skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> seems like they don't care at all

It's proven for me that they don't, as it's a long standing and massive problem. Consumers should stop buying poorly engineered/manufactured devices, that would be the reasonable reaction.

> If they continue to provide a model with a Linux distribution installed, I would like to support them and purchase their products again, but that defect is the only thing I would like to see it fixed

Normally Thinkpads support Linux very well though don't come with it preinstalled.
Falsehoods & misrepresentations.

"Same performance as 1080"

Vega 56 is faster than the 1080: 15% faster in SP GFLOPS, 130%(!) faster in DP GFLOPS, and 15000%(!!) faster in half-precision GFLOPS (Nvidia artificially cripples theirs). All comparisons made at base clocks.

"double the TDP"

Merely 17% higher: 210W (Vega 56) vs 180W (1080).

"Only 30% higher than the Fury"

And Nvidia's top 16nm GPU (Titan Xp) is only 39% faster than their top 28nm (TITAN Z) released... 3 years ago. The 28nm→14/16nm transition was hard for everyone.
Just the reply I was looking for. I do not have your years of Erlang experience but I've done enough to think I have a feel for the language itself as well as the fundamentals of OTP.

I've looked at Elixir and my feeling is that "it's probably great if you're coming from Ruby but what's the point if you're already invested in Erlang?"

Perversely, I actually like Erlang syntax too.
Eep! Did you notice that the first time we mention big O notation, you can click on it and an inline explanation slides down? Probably not, based on the question! We should make that part louder.
Thinking about it further, here's an easy protocol, if you happen to have a push-button ignition vehicle: Toss the key fob into the back seat as soon as you get in. The car will still start. Now, when you leave the car, you have to go retrieve the fob before you can lock it. So this forces you to look in the back as part of your car locking habit.
What do you think it reveals?
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"The slow web" is a much better buzzword than web 2.0.
True, and really there's always some kind of super-high friction loophole in computing. For these types of loopholes to have an impact though a) people have to know about them, b) people have to be able to do them, and c) they have to be easy to do.

TestFlight is as easy as getting an email, downloading the testflight app, and downloading the app you need. Its a trivial amount of steps, which makes it a powerful loophole.
How are they going to sanitize that place?

Get their users to upload a government issued id?
TokuDB doesn't come enabled in the MariaDB package that's shipped with most distributions. I wanted to try it out on openSuSE 42.2 but it wasn't there. It ships with MariaDB 10.0.31 I think.

I think we are ultimately going to switch to PostgresSQL as it has better tooling and features that we need (json, jsonb, postgis) and performance is also good when properly tuned.
Thanks! Have a few new questions in the pipeline :)

For mock interviews, definitely check out:

- http://interviewing.io/

- http://www.byte-by-byte.com/practice-coding-interviews/

- https://www.pramp.com/

- https://www.funnel.la/

- http://interviewkickstart.com/ (email 'em to ask about mock interviews over Skype)
Price seems expensive to me as well. In data science there is a similar site which has become pretty popular if you are interviewing in those top tech companies, but it is cheaper.

As the guy above was suggesting, that data science site does personalized feedback and that justifies the high price. Otherwise, the way it is now, it feels like it should be priced similarly to CTCI.
I vote for either Yuggoth or Nibiru.
Most Rust compilation is non-incremental but rather one shot with all type information available. Thus, because of LTO optimization either in Rust or LLVM the compiler should discover what the concrete type of the trait is and be able to optimize / inline accordingly.
That's why if you can be a person who genuinely cares and show it, you can go very far in life
Yeah but isn't there a risk of losing support?
I work in perl a lot and find it's getting harder and harder to work with modern databases as the dbi driver slowly get bit rot. Is there nothing similar going on in Delphi?
That's true, but this kind of interview questions will always be asked even for so called BAT in china.
I'm sorry you're taking it that way.

