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For interested readers, there's a bunch of papers on the Cilk runtime's work-stealing scheduler. The paper signa11 pointed to is one of many. They are classics in the runtime literature. Other two great papers are "Cilk: An Efficient Multithreaded Runtime System" by Blumofe et al., PPoPP 1995, http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/PPoPP95.pdf and "The Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language", Frigo et al., PLDI 1998, http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/cilk5.pdf
So... Android is built on the Linux kernel... and these people were making an "Android" PC OS? How is that not essentially just another Linux distro?

What exactly, was the point?
Yep, and in CT is seems 93% of revenue cam from the Federal Sharing program

http://ij.org/pfp-state-pages/pfp-Connecticut/
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Ask HN: What to read, think about, etc. before conducting tech interviews?
I've read the Matasano hiring blog post [1], and other stuff like it. Do you have any recommendations on what to read?
Experienced interviewers, any tips?
It's for a quite general tech consultancy firm.
[1]: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
It's easy to forget, but LinkedIn doesn't have rich resume data of candidates. With Hire, Google now gets rich resume & employee data - data, when coupled with search history, that can now be used to build better user profiles than before.

Given this, "Hire" is (or could become) a trojan horse into replacing the network effect that LinkedIn has created.
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It's not the same as "what foods go together" but here's a "related flavours" graph I did using research on foods with similar flavour compounds: https://twitter.com/flashman/status/878516648394633216
wouldn't know how they get their data, since Mssql, Oracle are missing.
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It goes right to their budgets and they do not have to worry about little things like due process or constitutional rights.
Access to all Android apps maybe?
Love the robot, but I'm uncomfortable at what I see as an implication in the article that now the astronauts should stop taking pictures and do more productive things instead.

I'm pretty sure there's values to that activity beyond having photographic registrations to show afterwards. (I'm also not convinced the little ball of cuteness is anywhere close to matching their choice of scenes yet)
The message they're sending to Americans? Seems like exactly the message they'd want to send. They control China, so nobody there needs to see the same messaging there that they do in America; and that's even with them making roughly the same displays in China.
A "no harassment" clause doesn't tell you anything.

It could be there because the company is serious about combating harassment. Or it could be there because the company has a harassment problem and is covering its ass.

The lack of the clause could be because the company actually has a harassment culture or because the company has a great culture and has never seen the need to add the clause.

The point is that every company will say that they're against harassment so the only way you can tell how effective they are about it is through deeds not words.

But clauses that can be inverted positively actually have a chance of telling you something.
While I like the idea one of the issues I have run into way too often is the far to many sites are simply linking to the actual site for the recipe. It is getting really difficult to filter these results out as new ones crop up weekly.

example : https://yurielkaim.com/7-green-detox-juice-recipes/

fortunately it doesn't take seven pages to find the actual recipes but I still need to go to each individually and possibly be buried under the ad load. the worst sites spread out the recipes to their own seven pages and still require a link to the site holding the recipe
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So it's a Linux distro that offers native Android app support, sans-emulator? Was that the whole thing?

Considering how... entrenched the OS market is, it's not easy to have a solid value proposition for creating a _new_ OS.
Not knowingly. Sounds like there is a phony app as a phishing style infection vector:

"The malware masquerades as a legitimate or popular app that uses the names App, MMS, whatsapp, and even Pokemon GO. When the app is launched, it base64-decodes a string from the resource file and writes it down, which is actually the malicious Android Application Package (APK)."

The user has a legitimate expectation that the app sandbox containment provided by the OS works and nothing bad should happen if s/he tries out the aforementioned apps.

This type of malware are commonly called backdoors, see eg. http://www.virusradar.com/en/glossary/backdoor
This web site is filled with grammatical mistakes. They also misrepresent themselves. Why offer to take online tests for someone unless you are interested in helping people cheap?
You're right. I was thinking about that, but I really don't know. This is pretty far out of my expertise. averagewall made a good point [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14796338
Credit cards have rewards. Often some percentage back from the purchase. I have one that gives me 2% back on everything, which adds up. It makes sense to use it on every purchase and pay off the balance at the end of each month.
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> time evolution of purely deterministic dynamical processes, very simple ones, which produce behaviors that are provably not computable in any reasonable time and have infinite (informational, not thermodynamic) entropy.

