skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Dell U2410, which, while not exactly run-of-the-mill (it is wide-gamut), isn't that fancy yet does have all the ports wlesieutre mentioned. (Granted, they require a separate USB connection, but it is an older monitor.)

At work I have an Apple monitor that has multiple USB ports and an Ethernet port on the back of it. I think it has speakers too. All that and the display run across the mini-DP connection. Again, not exactly run-of-the-mill, but well within the price range of Apple's target market, and given Apple's push in that direction, it's liable to be commonplace in a couple years anyway.
I agree on the "we will survive" fact. When buying something, of course the buyers they must be careful and get informed.

Having only one plug shape simplifies a lot, and this doesn't change how difficult is to choose a product. At all.
> don't blame the exercise for that

Yes, blame the exercise for that, because the exercise is fundamentally and inescapably is an attempt to assert a level of power over candidates; instead of studying their Github or just talking to them hiring managers demand that they take on the time-and-effort risk of qualifying themselves to the hirer. Which is really stupid in a seller's market, BTW. But, even past that stupidity, it makes it tenable, in the mind of the evaluator, to blow off the candidate because they have, by accepting it, signaled that they will put up with at least a decent amount of shit coming down the pipe towards them without serious complaint.

It's fundamentally dehumanizing hoop-jumping, which creates predictable results, and we should be better than that.
The issue is similar to the black swan phenomenon. Publishers are deciding what will sell based on what sold in the past, but the next great surprise success almost definitively has to be different than those in the past. You need some ability to inject books into the system which don't fit the historical mold.

The best way to do it is probably For publishers to also publish books they think are good, even if they're prospects aren't great. Most will fail, but a few will win big. In a way, it's just like venture capital.

Maybe we need a venture publishing industry.
Can I ask where you went? I've always been fascinated with Black Mountain College.
Computers for Cynics 2 – It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC (Ted Nelson, 2012)
They should have just named things this way:

USB 3.1 gen1 => USB 3.1, USB 3.1 gen2 => USB 3.2

I don't know why they would do differently.
Not quite the same detail but with Google Earth you can review historical maps of many cities. In the View menu > Historical Imagery. You can see back to 1943 around Europe - Rome, Naples and Bologna in Italy, Lyon, Bordeaux and Paris in France as well as most major German cities. In the US it's a mixed bag but often until the 50s/70s.
The George W. Bush White House Lost 22M Emails
Elon Musk Reveals Solar Roof Made of Glass Tiles in L.A
My whole point is that you don't know who "their" is. Please stop and think about who you mean when you use the word "their". Do you mean 1 person, or 2 people, or a 100, or a million? And the map you are linking to did not exist 20,000 years ago!
Universal benefits may be needed when most of the jobs are simply gone. The under educated and the educated won't be able to get a job period. Then what do you do to feed and house them? Do you just let them starve or prey on others. How long until they turn on the haves?
That doesn't seem remotely like the same analogy to me. If we're talking about analogies, a much more accurate analogy, in my mind, would be "You can drive a car, right? What do you use this lever here on the steering wheel for? You don't have any idea? What about this lever here between the seats? No idea about that one either? Sorry, I don't believe you're competent to drive a car."
RIGHT. This is exactly why these tests are given. In Deliberate Practice, these people are called experienced non-experts.

Ten years of bad programming may make you experienced, but it doesn't make you good.

I would question the big-picture awareness of any competent developer who refused this section of an interview. How senior can you really be if you don't recognize why this section of the interview is being given?
So - even ignoring the colour and the point chosen for tesselation, which your first four points address, as you say this projection is bizarre as it has awful distortions (see the width of south vs North America and how the meridian lines are spaced), and the lack of navigability bought about by the twisted axis, and absence of north and south.

You want to show the globe accurately, you show a globe.

You want a better projection - turn Mercator on its side.
Yes, though cable crosstalk and interference is an issue with most cables. There is STP (shielded rather than unshielded), which protects against external interference.
> Of course you can, but that's pretty pointless. The moment someone tries to use the wrapper the wrapped GPL library must also be present, so then the whole thing becomes GPL.

It may be pointless (I don't agree), but I wasn't writing about whether there was a point to it, but whether it could or could not be done.

> The complaint isn't that the code in the repo isn't GPL, anyway.

Where did I say that was what the complaint was? I was just responding to parents comment as I thought it was incorrect. If you read my first comment on this story it was to point this out.
And most subscribers don't watch espn. If espn doesn't get to charge every cable subscriber rather than only the people who watch espn, prices probably go up at least 4x. And more than just the ratio of fans/nonfans because some casual sports fans will decide $7 x (4 to 7) x 12 = $336 to $558/year isn't worth it. Or are only fans of certain sports and will terminate subscriptions during offseasons.
Piracy is definitely a factor. It's very easy to find high quality live streams these days. They're not even something a person needs to seek out anymore because they get posted in various 'live threads' for sporting events.
Hell some (all?) Macbooks even have FPGAs
Was he even a C programmer? I don't know if it matters if a Ruby or Java programmer knows new vs malloc.
Ask HN: Can you recommend free computer science uni lectures?
I can only find one or two good ones on iTunes U. Are there more great uni courses to listen to?
You make a good point Douche. My older brother is a tall good looking guy with a big friendly smile. His advice to me was stand next to a woman and just barely encroaching on their personal space. Then await for their response.

