skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what an effective approach would be for 40+'ers who don't have kids or other outside constraints. I'm thinking they wouldn't necessarily want to bring it up in an interview, since familial status is a protected class and employers may blanch at statements along these lines.
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I also disagree. I think they designed a great game for the only kind of interface possible on a small phone, which is tapping the screen. I don't play any phone games so maybe there are others that are similar, but this one is super polished and I'm enjoying it a lot.
> I’ve spent thousands of hours reading books, writing code, and watching computer science lectures, all to prepare for the Google software engineer interview.

Shouldn't you just be doing this anyway if you want to be a good computer scientist? That's how you learn. You constantly take in new information and attempt to apply it and Computer Science is one of the most enabling fields of this form of learning since 1) we all love to churn out an "Experiment" every once and a while and have it fall into being a small side project that makes us a few k and 2) almost EVERYTHING is free! All the info is made by basement-dwelling nerds who sit at home and build cool ass shit and as such they put it all on the internet! Being one of these basement dwelling nerds, it's frigin amazing to have a wealth of all of the fields best research at my fingertips just a google away and I love learning this stuff not for an inevitable goal of "Being a Googler (tm)" but instead of furthering what I know about the world.

If the author is reading this, good on you for learning but don't worry about being a googler if you can do this then you're better then the average googler because you're in the top 1 maybe 2% of all computer scientists if you continually want to learn more. Google even thinks that way, look at their higher level employees like Rob Pike, people who think programmers must be limited because they aren't able to think as well as him about abstractions. Don't waste your time at google. Start a company, build something amazing for yourself or do contract work for others, write these blog posts to get more clients, and make the world a better place. If you're this smart you don't need to run a hamsterwheel for a huge Google-sized corporation.
> and connectivity is only going to get better.

If it gets more robust too then sure, but it won't.
That's never the answer. Why is it that it's ok to not treat some people with basic human dignity and respect?
Ya you're right, this is cross-industry. Lord of the Rings did the same thing with its franchise. They released all the "Theater Version"s first knowing the hardcore fans wouldn't be able to wait the many months after for the extended edition. It's an annoying tactic to say the least.
I look at the skillset between when I was 25 and now (30) and it's astounding. I can't imagine what the difference between 50 and 25 will be.

If you're hiring 40-60 year olds you cannot simply hire a 25 year old and get an "acceptable tradeoff of competency" unless you didn't need anything close to that competency in the first place.

Also if you're 50 and are relying on a new job's retirement program you're probably in for a rude awakening about when you can retire. That should be pretty close to set by that point. If it's not, the difference between matching 4% or 3%, or 75% match v. 100% is not going to be shaving more than a few months off your working career.

> They have less primary & secondary education relevant to today's enterprise issues.

I'm pretty knowledgeable about paid search and social but I don't think my Political Science degree has anything to do with that. To imply that someone's age precludes them from understanding paid search, mobile advertising, or social is the very definition of ageism.
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> One particularly valuable kind of experience is seeing a project through and understanding how early decisions went awry later on.

That's a good take on it, and the application of it vary with companies and industries.

A waterfall EE project at a old school company could hardly deliver any stage in 6 months.

A software project at a fast executing startup could have gone through 2 major delivered projects in that time.
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The drone was operating in international waters. And despite the name, only a small part of the South China Sea is in China's Exclusive Economic Zone.

Much of the sea is closer to other countries (like the Philippines and Vietnam), but China lays unilateral claim to many of the uninhabited islands.

edit: A map, for reference: http://www.abc.net.au/cm/lb/5464160/data/south-china-sea-map...
So, whether agi is ever actually developed or not, I think you are thinking of all of this wrong, because if your sense of value can be disappeared by the creation of a computer program having certain properties then your sense of value rests on a hopelessly flawed foundation.
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I was completely unaware of that. Thanks for the heads up. I use gitlab at work, and now I might try it for my personal projects.
Honestly, if I'm a hiring manager at Google, this would turn me off. I wouldn't reject him outright, but it's a yellow flag in terms how effective he'd actually be performing his job.
There are many articles describing bullying and harassment. This is one worth reading as it

- does not put blame for handling it on any single person or function.

- illustrates systemic dysfunction. Normal incentives work against handling the abuse claim - HR tries to protect company, managers caught in conflict of interest

- points out the result of management not acting clearly. The person bullied feels taking on more responsibility of navigating the mess. As the person has no effective control this add more distress.

- shows the manager dilemma when supporting minority (in whatever sense) in a naive way. The person standing out stands out even more. Dammed if you do and probably dammed if you don't.

