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As a Spaniard, I have 3-word first name and 2 family names. No middle name. Now shove that into a non-space-enabled, 2 inputs web form. For plane tickets which basically could leave me stranded in any country.

I normally get some trouble trying to retrieve them in the airport in those auto-check-in machines that are being deployed all around Asia. I mean, they can spend thousands of dollars in those machines but don't care about correctly accepting a name. Then the person helping there tries again the same; finally she redirects me to the counter.

I have give up and just go by my first-word first name and fist family name to handle things easily (which is a bit disrespectful for my mother's family).
No, startups are limited capital (or worse reported to board), high pressure, time crunch, quality focus, full throttle environments. Little money and time is spent by leadership for entry level work in them, imho.

Betterms to do your own startup with some college kids or tech friends, and pick/do your dream role with the appropriate tools. Best cas the biz gets rich, worst you get applicable experience and aren't entry lvl any more.
I'm not sure failing FizzBuzz means you lied on your CV. I suspect that many programmers go straight into an environment where they never have to think about algorithmic problems (even algorithms as simple as FizzBuzz), because others have already developed the platform and all the low-level fiddly bits (like containers, string types and functions, etc.), and they just spend their days plugging them together (query this API, update this database table, call this method on the view class).

I have interviewed candidates like this (not web, embedded systems) who talked a lot about the in-house frameworks of their previous employers, and could sketch how they would solve a problem in that environment in hand-waving terms, but couldn't implement strlen() (which would be much closer to the kind of coding they would have to do in our environment).
Crazy. Are you going to write something about how you built it?
I've been a software engineer for 18 years, but this amazing post reminded me how little I know about how the internet works lol. Going to read this a few times for sure!
We're already doing that; we produce nanoparticles of carbon from a number of industrial processes, most notably burning coal. IIRC there was an article on HN recently about finding some magnetic nanoparticles which had made their way into human brains.
Was that meant to sound judgmental? My prescription doesn't say "speed", and I'm fairly certain I couldn't get a meaningful therapeutic benefit from anything called "speed".

It seems that you're implying that someone using Adderall should be stigmatized because they're taking medication to improve a deficiency in their brain's biochemical systems...Are you?
I've no issues with challenges during interviews. The problem is that it is hard to make good ones, so you usually get a question with poor specificity. The more advanced the role, the more this is an issue.

For example, you could explain a problem involving database lock contention and ask the candidate how they would handle structure, indexes and queries to maximise throughput and avoid deadlocks.

Or you could give them an example schema and get them to "spot all the errors" without explaining that an error is anything that isn't in 3NF or higher.

One is going to give you a good understanding of the candidate's knowledge of the subject, the other is going to give you a noisy true/false signal.
That's only useful in cases where human intuition matches reality. In a lot of cases it does, in many more cases it doesn't. Where it doesn't rote is the only thing that may work and intuition without rote will actually prevent you from understanding, and lead you to believe falsehoods. In statistics, this is quite common. You should never use intuition, always use the math, always work it out, even when "it's obvious".

By the way, I have a friend who's a TA in statistics and this is a big point of frustration for them. Undergrads are starting to do just what you said : unquestioningly follow intuition. It's a disaster. Not that there wasn't always 50% of the class doing this, it's just that it's now 90%.
My perception is different when I stuck behind buses in the morning jam.
Consider also that she might simply have a teacher who is not very good at teaching that material.
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Or you might also rearrange fields of the same type to be together.
> But the infrastructure cost of $200M can go down drastically on subsequent iterations, think how the cost of solar evolved past 5 years

So my $200M inestment will struggle to compete with a $40M investment in 5 years? That is a reason not to invest.
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I can't find a single comment thread on HN where ConceptNet is discussed. Bummer. See here: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=conceptnet&sort=byPopularity&p...

Short of signing up to the mailing list on Google Groups is there any info out there on the net that tells me:

a) How ConceptNet relates to efforts like Cyc's OpenCyc and the big G's Knowledge Graph?

b) How to add domain specific concepts, attributes, and relations to ConceptNet

Both these things are the first that pop into my mind but the website: http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/ doesn't seem to cover them.
ah, it's in the dynamically loaded config file. That should be perfect then.
Not to defend any unsubstantiated claims, but C60 is not exactly the same as a nanotube. There doesn't seem to be evidence that C60 is toxic/carcinogenic (though not necessarily solid evidence in the other direction either): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_impact_of_fullerenes#Bu...
If you search for "open office" on HN there's a thread with a ton of comments in which one person described his ideal office setup as one that has an open/communal area in the middle and individual offices surrounding it in all sides. The commenter said they tried this in real life and it worked well.