I watched him demonstrate. He stood behind a petite woman who's height was practically at his navel level. She eventually turns around. At first she was confused to just find a wall-of-man behind her, and then slowly started to raise her gaze until she finally reached my brother's big friendly grin. Half way through she already started to smile.

I tried the same only to get a nasty why are you standing next to me look. And I'm not bad looking.

Seriously, I think minimalist pickup strategies are a winner take all situation.
By a wide margin, the biggest production issues I see are index out of bounds or key errors (regardless of language). When I'm treating `nil` as a valid state for some object, I take extra care to test its permutations, and uninitialized maps/interfaces/etc are quickly discovered during testing (every test has to initialize, so this logic is well-covered).

> The (nil, nil) interface is just icing on a crappy cake.

The same problem exists with languages without nil. For example, if you choose to do the stupid thing and return Option<Option<error>> when you only need Option<error>, then checkout the outer Option<> for None is not going to magically guarantee that the inner Option<> is not None.

> It has an excellent philosophy about zero values (so you can't get nil strings, even though they are pointers internally), yet goofed when it came to something as intuitive as "var foo []string", and claimed this behaviour to be a feature.

What are you talking about? nil slices are every bit as safe as an empty slice or an empty string (which is just an immutable empty slice).

> The fact that such a new language as Go doesn't have a way to express missing values safely should be disappointing to developers.

I agree, but I'm mildly annoyed by it, but as it's the least of all of my problems, I find words like "absurdity" to be too heavy-handed.
Unless I am very mistaken, GPL and MIT proponents came to a compromise on this very issue, resulting in the LGPL. This exact scenario (linking/using a GPL library without modification) was considered valid by both sides to the point that they created a new license specifically for it.
You shouldn't be anycasting TCP, only UDP. DNS is sufficient.
well, that's not at at all what I asked for an example of. I know the history of the gold standard and when/how/why the dollar was taken off gold backing.

I would like to know of a historical example of when a significant (meaning large quantity, high economic impact) exchange of dollar denominated treasury notes were redeemed for their face value in gold metal. did that ever even happen? I'm unaware of any instances of that, but then, I'm not a scholar in the field.
Most space, and especially the main one: center, is occupied by boring useless oceans.

Most of the world is, in fact, covered by ocean. This map cleverly is centered on Japan, the country that awarded the design. It appears to be fairly well proportioned and to not weirdly distort land masses that are typically wildly distorted, such as Greenland and Antarctica.
Because some developers have an unreasonable expectation of what services should cost, and why those costs exist for real underlying resources.

Recall the uproar of that open source project that was breaking a piece of Github's infrastructure, and even when Github explained politely how to properly architect the fix, people were upset the project was going to need to pay for a CDN for their binaries.
The fundamental premise of your argument - that investment "isn't productive" - is entirely wrong. Investment is what provides capital for growth.
String constants actually have a place in Java or many languages. Just because you don't understand doesn't make the writer old. (Not even sure what that means, some hip way to reject people that know how to code under the guise of age)
Ironically back in the 80s it cost around $75/year for UC. I went to UC in 1990, say tuition go from $375/year to $20,000/year by 1995. The changes Bush and Clinton made in the 90s enabled this situation where schools on the one hand lost state subsidies and on the other hand you saw the radical financialization where it became the norm to suddenly be 22 years old and in 6 figures of debt.
You're basically asking someone with a PhD in math to do a long division by hand. It's irrelevant and honestly, they may not even remember how.

While I still answer stupid whiteboard questions (though I'm not happy about it), I'll flat out refuse long winded ones or interviews where it's all they do. It's nice to weed out who cheated in their finals in CS, but it's pointless in testing if a Principal Engineer really is there.

At upper levels, there's no one size fit all. You look at the person's resume and you tailor something around it. You won't have nearly enough applicant at that level for it to be a burden, and it's exactly how director/VP/exec positions are filled.

For mid range and low Sr positions, sure, do whatever.
Agreed. I was just about to make analogy of pointing to the parking brake and asking "what's this?".

Also, depending on the role (most people here write both Java and JavaScript), we're fine with "I'm not sure, but I always use it", or something vague about global variables.
Doesn't come with windows but here is Microsoft small basic
I worked at ESPN from 2002-2005.

