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> Are you talking about PureScript? Judging by GitHub popularity I'd say both languages are about equal in that regard, but who knows.

I'm not talking about any language in particular. Just a generic observation about the pattern I've noticed across language communities. I'd much rather see less inflammatory rhetoric and more awesome stuff being made in whatever language people enjoy using so that the rest of us can see the technical design decisions and trade-offs involved. As I said in another comment programming languages are tools, they're not religions, so we should stop treating every little shortcoming as an affront to the one true way to write code and ship software.

Re: doing the right thing. I don't think he did. He didn't even bother looking into why the decision was made to take out a certain feature. He just assumed the decision was wrong because it made a certain design pattern he likes hard to emulate.

As I'm writing this I think I've spent too much time on explaining why the quality and approach of posts like "Elm is Wrong" is not the proper way to approach language design discourse. I'm sure it feels good to a certain segment of the population to point things out this way but to the rest of the community, especially other programmers that just do programming as a job all this drama seems quite childish and I think it again goes back to the point about programming languages being tools. When put in the proper context the drama is amateurish.
Why does there need to be a problem? It can be an open-source project that someone created just because their passion and creativity drove the to it.
Sounds like Amazon?
He wants to help white, cis male America. Trump has demonstrated great disdain for anybody who isn't that
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Arrogance?
While a good point, on a case by case basis there're at least some redundancies that have been accummulated over the decades of lawmaking

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/bug-system

"In the U.S., responsibility for food safety is divided among fifteen federal agencies. The most important, in addition to the F.S.I.S., is the Food and Drug Administration, in the Department of Health and Human Services. In theory, the line between these two should be simple: the F.S.I.S. inspects meat and poultry; the F.D.A. covers everything else. In practice, that line is hopelessly blurred. Fish are the province of the F.D.A.—except catfish, which falls under the F.S.I.S. Frozen cheese pizza is regulated by the F.D.A., but frozen pizza with slices of pepperoni is monitored by the F.S.I.S. Bagel dogs are F.D.A.; corn dogs, F.S.I.S. The skin of a link sausage is F.D.A., but the meat inside is F.S.I.S.

“The current structure is there not because it’s what serves the consumer best,” Elisabeth Hagen*, a former head of the F.S.I.S., told me. “It’s there because it’s the way the system has grown up.” Mike Taylor, the highest-ranking food-safety official at the F.D.A., said, “Everybody would agree that if you were starting on a blank piece of paper and designing the food-safety system for the future, from scratch, you wouldn’t design it the way it’s designed right now.”
Relevant at science, technology, economy, everything related.
I do not mean military relevance and some nebulous definition of being a superpower.
Many people who are actually on the autism spectrum (such as myself, though technically I was diagnosed with Aspergers a long time ago) don't want your help.

I'm continually annoyed that I actually have to say "autism spectrum disorder" to describe MYSELF, lest I be called politically incorrect.

Many just want to live a normal life, and having other people (with no vested interest whatsoever) rushing to our "defense", is quite honestly more condescending than OP's original comment.
You may find it disturbing, but mainstream USA is 100% on board with it. They aren't uninformed either; they just have different priorities.
We've seen a ton of these, even 2 that I can think of on HN in the last few years. How is yours different and why is it better?
Absolutely agree with the sentiment here. I have used this technique for a couple of years now, except that I kept the task to 20 minutes (and didn't pay people, since it's a short amount of time).

To save dragging people into an office for that time period, I set up a custom git server that marks the timestamps of their pulls and pushes. The instructions for the task are contained in the README of the repo, so as soon as they pull it they've started.

https://github.com/Prismatik/codescreen

It's critical to me that the limit is adhered to so that over time I can compare candidate responses on a level playing field.
Chesterton's Fence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
Also

- Crocker's Rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12881288

- Principle of Charity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12774600

- Rapaport's Rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12774692
>> much prefer to whiteboard

Who would have thought? Maybe - just maybe - not everyone has the same strengths and weaknesses. The real answer here is obvious: present the interviewee with options. Forcing all potential hires to whiteboard is a terrible idea. Forcing all potential hires to do a take-home project is a terrible idea. It's extremely short-sighted and a little pompous to assume that any single interview format one chooses is going to magically sort everyone into neat little buckets of "good" and "bad".

If you force the whiteboarding approach, you are only going to wind up hiring social butterflies who have absolutely no nerves standing up in front of complete strangers and having all the answers on the spot. If you force the take-home project approach, you're turning off a lot of people who can nail a first impression presenting themselves and their skillset in person.

