skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For some candidates, this will involve more than 16 hours on planes, a (minimally) overnight stay in a business hotel, and six solid hours of interviews in the course of an 8~10 hour day. This requires minimally 2~3 days of these candidates' lives.

... To put it mildly: it is not guaranteed that if you're flown out you will get an offer.

..., and you replace the onsite with even an excessively long project, that's a win. The project can be written at the candidate's own pace and schedules conveniently around their other obligations. They do not have to arrange child care, take off time from work, or make tradeoffs like "Do I do the project or do I attend a friend's wedding?"

All true but my observation is that the companies that put candidates through multi-day-out-of-town interview processes can afford to miss out on the candidates that can't do it. Tellingly, the type of companies like Google and Microsoft that put a lot of burden on candidates hire heavily from a pipeline of fresh college graduates. Not surprisingly, a lot of 22-year olds don't have existing jobs or kids they have to juggle to commit to intensive interview processes. Sure, they also interview older middle-aged candidates but the benchmark tolerance for hoop-jumping is set by the 22-year olds therefore you won't get sympathy from employers about disrupting your life to stay in the running. For those companies, even if they are flying you out, you're still in the "evaluation" stage and could be 50/50 accept/reject.

Contrast that with boutique consulting firms that hire from the 30+ age bracket (often by poaching other consulting firms' employees.) A lot of their candidates already have existing (lucrative) jobs. Most of their evaluation is
done on multiple phone interviews. If the company decides to fly you to their headquarters to interview, you basically have the job unless you unzip your pants and urinate on the interviewer's desk. The onsite interview is not a technical screening but a personality sanity check. At that stage, you're 90/10 accept/reject.
I've heard places that actually do that and I believe it's the smaller company (startups) that would actually go about doing such a thing than a large company
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10 USC 311:

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

The first half (the prefatory clause) needn't be ignored for the Second Amendment to apply to everyone - unless you're arguing for firearms restriction to apply only to women of all ages and men over age 45, but I doubt that's the case.
This is going to be huge for the WebVR community. The demo actually ran great on my janky laptop, whereas the ASM.js version at a lower resolution ran at the considerably crappy level I had come to expect of Unity HTML5-built apps on an Intel integrated GPU. Faster = more efficient, also, so equivalent demos should burn less battery power on my smartphone as well, which means less heat build up, which means a longer time before the GPU throttles down.
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The "way of life" thing either depends on terrorism killing enough people to destroy our way of life, or it's a self-fulfilling prophecy when we destroy our own way of life by overreacting. Either way, "terrorism doesn't kill very many people, so don't worry about it so much" addresses it. Not that people will listen, but it doesn't fail because it misses the point.
More people in the US die every year from television than die from terrorism in the last 10 years.

I don't mean by being sedentary contributing to heart disease. I mean physically killed by a television falling on you.

http://theweek.com/articles/469421/shocking-number-deaths-ca...

This article is misleading. Virtually nobody dies of terrorism. Virtually nobody dies from toddler shootings.
How does nodejs sync with V8 releases? ECMA-version, V8-version, Node-version, Javascript-version, browser-version with different features support, it's quite a bit.
+1. I wrote a poor man's cmdline bookmark manager myself - Buku (https://github.com/jarun/Buku).
I do think typing in general "lifts all boats" and its great to see some convergence work going on between Flow and Typescript. It's good to see typing work in one help provide typing work in the other. It's also good to think that both typing ecosystems are working to help build whatever the future of JS (EcmaScript) might be with regards to types. Where ES4 failed to top-down add types to the language spec, maybe Typescript and Flow can bottom-up add types to the language spec, even if maybe it just ends up being a sort of "Python typing compromise" where browsers have to accept the typing syntax but don't have to do anything with it.

That said, I do think that Typescript is superior than Flow for my workflows and for the productivity gains I get from Typescript specifically. The IDE experience when working with Typescript is fantastic. Typescript's ability to take ES2015 and ES2016 syntax, appropriately downlevel it to ES5 or remodularize it (convert ES6 modules to AMD/UMD) certainly comes in handy and can mean less reliance on Webpack or Babel in your tool chain. (Typescript's new JS input features expand this ability to fill a Webpack or Babel role. There's even proposals for Typescript to help link in CoreJS polyfills, furthering Typescript's ability to do what Babel does for you.)
Indeed, that's a valid point.
> Yet games for handheld consoles like the 3DS and Vita, which are less powerful than modern phones (much less tablets!), sell for $30 and upwards. I have maybe a dozen 3DS games and shelled out over $200 for them. And that's somehow okay because they are Real Games™

