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Directly from my company's employee handbook:

Employment with [company] is "at-will." This means that you may terminate your employment at any time, with no prior notice given to [company]. It also means that the company may terminate your employment at any time, with or without notice or cause. While the company generally adheres to progressive discipline, it is not bound or obligated to do so.

As an at-will employee, you are not guaranteed, in any manner, that you will be employed for any set period of time. No one in the company, except the President, in a written, signed contract, may make any representation or promise to you that you are other than an at-will employee. Any employee, manager or supervisor who makes such a representation or promise to you is not authorized to do so.
This was the first time I bumped into it as well. It was a bit jarring at first, but easy enough to whitelist. I think it's a reasonable request.
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The following has always had me a bit puzzled, be interested in responses.

If bottom type corresponds to no(thing) and top to any(thing) where does every(thing) and some(thing) fit in? Is there any semantic distinction between any(thing) and every(thing)? There should be, right? For me, some(thing) that had type any(thing) would be an _individual_ but some(thing) that had type every(thing) {actually the mind boggles a bit here} would be a _colection_, the collection of all existing or living things. In fact Ruby has the notion of Objectspace. So we can say things like ObjectSpace.each_object{|x| p x}
I would want to find out more info about Wire first. There just does not seem to be a whole lot of information available as well as people (that I would generally trust their opinion on) on the relative security of Wire.

BTW, I did notice that Wire added E2E after the fact and not out the box so not clear if there's some tradeoff there.

Also, Wire appears to use SRTP instead of ZRTP.
I don't think this is entirely true: Even if you're appending lines to a text-file, if you do it from multiple concurrent threads, you're going to potentially corrupt individual lines.

And if you want to make absolutely sure that the log line you've just written is actually safely on disk, then you still have to fsync().

I would argue that journald's mmap-with-periodic-fsync() approach is actually better for latency.

If you want to make sure that your system performance isn't affected by stalled logging i/o, then you should ship the logs off-machine using a non-blocking protocol. Of course then you lose guarantees that your log-entries have actually been stored (which might or might not be a problem for you).
We will always win at love and free will /s
To be fair to "us kids" 30 year old+ hirers pull the same exact shit (I say this from experience as a 24 year old).

I'd say in this particular case the guy felt threatened and/or you were too expensive(or assumed to be too expensive)
That those 'exclusive hiring practices' still attract candidates shows an excess of supply, no? It's the current market.
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The primary purpose of s/w / computers / medical profession is not killing.
The researchers’ approach is counterintuitive. Rather than striking powerful blows like a football player making a tackle or a jackhammer, they have focused on synchronizing the smooth application of very tiny forces. The microrobots work in concert, if slowly.

The researchers observed that the ants get great cooperative force by each using three of their six legs simultaneously.

“By considering the dynamics of the team, not just the individual, we are able to build a team of our ‘microTug’ robots that, like ants, are superstrong individually, but then also work together as a team,” said David Christensen, a graduate student who is one of the authors of a research paper describing the feat. The paper will be presented this May at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Stockholm.
Blocking ads isn't just moral, it is imperative. Capitalism is an evolutionary force that selects for the most profitable business practices. Advertising allows businesses to buy profitable changes in behavior. If you understand why we fear biological superbugs, it should be clear why you should keep capitalist superbugs away. Advertising is destined to evolve into a perfect tool for behavior change. If it hasn't already.
AGPLv3 means that if you use the _code_ provided at git repo, you should share whatever modifications you make; Using the service itself is no way affected.

But not having any "Terms of Service" is really a lack here, will be fixing that soon
Reminds me of that famous Marion Berry quote, "If you take out the killings, Washington [DC] actually has a very very low crime rate."
Obviously if you are leaving a loaded gun in the back of a pickup truck within reach of a toddler, you haven't been paying attention to gun safety rules enough. :) Unfortunately, I don't think "gun rights advocate" these days means someone who is properly versed on gun safety. Too often, "gun rights advocates" is more a philosophical or political position -- wrapped in Dirty Harry-esque tails, paranoia about governments taking over, a way to display masochism, etc.

Guns are a tool, but a potentially dangerous one. And any statistics I find (one reference for instance: http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNSTAT.ht...) suggest that the United States' safety record with guns is pretty horrible compared to everyone else (eg compared to other rich countries, we have a higher incidence rate of injuries, deaths, and gun-oriented suicides than any other).

While no amount of legislation is going to prevent complete idiots from being idiots, perhaps properly drawn up safety oriented regulations may help drive home the point to everyone who is not an idiot. Safety regulations seem acceptable in most other places in life, even when there has been some freedom-oriented resistance. (Think of seat belt laws, for instance -- despite the resistance from some, they have ended up being very effective at reducing traffic fatalities and injuries.)

