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Job interviews are negotiations. As such, the controlled release of information is critical. "Come tell me your dreams so I can match them up against my opportunities" is not fair to the candidate, who 1) would be an idiot to have a dream where what you wanted was what they wanted and 2) might very well be able to adapt to whatever your situation was. Hell, you very well might desire to adapt your situation to the candidate.

At the end, you then step into the candidate's shoes and say something like "Gee, looks like you missed out on a bunch of important stuff we care about. But hey, it still might work! What do you think about that?" -- this puts extreme pressure on somebody who is probably just trying to figure out the difference between what you think you want and what you actually need.

I think I'd care a lot more about a candidates values -- the ones they've actually lived -- than what some kind of dream job is like. If you're not dreaming of sitting on the beach spending your time as you see fit? If, instead, your dream is to code Javascript at some company 75% of the time while going to meetings 25%? Maybe you're either lying, are missing some key bit of imagination, or just trying to bullshit me. Even folks who actually spend those percentages are usually doing so because something else they value drives them to do it.

I do not want to be cruel, but this sounds like one of those interview questions that's just a little bit too clever for its own good. The kinda thing you could do for a long while and get away with, because it's really measuring the ability of the candidate to negotiate tricky manager situations, which is in itself a valuable skill.

You are probably getting something that feels good, but is not the thing you think you're getting.
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You would love a project I am working on, one that has consumed the better part of the last 2 years.

Food is the tip of the iceberg, many problems we face today actually have painfully simple solutions. Food waste for instance which is at 1.3B tons for stuff before super markets feeds all the hungry people needed.

Proper management of surplus resources (in this case food) can solve a lot of problems. But we would need a transparent, robust, and powerful system to make it profitable and beneficial for people.

My project is called Woeigo, the name is an acronym for what on earth is going on.

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Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. It doesn't really have any consistent English pronunciation, since it appears in a bunch of different morphological contexts, and in loanwords from at least five or six different languages. Some examples: phoenix (1 syllable, 'ee'), Zoe (2 syllables, 'oh-ee'), Joe (1 syllable, 'oh'), Joel (either 1 or 2 syllables, depending on schwa insertion), canoe (1 syllable, 'oo'), Dostoevsky (2 syllables, 'oh-eh' or 'oh-yeh'), coed (2 syllables, 'oh-eh'), etc.

If I saw something like Broetli and didn't immediately recognize the Germanic origin, I could see myself easily misanalyzing it as Bro-etli and pronouncing it that way.
Freight ships are actually very green when compared to airplanes, cars and trains. You have to look at emissions per kg per mile.
I like this, but I've gotten mixed messages from the people running it. I tried to email them asking if they're actually working on the project and didn't get a response. I've also heard that they be migrating this to "OVH Public Cloud", which is a service that isn't available yet.

I like this offering, but I'm not getting good signals on it's seriousness. It may be something they're going to sunset soon. I would need some reassurance as to what's going on here.
Where did you even find a barber who does straight-blade shaves? Let alone a Groupon?
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Getting it right is cheaper than getting it wrong.
> Basically, the Go folks want to minimize external dependencies and the web of failure that can lead to.

What is he ranting on about? The reason Go doesn't link against system libraries is that Go in binary-incompatible with C, as in it's calling convention is different. There is a way to call C through a shim but it's extremely slow which is why they implemented their own syscall interface for Go. Static linking is just a side-effect of this.

Edit: the Go team want to support dynamic linking and it is on the roadmap but not fully implemented as of 1.5 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nr-TQHw_er6GOQRsF6T43GGh...
The parts of Oakland near BART are either not that cheap or Fruitvale levels of get-shot-for-not-being-poor.
Ask HN: Are big budget projects losing you money?
“I won’t touch projects that have budgets smaller than $30,000. Anything lower is usually low-quality and unprofitable for me.”

That’s a statement I hear every week from freelancers who pay me for freelance leads. I’m not sure why $30,000 is the magical number but apparently it is.

Leads below this magical threshold get rejected by people who are self-labeled as “desperate for work” and sometimes even in a dry spell, but how can a $5,000-$10,000 project really be that unprofitable for one-person?

Why do most freelancers even prefer big budgets anyway? Big budgets mean big projects - which are hard to scope out and actually finish. When you finally deliver them, there’s always more revisions. They drag on. They kill profitability.

Of course, this can also happen with small projects at a smaller scale… which is my point.

If you’re not able to make a $5,000 project profitable, you’re less likely to make a larger, more complicated project profitable - right?

When I examine my past 5-figure freelance projects, I find most of the budget went to things like: meetings, proposals, presentations, revisions, emailing, and following up on things.

I can’t help but wonder what would happen if I cut these things out and replaced them with nothing. Would the client really be worse off?

