skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct that GWB received 40% of the Latino vote in 2004, but that was somewhat of an anomaly. From:

http://latinovotematters.org/stats/

1980 Jimmy Carter, 56% Ronald Reagan, 35% +21
1984 Walter Mondale, 61% Ronald Reagan, 37% +24
1988 Michael Dukakis, 69% George H.W. Bush, 30% +39
1992 Bill Clinton, 61% George H.W. Bush, 25% +36
1996 Bill Clinton, 72% Bob Dole, 21% +51
2000 Al Gore, 62% George W. Bush, 35% +27
2004 John Kerry, 58% George W. Bush, 40% +18
2008 Barack Obama, 67% John McCain, 31% +36
2012 Barack Obama, 71% Mitt Romney, 27% +44

More importantly, the recent trend has been for the Latino vote to be more heavily toward Democrats. Certainly, I agree that Latinos as a whole tend to be conservative, largely due to a Catholic background. However, in current times, Latinos vote more heavily Democratic and by a large margin. Though, less of a margin than African-American voters.
For anyone wondering why suddenly there are two Al Gore jokes here, like I was, it's not a joke: he won an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth.
Spoken word does exist. You're just drawing up arbitrary lines when in real life boundaries between media and genre aren't so distinct.
The most plausible explanation is the guy failed the interview, felt bad about it, then wrote a version of it to make him look good and Google bad to punish them.
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This reads more like a "lateral" move to me. And, if you make the change and if such a conversation is forced upon you, that's how I'd frame it.

P.S. Trading pay for equity. Taking an opportunity for greater initiative and growth. Etc.
> To you they don't, to me and others they do

Really? I've spent pretty much all my spare time and money on music for the last 30 years, but no lyrics by themselves have ever had the effect on me that, for example "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" has had

... but then maybe I'm looking at this wrong, and the prize is being awarded for the songs rather than just the lyrics. If that's the case then I guess the prize is well-deserved
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12700378 and marked it off-topic.
UNP is excellent! Haven't opened it in a long time though.
I am fully aware that it has lifted literally hundreds of millions of the Chinese peasantry out of poverty but it is not the responsibility of the American people to achieve this.

I would wholeheartedly support this if and only if each and every Chinese citizen paid their fair share of taxes to the US, but obviously that will never happen.

The US is being hosed.
The right solution is to have a technical person conduct this test.
Yes, he goes into length explaining how he created his own versions of Ballad of John Henry and "Key to the highway". You are missing the point.

"Hey Joe" is thought to be inspired by Little Sadie. Its not about ripping off, its about telling the same story in a different way - story telling.
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If you search for the story of how they met, McCartney played Lennon some Little Richard (R&B) and some Gene Vincent (Hillbilly), both US imports. It impressed Lennon and his buds enough that they decided to invite McCartney in to the band. Listen to their earliest records, and look at who they cover, and you'll find more.
You don't even have to give feedback in an interview. Just let them answer your question and if it's too detailed, write it down and look it up later. In fact, Google usually doesn't give back any feedback during or after their onsite interviews.
The focus is infinity, so as long as the camera is rigidly mounted the vibration that makes it past whatever damping they have won't wobble the field of view a lot.

For $1000+ I imagine the fans actually don't have much impact.
Don't think so, or would you consider the O(n) notation something a non technical user would want to follow?
Nice find, thanks.

I'd love to see that broken down by race and or nationality.
https://wikipedia.org/ is also showing as revoked now :(
I don't disagree, although I'm sceptical that's intentional on Google's part. I think if you applied some common sense to the situation and you were able to get off your moral high horse about what's correct vs answering the questions he needs you to answer to get to the actual proper interviews.

Dale Carnegie wouldn't have approved, I'm sure.
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> If using a GC we know when they will occur, but do not know when they will be freed. Which means that at some indeterminate point in the future there will be a large temporary slowdown due to processing the GC.

This just isn't true anymore. Incremental collectors can achieve pause times in the single-digit millisecond range, and concurrent collectors can achieve pause times in the single-digit to tens of microseconds range, even for super-high-allocation rate programs. There are even real-time collectors suitable for audio and other hard real-time applications.

Azul GC (a high performance concurrent compacting collector): https://www.azul.com/products/zing/pgc/

Metronome (a real-time GC with guaranteed maximum pause times): http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_subpa...

GC scheduling in V8 (hides GC pause times between frames, reducing animation jank): http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2977741

The Go GC ships now with a very low-latency GC: https://blog.golang.org/go15gc
This, and if you can even capture that much traffic, all the good stuff is going to be encrypted anyway ;-)
I dont think so, at least not to a great extent. Before Nafta it was not much different. The mex fed gov't doesn't care and knows those dissatisfied enough will rather jump the border than revolt.

