skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That speed should be much faster now due to the information age and globalized competition. It may not approach Ray Kurzweil's predictions, but it's certainly shorter than previous generations of commercialization.
The problem with your reasoning is that you expect the interview to mirror job requirements rather than select for job performance. In many cases the best instrument to measure the latter will resemble the former, but there's nothing intrinsic about the relationship. If giving someone a brain teaser or having them recite trivia provides a strong signal for job performance, then it makes sense to use these instruments. You could argue that they don't provide a meaningful signal (which I think Google may have discovered with the brain teasers), but that is a separate discussion.

Something else to consider is that the interview is optimized to select for true positives and reject false positives at different rates. It's been discussed elsewhere that for a company like Google avoiding false positives is much more important than finding good candidates. So it may be the case that some instruments like trivia recitation provide the right signal at the intersection of the optimization curves. The fact that many (even most) qualified candidates score poorly on these instruments doesn't impugn their utility; their primary goal isn't to identify good candidates but to filter out bad ones.
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For what use?
How does the implanting procedure work?
What about maintenance and replacement
The best summary quotation I have in https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup is ...

Upgrade cost of network complexity: The Internet has smart edges ... and a simple core. Adding an new Internet service is just a matter of distributing an application ... Compare this to voice, where one has to upgrade the entire core. - RFC3439 (2002)
Is that really still true in the world we live in today though? Previously we were unable to instantly share information so freely and collaborate with people around the world with so little effort.

I'm not saying it shouldn't take time to develop these things, but surely the 30-40 year timeline is significantly reduced due to information sharing today?
> fighting words

This isn't an exception to free speech protections.

'In 1942 the Supreme Court held that the government could prohibit "fighting words" — "those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace." The Supreme Court has been retreating from that pronouncement ever since. [...] the only remaining focus is on whether the speech will provoke immediate face-to-face violence. '

Quoted from https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
It's a false dichotomy. Your private keys are just "obscure" information that requires some effort to find too. And security protocols can be designed so the keys aren't enough.

At the end of the day it's an arms race, and you're just trying to slow attackers down.
If by "the SaaS version" you mean WordPress.com, dunno - I doubt it. But you don't need to host it yourself - there are heaps of WordPress hosting specialists (I use and have been very happy with WPEngine).

For role based access, yeah - WP has simple role based accounts built in (admin, editor, author, user, and non-account public access) - and that's easily extensible with plugins.
There was also one about "Ronald Wilson Reagan"
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True, but I don't think you need to be an amateur lawyer to deduce that if the company, you just sold, was based on stolen technology then you're screwed legally and financially. And from what we know right now it seems that it was.
Believing that the Book of Revelations has some sort of prophetic insight and that warnings about the Mark of the Beast or the Antichrist have any relevance at all does mean you must be religious.
Homeland Security announces steps against H1B visa fraud
Let's not forget though that there are quite a few reasons why a lot of people would prefer to live in the Bay Area vs. Kansas City.

Off the top of my head...

- The weather

- Stunning beaches, world-class skiing, hiking/camping, wine tasting, and more all within a couple hours drive

- Incredibly liberal

- A plethora of amazing food options representing pretty much every cuisine in existence

- Easy transit to Asian countries and that half of the world

- Strong concentration of tech jobs, giving employees leverage and reduced risk even in a down market

Rent alone is not always a factor, and there are often many sound reasons for the differences in housing and demand.
an advanced sophist will explain to you how president and head are lifelong titles and it is technically correct enough. right before plunging into an hour-long bitching session over the post-truth politics and (just a bit) fake(r than theirs) news.
To put things in perspective, Ford sold over 645,000 vehicles so far this year. Tesla feels massively overvalued.

[1] https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/en/investor...
Honestly, this is a private corp acting in its own best interests under the law. Everyone here complaining that Navient is horrible... this is what capitalism is. If you don't like the law, talk to your congressman/senators and get the law changed.

IMHO the schools are the bad guys here.. they are taking advantage of a situation where the government will just hand loans to everyone and there is no way they can lose. Why not just make an undergraduate degree a public good at this point. Taxpayers are already paying to bail all these people out, it is partially a public good already except the students who hold all the debt have to go through hell and Navient gets a cut of the taxpayer money in the process.
> microchips bond with your tissue

Eh, not really. They stimulate a foreign body reaction from macrophages, creating a synovium-like cyst around the object.

> The implications for removal should be obvious

You'll end up a granuloma (collection of macrophages), which may calcify or slowly resolve down to collagenous scar tissue.

So, I wouldn't lead with the biology, at least not when pitching your concerns to scientists. The privacy implications are pretty horrific though.
No, I think he means that putting something into the chest cavity is much more invasive than a rice-sized subdermal chip in your hand.

The point of that quote is to say that putting something unnecessary into your body is a big step, but that it's also a much smaller risk while still providing something interesting.
Not the parent, but if I had to guess, the current administration is creating the context for a massive wealth transfer using deregulation following a financial collapse of similar magnitude to Russia in the 90s. The end aim is to create a economically and politically entrenched kleptocrat class and a corresponding "managed democracy." Funnily enough, Abe Shinzo and his political allies have suggested doing this explicitly through constitutional reform, Japan being so steeped in corruption at this point that such talk is par for the course [0].

