skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TTM Revenue is $561 Million. Am I the only one that thinks this is insane? Even with the Q4 market route some of these cloud stock valuations have a bubble feeling to them.
It might just be a resume booster, for the earlier years of a career?
Bio-digesters and gasifiers would provide some energy independence and drastically reduce pollution (think of all of those hog shit lagoons out there...)

That is a perfect zero-interest funding opportunity.
If an axe could detect your thumb was in the way, it would no longer be useful.

There's a balance. Sometimes it really is up to the operator to maintain safety. Sometimes the machine can handle it. IMHO, other than reliably finding zero, everything else is up the the operator. The tool doesn't REALLY know how big it is or how fast it's going (just what it was told), and even if it did know, some operator would screw it up assuming that the tool was smart enough to adjust itself.
A "group" in a business sense isn't distinct, unrelated entities.

The company I work for is the "something something group".
This is a total guess, but the author does seem to hint a preference for LinkedIn:

> I was very impressed throughout the entire interview process with LinkedIn from both a culture perspective and an engineering perspective. They rose the highest on my mental list of iOS Prestige™ from the start of the process until the end.
Wow, that's remarkable.

As an aside, your work on numerical cohomology appears to have been useful for a new result pertaining to lattices. Given the authors of the followup work it's likely helpful for the study of lattices in post-quantum cryptography.
If you do some quick research, you'll find that the harmful nature of Facebook is the subject of a vast public discourse in the United States and Europe. Lots of academics and public health professionals continue to research the negative consequences of facebook use. It's not an opinion, but I suppose it could still be considered a subject of some controversy. The best evidence I've seen, and that the commentators I trust have seen, is that Facebook is destructive to its users.

Here is an excellent explanation of some of the most robust arguments against Facebook.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17144748/c...

Yglesias, a very smart writer focused on public policy, comes to the conclusion that it would be in the public's interest for Facebook to completely cease operations immediately.
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Just small correction it’s Perdue. I know common error here.
WebVTT, yes. https://matvp91.github.io/indigo-player/#/Configuration?id=c...
Putting in a couple of hundred hours of work for a large, permanent jump in salary? That's a fantastic ROI. The study is a side gig with an expected monetary benifit, not an idle hobby.
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One issue there is that the placenta generated by the fetus has to attach to the uterus of the foreign species. It's a tight integration of two tissues.
Hm, rust-crypto was what came up with when I searched -- don't remember why I chose that vs the others. (And it's not 2016 that was the wild-west days of poor Rust design and unnecessary mutable params.)

Miscreant looks like its has just as bad an interface as the one I used. You have to do a lot of work -- and deal with unnecessary low-level details of mutable fixed-length buffers -- to implement the thing you really want, which is a function that takes a byte stream of any length, a key and returns you another byte stream.
Article said identical twins. So I'd expect around a couple thousand SNP differences. Each cell devision has about 30 mutations. Embroyo bifurcated within a dozen or so cell divisions. Dr. Hayflict found human soma cells live aboutb50 divisions.
clearly a bad fit.
Exactly. Most people who say they "don't have time" are spending hours/day watching TV, on social media, etc.

https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2018/time-flies-...
It is terribad.
> The modifier is that I don't think you can ascend to the uber rich tier of society without having had siphoned off value from society.

That's cart before the horse.

Siphoning implies stealing. Then you're justifying your theft from those individuals. Value is created, and of course theft is possible, but you'ren't talking about theft, you're claiming that people just should pay more because of the virtue of having more.
I'm not sure if that evidence exists or is easy to find. From anecdotal evidence I can say that the people I've seen drinking in America either drink quite rarely (a couple times a week) and far too much at a time (vomiting) or hardly drink at all. Anecdotally I've learned that in parts of Ireland you can see people drinking very regularly but not so much that they get drunk when they do drink.
Yes, I sort of understand, but you're talking about "masses".

I am wondering if the particulate in the studies cited above is not simply made of droplets of propylene glycol and glycerol- which might be well tolerated and simply absorbed and metabolised.

The pdf you linked starts with the statement:

"Decades of research has converged on an understanding that all combustion-derived particulate matter (PM) is inflammatory to some extent in the lungs". (Italics mine)

Particulate emitted by an ecig should not be combustion-derived.
I've appreciated at times that they do this for things like delivery tracking numbers. I just stick "my orders" in google and it gives me a listing including any updated delivery statuses.
Zug Switzerland has some kind of hands-off regulatory environment that crypto companies are latching on to. https://cryptovalley.swiss/why-switzerland/ I guess this allows companies to say "we're completely legal" (in some place where none of our users reside).
IMHO, this is the worst possible approach to finding a job. The opportunity cost of doing this over working on interesting problems and letting that guide you to pay seems extremely high.

