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I sympathize with the author. I have been through this as well. I'm still going through this, really.

I've been rejected many times. And every time, I come away from the process annoyed and disappointed, but certain that I would have been useful to them had they hired me. I research companies thoroughly before going into interviews, and don't waste time interviewing for positions that I don't think I'd be interested in / qualified for.

I also have decent GitHub activity, handful of open source projects that demonstrate my abilities. When I started my new job search I assumed that this mattered, but in my experience it really doesn't. I still get asked extremely basic questions that I'd hoped my GitHub would eliminate. In some instances the company that rejected me had some open source projects, and it made me feel better about myself to see their poor code quality.

Nevertheless, I am also starting to have doubts about the industry. I've wasted a lot of time on take-home challenges, introductions, technical phone screens, on-site interviews, etc. to be rejected without explanation. As an introvert, it's all very exhausting. Why should I, as a computer programmer, have to be an amazing socialite that my colleagues would like to vape & play air hockey with? I just want to work on interesting problems. I'm not stimulated by extravagant team lunches or interrupting meetings to play with the company dog. I'm not stimulated by fancy windows and games and snacks and toys. I'm happy to have technical discussions all day long, but I really don't want to work in a frat house.

I feel like there's a lot of pressure from the industry to be someone I'm not. Also, it seems like the Joel Spolsky idea about only hiring exceptional programmers (at the expense of risking a merely /good/ hire) has seriously penetrated the industry, making the system highly risk-averse in terms of hiring. I feel like no amount of prior job experience or open source work will make a difference. Every time I interview, it's a clean slate, and if I don't nail _everything_ it's a certain no-hire. Even if I did well in prior interviews with the company, they simply won't risk it. I would really like to know what the reasoning is, but they never provide feedback.

I will say that I've been hardened by the experience. I'm better at pitching myself, making appointments, talking to people in a structured way, preparation. I think if any startup founders lack experience as sales(wo)men, there's plenty of opportunity to dial-in your skills by pretending to be a job candidate strictly for practice.
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> noble and nice

The noble and nice stuff is PR.

I'm not saying Zuckerberg is evil, but that is exactly the point, we don't know anything about him, except that he has an enormous amount of capital, and thus influence. PR gets him even more power. And I think that power is something to be scared off.
Notably absent are predictions of chaos/order from the monks and attendant pleas for money.
I had to look DFTC up. From their job descriptions:

> • We are down for the cause (“DFTC”). We’re all here to make Mixpanel a success. There is no job too big or too small for us. “That’s not my job” is not in our vocabulary.
here's how it'll work: they'll have two phone-readers: one 'by the book' which really 'just' reads the metadata and puts it i their database. The second is basically an exploit kit that dumps your data by any exploit they can find.

The theory being they'll use the first for motorists and the second for terrorists.

But then someone will figure it's terribly convenient for drug and organised crime too. And tax evasion. And tickets. Soon everybody gets the exploit kit but they'll whip out the first one for press ops.
Interesting. I was unaware that Xamarin maps widgets like that. Thanks for enlightening me. :-)

How does it abstract away the more fundamental differences between platforms Activities/Fragments vs. UIViewControllers?
because of money?
coincidentally i re-read the post about the riot games league of legends automated testing infrastructure yesterday. it's fascinating (and honestly, i'm even a bit envious!).

in case you haven't read it yet: https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-lea...

guess it's down to the value of competitive multiplayer. e-sports are the focus of games like LOL (or, i guess, CS), instead of throw-away gaming.

the division won't have international competitions in 3 years - and that's ok with ubi soft. because they'll have a couple of new games out by then and players will have bought those instead of still playing the division.
You buy it to learn its function and then patch. The whole idea is to make attack method worthless.
This misses the mark from my point of view. Green space is good. Density is good. Density is how you make walkable neighborhoods.

You're advocating for addressing the need for housing in the form of sprawl. Communities need to build, but that's the wrong direction to build in.
Well, no each shareholder would get 3 stocks for every one they have now. But each stock would represent 1/3 of the stake in the company it used to. Sorry for a purely negative comment, just wanted to clarify. If you think about it, if every shareholder could sell, make money, and retain the same percentage ownership, someone on the other end of the deal is paying something for nothing.
It's the difference between this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system

and this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_system
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What a biased way to look at things.
Gym's potential is to be a starting point for a community around OpenAI. There are far more smart people in the world eager to demonstrate their ability, than there are experts directly employed in AI today.

Over 5000 teams around the world submitted solutions to the Netflix prize[1]. OpenAI is a far more important project. They should be able to drive even greater enthusiasm and participation.

