skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mike Bostock's notebook here is a great starting point, showing how to import and use mapd-connector [1] in an Observable notebook and then feed its data into a vega-lite chart:

https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/hello-mapd-connector

[1]: The Javascript client for connecting to OmniSci, https://github.com/omnisci/mapd-connector
It seems that way to me too, but without more details about implementation I'm not sure.
And discuss it on WeChan.
'fintech' specifically. It's almost a style designator.
Certain business models require high amounts of capital in order to create leverage/growth. Think of Uber, WeWork etc. All the founders made out fabulously rich due to the ability to leverage growth on the back of VC money. Organically growing, profitable business may never need to take outside money. It really comes down to the market and growth strategy.
The problem with hiring in our industry is the lack of licensing/certification that everyone trusts. When a doctor interviews for a job, they don't ask the doctor to perform six surgeries in a day for free and then say, "we'll get back to you". That's because they know that if the doctor holds a license and a degree, they have the necessary skills.

We don't have that in our industry. I interviewed countless "senior engineers" with degrees from well regarded universities who couldn't write a simple loop. Therefore I must now conclude that a degree from that university means nothing.

There are some folks like Tripplebyte who are trying to solve this by pre-qualifying candidates, but I don't think the problem will really be solved until we form a software engineering licensing board. Take a test once, and then take a refresher course every couple of years to maintain your license.
The Wi-Fi at the WeWork I'm at is blazing fast, even in an open office with a 4 or 5 dozen laptops + cell phones connected.

I can get 20-40MB/s, not the fastest I've seen, when I was plugged into gigabit at MSFT I could basically saturate my network card, but far faster than my home connection and good enough for any possible need my development laptop has.

TBF to your complaints, I am mostly stationary, and the WeWork labs floor I'm on doesn't have very many walls, but I've roamed video calls before and not had an issue.

(The space I'm in is super new though, it was constructed last November, so that may be part of the difference as well?)
You seem to be missing the point here - your method is symmetrical, and it would be begging the question to break the symmetry the way you want it to go. One can do simple math (calculus, even) while having a complicated conversation -- and if you cannot, it could be because complicated conversations are so intellectually demanding that you can't even do simple math concurrently.

And your argument is also beside the point, now that you have restricted it to simple conversations.
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Glad you were able to stop by at Collision!
The process today is certainly not as user friendly as we'd like and can be quite time consuming. We're doing a revamp of the particular experience you saw in Toronto to streamline the process and also the ability to create clickable prototypes automatically!

Though we're still developing that tool, we intend to unveil it at WebSummit this year. Hope to see you there and get your feedback on it!
> He has Aspergers and locks up and fails miserably in the interviewing process, but the honest, reality is, he is10 times the developer I am, the guy sees patterns instantly and has a knack for code organization.

I don't think I can get hired without a referral - haven't managed to land a cold interview once so far. So at least, there's no evidence of it.

Interviews are a performance act, they are the packaging that you throw away after buying a product for the cover.

The interview "suit" I wear is actually one of someone who's calm and smiling - instead of stimming with my hair and dead-pan with a smirk (if I was a woman, I'd have resting b-tch face).

I feel for this guy, because I figure out how to wear that suit, but I still need to thumb the scales to get hired, because the mask I'm wearing is effort & it does show to the perceptive HR person (& it doesn't matter what you are faking - if you're faking it, it counts against you).

However, here's where everything is unfair in this world.

I have a pretty decent job because I ran into the right people at the right conference back in 2004, where someone noticed that I might be able to do hard things with minimal effort (and fail at easy things, simultaneously).

There must be thousands of people in my state who never got that "come to Yahoo, have a coffee" invitation & get plugged into a network of people who have kept me gainfully employed for more than a decade.

I definitely had fewer challenges there because I wasn't an outright minority in the industry - I didn't have anything to prove beyond the performance.
Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change?
I'm sorry a typo in my reply. GP mentioned 2.5 Billion hits/mo, not 2.5 mil.
Wasn't about you in particular to be honest (but I like how you owned it). Personally, my official position is "software engineer" and I hate it. We have nowhere near the culpability engineers in other disciplines do.
Thanks for answering. I think this would be a sound approach.

I will point out that different reasonable people -- let's assume yourself and myself -- taking this approach can come to different conclusions as to whether it is worth investing.
Modern American Capitalism Was Invented on Cotton Plantations
It's a physical workspace analytics company! /s
It seems to me that the message-passing aspect is kind of an implementation detail.

