jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To be honest, the majority of interviews I've had for software jobs were non-technical. Once I reached a certain level of experience, talking about past work seemed to be enough for people to validate that I knew what I was talking about. That's not to say that technical things were not discussed in the interview, but it was more of a conversation, rather than a quiz.

That being said, most of these jobs were at engineering companies (e.g. device companies that employed several types of engineers, software only being a part). Not your Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. The few times that I have been interviewed by pure software companies, that's when the quizzes happened. So maybe there's a cultural element to it.
... ok. There are a LOT of boats in the world. How long could it possibly take to get the nearest one anywhere a plane goes down, anywhere in the world? Five minutes? Ten?
I'm a .NET programmer, and i really don't hold allegiance to any one technology or platform.

There are some good points here, but who cares? The real issue is that Microsoft treats developers as if they were a separate marketing channel -- with promotions, partnerships, walled gardens and the like.

So don't play that game. I'm working in F# on mono, on my own stack. Do I care about branch commits, bad abstractions, onerous licenses or such? Nope, not in the least.

Look, there was a day where you had to take the entire MS stack or leave it. But that day is past. Now you can pick and choose a bit. Sure, not as much as we'd like, but it's still open enough for developers to control their environment.

If you don't like the game Microsoft plays with the development community? Then don't play it. But that doesn't necessarily mean you have to walk away from the entire thing.
Is that how you think of the open source world? A bunch of people writing jquery scripts for joomla? You may want to investigate a bit more (hint: google, facebook, yahoo and a bunch of other all rely on very solid and well documented high quality open source projects).
Hm. I don't know about bcrypt at all -- is it possible, given the ciphertext, to know roughly how much work is required to test a password?

E.g. an attacker can go "Oh! this password will take FIVE SECONDS to test, so I know it must be a simple password." or "Hey, check this out; this password can be tested in 0.1 seconds. It must be pretty complex."

In general, I'd guess that these kinds of information leaks are pretty bad because if an attacker can see how hard a password is to test, he now knows something about the password.

It may be better if, given a single unchanging hash, if it takes a variable amount of time to test a given password against this hash, though that might have its own can of worms.
according to the e-mail, so the FBI could monitor the VPN of the its parent organization, the EOUSA
Starting Strength is amazing. Paired with GOMAD and it is hands down the most effective strength building program I've ever come across.

Enjoy it!
Yes, but what is the idea in question? Paul Buchheit could dazzle investors with his background and accomplishments and even detail his expertise in the email or social space and still be no closer to telling them what he plans on actually building.
The point is why bother? You can get exactly the same or better results in terms of fat loss and muscle gain doing 2 or 3 30-40 minute HIT workouts a week. The only way you can do a real 4 hour per day workout is if you're a pro athlete and have the rest of the day off to rest and eat. Cardio and most bodyweight exercises are a waste of time if you're not doing them for sport-specific training but just to shed fat. Take the stairs and cycle or walk to work instead of wasting your time on a treadmill.
Elaborate. Obviously its security depends on the hashing scheme (if it's CRC32, you could find a collision pretty easily), but educate us -- is that all you meant?
This does not hold water. Did the left occupy the Capitol building in 2016 or 2000, when they won the popular votes but lost the presidency?
These people who are storming the capital are doing it on the back of a lie, that Trump won the election. That is a lie that is perpetuated by numerous forms of alternative media. How is this the result of an erosion of free speech? If free speech was eroded, these alternative media sources wouldn't be able to incite violence with their lies. Your analysis doesn't make any sense.
I work for JB.

In my perception 85% of all employees are Russian. Yes the company is officially registered in Czechia and has an office there, but this is more due to legal reasons because it's much simpler to sell Software internationally from EU than from Russia.
Consequently, the Czech office mainly contains Legal, Marketing, HR and only few devs.
The by far biggest office is in St. Petersburg and the "Kotlin island" lays near to St. Petersburg and is visible from JBs office, hence the name.
> This is largely China vs Russia.

I would like to question this a bit. If this were true, wouldn't this mean that China won this time since Biden is the President (vs Russia won in 2016 since Trump was the President)?

I think there are a lot more internal actors, such as special interest groups, PACs, activist groups, etc..., that may dwarf the external influence. There is so much money involved in politics and elections. I wonder how can we curtail the flow of money to make things more civil in politics?
> You wouldn't ask what it looks like to master the practice of medicine today because there are dozens or hundreds of specialities and roles all of which contribute to medicine.

