skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if you could have all interviewers fill out a brief survey and give the results candidates for reference - e.g. checkboxes of:

* This interviewer is comfortable talking about their salary

* This interviewer is comfortable talking about diversity and equality efforts

* This interviewer is comfortable talking about the visa and immigration process

* This interviewer had children during employ and is comfortable talking about the process

As an interviewee, knowing that I could ask direct questions instead of skirting around issues due to trying to be sensitive would drastically improve the experience.
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The $350 Apple Watch costs $84 to manufacture
It's fine until you presume something that a reasonable person might find offensive. For instance: it bugs me when people extrapolate from my nerdy desire to close-read 4A law the belief that I generally support dragnet surveillance. It would also bother the heck out of me if someone presumed that I was in favor of onerous custodial sentences for most non-violent crime.
What's that obligatory talk link where he describes that everything will be compiled to JavaScript and run in the browser over the next 50 years?
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Materialism of that form is silly: energy clearly exists, though it's equivalent to mass in some contexts, and information clearly exists as well, and certain other quantum properties I don't understand properly must exist as well (since "mass" is actually "interaction with the Higgs field", so I assume the necessary properties to generate that interaction must actually exist).
There is a current simultaneous discussion from another source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9472848 (130 points, 4 hours ago, 101 comments)

Just 2 remarks:

Does it defies the law of physics: Yes, if this is real, the most probable explanation is that this is a photon rocket, but they get 3 to 200000 more Forced/Power than the theoretical maximum.

Is this super-fast: No, the applications assume another 1000x increase of the maximal measured Force/Power ratio.
In cases where it may not be appropriate to just drop all legislation, it may instead work well to devolve the power to more local levels. This would go a long way toward making the potential prize of influencing legislators and regulators damaging to us at a much more local scope. It would also allow the many local stages to be where we play out experiments to find what approaches work best - something that seems to be pretty much anathema in today's political scene.

Your example of the Cuyahoga River is pretty apt, actually. Consider:

"By the time Congress got around to passing the CWA in 1972, river fires were no longer a threat. Whatever else the CWA did — and it certainly helped improve many of the nation’s waters — it did little if anything to prevent rivers from catching flame. It’s also not clear how much the CWA accelerated improvements in water quality that were already underway at the time. While most states largely ignored water quality concerns in the first half of the twentieth century, state governments became far more active throughout the 1960s, such that by 1966 every state had enacted water pollution control legislation of its own. Progress was slow, but for those pollutants of greatest concern at the time, progress was being made well before the 1972 CWA was enacted, let alone before it was implemented and enforced." -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...
They are going to be providing ULA with their engines so that we will no longer be reliant on the Russian RD-180s.
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There is also a NES emulator written entirely in JavaScript called jsnes[1] that would be interesting to compare to. The "solid 60 FPS" doesn't always translate to mobile. For example, jsnes runs fine on an iPhone 5S (64-bit processor), but stutters on an iPhone 5.

[1] https://fir.sh/projects/jsnes/
> In reality, if most of these founders put their money in standard index funds, they would have better returns adjusted for risk, but without all of the publicity that they crave.

This demonstrates a lack of understanding of venture returns. Actually Khosla, Andreessen, Benchmark and the rest of the top tier account for the vast majority of the outsize returns. The "average" VC you haven't heard of, and those are the ones who can't even get introduced to the startups that account for the majority of the return. The power law distribution for startup returns is widely acknowledged, and the top VC phenomenon is that power law at work.

"Adjusted for risk." Actually this particular part of what you say is particularly untrue. When people talk about risk, they also talk about reward. Typical public companies may only yield a few percentage points increase, or 2X at extreme best over a year, but startups can yield 100X to 1000X return. So even after adjusting for risk, VC at its best (given a: good deal flow and b: good ability to help / pick companies) absolutely can outperform the S&P500 / index funds. The asset class as a whole is terrible (understandably professional LPs have difficulty picking the right general partners to back) but the best VCs do just fine.

Professional VC's aren't throwing darts at a board. The best ones see great founders and great new businesses far in advance of the rest of Wall Street or mainstream business press.
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Amazon's first profitable quarter was in 2001: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-819688.html
> are not risking your own money, you are just losing some opportunities for cash

Those are exactly the same thing. Pretending otherwise is asking startups to rob you.
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.... love and security and the availability of parents
and family mixed with a certain degree of freedom were
more crucial to success later in life than skills such
as math.

So let's suppose you have all that stuff and then add math as well!
First of all, Mozilla is talking about slowly shutting down -features- in their browser to non-https sites, especially those that could pose a security risk to the user or their computer. I see nothing wrong with that.

Second, Mozilla is partnering with the EFF to launch Let's Encrypt! which will be a Certificate Authority providing free and automated SSL certs - so that should remove the 'resource barrier' the OP is so concerned about.

Mozilla is taking steps in the right direction to provide a safer internet for all of us, but more importantly, those of us that don't know any better, don't know how to protect themselves.