- even in an environment where the bullied person is receiving widespread support from others at times (scene at the table where other were speaking up) long running and extreme stress does damage.

- few understand that the problems often only show up months later as it is typical for PTSD

It is very difficult to say what can be done to prevent this. It is obvious that management is making the wrong decisions but why? I believe the author is on something with the conflict of interest. I would add avoidance of conflict - they are empowered to handle it but shy away. Then there is inability to handle bullies by a lot of them - trying to be even handed since this is the normal mode when one side is obviously overstepping (similar to press-Trump relationship).

What could be done by companies? Specialized people/services dealing with that sort of behavior may be one. Making sure management is well grounded in values and knows how to decide in these conflict of interest cases may help a little too.

What can one do to be prepared? Not being weak is probably the best preparation. Ability to fight and win or to pack and run is key to be able to force a resolution.

What to do when caught in it? These days I think getting external help early. Covering two sides: The psychological one (therapist with first hand experience of psychopathic people and stress management, possibly PTSD) and legal advice.

Full disclosure: Could tell a similar sad tale.
A Dockerfile is basically a set of instructions to run to produce a working image. Nothing prevents you from running those instructions outside of Docker. And nothing prevents you from structuring your Dockerfiles like:

FROM suitable-base-image
ADD ./install.sh /tmp
RUN chmod a+rx /tmp/install.sh && /tmp/install.sh

and write a script to install the dependencies that people can opt to run outside of Docker if they prefer.

The point is not to take away peoples ability to pull together all of the dependencies on their own, but to make replicating the build environment trivial.

Personally I don't want install scripts etc. polluting my server or laptop setups - I always spin up containers to run builds in these days, because it means I at the end have a repeatable description of how to set it up. But once someone has done that job once, it's silly for everyone else to have to repeat it.
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If you replace "young" by "cheap", that makes them a lot more attractive to employers :D
"Upholding" the Constitution is not his job. Leave that to the courts.
>They're also dumping hundreds of billions of usa bonds

First off, no, they aren't:

http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

Second: how, exactly, would that work? For the millionth time you cannot sell without a buyer. So if China is "dumping", someone else is buying. Or do you think they're just lighting these bonds on fire? Guess who wins in that scenario. Hint: not China.

You know, there's so much controversy about "fake news" lately, but the reality is that people will seek out the stories that fit their narrative, rather than looking at the data. Nobody to blame but ourselves.
I tried one and was impressed.

The limitations are real, and if they can't solve them and get the cost down it will remain a niche product for business, but I have no reason to believe that's the case.
I tell a lot of younger developers this, because it's an important truth that will never, ever be spoken aloud.

The sole role of Human Resources is to protect the company from liability, either through lawsuits or labor law compliance. Occasionally managers will abdicate their duty and delegate parts of hiring authority to a section of the company with no understanding of what they do and no accountability for getting it wrong, but that's not as common as you think. Most hiring just gets rubber stamped by HR, not driven by them.

That's all. They're a cost center with no authority beyond saying "this kid is gonna cost us a lot of money if we don't get rid of them"-- either by being a harasser or by being the litigious type (to HR, they're actually the same thing).

If you're expecting them to intercede on your behalf with your manager without something being obviously out of control, ie lawsuit-worthy, you're gonna have a hard time.
Get a good lawyer, even if you only pay for a couple of hours. There are things you can do immediately (depending on whether you received a letter or they actually filed a suit) that may make them go away.

I was party to one of these a couple of years ago and if we had received good legal advice early it would have been much less expensive in the long run.
It was a submersible in international waters.
I can name a whole bunch of people, and show a bunch of people that do take them seriously. And are already furious he's backed down on jailing Hillary, for example.
Yet you go on and acknowledge that it may be hard to get their harasser convicted

The structure of western government and judicial systems is set-up to make it hard for the individual to get convicted. This is why there is a 5th amendment. This is why "innocent until proven guilty" is a part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (Supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...

It's about protecting the individual against the group, even if the group is operating under the auspices of the state. If such principles are abrogated to convict a guilty man, then the state can start to abuse its authority to start convicting innocent men. Precisely such actions are what spurred the creation of the Magna Carta.

Just because someone advocates free speech for a White Supremacist, doesn't make them a White Supremacist. Just because someone advocates the 5th amendment for a an organized crime chief doesn't make them a mob supporter. Just because someone advocates for due process and innocent until proven guilty for an accused harasser doesn't make them an advocate of harassment.
How are these people that study for what ever company so certain they'll even get an interview? I'm still waiting for Google to acknowledge my application from last year lol.
I think the difference is that in our case we were looking for handholding, and a UI toolkit gave us that.

