skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey you're right, a language shouldn't let me just describe what my executable should do - and then give me that executable. My mistake!

A language should just be a super tiny syntactic framework that elegantly lets library writers rewrite the same thing they already wrote in C++, Python, Perl, Go, Java etc libraries for - but this time in my language!

It shouldn't really "do" anything. Who needs a programming language with any abilities! That's not what languages are for!

/s
Huh? Your answer surprises me, as I can think of tons of examples. Designers are often asked to provide a portfolio to show the work they are capable of. Same thing for photographers. In a previous life I was a ballet dancer, and the whole purpose of auditions is to demonstrate that you are a competent dancer.

I generally prefer an existing portfolio of code (e.g. github repos) to see the kind of code someone produces, but if you aren't able to show some fairly extensive examples of your work, homework is usually a bunch better assessment of your skills than what can be accomplished in a ~45 min interview.
Just wanted to say that I really like the idea of testing the "homework assignment" on your own team to hone it.

I had a similar experience a month ago. It was a similar "4 hour project" but it was open ended with "make it as complicated or as simple as you want". Being a single table backed CRUD app, you could only put in so many capabilities but it got me excited thinking about ways I could surprise the staff. In the end, I made it self-hosted (in a language that self-hosted is less common), included an installer, and made it support multiple connections from different devices with updates that pushed to the connected clients. The project took me about a day and a half (with two of those hours spent yelling at WIX), but the core parts took about two hours. I was genuinely surprised at how much fun I had putting it together. They also asked me to estimate my time spent -- since I had contract work I was doing at the time and couldn't dedicate a long stretch all at once to it -- I broke it down into its individual tasks and documented the whole thing. They had no problem with the fact that I delivered it a week after the interview.

I also second your "I can spare a half a day for a prospect" attitude. There's a flip-side benefit to that, as well. A candidate who feels over burdened with a simple assignment (provided it's tested as you mentioned and truly is simple) is probably not one I'd be interested in hiring, anyway. I'm not saying it's "one size fits all" -- I've had candidates walk in the door that I knew in advance were really good fits who were hired after a 30-minute screen. That, though, is a unicorn sighting.
I didn't say "the sun will rise tomorrow"; I said "the sun will rise today"—as in, the (trivial) probability that the sunrise that already happened, will happen, looking forward from the more distant past to the more recent past. Given that we are talking about the probability of that event occurring from a reality where it occurred, the updated probability of it occurring is 100%. (But we cannot have 100% credence, simply because we can't actually be 100% sure we're in said reality.)
what's to prevent someone from outsourcing the "homework" to programmers on the internet ? I interviewed someone on skype 2 weeks ago and the applicant clearly had someone off-camera in the room feeding them answers. People like money, and they will go great and nefarious lengths to obtain it.
This incredibly cheap house was 3D printed in just 24 hours
So turn off notifications, disable the giphy plugin, and use it as a repository of questions to answer when you finally get out of the zone?

I guess I didn't bother to enable notifications or install the "app", so I treat slack like I do email: something to do when I'm ready for a mental break from what I'm currently doing.

> so there’s a heavy social expectation for me to keep those conversational plates spinning on an ongoing basis

I think you're actually creating this problem. I might be a special snowflake but everyone I've worked with via slack realizes it is a lot like SMS messages: Probably delivered, and you might get a reply.

It seems like all of your complaints are self-created by an obsessive need to "feel" connected without the personal responsibility to turn off the connections when you need you time. I'm sure I have a lot of slack messages to "read" after this weekend but the important ones will come back again anyway.
In topic of building a multi-AP but with same SSID wifi network: Do I choose the same channel too or not?

I have a wifi networks on a building built with brick and mortar, so I need more APs to cover the entire premise, there gonna be some overlaps in the coverage here and there...
I think the correct model has the customer authorize (sign) the specific transaction through a channel not controlled by the merchant.

An object which signs every transaction it's asked to sign is an improvement (can only be in one place at a time) but still broken (evil terminals).
It is also not a trivial thing to do efficiently though. I would much rather use a mature library to represent and traverse graphs than to try and implement a graph traversal algorithm myself. I do have some knowledge on the subject, which allows me to work with the available libraries, but some things are just too complex to implement from scratch in a timely fashion, I believe.
The problem with this derivative version of the quote is that off-by-one errors are not hard things.
Total noob here, is this type of treatment going in the direction of something like in the movie gattaca? Would gene editing also help fully grown adults?
I'm not an economist, so could you elaborate how this indicates a crashing economy?
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This article focusses mainly on pairing by classification. Here are a few other things to consider when pairing fonts:

X-height: This is the height of the lowercase "x" glyph. You will notice that there is an imaginary line around where many lowercase letters line up at. This usually falls around the crossbar of an uppercase "A" and "H". Finding fonts with similar x-heights helps make a nice match.

