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Does that automated personal assistant still need social skills when it is no longer emailing the journalist directly, but instead talking to the journalists own automated personal assistant?

I can't help feeling that in an increasingly automated world a few steps further on from what the article discusses, the importance of social skills will actually decrease rather than be a differentiator for humans any more.

Imagine how poor the social skills of a generation of kids could be that are surrounded by robots doing nearly everything for them. Once people grow up spending more time interacting with robots than other people, social expectations and norms will change.

Caring about that stuff could end up being something that only old people worry about. Like handwriting or sending letters or buggy whips etc.
"The data set is 1 million rows in 20 tables. Fewer tables can be used, but below 4 tables the performance drops somewhat due to a hot spot in the table definition cache."
Most examination / testing procedures rely more or less overtly on various cultural assumptions to obtain comparable and acceptably accurate results. In the western world these assumptions are generally those shared by white, somewhat affluent people (I recall reading an interesting explanation from David Foster Wallace to his students on the necessity of being able to use "correct" - i.e. not ethnic dialects - English).
"those shares were then seized by the New Zealand government -- Dotcom alleges"

Massive emphasis on alleges. If a person is thrown out of their own company, why would it be surprising if they then try to burn its reputation to the ground accordingly by claiming it's fully compromised. Not to mention Kim is planning a competing product, which casts further doubt on his credibility about the MEGA claim. His word is not good enough on this, more proof is necessary for such dramatic allegations.

And:

"In addition Hollywood has seized all the Megashares in the family trust that was setup for my children"

Uh what? Hollywood seized the shares? None of what he's claiming makes any sense.
Good thing I read it in the HN app.
It still has stoner in the URL. I was wondering the same thing. This is American journalism we are talking about, there are no standards anymore.
I thought this was a great talk from PyCon this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSbKjRRbjZs
... 100 Million North Americans.
Richard Feynman on education in Brazil
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884345
This is a great article! And this is beautiful:

> According to Gage’s theory, transposons may make such transformations possible; they may generate novelty, and therefore complexity, in a way that our genes alone cannot. If this is, indeed, why they are unsilenced during neural development, then our brains can be thought of as hosting a kind of evolution in miniature. Just as the beaks of Darwin’s finches are suited to different food sources, each neuron may develop its own specialty in the ecosystem of the brain. (Immune cells make use of transposons for similar reasons, exploiting them in order to generate a large range of antibodies to tag new intruders.)

But there's a key bit of missing context, selection via programmed cell death:[0]

> The importance of programmed cell death (PCD) during vertebrate development has been well established. During the development of the nervous system in particular, neurotrophic cell death in innervating neurons matches the number of neurons to the size of their target field. However, PCD also occurs during earlier stages of neural development, within populations of proliferating neural precursors and newly postmitotic neuroblasts, all of which are not yet fully differentiated.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001216060...
Yeah. I know some motorcyclists who have gotten off their bike to walk to corner to push the crosswalk button to get the light to change. It may not be 100% legal, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
The Boston Globe Magazine had a story about patented inventions from Massachusetts [0] which is where I first heard about this project and its non-profit Leveraged Freedom chair. [1]

I'm glad to see it getting more exposure. It seems like a great solution for many.

[0]: https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/08/08/when-comes-p...
[1]: http://www.gogrit.us/lfc/
Are you talking about the course description at the top (the only thing besides links on the page)? That reads like pretty plain English prose to me. The linked articles of course have all kinds of different writing styles, depending on the author.
That's an urban myth.

http://www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/faqs/
As both an interviewer and interviewee at Weebly, I'm pretty confident in saying I prefer our approach of the trial week. It really gives a great opportunity for the candidate to show off their skills without the on-the-spot pressure of a coding interview. A great side-effect is the candidate gets to determine if they like the team, and vice versa. I honestly wouldn't work somewhere else where I couldn't come in for at least a few days to meet and work with the team.
Managed Chaos: Empowering Your Engineering Team
Raspberry Pi 2 doppelganger runs Linux on 1.8GHz Atom x5
I wouldn't confuse management companies with brokers and as the REITs themselves own the complexes they wouldn't be considered a broker either. A broker acts as a middle man and pairs a potential renter with a building and collects a fee (which varies depending on the market). They're a third party in the transaction. In Chicago, for example, brokers are compensated by the ownership and it's typically one month's rent. In New York, the renter pays the broker/locator directly.

Brokers do tend to spam craigslist and any other avenue because they are motivated to be the first point of contact for a renter. They'll also buy up common domains and adwords to show up high on generic searches like "luxury Chicago apartment". It's not uncommon for them to represent themselves as ownership by using unlicensed pictures and vague wording.