A 3DS comes with at least 6 different (convenient!) buttons and a thumbstick. This affects the quality of the games. Not just the existing games, but the games that potentially could exist. The phones, with their one available input, lend themselves to games where you can only do one thing (or at least, where at any given moment you can only do one thing), like endless runners (jump), angry birds (shoot), or farmville (harvest). You can divide the screen into areas that respond to touch differently, but then you run into the problem that people's fingers are enormous compared to a phone screen.
Will cities be privately owned in the future? (2015)
don't underestimate those power hungry guys up there, we can accuse them of many things, but not for being stupid...
not sure why there is so much resistance here about doing an 8 hour test, I might be in the minority but for a traditional whiteboard interview I would spend a lot more than 8 hours revising algorithms and so on, and have a lot of stress due to whiteboard coding not being anything like real coding.

Being able to take a Sunday to work on a challenging problem in my own editor / computer / dev environment sounds great! I wish that all companies added in their job ads something like 'if you want to skip the whiteboard send us your solution to this problem together with your resume' where the problem is a representative problem of the type of work they do, then you spend the interview discussing your solution as opposed to playing algorithm-roulette.

It would also cut down the uncertainty when you see a job ad where they ask for all sorts of different languages / skills, if you have fun doing the coding test, it's likely you'll enjoy working there, and vice-versa (in which case you might decide not to even apply)
It's hard to extract value from the economy via short-term pump and dump campaigns when the majority defaults to diversified index funds.

Investors with heavy ingluence/ownership of media have a lot of potential to earn from manipulating market volatility.
> Further, by abiding by a set of standards, Google and others can trust the content will load quickly. That trust allows them to feature the content higher up in search results.

So it is a Google closed club? "you use our library, your site ranks up"? I doubt this is true. If it is, I doubt it will endure. If it endures, I doubt I wish to live in this world.
I had a pretty famous startup in Toronto decline a second interview because I flat out refused to do a take home test that probably would've been at least worth a day's exploration.

In comparison, a YC company (who eventually got acquired) actually responded very positively to my suggestion that I get paid to do the test they required, not dissimilar to bringing in a freelance contractor for a day.
There were plenty of web-based MSN Messenger clients.
Supply and demand rule everything. Right now there is simply an insane amount of supply when it comes to news, blogs, and the written word in general and so it is made worthless. When a site demands a subscription or puts up an adblocker wall, I can simply put the title into Google and find an extremely similar story elsewhere. As a consumer, if you want me to look at your site, you need to make the case for ME to want to do that.

I honestly have no problems viewing ads (they're annoying, sure, but so are children and I can be around them just fine) but the advertisers have completely fucked this relationship by going further and further. More monitoring, more tracking, more privacy invasions, downloading megabytes of Javascript and then there's the malware too for an extra level of screw you.

If it's static image content, fine. No HTML ads, no Javascript ads, no epilepsy triggering gif ads, none of that garbage because this is MY computer, not YOUR billboard. Deal with it.
A couple of months ago I did a 'homework' assignment for an interview (it involved writing a simple REST service in go, even though I have at least one personal project demonstrating exactly this skill -- to an even greater degree -- in my github profile). During the phone-discussion after turning in the project, the mid 20-something lead developer couldn't find anything to nitpick (I could have) and even told me he thought I was a better programmer than him. The conversation went very well and I felt confident I would receive an offer.

Now, what do you suppose happened next? I never heard from them again and all of my attempts at communication were ignored. I'm starting to think my age is becoming a factor (mid 30s) -- and also these kids have no sense of respect and professional courtesy. I'd like to say this was an isolated incident, but that would be a lie.

Stupid me just spent his Saturday doing another such project, though at least this one presented a more interesting problem. I swear, if I find out I had my time wasted again I'm going into consulting. Or maybe I'll go to truck driving school. Or open a cafe. Screw this "employee" stuff.

The fact that so many employers treat candidates like this tells me that the whole "it's hard to find good developers" line is a lie.
Yes, yes, "god works in mysterious ways," "people aren't ready" "they can't never know the truth anyway" etc. Doesn't hold water: religious people were quite good in preserving through the centuries a lot of material that they didn't understand.

The "ten commandments" were given from the God "in stone" and it is claimed that the texts in the Bible are the preserved words received directly from the God (not to mention that Muslims claim that the whole Quran are all the direct words of Allah).

