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Ask HN:Interview failures and road ahead
I got recently laid off because my company decided to shutdown the office where I used to work. At my last job(1.5 yrs) I transitioned to the data side and have been working on ETL, BI reporting and also built a ML app. Earlier in my career I was a full stack developer working on monolithic apps.
Over the last month I have been interviewing for various dev & data engineer roles. Most of the roles that I see listed require experience building microservices. But in my years of working as a developer I worked exclusively on monolithic apps. Because of this I have been having a tough time with my coding challenges which often require building some kind of service. I 'm in a dilemma, study on how to write /build services or continue applying for jobs, practicing my ds & algorithms. As the days go by and failure with interviews is causing lot of stress(have a young family to take care of).

Do I tell the companies I am interviewing with, that I dont have experience building microservices or keep trying to work on it. I am confident that given some time I can easily pick it up and start writing my own. Any suggestions on how to tackle this problem.
Thanks
I never understood how this works. How does a16z, USV, and BlueYard make their money back? That's why I've been hesitant to deal with this stuff because I don't understand the business model.
Can I also say one more thing without getting downvoted? A good reason why their stock is rallying today is also because of their ban on Russian Ad dollars going forward. Something that Mark could not do at Facebook.
Well, people have to live somewhere. And it is fair to complain if you think the land holders who came before them are not paying enough property tax, which seems to have caused the housing prices to get so high. "Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds" - Thomas Paine
Why isn't your biography your name? Because a name is way more valuable when referring to specific things. It doesn't draw out conversations, lets you distinguish between multiple similar items, and serves great in making sentences easier to parse by making its parts more distinct. I'd much rather have a conversation that goes like

> Have we considered Cloud Vision yet? I think Cloud Vision has the best image recognition results out there.

instead of

> Have we considered Image Recognition and Classification? I think Image Recognition and Classification has the best image recognition results out there.
> "Just switch to industry" is turning into the scholarly equivalent of, "just learn to code". Instead of all giving up on some people making the best impact they can, the impact they work desperately hard for, maybe we should just fix the academic labor system.

And unfortunately we have pundits here in the HN community and refinforeced by YC, that this should be the case. Oh and btw, those same people think the solution for "just fix the academic labor system" is "well let's just write some code".

https://twitter.com/sama/status/641281287660007424
Agreed. Just highlighting to some degree it exists already and as not a novel untested concept. It just needs refinement.

A phased, gradual raising of the 2% cap probably would make sense over a couple of decades. That way homeowners and developers can adequately prepare and build in that rate increase into their economic models. Building lifetimes span multi-decades.
I know that there is an embeddable image of issues/PRs closed/opened over the last weeks, that is used in some READMEs, but I can't remember any of the repos right now.
Yeah, all Twitter needed was a pack of neo-Nazis, some Russian bots, and a genocidal conman in the White House. Not worth it. The health of Twitter's balance sheet is a counterindication of the health of the world. When their stock goes up, the market should dive.
Yea, it's definitely a pain-point. Wish we had a more elegant solution, but it's a tough problem to solve!
Hehe, indeed. Long way to Go.
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Thanks! Indeed they mention helium on their Exos X line but not on the Ironwolf models (for example the ST12000VN0007).

For now I'll stick with the plain offer. ^__^;
This is pretty funny :) Not the easiest way to learn how to use their product, but fun :)
Remember that Canada has civil forfeiture too: https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/civil-forfeit...
In development environments where expectations have outpaced tools, frameworks and patterns proliferate. The front-end is one such environment.

Node.js created a revival of interest in Javascript as a serious language, causing the more casual/ad-hoc style of JQuery/YUI/MooTools/Dojo. to be eclipsed by more heavy-handed structured patterns like Backbone/Ember/Meteor/Angular, usually based on MVC. This went on for a long time because the browser front-end platform was still too primitive to support the kind of large projects people were suddenly demanding to build.

Now we are entering a period where the platform has finally become much more sophisticated with HTML5, CSS3, ES2015, HTTP2, etc., and not so many things need to be coded by hand anymore in the front-end world. Also, Facebook released React and introduced the one-way data flow pattern that's now popular. So the heavy handed approach to front-end design is now on the wane.
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Curious too, what are you using to scrape and parse earnings and annual statements? (since many of the queries can only be found there)
I love these reports! I'm always in the market for new storage solutions and find these statistics very useful in determining which brands and drive sizes provide the best reliability.

