skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, I tried literally FizzBuzz on a couple of new grad candidates (my job is software, but we attract a lot of computer engineers). About half were able to do it without help. I no longer use FizzBuzz, but I'll use other very trivial questions to end an interview early if I suspect a resume has been significantly exaggerated.
I'm more optimistic about this. I think of it in terms of Big Co has tons of data. Does all the learning. Shares the learning through API for a small fee (very small relative to Small Co having to come up with the learning). For example I upload a picture and Google tells me it is a cat.
The Fda approval favors mylan, making it difficult for others to compete
I'm not saying they are entitled to anything; it's just the other side of the picture.

You are also using an incorrect analogy Poland is already entitled its part of NATO, Russia isn't.

Real world politics are about interest and power, there are no absolute and objective right and wrongs at these levels, no one claims Russia is a peacenik nation, most nations aren't.

As for what and what does not make sense to you; I cannot help you in this regard mostly because you seem to treat a statement of a condition as a position.

This is reality we treat entitlement today on different aspects one of which is ones ability to enforce their claims to what they are entitled too.

Russia due to their limitations tend to do it asymmetrically, hence Russian nuclear development in response to ABM deployments.

This hack is actually fairly unique because in the manner to which Russia chose to respond; the US tampers with their local geopolitical situation Russia tampers with US elections.

Likely it's due to the fact that there aren't any proxies of note that Russia can currently influence but it's an interesting departure from common discourse nonetheless.
I wonder if the same thing would happen with the golden silk weaver spider?
This is the next feature to be added. Come back check the October release, with User management and Payment addons.
MySQL was asked by lots of users since launch 3 weeks ago.
Adrenaclick and generic versions of it. It's not a direct substitute, it can't be dispensed to fill an Epipen prescription, but it is the same drug, the same dose, and for the same purpose (emergency administration of epinephrine by lightly trained persons).

http://www.goodrx.com/adrenaclick
Thanks for telling me how HN works. I've never been here before. Oh wait. I've been here for years. So, my experience has let me to a different point of view than you have. But, you know, thanks for making those assumptions and giving your your advice.
Because there are too many really low skilled programmers who apply for mid- and senior-level positions. FizzBuzz is just a filter. We never asked FizzBuzz specifically at our interviews, but we asked to write a function to return a reversed a string. You wouldn't believe the amount of crazy that comes out of that one simple request.

FizzBuzz is not a puzzle. It's a very straightforward question, there's nothing tricky about it.

Your references are nice, but in many cases there's no easy way to verify that you wrote that code.
I have a 3, so at least I published with people that have a 2 (e.g., John Tate, Barry Mazur).
But how many fractions of a percent of their revenue does this really represent?
DRM is not the implementation or the technology, necessarily.

Those who own copyright want to deny the ability to copy to others, because they fear it devalues what they have. That doesn't make it right, or natural, as if any of that even matters. It just means that a group of people exist who want to be able to enforce copyright. And the opposition to that is, by definition, those who want to be able to make copies of things without the blessing of copyright owners.

If DRM were perfect, there wouldn't even be a technology- or freedom- based argument against it.
If no one cares about being downvoted, why is it a thing... If it's a useless thing, why, is it, a thing..?
Great. Just subscribed to the newsletter. I like the UI though. Quite slick for a 3 weeks old beta app.
It should be 501, but as your browser caches the page maybe it doesn't appear right away
For people using the word "fraud." Fraud requires some misrepresentation of a material fact. Nobody at CMS was unaware of what an Epipen was, depending on Mylan's representations about what was in there. This is a fight over whether Mylan should have checked Box A or Box B. There is a reasonable case to be made for both sides. After all, the drug in an Epipen (epinephrine) is generic.

