skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, essentially you are trying to make the point that even ASCII has its problems and that all data has to be encoded somehow before processing can be done on it. The latter seems to be self-evident and UNICODE is a response to the former.
If you look at photos from for example Tim Cook's visit to Foxconn you'll see that the factory is extremely clean and give the impression of having excellent working conditions.

The problem is how work is regimented: employees are not allowed to talk to each other while on a shift, and they get moved to New dorms randomly where they know no one, and may never see because they're on different shifts. It's a lack of human contact, a very different type of working condition.
I love how they pay people off that have fucked them over. Made the comment thread here about privilege that much more funny.
Related question: does anyone have personal experience of significantly improving their self-esteem as an adult? Or is your level of self-esteem pretty much fixed as a child and something that needs to be "managed" in adulthood rather than changed?
> Sell me this pen

You don't need a new pen, sorry for wasting your time.
My approach in that situation would be:

1. store info of the pen not being memorable (can use that later as per the transcript)

2. Ask for what typical activities they use a pen for. Then try and describe back to them why the pen is important based on those events. If they respond 'I don't really use a pen much'....well that might be a little harder :)

Overall an interesting transcript. I haven't studied sales much so not sure about the theory behind it all but the example seems very good. Though I'm sure there's other ways to succeed at the task without necessarily following the OP's principles exactly.
Ask HN: Is BIP 148 / UASF better or worse than HF?
This is a fun problem that took me ~ an hour to solve, mostly because I made a silly mistake early on. Recommend it if you have some downtime.
Right, the strategy is very depended on answers that the candidate is going to get and it is hard to see how to continue with less favorable answers:

* Q: Do you remember what kind of pen that was?

* A: Yes, it was my favorite pen that I got from my wife for our anniversary

* Q: Do you remember why you were using it to write?

* A: I signed a credit card receipt in Walmart.
The level of privilege fucking burns.

This is not an understatement for anyone who has just finished reading the entire article. It's in every paragraph. You have to read it just to get a sense of the level of selfishness on display at every level.

That said, I don't think these people are evil, it's easy to loose sight of the fact how lucky you are for all of us. We need to guard against it at all times and it's not easy. I'm guilty of having got somewhat irritated by a homeless person in the past and now I think I was an idiot for being like that and having children has made me so much more understanding and loving of everyone. Going up is also easier than going down, if these people had as much money as me (and owned no properties) they might be suicidal, however I'm quite happy with my life :-) Although of course I do aspire to own one home at least for my family.
> We can infer without greater evidence that Luckey is racist simply because he donated to something.

No we can't. And this is the kind of lazy reasoning that has already diluted the word "racist" significantly.
> there's no logic behind that.

Only to people who are completely clueless, and entirely oblivious to events in contemporary history.

I suggest you educate yourself, or in the very least discover Sweden's move to join NATO and the subsequent response by Russia.
I am wondering why for factual statements like X is Y that are provable as false can't the entity damaged by the publication ask for a retraction and/or damages ? As a person if you denigrate other person you are in trouble.
I think the causality you were trying to invoke goes "If you eat more than you need, you could become overweight." As such, it describes ways people can become overweight, not the cause for obesity or food cravings.

People are overweight for reasons other than "eating too much," just as drug addicts relapse for reasons other than "trying meth once." I'm actually comfortable thinking about greed as a symptom of a disconnected world view as well. Just one that none of the afflicted are inclined to treat.
When people are asked "what would God do in this situation" the place in the brain that lights up is the same as the "what would -I- do in this situation" region, so I think it's no different than before. Self-esteem is still self. It's just that in the monotheistic/polytheistic (not pantheistic) perspective, it could be considered external, although the mechanics are actually subconsciously internal.
The page is not loading. 25 years ago, a response could be: you don't need a pen, you need a 3000 USD IBM-compatible PC! :-)
The original article is full of overly specific details that are typical of fabricated stories; he's not just talking to a hiring manager, he's talking to the CEO. The CEO wasn't just happy with his answer, he had to pick his jaw up off the floor, etc.

The commenter you're responding to gave a very typical template of how you're supposed to respond to the question (and how anyone who has any aptitude for sales would.) It's nothing special, and that's the point.
Oh right, the great metabolic upgrade of 2014 changed all this.
Yes, I understand doing your own homework. I recently avoided a rental pretty narrowly. Nothing quite as unsavoury as this, but due to a couple of layers of indirection through agents, the fact that parking was tandem wasn't evident until the very end. Own homework aside, I just wanted to get some ballpark estimate on legal fees that one would incur with such an undertaking, and whether this is all pretty boilerplate, or do you have to have to get some bespoke solution from a law firm.
I was in Haridwar last month and only auto-rickshaws I saw there were diesel guzzling Vikrams
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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -Mark Twain
Leading to some "interesting" outcomes.

