.
But they pollinate another species. Isn't that bestiality, or worse?
Modern Amiga Demo Cross-Development
I also wish they ended the video with three or four middle-aged actors and actresses, in household settings, visibly demonstrating how much they enjoy consuming electricity, before turning to the camera and saying, “Thanks, Clampstar!”
I'm the head of admissions at YC and I can assure you that a huge percentage of the companies that we interview and fund are at idea stage.

One explanation I have for why it my appear the startups we fund are "far along" at demo day is that the startups moved so quickly during the batch. For example, the startup Inokyo in the current batch recently put out a video of the autonomous store they built in Mountain View: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/16/inokyo/ When we funded this startup 3 months ago it was for a different idea and so they quite literally started from scratch.

Startups moving fast should hopefully seem far along by demo day, irrespective of their starting point :)
I disagree with one click solutions for homework being viable. In my view, the best way to assign homework would be to take a small feature or an interesting bugfix a current developer already solved, and assign it to the candidate. Of course, this is tough if you want to keep your code secret and can't isolate the component/service/something source code from the rest of the system.
The thing about separating developers into good and bad is that it also flies in the face of software engineering culture- the idea that you have to have a Growth Mindset and you can Level Up through Best Practices and Deep Work and Teach Yourself to Code after 10,000-Hours (or 24, but who's counting?). The idea is that if you work on passion projects and read up on the hottest frameworks and design patterns in your spare time, you can become good. On the other hand hacker culture also praises 10x developers who are seemingly born, not self-taught into it.

What this translates into industry is that managers and companies continuously grind through candidates in an attempt to find 10x rockstar ninja cliches, rather than finding diamonds in the rough and trying to just train people.

Of course, there are going to people who are worse than that level of quality. Maybe there should be some sort of guidance for them, that even if they fail interviews, they should at least get feedback as to how they can improve themselves, instead of being stuck in bad interview death spirals.
> "everybody does it" does not justify anything

Indeed, it doesn't, I just found the commenter being way too captain obvious :)
For this to be false advertising, there would need to be an offer that's extended to customers. For instance, "$10 large pizza" would be an offer: give us $10 and we give you a large pizza. If they failed to follow through on that deal (by, say, not accepting money and not giving pizzas) then that would be false advertising. There's no such offer in these ads, or anything that could even be remotely construed as an offer.

This is not an advertisement for chocolate cake: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
That's what prison is. Well it's not supposed to be that, but it's sort of ended up that way, if you look at it from a certain perspective. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17812292. Doesn't seem to be working out very well.
Exactly. Flying a moving helicopter is not hard. A helicopter is much more stable while moving forward than while hovering. (And for the record, I am mainly a fixed wing pilot but I have also flown a helicopter.)
It literally is fine print...
Doesn't 'beyond' and 'above' imply some kind of limit.
Beginners want a clear place to start learning from. All those things you said are overwhelming and unnecessary. Some of your recommendations would be fine as next steps, but to start with, just read Hutton's book. It is small enough to be read in just a few days.
Interesting where the 2 spots that have both a Walmart and Whole Foods.
If we could go back to role where we worked on our own. Where we created our own programs from our ideas. We work on waterfall projects by day and hacked our own ganes at night. Never to be included in business meetings never to talk to the customer and never to have a standup meeting.

Where everyone loved something about technology programming/hardware/etc and continued day or night.

In many ways things would be better. This represents a time before everyone liked computers and most feared them. Salaries were not as high as today. The work was harder but more meaningful.

We can't go back. The future looks more like turning programmers into interchangable pieces that can be commodized. Defining all work into smaller pieces.

I think many of us would trade big salaries for jobs at places like bell labs.
I very much share this sentiment, I often think of prisons as quarantine. But that’s the descriptive dimension, not the normative.

Crime victims seem to crave “revenge”. It’s a very human thing. In fact psychological studies have shown it turns out that revenge feels quite fulfilling to the perpetrator. Societies without an institutionalized punitive systems (like much of western society has historically) tend to have family feuds which can last for generations.

I don’t think that should be a norm, bit plenty seem to think so, often quite strongly.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17768936
Like a big chain?

If you're referring to the helicopter,I believe they already have helicopter mounted saw blades for trimming trees, in particular, for transmission line corridors.

