skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a reasonable basis for assuming that the problem will in fact be short term, sure. If the management is insane, and isn't going to recover sanity soon, then you're likely to just get fired as a complainer. That leaves you no income while you're looking for a job, which can be uncomfortable.
How a deeply political EU Commission took a bite out of Apple
1) passing job interviews is a skill orthogonal to coding abilities. You might want to get a book and start training on that.

2) I failed Google's interview 6 times. OK, so I don't work at Google, but I am still a decent software engineer loving functional programming and distributed systems.
I think you massively underestimating how widely used .net is.

It's probably 2nd just after Java.
You certainly should not spend the money before you have it but a first tier investor's term sheet carries a lot of weight . If you don't have hidden problems, good investors don't go looking for excuses to back out of deals. The likely reason the failure rate on Shark Tank is so high is that the prospective deals are chosen for variety and for being interesting rather than being brought by experienced founders or for being highly plausible investments.
A not so short exploration of the CPython virtual machine
I don't mind a downvote, I really don't, but I'd prefer a counterargument.

If you disagree, say why. Engage.

(It's why I dislike downvoting: Driveby disengagement with negative consequences.)
That's amazing. What's the actual business?
At least there's no worry about the ever-increasing number (and increasing time-investment) of missed episodes to catch up on.

I say this as the guy who wakes up in the morning with 500-800 overnight missed tweets, and then patiently reads through them.
I'm not sure which planet you're living on where Turkey is closer to joining the EU than it was in late June 2016, but it's clearly not ours...
> Lucid is CHINA-born... not Chinese-born.

What is it you think "Chinese-born" means?

> She's not ethnically Chinese.

Yes, that's why I said Chinese-born and not Chinese.
I would say this is the more important thing. I would argue that even if you are under-performing when held to a certain set of standards, if you _love_ doing it then whatever. If you _don't_ love doing it then you should switch careers even if you happen to be "really good" at computer science.
It's also known as "fuck you money", and there's a really good scene with John Goodman in The Gambler about it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI

So many people, especially in tech, work jobs that pay really, really, really well compared to most people and piss it away on stupid shit. You can choose to save a lot of that money instead and still have a very good and fulfilling life.

Eventually, when you have enough savings/investments to cover you for a few years, your life changes. You don't have to worry so much if people are getting laid off, or if your job starts demanding unreasonable things.

Here's the article that brought me to that video, and goes more in depth about the concept. I highly recommend it - http://jlcollinsnh.com/2011/06/06/why-you-need-f-you-money/
Predatory Pricing. Something Uber did, which is illegal, but they will likely never get fined for it.
This guy makes you feel really bad about you knowing only two languages (and a bit of Latin) in 2016.

Traveling to Paris to learn Sanskrit to translate Indian works to Latin. This would be really impressive even today.

Introducing Spanish plays to Goethe himself.

I wonder if those guys back then knew, that they were writing history.
Really cool college wrestling website
>The easiest way to tell if someone understands financial markets is to find out whether they believe they can time the market.

People also unwittingly imply have actions where, if you asked them, they'd say they couldn't predict the market, but they'll say things like "I'm waiting for the market to cool off"
> What Europe should do is let Britain go, and then allow the free trade which is better for everyone.

One of the contentious issue is passporting: Financial products (insurances, funds, ...) that are regulated in one EU country can be sold in all of them. A lot of them are registered in the UK - namely the City of London due to favorable conditions. Please explain: Why would the EU allow financial products that are regulated by a foreign jurisdiction? Is there any good reason for that? Does NAFTA include similar provisions?
Somehow there is a mechanic shop near me with a sign out front advertising that they will pay your deductible. It's not exactly hidden either -- it's located on one of the busiest streets in Chicago.

Here's a street view image: https://goo.gl/maps/hUAUUEJwiQT2
By loans you mean the mortgage too? Pay that off first?

In Australia you could pay off your mortgage then refinance in a brand new loan to buy investments. The interest you pay on THAT loan is income tax deductible.
Keeping global warming to 1.5C will make a crucial difference to Australia
"In the end the only party in profit is the founders & CEOs and top management."

Well... this includes everybody who had vested twitter stock after they went public and had strike price lower than sellable stock price (outside of any lockdown periods etc.). Twitter's stock price was doing pretty well during 2014. I'd bet at least 100's of early employees had significant cashout opportunities.
Well nah you're entirely divorced from reality. A good enough pc for pirating runs you like 400$. A good enough uncapped internet connection is 10$/mo in many parts of Europe. Meanwhile, median monthly salary in those places is 300$/mo.

