skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None, because nobody hates lighting bulbs or metro card readers, while every driver hates speed bumps.

Well, maybe not all drivers, but one driver who hates that damn speed bump that he has to drive over every day is enough to make that baby bleed. :)

I'm just being realistic. I've lived in an impoverished area all of my life and I know how things here work. I'm saying what I honestly believe would happen with these.
Whoever decided on the trembling text is a monster.
Can someone enlighten me on why we need a smarter speed bump?

If cars going too fast are going to be damaged either way, there's no benefits on that end.

If the motivation is that cars can go slightly faster overall over the bump to reduce traffic... then don't put a bump there!?!?

Slow traffic will still be slow?
iPhone 8 keeps the home button and thus TouchID. iPhone X loses the home button and with it TouchID. As its replacement they use a 3D camera for facial recognition.
That is actually a huge problem with all the different looks that emojis have. I wish there was just one, standardized set of them. But I guess then people would have to live with icons of actual pistols instead of water guns...
Is “IPv10” a joke or a serious RFC draft?
Counterpoint: True, there are many "niche" instances available, but on the other hand, finding the one that aligns with your interests may be difficult.
It's good to think carefully about how you interview candidates. Most of the ideas in this post are good. You should definitely let candidates type answers on computers. You should definitely work to put them at ease, in an environment that approximates their actual working environment.

But really, this is window dressing. The problem is that technical interviews just don't work reliably. We have better ways to qualify candidates.

Rather than trying to read subjective, noisy signals from in-person interviews, give candidates a small battery of work-sample tests. These can be bug-fixes, small features, diagnostic challenges, or even specification writing assignments.

A properly designed work-sample challenge has a rubric: a set of instructions for scoring a result. Ideally, the rubric is straightforward enough for someone who hasn't met the candidate to quickly score their result. "Runs correctly". "Passes a battery of unit tests". "Includes appropriate documentation". Whatever is important for your team.

Work to give every candidate the same set of challenges, so you can track results over time. You'll find that after refining and iterating for a few months, you'll rapidly build confidence in the tests, to the point where in-person interviews become superfluous for technical qualification.

Working on technical qualifiers is stressful. Most candidates will perform more poorly on them than they would on normal work. You should build that into your rubric (though, really, data from candidates will ultimately determine how strict the rubric becomes).

Understanding how stressful qualifying work is, you should consider not requiring candidates to work on problems on-site. Instead, administer them online. Suggest the amount of time you expect the problems to take to finish, and offset that amount of time from the amount you demand on-site.

When you must interview, you should work hard to standardize the interview. Interviewers hate this. Everyone has their favorite questions. People want interviews to be conversational and adaptive. Interviewing isn't supposed to be fun for the interviewer; it's supposed to be reliable.
It seems unlikely to me that as a full time Facebook engineer Koum would have still had time to create a multi-billion dollar startup.

It also seems unlikely to me that he would have been motivated to put in that work for an employer, or that Facebook would have given him the time or freedom necessary to do it.

If he had been hired, he'd have probably been a fine engineer, but there's really no reason to think he'd have added more value than the next guy. The skillset needed to create a successful startup is not the same as the skillset needed to be an effective engineer at a large company.
That and if an airline has a major crash, there is a high probability they'll be out of business relatively soon, or forced to acquire a new brand.

* Pan Am had two 747 crashes in 11 years. Flight 103 & Flight 1736 (Tenerife) although the airline was not directly to blame for either crash.

* TWA 800 (along with 9/11) led to the collapse of airline.

* Valuejet 592 crashed in Florida in 1996, grounded for several months, and then merged with Airtran Airlines in 1997.
Games... What a waste of time.
Scientist agilan's and agi and agiin organization's ello.co page
Wrong question - the right question is "which companies don't have the typical whiteboard interview". Mine didn't, and it's a regular software engineer job.

Here's a list of some - never used it but was on here a while back:

https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
Demystifying Apple’s Touch ID
the roads in and around the cleveland metro area have high traffic loads; undergo long periods of fluctuating cold temperatures during the winter; and get nailed periodically by lake-effect snow and ice.

as such, they experience lots of freezing and thawing, experience high traffic from lots of tractor trailers and snow plows, and get coated with de-icing materials (salt, or more recently sand-based grit in some areas). synergistically, these conditions are extremely rough on paved roads, so potholes are ubiquitous and painful.
> one of the first attempts to probe directly how humans are evolving over one or two generations.

