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Compared to what, Atom?

In raw performance: Vim > Emacs* > Sublime > VS Code > Atom

In UI performance:; Sublime > VS Code > Atom > Vim > Emacs*

*I don't use Emacs regularly, so not entirely certain of this

Honestly, download Sublime and try to use it for a day or two (if your workflow can bear it) and then switch back to VS Code. You'll notice all sorts of small delays that, while not breaking, are certainly annoying.
From http://cw39.com/2017/03/03/californias-oroville-dam-possibly... :
"Camp dug up $1,500 worth of nuggets while strolling the area and another digger found 75 ounces of gold worth $350,000."
Is Lingua Latina appropriate for self-learners?
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Thanks for the recommendation for the read, just bought it.

Pursued understanding a little too inefficiently myself, means a lot.
Cheap passive funds are good advice if you want to maximize your return in the most frequent outcomes, but it ignores some powerful psychological stuff that's real and in play.

An index fund is like a bus: everyone is going to the same place, and you're not driving. Many investors just can't deal with that, and may rationally and happily take bigger risks seeking excess returns, even if they know the odds are against them.
Can you elaborate on the visa thing?
The only interview experience I've enjoyed was Google. Mostly because the interviewers were relaxed. Silicon Valley fosters a stressful environment.
My current company used a "homework assignment" and they bought a lot of my trust with it.

1. The "assignment" took me about 4 hours, which they expected and told me off the bat.
2. It involved mostly relevant code with 1-2 wrinkles that were not odd just not everyday sorts of things.

For the proceeding interview, I was able to sit with 3-4 engineers for 1-2 hours really just diving into details about my experience and their processes, etc.

So if I could offer advice it would be to find a "homework problem" your existing crew could build independently in 4 hours or so. As in you've actually had more than 1 team member attempt the request, and they did it in about 4 hours each.

This was actually an interview process I didn't mind. I have 15-ish years of experience doing development. I can spare half a day for a prospect no problem. It was actually kind of fun.

4 hours seems to be a good "sweet spot". You can ask something sufficiently technical and oriented to the daily work without being a bore. And when the interview comes around, you can make sure it's not some ego-bound contest, more of a conversation.
If the fear of 3rd and 10 was the main factor, then you wouldn't see such an uneven distribution based on whether the 2nd and 10 came via incomplete pass, or run for no gain.
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>>while homework problems can be better than in-person interviews, they can also be a lot worse. for one, because they are NOT time-bound.

Um, this is a good thing, not a bad thing. Research shows that stress significantly reduces cognitive ability, and time pressure definitely adds to stress - sometimes substantially. What this means is that when you ask whiteboard coding questions during the interview, you're not measuring the candidate's on-the-job ability. You're simply measuring how well they perform under severe pressure. If that's fine with you, as in it's representative of your work environment where people have to churn out code around the clock, fine. Otherwise, homework questions are much better.
Sure, no one can compete with Uber now but Uber will eventually run out of VC money to burn and there is no indication that they will be able to maintain their market dominance once they are forced to increase their fares back to a reasonable level.
vim:

" scroll wheel moves through time instead of space
" <https://xkcd.com/1806/>
set mouse=a
nnoremap <ScrollWheelUp> u
nnoremap <ScrollWheelDown> <C-r>
inoremap <ScrollWheelUp> <Esc>ui
inoremap <ScrollWheelDown> <Esc><C-r>i
Oh yeah, the Bay Area was miserable when I lived there ~5 years ago. Has it truly not gotten better since then?
my friend went there and opened one a few years ago. it's relatively easy to open one I was told

but it's super painful to close that, even though it's a small startup and financially clean, still do not know how he could ever close that, many procedures, paperwork, financial check everything he could not supply as a small player,etc. it's just impossible to close i guess.

basically it looks to me that it's a easy-in-hard-out process.
Please don't post rhetorical rants to HN. They're incompatible with intellectual curiosity, which is what this site is for.

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It would only work for music; for video or games or anything else a large buffer would mean terribly unsynchronized and delayed audio. Humans will feel something is off with just a few tens of milliseconds of buffer.
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/visulsign/e/bcc9073b93a8871a8dff279b24...
Yes, Stallman killed the JVM backend. Did not want to promote a proprietary technology.
Well, things evolve over time. Market manipulation would be slavery, while bias is just Jim Crow. The whole world is operating under a biased, ugly regime, it just gets better little by little over time.
It were in the news all fall:

https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/russian-election-hacking

October 11: Obama Considers ‘Proportional’ Response to Russian Hacking in U.S. Election

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/us/politics/obama-russia-...

