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Ask HN: Detailed data science/engineer challenges?
Do you use a specific hiring challenge or "homework" assignment to evaluate data science/engineer candidates? Can you share examples that would be exciting to you as a hiring manager or member of a team adding a data science/engineer to your team?

My first reason for asking is selfish - I enjoy hacking away at these types of hiring challenges.

My second reason is more pragmatic - as an adjunct lecturer, a number of students I have interacted with are interested in breaking into data science/engineering. I'd like to give them some solid side project ideas plus a sense of "applied" work.

Lastly, have candidates for your positions come in with an impressive portfolio of work independently? Are the candidates heavily credentialed (PhD/MS in CS/Stats/Math)?
Narcissism is particularly well done.
Did you try dropping the exact title from your resume for a more general description of the role?
Scientists Weigh In: Subway Chicken is not “50% soy” but “1%” as claimed
I think the main issue - as a candidate - it's hard to make the difference between companies that are serious and not.

Like this one, only one person reviewed my code and he didn't know JS. I had re-prove that I know JS at each interview because my resume shows morw backends experience. I didn't care personally because I need very little to have fun and I have money plus some passive revenues. However, I can see why people are exhausted by this process.
Ah, yeah. I didn't twig until you mentioned it, but... if ever you get tired of emacs vs vi religious wars, try switching to discussing whether 'bracket' refers to a parenthesis or a brace.

Given the context, I'm pretty sure the OP was using the 'parenthesis' meaning.
Do you mean all the priming stuff? I thought the fast-slow thinking distinction was still okay. In that case, What Intelligence Tests Miss by Keith Stanovich might be a better read.
I found this domain a week ago or so when the sci-hub.cc url redirected to moscow.sci-hub.ac (which had a 403 error, yet prompted checking the root url). Glad to see the .cc domain is working again, though.
That's pretty sweet.

Brings back fond memories of 8th grade algebra class.
If there's some government program that hands out up to x amount of dollars for product y, then product y will quickly cost x amount of dollars.Education cuts have nothing to do with this.

If anything colleges are rolling in money. If they aren't providing resources needed for their staff, then thats something staff needs to take up with the college. Blaming the government because these colleges just keep dumping money into their vast endowments is fairly ridiculous. Gutting my medicare and social security to preserve endowments is asinine.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2015/07/13/finan...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/09/08/student_loans...
Yeah, but it's still 50%. One out of two...
> Quite honestly given your questions [about vacation policy] and the fact that you are considering other options, [we] may not be the best choice for you.

Dodged a bullet on that one:

- PTO is a touchy subject?

- They are looking at more than one candidate, why would any candidate limit themselves to one potential employer?
I think it's somewhat unfortunate how people have come to associate "startup" with "pitching". Basically 0% of the great technology companies have come out of a businessman pitching a VC on an idea they just had. Rather, it's usually a technologist who builds something, gets a few hundred of his friends to use it, and then happens to meet a VC who says "Look, if you took our capital, your hundreds of users could be billions."

You do have to be really ruthless about what features you cut from v1 of the product for this to work, though, and you have to be somewhat unorthodox about problem selection.

As for freedom - you actually do have freedom to work on whatever you want at work, and this applies to most corporations, not just Google and its 20% time. Most employers would actually rather that you take full ownership of getting the task done, and give them a better outcome rather than blind obedience. The problem is that with freedom comes responsibility. As long as you do exactly what your boss tells you to, you can't be blamed when things go wrong. If you do something additional or contravene your boss's orders, they will usually not mind as long as it works out better than expected. Your boss will usually be happy to claim credit for it, and if you're lucky, you may even end up with a promotion & a raise. But if it works out poorly and your boss has to clean up the mess, you're going to get fired. As long as you're willing to take responsibility for getting fired, you can do whatever you want at work.

I feel like a lot of my effectiveness at Google (and that of many of the coworkers who I considered effective) was that I was willing to get fired. And when, after 5 years there, I felt myself getting a little complacent and hewing a little too closely to the party line, I quit. You still have agency as a human being, even in a big company.
It's not so much focused on demonstrating your own values so much as it's about UI and the conduct that the UI is able to generate through cause and effect.

