skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case the messenger is a loud-mouthed racist bigot, and I wouldn't trust him to tell me the time.
The overwhelming majority of people who can't code would fail horribly both at jobs and competitions, this effect will drown out everything else no matter how the distribution looks for the few percent who can code.
Completely agree with Peter. I'm shit at those competitions (maybe not the worst ever) but I think I'm pretty good at my job. But I think there are also some who are good at both.
It's not video streaming.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720569 and marked it off-topic.
Presumably they feel the same way about all closed-source browsers?

Also, the comparison to Flash is not quite right. For example, Flash was an entire black-box, top to bottom, with a runtime, codecs, UI, a JS engine, etc., which downloaded code from the internet to run it.

Web DRM, on the other hand, is a standard that allows for an encrypted video stream to be decrypted. The only differences that I can see between this and the current state of web video are that now the stream can be encrypted. Everything else is still using Javascript, HTML, CSS, HTTP, h.264/265, etc.

The thing that gets me is that open-source browsers are free not to implement this extension if they're not comfortable with (or opposed to) it. The theory is that if companies start encrypting their content then open-source browsers will have to follow suit, but we already have that kind of junk; the difference is that now, with EME, we can keep 99% of the stack open standards, open-source, and auditable, rather than having to rely on Flash or Silverlight to do our decoding.

EME isn't the death of the open web, it's the death of the closed web. It's the death of awful, insecure, and obsolete technologies like Flash and Silverlight by taking the one single thing they're still good for and moving it to the browser. If EME failed and no one implemented it, Netflix wouldn't just stream their content unencrypted; they'd keep using Flash or Silverlight, or maybe implement something themselves so they didn't have to.
I made an app to help track/visualize multi projects dependencies.
https://www.manticoreapp.com

It solve more or less the same problem as GitLab multi-project pipeline which was recently released.
Well this doesn't actually change much in practice. Web browsers have allowed black-box extensions for DRM'd content since the dawn of flash.

Personally I am disgusted that this standard is being promoted by the W3C and Tim Berners-Fucking-Lee. The browser vendors are perfectly capable of building (and even standardizing) this tech by themselves.

The open web is as available today as it ever was, and even more so with blockchain and "dark web" technologies like tor and i2p.
Tailoring memory caches on the fly to individual programs
there is a right way and a wrong way to handle attraction in a professional setting. The right way is to back the fuck off and let people do their work despite any attraction. The wrong way is to blur the line.

We need a lot more people saying this sort of thing. I am so glad to see this on the front page.
Thanks for correction.
"Fat Finger" errors are reasonably common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-finger_error
> At what time, during any job you've had, have you needed to instantly write code on a whiteboard, in front of peers, in a matter of minutes.

Well, constantly, actually. Although I'm thinking of designs and snippets rather than actual functions. I guess it depends on what you're asking people to whiteboard during the interview. I agree that asking people to whiteboard qsort is silly, but walking through design alternatives with occasional code snippets to illustrate implementation options is a pretty basic skill.

> based on a couple of days programming

Either your company is very well-known and very attractive to candidates, or this is going to incredibly restrict your candidate pool.

I think smaller work samples are a great idea, I think code reviews are a great idea, but asking for two days sounds like a bit much, especially early in the process.
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I second that. Modeling appropriate, pro social behavior has to be a part of improving bad behavior. Pitchforks are fun, but it's not how the real work gets done.
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You don't charge enough.
Just tinkering with the tools and writing some code helped me a lot more than the university course I had 6 years ago. There are several beginner friendly online resources now including

1. Write a scheme in 48hrs in Haskell

2. Kaleidoscope tutorial by LLVM developers

3. http://www.buildyourownlisp.com

4. http://createyourproglang.com
Here's a list of companies that don't do this https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards I hope it's the beginning of an industry wide trend away from these types of interviews.
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One thing that has improved since 1985 is peoples ability to do detailed work with a relatively poor input device (mouse then touch). From gaming to digital painting, sculpting and CAD.
Parts of it is also due to UX design that does not require supergood tactile feedback.
Your deflection of Peck's comments is verbose but insubstantial, you basically say he's being too charitable or losing perspective. Bad form.

And as for the suicide point, I'm not challenging the idea that US forces are depressed or suicidal. I'm challenging the idea that they're depressed and suicidal because they're such compassionate warriors that they feel their victims' pain and suffer for the deaths that they cause or some such nonsense. I think these are much more related to the drudgery and boredom of this new form of warfare.

