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> What I like about audition projects:
> It's real, practical work.
> They get paid. (Ask yourself who gets "paid" for a series of intensive interviews that lasts multiple days? Certainly not the candidate.)
> It's healthy to structure your work so that small projects like this can be taken on by outsiders. If you can't onboard a potential hire, you probably can't onboard a new hire very well either.
> Interviews, no matter how much effort you put into them, are so hit and miss that the only way to figure out if someone is really going to work in a given position is to actually work with them.

I'm finally sitting down to read Peopleware, and from what I can tell, this is what they recommended back in 99 or 87 or whatever. Alongside portfolios of work. I need to find a 2013 edition, to see if they mention GitHub portfolios at all.
I think you're overblowing this. Sleep is not that complex of an issue. Many people get good sleep nowadays and it's due to maintaining a sleeping schedule and keeping your body healthy. However you're correct in the fact that many Americans fail at this.

They don't fail because they value activities and productivity over sleep, they fail because of a lack of self respect required to do good by their body. Oftentimes this leads towards other unhealthy habits such as overeating and drug use. The number one cause of sleep apnea? Being overweight. Along with that many people can't sleep without some form of drug (alcohol or otherwise).

A person can easily interact and thrive in this society without causing detriment to their health and/or sleep.
Because the author is a single woman who wants to sell her book. Actually there are already lots of people living as singles, and there isn't really that much of a pressure to get married. She is building up a straw man to make her book seem more important.
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I think there is a trend in this direction. The Art of Problem Solving series is a good example.

As I understand it, the Every Child Succeeds Act gives more control to the states, but still seems to optimize for high test scores. That may help more students meet the profile for which college admissions officers are looking, but it may not help them be successful in college or life. For example, the ability to successfully apply formulas would help students perform better on a basic calculus test. However, this ability is all but useless outside of that test.

I think the root of the problem is our reliance on credentials and in turn test scores. As long as those are important, they will be selected for over actual understanding.

While I don't have a solution, I will reference Paul Graham's essay on "After Credentials." He suggests that small companies capable of relying on performance rather than credentials is the solution. The wealth of articles on HN complaining about interview processes indicate this is less than a complete solution.

I'm interested in the effect a basic income would have on higher education. Would eliminating some of the economic pressure result in a better university system? Might people go to university because they were interested in learning something rather than following a prescribed set of classes required to obtain a degree?
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> Also interesting to note is that a lot of negative children statistics do not apply to single mother widows.

Selection bias?
Easier said than done. I've had nights where I've been awake for 20 hours already, been feeling tired at about 10PM, taken a combination of prescribed medications that can cause drowsiness (tamazepam/tramadol/promethazine), and still laid awake until 6AM or so. I'd love to consistently get 6-8 hours sleep, but sometimes it just doesn't work for me.
In up markets it's easy to say, "I'm a mobile developer" but in a down market, only iOS will do. You're right there are gambles.

I see 4 ways to mitigate this:

1 - Live somewhere that has many companies or be prepared to move.

2 - Keep in contact periodically with everyone who respects your work. (Don't make the "Hey it's been 5 years" call one where you're asking for a favor)

3 - Always keep learning.

4 - Communicate in your customer's language. If you are strictly an ActionScript expert, you are very narrowly pegged if you haven't learned iOS on the side. But if the buyers of technology view you as "A mobile expert who makes brands come alive across many devices" then you can survive technology switches.

4.5 - Help others before you need help.

In the grand scheme it's still better to be a laid off technology worker than a laid off steelworker. I still feel their pain though - it sucks to lose your job, especially if family is involved.
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Lots of cars lock you into using specialized fluids. For example, GM has lots of DEX* fluids that must be used in their vehicles or the owner risks permanent damage. VW brands and Nissan do this too.