I’d be able to focus on things that actually mattered instead of fluff and I’d charge them less.

So what do you think?

• Have you ever felt like big budget projects could be losing you money?

• What would you do if you had to make a $3k project profitable instead? What would you cut out?

• Have you ever hired a freelancer like you for $30k+ project to help your own business? Why not? If it’s truly a great investment why aren’t you paying for it?

(Note: While I do agree that some highly-specialized consultants shouldn’t work for less than $X0,000 — I don’t think that’s the case for 90% of people.)
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The guys behind RISC-V have implemented some chips. A big brother of pico in 28nm is reported at
https://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/...

Has anyone try to synthesize pico or similar small-footprint RISC-V? If so, we would love to hear results.
They are also highly contextual. If I've been self-employed for 5 years, selling an app but only making $30K/year - ie, not poor, but well below market - and decide that it's time to "get a real job", then there likely isn't something in my app that $10K will easily fix.
They should be required to come up with a build system that produces reproducible output, then people can dump the code in their car and compare it to what was published.
No, but the software impact of choosing a particular piece of hardware should absolutely be part of the system design process. If it is not, then you are part of a project with bad leadership, or very, very old-fashioned architects.

It's not just ARM - there's plenty of other CPU architectures with modern Clang, GCC, or other toolchains with C++ support. Given that this is a large code base (justifying this amount of work), this cannot be a "tiny" microcontroller, as in 8 bit, and needing to run on microamps. I cannot believe that there were not C++-capable microcontrollers available which would have done the job, without breaking the bank.
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There's plenty of discussion in these threads that doesn't require knowledge of the article to read. Go take a look around. :)

What's more, I got the core lessons of TFA from reading the better comments in the discussion. I'm sure I saved a fair bit of time.
Ops, my bad. The release was in draft mode, not public... It should be better now :)
I started a successful recruiting software company about two years ago. I have learned many things about the industry and recruiting. Some from our own analytics (on any given day we get an enormous amount of job applies coming in to our system) and others just passing observations (talking to recruiters, staffing firms, and corp hr).

Three things that I have learned ... job hunters are desperate and will do surprising things to get a job (more so for bad candidates), every recruiter seems to think they have some secret trick for filtering candidates and finally companies in general love to make candidates go through an enormous amount of illogical jump-through-these-hoops, quack like a chicken, stand on one leg steps as possible.

While I appreciate the writers intent trying to help candidates I also think he is massively underestimating people looking for jobs. They are not dumb and if it takes a question as simple as that during an interview to make some determination on hiring perhaps some better filtering needs to be done prior (ie checking them out on linkedin and looking at their resume/application).
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When I was a customer of BB I noticed no issue with the uploads, but actually when I had a flood and my hardware was destroyed, redownloading all my information was order of magnitudes slower.

I tried from multiple physical locations but I could not increase my downloads past 1-2mbps, and for TB of data, that seemed like it was throttled by BB considering I was easily uploading 20mbps.

I contacted BB support and they ignored me, so I switched to a competing services and have had no issues ever since.

This really made me sad because BB's blog is amazing and their tech is really cool, but when you see people saying "its throttled" its because of real experiences out there, and not just ones limited to an ISP issue.
Interesting but one big question: Showers?
Exactly. I just ordered a Passat Wagon 2Liter diesel 191hp (Last week, what are the odds?) because among the options under the pretty strict CO2 emission restrictions I needed to follow (120g/km) it seemed like the best choice.

If the CO2 emissions had happened to be ever so slightly higher than 120g/km then I couldn't have bought it, and would have picked the V70 D4 instead.

Obviously, if VW had been fair, maybe they couldn't have squeezed 191hp and 5L/100km consumption out of it. Suppose it would have been 170hp and 5L/100km instead to reach the required emissions targets. Now instead of better perforomance than the competition (such as the Volvo) it would have be worse! It's entirely possible I wouldn't have picked it.

So as a customer I'm not really suffering from VW's wrongdoing here. At least not yet (until I get a message saying my not-yet-received car will be delayed 2 months and is already less powerful than when I ordered it). Volvo on the other hand may well have already lost a sale of a new car. Makes you wonder how many sales they lost, and makes you realize how important accurate tests are.
Rigging cars to pass emissions tests has been a game for a long time. For a long time all you had to do was pass a tailpipe sniff test on a dyno and the car would be held at two slow speeds for the duration of the test, so you'd get results for those kinds of cruising situations but not for acceleration or highway operation. So, cars were adapted to pass these tests. Later when fuel economy rules came about, the same thing happened: the test cycles for fuel economy were examined and cars were changed to achieve better results just for these tests.
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The problem is the fuel itself, as long as you're in international waters you can use as sulphur-rich fuel as you like. Sulphur rich fuel is the cheapest of the lot and because it has no other uses beside international water fuel for freighters, this shit accounts for huge percentages of sulphur emissions.

edit: Reason for this is that burning sulphur in fuel produces sulphur dioxide, which when combined with rain or natural humidity, makes acid rain.
Pro Tip: You can use the smaller power adapters (from the 11" Macbook Air) with the bigger laptops, as long as you're not running the GPU at full blast.