In any case, compare and contrast with "Compiling to categories" http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/
So by keeping minimum wage below the poverty line, not only are we not realizing efficiencies the market could be providing, but we're also subsidizing the lack of market efficiency in social welfare benefits. All while the companies increase their profits on the backs of every taxpayer who subsidizes the employees those companies are not paying appropriately.

If replacing humans with robots is so easy, we should do it. We're already giving those humans taxpayer money to survive anyway. It's not like we're saving money with the current system, we're just funneling taxpayer money straight into the pockets of Walmart, McDonalds, etc.
Of course this is the easiest way but honestly why create more waste? If there is a perfectly functional CPU/RAM/Storage in the TV then why not let us use it?
I'm not sure you fully understand what Cloudflare does.
And/or the scale of companies to shrink dramatically to the point that the CEO is only 2-3 degrees away from any employee instead of 6+.
People are very creative at spinning consulting shops as AI software something or other to get a higher PE. The most prominent example being Palantir.
(L)ets (I)nsert (S)ome (P)arantheses :-)

I like LISP since it was an eye-opener for me long ago, showing the essence of computer sciences (i.e. tail recursion, functional programming, immutable data structures, terseness vs. understandability).
Google is 'just' replacing library card catalogs with software :p
Oh I see.... interesting. I assumed it was something built into HN because the post ID remained the same.
Maybe this is the triplebyte business play, you come up with your own credentialing and companies pay you to access a high-signal talent pool.
Cloudflare making the decision not to serve specific customers in a legal fashion that does not discriminate against any protected groups is a non-story as well.

You don't often see private businesses making decisions like this on the front page of the new york times, but this one is a hot topic. They have no social, moral, or ethical obligation to serve these customers, and one's disagreement with that does not mean we should be forcing individuals to cater to everyone.
> Free customer base—Free customers are an important part of our business. These customers sign up for our service through our self-serve portal and are typically individual developers, early stage startups, hobbyists, and other users. Our free customers create scale, serve as efficient brand marketing, and help us attract developers, customers, and potential employees. These free customers expose us to diverse traffic, threats, and problems, often allowing us to see potential security, performance, and reliability issues at the earliest stage. This knowledge allows us to improve our products and deliver more effective solutions to our paid customers. In addition, the added scale and diversity of this traffic makes us valuable to a diverse set of global ISPs, improving the breadth and economic terms of our interconnections, bandwidth costs, and co-location expenses. Finally, the enthusiastic engagement of our free customer base represents a “virtual quality assurance” function that allows us to maintain a high rate of product innovation, while ensuring products are extensively tested in real world environments before they are deployed to enterprise customers.
> Based on what evidence? Replacing all infrastructure today is hardly worth it, but wind and solar backed up by battery or hydro storage costs less than even base load Nuclear power.

A back-of-the-envelope calculation reveals that the amount of hydro or battery storage needed to support base load is orders of magnitude beyond current capacities:

https://www.oulu.fi/blogs/how-much-storage-does-the-energiew...

Batteries themselves aren't that green anyway, Lithium can be considered a "conflict material" and there's no better "eco-friendly" alternative today.

Now I'm not saying technology and production can't or won't improve for these complements, but that's way into the future. If we count that progress in, we can't just discount nuclear progress.

> Load following nuclear power costs even more per kWh than base load nuclear power. Which is why France imported and exported so much electricity while being theoretically 100% nuclear.

Riddle me this, then: France has among the cheapest electricity prices in Europe, Germany has the highest after Denmark. France is almost entirely nuclear, Germany is big on wind, but also coal.

France imports/exports energy because that is how the grid in Europe works. If France didn't export to Germany, they'd need even more coal or natural gas to support base load. Germany's wind energy also causes peaks that need to be exported, sometimes at negative prices, more so than coal or nuclear:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/why-power-prices-...
You absolutely can just set up a corp and get immunity. Piercing the corporate veil is hard and requires hard proof that corp is a sham. The courts even respect obvious abuse of the system so long as the paperwork is done correctly (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkovszky_v._Carlton).

All you have to do is follow the rules and your corp is valid.
The problem is that the economical model of Wavelet, or TCO of Wavelet codec doesn't do well. And like everything in out world it is only the cost and values on offers that matters.
The total energy ( CPU cycles, or hardware implementation ) it requires to encode and decode far outweighs the benefits it offers. Not to mention the current block based still has many tricks. VVC ( H.266 ) seems to be doing well. ( Patents issues aside )
You might enjoy _Aristotle's Revenge_, which argues along related lines:

https://tinyurl.com/yya7xjkw

For example §6.1.3 "Function and Teleology"
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Apologies for that experience!
We're currently working on a new iteration of that site and will be launching it very shortly. Come back soon and let us know what you think.
Was there a point to this essay?