Maybe some gun safety legislation is indeed misguided, but I have to roll my eyes when some gun rights advocates act like something like, say, a safe gun storage law is a Hidden Agenda To Facilitate Governments Disarming the American Public or something. I don't think that's the intention. Safety laws can be good; safety laws can be misguided... but if a safety law is misguided, I want to hear technical reasons why from the firearms crowd, not conspiracy diatribe.
That's not the worst of it. Currently interest rates do not cover the risk of non-payment. If you calculate out, at the standard default rate, plus risk-free interest rates, plus a certain amount to do all the admin work on a mortgage.

It just doesn't make sense for the banks to do mortgages at the moment. They're losing money on it. A little bit at the moment, but if the default rate were to go up by even 1%, God help us. Banks would be dropping like flies.

That's of course what bubbles do : they make the system more unstable. But that's what everybody's denying as well, despite the fact that a trivial excel sheet will tell you the obvious. A tiny problem will crash the system at the moment. Especially in Europe.
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I agree he is a sales man and it can be off putting to a lot of people. On the other hand comparing him to the qualities of Hitler is a extreme misrepresentation and it is just godwin's law.
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Sure it does. Do you know that Lisp and Scheme have compilers? They target assembly even as dynamic languages, like JavaScript.

These are totally sensible. Look at: http://www.call-cc.org/
Although I have no evidence that it is being miscompiled, OpenSSL’s AES implementation uses chunking and is undefined.

Oh, that's nice. :/
That "github is the new resume" meme a few years ago was quite funny, in retrospect. People panicking that they'd never be able to get another job, as they didn't have free time to code at the weekend...
To be fair, I think a larger sample size of human vs computer games are needed. Let the top pros train with the computers and we can measure what level is beyond any human.
> Javascript isn't a compiled language

I mean, it is if you compile it to wasm. It is definitely JIT compiled.
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You need something more like value-based instead of cost-based pricing for this kind of service.
> filter down from a large number ... to a small number ... doesn't say anything about how selective they are.

But that's what the definition of "selectivity" is for database retrieval. Selectivity == n_rows_selected/n_row_count. The "larger number" was the denominator and the "small number" was the numerator.

Your example SQL is not consistent with your previous sentence:

SELECT TOP 1000 FROM resumes ORDER BY received_date

Notice that nowhere is the total row count for resumes known in your isolated example? So yeah, we don't have the denominator to determine selectivity.

For examples of Harvard and Google, we know the denominators (the total applications and total resumes). Therefore we know the selectivity.

I suspect you're mixing up "mathematical selectivity" from "decision process selectivity" because Google's internal decision tree for hiring might look to outsiders as "black box" or nonsensical.
Replying to myself because depth limit.

Let me try to think of a good way to update the post to capture this better...
Valid points as far as the language goes, but I'm not sure I agree with your points about workflow... the primary goal should be to see if they can reach the solution using the tools required for the job over how the tools are used in my opinion, and how much guidance they require to do so. I am thinking that the in-person coding might make them nervous. As a personal example for my specific line of work coding is more of a secondary requirement over having knowledge of how systems work, and despite having contributed code to some widely used open source projects and having enough knowledge to get by given language given enough documentation, I would likely freeze up in an interview if asked to code.

If I were you I would look for candidates that actually have some projects they can showcase that proves they know how to code, and offer them the chance to either do an easier in-person test or a take-home project. During the job search I personally jumped at the chance to do take-home projects since I view them as learning experiences, but for more experienced people I can see them being viewed as tedious. Most truly passionate entry level programmers looking for their first job and some direction I hope would jump at that chance to get some more directed experience as well.
We literally never hire someone without a technical interview, but we do look at github/bitbucket/gitlab/whatever code we can find the day or so before the interview. If there's something interesting we'll ask questions about it during the interview.

So far, there hasn't been one candidate that had anything resembling a portfolio online, but we don't hire all that often and i've only been doing it for a bit over a year.
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Wait, so what made these people think they could beat seamless?
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> Protection from wild animals? Contrary to popular belief, we don't all have polar bears in our yard. > We had a coyote on our street last year, but nobody felt threatened enough to pull out a gun.