Also, the focus on "top bay area companies" seems misguided at best. If you work more on identifying what type of work you want to be doing you might find there are GREAT opportunities in other regions or at smaller scale companies.

Maybe I am just not the type of person who resonates with this approach, but I cant imagine this being healthy for most people.
No. There is nothing good to take from socialism. It's all about making stateman rich and the population poorer with disrespect for private property and human beings.
Having a presence on SM is critical if you're in a phase of your career where you will benefit from being "discovered" by recruiters. Those tools help recruiters and sales people scale. But more importantly having a presence on SM does not require a privacy sacrifice. The sacrifice comes from a thousand microchoices in what you share. Follow 4 steps to get the primary benefit:

1. Sign up.
2. Post a CV/resume.
3. Configure notifications to push email or SMS.
4. Then log out

If you don't "claim" your online identity, you risk having it claimed by someone else.
Marie Kondo's marketing has been quite viral, I have not heard of this person 2 weeks before whereas now everyday I see a reference to Marie Kondo and tidying up.
This is really great.

One specific point:

> One idea I had was to complete the MIT open courseware courses for the Applied and Pure math fields

A note about Open Courseware: they tend to be much of or all of the material handed out in a course (lecture notes, problem sets, etc). They aren't a "course" in the sense of Coursera, Khan Academy and the like.

A few years ago I needed to brush up on my thermodynamics and was able to read the material for the same course I'd taken as an undergraduate (well, same course number; I took thermo in 1983, and the prof and some of the material had changed). This was merely an undergraduate thermo class that I had already taken 30 years before and it was still quite hard.

I don't mean in any way to discourage you!!! This is an excellent idea. But OPenCourseware itself is more like a box of legos for someone who wants to teach a class in the subject. You may find a different source better, especially for topics that are new to you.
Facebook gives me excellent tools to keep the family members I dont want to talk to at arms length, while letting them feel involved with my life, yet taking none of my time to do so - its preferable to the alternative, which would be breaking off contact with those people.

But, I dont consume much news from facebook (outside of reputable sources, like NPR), nor do I pay much attention to it in general, and I'm VERY cautious about what I post, to avoid anything that could create controversy or waves of any sort.
1. Money.

2. As you can see among other replies, people can find ways to justify anything. It doesn't matter that you deliberately create an addictive product and aid authoritarian leaders; if people use your product, that must mean what you're doing is good for them and for society.
Modern Cornish crosses are a miracle of selective breeding (aka genetic engineering).

At this point, they're not far away from muscle growing machines with just enough brain attached to partially handle themselves.
How to never be wrong [pdf]
Perhaps a few tweaks can be made to the platform to help ensure HN's "core values" (that sounds silly) are passed on to new users. For the most part there's always been a good herd mentality to negate the one off low quality posts and a bit of public shaming "We don't talk like that around here...". Maybe a "Posting Guidelines" page and more weight added to the down-vote button to those that are privileged to have it could help.
Do you have any resources or suggestions for better types of questions to ask, especially for individual interviewers without control over the overall process?

I try to avoid those sorts of questions, but it's hard for me to come up with better alternatives.
Well, guess why they quit.
FYI there are hybrid steppers now, which helps with some of the traditional stepper drawbacks. See e.g.

https://youtu.be/NARodU-vVWs
I'm a dad, and I feel your pain. All my kids woke at 5 am today, and they are sick, so they need that extra sleep, but...

If it makes a difference, the work you do at home is so much more important than anything you'll do in front of a keyboard. Thank you.
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Security is always a matter of cost vs. benefit, i.e. you need to weigh the cost of the risk (likelihood * impact) with the benefit of the action.

For example, I have shared credentials on Slack before, but that's because said credentials were for a non-critical system, and if hackers somehow a) hacked Slack and b) identified the information I shared and used it, the only thing they would get their hands on would be a curated collection of cat pictures with funny captions (and I don't re-use passwords).

Therefore, blanket rules like "don't share credentials on Slack" tend to miss the point. Obviously, don't share your bank account info on there. But you can totally talk about otherwise sensitive stuff if the risk profile is sufficiently negligible.
Netflix. It's all Netflix.
That's because the above would be highly wasteful on a slow serial link, like the ones gcode was made on and for.

That said, I bet vim syntax highlighting could get you most of what you want. Color code movement, configuration, values, maybe display the toolhead status and position at your current line in the status bar...
I've always been curious about working at one of these companies.

