skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get why you perceive the realistic-work-sample test as "working for free", but the unrealistic-whiteboard test as "isn't work." They are both taking a similar amount of time and effort, serving the same purpose, and benefiting the same people.* The only difference is that one does a better job.

*The primary beneficiary being you, if you're a top-10% programmer: It gives you a better chance to accurately show off your ability, which is probably worth thousands of dollars in salary.
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"Is `data` a singular or plural entity?" is a question you should ask yourself.

In this case their data is a collection or mass of data - and is singular. In the blog, using "the data shows that" is the proper way to write the statement.
Agreed, my favorite thing about Firefox OS was always the "blank-slate" approach to writing apps for it, based on web technologies. Of course, that was good and bad - there was more room for experimentation, but you had to do more work to get the widgets and smooth animation that come for free from iPhone/Android SDK.
If someone really doesn't want to work, then they're probably not going to make a very good worker. Why force them to get a job if they're going to be a drag? I think the vast majority of people want to work just to keep busy and make their lives interesting. At least, that's what people tell me.
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OK, data from CBINsights (They are awesome) [1]

> raise money across borders

Tell that to any number of seed-stage, bootstrapped companies in Stockholm. A fund-raising "roadshow" from Stockholm to London can be very costly -- especially if it is unsuccessful.

[1] - https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights-KPMG-Report-Q...
Do those really exist? I recently bought a 2015 Toyota Sienna, and I didn't see any hybrid options in Honda or Toyota (arguably the leading minivan brands)
The problem with a hard cutoff is that people just below the limit end up better off than those just above it. One problem with a soft cutoff is how often/when you adjust for changes.

Basic Income is only a simple solution if it's universal.

Additionally, part of the benefit of a universal basic income is that it covers the ground of programs like Social Security, so at least in theory you can get rid of it. (though I sure wouldn't want to be responsible for orchestrating the transition)
For me, it's not empathy. It's gas mileage. I burn a whole lot less gas when I'm coasting in 2nd gear than when I have to come to a dead stop, accelerate, step on the brakes again, etc.

I've found that usually people who will cut in front of a gap accelerate pretty quick - after all, they're hopping lanes so they can do that. I rarely need to slow down for them, although occasionally some asshole will misjudge distance & speed.
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Singularity, here we come.
I personally would be hard-pressed to answer that question. If they mean diversity by gender and ethnicity...well, for some reason I always find myself in teams largely of white males. Not through any selection process of my own, it's just that is how it works out.
Wired and Gizmodo both claim to have possibly found the creator of Bitcoin
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Oh please, there's not even a remote equivalence there.

The fossil-fuel sector has a enormously greater incentive to bribe people to affect the system, and a metric fuckton more money to do it with. It doesn't make sense to imply some kind of parity of wrongdoing.
You also have that problem in a language with non-synthesized setters, because there's no guarantee that they don't do anything - and people avoid permitting direct field access, so you'll be going through a setter with unknown behavior.

That being said, if you're throwing off side-effects like mad in setters, short of prohibiting either mutability or side-effects, there's not much the language can do to prevent that.
What regulations should they put on this? A warning like, Breathing in stuff not air is bad for you? Should they ban adults from making up their own mind? I'm fine with the former. I despise the later.
I don't think it's even a game theory problem, because most of the actors aren't even rationally looking at their options.

In the Pacific Northwest, maybe 20% of drivers are trying to make any decision that will help them. Maybe another 20% are trying to do the best for themselves as long as it doesn't harm the global traffic state. The last 60% are checked out and are barely paying enough attention to not crash.
50gbps? Who did you piss off, damn.
TLDR - Fleet Problem 13 was a naval wargame in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands in the winter of 1932:

"The expectation was that Yarnell would attack with battleships, but instead he left his battleships behind and proceeded only with his carriers to the north of Hawaii where it was less likely he would be detected. With a storm as cover, at dawn on a Sunday, February 7, Yarnell’s 152 (some sources state 153) planes attacked the harbor from the northeast, just as the Japanese would ten years later. The army airfields were first put out of comission after which battleship row was attacked—with multiple hits on Navy ships. No defending aircraft were able to launch. The Navy’s war-game umpires declared the attack a total success, prompting Yarnell to strenuously warn of the Japanese threat.