There's also little to no mainstream doubt about the outcome of the vote (of course the President has raised concerns that the vote was not accurate, but most responses to that, for example from Secretaries of State, have tried to emphasize that there is no evidence of major issues with the election). The controversy is all about how Russia may have acted to influence voters.
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I'm not thinking of deliberate spins, but rather that it seems like students might spin by accident from time to time, and it would be good if that didn't automatically total the aircraft.
It depends upon the business. Startup costs are low here, and some businesses can be started and validated without registration or paperwork. Where formalization is a requirement, agents can register companies as cheaply as a couple of hundred USD, including a registered address. At the low end people use personal savings and family loans. At a slightly larger level friends tend to group together to reach capital requirements. Banks do loan but that's not as easy as it once was. There are government payouts available for specific sectors or achievements (eg. if patents are registered). At the higher end there is strong VC availability right now due to a combination of a relative crisis of faith (ie. no longer "it can never lose money!") in real estate, which was formerly the medium to long term investment traditionally considered most accessibly performant, and increased controls on cross-border capital flight.
Thanks for pointing that out. Installed, and looking forward to much less annoying web experience.
For things that are DOS-sensitive
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I Love Sonic Visualiser. I use it all the time for musical analysis to slice audio files for playback in SuperCollider. I only wish it had an annotation layer text file format like Praat does for phonetic analysis of speech audio--I know you can easily export CSV files, but the way Praat uses textgrids always felt more intuitive.

I would also highly recommend using Sonic Visualiser to prototype an analysis pipeline, then automate the analysis with the Python vamp plugin host [1]. I think there is a command line interface called Sonic Annotator, but I never used it.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vamp

Edit: the text file thing is probably what the xml .svl format is for, huh
We had a specific lounge chair, which when you sat in it with a laptop, if someone was using the microwave, the wi-fi would drop out. If you stood up, everything was fine. We took that lounge suite to the holiday house. Good riddance :)
Right, but with a Cirrus, a stall with an improper recovery that leads to a spin results in a totaled aircraft even at high altitude. The big red handle will save the lives of those onboard, but the insurance company buys the plane as soon as you pull it.
i agree with all that -- again, the i don't think that whiteboard interviews are perfect.

but also, keep in mind that the candidate has a limited amount of time, and often a full-time job on top of the job hunt. the homework questions are only good if the candidate has time and desire to them.
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That's no different from imprisoning individuals, where their family or anyone else who depends on them gets hurt. If you depend on a criminal then you'll suffer when they're punished.
To clarify, the national debt is the money the federal government owes varies entities. It has nothing to do with the market.
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> This will enable writing a plagiarism detector which will not be fooled by the simple strategy of replacing words with their synonyms.

I'm not sure how helpful that will be, as you may end up with a system that detects whenever a student expresses similar thoughts (and lets face it, the educational system is all about getting students to conform to conventional patterns of thinking) in their own words.

And if the system doesn't detect re-expression of the same ideas, then a system that automatically rewrites essays in a slightly different style (essentially, an English-to-English neural machine translation) will defeat it.

The endgame would be grading student essays on how well they express an entirely original idea, which is an unreasonable standard.
That's a good point, though I would think you can handle a lot of that with the macro asset allocation (shares, bonds, alternative; domestic, international; etc.), which is still something one needs to do and look at every year or so.
We have a similar problem in the UK, the news has to give all parties a say. So we get almost equal air time to UKIP (who are tiny) as to the Tories (who are in power) ... it's a bit crazy.

Which leads us on to Brexit, the news gave equal air time to both sides. Now, I say both, but for something as complex as Brexit there are way more than two sides but the public didn't really get a view on Left-exit, right-exit, left-remain, right-remain and all the bits in the middle.

Fake news? Opinion? Not enough time to inform the masses? I don't envy Facebook, they're throw their hat into the ring. Nothing good can come of this for them. You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or uncivil comments here?
Consider that the US government is now considering separating children from their parents if caught crossing the southern border. The intent is explicitly to deter the crossing, the idea being that knowing you may be separated from your kids may keep you on the south side. But for that deterrent to be credible, they actually have to do the separations.

Or they could, you know, go back to Honduras and be murdered. Together.
From my experience, macOS just seems to be really conservative with avoiding drop-outs in the audio. Are you using the speakers for music, or more general use? I've found it tends to value quality over responsiveness with music in particular.
Naming your framework after an unstable particle (with a mass 200 times larger than an electron) seems like a poor choice to me. I would have gone with neutrino-- lighter, equally stable, and can even change flavors!
i think it can go either way.

i agree that it seems easier to simulate working conditions with a homework assignment. (it does add a lot of work for the company to do homework problems well, but let's leave that aside)

the downside is that the candidate has a limited amount of time to talk to you. they often have a full-time job going on top of the job hunt. secondly, are you really game to spend 0.5-2 days of unpaid work just for the chance of being invited to interview further?
This comment breaks the HN guidelines. Commenters here need to remain civil regardless of how wrong someone else appears to be.