I didn't mean to suggest that everyone should carry a firearm because of this. I've hiked in areas with brown bears, regularly go into areas with black bear/mountain lion/wolves, and often encounter/hear coyotes at my house. I personally do not feel the need to carry a firearm because of this, but I can understand why others may. It depends upon you tolerance for risk. For some, the small chance of a dangerous encounter justifies their need to carry a firearm. I think it would be disingenuous to suggest that firearms are totally useless for that purpose

The RCMP even have a website about it... http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/fs-fd/wild-sauvage-eng.ht...
As I noted in another comment, I don't think this is the right solution.

I would argue that things need to be tied to an identifier other than the phone number. Therefore, if something does happen, it's much lower friction to simply reset the identifier.

To deal with some of the UX pain, one could force a voice call requirement instead of just a fingerprint reverification.
>Try to gauge how much they are invested in the hiring process, if they are asking you for hours or days on end while they appear to invest a couple of minutes of 'human time' RUN!

Alternatively, give them your hourly rate and expectation that you will be paid for all work performed, including "hiring homework". That should weed out much of the illegitimate prospective employers.
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I don't think this type of information shouldn't be disseminated. I wanted more context as to the use of the structure, or what brings the author to demonstrate it. Not having such context, I then express some concerns with the shoddy implementation I've seen in other code bases associated with this structure. Not to say this is not useful, OR that all implementation of hash tables are sloppy of course. Also, I clearly think it does have it's use, I just wanted more background info from the author. The article is otherwise very well written and explains fairly clearly the structure and some caveats.
Compiling JavaScript into WASM is most likely not going to result in better performance unless you make an extremely good static optimizing compiler, and probably not even then. It's very hard to do the kind of optimizations that JIT compilers do ahead of time, in one single static binary.
Then you have to ship your own GC with it.
I think "beefy" and "broadwell" is a contradiction.
I'm familiar enough with the research on the individual robots (before synchronizing them) to know that these robots are pulling between 1000x and 10000x their own weight. That alone is amazing.
The classic scaling problem! Justin.tv faced the same one. [0]

> "a sign behind Emmett’s desk read “HAVE YOU CHECKED THE FILE DESCRIPTOR LIMITS?”

Side note... does anyone know why the default FD limit is so low at 1024 on most machines? It seems like there's very little cost to changing it to a high value (e.g. 65535).

[0] http://justinkan.com/three-stories
> Are you proposing to take arms from the American people by force

To the extent that libertarians believe that taxes are extracted by force (I usually see this written as "violence") then yes. If each gun carried a tax sufficient to mitigate it's societal cost, and if each cartridge were an order of magnitude more expensive, we would be done with this issue in 100 years.

It will take a long time, but it won't get done if we don't start.

(Preventively - yes, you can 3D print yourself a handgun, and likely blow your hand off, and reload your own bullets. At that point your personal time doing that work is a proxy for the taxes you would have payed.)
> I'm still surprised medicine didn't find a way to craft this kind of thing in a more organic way so they can interact with the tumor as locally as possible without requiring such barbary.

But this is the holy grail of oncology, is it not? To reach cancer cells non-invasively with spot-on accuracy so healthy cells are spared?
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Well the relevant difference is whether the shooters had external support to commit their crime.

That it's possible for a determined group to acquire guns and attack people is one thing. It being possible for a single mentally unstable person to do so is quite another.
Could someone in the know clarify for me what the difference is in aims of this new Browser ("Servo") and Firefox? The Servo landing page said its aims are

Servo project aims to achieve better parallelism,
security, modularity, and performance.

But aren't those the goals of every browser?
And realize that spending only $200 per candidate is a lot better deal than they would ever get from spammy, scummy recruiters.
Swiss mostly regulate ammo, not guns.
It was a lifesaver for those times when it was 6pm and you didn't have dinner ready for your kids.
For the purpose of feedback, this might make a good "Show HN".
The funny thing is that this "computers do what you say, not what you mean" comes directly from their lack of intelligence.
So it's kind of strange that we talk about the threats of superintelligence brought along by the fact that, fundamentally, a machine is stupid. Am I the only one to see a slight contradiction there?
Because there are a lot of shit candidates. You might know you're worth talking to, but try hiring and you'll see why people want to separate the wheat from the chaff.
That was one of the most disappointing robotic demonstrations and videos I've seen in a while. I fail to see the ant correlation. On the surface I don't see anything robotic, just a bunch of light winches operating in parallel (albeit with a nifty sticky footpad). Are they somehow autonomously synced, or just automatically load-limiting?
The point is, they never wrote back.

That's just shabby and disrespectful, regardless of how many other candidates they're talking to, or how they evaluated this particular candidate.
So apparently the government has fixed matters.

One starts with a big risks banks would go bankrupt as a result of an asset bubble.