See here: https://youtu.be/Pla06PO6Odk
Have you read Hutton's book?
You’re right, no-one got their guns out. But that isn’t how confidence tricks tend to work. I think the reality for a lot of the losers -globally - is that they were kind of desperate, desperate enough to believe that there was some immediate answer to their cash needs. I started off believing in the crypto dream, but last year started to realise it was not what I thought it was.
That’s not what Bill said:

“Not enough people are paying attention to this economic trend”
The Race to Build a Better Bee
These sort of photos, while interesting visually, prove nothing and say even less.

Except that rich people and poor people exist and that if you're a developer you should be careful where you build lest your new development appear in a moralizing photographic exhibition.

To be clear, I am not saying inequality does not exist or that there aren't real problems of disparity of wealth, just that drawing very wide conclusions from proximity is probably a bad idea.
They ran an experiment.

Users reported that eating pizza with a fork was much preferred to eating it with chopsticks.

The Chinese version may differ though. They’ll test this later if the party allows.
25 years ago I'd regularly (every month or two) get focus group invitations that paid $100+/hr. Along with informing the subjects, compensating participants is a rock-bottom ethical standard that Google apparently cannot meet.
Link is (2013). As a further note, the writer is Gayle Laakmann McDowell, author of CTCI (Cracking the Coding Interview), which might explain its covertly pro-whiteboard interview stance. Though I agree with the comments saying that her actual criticisms aren't as clickbait or absolutist as the title makes it sound.
YKK( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YKK) probably has billions of daily users.
Except a landing page clearly transmits that message, you are literally signing up for a reminder.
OMERS Ventures invests in DuckDuckGo
https://lunarembassy.com/
I don't know if that's a thing per se, but my former employer (Fortune 500 non-FAANG) quite definitely claimed any code I wrote during my employment whatsoever.

I did one time formally ask (just to see what would happen) whether I could volunteer at the Red Cross, which demanded I sign a boilerplate intellectual property agreement saying anything I made as a volunteer belonged to them. The letter of my employment agreement was incompatible as all IP I made belonged to my employer. The question went all the way up to the corporate counsel, who presumably said "obviously a troublemaker wasting my time with this sh*t" and responded "NO".

I thought about writing the CEO because it was absurd you technically couldn't volunteer with the Red Cross, but of course, there were most likely lots of people who simply ignored the issue and/or ignore what they sign. There were certainly people in my division who appeared to be flagrantly violating the prohibition on an outside business while employed, but no doubt had the sense not to specifically ask permission.
And a recent extension of the location problem:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-ne...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17670267
I think I should have a lot of say over who owns my debt.

There's a lot of mechanics that go into paying my debt, is it automatic withdrawal? If so how do I change the account? Is it someone I can barely hear in a noisy call center I get to talk to after an hour? Or is it someone at the bank around the corner where I first opened my account when I was 14?

I've got a mortgage, they've got a fine UI for logging in and making a bonus payment, printing out amortization schedules, etc. etc. If they sold my debt to someone who would only talk to me via fax I'd be pissed off.
$ base64 -d ~/tmp/wtf.txt
uZbase64: invalid input

Edit: I suck and forgot to remove the leading stuff. I love the internet today. If anyone is wondering it is SFW.
in answer to number 3, those of us with kids probably aren't going to spend weeks on unpaid open source projects, if we are it will be ones we like, and just as we don't complain about having sex infrequently, watching Marvel movies late at night after everyone has gone to bed, or getting drunk with friends on rare occasions we won't complain about doing something we like as opposed to something we don't like and anyway most people that apply for a job apply for more than one job.

When my last gig got over I went through 10 places over a month and a week to find my next place. If homework was always only 2 hours each time that would be half a work week. The last homework I had to do actually needed some environment setup, but things had changed in some library etc. and I went through nearly 2 hours to setup environment I needed for the assignment. The homework was timed, I had 24 hours to complete from time it was sent. Somebody was sick that weekend and as a consequence I did not finish the assignment.

Supposedly applying for a job should take some hours to tailor make your resume, your cover letter and so forth, then some time to travel to interview and now extra hours to do homework. As far as might get me a great job it's been my experience that what it gets me is a job where people value getting things done but also having fun while doing it, with
some foosball games and other perks littered about an open office all seemingly decorated by the same team working globally. There will of course be opportunities to determine the technical direction of projects and perhaps the company as a whole! etc. etc. Perhaps I am fortunate that all my jobs are great, but on the other hand if that is the case I am more likely to go for the job at the place that doesn't make me do the extra hours as opposed to the one that does.

on edit: of course people do complain about having sex infrequently but it is the infrequently they complain about, not the having.
I don't think you want to go down this rabbit hole. Free time and relaxing is important investment IMO. My own experience with this philosophy was that it results in heavy burnout. And besides, you never know what you'll get out of a book or a TV show, some of them have been just as impactful on my life as works of philosophy or workout podcasts or what have you.
It takes 9 months to make a baby. You can't get 9 women and produce a baby in a month.

