skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#1 -- Not as true about whiteboard interviews. Homework interviews generally come in addition to in person interviews, so it's a bigger commitment.

#2 -- yes, this is about the hiring manager. But as the candidate, you don't really know what's going on. So it really is specific to the homework interviews.

#3 -- This is a really, really big deal. You're trying to assess people based on homework... that might actually have been done by their buddy.

#4 -- Less true about coding/algorithm interviews. These are focused more on intelligence/problem solving, which is getting more at potential.

#5 -- Absolutely this is about the hiring manager. But it's also very difficult for a homework project to focus on one things (like problem solving skills). The cheating + lack of discussion makes this hard.

#7 -- Time spent makes a MUCH bigger difference for projects than for whiteboard interviews. A 1 hour project vs 20 hours will look very different. A bad candidate with 200 hours of prep will still be worse than a good candidate with 0 prep.
We already have: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/512321/safer-nuclear-powe...
I will never ever leave Firefox voluntarily for an ad-infested Chrome alternative.
Jose and Chris really go above and beyond. Almost every elixir/phoenix question I see on stackoverflow has a really solid response from one of them with not just an answer but often insights into the why something works a specific way as well.
Thanks for the recommendation--this is actually something I've wanted to learn more about as I struggle to get past the early stages of learning guitar.
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No job, no work, no role is stressfree my friend.
Can Glitch help here? https://glitch.com/
So, I gather you have never worked in an auto shop then.

It's not that rare nowadays, but the idea of a 'dry' shop is not an industry standard, per se. There are better 1/4 odds (pulled out of my ass, I have no hard stats here, just 'experience') that the last guy that worked on your brakes was on some sort of drug that's a bit 'tougher' than Tylenol. Ok, not just your brakes, but the brakes of every other driver in the fleet have the same odds.

I mean, do what you want on your own time, fine. But it don't stop at the garage doors, not by a long shot. 'Crank' is called that because it was hidden in the crank shafts of the Hell's Angels, back in the day. Here's and article on trying to keep a 'dry' shop:
http://www.bodyshopbusiness.com/illegal-substances-and-their...
Note the date here, not 1990, but 2015.

Still, you don't hear of too many problems with the brakes.

If you, rightly, have a problem with this, then push for local politicians to require licensing for technicians. California has a voluntary program: the BAR. https://www.bar.ca.gov/Industry/Getting_Licensed.html . Most independent shops have been pushing for these to be requirements for decades, but the dealers and AAMCO type folks have stalled them forever too, not hard to figure out why.
I'm afraid #9 is only a matter of time... sort of the same idea as the "Progressive Snapshot" device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtuHgl35TT4
No job, no work, no role is stressfree my friend
The mobile thing is just mass distraction. Everybody says "mobile" is eating the world, but when you look at it, 99 in 100 mobile core users are stupid facebookers who don't even know what is the internet and wouldn't be using the internet at all if it wasn't for Facebook, Instagram or whatever share-your-stupid-life network they may be using.
History of Game Consoles
As a side note, Mozilla bought Pocket more than a year after this debacle: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/3vijxi/psa_mozilla...

Removal of Firefox Hello took only 6 months: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1287827
I apologize for misinterpreting your response as sarcastic.

Why do you believe that PCA successfully captures all the relevant population structure? Probablistically, it's a Gaussian linear model... no reason to expect allele frequencies to follow that. If that were the case, methods like coalescent theory would be unnecessary.

Why do you believe that high genetic correlations between cohorts is sufficient to ensure safe inference from GWAS meta analysis? These are tiny effect sizes, and the argument is essentially that the correlations with intelligence measurements are statistically significant. Unless you believe that your null model is an otherwise entirely accurate reflection of how the data is generated, of course you're going to see spuriously significant results in huge samples.

I'll respond to your other points when/if I catch up on the literature. I'd be grateful if you could link the papers about the enrichment sets and tissue expression results.
My understanding is that the government eventually caved (after the big icefall avalanche in 2014) to the Sherpas demands and raised the loss-of-life compensation considerably.

Note: I'm not saying it's a fair amount (I don't even know how you'd judge that) just that the information you linked might be outdated.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/04/-sp-sherpa-fam...

Edit: it appears to have gone from $400 to $5000.
I initially used to do it because that what all the cool kids were doing.

Now I'm starting again to use it as open note-book.

Because some of my past google searches literally pointed me to my own old blog post. Every time that happened, it gave me a very smug feeling.
Java advancement is separate from JVM advancement.

Quite a few things (the invokedynamic bytecode for example) were added to the JVM that aren't even used in Java.

In fact Oracle has done more recently than Sun did in regards to hosting other programming languages on the JVM (see: https://github.com/graalvm/truffleruby).
Well, I don't use Firefox mostly because debugging Javascript in it is much much slower in all the old computers I use.