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it's a lie, much like the government's made up 7% gdp growth.

"China's liaoning province admitted that it inflated GDP figures from 2011 to 2014"

https://qz.com/887709/chinas-liaoning-province-admitted-that...
Thanks... I don't think I'm ready for r/the_donald

It doesn't take a very balanced approach to politics... much like hn sometimes.
The link only works one layer down :(
Additionally, most of us are more willing to do interview work in our off time. Taking a vacation day to interview is a direct financial investment. Spending a Saturday doing a 4 hour home work is a sacrifice, but doesn't require taking vacation time. Taking an early afternoon off to go talk with 3-4 engineers for 1-2 hours is something that can much more easily fit into ones schedule.

EDIT: I want to provide an anecdote around this. If your salary is $150k, it may cost you roughly $400 in gross pay to interview somewhere. Sure, you could take paid vacation, but vacation time is paid out in cash when you leave so it still costs you. Companies with unlimited vacation are a different story.
> time pressure definitely adds to stress

Also the stress of someone standing over your shoulder watching you work. At work, I enjoy hashing out problems with a coworkers at a whiteboard, but in an interview it's paralyzing to have someone watching me. As a student, I'd totally freeze up in the middle of a test whenever a teacher started walking down my aisle.
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> the cost of a mishire is huge.

Absolutely agree and I'll add that you're shopping in a market for lemons. There are multiple adverse selection criteria against the pool of job seekers. (Excellent engineers are more likely to be retained/less likely to be fired. Excellent engineers are more likely to receive an offer when they do interview. Poor engineers are less likely to be retained, more likely to be fired, less likely to be hired.)

In steady state, the applicant pool is of lower overall average quality than the pool of employed engineers.
It would basically double the current latency (about 100ms) by adding a 50ms trip to both receiving and sending. (And that's being generous -- it could easily add 100+ms to each trip.)
> That's because the western press ignores the inner working of the structure of their society

That implies that you know what those inner working are, and if we in the West knew, we would have a much more positive view of China.

Well if you really thought that was true, then you would have explained those inner workings to us, or at least given us some links.
Yeah, I mean being able to find the origin of information for any piece of text online is obviously better, but that's hard.

Marking articles which are clearly incorrect is probably a good start.

The sky is checkered like a chess board if you are in the right part of Minnesota on a Monday evening. <= Fake News
20,000 emails, 1000 phone calls, 100's of presentations to get your product off the ground. It never stops.

*Disclaimer: All numbers are estimates. Product can be something you work on internally for a big company to battle office politics or externally when doing your own thing.

Convincing people that what you do is righteous takes time.
An oscilloscope is the display.

I was asking what measures the current.
In retrospect (Oracle v. Google) that doesn't seem like such a bad decision!

Admittedly, the concern about the JVM backend was different from what got Google in trouble; indeed, GNU had their own reimplementation of Java (GCJ / GNU Classpath) which was equally potentially infringing (and was the main reason bytecode output was a problem in the first place - because GCC supported bytecode input already, it could allow for round tripping). But the overall message of avoiding proprietary programming languages/environments seems prescient.
I'd totally go for a 4 hour homework problem, if it got me out of 2-3 hours worth of technical interviews.
If the individual carriers aren't overlapping in the transmitter, they won't be overlapping in the receiver, either. Each one will be shifted proportionally (∆f/f0=∆v/v0) in the same direction. The signal is still intelligible. It's just shifted.

A radio is a physical device subject to manufacturing variance, temperature fluctuations, and aging effects. It has to be manufactured to tolerate frequency deviations caused by these effects. What I was trying to show in my analysis is that the effect due to Doppler shift at 10 mph is orders of magnitude less than at least one of these effects. If the Doppler shift at 10 mph makes the signal unintelligible, then the other effects I mentioned should as well.

