skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116039
Unless the inflation is caused by the government printing money.

If 10 citizens each have $10, then there are $100 in the money supply. Now the government prints $10. If no actual value was created with that $10, then the value of the dollar has to drop. Now all the citizens have $9.1 (real value) and the government has $9.1 (real value). This is the same as a 10% tax on wealth.
What's the use case of people seeing it? GitHub should be adding it automatically; issue reporters aren't copying-and-pasting the template manually. The only people who should really need to see the file itself are maintainers (or fork maintainers), unless I'm missing some use case.
They are trying to solve planet warming by controlling population?
The ones I've used in the past relentlessly spam you about every little thing for every issue or tell you nothing about anything. There's very little in the way of fine-grained control.

I understand some people prefer email for following up on these things, but destroying my inbox by following a busy project is not something I'll ever do. GitHub's default is to notify project owners, issues you've participated in or actively followed, or those you're mentioned in. I think that's fair.

You can also "one click unsubscribe" to them at any time, which is great.

Others I've been subjected to are things that are barely more than mailing lists. I have no idea how people deal with these.
>Most other countries they are losing (globally they have something like 8% vs Android's 85% market share).

I'm not sure this is true once you factor in price range. The general knowledge is a lot of those Android devices are sub-$250.
I can do that in Finland. If I have a problem I just open the website of the house management company (not sure what the official term is) and create a ticket, and someone comes in an fixes the issue.

In fact, interaction with the "landlord" is rare, and often the apartment is owned by a company, not an individual.
Can the All Writs Act not then be used to acquire Apple's private keys? After which law enforcement could create the needed software?
I feel pretty fair in blaming the current "standard" way of submitting job applications at most places. For pretty much every posting I see, I'd be taken to some ugly and bloated page asking me to upload a PDF/DOC which is then parsed out to auto fill some form fields and those form fields mostly don't let me actually communicate what I want to.

I have been looking for a job since the past couple of months, and my experience has basically been just that. Simple job listings with an email to send your details to haven't been a common sight to me, specially at established places[1]. If anyone knows of some service where I can find them, I'd be glad to hear.

[1]: I know the story is about startups, but I presume parent is talking about jobs in general?

[edit] markdown issue
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Thanks, as always, for the thoughtful notes. We certainly don't mean to imply that this is gospel, and there are limitations to the work, and fwiw, we are thinking about potentially moving to a 5 star scale.

That said, if click on the link in the footnotes to see the original data, you can get an idea of what we're working with.

And lastly, the fontawesome thingy isn't plotly. It was built using http://blockbuilder.org/ by @enjalot
Interesting. I wonder if we interviewed at the same place! I had a very similar experience over a year ago. At least I was told they only select one person from the group to move forward from the pair-programming task, which I thought was weird, but hey, it's their company.
Python's Dask out of core dataframe can also do that.
Great post and awesome interactive graph! props

I'm curious about the interviewer community. Specifically things like how are they vetted and how often they come to conduct interviews. It would be cool if there was a community of interviewers for the betterment of the process, but I could see their retention for conducting interviews to only be 1 or 2 before they drop out. I see in the appendix that there are those that do more, but no indication about what percent leave quickly.

A better drinking game might be when a candidate offers a data structure they know nothing about. Would a red-black tree work here? No.. I guess not.
I was a sales guy, I typically showed up with 6 months of pay stubs, dressed nicely, and had a job within hours.
> would be relatively straightforward to create an update for the FBI that could pretty clearly only be used on the phone in question

How? Wouldn't the FBI reverse engineer it?

It seems like apple would have to update all phones to a new version (which would prevent the exploit provided to the FBI) before handing it to them.
I can't speak to the UK specifically, but I have 4.8kW system on my south-facing roof in similarly-cloud Oregon. Panels will continue to get cheaper, but likely the largest part of the cost will be the installation, and that is not likely to become cheaper nearly as soon (though it should gradually, as it's more and more common).
I still find it absolutely incredulous that lactose intolerant people exist. I didn't meet an actual li person until I was 28! The concept that a person could not digest milk, one of the most basic foods, just never crossed my mind.
I apply almost the same approach as OP. You can get a relatively good picture at a candidate's engineering skills and thinking ability via "go[ing] deep into the details", compared to asking algorithm questions.

I also ask candidates to code on a realistic problem. It doesn't involve any "fancy" algorithms or "tricks". What I want to see are the coding style, attention to details, and of course, if the candidate is comfortable at coding.