Anyone remember Moblin? Apparently Intel started work on that Linux distro because Microsoft balked regarding an x86 platform without PCI device lookup. And Intel removed the PCI stuff in an effort to cut power drain.

As an aside, running windows on ARM to this day require special SoCs.
>it's titled "The Best .. I've Ever Seen" and it's his own anecdote

Obviously "the best (his) ever seen" would be "his own anecdote". How else could it be?
Thank you for noting there is an additional source to conside - but, I'm sorry, I don't see the difference it makes.

> Hastings didn't outright dismiss net neutrality categorically.

I didn't read the first article as stating that he would.

> Rather, he was forthright in admitting that it's not a priority within the context of Netflix's current goals due to a resignation that it's not a fight worth the resources [...]

"Not worth the resources" is a statement that can have many reasons - one try at an explanation could be that the "worth" is primarily determined by how much use net neutrality would be to Netflix, a theory somewhat backed by Hastings' first quote.

That the Trump FCC is shifting the weights is certainly true, though I don't see how the change is profound enough to justify ceding defeat. The telco lobbyists certainly didn't "give up" under Obama and the FCC's then pro-net-neutrality stance.
I really like:

- Code Complete by Steve McConnell

- The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau

- The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
Air insurance profitability is down, in part due to technology innovation. http://www.theactuary.com/features/2015/09/on-a-wing-and-a-p...
I'm not a C person, but I've often heard that the Quake source code is good, practical-not-necessarily-elegant code that's worth emulating.

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake
What was the laptop? And what were the 3 things that you found most annoying?
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

I have attempted some of the problems in Lua, Python, Erlang and Ada. It is very doable. So not just for Scheme.
Given that it's under active investigation, "meme" might be wrong word.
The premise of the question is that a pen is ubiquitous and used all the time by everybody. You can trust that the interviewee already understands exactly what a pen is and does (as opposed to the company's niche Foo Widget -- in this way it's similar to the classic datastructure/algorithm coding question: no, you'd never actually be solving this exact problem in the job, but it's a level playing ground to see if you can display some qualities we expect to be correlated with things you need to do in the job). If that premise fails, you (as an interviewer) need to come up with another object that does meet the criteria (say, an iPhone).

But if the interviewer is trying to have an interviewee sell them a product they up front know they're not even mildly interested in buying (as is probably the case for most of the HN crowd, we'd probably never actually buy a pen - digital for almost everything, free pens from wherever for whatever might need writing), they're either cynically hiring for a boiler room operation or doing it wrong.
There seems to be several obvious mistakes in the article and in the original movement:

A. Idea that you can easily mold the core beliefs of other people by simply telling them to be like this or that. It's not generally true. But low esteem specifically makes it difficult to accept positive external feedback. Even when it's hard earned and genuine.

B. Treating human self image as one dimensional linear thing. Where on the other end you have narcissism and on the other complete self-worthlessness and ensuing violent depression.

The reality seems to be lot more nuanced. There are things like self-respect, self-compassion and sense of (potential) usefulness to others. None of these are hard linked to how good or bad you feel about yourself.

C. Some kind of misunderstanding of Narcissism. You can never turn normal healthy adult into narcissist by praising too much. (But you may cause some other negative effects.) Actual narcissist are often depressed themselves. Actual narcissist often aren't particularly interested in putting selfies to Instagram.
> Actually. You know what? Just this week I shipped ten new boxes of these pens to Elon Musk’s office.

An example of sales people having no issue with casually slipping in outright lies?
The one party jack was determined to have legal residence there. The other parties were allowed to stay there by the legal resident. Bums that broke in would have been removed on the spot.

Legal residence gives them the right to time to move on peacefully rather than be dumped immediately into the sometimes permanent downward spiral of homelessness because this would be awfully convenient for the new owner.

Buying the properly doesn't entitle you to skip this step. I can't imagine a world in which it ought to. This is something the prior owner ought to have ironed out prior to selling. Either the property was still a worthy project despite the issue or they should have taken their money elsewhere.

Put yourself in the place of the residents. You have few resources and nowhere to go. The government provides that the new owner must give you a finite and reasonable time to move elsewhere do you a) lose most of your few belongings and go sleep on the curb because some yuppy comes and yells at you or b) use that time to save money, make plans, and secure yourself a new place to live.