The Navy exercise became known as Fleet Problem 13 and the results were largely ignored by Navy brass while the Japanese….the revisionists declared... paid close attention."
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I didn't miss the point, I just don't think that's a meaningful number. What's meaningful is total throughput and each individual's time on the road. The 10 second gap doesn't much affect either.

Also, presumably they'll close the gap or leave the road at some point, at which time cars could (shouldn't) speed up and save their 8 seconds. But it's that kind of stupidity that causes the traffic waves anyway, to save 8 seconds.
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> This experiment will give a rough estimate of the sign and magnitude of any disemployment effect: will it cause some people to drop out of the work force? Or everyone? Or will it cause people to join the workforce?

I think the parent's comment is mainly asserting that, because of its experimental nature, the experiment will not be able to actually answer that question. If participants do not drastically alter their work behavior like in previous basic income experiments such as MINCOME[1], that would not necessarily predict how people would act if given a promise of indefinite basic income.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINCOME
If I had a billion dollars I'd hire a driver.
20 Gbps definitely isn't very impressive given the current landscape, but it can probably take down many medium-sized businesses as well, if they have no DDoS mitigations. Even a large one, if they somehow had no mitigations or no decent security team.
>Here's why: I made well over 400K this year at my job. I am not jumping through hoops killing myself to learn new things I may not even need. My time away from work is too precious to me

This is what makes you all talk. You say in other comments that you're a really good programmer and you express concern that people are passing on you. Then you make this post swinging your dick around saying how much you make and how you don't need to learn new things. If that's the case, why are you whining about ageism? Why are you asking why the hiring managers pass on you? You don't want help, you just want to complain.

>I really hate the Internet sometimes.

Love this part. You make a post whining about how senpai doesn't notice you, insult the careers of people you're talking to, try to namedrop someone, brag about your salary, then bellyache like everyone else is the asshole.
You don't have to be a monopoly to have anti-competitive behavior, like disallowing competitors to compete with you in a market that has sizable market share, even if you own that market.

For example, if they banned any non Apple apps in the Apple App Store, there's still ~60% of the market in other stores (Google Play/Windows Store), but that still isn't allowed and is very anti-competitive.
I believe you are incorrect on both counts. The Texas Medical Center and the Energy sector in Houston are massive industries that have created tons of large companies. Just not the hacker news type, they actually have solid revenue, ipo, and continue making money.

Austin as a liberal island is also a bad Texas stereotype. I live in Austin now but was born in El Paso which has been an entrenched democratic stronghold for decades. San Antonio, Houston(most diverse city in the US), and Dallas are all also blue-voting urban areas. The Texas state constitution is just notorious for giving rural districts a lot of power and blatant gerrymandering.
I'll add that I could cram a bunch of ASIC's with accelerators for annealing problems in a machine the size of D-Wave. You'd see magnitude-higher speedup without anything quantum at all. I'm not sure if they looked inside of one to see exactly what's running in it but I'd rule out classical acceleration methods first.
No way, the checked-out drivers cause a ton more problems than aggressive drivers. If all drivers properly sorted themselves by desired speed from left to right we'd have much more efficient highways.

I'd also make the argument that the people who stubbornly don't get out of the way of tailgaters are at fault for creating slow road conditions, and share the blame for a dangerous driving situation. If someone behind you wants to go faster, get the fuck out of the way. And it's not even my preference-- in WA and OR it's literally the law that slower traffic should move right, but I've never heard of anyone being ticketed for it.
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Bureaucracies cost a lot. Paying a subsistence level income to everyone who is economically inactive would cost a lot more. I mean, in the UK there's currently around 9 million economically inactive working age people who pay no tax, are not registered as looking for work and yet could theoretically claim BI, vs less than 2 million people who've to registered as unemployed and looking for work that actually get out-of-work benefits. That difference pays for a lot of bureaucrats, at least some of whom are supposed to do useful things in finding people work or training as well.

