skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The frustrating part is that even when this is brought up and openly described and discussed explicitly in the context of working towards a better and healthier hiring practice, manager and HR types still insist on the cargo cult nonsense.

It goes further than just an inefficient heuristic or biases. It becomes codified, even venerated, standard practice, and gains an air of certified approval up the corporate ladder, and eventually becomes something that, politically, you're not allowed to disagree with and typically you must even display boisterous and enthusiastic approval of it.

It exacerbates the crab mentality that affects the programming world -- engineers basically start to feel that if they had to put up with stupid, inefficient interview hazing, and if it's all just going to be a political status game anyway, then they're going to drag the candidates down into the muck with them and give themselves over to designing their own hazing interview questions.

The spirit becomes focused on cutting people down, and only hiring people if some gauntlet was unable to cut them down. Without ever stopping to think: what kind of human beings are you actually helping to succeed? And what kind of human beings is this process systematically harming? Nobody cares.
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A curious question - why is Objective-C not used very widely outside of Apple ecosystem?

I was playing with it for a while even before iPhone was a thing and I kind of liked it, but it's basically only for Apple devices. Nobody on Linux or Windows sides uses it for anything.

I have had the misfortune of using GNUStep about a year ago, and it's, unfortunately, still very buggy. Why is there no more activity there?
Los Santos is in the state of San Andreas. I agree the title is a bit confusing through.
If the human player builds a wall, he/she will be ahead against a rushing bot.
Forgot to answer this:

> One-time pads are impractical. You need a key that's as long as your message. Pre-shared.

Need in a key as long as your message (pre-shared) doesn't mean that OTP is impractical.

Let's imagine a conversation between two users that exchange tweet-sized messages in Latin-1 encoding (i.e. each plain message weighs no more than 140 bytes).

Let's consider we've produced exactly 4 GiB of random key data and distributed it between the two users (on a pendrive or somehow else).

When the message is received, its encrypted length is the same as the raw length, so we just move the key pointer for the message length on each send and reception.

So how many 140-byte messages can be sent with 4 GiB of key data? Math.floor(4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 / 140) = 30678337.

So, 4 GiB of pre-shared key data allows us to send over thirty millions of tweet-sized messages for both sides. How in the world is this impractical? Especially at our days when a 16 GiB file is a norm.

And yes, pre-sharing these key data can involve a simple SSC, BSC etc. It might be hard for an attacker to figure out when to stop when he constantly gets a random garbage out of the same-looking random garbage.
Has anyone tried to determine is AngelList is a real company?

Their web site certainly claims they are, but I've never heard anything back from my repeated emails to team@angel.co, and I don't see them posting anything here. Even Sourceforge has better community outreach and reputation management. How is that not irony?
The difference now, as opposed to back then, is the proprietary apps are lead capture or advertising delivery platforms.
How can investors not see this coming?
I'm not one to believe the official explanations given. It is too easy to lie than to give the truth, even when that truth isn't bad. So I wouldn't put too much work into you being inexperienced. Instead, I would say that they had a different reason for not choosing you but that was the simplest lie they could come up with on the spot by looking over your resume.
Do you want to improve your business and build a long term relationship?
I assume it was because QR codes are futureish and someone claimed this was innovative
Ahhh, NeXT... probably the nicest environment/OS/machine that never took off....
> In reality, everyone I know were laughing at anonymous because we already knew the info had been public for years.

Exactly. I found it pretty humorous and topical so I submitted it anyway :)
> if the people have the will to demand it

I think Mitch Hedberg put it best: I give you a dollar, you give me a donut. End of transaction.

What's a consumer's interest in asking for a receipt? Especially when you can get a discount instead?
Hm, I wonder if Jigsaw is recruiting... looks like quite an interesting job.
How did you treat it?
It's that nebulous thing called "cultural factors".

There are two stable equilibrium points in a society, one where most people play by the rules most of the time and one where most people ignore the rules most of the time. It's quite difficult to shift from the latter to the former; it seems to be historically associated with Protestantism, which itself could be seen as a movement to ""clean up"" religion from corruption.
It seems like x7 would be bigger than x5
Hi, author here. I built Micro based on my experience at Google and Hailo. At Hailo we built a global microservices platform with over 200 bespoke services in production by the time I left. I realised that more and more people were tackling the problem of scale both technically and as an organisation. I felt like the tools were lacking and most companies end up building their own from scratch. Micro was a way of creating a foundation for writing and running distributed systems. It's a pluggable architecture so that the underlying systems can be swapped out based on preference.

Beyond Micro, I'm working on go-platform https://github.com/micro/go-platform which addresses the higher level needs for microservices. Auth, monitoring, metrics, distributed tracing, etc, etc. Again pluggable like Micro. Still in it's infancy.

