skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's rather interesting. I've actually found that reading code on someone's github or checking out their personal website is great for ruling in/out candidates.

When they share their github or website, I'll view the source on the website to see how they organized stuff or if they did literally copy/paste a template.

With GitHub, it gives some talking points. So for example, if they have some Angular code on their GitHub and also list it as a competency on their resume I'll ask them about the project.

Granted, I agree that this screener really did a poor job at seeing through this candidate's smoke screen but still, I find GitHub and personal websites useful in the interview process.

It does not take away the actual parts you mentioned about walking through a problem during the interview, or talking about real situations on the job and how they would approach finding a solution.
Facebook seems to be one of the few apps that gets privacy right, only asking for permissions to certain things (e.g. camera and microphone) when you want to use say a video recording feature. Now what's the general trustworthiness of the company? That's hard to say for sure, but at least they're doing app permissions right.
I've been saying the same since I saw the response after 9/11. Well, I've been thinking it. I found out it is a very unpopular thing to say living in the states, and probably just as weird living outside of it.
I know of two guys who routinely get high paying senior jobs but can't code their way out of a paperbag. One of the guys I have worked with at two different companies. He just pops up, works for 6-8 months always needing help and never meeting deliverables then he leaves for his next job. Rinse and Repeat...all the while making 6 figures

I don't see how it's sustainable but it's working for them I guess.
I understand that -- as a parser, of course it's not its job to understand sarcasm or wit.

Just referencing the old Chomskian bit about statistical correlates and how relevant it is to understanding the fundamental principles behind the expression of language (rather than merely its syntax).

I guess it was a bad joke gone over. ah well
If something like this were to happen to you, would you then use the electronics that you got back after the seizure?

What's to stop them from implanting some malware into the firmware of the device that would then transmit your password/decrypt key and they can go through the encrypted data that they already copied.
There is nothing wrong with it. Rather question the judgment of someone who has used the words "witting skills".
One of the best books on functional programming is "How to Design Programs" which is an introductory programming text based on functional programming,

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
think of the sheer number of applications for batteries then just mass alone of all those supported devices should give a clue. while many longer range EVs will have 400kg or of batteries their numbers just aren't sufficient to matter; yet.
Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
Although unlikely, they might be interested in seeing it turned on to make sure that it's a functional telephone.
Clearly everyone is watching Fuller House
Because Google is trying to further consolidate/integrate Android and Google Play Services since they can update the latter a lot easier than they can update the former (gets around issues like carrier approval). More and more core features need features from Google Play Services and Firebase, and it's only getting worse.
What's frustrating for me is I tend to choke in high-stress situations like this.

I'd rather find this out in an interview than during a critical sprint. That's part of the reason I do it this way. I'm interested in your work habits and personality as much as your code. I make my interviews as "low stress" as possible. A coder who can't code for me for 15 to 30 minutes is a big red flag.

you're invalidating months/years of open-source work

I'm not "invalidating" anything. I'm just doing my job as efficiently as possible, which is to assess your ability to contribute to my team.
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The reason this is important is that it prevents private corporations from interfering with public air space (as discussed previously on HN [1]), and prevents landlords from interfering with the rights of tenants to legally place outdoor antennas (such as satellite dishes).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8406022
What legitimate reason do you have not to use SSL? It's free.

Are you really saying that your site would be no more secure with SSL? Because that is objectively, provably false. If your clients are paying you to make sites like this that is borderline professional malpractice.
As you're in the UK, you might like Icelolly.com, it's a similar site but focused on the UK market.

https://www.icelolly.com/
> because missiles are known to occasionally go wrong

So how can you claim that everything is OK or that my point is inaccurate? Or that "it can't fail"? You literally asked "is there any evidence whatsoever that the missile could fail" ... "obliterating tens of thousands of people in the wrong country." That it didn't happen during the test without the nuclear head and when there are additional safety measures is not a proof it can't once the head is in place and the "regular procedure" is followed.

The quote around the test means only that I am aware that what's for some people an "accident" is "just a test" for another, like your view.

I don't claim anything more than the public doesn't understand how brittle the whole system is, different parts of it failing all the time. I've written that once the public understands that, knowing that is "the reason we should really press all the politicians for the reduction of nuclear weapons. It's not the question of if but when and what the consequences will be of the "accidental" detonations."

I also wrote: "The best protection is to have at least a very limited number of weapons. The balance of power can be held even with a little of them." I've meant "nuclear" weapons of course, that's the whole topic. See: http://thebulletin.org/doomsday-dashboard There were 6 times more warheads in 1983 than now, and the number should be reduced much more.