And yes, it matters hugely whether someone is disabled, a single mother or a whatever, because their rent and food money needs are likely to be quite different.
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Maybe you only remember the super technical parts because the product-focused parts were effortless for you.
With all the advertising and marketing and addictive-behavior stuff these days, I've been struggling to think of some way to make "psychological self-defense" profitable and honestly-effective, but so far it seems all the money is in exploiting people.

Imagine a little chip you could tuck into a hat-band that would detect the "I can't pass up a bargain this good" mental pattern. Then your phone dings and reminds you what other things you had already planned as priorities.

At that point I'd probably suddenly suffer from a few dozen "self inflicted" stab wounds from sharpened credit-cards in a dark alley.
> "Reading bios of founders and applying to companies where the CTO shares your background is probably an effective job-search strategy"

My takeaway is basically that in an organization of sufficient size founders should have little or nothing to do with technical hiring.
That's a possibility, but if you read some of the early emails, Satoshi was at least theorizing the value of bitcoin if it was used as the world's only currency (I think to make sure there were enough units - which I believe are 54 bits, the mantissa of a 64 bit double). The recorded conversations seem to indicate that he knew exactly how much a more ideal form of money could be worth.

Then again, Satoshi might own a lot of btc that isn't wrapped up in the genesis blocks and he could have plenty of money to wait until bitcoin either dies or matures to the point where he doesn't have to expose himself as much by moving them.
Bill Gates doesn't have billions in cash sequestered under the digital equivalent of his mattress.
You're just letting the facts get in the way of a good apple bashing.

/sarcasm
Yes to this 100x. I actually did this last year with outstanding results. We were looking to bring on paid interns. We narrowed all the apps down to 5 and paid each $50 to complete real stuff that we use in our environment. 2 out of the 5 completed the work within an hour, 1 took 3 hours and the other 2 returned uncompleted work. We hired the 3 that completed the work and the one that took 3 hours ended up being the best out of them. This person also had very little prior experience but what I liked was that she stuck with the task and not only found the bug but improved some other code within the app.

All 3 ended up being very valuable and 2 of them stayed on well beyond their internship.

Oh, and these projects were done from home before we ever brought them in for an interview and we hired them before ever meeting them.
Doesn't this imply that a branch development office, in a country with friendlier immigration policies, should be a high priority for almost every US-based startup?

I assume most startups want to grow their engineering headcount (there are exceptions, of course). The pickier/more-focused you are about what kinds of engineers you want to hire, the more you have to gain from casting a wider net geographically.

But if you find the perfect teammate and she can't come to your main country due to visa restrictions, or maybe even won't come because the immigration story isn't worth the trouble, then what are your options?

I'm not talking about money here, though of course that will be a factor for some people. It just strikes me that the "YC companies with offices in Canada" have a serious recruiting advantage over those without, once they need to seriously grow their teams.
Would a thorough safety check on the parts make up for the lack of history? Or does it become a regulatory obstacle?
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But, can they carry coconuts as well?
The housing measures that help reduce the housing supply by allowing apartments and condos to serve as short-term AirBNB rentals for non-residents?

Certainly, it's pro-growth (for AirBNB), but I don't see how it's pro-housing for anyone else. Unless you expect to live week to week in AirBNB rentals.
At least one of the three chemicals was detected in 47 of the 51 flavors tested. Diacetyl was detected above the laboratory limit of detection in 39 of the flavors tested. Acetoin and 2,3-pentanedione were detected in 46 and 23 and of the flavors, respectively.

The question is, how much? The lab limit of detection is often in the parts per billion or parts per trillion.

The dose makes the poison!

Hell, frying foods creates acrolein and acylamide which is toxic as hell (it alkylates glutathione, a key anti-oxidant in the body). However, you'd need to eat kilograms of fried food per day to actually reach a toxic level.

