skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff Atwood's law is going strong! "any program that can be written in JavaScript, will be written in JavaScript". We're also pushing the envelope on what "can" be written in JavaScript!
This sounds like a great idea! One caveat being that the it probably caters more to web/mobile devs. Eg. you probably wouldn't use this challenge for a database engineer, or machine learning role. You could, but it wouldn't tell you much about their skills in the domains you're interested in. Still definitely worth trying for roles where it makes sense. I might try this.
There is a selection bias here as others have noted, the exam is likely biased in favor of younger, unmarried workers, especially those without children who have 2-8+ hours to spend on top of their other commitments.

I applaud their decision to pay for correct answers, as it balances the "cost" bourne by the applicant and employer. Employers who send out tests en masse have an asymmetric advantage -- they can force many candidates to incur a cost without incurring much or any cost of their side. This causes bad behaviours.

Traditionally in interviews, companies "paid" with their time, but online exams skewed that. Paying something per correct answer at least makes them think twice before inviting hundreds to the exam that they have no real intention of ever interviewing.
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> Cover connects you with an insurance brokerage in your area best suited to insuring that piece of property.

I want to send you a picture, you quote me a price and I pay. If I have to talk to someone else, you've totally lost my interest - I can go talk to an insurance broker myself.

Side question:
How many penis pictures have you gotten?
I will definitely try this. Does resource viewer support cube textures?
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Considering that the sample questionnaires have to be administered by hand to each child, how would you scale the sample size for a study in this space?

It looks like the study that introduced the EQ-C and SQ-C in 2009 was only run on 1256 "parents of typically developing children" and 265 "children with Autism".[0]

[0] http://docs.autismresearchcentre.com/papers/2009_Auyeung_eta...

[0 (alternate)] http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-009-0772-x
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Looks to me mostly like a cluster of kids with very high “calculation skills” and relatively low “empathizing quotient” is skewing their result. If you remove that group, the remaining data looks pretty uncorrelated at a glance:
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23011/figures/1

“Math Fluency is a measure of speeded application of arithmetic procedures. Problems included a mix of addition, subtraction, and multiplication with operands up to 10. Children were given 3 minutes to complete as many as possible. We computed a Calculation Skills composite measure, which combines the Calculation and Math Fluency subtests, in order to have a single measure capturing arithmetic ability.

“The primary guardian of each child completed the Combined Empathy Quotient-Child (EQ-C) and Systemizing Quotient-Child (SQ-C). The questionnaire was designed to be parent-report in order to avoid variance associated with children’s reading and comprehension abilities.”

Alternative summary: “Out of 112 children, among the bottom 105 children when ranked by arithmetic calculation speed, there’s no statistically significant correlation between arithmetic calculation speed and parental assessment of child empathy. The parents of the top 7 performers by arithmetic calculation speed uniformly think their kids have below-average empathy.”
Here's ia a top tier human intelligence problem: Given a requirement provide a accurate English description of a program.
Because it is an argument that people fall back on when rational arguments are failing.

In addition, the "child pornography" that people want to use as justification is REALLY RARE. The biggest kiddie porn bust in the history of the US was Operation Delego which had 600 members worldwide. Most of whom were busted with good, old fashioned police work.

Now, let's talk about the common "child pornography"--Suzie has naked selfies on her phone. Do you really think that Johnny won't go to a dodgy Chinese site to get the iPhone crack to let him see those?

Relevant Dilbert:
http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-01-24
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You made a great point. He puts building skyscrapers into a definition of greatness(an abstract term). But, why is that great and ants building they own habitats not great? They are small, so you can't expect them to build big habitats for humans.

Imagine saying that humans can't live and thrive in radioactive environment, like some fungi in Chernobyl do and therefore they are not great. Greatness means being able to live in radioactive environment.
I tested this in base three. For primes below 1000, primes were followed by primes ending in another digit 2.1 times as often as they were followed by primes ending in the same digit. But the ratio shrank as the number of primes grew. By the time I was up to primes below 1,000,000,000, the ratio was only 1.2.

That hints that it's an effect that asymtotically disappears...
Random IP lawsuits aside, there are known agencies/certifications/requirements, etc that may eventually require compliance. Here's the ones I know:

RoHS, CEC?, UL, FCC, Wifi Alliance, Bluetooth SIG, please add if anyone else knows.

