skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually noticed that I pay more attention to my surroundings when I want to take a photo - I think about what's actually engaging me, what I'm trying to record in a photo, notice the background environment, etc. Most of the time I end up not taking any photos because I know I won't capture what I want, but I like the increased mindfulness that thinking about it gives me.
A lack of builders can kill an instrument eventually. As far as I know, there isn't anyone building reed organs anymore, even though they were popular about a hundred years ago. They're complex enough that you'd have to be pretty motivated to build one as a hobby project and it's hard to imagine a business making money selling reed organs, unless it were transformed into a substantially different instrument.
Since it was in 2014 and I don't know if they still do this, I won't name them.

I guess the lesson learned is to ask what the interview process looks like before getting involved.

However for this company, I applied online, they sent me a InterviewStreet/HackerRank coding test, and only after I passed that did a recruiter call me, and tell me they wanted me onsite for a week.
Decorators are one of those things that I've not seen a use case that sells them to me.

Like... I'm sure one day I'll see something and it'll just click, but not there yet.
>"Between updating my resume/social networks, brushing up on academic CS, finding leads, scheduling interviews and follow-up interviews and managing/negotiating offers, it was absolutely a full-time job."

Can you break down how much time you spent on each of those tasks that they took up the equivalent of an entire 8 or 9 hour work day 5 days a week?

I think you might be in the minority with your outlook. Most people opt to keep their paycheck and health insurance and vacation time until they find something new. Not least those with families. Also its much easier to negotiate a higher salary using your existing salary as a starting point.
We're stuck in this, most weirdest of periods of human civilization, where douchebags roam freely, and have outfitters that are capable of catering to almost any level of taste, and will do exactly that for a buck.

Suburbia seems to grow evermore malignant with each passing decade, and so many assholes are couched in lives of ostentatious comfort without ever having to think deeply about what that means.

There's something about driving an hour to work, being bitched out by middle-management all day, driving an hour home, and having nothing but strip malls, video games, tv and the internet to show for it. A fraction of these people have romantic relationships with a significant other (as parsimonous and avaricious as they), and the rest suffer a solitary existence, but maybe with a circle of familial relations that don't actually help matters.

With that, empathy becomes effaced in the slow acid bath of an eight hour (or longer) work day, and then incinerated by the blow torch of a lifetime wasted on spare time in a place where nothing else can be afforded beyond transportation, processed food, and a boondoggle or two to keep you sane enough that you don't snap and kill any of your peers.

Every now and then one miserable suburbanite proves useful enough to be rewarded with a looser collar and a longer leash. This is where the unapologetic, leering McMansion enters the picture.
Because some places have winter, no?
I think Listhub (which covers 99% of the US) doesn't care as long as your payments clear.
Not only that, working for a company like Apple, you aren't allowed to write any code unless its been approved by the appropriate people...that just wouldn't work.
Not trying to discredit you, but do you have any sources on this? What are some publicly traded companies with acres of farmland allocated for marijuana?
Now I know why I had trouble reading the heading...
No, just good humor :)
I suspect that actually having loud and obnoxious alerts would probably reduce the burden, because then you'd never worry you missed one.
It will make your pentesters sad. We like movies.
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For those of you that enjoyed the site, you might enjoy this one as well. It was the first thing I thought of when reading the description of the McMansion Hell website:

http://blog.buildllc.com/2010/04/couch-cushion-architecture-...
We don't just need a Constitutional amendment, we need a new Constitution.

People act like the Constitution we have came down from the heavens in a beam of light. But it was written by a bunch of guys who had never lived in a real democracy before. In fact it was written at a time when there pretty much hadn't been ANY democracies in the whole world for two thousand years. We've had two hundred years of experience and hundreds of iterations of the concept since then, so we have a much better idea of what will work and what won't.

It bothers me so much the passion for the Constitution people have. Yet, there is almost universal distain for Congress and the entire political establishment. Washington is entirely a function of the rules that are set by the Constitution. Electing different people isn't going to change anything. Ending Gerrymandering (if possible while using districts) would help, but it doesn't go far enough. You would still have a two party system. You would still be forced to choose between the lesser of two evils every time you go to the polls. And a large chunk of the country would always feel that they don't have someone in government representing them.

If we want people engaged in government, and to have a government engaged in them, then we need proportional representation in one form or another. Anything else is just a bandaid.
I don't know the full context of what is going on legally, but I do know that being threatened is not the same thing as getting sued. And getting sued is not the same thing as them having a case. And them having a case is not the same thing as you not having a defense.

Lawyers exist for a reason. Don't let other lawyers bully you with threats. Get your own lawyer to look into things. Back down if it makes sense. Sometimes it does. But don't back down just because you get threatened.
Can anyone who's tried both this and mosh, comment on them both?
Why koi instead of tilapia?
Your summary of the paper is incorrect.
small correction, it's Θ( log n / log log n ).
I noticed though, when I copied the formula from the original paper, this what I got, too ;)
Two classes of problems: something related to what I'm already well versed in is different to something that I'm a noob.