Cheers
Asim
Hi,

creator of the Owntracks Android app here. I'm absolutely with you that you cannot have private and secure location data when using any Google services.

Indeed, Owntracks does use Google Maps and the Google Play Services location APIs and your location data is likely sent to Google when using the app and we're very clear that this is the case.

However, when using Android, it's almost impossible to not send any personal data to Google when using an Android phone (or to Apple if you're using an iPhone). Hence, we decided to not use any third party location or APIs and for several reasons:

1) Google likely has your location data anyway because you're using their operating system
2) I personally would trust my data to Google than any third party that's not that closely monitored by others. We tried to integrate Mapbox as Mapping provider for the 0.5.x release until they likewise started gathering user data. Thus the next version switches back to Google Maps.
3) The offered location APIs are much easier on the battery life than any third party solution
4) We develop Owntracks in our spare time and receive no funding whatsoever. Hence, the time that we can invest into the integration of other Maps or location providers is very limited.

Besides that, Owntracks does allow you to store your location data on your own infrastructure. You are free to choose whatever you want with that data and you're not trusting a third party (besides Google) with your data.

Personally I think that this isn't a perfect solution, but it is as good as it gets for the majority of smartphones.
If that isn't good enough with you that's fine and I totally understand that. In that case, simply don't use the app and build something that you can trust entirely. E.g. some people from our development team are happily tracking their cars with a hardware appliance that is Owntracks compatible [1]

[1] jpmens.net/2014/06/14/owntracks-in-a-vehicle-choral-greenwich
Got me wondering, "If I just give Nano Emacs bindings, will I have a decent text editor?"
You can use cross-region replication. But CDN might be a cheaper solution if you have a high volume traffic. Imagine HN runs entirely on S3, then using CDN will likely be cheaper and more responsive. I haven't done the calculation though.
That is incorrect. They are not repairing hearts unfit for transplant. They are using human hearts (that are unfit for transplant) as a source of decellularized matrix. That decellularized matrix is then used to re-grow heart tissue using iPS-derived cardiomyocytes (heart cells).
> Is the anti windows/.NET bias really that common?

I think it's less common now than it used to be but back in their heyday Java devs looked down hard on .NET devs. I think it's because MS visual IDEs, going all the way back to vb6, made a lot of people think they were professional developers just because they could create a basic crud program with a functional GUI very easily. This ended up promoting a huge amount of unusually bad code/coders to production environments and with that the bad rap .NET devs get to this day. The perception is that developers outside of the MS ecosystem usually have to be a little bit more erudite in the way they went about learning their programming language of choice.
>it's a solicitation for assistance with a built in humility.

Thank you for bringing this up. No matter how good or bad a candidate is, that person is your social equal and deserves basic respect.

I feel strongly about this ever since the humiliation I faced at AirBnb,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11291155

This could happen to anyone.
I read up on this when visiting in November. Apparently, only US residents can book with Airbnb in Cuba.
At the time of NeXT, you did pay for some of the dynamic-'nice'ness of ObjC with efficiency... and efficiency was critical in the days of 16MHz 030's.

Like many technically-superior technologies, they don't find market success because of momentum of an inferior product.
My personal bet for current 1st world lack of rapid economic growth is simply lack of demand. Not absolute lack, but people in the rich countries aren't hungry, cold, physically exhausted or sick. They aren't even close, most people have some money buffer between then and hunger, called "expendable income".

At first you would think that the expendable income would breed economic growth like mad. But what exactly are you buying with your money if you are generally ~happy about your life and your stuff? Four wheeler? Snake oil? Snowboard? One off things that you know are overpriced, you won't buy another one soon, and you might indefinitely postpone that purchase if you don't feel like it.

Your purchase decision is more and more likely to be based on advertising or status than price. So ROI of advertisement is better than ROI of improving the production lines. Especially when consumption of luxury goods is so fickle. This is not really a recipe for long term exponential growth.

Compare this to Peru, Cambodia or Chad. Everybody lacks money, but everybody would have several dire needs for some capital. You have reliable demand and really top notch consumption efficiency from the customer side.
Yes, you're right. No confirmation, just broadcasting.
You must be a joy to interview.
Wow.. This is insane. Just deleted my account. How can they be so insensitive.
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wasn't it just a bad clone of irix? why the hype?
I'm sorry for your loss. My dad had one recently, a real slap in the face to change his habits, and he recovered well enough to keep speaking and remaining cane mobile. Gosh now that I think about it that was last September.

I've thought about the same thing though. I think it has to do with brain damage, broken ribs from CPR and other related issues to keep someone alive.