I'm curious as to why this isn't as popular—it seems so obvious. I'm actually in a program with a similar layout (except there's only individual rooms on two sides) and it works great.

I'm skeptical of "serendipity" arguments... Bell Labs had private offices and they did fine.
One of the things machine learning has taught me that for many complex algorithms, I don't know how they work, and ... no-one does, and here's the great insight : it's not important, it is in fact a very good thing that I don't know what they're doing. It wouldn't make any difference if I did, and it would in fact be more limiting than not knowing. Having the ability to execute and design them is all that's important.

The issue is that machine learning, at least in the modelling domain, is exceeding the maximum complexity the human mind can contain. Attempting to analyze neural networks is fun, and it's what you do as a researcher. But no amount of study is going to tell you what more than 10 neurons are doing to any reasonable amount of detail, no matter how smart you are. Machine learning algorithms suck at explaining what they're doing mostly because what they're doing is far more complex than what we do. And yes, I can build toy examples like a 100 bit binary adder where I do know, I'm talking about non-obvious cases.

Therefore: rote is all that matters. You should be able to execute these things, forwards and backwards and take it's code apart and put it back together again. That's all there is to it. And if machine learning does indeed conquer the world, that's all there will be to anything.
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He may be referring to the two dead comments below[1], posted by two IDs, "jasonpt" and "michaelkhan", which were created two days ago and have no other comments or articles. While their purpose is uncertain, they do look like they may have been created specifically to upvote this particular submission.

[1] You can see these comments if you turn "showdead" on in your profile.
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That article contains no evidence you can raise intelligence, and also references the now discredited n-back brain training games.
Would it? MAD was still a thing back then. Hence the brouhaha over the missile shield...
Large bandwidth attacks might look sexy, but they're trivially easy to block. Network operators care about pushing packets, not bits. The OVH attacks look huge to the average AWS user, (ZOMG a terabit!) but to even an average tier 2 transit provider it's a trivial attack to block. Especially when the attackers are hitting a single endpoint.

To be honest, attackers are not very smart. They almost always use the same old attacks, attacks that are easily stoppable, and attacks against a single IP.

100gig coherent is easily turning volumetric attacks into old hat. Ending spoofed attacks today is a tactic that's 10 years too late.
Ask HN: How to beat the herd?
I work for Amazon and like everyone else in Seattle make total compensation in lower 100k range. I have 9 yrs of total experience out of which 3 yrs is from working in India. I still count those 3 yrs because unlike most people who work at offshore companies, I worked very hard for first 3 yrs and learned a lot even though I was at offshore.

I want to know what can I do to beat the herd? It looks to be almost everyone and their grandma works at goog,fb,amazon or some top tech company.

I am confident of the fact that I have good knowledge when it comes to technology. But, it feels that I am stuck at enterprise type of company. What steps can I take to advance at enterprise type company where everyone seem to be making big bucks and have talent as well?

Joining a startup is good option but I am stuck due to green card; especially given the wait time for Indians (11+ yrs) I don't want to start all over again.

I don't want to get stuck in middle management and kill all excitement I have for tech.

Thoughts?
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BS is BS.
Orange revolution rigged election and re-election during this time the president and parliament remained the same so no clue what you are talking about. 2012 rigged parliamentary election but people let it slide. The removal of Yanukovich from power constitutional majority of parliament (same members as under Yanukovich) voted to remove him. Your russian TV narrative is great but disconnected from reality.

USSR/Russian overthrows/subversions so many it's not even funny. From which year do you want to count?
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Most people just take a week of vacation. Especially if it's in another city. Take your SO and get a paid vacation.
haha, that was I, hey what could possibly go wrong?
In your experience, how much of the interviews for an AI / DL role consists of classic CS algorithm puzzlers, compared to a regular software engineering interview at a place like Google / Facebook?
Not saying it's a good interview question, but if you ever need to quickly estimate exponents of 2 just remember 2^10 bytes=1kb, 2^20=1mb, 2^30=1gb, etc. so 2^14 would be 16kb.
Abstract algebra seems doable at a young age for a typical child (say, somewhere b/w late middle school and late high school depending on the kid). I've done bits of group theory with kids in that age group before. It usually gets pretty well, but we never get past the first chapter or two. Basic proofs, but it's a good introduction to what "real" math is like.

IMO category theory would be a waste of time without first going through a mathematics undergraduate course of study.