But time evolution isn't relevant. Even supposing such systems exist naturally, you're conflating simulation time with real time.

> You provide examples of flaws in human cognition, which I acknowledge, but pointing them out does nothing to advance the idea that the brain is a computer.

"The brain is a computer" is a very different claim to "the brain can be simulated by a computer". I've only claimed the latter.
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> I'm of Chinese ethnicity but been in the West since birth

It's not about ethnicity, it's about culture.

People who have grown up in China (in my experience) have a completely different mindset. Speaking about something as simple as freedom of speech, or the concept of citizenship through naturalization, or the idea that a poor nation (America) prospers with liberty rather than having to grow before they can have it (the actual excuse the party gives for what we consider tyranny), could be difficult with some people fresh out of China.

I have had long conversations with people who have grown up in China about things like The Party silencing (often imprisoning) dissenters, and controlling Chinese nationals even when they are abroad; typically they will justify the actions of The Party by saying that the Chinese people need to be controlled right now because they're not rich/developed enough yet, and that liberty will come later. When I say that the United States started with squalor and deliberate liberty, then developed into a nation which is stronger than China with a fraction of the population, it falls on deaf ears.
A lunch meal at a restaurant with friends/coworkers is just so much more civilized - and satisfying - than eating some melee out of a plastic container.

And the Mediterranean countries are just masters in this area (thank you Spain/France/Italy!)
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>"It bitcoin it is used as an unforgeable proxy for elapsed time"

This sounds pretty interesting, can you elaborate on how exactly its proxy model for the passage of time?
I see what you mean. It's amazing how people on Hacker News always know the exact word for a concept no matter how obscure. I learn more from the comments here than I do from the articles.
For those who are not old enough to remember this: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
Seems like a reasonable take on Java Fork-Join shortcomings [1]. One of them is exceeding complexity which of course is very popular in Java world and the comment shows how Go version is 'crude' so apparently not good enough.

"The F/J framework classes -

1) have many, many levels of inheritance,

2) nested classes on top of nested classes,

3) instance variables used directly by other classes (known internally as “representation-level coupling among classes”),
code from the Hackers Delight without comments about what it does,

4) homegrown deques and queues instead of standard Java™ Classes,
and so much more."

1. http://www.coopsoft.com/ar/CalamityArticle.html
Can I say this? What a fucked up country.
Is there any way to copy and paste? Thanks.
He can make in a year what takes 10 devs 10 years, yeah seems a bit silly.
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> A not as high, but way more reckless version

I expected to see these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2-l3aWCTA
It's really not like that everywhere. Demand better from your employer.
Would your technology be adaptable to other problem domains? I can see a few different applications outside of the traditional "search engine" space where speed will be critical and other features would be less important.
Not gonna describe what dynamics is because that's a broad question best answered by some googling. Will comment on the more restricted question "why do we like 1-parameter families".

1-parameter families of objects usually arise from differential equations in geometric settings. Some diffrential geometric examples that one should be able to appreciate without needing motivation from physics:

- Integral curves and 1-parameter flows generated by integrable vector fields. A important special case in dynamics is Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms on symplectic manifolds.

- Ricci flow in Riemannian manifolds

- Geodesics and Jacobi fields on Riemannian manifolds

One plausible reason for why we like 1-parameter families is that they're just easier, than, say, 2-parameter families. This is true in more than one way

- 1-parameter families tend to arise from easier differential equations. For example, compare a geodesic problem to a minimal surface problem. Conversely it's easier to write down natural PDE systems when you're only trying to evolve 1 time variable.

- The domain is easier to understand. For simplicity let's say we're parametrizing things continuously with a connected, compact domain. Topologically there's just two such 1-manifolds, the circle and the closed interval. When we consider a family of object parametrized by, say, 2 parameters, the domain is a surface (which we at least know a classification). If you then consider 3 parameters, the domain is a 3-manifold (which we don't know how to classify).

As an example, a simple "family of geometric objects" you can parametrize is just a family of points on a manifold. In dimension 1, this amounts to some classification of curves. Things that come from this are, for example, the fundamental group, rank 1 (say, singular) homology, morse-smale theory which counts curves between critical points, geodesics which are solutions to some length functional. All these things are fairly easy to understand given some standard education in differential/algebraic topology.