Did Apple cooperate with the FBI when they asked to help with the Pulse Club terrorist? No.
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>A common failing is trying to make the design more shiny and pretty...

That, and trying to make it behave like more successful (read, profitable) sites, even if the purpose/audience is totally different.

That is, "well if it works for FB it should work for us".
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Since I started with my online business I earn $95 every 15 minutes. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don't check it out.

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I don't think it's that they get good results, but moreso that it's the conventional wisdom (or "standard of care") and a good mechanism for learning from and properly attributing bad patient outcomes just isn't there. I doubt anybody has told them that their patient died or was given inappropriate treatments because they didn't have the proper appreciation for Bayes theorem, even if it were the root cause. That's just not the culture of medicine today.
I quit working at shoprite and now I make $35h - $80h...how? I'm working online! My work didn't exactly make me happy so I decided to take a chance on something new…after 4 years it was so hard to quit my day job but now I couldn't be happier.

........... http://ow.ly/iBXm30dNtIZ
Amazon too, especially with the Alexa ecosystem.
I liked Delphi a lot, as I liked Clipper a lot, but technology moved on.
Thank you for mentioning JQBX!
As another data point, I thought the big O inline expansion was pretty clear, and clicked on it.
I hope this isn't entirely true. Granted, many laundromats are trashy with broken machines, but most are well-maintained. There are a few benefits that mean a lot to me.

I enjoy the old-school video games.

I enjoy the idea that a 2-hour load is not only cut in half, plus a multi-load wash is done in one hour.

But most of all, it's the last respite that I feel comfortable sitting down and doing absolutely nothing. It's generally quiet enough that I can just let my thoughts roam, watch the TV, play video games, or even take a short walk.

Maybe it's nostalgia, or that I never lived in a place with a well-functioning washer and drier, but for a short bit of do-absolutely nothing moments, I'll happily take the laundromat over the beach any day.
> Reddit is re-writing all of its code ... new design ... looks similar to Facebook News Feed ...

Sounds like Digg.com v4. We all know the rewrite and new design didn't work out, people left for Reddit and back to /. and to HN.

It's time for HN to add different channels ;)
When someone acts like a jerk to you, remember this: hurting people hurt people. It is a natural tendency to lash out at others when we are hurt. So to fix the situation, try to figure out what's hurting the other guy and see if you can help deal with the source of his pain. Don't fight back or you'll just hurt him more and make him more mad.
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I share your sentiment that a significant redesign could be a huge mistake.

I think resisting the urge to redesign over the years has been huge for the growth of Reddit. And I think even a perfect redesign will be instinctually rejected by large swaths of the community (Markos Moulitsas used to say 1/3 of the community will hate a redesign no matter what it is.) In reddit's case the potential for rejection comes not just from typical human nature reasons but from specific cultural reasons particular to reddit: its propensity for hiveminding and collective freakouts, and consolidating around a narrative.

They may be too big at this point to be undone by a redesign. But I hope the devs really, really know what they are doing.
Does Delphi justify its cost? As far as I can tell, there are no free compilers - seems like a pretty high hurdle when most languages can be used for free.
Hey! :wave:

Yes that's me on both GitHub and Freenode IRC. I've been doing Elixir for roughly two years now. It's been fun.

I am not planning on jumping fulltime Elixir any time soon, because my company is currently doing a mixture of Ruby + Elixir. It's likely that I'll still straddle that particular divide for the foreseeable future :)

Thank you for leaping to my defence so eagerly!
This is a good cheat sheet for those who don't have (or have forgotten) the knowledge but want to game an algorithm heavy interview. The problem I got with this is exactly the same as when I tried reading the "Cracking the Coding Interview" book:

I got through a few chapters and then the author mentions something off the cuff with an assumption that the reader will know what they mean. But of course, I don't, because these books are basically a collection of cheats and hacks. I get frustrated that I don't understand it, so I seek out something that starts with the fundamentals and expands from there.