Like in GTA, do you try to talk our your problems or do you shoot first and ask questions later? The UI will repeatedly encourage you to shoot first and players will learn that, because if you won't, your enemies will.

This is the definition of value they're using, which I guess applies in this case: "A value is an enduring belief that a specific mode of conduct is preferable to other potential modes of conduct".

Seems like a weird use of the word "values" to me as it's essentially about being able to figure out how it's best to progress rather than moral beliefs as the term may imply for many people.

EDIT: Yet they try to mix these interchangeably in the paper, with examples like "a value of PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT means that we will choose to put out the recycling on Tuesday evening, rather than put all our plastic in with the regular trash." - the reason you believe that is probably not because you stopped progressing and there was nothing else to do. I suppose this is the distinction between "video game values" and real world values. But I think it's important to note the lack of overlap and reasoning, which I'm not sure this paper does. Though maybe it does say something about our real world values changing to get the job done.
How to write a JavaScript package for both Node and the browser
This whole story is about a doctor, remember... They don't hand out sainthoods in Med School...
Hyper V vs VMware VS VirtualBox
While I find it reasonable, I would still not ask about vecation policies in the interview, but rather when they decided they want me and we go through the details. Why would you ask before? (honest question)
Jay Z Announces New Startup Company, Arrive
I haven't taken a lot of data science classes but I'm not sure that's true. If you start with linear regression the mean squared error would make more sense. I actually searched through "The Elements of Statistical Learning" and the word 'recall' is not used in this sense at all.
There is no data collection by default. Everything is opt-in. The only information we communicate is what you opt into. The browser history stays in your browser and is not sent to Apozy.

If you're opted into privacy scoring it sends only the FQDN of the current site to our service. We conduct privacy scoring on the server side because it would slow down the browser otherwise. If you're opted into community protection, CSP violations are sent with the URL. This allows us to detect undiscovered malicious sites and share them back to the community.

Currently we have no plan to share any information to monetize on the consumer end. We make money by enabling businesses to control fine grain permissions on corporate rollouts.
It's amazing to watch! There was a row of townhouses like that put up near my old house. They had a crane and a steady stream of trucks bringing in the modules. Truck shows up, two guys put straps around the module and hook it to the crane. When I was watching, they were on the second storey, so there were two guys on the roof that helped the crane operator drop them in place. Take the straps off, throw them down to the ground, and repeat.

Pretty incredible watching the entire storey of a block worth of townhouses being assembled in an afternoon.
America’s opioid epidemic is worsening
Your hand does not cover entire mountains, only your eyes. The cross section of effective magnetic field has to cover the whole planet.
You've gotten me extremely curious. How did they manage to spend $10 million?
Hi Phil!
Exactly. With experience, I'm more productive without working harder. It's not that I write more lines of code, either. It's that I make fewer false starts, so I have to throw less away. I make fewer bad architectural decisions, so I have to write less code. I use libraries better, so I have to write less code. I write fewer bugs, so I have to spend less time trying to find and fix them. I make less of a mess out of the code, so I can read and understand it again more quickly later.
To be pedantically correct, ".eu" doesn't belong to a country.
What History Lessons Has Science Taught Us?
This was done by the author of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/.
Charge $.50 to $1.00 to avoid Porn and junk pages.
Nodejs, vuejs, couchdb, rxdb.
What's your runway, how much time do you have before funds run low?

Can you stay there for 3 months, 6 months, 12 months?

Income from products/SaaS can be a slow build so think about that. If you want to stay where you are you might need to consider contracting/consulting/freelance to bootstrap your own thing.

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ has some great information for developing your own products, software and SaaS.

Typically an idea will find you. You will run across a problem you have or something you have knowledge about that you can solve with software. Or there is something you have created for multiple clients to solve a problem that you might be able to productize by turning in to a software solution.

This @DHH starup school talk is still inspiring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Good luck, enjoy your time there and your journey to doing your own thing.
The modern Pope? No, nothing beyond what ordinary Catholics have to follow. He may self-impose fasting or abstinence but that's optional.
Zach Holman has a great article about it: https://zachholman.com/posts/fuck-your-90-day-exercise-windo...

