skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a terrible process. I've never been asked that by anyone. The most I've had are some remote interviews where they use something like codepen (on-line group REPL)and they ask you a question and watch you write/run it.

In one of them, my interviewer was a little late and found me trying to open .. and /. I could get a file list of a root file system. There was a file in / titled something like HACKING.txt and explained that you were in a container, but if you did find something, there was a bug bounty program.
I think I would be okay with this, if it was on their premises with their computer. that being said, I find these practices repulsive. but I feel like the SNL/west world skit. [0]

[0]https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/anderson-coope...
Sorry. I am primarily a schemer, so that's what I'm referring to.

Readtables and generic setters (as specified by SRFI-17: a bit limited compared to CL, as I understand it) are very common extensions, and there are several loop macros floating around, all inspired by CL.

We also technically took dynamic scope from CL, but most schemes only have R7RS dynamic scope, which isn't so much dynamic scope as it is a hack that looks a lot like dynamic scope if you squint.
How is a Chrome extension able to detect what external monitors or running applications there are on the system?
This is the same rule change that says if you use a VPN or TOR you can legally be hacked by the FBI, yes? I wonder if people who use work VPNs will be exempted since afaik the wording is about services that obscure your location, and most business VPNs aren't concerned with that (especially if they have split routing configured properly).
EC2 to S3 is already free. That's not true for all AWS services though. Also interzone bandwidth is charged at 0.01 leaving AND entering, making it the same as inter-region bandwidth costs. If lightsail is truly free for that it's a game changer.
If it is using proctorio.com as mentioned in other comment, I think it is normal.
On Juniper or Cisco certification test (using Pearson vue) they warn the candidate something like this (not fully the same especially for eye and mouth movements, but the candidate is video recorded).
Basically it is to make sure the candidate is not cheating.
The different is it is using Desktop provided by testing center partner.
I see a play button at the very top of the page on my not so great Android.
There are about 5 key stretching exercises for your back that you should consider.

See the book "Treat your own back"

When I injured my back 20 years ago I found them quite helpful in recuperating.
The free TV time gifted to Trump for saying outrageous things gave him a decided signal boost over his rivals. On the other hand, the media did not give sufficient time to a sane counterargument whereas a well-regulated forum might offer that opportunity.

Unfortunately, that's not what we see from the balance of Trump supporters online, who are not at all hesitant to flag or brigade opposing viewpoints regardless of merit.
> What are you going to do, take a break and load up some porn?

If they're collecting this much data already, how much of a stretch do you think it is to obtain your browser history?
Reddit cracks down on abuse as CEO apologizes for trolling the trolls
Yeeeeeaaah, I don't think you can say that.

But what you can say is: "If you want me to jump through all of those hoops, send me a $99 tablet that's already configured for the test conditions you want to subject me to."
Phenethylamines tend to have more side effects and feel less natural.

The ones you listed, such as 2C-C and 2C-E are quite different different. 2C-C may be gentle but 2C-E can be extremely intense / reality shattering. I will never look at reality the same after a 20mg dose of 2C-E.
Also, many of the phenethylamines are now illegal. Including the NBOME series which are extremely toxic.

I'd say stick with the tryptamines like 4-HO/AcO-DMT/DIPT/MIPT, DPT, ALD-52 as they tend to be more enlightening rather than entertaining, IMO.
Any thoughts on why AWS/Xilinx didn't go for a mid-range FPGA to help validate customer requirements?

My guess is that Amazon will have to be very careful not to price themselves out of the market, for mid-range Deep Learning based cloud apps.

Wild guestimate but I think it'll cost more than $20/hr for each instance.
if you're interviewing someone and your interviews questions can be answered by a quick google, maybe you should think that during the course of a work day, the same applies and you should think about a test that actually tests skills involved in the work the candidate will be doing

i have no problem with a candidate doing something totally by themself in part 2 of 5 before in in person interview; theres still another 3 different interviews (many of which will be in person) to catch cheating and such

it's just a filter; it's not the interview
Fortunately, I still have the e-mail that they originally sent me. They list the requirements as:

In order to take the assessments from your home, you will need:
* a webcam (either internal or external is fine)
* a microphone
* a computer that meets the technical requirements and equipment test (most Macs and PCs meet these requirements – Linux and Unix are not compatible)
* a basic calculator (please do not plan to use your phone, computer, or graphing calculator)
* a government-issued photo ID

However, later in the e-mail:

> If you do not have a webcam, your computer doesn’t meet the technical requirements, or for any reason you'd prefer to take the exam at a proctored location near you, please let me know. I’ll need you to provide your full legal name and current address, and I’ll be able to make alternate arrangements.