You see it from the perspective of someone with connections, family, money. Many people have none of these things. It wasn't a choice between the inconvenience of moving to a new home and thumbing their noses at her it was in all likelihood a choice between the street and keeping their lives together.

If you have never struggled you likely don't understand.
> and it has nothing to do with modern situation.

You clearly detached yourself from reality.

I suggest you discover why Russia is compelling Swedento join NATO, and what was Russia's subsequent reaction to Sweden's move towards NATO membership, which even includes yet again the threat of launching a preemptive attack against Sweden.

http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-vows-eliminate-nato-t...
How billing for socket/CPU could matter anymore with 16 core CPUs (32 SMT) with many DDR4 memory channels going to hit the market during this summer [1]?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2017/05/17/amd-an...
The Transmeta Crusoe also included most of the features of the "chipset", it had PCI and memory controller built in at a time when other manufacturers' CPUs didn't.

You still needed to add a display controller but that was true of all the competing CPUs too.
This is a limp answer, he seems to be selling another pen, not the one in his hands. After all, if it's really important what pen you use to sign contracts, why would the one on the desk suffice? Why not get a beautiful bimetal nib fountain pen with navy ink?
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The best part is 'CEO: (picks jaw up off floor)'

The script he gave isn't that spectacular, and, if this did actually happen, the CEO was probably impressed that he had rehearsed.

I assume this question is used like the fizz-buzz coding test, although perhaps the CEO didn't know this.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold. I love this book.
Great advice, especially if the improvements are made to the open source package(s) so that everyone can benefit. Proprietary forks/upgrades to open source packages has a much narrower impact.
Maybe I don't watch enough of these shows but isn't the dream of DIY home renovation actually, you know, picking up a hammer and doing it yourself as much as legally allowed? Seems the husband hired a neighbor to help with ripping everything out but then the construction was all handled by a contractor. I don't see the analog for IT projects.
The page asks for a captcha. Here is a copy http://archive.is/UJ2fK
That's the point of the question, isn't it. Finding an opening with the potential buyer before even working on the product. If the buyer does not care about the pen, you will try selling him how cheap, light and not leaking the pen is, so he can buy a box of ten, leave one in each of his jacket and always have a pen ready when he needs it.

In this exercise, you know nothing about the pen, so obviously it is not about the pen - you will not sell the pen if you focus on the characteristic of the pen, you need to find a need for a pen within the interviewer which is the 101 of a sales position. Like those programming questions - of course there are better way to find prime numbers or whatever you need to code - you are not here to discuss the math stuff, you are here to show you can write a few lines of code with a structure, solve a problem, ask the right question, ...
I think that colloquially we consider "cash-strapped" to mean significantly lower on funds than the authors were. You're not cash strapped if you have borrowed; by definition you are no longer low on funds. A minor point in the article, regardless.

On the actual content of the article: Is the housing market really this bad in Canada? My SO has been pushing for us to consider moving there (Toronto, Vancouver) after school but the more I learn the more I am content living somewhere with a low cost of living.

Another thing that does bother me: This seems like classic gentrification. Is there some fund in Toronto that goes towards the lower income/homeless folk who get displaced by these sorts of situations?
How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (2016)
What? First of all, ignoring the semantic argument of whether saying you've "seen" your own anecdote is proper; if you refer to yourself as the best ever for anything you better be world champion class at that thing or you're either a liar or really ignorant.

Based on the anecdote, the author one of the last two.
Why does Google prioritize freshness so much? In some domains (i.e. Tech developments), freshness is very important.

But in most, old content (the classics) is likely to be better than most new content.
`docker-compose up -d`

i like the ability to run with docker ;)

and i'm surprised you created it with django.
Oh great. In a time when we struggle with environmental issues on this planet let's create virtual currencies, that require shitload of electricity to run. And let's use all these advanced gpus and cpus that require tremendous amount of time, energy and money to "mine" these currencies so we can make few bucks. Let's advertise them as decentralized and private when they are neither.

It's not like we could have people dedicate all these resources to develop better medicines to save lives, or better materials to create greener and healthier society.

No, let's just spend money and time to fuel our ponzi scheme.
Wasn't Quake the one where they did a really good approximation of he inverse square root because they needed it?
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> Maybe Europe should also spend billions for creating a special system against attack from, I don't know, let's say Burundi,

Burundi hasn't threatened Germany and Poland with military invasions, even going as far as announcing that they could have their tanks in their capitals in a couple of days.