What I'm trying to say is that I'd rather slog through 900 pages of Sedgewick and come out with a thorough understanding rather than try 20 quiz questions to be stumped by whatever the hell they were trying to get at with question 21 and then give up.
I (author) meant that as an example of how you could achieve portability and consistency with HTML5. The canvas approach is NOT what QML does, however.

Not unlike HTML DOM, QML builds a tree of objects from the declarative representation (.qml source code) with discoverable properties. It would be straightforward for accessibility tools to traverse this tree and extract information from it.

As user jcelerier already mentioned, QML has accesssibility features built-in. It provides a tool to annotate any part of the UI with accessibility metadata. HTML has nowhere near such a consistent approach to accessibility.
Honestly, how do you monetize Reddit? I'm curious what ideas they supposedly have. The crowd is too tech savvy to just throw more ads on it. They run ad blockers, and if you get aggressive like news sites do, the exodus will begin. It just seems like a community with little loyalty to the site itself, and distrust of obvious commercialization.
12 years of professional coding, still haven't been able to use my data structures knowledge!
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Ok, now, just for one example, tell me how much money Google made on FidoNet versus the publicly funded Internet.
That they are profitable at all is better than many IPOs.

Edit: I assumed the were profitable, it seems I was wrong.

I hope they stick around, it's always a shame when a cool service shuts down.
Thank you for the validation! :) It really helps to see support like this for the project.
> Almost 60% of their distributors were latinos

Uh. What? Can you clarify your point here?
It's really rare that I see a story on HN with 100+ points without any discussion going on in comments. Keeps me wondering..
The problem with links is that you don't know where they are going to take you. When I have such a nice piece of text to read I don't want to click and potentially land in a completely different site, have to click "back" and all that distracting stuff. That's probably why your link didn't "register" with me. In your case in turns out the link nicely expands in place, so that's pretty cool. I'd still just inline that little explanation on Big O, since you keep referring to it in the rest of the text. It's more than a mere footnote.

Now this is all my own experience, and others may disagree, so don't necessarily go changing things just on my account!
Funny that you mentioned Clipper. It's a language that you don't hear about a lot anymore, but it was the first language I learned as a kid (my Dad built point of sale and inventory applications in it for local companies as side work), so it holds a special place in my heart.
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I happened to mention interest in Elixir on my LinkedIn page, and now I get hit up by recruiters for it every so often, so it seems so. I haven't heard too much outside of this personal anecdote, however.
Yup, sorry about that! I am a _horrible_ artist and so I'm hoping to rope a good friend of mine in to help with that. He's recently started a new job and so he's been busy. One day there'll be some great images in the book.
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Were I to push a change to Casper, my sense is it would be rejected, as John O'Nolan (the Ghost maintainer) responded to the tweet I linked with:

> "It’s really not an anti-pattern. And it can be disabled with literally 1 line of code"

Since we disagree about whether these bars are good or bad UX, I believe that'd be a non-starter. And although it can be disabled, it adds unnecessary friction -- defaults should encapsulate best practices. As Ghost is a blogging engine that should appeal strongly to less technical users (by being simpler and better UX than wordpress), having to manually download, edit, and reupload a theme seems to not be in alignment with one of the key value propositions of the product. I doubt most users even change the default theme, and that's okay - frankly, that's a sign that the product is really good.

Since you're new here (or at least your account is new), HN is a community where we regularly discuss things like the scourge of downloading 5MBs of javascript in order to view a single news article, the importance of sane defaults, or other specific issues related to design and tech. It seems pedantic but its a place where people care about such things, and we don't typically tell people they're crybabies when bringing them up.
Free Pascal offers Delphi features.[1] Latest Delphi library release: Delphi 10.2 Tokyo (March 2017).

[1] https://www.freepascal.org/
I guess people will be nostalgic over just about anything.
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I work remote to another country where everyone else is.

-- Doesn't make sense for everyone else to be remote, considering they are all in an office. I am the only one far away. It does make things more challenging for me not being in the room, but it's hard to mitigate that.