We aren't designers, and being developers we have a tendency to nitpick which is only worse when the subject is just outside our area of expertise...

Picking a design "platform" and using a toolkit to implement it pretty much stopped most of that in it's tracks and let us focus on the actual application.

It's obviously not for everyone, but it was exactly what we wanted and needed.
On that same note. Girl may be "diminutive" (I don't agree with that), it's not derogatory. (Unless you say a teenage girl for someone who is an adult) Even if used intentionally to putdown your subject, it's not effective. ("You're a girl" .. well yes, the meaning of the word is incredibly flexible and doesn't indicate maturity or explicitly state negative qualities)

I don't think women have the equivalent to "boy." Boy is used by women to adult men to degrade the subject.

Even though we have two similar words which may belittle the person, we have another case where the womens' version is watered down to belittle less.

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That being said "dude" is a pretty weird neutral term is odd in use, and formality.
The Chinese government is never explicit about its motivations. You have to read between the lines.
It's been something of a trope on the (alt)right to rip on CNN. It's up there with NYT and WaPo in terms of ire drawn.

Specifically, the news clip of a CNN anchor saying its illegal to read WikiLeaks is often held up as some trump card that CNN is has lost 100% credibility on everything.
Sleep does not shuts down ram.
We have a pathway to the courts. Cowboys always crash and burn.

Hes now a Russian. Hope he loves it there. He's NEVER coming back.
> Under Mr. Nadella, Microsoft is shaping up to be the only pre-internet tech giant to escape the decline of its legacy product—the Windows PC operating system—and emerge as a leader in the new era of cloud computing.

Other than Apple, Oracle and IBM?
Here's your 50 cents.
People will game the metric you impose on them.

The onus is on the administrations to get a metric that is gamed by advancing human knowledge, instead of throwing logs at flame wars. That's why they get the big salaries.
Hmm, our office went from using Google docs/office to Office 365 Online, to finally using the desktop version. The web versions of frankly both products seemed just too slow and unreliable.
Depending on what you think upvoting the submission means, you might interpret it anywhere from deplorable to perfectly normal.

I myself sometimes upvote for the submission (after at least minimally reviewing it), and sometimes for the discussion (sometimes before viewing the submission), and sometimes for the concept which I think deserves eyes and hopefully a discussion, even if the submission itself is anemic.

Rather than treat submission score as some proxy for article quality or importance, I try to think of it as what I think it actually maps most closely to, which is interest, and in the most broad reading of the word and what it applies to.

Edit: Although, it's possible you meant experiment in the entirely literal sense in that it exposes behavior, and there is no implied judgement.
Wow, very interesting. Thanks for pointing out picolisp!
Logic is old. Transistors are recent, but you can compute with lots of other things. You can make a recurrent network with memory using basic graph theory and algebra.
Definitely backwards. Usually companies with successful products adopt the product name as the new company name, like dotCloud to Docker or 37signals to Basecamp.
I'd imagine the first 100 "users" would rapidly turn into a here's 100 random emails that are interested in ANYTHING (but not really).
> women that get offended by it because they aren't male.

There are a few people who get upset over it or intentionally make a vocial issue out of something that isn't. ("Guys" is generally a genderless term ["You guys, take a look at this!"]
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I'm not doubting the story, but it doesn't seem to fit together much the way that it's told here. Exactly who was he really working for, and what was his "friend"s relationship to them?

All I can really say is maybe you should be extra skeptical when somebody talks about working for a "big name" company, like SpaceX, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. If you're never reading or writing emails from a company.com email address, going to company's actual public website, going for interviews or meetings at an actual company office, then maybe you should look really closely at who you're really working for.
I read your comment before the article. I decided that if this had some "it was a dark and stormy night" opening I wasn't gonna bother. Made it 1 sentence into the piece.
Exact procedures are of of course classified, but talk to enough people under investigation, read enough warrant affidavits, and you learn the patterns. They haven't changed much over the decades. They still dress in 1950ish black suits with sunglasses, at least when they want people to recognze them. This is a culture no different than any other corporation. They all dress to look like the boss/oldest man in the room.

FBI agents follow the trial lawyers credo "never ask a question you don't already know the answer to". They dont ask for a meeting until they know enough to dominate the conversation. Thats why they watch nearly everyone they ever deal with.