And keeps an ongoing list of companies that offer extended exercise windows: https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows

As somebody who has personally experienced every aspect of the stock option lifecycle (which fortunately worked out for me), I would never take a job at a company [1] if they didn't have an extended exercise window. The 90 day expiration period creates a massive gap between the risk/reward of equity for founders and the risk/reward of equity for employees, when the whole point of giving equity is to align those.

1: Assuming it was the type of company that compensated people with stock options
The Nightmare of Algorithm Interviews
First revoke all corporations, no limited liability if you want to make consumers fight it out in the market.
This is getting really ridiculous now. CTIA, organizers of "Wireless Repair Expo", expo for companies providing repair tools and services, are actually lobbying AGAINST right to repair ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4gsFe9kM-0
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The reasons are rarely shared unsolicited. It's usually because I asked (no harm in that) or knew someone on the inside.
I can provide all the sources used for the company I used to work for, however that's irrelevant if you as you said wanted to learn how to fish.

Any and every company selling data and there are thousands is in fact a source you would need to deal with to be removed from the sites that sell it. If you think this answer isn't specific enough, you're not going to achieve anything by me spoonfeeding you info for one such company.
I would tend to agree with arcfide here. It would be easier for me to learn a 1/5 page of APL than the equivalent 15 pages of C# and I don't need the massively bloated VS and the .NET framework to do it. Not that APL is perfect or anything.
Resources about programming practices for writing safety-critical software
The option keyword.enabled=false will instruct firefox to try to navigate to whatever you type, no "is this a search" heuristic.
But that offers no explanation why some are hired and some aren't.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13803808
> And you don't need to feel bad about being "rejected" by people like that.

Yes you do need to feel bad. What, you keep using this excuse for every company you were rejected from? At the end of the day, without a job, who is going to pay for rent?

HN and the greater tech community needs to stop encouraging clearly subpar individuals. No, not everyone deserves to work in tech just because you went to college or paid for a bootcamp. This is the harsh truth that college students and new grads fail to realize.
Well, the project started because I needed it for some other project I was working on. I didn't say to myself "My grand contribution to computer science is going to be an HTML5 parser", I just started writing it, and then it was mostly done by the time the other alternatives came out.
None of the books in my electronic library comes with DRM ;-)
Twitter shadow banning demo:
I wish I had. If something like that ever happens again, I will.
Damning Prediction on Oncoming Economic Depression
> How is this illegal?

Same as anything else: because there are laws forbidding it.

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/legality-ddos-criminal...
Lexis-Nexis? TRW/Experian/etc?

https://www.lexisnexis.com/risk/
I think if you assume there is a god compatible with science, I don't think there is any god account that matches this. Most accounts of the various gods involve violation of the laws of physics. I think if it's the bible god we are talking about, then I've seen a lot of mental energy spent on trying to work out how it might be compatible. Seems to me, it's driven more by a desire not to give up ones belief in god than a rational desire to find the truth.
I actually had an offer in hand, and it was rescinded after I asked about PTO.
Wow, that's a faithful reproduction. Did you use a translator or are you doing this totally by hand? The reason I ask is that even the effects like the Sun showing a reaction when hit by a banana is nicely reproduced.

Edit: If you have the source online, link please. I would love to make it networked :-)
The Amazon forest is the result of an 8,000-year experiment
From the Supreme Court confirmation hearings I've paid attention to, it seems that there are reasonable questions on both sides of stare decisis, but I don't think moving to a non-deterministic legal system would be the answer.
It's a Wild West.
Understanding how TensorFlow works
Is Conservatism the same as the classic Snake game? That makes sense, but it would be interesting to see it contrasted against a Progressivism or Liberalism version.
Bill Paxton's Cause of Death Revealed
A world without referees [pdf]
Apple Safari support in the future? Also, if I'm using a self-updating malware blocklist within extensions such as Ablock Plus, how would Apozy do better than that to prevent phishing?
He's made a few other "variations on a classic" games:

http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/breaksout/

http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/pongs/Pongs.html
I find it much easier to recall details of material I've read in a physical textbook rather than an e-book. The unique cover, weight, texture, etc. of a physical volume provides more context cues that flag the experience of reading as noteworthy, and thus as something that tends to stick out relative to other memories.
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I estimate the "fair" price of a textbook to be around $50-80; math (particularly calculus) is a textbook price I consider to be more naturally expensive, since they tend to cover more material. Your estimation of decades-old textbooks costing about $80 in today's money seems to vindicate that viewpoint.
I've been looking for a reason to read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, I think I'll check it out.
Be aware that you are incorrectly using the .es TLD, since it is requested that you have links to Spain, as specified in "Who can apply?" page here in the domain authority: http://www.dominios.es/dominios/en/todo-lo-que-necesitas-sab...