> fail safes built into the system

How does that fail safe knows the rocket is wrong when the rocket decided it's right? Do you have any information about these particular fail safes? Isn't it that it existed there at all because it was a test, and it wouldn't if it hadn't been? The coverage of the "accident" that I've had an access to wasn't technical enough. It was presented as "it has to remain secret."
Please go and read Wikipedia about Arthur C. Clarke without categorising countries into good or bad. What you are saying is not connected to smart scientist like Arthur C. Clarke. No matter where he lives he can do his work.

Edit: You are misleading everyone here in this forum. Please read third paragraph

https://en.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

Then You will find why he emigrated to Sri Lanka. There are good and bad things in every country. He enjoyed his late life in Sri Lanka with rich culture and amazing climate.
I try to be the nice to anyone in similar situations and not to obstruct stuff because we all have better things to do than to argue over stupid stuff at the border. Thanks for the information, you kinda put me at ease!
They switched [1] as early as 1977 to Seiko after a brief flirt with Breitling, then to Omega from 1995 although Rolex did briefly reappear in 1989.

In other words much of today's target market did not see Bond wear a Rolex in cinemas, and it is a testimony to the strength of Rolex's brand that Omega's own product placement has been hijacked in people's minds.

[1] http://www.jamesbondwatches.com/the-list-eon-movies.htm
To be fair, network and cable TV shows do this as well - AND run commercials.
Yes, I agree not all contractors can see the bigger picture, and some of them can be pretty opinionated. I met one just recently. I guess that's the flip-side.

But most good contractors in my experience are acutely aware of the restrictions and realities of dealing with living, evolving codebases.
Hmm... coming from the Chaos conference. Refuses to answer questions. Has a ton of equipment. Resides in Romania. And, get this: already involved in a terror hoax that shut every school in LA!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3367044/Maine-colleg...

What a sense of entitlement.

Seems like the TSA was doing their job.
Also: George Polya, "How to solve it"
How about using a Livescribe? http://www.livescribe.com/
> As a user you cannot restrict location tracking to happen only when the app is running.

I'm pretty sure you can? I saw a friend do that exact thing yesterday, for the Foursquare app. I don't think it was in the Foursquare settings, it was in the OS settings.
Managing coders is easy because you can always blame them for failures.
Ugh, the general tightening of the Firewall will not have many short-term ramifications on the startup scene in China (it'll probably lead to a fair bit of protectionist lift actually for mainstream service providers) but the long-term issues of closeness will lead to inferior service providers thriving under the protection of the government.

Regardless of the research dollars China is throwing at technology, this is no way to build a successful/enduring technology infrastructure.
even that short spam fest of commercials prior to the show I wanted to watch on HBO's service was enough to make me cancel after the season ended. I simply didn't want to watch anything else they offered because of unskippable ad spam; its like those horrid DVD ads that some companies still have.

Still, while some of their original content is good I am not subscribing to their service just for that, let alone I don't need six semi super hero shows. If they keep pairing down their catalog I am going to lose interest real fast
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Yup, that's about the only way in which iOS has an advantage though. There's no good privacy protection software on iOS, no way to block known bad hosts, etc. Go get an Android device with XPrivacy and AdAway, it's seriously the only tolerable way to use a phone these days. While the ability to add these things isn't default, it also isn't actively persecuted like on iOS.

The amount of information every app you install wants to harvest is ridiculous, on iOS they can do this unchecked, even if you'd rather they not, on Android if you're willing to do a bit of work, you can have near complete control.

Maybe not quite as much control as that feeling of hitting Ctrl+D for the first time after installing SoftICE, but... pretty damn good. :)
I'm not sure I'd agree that "All Threads" not being a channel warrants the exact opposite navigational behaviour as a channel. An obvious user experience is one that I don't have to think about. If you've already been trained by Slack to expect different behaviour on different screens then of course you'll think they did it right, but I don't care to have to be trained on how to use software.

As for hard dates I don't know of any, but the article suggests "2 years" and I've seen StackOverflow posts from 2014 asking about threading so I'm sure it was at least on Slack's radar for that long.

The point of all of this however is that a) 2 years is far too long for an MVP rollout (if that's what this is) and that b) they simply added some lipstick onto existing substandard features.

Our personal preferences re: UX etc aren't even really all that relevant as we'll obviously never agree on that, but we can certainly agree that spending 2 years delivering a limited-use MVP for a giant company like Slack with almost unlimited manpower is pretty miserable.
> Culture shock can be quite devastating.

I find its not as much as being in a place where the people would never, ever accept you as one of their own. To them, you're something to be avoided and barely tolerated. This is why Westerners have a lot of trouble in China or Japan, but an American spending a few years in Germany or England or France isn't a big deal. The elephant in the room is a certain level of acceptable racism that hurts foreign workers. Some nations are better at this than others.
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Good job but I don't like the concept of this being budget oriented.