One statistic I'd really like to see included is the disk usage of each drive as a percentage of their total capacity. Would there be any correlation between that and the failure rate?
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You're making the mistake laypeople often make which is that the resources disposed to do X were fungible enough to do Y as well. What if this were interns or contractors? Engineers in test? An engineer on sabbatical?
How is this not a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15552170 ?
Hey Brian! /wave
> Sort of like how I can apt upgrade while apt update is still running but fancier

You can link two commands together with the "AND IF" operator

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Furthermore, you also have `||` which is the logical or, and also `;` which is just a separator which doesn't care what happend to the command before.
https://github.com/mcohen01/amazonica is the best README I've seen. Relevant examples for every piece of the library, and some nice-to-have performance graphs. The 95%-use-case getting started is really the best thing you can do in a README in my opinion, and amazonica totally nails it.
Same here. Using Cordova with Atom or Sublime, and building/signing/deploying on the device via the CLI.

We need to deploy to desktop/mobile/chromebook and we don't have the budget to develop native UI for each one.

The be honest the only problematic platform has been iOS and its crappy UIWebView / WkWebView, and Windows but only because we are using Squirrel for the installs.
By now, couldn't they just automate everything and lay off 90% of the staff? I bet that would make it profitable. I'd like to see their cost structure.
Twitter was always making money. That was not their problem. Their big problem was spending 2 billion dollars. Cut spending and you will see net profit go up. He is atleast doing that while slowly starting to experiment with the product.
Add one zero.

Remember that Twitter works in multiple countries and in different languages. Then there is a lot of face to face meetings required, so add offices and service staff as well.

1-1,5K would sound reasonable for global sales and customer services.
> Hollerith punch cards

Ever wonder why a "standard terminal screen" size defaults to 80 columns?

Because of punch cards - a standard punch card has 80 columns (rows vary, but a standard was 10-12 rows), and IBM made this standard on the PC for display to be able to show a punch card data on the screen.

Likely this comes from dumb serial terminals of the era...so the standard carried over, for backwards compatibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

That quote is the exact reason that land needs to be taxed at a much higher rate than it's currently taxed. Notice I say "land", so that doesn't include anything built on that land.

The value of land is directly tied to the desirability of the land around it. Land in Manhattan is more valuable than land in the middle of South Dakota because of all the network effects of other people (and the government) building things in Manhattan.
Here’s a good talk on a system used for the PS4 - https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022186/Parallelizing-the-Naug...
And another one on multithreading a cross platform game -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Q_zHG3vqg

There’s also this talk - http://developer2.download.nvidia.com/assets/gameworks/downl... which talks about collision detection and collision resolution on the GPU that actually explains the architecture of the cpu engine quite well and shows what parts are serial and what parts are well parallelised.
The last point about seed blowing has been debunked. It is listed as myth number 2 here: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top...
Monsanto does not own the world of agriculture. This is a ridiculous claim.

There are many more than 1,000 separate seed companies that supply the many types of commercial seeds globally, and hundreds of seed companies that sell corn and soybean seed to American farmers. In fact, aggregate commercial sales by all seed companies account for only about 40 percent of the total volume of seeds used globally in 2014 (not sure of the last seasons). Of those commercial seed sales, roughly 2/3 of the seed volume comes from private breeding programs and significantly 1/3 comes from national or public institutions.

The remaining non-commercial seed volume is seed saved and replanted by farmers. Monsanto participates in only a few crops, with the two largest being corn and soybeans. While Monsanto is one of the largest commercial seed companies, even in those crops their output probably accounts for less than one-third of global commercial volume.

Therefore, if a farmer wants to plant seed from someone other than Monsanto, it’s very easy to do that. People use Monsanto products because of the genetics/profitability not out of intimidation or fear.
David Eppstein is a mainstay of WikiProject Computer Science[0]; I encourage anyone interested in contributing to Wikipedia in that area to refer to the group for help & support!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer...
I don't understand how a land value tax is supposed to make rents lower. It doesn't really compute.

As a landlord, I have a mortgage of $X and taxes of $Y, and insurances, maintenance and other liabilities that total up to $Z, for operating costs on a piece of property.

For this to make any sense at all, $Rent >= $X + Y$ + $Z.

If you increase the taxes $Y (and this would, realistically, be done more or less uniformly across a town or municipal region, so all properties are going to be in the same boat), all you've done is make me have to charge a correspondingly higher rent. Rounded up to the nearest $25 or $50, because that's how it is always done. Meanwhile all the other owners of rental properties are in the same position.