People are different. Applying the same interview type to everyone is going to target a specific set of strengths, and a specific set of weaknesses. And frankly, no business should be composed entirely of one type of person. Some diversity does wonders when assessing the overall strength of a team.
APIs is a weird unit of complexity. Is 1 API more mental overhead than 12 APIs? It's hard to say.
50-80 years ago you banned drugs everywhere. That what USA intention. Now you doing opposite and are so happy with it.

Now you like LGBT, in 50 years you will kill them.

Same with many things.

The problem is that you do all this things to the world. And poor world must bend to your changing mind.

USA, keep this mind-changing insanity to yourself, ok?
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Your comment reminds me of the following famous quote by Winston Churchill.

"Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." -- Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1947)
I just want to publicly say that you and your position disgust me.

How long until you find yourself joining in on the fun? https://vid.me/3Fqo
It says that you should give them the option. If you don't want to do that, just finish it the day of the interview.
That's the kind of "prank" that's likely to kill people. I am at a loss as to how this is a prank. I understand different people have different senses of humor, but is there a context I'm missing in which it's funny?
I assume you mean Parallels in the first paragraph? I use Fusion and have never seen an ad in it.
Yeah, sorting out serious people from those wasting time is a hard one. Though I'm generally pretty sympathetic to employees/candidates on that one - am I wasting your time if I'm pretty sure I don't want to leave my current place, but want to keep a hand in and know what the market looks like? I would say know, but I know some people who would disagree, and have decent reasons for it.

Even after that, the "experience candidate phone call to see if they're worth flying in" part is definitely the one where I have the hardest time, being not in the Bay Area. I was lucky to find some great local people, where the cost was lower, because that's an expensive one to have to get good at fast. You lose a lot of nuance over the phone, though some other people in the company have been having very good luck with homework in this case - but as a candidate-choice option, where they could still go the traditional route if they wanted.
> This works, but make sure they spend the 2 hours in your office and not 12 hours at home solving a 2 hour problem..

This goes against the core message of the article. The candidate is supposed to think about a problem on their own, and propose a well-reflected solution on Monday. That's pretty much the opposite of "sit down in this noisy corner in an unknown environment and give us something in two hours".

> The other problem is that when you pay them you generate all sorts of nightmaris legal liabilities.

If hiring a freelancer to do a little thing tends to generate all sorts of nightmarish legal liabilities, your company is either a government contractor or it has even bigger structural problems than hiring.
Sure, he'll pursue it and it'll fail. He only has 100 days to spend his political capital attempting this, along with everything else he's trying.
I'd still recommended not using that word this way.

I'm afraid it helps cement a certain understanding in the readers.

Or, perhaps more importantly, it will be used as training data for someones AI based HR startup which will go on to filter out perfectly good candidates for being "autistic".
Sure, they are violating the law, but I and many others would say that it's an unjust and harmful law.

Laws exist to serve people, not the other way around.
just out of curiosity, which model of Dell Chromebook did you get?
Eat more chickens and less cows.

Source: Before the flood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=codqzJ4onGc
For initial learning, I would second NLTK with: http://www.nltk.org

You can also checkout https://github.com/vseloved/cl-nlp. It is an NLP toolkit in Common Lisp. Vsevolod the project owner is a great guy to work with. I had contributed with some minor bug fixes, tests, documentation more than a year back, hence the mention of Vsevolod.

You could also think on the alternative lines of contributing to an open source project in NLP and building an application on top of it. Talking to any such project owner for expected sample apps might help, as they can go into that project gallery and you get to level up your skills. Hope this helps.
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Even if it is open source there was a problem he wanted to solve. We can just guess what it was.
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> They need to do more than get rid of the higher up executives.

Adam Bain built Twitter's ad business from scratch to a respectable ARPU on a product that many thought was not conducive to it. It's arguably one of the only achievements at Twitter since the original concept was born.

He is the fall guy for flattening revenue while user growth and product remain stagnant, while other execs increase their own spending by $1.5B a year and make zero improvement to either of these metrics.

They are the ones who need to go - that they're not being held accountable is bad.
So, it turns out that non-completes are illegal in California.

http://www.rhdtlaw.com/job-hopping-california-right/
start a project with someone. write your own data scraper, and implement a model.
It is perfectly possible to report on what Trump proposes and says and does without becoming a mind reader and fortune teller. You can - and actually very much should! - still report on his lies by giving facts disproving him, or mention e.g. scientific consensus or lack thereof questioning or substantiating his claims, or contrast the opinions Trump holds by also reporting on the opinions his opponents hold.

You can write opt-ed pieces and be a pundit for a while if you think your own opinion might interest your readers too.