Keep it up Mozilla Team!
Also remember that the first non-founder employee is the least desirable position to be in. Usually you have very similar risk to the founders with _significantly_ less equity. Don't take the job unless you get market rates or significant equity (10%+). If they already have funding the former is much more likely, if not then latter makes sense considering the stage -- you're effectively a founder, even if you're not leadership.
Glassdoor.com seems to have fairly accurate salary reports across different companies, jobs, and geographies.
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You can get fired if they figure out you have been fudging the figures and 'lying' to them. I'm not sure how they would know, but if they do, it can create problems for you.
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The recent press about this is incredulous. Research and development aren't free. It costs $0 to acquire a software executable - so it should be free by this logic!
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A platform for the Internet of Things, connecting smart devices to each other, and to app developers. We’ve created three easy tools (Platform as a Service, SDKs and a Sensor-Kit – the WunderBar) which allow developers to quickly program Internet of Things solutions, with sensor data to create applications for their physical surroundings.
We use Scala for our backend (with some stuff in Node.js).
We don't expect you know Scala, we are looking for a strong developer who has already established themselves in another language.

The Mission:

- Design and implement new features for the backend
(Scala, Rest Services, Akka, Postgres, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- You will be involved in designing features, not just implementing them.
- Help building data streaming / analytics infrastructure.
- Work on scalability / performance problems.

Your Desired Skills:

- Minimum 3-5 years experience on challenging server-side projects,
ideally on JVM platform.
- Some expertise in building real-time distributed systems & services,
ideally experience in big data systems (Kafka, Spark, Hadoop).
- Experience in REST API development.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Good level of English.

We will

- Listen to and value your opinion
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- Make mistakes, break stuff, learn and move on
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Mango Health makes mobile apps that help consumer end users remember to take their medications on time and build healthy everyday habits. We are looking for mobile developers to join the iOS team, the Android team, or work across both teams according to the engineer's skill set. We are also looking for a mid-level backend engineer who is comfortable with Django, and a senior backend engineer who is interested in the opportunity to own the architecture of the data pipeline and to help us scale as we grow.

I'm 1 of 2 people on the Android team. Please contact me: ari@mangohealth.com

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Yup, that solution also works. I completely missed it. It's even a bit more flexible, in that the A-to-Receiver edge could be flipped or turned into a broadcast-from-third-party without breaking the solution.

I did generate the puzzle by trying to find a network that forced the superdense bell pair coding + cleanup, so it's a bit embarassing that there's another solution. Maybe it's just always possible to flip the cleanup into an intermediate decoding and re-encoding.

As for the rendering: do you use noscript? The latex is rendered with mathjax. I put a note at the top of the page when scripts are disabled... but it might fail to show up in some cases. Knowing those cases would be useful (maybe if you unblocked the blog but not the mathjax cdn?).
Hey, sorry about that! We switched away from that email address recently, but I just reactivated it. Feel free to resend that email and it'll go through, or you can email me directly - hari@jobrapp.com
Goodbye Meow York Times, we hardly knew you
I'd slide in input-restricted algorithmic redistricting and uniform ballot access requirements just on top of that.

It matters less to make the voting method more fair when the choice selections are still rigged.
Hi. Both! Though focus for next release++ is data science. Think Python+R in Visual Studio and "Visual Studio Code" (the newly released cross-plat lightweight IDE), w features that are relevant to data scientists and technical computing types.
That would involve a whole lot of making stuff up, since valuations for privately held tech companies dominate my net worth at for the last ~8 years. They only time you know know what they're worth is when they are sold.

The liabilities side of the balance sheet is less complicated: I owed $22k in student loans at graduation, paid that off, incurred a fair bit of debt back in ~2013 (raided the 2012 tax fund to pay for my wedding and then 2013 ended up being radically less lucrative than expected), and anticipate paying it off this year.
Not all games work. Only the most popular mappers are implemented, which covers about 85% of games.
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Full Stack Developers, Product Owner

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Now we want to carry the concepts into an application that will be the bridge between client translation projects and thousands of workers in hundreds of countries around the world.

Right now our stack is python and javascript but we're open to other tech choices at this stage.

Come design the engineering culture you want to live in and help us reinvent the translation industry.

Positions are full time with benefits. Looking for people willing to work in our Santa Monica office on a regular basis, though of course hours are flexible and some working from home is great.

For the product owner role, experience with systems like oDesk, Uber, or online dating sites might be relevant. This is a critical role helping to bridge between several stakeholder communities (clients, workers, supply chain managers, project managers) and our development team. Some travel will probably be useful to engage with stakeholders.
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Lumi is a personalised news reader. We learn your interests automatically from the get go and recommend you articles that we think you'll love. Lumi was created by the founders of Last.fm

We are always interested to talk to great developers, but right now we are really keen to expand our mobile team. Currently, Android is our principle focus, but we'd be very interested to talk to mobile generalists specialising in any platform.