For noob stuff, I make and quiz myself with physical cue cards. The act of writing the card and the answer seems to be 75% of the memorisation i need but i forget quickly... related to that, i write myself 'guides' that I wish i had read weeks/months before when i didn't know anything. something about writing the subject down as if i'm teaching it let's me anchor the beginning at a level that i can treat as a given and then baby steps all the way to the end. it's a bit Feynman-ish in that it really does force you to acknowledge when you're skipping over something and just rote-memorising.

Also, treat black boxes as a known unknown that you can always go back to. You often have to link up a dozen black boxes to get anywhere and if you go down each rabbit hole, you'll never get to the end. Better to play with them, get a feel for how they are behaving and dive in if/when they aren't doing as expected.

Quiz yourself. After a while it gets quite relaxing to glide over problems that stumped you when you first thought your should write them down. helps remind you that you _are_ learning.

Lot's of books/articles etc covering the same topic and re-reading them. You're different each time and you never know when you are _ready_ to learn that particular thing.
Oh please. Decorators will never beat plain old functions when it comes to flexibility.
this right on point, IMO
This is by design. The whole point of the House is proportional representation. Recall that senators originally weren't even directly elected.
That's exactly the point of the Senate.

The House is supposed to be the proportional one.
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Do you also know that even talking to a lawyer when threatened costs money? And that Zillow is likely to have way more money to spend on lawyers than a blog?
The test is the opposite of (X ends before Y starts) and (Y ends before X starts). You only need two comparisons.

With two events, X going from xb to xe, and Y going from yb to ye, you have these possible sequences:

xb xe yb ye (no conflict)
xb yb xe ye (conflict)
xb yb ye xe (conflict)
yb ye xb xe (no conflict)
yb xb ye xe (conflict)
yb xb xe ye (conflict)

As long as (xb >= ye or yb >= xe) there's no conflict. You can flip those: (xb < ye and yb < xe) to get the conflict condition.

We can evaluate this expression over those cases:

xb xe yb ye : yb < xe => false => no conflict
xb yb xe ye : xb < ye and yb < xe => true, conflict
xb yb ye xe : xb < ye and yb < xe => true, conflict
yb ye xb xe : xb < ye => false => no conflict
yb xb ye xe : xb < ye and yb < xe => true, conflict
yb xb xe ye : xb < ye and yb < xe => true, conflict

So you only need two comparisons, and an and operation.
"Delaney also introduced the Open Our Democracy Act in the 113th and 114th Congress."
This will vary by state, but in MN a realtor can setup an email notification that will send you a message as soon as a property matching your criteria is listed. So I get the Redfin notifications, but I've typically already known about the property for 6-12 hours.
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Zillow and other Real Estate sites have the same problem: Syncing Real Estate data is hard due to fragmentation (each area has its own MLS with its own rules), clashing data standards, and legal requirements (For example, I believe that Louisiana has a law that requires Realtors use the phrase, "A Licensed Louisiana Realtor" under their name in all marketing materials.) If you're displaying that data, the onus is on you to ensure that you are showing the correct data.

You'd have some MLS'es that required their logo to be on the bottom right, some that required them to be on the bottom left, and 95% of the time, your data feed didn't even contain the logos: you'd have to double check and make sure that you were in compliance (and they did check and would cut you off if you were not in check).

But, to answer your question: There's nothing that prevents her from going straight to the MLS or the listing agent's website to grab her source photos: zillow would have no claim at this point in time.
It'd be pretentious to just arbitrarily say "Those houses are ugly". But she says "Those houses are ugly, and this is why". While I don't agree with her opinion on all the houses she features, but the vast majority -- yeah, they're pretty bad, and for the reasons she states.

* Odd proportions and asymmetry.
* Strange roof lines (the "nub" - it's like a Mansard that didn't know when to stop).
* Bizarre bump-outs, because the exterior was wrapped around an interior designed to have crazily large rooms.
* Columns that hold up nothing.
* And my personal favorite - shutters that don't have a prayer of covering the window when closed. Except they can't close, because they're glued and/or screwed to the wall and have no hinges.
So why does it matter whether the first round of interviews is done by this company or the actual company doing the hiring?

I would argue that as a candidate I would rather interview with as many of my potential coworkers as possible. Interviewing is a two way street. The more exposure to the actual people I would be working with allows me to make a better-informed decision. How is reducing my exposure better for me the candidate? It seems its really better for Tripplebyte though and maybe the company looking to hire if they are short-staffed but not the candidate.
San Diego used to be a hot-spot for Biotech. Back in the early 2000's, nearly every major biopharma company had a site in San Diego.