For people talking about throwing executives in jail, see: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1249868.html ("In a case where the truth or falsity of a statement centers on an interpretive question of law, the government bears the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant's statement is not true under a reasonable interpretation of the law.  United States v. Migliaccio, 34 F.3d 1517, 1525 (10th Cir.1994) (holding that the government bears the burden to negate any reasonable interpretations that would make the defendant's statement correct)").
Or have gone to a private school, even in the 1980s. :)
Indeed, I naively assumed that being a carbon based organism, more carbon couldn't do much harm.
T-Mobile favors content from certain providers and in certain formats by exempting their traffic from data caps. A very anti-net neutrality move cleverly positioned as a customer benefit.

I like T-Mobile and dislike Comcast, but IMHO violating net neutrality by billing for data differently based on who I'm exchanging packets with is much worse than being a dumb pipe that happens to have a monthly download cap.
I dislike real name policies, but I aim for the problems with using real names (aka being non-anonymous) to be fixed if possible.﻿
Well it's easy to shard when you don't support joins or foreign key constraints.

Btw, as a person who works on Firebase, perhaps you can answer this question that has been bothering me about it. There's no way to model a foreign key relationship that's traversable in both ways without trusting the client application to update both directions, right? Isn't that a bit of a dealbreaker for anything other than a toy app? I would assume if you wanted to make something that's actually reliable, you'd have to run all your mutations through your own personal server instead of letting clients mutate Firebase directly, right?
Lack of education. Doctors write prescriptions for epipen. If they wrote "epinephrine auto-injector" then people could go to Wal-Mart and buy Adrenaclick.

Perhaps the real problem is Adrenaclick isn't running enough TV commercials.
"because Mylan is a corporation"

You say this as if this was always true.

LLC's are a very recent invention. In the past, shareholders and owners of the company were, in fact, liable.
Just curious, are these buttons near to each other?
> And if the law doesn't allow it, but the regulators never drop the hammer, don't expect people not to do it.

I'm not saying it isn't fraud. I'm saying that its par for the course when regulators rarely take action. Mylan got greedy and got slapped. Regulatory bodies in the US are woefully underfunded and this sort of thing is the result. Blame congress.
Mozilla's memory project a while ago showed that there's often a lot of low hanging fruit if it hasn't been a big focus. V8 uses a lot of memory in comparison in my experience. I think this should be generally without a downside.
was expecting explanations on the kernel crypto subsystem.
I currently have a 5 - I only have 1 conference paper - but once I publish with my advisor, I'll bump that down to a 4. The 2 levels below my advisor are both professors at my institution, so I can do better if I try. I'm in ECE btw, which is probably why it's not that great.
As an ADD diagnosed Adderall user I can vouch for this. It's like super coffee that lasts all day. It makes you more tenacious. But tolerance builds quickly. Taking a break from it causes me to sleep 12 hours per day and eat twice as much and I get NOTHING done even when trying to supplement it with crazy amounts of coffee. Even after a week of abstinence taking my normal dose again I get 2 weeks worth of work done in a day, then I come home and clean my whole house and learn a new song on my bass.
I can't donate because paypal.me is not available in my country (I wasn't going to donate much, but maybe others were).
The response time here is terminal/UI response to user inputs, not, say, HFT, though that might make for an interesting side discussion.

There's a related set of discussions on Jakob Nielsen's Site Formerly Known as UseIT (now the vastly less memorable "nngroup.com"): "Response Times: The 3 Important Limits": https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-...

TL;DR: the limits are 0.1s, 1s, and 10s.

Nielsen also notes that response can be too fast: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/too-fast-ux/

A classic current example is of redrawn Web or application dialogs, in which the element under a pointer (mouse, finger, stylus) changes as the user is attempting to click it. An elegant solution I've seen suggested: that the UI register the click on the UI element which had occupied the spot 300ms PRIOR to the click.

(Redrawn elements are a particular problem for visually, motor-control, or cognitively disabled users -- the changes are too fast and confusing to keep track of.)