When I saw this pulseless heart a few years back I imagined we'd be seeing them more and more to the point of, as you alluded too, being able to hook someone up to a "heart."

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-o...

I can't give you any opinion on the "why" though.
Another gem from wikipedia
"His choice of attire (a Donald Duck waistcoat) to a media photocall ahead of the MAID IPO was considered responsible for reducing the value of shares by 10p."
The Cloud Wars of 2016
Oh, that is so cool! I remember playing Klondike as a kid on our old black-and-white Mac (Plus? Classic? something like that). Great to know that he's still around and still in business.
In my experience, pairing interviews usually falls into two categories: one where you're tapping away at a problem while your interviewer is doing a work assignment (but please ask me questions), and the second is where the interviewer is grading you (and interjecting) line-by-line rather than actually participating. It's rarely the case when pairing goes as it should i.e. a collaborative work process.
Irony? https://youtu.be/jPPX3pYJ0Ys?t=687
I am not making the claim that lack of evidence is proof, but there really isn't a control group for "unbiased results".

- people see different results.

- countries see different results

- all search engines use page rank and model results of google

Without a whistleblower, or someone literally searching millions of things with a battery of diagnostics (which google would notice) it would be hard.

Either way, it doesn't matter. Google (cobsolidation) is one of the bigger risks we face now.
Google's vesting schedule is actually 1-year cliff then monthly vesting, but there are 4 blackout periods per year when you can't sell your stock (except on a monthly auto-sale program). Aside from that you're spot on.
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> what is of legitimate interest to me is potentially different from what is of legitimate interest to you

As some judge said once, just because the public are interested in a thing, doesn't mean that the thing is in the public interest.
CueCat was funded under one of the late 90s trendy buzz-concepts: media bridging. The idea was that there would emerge ways of linking new and old media.

Of course the obvious way was to print a hyperlink, but evidently investors thought people would rather scan barcodes.

Like many late 90s goofy ideas, it did resurface in a more successful form later: the QR code. But that had to wait until everyone had a little handheld smart terminal.
“Metaphor” – new stagefright-based malware (Technical Paper) [pdf]
My card never needs recharging. I don't use phone payment but if I did I would still have the card as backup.
Only sales in the US count, and the Model S is not over 100k here. Most estimates I've seen agree that the tax incentive probably won't go into phase-out mode until the latter half of 2018.
I think the point was mostly to only let the bot have as much information as a player would get on the screen : no omniscient knowledge about the state of every visible unit on the map. You'd probably also want to rate limit the inputs, including changing the viewport position, to something reasonable.
This Is What It Feels Like When a Robot Takes Your Job
Don't remember details about interviews, but I'd tell that homework was about 75%, because in those two cases they told me that I exceeded their expectations and they learned something new from my projects.
I've had an iPhone for 5 years, an android 3 years before that, and I still have no idea how I'm supposed to scan a QR code. Does any arbitrary QR reader app work for every QR code? Is QR scanning natively supported in any way?
Long-lost Lovecraft manuscript penned for Houdini found
> If you're gonna take a bet, you might as well hold all the cards.

Is it inconceivable that you might think a bet on someone else is better, at least in the current time?

I'd certainly value equity in a startup founded by a successful entrepreneur with previous huge exits over equity in a startup which I don't even have a good idea for.

Of course, you should still demand a good salary. Particularly because the companies with the most valuable equity are also the ones who can pay you well. The startups paying peanuts are also, in general, useless.
One reminder I say to myself when reading stories like this:

It can happen to you.

Dramatic failure, maybe not: but there are plenty of startups out there in that gray zone of "we don't really know what we're doing but we have several redeeming qualities!"

That zone, the upper 10% of "hyped" startups shall we say, are far more deceptive, and therefore dangerous, than the "obvious" bad companies, the bottom 90%. It's easy to laugh at all those investors who got hornswoggled by an out-and-out narcissist. It's less easy when the team is super- smart, the founders super-motivated and the only factors missing just happen to be what separates the 10% from the 1% who are truly successful. It could be product-market fit, work-life balance, or whatever the team needs at the moment. The only way to know is to be super-paranoid[1]

Much like the stuff on /r/subredditdrama or /r/cringe, spectacles of human foibles convey "I'm better than the worst, so I am good." which, for me, translates into a false sense of confidence.

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66863.Only_the_Paranoid_S...
Agreed. It also wouldn't be very interesting to watch a human-AI game where the human is better at planning and tactics but the AI just wins even uphill battles due to insane micro.
Indeed; from what I heard there will be a 2-year waiting period for PA.
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There are Christians, like myself, that do not believe that Revelation is about the future. Look up "preterism".
>> If it is regional, it is not an empire...