This is like saying you can't have a favorite type of rectangle because some rectangles are squares. If you're a master of neurosurgery, a reasonable person would also consider that to be a master of medicine. Just as I would expect a master neurosurgeon to not be a master dermatologist but be able to master dermatology much faster than I could as a non-medical person, I would similarly expect a master C++ developer to master Javascript frontend development much faster than a junior dev, let alone a non-software person.
I find it bizarre that my boss is 100% on board with this kind of thing, but still won't less us work from home despite all our work involving sitting at a computer lol. I actually bought yoga leggings to wear under my pants just b/c I'm so damn cold all the time.
JetBrains is a Czech company that is founded by Russians and has offices in Russia
Being wary in part or in full because an app or is owned, operated, or developed in China is where you run into issues.

Being wary because you find Tencent specifically untrustworthy is fine.
It can be both a fabrication and accurate, though. That's what people are so impressed by here.
In my Twitter feed a couple months ago, I saw a tweet (a promoted tweet? If they even have that and I’m remembering correctly) advertising a crypto “pumping group” on Discord. Yes, they actually referred to themselves as a “pumping group.”

Not so secret in terms of getting new members!
Sounds like you’ve already done a fair amount of homework yourself. Threads like these are often just an excuse for people to preach their own personal preference so I think your should use your own experiences and future projects to guide you.

But if you’re really after a recommendation, then I’d suggest either go for a functional language (like a LISP, Scala, OCaml, etc) or a low level systems languages (like Zig or Rust). Or even one that overlaps with both domains?

It really does just depend on what you want to do next though. Nobody else can tell you that.
I guess their point is "why don't you go ahead and learn django in 2 weeks, sacrifice a few weekends and nights so you can blow away the easy pitches we're tossing at you during the interview". Pick a web framework and learn it and then you at least have a basis for your claims.
This isn't the first time, nor the last. They've been doing this for years as part of their kill old products and replace them with similar new one products culture. Google Music comes to mind.
This is partially what I was thinking, given that running tracks are pretty soft surfaces. Not sure how that would work for marathons though. Agree with the other commenter though that the big trainer companies would shut any talk of that down very quickly.
Fair point, but I believe distance still matters in terms of CO2.

I don't see cycling as a serious proposition here, because it doesn't solve any new problem that isn't already handled by public transport.
It's as simple as: WA and Signal (same protocol) are believed to be still the publicly available state of art in e2ee (by default) consumable by your average person. Telegram has an opt-in setting for e2ee in specific contexts, otherwise you can assume your conversations are slurped by some agency (telegram also has some government-approved versions).

That's even before we get into their past security issues / breaches. From security/privacy point of view it's really not better.
> So why not just look at feet on Instagram, or screenshot them for yourself? What do you get out of posting them to another website?

This question has always been weird to me, but apparently there are people who don’t experience “this thing is good, i wish to contribute” or “this has brought me joy, i wish to give something back”. I mean, thankfully there are still enough others that we can have Wikipedia, where you also don’t get anything in return. Not even “clout”. Sometimes someone will send you a thank you and that’ll make your day. Open Source is another obvious one, but it extends to the real world, too. Some people will plant flowers in public places or do yarnbombing or pick up trash in the neighborhood or whatever. Why do it? What do you get out of it? I mean, I don’t want to be harsh saying “what a dumb question”, but it just kind of makes me uncomfortable how it challenges something that should be celebrated.

The next question about it being invasive is good and valid, but this one on its own just sounds like “why not content yourself with passively consuming”. I’m glad he called himself “generous” because it’s true.
Chargerless charging :)
This [https://youtu.be/NjYICpXJ03M?t=29]
That still leaves the grid to worry about. Even if the power plant doesn't have issue, if grid lines fail (temperature, wind, snow, ice,...) the power will still be lost. Nulear power plants have problems with freezing temperature (frozen rivers are bad to get cooling water from) and high temps / dry weather (again, low river levels are bad to get cooling water from.

That is obviously less of a problem in case nuclear power plants are build on the coast.

It is also worth to note, that other countries, Canada, Russia, Northern Europe, et... have nowhere near the problems Texas had.
It's a great tool to keep in touch with family. For secure and private communication? Not so much unless you believe Facebook is a pillar of privacy and truth and you follow the "I have nothing to hide" fallacy.
Uber also suggests driver feature their logo on the windshield of one of their category. Can’t remember which.
Uh, what? Stratfor is not the military-industrial complex. The military-industrial complex, along with serious foreign policy journalists, made fun of Stratfor. And, of course, neither is its subscriber base.
>I guess my question is: so, we all agree that failure to prosecute CIA torturers and torture-preneurs is a travesty.
Now what? What does that have to do with Barrett Brown?

One connection is that what Barrett Brown did before he got punished was basically hurt the same military-industrial-intelligence complex that put those torturers in place.

(Regardless of if one can find 10 other technical legal violations in his actions to hypocritically punish him for. So yes, I'm saying that the "justice system" cares more for threats of that kind than what he supposedly was sentenced for. It's not like its unconceivable for the law to be hypocritical, as some assume).