Getting past the preface of a reasonable book on category theory requires internalizing the idea of a natural transformation. If you can't get that far, you won't get anything non-superficial out of studying category theory.

Understanding what a natural transformation is requires at least one example you can relate to. Understanding why it'd be useful to abstract away from that particular example requires knowing enough about at least one other example.

And to do anything even moderately interesting in category theory you need a fair bit of mathematical maturity, which means being able to write and read proofs together with a bit of knowledge about modern logic, analysis and algebra. Without that, a lot of the motivation for category theory is kind of lost (and probably most of the available exercise aren't even comprehensible. And learning math without exercises is close to impossible.).
This brings back memories of writing Tcl for AOLServer after listening to Phil Greenspun rave about it.
The problem needs fixed from both ends. Developers that write and maintain programs with bad defaults should be named and shamed as well. Their software has a security flaw that allows these problems to be exploited. Back in the 90s, the default configuration for most mail servers was to allow relaying from all and sundry, until the spam problem made people realize that an open relay was a bad thing that would be abused by malicious actors. Saying developers' time shouldn't be "wasted" on this is like saying automakers' time shouldn't be wasted on airbags and people should just drive better.
In my experience, what Common Core is really doing is allowing (and giving cover for) teachers who don't know the subject they're teaching. They cheat, because the only alternative is to actually become decent and fast in the subjects themselves, and that requires more knowledge and work than they'll ever put in. My kids math teacher tried to defend for >20 minutes to me that you cannot ever differentiate an equation with matrices instead of numbers. Well ... I made sure my kids double check with me if something sounds odd, and I'm forcing them to go through khan academy exercises.

This is probably exactly what administrators want, though. Cheap teachers, and damn the consequences.
I admit I geeked out and calculated this a couple months ago, after I was credited on my first academic paper (my career is in programming)

If you count video games, I have a Bacon number of 3 because I was credited on Tiger Woods 2003-2005 with an artist named Sylvain Doreau, who is credited on Shrek. John Lithgow was in Shrek and in Footloose with Kevin Bacon.

My former coworker Li Zhang has an Erdos number of 2 and we worked together on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00133 (with him doing a lot more work than me).

So putting that together is an Erdos-Bacon number of 3 + 3 = 6.
Shouldn't there be some rebar in there somewhere?
>I'm fairly certain I couldn't get a meaningful therapeutic benefit from anything called "speed".

Sure you can. Desoxyn, Ritalin, and all the others work about the same, and have largely the same side effects. The only reason Methamphetamine is preferred over Amphetamine (i.e. Adderall) for recreational use is that Methamphetamine is much easier for an illicit drug kitchen to cook up from extracted ephedrine.

When amphetamine was more widely available supply side as an antidepressant and prescribed by general physicians as a placebo in the same way that SSRI's commonly are today, the vast majority of illegal amphetamine products seized by police had a pharmaceutical origin. Addicts can't tell the difference between the various drugs in this class. (http://theinfluence.org/neuroscientist-meth-is-virtually-ide...)

That having been said, like all things related to the drug war there's a lot of fighting and bickering and double think involved here. People are scared of these drugs because of their narcotic potential, and the frightening effects they have at medically inadvisable doses. They seem safer than some of the other commonly prescribed pseudo-narcotics like painkillers or benzodiazepines.

Disclaimer: I take Adderall.
"[T]here's no real technical challenge in front end stuff"

I have the distinct sense that you might not have done much of this.

There might not be many esoteric algorithms to implement, but there is plenty - more than plenty - to do in terms of managing UI state and back end integration, especially if you have stakeholders who want to see a variety of complex UI manipulations happening in response to various business rules. Which can often be internally self-contradictory. In a DOM that delights in being uncooperative, pretty much . . . always.

Frankly, it's enough to make using Java or a C variant for typical back end work look like a walk in the park.
any link to details on what parts you use for these bots?
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I think mbfg got it right.
One URL* that's a persistent URL to the identity broker of the person†.

* Ok, URI, or IRI, or whatever we're technically calling them nowadays.

† Or other named being, robot, entity …
Oh boy, Indonesian here, I only have one name (No last name). Websites that require me to have both first name and last name are the bane of my existence.

Quora also blocked me, despite me sending an email to their appeal division with a copy of my ID. In the end I gave up fighting for it.
Another year another major pharmaceutical settlement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical...

It's like a game of musical chairs for who gets to pay the government a billion dollars this year.

