skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience (graudated in 2016), most interviewing is centered around algorithmic complexity or at least regurgitating logarithmic complexity algos.

Potential hires still in or just out of school should have no problem answering those questions, but a few years out and most people forget those skills since most of the time the answer is to use an existing implementation or find a way to avoid the problem entirely. All of the people I know with a 4-year CS degree learned all about that stuff in their data structures/intro to algo classes.

I work in games and have had to both implement a few data structures on my own (mainly specialized trees and graphs). I've seen them help performance a ton and I've also had to scrap one or two of them because the naive implementation was faster. Nowadays a lot of indirection means your processor is spending most of it's time waiting on memory reads, while flat arrays can be loaded into CPU caches a lot more efficiently.
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Forget email: Scammers use CEO voice 'deepfakes' to con workers into wiring cash
>paying the competitor

it's a good point, yet many still use Amazon/AWS regardless. Netflix, for instance (AWS). Then, on the micro-scale: FBA[0] sellers (Amazon Marketplace).

I assume it has to do with the ultra low barrier to entry which Amazon/AWS provides. The convenience factor is off the charts. Nevertheless, I assume Netflix has ideations of following in Dropbox's footsteps.[1]

[0] "Fulfilled by Amazon"

[1] abandoning AWS for self-owned dedicated infrastructure
I was really into Myers-Briggs in my early 20s. As a bit of a lost soul it was a great beginning for understanding how I could be different from other people. It’s right up there with “Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus.” (Talk about a book that probably hasn’t stood the test of time!)
Because they live in the US, and therefore by law should have representation. (Note that they still can't vote, so the influence is limited.)

Permanent residency is very much a thing allowed by law. Dismissing them as foreigners is a bit harsh, when some of them have been in the US longer (and legally) than anywhere else in their lives.
and still fb grows and grows and grows, be it instagram, whatsup or the blue app, facebook doesn't seem affected by opinions of hacker news people. in many countries it is basically the internet wether you like it or not.
If the car has a big yellow sticker on the dash saying, "if you drive this vehicle to a location without cellular coverage, you may become stranded", would you rent it?
Yeah it's the splendid old "hammer factories" rant from Joel on Software!
Yup, which to an outside observer is pretty shocking, given how grossly deficient the S1 is. Another commenter in a different thread posted this informative Jason Calacanis podcast about WeWork:

https://thisweekinstartups.com/e969

One part that really resonated is when Calacanis is arguing that, once you become super rich, you need to rely on your authentic, pre-rich friends to give you candid advice (because after you become super rich, you can't really trust new friends when so many folks want a piece of your wealth). Calacanis' idea, which makes sense to me, is that Neumann didn't have a strong enough social base, so that he didn't have anyone candidly telling him stuff like "Umm, you know, this We trademark licensing deal is completely batshit insane and analysts will see this as a giant, bedazzled red flag" before he went ahead and did it.

Insightfully, Calacanis predicted Neumann would walk back the licensing deal, and actually talks about Masayoshi Son being one of the only people that can give Neumann the harsh dose of reality he needs.

I think this is all kind of a moot point, though. It's like WeWork jumped out of an airplane without a parachute and is now going "How do we fix this??" I'd put money down on some form of either (a) a restructuring or (b) essentially being taken over by the major lenders/investors as inevitable.
Yeah except in this case an employee account was likely compromised by spearphishing/social engineering/(or worst case keylogger). That can be very hard to defend against.

Good security is not easy, and not always due to "carelessness".

It's an expensive, onerous, never ending, and ever evolving process to get right. Most, if not all, companies do the bare minimum security they believe is necessary; anything beyond that is a waste of money and computing resources (if you believe otherwise, I have some retina scanners to sell you...)
In fact, it was possible 100 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company (minus the autonomous part)
It isn't putting the user first though: It's a decision to strip any semblance of accuracy, timeliness, or sourcing from a "fact", whilst simultaneously bleeding out the sources that collect such facts, ensuring such facts will get progressively less accurate and timely as instant answers take over.

Instant answers is a direct threat to organized knowledge on the Internet, and that can't, by definition, be putting the user first. When we look at my link in my original comment, we discover that instant answers gets Google a larger percentage of the ad money (all of it), and suddenly, we figure out who Google is putting first: Google.
It’s too little too late. There are well established incumbents for both serious dating and casual dating. It might be more convenient for the older people looking for more serious relationships.