Sometimes these things are interchangeable, but sometimes they aren't.
what is 'olds'? old people? Why would any business grow by confusing them?
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What is this for then?
http://www.ti.com/ww/en/analog/tps22985_thunderbolt/?DCMP=sc...
are there websites like this for other languages too? I really like the format of this.
I don't think I'm the first person to suggest that Scala introduced a fair bit of complexity with all the features it embraced, but, fair enough.
The article wasn't about single mothers, though. In fact it cited not having to have kids as one of the benefits of being single.
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I would postulate that any arrangement where the parents, regardless of number, can be happy and productive is an arrangement that results in a happy and productive child.

Instead of studying the various methods and deciding which one is best as though it would make a single difference to the people at large (as if there are people planning their lives by the statistical "best life", whom we should probably ship to Area 51 since they are clearly not human) how about we just agree to all mind our own damn business and let people live how they want to live, with a spouse of the sex and color they prefer, or none at all, with 6 children or with none, and just get on with our lives?
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Again: Ed25519 isn't ECDSA. Not just different curves, but different signature constructions. Curve25519 and ECDSA are orthogonal. I'd have disagreed with your comment even if you had said "Ed25519" instead of "Curve25519", but I especially disagree with the comment you actually wrote.
Just like mobile developers don't bother making Windows Apps because they consider the % of users is too low.

In other words, this manufacturer probably didn't care because the % of users who would use it for something other than the standard config is too small to justify the time spent outside that standard.

I don't think this specific case can be called monopoly. You can install Linux and other stuff fine in most laptops, this looks like an isolated case. I mean, you can even install Ubuntu on a Surface Pro and Surface Book (proprietary MS hardware).
Current senior in Comp Sci here - I'd say a good portion of my classmates just want a cozy job doing programming for some enterprise company. They know CS degree pays well, like an engineering degree. For myself, I also just want a cool, less stressful corporate/enterprise job. Maybe in 5 years I can see myself doing some startup or SaaS business or something.

Then again, I go to a state school and a lot of my classmates (if not all) are not super into programming scene(like maintaining a GitHub, doing side projects out of school, etc)

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Why does every article like this inevitably lead to men wondering why it's not about them? (I'm a man).
Does anyone else find it bizarre that what is effectively a web-based IRC is (possibly) worth $8B?
We need to resist the urge to turn education into job training. Computer science done wrong could do more harm than good.
About 3 years ago I was researching the same thing. There wasn't a lot of options then, and I still don't think there's a lot of options now.

Wrote a blog post to document what I found: http://www.redbridgenet.com/indian-payment-gateways-no-recur....

There's some links in there to discussions of the same. The Quora discussion is starting to fill up with what I think is spam for services that don't exactly solve the problem, but it might be worth checking out.
Is that one of those jobs that requires security clearance, etc? Because that's one of the few cases where I could see there being a shortage.
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> against Slack developing an in-house document collaboration service, Office 365/Google Docs style

One can only dream …
My first job hired me with zero programming experience because they thought this. I like to think I turned out ok, but I strongly disagree with the sentiment. A more accurate statement would be "You can train most people to be relatively competent at average programming tasks."
There's no switching it off -- it's a new platform. The old platform will continue to exist but it's the old platform and it continue to be harder to use it.
Fathers who don't live in the same household as their kids are still fathers...
A lot of enterprise claim to run their own services, but in reality, they outsource to third party to host them, for example, centurylink for active directory or some vendor for managed exchange servers. Heck, a lot of companies bought 365 and Box. People use Skype for communication, passwords are being thrown all over emails and chats. Code are on GitHub. While there is auditing in place, the reality is, a lot of enterprise data aren't really controlled and stored on-premise servers, and auditor cares mostly whether access are limited, logs are available for tractability, and whether there is enough risk assessment done prior to signing the contract.
AFAIK they don't. There is a cap on licensing for H264. Cisco is already hitting that limit with their commercial offerings, so they can essentially offer OpenH264 at zero (licensing) cost.
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Why were you there? Going for a MS seems like a poor way to fulfill the desires of learning more about algorithms or being able to code more, for me I'd only consider it if it was a stepping stone to a better place in the corporate ladder or a stepping stone that's part of being paid to work on intensely interesting PhD material for a few years.
Really looking forward to hearing this talk!