Hooray!
Me neither. I googled it, out of curiosity myself. I was confusing it with BevMo, a retail chain for beverages et al.
The effect of a tax on land works differently than other taxes do. Because the land value tax will free up supply (which was previously held for speculation), the result could just as easily be that rents drop. This is the entire reason that this tax is attractive, and you are right that without this feature, the tax would not make sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Real_estate_v...
They didn't invest in OpenBazaar, they invested in OB1, the company who is leading development on OpenBazaar. I'm a co-founder of OB1 and we monetize by offering services to users on the platform, not by monetizing the platform directly (no fees).
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Could you please explain what this is all about? Stocks related to themes?
I think the problem is that Citizen Kane was highly topical in its time, both in style and subject. If you didn't grow up watching newsreels, the parody of newsreels is not going to mean anything to you. If you aren't used to thinking about Hearst as a very powerful and controversial man, a lot of the scenes won't mean much. They make a joke about how he is starting the Spanish American War, but they don't really explain it. So I think it loses something without the context.
Out of curiousity, how did you choose your regimen? It does sound very hard to follow.

I fast every other day (the EODF method the paper studied). It's actually surprisingly easy and from what I can tell from the (no more than a dozen) sources I've read it's just as effective as longer-term fasts. I've been at it since July, with two weekly breaks basically. I was also overweight before starting. My BMI went from 26.3 to 24.2 since then, something I had been trying to achieve for at least a couple of years, with no success.

I'd also be interested to hear from someone with a medical or biological background. I'm particularly interested in the effects of fasting on blood pressure and kidneys. I have an older relative who is a kidney patient and overweight which probably contributes to their high blood pressure and it'd be great if I could recommend they follow my diet.
"So if he's actually working 80 hours a week, where are the results?"

And here I am, trying to find just one job in tech that's only 40 hours a week.
I never thought I'd consider Xcode to be fast and lean on resources.
According to the headline, Twitter has lost money every year of its existence. Random Google result says -$2 Billion profit as of 2016.

Anybody who has done better than that should feel free to give tips, in my view.

Idea: redirect Twitter.com to a Geocities page with ads for fidget spinners and fire everyone. I predict record profits.
If not for the research, though, there'd be nothing that needed explaining through illustration.
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You have to download your raw genetic data from 23andMe and then re-upload it to get the methylation analysis. You can download your raw genetic data from 23andMe here: https://you.23andme.com/tools/data/download/
A renter's financial risk is limited to his/her lease agreement. This could be the remainder of the rent due according to the lease (ie if there are 6 months left on the lease agreement you will need to pay 6X rent). In practice typically a renter is usually on the hook for the security deposit or a month's rent, so long as they can find another renter to take over their lease.

The owner assumes the total risk for the property.

As a basic example, consider starting a lease vs buying a property in 2007. If you were a renter when the real estate market collapsed in 2008 you were stuck paying higher than the market rate (most likely) until your lease ended, at which point your rent probably dropped to market rate. No biggie.

If you bought property at the top of the market in 2007 for say $500k, and the value of that property dropped to $250k in 2008, you are now paying a $500k mortgage payment for a property worth half that amount. Rent used to cover your mortgage payment but now the market rate for rent in the same property has halved so now instead of breaking even every month on your property you have to pay $1,000 a month for someone else to live in your property just to not default on the mortgage. Odds of having to declare bankruptcy in this scenario are high.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiotropy
I suppose that's the problem, which he alludes to in his article. Basically we go shopping a lot (well a lot of people do) that's why there's so much market differentiation. JC Penny and Macy's and Nordstrom and Saks and Bergdorf Goodman all offer a slightly different experience tailored to different budgets, and the stratification is very clear.

A truly upmarket experience is a concierge who knows your tastes and scours the stores to bring you what he think you'd like to wear. Just like any sort of suit you can buy in a store is orders less luxurious than a bespoke suit you get made for you on Saville Row.
tHats not the point though:

The point is, that if you watch the documentary (and if you actually believe it ((jury is out))) that the farmers were committing more suicide after the intro of Monsanto products REDUCED their yields and they fell into even more poverty as they couldn't pay the Monsanto tax - and thus fell into despair and killed themselves.