I get that the OP is about pre-release startups and the general advice is "don't worry certifications; just ship". But this became a problem just 90 days after our product launch. Had the timing been worse it could kill a new company.
I'm not too familiar with SBCL but I highly doubt that those are static types. This sort of information is pretty ascertainable if you really want it, but it's going to be rough going doing non-runtime checking over types this rich.
There are enough employers that you can avoid ever doing these coding challenges. Any time I've been looking for work, maybe 2 out of 10 companies would ask for these challenges, and I would skip them while interviewing at the other 8. I always ended up with several good offers before ever wasting my time on the coding challenges.
As I mentioned in an example above, just because you have covered all of your variable costs doesn't necessarily mean that you have the ability to cover all of your fixed costs at a reasonable sales rate. Contribution Margin Positive just means that each widget sold contributes towards fixed costs (as compared to negative, where each widget sold reduces the amount of money available to pay fixed costs), even if that contribution is one cent. So you could be positive by selling a product for $10 that has a variable cost of $9.99, but damn if you'll ever make a profit (where contribution margin * widgets sold > fixed costs).
Well, in the model, there is no such thing as effective type of objects loosing their power at TU boundaries, and otherwise no relationship defined between effective types and linkage. An implementation that tags all accesses to dynamically check/enforce the effective type rules (by killing a faulty program or doing otherwise nasty stuffs) would not loose its conformance because of that. The default behavior of an implementation used under a particular and completely unspecified build-system is irrelevant to the fact that aliasing analysis is allowed across TU boundaries in the model, and the fact that it does not happen in some cases is just an implementation detail - that if not guaranteed by other means can always be changed without even a warning by compiler vendors.

Now that is the situation, in regard with the standard. Should we be happy with it or not is another story.
Thanks! This are really useful. (I'm actually now making a small dsl for distributing work on accelerators.)

I personally really like the idea from the the Halide language, having one language for algo, another for how the computation is done. If something like that could be made general purpose it would be very useful.

http://halide-lang.org/

>should be done in a macro..
Encourage c programmers to use macros is like encouraging alcoholics to drink :) But I guess you didn't think about pre processor macros.
Yeah, it's a bit more difficult of a task than you've assumed.

Speech synthesis receives a lot of attention, but it's hard, so you rarely hear any news about it. People are throwing DNNs at it at the moment, but nothing earth shattering has come of it (yet). I have a couple of 'naturalness' filters that use DNNs and about 30% of the time, they drop all of their tones and I end up with an angry whisper as output. I don't work late too often.
Troff is not that bad, really! I started typesetting my books in Troff (even with my own macro package), then tried TeX and Lout, and I think I'll actually return to Troff, if I should decide to write another book. Simplicity is good!

Oh, and I have used homebrew markdown preprocessors to write books (e.g. http://t3x.org/s9fes/edoc.html). Great fun!
I'm not sure those two are related. A 'thought vector' seems far more advanced than emulating emotion in voice no? Though you raise a good point about text itself not carrying any weight behind it. Solution here could be to also be able to tag words as 'emotional' or 'angry' in a visual editor, which the NN uses as hints when synthesizing.
https://www.freeswitch.org does all this and then some, But does so in a traditional MCU role, It can bring WebRTC and transcode vp8,h264 and h263 and SIP Endpoints together in the same Video Conference.
You're an A because you know you're a C and have employed this workaround to compensate ;)
Most non-fastfood resturants actually price their food at or near cost after the overheads are factored in. Profit actually came from (overpriced) beverages and drinks. If a startup is to compete with them there is no way for them to make much money.
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You are only saying that certain bio-chemical structures reshuffle atoms in a different way, which in most cases suits their survival. You're judging a fish by its ability to climb a tree. Also, you make it seem that there is an objective scale which measures 'levels' [of greatness, I assume]. But, there is no evidence that such a scale exists. You pick these arbitrary shuffling of molecules, like building skyscrapers or going to another rock[Mars], as great or progressive. That is the result of having an unjustified bias towards your own species. Many animals can do things humans can't do and vice versa. But, that is just a difference, not an objective superiority or inferiority.
No, I don't think it's dead simple to take methods and compare them. The problem is that most of the method details are implicit and leave out a lot of the aspects that are required to replicate a study.
"If we remove the samples that we don't like, we get the result we want!"

Note: I'm not a fan of reading too much into studies, but come on.
I definitely agree that there is a lot of potential to unite the publishing capacities of the World Wide Web with the financial capacities of blockchains!