This approach has been working well for senior candidates. It is much harder to interview new graduates.
Here's another video:
GEOMETRIC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLEEVGxu_k8
Yes, you're not going to get paid market rate as a junior developer coming from a bootcamp. Hell, most startups aren't paying senior level people market rate when compared to G/FB etc.

My first job was hugely under market rate. I was up to market rate in about 3 years. But I had to change jobs 3 times to do it. It's not easy, definitely not saying that. But it's doable.

> Ultimately, demonstrable programming skill seems to factor in very little for junior positions.

This has not been my experience.
Yeah converting from one format to another that isn't completely compatible might be an issue in the future. Even how to preserve websites isn't exactly intuitive because as you saw the conversion to PDF was faulty, and doing "file" > "save as" would not yield the same HTML because the browser modifies the DOM. We have to start using formats specifically designed for archiving such as WARC for webpages: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000236.sht.... (relevant and interesting site in general, run by the Library of Congress)
Testing apps that use requests without using mock. Betamax with Ian Cordasco
So it's android only?
I think it's more about a situation when you are 'omg I want to work at THIS company' rather than 'I just need a job'.

You can get enthusiastic about one company and get something done about it. Following the Patrick's suggestion, it's some mega project that would take the whole week or so, a couple of focused hours should do the trick. And if you are genuinely interested, you will naturally sound generally interested without any bs covering it all.

Even if the case of just needing a job, following this advice will probably help you get produce a few but high quality applications, rather than sending yet another resume.
If you're the author:
Typo here (I assume):
> At they time they had 10 employees

I found the Raleway text really hard to read, personally changed it. It might just be how it looks on Mac or Mac retina, but it was very light.

I think there's a middle ground in there somewhere
I have one major disagreement with you:

> I have a Github profile with more than enough stuff on it

Based on my experience only, you're in the minority here. Most candidates I've interviewed have barely anything on GitHub. Some UI/UX-ish people will have a portfolio, which involves a lot of "view source" and isn't too rewarding. Lots of perfectly good working programmers have no active open source participation, not even a "dump of code" type of GH profile, making it difficult to tell wheat from chaff. Having them do code tests is pretty much the only way that doesn't involve talking to every single one.

Look at the other side, too: I've gone through hiring processes in the past as a candidate that started with a 30-45 minute conversation with the hiring manager, and proceeded to the onsite interview stage. This inevitably ended up being the classic 6-hour beatdown, with both sides muddling through without truly understanding what either is doing. These are usually so inconclusive (especially at bigger companies) that no one can make a decision, so they end up saying "no". Now both sides are 6+ hours in the hole. This could have been a simple 2-4 hour asynchronous code test, which would have provided hard information to the hiring team instead of the usual inconclusive bullshit.
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TIL: "twigged".

And yeah, living on Pluto would no doubt be... cool. puts on sunglasses
people who say this are talking about markets where the spread between renting and the finance cost of a similar bought property are huge. San Francisco, New York, LA...

Let's say you're a couple years out of school and you work at Snapchat. Somehow you have a lot of money saved up and you can buy a little house near your office in Venice. A small house in Venice runs about $2m. So let's say you borrow 1.8m to pay for it, your monthly payment is about $8,500 on a 30 year fixed and thats before maintenance and insurance.

That same house in Venice probably rents for somewhere between $3k and $4k/mo net of everything.

So what those people are saying is to live in a rental and invest _the saved money_ in the market.

Remember, in both cases you are renting: in one, you are renting real estate. In the other, you are renting money. But they have different tax treatments, and renting money allows you to lever yourself into eventually owning an asset who's value you might expect to rise.
I was bummed out recently when I did a take home test for a local start-up, which asked me to build a full web app. I spent 4-6 hours on it making sure it was perfect - just to turn it and and get told I did a great job but they decided they didn't really want to hire any non-senior engineers and where just testing the waters.

This is happening a lot in Seattle recently - the job market is here is terrible for anyone except senior devs (which it is great for!).
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In addition, Take-home test is better because it is more flexible than an in-person or even phone interview.
Many may hate Apple, however it's undeniable that they're so committed to user security.
It shouldn't be a monologue - it should be a discussion.
The basic premise behind that idea is rents are (historically were) cheaper than a mortgage so you could take the mortgage-rent delta, invest that, and generate a return greater than the interest rate on the mortgage and end up ahead. A lot of the mortgage calculators have a 3-5yr inflection point where renting, traditionally, was always cheaper if you planned on staying somewhere for 3-5yrs and moving.