I'd address the definition point or the Canadian sniper point, but I'm busy. I will check back later and see if I can complete this.
I don't think that's always possible. What if you worked for Healthcare or Security or Finance, where there are strict laws for keeping code/design private?
It depends on how far along the interview process you've gotten to with a potential employer and if this is a step away from being hired.

If the potential employer is asking for code samples up front, I think that's a bad sign. Let us talk about the work environment, expectations of the position, and then we can focus on my tech skills.
Thanks, we've updated the title slightly to clarify.
Everything that I have read suggests that this is standardizing what has already happened with video, which is a great deal better than the bad old days when companies relied upon Macromedia/Adobe for video streaming. (Or worse, a plug-in from an obscure company with an unknown track record).

As much as I would like to avoid DRM, relatively few producers are going to budge on the issue. The only options are standardized DRM, non-standardized extensions to provide DRM, or simply doing without. None of the options are particularly desirable. This one is likely the best of the three.
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Why the kittens game? To demonstrate the effects of scale?
Segwit just separates (segregates) out the transaction data from the signatures (witnesses). The "centralization" talk stems from worries about the Lightning Network, but the "centralization" idea is a fair bit more nuanced than that.
Exactly. They don't just hire programming contest folk. Most of the people they hire are those with engineering experience, etc.
How can they help exactly? Who gets these fees?
Overfitting?
A common wisdom on HN is that being a solo founder is bad.

At the same time, many people here (and in other communities) have been successful solo founders and shared their stories.

I've collected them in one place, for inspiration.
Why does Bitcoin have to solve those problems? Is it completely failed even if it doesn't provide fast and cheap transactions? What if it turns out that Bitcoin has a unique role to play as the first PoW blockchain and the only successful blockchain with an anonymous, nearly legendary creation narrative? Gold is slower to transport than bank notes, but it's still uniquely valuable.
Moving a knob with your hands as you mix it with other sounds gives better control than just configuring parameters in a program
I disagree with this. In my experience, improving your dataset quality (either via gathering more examples, getting more reliable labels, or doing better normalization) has yielded bigger gains than trying to use the latest and greatest model architecture for the problem. Linear and tree models are still widely used in applied problems.
I don't find this surprising. I played around on Top Coder enough to reach the first division but the problems presented were in no way related to my day to day work. While the people that did very well (I never got anywhere once I hit the top grade) might have had an excellent command of very specific data structures and techniques, non of the code would have been very useful in the real world.

If I was interviewing someone, a career as a competitive programmer would not be a detriment but it would not count for very much overall. We are looking for creative thinkers that can work as a team.
I think a lot of people on here are "fishing for a hypocrisy story" as one commentor said.

What's the point in that? what if you're right,is it a surprise that hypocrisy exists? it only speaks to the character of the individual(s) not the quality or correctness of their belief. A person did something criminal. period. what point is there to be made with respect to their religion? Did they claim their religion mandated the importation of the artifcats or the ignorance of the laws involved? or is the expectation here that people of certail beliefs or moral values are incapable of committing crimes?

Regardless, I hope the people making this about religion also hold other corporations who commit crimes to the same standard and associate their beliefs or religion with their crimes.

I for myself won't correlate an unrelated moral or ethical stand someone is making to a separate crime they've committed. Would you call a theif a hypocrite because he said he was against murder? or the same accusation to a murderer because he was against rape?

Come on... leave some room to reason.
You read my mind :D
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The market is pretty good at sorting this out and I'm sure programming competition winners are fairly valued. I've seen more Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU and IIT degrees rise to the top than other schools. I haven't seen any top coders. Maybe they're there and I haven't noticed. But I haven't seen them on resumes that I've culled through.

It's probably something you might list on a first job resume but further on down the road, you'd just list your work and your education.
http://walawrealty.com/

Flat fee, and for "all the related details" - they represent you as lawyers. I had an exceedingly positive experience buying with them in 2012. I wish their model would become dominant.
As said already in other comments of sibling thread:
notary fees can differ hugely depending on state/country and may be more on the order of $40-$50.
Yeah you're right. I want to buy it though, and then wait a couple of months before plugging it into my own car. I'm just saying you can't just dismiss the guy's ability because he comes across arrogant. He's proven he's a hacker, and now he's trying to prove he's a maker as well.

Maybe this Panda thing is engineered really well, and the money and reputation will get him to a point where he can run a nice company. Maybe not and this things get some people killed and he will be thrown in jail for building a recklessly unsafe product, I don't know. I don't own a car right now so all I can do is talk big.
Did they mention this article when they contacted you?
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Let me state that I strongly back appropriate behavior between the sexes regardless of the setting.