Now if you consider the same problem in dimension 2, the first step is to understand the ways you can embed your domain into your target manifold. This is more or less a starting point for the theory of moduli spaces which is already non-trivial even in the genus 0 case. For example, under certain technical assumptions this can be done with Gromov-Witten theory. These are much more sophisticated issues.
[I]f a rule is, "make sure something actually builds before you check it in" then the inversion is "don't worry about making sure it builds before you check it in"? ...does it make the specific technical suggestion I listed "bland and generic"?

I think you hit the nail on the head when you called it a generic technical rule -- it's not a value that distinguishes the culture of the company. So while it might be sensible corporate policy, it doesn't really say anything about the company culture (not sure I would call it bland, but that's just wordsmithing).

Taking that a step further, suppose company policy included that and a host of other "bland technical rules" with which most practitioners agree. Then company values might state "We follow industry best practices." You can imagine an inversion, "We feel free to ignore best practices if it helps ship a product early", that would express something meaningful about the culture of working there.
You can change this to an empty space via the config file right now. In ~/.config/pgcli/config look for continuation prompt and set it to empty string.
Nice downvotes, stay classy HN. :D
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VLC was designed (and, well, still is) as streaming media server. This actually causes some problems with regard to normal playback but also makes it really good as... well, streaming media server, something mpv can't really do well (and doesn't intend to).
>The whole program seems to be a way for the Feds to encourage local police to follow federal priorities rather than local priorities and sadly I'm sure the current attorney general will be looking for ways to do more of that.

Yes, exactly; I'm guessing today's article below is what prompted the OP to post the article they did.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/17/jeff-...

"In 2015, Eric Holder's Justice Department issued a memo sharply curtailing a particular type of forfeiture practice that allowed local police to share part of their forfeiture proceeds with federal authorities. Known as “adoptive” forfeiture, it allowed state and local authorities to sidestep sometimes stricter state laws, processing forfeiture cases under the more permissive federal statute.
...
In his speech Monday, Attorney General Sessions appeared to specifically call out adoptive forfeitures as an area for potential expansion. “Adoptive forfeitures are appropriate,” he said, “as is sharing with our partners.”"
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This is my disagreement with the article as well. I agree with the author that Amazon Fulfillment should need to give employees adequate breaks, but I don't agree that the rules make Amazon a government: they don't have law enforcement, a court system, the power to make laws, an army, etc.
At least a majority of these are necessary to be considered a government.
Wow. I managed a good number of downvotes for even suggesting they exist.

I can say of a previous employer, all of the senior management took pay cuts before impacting the rest of us in a downturn. When my department did have to reduce by a person (I was the obvious choice to downsize), the entire (small) department, including my boss, took a furlough day instead. (Obviously, I started looking for new offers at this point, but I was never unemployed due to this.) Love that company. Great people.

I think a lot of people here may have experience with two types of terrible corporate environments: Faceless entity behemoths and cutthroat startups. There's a whole realm of small to medium traditional businesses out there where the owner knows everyone personally, and actually cares about the people who works for them.
true... it is hard to test or measure soft skills, but the project result depends on them almost the same as technical skills.

Btw, those are communication skills. There are many others that are also important
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I'm afraid of falling when I'm rock climbing. If I followed your advice and quit rock climbing instead of managing my fear, I'd have missed out on the best experiences of my life over the last year.

Emotions are temporary, more temporary than our long-term goals. If we allow emotions to control our actions, we become unable to pursue goals which require any significant process. Sometimes you have to not pursue someone you love in order to preserve existing relationships. Sometimes you have to stick with a job you hate to build your career. Inability to pursue long-term goals is not the path to happiness.

Further, emotions may not even allow you to achieve short term goals. Love says go for it, but fear says rejection will be devastating. Hate says quit your job, but depression says quitting will change nothing. Obeying your emotions is not always a freeing action.

Of course sometimes the easiest way to process an emotion is to act on it, and sometimes that's okay. But let emotions fuel actions that take you in a direction you want to go, rather than letting emotions dictate the direction.
Unicomp[0] have been making Model-F inspired buckling spring keyboards exactly like this for a while.

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A step in the right direction, but it doesn't seem to have closed the federal loophole. Local police still seize your property and give it to the feds. Feds, on paper, have seized/stolen your property now. Feds give a nice kickback to local dept.
Linkedin doesnt have resumes?? Every linkedin profile is technically a resume. Dates, roles, qualifications are all there along with references.
To me it's an image of a picture regardless of the contents of the picture.
Am I the only one who never liked those clicky, long-throw mechanical keyboards? I much prefer the very short throws of laptop-style keyboards, particularly the Logitech K750.