I wonder if there will be any potential for C++ interop. I would __LOVE__ to be able to code Scala that can be called from and in turn call C++ interfaces.
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> Which means that potentially 45% of these 80% had the father in court fighting for his kids custody

No, it doesn't. (Divorce/separated is irrelevant to that, since parental rights for both parents generally exist from birth regardless of marriage so long as paternity is established, and so separation or divorce from marriage is not a prerequisite to custody proceedings. The "potential" number is much higher; though the actual number is lower.)

> and we all know how biased to justice system is toward men in that case.

Yes, courts are substantially biased in favor of men in contested custody cases; men end up with custody less often in divorce because men are less likely to seek custody.

> My point is don't make it sound like fathers just abandon their kids.

Unfortunately, the fact is that fathers, all too often -- both without marriage and when it fails -- just abandon their kids.
It does sound rhetorical. A more 'honest' approach would be "Is it because it is more socially acceptable for one sex to lead single lives, not so much for the other?"

I don't really see why you'd assume that women are more frowned upon in this situation. I mean, there's even a picture of SUPERWOMAN in this article! And yet, your initial position was to think that women were the 'victims' here. (For lack of a better word.) Interesting, isn't it?

If anything, single women are shown as courageous and going against the tides. If a man decides to lead a single live, he is not seen as a hero. At best it's inconsequential, at worse he's a loser.

And this tendency of inconsequential/loser for the men applies to many situations.
In pratice, yes. It takes extraordinary skills to combine the two in teaching. A skill the average teacher simply does not have.
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> Third, we must ensure innovation in the classroom through the use of digital content and tools to provide individualized, data-based learning and improve educational outcomes.

Wow, that really doesn't sound like something that will help kids learn to code. How about instead of trying to get millions of dollars of multimedia content and one off coaching apps built, we just have kids build a web page for themselves in 1st grade?

People learn to code by coding things and researching what they need to build the thing they're working on.

I also don't think there's any kind of programmer shortage. There's just a misallocation of capital into the executive ranks. Start paying 1M a year for engineers and you'll have excellent people lined up for your roles.
What a disaster that would have been. The people that use Slack are much younger than the enterprise customers that Microsoft has. It would have been another failed acquisition.

Plus we used Slack and moved aggressively back to HipChat. I thought it was fine but there's no real difference between Slack and Hipchat.
At the risk of being rude, some of it is just foam finger, jingoistic narcissism. Much is swept under the rug of "fit".

And employers want what they think they want. I've been forced to (inadvertently) undermine the Great Developer too many places to think otherwise.

Lest ye think otherwise, I'm not that good. I'm just rigorous but I can switch modes and hack like a shameless... hacker.
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That's quite vague. Best to start at the bottom and work your way up. As in take the undergrad route until something tickles your fancy.
Well other professions with become less attractive in comparison and skilled people will train to be developers.

In many places it still a far better career decision, to train to become an accountant, lawyer, sales, etc then to become a developer.
WebRTC in Chrome has already supported screen sharing for years.
Raising a child and merely fathering a child are completely different things. Surely you must understand that?
In regards to the paid trial period method. My experience is mixed, on one hand you get a real insight into how someone works and approaches their tasks but you lose that crucial emotional distance, so to say... you go soft on them.
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Ask HN: Why are there so few reviews for coding bootcamps?
Search results yield coursereport.com and switchup.org.

With the "top" ones like GA, Hack Reactor, Career Foundry, you are lucky to get more than 50+ reviews.

With some of these being over $10k, am I wrong to think there should be more reviews out there?
I'm not. Every time a family member asks me to make a program to automate something they do regularly it always involves a call about how to disable SmartScreen and always goes something like this:

>Ok, so run the program. Yeah, I know it says your computer is protecting you, just ignore that. Look for a little button that says "More info". No, "More info". No, don't click OK. Ugh. Re-open the file. Ok, under that scary sentence that you should ignore, there's a button that says "More info". Click that. Ok, good. Click run anyway. Yes, I know it says it could be unsafe, click it anyway.