But there will be a very small segment of people they can capture that isn’t already captive to another bigger player like OKCupid or Match.
Perhaps I shouldn't have it's the "spirit" of the article, since a larger goal for software engineering is defined with point 5 - regardless, the point is made that, even in the tools we work in today, these things are trivialities and are always a waste of time.
Show HN: Host and Attend Meetups on Your Campus
Tagmate is a platform that allows you to host and attend meetups on your college campus. The app will learn your behaviour and recommend meetups that interest you. Each college campus has their own private network (like Slack).

We plan to expand into cities soon. Let me know what you think!

https://tagmateapp.com
Ok, I think we're making progress here! I think that your appeal to student expectations helps clarify the issues. With it, we have at least two plausible criteria for what constitutes bribe-taking (or, I'd say more broadly, corruption):

- The professor receives some direct purely personal benefit from a publisher, like cash or a trip to Florida; or

- The professor receives some benefit that allows them to shirk their responsibilities to students, as defined by the common reasonable expectations of the academic process.

Maybe that second one should also have a proviso that the result of this shirking is that the students get less-good instruction, or maybe (being more strict with the professor) that the instruction the students receive doesn't improve, or doesn't improve sufficiently to justify the extra cost passed onto the student.

I think this does some work to track the difference between corrupt and non-corrupt textbook-assigning practices. But it also, unsurprisingly, leaves plenty of grey area. For example, I'm not sure if publisher-provided homework and grading falls into this category, since textbooks in many fields have included assignments and have teachers' manuals with the answers since basically forever. (I know that I had homework assignments out of the book in math-y classes as far back as the 80's and 90's, for example.) So I'd think that this would be part of the ordinary expectation of students.

On the other hand, it does seem fair to suggest that if the professor offloads all, or substantially all, of the course to some textbook publisher, then they're violating the expectation of the students that their own professional judgment will be used to guide their education.

(And yeah, I try my best to provide free materials to my students. I can't do it in every single course, because it takes an immense amount of time to create them, and, often, it's hard to figure out what materials work best for a course until you've taught it a couple of times. But I do it as much as possible.)
Citation needed. I would be super surprised if astrology was popular by any large margin with people under 50.
Well.. I'm totally OK with the efficiency in online-advertising being low. My point was that after a certain point, there is no way to get a better ad-to-viewer match without violating privacy. Google was never on the right side of privacy, and given the business they're in, they never will be.
How is taking away guns different from sending someone to prison or executing them? The legal system and due process is already what protects people from the government.

Temporary detainment for example is perfectly legal for a wide range of things, as long as an appeals process exists it’s not seen as a major issue.
Instagram Dating or WhatsApp Dating actually sounds hilarious and I want to see those.
> Removed privileged access controls internally, adding accounts on an as-needed basis

I believe this is critical. Access controls really should be set as needed, per user, and fine grain. While it can be time consuming and may not even make sense at the beginning of a project, doing everything this way from the start should help to keep an organization better secured in the long run.
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Was it Segment that CircleCI was referring to?
https://support.circleci.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034852194-...

I hope not, since there's a 5 day gap between CircleCI being notified and the rest of their customers.
For now, but edge computing diminishes the role of the mainframe. This makes it easier to replace the mainframe. Eventually someone will do that.

Previous PCs came from chips and designs that were originally built to power terminals for mainframes like the Intel 4004/8008, the 6502, and the Z80. Today's handheld dumb terminals for mainframes are built with ARM64 chips that are approaching "desktop" performance levels just like those old dumb term chips started to approach useful performance levels before someone realized you didn't need the mainframe anymore.

... and so the wheel turns.

I think the biggest current barrier to de-cloudification of mobile devices is the heavily and cryptographically locked down OS. That's a software thing, not a hardware thing.
Here's an argument that although Myers-Briggs isn't scientific, it doesn't need to be, and is still as useful as it promises to be:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/27/on-types-of-typologies...

If anything, MBTI helped me assimilate the meta-fact that there are lots of different types of people out there, many of whom I'm simply never going to really click with.
Did you make this? Maybe it should contain a "Show HN" in the title
What's wrong with someone caring about my involvement only superficially? It doesn't mean I don't want to be involved. Let's talk parties: sure, if a friend I see regularly is having a party, I'll get invited whether I'm on Facebook or not. If it's a more tangential connection I don't see very often just spam inviting their friends list, they might not even have other contact details for me, but it'll still probably be a fun event that I'd like to go to, and if I'm not on FB then I miss out.
From the article:

How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet.

That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Fransisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using no persistent managed network.

And it’s led to swift growth for Bridgefy: downloads are up almost 4,000% over the past 60 days, according to Apptopia estimates (Apptopia is an app metrics company).