What the author is suggesting is that romance is inappropriate between potential investors and founders, regardless of how objective their roles and interactions are outside the sphere of Romance. I disagree with this zero-sum approach. While it's essential to maintain objectivity, if it takes away the humanity, what exactly is the point of this, or anything
I think monospaced should be like

```
monospaced
```

And the four-space/tab indentation should denote

a quote

But that's just me.
I get what you're saying, but it's really not that simple. It's a bit of both.

> And competition is high because supply is constrained

I think you and the person you're replying to are using the word 'competition' differently.
It's sort of like Simpson's paradox. It's relevant because the statistical "paradox" (contradiction of intuition) described in Outliers is similar to the one in the video.
Don't professional appraisers actually go to the property and look around?

As for the rest, why should the process of selling a house require "expertise"? Apart from inspections, which require domain knowledge of infrastructure.
That site is one of the funniest things I've read in a while. Thank you!
We know what ELP could do with that.
He probably meant that people who do programming competitions are more likely to pass Google interview (they'll be better at doing algorithmic questions quickly) but are not necessarily better suited to do the actual job.

Just like hockey players born earlier in the year were more likely to be drafted.
Another sports metaphor: Being a good sprinter doesn't make you a good marathoner.
And this is a great thing.
It is isn't it?
what was the name?
Thanks! I don't know whether to keep doing this or not so if you have an opinion one way or the other, let me know.

The community seems to appreciate it, but on the other hand it adds noise. Though one benefit is that it nudges users toward using italics for quotes instead of code blocks.
The current approach has a huge false negative rate. It keeps out the bad apples but hugely favors marking a lot of good/great apples bad as well. The time invested to study for these interviews is quite onerous in itself. So, I'll say I'm not a fan of the approach.

That being said we do use the method where I currently work to interview. However, the problems are not some made up situation or a test of data structures/algorithms but a set we've encountered in real life.

From what I've heard the whiteboard method isn't really popular with many companies today either but everyone is sticking to it until some other alternative which avoid false positives presents itself.
I assume letsencrypt don't use their own certs to avoid a chicken and egg problem if there's ever an issue.

e.g. a software as a service database provider most likely does not use their own software for their database.
This is about as sparse as I can make it:

"AWOBMOLG is a series of films about how the development of computers has impacted human culture. In particular, it examines the computer scientist's mechanistic worldview, and the way that this belief has negatively impacted the world."

But honestly that's pretty dry and it lacks some of the details that the original quotation has. I know what you're talking about w.r.t. overly flowery language, but I don't see this as a blatant example of it. Zizek or Haraway are the first that spring to mind when I think of that problem.
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Their security worked, you lost access so this is entirely your problem. I'm happy to see that AWS requires notarization to get past 2FA.

Regardless of the size of the bill, comparing it to cost of a notary (which is very minimal) is irrelevant.
Sometimes naively I believe that with enough hardware capabilities, lazy software can provide its function...
In 2011 at a hackathon I built rsvp.io (now points to a silly game of mine) to allow wedding couples to easily create a custom wedding invitation rsvp page. A unique code could be added to a paper invite, or the page used on its own. After the hackathon I spent another month or so refining the site. I never took it far enough, but might have made a little money had I tried. Some ideas that I never took forward were partnering with printing agencies for paper invites, and affiliate income for gift registry.

It did get used once however, for my wedding in 2013 :)
Maybe no-one ever made that call, and it's all just based on the results of continously running automated and fuzzed A/B experiments.
I think Arendt critically misses the source of the disintegrator processes that erode central authority and enable revolutions. All the factors that she discounts as causes because they require central authority to break down before they can lead to revolution are also sources of that breakdown. Disaffection among the masses, secret/conspiratorial and overt revolutionary societies among the elites, etc., not only can exploit the breakdown of central authority to engage in revolution, bur also provide the forces which break down central authority and, particularly, which break down regime control of the armed forces, which Arendt correctly points to as the most decisive point.

This is a critical oversight, since much of the essay rests on this argument that revolutions aren't caused by revolutionaries of these types, but instead by the collapse of regimes which (implicitly) occurs independently of the these forced rather than because of them.
be a decent and respectful person

That's all there is to it, and I don't know what else to add. Do some folks not learn this, not care, or just don't know what it means? Really, it's just the Golden Rule isn't it?
I made an Android Wear game. I did not think my first game would make money, but I thought if I learned how to do it I could make other games that could generate revenue.

In my opinion the install base is too small and the price point for games is too low for it to be a good business for me. I spent $300 on a watch, everything else was free. I learned a lot and it was fun, so I will continue to update the program.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moseygames...
> Personally I am disgusted that this standard is being promoted by the W3C and Tim Berners-Fucking-Lee.