Considering the extraordinary amount of time it takes for evolution to do anything at all, that they can quantify it in what is relatively zero time in the span of life on Earth, seems to remarkable to be true.
This actually would not link, because _start() or something it calls into (depending on implementation of CRT on given platform) would contain unresolved reference to main. (and goven the fact that all this CRT startup code is usually one .o, you cannot just patch out the part that calls main(), you have to replace it completely)

On the other hand something around the lines of:

void _start(){
write(1, "Hello world\n", 12);
exit(0);
}

should probably work, given that you link it without CRT startup code (ie. gcc -nostdlib)
>>>David Stein advises clients on retail financial services, credit reporting, financial privacy, payments, fair lending, and technology and e-commerce issues. He assists banks, non-bank lenders, consumer reporting agencies, payments and technology companies, and their vendors with regulatory, compliance, supervision, enforcement, and transactional matters.

Notice hw he in no manner of speak "assists" any of the consumers/users of said services?

This guy is a shill POS.
Two things: impose duty of care and accuracy requirements, violation of which can kill the entire business; and restructure the industry to reduce switching costs, so that new rating administrators can come online faster and eliminate TBTF.
My post wasn't an insult on state employees of any kind, or some such. The point was that the electorate consists to a very large extent of receivers of tax payer's money, and that the Berlin Senate buys their electorate with money they receive via cross-financing from other German countries ("Länderfinanzausgleich"), which I do not approve of.

Edit: cf. rsync's quote
There is already some stiling on the page, it's just not fancy. And that extra 100 bytes to make it readable don't make a difference.
Bank transactions are usually handled via long running messaging state machines. When as example you transfer from an account in the US to one in Sweden it does not just open a 2PC transaction between the two databases. There are also often intermediaries involved.
All these stories and comments need spoiler tags. I was curios enough to read them but now regret it. I want to be surprised at the event, not nod with my head and think “Hm, that’s it?”.
Ask HN: Having $2K and no job, how would you drastically improve your life?
That is my situation right now. Years ago I had emergency budget to last six months, but my last job search drained it all, taking upwards of two years. Now I have just $2k for a short contract developer gig I recently finished. I live with my parents and would like to move out again.

I want to drastically improve my life within a relatively short time, a month or two, either by making myself more employable with the money, or doing something else with it. What would you do with it?
"It's been said the majority, or a large part, of the electorate of Berlin consists of people receiving welfare or other community/state benefits in some form or another, including the large number of state employees living in Berlin. It's a very unhealthy situation going forward ..."

I am reminded of this quote, which is often misattributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler[1]:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing ..."

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler
She's an elected official, which means some Seattle people seem to think her ideas are worthwhile.
That's a just a fancy way of saying that they charge more because there are people willing to pay it.
I think asking candidates to do "real" work is bad for a bunch of reasons:

* It's intrinsically exploitative, even when compensated, because real work done under similar terms is paid far more highly than prorated salary (it also does weird things to salary negotiation, by extracting an up-front concession on rate).

* It requires different candidates to work on different problems, which means you're not getting a reliable record of how candidates do on the interview so you can tune it over time.

* Because the best candidates will generally refuse to work under these terms, most firms that do paid up-front work have a fast-path for elite candidates, which is an obvious process failure.
Women at Google are paid less than men at most jobs, acc. to former female empl
So if this kind would be installed, then they'd be soft at regulated speed and only solid at speeds significantly exceeding those. I doubt you'd be able to sue the city for breaking your car then - you have been warned. Still, no tear shed.
Having escaped prosecution and collected a "pension", the criminals who caused the problem are now trying to rewrite history in their favor, hence the article which will no doubt be the first of many more like it.
> It finds the Alzheimer's gene less in 70 year olds, because those with the gene are more likely to have died earlier, and thus not appear in the study.

So wouldn't the study be: "Those carrying genetic disease have a tendency to die early(er)"? What does evolution have to do with it?

BTW, it's perfectly possible for a gene to be wildly successful from the evolutionary point of view, while at the same time killing its owner invariably by the age of 50. How would this study have classified such a gene?
Wrong question - the right question is "which companies don't have the typical whiteboard interview".

Wrong assumption - the majority of my on-site interviews don't even use whiteboards. They involve discussing real world problems and work experiences with me. I still do not get offers from them.
Because of the federated nature of mastodon, experience on one instance might be quite different than another.

If the instances that are not "barren wasteland" are difficult to find, it's a problem.
I totally disagree. The Fed isn't taxpayer's money (except maybe inasmuch as its actions effect the money supply).