There have been instances of .es used as vanity domains being requested for deletion: https://www.namepros.com/threads/recepi-es.943453/ so I would be cautious.

Edit: here's the full legal regulation regarding the use of the domain, but sadly it's only in Spanish: https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2005/05/31/pdfs/A18170-18175.pdf
Because there are thousands of people like myself with blog posts, GitHub repos, HN submissions, AND software engineering and/or data science experience already who are being selected over yourself.
Existentialism performed exactly like I imagined. Endless banality of reality symbolized by continuing borders.

I had to switch it off because I started to project myself to this small square pixel that elongates in the backdrop of pitch dark oblivion staring back into my empty soul.
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In defense of those ~"poor ignorant slaving farmers": I'm descended from some poor dirt farmers who are revered and admired by their multi-generational families, and were admired by their fellow townspeople (largely of a different culture and language), for the start they gave the children and the influence they had on everyone around them. Everyone knew they were honest, people liked the free seasonal watermelons, and enjoyed their humor (back in the days of poetry recitations etc). Though passed on for many years, they impact me and others to this day. Extended family reunions still talk about them (there's one in a couple of weeks, in fact, full of people I'm connected to but don't know them all). I think they chose their life more than Thoreau thought, and what kind of legacy they wanted to leave, and to whom. Many hundreds are grateful they did not live self-centeredly.
thanks for the info!
I've used boost::optional for a long time. It is long overdue in the standard. NULL should almost never be a valid value. It is also quite useful to enable safe lazy initialization without heap allocation.

std::variant is just a discriminated union. That's useful for lots of things.

C++11 is old school at this point. Other than for legacy reasons, no one should be using the older stuff.
What about letting a user enter all their pertinent details, then having a "NUKE ME" button and it would eval how many sites and places to nuke from, and you base your costs to the user based on the effort to nuke the info you find. Then give a very straightforward list to the user and let them select which site/item they want to nuke and provide an upfront cost to them.

* You're found on sites 1, 2, 3

* Nuking site 1 is $10.00

* 2 is $1.50

* 3 is $22.55

---

Or something like that?
Heidegger: Sein und Zeit https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21477742-martin-heidegge... (translation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92307.Being_and_Time ).
Great philosophy, and, alas, nazi author. But you can't choose your family either.
rails new bam
Sorry, I assumed a lot of things there I think. I gathered from what you were saying that you were falling with the popular opinion that Google should filter out "fake news" from its search results (or at least the focused results). So from that perspective, I was trying to draw parallels on how silly it is to demand such a thing.
I am not defending this doctor. its down right despicable. Unfortunately, the sponsor of STAT news is no better (not questioning their editorial bias per se, but i think its worth point out)

Lest not forget, that STAT news is sponsored in part by Janssen, which gave us this lovely piece in highline last year:

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-...

Janssen's parent company, Johnson and Johnson, was sued on these accounts and paid out an excess combined over 3 billion to settle lawsuits related to the marketing, selling, distribution, and deception employed to sell risperdal to as many people as possible.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/11/nation/la-na-nn-risp...

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/ny-ag-janssen-pays-...
What's WebVR good for?
Ragel can emit lots of different kinds of code, Ruby included, so to blame the tool here is mistaken. It's blaming how the tool was configured and used.

Emitting Rust might not be a bad idea, but I bet this code-base pre-dates Rust being a viable target.
I see what you're saying but these all seem like client-side issues to me.
Yes you can trap yourself making an inward spiral and then you can't do anything so it's game over.
I m referring to GP comment saying he keeps Windows just for Reaper and you validate my point. And I m talking about the next 10 years obviously. Reaper is a clean, neat, easy to use DAW with many features for beginner and intermediate user. It s a very well written piece of software with a fair price.

Are you really using it for professional work or have seen anyone use it? And what are some features other DAWs can dream of; the ones you counted above?