skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Cambrian explosion of java 8 functional libraries like this is fun to watch. Others I've come across:

- http://javaslang.com/

- https://github.com/aol/cyclops

- http://totallylazy.com/

- https://github.com/poetix/octarine

- (good ol') http://www.functionaljava.org/

The syntax for these libraries is always a little wonky though. If only these libraries also had some sort of syntax preprocessor to make it more palatable. You could call it, I don't know, Scala, or something.
I trust then Google is not one of the companies whining about "talent shortages" then?
I can't believe the number of people defending Google in the comments on that article and elsewhere. I'm sorry, but if you actively recruit someone and interview them in person FOUR times but continue to mysteriously deny them something is horrifically wrong with your hiring process. Beyond that, statistics don't lie.
Being swayed by superficial cues is not irrational if they correlate to the underlying qualities you are trying to judge. And, of course, prior information should change the way you view new information. I don't see how it can do more harm than good if you can do better than chance. Neither would I be so confident that I can do better than millions of years of evolution, especially by reading resumes.

We can guess what particular traits make people seem less trustworthy. For example, supposedly men with wider faces are more likely to act immorally (deceive, cheat). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21733897
So does almost everywhere I have interviewed recently. Hour and a half coding test. Why? I never code like that.
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Heuristics like that are a dangerous thing. Have you seen the line of reasoning used in the paper before, and what is the error?
It's interesting. I like that I can send "could you please remind me to have lunch 45min later?", it's like talking to a real person.
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Physicist who brought symmetry breaking to particle physics dies at 94
That, along with pros, certainly is my target. That's the message that I hope to make clear. Do you have any specific copy that stands out as not saying this?
Sure it did. How about here:
“The question is, do we want to spend government money protecting bad looking people when – it’s my personal view – other groups merit more attention?”

Thats as much of a hint on government regulation as it can be.
Firing a gun at someone is dangerous. A car slowing down and/or with reduced visibility on a busy highway is dangerous. Then either of these situations happen by accident, we understand that there's not a lot to do about them because there was no intentional behavior that needs correction. When they are purposefully done, that's endangering people, and is unacceptable behavior that needs correcting. In this respect, they are no different.
Hey, one easy way to decide features is to use a correlation matrix. The stronger the correlation coefficient r is, the more of a linear relationship exists.

The code goes like this -

install.packages('corrplot')
library(corrplot)

mcor <- cor(crime) # if crime is your dataframe
corrplot(mcor)

That's one easy way to start out. Perhaps I'll write a post on feature engineering.
Swift – I think it’s a bust
I've always wanted the ability to take a snapshot of a running process, say a ruby repl, that's thrown an unhandled exception, waiting for user input. Send that snapshot to a friend, who can debug the issue, send back, etc. Collaboration on a live system over the internet.

Yes, exactly like smalltalk. sigh.
H-1B imposes that the hire has competitive pay.
Handwriting Synthesis with Recurrent Neural Networks
The potentially most valuable part of this site is the "reason for death". In fact, i'd find that useful even if the site source code was not open source. Simply open sourcing your lessons learned is valuable.

There is a category of start-ups that are like that "American Ninja Challenge". There's a line of obstacles that are visible, and seem easy enough... but are hard to swing across. It would be nice to see the ways people fell in the pit. So when you try to swing across, maybe you can make it :D
I think you're being sarcastic? I'm just saying that I've seen people get overly-emotional about these things before. Cheating is bad, yes, but let's not make it disproportionately so.
Can you elaborate? I am not questioning your commentary, but genuinely interested to know more about what you mean there.
Why would Google have contacted her multiple times if age had been a problem before?

Why would Google contact anyone multiple times inf there had been any problems before?

Obviously their process must include some sort of returning to potential recruits, or the recruiter just has no data on the previous attempts to recruit her. If it was the case that age was the reason they chose not to hire her, they know damn well not to write that down.
I've given up on Civilization in favor of Europa Universalis IV. What it lacks in epic-scale from the ancient era, it makes up for with lovely detail. Attrition may kill more of your army than the enemy, peasant uprisings and revolts are common (rather than signs of epic mismanagement), papal elections and the Protestant Reformation are intricately structured gameplay mechanics... or you could play as the Aztecs and contend with a 'doom' countdown which can only be sated by occupying enemy lands for human sacrifice. :P
Git power routines
Thanks for pointing this out. I realize now that this was a bit flagrant. I'll try moving this portion to a separate post and elaborating more gently on reasons why it's worth avoiding these brands. Do you think that would be an improvement?
> Newer web frameworks like Ninja and Play learned lightness from projects like Ruby on Rails.