However, if your Mac needs more power than the adapter can provide, it'll take it from the battery.

Only downside: When your battery goes empty, the Macbook won't start immediately when a weak power adapter is connected. It will first charge the battery a bit, and only boot again after a few minutes. If you use the power adapter with the correct rating, the Macbook boots immediately after connecting it to power.
I do think there will always be this detectable weird KT-boundary starting around the mid-late 90's where information is just hard to come by (on the internet). Important stuff like GI Joe cartoons and news stories will of course be available, but simple everyday facts and figures will be really hard to uncover.

So I 100% agree with you that this is a pretty huge transition and will be hard for them to look back over, but they will always have a chance to experience ignorance, but only when they look for boring stuff from the last century.
Unfortunately that's incorrect. VW is the only automobile manufacturer which deliberately (and delicately) cheated the diesel emissions test. For example, BMW's diesel engines emit lower emissions than what they specify (which is awesome!).
If you're interested in reporting him to UC Berkeley for plagiarism and generally conduct unbecoming of a Berkeley student, here is the link:

http://sa.berkeley.edu/conduct/report
This as far as I know is the strongest effort there, although they're a little more ambitious, planning on adding two bits of tags to the architecture to allow some safety improvements with our current software stacks as well as the usual things you can use tags for: http://www.lowrisc.org/
> new generations never heard of those languages and think C was the very first systems programming language.

That's just it. Rust looks enough like C++ to catch on. This was not an accident though I can't say I'm jazzed about it.

Rust brings a lot to the table with its type system too. I would rather be using Rust tomorrow than having had the benefits of say Pascal derivatives for the past 45 years. I'm not saying this just for effect: after the obvious ML influence, the parts of Rust I like most are the nuances.

> Instead, many Rust users seem to sprinkle it everywhere.

Is that true? You will necessarily see it in bindings, or to implement certain essential features that can't be implemented otherwise. Beyond that there is the motivation to use unsafe code for speed, hopefully this is mostly restricted to modules.

Are you complaining that people are using when they could reasonably avoid it or that it is too often necessary?
I have all my LendingClub funds in a Roth IRA so I don't have to deal with any of the tax loss/gains stuff. I've heard the tax accounting can get tricky in normal accounts, so I highly recommend putting your LendingClub funds in a tax-advantaged account.

As for filtering and stuff, you can you do your own underwriting(loan risk analysis) with the data lendingclub provides[1], or use https://www.nsrplatform.com, which has a nice GUI tool to explore the data with you're own filters. LendingClub has a JSON api, so you can an order executer for yourself. (Here's the remnants of the one I was working on https://github.com/gtremper/LoanInvestor. P2P-Picks was a 3rd party underwriter that isn't available anymore). I've noticed that the D and E loans tend to be the best balance of risk and return

Also, be aware that you'll need to continuously buy new notes as payments come in to your account, otherwise you'll build up cash rather quickly. That's why these auto-investing services are so useful. Its best to buy only $25(the minimum) per loan so you can spread your risk among as many notes as possible.

[1] https://www.lendingclub.com/info/download-data.action
I though lzfse is deflate with finite state entropy instead of huffman:

http://fastcompression.blogspot.de/2013/12/finite-state-entr...
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You need to know which objects are reachable before you can delta compress them (or reuse a packed delta chain). I guess you could restrict compression antecedents to graph ancestors in your pack, but at the cost of not compressing similar siblings (and blobs are leaves).
New Arduino-Based Modchip for Sega MegaDrive/Genesis
So the Russian regime "infiltrated" (ordered) one of the most well known Russian software companies, a famous security company nonetheless, to craft a few back doors in one of the worlds most trusted security products.

Just another conspiracy theory, of course...
This is a sheep that goes walking to the wolf and hopes to be devoured.
Anytime there's a GitHub story on HN, someone mentions an alternative. I also find GitHub pricey, at least for personal usage. But I'll never self host a solution or go with a competitor as long as GitHub continues to be the most convenient option and delivers the best user experience. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
I don't think I did. As far as I can tell, amongst the complaints about rent and sexism, this is the point:

"This debate is an attempt to assuage the guilt we already have and know we have because we’re here doing THIS instead of something truly meaningful."