I think the company they do this through has testing locations around the USA to accommodate.
More than once I've conducted phone screens and heard candidates attempting to look up the answers to questions online. (Hint: it's hilariously obvious when you ask something that follows the previous answer, the connection goes silent except for a few clicks of the keyboard, and the candidate then suddenly has the answer that sounds a LOT like it came from StackOverflow.)

I've even had a candidate whisper the question to someone else in the room with them. Seriously, it's ridiculous what some have done.
Trotsky was a loyal agent of myself until his death.

That's got as much proof as the page you linked. There's a difference between being open to ideas and believing any shit someone says.
I still have the original e-mail they sent me, below the requirements section to do it online (OS X or Windows PC, Webcam, Microphone, etc), they say:

> If you do not have a webcam, your computer doesn’t meet the technical requirements, or for any reason you'd prefer to take the exam at a proctored location near you, please let me know. I’ll need you to provide your full legal name and current address, and I’ll be able to make alternate arrangements.

I believe the company they use to proctor these tests offers physical locations if you do not have access to a computer with the requirements
Why would anyone want to ever work for Amazon? Their culture is terrible and they are not innovative despite their claims to the contrary. They are simply a technical sweat shop that tries a lot of random things.

There's more to life than working for a big tech company. Big tech companies are the worst. If you value your life and you're a creative person and good at what you do, find yourself a (good) medium size company that pays well.

They're out there.
A fascinating tidbit from Wikipedia:

>The 1986 Soviet film Race of the Century ("Гонка века") gave a dramatic presentation of the events of the Golden Globe Race and the fate of Donald Crowhurst. The movie focused on the idea of competition in a capitalist society as a soul-consuming "rat race", where all community members including children are under constant pressure, and failure and poverty are not tolerated. It portrayed Crowhurst as a deeply honest man being forced into a dangerous unwinnable enterprise by his disastrous financial situation and the greed of his entrepreneur Best. The screenplay took some liberties with the facts, such as downplaying Crowhurst's role in his own destruction, and reporting Tetley as having been killed in a wreckage instead of committing suicide many years later (probably to increase the tension). Crowhurst's suicide is ascribed chiefly to the inability of a moral person to survive in an immoral society.
This may not be legal. See this very famous case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

If tests aren't directly relevant, they may be breaking the law.
The Energy Information Agency has a nice map of them:

http://www.eia.gov/state/maps.cfm

(turn off some layers to make it easier to look at)

I guess that's transportation pipelines and not distribution pipelines though.
Dead trees version is here: https://www.amazon.com/Berkshire-Hathaway-Letters-Shareholde...
While still not cheap in total, Amazon has a 2 year clawback in their relo bonus.
Which syntax seems arbitrary? I've been reading Rust since its primordial days, and I'm happy to help explain the ultimate reason behind any bit of syntax. :)
I've found googling, "#{what my customers call themselves to each other} forum", will find online forums where my target customers hangout.

'real estate investor forum', 'developers with depression forum' both find great forums of real estate investors, and depressed engineers.
"Why even offer a service like this if you cannot GUARANTEE that the $5 they say they charge is all you'll ever get charged?"

Exactly! We have used AWS and DO a lot this past year. DO is great for smaller sites/api's and super easy to use. Their support is also outstanding.

AWS has tons of tools but many come at a cost. We are in the process of moving a couple of sites off of AWS and onto a LiquidWeb dedicated box. We will be paying much less and the LW dedicated server is more than enough for what we need.

AWS is great for spinning up and scaling instances quickly and comes with a ton of other tools. At the end of the day however it is not always the most cost effective or even best offering for most sites/apps.
PostGIS is absolutely supported.
To be honest the answer seems simple. Get _EVERYONE_ on VPNs, regardless. Even if you don't really use it for much, make it connect automatically via some browser plugin and send some trash random data.

As a "data scientist" the most painful thing I have to deal with is data cleaning and data quality. Add to that the difficulty of actually getting into a (hopefully broad) array of VPN providers and tracking every person yelling into the pipe will make their (FBI/NSA) lives very very difficult, and this makes me happy on a rather visceral level.
I don't think that's accurate: Carlsen could have gotten a winning advantage just by defending everything with Qg3. On chess24's broadcast, Svidler even thought Carlsen might not go for the mate just because Qg3 was safely good enough.
I wouldn't paint Amazon with that kind of brush, but you could make a good case that old-school IBM worked that way. They even had a corporate anthem.
An HR person who signs off on this without requiring verification by a vetted software engineer would demonstrate poor judgment indeed.