Glyph width: Finding fonts with very similar widths or very contrasting widths is also something to consider. If they are somewhere in between, it sometimes feels weird.

Taking these attributes into consideration, in addition to their Era/Classification/Style really help in pairing fonts.
You're right: there should have been more innovation by now. I withdraw my comment.

(There should have at least been a few Akio Morita's by now.)
In my opinion a language should do whatever I want. And in the future languages will.
> As imperfect as ALL technical recruiting styles may be, at least a short coding assignment (i.e. < 4 hrs) is halfway-related to the real world.

Yes, but what it is not is economical. There's a huge dropoff in the interview funnel at this step because it's largely not worth the effort for the interviewee. The choice is between spending 5-10 hours per take home test per company or spending 5-10 hours a week studying silly whiteboard exercises that apply to dozens of companies.

It's also just as uneconomical for the interviewer. I've completed about a dozen of these tests over the last year and only one company bothered to look at the test after I sent it in. Which makes sense; it takes time to look at a lot of code, figure out which of it is boilerplate and which of it was written fresh for the test. And even then, there's no guarantee somebody else didn't write it. And while you may not be interviewing with hundreds of companies, most companies easily get hundreds of applicants per position these days.

For whatever reason, it doesn't seem to be worth anybody's time to do these tests. This bums me out because I'm terrible at live coding tests. But, this is the reality of the situation, so I have to adapt.
I wish I could compare, but I moved into a (large) new home with a smart meter. I have no measurement that I can compare it to. On top of that, I just replaced all bulbs with LED, and wonder if that has been counterproductive.
We suffer from adverse selection bias (as does any online job application). Many companies don't even hire from their online applications for this reason (instead using referrals). The truth is that almost all of the people we don't interview would not have passed (we have a small control group that we always interview, to measure our false negative rate). We do certainly make mistakes (our false negative rate is not 0). But I am proud of our process. It's more open than any other interview I know of. We routinely find awesome self-taught programmers who no other company would interview.
As stated in the second paragraph, this is "simple method to pair typefaces." Traditional typefaces have complex extant cultural connotations. Some of these are nationalistic. Rules of thumb regarding shapes are useful, but you combine letterforms outside their historical context and previous application at your peril.
> Nope. It should be normally possible to disable Secure Boot.

This is only true on x86. On arm, Microsoft's requirements state that it should not be possible for users to disable Secure Boot.
The question is incredibly ridiculous. Consciousness is the most first-hand evidence we have. Everything is experienced via consciousness. You could ask if neurons are illusions, or if matter and energy are illusions, but it's ridiculous to ask if consciousness is an illusion.
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> Speaking as a business owner actively hiring

Can you quantify? I read this all the time but nobody explains it.

Meanwhile, this talking point is used to justify an atrocious waste of interviewee time and ridiculous interview requirements.
Wow this is really disturbing. I imagine this is why a final round of in-person technical interviews are considered necessary.
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lol you're right... I was distracted and had a brain fart on that point.

But everything else still stands. The entire Democrat party line was "You can trust the results".

Any activity from the previous administration supported that and pushed the reliability of the system.
What kind of values did you have to validate from the file? Im tempted to do this myself right now just for the fun of it. Can you provide a sample?
I imagine if anyone noticed it and saw it was in the favor of the company, they probably shrugged and said, "Heh, look at that. Let's keep it low priority, some intern will get to it at some point.."
> Whenever this function is called, make sure there is enough free memory ...

Lisp? Forth? Smalltalk? And that's just off the top of my head. But really, an operating system with a virtual memory system will handle that mess for you.

> analzye this library and include a logically simplified version that only needs to address these cases

I think SynthesisOS (an operating system, not a programming language) could pull that off to a degree (the kernel was JIT'ed and therefore, customized system calls could be developed).

> if variables A and B ever both change as a result of the same function call ...

I wouldn't be surprised if GDB couldn't do this. I know it can watch both reads and writes, so this should be possible. How easy is a different answer.

And you know, the best way to get to the future is to invent the future ...
all these wonderful graphic languages exist. now it's time to put them into practice!
I'm sorry you did not like our process! For what it's worth, we've tested a bunch of types of questions, and relatively easy questions answered quickly provide the highest accuracy / time ratio. We also cover a bunch of topics (to give everyone a chance to show their strength), so we don't expect everyone to do well on all the questions.
Is there any foreseeable way to apply gene editing like this to adults? Could existing adults (us) in the future make use of this type of IQ increase?
If they have an identifiable deficiency, sure. Sickle cell is a stem cell (erythroblast more precisely) disorder, so fixing the stem cells fixes the disease. If you already have the tissues you want to change, it'll be harder.
>national debt

>nothing to do with the market

You're not familiar with the Treasury Bond market, are you?
Besides the other resources listed below, here's two great books about the importance of leadership presence, and the power of storytelling.