The problem is, the equation has flipped. Mortgage payments are now, in many cases, cheaper than rent and there's such a high demand for rental units in some metro areas that landlords have no problems keeping tenants increasing rent 3-10% year over year. Ideally, you could do the same arbitrage buying a house (ideally an asset that nets 0 when you sell it worst case and you get your money back) and invest the rent-mortgage delta into other assets. The problem is "unlocking" the house option. If you don't have exemplary credit, and a certain pile of cash available, banks are leery to touch you and make financing available. Ergo, you get forced into the rental market and there's a huge incentive to turn properties into rentals.

Tack on the millennial generation's hesitancy to settle down in one location and you get a set of economic conditions that encourage renting and regular rent increases.
Not so much dug up as (wildly) speculated based on circumstantial data.
> Ok, so Debian is a developers-only distribution?

For all practical purposes, I'd say yes. GNU/Linux as a PC operating system for non-programmers is a lost cause. Sure, some organizations make it work, but it probably requires a lot of technical support; they'd probably be better off using Android tablets and/or Chromebooks if they need something less expensive than a Windows PC, let alone a Mac. And when non-programmers need web hosting, they don't reach for a DigitalOcean droplet; they use a shared host that offers an abstraction over the LAMP stack like cPanel, or an even more non-developer-friendly service like Squarespace.
I'm pretty sure scrollaway was describing the stable release philosophy as trickling down to Ubuntu, not the actual packages.
I agree that there is something more beyond the cheap money, however it is possible that the cheap money, combined with a few bad actors has driven up the prices.

Say one or two houses sell way over market value, that drives up the price of all the houses in the neighbourhood. If that happens a few times you have massive price increases fueled by easy access to money.
Having lived in Beijing for 3 years, I try to pay more attention to the country's "hidden" or at least somewhat non obvious debts.

The Chinese soil is dying or dead.

The population as a whole and the younger generations in particular are facing future health issues of cataclysmic proportions.

The pace at which the country moves is sure to leave dozen of millions of people in the dust. Those already left in the dust endure, because their living conditions are better than those of their parents. Yet their kids' might not be, and they will choose to endure or not (and vent in a way they think appropriate).
That, added to the dearth of females, and the Confucianist view of a man's place in society are already proving explosive.

China has a lot of potential, but it also faces challenges of epic proportions. To me, the economic problems are more a symptom of the problem rather than the problem to worry about.
>1. If the candidate can't be bothered to complete a 2-4 hour (depending on claimed seniority) code test in the language of their choice, we can't be bothered to talk to them.

A good reason not to work at your company. Why would I want to invest 4(!) unpaid hours into something where I am not even considered seriously yet?

I recently had a coding challenge, which was not only vague, but also took up two hours of my time. The end result was... nothing. Not even a "thank you, but we chose someone else." Since every then, I chose to not bother with long coding challenges anymore.
Yes. It’s opposite of what one would do to make housing affordable. Unaffordable housing, especially in cities, is a huge and regressive drag on the economy.
You could combine it with the new feature and put a warning message into the default box saying to click one of the links in the README in order to get an issue through.
This is probably due to the specific nature of browser upgrades, which is the reason why firefox and chrome went to 6-week autoupgrade schedules for clients: people expect a hell of a lot from their browsers; troubleshooting a fractured version environment in such a complex field is next to impossible; important security updates need to be pushed.

So you end up with two main releases for the browser, one is the standard one that updates every six weeks, and the other has a more stable 'extended support' environment that just gets bugfixes, for places that can't easily deal with changes very often (like a business or education SOE). Debian stable usually lasts for about two years, and modern browser releases would find that impossible to support.
I don't think that technological approach is enough here. You don't seem to take cultural significance of GIFs into account.

It's like saying that Pinterest is a photo album. Or that Twitter is just a blog engine with 140 characters. Completely correct. Completely missing the point.
> There are candidates with amazing resumes that can't do much...

That's certainly true. I understand not taking resumes at face value; I've interviewed developers (and DBAs) and I'd always pour over their resumes to look for both padding and meat to ask about. It can be insightful to ask about a big accomplishment someone claims as their own only to find out that they only actually affected a small part of it. However, In this case I'm honestly not sure whether my interviewer even read my resume.
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>People on the Internet tend to believe that technology poses confounding problems for the law, but the law has been dealing with technical challenges for centuries.

The problem is different now than it was centuries ago when technology was oil, gas, and steam powered. Now it is electric, meaning information moves at the speed of light all around the world simultaneously.

Such technology is getting better, faster, and cheaper at exponential rates leading to ephemeralization. Meanwhile paper-based political processes have stalled and remain slow as ever.

Say a paper-based political system begins the process of banning a new technology. By the time they finally get around to completing their process, 5 better, faster, and cheaper technologies have already been invented making the old one irrelevant. This is an increasingly important problem to deal with considering the existential nature of paper-based political processes and the rate of technological change.