I really don't understand how someone as clueless as you insists in commenting on issues you clearly know nothing about, particularly with such strongly-worded unsound beliefs.
ReFS as a boot drive file system? That'll be the proofing for it by default from server 2019 onwards. Every three years is LTS/Server cut from current branch I thought I read.
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5 Arab States Break Ties with Qatar, Complicating U.S. Coalition-Building
The problem is that the tactics work best for fake stories, because they can be pre-loaded and coordinated. True news is worked out between competing outlets and breaks messily.
"In order to adapt to the daily cycles of nutrient availability, energy metabolism in animals has evolved to be cyclical."

That sentence makes claims about history and about causality. I wonder if they really have the evidence needed to back them up.
The problem is, they need to realise it ~6 years before they're a college graduate.
Are you using some accepted definition of Statistics that I'm unaware of? Because I always thought Machine Learning was a branch of Statistics.
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That madness spiral is sort of obvious for a sizable part of Russian population (hundreds thousands to single millions I would say), mostly new young (think millenials/Z) urban middle class. So there is a rift in the society, and there is hope that it's big enough to prevent whatever bad may come.
His account talks about his overly verbose question and answer session and a bit of a click-baity "when they heard his response, they were floored!" ending.

Mine was a bit of I ascertained their need, talked up some of the benefits and the interviewer was like, "cool, you passed, we'll keep speaking". It wasn't an epic revelation that floored people. It was just, "okay, you have some sales skills, let's keep going."
yea, its a rejection (a lack of understanding) of the technology of internet.
It clearly states in their manifesto that they want to treat the internet the same as the physical world without appreciating that this is impossible.

I look forward to whenever politicians work out that people not under their legal jurisdiction can muck about on their internet thereby making their intent of constraint irrelevant.
Yeah. This paragraph

Luckily, we still owned the two-bedroom condo at King and Bathurst. I wasn’t thrilled at the idea of the soon-to-be four of us sharing 900 square feet, but I figured it would only be for a few months.

almost made my blood boil. Oh dear, how could life treat you that badly. My god. This is nothing but two privileged naive idiots stupidly buying a half million dollar house without even having looked inside and then trying to backwards rationalize and talk themselves deeper into neurosis.. publicly even, so they can farm consolation and attention so their mental abstractions never have to fall apart.
If you really think the right-wing republican community is the only group spreading distortions/falsehoods then I'd say youre less casual of an observer than youre claiming.
The coming Democratic civil war
Agree - this is an amazing book.
Grakn was also recently posted on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471238

In that thread, I show how you can express the sample relation in Prolog. Maybe you can go into more detail, either here or in that thread, on the advantages of Grakn over Prolog for such cases?
My observation is that it works the other way around - it's the consequence-insulating money that engenders the lack of common sense, rather than the converse.
Professor Poo bestseller brings scatology-based study to Japan
and with python!
An interesting take on the gamification of UI.
I wonder how many times the goalposts were arbitrarily moved in that time. I don't doubt that the 'self-esteem' movement is bunkum, but holding up the results of Ofsted inspections as 'The Truth' which shows it to be so is laughable to anyone who's ever met a teacher in this country.
> To secure its passage into the Atlantic.

And then there's Norway and all that north sea oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil
MS need to drop the crazy minimum requirement for licences of 8 * 2 core packs per server. Otherwise the pricing seems to work. It feels like they're forcing smaller customers to buy Azure instead of paying a fair price for the software.
Why Tiny Qatar Angers Saudi Arabia and Its Allies
Not the OP, but I think the point is that yes, they did waste an opportunity. That opportunity was to not go to college.
I was kind of hoping for a response where they talked the pen up a bit, gave the interviewer the pen, then used the gained social capital to get the interviewer to listen to their real pitch (ie. why you should hire me.)
An old standard: The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks.
This is a lovely anecdote, but it's largely irrelevant to modern sales. There's no margin in consumer goods to sell directly any more. The cost of each sale would be too high[1]. If it was an enterprise product the person buying only really cares whether it works better than the competitor product and how much it costs, so a personal approach is a waste of time (beyond getting the customer to talk to you in the first place).

[1] Every sale would end with "What a brilliant pen. You've made it sound incredible. But I won't buy it right now; I'll check the price on Amazon when I get home."
XeTeX and the KOMA document classes really bring you a long way.
The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald M. Weinberg

It's an old book but the most eye-opening one to me.