You get the picture. It makes distributing little side projects you make a huge headache, which frankly is not something I see microsoft solving any time soon.
In Brooklyn US Magistrate Judge James Orenstein was asked to issue an AWA to force Apple to break an iPhone password. He writes:

"It is thus clear that the government is relying on the AWA as a source of authority that is legislative in every meaningful way: something that can be cited as a basis for getting the relief it seeks in case after case without any need for adjudication of the particular circumstances of an individual case."[1][2]

Hopefully the Californian courts will agree.

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/brooklyn-judge-shreds-all-writ...

[2] https://www.eff.org/files/2016/02/29/applebrooklyn-2.29.16or...
When I was much younger my parents belonged to a "play group", where parents would take turns baby sitting each others children. Simple printed cards were "paid" each visit and could be redeemed upon other visits. It worked out pretty well and we kids all got to play together. One astonishing outcome: I'm still good friends with someone I met before I have any conscious memory. Kind of cool, right?
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I really hate Skype, but unfortunately Skype has no alternative for group audio / video calls, with the occasional screen sharing. Hangouts seemed promising, but it's worse. But I can tell you that at our company we are giving up on Slack, but not on Skype.

> rebuilding every native app they have from the ground up, every single one is awful

On Mac OS X, which is what I use, it's acceptable. I found it to be fairly acceptable on iOS as well, though you can't rely on receiving group chat messages in time (in all honesty, I think that's a feature :)). I don't use Windows, I imagine it's fine there.

On Linux it's super awful. I have hope for the new web interface to replace my needs for a Linux client, but the web interface is awful as well. On Android last year it leaked my battery like crazy. Nowadays it's maybe better in battery usage, but I had problems with my microphone - if I mute and then un-mute, then it can happen for the mic to not recover and I have to reinitiate the call. It's super annoying.

My personal feeling is that Microsoft does not invest enough resources in these clients. On the primary platforms they always seem to be one or two bugs away from being OK. On Linux it's like the same client from 5 years ago and it still works, but it never got any love from Microsoft. So I think they simply didn't give a crap, hoping to lure people into Lync or something. Which is too bad, because Skype always had great potential, it still has.
Yes. Since that article already had an active thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11222919, we've merged this one into it.
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There's a pretty massive difference in the amount of effort needed to publish a post with either of those approaches vs. just typing it into the WYSIWYG editor on WordPress. If your time is worth $60/hour then you're looking at around ~$10/post in additional time spent. You also lose a bunch of features: comments, trackbacks, RSS, etc.
Yes, with the mediaSource constraint you can do screen sharing in WebRTC, but that's not anything specific to H.264.
The Windows Store has been stuffed full of fake apps trading off the names of other, genuine big-name apps with various levels of malicious content for years. It's definitely rent-seeking, and not in any way a "secure and trusted platform".
Another annoying one is redo, they use ctrl+shift+z instead of ctrl+y. I've lost lots of code thanks to this after undoing something which i tried to redo but instead got the current code modified and the undo-stack wiped. (i might have been able to recover it in the local history but usually i'm too lazy to go dig so deep)
Only crap education.

Good education gives you cool things explore, and experienced people to discuss them with.

If I was completely self-taught I would not have as strong algorithm skills, operating system implementation knowledge or compilers skills.
Network externalities are powerful things. Especially when it comes to enterprise level applications.
"Apple won't let you sell an IOS app that competes with an Apple product."

I see the MS Office suite on my iPhone, there are iMovie alternatives too. Are you talking about private API access?
There's one big difference. You can host HipChat behind your firewall.
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I'm a big fan of i3, and I'm really glad someone has built a similar WM for Wayland. And it's compatible?? Amazing. /g/ would be proud.
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I made this quick site to pledge to vote against trump. (With help from Morgan Knutson https://twitter.com/morganknutson )

It has an interesting viral mechanic to get friends to verify your pledge.

It's open source too: https://github.com/ikirigin/nevertru.mp
I wonder if their primary market is for bridge loans to startups running out of gas or to seed lots of fledglings as an alternative to accelerators, without the "program" (YC started out giving 20k).