ESPN execs have been aware of the problem since at least that long ago. Subscriber fees are where ESPN makes most of its money, so the execs have been understandably loathe to cut the cord. Even back in 2004 the goal was to drive more cable subs and more revenue per cable sub because the revenue dwarfed what they could make online (IIRC ESPN.com made ~$60M top line in 2004. Not even a drop in the bucket compared to revenue from cable subscribers).

Strategically ESPN is in a difficult position. They provide distribution to content providers (the leagues) in an era when the price of distribution is approaching zero. Which is why you see MLB, NFL, etc going straight to consumer over the internet with their own offerings. The importance of TV distribution is diminishing, which leaves ESPN with no content (they've never really been a content company) and no distribution.

Interesting times, indeed.
> Competitive programming is great. But why hold it in direct proportion to ability to build products?

Because it's quick to test how good someone is at competitive programming, it's easy to grade everyone consistenty, and it (somewhat) correlates with actual programming ability.

Compare it to other interview techniques. A programming project/trial period is time consuming. And it's hard to grade everyone consistently when going off of their resume/github.
Have you paid off your loans?
Not exactly. There's two different issues here:

1. Whether the license makes derivative works fall under the same license (GPL does, LGPL doesn't)

2. Whether the work in question is in fact a derivative work (which is yet to be determined)

Even if it turns out that it is in fact a derivative work, using the library might constitute fair use.
That also makes me wonder whether devices that both charge and provide power get confused. Is there a hierarchy of charging beyond simple amperes provided? Otherwise I could see plugging in a spec-max 100w portable battery and draining it prior to pulling from the wall charger.
A platform for publishing fiction:

http://fictionhub.io

A website where you can discover educational videos:

http://lumiverse.io
Not nearly the same level of detail but Google Earth has satellite maps of London going back to 1945. In the View menu select Historical Imagery.
Try https://www.edx.org/ - you will find a wide variety of courses in there. Courses are free unless you wanted official certificate (so the content is free)

Another one is https://www.coursera.org/ - similar (last time I looked there have been free courses in there)
I think it's dubious if any court is going to care about static/dynamic linking technical discussions, particularly since we're talking about an Android app with Java code, among other things.

The GPL license itself doesn't bother with such technical minutiae either. But it does concern itself with distributing GPL code and unrelated code as a "whole"; and undeniably the Wix Android app comes with the Wordpress GPL code.

So I don't think this is the particular case that you want to test the whole dynamic linking discussion on.
Absolutely correct on all points. I do think it is worth clarifying your statement:

> The MIT license gives less rights than GPL

The MIT license gives less rights to end users than GPL. The GPL gives less rights to publishers than MIT.
That's sad, because I don't see what the equivalent of the smartphone is in this case... VR? I would have love a more powerful 13 inches MBP instead of a very good looking touchbar
Whatsapp is end-to-end encrypted, remember, including the contents of videos. In order to block videos they'd basically have to undo that and give themselves the ability to monitor everything that everyone is sending, including private consensual sexual content.
More proof that being the first to invent something is overrated. Execution matters as much as invention.

I think it also proves how much everyone (the most boot-strappiest included) rely on society and circumstance to provide a favorable environment.

Peter Thiel born 10 years earlier or later probably ends up as a nobody. Maybe successful, but certainly not a billionaire.
sling.com includes espn along with a few other channels for only $20 a month.
> "The people who can make a living as an artist are a few dozen worldwide"

There are tens of thousands of musicians, photographers, actors, singers, and dancers that live off of their art.
This answer explains the real issue. The problem is the question is asking the person to find the bug in the code, but the way it's asked is in a way that would make someone feel like a freshman in college.
I bet your kitchen is fabulous
I realized that Elon Musk is very effective at selling his idea, so effective and subtle that you do not even notice he is selling.
Ecology, convenience, quality... hard to say no. Sold.
I share your thoughts and I think it's many reasons things are the way they are. Main reason being money.

Young programmers are cheaper and easier to boss around.

Quantifying programmer skill is an easy sell, albeit flawed, "look at the score, we should hire or ignore!". Because hiring programmers you don't know is very difficult. This score can also serve as a way of lowering pay.

I think we all want to work with new and cool stuff, so this is pushed as a selling point to get you working for pizza and beer. The pay is not good but you can work with <insert latest shit> here.

How your company looks is important if you want VC money. Better keep your look young and vibrant. This also serves to attract other young cheap workers.
Boks Kar didn't get selected either for W17, we found out by looking the status on our application page.

The cool part is we look forward in taking our company to the next level. There is a ton of stories of founders moving forward without YC, and sometimes you don't need an accelerator to make your dream come true. It's the dream itself that's powers you to make it come true. It would have been great to meet the YC team and learn from them. But after with much thought, it makes sense to move forward and become a market leader to tip my hat to YC.