So I posted that there is at least 1 example where design could have done something truly meaningful, if people had actually accepted the proposition that "design can change the world."
I've messed with it some, and so far, I'm not seeing what the advantage is on using Javascript on the server rather than Ruby or some other more advanced dynamic language. Ruby seems to have more advanced features and a better ecosystem around it.
At this point that would be a god-send for VW. The stock market seems to agree with you by the way.
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How many MCUs have the same strong, libre toolchain?
in this case "renaming a field" it would be something like

`Collection.rename('property', 'property2')`

my syntax may be slightly off since i mostly use mongo thru a ruby orm but the basic idea is the same.

we handle these things by having a tasks we run each deployment (named after the deployment version) with the necessary db changes.
Calling this negligence is way too nice.
Thanks! Yep that was it, I owe you one.
It looks pretty nice but i don't understand, what to do with it. Fap?
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Gerd Gigerenzer talks about medical testing, and the scary numbers of health professionals who are unable to interpret the results.

https://plus.maths.org/content/reckoning-risk

This is what most people struggle with:

> The probability that one of these women [asymptomatic, aged 40 to 50, from a particular region, participating in mammography screening] has breast cancer is 0.8 percent. If a woman has breast cancer, the probability is 90 percent that she will have a positive mammogram. If a woman does not have breast cancer, the probability is 7 percent that she will still have a positive mammogram. Imagine a woman who has a positive mammogram. What is the probability that she actually has breast cancer?

That can be reworded to something much easier:

> Eight out of every 1,000 women have breast cancer. Of these 8 women with breast cancer, 7 will have a positive mammogram. Of the remaining 992 women who don't have breast cancer, some 70 will still have a positive mammogram. Imagine a sample of women who have positive mammograms in screening. How many of these women actually have breast cancer?

It's a good book and covers cases of misdiagnosed HIV.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0140297863

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0140297863
This is not a last nuclear option, and we're not in danger of losing our company to the lawsuit. Everything in the post is 100% true.

We did get a lawyer involved when we started Shred Video, and are 100% sure our IP is clean and usable.

It will take probably two years for the case to get fully adjudicated, and the legal recourse for preventing frivolous lawsuits like this is insufficient. Starting a startup is plenty hard enough without this kind of distraction, it's in all of our interest to dissuade larger companies from harassing startups in this way.
Given the sheer scale of this, I doubt it is the case.
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Static linking is independent of this concern. Go could implement dynamic linking but doesn't for ideological reasons.

I'd really hate to be a distribution maintainer in a world where go components are common. Security bug in the TLS library? Time to download 14GB of updates!
I would rate the likelihood of AWS offering free, multi-path, multi-Tbps connectivity into their AZs to a competitor to be effectively nil.

If the alternative cloud ecosystem wants to compete effectively against AWS, it desperately needs a more sophisticated authorization scheme. Don't forget that IAM/STS is a major enabling factor in applications integration of EC2 and S3.
In theory, is "twitch plays.." able to beat this level?
Clearly you could not be less familiar with Tavis :)
In my experience I have also had mixed results buying non-keyboard related items on massdrop, but the keyboard things I've bought where excellent and at great prices.
No, it's pretty much totally unnecessary.

The API works on top of TLS, which already includes cryptographic authentication of all data (usually via SHA-1/2 HMAC or AES-GCM).

The hash would be computed at the client right after reading from disk and right before TLS enryption, and since they seem to terminate TLS at the storage server it would be computed right after TLS decryption and right before storage, so it doesn't seem to provide any gain.

I think they should just remove it, or at least make it optional.
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I find it fascinating that you think taxation can be generally described as "ethical" without serious qualication; what about taxation by an unethical government, like a dictatorship or a government that uses the money to murder people?

Is cash also unethical because the government doesn't have absolute surveillance on cash spending?

What the project claims is a "liberal" tool can very easily become a very unethical tool of oppression.
Seconding the idea that you don't use something like this prolifically. The point is to only go slightly past the limits of the tooling and still primarily be writing C in the style that C is best at.

For similar reasons, "cute" macro-heavy C code tends not to survive long-term, because it breaks too much tooling.
> Obvious, since those systems pre-dated PDP-11 hardware.

Well, I was actually referring to the equivalent running on PDP-11 (like Algol68)

> Have you ever coded C before ANSI C was approved?

>It was only portable to UNIX itself, just like those other OSes and their systems programming languages.

I meant machine portability. Before C, to have a lower level like performance you needed to use machine-specific assembly.
Don't forget animal agriculture.
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> So researchers magically know in what bit of code the next scandal will be?

Emissions, performance and service related scandals will almost certainly not originate in the entertainment system or the navigation system.

Security issues might originate there if the other side is not properly designed.

So ECU, ABS, ODBII and such should be fair game and 'inspectable'.