One gets the government to fix things using an unlimited supply of government spending. Stir thoroughly, and we get :

Big risk that big banks AND the government will go bankrupt (ie. hyperinflation, because "governments can't go bankrupt") as the result of an asset bubble.
My favorite thing about EventSource/ServerSentEvents is that reconnection is handled for you by the browser. EventSource also works over straight HTTP without need to renegotiate the protocol, which is nice for hosts that don't support WebSockets.
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Civ Rev 2 is on android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t2kgames.c...
> To be fair, in terms of the complexity of rules, checkers is easier to understand than go which is easier to understand than chess. And honestly, go seems like the kind of brute-force simple, parallel problem that we can solve now without too much programming effort

Your intuition is mistaken. Go is indeed "easier to understand" than Chess in terms of its rules, but it is arguably harder to play well and has a way larger search space, which makes it less amenable to brute force, and this was precisely why people thought it'd be impossible for a computer to play it consistently at champion level.

I don't think the achievement of AlphaGo is solely due to increased processing power, otherwise why did people think Go was such a hard problem?
Curious, are there advantages to scanning with Python?
​Red Hat updates its KVM virtualization program
Even worse, Google Keep with ~3 years of notes. Actually unusable in a web browser for me at this point - chrome, Safari, Firefox, doesn't matter. Trying to figure out the best way to export all my notes. Sucks, because it's fantastic on mobile, and the built in reminder features are really useful. Anyone have a good mobile + webpage alternative?
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If you compile ahead of time, you can tune your optimizations. With the right tooling you can tell the compiler that a certain path is hot and should be optimized from the beginning, or catch deoptimizations better, or just get rid of the compilation cost. Right now I'm not sure how much practical benefit there is, but there's a lot of potential.
I wouldn't, EventSource isn't supported by IE yet[0].

[0] http://caniuse.com/#search=EventSource
Looks like a leak, because the source code is no longer available.
There isn't actually a depth limit (or if there is we haven't hit it yet :). HackerNews just hides the "reply" link for 5 minutes or so to cool down flamewars.

You can work around this by clicking on the link for the post itself (ie. "3 minutes ago") which allows you to reply immediately.
I didn't mean to imply you don't know what you're talking about, so apologies if I came off that way.

But this..

entertainment is largely based on deriving value directly from the consumption

This sounds like a failure of business model rather than an intractable problem. Okay, a hypothetical:

Pretend for a moment that you write an open source game, distributing the source on Github or similar, but you also sell a complete packaged copy for real money on places like Steam and GOG. Do you think that the presence of the source-based copy will impact one iota the sales on the storefronts?

Before answering, consider that it takes less skill and less sophistication to download from a torrent site and apply a crack than it does to set up a build environment.

I don't think it does. And I think this is a normative assumption (can't sell open source!) about the industry that's been accepted without any real supporting facts.
Ah. I hadn't thought about who is safe. Good point.

And I agree that "safe is a relative thing".
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If it has, they're not to the point of making Windows 7 "old and insecure" in comparison to it.

But if it has, I'd like to know what they are. About all I've heard about Windows 10 are its privacy invasions and its attempts to take control away from its users.
I seem to have a different experience. Everyone migrated to Yahoo or AIM with MSN a distant third. In my social circle, yahoo was the king of chat for a very long time.
Sprig's price is usually in the $11-14 range while SpoonRocket was a bit lower at $7-11. The extra money is definitely noticeable.
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When it comes to competitive gaming, Koreans were Gods, and now AI has come to top them.

Before we realize it, we will hear Google's StarCraft 2/3 bot beating the Korean World Champion.
Not just hard drives, but CPUs are sold like this as well.
Sharing goals doesn't necessarily imply sharing approaches.
This is at least much more plausibly legal than drafting Apple employees as slave labor.
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Feel free to share your sources establishing the shooters of both the Paris Hebdo and Bataclan attacks received external support.

What about Columbine (multiple shooters, conspired in advance to commit the attack), terrorism, mass shootings?
They're being downvoted because show me useful website that doesn't have any of those things. Yes, it's technically correct to say that you don't need any of those things, but totally pedantic because you WILL use any number of them for ANY real website.
Haha, that does sound deeply annoying. But makes sense given German words. I really don't know which is better, to standardize or personalize...
Yeah, if the order came today. They haven't been programmed for that. It would take at least a few months of intensive witchhunting (probably for Domestic Terror) to work up to it -- or the right convenient incident to spark adequate mass hysteria.
>and better for the economically-worst-off,

Not that I disagree with this, but how is this supposed to help entrepreneurs? If anything, it will just increase the tax burden of running a business.
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