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But you completely ignore the "time and amount of houses it would take" aspect.

If you can only build 10 houses, and make 10% commission... are you going to build a shack? or are you going to build mansion?

The houses that get built, if the gates were to open wide, would all start off on the high end... while that would start a downward pressure, it would still be a very long time before those who can afford $200k for a house see anything in their range built.
Hah. I once worked with a guy who put essentially his entire life's savings into 10-15 of these Detroit properties a few years back in 2013-2014. Suffice it to say I was right--there's been little-to-no upward pressure on home pressures in the area, despite the fact that he thought he was soon to strike it rich.

The old mantra holds--like any publicly available asset--if it were a great deal--it would already have been sold!
Yeah, it's just certain cities in the US that have these special prices. Here in NC/SC, I spend less than $700 per month on mortgage, property taxes, and home insurance for a 1,800 sqft house, in a safe neighborhood, good schools, and 30 minutes away from the center of a major city.
Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effort_justification
What is truly lacking of content is your pointless comment. HN has an annoyingly large amount of posters who feel the need to always comment on some minor design/structure related piece of a webpage which derails conversations and adds nothing but an extra small piece of cynicism ontop of the mountain of cynicism that already exists in nearly all anonymous tech-centric communities.
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I added a hand-made VGA "shield" to the Nano and used 3 digital I/O pins to get 3 bit color. I don't have a picture of the add-on board handy, but you can see a breakout game I made here: http://jrward.org/breakout.html
When looking at an author, I can see all of their patterns. This one, in particular, has a pattern that was forked 13 times: http://dbpatterns.com/accounts/profile/thaichor/

How do you see the forks?
Obama's reign was never about hope and change; it was always about der Wille zur Macht. Riddle me this -- what if Obama became a Constitutional law professor not so much to study, understand, and teach about the Constitution and its checks on government power, but to give scholarly support to a loose interpretation of the Constitution which does not meaningfully restrain government power?
The needlessly complicated one I agree with completely. Anyone had to go through a top grading process? Absolute crap in my humble opinion. You jump through a lot of hoops that takes up a lot of time, not just of you, but a lot of people in the process, and at the end of the day you don't get the best candidate. You get the best actor. I work for years for a major defense contractor that try top grading, and it was an abysmal failure. We got good liars, we did not get good employees.
Did you know that Valencia St was full of latinos? Or are you saying that as long as there is something called "Chinatown" it is ok to kick all Mexicans out?
Go is a good target for portable text editors these days, IMO: https://github.com/nsf/godit
nice. I'd love to swap stories some time. I'm posting this from Malawi doing some CD/PMD testing on a new 48 core that runs the length of the country.
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Yea except this neighborhood is about as sketchy as you can get. The last event I went to at the old Detroit City airport was staffed with a perimeter of heavily armed guards. I know a couple people who purchased houses in Indian Village and nobody even takes garbage out after dark. Comparing Detroit and Austin is a stretch at best.
It turns out it's harder than you'd think to decide whether or not an optimization is a good idea. Of course there are some relatively simple optimizations that are obviously good, but a lot of those have already been implemented. Also, I'm not sure how many people are going to want to add a solver into their compilation path.

On the other hand, if we simply contribute optimizations then all LLVM users benefit.

We're also using Souper to reveal imprecisions in LLVM dataflow analyses such as known bits -- this turns out to work really well.
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It's possible they are referring to these tests that companies are giving now in order to weed out certain types of people. They're not exactly IQ test, but rather tests for cultural fit. They can be quite good at weeding out minorities, women, older people, and people with disabilities.
Probably a lot of Twitter engineers upvoting the article from within the company VPN. I don't think it was solicited though.
One needs to always remember that those not yet in power have issues with how others use it, once their side is in power they are quite happy with maintaining the status quo or expanding it.
Some scams are played just on other people, but many, many more scams are started by fooling oneself.
"If they give you an IQ test or similar, run."

Amen. IQ tests, or tests to see if you're psychologically a "good fit for the organization," are a sign that they haven't a clue what they're looking for, they don't trust their own judgment, and couldn't identify a good developer in a million years.

As a proxy for developer performance, IQ tests are utter crap - but IQ tests are something that's intelligible to your run-of-the-mill idiot manager, so they get done.

Psych tests are similar - they're saying that they can't figure out by talking with you whether you're a nice person or a psychopath. Which, OK, to be fair, psychopaths might hide it fairly well ... but if so they'd hide it well enough on the test, as well.

Totally agree it's down to how human they are towards you. If they're willing to see you as an individual vs. whether they want a new part of their machine.
that's the nutshell :(.