I'm not sure what will be the trigger, they seem to be pushing at several angles - war, knock-on effects from environmental collapse, another financial implosion. Because of the systemic corruption of the Democratic Party, the collapse could emerge organically. Obama really only papered over the root causes of the financial crises (not to mention paying off the culprits).

But it's a unlikely you're going to see Japanese style stagnation. Their economic circumstances are a result of the U.S. propping up their economy through an export regime for the sake of regional national security, as well as an economic approach that (generally) pursues a more stable state than dramatic rises and falls. The U.S has neither of those preconditions. Contemporary Russia is probably more instructive generally, with perhaps Central American style inequality being exemplary for the coastal regions.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/06d6bf9e-fab...
Guest mode (even view only) will be nice. Mandatory registration is not good.
It can travel way further than "a few blocks" and I'd guess most trips are not so unexpected that it's impossible to accept a delay of 30 minutes or maybe even longer.
They can care for selfish reasons. If android is completely riddled with bugs and is constantly compromised users will use a different phone system. Even outside security issues being able to roll out new features to people keep them from switching to iOS or Windows Phones.
Sure. But the ones that were about macroeconomic forecasting totally fucked up. That's somewhat akin to saying that the IT department responsible for managing email is about making email work. Not such an unreasonable complaint any more. Particularly galling that we had "crazy" economists claiming that we were in a massive housing bubble which we should expect to burst back in 2006, while at the same time the economists at the Fed were saying, "Look at interest rates! Now is a great time to buy a house!" and coincidentally their mates from college were selling mortgage backed securities. So really its more akin to the IT department responsible for managing the email deliberately sending Nigerian fishing scams to their fellow employees along with the public message of "No, outlook is fine, just click on anything in your inbox!"
I am not sure about the salaries going down.

Senior engineers = a little older = probably have family = harder to make the move to another country

I've been on H1B since about the time I graduated and it was no brainer to start new life in US. Had I stayed and started my family and career in Canada, it would've been much harder move to US and it probably wouldn't be worth it because my wife wouldn't be able to work etc etc
For one, you can look between the start menu and and an open window. More than once I've need to run some obscure command or some program I didn't even know was installed, and I can just glance over to my documentation to make sure I've got it right.

My eyes have muscles that allow me to move them where required. Most people do. They don't need the entire desktop blanked out for a single UI element that might take up ~10% of the space.

Again, we're right back to mobile-first use cases- everything is fullscreen. Except that nobody is using G3 on mobile devices, so why design in that fashion? What's the user benefit?
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My friend owned a piercing shop and put one in himself which he used with his front door lock (plus a pass code).I was interested in RFID so I asked him to give me one.

No maintenance. I don't even use it anymore so not sure it still works tbh. Another friend of mine had hers removed it wasn't a big deal her GP did it.

Implant procedure at the time was a large needle through a pinched flap of skin then another tool which held the chip (it looks like a grain of rice) is pushed into the hole. The person then pushed it around through the skin to position it and you get a bandaid.
Record labels want money they know YouTube doesn’t earn
Leaving immigration to the states would require internal border controls. This is not something most people want.
Diskless true SSH honeypot using Alpine Linux (2014)
I think you're right. The government can keep things in sort of a gentle downward glide slope by printing money as long as they don't overdo it.
You're comparing two different cohorts - newly graduated students, and everyone who has any student debt. Obviously the second group is going to have lower median and average, so comparing the two is pointless.
There was another article on academic incentives today that referenced a wonderful quote:

"When a measure is used as a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

My impression is that economics as a whole does not understand this. When you target GDP for example, GDP ceases to be a good measure of anything. The trouble with economics as a science is that its results are used to guide the economy. This creates a feedback loop, making it essentially a self-invalidating discipline.
> "but urban apartments are still $1500-$2000+/month and there's still a housing affordability crisis."

Because what your statement is missing is "still a housing affordability crisis for more desirable locations with decent commutes, lower crime, etc."

Rents are still relatively cheap in neighborhoods with lots of violent crime. Rents are likewise relatively cheap when you get far enough out to be an hour or two by train.

Safer urban centers where jobs are located will always have higher prices than locations without jobs.
What's a high traffic customer of Google?
Almost hard to believe that you could have gotten mugged in that part of DF. But maybe at night?
What are some people you think deserve more attention?

(For me, Alan Kay is good publicist for other geniuses. He's talked about Ivan Sutherland, Neil Postman, etc. I was overlooking those people until I started watching his talks on Youtube.)
>>I'd expect that something basic in an EE job could be "draw the core part of an oscillator circuit, then we'll talk about the principles of its operation".