You should check out the open source projects that are referenced in the article:

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish-state-engine

The Open Publish protocol basically embeds a WebTorrent compatible BitTorrent Info Hash in to the Bitcoin blockchain.
Interesting if anyone is researching about "humanities anxiety"...
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Thanks for chiming in. Good info. Not sure about those studies. I guess every other day is fine.
This is how it is in Los Angeles. Lane space must be seized with an iron will. Freely giving it away is a sign of weakness that will be punished.
Well, existential types are pretty similar. If you've got (exists a . a) then you have to be prepared for it to be a float, but also prepared for it to be a list, or a string, but also a tuple, some type for which we only know that it is a monad, and everything else :)

More specifically, we've lost any information to tell us what specific thing might be here so we have to be prepared for any answer. It's the inverse of (forall a . a) which we can ask to become whatever we like.
Maps.me is pretty good. Does offline routing using OSM data, allowing for downloading entire regions (~60-200mb). Also, recently went open source.

Doesn't have terrain details yet, but they're apparently working on it.
You're talking about this like I'm some charity case. Again, I don't have trouble finding interest or applying elsewhere and I don't depend on anyone seeing enough "goods" to take a chance on some bum.
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Agreed, the title was link bait done to death.

I'm not in the situation of ramping up a team unfamiliar as the author was. But it sounds like he was experienced with JS and React himself. Or are you suggesting he should replace his team with people more familiar with JS+React?
So you don't care about on what basis selection is performed?

If your assertion is just that Google rejects a higher proportion of applicants than Harvard, that's... not at all interesting. The lottery rejects and even larger proportion of applicants for its 'grant' program, but I'm not going to try to learn anything from how it goes about picking winners.
I am not sure if this still done with NAND memory - unit cost is low enough that they seem to just dump the bad examples or worse, off load them to dodgy buyers who make those offbrand novelty flash drives sold on ebay.
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I am glad it was noted. I don't really have time to read this (edit: and the comment by jacobolus saves me the effort). I have good empathy and social skills and innate math ability. My ex husband and our oldest son both suck at all three of those.

I think it is entirely fair to say that some oddball subgroup is skewing the results. It is no different from discussing mean, median and mode in real estate data.

Ever heard of the book "How to lie with statistics"?
Are low level engineers much better compensated? Do you see $300-400k salary for this kind of work?
Exactly! Those three lines of Bootstrap HTML tells me lot more than any other three lines of a non bootstrap site.
This person and the person he quotes seem to be quite confused about what JSX is and how it works. Hyperscript looks cool and use it if suits you but I don't think most of these reasons are valid nor actually make sense (like https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/674313202197520384?re... isn't related to JSX at all)
That is great (or, to be honest, it's way past time for this, this shouldn't be news). But we need to go beyond that. The PDF format is a relic. We need a platform where scientists can directly edit their articles. Figures should be replaced by interactive visualizations where possible. This would solve the problem of data availability and allow other researchers to have direct access to the data shown in a plot.
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Screensharing would be a great addition.
Does anyone have any suggested ways to learn the algorithmic techniques alphago uses? I've heard monte carlo tree search, and neural nets both mentioned
Terminals are such a mess. All the options on linux are lacking in some way or have legacy problems......

I hope someone actually finishes one of these 'next gen' terminals that keep getting abandoned.
Yelp tried this with me, when I was in grad school and $150 was a really big amount. A friend of mine kindly offered to carry the expense report and drop it off with the recruiter when he went in to interview a month later.
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"No widely accepted cognitive theory explains savants' combination of talent and deficit. It has been suggested that individuals with autism are biased towards detail-focused processing and that this cognitive style predisposes individuals either with or without autism to savant talents. Another hypothesis is that savants hyper-systemize, thereby giving an impression of talent. Hyper-systemizing is an extreme state in the empathizing–systemizing theory that classifies people based on their skills in empathizing with others versus systemizing facts about the external world. Also, the attention to detail of savants is a consequence of enhanced perception or sensory hypersensitivity in these unique individuals." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome)

I am very fascinated by the semantics vs. syntax of empathy. Suppose you have a savant who is good at systematic identification of literary characters, or criminal profiling or DSM-IV case files; in another words, he or she is very good at reading people and classifying them into logical/hierarchical systems of mental, historical and social backgrounds; and miming their behavior when interacting with them, just as a savant with photographic memory can "mime" the Manhattan skyline in drawing.

Would we classify such a person as empathetic or sociopathic? If their empathy comes not from a human emotional instinct but from logical deduction?
This is probably the best math research documentary of all time.
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That looks great, I'll suggest that we start using it.
This is a dangerous opinion and one that weighs the present too heavily over the future.

