skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Less difficult. Setting up a private CA means you have to be the CA, and vet and/or create a cert for every wosign/startcom site that people visit. One could trust them just enough depending on how heavily they depend on affected sites. I personally would rather whitelist sites as-needed, but can see why some admins would go the easier route.
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Hardly any money to be made on the desktop, period.

For MS is is virtually a loss leader to push things like Active Directory and Exchange.
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I recently got a small cluster set up for side projects and I've set up a few little tools for myself. I got thelounge (web irc client) running and am going to stand up Huginn (IFTTT-ish thing), and I'm looking for more neat things to run.
You would think that someone posting prescreen questions in anger would at least bother to edit the transcript so that they gave the right answers.

An inode is not an identifier. This super-awesome-knowitall has not bothered googling "define inode" before posting this.

If this really is the transcript then not only did you answer questions wrong, you also argued with the recruiter.

I have worked with people who used to be the best where they came from, who are not used to being wrong. This guy did not handle it well.

If this really is a true transcript, with internal monologue, then Google has avoided accidentally hiring someone arrogant who can't accept being wrong, or is at least not open to being wrong.

The reaction -- posting prescreen questions in anger in retaliation -- only reaffirms that Google did the right thing.
The prof who wore a hijab and lost her job
My astro CCD has a (slow) fan attached the peltier. The vibration isn't usually a big deal for two main reasons:

1) If your setup is sophisticated enough that fan vibration may cause an issue, you're likely already using a german-equatorial mount and some kind of guiding correction (secondary guide scope, or off-axis guider). These adjust the scope's positioning in real-time to keep on-target. So that removes any large-scale deviation that may be caused.

2a) Small-scale deviation is generally not a problem, since most setups are likely to be limited by the resolution of your entire optical train. For example, my 800mm newtonian combined with a CCD with 7.2mm pixels means I have a resolution of ~2.01 arc-seconds. Assuming perfect guiding, my scope can tolerate any vibration as long as my target stays within ~2 arc-seconds. *

2b) In reality, most locations are limited by seeing conditions (e.g. how turbulent the air is), which averages 1-3 arc-seconds in non-mountain regions. Also the calibration of your mount (periodic errors, guiding errors, etc) are almost certainly a greater concern than the vibration added from the peltier.

That's from an amateur's perspective. Obviously high-end setups will start to worry about things like the fan's vibration, but for someone with a backyard setup (doubly so for someone using a consumer DSLR instead of dedicated CCD), there are bigger causes of inaccuracy :)

* This is a bit of a simplification, since things get a bit more complicated due to FWHM, wavelength, etc.
In my experience Google recruiters do have a sheet with alternate answers, but those can't cover everything.
Personally, I would rather builds be slow than have my build mysteriously break when I'm in that 1%.
Well, general interviewing (unrelated to tech) contains various amounts of "are you lying on your resume" type questions. If someone walks in with a breakdown of 10 years dev, 5 years management, they should be able to at least comfortably answer system/coding type questions. As in, if you do something every day for 10 years, you don't forget all of it in 5.

I had a candidate in a few months ago that was interviewing for Software Development Manager, so he got an initial phone screen and then a face-to-face with myself and another dev on the team he'd be managing. I was impressed with how little he knew about programming.

"Name some data structures." "What does MVC stand for?" "Name some design patterns" etc. All of which were unanswerable. Generally when it becomes clear someone was dishonest about their skillset, the ability to get hired for any position becomes impossible.
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- Throw away account -
I'm a regular visitor here on HN and got good advice in the past as well. I recently lost my job at a tiny startup. 6 months ago, I had quit my job to freelance and work remotely but that didn't work out. I tried HN and all other places but found no good leads. So, I started going for interviews. I faced the same problems what lot of people have mentioned here. I do find all those interview processes broken. After that, I landed the job at this tiny startup.

Now after losing the job, I want to give another shot to freelancing/working remotely. Trust me, I've tried pretty much all the wfh/freelancing sites. Local rates aren't great either. Can anyone advise me how to kickstart this. I'd really appreciate it.
Nyt hasn't distorted the facts to political ends just once.
+1 -- This is where I learned to code actually. He has some really nice -long- courses for quite a few languages. When I first started I went through his VB.NET videos -- it's 200 videos, and it starts with something as simple as variables, but by the end you're doing real projects like calculators and simple video games.
>Judging an entire recruitment process based on one side of a story from a person who's clearly upset about an interview,

It's not just this guy. There have been others: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

There's another measure I use to measure the quality of their hiring process. The output. Namely the track record of products Google has developed in house in the last 10 years.