Sure, but that's the equivalent of drawing a diagram that explains how quick sort works, as opposed to implementing it using real code. Most companies demand the latter during interviews.
Lawyer up. Only legal advice will help you here. I would remove this post.
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RO membranes are notoriously finicky and non-robust. They require a lot of maintenance and can be ruined by common chemicals like chlorine. A more robust desalination membrane would be a very good thing.
The mistake there is thinking printing money brings you growth. Where has this worked?
NULL Value Is a Contradiction in Terms
I don't see how any of that has any bearing on my objection, whatsoever. My point wasn't to say "WAT NO BITCOIN IS INVULNERABLE". My point was to correct the inaccuracy in the bit of your post that I quoted, lest it confuse others and for your benefit as well if it reflected actual misunderstanding.
I love audio books, but it's not fast enough and it's harder to revisit parts that you didn't quite understand or really liked. Also, it depends a lot on the speaker and whether they themselves understand what they are reading. Not to mention, some matters like, say, the description of algorithms and data structures, are really unfit to be presented with audio books. Still, audio books are nice.
I'm sure it's faster now due to reasons you're describing. Also, cold war is gone - so that kind of helps too. Thing is, this isn't your average ruby on rails app and JSON API. Applied research in chemistry, physics, and industrial scale production takes certain breakthroughs, test methodologies, etc. all of which take a lot of talent and money. From what I remember we've seen significant (for certain amounts of significant) funding in applied r&d for graphene around the same time Nobel was won for it in 2010. So, even if r&d is accelerated now significantly, we're still probably at least around 10-20 years away from seeing anything utilising it in a significant and widespread manner.
Nope, I refuse to ever take part in anything resembling this horse shit.
The cell phone camera is a great way to test whether a multimode fiber optic cable is connected at the far end, too.
Oh I missunderstood, sorry. I think everything is important, the more you know the better you can do your job. Probably maintenance comes before security, and security before performance. But it depends on the case.
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My very limited experience with Mexico City is that I'd treat it like many U.S. cities: it's fine, if you know which areas to avoid after dark, and which areas to avoid entirely. It is not like a safe European city center where you can go almost anywhere alone on foot at any time of day. But most U.S. cities don't fit that description either. And it's not at the other extreme that some people imagine, some kind of Somalia-esque set of private compounds separated by lawless warzones.
Guess I'll ask here, any non-brute force techniques to speed searching with such a metric? (specifically one that violates triangle inequality)
>>Insatiable drug appetite is a constant

Says who?
at the kind of scale, one engineer can drive that much value. Google's ads business is huge, and 1% improvement you can do (which happens all the time) could have outsized impact. It doesn't really have to be that complex of an improvement, either.

PS: google employee
if you squint, it all looks like state machines!
> On the other hand, I referenced a report with actual numbers of devices impacted.

Really. "We can't trust Google (because!) so ignore the detailed report with actual data and instead remember all those scary headlines!"

This sort of conspiratorial thinking is so strange every time I see it I do a double take.

That report is indeed remarkable given the number of devices. If they're seeing penetration rates of .05 percent that means most Android users will never see a virus or a trojan. It is a bit disturbing the way this was achieved though: by centralizing application distribution in a store. It would be great if there was a decentralized way to accomplish the same.
It pretty explicitly declares who Dai-holders are trusting- those who hold the rarer MKR coins. MKR-holders, presumably, appoint oracles by manipulating the Ethereum DAO that's running the whole business- but they also seem to have control over the rest of the system as well, so its not as though they would have to even be as subtle as manipulating oracles to mess things up. If they want to declare their own farts to be valid collateral to borrow Dai, I don't see a mechanism provided to stop them.

Its really easy to see the MKR-holders as just a formalization of the movers of high-finance in the fiat currency world- they would have a similar oversight role and powers as the high-level bankers and governmental financial regulators that control the workings of conventional markets. I suppose the idea is that MKR-holders have it in their best interest to defend a system they've invested in. But if the motivation of the whole digital currency movement is autonomy this seems to defeat the point.
The F-35 is one of those programs that completely boggles the mind. It's government abomination at its worst. Let's put a few numbers in perspective: SpaceX operated for 10 years with approx. $1 billion USD total. It designed space craft that flew to space. The budget for F-35 is exceeding $400 billion and it's not even close to completion. This is 400x more! And when I say "budget", if you live in the US currently, "budget" means "comes from your pocket". I don't have a better word for this than flat-out INSANITY.
Yes, I've noticed that about myself too. Reading is a high investment / high reward activity, and you have to make an effort to do it. One approach is to set aside a time slot daily where you just read, like the hour before bed time for example. You could also set goals for your self (e.g. read a book a week, a chapter a night, etc.) but that might turn it into a chore and make it less likely that you'll stick with it. It depends on your personality I suppose.

I've also noticed that reading in the office attracts strange looks sometimes. I don't know what to do about that. Reading research papers and text books related to what one is working on should be encouraged in a knowledge profession, yet I almost never see colleagues doing it. I guess if your hands aren't on the keyboard those JIRA tickets won't get closed.
It's why software licences have some text in capitals.
Currently, Tesla is a luxury car company. People who want to get from point A to point B buy a used Ford Focus.