Getting the latest entertainment keeps you part of the larger social circle. This in turn raises your networking opportunities and your chances of finding better, higher-paying work. Plus, talking about movies, books, games, etc. keeps them popular, making sure more people pay for them. I often hear my friends say "I'm not pirating that, that's good and I have the money, so I want to give the creators money". It's the same logic that drives street performers - you play something nice and people want to give you money for it. It's a feedback loop that's completely perfectly understood by the majority of people and the ones who don't give you money, either didn't like it, didn't have them, or are assholes. Morally, the first don't owe you money, the second need the money more than you and the third can go fuck themselves.
iPhone 7 has a barometric vent where the headphone jack used to be
I guess it means you would have to sue the government.
software engineering and the algorithm based interviews, while connected, are 2 different things. The later is an attribute of software engineering industry. So you may be not cut out for the industry, not the engineering itself. Beside the engineering itself, the industry is the people working in it with a lot of tribal superstitions, rituals, "gods" and "saints", etc. A kind of weak version of religion. Not everybody fits well or easy.
> Why would the EU allow financial products that are regulated by a foreign jurisdiction?

Why would the EU prevent its citizens from purchasing the financial products they wish to purchase?
They are failures because they didn't meet the goals they had set themselves and sold investors on. Either that or they are frauds because they never had any intention to meet the goals.
> exculpatory

........
I would suggest you display payment methods on the website. If I need to register to see it, I am not going to look at it at all
the article is sponsored content
An interview with science journalist and educator Margaret Wertheim
> 1.) Does there ever come a point where it just isn't worth it to continue trying to be a software engineer who can get into top-tier companies / projects?

Don't just look at the top-tier companies / projects. There are many projects/companies where you can learn, grow and contribute.

> 2.) How can I find some positive reinforcement in interviewing / interview prep even if I constantly get rejected? I do perform post mortems on every interview in order to find areas to improve.

Are you getting a positive reinforcement when you are doing software engineering ? That is the key question. If you do, you can have a very satisfying career. Even if you don't work at google.
Also, it's the tip of the spear for our soft power efforts. We get more than our money's worth just in agricultural regulations alone.
Twitter is a great service for broadcasting information. Celebrities connecting with their fans bypassing press and other middlemen, that's huge value for them and they love it. Public officials making emergency and other announcements, custom tags for large events.

The average celeb promotion, public dept or event budget can easily afford to pay twitter for engagement and value adds like analytics or any other value adds they can come up with for these profiles. They just need an excuse to pay. Forget ads, focus on this.
4 simple ways to improve your data analysis skills – Control blog
Android app can recognize a person, pull up his status updates
That would possibly be true if most of the countries dissatisfied with the EU weren't the ones who are struggling economically.
>> Brand is the primary thing enabling Apples high prices.

Trademarks are another government enforced monopoly.
> If your current tax bracket is rather low, or you expect to be earning lots of money through retirement, then Roth IRA can be a better solution.

I think for a typical "geek" who this article is about, rare is the scenario where you expect to be making that much more by (and throughout) retirement to justify taking the tax hit now. Maybe this works for a doctor who's doing residency and still paying for medical school, who eventually expects to be raking it in. But for tech workers our compensation tends to plateau very early and not grow a great deal throughout our careers. I know on a percentage basis, my comp grew more in my first 5 years than it has in the last 15. This scenario would appear to encourage tax-deferred investment.
It's in his profile: http://www.searchtempest.com/
Because you validate the certificate presented so that you know the endpoint is really Google.
> TLDR: how often is the desire to verify identity so great that it warrants visiting a post office or paying a post office employee to visit you?

You pay post-office once for a $100 PKI-based certificate / smartcard with strong federally mandated identification regiments.

From there on out, the smartcard serves as your national identity, and can be used for like 10 years on any smartcard compatible system.

That's the kind of system I'm envisioning. The Post Office won't visit every single time you use the card, you visit the post office once every 10 years.

With 300 million Americans, that still 30-million hard identity checks per years. That would require an agency of massive size.

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And to answer your question: every time you use a SSN for identification (applying for a job, opening bank accounts, etc. etc.) would be a time to use this PKI-based smartcard verified by the US Post Office.
Data by definition can't be from the future, so unless you by data mean "extrapolations", then that can't be the case.
You can certainly chose to move closer to work, if commute time is important to you. You'll probably trade off something else against it.

Similarly, you can trade off hours expectations.

And yes, you, and everyone have the option of unilaterally normalizing your hours. You may not like the results (or you may love them) but you absolutely have the option.

Similarly, you - yes you - have the option of (re) opening negotiations with your employer. One possible outcome is always that you part ways, of course.
Which is circular logic. To sue an entity which you fund is to indrectly sue yourself.
The watermarks are also on the other images that they've licenced from Getty, and the unwatermarked image is credited to the photographer.