Coffee is another great example. It contains 23 known carcinogens.
What is a “dirty little secret” about an industry, that people ought to know?
Reading the article, it's not clear from they detected any of these chemicals in concentrations that are known to be unhealthy. People who got "popcorn lung" were exposed to comparatively massive doses.
It's obvious that the government is way behind on researching ecigs and regulating them. It's inexcusable to let these things get as popular as they are and remain almost completely silent on the effects of them.
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If they had prepaid credit cards, why wouldn't they just buy some Bitcoin from Coinbase with it? That wouldn't be traced back to them (unless another law enforcement agency was investigating... or if the fraudsters compromised Coinbase).
It's regulatory. You could overhaul the parts but it's cost-prohibitive.
It's not smoke, like in a cigarette (from combustion), it's vapor from heating a liquid into a gas (boiling).
Well I mean, there's a threshold - it's not OK to sell an arsenic laced Apple just because it has a warning on it.
Work-sample tests, in my experience, are universally "do this crap and then maybe we'll talk to you." It's nothing you'll get serious feedback on, it's nothing you can open-source, it's garbage code and wasted time that benefits the company unilaterally.

But the alternative--it's not the whiteboard, it's the meeting people. Right now, I consult, but I do take interviews for "permanent positions". But we all know they aren't actually permanent positions. The last thirty years of corporatism have made this loud and clear: we are all expendable tools. and I go into them with that in mind: a W-2 doesn't mean I'm anything other than working for a client under a tax-advantageous status. Interviews are business development; I am effectively offering my exclusive services on retainer to a single company. So meeting people to discuss the gig (whether or not the whiteboard comes into play, the only interview I've been on in the last two years where I was both interested in the company and wrote code on the board was Google) benefits me, too: maybe it's not a fit, but maybe I meet somebody I'll remember as "hey, I'd like to work with them again." Or "hey, I don't want to work here, but I know somebody who will, so I can do them a solid and they can help me in the future."

So, yeah, it is work. It's just business development, which is a different, and valuable, kind of work. And it applies to everybody, not just consultants; it's the game we're all playing even if one doesn't realize they're playing it.
Are you telling me Cosmos was not a kids show ?
If you have a hard cutoff, its not a BI.

If BI is treated as income, this (through taxes) limits the net cost of benefits to the rich (or even middle class), while avoiding the perverse incentives that come with a hard cutoff, or even a dollar-for-dollar phase-out of benefits at some point.
Curiously, my old airliner maintenance friends used to refer to general aviation and small planes as "bug smashers". It seems little Cessnas (et al) spend _way_ more time "down where the insects are" (and presumably most of the birds), while you can do mach 0.9 for 12 hours at 37,000+ feet without needing to wash the bugs off the windscreen afterwards...

(I know a few hours doing ~100kmh at around 1 meter altitude certainly smashes more than a few bugs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/115614482/ )
Sure. So now the question is, why would Google offer all of this for "free"? Is it really free? Who pays, and in what ways?
This might seem unusual, but having thought about this a lot, I think the issue was with naming PKI concepts. Calling the public part of the keypair a 'public key' has conditioned people that 'uploading a key' is a normal thing to do. Once 'uploading keys' is normal, it's not a huge step for a user who doesn't know PKI well to go from uploading their public key to uploading their private key.
Probably entrail reading, which is more applicable to the games industry than divination. That, and the 30 years of console sales patterns to draw on.
I'd say that a billion dollars seems like far too much money considering all the problems that money could solve here on earth. It could be spent on general science education, which imho would probably result in greater discoveries over the long term. But LeBron James just inked a deal that could see him earn that much for bouncing a ball.
And for me, not making myself motion sick.
At the end of the day that sort of interview process is a super huge red flag anyway.

You don't want to work with people that value that sort of knowledge over actual ability to ship good code.

Unless of course you are one of those people that cares about toy problems ofcourse, then you probably do want to work with other people like you.
> ranging from < limit of qualification (LOQ) to 239 μg/e-cigarette. 2,3-pentanedione and acetoin were detected in 23 and 46 of the 51 flavors tested at concentrations up to 64 and 529 μg/e-cigarette, respectively.

From the article's abstract http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/15-10185/

I have no idea what those numbers mean or if they're bad for you. But there they are...
And I can see it with my boys. Elmo youtube videos taught my two-year-old the alphabet, his shapes, and counting to 10, which blows his daycare teachers away.

Sesame street (and the Electric Company) helped me with my early reading and numeric ability, long before Elmo showed up. You can watch classic episodes on Netflix and see that there was actually more of that stuff in the early years than there is today, with more elaborate animations and songs that made it easier for kids to remember.