:D trollface
I love music but have never experienced anything like what is described in the article from music (sadly).

However I do experience something that sounds similar from reading a really good book, getting lost completely in a world created in your head from the words on the page approaches the sublime, some authors get me every time, Terry Pratchett could do this more than anyone else, finishing his books I feel like I've stepped out of his world and back into ours, it borders on a sense of loss.
Happy to see our screen here on hacker news! figured I'd post the behind the scenes video here too since it could be of interest to someone on this site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvDHNDkO-Qo

Cheers
"everything else in the data center" is a little missleading, and quite frankly an exaggeration in my experience. one compromised server will not bring down rackspace, for instance. or even our little three row DC.

i also do not think missing just one step in security will do it(although it can), unless you miss a big step, most places i have seen exploited were doing a number of things incorrectly.
I'd actually never heard of it before; thank you!
Having just interviewed at Google, with 15+ years of experience, spending 2 months brushing up on algorithms and data structures, of which none were part of my interview, leaving at the end of the day thinking they'd be crazy not to offer me a job, I was rejected. Several 20-something kids interviewed me, and I'm pretty sure I've forgotten more than they know.

I know they're Google and everyone wants to work there, but if their false-negative rate is so high, I'm not going to bother wasting my time. Don't tell me you're interested in me, create a study surface area that takes months to cover, when in reality the chance of being hired is quite small. It's disrespectful and it pisses people off.
How We Nearly Missed the Flight That Changed Our Business
Code generation is broken: "You must have cookies enabled to get a code." Well, I do.
Robotic surgery linked to 144 deaths in the US
Yes, he does.

12:19 in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=762&v=yf8GR3OO9mU
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> "Google have [probably] rarely interviewed anyone who was not well qualified - yet around 90% of candidates fail the interview."

This statement hinges on the belief that these 90% of candidates fail because, while qualified on paper, they are not actually qualified for the job.

I suspect it isn't actually true, and that in reality the Google interview process fails very large number of actually-qualified candidates, while also admitting a large number of not-actually-qualified candidates. In short, I suspect beyond pre-screening people for paper qualifications, the actual on-sites have an effectiveness in the order of a coin toss.

But yet we take pride in failing hordes of people, because it somehow implies nice things about our surviving it. Somehow the fact that the process for hiring programmers doesn't involve any programming, and that we are hiring people to architect large systems by solving isolated CS101 algorithms questions, doesn't bother us.
> People who tend toward bitterness, mistrust, anger, or anxiety - will look it

This is total pseudo-science, like a modern phrenology. Your resting face and how that's interpreted is meaningless. For example, in some cultures no one smiles in photos and smiling at others on the street or in the workplace is a very weird thing to do, but here in the US its extremely common. If an American went to one of those cultures, he'd think everyone was an angry murderer.

Not to mention, many cheery and upbeat men and women having what's comically called "resting bitch face." They just don't look particularly cheery when not making an expression, usually people with "ethnic" features like deeply set eyes, chubbier jowls, wider faces, darker eyes, natural 'bags' under eyes, etc that compared to an Anglo person makes them look angry or annoyed. As someone with this ethnicity (Mediterranean descent) its something I have to constantly work on as to not intimidate others.

I think your take on things is a very "white" and Western view. Different cultures and ethnicity have different facial standards and its impossible to make broad statements like these.
All these reports really makes you wonder if there was foul play in Michael Hastings accident.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist...
Don't try to communicate this to a prospective employer as your reason for leaving.

"What did you not like about your last job" is a super-common interview question for which there is virtually no upside for the candidate. You can only lose points with your answer, you can't gain them.

What you --- and everyone else looking for a new gig --- should do is, bank a couple of work-process things you'd've liked to see them do differently. Maybe they should test using a different framework, or do something different with project management. Keep the answer short, objective, and anodyne.

People leave jobs all the time. It seems like a big deal now because you're going through it, but it's much less of a big deal for hiring managers. They ask that question because they think they're supposed to. When it comes up, be boring, and get past it as quickly as you can.

I would not say you left because of "culture fit". That's because (a) it's not a boring answer, (b) invites an immediate followup question that prolongs this unproductive phase of the interview, and (c) candidates are disadvantaged by "culture fit" fitting/screening. Screen a new prospective job for compatible culture after you get an offer. Try to make a prospective employer make the decision to extend an offer based as much as possible on objective stuff.