2 new guys don't have a year to rework 4300 cars.
You also dont get to go to the toilet in, be confined in a small room, barred from using the internet and generally deprived of your freedom in life in general.
Tone it down? Its been 60 years and the roadmap for peace has been around for decades.

Have you read the reports about what happened? Both the UN and the Israeli one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_Commission

And no Black September was an awful, awful tragedy. The murder of innocent Israelis by Palestinan groups is a heinous act that rightfully shoulf always been condemned and punished.
I chuckled at "Assuming a spherical helicopter".
> It sounds like you don't think much of testing, if you're expecting tests to be handed to you

Should have been clearer They should have tests to cover their code (not the code I'm going to right).. This cuts down on me adding testing libs needed, any setup, and laying down a pattern for their expectations(wrt tests). With expectation dev would add tests to cover their code.

> And when on Earth do you get clear and detailed instructions on what is expected?

On the job, I have easy access to the information/easy access to the people with the information. Not to mention personal relationships with the people I need to query.

My usage of 'inane' refers to things that a dev on the job
won't be doing 99.9% of the time. Things that take effort & thought to setup(initial project setup) but don't really give any insight into whether a dev can write & architect code well. All the things a company already has in place.
> ...why would you give them 10% equity?

Because they’re taking on a gigantic risk too?
"Ill try follow the guidelines here"
Ya Im guessing my response was a bit borderline. I wish HN had a private response.
It might be a good tradeoff for the individual candidate, but it’s a terrible practice for the hiring company. It’s like hiring a physicist by giving them a pop quiz on quantum electrodynamics.
Going to prison is the fine. Its more like the court giving a fine and a bill for the costs of maintaining the court.
In Brazil as well (as India), though it mostly happened in the 20th century.
Inside, Outside: all on the same side.
Right/left is a divide-and-conquer gambit. There are rich Democrats and rich Republicans whom are nearly indistinguishable in action and vary only on minor supposed values, both wings of as Gore Vidal called it, "The Property" party. The non-ideological property owners hedge bets on both team D and team R, and really don't care which win, so long as they keep voting for their interests first.

Antifa is fail because they're usually usurped by anarchists and hooligan mobs whom don't know whom they're fighting other than brands and slogans... like tilting at windmills. The enemy of 99% and the planet is most definitely the rich... not D, not R, not Chevron, not [insert astroturfing group] but those whom powerful people whom pull more of the strings to corrupt government in their favor.
Check out Publii, then (Open Source too). It's quite similar to WordPress in a lot of ways, but it's a desktop app that uploads static files. https://github.com/GetPublii/Publii
I'd like to take a loan of that precious Moon Sand, fully backed by your holdings... since most people won't ask for repayment at once, can I have 6 Moons worth?
The biggest advance here is that Nvidia has produced a consumer card that has all the high-end deep-learning features. This was missing in both the Pascal and Volta Generations even though in Pascal fp32 was full power. I think the TPU scared them and that's a good thing.
Tl;dr: Google did a bunch of experiments to see how best to manipulate people. They used a fake pizza brand "Doctor Fork" for this purpose.
The higher density seen in the upmarket development isn't necessarily an indicator that land values in the area are high, or that space is at a premium. Rather, it correlates with the developer's belief in achieving a higher return from the development (despite the increase in construction cost) vs. building out lower density. Despite the two places meters apart and separated by a fence, it's the amenities of the upmarket development (e.g. degree of repair, safety, security, facilities, prestige) that makes it valuable, but only in an improved state after the fact.

In places where upscale market demand isn't overwhelmingly high, this keeps land prices low enough that residents of nearby low-class housing aren't priced out, or the landowner (who may or may not be the resident of the dwellings above) doesn't feel sufficient pressure to sell.
What exactly would be the question you would ask them? (Also, is that actually the test? I'm not familiar with it.)
> The second law of institutions is that every process must require more people to execute than can conspire without being detected[1]

> [1] No, I just made that up.

You didn't, actually. This is the Byzantine Generals problems as described by Leslie Lamport back in 1982. It is huge in fault tolerance for distributed systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance#Byza...