For example, a transmitter with 50 PPM accuracy could cause a 2.4 GHz signal to drift by up to 120 KHz (0.00012 GHz). That's about 3000 times more than the 36 Hz that I calculated for Doppler shift at 10 mph.
What's your plan for criminals then? Say, someone who mugged someone at gunpoint?
Why would any foreigner want to start a company in a country that

- requires you to give up 50% to a local partner

- blocks internet access to foreign websites (thus foreign customers)

- can take away your business/assets/customers without trials

- treats foreigners as a mere entity to steal technology and clients from?
Do you have suggestions for organizing semi-dense apartment complexes such that there aren't more SSIDs than units and are there legal ways to safely share wifi with neighbors? It seems to me that most TOS agreements from ISPs seem to not like the idea that I might share my wifi with my neighbors... Also comments on 20 MHZ v 40 MHZ routers?
For high latency, highly attenuated signal situations where varies from .1 Mbps to 3 Mbps, on OSX should one mess with MTU?

Last unrelated tangent, how far are we until we can expect to start seeing widerspread municipal wifi deployments? Is it possible that school districts might expect to see 100% home internet penetration in a non-trivial percentage of American school district areas?
What are the two sides? Why should they have a say? Some information can be definitely marked as False without taking opinion into account.

I have three feet. <= False
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Why don’t you test it yourself? Theses days you can find quant historical data on ebay for less than $100 bucks... You can backtest passive investing with ETFs, trend following, momentum, tech stocks, value investing, technical analysis... you name it... and who knows maybe you’ll turn to be the next Warren Buffett or the next big hedge fund quant genius ;-)
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This was a problem for mobile data ~2008 on Deutsche Telekom networks.
They somewhat do have a tool (although I don't think it works with YouTube ads). The Google Publisher Toolbar works decent for testing ads on your page (you can click and doesn't count), block ads, and reporting ads.

https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/2411951?hl=en&ref_...
> Electron is problematic and you can always tell an Electron app when you see it because the performance is so terrible.

I can tell an Electron app when I see it because it clobbers other windows on my Windows 7 VM: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/1821 . I really wish they'd fix this since it makes VS Code much less usable.
The market is made up of individuals acting in their own self interest. Why would any individual not make hiring easier if they thought they could gain from it?

Note that Jim Crow/Davis Bacon/etc was a legal regime, a "must discriminate" set of laws to prevent people from acting in their own self interest. What such mechanism exists today preventing me from acting in my own interest?
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Where's the karma in that?
I'm skeptical. I think this is propaganda from the anti-smart-meter crazies.
Likely the allure of so many potential customers that are otherwise inaccessible. (I'm not saying this is a valid reason to ignore the above, but potentially why some might.)
They have no plans to but would entertain someone volunteering: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5xgf8u/gokrazy_a_pu...
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A better way to increase iq would be to raise the socioeconomic level...
Hmmm, I missed that wrinkle. My grasp of this slightly unusual topic is not 100% reliable, and so I'm now wondering whether the cardinality of the set you describe is different from the cardinality of the set of all possible floating point numbers.
I was speaking more from the side of the company; from the side of the interviewee, it's less clear-cut; if you're the type that doesn't tend to do well in interviews, it might be preferable, but if you don't feel like you'll do a better job on a homework-like problem, then it's definitely worse.
Well, that's just not true. WebAssembly (not to be confused with asm.js) only started in 2015. Browser preview period started in late 2016 and ended very recently, and we're now on the way to stabilization.
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What makes you think people who buy AirPods would keep headphones after the warranty period? One doesn't want to be seen in last year's headphones^WAirPods, after all!

I suppose it's kinda genius of Apple, turning a simple pair of headphones which can last for decades into a fragile piece of microelectronics with a life expectancy of years at best, months at worst. Not really what I'd call 'courage,' though.
The solution is don't do VoIP on WiFi. You mentioned the 3 ethernet VoIP phones, do those have issues? Also, unless you're running third party firmware on your Asus router, you're going to start dropping VoIP packets whenever anything maxes out your connection. The packet loss actually isn't really a problem, the problem is that when you max out your connection, whatever cable modem you're using is going to start filling up a massively oversized buffer instead of dropping packets and any new packets go to the back of that buffer and take hundreds of milliseconds before the packet even leaves your building.

The fix if you're stuck dealing with crappy equipment that has massively oversized buffers is to throttle the connection in another device downstream of the modem to slightly under what the modem will throttle you to and then in addition to that you can also implement QoS so that your VoIP traffic is put into a different queue and give that queue a higher priority.

This is all predicated on the assumption that your ISP is actually providing what they say they are 100% of the time. If you pay for 5 Mbps upstream, set the QoS to 4.5 Mbps and your ISP delivers 4 Mbps 10% of the time then for that 10% of the time your equipment will be sending too fast and you'll go back to filling up that oversized buffer just like before.
I would think on average a startup starts with more than one person.
Around 2004/2005 about a year after Adsense launched some friends and I from Stanford made a fake company and blogged about high CPC adwords content, then made a couple hundred bucks clicking our own links... received payment, never got shut down.