Plus I think, It might be bad in long run to disallow usage of STL and other standard libraries.
Well, I believe IQ tests during an interview process is illegal in the US.

Anyway, I would say it's not necessarily a good way to consider a candidate as the results can be subjective and doesn't indicate what to do if the best coder in the area sucks at taking tests while under pressure.
> "Theranos adds a bunch of qualified medical experts and scientists to >the board<"
A product people liked got shut down, so someone else rebuilt it. As a society, we're needlessly duplicating so much effort because we've decided treat software as a private good even though it's non-rivalrous and non-excludable. If we can come up with better ways to fund software, we can end this widespread waste and make progress faster.
As far as I see, he only really taught some fluff courses on "rights, race and gender." [1] Not quite what comes to the minds of most lawyers and law students when someone says "con law professor."

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html?pag...
>Am I the only one to think throwing "difficult to parse" as criticism to a programming language like JS is disingenuous? (...) "Difficult to parse" semantic constructs may be a hurdle for the 1% doing the parsing, but they mean more syntax goodness to help the the other 99% programmers do things pleasantly and succinctly.

You probably got it wrong. When he says "difficult to parse", he means for the programmers using JS -- not for people working on JS parsers.

Besides compiler construction, "parse" is also commonly used to mean "read/understand" some new code.
I like this idea. If properly executed, it'll give people a whole new type of liquidity. I see the App Academy's model (free bootcamp, but takes recruitment fee from companies who hire their graduates) as a very early prototype for this kind of model.
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Talking about a trend, not a specific project website tho :-)
Actual market dynamics are complicated. There are so many effects that happen when housing is built. New housing in SF is being sold to out-of-towners who don't actually live there. Building housing into a downtrodden neighborhood can improve it significantly and actually increase values, etc.
To elaborate, even if you do call CLUSTER[1] to enforce a physical ordering, the primary key is not the default (there is no default).

1. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-cluster.html
MIT student here. I heard about this recently, and looked into it a bit as an interesting way to get some funding.

First of all, it's not like every participant gets 25K. Getting that level of funding would take some serious doing. It looks like 1-5K is more likely. Additionally, there are milestones, meetings, course requirements, and a whole lot of work required to get any significant funding. This might not be so bad for many early stage startups, but as a full time MIT student, taking on the extra workload is daunting.

In my opinion, it's not worth it. I am paying ~30K PER SEMESTER to be at this place, so I'm doing my best to focus all of my attention on learning my craft and jumpstarting my career. 25K sounds nice and is definitely nothing to scoff at, but in the broad scale it's a drop in the bucket, and requires getting all tied up in MIT's red tape (and also "Students who receive +$5K in funding will be encouraged to give back to the Fund or MIT"). There are easier ways to go about getting 1 to 25K in strings attached seed funding as an MIT student. The mentorship is potentially a good benefit, but I already receive mentorship from my professors.

I'm sure there are some students who might benefit from this, but I'm not convinced.
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First of all, thank you for your comment and feedback. I appreciate it.

> But my experience is that professional, fulltime guides are much better guides within the arguments you made. Especially about deep knowledge about specific spots. What made you think otherwise?

Giving just the general knowledge of placs is less value because travelers can get information through google or Wikipedia.

What if a professor of History can be a guide, what if food blogger became a guide. These "nerd" people (positive meaning)
can be a really good guide for some travelers.

I am sure they can have deeper knowledge. Moreover, you will get as many offers as possible from locals so that you can pick up the best guide.

Moreover, we are considering that the value of guide is not only deep knowledge. The guide's profile such as personality, job background, and interests are also important.

I don't remember "Guide" but people who I met and have great conversations. We believe that it is the main value.

In terms of value proposition, generally group tour vs personal tour but narrower value proposition is pro guide vs local guide. Moreover reservation vs crowdsourcing. Nobody does crowdsourcing personal local tour guide.

> How do you train these guides? How do ensure their quality?

At the beginning, we have to define what is the quality of guides for travelers.

I don't think giving knowledge is not main quality (or value) on our website. As I said, I believe that type of guide is less value these day. We will not train guides but advise them just to be polite and on time. I would like guide to show their own knowledge and perspective and traveler will review it.

Sorry for bad writing. I have to code
Thank you again for your comment.
I am almost certain Theranos has always had an SAB (I don't know of a single company in this space that doesn't). Even my tiny startup 16 years ago had one. I've served on a couple myself and the role is very different.

I do wonder how involved the SAB has been given all the questions.

