skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After having interviewed many people (and having been interviewed), I eventually modeled in my head the average technical competence of candidates as a Gaussian curve with a normal distribution. The lower part of that curve got weeded out by headhunters and HR. Then we go through resumes and weed more out - you need to have a certain level of competence (or a friend with such) to know enough to put a resume that looks good, even if it is puffed up some. Then we weed more out with phone interviews.

By that point, unless someone slips through, usually we are interviewing people on the right half of the curve. Which means the bulk of people will be average - as good as the average programmer, or admin, or what have you.

About one in six will be one standard deviation above the mean. About one in twenty will be two standard deviations above the mean. About one in three hundred or so will be three standard deviations above the mean. Bruno Bowden said the top leadership at Google was at least three standard deviations above the mean.

So that's the answer. Are they interviewing six people, or twenty (or three hundred)? Without a reference from someone in the group, the person they hire will probably be the one who is one or two standard deviations above the mean.

I think one example of this is in answering questions. Usually the first three questions I ask are the same for each person. People who stumble over the questions, who kind of can answer them, barely, rarely recover after them. People who hit all the questions out of the park right off the bat usually hit all the other questions asked out of the park. In a sense, for people who don't hit the first three questions out of the park, I'm only continuing the interview to not be rude (also usually my opinion is one of several, but no one ever said someone was competent that I said was not).

So I think that's one thing. You should be able to answer 100% of the questions asked, in detail. Because that was the hit rate of the people we thought were good. Not stumble over a sort-of answer, but answer in full, and explain whatever area is asked about in full detail if asked.

The one in six or one in twenty who could do this were given offers, unless they had severe personality issues. In my experience, here being average is good enough, although different places have different ideas on fit.

Flipping this model around, maybe one out of twenty interviews I've gone on have I been asked inane questions, where me not doing well was more the interviewers fault than mine. But for the other nineteen of twenty times, I would say if I didn't get the offer it was either because I applied for a position I was not qualified for, or I just was not prepared and filled-in on the subjects as I should have been.

Also, your English language and spelling skills are lacking, as someone has noted here. Were the interviews in the English language? If they were, that's something to work on.
Perhaps if they make up reasons why being over is healthy, then yes.

I disagree with the parents assertions that PB is unhealthy, but also disagree that people can't be criticized for their weight, if they have control over it.
The Church worked very deliberately over centuries to reduce the influence of families / clans, in some places more successfully than others. It all revolves around inheritance rights and accumulated power. (Also in some cases the Church could collect money by charging for exemptions.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consanguinity#Religious_and_tr...
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Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...

I temporarily defeated a GPS-based AR game about 5 years ago by writing a transparent proxy that could automate repetitive tasks and spoof location data. I'm sure it's possible with Pokemon Go although it probably has pretty sophisticated protections against that sort of shenanigans.
It's supposed to represent intention. Since all functions in JS are variadic, there has to be a way to differentiate between a parameter not being passed and an "empty" value that is explicitly passed. Technically, you should never explicitly assign `undefined` to anything yourself, but you can propagate it.
You're comparing Wii with PS3 and Xbox 360, both of which had successful next-gen consoles released in 2013. Wii+WiiU in past 10 years: 113m, PS3+PS4: 124m, Xbox360 + Xbox One: ~94m.
Why? Because you can, clearly. :D
Now it's official: no evil cooperation operates on the backside of the moon.
If you're out at a Starbucks chances are you're also near a grocery store or food mart of some kind. Pick up an apple, avocado, berries, etc. Or just pack them in a bag--whole fruits are easy to transport. Be wary of the glycemic index of fruits though and don't go for the super sugary ones, see this list for example: http://adrenalfatiguesolution.com/fruits-lowest-glycemic-loa...

edit: Also plain bread/toast is a horrible breakfast. It just turns into sugar in your body and won't make you feel full at all. Don't kid yourself about 'whole grain' being any better either--it's all the same to your body.
Thank you all for your kind words. Martin Hellman
As a lot of people have already said, even getting to an on-site with either of these companies is an accomplishment in itself. I've had on-sites at both and like you, I've been turned down. Doesn't stop Amazon from coming back to me with different job opportunities about once a year.

Keep in mind that in most cases you will not be given the real reason for rejection (mostly as a lawsuit-avoidance measure) but something vague like "not qualified" (which can mean anything starting from a wrong haircut to the interviewer bearing a grudge against your school) or "decided to go with another candidate". Heck, I've been told by an employer that they'd found an internal candidate for the position only to find out nine months later via the grapevine that the rejection happened the exact day a hiring freeze with "rightsizing" had been instituted.