This Epipen case sounds far less bad then most on that list. Especially if we're going to talk about punishment. As most of the other settlements on the list were for mislabeled drugs. People were spending money and wasted weeks/months of their supposed treatment on drugs that didn't help them.

I personally experienced the effects of this due to a bad doctor, not mislabeling, and I was seriously sick for a much longer period of time then I should have been. Fortunately I found a specialist who knew what he was talking about and told me to take one drug which cost $100/m instead of three others costing me $900/m (I didn't have drug benefits insurance at the time). For me the wasted time on a treatment that didn't work was far more harmful to me than the added cost.
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On Bell Labs and open offices, Richard Hamming (retired Bell Labs scientist) said:

"Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect sequence because you might say, ``The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind.'' I don't know. But I can say there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but enough that they miss fame."

From http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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I've never worked at Microsoft, and I know little about their work environment for developers. Can others here elaborate on why Joel Spolsky has such high praise for them beyond the 12/12 Joel Test score? What lessons can other teams take from Microsoft's mastery of developer work environments?

EDIT: I would add that I strongly agree with the need for quiet and concentration as a developer. The worst place I ever worked at had a constant barrage of meetings throughout the workday and a very noisy distraction-heavy open floor plan.
I would probably start looking for somewhere else to work if I had to use special hand signals during meetings.
As I spidered the marketplace, I noticed that 30 day churn for each box was also included in the marketplace page source. Not sure if that was intentional, as it's a useful piece of information to have if you were looking to start something similar to an existing site.
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As a fan of punk music this attitude is exhausting. It seems that you aren't truly punk unless you are literally the Sex Pistols. Punk was declared dead when The Clash signed to a major label decades ago and has died a million deaths since then. It has continued to evolve and influence all sorts of music, but apparently that's not real punk.
The meaning of life, the point, what one should do with it... it is not a trivial question. Most don't answer it at all. Many have it answered for them. And then a few try to answer it themselves. Know only that all the approaches are valid, and the question is at the edge of our understanding.

The world is, and always was, a cold place. Look at the goals of the world, and you will see that there is no warmth in them. And in that coldness we were born.

Yet in your giving there was warmth. In your complaint there was a judgment. Where would it be without you? Even if you are but a spark, it means that there is hope. So cherish yourself and kindle that spark.
I'm not sure that the Calc 1/2/3 sequence that tends to be a typical requirement for university CS programs is really anything more than a fairly inefficient bozo filter.

I remember wasting a lot of time learning algebraic and geometric identities that I never ended up using for anything more than rearranging and simplifying nonsense equations.
Love the bunny rabbit signal for "disagree". Very cute.
And a init is neither.
> who write lisp compilers for fun, in a weekend

Ironically I've got that one covered in spades. :) But I may or (more likely) may not be able to do your puzzle on a whiteboard in front of you.
Seneca Systems (S16) hiring to build software foundation for local government
My name is Chris, I'm the CEO of Seneca Systems. Our mission is to enable public servants across the country to deliver outstanding service.

We don't want to help you find a taco truck; we are helping the millions of people who serve their communities, but don't have the tools to do it well.

Our first product, Romulus (https://romuluscrm.com), is case management and task management software used across every local government department (e.g. police, economic development, public works, parks & recreation, etc.)

We're looking for our first engineers, both full-stack[0] and front end[1].

Stack:

ES7 + Ember

Ruby + Rails, Elixir + Phoenix

Postgres

Both founders were early engineers at ZenPayroll (now Gusto.)

[0]: http://seneca.systems/careers/product/full-stack-engineer
[1]: http://seneca.systems/careers/product/front-end-engineer

Sound interesting? Email me — chris@seneca.systems or apply via the job postings.
That was amusing. Thanks!
Yeah that is why the coursework is spread over two years to help students absorb the knowledge. You just have to put a lot of time into it.
I've seen this called "cave and commons", and yeah, it seems like a very good setup. I first saw it mentioned in Stewart Brand's (highly recommended) book How Buildings Learn.
Because then it takes even more space than one or the other.
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Hello HN, we are working towards building a better mobile travel insurance and we would love to hear about your experiences. Do you currently have travel insurance, if yes then through which channels do you get it? What has been the most painful point when trying to make a claim? If not, then what are the reasons you don't have one?

Thanks, looking forward to hearing your views!
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> The corporate VPN is distinct from production, so you could still do actual work without using it too.

Are you suggesting that people should have worked directly on production servers instead of using the VPN to work in a development environment?
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Discussion of any topic that mentions Russia (everywhere, including HN) is, unfortunately, dominated by Russian propaganda trolls.