> Leadership Presence
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002J05GIA/

> Communicate to Influence: How to Inspire Your Audience to Action
https://www.amazon.com/Communicate-Influence-Inspire-Audienc...
This. It would need to affect F2. It won't.
okay, I never went to the nintendo portables, so I was shockingly oblivious about these. I define v2 as both "set of games you can play on it is identical to the first one", and "not a retro notalgia remake". But even by that standard, wikipedia tells me you gave a lot of good examples. I can only hope the switch makes the list, because I'm not interested in spending significant game time with a handheld tablet, but I also need enough distance to flirt with their limitations.
Relevant, relevant and relevant experience/expertize is needed
There was (who I feel was) a mishire at my job. I haven't seen him produce a single work-product since he started 6 months ago. I get the sense that he's worth more to the company (a large tech conglomerate) as a write-off than he is a producer to the team.
Why would you need any new language? Likely anything you would want has been done in some language already.

I was simply giving an example of something simple and well-specified that isn't being done.

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In response to the other comment (sorry this is breaking the comment ordering, but I am going to sleep soon and triggered some submitting too much message):

>And you know, the best way to get to the future is to invent the future ...

Nobody is going to accuse you of being an idea man/woman if you just stand around and wait. (My original comment was downvoted to -3, though this surprised me).

Meanwhile I can pick my battles (what to invent) carefully, away from the dumb as a sack of rocks status quo. Which I was just reporting a part of.

Don't shoot the messenger. (But also, as a practical matter, this story is about how syntax is the last thing you should design - which I kind of disagree with.)

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I also wish I had added in parentheses (in my original comment) after "pictographic symbols", the words "(or evocative post-modern landscapes that have meaning only to you, the language designer, with a brief sentence underneath each one, of the type that if you were to ever revisit it or have to explain it to anyone else you could)" in parentheses, though now that I see the backlash against my comment, it doesn't really matter. The reason I can't add those parenthetical words is because I am outside my edit window.
Would you happen to be Douglas Rushkoff? He wrote a fantastic book about this.

http://www.rushkoff.com/books/throwing-rocks-at-the-google-b...
> Many of the parts in the engine of my 172 were OE ford parts found on cars in the 60s but the FAA certified stamp meant we would have to buy the 300 dollar version.

Here's an interesting tidbit. The voltage regulator for the 14V 172 and 182 was literally made on a parts line that also supplied Ford. For quality control reasons, Ford required statistical inspection of voltage regulators destined for Ford. Cessna required 100% inspection. Because they were made on the same line, a set number got the inspection, some of the inspected parts got Cessna part numbers and FAA PMA stamps, and as a result, Ford was also assured their voltage regulators were OK even though a smaller percentage of those eventually sold by Ford were inspected.
Uber investors blast company culture
Can someone explain what is the use of an AST editor?
http://www.securemeters.com/index.php/global/ were selling high quality elecronic meters for many years
The way I see it a lot of the best people would probably never bother going through a take home test. A company with a simpler, quicker interview process would have already snatched them up.
does this hit Windows 10 in any cases? Can composition even be disabled? I don't know enough about Windows since XP to know :(.
In paraconsistent logic, no you can't prove any theorem from a contradiction. Inconsistent mathematics is built upon the foundation of paraconsistent logic.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-paraconsistent/
Not impossible but much, much, much more plausible with embryos. Modifying billions of neurons is a very, very tall order, and would likely be much less effective after the brain is grown. Embryo selection and modification are almost doable now, we just don't know which alleles to select for or edit in. A gift you can give your children but one you are unlikely to be able to get for yourself.
My QC35s rememeber a few devices and connect to a diff one on command ( the power button doubles as pair / switch device)
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That doesn't make it terrible, just not quite as good. I get better performance out of VS Code than I do with vim with various plugins though.
Still too many non async plugins out there.
Maybe I mistakenly assumed the poster wasn't referring to that one specific thing.
Thanks for sharing. I think this is a good data point to prove that most people will not cheat on their take home.

There is no incentive to cheat. Why would you want a job you are not qualified to do.