When people talk about "tax payer dollars" they are talking about funds the federal government has gotten directly from the people through taxes. That is exactly what TARP was.
I think it would be prudent for the interviewer to just say that "of course we will compensate for your time because this takes a couple of hours". If you happen to have a contract that forbids you from doing that, just say "Can't take any comp, I'm happy to do it for free". I don't think the key is compensation, but at least not assuming the subject will work for free. If you are the interviewer in that situation, give them the t-shirt and mug.
But on the other hand if they had been hired, they just would be middle-level managers or second tier VPs and would not have created WhatsApp.
It’s so that when you go the appropriate speed you don’t feel the bump.
> instead of relying on twin and adoption studies

Twin and adoption studies have never been reliable. They have ranged from dubious methodology to outright fraud such as in the case of Cyril Burt.
How Brexit will affect your human rights
Worse, Trump has issued at least 16 ethics "waivers" to at for staffers who would be banned from serving on his staff over his ethics rules. Once you make more than a dozen or so exceptions for who you're putting on your team, it's not really a rule at all.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ethics-pledge-waivers
Badenova posted the first video on the page in 2010.

It's been 7 years. Anybody know how adoption has been?
One of an endless stream of academia forensics after the fact.

Another argument is that it was wealthy house flippers who capsized the market and not poor people being given large loans they couldn't repay.

https://qz.com/1064061/house-flippers-triggered-the-us-housi...
I agree - especially this part of Dodson's comment:

"When sub-prime borrowers began to default in droves and the value of the private label MBS tumbled, investors also pulled away from the conventional MBS market as well, even though these borrowers continued to make their payments. However, with a short period the domino effect of defaulting mortgagors spread and then began the recession."

I've always viewed the housing crash as the result of the bottom falling out of the housing market. I don't know how common it is now, but in the early 2000s, it was very common for people to view homeownership as some sort of magic escalator to riches - one would buy a home, then basically be guaranteed to resell it for significantly more later, and the gains would be used to buy a more expensive home.

I went to a free "how to buy your first home" presentation around 2002, and this was exactly the model recommended by the people giving the presentation - people who worked in the home loan and real-estate field. Basically "buy the most expensive house you can possibly afford now, because you'll be making more money in a few years and what you think is an expensive monthly payment now will seem like nothing. Then you can resell your home and buy something even fancier."

Obviously, this depends upon a constant influx at the bottom of the "escalator", which is unsustainable because it's a pyramid scheme. The collapse of that pyramid is exactly what happened, IMO, and it wouldn't have been possible without the sub-prime lending.
Wow, I thought the timelines in LA were crazy. Isn't Boulder only 20-25 miles from downtown Denver?
I'm confused about how the inferences are being made. If genes are found in older people, okay, so what? That doesn't mean anything. But then the article says:

> But if that were the case, there would be plenty of such mutations still kicking around in the genome.

So does that mean the gene is less common in children than parents? If so, what does it matter that older people don't have the gene? Why does age factor into this at all?
An Unreasonably Deep Dive into Project Euler Problem 3
These search engines... I do not think you understand how they work :-)

Bing doesn't index and then serve URLs you visit in your browser, even IE.
> Someone who is capable of learning what's needed to do well on a technical interview has demonstrated a fairly high level of competence, and is (relatively) unlikely to be a really bad hire.

Sure, as long as their only role is repetitive coding tasks that require limited amounts of broadening their experience beyond the DS&A trivia places like Facebook require.

However then Facebook ends up with stuff like their iOS app ("iOS can't handle our scale"), which had a lot of (probably) very talented CS folks putting together an app that was pure garbage (from an engineering and usability perspective).

The filter limits the applicant pool to that set of people uninterested in solving problems outside the scope of a CS textbook. Capability has little to do with it.
I hope this is not too off-topic, but what features are we missing out on in Chrome that are present in IE?
thankfully, he gave a fantastic talk recognizing Alfred Korzybski in 1994.
You will also note that they process debits in descending order to maximize possible overdraft fees at most banks ;-)
Well the fact that demand and prices were higher during the evacuation of Florida meant that airlines were incentivised to have more flights out. It seems like this directly resulted in the huge volume of flights headed to and from Florida, which meant more people were able to evacuate by plane. And those people weren't clogging up the highway so people who couldn't afford tickets also ended up better off.

How was the "price gouging" in this case not an unequivocal good on the macro level? It seems the alternative is that the airlines held prices fixed but ran out of supply immediately.
This whole doubling down on security thing isn't working. What Apple needs to do is triple down and place a chastity belt on security.
Only made 10 years prior.
Weird, my headphones (1/8" jack) don't fit.
In day to day usage, vanilla Android on entry level hardware has felt faster than iOS on subsequent generation premium hardware for years now. iPhones have always beaten Android phones on certain graphics benchmarks, but for general business usage, they remain too[1] laggy[2]. I and several others I know who have switched to vanilla Android from iPhones have had the same experience.

[1] https://youtu.be/hPhkPXVxISY

[2] https://youtu.be/h5bDuvn_Tjw

I suspect you will get the same result as in these videos with a $235 Xiaomi Mi A1 and a $1000 iPhone X.
Full disclosure: I'm a PM at Snap, Inc.