That's not to say I like mushy keys. I just don't like having to press very hard or very far for a keystroke to register.
It is interesting that no one with money believes that democracy is a credible way to run a business and yet people still believe it is a credible way to run a government.

Fun fact: the US Constitution has exactly ZERO uses of the word "democracy" in it.
They'll should still have plenty of time for taking photos. Astronauts usually work a regular 8-ish hour work day up in the ISS and have weekends etc...

2 of those working hours each day are blocked out for exercise, too, so this should be a real boon.
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I think this is going to run into all sorts of potential problems in the EU.
Some red flags that pop up to me (though I'm not looking for a job at Stripe myself, so that's important to keep in mind):

> Stripes

Oiy. Painting all of your employees in a branded moniker isn't a great way to start off. It immediately creates a "us" vs. "them" attitude - "Oh, she wasn't a real Stripe."

> Many successful Stripes ensure that they have dinner with their families or friends almost every evening.

"Many". "Successful". "Almost". Lots of weasel words that indicate that Stripe is unwilling to make a commitment to build a company where people don't need to stay late, because they want to keep their employee count low. I've worked in the financial industry for three separate jobs now; I know it's possible.

Also, the only reference to holiday is that it is highly likely to be interrupted. When the entirety of your conversation about maintaining a balance between work and the remaining portion of poeple's lives consists of how it will be interrupted (and that it's perfectly acceptable), you're not describing a healthy environment, IMO.

If you really want to attract high skill, experienced talent, talk about how you're trying to fix this problem.

> not just because we don’t have cubicles

So, open office plans? Not very employee friendly. I'd personally rather have a cubicle.

> We’re moving quickly, changing regularly

Last time I heard this, the company had moved from Angular to React to Dart, each time before the previous re-write was completed. It's left a nightmare for the remaining front end folks to maintain and clean up. They also did yearly re-orgs that changed folk's titles and job responsibilities.

And lets be honest, stability is important to employee morale and happiness. If it wasn't, a lot less ink would have been spilled on topics like "Who Moved My Cheese?" The lack of stability is not really a good thing.

> We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there.

First principles from computer science or real life programming? The two are not very compatible, and it sounds a lot like a recipe for constantly re-learning lessons.

> Expect to receive feedback, and sometimes unsolicited work, from talented coworkers with less state about your projects than you have

AKA time lost bringing new folks up to speed, just to have them leave again shortly.

> we want to feel serious responsibility for the full long-term consequences of what we do.

<rant>Do you feel serious responsibility for the innocent parties caught up in your fraud protection schemes; for freezing your client's money and making investment profit on it?

I know how hard fraud is to combat; but there are too many people caught in the crossfire to not acknowledge it.</rant>

Long story short, the culture described here sounds like a soft sell into an environment that would be pretty hard to work in, especially if you have a life outside of work.
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>"Pricing is based on the size of your organization"

Anyone have an idea of cost?
This is the future. Every employer need this. <sarcasm/>
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The benchmark scores seem to have been measured against Kaggle dataset which makes the scores more reliable and also with Categorical Features support and less tuning requirement, Catboost might be the ML library XGBoost enthus might have been looking for, but on the contrary, how come a Gradient Boosting Library making news while everyone's talking about Deep learning stuff?
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"Google says Hire is meant to help businesses do away with manually tracking candidates. "

Right, because there's no other software that exists to track applicants: http://www.softwareadvice.com/hr/applicant-tracking-software...
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it needs an atmosphere (not mentioned what minimum pressure) to move using its propellers between the modules.
Those are Model-M keyboards, which have a lot more plastic and less steel.
Ha! What a great line.
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I'm referring to the fact that she was the first female medalist. That's not enough to merit a community that usually doesn't bb mathematicians to make an exception - that would be tokenism.
Fair enough, but these sort of examples are not going to make the problem go away.
It might also just mean decreasing the quality of the student body. Which means instructors either decrease the quality of education provided, or else fail a bunch of people out (not exactly doing those people a favor...)

I don't it's prime facie factual that that admitting fewer foreign students is necessarily a good thing for domestic students.