[1] http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard
I am all against pedantic nitpicking. One of my most common complaints was to concentrate on the actual problem, not on the style. I am not a "code craftsman", I am somebody who knows a lot about how to solve a problem with code. And I don't work for anyone except myself anymore.
I'm a tad late, but I'm curious about where you said

> they use different software and hardware

Does this mean different architectures? If it does my respect for the redundant-hardware approach just went through the window.

Also, how is the watchdog redundant? I can't imagine there's only one; how does this work? Are both watchdogs somehow wired in parallel, are they cross-connected to each other, or...?
I think there's a difference between regulating something and using government over markets to solve the problem.

For example, if the goal is a cleaner river, the inefficient way of solving the problem would be mandating a certain cleaning technology or giving a tax break to companies that install specific purification systems. That leads to a mindset of box checking compliance and the most politically well-connected companies winning out.

The better way is to impose a fine or maximum on the externality -- water pollution in this example -- and let the market work. Now the polluting company has an incentive to find the best anti-pollution techniques at the lowest cost and other companies can compete by developing different anti-pollution methods.
Gladly!

Lets say your software as a service website has a real time analytics graph, so that customers can look at statistics of how much they are using the service in real time.

One potential question a customer might want to know is "How many API calls have I made over the last hour". This is a moving window average question, and it needs to be displayed/done on the front end.

My company that I work at has such a feature.

Algorithms questions come up all the time in javascript development.
a quick fix would be to have feedback of your interview be mandatory if requested.. kind of like a FOIA request
If you were an equity holder you could vote against the proposal... but of course it wouldn't matter because he already has the majority of votes. So you could be annoyed, but you shouldn't be surprised that he wants to keep control forever.
It's also difficult to explain the corollary: When work is life, your boss telling you that maybe it wasn’t a good “culture fit” anymore / after all is a little like dying. That’s melodramatic, but losing such a big part of your identity is disorienting and depressing.
When it crashes it literally gives you the command to undo the damage. How many package managers do that?
Can you recommend a go-to book for this kind of stuff?
Expanded housing supply to me just means sprawl unfortunately. I do agree that Seattle/CA should be building way faster on existing land and upzoning. Its gonna take them 20+ years to put a light rail in, which to my mind is pretty nuts.
In the span between the Civil War and WWI, so was the US.
>I wonder why WSJ and some conservatives set a target on Elon.

Conservation as a general concept is about preservation, tradition, limiting change. I'm sure there's plenty of people who align with conservative values for other reasons (as I'm sure most don't have a problem with Elon), but that doesn't change the fact that a lot of people are opposed to change in general. They like the way things have been and the way things are. They have a good thing going. They don't want to risk a future they might not like. They don't want to have to learn a new future. They don't want to have to worry or think about learning a new future.

Hell, I get it and I consciously chose to go in to web dev! I can find out about a new tool that will make my life easier and still have an initial reaction of "damn it, not another one!".

Elon Musk is the symbol for a lot of change.
I wonder if there's a specialized debugger that injects random faults into your code while its running (e.g. flipping booleans or IO to peripherals). Not just fuzzing the inputs to the program, but fuzzing the contents of memory and registers as routines run. You could set the fuzz rate at different levels to detect different kinds of errors (e.g. maybe one error happens frequently but another requires a timer to tick up to a certain level before errors can affect it).

EDIT: Thinking about this a bit more, for messing with registers, you probably need specialized hardware or you need to intercept the data on the way to the register.
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> I have no idea what Nighttime Terror is or what it looks like.

Dude. http://nighttimeterror.com is the first Google result for "nighttime terror".

I know that phones and tablets make it awkward to use the Internet, but it's likely far more work for the guy who's cleaning up and posting Carmack's critiques to embed a video (that could suffer linkrot (or -even worse- "api"rot) at any time) than it is for you (and any other interested party) to do a quick search. :)
A potential argument for making the Breathalyzer mandatory is that the alcohol dissipates over time, and has to be detected while it's still present. Also, the Breathalyzer measures nothing but alcohol.

There's no such immediacy with phone activity, especially since phone logs are stored permanently somewhere other than the phone. If the police need to search the driver's phone records, they can tell it to a judge and get a search warrant. So the analogy to the Breathalyzer just isn't a good one.

And, a casual search of phone records could turn up all sorts of stuff, encouraging use of the Textalyzer as a pretext for conducting a broader search.
Well, actually, we store MIR in crate metadata. However, it's not a special serialization format, just the rustc_serialize infrastructure, i.e. you could also serialize MIR to JSON if you really wanted to.
Oh, I understand, but these things always take a while. And the the power grid will have to adapt. At least coal seems to finally be disappearing.
Charitable contributions are tax deductible in the majority of countries not just the US. FWIW.
> Taxing at death would be double dipping.