You're not a loser, otherwise you wouldn't have made it in there in first place. What it means is that on this particular day, the stars didn't align for you.
I think it could be an issue. Dozens/hundreds/thousands of people interview at Google. If I was interviewing for a programming position, and they were misspelling words in the e-mails and mangling their English, and English language communication was important in the job (as it has been for every job I've had), that would be a red flag. With so many others of a probably equivalent competence interviewing, it wouldn't take many red flags for them to be passed on for an offer.
An SQLITE example would have been nice.
That depends on which direction the cousin is removed. If a generation above your father, it is your first cousin twice removed. If a generation below, it is your second cousin.
The Solitaire link in the article doesn't work, so here's a description on Bruce Schneier's website:

https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
So is gunning down other people. Fortunately, many people can separate games from reality and this lets all types of games, from Counter-Strike to Pokemon to the Total War series, to succeed.

I'm utterly convinced the average 13 year old can separate the concepts of fake monsters that disappear back inside their little round homes from the reality of two animals trapped in a small area fighting to the death.
Your second cousin if you share the same great-grandparents.

Edit: Ugh, this gets confusing. I was mistaken. I'd originally included the once-removed, but that appears to be incorrect. Or I'm still mistaken. :)

A first cousin once-removed signifies one person's grandparent is the other's great-grandparent.

Perhaps this cousin chart would help: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin#Relationship_charts

Just plot yourself and the cousin-in-question by where your shared nth-grandparent lies.
The Erlang plugin for IntelliJ is also developed by a JetBrains employee. I'm always very impressed how much passion the guys have for their product.
From a genetic perspective, even occasional first-cousin marriage is not really a problem. The problems start when you have several generations of cousin and sibling marriages, allowing homozygous recessive alleles to concentrate.
Double entendre of the use of crashes. Stock barely moved in after hours. Investigate the journalists.
Wait, they've only shipped 12m WiiU's? That's... not good...
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Let's just call both American breakfast and desert what they often are: piles of flavored sugar. Why not eat some fruit as desert if you absolutely must finish a meal with something sweet (and why must you, actually?)
Depends on the direction removed?
Oh friend, I am not American but we share similar childhood memories. I have traveled much in America and McDonald's/IHOPs/Denny's were a staple breakfast!

When I was in Japan, I would often eat breakfast in a hurry by getting some groceries from 7-11. Such a breafast would usually consist of a smal pack of fried rice, with a pastry or two, and some juice or milk, for about 500Y if I remember correctly. Everything tasted good, but I cannot say it was "healthier" than what I'd have in America. But again, that was a 7-11 5 minute breakfast...
I get where it comes form, and it makes sense, but it's long and will inevitably be shorterned to IFTTT which is just awkward.

An acronym/initialism is better if it can be pronounced like a word. CAP is one of them, and thus I feel it's better than IFTTT even though IFTTT's full name makes more sense and is 'good'.
Aren’t more white people than black people killed by police? Yes, but no
Haha, I remember getting this signed and then faxed by my dad when I was like 11. Funny seeing it here because I first learned HTML from Neopets (anyone else?). HTML brought me to javascript and computer programming in general. 15 years later, that form is still up and I guess kids are still playing Neopets. And now I am here, weird.
So did they get the books back?
I didn't say C# was released after this time, I said Microsoft is a different beast now. They've made a significant swing towards open source and embracing the OSS community. Back in 2005 they still very much thought they ruled the world and could get away with anything.
Exact reason I won't interview at Microsoft. I went to a hiring event a few years ago and was the only American on either side of the table. They needed to be seen trying to hire Americans, and I felt stupid for having fallen for this scheme.
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What's the difference between Grafana and Graphite?
If you're dealing with Unixy systems, resort to the command line and also use something like tmux or screen to preserve the session when (not if) you're getting disconnected.
About the 10x difference in programmer productivity: it's a "leprechaun", a false myth emerged from misquoting of previous articles, poor review processes of the claims made and the generalized tendency to ape a scientific process in the software engineering world. Quite some tall claims but I have read a book that makes some good arguments supporting this as well as debunking a couple of these legends turned truths: https://leanpub.com/leprechauns
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I think, if your father's cousin-once-removed is a generation below him, then he/she is your first-cousin. While a generate above you father would signal first-cousin-twice-removed...

Thoughts?
depends on your peanut butter brand.
some brands have 100% peanuts and 0% sugar. Others add lots of sugar.
Security of the future self-learns what's important
I think it's similar in America; AM-PM and 7-11 usually have "food" and also sell gas.
Are there full size static images somewhere? I want to look at the photos but the gif isn't doing it for me
Not so fast, what's that dark patch in the upper left?
Except you're a a tiny and economically irrelevant minority who own cars but are intentionally disabling them due to some sort of mental block about it not being the year 1994 anymore.

