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Is there a single interview method on Earth that will satisfy HN? These are all arguments I've heard in the last few weeks on here:

- Whiteboard coding is too far removed from "real work", not effective at testing general aptitude, and is demeaning.

- Asking to see side projects presupposes an unhealthy amount of focus on work, discriminates against people with lives, and is demeaning.

- Asking for a custom piece of real-world code that matches the company's actual stack is exploitative, should be illegal, and is demeaning.

- Basing everything on answers to 'soft' questions about previous experience discriminates against people who aren't interested in showmanship, leads to too many suits and bros, and is demeaning.

What on Earth should we be doing, then? Everyone on Hacker News is so enlightened and skilled at their job, that any form of verification is demeaning and beneath their dignity. Apparently I should make my hiring decision based on their comment history or something.
You use the term 'repercussions', which usually connotes punishment or negative consequences.
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if you're still looking around, you want to have a look at Nim, an alternative systems programming language with optional GC.
https://nim-lang.org/
As much as I loathe walled gardens, and disagree with Twitter 90% of the time ...

This is a good instance of why some degree of regulation is important.

In unregulated systems, it's entirely possible that corporate and state actors can basically control election outcomes, utterly lie and mislead people towards some pretty crazy consequences.

The Rawandan genocide was largely propagated by guess who -> Radio Hosts.

'Mass Media' in Rwanda was Radio, and hosts calling the other side 'cockroaches that need to be exterminated' was a critical factor that led to the tipping point.

So much so that General Dallaire (Head of UN mission) left a bunch of Belgian soldiers in a building that was being attacked, in an attempt to get to the stations.

The idea that 'decentralized networks' will be 'free' is not quite right - they will still be controlled, but just in a different way, by anyone who has the means.

This is our fault as humans.

I know a lot of educated professionals who believe some crazy stuff, and it's very easy to misinform.

I don't like that Twitter has this control, but I don't see any reasonable alternative on the horizon yet.

When there is 'true decentralization' - you will have some groups calling for mass murder of others pretty quickly. And they will create all sorts of Hollywood style propaganda in support of it. ISIS would not exist without social media.

There would be a few ISIS-like groups in every civilized country if they were allowed to exist - sadly.

It's not a simple situation we have, unfortunately.

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"i.e. you're too stupid to do your own research so let's tell you what to think"

Nobody (including you) has enough time and wherewithal to 'do their own research' - that's the whole point of a free press. Do you have access to White House aids to find out 'what Trump said'? Do you have time to read 100's of papers on Climate Change? Etc..

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"yes we'd have a lot more garbage .. but we'd have a more unfiltered equal playing field where you'd also have much more of everything."

We'd have - and we already kind of do have - 99% garbage.

Even the mainstream press is kind of crap - why? Attention. CNN would devote more time to specific issues if it were up to them, but Americans just 'tune out'. Major news outlets have to keep it a little light and America focused or else nobody will watch.

Anyhow. A big, fat existential issue ...
Ugh, exactly: drowning in corpo-speak. “We have decided to remove...” is apparently too clear.

Reminds me of my company’s HR department, where employees don’t quit, they “separate.” We don’t train, we “in-service”. Etc.
> So I'm disappointed that it seems I can't signup and contribute without installing a browser plugin that can read and change all my browser data and browser history... nope.

The sad thing is you used to be able to do that. I can’t see why they would take that ability away...
I'll be reading this book, thanks for the recommendation.
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I hope next up is blocking Saudi funded groups from advertising.

Oh wait, https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twi...

So that won't happen -- and everything now makes sense ...
Reach out to what end?

Say there was a customer support number you could call. What happens when you call them? You complain for a bit and feel placated?
After my experience with Android Studio I started to enjoy using Eclipse again.

The migration experience was even worse for those of us using the NDK.

Three reboots for the build system, no migration path until CLion was developed, debugging features only available to Java code,...

Although they have made major improvements, I always ask myself if they had spent all that money improving the Eclipse based IDE, how much better the overall experience would be.
What do education and mental health issues have to do with this?
Neither of those was acting as though they weren't pushing foreign influence directly in the united states. If they were, the DOJ would likely also ask them to fill out FARA[1] paperwork, just as they've asked RT[2] and Sputnik. Your comparison doesn't quite work apples to apples in any regard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Ac...

[2] http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/3...
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Yea, the kind of photos that would actually be featured by a legitimate brand on a platform that would result in any kind of meaningful exposure take a lot of time and effort to make.

What do they expect to get? A bunch of cell phone pics and maybe a few discards from a few professional photographers who were curious?