I'm hoping Servo will change that.
Funny to see this. I just downloaded Vivaldi [1] today. I still have all my work stuff in Chrome, but I'm giving Vivaldi a second shot now that a more stable version has been released. I like the idea of a browser with more features for developers (as they put it, a browser for our friends). I'm hoping it lives up to expectations.

This motivated me to go even further. I'm sick of the 1999 style popups and redirects I get on mobile sites, especially the Android webviews that so many applications have. I'm setting the AdBlock Browser to my default and disabling in-app web browsers where possible. Until I can trust mobile sites to have respectable ads, they lose revenue.

The more I think about this, the more annoyed I'm getting. The Youtube app has also been redesigned to have a less 'friction free' UI. You now open a video, see an ad first. Ok, that's fine. Back out of a video, it minimizes and you view 'suggested videos' (which feel like more ads). Swipe video away, you're still on the ad screen. Back out of Youtube. I want to watch a video and get out, maybe be pestered by 1 skippable ad for a relevant product. Not hit back 8 times and swipe a video away.

The time might be right for disruption. On the other hand, I might just be spoiled by debt supplemented user acquisition strategies that have very low monetization. We'll see.

1. https://vivaldi.com
Consider to take a break for 2 weeks, rather than resigning, replacing yourself or talking to your wife. After 2 weeks you may feel less burnt out and see things more clearly. You can get medication (and I for one can confirm it does work) but ideally that's to get you out of the rut not a permanent solution. It's possible that your lack of passion for this idea, combined with how much time and dedication it takes is making you feel this way. Your mind/body doesn't understand the inherent contradiction. I'm married to my cofounder and it's hard to be honest when one is feeling weak, but hiding stuff damages your intimacy and closeness. Protect that, it's worth more than your company.
...who cares? Why are your sites so superior and quality for 'proper internet' but these things that people actually use doesn't?
I am at work, but I don't give a fuck.

This is the best thing I've read for a long time:

"Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us."[1]

1. https://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck
We could just leave a pile of skeletons at the entrance. Less facetiously: it's already been an area of study for some time: http://www.salon.com/2002/05/10/yucca_mountain/
Seems like that's at least partially on you.

I have a friend like this and, while we get along great most of the time, he is always interrogating people who say no to him and you can just tell he's assuming 'the true reason is laziness'.

People make complex decisions and they shouldn't always have to explain why. Especially with someone you trust.
Ask HN: What's the fastest way to learn programming as a 30-year-old?
I am 30 years old non technical guy. I have never programmed anything. I want to learn coding to earn living as fast as I can. Please suggest me which langauage you would recommend that I can learn fast and start earning some money.
I have them both saved as offline videos in my YouTube app. But of course google is an evil company and so they're now shown as not available.

If they're never reuploaded I'll see if I can recover them manually somehow.
Here are two ways that Mozilla could have a lot of impact:

- If it is indeed too challenging for Firefox to compete against Chrome with a separate browser, there might be value in Mozilla maintaining an open-source fork of Chrome. This would allow Mozilla to borrow the good bits of Chrome for relatively low effort, and focus development effort on the the things that Google might not value so much (e.g privacy). It would also be a hedge against a Google monopoly by having an open source competitor available.

- I'd love to see a solid open source clone of Android—including a full clone of Google Play Services. I think Mozilla could help a lot here, especially if they integrated their fork of the browser.
I agree with you, but I think it's important not to take the bait. If someone is implying you're a rude person for not doing what they want, and you know you're not that, you can simply disregard. What they think of you is their problem and not yours. Always maintain the frame of what you think is right and what is best for you, and do not buy into their frame.

Of course, it gets trickier in different situations for different reasons. But basically, people try to use shaming and emotional blackmail to get what they want, don't let them.

One other thing: I think about the fundamental attribution error / actor-observer bias a lot. You're an asshole because you won't do the thing I want, but when someone else asked me for a thing and I said no, it was because I was busy and etc etc. This dynamic influences so much of what people think about others and themselves.
I have secretly held this opinion for years. 4 out of 5 times that I look over someone's shoulder at their phone on the train, they're rapidly scrolling through a feed of photos, memes, and emote-filled status updates, endlessly.

It scares me, to be honest. I wonder where this tendency in people will lead in the very long run, particularly when you consider the ideas suggested by companies like Neuralink. It brings Black Mirror to mind.

Will people permanently have an inexhaustible feed of vapid garbage playing in their mind while they ignore most of everything going on in reality, in their actual real life?

However, this is unrelated to the original point. Just a side thought.
Who are these people writing SMS apps? Why is Twilio so proeminent when no one uses SMS anymore?
In fairness to Firefox, at this point I'm just waiting for their dev tools to get as good as Chrome's before I seriously consider switching, and other efforts like Quantum certainly make the prospect even more attractive. Once they have me on desktop, I'll want to switch on mobile as well for the state syncing benefits.