-- I am very high on the virtual coffee/tea, but my colleagues seems significantly less so. I think in part that is because they are German, although I do not make broad generalizations lightly. Americans, and British are far easier to have a casual chat with.

-- It's a nightmare trying to make 5am and 6am meetings all the time. I just can't do it, and it's becoming an issue. If I wake up just before the meeting, I'm an idiot, and look terribly. If I wake up an hour beforehand to become awake enough to talk, I upset my family. If I miss it, they get very concerned about what I'm doing with my time.

Tonight I am staying up and working from midnight to 2-3 am just so that they feel my presence.

-- We don't do video calls, but same is true for normal calls.

-- It's not really difficult to talk on slack, but they aren't around when I am, so there's nothing to say.

I love my colleagues, love my work, and really enjoy what we're doing, but certainly there are issues from a large timezone difference that are very difficult to overcome.
Would have been nice when one of my family members was in the hospital for 6 months. Maybe he was talking about Dr. House?
I certainly feel that the local team is impatient that I learn things at a slower pace than they do, because I have no one to ask. It is exceedingly easy to lose a day on a topic.

I don't know what's going on in general communication, and if it isn't on slack of email, it doesn't exist to me.
Sadly, Embarcadero's chokehold on Delphi is what turned me off of it back then, and still does nowadays. You could argue FreePascal/Lazarus is an alternative, but it's really not the same.
I can't find the thread but about a year ago a moderator here said HN uses racket.
CEO of Interview Cake here. We work really hard at trying to not do this.

Feedback on where folks get left behind is pure gold to us, because it lets us know what we need to smooth out next. We're not trying to be the /biggest/ resource out there--we're trying to be the /smoothest/.

For this article, do you remember where specifically you got left behind?
> My stance is that a global free-market is a good objective and should be encouraged, that borders should gradually disappear.

Thankfully, people around the world are waking up to the horror of neoliberalism like yours and rebelling against it.
I spent a lot of time in laundromats as a kid. My mom owned one at one point as well. They have a palpable pre-internet feel that is hard to come by these days, especially while still in civilization.
If you are doing commercial work the cost is easy to justify.

My main concern would be whether you can continue to activate it if Embarcadero drops support or goes out of business.
I interviewed at some of these companies that liked the puzzles and so on. Then got to a company that actually seemed interested in stuff I've done before and asked enough details to know that I knew the stuff. I learned about what they did and seemed interested and got the job.

Puzzles and tricks are like that are a crutch, because people don't know how to talk and find out about what the other person knows.

Usually what happens if a company becomes successful is they codify whatever they did to get there in stone and that becomes "the golden process" by which everything must be one. If they hired people who knew how invert a binary tree or some stuff like that, they assume they become successful because of it. I would usually think they became successful in spite of it.

At the end of the day there are people who will sit and drill interview questions for months and years and maybe that's what companies want, people who are desperate enough to do that work. Maybe that's what the tests really test for ...
Ah, the perennial apologetics of weaponized mediocrity. If you can't write a simple recursive algorithm that swaps two values (Max Howell), two nested for loops (DHH), or show me that you used Python at least once (uhh length? yes, there is this builtin, I forgot its name...), why would I want to hire you over someone who has seen a computer before?

And to avoid being called hypocritical, here's off the top of my head how the answers would look like (I don't use Python very often either):

1. len(thingie)

2.

def bubsort(arr):
if not arr: return None
for i in range(len(arr)):
for j in range(i+1, len(arr)):
if arr[i] > arr[j]: arr[i], arr[j] = arr[j], arr[i]
return arr

3.

def revtree(node):
if not node: return None
node.left, node.right = revtree(node.right), revtree(node.left)
return node

edit: works well for something coded on the toilet: https://gist.github.com/andreis/69a242330617b2a62753ce604e27...
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I definitely think there is a risk. However, reddit is much larger now than Digg was then. And reddit existed as a clear alternative to Digg at the time of the redesign.