Actual footage of a low-level FBI agent engaged in semi-covert activities. Note the suit, haircut and body language (Ex-soldier, doesn't know a thing about the tech he is standing amongst). He stands in the middle of the action because he thinks that makes him part of the process, but all he can really do to help is close the cage door. This is a very junior agent out doing unimportant grunt work. He doesn't even have a partner with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqX4oJWV-Ws
http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

Oct 2015 - Oct 2016 they've reduced their total holdings by ~139 billion. This could have been through either outright selling, or just letting them mature and not reinvesting, or some combination.

Either way that doesn't really look like dumping and is practically pocket change in the scheme of US debt.
It reads like a PR piece. If it had stopped at "Now I want to be called a software engineer and I'll study for that", it would have been a nice story about setting goals, and working to get there or whatever. But the whole "Google is so freakishly awesome dude! I need to work there!! it's the most better company in the world!" is kind of a turn off.

I can't believe that Google Careers site actually recommend that candidates should study "Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition". This is completely nuts to me.
Complaining about identity politics is how white men practice identity politics

That's either illogical or racist. It could only be logical if you have as an axiom that white men can't possibly have a legitimate reason to complain about identity politics, which is itself a racist axiom.

Are you claiming that every non-white who practices identity politics is perfect and correct?
>You stated that President Obama ignored the Republicans for his first two years in office, but the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2009, more than two years after he took office. I don't see how this supports your point, because it doesn't take place during the time period that you're talking about.

Obamacare was actually enacted in March of 2010, just over a year after Obama took office in January of 2009.[1][2]

The 'nuclear option' was used in October 2011, and I meant to use it as an example of the Democratic party continuing shutting the senate Republicans out of the process.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Presidency_.28sin...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option#Use_of_nuclear_...
Yes. It is also perfectly reasonable for them to offer something, and then send out minutes that detail you rejecting it. This is simple legal CYA; it's not an attempt to be hostile.
I always find this kind of thinking to be counter productive - we are all going to be older. The people hiring, the people recruiting, they will all find the same bias working against them in the future - why not do future you a favor and not perpetuate the bias.
This is one interpretation of a widely disputed issue.

Many people like to underwrite this opinion with the Hague Tribunal findings, but unfortunately UNCLOS itself (article 299) states that it has no authority to decide territorial cases.

In any case, the claims to the islands in the South China Sea are hardly unilateral, as the United States recognized many of them including the Paracels and Scarborough during the Potsdam Declaration, Cairo Declaration, San Fransisco Treaty and others (at the time motivated to punish the imperial Japanese at the end of WWII).

Hell the Cairo Declaration even declared Manchuria and Taiwan as owned by China.

It's funny what the American media bubble does to history.
I saw only a handful of 40+ people at Startup School a few years ago.
He's a Russian now. Maybe Trump will hug him.

Fuck traitors.
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This is probably not as true as you may think. There are many sources that point to GOP meetings where they planned no-compromise obstruction to anything the president tried to do starting from his initial inauguration.

I agree in that I doubt Obama has much desire to "work with" most Republicans either, but at least (as far as we know) he didn't conspire in secret meetings to completely block anything they tried to do, partisan or not.

http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/23/the-party-of-no-new-det...
Just because the suck isn't surprising doesn't mean it's not there.

Like I said, if you're interested in the Microsoft ecosystem then Azure is probably great. I'm not. For running an open source stack, Azure is not competitive with AWS and GCP.
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One necessarily implies the other.
Well bless your heart. (Sorry, NC Native coming out in me. :P )
Not sure I derailed anything. Tallied the comments. Mine and the responses to it are about 43 in total. But there are 353 (at the time of writing this) comments on this post. So 310 comments unrelated to my comment. I suspect, then, that no derailment actually occurred. Rather, a bunch of discussions are happening simultaneously, and language and its implications are one of those conversations.

Also, I'm not a TLA, I'm a human benig.
From what I've seen of my communities, I don't generally believe this, but it could be the case in other communities I'm unaware of.

Definitely, in the dominant societal structure, if you want to get laid you have to be confident, powerful, and successful. You're not going to go out to a club and get laid unless you meet certain requirements, or are capable of faking meeting them.

However, there are subcultures which do tend to turn that on its head. And if you're the sort of person who understands and does some basic research on modern feminist/queer issues vs pretending to respect women to get laid, you're likely to find them.

Also, the behaviours of rich, successful male feminists get called into question by feminists all the time. That you don't see this suggests a bubble you're in.
A state law can make a federal law stronger, but states cannot make federal laws weaker.