I wouldn't be surprised if a sizeable portion of Chrome users were in a similar boat, quietly waiting for some small aspect of Firefox to improve.
Most people do their banking from their phones.
Weird, because here are the browser stats from my personal blog page http://imgur.com/a/1COo4

Edit:

Err correction, looks like 3,294 of those FF hits are from a bot trying to break into my fake wp-login.php page with an agent id of "Firefox/34". But still, minus those hits, FF is neck and neck with Chrome.
Yeah, but that benefits only the lawyers, not the end users.
A few kinds of support:

Non-publishing: Some of these journals provide genuine monetary support for their sponsoring society, which then go to fund travel scholarships, put on conferences, etc.

Publishing: This will depend highly on the field - a lot of people who assert that journals add nothing come from fields where LaTeX is the standard format journals are submitted in, so journals don't do much in the way of formatting.

But this is not all fields. Most of my papers (I'm in a Word-standard field) get page layout, and a page layout I find significantly more pleasant to read than most LaTeX documents.

I've also had my papers get fairly strong copy editing, and I already carefully copy edit my papers. I've seen some other papers that have definitely been much improved by the editorial staff.

In at least one paper, I had a figure redone by them in the journal's style.
Interesting, I'll give that a try. Thanks!
Hm, could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can take a look into this?
I don't understand the graphs. Chrome's growth seems to be slowing according to the raw data part of the graph, yet the trend line suggests Chrome's growth to be speeding up. The trend line basically doesn't seem to fit the data at all in the case of Chrome, aside from the fact that both point more-or-less upward.
A rather toxic read which I wouldn't expect from a former CTO.
'Get good at' failure
If you're about to be acquired, what's the problem? Does the buyer want a contractual commitment that you stay with the company? If not, this is where you can cash out and retire. Stay 3-6 months after the acquisition and phase yourself out.
Execute on the LOIs pronto and get paid external help, preferably from the acquirers. If you say its urgent they should jump. It's in their interest.

Remember:

1. Even if in the very worst case the result is a slightly lower price, that's way less important than your health.

2. Life balance is a real thing, burnout is a real thing, they cannot be ignored indefinitely.

3. You work hard and they obviously value you and your team's achievements, which means they also can relate to the situation.

4. Don't feel shameful in admitting your limits, we all have them.

5. Acquirers will work with you to hand over responsibilities in a way that works for your situation. Remember from their perspective that, since every acquisition is different, complexity of handover is actually normal and expected.
That was true of state universities as late as the mid 1970s when I attended. It was the rise of easy credit for guaranteed loans that permitted the current runaway inflation in costs. College costs have grown faster than health care.
Salaries for people who can't get deep work done due to the noise of the open office.
I feel old now: https://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying
The most notable feature here is the ability to reference values from other request's responses, such as auth tokens or IDs: https://insomnia.rest/documentation/request-chaining/
Use DNS. Seriously. We use IPv4 where I work, and we don't use DNS, and it's still a nightmare. There's no good way to refer to a machine, short of an IPv4 address, and that's still painful to speak and hard to memorize.

Life is much easier when you can speak of a machine as "2.dev.awesome-service" (.your-company.com)

Besides, the machines should be ephemeral, and the new ones will likely get new IPs. (Unless you're doing something like EIPs, but just stop that and use DNS. ;-) )
Our customers at Dolly love receiving SMS. Also helps with low data connectivity locations. Not sure "no one uses SMS anymore" is accurate.
Can't edit original now. Image is at https://imgur.com/N6dOFMS

Source pdf (page 1): https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2017/mar/pdf/bu...
My phone tells me how much usage I have on it - on very heavy days including using it while commuting about 4 hours.

On light days about an hour.

I'm usually on a laptop/desktop for 8-10 hours a day.
You read hackernews, which alone suggests you are in the far, far tail of average developed country consumer. Most people hate, and always hated computers. Most people don't even have college degrees, and don't need heavy utility computing to do their jobs. Compare PC sales vs. Mobile.
> exponential trend

They're market shares & hence bounded by 0 and 1, so exponential seems pretty unrealistic. The logistic curve is a better starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#In_economics...
Because the things that tend to be the most valuable to society tend to also be hard to achieve. If you could be a good person by doing what is easy and immediately gratifying, there would be no trouble in the world.
> Unreliable is great!

Anecdote: It only goes so far. There are quite a lot of people who will be quite pissed off with you (passively) if you're unreliable. I mean, friends will tolerate it, but let me tell you, as someone who's quite "reliable" (punctual, do what I promise, etc.) it's quite stressful to have to rely on someone who isn't. So stressful, in fact, that I wouldn't actually interact very much with this particular person I'm thinking of right now if I wasn't forced to (via circumstances beyond my control).

