skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having done IF myself, where I would eat between noon and 8pm and skip breakfast during a 'cutting phase', my experience:

* 'IF' is great if you are "cutting" and trying to achieve a lower body weight or maybe just maintaining what you have.

* 'IF' is not good or practical if you are going through a traditional bulk phase

* The feeling of alertness, energy and maybe slight 'high' during the morning, is real.

* Not sure if it is better or worse at preserving muscle than just lowering your calories (and having 3-4 regular meals). I did lose some muscle mass (as well as body fat) when I did it.

The strongest point of intermittent fasting is that it is very easy to practice. Just skip breakfast, (and no snacks) and have full normal/regular meals between noon and 8pm.
That second one is either a motor or a flywheel. No way a normal road racing wheelset could spin a fallen bike like that. Just my gut talking, though. I could be wrong...
Las Vegas is awesome. I prefer Henderson, though. (10 miles southeast of Vegas)

I would love to live there again if I could find a decent remote job! Can't wait to leave SF again...
Thanks man. I'll look into it! I feel so trapped with my current lifestyle. I guess the idea would just be to slowly get rid of it...
I would be interested if any of the top five open source projects consuming the most resources are paying Github anything.
There was a dip, sure, but that's not what I meant. There was no lasting correction.
I was exploring that option at one point but couldn't find any tech work out there and didn't find any companies with 100% remote options that I liked. The weather seems less than idea as well (hot summers, cold winters). How are you liking it? Would you still recommend it?
I wouldn't call Ruby's syntax simple. Elegant, yes, but not simple. I'd consider myself a pretty seasoned rubyist, but my IDE catches syntax errors for me all the time.
Is this seriously what interviews are trying to discover? In what practical situation would this skill manifest - a meteor is about to hit the Earth, and you need to write some algorithm to stop it RIGHT NOW?

Or is it "we need to know how you handle the stress of critical bugs that are existential threats to our client relationships", which shouldn't exist in the first place if the company is run well? If yes then I guess you know what I'd say next...
It should be "Apple or Ruby development community", homebrew is using similar tech stack distributing the `Formula`.
It was the last interview of the day, and I was tired and had already decided I was almost certainly going to decline any offer, if given. So, honestly, I probably said it with a little bit of an edge and that was inappropriate on me.

Nevertheless, the interviewer was gracious and replied, "Fair enough" and stopped nitpicking my brackets and semicolons.
If you see another of those, please do call me out. You'd be doing me a favor. Rudeness is a tendency I have to fight hard to try to suppress.
You'll look back at it in a year or so and laugh. Personally my resume and interviews were absolutely atrocious (I thought an online resume builder was a good idea..).
You're right, probably "addictive" was the wrong word. "Physical dependency forming" perhaps is better.
> Actually 6 weeks ago Femke Van den Driessche was caught with a motor in the Cyclocross World Championships.

He discussed that: she was not caught using one.
I am sure the RubyGems authors thought the same way until somebody sped the process up dramatically because they could do space-time analysis[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9195847
I already saw such a colleague training hard at competitive programming, everyday. Yet, he wrote that kind of C++ code:

ressource AClass::CopyACriticalRessource()
{
{
std::lock l;
} // Optimization for the lock.

return ressource_;
}

Having a good understanding of every aspect of your architecture, taking your time instead of rushing for blazing fast (O(1)) but hacky solution, always having in mind that someone must have already solved your problem... these are some valuable skills not coverable during a 1h interview in front of a white board. I would like someone googling a solution in front of me during an interview, trying to UNDERSTAND it, check its complexity, compare it with other search hits, adapt it to his problem, ask for my review.

The best technical interview being a homework with enough time for a normal human being, requiring tricky algorithms to solve it in a fancy way, a good architecture and great computer-science knowledge in general. Afterwards, a code-review/interview of 1 hour with debriefing on all the choices.
Sure of course but probably salary is much less, and less other things to do, etc. DFW is probably one of the best values and COL/salary ratios though.
I feel like IF would be detrimental to maintaining muscle mass during a cut. You really want to keep a steady stream of amino acids to prevent catabolism of muscle tissue even when reducing total caloric intake. Usually you cut fat first during a cut. You want to keep carbs to fuel your workouts and you want to keep the protein flowing to prevent muscle loss.
Twitter. If you are solving a real pain point, there will likely be people complaining about it on twitter. Search for those phrases and offer to solve their problem. I got my first couple hundred users this way. Then it grew organically from there.
Lately I've been very interested in moving to Sacramento. I like just about everything I read about the city (can't really say the same about SF/SV).

My main worry is that searches for local dev jobs turn up almost nothing. I don't think I could handle a 2+ hour commute daily. Any advice?
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I haven't used C professionally in a long, long time, but I naturally gravitate to it when doing technical interviews.