You can figure out the ingredients to a soup two ways: taste it and guess based on experience or use fractional distillation too separate and identify the compounds. What a poor analogy.
Sorry, I misunderstood your comment then. I though you were using "reward" generally. A financial windfall from shorting a stock and then releasing bad news about the stock is a "monetary reward" that doesn't depend on the merit of the accusations. I didn't realize you were speaking specifically about a "whistleblower reward" which wouldn't be awarded until well in the future after the report had been verified.
Do you have any data on how many physicians there are, vs. the number of nurses? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly 3m [1] nurses, and less than 1m [2] physicians. Physicians still, categorically, are more expensive than nurses.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291141.htm
[2] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physicians-and-surgeons.h...
Sounds like you need Vim in your life.

To keep things short: Whenever you want to insert some text you need to switch to Insert mode. When you're done you Esc out back to Normal mode. Undo will undo everything you did inside the last Insert.
I don't know if it's still true, but Netflix supposedly offers a really high base salary with no equity. I think the logic is that you can just buy the stock yourself with the higher salary if you believed in the company enough to want equity.
> "[...] every purchasing department will approve a reimbursement for WeWork with no questions asked."

I think this is just a smidge over-optimistic, considering what I know of finance teams at companies I've worked at, past and present.

Here in Midwest population centers, remote work is starting to become more widely adopted from a "work from home" perspective. The moment there's an expense report attached to pay for another office space, you're coming into HQ and that remote work arrangement is going to be reviewed rather quickly.
But that's not what happened here. It's not that they were told one thing but should have known to expect another. They were told one thing, and that one thing happened/didn't happen. It's totally cut and dried.
The company I work for is in the same situation, but no complaints from me since I understood early that I need to ask for high salary raises along with the option rewards, and not let the execs convince me to just take more options.

There have been talks of an IPO or acquisition for years, and hopefully, it happens, but they feel a bit like a carrot on a stick; the revenue goal for going IPO is always increasing.
FTA: “I was told the conversion [of Toptal into a corporation] would happen in a number of months,” said Aaron Diek, who is based in central Texas and says he worked for Toptal in 2014 and 2015, when Toptal said it was generating $80 million in revenue per year. “I asked on a number of occasions, and the answer [from Du Val] was always ‘it’s coming, it’s coming.’
They are claiming the work needed to become IPO ready (accounting, legal, etc) spiked G&A. I see that a good a chunk of that was 1 time consulting but most was from additional staff.
Link to the service: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Cloudflare: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08778322
Compare a Doctor to an Airline pilot - especially a regional carrier. A Doctor screws up and they can kill maybe 1 person?
Don't the firms on AL tend to be smaller firms? That would explain it.
Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago
But now the strategy is known, it would be harder for everyone to get investors and employees to even agree to work with him for any conditional future promise of equity on something like investment.
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I don't but maybe I should.

But this is a an important step of the "Getting things done" or GTD method, you are supposed to review your life at different level regularly.
It adds latency to API services, it doesn't add value in conditions where you aren't under attack. It inhibits legitimate users with privacy controls (and/or Firefox) in place.

It may or may not be worth it, but it isn't a panacea.
A lot of companies have company-wide vendor blacklists.
>Everyone needs to exercise

Yes, but not everyone does, and not everyone who has a Snap Fitness membership actually uses it. If that statement held true, Snap Fitness would have a US membership of ~330 million people.
I think a better way to state this is:

If you're not going where the evidence leads then you are not a scientist.

Too often we're using the wrong words, and that further complicates an always complex process (i.e., human communication). Other words that are also often misused are: leader and journalist.
It was a relatively recent addition, so if you were trying to do this before last December, that's why you didn't find it. https://huehomelighting.com/new-power-feature-to-retain-colo...

The two choices are:

• Philips Hue default – Warm white, full brightness

• Power loss recovery – Last used color and brightness
You generally need to be an institutional investor or a preferred customer of one of the brokers that is issued shares by the IPO underwriter. Here's a good general writeup https://money.usnews.com/investing/stock-market-news/article... and Fidelity's eligibility requirements https://www.fidelity.com/customer-service/how-to-participate....

Note that even if you meet the eligibility requirements, if the IPO is sufficiently popular you may still not get a chance to participate, as the institutions and people in line before you may have already bought all the shares.
Germany would kill a few birds with one green bond
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They contacted me for a Software Engineer position, 2 months back by them. I checked Glassdoor review, majority of those are stating that CEO is not a person you will like to work with and several of them saying it is just manual labor, no AI, everything they market is fake. I am glad I trusted those reviews.
Bobby Tables, please report!
https://xkcd.com/327/
5 mins looking at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26317325/can-someone-exp... I think I'm getting it. Ops accumulated and composed until they actually have to be evaluated. That's very interesting indeed, thanks, and I'll spend a couple of hours on it.