Edit: looking at the page I am now uncertain they had one, which would be very unusual for a life sciences company.
I think you're right but I think you might get some false positives if the person has to pause and consider their answer and you interpret that as a lack of critical thinking skills. I typically fill my mind with current projects and things that interest me and it takes me a minute to shift gears and refocus on a different topic.
Cool, love to check this out.
One variation is the campground model. I have a camper parked at a fairly decent campground, costs are about 2.5K a year (plus electricity and waste disposal). But where I live the camping season is about 5 months. However, it doesn't have the feel of a trailer park -- instead if feels like a resort area.
It's not that most people couldn't figure out how to use those programmables right; it's that they didn't care enough (ie, see the benefit) to take the time necessary to learn it.

For people who do see the benefit (I am one of those as I programmed mine in ~ 10 minutes as well), it's much more time and money efficient to use the programmable that came with my house than it is to buy some $250 contraption, install it, sync it, then learn how to use it.

With gadgets, the world is divided into those who love them for their own sake, those who see enough utility in them to invest the added time/money (relative to lower tech alternatives) and those who do not care enough to use the alternates or the gadgets (ie, most of humanity).
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Or management is very receptive and they have opportunities to point out what does and doesn't work, and the things that don't work get addressed. Once something is addressed, you tend to clear it from your mind unless the place is filled with employees who really like to hold grudges, in which case being able to instantly recall all the little wrong things might be a sign you could end up with terrible coworkers.

Or having a canned answer means they've encountered this before and have an acceptable response ready to go in order to cover up greater faults. If you ask them and they immediately blurt out "Sometimes we work too hard" how honest are they being? It's no different from interviewing a prospective employee and they say "Sometimes I work too hard". Thus, an immediately prepared answer is a very unreliable indicator. Just maybe they have that answer prepared as experience has taught them to avoid being forthright about the actual problems going on, because then they'd never hire anybody.

(Just playing devil's advocate. I really do think it could go either way, dependent on their personality, how their mind works, how management operates, etc.)
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The worst boss I ever had (and he wasn't even the one removed by police! True story!) went through 5 admins in under a year. Almost six if one of them had quit before new years instead of just after.

Chat up the office staff. If they're treated like shit, run. If the founder blows through them, run. You can find some of this on linkedin.

You can search specifically for former employers on linkedin. Consider how many of them there are; there shouldn't be lots for an A round startup.
Its not Capitalism.
> When you are interviewing somewhere, treat it as if they are trying to convince you and you need to ask a ton of questions to figure out if they are a good fit or not.

As someone who interviews quite a lot of engineering candidates: we ARE trying to convince you. That is no secret.

We want to know what kind of an engineer you are. If you're good enough, or show aptitude to make up the lack of any otherwise expected skills, we are interested. Even if we decide to pass, you still deserve the same attention as any other candidate. Treating a candidate poorly for any reason is bad PR, and perhaps more importantly signals internal consent that it's okay to be rude. That sets a bad example. (You do that once, don't get told off, and soon enough others have picked up on it because who would want to spend any more time on candidates we won't hire?)

When it comes to hiring, everything is PR.
>They could have launched a fake product many years ago.

>any evidence (or motivation) for the company being a scam from the beginning. What would their exit strategy have been if they had never intended to produce a viable innovation?

it wasn't pure scam (until of course you dare to call a shady government/military contracting a "scam" :). The story goes something like that that their exit was to sell the stuff to Pentagon, and unfortunately for them and all the high powered Theranos friends there happen to be a guy who insisted on FDA approval before that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/02/inter...

Very typical Theranos tactics: "Chief executive Elizabeth Holmes, the company’s superstar founder, asked an ally at the highest level of the military to squelch those “inaccurate” concerns in 2012"

The "ally" is 4-star Marine General who sits on the Theranos board right now :)
Zappos? Sorry, bad joke. I agree completely. It's important to meet the people you're going to be working with to make sure they fit with you. On the other hand, a lot of these cliques are a reason some departments do poorly. There should be no cliques. Yes, it is important, but colleagues should not have to like one another to be professional and do a good job. If each person does their best, is professional, there's little reason why they can't produce good work.
Also, just saw at the AVC link you posted, this:

http://avc.com/2012/09/indeed/#comment-662213687

Indeed used Lucene.
Fuck off with your downvotes. You retards don't even understand basic supply and demand.
I couldn't disagree more. While I've only once taken an intelligence test for a job, it was a relaxed thirty questions in thirty minutes involving pretty simple mathematics and pattern spotting, with some pretty low level word play.

I believe that this kind of intelligence test correlates well to being able to think coherently and abstractly in both numerical and non-numerical terms, and as such correlates well to being a good programmer.