I don't even agree that the "CIA torturers" should be prosecuted (well, they should, but only as mere cogs doing their job). It's not like they were some "rotten apples", activing on their own. And it's that seeing of this as a more general phenomenon that connects it with cases like Barrett Brown's (and Mannings, et al).
I would imagine that the chance of getting sued is quite small. What individual would sue and what harm would they claim? Government FTC most likely would not care and if they did all they would have to do is change the picture.

Likewise if there was an accident someone would have to say they relied on that information and was mislead. Unlikely (especially in the case of death how do you prove that?). Plus it is common practice to operate like this by similar parties.

Here is a similar company for jets:

http://www.bluestarjets.com/

Note how they do the same thing but don't have any logos on the jets.

http://www.bluestarjets.com/?page=company-payment-legal

My guess is that the "Gotham Air" will disappear from the home page picture.
Try https://tracker.oneis.co.uk/ in your phone -- it's got a cheap cert on it.
This is exactly how I manage 500k+ pageviews a day on many Wordpress installs, on a single virtual server. The whole basis of the insane speed is file based caching that granted a page is cached, does not even hit the PHP backends.

nginx is an absolute power house and a rock solid piece of infrastructure, the stack doesn't even make use of memcache, we don't need it!
Pretty strict, normally all merchant account agreements mention that you can't process cards for anyone else or any other business/purpose/website other than the one listed. They like to keep a tight eye on that.
I use gandi.net.
Gandi provides a free SSL certificate (for one year) when you buy/renew a domain from them. It's quite a good deal.

http://en.gandi.net/ssl
thanks edd
They released the server model in late 2009, with an extra harddrive instead of the superdrive and OS X Server.
Sound like an entry in Bruce Scheiers Movie plot competition - I would assume that the Secret service and other TLA's have been thinking about this already - off the shelf drones would be a bit to easy to jam I feel.

I believe that the IRA did experiment with RC planes but found that DIY mortars where simpler - they very nearly hit downing street a few years back.
> First of all those treaties took place before DMCA-1201 was passed.

But they aren't self-executing, and, in any case, DMCA 1201 isn't -- despite being in part of the DMCA titled for various treaties that were implemented in that Title -- part of them in any case. DMCA (the whole thing, including 1201) was passed as normal legislation by the House and Senate and with the signature of the President. You can argue that that is undemocratic.

> When they were kicked by normal democratic process, they turned to WIPO treaties which have no democratic oversight.

Since any treaty, to be law in the US, requires ratification by the Senate, it is simply false to state that they have "no democratic oversight". But its irrelevant in this case, since DMCA 1201 is a provision of statute law adopted through the regular legislative process, not something that is binding law as a result of at treaty without implementing legislation adopted through the regular legislative process.

> Then they turned back to the Congress and said: "you can't ignore your international obligations! Pass this law".

A tactic which is not actually effective when Congress wants to ignore the "international obligation" at issue. At most, one could argue -- if the anticircumvention provisions were actually contained in any of the treaties that were being implemented in the DMCA, which they weren't -- that the treaties provided political cover for something Congress wanted to do.

> That's not called a normal democratic process, it's called corruption and backdoor dealing.

To the extent there was corruption or backdoor dealing involved, it wasn't WTO or WIPO treaties "passing" the provision. You can argue that the regular legislative process was subject to corruption or backdoor dealing -- such is not at all unheard of in US legislative processes -- but any treaty process is a sideshow to that in this case, since the provision didn't become US law by being included in a treaty, it became US law by being included in a regular bill passed through Congress and signed by the President.
Ugh not again http://phys.org/tags/leap+second/

Quantas crashed last time. I mean their computers, not the planes.
Counterargument: This does not make it newsworthy or even discussion-worthy within the venue of this site. There are many, many venues where you could discuss or learn about philosophy.
I stand corrected! Though you have to admit that $1 million in profit on $322 mil in revenue leaves something to be desired...
Almost -- you can actually have different algorithms that still merge the same way. See our interoperability demo here:

https://braid.news/demo/interoperate

This demo shows a CRDT and OT system interoperating. They use different algorithms, but merge (almost) the same way!

(I say "almost" because we aren't using the same sorting function to break ties when two people edit in the same location. But this could be fixed.)

In practice, you can certainly specify a merge-type in terms of an algorithm, by saying "this resource merges in the way that the Automerge algorithm merges." But you can also state it abstractly -- for instance, as we do here: https://braid.news/demo/interact#a-merge-type-defines-how-to...
> But with white-on-black, letterforms glow with blurry edges and connect into each other. Not on the screen, but on your retina. The same way streetlamps at night appear to have a halo. Words take more effort to read.