> [Snip Feynman] anecdote.

Feynman could get away with a lot of shit that almost nobody else would have done because he was a genius (and was recognized as such by his contemporaries).

Are you at "Feynman"-level?

> 90% of the time, being "reliable" goes against my best interests in terms of career and goals.

^ I don't see what the above...

> My value is that I can hunker down and make stuff. My value is not "tasks".

... has to do with this. Can you explain?
I don't think I'm more important than you, but you bet I think I'm important enough to say no to anybody without a reason.
Yeah the war is certainly not over. Chrome is vulnerable in a lot of ways. Heck at this point I can imagine IE making a huge comeback even.

We'll see.
Likewise, all it takes is one fuckup from Mozilla to bleed even more users and sink into irrelevance.
I'm a founder with many challenges - emotional and money - and my wife is my important partner in the mix. This isn't a job, it's a life decision that you both make together. This advice is horrible.

"Maintaining appearances is important" - to you wife? My life might be different than yours - to me my wife isn't someone I "maintain appearances" with. She is my friend, my support, my counsel.

I couldn't be a founder through the adversarial parts of the things outside and inside myself without her being there.
Well supposedly those are different for each customer so.....
http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/manpages/ndn-autoconfi...

Still relies on TCP and UDP and thus still needs IP addresses.
> - Suck it up and work on the same thing for 2-5 more years

Why do you assume you have to work on it for 2-5 more years?

It's pretty common for founders to quit within a year or two of an acquisition.
>Browsers are a commodity product. They all pretty much look the same and feel the same. All browsers work pretty well, and being slightly faster or using slightly less memory is unlikely to sway users.

Not really. Buy a cheap laptop and see Firefox freeze all the time rendering pages while Chrome keeps up like a champ.

All your remaining users are the die-hard users like me, who stay because they like the addons, or some other thing. But Mozilla has decided they'll remove those too, so...
I use firefox for entirely idealistic reasons, but it's hard to ignore the fact that it is slower. There are times when it just feels so bloated, though thankfully a quick restart gets it running smoothly again. I know firefox team has had passes of perf improvements in the past, but it seems like it still isn't a high priority. When it comes to browsers, speed is the #1 feature.
How did you generate the questions automatically?

This is something I have tried to do with natural languages in the past but getting good, error free, unambiguous questions out of an algorithm seems to be really difficult.
Whether it's a company launching a product or a developer showing off something they built in their spare time, it's really depressing to launch something you've been working on for months or years and to get back "well, X already does this."

I'd add that "X already does this" comments like this are a routine feature of Twilio HN threads, as long as the company's been alive. https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/six-years-of-hacker-news-comme...
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox#Windows_2

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mortar_Project

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions
Most people don't buy routers, they are given them by their ISPs. My parents switched ISP at the start of the year and were given a 5 year old modem/router.
Overcoming sole founder/key man risk perception?
I’ve been working on a fintech startup for the last five years. The business has been bootstrapped from personal resources and part-time consulting and we’re now cash-flow positive, great reviews from our users, have good reference sites and so on. The company is basically two people – I do all the development and a colleague handles marketing.

Because of the way the product is designed (basically a set of libraries with a simple API, lots of examples, detailed wiki) post-sales effort is fairly minimal and is typically about methodology, occasional technical questions, etc. We can probably expand by a factor of ten before having to take on any support staff.

A problem we’re currently experiencing is the perception of key man risk. A large client in London loved the product, but we were shot down because of perceived ‘key man risk’ – if I were to go away who would provide support? They went with another product that cost 20 times more, was inferior technically, but had large support teams.

So far we’ve addressed this question by offering source code in escrow, so that if I were hit by a bus the client would have access to source code. We could raise some money and hire a support team, but that seems premature given our current
requirements.

Has anyone else had this issue, and how did you handle it?
My understanding is that the due diligence report was by an independent company that does such reports as part of its regular business, and so was motivated to make it honest.
Heh my wife certainly wouldn't let me do that.
Love this. The mess of using Java standard library for filesystem IO always left a bad taste in my mouth. This looks amazing for the filesystem stuff alone.
Mozilla the foundation did deserve this.

This is what you get when you force a perfectly technical CEO out and let the MBA types steer the ship. A browser is a forever bleeding edge tech; you need engineers all the way to the top. They chose political correctness over technical prowess and the product has lost the edge.
> I'd been mulling over a third option (hire someone to do my day-to-day)

Don't do this. It's the easiest way to be exited on not your conditions. From personal experiences. Just quit now on your conditions and name someone else as CEO. It always easier than it seems to gain domain knowledge. On a personal level, reading stoicism philosophers helped a lot too. If it's actually about your state of mind and not the job itself, that can trigger a switch to liking sucking it up if you decide to continue.