As a proxy for developer performance, intelligence is strongly correlated.
On the subject of true stories:

- While you're going through your questions with the interviewer, he suddenly looks up from his laptop and says, "These are great questions. I'm going to have to use them next time I interview."

- Interviewing manager, sitting next to CTO, says to you, "Convince my boss here that automated tests are worth the investment."

- Executive of SEO company casually lets it drop that they're being sued by Google.

- You're meeting after 5pm and interviewing manager jokes with CTO during interview how his wife is the one making his smartphone buzz like a swarm of angry hornets. Then as you're exchanging your farewells in the lobby an hour or so later at end of interview, a fuming woman storms in, stands next to manager glaring, no one is introduced, and you awkwardly take your leave.

- The conversation somehow turns to what you would do if you won the lottery. You say you'd probably spend more time working on open source projects. The CTO interviewing you remarks that he'd buy a harem. The HR rep and the other developer in the interview, both female, laugh uneasily. A couple minutes later he repeats the comment.
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As with all things real estate, proximity and travel times are key. You're almost always paying for location. It's nothing to get a large newly built 5 bedroom house in an extremely rural area for $200k, or rent a small house for $400 a month. Developments like that pop up all the time, I even live in one, but you pay for it with longer commute times or less access/proximity to stores, and infrastructure like high-speed broadband. Everyone wants to live where those things are so that drives up demand, and they only build those things where people already are so its not as if its solved by saying, simply put a bunch of empty stores and run fiber and people will start building houses and businesses there. From and an environmental perspective doing so makes my carbon footprint insane since I have to drive a longer distance to get the most basic things done and walking anywhere, even to a small grocery store to buy food for dinner is not an option and you can write off public transportation entirely. It creates a completely car dependent culture, expanding on that is not sustainable. Also, 90% of our open lands is already agrarian or much needed natural ecosystems. More urban sprawl for cheaper rent but greater detriment to the environment probably isn't a good idea.

I do know lots of tech workers that live in the middle of no where, work remote, and make 6-figures and live like kings while living on large plots of land paying very little in taxes and have mortgages equivalent of a car payment, but they live 2 hours from anything and I'm not sure what they do for Internet beyond basic DSL. If you have a purely WFH job this is doable. They only have to leave their house once or twice a week maybe for a trip into town on the weekend and end up making up for it by traveling heavily to central offices or customer locations for big projects or F2F situations.

You can ask the same question of companies, I often wonder why SF companies are even based in such an expensive cities when their workers can do their job from almost any physical location. The issue still is proximity, they want their workers to be close to each other and close to a talent pool they can pull from.

Even with highways and fast travel times to the city doesn't stop you from suffering the same issues with traffic and other commuters once you get to the city. I live outside the city I work 30 miles away and 50% of my commute is getting from the city's edge, to the city center, dealing with tons of lights, random traffic jams, finding parking, and walking blocks to my office. I lose 2 hours of my life a day of personal time for cheaper housing, and I've considered many times moving to a more expensive location just to gain almost 8 hours of my week back.
It's amazing how the hipster and tech-douche crowd loves solving problems they are the cause of. It's so wonderfully reflexive and blusteringly ignorant.
Oh right, thanks for pointing this out :)

In this case, I'd still contradict OP, arguing the same as stevebmark did in a sibling comment: "[...] these syntax details are well thought out, practical, and improve the readability and writability of the language [...]. None of them seen "unnecessary" and teams I've worked on echo this experience."
As someone with small kids (slightly older), I can totally relate why it can seem so hard to work from home. Yeah, having such young kids at home will mean chaos, even with mom/nanny. My kids are slightly older and can entertain themselves for extended time but still I need to step away from desk to referee some arguments etc. But still well worth it.

Don't give up on working from home.
Look up coworking space near your home. Or ask around to borrow a cubicle or a desk from a firm nearby.
>Technically the guidelines only mention complaining about being downvoted. Crowing over upvotes appears to be permitted.

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> Hope this won't turn into Twitter API woes.

It will, the motivation behind this app is not improving mobile reddit experience (already very good), it's monetizing quickly growing and currently unmonetizable mobile users. So they will either make people to move to their app or find a way to monetize 3rd party apps.
If any third party candidate is going to do this in 2016, it is going to be Donald Trump after he and his supporters walk out of the GOP convention.

I'm an independent that lives in NYC. My vote is always a throw away vote.
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I think assembly used colored coins. I imagine some of it could be done managed with ethereum or block chain. Another possibility is an escrow service. As part of the base product.