But mixing reporting with fact-free punditry and a heap of general virtue signaling in the same article is just detrimental to ones journalistic reputation and will immediately alienate everybody outside of your own echo chamber.

You researched facts why Trump's immigration policies are bad? People stopped reading after the initial "Trump is such a racist!" paragraph.

You researched facts why Clinton's Libya policies backfired? People stopped reading after the initial "Hillary is so crooked!" paragraph.
nice way to get on a slippery slope towards "eval()".

"Read My Lips: no new APIs!"
Would you prefer a system without politicians?

Yes.

What kind of system is that?

Self-government[1] and/or a stateless society[2].

[1]: https://www.theadvocates.org/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_society
> he's promised to end net neutrality

That's bad

> force companies to give up encryption keys.

They already did that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
This is probably my biggest frustration with Trump. Based on his campaign, I don't anticipate him being receptive to any form of accountability.
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Of course the task should be a test of the stuff you'll be doing on the job. If the job is to create quick websites without a whole lot of complexity for lots of clients, this would be an apt test. I'd fail that miserably and probably not like the job anyway. If the job involves working on more complex backend systems, then have the candidate write an async messaging system or DB storage system from scratch. I'd ace that. If the company has a large product, give multiple projects and let the candidate self-select.
You have to pick something and stick with it. I think a lot of us have these urges to jump into something new. The industry I'm currently in is definitely not the most stimulating (for me anyway), but I've been doing it for 7 years now and have stuck to it (I'm 37). Prior to that I was an MCSE, did a ton of hardware hacking, marketing, etc but found that I didn't master anything.
Lest anyone forgets, term limits will never happen. Mitch McConnell is 100% against it and, guess what, it has to get through him to happen.
Many parallels to Donald Trump's "Contract with the Americans" (2016) : https://www.donaldjtrump.com/contract
I had an incredibly bad experience with this recently. They failed to do the end-of-contract review on time, extended the contract period numerous times after, and when they finally got around to the review said, "we're not a good fit." I actually liked the people and the job, but got the distinct impression it was just a team full of devs that wanted a devops to clean up their terrible infrastructure mess, future proof it, and then let them go.

Never again will I do contract-to-maybe-hire.
Look for right angle usb connectors. They're pretty useful when you're dealing with size constraints like this. I'm honestly kind of surprised that Western Digital didn't have a supplier that you could call up, custom cables seem like a natural thing for them.
For the models you may generate their file with blender or other 3d editing tool.

But if you mean things like spheres, boxes, tetrahedrons and others - you may write them manually, isn't it easy(?)

It's 50% chance that we will make an editor for it (cause it will be super easy with such API)
Honestly what else is new? I voted for Obama on pledges he'd end the war in Iraq and close down the constitutional abomination that is Guantanamo. 8 years later and here we are.
If there is demand why not cater to it rather than legislate against it. I'm not a hardcore free-market ideologist but in this case we should let the market decide and adjust our zoning/development policies accordingly so no-one has to bear the full brunt of compromise. Airbnb is a vast improvement over hotels and opened up a new travel market. I have literally decided not to go on holiday rather than stay in a hotel that offers half the convenience, functionality and location at triple the price. This is something that is completely missing from the narrative.
if these are really his views then I would be happy if he can achieve 50% of this. I understand why big people fought against him now.
At least he hasn't started a war yet and it doesn't seems like he is planning to either.

Between

* extra energy consumption based on war efforts on both sides and rebuilding countries afterwards,

* as well as oil fields being literally set on fire,

that is a few tons of CO2 as well.
"If this rule needs to be broken, then bring me a proposal for why" is a good addition. The idea should be to swap the default to less-complexity rather than more-complexity. If more is less, then it should be possible to write a succinct justification for it.
Character matters though. I have close family members, in a battleground state, that abstained despite voting Republican their entire lives.

And, personally, I consider voting for a person, a person who's entire election has been based on personality and rhetoric, is endorsing their character.

Which is also the problem with the lack of enthusiasm you could hear in a lot of Hillary voters as well but people would still vote for her because it'd be an incremental step forward (on some things) instead of a big step back (on a lot).
>> despite the weeks of testing you've done

I have never in 12 professional years been given weeks to test anything. On only a couple of occasions have I been given 3-4 days to extensively test a project with multiple months of development time behind it.