I've also heard a few stories about friends applying for a position and being shunted by the hiring process into the hiring funnel for other (plainly unsuitable) positions. When I hear a very specific criticism from two separate places it's hard to stay skeptical.
I installed Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 4 a few months ago to compare it to Sailfish OS. It ran reasonably smoothly, but seemed to be missing a bunch of functionality. I installed a Spotify client only to learn that because Ubuntu Touch pauses background apps, you could only listen to music with the screen on and the app in the foreground. Similarly, if you started a Terminal session, and, say, went to the browser to look up a command, you would return to a completely new Terminal. I uninstalled it a few hours later - I'm willing to put up with a lot in a mobile OS, but a lack of multitasking puts it in 2007 territory.
I feel the same way and made the comment up-thread. I was only visiting for ten days though. Coming from the US it's hard to imagine any current ruler being as well liked as this guy.
That already happens. The liars just get more air time. Your solution is a no-op. The problem is confusing entertainment with news and acting on the information provided as entertainment as if they were facts and truths.
You are 100% correct. That's why stories like this (front page news, politics) are against the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also according to the guidelines, we're supposed to just "flag it and move on" without mentioning that it's inappropriate, but I've always wondered how people are supposed to learn if it's not politely communicated to them.
Both sides relish in demonizing each-other, reducing the other side to simple statements like deplorable or corrupt beyond measure.

I shutter to think of a time when presidential candidates refuse to even acknowledge that the other is a human, or correct obscene errors in judgement[1] borne from descending into the echo chamber and never coming out.

That said, tribalism is as old as time immemorial. An echo chamber is not inherently harmful but the content going into it can be -- more to the point, it behooves our leaders of communities (and the world at large) to acknowledge each-other in a manner that shows the best of us maintain a base minimum of dignity and restraint.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrnRU3ocIH4
Well, I have a few friends that don't share my opinions on political things, and I do try to read their posts. It can be hard sometimes. It's easier to read extremely different points of view when they're not your friends, I think. But also easier to dismiss the alternative ideas too, I think.

And I think that's why it's harder to read friend's posts. You're wanting to see things from your friend's point of view, so you can be a good friend, but normally those opinions given by some random asshole on the internet would allow you to call them a moron and scroll past it.
How exactly do you create a program in go that compiles to a 50mb exe?

Why is the flags package trash?
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.scribd.com/document/327479319/Nyt-Letter.
Those jerks who wait until the last second to merge are actually right
I would have failed the question. I don't remember how many bytes in a MAC address. That's something that can be easily looked up.
Oh, looks like the OP link was updated since I posted that. The original link was to Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/this-upgraded-nikon-chills-the-sensor-fo...

I should have linked to the original Petapixel post on the bottom of that Gizmodo page. My bad.
The biggest risk I see with using your API vs implementing a native API is the native API's are unlikely to shutdown in the next few years. It seems very risky from my perspective to use a third-party API which may go down leaving me to switch to native API when its library is no longer updated, totally defeating it's intended purpose.

Do you plan to open source the code if your company shuts down?

(from asimuvPR when Brightwork.io tried to do the same thing, but ultimately ended up pivoting)

1) What APIs has your team built before that qualifies them to build this?

2) How will you manage changes, bugs, and obscure documentation issues in the APIs that will be made available through you?

..

4) What language will the API be written in?

5) Regarding API access security: How will you handle access to multiple APIs for the same client when each API requires a different set of tokens?
Just tested it and you are right. Don't ask me why, works with Safari. We'll fix that.
Self-reply for posterity. Here's a sketched-out comparison of generators vs. the manual strategy we use in Pyret (this isn't _exactly_ what Pyret generated code looks like, but it's close):

https://www.measurethat.net/Benchmarks/Show/675/0/stack-stra...

As of October 2016, generators are much slower on all browsers I tested.
"Will step down", according to his own post on https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/....
Oh, I completely agree. I've ranted about this before; I like to use old versions and be a late adopter after all the kinks get worked out. I'm just saying maybe it's more due to a (possibly negligent) misplacement of priorities than to outright malevolence for non- or slow-upgraders.

"We're Apple... everyone always uses the latest versions of our stuff..."
Right. Who has time to shave when you're busy examining network traffic?
If it were the only thing. Sadly the NY times has gone the way of the Pravda. [1]

[1] http://www.unz.com/article/an-obituary-of-the-new-york-times...
I love Bisqwit. The software development content is great, but also his overall personality and philosophy really come through in the videos and resonate with me personally. The level of craftsmanship in his videos is far beyond the typical powerpoint slides mixed with live editing. It would take paragraphs to list all the reasons why, just watch them.
Well said. Thanks.
Thanks to you both—I didn't realize that it wasn't the official link.
That's Mr. American Empire to you droogie!