I don't think I follow your last two paragraphs. A year is a standard lease because there are significant turn costs when somebody moves out and often the apartment sits vacant for a month before a new tenant moves in. You can usually get a shorter term but you'll pay up proportionately. Pet fees cover the damage that pets often cause and security deposits are heavily regulated in most major cities so that they can only be applied to legitimate documented expenses. In Philadelphia, for example, you are entitled to twice your security deposit back if your landlord doesn't return it with 30 days or provide you with a list of itemized expenses.
I feel like all you're saying is 'Coding interviews could be great' not 'coding interviews are great'.
‘Mindware’ and ‘Superforecasting’
Practically speaking, even armed you're a subject. The government is free to impose its will on you any time it likes unless you're in the business of shooting police offices who pull you over.
this article is awful. it cites a single bad coding interview as a problem with all coding interviews. as someone who gives tons of code interviews, they are absolutely invaluable, and are a strong indicator in weeding out people who can't write code. you can't blame bad interviewers for the entire process not working.
"the media running with it and getting statements from the bereaved families"

I wouldn't hold my breath expecting, say, MSNBC to give extensive sympathetic coverage to domestic "insurgents" who don't share their political views. The vast majority of the Tea Party did nothing more than yell at congressmen and hold rallies where they got all the official permits and cleaned up after themselves, and yet they were uniformly regarded in the news media as the second coming of Timothy McVeigh. Imagine how the media would treat them if they did anything more with their guns than the occasional dumb open carry stunt in Texas.
I participated in GJP for a couple seasons. Honestly, I didn't do that well.

But I was approaching it very differently than I would if it was my job. Since the system that was set up gave high rewards to unpopular predictions, I just gambled on the few most unpopular that had at least some shot at reversing. It wasn't the smartest approach, but it was the most fun. If I was doing it for real, obviously I'd go a different way.

The people who did best, at least from what I saw, tended to ride waves of popularity on the more active questions, buying low and selling high.

What I did was like betting on a few biotech startups, what the best scorers did was like riding waves of the market leading stocks.

In the end, I'm not that sure it had much to do with actual prediction of events. Then again, neither did my approach. I guess I'm not sold on the version of prediction markets they were using.
The 'optimal transportation' is misleading in this case : People are not interchangeable, so you are actually trying to find a map between the space of { people who have to go places } and {routes they might take } . Once everybody has chosen a route, there is a measure on the space of routes. The cost of each route to each person depends on the measure on the route space. Once you have this pairing of measures, you can ask if it's optimal or not.
9/11 Computer Systems and Money Trail
This is pretty rough on any interviewee who already has a job as they'd have to take holiday days to interview.

Do you give them a week off in lieu if they get the job?
Relevant: Stoya on MindGeek (Text with SFW banner image): http://graphicdescriptions.com/28-tubes-vs-torrents-the-ethi...

It's worth remembering that the behavior of the market is essentially influenced by the stigma, and subsequent banning of porn (and sexually explicit material in general, art or otherwise) in many TOSs. For that matter, I wonder how iTunes-type availability of porn would even affect spam.
That's exactly what you are doing, and there is copious data out there to say that we all do it. The generally accepted term is "unconscious bias."

I saw a summary of a study recently in which people were asked to rate top character indicators of success for male and female candidates for a job, things like "aggressive," "nurturing," "outspoken," "mediator." Not surprisingly, the adjective sets for male and female candidates were substantially different.
We're now discovering, something the article does not address and that's how epigentics play such a significant role in how we are shaped that it's rewriting how we think about natural selection and the power of nurture/environment over nature.

This epigentic scientist gives a stunning example here:
https://youtu.be/9DAcJSAM_BA?t=1764
So you're OK with discriminating against someone due to a factor they have no control over because of what you think some people like them might do (in this case, want more money)?
But how do you handle the case that candidates already have a job somewhere else? They can't take a whole week off for this.
How would you handle the currently-employed with a such a setup? Having to either give notice or use up a week's worth of vacation days just for an extended interview at a single company sounds like a real horror show from the interviewee end.

Contract-to-hire at least gives you a couple months of fairly sure income.
I'm working on open source stuff for two years now. Everything I do is public for everyone to see. Including my responses to bug reports and design documents.

Yet I get the same algo/ds puzzle questions that you should've solved before in order to solve it in an interview setup. Google reached to me and said based on my profile I can skip the phone interview but I'm so afraid of the interview that I postponed it multiple times.