Only whatever people preserved turned out to be trivial, never "deep" for our current knowledge. And often not only trivial, but flat-out wrong (like in Islam, that semen is produced "between the backbone and the ribs," really) so much that now the religious must claim that most of that "knowledge" was not meant to be verbatim anyway.
I live in South Africa and while our gun situation is very depressing, I've never heard of a situation like this happening here. The owner needs absolutely no common sense about how to safely store a gun. There are very specific laws about this and there are heavy penalties for neglecting them. Your training is not about safety, that is merely a consequence of learning the rules.

> No amount of legislation is going to prevent idiots from being idiots.

You can, however, swing probabilities.

> She should definitely be facing some harsh penalties for negligence and endangering a minor if she isn't already.

This is a key point I think. One of the main arguments I hear from gun advocates is "protecting your family." For argument's sake assume that this is a valid point, play the devil's advocate. By leaving a loaded weapon lying around there is a higher probability of your family getting hurt by that weapon, than someone walking into your home and hurting your family. At this point you have become an imminent threat to everyone around you and that threat must be eliminated, possibly by preventing your whole household from ever laying their hands on a weapon (blacklisting).

In other words, by allowing Gilt to own a gun you are endangering her life and her child's life. She should not be let near one.

Settling the gun advocacy argument is clearly going to take a long time, but "common sense" laws can be put in place until a conclusion has been reached. In the short-term this would benefit both sides of the argument were they not both so belligerent.
No argument here on that front :)
> but who in the world needs an assault rifle?

Ignoring the "assault rifle" part of this. Semi-automatic carbines are great fun to shoot, they have a lower recoil impulse than traditional larger rifles and military surplus ammunition and parts generally creates a cheap and easy way to enjoy firearms. You can get an AR-15 for $600 or so and spend an afternoon enjoying it without a hurt shoulder or a bloody nose.
I just instituted a coding assignment with our hiring (exceptions made for those with extensive github/similar open source contributions), and so far only have had three candidates do it, but I'm a fan.

Mine is crafted so a really competent developer could get it done in 30 minutes, and intermediate 2 hours and a junior probably not finish. I tell them to send what they have in after two hours that I'm as interested in seeing the structure and thought process than the final result. It seems much better than having someone do it at the office or one a whiteboard for accessing basic competence.

Yes it sucks, but after you get bit once or twice by hiring people who knew all the right words but can't actually produce something useful you get a lot more open to it. I'll gladly take the time to take you out to lunch to discuss the job and code assignment and give feedback afterwards, investing a couple of hours into finding your next job shouldn't be this huge ordeal and gives off a diva vibe I don't want in my organization anyway.
Wholehearted agreement here. The only purpose of these challenges is to start a conversation about code. Why not just bypass the bullshit challenges and just _have a conversation about code_?

My best job experiences are exactly as you describe.

The worst have been companies that sought me out (I didn't apply) and then wasted my time during the phone screen (having background conversations with other people in the room, asking me to repeat answers to questions because they weren't listening)...I'm looking at you, Uber.
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That's Adobe's Marketing Cloud killer. And they announce it a week before the largest Adobe event (Summit 2016).
Yes, that's always been a feature of :term in Neovim.
Yes; the WebAssembly project has some ideas on this here:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/NonWeb.md
Optimisations for ES6 features is great!

Any idea how V8 releases relate to Node (especially now post-io.js)? When could we see these improvements on the server?
I don't even remember what people I had in my contact lists.... I haven't talked in years to some I do remember

Time to open a new account?
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> to you because it supports your viewpoint.

Please excuse me this time for trying to support my viewpoint, even if you seem not to have expected it, I usually do try exactly that, to present the arguments in support of my viewpoint. I apologize.

> The US House also recognized Ramadan so your politically safe assertion continues to fall apart.

How? Isn't that "recognition" (inviting for a dinner there) even weaker than the Pi Day one?

I still claim (as in my grayed post above) that the "Pi Day" is one of convenient days to which it's easy to have an agreement in the US, even among the religious, and that sadly it would be harder for a lot of newer science. And that that is the main reason why on the Pi Day we have articles like the one we comment, "Why Pi matters."
I don't understand. Can someone please clarify for me. They physically have the phone right? Could they not just read the whole flash, try a pin, write back the whole flash, repeat? (i.e. take the phone apart)