If you're interested to work for company that's going to change how we own cars - drop your resume@bokskar.com

Power on and take your dream to the next level. I'm 404.

Thanks,
Rudy Ferraz
BoksKar.com
That assumes that technologically capable people must be the progeny of technically/technologically capable people, which I put to you is not in any way, shape or form true.

Are you using the number of 1.3 from people with university education in the rich world? It seems a very narrow window through which to view humanity'a 'capable' people, who exist in all shapes and forms, all colours, on all continents, and often arise from deep poverty without any formal education, my grandfather for instance
Trick or treat with funny Perl modules
Best viewed on a 14" monitor?
I mean, I wasn't _really_ looking for a suggestion. I interview them and tell them we're not interested. Which seems like the right thing to do in this situation.

This idea of hiring everyone with experience and hoping you have a job for them doesn't seem terribly sustainable.

> Another is finding those developers roles that suit them better. Maybe that's some other aspect of the software pipeline like QA or testing or internal tools.

I'm used to QA and testing being done by developers. This results in a lot of high-quality automated tests, which are much cheaper than testing the same thing manually every few days.

Internal tools is where I would want my best developers, I would think. Dragging down the productivity of the entire department by having bad internal tooling is pretty worst-case.
It's just sick, and coupled with the early indoctrination that you're a loser if you don't get higher education, it's a real push-pull scam.
I disagree with Michele, and think that if you ever have a comment like that to do over with, maybe save the concerns about the reputations of people accused of sexual assault for stories that aren't about women shamed into suicide for their own rapes.
> because from a physical perspective the two are simply geometrical transformations of one another

Not really, at least if you want to keep simplicity of Newton's laws which are formulated for inertial reference frames. The reference frame in the heliocentric model is inertial, while in the geocentric one it is not.
No. See what I mean about requisite knowledge?

I've been interested in learning DTrace for some time now, as it seemed like a tremdously helpful tool, but my systems are all linux, I don't run Fedora or RHEL, so systemtap is out. In recent months, eBPF has become a viable option, so I've been looking into that, but haven't had time to dive in deep yet. This makes me a poor candidate for doing this sort of work, which is why I'm not saying for sure that I'd do it. But I might be willing to try.

Don't get me wrong: I have no particular attachment to D as the tracing language. However, I do think it's worth supporting the tracing language that pretty much all of the other big unixes support if we can.

Am I less than qualified to have that opinion? Yes. Think what you will.
This assertion that Hillary Clinton is racist seems to reply on accepting as fact that the goal of Planned Parenthood is the extermination of the African American population, and that Clinton's support of the organization is evidence that she must support that ideal.

Meanwhile one only has to Google for a second or two to find plenty of documentation of Donald Trump's racist ideals.

Claiming that the former is "much stronger" evidence than the latter requires, after accepting a rather uncharitable interpretation of Planned Parenthood's purpose, completely ignoring the circumstantial evidence of Trump's own racist views (which, of course, many Trump supporters are going to do, as they are convinced the entirety of the media is directly controlled by the DNC, and all negative reporting on Trump is slander and propaganda.)

Asserting that Trump's opposition to Planned Parenthood is evidence of his lack of racism ignores the fact that the Republican Party's platform is to oppose abortion and contraception in their entirety in order to appeal to Christian conservatives and Catholic voters. That opposition would be there regardless of the demographics of the aborted, because it's required to be a Republican presidential candidate.

In any case, the argument you've laid out here (but haven't really supported) for Clinton being the more racist of the two is not very compelling, unless one is already extremist enough to consider it tautological, in which case you're only preaching to the choir and not likely to convince anyone.
The point is that using "vocabulary" tests to determine programming ability is nonsense. You can still write useful JS without knowing what the hell "var" does. And if you discovered that person doesn't know what it does, then it's trivial to correct.
I guess, yeah, you could do it in hardware. But I don't think, then, it ends up being directly connected to the power feed for the camera itself, yeah? You start creating false-status cases. (This is speculation; I am not an electronics wizard.)
Doesn't that make the problem easier? Send one stream to a network node close to the viewer and then "fan out" the stream from there? No need to worry about 50 different users who all started watching Luke Cage at slightly different times.
If we're all racist, and that racism is enough to condemn any of us at the whim of someone else, what's the point in trying to not be racist?
> The fact that I have worked for several industry leading companies, and had 20+ years of development experience was irrelevant without that score.

This pretty much sums up what I hate about technical interviews that require a white board. You could have a solid resume, good references that can speak to your technical skill, and a discussion about your previous projects could demonstrate technical aptitude.

However, because you can't solve a problem that took people weeks to figure out in an artificial, stressful, and contrived situation, companies won't look at you.
I've never heard of that claim before. Anything to show for it?
Would one server be enough for their load though?
Google's 'Project Zero' Hid a Major Vulnerability in Apple's OS and iOS Cores