You dont see the same in Chile or Columbia(!) or Argentina. I mean Mexico has squandered its natural resources beyond comprehension. Imagine what Korea or Japan would be like with the natural resources Mexico has.
You may be right that at the time there were no better subject matter experts. That doesn't make the Norwegian Parliament any good as subject matter experts in perpetuity, unfortunately, and I think the spotty history of the Peace Prize awards and the resulting disdain for it is evidence of that. Not least because the priorities of both the electorate and their elected representatives can change. So we certainly have evidence of failure; it's not clear whether the failure could have been avoided.

In hindsight, it _may_ have been a good idea to have a process in place for handing off to a better-suited body at some point (e.g. past prize recipients, the UN). Hard to say, of course.
Is the claim by Penrose not that humans can possibly intuit theorems which are true but unprovable (Gödel's first incompleteness theorem) e.g. the Riemann Hypothesis, and thus how could an algorithmic process ever achieve such intuition?

Perhaps this is a Turing test for consciousness. "I can't prove this, but I've been thinking about these theorems [inserts true but unprovable list of theorems] and I think they're true".
RIP. His daughter became the patron of the World Sanskrit Conference, when the Indian state itself considered Sanskrit far too dead to be worth funding.

(The whole new-age wave in the West seems to have brought a change of heart to "wannabe Brittania".Indic languages are generally entropically dead to be fair.)
I agree with the point taniq makes in that those easier systems did in fact require a lot of hand crafting, even if parts were automated. I find it interesting the points at which the usefulness of these approaches plateaus.

I am interested a lot in general game playing, and there is a common problem that while the general systems tend to make interesting progress, it is the systems finely crafted to the game that win competitions.

What I am really, REALLY interested in is what commercial application exist for these types of technologies. Solving a puzzle slightly better than a different tool is fun, but solving a valuable business problem is where the money is at.
The essential points underlying the overall argument are:

1) A more powerful programming language in the blockchain carries greater risk of bugs which could take down all nodes in the network, 2) multiple implementations are a bad idea, and 3) hard forks are a bad idea.

Problem #1 has the most merit. Ethereum's implementation may not be the winner, but _someday_ there will be a block chain which has a powerful programming language. Just because it is hard to get right, doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

Regarding problem #2 (multiple implementations), I'm astounded that so many agree with this, as it simply doesn't make any sense. The more implementations there are, the less risk there is that any one problem will take down the entire network. Others have written about this [0]. If anything, the problem is that 90% of the Ethereum network is running Geth today. The more diversity the better.

Problem #3 (hard forks) has also been addressed by others [1]. Without even addressing whether hard-forks are appropriate for certain situations, I think if you agree that soft-forks are appropriate but hard-folks aren't, you fundamentally misunderstand what a "soft-fork" is and what can be done with one. See [1] for more info.

[0] https://blog.conformal.com/the-bitcoin-consensus-red-herring...

[1] https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050...
I don't think there are many "major" left-wing sites that are as full of hate and fear-mongering as a large population of their equivalents on the right. You are falling for the fallacy that both sides fall somewhat evenly on opposite sides of a normal distribution of "truth" or "balance". This is just not true. Changing times have pushed the overall country further right, but this process has also distilled the GOP down to a core of angry, white christian (males?). I don't think liberals are exaggerating that much when they say if Obama was white (or Hillary were a man), 20 years ago they might have been the republican candidates.
DC resident here - diagonal boulevards sure looks pretty, but 5+ way intersections are always a mess.

All I saw from the road-map of this city was waaaay to many 6+ way intersections of major (perimeter or axis of triangle/hexagon areas) roads.

Look at the central north/south road, you've got a 6-way intersection every block. No thanks.
I'd be curious what "engineering" he's referring to.
I feel like someone that's not unusually unintelligent should have been able to make the connections between SYN and synchronize or ACK and acknowledge. I don't know why people are defending the recruiter. The process is dumb, but so is an interviewer that asserts himself as an authority when he has to read from a sheet of paper. I don't expect him to be a technical expert, but I do expect him to know when he needs to consult a technical expert about a particular candidate's answers. If this is an accurate representation of his interviewing skills, he needs a new job.
Part of the idea is that you will need significantly shorter exposures. Shorter than would be needed to introduce artifacts from vibration.

Such cameras (sold by Nikon [1]) are routinely used on high-end microscopes. They usually have a smaller resolution though - 1024x1024 is pretty common. There are a number of technologies used in scientific microscopy that work well for night-time photography, but most are just too expensive. Electron multiplying CCDs, chilled CMOS sensors, etc. They end up being one of the more expensive parts to a half-million dollar scope though.