(given it is a 5C with no secure enclave)
It's just Russian bots now.
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I'm curious where you are based, been worried about a similar thing happening, but doesn't seem to yet - (am based in UK).
My problem was mucking around with regular emacs stuff whenever I was trying to get into evil-mode or out of emacs. 17 years of vim muscle-memory trips me up every time I try to recall the magic combination of keys that does what I want. I never made it far enough to use emacs to modify my emacs configuration and enable evil-mode by default. Spacemacs seems to make this a lot easier by setting up evil-mode for you. It also replaces all of the control-this and meta-that with hitting the spacebar in while you're in command mode.
Same, this is a million times more legible than the HTML Google Material Design uses.
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Everday patrol officers having an AR-15 in the trunk is a fairly direct consequence of the North Hollywood Shootout [1]. The Miami FBI shootout also contributed to the adoption of conventional semi-automatic handguns over revolvers [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout
In the US almost all employment is at-will - even if you've worked at a company for years. Probationary periods here typically mean that you are hired as an independent contractor without the benefits that are usually given with a full-time position such as health, dental, and retirement benefits.
Now React has so big ecosystem (Redux, a lot of components, many libs) that I can say it is a reliable framework for creating Web applications.
HTTP/2's main feature is that it's multiplexed, which a client written in a suitably async-friendly language can exploit to pipeline parallel requests, or at least better reuse connections. There's presumably not too much performance gain (though header compression helps) if your client can't exploit the multiplexing.
I think just having a culture shift away from the romantic idea that private guns deter crime and offer protection would bring down the amount of gun accidents considerably. Punishing people after something bad happens turns out to not work very well for prevention. Another romantic idea demolished by reality.

Compare:

Psychoactive substances: We just lock up anybody touching them.
Guns: We lock up anybody abusing them.

Observe how both approaches fail to protect us from irresponsible people.
Indeed. Thanks for catching that.
This is ridiculous and you know it.
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I don't believe that US criminals are more heavily-armed than those in other countries. In fact, the opposite is likely true.

In the US most criminals who are armed have inexpensive, unreliable handguns. An armed criminal in the UK (while less common) would seem more likely to have something like a submachinegun or a machine pistol. If the penalty is severe and the gun is rare and expensive... why go through all that trouble and risk for a .32 revolver, when you could just as easily obtain a Skorpion?
>Unlike many other legal systems, judges do not investigate.

Maybe we should change that. Countries like France and Germany don't seem to have all the wackiness in their legal systems that we do.
I feel like cover letters are an easy way to show that you've thought about the company you're applying for, but in my experience I've never got the impression that my cover letter was actually read in the application process.

I could be plenty wrong though, and I'd love to hear from HR/recruiters about their experiences with cover letters.
Surely I'm not the only one asking "what is this/should I care?"

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Not that this will change your opinion, but Switzerland is not that great of an example to support your "fact" (and even if it was - a few outliers don't prove the lack of an correlation).

For starters it has fairly strict gun laws (essentially no carry permits, gun safes, etc.).

Second the reason for the high gun ownership is the mandatory military service (no standing army) - you can purchase your service weapon at the end of your service period.
And for the service weapon the ammunition is stored at the armory - not at home.
And without ammunition I would think killing someone with a gun is much more difficult.
Terrorists have been known to carry guns, babies accidentally fire guns. Let's contrast the two sets.

This falls into the clickbait narrative that so easily triggers opinions either side of the gun law debate. If there's any value to be taken from this comparison it's how "terrorism" is used to direct funding towards agencies like the TSA (and many others) who don't perform any meaningful function.

Or distract us from any of the other difficult to monetize causes of death that overshadow "terrorism".

Meanwhile we all squabble between those holding up the constitution and those yelling 'told you so'. Yet another day in 'Merica.
Disappointing with regards to the rest of his track records? re: Guantanamo, reining in Wall Street, cracking down on whistleblowers, widespread use of drones to perform extra-judicial assassination?

If after 8 years you still think Obama is the Nobel peace prize wielding progressive philanthropist you've been fooled into thinking he is, joke's on you tbh.
I've just installed an official ICQ client on my phone and it seems to be in sync with the latest messaging trends, but I'm the only person online...
Everything I read about the soviet union. It's a system where everyone is watching each other, where kids are brain washed and pushed to denounce their parents, etc.

Which is also why the western intelligence agencies were struggling to infiltrate the soviet union.

I am talking about totalitarian regimes (Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, North Korea, Maoist China, etc). Simple dictatorships are different. They exert less control over their population.
Standard caveats apply here. It's experimental: a couple bugfixes are already in flight and we're working hard on improving the startup time.

Overall a huge thanks to our friends at Mozilla and Microsoft and Apple, with whom we've worked closely with over the past year to make this a reality.