Pick languages/frameworks that will produce easily maintainable code and will survive naturally after your departure from a company. New developers have a learning curve no matter what. The steeper you make that curve, the more danger you put your codebase in and the more likely you are to set them up to fail.
Perhaps I worded it poorly.. why have guns if you fear the government?
How does being a gun nut and fearing the government relate?
Citing the translation phases in the standard as evidence that undefined behavior is ok, as long as it's divided between two translation units, strikes me as wishful thinking.
We abandoned mixing view logic with program logic. It's perfectly reasonable to use PHP as your template engine as long you don't mix your program logic into your templates.

React is a view engine; everything done in react is to construct and maintain the view.
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Curious how you cross-referenced across the books? Did you do listings of API's?

Markdown is great for text content, not for formal documentation.
I've just started playing 11x11 vs SmartGo. Indeed I need to work my way up the ranks to get to the 13x13 board. I'm in no rush so it's all good practise!
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I'll know the answer to your question in a couple weeks. I'm working with web content developers who are very good with HTML and CSS but less familiar with JavaScript. We have a project using Mithril (architecturally like React) where we started out without MSX (exactly like JSX) but they think they're going to prefer MSX syntax so we've begun switching over.
I think most the arguments made in the piece don't matter but the argument for Lack of Semantic Meaning is interesting in how Markdown solves it. First off the argument is bad because Markdown can have semantic meaning, it is just defined with HTML. So the real argument is semantic meaning in HTML sucks. In his example, I would generally agree. However, what if you just used <warning>Warn Me</warning>. I kind of like that a lot.
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Traditional chess applications are "thinking" while waiting for you to move. That's not to say they can't be sleeping while waiting for your move, but it would just delay the game tempo and possibly (slightly) limit the overall competency of the chess AI.
Turbine engine containment isn't about containing the foreign object - it's about containing the ludicrously energized turbine blades. What breaks the blades is almost irrelevant.

I'm more concerned about damage to the non engine areas of the aircraft, but they routinely survive 18 lb bird impacts in the wild. Even with lithium batteries being about four times denser than a bird, the weight being so much less means that the penetrating power should be less than a half that of a goose.
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Do you know when these changes will come to GitHub enterprise?
I guess I'm not really sure what the difference is, the entire point of all hiring processes is to "weed out" those that you don't want to hire. Otherwise what's the point?

> My time and contributions will not be appropriately valued by such a company and I won't like working there

I don't get how that's related.

> I don't want to start out a hopefully multi-year relationship on dishonesty.

There's no dishonesty there, the applicants were given a simple task to do in order to progress to the next step. If you're applying for a software engineer position and cannot even make a decent attempt at an extremely simple task when given complete flexibility then it's a waste of both of our time to continue.

(edit - I should point out that this was not at my current employer)
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AMP is not supposed to necessarily replace existing pages, but can rather be created by publishers as lightweight/performant alternatives for mobile visitors arriving via Google Search. Hence why you can declare

<link rel="amphtml" href="/yourampversionofpage" />

in the normal page.

Those with JavaScript switched off probably won't be suggested the AMP pages in Google Mobile SERP.

So you could serve the JS-optional pages to all clients, progressively enhance for JavaScript users and offer AMP pages to mobile JavaScript users.
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I'd also like to voice my interest in force push support. The workflow with Gerrit is very pleasant.
Is it [text](URL) or [URL](text) or (text)[URL] or...? It's impossible to remember, because this syntax is bizarre.
I don't really agree - I remembered a take home assignment which combined enterprise-like object-oriented design (data model, strategy) with algorithmic thinking (several flavors of graph traversal). The job also turned out to be top-notch before the company was bought by a certain trading firm which has 2/5 (and falling) on glassdoor. 9 months later it was pure shite. it was the best team i ever worked in though - still keep in touch with some of the guys :)
I'm currently porting the linked outlier detection system to Mantis at Netflix and I could not be more excited about the things this platform enables. It provides a platform on which I can run analytical code, scale it, add new data sources. I think about as little ops as possible, I'm now monitoring jobs instead of services, my code base is even more focused on the analytical task and not supporting infrastructure.

Rx* is a great paradigm for data applications, something I feel is a serious advantage over similar software like Samza. Their choice to use the JVM has allowed me to write analytics in Scala, and I've been mulling over the idea of writing Clojure on top of Mantis as well but not having a use case is stopping me.
I have for some time been pushing to have the opportunity to move more of my products onto this platform internally at Netflix.

Cheers Ben, Chris, Neeraj, Nick, Sharma, and Justin!
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