I'm fine with algorithm questions only if I'm solving it in the same setup as my actual work where I have access to internet and can write some quick programs to test my ideas. I was good at solving pretty much any problem I had in my actual work. Even if I had to read a paper on the topic or learn about a new concept from ground up.

Google asks questions like pots of gold[1] where it's really impossible to solve it on a whiteboard if it's your first time seeing the problem.

I'm on hiring side of equation also. I get it, it's really hard to judge people. Even when the candidate have a GitHub page. I got a candidate from Hack Reactor where he had tons of contributions. But when I looked closely at those contributions they were mostly fake. Some other candidate had exactly same codebase in their GitHub.

[1]: http://careercup.com/question?id=15422849
For the purposes of this thread, It's more a convenience than anything. You can see the divide between generations with the media they consume as well as what events shaped their outlook on society.

Obviously it's not black and white, and there's a hefty gradient between generations, but it's easier to say "Millennials" than "People born roughly between the ages of the 1980s and 2000s".

That said, I'm sorry for any headache induced by my post. Some ibuprofen might help.
Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections
I would feel comfortable giving one warning (in person). I'd explain what I saw/heard, I'd explain how I felt about it, and I'd leave it in their court to change their behavior.

If they took it as a learning experience and showed a genuine interest in changing, I'd still be comfortable working with them. If they continued being disrespectful, I'd have to part ways with them.

I always like to give people a chance to redeem themselves; I'm sure I've said stupid things that offended others in the past, and I'm grateful for the opportunities I've had to learn and grow. Nobody's perfect, we're all human.
Completely missed that there were responses, but in case you all see this ghaff is right that distribution is so spotty for most craft breweries that it's better to find some local folks.

Along w/ your last sentence I'd also say that most craft brewers' flagships can be pretty plain jane as well for the same reason.
Ask HN: How to enter the Chinese web market?
I'm consulting for a small bootstrapped startup right now that is trying to build a web-based business that serves customers in mainland China. The business model itself is a non-mobile, niche market, but requires access to a few U.S. based web resources which we don't control (none are Facebook or Google related). Has anyone in the community had experience building a product for Chinese consumers like this? Our biggest hurdle appears to be constructing something that can access these U.S. based partner sites with any speed - how do you get around this beyond requiring every consumer have their own VPN?

Any other suggestions for a small company trying to make a model like this work?
I have, in the recent past, done multiple coding interviews. Thus far none of them have been useful to me, and none of them have provided information the interviewers couldn't have gotten already from my GitHub contributions. The single personal anecdote was meant to reinforce my points: from that interviewer's perspective there's a good chance that I'll be one of those "people who can't write code" who forms the basis of later stories about how great it is to use coding interviews as a filter.

Meanwhile, I do go into some detail about the issues with coding interviews in general, and the way they can affect and accidentally weed out candidates a company probably didn't want to weed out that way.

Also, the "nobody can really code, you have to do this to filter them" thing is approaching cargo-cult status at this point. Further up in the section on education I touched on some reasons why I think those situations happen.
We use golang for a lot of our ops stuff. Earlier it was a repo of a mash of different python/ruby scripts. The runtime dependencies were hard to keep track of and they had to be installed on all the machines depending on the script being run.

With golang it's just one static binary that is scp'ed across the nodes. This easy of deployment isn't talked about much.

We were also able to go further and put a RESTFUL API on top of these tools using negroni and gorillamux.
Making it to space isn't enough. They have to be able to escape completely and deliver a very large warhead to the asteroid.
You don't understand what he has written.
Cite here: http://www.catalyst.org/system/files/Women_Take_Care_Men_Tak...
It's funny, I've tried tons of different approaches to solving this problem and the only thing I now do is spend about 30 minutes with someone then decide to hire or not (usually I'm able to express this on the spot to whomever I'm interviewing). For better or worse, my instincts about who is smart, honest and kind seem at least as good (and often better) than any other approach we've tried.
We largely just orchestrate docker - there is a bit of glue around nginx of course - but I don't see why we couldn't support FreeBSD.

Arguably the biggest blocker is actually getting a running BSD instance - I'm going to say I've never successfully installed FreeBSD, though the last time I tried was 10+ years ago - and then potentially creating a `docker` binary that uses Jails but responds as if it's docker.

As it's open source, I definitely wouldn't mind helping someone investigate FreeBSD support :)

EDIT: Looks like there is already docker on FreeBSD, https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker . I assume you guys have bash, so this should more or less work...
There's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3014516

Nautilus seems good at rehashing Hacker News favorite stories.
It's very hard to squeeze top talent away from other companies. If they had to make it through a trial week I would say it would be near impossible.
"People who have a master’s degree in CS but seemingly can’t code their way out of a paper bag probably actually aren’t bad; more likely they had an education which de-emphasized practical hands-on programming in favor of heavy theory. People who post “please give me the code” questions on mailing lists and forums probably actually aren’t bad; more likely they had an education which was based around memorizing and regurgitating stock answers to stock questions."