Armenia was an Empire long before Ani. List of Largest Empires in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires
If you look at "Ancient Empires" section, there are only 6 empires and both Armenia and China are in the list.

>> China was an empire, and was forgotten.

I do not think that is the case. I have never seen any respectable historical atlas that does not have China. Also there are Hollywood movies depicting China in times when it was (or was becoming) an Empire, so you can hardly call it forgotten.

The main reason that Chinese Empire is not forgotten and won't be anytime soon, is that China is still a major power with 1.357 billion population.
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* Naroff integrated Objective-C directly into the C compiler NeXT was using, the open source GNU C compiler, GCC, working closely with Richard Stallman

Probably #1 on Stallman's list of "things I regret most".
The reservations start the day it's revealed, albeit a few hours before.
you seem to say that windows is objectively good and worth the money, irrespective of their circumstance. otherwise, what could "wouldn't change your bias" mean?
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You can't have "privacy, but".

Either you have privacy and accept that sometimes, some people are going to use that privacy to commit crimes (such as dodging taxes), or you don't have privacy. If there can be an exception to privacy because tax, then there can also be an exception to privacy because terrorism.
I think they'll do it, but not because they see Trump as a threat. They'll do it to prevent "hate speech". Websites that criticize Trump will be signal-boosted, and those that criticize Sanders or Clinton will be suppressed for using "hate speech" and for being "conspiracy nuts", even if their tone is identical to that of Trump's critics.

For the record, I don't care which of these contestants wins. I don't even care about media biases, because I think it's only natural. But I am disappointed when tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, that are not content creators, but are supposed to be just pipelines for content, exhibit clear biases.

For this particular issue, some people suggest a more benign explanation for the bias[1], and they might be right. But I still suspect some manual tweaking to boost some sites, and suppress others.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/1...
My exact thoughts, as well.
There are a number of buzzwords in your comment that cause me to doubt its veracity. Without getting into an extended debate about exactly how you detect this productivity in a candidate (something even the best tech firms openly admit is extremely hard to do), the best thing is just to agree to disagree.
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Currently decellularized matrix (being stuck to nature's blueprint as you say) is the best substrate for regenerating heart tissue. Artificial matrices we can create (including 3D printing) have nowhere near the complexity of what exists in nature.
No shortage is more like it. Intact cadaverous hearts are plentiful by comparison to awaiting heart transplant patients. Most heart failures are immediate and fatal, but people who have progressive failure are relatively rare. Transplant patients would conceivably be donors for the program (since most heart damage is soft tissue failure).
There is a possibility that you reading too much into the comment which started this thread. It appears to have quite literally meant "the CIA caught terrorists with X so they figured everyone with X is a terrorist". Without convincing evidence that:

a) this was the reasoning used

b) this reasoning was invalid

> Your reply did not, in any way, address the conditional probability issue.

I think I did it here:

Also, you probably don't know whether this watch actually was common in Afganistan in early 2000s.
I did the envelope savings plan. Single cash amount for the month, when the envelope was empty that was it!
"No, I don't believe the government is necessary to do those things."

I live on a very long (two miles) private road that I jointly build and maintain with an association, etc. There is no government role whatsoever, and we even have bridges.

So it would appear that my experience validates your libertarian fantasy world. Look - we're actually doing it!

I've got sour news for you. Even a wealthy, well educated collection of fair minded and well intentioned people find it very difficult to maintain a dirt/gravel road to an acceptable condition. It's very difficult and costly. We are right on the edge of success or failure in this maintenance.

Further, if we were to actually pave the road (a true fantasy) it would be completely, totally unthinkable with regard to cost. Asphalt is paid for by the square foot and it isn't cheap. When you drive by a very quick section of asphalt road being resurfaced ... say 200-400 meters or something - very short ... understand that that is millions of dollars in asphalt work. Millions.

Can you build some roads and bridges without the government ? Sure, of course you can. Will they approach, in any category, even the bare minimum acceptable standard that you hold ? No.
obviously since the update feature new interior .. More pronounced software. Overall modification in accessories. it would be a pretty good ride, I guess.
Here's a crazy notion: maybe some of us actually like programming. I was doing it long before I was paid for it, and would continue to do it even if there was absolutely no market for my skill.

My open source contributions are for fun, not for recruiters. I don't think they've ever had any impact on getting me a job.

Go back to your 9 to 5. Why are you wasting time on HN if you don't care about programming?
Microsoft, of course, interns college juniors for 90 days as a summer job. Less costly I imagine per hour, but apparently working for them.
Feel free to propose a better approach...