The whole point of having a responsible person is that the buck stops with them.
well, as i said in another comment as well, if your questions can be answered by a quick web search, then maybe they should think about how you actually work; you web search a LOT. ask questions that filter on something less obvious

there are still in person stages; this is just a filter for them. it's not like it's the only data you get to hire or not hire someone
Amen. Amen. Amen!
Freedom on the Net 2016 report
I also recommend having a benzo before taking any psychedelic for the first time. It will bring you out of it for the most part if you start having a bad time.
So, what if I run the browser in a VM, and cheat in a second VM? With a secondary input device to switch between which VM is displayed on my screen? Or even an overlay?

They’d be completely fooled.

It’s completely useless, and so needlessly invasive.
what episode is the reference from, I don't remember it
Or a desktop computer sans camera?
I find this funny, stupid and creepy at the same time.

Creepy - recording a dude's facial reactions, eye movements, mouth movements.. All this for a remote interview screening?

Stupid - I believe quickly Googling for some documentation, or even better solutions can save loads of a developer time in this day and age with StackOverflow. I would instead consider a person that was smart enough to cheat in a code test like this as a great choice. This reminds me so much of schooling system in India where the kid who memorizes essays verbatim scores higher than the kid who actually understood it and reproduced in own words.

Funny - Did they really think no one would object to this and post this on social media or HN?

My current manager who hired me right out of Grad school tells me, "Interview is a two-way process. A candidate need to be tested whether is talented and is a good fit for the team. Equally importantly, the candidate should be sold on the idea of working for us(company)."

On that case, Amazon has even tougher job of convincing a candidate. Not all sane people would want to work for above average pay while putting up with ridiculous work pressure [thinking about that guy who jumped off of Amazon work place].

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-28/amazon-wo...
Probably supposed to be Heisencompiler as a play on Heisenberg's uncertainty principal.
If I ever decide to stop being a human being and start being a lab rat I know I have plenty of options.
I would pay 0$ more for TV+Internet vs just Internet. For the last two years, despite having a TV and Comcast sending me a (huge & ugly) set-top box that would give me basic TV channels, I just cannot be bothered to connect it. The only thing connected to my TV is a Chromecast, which I use a lot. I'm sure Comcast still counts me as a cable TV user.
Wow. I would not consent to that.

Then again, I run i3wm atop Linux. Even if I wanted to take such a test, it would be... interesting.
They are a big company that operates with a fairly proprietary set of programming language and tools (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS), and they hire a good number of people right out of undergraduate degrees. I remember there being a large proportion of non-CS students from across the country there interviewing for engineering positions.

What they're looking for, I think, is not necessarily your ability to "hack" and program, but that you fit the mold of someone they can put through a rigorous 6 week (or more? I forget) training program that will teach you the basics of their stack, and then have you banging away.
My friend lived in house with an oil well in the back yard. Really wasn't noticeable after you got used to the noise it made. After a week I forgot it was there.
How long until the latest phishing scam is promising people job interviews?
Enabling peer learning has proven to be a high leverage strategy for VCs willing to roll up their sleeves, great perspective from the participants role here, Jimoh. Shawn.
Maxeler sells a compiler (and hardware) for writing FPGA apps in Java: https://www.maxeler.com
It's so confusing that I switched to DO. Not that DO is cheaper but it's pricing is way simpler.
Hey you don't want the job then go Fuck your self .. this is a test for Gods sake not some place to show your youthful in patience.
8 Software Engineer

I get to look for interesting patterns in real estate data. I can do some interesting tech(to me), so I'm pleased with my job.
Situations, Actions, and Causal Laws by John McCarthy (1963) [pdf]
Not to mention much less user friendly.
Another abstraction!! In my perspective, One of the distinguishing feature of FAAS or serverless architecture is that, we pay one and only when the function executes. But building serverless architecture on container would fail this. Correct me if am wrong!!
Helden is german for "hero"
http://www.a-eon.com/?page=x5000
Yet again someone will come here to give an apologia for the government, yet again people will shrug and throw up their hands, yet again people will complain yet do nothing, and next time someone points out how corrupt the government is those same people will argue that the government is good, the government can be trusted... It just goes on and on and the oppressive society will only tighten it's grip on power.

What will you do? HN and HN mods are cheerleaders for the government, posts, like this one, are flagged and voted down or never appear in the first place -- oh this throw away green account, its just a troll, no one needs to water their time reading, only a loon doesn't trust the government.

All the time we have threads congratulating people for working for the government, for helping Obama care not be a wreck, for modernizing the beaucratic nightmare, help the oplressive government become better and morw efficient, they obviously can be trusted.

Everyone here does nothing, snd the few who speak out are silenced. You accept the tyranny before you and laugh at those who resist.
Redraw state borders, see the election results
I know Z80, more or less, but it's hard to get your hands on the link cable for a TI-83+ where I live.