One of the reasons, I think, is that the language itself is "small" enough you can actually hold most of it in your head.

That, and for certain problems it gives you the opportunity to demonstrate understanding of things like pointer arithmetic that you wouldn't have if you used Java. I remember an interviewer at a Java shop being impressed a few years ago when I used C and pointers to reverse a string in place (I wasn't very comfortable with Java back then).

All that said, I'm getting old and cranky and whiteboard interviews are starting to get really annoying.
It isn't. Not everyone is a jerk.
As a complete tangent, one of things I'm finding hardest about German is when a word in English will have more than one meaning --- like, as you say, widows and orphans do --- and then I'll find that the equivalent word in German, even if entirely different, will have the same set of meanings. It's amazingly hard to remember.

Also, I'm totally going to have to find my own copy of Deutsch für den Ausländer.
Those help, yes. Not absolutely necessary, though - every wealthy country in the world relies on illegal immigrants. Transportation is more of an issue (and can itself turn into a form of indentured servitude).
That's the same exact case GP is talking about. Femke's spare bike was found to have the motor, not the one she was riding during the race.
Lots of other factors that are different between urban and rural living. Better air quality, getting more sun, more sleep, less stress, more exercise.
Ok, we changed the URL to the release notes from http://www.llvm.org/releases/download.html#3.8.0.
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I think they really downplay how much of a panic/anxiety these type of closed room with no ventiliation with solemn looking people judging your every move.

I could never calm down and think but the interviewers wanted to test how you would code on a whiteboard under duress
Perceived contrast depends on media. The only question designer answers in real life - is he ready to subdue his taste and skill to PMs whim or not.
If you're on a Mac and using OSX, I highly suggest checking out Turbo Boost switcher https://github.com/rugarciap/Turbo-Boost-Switcher It's given me at least an hour more of battery life on my aging Macbook Pro 13 (2011). Another handy tool on OSX is CoconutBattery which is basically the closest I've found to PowerTop for monitoring power usage (I know ActivityMonitor somewhat shows power usage BUT it makes my fans & CPU spin like crazy when it's gathering info!)
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>Gen X and Millenials do not work as hard as Boomers. They work much, much smarter. Worker productivity is higher than it has ever been.

And yet, this is not enough. Our generation (I am in my early 30s / late 20s) will have lower access to resources than the previous one. And that's just something we have to accept rather than bitch about - sure, some hand-wringing is fine, but at the end of the day it does nothing for us.

We must use the higher productivity we have and STILL put in more work than the previous generation if we are to overcome the economic quandry facing us.

Or we can pass basic income and solve a lot of the problems in one fell swoop. But that requires old people to vote against their immediate self-interest and the government to coordinate enough to roll out the biggest wealth redistribution since WW2. This doesn't strike me as very likely. So time to get to work, as much as it sucks.
It's a perfectly fun and good question, I just don't think the answer is that hard. Short of a truly titanic mathematical breakthrough, it's not possible to find out. Beside this being one of the oldest, most worked class of problems in mathematics, the people doing these large and systematic searches are not ignorant of number theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repunit#Repunit_primes

While you can easily tell some numbers around googolplex are not prime (googolplex + 1 and googolplex + 2 are obviously not) this doesn't tell you anything useful about where the next prime might be. Testing a single such gigantic number for primality is infeasible and there aren't exactly a lot of prime numbers out there - on average, one every couple of googols as you can see from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem

Even if you could test them very quickly, you'd be looking for quite a while.
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Politics aside, does this seem terribly elitist to anyone else? Is this what plutocracy looks like?
Working backwards: I agree with you that the free-market circumvention of regulation is bad in certain areas, like medical testing and utilities. For Uber, the threat of regulation (and the ensuing bad publicity - a market force) did inspire it's adaptation for the disabled. That's why I'm not in favor of eliminating any regulation in industries. But anti-trust is (and correct me if I'm wrong) concerned with keeping the market open for the benefit of consumers. If customers choose to buy ebooks for a significant mark-up because they like the way Apple delivers them, I don't see how the price fixing harms the market, especially considering the users were not limited to Apple's service on their own device. (Were there Apple iBooks exclusives at the marked up rate? Is that the problem?)

I understand that Apple violated the letter of the law with the price fixing. But I'm having trouble seeing the actual harm it did to the market. And I'm especially having difficulty feeling "sad" that Apple was able to bundle, into the cost of the ebooks, the potential fines for violating it. Consumers were given a product for a price they deemed fair in a market more competitive than before Apple entered it.
They probably aren't, but they aren't going to be using the infrastructure in the pathological way CocoaPods is either, which requires you to have a client that uses GitHub on behalf of your users.