What does this even mean? When someone lacks a certain skill, they aren't "bad" in some objective sense, they are misqualified for the job. If someone can't code their way out of a paper bag, should we be hiring them anyway for a programming position because they're not "bad"? What's the point of the interview in the first place? I don't understand the argument.

To the other points, I completely agree there are many ways to screw up interviews and few ways to get them right. I'm still a believer that an interviewer who administers a coding question, one that is reasonably realistic, in both form and the environment the candidate has (ie they have their own laptop) can be a good way to assess someone's skills if you are doing it right. You let them work, let it be a humane environment, and don't get too hung up on the details. Usually if someone can hack it bleeds through pretty clearly, even if they don't get to the exact solution you wanted. (And of course, this is just one data point, that should be distilled into a larger picture of the person's history, accomplishments, etc.)
Neither Kay nor Romer are the clearest writers but I think Romer was clearly attacking Stigler (as well as Lucas and others at Chicago) and Kay was just repeating what Romer said. See this:

http://paulromer.net/stigler-conviction-vs-feynman-integrity...

I don't have access to Stigler's 1955 paper. It would be interesting to know what he was talking about but putting him in opposition to Feynman seems pretty harsh. It makes it sound like Stigler is a proponent of idealogical thinking and that's how he practiced economics.
I think these qualify. You are free to disagree.

CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance — until he recently learned that it had been infiltrated, the hacker told The Post.
Other emails stored in Brennan’s non-government account contained the Social Security numbers and personal information of more than a dozen top American intelligence officials
Jesus $50 a month? How did you end up finding such a team?
A couple of years back, I was hiring some vendor developers for my team, and since I had some flexibility in the interviews that wouldn't be allowed for full-time employees, I tried an experiment: For one of the vendor candidates, I told him a day ahead of time that I'd be asking him to implement System.Collections.Hashtable in C#, with behavior equivalent to the one in .Net. The day of the interview came, and he whiteboarded it flawlessly, to a degree that I'd never seen any other candidate accomplish, and he was able to have a deep conversation about the implementation and all of its nuances. He then proceeded to bomb the rest of his interviews and didn't get the position. What this illustrates to me is that the typical programmer interview, where we come up with some weird problem and toss it to the candidate while they have no references to look at, no IDE to type into, and a 45 minute deadline looming over their head, is totally divorced from the actual work we actually really want them to do. If I need someone to implement a widget, I'd rather they took some time to research it and do it right, versus trying to crap out a solution in five minutes on a whiteboard.
He's taunting them right now
Because there's an almost infinite supply of unproven quacky treatments for every illness. I could sell you one if you really want.
When an actor goes to an interview (aka: casting) twice, he gets paid. I think we need this in this industry. A lengthy interview should be remunerated.
I wonder if these folks are buying higher octane gas than their car needs when gas is cheap, or buying lower octane gas than their car needs when gas is pricey.
I took a week off at my previous job to trial at Weebly. My previous job had a very strict vacation policy, but I knew the importance of what I was doing.

Weebly has an unlimited vacation policy, so, it worked out pretty well.
Any comment on how much the new boost 148 standard for mountain bikes helps with stiffness and/or strength?
Ask HN: How much should I charge for a WordPress site?
I've had someone approach on my college campus, another student, that wants a website built from WordPress, basically wants to clone an existing website. My skills are excellent, and I don't want to undersell myself. I'm thinking around 50 an hour? for a total of 40 hours?
Also, drug repurposing is often a highly data-driven field. So it may not involve predictions where there's a high degree of certainty, but data-driven methods can shift a 1 in a million (or more) chance of success into a 1 in 3 or 1 in 5. Such wins are absolutely huge.
<em>I'm pretty confident in saying I prefer our approach of the trial week.</em>

A full week is pretty close to insane. It means that application is effectively limited to the currently unemployed (or those who are willing to burn what might be all the vacation they can take for months).

That said, it does make pretty clear that Weebly doesn't give a single shit about employee's lives; so it's kind of Weebly to make clear, right out of the gate that they expect to be the only thing that matters in your life.
> They're still citizens; that kind of talk is emotion-laden hyperbole, and has no place in this kind of discussion forum.

You're wrong, because—without hyperbole—historically the difference between a citizen and a slave has often been arms-bearing. The ceremony for manumission of a slave in some areas included a gift of a weapon.