Paper-based information systems and processes are simply too slow to keep up with the speed of the electric medium. It's like trying to race a lightning bolt.
Incomes in SF are much higher.
Didn't they try this with another (smaller, less publicized) case about 4 months ago?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/apples-eula-gives-it-l...
>“We will take full ownership of our projects. We take pride in our work and relentlessly execute to get things completely finished.”

Does this mean that as an employee, or ex-employee, I can take my owned projects with me and use them for my own purposes?
If Finland's rental market is anything like Sweden then you are almost always renting for a larger company that owns hundreds of apartments all around town and have pretty good economies of scale when it comes things like maintenance. It seems that in the US it much more common with individual landlords and tiny rental companies that perhaps only own that one house you happen live in.
I know that because this is on hacker news, everyone is talking about whether it's possible to access the data, and if possible... how easy or how hard it is. But the focus should be on the whether there should be a clear line/understanding between security and privacy, or should we keep everything black and white as it is now, just looking at extreme cases?

If they cannot co-exist, I'd rather have more security and less privacy. But ideally, I shouldn't have to choose between them.
> Ok, so Debian is a developers-only distribution?

This might not be a bad characterization of where it sits now.

If you want a hand-holding "user-friendly" (and I use the term advisedly, based on the common, flawed conception of what a "user" is), create one based on Debian, leveraging the Debian tools and packages and processes to make an Ubuntu or Mint or something else.

Debian isn't a meta-distribution. It is a distribution in its own right. However, it is commonly used as the foundation for a different distribution, with different goals and different ways of relating to the world. Debian itself remains unchanged, ready to base another distribution off of, and another, and another...
Poor execution doesn't invalidate the idea. Happened to me too, although on a smaller scale. 4-6 hours is a bit much for a take-home evaluation project. If it can't be reasonably done by a distracted person in 4 hours, it's too hard/too long for a take-home test.

Hopefully people will learn to do this right over time. Or, someone might solidify a common platform for doing this, a-la HackerRank or any of the other similar services.
I think you're missing my point here.

Some people trot the argument that it's OK for the government to compel apple to deliver the backdoored firmware because the measures it would circumvent are not of cryptographic/information-theoretical nature.

Then one could expand that argument by saying that compelling physical reverse-engineering is also OK because the devices are not built to be physically impossible (read: laws of nature) to pry open.
Only a few agencies have blanket exemptions from using GSA plates -- CIA and NSA, unsurprisingly, are two of them. An official federal VIP motorcade wouldn't have generic state plates, but official federal ones with an agency code.
I believe what they're arguing is that you don't pay your mortgage off early with a 3.5% mortgage rate.

You invest your excess money in the stock market (hopefully returning more than 3.5%) instead of paying off your mortgage early.
Nice! Some industries (Advertising, PR, Government...) do make people work w/out pay. I like that it worked out so well for you.
Why are people who have to pay property taxes referred to as home owners?

As a homeowner (even with a mortgage), I can do things to my house that as a renter I can't do to a rental unit. Yes, I can lose the place if I don't pay the mortgage (or the property tax). But (apart from eminent domain) I have to not pay in order to lose it. If I rent a place, I can lose it at the end of the lease at the landlord's sole discretion, even if I have paid my rent faithfully.

So, yes, my control is not total, but it's a lot more than a renter's control. The difference matters.
In exactly the same way as any other password hash is cracked.
I'm not sure I understand why you would pay rent to live somewhere else. I'm talking about living in the house that you bought and have a mortgage on.

Say your mortgage loan amount is $300K at 3.5%, locked in for 30 years. Instead of paying it off in 6-10 years with extra payments, I say invest those extra payments in the stock market, and keep paying the mortgage for 30 years at a locked rate of 3.5%. If that money that you invested makes anything above 3.5% over 30 years, then that's free returns to you.

On top of that, it also depends where you think the interests rates will be in 10-20 years from now. If you believe that they will be higher than they are currently, then that's even more reason to keep that loan locked in for 30 years instead of paying it off sooner. Hope that helps.
It looks like what you're doing is quite similar to Sprintly. https://sprint.ly -- Including your advanced GitHub integration which they've had for a few years.

What would you say makes you different from them?
I don't think this works, because 30 year mortgages have a higher rate of interest than 15 year mortgages do.
> Why is it telling me I created a new account instead of logging me into my existing account?

> Email addresses on Medium are case-sensitive.

Wow. Is there ever any possible benefit to this? (Serious question)
People who aren't owners can't normally add labels.