I'm just pointing out that the feature you're wishing exists very likely already exists in practice. Unless GitHub is stupid they aren't going to be complaining about you pegging 5 CPU cores for $200/month.
Well in my personal experience the salary of senior devs in very early-stage startups i've been involved with in NYC get around get about 150K + options (text processing, machine learning, AI-stuff). With 2 incomes and some savings put aside, certainly its affordable, much more so than SF from what i've seen. The dev salary here may be higher because they need to complete with wall street firms, and there are overall less very senior devs in NYC compared to SF.
"Are you seriously suggesting that a humane system of production is impossible?"

I am reminded of Joseph Campbell:

“Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order."

No, there is not going to be pure and blameless system of production and consumption.
> The difference between the top riders is so slim that it would without question

Exactly.

In the first clip you posted, at the end in the tour of flanders when Cancellara attacks before the finish, neither his cadence nor his body position change as he accelerates. Further, the rider behind him who is undoubtedly an incredible athlete has to stand up just to keep his current pace.

At the very least it's not hard to see why this looks suspicious.
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Phoenix is often not included when discussing tech cities, and I think it's a shame

I've spent time in Phoenix. It's the land of enormous roads and parking lots. It's almost impossible to get anywhere without a car. Traffic is horrendous all the time. There is barely a functioning downtown. The urban layout isn't conducive to the density necessary to really sustain light rail. Yes, I know about the line that goes from downtown to the airport to Tempe, and yes, it is better than nothing.

The cost of living is low, but people prefer Austin to Phoenix or Dallas because Austin has some there, there. It is striking to me how much Phoenix does not resemble the ideal startup town Paul Graham describes in "Can you buy a Silicon Valley?" (http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html):

It will be easier in proportion to how much your town resembles San Francisco. Do you have good weather? Do people live downtown, or have they abandoned the center for the suburbs? Would the city be described as "hip" and "tolerant," or as reflecting "traditional values?" Are there good universities nearby? Are there walkable neighborhoods? Would nerds feel at home? If you answered yes to all these questions, you might be able not only to pull off this scheme, but to do it for less than a million per startup.

Phoenix reflects "traditional values," as the horrific, racist elected sherrif demonstrates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio, and it has few walkable neighborhoods.
I just call it "whiteboarding".

Seems to convey the subjective experience quite aptly.
One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent
Because they want to hire foreign nationals to undercut native wages for skilled labor.
So this confirms that Apple revoking the app-signing certificate that pissed off a bunch of people was related to KeRanger?
Very nice and readable. What are the plans for this? Anyone share to comment if there is a development roadmap or if its just an exercise in programming.
Honestly, I think I'm a little different from your average HN'er on this. And from dang as well. I don't care if you're "rude", I just care if you're right. I just don't place that high a value on civility, though I do understand that others do.

Truth be told, I kinda see that to my advantage, since I like to think it lets me see truths others miss when they're expressed in an uncivil manner.

Anyway, the other reason I know your id is that you're working to transform the very broken world of tech hiring, and I most sincerely wish you the best there.
And your advice is eerily similar to the non-advice people give guys who aren't naturally good with women. "Just be yourself" or "Just be confident."

Those statements aren't advice they are platitudes. And some people, despite people who are naturally good not understanding, need actionable advice about what to do exactly.
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> I much prefer "homework" projects

I helped a group within my organization with their hiring process recently, and we had pretty good success with assigning a short "take-home" exercise, vs. trying to haze them with a programming problem over a google hangout interview. A problem focusing on a small part of what that group does, but scoped to be doable with 1-2 hours of work.
I, unfortunately, will have to downplay this suggestion

If you don't know French some opportunities are not at your reach

There aren't a lot of positions, depending on the area, also the market seem to put outsiders in 2nd place (basically anyone that's not from Quebec)
Here's an idea (perhaps naive): why not add all the methods and give them optionally to the programmers. E.g.
- normal interview is mandatory (you need something to base your ideas on)
- portfolio is optional but when chosen it weighs heavily
- take home project is optional but when chosen it weighs heavily
- etc.

With 'weighs heavily' I mean that it influences the criteria for which those methods are good for.

The downside of this is that interviews are more unstandardised, which is a trade-off worth considering.
I suppose turnabout is fair play!
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There are plenty of places that advocate it during a cut, that's why for something like this only real studies can prove if it is more effective or not during a cut.
Thank you! That was nice of you to say.
OS X ransomware infected Transmission installer
they aren't saying how

bikes have minimum weight and can be made lighter than that so weight can be masked
Not necessary. I worked in the medical device field for many years, writing software to control instruments that tested blood (serum).

The instruments can be trusted.