Best coverage is on Snap Map. Zoom to the Keys and the west coast of Florida and check out the first hand accounts.
Forecasts Have Done a Good Job Predicting Irma’s Shifting Path
Rendezvous – A sci-fi short story
I would get better at interviewing. I know sounds not helpful but its a useful skill.
If it used something like Apache, Facebook couldn't just deny you the right to use React if you sue them.
That's right, but the OP did mention how that issue is addressed in c/c++:

> so you can't use straightforward NoExecute bits (provided by hardware and supported by OS loaders to disallow calling into dynamically allocated memory
This is not a case of the senate buying anything. The district of Kreuzberg uses it's right to preempt the sale and direct it to a public housing association. The voters in that building a most certainly not government employees, but low-income residents. You're mixing up things in a disingenuous way.
Why Islam is cool to me
This seems inherently linked to the increase in complexity and precision of scientific ideas, particularly over the time scale investigated (back to 1881).

I certainly applaud efforts to manage this complexity (e.g. the article mentions possibly adding "lay person summaries" in addition to abstracts), but I think that increased complexity and depth of scientific results is the intended outcome.

It seems analogous to these insane computer-generated proofs in mathematics -- maybe we need new tooling and approaches to make sense of them, but the fact that they exist is proof that we're discovering things and moving forward.
"Pharmacists once used chocolate syrup to mask the bitter flavor of their remedies"

As a flavoring, not with a medicinal use all its own.
Boo hoo for rich people?
To get to high functioning, engage in a significant amount of social counseling.

High functioning does not mean working the same as everyone else.
At the end of the day most of the theories aren't exclusive. It takes a lot of people to create a global economic disaster.
Nice but... IIRC demo programming is much more about creativity. Syncing, time and stuff are important but not that tough. The real problem is to fit all your computations in a very limited amount of time (say 1/60th of a second). That's tough. The other thing (and nowadays it's even of grater importance IMHO), you have to be extremely creative. In old school demo you'd make some cool code and then ask a GFX designer to fit a nice palette or a nice logo on it and that was it. Nowadays, I think the design is so much more important. I'm sure people don't spend the amount of time we did in the good old day son things like : hacking the DMA, hacking the graphics chips, optimizing a MOD player, writing yet another UI for your pitiful demo editors, optimizing your MMX computations, etc. Now, with shaders, big 3D cards, big CPU, it's much more about figuring out ideas and algorithm than figuring out nifty bare-metal details.

Demos are like graffiti : technique is important but creativity is queen

(Wiz/Imphobia who spend a hell of a time on syncing timer, hacking video cards and optimizing mod-players :-) )
Best coverage is the /r/TropicalWeather live feed on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/live/zkadef2ttzql/

https://www.pscp.tv/Jeff_Piotrowski/ (Storm chaser of Blue Shed fame)
That was certainly not the case. Multiple times the interviewer "explained" that with my approach you have to run through every entry in the word list which is linear time. My guess is that the interviewer wanted me to mention a prefix tree of some type, and was completely blind to any other approach.
Yes, but that's based on their information, it's not "monitoring". Monitoring is an external system not influenced by the others which observes and reports. It'd be nice to be able to monitor this, although for my personal website its not absolutely critical. Do you think your SSL provider is infallible?
He's also currently working on a "Super Mario 64"/"Zelda: Ocarina of Time" crossover (unless the project has been abandoned)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v2zXB-YUZ8
They are rarely placed where the prudent maximum speed is much above the posted speed.

I guess if there is a patient in fragile condition in the back of an ambulance that would be an issue.
They pretty much settled that whole thing when OSX (now macOS) came out.
We don't have a typical white boarding interview. Based on your experience, we might send you a take home coding challenge.
Well the .2 "Ask the interviewee for a git repository" can be a private repository. It is a very hard problem to solve if they have no visible code to show but it does happen in other areas. Imagine asking for a management candidate for the private e-mails he shared in certain tricky situations of previous jobs. Or even public e-mails. Or even to take 40 minutes to write in a whiteboard a team statement for a certain conflict scenario.

Trust is entailed when recruiting in most areas. But in programming not as much.
LLD (the new linker from the LLVM project) actually does exactly this; by default, it creates a separate read-only segment, and you have to pass --no-rosegment explicitly if you don't want this.

Amusingly enough, I ran into some issues because of this; e.g. valgrind's symbolication was failing on LLD-linked binaries unless I used --no-rosegment. I didn't dig into it too much, but it's probably making some bad assumptions about the text section's load address. (LLD places the read-executable segment after the read-only segment, and I think valgrind was assuming that the text section would be part of the first segment.)
People who have moved somewhere are not foreigners.
> They involve discussing real world problems and work experiences with me.

This seems like a good interview process. If you're qualified for the position, then what part of the interview is working against you?