This is one of the more common anti-estate tax arguement but I dont see it. At the end of the day the government will raise a pool of tax dollars. They can tax you more while you're alive, or tax you less while alive + estate tax when you die. If you look at it like this, estate taxes actually allow you to pay less tax over your lifetime. So to not have estate tax, one could argue people are paying too much tax during their lifetime.
If I was a game developer and a person developed a bot to play my game perfectly, I'd let them have the high score.
I had to laugh. I think I applied to be the roommate of the folks behind the teambuilding exercise company she mentioned. http://ClashSF.com
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I misunderstood "Nighttime Terror" to be some kind of description of a misfeature/bug/side-effect of VR.
I understand 'wear and tear' failure is extremely unlikely to strike simultaneously within the same flight, but what about intentional disruption? Is that possible or has it been explored?
You can say that. Someone working on AGI != they have a good pathway to AGI. And anyone telling you they have a good pathway to AGI is being ridiculously and naively over-optimistic (recall that back in the 1960s people thought they had a pathway to AGI - repeat this every other decade).

None of those projects have yet shown any real progress towards AGI. A roadmap and "comprehensive architecture" are just plans and conjectures, not results. The AGI conference is also still fairly niche.

EDIT: Agreed with below. I also want to clarify that I'm not saying AGI is unworthy of research. It's just total early stages right now. Be aware that progress is incremental, and maintaining momentum (and research funding) is predicated on delivering tangible results and tools incrementally.
This doesn't really ring true for most of northern california at the very least. San Mateo, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Albany, Pinole, Walnut Creek, Concord, Benicia, etc. all have downtowns. It's even more pronounced outside the bay area. Healdsburg, Sonoma, Napa, Calistoga, St. Helena, Sebastapol, etc. all have tight downtowns. Even in the valley and the sierra foothills have towns/cities with tight downtowns.
Or the foundation he donates the stock to can hold onto (most of) the stock. Meanwhile he gets to do the tax free transfer now, before Congress can get around to limiting the size of the tax free transfer you can do or anything else that might impact his plans.
I'm mostly surprised that it passed 419-0.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll167.xml
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Death tax is a form of double taxation and many people are forced to sell their inherited family home. That sounds unfair to me.

If we had a consumption tax (FairTax) then you couldn't skirt paying your share when you spend it. Sales tax is incredibly efficient.
And better performance. Compiler optimizations are important.
I understand that. Still, what was meant? C/C++ don't have mechanisms for automatic parallelization, or if there are obscure extensions they are not commonly used. Compilation is usually a single-processor task, with linear speedup obtained by doing multiple compilation units in parallel (make -jN). So in what way can a compiler be "better" for multi-processor / multi-core CPU architectures?
Yeah. I'd rather do the conversion once or twice - say, 2x high quality 5x USB ports from Anker or similar than to have it somewhere I need an electrician to modify.
I've always been wondering if it's even possible for non US residents to work there.
On a more trivial note, this reminds me of the radiation-hardened quine: https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine

Would be amazing if the method used for implementing it could be generalised somehow.
Could you please post a link to where either Chan or Zuckerberg have described CZI as a charity? Because as far as I can tell they never have. Because it's very intentionally not a charity.
I wrote to push back against some sweeping claims that are made nearby, such as "if the hardware is bad, your software will be bad." This is simply not true for many values of "bad". Another comment nearby regarding testing also surrendered prematurely.

I worked and published in the area for a few years, so I have a definite POV. I find it appealing that software can, in some cases, make up for the failings of hardware.

The topic area is fascinating. It has some of the intellectual aspects of security research: you can get somewhere by breaking through abstraction barriers in surprising ways.
Better to not cause the damage in the first place, consolidate the parts of the transaction that were usefully completed into an isolated location, and provide a way to resolve the issue and resume the transaction. I think at least Pacman and Yum do this.
I think that's the most notable trait I've come to consistently see in the successful - the willingness to try, and the insistence on continuing to try after failure.
I'm afraid it's probably more necessary then, because you need sound justification for any action to be taken. I have to admit - I use models in my day job, and I'm nervous about binding law and treaties based on them.