I, uh, don't see a halo. Never have. I see streaks/starbursts, kinda like this quora post [0], except I've seen streetlights like that my whole life (so I don't think it's an eye problem like they suggest). Maybe that influences why I find dark mode easier on the eyes? No blurring, but it's also not sharp enough to cause the starburst.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-are-those-peripheral-rays-of-ligh...
> it makes way more sense

I never understood this argument. The whole point of having a 24-hour clock is so that 12:00 is midday and 00:00 is midnight.

If you break that link then there seems little point in even having time zones, but it is useful to understand that "09:00" is in the morning, in whatever arbitrary location that time is observed.

The instant failure of "Swatch internet time" showed that the current system is still working.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7896640
For the Linux users, any compelling case for alacritty (or similar style renders)? I'm quite happy with termite, fast startup, handles fonts well, etc. I've use urxvt in the past too, that that was a little trickier with fonts and some settings. Can't say I've ever wanted my display to be faster, but maybe I'm missing a use case?
is this like Wine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)?
> while being a student in an easter-european university, where the tone and style of professors was very "dictatorial"

I know it's just I typo, but now I have an image stuck in my head of a large rabbit, dressed up like Mussolini, lecturing about computer science.

Beej's guide was so amazingly helpful and welcoming when I found it over a decade ago.

Poorly written guides that try to be friendly or conversational are often worse than dry and terse guides of similar caliber, which really makes me appreciate the good and truly great ones.

And Beej's Guide is a truly great one.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26029608
How would it look if Facebook started pushing it's own political propaganda in ads on their own site?
I just tried that, and while it does select the element, it still doesn't allow me to click on them as you suggested or any other way I could find[1]. (That is, it works in general, but only on links where my extension would be able to pick up the clickability already.)

[1] Example: clicking on a currency here [2] or a time window here [3].

[2] https://www.coinbase.com/

[3] https://www.coinbase.com/price/bitcoin
Maybe, but a decade of experience with Go suggests that this isn’t a significant problem (i.e., more than a handful of instances).
D does have a package manager named dub, it works well.

https://code.dlang.org/
Regarding the overall "numbers game" approach, it will work, in the strict sense that the client will get what he asked for, but not in the sense that he will get what he wants.

Most people, when they try to hire me (although they don't realize it) are looking for technical or domain expert feedback. They may think they need such-and-such coded, but in reality they have a business problem that they need solved. More often than not, I can weasel out of them the business problem, and the technical solution to solve it, and it's often not at all what they originally wanted to have me do.

Part of it is that clients vastly overestimate the development time of some types of features, and vastly underestimate the complexity of other types of features, so they cut the wrong stuff from their MVP. In a sense, their project is doomed before they even hire a programmer.

Top technical talent can get and keep you on course in a way that will fix problems you don't even know you have.
My advice is to get a second desk and put all the mail there.

Other than the space it takes up, keeping your mail in a pile is a pretty efficient system. The important stuff like this month's bills are usually near the top, while stuff that's not that important has probably been buried by a few layers.
What is a day in the solar system? What is anything anywhere anyway?

That’s not the point.

The point is that in the US people typically work Mon-Fri and loaf around Sat-Sun (weekend) and yet the week starts in Sundays.

It’s infuriating.
Is it a "fat" binary?
Can you provide more details or share a link where this is explained?

I don't get this: If purchasing power decreases - how does that benefit us?
> I don't think this is a technological problem. You could say it's a marketing problem.

Yes I think we're talking at cross-purposes here. Perhaps App.net really was better, that's great - it means we know how to solve the problems of twitter (given I haven't heard exactly how it was better, that makes me sceptical).

But I think what you mean is _replace_ twitter, which is not what I was getting at. That is not just a tech or marketing problem but a business problem. I believe that's possible too. But the skillset required is probably outside of the average HN member, so I was tailoring my comment for a tech person.

Another way tech people can contribute is making chrome add-ons that improve twitter, demonstrating how it can be better.

Again, that's separate from launching a company.
Lots of people learn English because a large number of people speak it. Why should it not apply to Chinese or other often-used languages?
ok thank you! I just saw this. Adding a reference to the issue. Thanks ;)
Yeh! I think it would really help law enforcement community relations if they moved away from ticketing people for violating letter of the law rules (street sweeping hours, etc.) and started ticketing people for stuff that lowers quality of life in the city: taking up two parking spots by not pulling forward all the way, not picking up dog poop, parking in bike lanes, etc.
Where did it say it was an extra field? It says format change which could make for problems for sure!

edit: ah you must be referring to the GP. But the anecdote just says format change.
The G-Wagon is a very high end luxury SUV with a huge profit margin. As such, MB can afford to sell only a handful. But at the advertised price, the Cybertruck offers no such margin. It'll surely will be a money-loser for Tesla which they'll have to sell like F150s for a decade just to break even.

The Cybertruck isn't about profit. It's about making Tesla's name synonymous with shock and awe.