But going meta on pabloski's question, who decides which countries are dictatorships and which are bastions of liberty?
Not yet, but it's a good suggestion. I'll bring that up in the team. Thanks
...You realize that a lot of Western countries, like the UK, Canada, New Zealand, etc are monarchies, right?

Thailand largely functions either as a parliamentary system or military junta, depending on the year.
Did anyone bother to read up on this 'business' of his? I just spent some time in the Wayback Machine[1], and it strikes me as pretty odd: unbreakable encryptions systems (which are not disclosed), NSA backdoors everywhere and general paranoia.
I love thenewboston... He is great for introduction to a variety of technologies.
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The problem is Google doesn't need you. Google gets onefinity applications per day. If they shave %90 percent of cold applicants this way then they will not hurt for more applicants. A company that large will gain it's best participants by reference.

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my interview with google was very short.

them: what is 2 ^ 37?

me: can I use a calculator?

them: no

me: then we are done here.
PLEASE, let's not bring political discussion into HN. It is an island of reasonably rational thinking and sharing in a sea of, whatever it is they are doing out there.

Take it to Reddit or FB or somewhere else. Please. The air is so clean here you can actually breathe it.

In the past I've been guilty of this myself and now firmly believe HN is far better off by sticking to topics that generally avoid politics and religion unless there's a solid connection to the topics that are generally of interest to this community.
Then he's not a very good programmer. This is technology: at the rate it's advancing, even tools from 5 years ago are out of date. You have to constantly keep up with the latest advances in programming if you want to stay relevant.
The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan [pdf]
In astrophotography, this is actually the opposite of what you want to do. Generally you add cooling so that you can let your sensor run for longer, so you can collect more photons without increasing the noise appreciably.

Image stacking can reduce noise afterwards, but there's no substitute for collecting more photons to increase the signal in an image... and the only way to do that is to try and clean up the noise floor (via cooling, better sensors, etc) :)
False equivalence. The Thai monarchy and lèse-majesté have far less impact on the global scene than most of the things about the US about which people are weighing in. Someone being prosecuted for stepping on Thai currency is small potatoes compared to ... say, a Trump White House. Or, you know, invasions under false pretenses.
For me, I think it is 2.

My guess is that you are asking because you have a limited number of views. My assumption is that videos are captured and used internally by YC. This assumption is based on the fact that videos from previous applications are available on HN even though I have deleted them from Youtube. I believe the view count was the same or similar for previous applications. Also, the pattern I have seen is that views accumulated almost immediately after submitting the application, and then none after that.
That's true; Walter Duranty's Pulitzer-winning reports of the Soviet Union for the NYT certainly come to mind. That doesn't stop a broken clock from being right twice a day.

That said, all we have here is a prominent blowhard railing against a publication that favors his opponent. Not really meaty HN-worthy material, IMO.
Given that osteopathy is pseudoscientific dogma, that's not an unreasonable outcome.
That's the problem isn't it. I do have people that I care about on FB with different views, but they often just share inane memes that are not really grounded in reality. To be fair, I see a lot of trite memes from people I mostly agree with too, though.

I think the "bullshit asymmetry principle" comes into play too: it takes 2 seconds to share some lame conspiracy garbage about how the pope was really born on Uranus or whatever, but in most cases takes a bit more work and fact checking to refute the BS.
> The argument that someone was wrong about something once

only once ? seriously ?
I saw the cards.

After 30s I figured that all you have to offer is the ability to write a 3x5cm sticky note. Useless. Ain't paying for it. (not to mention redundant with Trello)

I worked in a 50 people company and I understand the issues with following other people's work. That is a real problem to me. A sticky note is of no help, if there is a workflow around that thing, I don't see it and it's not explained.
I think you nailed the biggest issue with being an engineer in startup land. The interests just aren't aligned.
Can a mod such as dang fix this link to ^
> SRE is not an ordinary site maintenance position by any means

Then why ask about the nitty gritty details required by maintenance personnel as part of the screening process - things I would rather have my high level employees looking up rather than relying on a possibly faulty memory.

> Judging an entire recruitment process based on one side of a story from a person who's clearly upset about an interview, and 3 sentences i wrote on hacker news, seems ... silly.

This kind of opinion is not formed in a vacuum. It's formed of the dozens of posts that appear every year about how someone who seems qualified is turned down for spurious reasons like "being unable to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard". It's what makes this particular post so believable - it fits the stereotype. Even your own developers who post here say "yeah, that's more accurate than inaccurate." Perhaps it wouldn't hurt to "undercover boss" your way through the interview process...