And I don't see any projections where total loss of habitat is on the table. It'll be more like Mesa Verde, where pre-Industrial warming presumably rendered the home of the Anasazi uninhabitable. Even them that's 100 years out.
Seriously, RoboVM could have been huge. An ingenious way to introduce app development to your existing hordes of Java devs. Great tech, killed because of business decisions...
This works great for proper RTS games because the steps are usually pretty lengthy (in game terms, like around 200ms) and the way the game genre typically works means relatively little prediction or complicated simulation design are needed to make even huge steps feel responsive.
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One I have experience with is DayZ, which has terrible hacking/scripting problems because it is based on the ARMA military simulator whose audience wasn't inclined towards cheating; the server thus trusts many client actions. They're rewriting the whole engine partly because of this.
I think you're coming it at it from the perspective that making Lee Sedol was free? Imagine how many calories, all the fuel used to create those calories, his own direct transportation footprint, the time and money spent across creating him and his entire life. AlphaGo might not be relatively that inefficient.
I have worked in addiction services.

The fact of opiate abuse and addiction is that people almost never kick it.

The rate of methadone program increase in Australia is 5% a year at present. But heroin usage plateaued years ago.

Some small percentage of this increase is crossover from prescription opiates to methadone.

The increase comes entirely from new addicts who completely destroy their lives getting to the point where they decide to get in the program, and then never get off it.

You show me more than 5 examples of people who have successfully recovered from methadone and rebuilt successful lives in the whole of Sydney and I will eat my hat
"Income" that won't be distributed as dividend until he decides so. When he needs some cash he might prefer to increase the CEO compensation package instead. Why share the profits with the rest of the owners?
It is not a non-profit. It is explicitly a for-profit private company because there are many things a non-profit is legally prohibited from doing.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2015/12/04/mark-zuck...
That's not a random failure, though. The quality control for the transformer manufacturing was inadequate. This wasn't some difficult to anticipate error, either; maintaining the integrity of the winding insulation is basically the most important thing to monitor. The machines were either poorly designed or improperly operated.

Sourcing higher quality components would prevent such issues. I'll concede that nothing can be perfect, but this type of error is preventable. It starts to cost quite a bit when you move from 0.1% error to 0.01%, though.
Anyone interested in this idea should check out the Fed Up campaign: http://whatrecovery.org
Thank you. I searched for this feature yesterday but couldn't find it by myself.
Typically there is technology, legal, and financial diligence. Each costing anywhere between $30-100k each.
Everybody in the house must have their own home Email servers.
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OT, but ...

I'm bothered by how HN mods come down like a hammer on clickbaity titles ("The one thing that can ensure a safe future"), but when it's some official tech company/founder announcement, they're fine with extremely vague submission titles that force you to click on it for any hint on what it's about.
Gratuitous fluff. Writing to a pipefd inside a signal handler works on all POSIX systems.
But what about ... exactly 180 days old? =)
Excellent! Just please realize probably two-ten percent of the people I know were in alt. energy the first time around, after the Gas Scare in the 1970s. It just takes a while ( and the "defeatism" was just related to how long it will take.)

You proving me wrong would the best possible outcome.
> the version of react that is open sourced is actually different than the version they use internally

That's not true; we use the same code.
A mass selloff would depress the stock price, which in turn could lead to more people dumping the stock, creating a downward spiral. Not only would this hurt the company's investors, it would seriously impact their ability to raise capital in the future.

(Though that's probably true anyway if the banks decide to call the loan. By doing so they're basically saying they don't believe the company can repay its debts, and other potential lenders would either stay away or demand more onerous terms.)

Note I said "could" -- the actual effects depend on how much stock is being pledged and how quickly banks would try to dump it. Regardless, it would be huge negative news and affect the stock price negatively. Look at how Apple's stock got punished because iPhone sales have stopped growing.
"written in C" is an asset, not a liability. It is still the one language that is portable across the widest spectrum of platforms, as well as the most efficient high level language for execution.
Have you seen the Senate recently? Grassley is a Republican, and the current MO of the Republican Senate is to do absolutely nothing, no matter how uncontroversial, until the Evil Tyrant Obama is finally defeated.
i have a moto 360 v2 and am looking for an app that will track my gps and distance i traveled without actually taking my phone with me on the run.
Are you saying you saw absentee landlords themselves experience a rent hike at the hands of foreign investors? That would indeed be a nice bit of schadenfreude…
My knowledge of US criminal law is limited to what I've grokked from watching crime tv shows, so I'm not clear on the definitions of some terms.

Does a search warrant imply that the person being searched will be notified? I know that a court has to approve the request, but wanted to confirm if it means that the person under suspicion is informed. The way the article contrasts this new law to the current ECPA seems to suggest this is the case.

Additionally, the article mentions requests made to service providers. What if I host my own server? Is it just a case of the law agency making the request to my hosting company, or are they required to contact me to get the information?