I'll probably have to order one off Amazon at some point.
I'm not familiar with the term "Heldencompilers", but this describes compilers for all modern languages. :P C++ moreso than C, but even C can need cajoling to get it to conform to the specific structures that modern optimizers recognize (and that structure can even differ from compiler to compiler), especially for stuff like autovectorization.

Also note that Swift doesn't have the same performance goals that Rust does, preferring to trade some off in favor of ergonomics.
I think it's a bit silly to get so worked up about this. The test is simply to gauge programming skill in an online test, and they want to check you are not cheating. Though I think they could have worded it without freaking people out: "You are going to be video monitored during the test".
I don't really care much about amazon because I hear they monopolize your life and have an aggressive culture. However, I do like me some puzzles:

1. The passage is about the good and bad of fanfiction which is posted on the internet. I pedantically disagree with the exact reading of response 2, but it's the correct one, I believe.

2. Only conclusion 1 is necessarily true, because of the transitive property of inequalities; X ? Y and Z/Y can be rewritten as X < Y <= Z. However, we cannot relate any magnitude information to V and it is not necessarily true that a number becomes larger when multiplied by another number (if we assume X is zero and V is positive, for instance).

3. These kinds of spot-the-pattern questions are incredibly arbitrary. However, the most obvious thing to associate with the alphabet is a numerical association with the letters based on it's placement in the common (but not universal) ordering of the Latin alphabet. When you do that, you see that UVS is the only sequence of letters that aren't "descending" even though letters can't truly be ordered.

4. The No Free Lunch Theorem says that no statistical method can find a pattern on the set of all possible inputs, which is why these questions are all bullshit, mathematically speaking. The only thing that makes 4 a better next step for the sequence 1, 2, 3, is that our own personal experience tells us that counting is fairly common, but enumerating the squarefree numbers isn't. You could also make the case that 27:24 has the pattern of 3^3:3^3-3, so maybe 64:x is 4^3:4^3-4 making it 60, but this doesn't feel in any way obvious to me, so I have no idea what they're thinking.
Not necessarily.

You can use an HDMI splitter, and merge the videos of the two computers. As overlay. You can also program the second computer to have a mouse controlled by a single muscular activation in your cheek or tongue – for example, if you have a tongue piercing, put a magnet in, use a phone to recognize the magnetic field, tape the phone below your desk (it’ll measure the difference from movement), and connect that to the PC.

No way to recognize it for them, and you circumvented it entirely.

They’re trying to fight against people whose job is to circumvent weird complicated restrictions, and finding workarounds.
What you're saying is "I have nothing to hide." Don't let them get their foot in the door.
...Aparently, HN disagrees.
That part didn't seem strictly required to address the third-party content problem. They could have used the font icons, and just copied all the necessary bits to their server.

Also, for anyone with a similar problem, consider backing https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-... . They're 15 hours from completion, and $38k away from a stretch goal to release SVG icon support in the Open Source version.
Why is everyone assuming that a cheater will only do a "quick web search"? You could call someone to walk you through it over Skype, or get a person to solve it over remote desktop, or even have a friend sit in and do it for you, etc.

These are the cases where monitoring is needed. Whether or not what Amazon is doing is actually effective is another issue entirely. All I'm saying is that it's not as huge a deal as a lot of people on this thread are making it out to be.
Having just reread 1984, it seemed familiar to me. Sure, people cheat all the time to try to get a job (I have no idea why, even a cursory phone call will eliminate the ditch digger). Maybe Amazon should focus on making the jobs more enjoyable so people stick around and they wouldn't need such excess to find live bodies.
This time around there was an unusual amount of match strategy involved. In fact, what's interesting is that they always played the Spanish or the Italian, but in the one game where Karjakin wanted to (had to) win, he played the Najdorf.

Peter Svidler mentioned a very interesting suggestion that the players should play the tie-breaks before the match, which should produce more interesting games (in particular, it should avoid game-12-style games). But in any case, I think determining the structure of the championship match is a rather neat test-case of mechanism design.
English spelling wasn't really fully codified 500 years ago.
Unless he signed an NDA prior to this, I don't see an issue.
What the heck is cheating in programming? Do people watch you on a webcam at work to see if you are reading stackoverflow?
I really like the web based firewall configuration feature.
Hope Linode and DO adopte it.
I think I would prefer the proctored location in any case.
The fact that this was downvoted proves the "enlightened" people here are nothing other than homophobic rape-apologists.
Incidentally, Arvados (http://arvados.org) is the software used to host the Harvard PGP data, and is a free software platform for managing large scale storage and analysis aimed at scientific workloads.