If you want to be Cyber-Amish, that's absolutely your right, but much like the actual Amish, you will need to create your own society that serves your needs instead of trying to drag us back into the past with you.The Amish are not demanding that the International Space Station build a wooden module to accommodate them, nor do they buy plane tickets with the expectation that the pilot will still get them there but won't turn on the engine due to the religious beliefs of a tiny minority. Everyone has the right to unreasonable beliefs, but when they try to be smug and condescending about their own backwardness... yeah. You are the human equivalent of IE6.
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Not on the surface, obviously. That would be silly.
I grew up in central Europe and we traditionally ate open-faced sandwiches of artisan bread or bread rolls. You'd top it with some margarine or cream cheese, salami and cold-cuts, thin-sliced cucumbers or radishes, or serve fresh bell peppers on the side. In the US, Subway's deli sandwiches come close, albeit I've found them much heavier, in both the amount of bread, and the sheer quantity of meat.

I too wish that more fast food restaurants served lunch alongside breakfast, instead of exclusively breakfast in the mornings.
Usually one would mention that you need to consider the billiard balls as point particles. At least that's how the analogy was given to me.
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This needs more detail before it becomes convincing. Is "sugar" on the left the same as sugar on the right? Or is one glucose and the other fructose or sucrose?

If you haven't watched Sugar: The Bitter Truth [1] yet, you should. (Warning: It's 90 minutes long.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Wasn't it only one of those CPU's though? He mentioned there is a CPU dedicated to disk operation and that's the one no one had been able to get a ROM dump of, which in turn enabled all the other stuff? Not trying to downplay his achievement or anything, I'm new to all this but it's easy to see that this is some truly amazing work.
I thought a proper American breakfast was eggs, maybe with a side of bacon, ham or sausage. Most of this stuff is what I'd call a "Continental Breakfast".
I've only ever seen it spelled out "theoretical CS". There is GOFAI, though.
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11971
If only we'd known back in 2001 that we were living in the bad old days when governments were irresponsible! At the time, we thought the new, shiny future had arrived!

Of course, we don't need to worry about this today, because the new, shiny future has arrived.
Isn't the core game walking around? It's great, I did it before it was part of a game just to feel good.
IHOP has the Quick-2 Egg breakfast: 2 eggs, bacon or sausage, hash browns and toast. Frankly, the dessert pancakes, etc., make me a bit ill just looking a them.

However, you can order just plain pancakes, a waffle or French toast without the sugary toppings.
I wish there were places in the States that made those little sandwiches. Was in Berlin recently, and every corner bakery makes them. Delicious, and super cheap.
Or any server side store, maybe DynamoDB.
Is this post a joke?
Pokemon Go 5 days after release
I don't think most Americans would consider McDonalds or IHOP typical breakfast food. I've lived in the US for 10+ years and only been to IHOP and Denny's 3 or 4 times combined, and only go to McDonalds for breakfast when I absolutely can't take the time to eat at home.
I think you'll find even when they add loads of sugar, it's hard to match the calories from the protein & fat.
As a Type-II diabetic, I have to get my energy from proteins, with next to no carbs. Peanut butter is one of my very slim choices in snack foods.
Yes, especially if they are unhealthy.
I'd seen both of them as something like a character out of House of Cards - Rumsfeld in particular as a obviously corrupt and power hungry man (my opinion of McNamera going in was, I guess, somewhat more nuanced).

Their respective documentaries, though, provided believable human motivations for what they were trying to do. I'm pretty convinced that both men harmed the world in serious ways, but I'm also pretty convinced that both genuinely meant well - which somehow makes me both sympathetic to them and a little frightened at the same time.
This should be front page.
You can already buy the Saturn Rhea. It is pretty much the same thing except SD based and it replaces the CD drive. I have one and absolutely love it. It's honestly the best retro gaming purchase I have made in a very long time.
What happens when sites are using font's for images?
The Rhea/Phoebe require no soldering. Just pop out the CD drive, pop in the Rhea. Very simple.
> In a similar vein, there's this absurd notion of bulking or cultivating mass in the US

Half seriously, I'm a bit concerned about this trend. It seems that most hollywood movie stars have to be huge nowadays, not only super heroes, but even normal characters. Huge is the new normal! Actually, I even remember going once to see a dentist in New York, and the guy looked like a bodybuilder! Will we reach a stage where all men have to be huge in order not to be unattractive?
No. My point is people value their money over their time despite their time being more valuable than the money they save. Remember people drive 10 minutes out of the way to save $0.05/gallon on gas. People waste time and money to save money! My mom does this. There is no amount of analysis that will make her stop. People just don't think.