However, I was using my my example exactly as an example; I was after a symbolic manips app.

The issue of the cost of naively compiled functional languages matters to me as bad performance will kill a good thing.
> Honestly, if you can't spend one or two hours on a take home assignment during a 7 day period, you certainly have different problems than applying at this company.

That's an extremely privileged thing to say. And what a terrible way to start out your working relationship. The very first thing you ask of me is to do unpaid work in my free time? IF you're willing to do that, how else will abuse me in the future?

Also, why should they spend time on your homework before they know if you're a company they would even want to work for?
The average American now has [[5321]] days of free credit monitoring.
Roughly $7 billion in value disappeared from GE's market cap today. People are certainly going to investigate this more and the stock will move in one direction or another depending on the validity of the report, but regardless of the ultimate outcome significant capital was moved around today which presented an opportunity to make a lot of money.
If pressing a widget on your phone is a hassle I don't know how you managed to post here.
He kept all his equity, we should be congratulating him for his acumen and prowess in negotiating this so smoothly.

Why are we glorifying giving a fraction of a fraction of a percent to employees who are going to be further diluted or totally zeroed out in any exit?

Why are we treating equity in other people’s hands as validation?

Offering convertible debt that converts into services or something else is a way of financing.

You don't need to aspire for a bunch of crunchbase entries.

There was a time when I thought different like “oh thats not a real seed round if the investors didnt do a share investment, or thats not a real series A” but now I know differently and primarily take a dim view on preferred shares, liquidity preferences and expensive capital - when acting as a founder or employee. Many ideas are more profitable exits for founders if there were no liquidity preferences.
The second pointer going twice the speed? I don't know the story, but I know the solution, because I've seen it.

Similarly for many other tricks.

I have never used it in real-life development, though.
Your examples are an inherent part of the value proposition. With an Apple ID and an iCloud account you can do much more with your device than you otherwise could. Customers who buy into the Apple ecosystem need to be assigned an identity within that ecosystem, and most people understand that. If it bothers you, you can always decline, or buy some other phone or computer.

There is no room whatsoever to compare Apple IDs with being force-fed sales pitches for unrelated items while trapped in an aluminum tube at 30,000 feet.

If you wanted to tilt at this particular windmill, Microsoft account IDs would be a better horse to ride. They provide little or no value to most Windows users, but the company does everything it can to drag you into their ecosystem.
> If they were sold on promises of getting that stock and a round happening then they're right to be pissed.

Does a statement of the form "you'll get X if condition Y" imply "we will seek condition Y so that you can get your X"? I don't think that it does.

For example: companies offer dividends if they make a profit. But that doesn't imply that the company will seek to make a profit in order to confer dividends. It's nice when they do, but there's no implied promise of working toward profitability just so that the dividend condition will apply.
Not only that, Cloudflare has helped to ensure that DDoS protection is something that every website needs. Under normal circumstances, all the shady DDoS-as-a-service providers would DDoS each other off the internet and leave everyone else in relative peace. However, Cloudflare kindly provided them all with free, world-class, no-questions-asked DDoS protection to ensure that they could continue operating their business of destroying sites that didn't use Cloudflare.
Gitrahub: Find Shared interest between two users in GitHub
It continually amazes me just how complex life is even on the smallest of scales.

Before this it was ATP synthase - the tiny turbines that power every cell - that made my draw metaphorically drop

https://www.teachertube.com/mobile/video/atp-synthase-a-mole...
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Surely I'm not the only one who finds it suspicious that Cloudflare, as a startup, somehow invested so much money and other resources into an infrastructure that other corporations would struggle with.

That Cloudflare is a giant MitM hostile to Tor and previous cooperation with the government in a past business leads me to believe Cloudflare is nothing more than a US government operation in the guise of a business.
I've hired freelancers through a variety of platforms about which I have various complaints. I spoke at length with folks at Toptal and bailed because what they offered me was this: You have to pay us money right now. Then we're going to offer you a choice of something like 3 different people. They'll bill $90/hr and will probably be the same eastern European devs you can find on UpWork for $50/hr. Then you have something like 48 or 72 hours to choose one of them, and if you don't, we keep your money. Fuck that.
I think this is overstating things. Because of the way bleeding edge research gradually trickles down to being generic undergrad content, things like this that would've been the domain of algorithms researchers in the 80s are now tractable for smart undergrads who are into competitive programming.