I believe if I set the goal of getting hired at one of these places, I would probably be able to get a job:

- 10 years professional programming experience

- half-life, Quake, Starcraft, Warcraft II modding experience growing up

- Avid reader ( ~50+ books/yr )

- tons of self practice and continuing education. I just like learning new things and find programming fun

- Have had success in most of the roles I have occupied

- have a personality people make friends with

- edit: Also a computer science degree from a good college!

But anymore I just do not want to work that hard. I've been doing the start-up thing for a few years now. I am TIRED. I am BURNED OUT. I am not particularly interested in writing GoLang or Python to sell ads. Lately I have been trying to think of a part-time or EASIER job I can phone in on with my programming chops so I can go home and hack on my side projects.[0]

I want to go home, read, work out, cook dinner with my partner, hack on toys and open source stuff. I do not want to empty my tank every day working for the man. How hard do these places work you? What do I actually get out of it, other than learning how to write websites and a good salary and perks? Where do these jobs fall in the reward/bullshit ratio?

0: Which are probably better career development than fullstack/devops work anyway...
It's going to be harder for you, and this is one of the reasons there is an implicit bias towards younger people in these companies. But it can be done! While this guy aced all rounds, as a member in the hiring committee for a large company, I can tell you that this level of performance is not necessary. If you do ok in the coding rounds and hit it out of the park in the design rounds, you'll still be considered.
The slaughterhouse is hardly the only option.

https://www.fooddialogues.com/happens-farm-animals-raised-no...

> On an organic farm, once that animal receives antibiotics, she is no longer considered an organic animal. Rather than rejoining her organic herd, she will join a traditional herd of cows that may have received antibiotics during their lives.
We hear about lab-grown meat but lab-grown dairy is actually easier, and at least one company is starting to commercialize it this year, providing milk proteins from yeast to food manufacturers. Milk and cheese for consumers would still be easier than lab-grown meat, which requires actual cells instead of just proteins, fats, and sugars.

The advantage of course is that lab-grown requires far less physical resources than animals, thus helping to alleviate environmental problems. Prices may be higher at first due to capital expenses but should drop significantly at scale.

(The recent book Clean Meat has a chapter on dairy.)
Fixed! Thanks for pointing it out.
Most Android phones produced since my Windows Phone was produced will probably stop getting updates before December 10th, 2019. Despite being a dead platform, I have eleven more months of security updates available that release like clockwork.

Even in it's death, Windows Mobile has continued to demonstrate an unmatched commitment to quality and support that nobody else on the market can really speak to.
I call this "slow coding". Taking time to understand a problem, try out solutions, take a walk, come back to it, no pressure, no marathons.

Just progress an inch at a time.
What do they mean by corruption? Bribery, embezzlement or some sort of cronyism through connections?
It really does seem like these companies over time are converging on an interview process that (inadvertently or not) selects for "outgoing 'bros" with a lot of time on their hands to study and prep so they can "crush it" on the whiteboard. And then we're surprised at the monoculture emerging everywhere.
Anecdotal, but when I visit my mom, I make sure we sit down to make sure she's being safe on the internet. Last time I visited, I used that link to double check she knows what she's subscribed to. To her and my surprise, I found a second Netflix account with 4 people on it under her email (but fortunately not her credit card). Looks like someone with a similar first and last name accidentally used her email for the account. I cancelled the account, but it's concerning that Netflix never sent a confirmation email to make sure they actually owned that email.
Stargates, wormholes, extra dimensions: DIA declassifies $22M research via FOIA
But none of that solves the fundamental problem. ie - the cool kids still want to hang out with the cool kids.

Where do those losing to income inequality come in? You haven't changed the nature of the jobs. They still require a level of education and training that the people you're not thinking about don't have.

Think of it this way, you had a nice party with all of your old friends. Awesome. But how does the lady living in the trailer park, or the guy living in the ghetto start making connections among your friend group? How do they start launching businesses with you guys in the hypothetical urban model that you've put forth? Those answers are not so easy, because they have a lot to do with people.

So if you like this model better, then by all means implement it, just don't expect it to help those at the bottom. A little honesty, and an acknowledgement that it's a model that's better only for some group of the people at the top, basically only for their convenience, would be appreciated. Society at large would still have the inequality problems it has now after the changes are made. In fact, the problems would be worse, because right now we're only pushing inner-city people out, under the proposed changes, people in suburban and rural areas would be pushed out too.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
China threatens reprisals if Canada bans Huawei from its 5G networks
It still works. At least last fall.
the only sockpuppet is the person who posted this article
The last thing I gave my Grandpa was a Get Well Soon card, at his funeral.