Most of them closed. Pfizer still has some R&D there. There are a couple mid-sized biotechs there, but it's be a rough last few years. Similar to Seattle.
All of those "ditch the smartphone" comments are so cute.

I'm on devops. Can't ditch the smartphone.
Sure, if you have a reliable internet connection, and a desktop computer and a server that you both control, you probably don't need this or mosh.

But mosh (and presumably this program as well) really, really shine with a laptop that you might hibernate for days, and then boot back up, and it's just as you left it.
Were they irrelevant? -- I see plenty doom and gloom in my history books and, hell, twitter feed.

It was just a few decades ago that 80 million people died in a single war.
Generally, yes, but I think `O(log n / log log n) == O(log n)` is wrong.

log(n) / log(log(n)) = logx(n) (where x = log(n), wasn't sure how to describe logarithm base in a better way).
So you get O(logx(n)). In general the logarithm base doesn't matter for Big-O when it's a constant, but I'm not sure you can apply the same thing to a base of log(n).
It doesn't appear that Antoni Gaudí had anything to do with the etymology of the term "gaudy" as it was in use hundreds of years before he was born.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaudy
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaudy

I couldn't help looking it up because the idea that a single artist could stand out so much to be singularly associated with that term was tempting. I expect that is why such a false association persists.
The only relevant question is: do the people living in these houses enjoy them? Because if they do, then who cares?

I look at some of the houses on the blog and think they're really pretty. Sorry I don't have the correct sort of taste in windows or whatever. Maybe it's because I'm one of those dumb idiots that grew up in a flyover state (Iowa).

This house: http://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2016/10/12-hate-pe...

Looks really pretty to me. What seriously is the problem here?
You're misunderstanding, I think. It's not that it isn't by design. It's that the design principle is stupid.
The Senate was originally meant to ensure that smaller states such as Wyoming had an equal part of the vote, so that a simple majority wasn't enough for a bill to pass and become law.
It depends if you want to annoy human pentesters to give you the finger.

Also, no.
This isn't profound because a phone is made to distract you, or from a business view, get your attention
No, the House isn't proportional. There is a minimum of one House member per State: each State shall have at Least one Representative.

At 321.4 million / 435 = 738850. Wyoming wouldn't even get a House member. Vermont wouldn't either.
> Bards pre-literate-times in Greece purportedly could recite Homer's Odyssey themselves after one hearing. Writing destroyed that all.

They had amazing memories, but they couldn't memorize large works like that after just one hearing. There are techniques that allow one to remember information like that, but it still requires effort.

Here are two great books on that subject:

- The Art of Memory by Frances Yates (covers Greece, Rome, and Europe)

- The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly (goes back further into prehistory)

And two quick articles about memory feats in ancient Greece[1] and Rome[2].

[1] http://blog.artofmemory.com/simonides-of-ceos-81.html

[2] http://blog.artofmemory.com/pliny-the-elder-on-memory-5824.h...
The entire constitution could be rewritten through amendment.
This is hilarious because Delaney was first elected in a gerrymandered district created specifically for him, the state legislature literally looped in his house by two blocks.

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/cct-arc-acca0c6c-9aa4-5159...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Delaney_(Maryland_politic...
Yes we need to fork this into Project Spoilerwall Honeypot.
> an affordable way to get more space for their family

Did you see the asking prices before the content was taken down? I don't remember any of the houses being affordable in any regard

> vortex of debt

It takes a special person to sympathize with someone living so far beyond their means that they take a $1 million (my average price estimate from the website) mortgage that they can't actually afford
> We don't just need a Constitutional amendment, we need a new Constitution.

Uh you can achieve that via amendments. And just who is going to write this new Constitution?

> Washington is entirely a function of the rules that are set by the Constitution.

And all of the Supreme Court precedents that have bent the hell out of the document such that it's hardly the same document that it was 200 years ago.

States could, if they wanted to, implement proportional representation themselves without having to amend the Constitution. It obviously wouldn't mean that the entirety of Congress is proportional, but it'd be a start.
Poor people can afford vegetables just fine. The problem is that grocery stores tend not to site in locations convenient to poor people. That's a problem, but it's a not a problem stuff like this solves.
The exception I'm aware of is when the rectangle is so large that it surrounds the entire set.
I know that iOS has it built in. I'll bet that macOS does as well.
As an employer seeking to exploit the working poor in order to improve profits and justify my seven digit salary, I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment.
Just make sure your data is correct, and a single comparison works: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c02d74eb75a51dce8dcbc027a3...
I'm not sure how this would end gerrymandering. Setting up a committee to handle districting doesn't solve anything.