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Great insights, can definitely recommend not taking big equity gambles in your earlier years.

Although perhaps north of $600k is a bit too optimistic, you'd need a solid 6.4% inflation & fee free ROI on that.

In any case it's important to look at it in 'today's dollars'. For example, the S&P 500 did 20x in the past 40 years (roughly the length of a solid full-time professional career), so $10k could have turned into $400k if following that index. But in the 80s inflation went up to 15% causing devaluation, that 1975 dollar is worth about $4.5 today, meaning that $10k turned into perhaps 9x more purchasing power. Of course that's before all the fees get involved. Even if you'd get $600k by your retirement age, it likely will be the equivalent of less than $200k today.

But yeah 6% per year isn't crazy. If you manage to scrape together $50k in your fund by age 25 and work until 65, 500k is very doable, north of 600k perhaps optimistic but who knows what we can expect. Perhaps we'll see gigantic returns once we get 4 billion people on cheap mobile computing, free wifi in the sky, access to modern education, 3d printers, drone deliveries, digital money and a graphene industry haha. But historically speaking $600k is tricky!

Either way, doesn't change the fact this is great advise.
Hmmm, but this was the recruiter, not the company. The recruiter itself would want me to be assertive and negotiate as their compensation is calculated based on my starting salary.

And this company was a very small and fast growing firm that would require a lot of hustle and assertiveness. My entire in person interview process was based on a case study that took 12 hours where I spent a large part of that arguing with my results/reasoning. So I don't think that holds.
It does have other advantages though, like inheriting C's excellent portability.
I've had this issue emailing Jared as well. It's rather unfortunate.
They can't legally ask for proof, no. Bluff away! (I'm not a lawyer and this does not constitute legal advice.)

I did a small bluff to try it out, just 5k above what I was making. The recruiter was surprisingly skeptical! I know I've done an good job of bumping up my salary in a short amount of time, but it was kind of off-putting to have him question it.
DC-DC buck converters may be a little simpler and more efficient than boost converters, I don't really know.
Yeah, you can email me and it'll find its way to the right people. My work email is josh at silentcircle.

To be honest, the hiring site is run and used by the business side of the house, as engineering prefers finding folks through other channels (e.g. this one...). I doubt we have any control over whether or not the site requires cookies, as it is a third party solution (other than picking a different provider, but that's well above my pay grade).
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I'm disappointed in your response. It's well over the line of what feels appropriate to me.
I overhead my manager no-hiring someone who gave that same number. :-(
It's more than shaded in this case; it's literally incoherent. I think I can do a thematic tl;dr:

For the major commercial brokerages (at big investment banks, like RBC), it is literally their whole job to move large blocks of tradable instruments without moving the market in the process. Shopping large blocks is supposed to be difficult, because things are priced by the law of supply and demand.

If you're trying to sell (in RBC's case, for a client) 1000 lots of XYZ, you have an extremely important piece of insider information about XYZ: there are about to be 100,000 new XYZ shares on the market. Your attempt to sell all 100,000 is going to reduce the price of XYZ. Naturally, you want to capture the highest possible price for XYZ, so, naturally, you want to conceal your intent to sell 100,000 shares all at once.

Meanwhile, the market wants to do the best job possible of capturing all available information about XYZ and building into the current market price. Anything you do to tip your hand about your giant order will be analyzed by some market participant and used to execute a profitable trade (in this case, profiting by placing trades based on the [accurate] prediction that the price is going to fall).

The whole of _Flash Boys_ considers this trade a form of frontrunning, despite the fact that the traders doing it have no fiduciary responsibility either to RBC or to RBC's clients, and despite the fact that RBC's desire to sell at high prices involves RBC themselves exploiting an information asymmetry. In Lewis' world, the market is supposed to sit back and transact 1000 lots of XYZ without adjusting the price until after the giant corporations making that trade are done. It follows logically from Lewis' argument that market-making is itself somehow unethical.

This seems like minutiae, but (at least for the portions of the book about "level playing fields" and electronic markets) the theme running through the book is that markets should behave themselves and continue working in a way that matches the expectations of the equities desk at RBC. That's silly, but fine, until Lewis extrapolates from that the idea that these broken expectations harm Main Street investors. They don't, except to the extent that those investors predicate their returns on the largesse of big companies like RBC. The Chief Investment Officer at (unassailably awesome) Vanguard is on the record repeatedly about how electronic trading and HFT have improved returns for value investors and passively-managed funds.
Ask HN: Best developer notebook in 2015?
So, been a while since I last saw a post discussing notebooks here in HN. What is the best notebook for developers in your opinion and why? From ultrabooks to desktop replacements, every vote is valid.
1. How much more complicated does this make the server? Seems like some pretty fancy code would have to be written to turn GraphQL tot SQL.

2. I think the biggest issue with HTTP verbs is that there is not an flexible way for the client to control the data that comes back from server. GETs dont have a body and the other verbs are for add/mod of data. I'm assuming that they are using POST for everything.
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