Website response times: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/website-response-times/

Time scales in user experience: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/powers-of-10-time-scales-in...

From 0.1s to 100 years.
How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians? (2012)
Interestingly, some groups are trying to use them as a delivery platform for cancer therapies [1], though I don't really understand how they'd compete with something biocompatible and tested like liposomes.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210734/
I'm specifically referencing confederate flags and signs that said "Trespassers will be shot, niggers will be shot twice", when riding up in the mountains, on rural but modern paved roads. I could probably dig up specific garmin files from the rides but it was more than one place.

This was 2014, not 1961.
Montana would be terrible for burning man, the Dakotas are a much better fit.
Shoe fetish? https://keegan.regaind.io/p/oAGqMK24Sk6o6jRJZ6CT-A
Who needs more than one dialect of C or C++? I don't. Any systems I'm interested in may not support clang, but they have C11 compilers and C++14 compilers.

Rust is not interoperable with C++ as far as I know, and even if it was, I'm not interested in Rust for this discussion for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere.

The LLVM C backend was removed. Julia devs have a version that supports the LLVM bit code that they require, but I believe it is not everything LLVM can produce.

I was under the impression that march=cpp output C++ code that rebuilt the IR, not implemented the source program.

Thanks for the advice, although none of it really applies to what I'm suggesting.
Heh .. me too! I did it as a hobby project over the holidays. Loads of fun. A few people suggested I write up my experience. Ended up giving a paper at Sci Py 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d8d_3-8ae4

You can use a search engine to find the paper if you are interested.
Ah, taking note. Thanks
I'm not sure about revenue, but it represents about 55% of their annual profits.

465M / (EPS of 1.57 * 534.91M shares) = .5537
As I noticed - it forces newcomers to stay away from reddit style commenting, also it moves down uninteresting and boring comments so that you can skip to read the bottom lines.
This is very cool ! Do you accept foreign applicants ? If so, any specific advice
Eligible candidates for most jobs are not 50:50 in gender. For some fields it may be 90:10. This means a perfectly fair selection process will select 90 men and 10 women for every 100 jobs, or at least in this ballpark.

Affirmative action is mostly policed by media pressure. The media does not give a shit about the above math. They will read the line in the annual report that says '90% of our engineers are male' and name and shame you on twitter. Alternatively, being more politically correct than your peer competitors is a way to virtue-signal and you get little award badges to put on your website.

The politically correct ratio is 50:50. Let's say you have 100 available jobs and 1000 candidates, 900 men and 100 women. To enforce 50:50, you choose the best 50 men out of 900 and best 50 women out of 100.

Your hypothesis is that affirmative action unlocks economic benefits. This is asserting that the marginal female engineer who is better than 50% of her peers is superior to the marginal male engineer, who is better than 94% of his peers. Additionally, the difference must be large enough to overcome the inefficiency of messing with market mechanisms.

This is an extraordinary claim and would require extraordinary evidence.

What about the effect of nepotism? Let's say the hiring manager really doesn't like women, and the selection ends up 95:5. Five marginal female engineers are replaced by five marginal male engineers. Compared to the huge skewing above, this is a blip on the radar. Note I am not saying it is not a problem, I am saying the current solution is on average much worse.

I do not doubt that for some pathological cases affirmative action actually does have a positive effect on the bottom line. But this will only happen when the company is badly screwing up recruitment. On the other hand, companies with saner, optimized hiring processes are penalized with an arbitrary ratio.

The effect here is to boost inefficient businesses and penalize relatively efficient ones.
You beat me to the Spider-Man reference.
> Why would they lie?

- To distract us from their own incompetence.
- To avoid talking about the content of those leaks (from memory, the WaPo is an arm of the DNC that they hold illicit fundraisers with, the DNC funneled all of the money to Hillary from the outset so Bernie never had a shot, etc.)
- To paint Trump as an agent of a foreign power (he's bad enough even after you filter out the nonsense).