Clearly you're talking about the project where the developer(s) told you very explicitly that it could not be done in less than 3 months. So you just assign the Jira ticket a 3 week deadline anyway. And then flip out when a half-assed project fails to ship. Welcome to the world of software development.
twitter is a saudi company now. It cannot be trusted.
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Crazy that I'm not dead yet. Somehow the rest of us manage to eat without spending dividends earned from money given to us by our parents.
Multi-platform at the lowest cost.
Earlier projections I saw said a million, but you are right thanks.
I don't see how elections themselves aren't term limits. You want to end someone's reign, vote them out. Am I missing something?
It's a question to you whether you get to shate the culture of the space race. You rejected it in your parent comment.

Suffrage is not everything. The right of doing your finances is another one. The right to abortion is yet other. Entering higher education a different one.

You make it sound like culture is a rigid thing like a barcode, it's either same on two individuals or different, end of story. It is not so. You share more with your peers, a bit less with other compatriots, a bit less with people from neighboring countries, a bit less, but still significant amount, with all white Europeans, and then you share some with the rest of the world.

But on the 'white European' level quite some interesting things do happen.
How did you get people you didn't hire to share with you their actual salary preferences, and companies that didn't hire you their actual salary ranges? Sounds like that would be super useful info
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Watched this for a solid three minutes and flappy birds never made it past the third column. Painful.

Edit: generation 25 got 10k points and was continuing onward when I stopped. Beautiful.
This is really cool, and I'm nowhere near smart enough to understand fully how it works, but I'm wondering. Is the "computer" blind in this case? It doesn't seem to understand, even after 50~ runs, that it needs to aim for the opening. It seems to simply go after luck, hoping that some line up. And if it lines up a few times, it will get further, so it is learning something, but still not seeing the change the next time.

Edit: Seeing the new comments here, it seems like it only starts learning after you refresh once or twice. Very cool!
The numerical representation of the content is not what's in question. It's the user-perceived content.

Let's say you take the contents of a book, add an extra space between some words, then compress/hash the new contents. The numerical representation could be completely different, but the user-perceived content is the same.

Sorry to get all legally lawful on over your ass, but the law of the land (and common sense) dictates that the new contents are still the works of the original author even though the numerical representation is completely different.
This is criticism of the president elect and his stance on immigration, not outrage.

Are you trying to say attacking an American-born judge for having Mexican heritage isn't racism?
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So no akka for you (or bookkeepers, knickknacks, or Hanukkah)?
That's just the color scale they've used for the z axis.
It doesn't matter who eats the apples. It matter who owns the orchard.

The US is eating the apples but China owns the orchard.
Generation 48. What about you guys?
>but whats the alternative. The status quo of doing nothing?
I will almost always side with action vs. inaction.

What if someone said the reported problems are overblown and immigrants actually help our economy?
My recommendations, based on online courses and YouTube playlists I've taken:

- Coursera's old NLP course by Michael Collins, Columbia Univ. More of theory and concepts. It's discontinued now on coursera but the material is available at academictorrents. [1]

- NLP with Python and NLTK videos by sentdex [2]. Mostly programming, but with useful nuggets of concepts introduced here and there.

[1]: http://academictorrents.com/details/f99e7184fca947ee8f779016...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDf2JswnfiGk...
Yep. The law should be changed so legal immigration is much easier.
True - but then eventually, everyone would have to focus on the hard/hairy parts, no?
I wish I could filter jobs by this criteria. Can we do this in the who's hiring thread? I'm sick of the interview process and massive unpaid work assignments cough Compose cough only to find out after investing thirty unpaid hours that they can't offer US market rates to a Canadian for 100% remote job. Oh and they also want to own anything you do in your free time.

Sorry for ranting, I'm just pissed off at how an industry that brags about how they pamper their employees can treat them like garbage during the interview process.
>This works, but make sure they spend the 2 hours in your office and not 12 hours at home solving a 2 hour problem..

Did you read the article?

That's what the article author is saying not to do, they prefer to see a well worked solution after you define a particular technology, showing they are adaptable and have thought it through properly.

Limiting them to your office, timeboxed, advantages people who spit out lines of code quickly, which is definitely not the right fit for a huge amount of coding positions, especially when you are emphasising logical choices and design decisions.
Hey folks, I'm lead developer of Sovereign (and YC alumni, winter batch 2015) and also original creator of DemocracyOS.

In the light of recent events, we released the source code of Sovereign, a new app for decentralized governance where we are working on a liquid democracy model that can operate with a blockchain.

Happy to answer any questions and get feedback regarding this.
As a (legal) immigrant, I have to remind you that there is legal immigration, and illegal, let's not confuse them.
That's because the system you're now paying into is saving the lives of people who would have had no healthcare otherwise. Like it or not, you live in a society with other people. If you want your society to be fair and just, you have to make some sacrifices.