I'm not sure that there would be all that much value in creating new images for the story though, if a cheaper stock image can communicate the same thing.
BTW, would love to hear more about your success. Email me at john@simpleprogrammer.com if you get a chance and I'll be happy to give you some free advice in exchange for hearing more of your story.
It depends on the business. A lot of businesses create things that do take away from other people. Amazon destroyed the local bookstore, for one. In a sense, wealth is spread through redundancy and waste, and the more efficient people get the less wealth. My home town going from three regional retail chains to a single walmart led to the destruction of plenty of wealth through efficiency.

edit: it depends really too what we mean by wealth. If we define wealth as being employed, good lord wealth is zero sum. The amount of jobs the modern tech sector has created has been pitiful, with poorer compensation than many unskilled fields. If it means by possessing things, its a mixed blessing.Plenty of free or low cost content, though large staple goods like houses or cars are climbing up there.

Also, Martin Ford mentions something called the lights in the tunnel problem. Imagine a tunnel full of lights that represent the wealth of people. In the modern world, a handful of lights shine intensely bright, while increasingly more are dark, dim, or low-intensity. But the tunnel is dark, because a handful of lights can't generate enough light to make it illuminated. He used it in context of automation, but this is modern wealth creation, and eventually it will reach the point where the ones controlling the wealth have done so by dimming so many people that the tunnel goes dark.
+1 , would love to
We were using the real deal ammo, though we heard talk about how they were moving to the smaller rounds.

Right...it was my experience that the actual teachers and trainers were pretty cool compared to the TIs. Fortunately, our two primary TIs were among the most chill. Our sister flight's senior TI was terrible.
I think most Europeans know the words sí, mañana and Español, and can work out what "artículo 50" means.
Nice! It's not just some detailss of how it works, but also the history and evolution of the dictionary API and implementation.
When I was working at Best Buy in college I was employed part time and they offered 401k. My mother instructed me to contribute as much as would max out their match, explaining that it was essentially "free money". I don't remember what the match was. I eventually rolled the whopping $2,600 into an IRA that's grown pretty well the past 8 years. It's a ridiculously easy thing to do that pays off, literally.
I'm sure they'll find another excuse to delay article 50, once the negotiators are hired.
What country are you in? As of 2015 the S&P 500's average annualized return was ~8% for the past 20 years. In terms of individual years, the benchmark nearly always beats inflation handily. If you're an American and you were passively investing in index funds, I don't understand how you could only have what you started with, or anything near that amount.
You're making some broad generalization that are not necessary true.

"Shrinking product" - This is not true. It's important to note that Twitter is not shrinking. It's simply not growing as fast as it used to. Generally this is not too bad for a company this size, considering the massive userbase it already has. Twitter only pales in comparison to Facebook.

"Unhappy users" - People spending less time on Twitter does not mean they are unhappy with the product. Twitter does not lend itself to long and continuous browsing sessions like Facebook. It's just the nature of the product. People open it up, read a few tweets and then close it.
Does Protest Have a Place in Social Media?
This is a really good point. Now I'm pissed that I contributed to a Roth earlier in my career.

Another one that no one has mentioned: state income tax. I live in CA but would put a >50% chance that I will live in a lower tax state when I retire. Thus, Traditional > Roth.
I remember a fun talk by our department chair about the graduate admissions in Computer Science over the years. The chart fluctuated with booms and busts: lots of applicants during hype and profit and a few during gloom and retrenchment. The second line, the surviver (matriculation) numbers over time, was a flat line.

There are many options in life and computer science is not for everyone.
On the other hand, if a competitor offers flat-rate payments at the average price Uber pays (= lower than the drivers making the most rides get, but higher than the drivers making the least number of rides get) new drivers entering the market and drivers making few rides should flock to the competitor.

Uber's strategy will only work if those drivers, on average, are worse than the ones making many rides.
This reminded me of how lonely I feel in my society;
defining prejudices in a Gadamerian way.
What's the behavior of the system when the home cannot access the marketplace via their normal ISP? I think power utilities don't want to bind their QoS fate to a company outside of their control or specification.
Historical long term real rates hover around 6%, and I'd consider real rates of 5% for the next decade quite optimistic, not conservative.

Also, regarding safe withdrawal rates, consider that (depending on the jurisdiction) in retirement you might have to pay taxes on the nominal rates, but then leave enough to compensate for inflation.

Say: 4% nominal, pay 25% taxes, leaves you with 3%, but 2% inflation, so you can safely withdraw only 1%. Thus, conservatively, $1m might give you only 10k a year.
Yeah, I think it'd be a more valid comparison to put it next to something someone would actually invest that's also international. I'm not sure if there is a similar Vanguard fund.