Yes, that's the disgusting part. But so it goes. The flesh is weak.

Overlay darknets are indeed the only hope for freedom.
As of late, transferred phone numbers against the owners will is a thing.
Yeah Roland is the man!
In our case, the appliance usually can access the internet, possibly through a proxy, but it's not accessible from the internet.
I'm an experienced engineer (10+ years) and I would favor this process way more than the current algorithm/DS interview. It's the algorithm/DS interview that really favors young graduates. They already have an advantage because college knowledge is still fresh in their minds. And they often have the free time to grind leetcode for months. Experienced engineers often have families or other priorities and free time is hard to find.
If you want to avoid certbot you can just self-sign.
OO is more an organizational method than a programming method; it still falls down to being imperative (do this; do that). OO is nice when you have a lot of types and few actions whereas non-OO languages are nice when you have lots of actions and few types. When there are a small number of types and actions, it really doesn't matter which organization method you use, but if you expect the types to grow, use OO. If you expect the actions to grow, don't use OO. If both are expected to grow to large numbers, there still isn't a good organization method yet.
"Oh, looking at this it is worth remembering that NIMBYism and real estate prices are one of the biggest drivers of inequality in the world."

I am not sure that is the case.

Certainly the growing inequality between the falling middle class and the increasingly rare upwardly mobile class could very well be due to the factors you cite.

But the biggest inequality (both globally and locally) is between people who have literally nothing - as in, zero dollars - and people who have (anything more than zero). Even if you live at the poverty level and have no assets you are still infinitely better off than someone with nothing.

That inequality gap is not due to zoning laws or illegal sublets or OMI evictions or whatever.
We use the news.pariyatti.org domain for these emails. If you're willing to help troubleshoot, that would be much appreciated. Otherwise I'll try to work through your recommendations, although a lot of it is very new to me so I'm not sure how far I'll be able to get. You can reach me via email at my HN username @pariyatti.org if you wish to discuss further.
Yes, that'll be tasty.
Hi Wonsize,

Appreciate the response. Here are some answers:

1. Our scope is currently only the UK, although we are looking at other brands.

2. Meaningful scale for us would be between £100-500k revenue in first year and growing that 40-60% every year.

3. I don't know the answer to this.

4. Close competitors are companies like: https://charlottethomas.co.uk/, https://www.frette.com/.

I've put my e-mail in my profile. Thanks very much in advance for your time and for the consultation!
Ah - you just don't work at Amazon anymore.
You're probably right. What would you see as fair pricing for say the large plan which is currently $10/mo?
I'm a fan of > for quotes, plus it's less likely to have people used to four spaces for code suddenly getting quotes instead
My understanding is that there are two parts to this suit: patent infringement and trade secrets. You can't patent a trade secret (then it wouldn't be secret), so these are two independent things.

Alsup was suggesting Waymo to drop the patent portion of their suit and focus solely on the trade secret portion of their case. The trade secrets were pared down as mentioned in that snippet, but that's in addition to dropping 3 of the 4 patent infringement claims.
That's not what's happening here. Not paying your bills does rightly deserve a warning on credit reports.

Not paying your bills because you lost access to your own account does not change this situation. The same way as that having no income or car or phone or internet and can't pay your other bills doesn't excuse those liabilities either.
There's a conference on grammar induction called ICGI; might wanna browse through the proceedings to see if there's anything closer.
> you're not really interested in the truth of the matter

This is factually incorrect (though perhaps difficult to prove). I am interested in the truth of the matter.

If you are so quickly and incorrectly judging my motives, perhaps it's possible that you are doing the same to the people in this article as well?

Do you think this article is on the front page of a bunch of news sites if it's a boring B2B with a boring CEO who bought the same stuff in the same way for her personal collection? I feel pretty confident that if President Obama was buying these (he wouldn't, but let me make the point), the arguments would be the same but the people arguing them would be reversed.

And that's my prevailing interest in commenting today. This is the forum where people will give Uber and Tesla every benefit of the doubt, so it was disappointing to click into the comments and see a mostly one-sided pile-on.
Usually the work sample is something simple that doesn't take longer than a day or two. Many interviews that don't do work samples can go on longer than that and accomplish nothing. I was hired after doing a work sample that took a day. I was still paid for my work, irregardless of being hired. The work sample wasn't "standardized", just a typical task one of the other developers would have done otherwise. So I would encourage any employers reading to try this process out--it's better for both parties.
Except your coins can become fragmented (into dust) through no fault of your own. You might not even realize that many inputs are needed to complete your single transaction. I don't see how this would happen with traditional institutions.
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