The whole thing looks like severely out of touch wishful thinking.
This is really exciting news. Not only did we find an interstellar comet but we found it using the Pan-STARRS telescope. With the LSST coming online soon which is the next generation of survey telescopes we can expect to find many more interstellar comets that previously expected.

https://panstarrs.stsci.edu/
https://www.lsst.org
Plants might be a cheaper option

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study
> A forward() function gets called when the Graph is run.

Isn't that almost exactly the same in tensorflow? You'd run your model to generate an output, or/and run your optimization operation t optimize the model.

> Based on some reviews, PyTorch also shows a better performance on a lot of models compared to TensorFlow.

Citation needed. How good are the examples optimized? What does performance mean? Precision or learning iterations per second?

If it's the later, in which environment? CPU/GPU/distributed computing?
They also write a descriptive message (and nothing else) on stderr as a convention.
People have said that the "Russia won the election" conspiracy theory is the Democrat's equivalent of "Obama was born in Kenya" birthers.
Yes. Learn how to use emacs and use org-mode to organize everything. Also, the best way to learn emacs is to use it everyday. Emacs lisp is a powerful programming language too!
> be a little more thoughtful about his proclamations to the world.

Censoring the speech of the President is probably not something that they want to get engaged with.

He's a special case. So I would argue that some of the terms should not apply to him.

For instance, he has the right to make violent threats in certain circumstances compared to normal citizens.

Whether I personally agree with his threats or tact is not important.

Now when he does something that he does not have the legal right to, I'll let the courts handle that one.
If anyone has questions, let me know.
I don't think the slippery slope argument is a fallacy, it can be a genuine concern that is too easily written off as a "fallacy".
When society reflects that kind of “people as people” equanimity you cite. This is certainly not the case for indigenous people today.
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Blogging is less of a problem, because a statement not directed at the government can't be the basis of an 18 U.S.C. 1001 charge.
I always wonder how they actually test it.

Last RC did not even update on Macs.
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If this repository additionally had badges that you could embed at the top of your GitHub README, I would expect it to be satire. I'm still not entirely convinced it isn't satire.
Putting all of "government" in one box is like having a software architecture diagram with a single box labelled "code".

In this case, there are plenty of factions which are capable of profiting from that chaos. It's not an accident, it's their preferred outcome. Mostly factions within the Republican party fighting against the "permanent state".
> Python, R, Matlab and Excel

Mentioning Matlab and Excel immediately puts the product in the category "they know what they are doing" as opposed to "another group of sophomores trying to reinvent data science".

I'm still waiting for a raw data dump with "avoid copies at all cost" access for very raw, very verbose vehicle and manufacturing data that is in 99.9 per cent never accessed, but must be analyzed when errors are detected late in the process. I.e. there's practically no transformation to apply during storage, but upon access, transformation must be done.

If TileDB is kind of like a more structured, more low-level struct oriented Redis, it is a very welcome addition.
> What if it’s still bad for society?

I think we can both agree that we don't want @jack to be the arbiter of that...
You'll always get to fall back on a tinfoil hat...
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It is a bit difficult to compare directly because I am Brazilian. An ERP dev does around R$ 6k/mo (roughly US$ 24k/year, but labor costs make it cost US$ 48k/year to the employer.) A typical hourly rate is R$ 150-200 (US$ 50-66).
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Socrates went into a similar rant on the written word in general.

> [Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
> ”Is there a single interview method on Earth that will satisfy HN?”

The simple answer is “no”. The HN community is not a monolithic block. You might as well ask if there’s one that would satisfy everyone. The key is to find one that works effectively for your organization.
Guys, I was thinking to do something like this, and you guys have already made it. Looks good. Will use and give you more updates !
This is great!

I'm looking for a way to run serverless (Amazon Lambda style) GPU operations (preferably using OpenCL). Are there any plans for such a service in your platform?
OCaml has explictly tagged variant types (like Java enums). There is no untagged variant type, and all types must be known at compile type, therefore there is no means to match based on "type" of a value.

OCaml does have hidden RTTI, but it is not what you think it is. It exists only so the garbage collector can distinguish the various built-in data types, and is completely opaque to user code (save the Obj module). e.g. all structures have the same tag:

# type foo = { a: int; b: string };;
type foo = { a : int; b : string; }
# Obj.tag (Obj.repr { a = 5; b = "foo" });;
- : int = 0
# type bar = { x: int };;
type bar = { x : int; }
# Obj.tag (Obj.repr { x = 1 });;
- : int = 0
# Obj.tag (Obj.repr 123);;
- : int = 1000
# Obj.tag (Obj.repr "hello");;
- : int = 252

In particular, this tag is certainly not used for pattern matching of anything but explicit variants, where it is used to distinguish values, not types, and hence is not RTTI.