The app can connect people via standard Bluetooth across an entire city, thanks to a mesh network. Chatting is speediest with people who are close, of course, within a hundred meters (330 feet), but you can also chat with people who are farther away. Your messages will simply “hop” via other Bridgefy users’ phones until they find your intended target.
I don't really know the vc game. Is this a bit desperate or is it just another day at the office for these guys? To me it sounds like they're really getting nervous
It has a warning. Something like “leave these keys here! It seems weird but don’t worry about it.”
Still be too early to call the end of the march of microprocessors though.

https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/the-human-brain-vs-superco...

The limits they are running up against are indeed crisises, but they're probably going to be able to find that they can copy whatever it is that biology is doing and squeeze out quite a bit more. The tradeoffs will get a lot weirder though.
"a Dating profile (separate from your main profile)"
"Secret Crush lists"
"All of your Dating activity will stay in Facebook Dating"
"Feel safe by sharing details"

I don't know how anyone who's read a news article about Facebook in the past year (or browsed the web and glanced at the ads they get) can believe any of this.
A coworker told me yesterday about watching another coworker try to get to a specific company website:

1. User opens the browser, which defaults to the correct website the user is looking for.

2. User goes to Google instead, and searches for the company name. Clicks on the link for the company.

3. User navigates through the company website for the exact same page that the browser was set to open to by default.
Does anyone actually have up to date interest data on FB these days? I can't remember the last time I "liked" an interest or artist page. All of the data in the system now is leftover from when I was like 15 using the platform (24 now and yes, actively dating).

Only thing I actively use FB for these days is messenger and fantasy football shit talking groups, which are all "private".
When did Amazon start logistics? I know for a fact that Taobao/TMall was doing it in 2012. There was a distribution hub at the end of my street. I assume they had been doing it a few years before then but not 100% sure when they started.

You are correct JD didn't exist back then since it used to be called 360buy and they used 3rd party shipping companies.

After becoming JD they started shipping themselves. Not sure about the year.

Probably right about JD but as far as I know Amazon didn't start doing logistics till after 2013.

Am I wrong about the dates?
This whole IPO is going so well...
Now facebook can really start to build a social credit score for everyone.
FYI the USA is not in the Commonwealth.
I’ll probably get lots of downvotes because HN seems to hate it but I’ve been putting a lot in Bitcoin. It seems like a nice investment totally outside of the normal financial system that I’m losing faith in.
What I find most interesting about this is that a dating application finally gets away from the core business model conflict. Facebook doesn't need users to stay on the Dating application to be profitable.
Well yeah, all of their posts were from the same domain. It's a nice design compared to other schemes.
I think in a marketers mind, you are from the outbound Millenial generation rather than the current 'young' Generation Z (or Zoomers as they're called in the Wojak meme world).
Sure, but the idea that it's untouchable is absurd.

Everything changes. The economy was different last year, in 2010, in 1950 and so on.

The country I grew up in is very different to the one that exists today.

Change is constant. No-one is talking about burning it down, the idea is more that the exceptional growth of the past few decades has likely overshot what is sustainable.
Offtopic and apologies, but needing to link to Mitnick makes me feel old haha. When I was cutting my teeth on Slashdot in the late 90's, I feel like there was a "Free Kevin" post every week.
EDIT: Removing it because have a lot more thoughts on this that do not get captured here properly.
I was exposed to library music once I started frequenting www.whosampled.com and started noticing a lot of DeWolfe music was sampled. I immediately started buying up all the DeWolfe albums I could find. I mostly agree with the article here. There is some pretty amazing gems out there, but most people will not be all that impressed with your "elevator muzak". I havent checked into it as Ive not done any commercial release music in a long time, but I believe the sample clearance is much easier/cheaper with this sort of thing as that is the point of it in the first place. Also of note DeWolfe is still alive and well and has tons of material to review online. https://www.dewolfemusic.com/
USB4 Branding Is Reportedly Downright Bad
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I think service for any of these companies is highly variable and dependent upon locale. Perhaps it's a culture thing.
The USPS worker never rings my doorbell for left packages and just yesterday a package was delivered damaged in my mailbox.
I live in a nice part of town (I think) but the service culture here may be different than where you live (and different than other locales where I've resided).
I'm feeling sorry bag holders to be. Raise awareness among F&F.
This headline is terribly misleading. GitHub uses and continues to develop in Ruby on Rails extensively for its web UI. All that's happening is that GH is breaking off pieces of its overall infrastructure (or building new features/services) and using lower-level/higher-performance languages well suited to those types of services.