I think there's a very real risk of a redesign going wrong, but it may be large enough and better enough than alternatives to weather the storm.
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Thanks, I didn't know that.
Maybe he's being hyperbolic, maybe not. But that's entirely besides the point.

I'm absolutely certain that there are many, many engineers who failed interviews because they couldn't write a zig-zag string and could yet come up with good solutions to problems at a real company.

> what do you expect a programmer who can't reinvent a half-decent bubble sort to do

But interviews aren't testing for that. The guy who invented Homebrew was judged by a Google engineer to be not good enough. Heck, I bet the engineer interviewing him probably had his/her entire dev machine setup via Homebrew.

DHH invented Ruby on Rails, which was used at Twitter for what, 4+ years? And yet if he anonymously gave an interview at Twitter they would probably reject him because he can't find a cycle in a linked list in 30 minutes.

> The interview is to convince the other person that you can think logically about programs.

It's supposed to be about that. The modern CS interview is, however, absolutely not about that. It's whether or not you've grinded through CtCI enough to be able to answer something taken from a vast pool of useless questions.

Tell me, is the Homebrew guy just really not good enough? Do you really think he does not know how to think about programs logically?
What aboutism Malaysia's 1MDB? It ain't just American companies involved in that mess, plenty of Chinese companies are as well.
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I live in Japan where Laundromats are often attached to Public Baths. I love going to my local, taking a soak while the load runs, and then coming out and having a coffee while my clothes go through the drier.

Not much to add.. just felt like professing my love for that Sunday arvo ritual.
I'm happy to say good riddance. When I was young I had to carry the family's laundry to the laundrymat, wash and fold it there, and carry it back, every other week at least. It takes hours, and at the time you couldn't do much while sitting there and waiting (nowadays I suppose you have smartphones and laptops). The whole thing was just an exhausting, dreaded hassle.

Now I can put laundry in, it's OK if I don't attend to it immediately, and finally I can hang-dry my laundry at home, which is not just hugely more climate-friendly but also helps prevent shrinkage. An undeniable win all around.

If you need a quiet few hours, a walk is just as fulfilling and much less obligatory :)
I didn't have this experience when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in February; I got a talk about the possibility of having cancer and was given some documents on lymphoma by the ER physician before I got a biopsy, CT, or even saw an oncologist. I think it went a long way toward softening the blow of getting an "official" diagnosis after pathology. My post-diagnosis experience with my oncologists has been anything but distant, but I spent four weeks in the hospital seeing them daily before I started chemotherapy, so that could be a factor.
You're right. The blog post announcing the NaCl port is dated 9/2015. I don't believe that effort is still active nor am I aware of any official efforts to get Qt / QML run on WebAssembly.

There is the Qt Quick WebGL Streaming official project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13744631 - but this is a different thing entirely: instead of running the QML app on the client, the app runs natively on the server. Instead of rendering the UI directly using OpenGL, the scenegraph generates a stream of WebGL commands. An accompanying JavaScript library receives this command stream through a web socket an replays it in the browser on a WebGL canvas. Kind of like what Remote Desktop does.
They are charging $200 for 40 odd questions. If this makes such a business, this tells how fucked up the whole interview process is.
This is awesome. Also I found a tiny nitpick

"But the early 1990s also brought a big breakthrough in an algorithm, known as symplectic integration, that reduced computational times by an order of magnitude."

then

"Because symplectic integrators don’t waste time rediscovering Kepler’s laws over and over, they run orbital simulations hundreds of times as fast as older methods do."

100 times as fast is two orders of magnitude.
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Zipcar is the worst choice for roadtrips. Have you ever tried in your own ? First, it charges per hour, second, it charges extra after 200 miles outside the city.

For going to a long weekend trip, you'll end up paying about $500 for three days. This is only considerable choice in cities like San Francisco and NYC.