And yeah people do part with $15 on known entities in brainless ways. This is a new behavior though. This gas refueling scheme ain't gonna make sense to the vast majority of people, hence once again cue the Dana Carvey George Bush skit...."Not gonna do it."
For example, "all of us" are literally the same entity viewing itself using a variety of perceptions.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see how "I didn't steal anything; I just broke open the safe and told others how to get the money" would get you of the hook.
>What if we discovered an animal or alien species incapable of experiencing "sadness" as we do? The quoted statement seems to preclude this as a possibility, which is a very strong assumption.

Transcendence of feelings does not imply universality. The fact that a rock cannot (potentially?) feel sadness does not take away something from sadness. Not that I necessarily agree with the authors point of view, but our feelings could be conduits of pure feelings (as a conditional consumption) and at the same time pure feelings can be reifications of felt experiences (production.)

>Citation needed

So if I wrote the same thing citing OP would you be happy? I think what you are looking is for a citation of proof. On the other hand, do you have any citation/proof to substantiate your disbelief of the statements? I do not think we need a proof for every statement we make. After all, we are more than proof machines, and exploration of the unknown is what leads us to more discoveries. I read this as an opinion/philosophical piece and found it enjoyable in the questions it raises, such as those you focus on.
Of course you will[1][2]. Lots more in Omaha[3] of course, but people underestimate just how widespread programming is.

[1] http://python.jobs.net/jobs/lincoln,nebraska.aspx

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/python-jobs-lincoln-ne

[3] http://www.indeed.com/q-Python-Developer-l-Nebraska-jobs.htm...
If by «fabulousness» you mean in terms of static typing, the language may not meet your expectations, but it seems to me it's a bit harsh to say it's a dead-end, considering it's on par with many other languages, and still improving.

Also, sorry if you meant something else, «fabulousness» is a very subjective term, not unlike «elegant» (as in «elegant code»), and because it does not have a specific and commonly shared meaning (what is fabulous to you may not by fabulous to others), it's not something I'm very comfortable discussing, although I think I have understood what you meant by it, but with a low level of certainty.
تور مشهد ویژه هتل های ۳ ستاره و ۲ ستاره ورود ۲۵ تیر ۹۵
Most of the enterprise internet ends up becoming the public facing internet. Enterprise isn't a moral agent for accessibility, it's saying "why should we spend hundreds or thousands of developer hours accommodating less than 1% of the market?"

With rare exceptions, (such as supporting IE6 clones in China) there's no business case for doing so, so it isn't done.

W3 is great, but the very page that information on violates their standards--it's div soup and won't work screenreaders, there are images without descriptions, and even the sidebar is using javascript to open the menu and change classes when it could use pure HTML.

So yes, those best practices are obsolete when the people recommending them can't even be bothered to follow them on their own page.
Sort of off-topic but interesting: This post and code (guessing) was made by a young intern[1] who has received praise from the likes of Dan Abramov more than a few times for core contributions to React.

Hoping to see more awesome stuff from him!

[1] http://keyanzhang.com/
I think we're agreed, here.
Scientists say giant asteroid could hit earth next week causing mass devastation
How exactly are bacon and eggs the same as dessert?
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The flowchart doesn't have a path for if you get a notice that the agent has actually followed suit - I'll take that as a commentary on the process as it's so incredibly rare.
My apologies, wrong link. This is hard to do on a mobile telephone.

http://www.baylisa.org/library/slides/2005/august2005.pdf, page nine, and in more detail further in the document.
I live in Australia and wrote Heimdall[1], an open-source reverse engineered tool for flashing Samsung phones.

I can assure you, I am not looking forward to the TPP!

[1] https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall
The genes that you get from your ethnicity are a small fraction of your overall genome. There are tons of other genes that affect things like your height, your interest in music, etc, that could strongly affect your friend selection.
One of the many nice things about React that I enjoyed when switching from Angular and Backbone was the super helpful error messaging. Now they go and make it even better. Nice work, React team!
It's not just American breakfast, almost everything has way too much sugar in it. I've been in the US for almost 4 years. And for the most part i've gotten used to the sugar and salt. But it still surprises me time to time.

On a related note i find it funny when my American friends say something has "lots of flavor", all i can taste is salt, no flavors. And when I say something has "lots of flavor" they think it has none.
Out of the 1208 people killed by police last year (2015) how many where unjust? I am just wondering because, 50 in 1 million is 0.005% and 1208 in 320 million is 0.00037% so it would appear more police die per population (total police) vs per population (total people) you are 10 times more likely to die as a police officer than you are to die from a police officer.
Well it depends how you use it also. To them it really could be ES6 with annotations.