Speaking for myself, and only myself... I turn down all Google recruiters because I know I would not pass Google's interview process. Not because I don't have the skills, but because I don't have a college degree. Because I don't see the return on investment for studying for the next 6 weeks just to pass the interview process, especially when I won't even know if I'm getting a job I'll enjoy.

> I think i'm just going to leave it alone because it's not clear to me the discussion is going to get any more reasonable.

How about the responses from your own employees which are pointing out that they see the problem too. Are they being unreasonable?
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"It would be a disservice to silence their voices not only to our readers but to democracy itself."

The New York Times self righteously defends its publication as "servicing democracy" while engaging in some of the most blatant yellow journalism and political collusion ever seen in the history of American journalism.
A vendor wrote your RFP. You won't believe what happened next
As a former citizen of USSR: NYT is an absolute equivalent of "Pravda". Instrument of propaganda. Of interest only for historians/PR professionals.
It's possible that incidental racial correlations exist. He obviously meant "race is not a driving factor". By your logic, it would also be anti-male, because fewer men go to college than women.
Android is not open at all, "russian Google" - Yandex - tried to build their own android phones but vendors dropped them because google just came to them and say "hey guys if you will be with them - we won't allow you to use google play on your phones at all". How it is open? i have no idea why it is open.
Tell that to the software vendors selling software packages to Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android and consoles.

They would be all out of business if that was the case.
The most recent files are from 2013. This seems abandoned. Am I missing something?
Your imagination is better than mine. :-)

The conversation that I'd have to reconstruct has a very combative interviewee. Which would also fit said interviewee deciding to write up the article that I read. Which would mean that Google dodged a bullet.

I find it interesting to note that his site is down. There are a lot of possible causes, but it isn't good advertising for his webserver software.
Mr. Trump said all of these awful things 10 years ago, and according to the Times it is perfectly acceptable to extrapolate these to the modern day and most importantly to predictions about Trump's policy making. Just 10 years ago, Hillary actually said that she opposes same-sex marriage [1][2]. This is DIRECT evidence of what her policy making would be 10 years ago. There is no need to extrapolate. There is no need to guess at how HRC's personal opinion on matters would play into her policies. She was openly against same-sex marriage.

So why isn't HRC held to the same standard? Why isn't there a shred of bad news about her in the Times, but every credible non-partisan newspaper is all over her scandals? Furthermore, why was Benghazi downplayed before anyone was even interviewed? [3] Why did Obama say "there isn't a smidgen of corruption" if no serious and thorough investigation had even been conducted yet? [3]

NYT is extremely biased and openly aligns with the left. They regularly downplay any and all news that could be damaging to left.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZkK2_6H9MM

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I1-r1YgK9I

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1jeJmeeMjs
We've looked at this exact issue from a PR perspective as well. In the media generally, there are some outlets that are blatantly one sided one way or another on certain issues, essentially just covert mouthpieces for certain organizations. What we've found is that it's not worth the effort to actually respond to hit pieces from those outlets, because they are only picked up on social media in circles of people that only talk to each other and are already incredibly biased against us. By even responding to the article in any way, we are just extending the shelf life of the piece within those circles. So there are now entire outlets we completely ignore from a PR perspective because it is simply a waste of our time and entirely counter-productive to respond to. We only respond to legitimate articles that are actually picked up by social media circles that we care about, which we have essentially mapped out.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2022813
Bisqwit is awesome. He's the also first person that I thought of when I saw the thread title. His videos are really in-depth technically and they're all interesting projects.
For me, it is very short: She is a habitual liar. Without any remorse. I really don't understand how a human being can go to these debates, give interviews and ignore that she has psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies.

And no, it doesn't mean that Trump is any better or any worse. It's all bullshit.
Unfortunately they will just ignore the complaints and move on to the next resume in the pile.
Kudos to having side projects. That's awesome.

The point still stands though. First, it is much easier to have side projects when you are in school so the causal relationship might still be there just one step removed. But the more important point I was making was that school or a side project or even a project at work, if people go 10 years without using it, they forget things.

As an aside, you may want to drop the "Uh" in-front of your sentences. It conveys a certain tone that I'm not sure you are doing intentionally.
That would strictly require that all TLS clients correctly handled intermediate certs with a scope limitated to a few hardcoded second level domains.

Right now there's barely support for limiting a root CA to a single TLD...
Why is this on Hacker News? It is a promotional piece about the new album he's releasing, isn't it?
Mercedes plans to let its self-driving cars kill pedestrians in dicey situations
Asyncp – Port of the async library to use Promises
Potentially The Largest Storm Coming to Seattle in 50 Years
That might depend on the specific Safari version. I am using Safari 10 on macOS Sierra, and it would not allow me to access any site using one of the affected certs: instead it would just serve an error page.