They turned off logging on those servers to avoid transparency. If they want me to believe claims like this, I'll need to see the full server logs from the email server. Oh, wait, they destroyed those. How convenient.

My thoughts are that the elections will continue to get worse as long as we keep voting for lizards to keep the wrong lizard from winning. Anyone who tells you you're limited to the choices made for you on the ballot bears some personal responsibility for the mess.
org-mode of course. it's a secret weapon of Emacs. Very few people move to Emacs for org-mode, not too many emacs users use org, and the number of people who actually possess deep knowledge of org mode features is very small. org mode is truly massive. The way it changed my workflow and many others is indescribable. Anyone who uses Emacs should learn org.
The rise of American authoritarianism – Vox
I assumed that a person who broke a well-known community convention may be ignorant of the convention. Feel free to continue breaking them with your throwaway.
Wow .. seems there are more people in the intersection of SVLUG and HN than I thought :-)
A bit off topic, but is it ubiquitous throughout the industry that product. managers are on the same rung of the ladder as entry level software engineers?

At a previous gig, the lead Android device transitioned to being a product manager and I assumed that it as a step up. Granted, the CEO of the company had a background in pre-web marketing surveys, so it was a tech company in name but not culture.
Meanwhile they love me and my fake, but entirely "normal" name. smh
This is a massive over-simplification. Imagine a human driver encounters somebody standing in the road on an otherwise empty highway.

Experience will tell him how much to slow down, whether to swerve around the obstacle, edge past slowly or stop altogether. All the time he'll be making judgements based on the appearance of the person, the surroundings, etc.

If the person seems malicious he knows just how fast to drive to intimidate them into getting out of the way, without undue risk. He doesn't want to kill anyone, even if they're trying to rob him.

Now imagine encoding all of that into an algorithm. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's a huge challenge.

Also bear in mind that autonomous vehicles will probably err very much on the side of caution when it comes to pedestrian safety.
Nah, I never once heard anyone in Berkeley refer to a woman as a "dude" or a "guy".
> Plus, probably a whole bunch of classified information gathered by US intelligence agencies if they're willing to make this claim publicly now.

When they're willing to lie to our face under oath, trying to sell us secret evidence isn't going to buy much.
Sounds like a product manager didn't properly define the acceptance criteria for the validation on their name fields. Name validations often tend to be overly strict and, in some cases, slightly racist/ethnocentric.
All of the privileges, none of the responsibilities. Bad damned news.
I dropped a few pins and I'm genuinely impressed how fast it is.
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I should get a couple of people from around here (Native American reservation) to sign up and see how messy their policy is.

If you cannot validate names, then you probably should not use a real name policy. It bad enough Facebook (and I guess Quora) causes people pain, don't add your own wounds.
Why not talk about his contributions instead of bringing up his amphetamine use then?
Whenever bandwidth caps are discussed, many people say that there is no technical reason providers like Comcast need to have a limit. It's all just to make money on artificial overage charges and/or to discourage people from canceling their cable TV in favor of internet streaming, and that these ISPs can only do this because they are often the only high speed provider in their area.

Question: if that is true, then how come on the server side of things, where we do have competition and so can switch to a different hosting provider if one charges too much for bandwidth, we don't have major hosting providers giving us unlimited bandwidth?
Haha, now I'm curious! Could you please provide some examples of Native American names?
It's Joel Spolsky's fault. In his blog post on interviewing (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...), he says:

> You’re going to see three types of people in your interviews. At one end of the scale, there are the unwashed masses, lacking even the most basic skills for this job. They are easy to ferret out and eliminate, often just by asking two or three quick questions. At the other extreme you’ve got your brilliant superstars who write lisp compilers for fun, in a weekend, in Assembler for the Nintendo DS. And in the middle, you have a large number of “maybes” who seem like they might just be able to contribute something. The trick is telling the difference between the superstars and the maybes, because the secret is that you don’t want to hire any of the maybes. Ever.