/everyone had a good laugh, he would have loved it.
Enterprise version, like with Influxdb as well.
So... we'll call it a draw?
There are two versions of WeChat, one for China and one for the rest of the world. The latter is trivial to join, but it's completely firewalled off from the Chinese one.
also, looking for an answer to this question :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PolarBookshelf/comments/ah1g5w/what...
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While I agree with what you've claimed here, in fairness the OP never said anything about proving novel theorems :). Learning advanced mathematics at the higher undergraduate or graduate levels is probably more difficult than programming (at least in my opinion), but it's much closer than proving something original. Likewise programming existing algorithms is significantly easier than designing novel algorithms, which is much closer to proving novel mathematics.
This is just ridiculous. BFS is such a useful building block. If you're stubborn enough to not spend 10 mins on this the best of luck.
Like an ice dragon?
> Are there any other countries besides China where we doubt nearly any "fact" they produce? What causes this? Its incredibly odd to read an article where the government makes a claim and then follow it up with a claim from someone else that is entirely different.

IIRC, Soviet and Eastern Bloc statistics were regarded with similar skepticism. I would imagine the same would be true of any dictatorship where information is subject to strict political control. Without reduced capability of independent verification, distortions can multiply out of control (http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-t...). In China it's apparently so bad that not even the government trusts its own GDP numbers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang_index).
I could argue HN is pretty bad for my productivity, and that of many others. :-) But sometimes I unearth the kinds of things here that save me months of work. As bad as SNR is here, it's worse elsewhere.
Nope. :) Just clarifying my parent comment in case it was misunderstood in context of the response. I agreed with your comment, as well.
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I'd like to respectfully provide some contrasting ideas regarding these two points.

1. Guanxi is related to one's network or clout, but there are several distinct differences between the chinese concept of Guanxi and the western notion of "old boy's network." Primarily, guanxi is more a locative phenomena--anyone can have Guanxi within your community and business--whereas idea of an "old boy's network" pertains to ones connections and access to society at large. Additionally, Guanxi isn't explicitly related to a subpopulation. Anyone can have guanxi in a specific community, not just men.

2. Chabuduo literally means "not a big difference." More abstractly, I see it as a thought process where "adequacy is enough." I do see the connection with fail fast, where one doesn't wait until perfection to ship. However chabuduo to me doesn't exemplify the pursuit of improvement that underlies "fail fast, fail often."
That’s not how it supposed to work. Ask an average Joe to execute these steps and observe the looks on their face.
You don't need to study for study weeks. My guess is this person still would have received offers with way less studying.
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Don't be silly. Just because I said that I could travel to the United States and pay way less on everything it doesn't mean that the US is a role model or the only place possible.

Brazil is indeed a socialist country. Heck, just go see what happened in the past 90+ years here and in the rest of the developed world. High tax everywhere, dictatorship, no respect for private property, famine on the poorest areas in the Northeast, inflation, a large amount of state-owned companies and its de facto (by the very nature of itself + subsidies paid by taxation and inflation) or de juri monopoly, policies against importation, etc.

Only commies can't see it.
Well, computer-related topics tend to be ok around here... not always, but at least there's a critical mass of folks who work in the area so the probability of coming across an informed opinion is much higher.
(disclaimer: My opinions are solely my own and not that of my employer.)

If you are a merchant, there are standards for sending package/order information in a machine-readable way in email:

https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/overview

The purpose is to provide personalized useful features like package tracking. When logged in, you can search for something like "my packages" or "where are my packages". This is a feature that users expect from other assistants (e.g. Amazon Alexa) and email clients (e.g. Outlook).

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1710607

The categories that are being extracted for personalized search should be fairly limited (primarily hotels, flights, online purchases).

If you don't feel safe or secure using Google products, you should strongly consider switching away. I personally would suggest Outlook.com, but you could also self-host or use an indie hosting provider like FastMail.

(Most product folks make trade-offs for the average person. There are some great security tech coming out of Google (Security Keys, Chromebooks/Chrome OS) but a lot of the security assumes at least moderate trust in Google.)
Done this whole process as well. Every year, in fact. I've interviewed with quite a few top Bay area companies with quite a few going to onsite.

I never got an offer though and the only thing I can say that differentiates me from this person in terms of how we studied is the part where you practice with other peers. I've done this maybe once or twice a few years ago. I think in order to get to these companies you need to practice with peers. Preferably with ones who have made it through. Unfortunately, in my experience, it can be hard to find peers willing to do such things. I'll continue to make half (or less) of what I could be making if I was at some top public company. And this area will continue to be out of my reach financially because of that.
what do you mean by sockpuppet commenter? genuinely asking
Lately I’m reading HN as a replacement for tv and newspapers, for world news.

I’m not saying HN is not fun anymore it’s just the value is elsewhere.

A guess is that slowly I’ll replace HN entirely. It’s too distractive and no essence is captured. Lobste.rs in contrast is a place where I go excited.