[1] https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/memory-representation-...

[2] https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/book-ora115...
I mean, I agree that HN find's it much easier to shit on interview methods than come up with something reasonable... But read the post. They're asking him to build a complete application, front and back, that does just what their app is supposed to do... Before he gets a phone interview. And then they offer 3 months uncompensated "onboarding" before ever paying for work.

There's bad interview practices, and then there's abuse.
Should there be no negative consequences?
They strongly pushed these narrative through social media campaigns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theo...

Even president 45 fell for this admittedly pathetic troll:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/22/politics/donald-trump-retw...
Exactly. This is how society works. One does not go to twenty farms to get grocery. We go to a store or two to get what we need. The source of the food are decentralized, but the platform for selling products are centralized.
Like when the CIA infiltrated the 2012 French election? https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/
Well, there is an explanation that doesn't make them look like complete fools:

Supporting the "Russians stole election with paltry spend on social media" narrative, they hope to encourage Americans to massively spend on social media to "steal" coming elections...
> something a free solution like ublock origin can not do.

The core of the lawsuit was about Eyeo's business model specifically, charging for being listed in a whitelist. This of course does not apply to uBO.
> User testimonials and evidence of past performance in real development situations

Please, not in a README.

My problem with documentation remains: It's always out of date, and frequently contradictory. I'm trying to work with Kubernetes right now, and by this "maturity model", it's a Level 5. That doesn't actually provide any real help though, since k8s is moving so quickly the tremendous volumes of documentation which make it so attractive to managers and leaders just can't keep up.

What arguments should I be providing to kubelet? Depends on whether you're reading the code, the admin guide, or the getting started from scratch guide. None of which, by the way, reference the version of k8s you're going back to.

The API docs generated from the code are a bit better, but they were written as part of the code, and the descriptions are incomplete and confusing without the context of the code (separate rant - that codebase is split between so many repos you'll go slightly mad trying to learn what is where if you're not already familiar with it).

In the end, we always end up going back to the code; even k8s documentation acknowledges this by constantly linking back to GitHub.
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> You still let the President threaten war

I for one think the President should be allowed to do this. It may be illegal for a regular citizen to do this, but not for the President.

The letter of the TOS vs. the spirit of the TOS.

He's(or she's) a special case, no?
Any such discussion is entirely in the realm of not science. Non-observable means not falsifiable means not science. Saying the non-observable universe is going faster than the speed of light is like saying God’s beard is orange.
I honestly do not think this battle matters as much as a lot of people think.

If you check where Roman culture really made a large impacts its mostly in Mediterranean climates and cultures.

The less excess-able inland areas in many places have much lesser cultural impact, think of Northern Britain for example.

Just in terms of impact these areas actually had lots of trade with the Romans and the people living on both sides of this 'line' were very similar.
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this is great news. There is journalism, and then there is agenda-based LIES. RT and their likes are lying to create chaos in the western world. They make up things out of nothing.

Wish youtube banned RT aswell.
This, absolutely. If I were looking to get my foot in the door, I would totally code a week for free. Hell, my first freelancing gig, I made 8$/hour.

The three months without pay thing...that's a little different. I'd tell them no way.
You come in and hack with the team for a couple hours. You know, the activity that you'll be paid to do. How is this that hard?
> the freedom to run my project how I wanted and work on what I wanted (within reason) for a fixed period of time was a better offer than a grad scheme with BAE, Nissan, Seimens etc.

Don't know where you're doing your PhD (based on your comment about tax-free pay, I gather you're not in the States). That's not how things work in most places. You enter grad school with a vague idea of what research you want to do, and in 9 out of 10 cases you'll be doing something entirely different. The research you'll be doing is whatever your advisor has funding for. It's not "your" project at all, it's your advisor's, and your job is to produce the deliverables that he promised as part of his grant proposal. Consequently, you have very little freedom about what you're doing and how you're doing it.
> Perhaps we could call it "anthropology", from "anthropo-" for "man, people, humanity" and "-logy" for "the study of".

They might get a bit smug if we teach them a couple of Greek words.

They might start to think that their faeces are aosmic (ά- without, -οσμο odor).
I don't see how it's an operating system. Did I miss something in the article?
This is what I was going to say, but no, it's another one of these articles.