[1] https://www.nikoninstruments.com/Products/Cameras/Camera-Hea...
Both of them come off as really obnoxious. I highly doubt this is real though.
Yes, I totally agree. I like Dylan's music a lot, but I cringed this morning when I read the news. Murakami deserves the prize. I suspect he'll get it one of these years, but I think his body of work has already made the case.
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Nah, they just don't like me pointing out facts. Like the fact that this is Constitutional obstruction and is completely unprecented.

Too much cognitive dissonance for people who are probably already completely overwhelmed at this point in the cycle, given the turmoil on that side of the aisle.

That's why I won't get a reply from any of the small downvoters.
Nice! wonder how it scales though.
Why do we let this happen?

How is it the responsibility of the American people?

This is a prime example of a tragedy of commons -- we are depleting the resources of America at the expense of Americans. The return on investment just isn't there.

I'm not going to deny that lifting hundreds of millions of foreigners out of poverty is noble but why does the entirety of America's middle class have to be hollowed out? Those foreigners being lifted out of poverty aren't paying taxes to the US, they don't deserve the help they're getting, and the very wealthy aren't at all paying their fair share of taxes.

To say that wealth will simply be created by a burgeoning middle class through replicating the Chinese model is delusional, it implies wealth will simply trickle down and we all know how silly Reaganomics is. China achieved their current status by rabidly enforcing the consumption of Chinese products and services and now they are reaping the benefits, and we have to do the same thing.

China prevented their wealth from escaping through isolationist policies, it is clear that this model is the best way to secure our future. Simply lifting people out of poverty without enforcing domestic consumption is suicide by a thousand cuts.
Really? Hmm, I've been upgrading the same installation since 10.04 or something, it's been working well. However, I did create a list of scripts at some point to make reinstallation a one-command affair:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/provisioning-your-computer-one-...
Nobody on earth would suggest that google's margins are derived from their revenues minus the cost of 'electricity'.

To be slightly pedantic, I did assert that and I do live on Earth :-). But to be fair, the claim is a way of illustrating the challenge.

In the goods economy the analysis of a widget factory and the widget business might reasonably start with the cost to the factory of the parts that were consumed in assembling a widget. This is something of a game where folks tear down the electronics of our age and tell you what the cost is of each of the parts in the gizmo. So we'll start with "An iPhone is only $245 in parts."[1] and it cost $650[2]. And then start walking through the costs that are also incurred by the widget maker until you run out of costs and are left with profit (or loss).

And one way in which we know that its not too far off to consider that as the first cost are Google's public statements about power efficiency[3]. Power is their "raw material of most impact."

And that is another way of saying that without R&D or Sales or Marketing people could buy and use their product but without power or "a little bit of ops" they have no business. And since HWOPS/SRE are the goods economy equivalent of factory workers and manufacturing engineers, an information business' core production capability is just those groups and the electricity they use.

Of course if you really want to get metaphysical consider who pays for the electrons and photons that compose the product as it moves from data center to my computer screen. Its like a giant marble game where the electrons cascade through the chips, one of which turns them into photons, and theh they fly through a fiber and kick of another cascade of electrons which result in more photons, and they bounce through the system until the photons they create emerge from my screen in the form of a search result.

[1] http://www.techinsights.com/teardown.com/apple-iphone-6s/

[2] http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone6s

[3] The system cut power usage in the data centers by several percentage points, "which is a huge saving in terms of cost but, also, great for the environment," he said. -- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-19/google-cu...
The biggest obstacle is going to be keeping yourself lean in the face of employees that want to build their own empires internally.

Since I worked at Amazon for 5 years I saw how to cut costs on networking and hardware and to build only as much as you actually need. My experience after working at Amazon is that most Enterprise IT is full of people who hide behind Best Practices in order to expand their budget.

You can very easily wind up with massive amounts of spending to VMWare, EMC and Cisco. Unless you have an executive with a vision on how to contain costs with networking, storage and servers, I wouldn't recommend on prem, you can easily wind up spending an order of magnitude more than you should be.
TIL:
- Einstein and Godel were good friends
- Einstein coined the term 'photon'
- Einstein "failed to earn a master's in physics"
- Godel was quite paranoid and weirder than I realized
- Godel refused to argue (maths) unless he had an airtight proof of his correctness
- Godel discovered a loophole in the constitution that would allow a dictator to rise (timely for 2016!)
- Godel is the one who showed Einstein that backwards time travel was permitted according to relativity
- Godel's precise cause of death was starvation brought on by paranoia of being poisoned
HN likes to go on tears about some big service hurting some little entrepreneur via random, unexplained mistreatment. And yet, most of the time, these stories turn out to involve blatant breaking of terms of use. At this point, whenever I see these stories, I assume that I'm reading a self-serving account by someone who knows exactly what they did wrong, and then I look for any sign that this isn't the case.