You do not need a great reason for changing jobs in this market. "I feel like I contributed everything I could contribute to that team and now I'm looking for a new challenge" is a fine reason.
Every part of that sounds just awful. A virtual hike through nature is like getting your local news from Facebook.
> This means that before long there will be a general feeling of resentment, after all if you (and possibly your co-founders, also lying on the beach) are going to receive all or at least a very large chunk of the profits then why do all the hard work?

Isn't that the point of capitalism? Profits go to owners, not workers?
It's in your blood! I'm impressed you managed to stay out of the industry.

I appreciate that feedback and will definitely work on a page for this purpose. Great idea. It's one of those things where it's so clear to me that it's hard to lay it out as barebones to people that don't yet get it.
Both are already available:
https://ifttt.com/onedrive_for_business
https://ifttt.com/onedrive
Ask HN: What are your more interesting/useful Google News Alerts?
Curious to hear your most interesting & useful news alerts. Mine: Besides industry news, the phrases "unmet needs" & "best practices" yields interesting items.
Isn't it actually only showing that BQP contains NP, not P = NP?
Previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9920913

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9923294

---

My response from a previous submission:

> Their paper says 144 deaths, 1,391 injuries and 8,061 device malfunctions were recorded out of a total of more than 1.7 million robotic procedures carried out between January 2000 and December 2013.

So that's 0.00847% death rate, 0.082% injury rate, and 0.47% device malfunction rate.
You don't really need to make money on appreciation, you need to make profit. If you have a mortgage and the rent cover the charges - you only need to beat inflation on the cash investment.

For a simple example [x], I know people in London that got a 105% mortgage around year 2004 and the rent has always covered 100% of all the costs. Assuming it continues that way for another 15 years, anything they can sell the property for is going to be pure profit.

[x] I was happy to have something to eat in 2004, but I don't think those 100%+ mortgage were accessible to buy-to-rent property. So I guess that is technically against your mortgage policies and theoretically has a small risk to have the bank suing you for compensation.
FYI a lot of "life possibly-threatening software" has to be certified. Doesn't prevent bugs of course.

Don't certify people, certify products.

Regarding cars there has been a lot of innovation going on, I think regulations are lagging.
Completely agree. Even if the only thing wrong is, they can't keep track of who they've already interviewed (so they don't call them again), that's pretty sad. You're freakin' Google, and you can keep your decided-against list eventually consistent? Poor form.
This is the kind of marketing stunt I can appreciate. Does anyone know if they only built one machine or will they deploy them at multiple stores?
> instead of just downvoting me like the others did

FWIW, I downvoted your original comment on this thread (and only that one) for being vague, snarky and dismissive. If you wish people to engage with you, I recommend not starting off like that, although it seems to have turned out okay in this case.
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Thanks! If you have any suggestions as to how I can make this better, let me know! I might try to set-up a front-end for this stuff, so people can actually interact with the point cloud I generated.

Maybe next weekend.
I had to disable my adblocker for the code to appear.
No. It's de facto impossible. If all I had to worry about was the software alone I would despair of ever correcting this in a reasonable period of time; to also have to overcome fundamental hardware challenges? Not a chance.

For a long time I've wondered what would prove to be Security-Pocalypse that finally convinces everybody that this is a real problem. This is not yet it. But if somebody takes one of these attacks and gets... "creative"... in those ways that aren't really that hard to come up with but I hate to actually spell out online (it's scary to think too hard about this... there's no possible way these vulns could be closed before a bad actor could... be very bad...)... that could become the moment the 21st century finally realized that secure code is no longer optional.

That will be one hell of a shakeup.
This is normal for Google's byzantine hiring process. I got in once a while back (way before what I'm doing now) with a high recommendation from an insider, successfully cleared the interviews, and never heard anything. They even flew me to Mountain View.

The second time they called, I declined.
try a different browser. Someone else mentioned that as an issue too, I suspect a plugin conflict?
Yes, 14th Street may be better these days, but something vital is missing
So she has good qualifications but poor interview skills.

If this is true then Google are hiring wrong.

'Interview skills' is pretty much a euphamism for allowing confidence bias to dominate your interview process.
So you start off ok here:

I'm just stating what I believe to be a fact...

But then you move on to say:

It's just a fact, whether I like it or not.

So which is it? Do you believe it to be a fact, or is it a fact? And if it is, where's your evidence?

(I happen to agree with your opinion, but the semantics here bug me.)
That's true: it's essentially conflating "efficient" meaning in polynomial time with "efficient" in the colloquial sense. Still is enough to make me skeptical!
If you get "Cookies must be enabled" just open the tab in incognito, which is really ironic haha.
Simply serving the adds from the same domain as the content. Ad blockers are really simple currently.