There was a great article on here about analog computing making a comeback, and I thought this may have been another article about that.
A startup is a company that is trying to find a sustainable business model.

startup != tech
The most interesting takeaway from this article for me isn't the kilogram, which is obvious and makes sense, but that the mole is being redefined.

A "mole" is a unitless quantity. Literally it's just a number. I'm just dumbfounded that when they defined it, they didn't just pick an actual number but referenced an experiment to define it. Now it's a number.
I think the more upsetting thing is the part where even if the candidate passes the "interview" and gets "hired" they must be trained (see: work) for three months w/o pay.
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Tim Spector's book The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat has a chapter on B12 deficiency in vegetarians. He anecdotally found using himself as a trial that he couldn't retain B12 in blood level tests while on his usual vegetarian diet despite taking large amounts of supplements. He had to get injected B12 to get the same levels in his blood that consuming a rare steak once a month would provide. From a geneticist's viewpoint he ponders if this is some kind of trait left over from evolution. It's a good book if not 'over-written' meaning way too many flowery and very long anecdotes shoved into the research. He has a chapter on 'Vitamin supplement X causes cancer' studies as well.
This is what baffles me about the narrative. A candidate spent upwards of 1,3 billion on their campaign, had the backing of most mainstream media, celebrity endorsements, back-room deals, and literal paid-shills on social media (CTR) when they went against one of the most unpopular people in America. Yet <300,000 in foreign advertising is what got the public to vote for the hated candidate.
I can't think of any that would be appropriate in this situation. Other than maybe answering an email or chat message from the user and making a bug report to follow up on- can you?

EDIT: Actually, I did think of one- bad press, such as this article.... if it happens too often, eventually people will switch to better apps. But you said there were no repercussions- so you weren't counting the bad press, anyway.
If you've negotiated tcp timestamps, and you assume the server will send more data immediately when it gets an ack, you have a convenient round trip time signal in the echoed timestamps. If you don't have tcp timestamps, you can advertise a reduced window and time the round trip between acks that open up the window and packets with sequence numbers in the window.
We have definitely been thinking a lot about what that would look like (i.e. is it more of a job architecture, an API, clustering, etc). Would love to hear your thoughts on what GPU Lambda might look like. Feel free to hit me up directly dillon [@] paperspace [dot] com if you want to continue the conversation :)
@jack doesn't own a particularly large stake in Twitter.
> ...SWE interns at Amazon...

I'm confused by this, when I was at amazon I was not aware of the role of SWE, (can someone tell me what it stands for?). We were SDE's, which was Software Development Engineer, and SDETs: Software Development Engineer Testing, and others, any idea what it is?
Gaming is a big industry. My experience is mostly in 'traditional' games companies shipping what used to be boxed AAA console and PC games. A chunk of that experience was at EA which has a lot of senior employees with many years of experience who are being paid reasonably competitively. Not Google/Facebook money generally but not horrible. Things might be different in younger companies doing mobile game development, I haven't worked in that environment.

Big companies like EA recognized some time ago that they couldn't afford to lose their most experienced employees by "chewing them up and spitting them out" any more and have become more competitive for senior devs in both pay and working conditions. I still think there's work to do there but it's not as bad in my experience as some people seem to think.
"We had difficulties sending our message across but we still believe in our mission"
One of these has a growing body of evidence behind it[1] and the other is pure wackadoodle gibberish that would make even Flat Earthers ashamed.

[1] I wouldn't say "won" but I would say "definitely helped" - there are a large number of other forces that contributed much, much more to the GOP win than Russia.
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Weiden Kennedy actually did that with http://www.wk.com/campaign/wk_

I’m not sure it’s totally a bad thing. You get to work for a renowned agency. The problem is that it excludes skilled people who don’t already have money
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> Asking to see side projects presupposes an unhealthy amount of focus on work, discriminates against people with lives

This argument is so ridiculous, because I enjoy programming it means I don't have a life? Is this an actual argument people make?
A lot is inknown, but there are many risks associated with this practice. From https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/farmed-and-danger...:

- Adult farmed fish could prey on young Pacific salmon

- Another risk is farmed fish transferring disease and parasites to wild salmon, a well-studied phenomenon that depends on factors including location, wild disease presence and ocean salinity.

Also, farmed salmon have more contaminants according to https://www.preventivecare.com/shared/pdf/GlobalAssessmentSa... study.

As an aside, do yourself a favor and read 'A Temporary Refuge: Fourteen Seasons With Wild Summer Steelhead' by Lee Spencer if you are interested in wild salmonids in the Pacific Northwest: http://www.patagonia.com/a-temporary-refuge-fourteen-seasons...