It's gotten a little better over time, at least. There was a point, years back, where it seemed like every other day there was a front-page post by some guy running a linkfarm complaining that Google had mysteriously and unjustly weakened their God-given search rankings.
This goes up there with Obama's Nobel for peace. It's an insult to the thousands of more deserving real authors. Baby Boomer's 1960s pop culture has been overhyped for so long that it's just exhausting at this point. I always find it disgusting that Dylan is celebrated as anti-war even though he wrote Neighborhood Bully, a rabid defense of Israel's wars where he ridicules calls for peace.
By all means give kids a taste of how computers actually work, but breaking down problems into small parts, that kind of critical thinking, is useful not just in programming, but as a foundational life skill.

Bringing tablets into the classroom is one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard. Those are products. You don't learn technology, at all, by using products. You learn about a thing by deconstructing and constructing.
The person who wrote it is deemed to be an idiot, according to the hivemind.
> If I'm not mistaken, with Matrix you do not have to run a front-end per se. I believe you can simply setup a matrix home server, and then interact via an open source mobile/desktop/web application.

If by "front-end" you mean Web server, then as far as I'm aware none of these networks (GNU Social, pump.io, Matrix, XMPP, email, etc.) require one per se. The problem is finding an implementation which doesn't bundle one.

Looking at the servers listed on matrix.org, it appears that Pallium makes this separation: you can run Pallium stand-alone, and connect to it using client applications (which may or may not be Web-based). Unfortunately, browsing the code for all of those servers, they all seem to include facilities for user registration, authentication, etc.

Maybe that's a requirement of the way Matrix works? I know that, say, an IRC server which only allows a single user would be a lonely place, since chatrooms are hosted by a particular server which all participants must connect to (logically, at least; I know there are ways to implement redundancy like FreeNode does).
I think this is exactly what they're looking for and what half of the people in this thread are missing. Someone else mentioned that they also had this interview and remembered these questions and that the person doing the interview told them he was a psychologist. Why would they be doing a technical interview with a psychologist? This was a skills interview for sure but it wasn't the skills that most of these people are assuming.
Mozilla has a somewhat similar home-grown standup tool (Standup) that takes input from an IRC bot. The website lets readers filter by projects, teams, or individuals. I like how TakeAim's cards highlight on people's more recent status, where Standup is more like Twitter, where some people post frequently and drown out others' status comments.

https://www.standu.ps/
I can't fathom a scenario where a tech person would need to dump down something like SYN-ACKs and iNodes for a non-technical person. It's one thing if you are trying to explain performance trade-offs to non-technical users or colleagues. But not lower level protocol details.
I've had two phone screens with them and both times they were very technical people. Then again it was some time ago and with the bigger scale they may have changed it up.

It is unfortunate, but as mentioned above, you need to just play the game until you get to the real part. It's like when I call customer support, I gotta play along with the non-technical people and get them to bump me up the chain to someone technical when I need advanced help.

The unfortunate truth is that it's unreasonable to dedicate precious engineer time to screen millions and millions of people, they'd get no actual work done. So the first layers has to be like this. You just play along for the first step, and after that it'll get much much more interesting, trust me.

This guy seemed like the kind of person who loves showing off his knowledge and having the last word on everything. Honestly this kind of people, as knowledgeable as they are, usually do poorly in a work environment.
May I assume this is tongue in cheek?
I imagine it's more fun to play with many more interesting pieces.

> Yet, in spite of this, after playing Really Bad Chess for the past week, I’ve found myself with a much better understanding of the game, and how the various pieces interact with each other.

Not to mention that you can potentially learn tactics much quicker with more practice using the interesting pieces.
Sadly Fo has passed away today.
Not in GC languages that also have value types.

For example you can do all of that in Modula-3, Active Oberon, Component Pascal and many others without allocating more than in C for example.

Mixing all GC enabled languages in the same box is a mistake.
I bet Google has their own internal "backup Google", for just such an occasion.
Right, exactly the point I made up-thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12700045).
Nobody's written any books recently?
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> The NYT editorial board...

The NYT editorial board is separate from the news desk, and the NYT makes clear what is news and what is opinion.
I look forward to reading the pricing analysis, it'll be great to hear your perspective as an experienced customer of both clouds. The pricing is complex so anything you can do to make simplifying assumptions that make sense to a real-world use case will be helpful for all.

(disclaimer: I work on Azure at Microsoft)
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How are they more so responsible for the fraud if they were fired for not doing it?
I get it, but do doctors really know what the size of mitochondria are? I can't think of anything any further from the realm of their day to day.
Listen to this excellent literary analysis of one of Bob Dylan's best songs: https://beta.prx.org/stories/19352

"Christopher Ricks, Professor of Humanities at Boston University explores the poetry in Bob Dylan's songs."
Why are you thankful for that? Does he add anything useful? Does his talking about these imply anything about his work as a president?
If I were interviewing him and he gave those answers I'd definitely give him a second round and try to get him in.