If I remember correctly, didn't someone finally come up with an algorithm which evenly divides populations such that average distance from the average location of the district residents is minimized? A law which mandated use of that or a similar algorithm for district boundaries would actually help. Just moving the problem into committee obfuscates the problem.
Here's a don't-miss article on the internal politics and strategy behind TI's early personal computing efforts:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=wy4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63&lpg=PA...

The rest of that magazine issue is pretty interesting too, including the interview with Ann Winblad, fresh off her $15M exit. ("The male mystique was killed for me at age 2.")
That OS/2 2.0 debacle is my favorite topic, and this was just the beginning of the entire fiasco. That period was not long after the MS OS/2 2.0 SDK in 1990-1991 (which used MS compilers) and before some of the really unethical tactics MS used to attack OS/2.
You gotta look up the word pretentious. Critiquing bad design isn't pretentious if you know what you're talking about. Living in a poorly made house designed to look more expensive than it is the embodiment of pretentiousness.
Perhaps questions like "This statement is false", "New Mission: decline this mission", base64 encoded copies of René Magritte's 'this is not a pipe', "God is all powerful, can He make a rock so big that He Himself can't lift it?", "calculate the 2nd prime number", etc to prevent automated AI attacks.
> the party in power will never allow this to make it to the floor of the House for a vote

The implication here is that the Democrats don't gerrymander. This is patently false. The Democrats are just pissed that the Republicans did a massively better job at it in the past decade.

In many ways, it was an arms race, and the Democrats chose not to focus on small and local districts and elections (instead, worrying about the "big picture"). As it turns out, politics trickles up, and small wins for Republicans eventually turned into big wins. To see a perfect exemplar of this, just look at Jon Ossoff's crushing loss last week.

There's an excellent NPR podcast about this very issue I listened to a few years ago.
Actually, I'd really be interested in knowing if there's some list of employers like that so someone in a position to take such an offer can rotate through good prospects like that.
i think there's a hot spot if you can get your shit together a week or two early. If it's your first time, obviously your shit will not be together and you should submit last second with everybody else.
“I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.”

-Albert Einstein
Not using headphones too often is a very good thing, unless there are at a sufficiently low volume (which is never the case).
a much better question (that has the same answer) is why dont macbooks have touch screens. its definitely not because of hardware limitations.
It works if you assume that appointment 1 starts before appointment 2 starts (or if you explicitly sort them by start time).

e.g. in J:

'a b c' =: 50 60 3 4;3 50 49 99;2 10 10 12 NB. 3 different sets of appointments
3 :'ok`nope{~0>*./-~//./:~_2]\ y' every a;b;c
┌──┬────┬──┐
│ok│nope│ok│
└──┴────┴──┘
The improved density and efficienty allows population that necessitates the use of factory farming, petrochemical based fertilizers, massive infrastructure, traffic congestion etc. Per individual the carbon footprint is smaller (until you get to the really rural poor), but overall the effect of this process is more consumption on net. It's just the way it is. If we really wanted to go green, we'd all be on mopeds and have one shirt.
No, the original purpose of the Senate (and the 3/5ths clause) was to make sure the South had enough representation so they wouldn't get steamrolled by the more populous and anti-slave North.
Haha I wouldn't worry about it.

I've seen more typos in professionally edited articles on major online newspapers.
The solution to this is to treat CSS as a unit of code, like Javascript and before static analysis on the result.

Solutions like CSS Modules and Styled Components are getting _really_ really close. CSS Modules lets you do this at a component level, and is theoretically possible to do it at an individual class level (providing you use a 'safe' syntax).
The smart grid is being designed now to solve this. Increase efficiency, allow for renewables (wind and solar), and reduce transmission loss (averages 7% in USA), etc. Let's just hope we can properly secure it, the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has a very large attack surface and spans from homes, to distribution, transmission and ultimately all the back to power generation.
It's actually a tricky problem to think clearly about unless you start enumerating the cases, or get pen and paper out to draw some boxes. I don't think it's completely trivial to verbalise. But I also don't think a competent programmer should fail to work it out.

I like the problem, and I'll probably use it in future :) It'll be a low bar for those times where you're getting the impression that a bigger task will be beyond the candidate, and you want to cut your losses early.

FWIW, I've seen similar complete failures to reason when applied to the even simpler problem of testing to see if a point is inside a rectangle. Some people seem to have a very underdeveloped one dimensional measure function in their brains.
Works for me, we absolutely need a new constitution. The current one obviously is completely failed (an entire industrial-scale Civil War? REALLY?!)

Too bad we need 3/4 states to nullify the current constitution before we can establish a new one via another constitutional convention.
The OS/2 2.0 fiasco is so bad it is one of my favorite topics.
> "calculate the 2nd prime number"

I don't recognize this reference.
If you are doing colouring based on escape iterations this technique can elide detail.
echo "Hello world!" > hello.php
php hello.php
I think they meant any party in power won't allow it, because partly how they get in power, is gerrymandering.