Edit: I think I found one — VTWSX is +35% over the same time period. Accounting for fees vs the managed fund, probably means a better return here.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=MUTF:VTWSX
Being on the other side of the interview table is helpful for perspective. You might even experience this if your team is hiring for a position and wants you to look over resumes, do phone interviews, in person interviews etc.

If I interview six people for a position, usually one is really good, four are average, and one is really bad. Guess who is getting the offer? It's almost a paradoxical thing - being average is good enough to keep a job, but you have to be in the top 16% to get a job. Lucky for you, the above average interviewer usually gets competing offers, so that leaves the less attractive job slots open.

If you take six random programmers with a CS degree and <2 years experience, are you the best of those six? If not, you're one of the four average ones, and are not going to pass most interviews unless the market is hot and they desperately need you or you have a friend bringing you in who vouches you can do the job.

You also say you want to "get into top-tier companies / projects". Well, that doesn't mean being one standard deviation above the mean, it means being two standard deviations above the mean.

So now you don't just have to be the one in six that sticks out as good, you have to be the one in fifty that sticks out as great. You know those one out of six quality tier guys I talked about? Now you're competing with just them, and you have to be the best among seven or so of them for the job.

When I was studying CS, I was once assigned to write a homework on the process scheduler for Linux, Mac and Windows. Within 20 minutes I'd know I would have an A on the paper - that was all the study into the subject that was necessary for that mark. But then I continued to read about process schedulers for the rest of the night, because I always wanted to look into it, never really had, and if I was ever going to do it, I knew then would have been the time.

I'm not like that all the time in terms of devotion to learning CS, but if I was, I would have a shot in being one of those two standard deviations above the curve programmers. Because that's what they do, even after they know they got the A on the paper, they keep reading even if it takes hours just so they really know and understand the subject more fully.
We need a more intelligent adblock that spots and blocks things like this :)
It's fair to bemoan the general decline of your society with the desire to better your personal lot through immigrating. It's likely that they don't dislike foreigners but they do dislike being forced to subsidise them via taxes. It's a side effect of the welfare state.

Milton Friedmen convers it pretty well in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyJIbSgdSE. It's an old problem :/
I would be miserable at a company like this.
Either that, or an append-only (with respect to the index's sort criteria) access pattern (which will leave your data naturally clustered).
> I truly wonder what everybody at this company is doing all day.

when a business lacks proper product focus there are an infinite amount of issues to work on each day. it is in this kind of environment that everything seems important and all prioritization is treated as urgent. people burn out in this kind of workplace and this is what it looks like is happening over at twitter.
> As a non-American, I would much rather have the US in that role than any other country in the world. In diplomacy and international relations the United States has conducted itself with fairness and honour, and is generally regarded outside of her borders as an honest broker.

The following groups or countries may argue otherwise
- Sandinista National Liberation Front
- Cubans
- Certain Arab countries
- Mexico
- Pacific Islanders
- Certain North African nations
- Certain Central African nations
- The Cherokee Nation
- Certain Far East nations
Not in that case, no. The document apparently was a post-mortem on a failed satellite launch, that said something of the sort, "the launch failed because the Chinese engineers haven't begun doing so-and-so with technology XYZ as we have." The fact that the launch had failed in the first place suggested that the Chinese did not yet appreciate the importance or realize the existence of technology XYZ yet.
Yup! I heard from officers later on, most of whom were prior enlisted, that OTS was a lot more rigorous than enlisted basic.

It's all way less of a pain than Army and especially Marine basic, of course.

I honestly think that for a big percentage of young people, doing a term in the military would be a big personal win.
I see. It's an ethnic joke. I would try not to assume hackbinary was being racist even if I picked up that possible meaning.
It's BBC Capital, part of BBC Worldwide, who are a commercial organisation.

I don't know whether BBC Worldwide permit sponsored content, but they don't operate under the same rules as the "proper" BBC.
Yes, the applicable statutory immunity grant (FISA Amendments Act Section 802) is very broadly-worded. There was a follow-up case, Jewel v. NSA, that sued the NSA directly for issuing those orders. That case is ongoing: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/jewel-v-nsa-moves-forw....
a crucial point that many have missed is that independence after a hard brexit would likely result in Scots no longer having the automatic right to work in England.

in the previous referendum this wasn't an issue, as the UK and an independent Scotland would both be in the EU together, with the freedom of movement of workers.

your average Scot values the ability to work in England much more highly than the ability to work in the EU, so this makes Scottish independence less likely, not more, which explains Sturgeon's recent behaviour.