That one essay seems to have spawned a major fear in the industry of hiring someone who you might have previously taken a chance on. In an attempt to prevent what Joel warned us about all those years ago, the interview ritual has increased in complexity. We've since been advised that the coding homework and the whiteboard implementation of FizzBuzz are mandatory, and they've swept the industry.
Ask HN: Where do you keep your notes?
Yee Naaldlooshii.

I'll show myself out.
Facebook's policy is so weird. I have a ton of older test accounts that literally include TEST and other such very obvious fake text in the name.
I don't understand why rigorous science is required to answer a simple question like 'Are you meditating?', as long as someone has provided you with a common-sense definition.

Science hasn't unraveled all the mysteries of consciousness, or ethics, or economics either, but that doesn't force us to remain silent on those topics.

You might think that meditation is a bunch of hocus-pocus and isn't real, but science hasn't decided either way.
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Not really. You may remember Palin's email being hacked some years ago, for one example. Not much came of it because there was nothing very interesting in it.
Yellow Bird tends to get banned by Facebook. Good Iron is another favorite ban. Never mind those that actually use their name in their native language. Plus, there is the whole concept of birth name and name after a naming ceremony. Plenty of opportunities for a ethnocentric policy to add some pain into the world.
Obligatory link to Patio11's gem of an article about this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

Edit: phone typo
Ted is a long time Linux kernel hacker.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Ts%27o
Pig guts is actually the only porcine viscera I've eaten before. It's not bad at all. The prep does sound rather unpleasant and smelly, but it can't be worse than the butchering you've already done. I believe the colon is nastier than than the small intestine and less eaten. But then, in my high school bio class we were given a lab book for fetal pigs, and came to class and our crazy teacher had a fully-grown, fresh dead sow on the lab island for a group dissection. When we opened the abdominal cavity, the smell was so foul we just about vomited; teacher helpfully told us that the human abdomen smells the same during surgery. This was without having dissected the intestines.

Curious, what did you do with the lungs? That's one part that I think was commercially banned for human consumption in the USA in the '70s. Even if it wasn't, it's rarely sold fresh as I understand it does not keep well at all even under refrigeration. Pork lungs are used used in Fillipino (bopis, kilayin) and Cantonese cuisine; Europeans certainly use sheep and cow lungs (Greeks, French, Scottish; haggis, anyone), but I'm not aware of western recipes specifically calling for pork lungs.

Pork intestine, on the other hand, is ubiquitous.
This is fascinating. How close did the unsuccessful candidates get? Did you give them any hints?

Did you let them run their code to test it, or was it a pure whiteboard exercise?

For the successful ones, what did you ask them next?
That it looks real to their customers(advertisers) is all that matters.
I have a friend who, courtesy of some... let's say unique parents, was graced with multiple middle names and then multiple hyphenated (and unhyphenated) family names as her parents divorced, remarried and she moved between households. Then she got married herself and tacked her husband's last name onto the end of it.

Her legal name at this point clocks in at enough words and characters to not fit in most government databases. I've been tempted once or twice to create a similar but fake name to use as a test case for things that handle identity information.
Honestly, some people can spend their lives immersed in reality, but they never seem to actually realize what's going on. I'm not sure whether to pity, or envy, the oblivious.
> Every abstraction has a cost somewhere.

It's very simple:

(0) Runtime performance degradation is unacceptable.

(1) Increased compile times are annoying, but they're tolerable in exchange for more exhaustive automatic static analysis. Anything of interest that the compiler can't prove about my code, I would have to prove myself by hand anyway, which would take even more time than the slowest automated static analysis.
What does that mean? FDA has approved equivalent products.
Shrinkage of 2x is the inverse of growth by 2x.

I.e. shrinking 2x and then growing 2x would bring you to the original.

Though in this specific case, I would have simply said "halved".