It gives me the impression that my destinations can largely vary depending on intermediary (this) app rates.

Let me explain my point:

Assuming I have a budget of £X of which I search against, I should get the results of £X - £Y (middle app commission) which obviously leads me to get results for potentially lower than my budget destinations could actually be.

It gives me the sense of loss of control or lack of choice if you may.

While searching on another websites I will be able to judge wether I accept or not the asked price (including commissions), In here I won't be able to.
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For loaders definitely yes! On my local Fedora laptop, qemu takes about 60ms to simply run 'qemu-system-x86_64 -version'. Almost all of the time is taken up in glibc's loader, resolving the ~170 shared libraries.

While 60ms may not sound like a lot, I've been trying to get qemu boot times down to the hundreds of milliseconds (for lightweight VMs and sandboxing). It's been quite successful, but 60ms is now a significant chunk of the total boot time.

Edit: Sure I'm aware I could compile my own custom qemu, or statically link, but that's really not the point. I want qemu to boot very fast for everyone, and each of those shared libraries is a feature that someone, somewhere wants.
This is nice work, but anyone wanting to try it for themselves should be warned that you shouldn't unpickle data received from an untrusted source.

https://blog.nelhage.com/2011/03/exploiting-pickle/
What strikes me as weird is that I know of exactly one compiler system that got the incrementally compiled modules problem (almost) right and at the same time is AOT compiler without huge runtime: Turbo Pascal. The intermediate files contained both compiler readable definitions as well as object code, the linker was able to link only the required parts without resorting to hacks such as having each function in separate source file (see glibc) and the toolchain was able to generate missing intermediate files even without having to explicitly name them on command line. FPC implements the same mechanism by splitting the compiler metadata and object file into separate on-disk files, which seems like good compromise.

The problem with such approach is that the compiler frontends have to know about each other and produce/consume compatible metadata. For C (and Fortran and...) you an get away without sharing any metadata between separate compilation units and when you cannot (constants, structure layouts) CPP is workable and simple solution, this ignores the problem of inline functions defined in headers, but there is not that much C code that does that.
That doesn't really work, honestly: Traveling light has its own issues. For some reason, it breeds suspicion.

Example: My spouse is Norwegian (we live in Norway). One of the times he was detained, he got questioned about his light luggage.

He would buy clothes in the states because they were cheaper, so only had a small bag coming in on a 2-3 week stay.

This can only mean he's smuggling drugs, of course, and you get the full search and insane questions, which can include things like, "Do you even know how to shop in here?".

The actual safest bet is to just look like everyone else. Be the average passenger, including in looks and demeanor.
> Pretty much yeah

Are you saying it is not suspicious for a wealthy guy to suddenly move to a wartorn country? Lets say someone you know who has no previous links with that area, suddenly moves to Syria and says it is because he loves diving in the Mediterranean sea. I'm saying such actions are very suspicious and the fact that there was no investigation by impartial non-corrupt authorities from a developed country makes the allegations carry some weight.
When I had long hairs and was in my 20s, I used to systematically have my baggage searched whenever I came to Asia (especially in Japan). Now that I'm in my thirties with short hairs and clean cut, I'm never searched...

It seems stupid, I mean potential drug smugglers must know about this and adapt their looks. In the end, it's really just security theater.

I would prefer to have long hairs again and just be able to dress whatever way I want but as someone who travels a lot, I ended up having to conform...
I've noticed a rather sad correlation of passionate software developers that are interested in the trade with low pay. At this point, I don't even know if employers are legitimately interested in "hiring the best". In my experience companies that aren't Google or Microsoft generally just want to hire the cheapest possible labor. If they luck out and get a strong engineer that can't effectively negotiate for themselves, that's just the icing on the cake.

Note that I'm currently doing software development in the Midwest, so my view may be biased.
I have a friend who lied about having a Master's degree in CS and went on to become a software engineer with an income way above his education level.

Six years later his fake MSc is still up there in LinkedIn.

Nobody asked for degree proof. Ever.

I used to be furious about it but nowadays I don't care much. I don't condone lying, but if he's still there having a good career he's either on par with someone legit or rather the company never really needed such profile to begin with.
He's an active member of 4chan, and that's how this email service was started. Similar to Imgur being made for Reddit users.

It's basically a culture of trolling people and making lots of overly sexual and racist jokes. The porn on his phone was "nude anime girls with MAGA hats". A lot of 4chan users seem to be Trump supporters. I'm not sure what percentage are actual Trump supporters, versus people who just want to troll the US with memes and watch the world burn.