From your experience, it sounds like these are good tests, because it's screening for qualified candidates, unlike the phone interview.
but is the poor performance related to XUL? Doubtful.
That's not my experience, being on both sides of it. (devops kind of tests) Given no bounds, you will not be able to produce a 100% solution from the recruiter side of view. Something will always look weird. There's always another approach, generic parts possible to extract, places that can be left available for future expansion, etc. I'd go as far as, if you can finish the test in 2h, then it doesn't matter if you spend 4h or 8h on it, because you'll just do more of the same in most cases.

For example you can document one module and say "the rest of the docs are TODO due to time" - it shows you know how to document and you can move to another bit. My favourite submissions did 5% of many things to show they are aware of those areas, rather than super-polished trivial solutions of just the basic question.
It's not Electron that has performance issues, but the apps aren't probably coded properly. I've been developing my app using electron for a year now and haven't seen it hog cpu/memory unless it's a bug in my application.
I thought this was going to be a bot that auto discovered the relevant xkcd but I think I like this even more
And there still isn't anyone questioning the mechanics of the election process (other than the President).
This is not fact-checking, this is opining.
It depends on what your field is. Can you imagine a frontend web developer writing a graph traversal algorithm in javascript?
The version of this that works for a group:

Put everyone who is playing in an order. The first three players start out in a room and have the rules explained to them. Everyone else is forbidden to come in this room. After the rules are explained, you call in the fourth player, play the game, and then explain the rules and they get to participate on the next round as the fifth player (and so on) is called in. Everybody but the last person gets to play both sides, which makes it more fun. You can change the rules, to mess with people who already know the game.
I agree it's hard. It's also very valuable.

Your example works for my idea too. If you are the source for "The Minnesota checkered sky theory" then the buck stops with you and an investigation of your credibility would be damaged.

I mean 'you' in the rhetorical sense of course.

The thing I'm talking about is something like a reputation score for news sources.
Knotting worldlines of anyons is the basis of topological quantum computing. Yes it can be done in theory, yes there is active research into doing it in practice.

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

The best research into this right now is being done at Caltech

edit:

ok so tqc is mentioned in the article. my bad. I kind of skimmed the article the first time since I already know about this stuff.
(March 2016, video)
Great Companies Obsess Over Productivity, Not Efficiency
> I took the time to do this, and found that my electric water heater consumes nearly half of the electricity in my home.

Oh man, do I know this feeling. My old duplex I moved out of last year had an electric water heater from 1991, it easily ate up 1/3 of our electric usage every month. New house has a gas water heater, during the summer months our gas water heater results in a $20 gas bill (roughly $10 of that is the connection and other assorted fees).

Old water heaters, especially electric ones can really suck energy like nothing else. My summer electric bill at the new house is still roughly $30/mo cheaper and I'm running like 500W of gear 24/7 in my office/lab that wasn't at the old place.
Are you really choosing not to receive treatment if you can't afford it?
But if you read the actual tweet he simply says debt when down in his first month vs. up in Obama's. Which is true. He doesn't say it was because of his policies. Politifact just found a way to try to spin it (which is what it is) as "false" so they could add it to the "Trump's a compulsive liar" column.

To paraphrase someone else: I didn't leave the liberals, the liberals left me.
Toaster vs. Freezer
> Why would you want a job you are not qualified to do.

money.
Example of a data set visualized with Leaflet by a US Federal agency:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

Suffers from a few scaling pains.
Virtually all political articles have spin, and thus they would all fall into your category.
Ask HN: Do modern nations have contingency/recovery plans?
I'm always at awe at the complexity of our civic structure. But it all seems very fragile. For example, very few people know how their sewers work and how to keep proper maintenance. Who's guarding this knowledge? Who's making sure that we don't somehow forget how to do it? Or that we don't stop replacing aging professionals? This is one of countless examples. Society always seems one bottleneck away from collapse. The same holds true for key human rights and privileges. We're always one generation away from blowing it up. Such lack of clarity and foresight might explain why it's so difficult to replicate civic models in 3rd world countries.

Do modern nations have contingency plans? Is there a special archive of practical knowledge and step-by-step procedures for building and running the power grid, water pipes, sewage system, general logistics, basic farming practices and seed samples? We have a pretty sweet thing going on, it would be silly not to back it up. Worst case scenario, we would leave the survivors with guidelines and instructions that could accelerate the recovery of modern society – decades instead of centuries.

On a side note, it's all too common to disregard blue collar workers. We should be more respectful of those positions, otherwise young people might actively avoid the very jobs that make up the modern world. Unfortunately, media portrays them as the butt of the joke – everyone is familiar with the simple-minded, blue collar redneck trope.

I apologize for the grammar, English is not my first language.
"supposed to win the election"

LOL, spoken like a true fascist.
I like to give homework assignments too. It's amazing how many candidates will simply not do it, so it's a great filter.