After that I imagine the blockers could step it up and start looking for script names, or reporting on common scripts shared accross domains, by which point we are in an arms race :)
Isn't that what the hacked car already doing? I don't know about Jeep specifically, but most cars have several CAN busses and some micro-controller passing messages from high-speed control network to low-speed infotainment network.

Problem is, most automotive engineers are clueless about security and most "hackers" are clueless about automotive hardware, software and protocols. There is no dialog.

I wish articles like these posted at least some specifics. A lot of these hacks in the past were completely impractical. Yes, yes, they had shown some interesting possibilities, but it was disingenuous to present them as real-life attacks (which many media outlets did).
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I agree - there is no substitute, but I am curious so I shared the idea.
Around 2005 I worked for a fairly large company that did exactly what you're suggesting with Postgresql and it was a complete disaster. Have you ever tried implementing sharding with all of your business logic in stored procedures? Have you ever tried hiring people who understand pl/sql and WANT to work with it? I have done both and it is a nightmare, once you get to the point of having to shard data you end up in one of two places:

1.) The sprocs become insanely complex because they have to be shard aware.

2.) You slowly start moving more of your code that was in sprocs to your application so now you've got two problems.

As for hiring, put out an ad for an engineer with pl/sql knowledge better yet put out an ad for someone who wants to learn and use pl/sql. Good luck finding enough of those people to get any significant work done.
Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2
He did not (well unless you consider the threshold to serious injuries at losing a limb I guess). Looking up Steven Pete and assuming there probably aren't two 30-something pain-insensitive Steven Pete out there brings up http://www.thefactsofpainlesspeople.com/Steve.html which notes that "Visits to the Emergency Room and long hospital stays were quite frequent for my brother and I." and a number of other injuries-related notes.

They were lucky, apparently their parents (both he and his brother are pain-insensitive) were highly aware of the risks, observant and diligent, and drilled them on safety especially with respect to infections.

The article notes that Steven Pete's congenital analgesia was discovered after his parents found him "chewing on [his] tongue" which I assume is to be interpreted more or less literally (though at 4 months old hopefully without much damage)
"This gene causes this $complex_behavior" is practically modern phrenology. These types of studies are questionable and controversial. Not to mention unethical behaviors are often cultural constructs that in one culture is fine (being gay in the US) and another considered unethical (being gay in Russia.)

Not too long ago many scientists, including HN's beloved Nikola Tesla, were loudly advocating for further and deeper eugenics laws because "obviously" the negro or the Jew was a sub-human. We're still seeing some of this today with "genetics" replacing "characteristics."

>"As sex differences in facial structure, generally, are at least partially due to increased testosterone concentrations in boys, testosterone likely plays a role in determining facial WHR, specifically, as well."

This is more academia-led "War on Boys." This kid has extra testosterone? He must be a rapist or a murderer. Shame the "rational scientific" crowd never seems to show skepticism at truly questionable research because it was published somewhere, so it must be true!
My current employer uses Office365. It is laughably inferior to Google Apps. Unless you are a child of the 80s and grew up drinking Microsoft Exchange Kool Aid, there is absolutely no good reason to use Office 365 over Google Apps.
Isn't the first question most employers would ask in response to that "what didn't you like about the culture?"

Sounds like one of those cases where the truth "I didn't appreciate the stream of homophobic banter from some team members or feel that I had any way of influencing that aspect of the workplace culture" is a lot less damaging than a bland "culture fit" answer which might be a coded answer for "argues all the time", "needs far too much guidance" or "not willing to work as hard as expected" or "prefers stability of BigCorp"

Let's face it, an interviewer not making an offer mainly because they interpret "dislikes constant stream of homophobic banter" as "PC asshole" is a pretty good indication of another bullet dodged anyway.
I'm not talking about "playing nice" I'm talking about not acting like an asshole. It's stupid to act like an asshole to someone you want to give you a break/benefit of the doubt.

The cop isn't disrespectful until she refuses his order several times and he was to force her out of the car. At which point she cusses him out for several minutes straight.

It would be great if we had saints who could stand being yelled at like that without yelling back, but I sure couldn't.
This matches my experiences perfectly. Heck, most recently, they contacted me, said they were interested in talking about my experiences, set up a time, and......never called. Nor did they ever email explaining why they didn't call. As if I wasn't already jaded by the experience of myself and several other friends in onsite interview loops, this has done nothing to improve my opinion of them as a company.