One of the email domains is "tfwno.gf", which means: "That feel(ing) when (you have) no girlfriend". Depression and loneliness is a common theme, so there's a lot of lonely people taking out their frustration. There's also a lot of pretty normal people who just enjoy being rude and gross for no reason.

4chan can be a pretty dark and weird place. But I've heard there can also be some fairly positive sub-communities and good discussions.
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That was an odd part of the story. If you make less than someone, you're not really "mentoring them" in that.
You're right. The mentor should have, if possible, let the employer know BEFORE hiring that scumbag.
If you read carefully, you'll see I didn't claim that Trump was a free-markets candidate.

But now I will make a claim: I wouldn't be surprised he actually ends up being a free-er market candidate than any the Right has managed to elect in a while. Yes, even considering his protectionism. This is because, in practice, nobody the Right has elected in a long time has been particularly free-market at all, not because in absolute terms Trump is "pro-free market" in some sort of libertarian ideal, because he obviously isn't.

Oh, and "universally opposed by economists" doesn't carry much weight with me anymore. The 2008 recession/depression was virtually universally not predicted by economists, and the results of the response from the government were virtually universally predicted to be much better than they actually turned out to be. Mainstream economists are all but discredited to me until they actually admit that they have a problem, but they have not.

Also, the somewhat recent emerging consensus of "Well, globalism and free trade is generally good, but maybe it does in fact bone the American poor and middle class in the process as the rich get richer" would tend to suggest that protecting the American poor and middle class would traditionally be a Democratic priority, but it doesn't seem to be. Again, by way of explanation, you may begin to see the appeal for the people getting boned of electing someone who even claims to be standing for their interests, as opposed to people who stand actively against them and often deploy mockery or tells them that they deserve it if they complain. It's not exactly a winning political strategy for votes.
How can you have an upper bound on compatibility? When a library is released, it knows that it works with version 1.3.2 with its dependency, but how can it ever know it doesn't work with 1.4, unless the developer goes back and re-releases the app?
> However, there is no evidence that Clark was one of them […] Edit: since this is being downvoted to -5 […] at least give a reason why you believe that it is not worth pointing out.

How is this not posthumous slander?

If there is evidence of wrongdoing, than present that evidence. Unless I am misreading your comment, you are saying that because Arthur C. Clark was a wealthy European, and that he moved to Sri Lanka where child prostitution occurred at higher than average rates, and nothing more than just these two facts, we should suspect him of wrongdoing?

How does that kind of reasoning not turn any European male with money living in an exotic location into a suspected paedophile?
> Overly terse named types and keywords that don't communicate their purpose, like Vec and Cell.

I completely agree with this. This type of naming convention shouldn't even be a remote possibility in this day and age. I find it extremely difficult to read coming from mainly a C# and Java background.
CASE A: [Struggle to learn]=>[Succeed a bit]=>[Struggle to learn]=>[fail]=>[struggle to learn]=>[fail harder]=>[struggle more to learn]=>[gain key insight]=>[succeed]

CASE B: [cut&paste]=>[appear to succeed]=>[cut&paste]=>[appear to succeed]=>[cut&paste]=>[get job]=>[fail]=>[decide to struggle to learn]=>[struggle to learn]=>[gain key insight ~instantly]=>[succeed]

Case A happens all the time; it is the standard process of learning.

Case B doesn't happen.

Moreover, by his fraudlent cut&paste antics, 'Bryan' has already told us one of two things:

* either Bryan himself doesn't believe that he can learn, so why should anyone else believe that he can learn?

or

* Bryan doesn't believe that learning is necessary, so why should anyone expect him to start now?

The ideal and fair solution (which won't happen) would have Bryan not only fired on the spot, but repaying the company for all wages and costs of all the time that everyone wasted on him, and delays in the project. Bryan was already treated far more than fairly, and the author was correct to provide the accurate background information on him.

There are also larger considerations than the fate of the fraudulent Bryan himself -- the rest of the team. Not only is he failing to pull his own weight, he is taking deliberate actions that impede the progress of the rest of the team. He cannot be gone soon enough.

[edit - typos]
This. Why kill a revenue stream (from business), and piss off another stream (consumers) by raising prices?
I think the rationale is not that a woman can't stand when she's pregnant but that in sitting lowers risk for an accident - e.g. the train suddenly stopping unexpectedly or even people just having more people bunched around you when standing. When sitting, you have a more defined space around you and people tend to stand further away from people who are sitting.
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If something can be done similar to a Klout score based on frequency of posts, ranking, topic distribution, it would be great.
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I'm interested in buying a luxury watch.

For all the Rolex fans here: why Rolex over say Breitling or Waldan (I like the look of the Waldans the best)?