Shame on The Register for totally botching the intro to what was otherwise a very interesting piece about GH's technical evolution.
>> - 1.6% of women received no [prenatel] care at all.

That is a statistic that is very difficult to change. A certain percentage of women will simply not present, not request any help. Some honestly do not realize they are pregnant. Other live in denial. And, particularly in the US, there are some religious communities that actively avoid the medical system. So even with total free coverage of all mothers, there will always be a 1% who first seek a doctor only once contractions start.
> Younger generation are way more open about their dating life than us. They openly talk about their dating life at work or friends group. They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate.

Being young and LGBTQIA+, I can assure you that I never discuss my dating life at work or with my relatives (none of whom know I'm gay, but thankfully, I don't live with them anymore).

Until there are strict federal anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQIA+ folks, I'll never trust an employer to know that side of my life.
We overestimate change in the short-term but underestimate it in the long term. Any individual news story isn't going to be the reason Facebook loses 75% of their users over night, but the steady march of these stories isn't going to have no effect. I find it easy to imagine a world where in 5-10 years, Facebook is a complete non-entity, and for all the articles written that claim to understand why, nobody will actually be able to point at any small set of events as an explanation. It could be the very small contributions of a lot of events.

I (physically) don't live in SV or its bubble, and I can assure you, the news that Facebook isn't necessarily trustworthy is getting out there to "the masses". It isn't necessarily changing people habits yet, but the process is certainly started. By the time it causes noticeable problems for Facebook, it may be too far progressed for them to do anything about it.
Just saying, having used Facebook Dating in Mexico where it's been for a while, much better return than on Tinder
These types of things are called 'entitlement' in US which apparently people are not worthy of (so the constant slashing by republicans).
Except that under US tax law, in that exact situation where you have options with a low strike price and the company's stock price has clearly increased significantly, the difference between the strike price and the stock price will be considered taxable income for the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) when you exercise.

In an absolute best case scenario where your strike price is 0 and the stock price is 100 (so the effective gain is infinite%) you're going to have income under the AMT regime of 100, and the effective tax rate under the AMT is around 30%. So you still have to pony up around 1/3rd of the current stock price in capital. This severely constrains the real multiple return that you can achieve when exercising into a non-liquid stock and exposes you to enormous downside risk if those returns do not materialize.
I don't use Facebook. When I want to hang out with friends, I call or text them on my mobile phone. If I want to invite people to an event, I call or text them on my mobile phone. Or if we're hanging out I'll say something like "we should go to [event] next week!"

I haven't used Facebook for years and it has not obstructed my social life in any way.
Black "Gaffers tape" is a tape designed to hold things temporarily and be removed without leaving a residue (or as little residue as possible). You can tear off a perfectly square piece with your fingers since the fabric of the tape is aligned with the tape. It's great for covering those always on LEDs.

It is better than electrical tape for this purpose IMO.
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The Engineering team is responsible for the heart of Freenome - the genomic data, its (anonymized) patient-related metadata, the genomic pipeline, and the Machine Learning platform for running experiments. We run a Postgres/Python 3/React stack on Google Cloud via Docker/Kubernetes. We're a small team looking to scale quickly over the next year, so now's a great time to come for growth opportunities - growing teams around you, working on cutting-edge platforms for pipelines and ML!
Except gold has a real industrial value (electronics), and is an exponentially more stable and liquid asset than bitcoin (albeit not as stable as goldbug scamsters claim)
This has been live in Canada for some time in a "beta" incarnation, and from a purely product standpoint it is terrible.

The UI is just bad. You cannot browse profiles, you must say "yes" or "no" and the decision is final. If you scroll down to read a profile more, when you pass, it leaves you in the same scroll spot in the next profile. This is User Interface 101 level stuff. The list of problems goes on from there.

Everything about it says "throwaway add-on" that they haven't spent any real time on optimizing.

When originally announced, Match stock dropped 25% on the news, only to bounce back. I don't see this product really making a big dent in the Match bottom line.
Not the same, but obviously related:

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

-- sciencemag.org

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20880789 (237 comments)
I totally agree. It also puts tourists and travelers at a disadvantage, as well as others who do not have a domestic account and rely on exchanging currency or making affiliate bank withdrawals with a debit card.

I have been to several businesses abroad, including gas stations and movie theaters, where international credit cards are not accepted -- ie, their POS device will accept Visa but only if the card is domiciled in the same country.

I view a cashless society as an economy that discriminates against poor people and foreigners.