If a test is borderline, either the lab tech will manually retest it, or some instruments can be given business rules like "if result is on the threshold of good/bad, automatically rerun the test and provide both results to the physician."

We were well aware that the software we wrote affected real people's lives and acted accordingly. These idiots are only giving the rest of us a bad name.
It's not spin, it's someone saying "I told you so."

The claim was always that the Mac was as prone to viruses as Windows but so few people owned Macs that no one bothered writing Mac viruses.

It's all endlessly debatable, of course, but that's what the author is referring to.
I wrote some Ruby in an interview. It was so terse, I had to explain to the interviewer (who favored Java) what the code did, and why it was linear instead of O(n^2). That was actually kind of fun.
The answer to that question is certainly yes.
I've never found myself in a situation where I truly needed to choose between a vector/map/list/hashmap. Or had to find the O(x^n) and replace it with O(x^2)

This entirely depends on the kind of product you are working on. When you get to a large scale with any programming project, optimizing computational resources will cut costs, and can often add value to the customer as well.
Microsoft Launches SQL Server for Linux
they are readily available

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00I0SHKXO
I love how global the large company's bug bounty programs are. The reason Facebook is more secure today than it was yesterday is thanks to people from Egypt, Nepal, India, Tunisia, Pakistan, and all over the rest of the world. I feel it really levels the playing field for security researchers.

https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks/
How to Deploy Image Recognition in Mobile App Testing
https://github.com/fengsp/pencil/graphs/contributors

It looks like it's a bit of a pet project at the moment, but these sorts of things have a habit of taking off in a big way sometimes. Probably a big "it depends".
We have many examples whereby societies that become "comfortable" see decreasing birth rates leading to negative population growth. As mortality pressure decreases, the urgency and drive to hurry up and have children decreases.

There's no reason to believe that if we all suddenly could live forever that we wouldn't dramatically slow down how quickly we had children.

Talk to any family about why they're stopping to have children. You'll normally get answers along the lines of, "Well, we're not getting any younger." What if you know that you're not getting any older either?

Personally, if my wife and I hadn't been pushing into our 30's and worried about having a couple of kids before we were too old, we would have waited indefinitely.

Who knows... maybe we might not even have been married? If you have 1,000's of years ahead of you, do you saddle yourself with one person for an eternity?
I've been doing IF (the "one meal per day" form) for a while now, mostly because I find it helps me focus during the day.

When I used to eat breakfast, I'd be productive in the morning, until I started getting distracted by craving lunch. Then I'd eat lunch, and end up sleepy and groggy afterwards while I digested.

Now that I'm used to IF, I feel more productive; I spend less time at work thinking about food, and I miss that whole post-lunch carb crash thing.

Obviously it's just anecdotal, possibly all psychosomatic, etc., etc. But I like it.
What if it isn't stupid code? What if it is straight forward and simple and looks correct but is just slow because it has to traverse a list instead of using a hash-table or some other data-structure. You can't get there by intermediate steps, you have to rip out the code that uses it and rewrite it with a hashmap. You can only do that if you know the space complexity and when a hash and a list is appropriate.
How do you get past the rate limiting twitter has?
I think techcrunch should be congratulated for not spelling it "4Chan" for once.
JIT story for Python may be getting more awesome thanks to Microsoft [audio]
Sorry, sounded like you were arguing for the status quo.

> We are in unprecedented territory right now.

We are but we aren't. Regression in equality is unprecedented, but inequality isn't. We fixed the problem of inequality, then subsequently politicians convinced us to let them unfix it, to our own detriment.

We know the solutions, people just don't want to implement them. Money controls media, which tells people what they want. 'Establishment' politicians buy votes with handouts and shiny objects, all the while dismantling the welfare state and passing laws which increase inequality. I guarantee if people voted on every bill that went through Congress, the US would look far, far different...
I really wish there was more scientific research around extended fasting. There's so little research and much of it doesn't wait long enough for ketoadaptation.

I've done extended water fasts as well. 18 days of just water is the longest I've done and I felt like I could have gone longer.
It's the home page of the company not the project. It is more focused on the services we provide than the library.
I understand your point, it drives me crazy in interviews as well. But by the same token when I'm interviewing, I want to be able to grok someone's resume as quickly as possible - I don't want to see stuff that they themselves don't think is relevant.
Here's the Reuters article where they state that:

http://www.reuters.com/article/apple-ransomware-idINL1N16F17...
Doesn't that support the fact that it is a meritocracy? Is it not reasonable to expect that top companies and top schools are more likely to employ people who have more applicable talent and skill?

At the end of the day, going to a top university or working at an impressive company is always going to be a huge and relevant signal. It's difficult to see a problem with that.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11246628 and marked it off-topic.