IIRC.
If they are smart, they donate to both sides of the aisle.
Because they didn't ban far-right subreddits. Why lie about the issue?
The only piece of solid evidence I personally have inventoried so far is about 100k$ ad spend on divisive issues, rather than supporting a particular candidate. That was not massive (compared to campaign billions). It was targeted at regions and individuals. As far as sophistication, some of the ads I have seen didn't have proper grammar and spelling - they didn't seem credible to my bologna detector. These ads were likely a foreign psychological operation, and have no place in our political discourse, but I guess I'd like to see more before we gut the Bill of Rights. If these ads were enough to subvert our democratic institutions, there's nothing but trouble ahead.
Macbook Air for sure. And I still use it and sad that they will discontinue it. It's a great laptop.
This is one area that Perl's CPAN really got right. Pick just about any random module, and you're immediately greeted with a short synopsis showing the use-case. When you search for something and find 5 matching modules, you can quickly evaluate them on the basis of how easy they are to use relative to your codebase.

Random obscure module: http://search.cpan.org/~prasad/X12-0.80/lib/X12/Parser.pm

OK so in the first paragraph, I know how to parse an X12 transaction file and get the results into my code.

This boils down to know your audience.
You're right. We're about to launch a mobile app and working on getting it working on browser as well.

Bitcoin is a barrier but our goal is to eventually be currency agnostic. It does enable us to do escrow properly though with 2-of-3 multisig, and it also ensures that people control their own money.
I would rather find some mechanism that separates everyone who wants to just earn towards a shelter that they can stick around in when they reach their old age, all into one market, and ring-fence everyone else with a profit motive into their own market where they can duke it out among themselves the real estate game.

For example, the capitalization and sophistication of commercial players lets them efficiently and systematically harangue tax assessors into lowering property taxes far below what normal individuals with just their own residential property can accomplish. Those kinds of advantages accrue in many other areas, and are out of reach of individuals due to sheer scaling differences. But it's the individuals that incur lots of collateral damage over the course of a long period.

LVT is part of a solution, but I'm still looking for a way to address that scaling differential. I think housing co-ops are onto the start of such a solution, but I'm not convinced in their current form that they are appropriate to use for addressing the scaling issue.
Kings, sockeyes and cohos. It's all caught in Prince William Sound near the mouth of the Copper River. I grew up fishing there. There is a lot of marketing, but I think it tastes way better than farmed or Atlantic salmon and just can't bring myself to eat that.
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It's because they need the headcount to speculatively try to achieve the growth numbers needed to support their valuation.

Suppose they cut back to just keeping the lights on in engineering, along with obviously-profitable sales staff to sell advertisements and make business deals. Twitter is instantly profitable, but the net present value of those cash flows is something like a third to a tenth of their current valuation.

This is what happens when you over-fund a business at too high of a valuation. They do what they can to try to "grow into" the valuation, because otherwise management's junior equity positions and stock options are worthless.
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I like the fact that a part of the space shuttle's design can be traced back to Roman times:

http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
Which far-left subreddits support and advocate the extermination of entire ethnic/religious groups?
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But you can just measure whether animal eaters (tend to) have a B12 deficiency or not - you don't need to know any of this. Is your doctor recommending this based off a long chain of reasoning or based off of a study just directly measuring the rates of B12 deficiency? Since the latter is much easier and is what you actually care about.
Visual Studio (not code) is the most smooth actual-IDE I've used, by a wide margin.
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> is best understood as the truth

No! It's preferred as an explanation because it is more elegant and convenient, NOT because it is more true. It is the same true!
There's some subtext you missed there.

"it discriminates against people with lives [outside of programming/tech/work]."

as in

"It should be ok, if you want to, to not spend all your time outside of work doing unpaid work."

Excluding candidates that don't have a github or whatever is a signal you are looking to get employees that you expect to spend their entire lives at work.

If hobbying programming is your strength, own it. Nobody is going to disregard code samples you send them. The context is employers requiring hobby programming.
> and ramping up deals to sell its data to other companies

Which companies are buying this data? Considering its estimated that a third (1/3) of twitter activity is from bots retweeting, liking, and following. Not sure how much real value there actually is in this data. Twitter may turn a profit, but there are bigger issues with their model
Landlords do not set market rents. Renters and their employers do. Tax changes do not raise or lower rents. They make it more or less likely that new housing will be built, which affects future rents.

Land value taxes are so attractive because they avoid changing the incentives to build.
So you can sell your goods to all three people on Earth interested in both ipfs and btc?
A paper on the current state of dbms architecture, describing New/NoSQL, non volatile memory dbms, ect http://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2016/pavlo-newsql-sigmodrec2016....
Can you give me a well ordering of the reals?

(Hint: No, you cannot - no matter how hard you try. Yet the WO principle says it exists).
In urban centers, you'll just see three or four professionals per family home or apartment. The families will leave town, either to the suburbs with a soul-crushing commute or to a smaller city.
"In this case, Monsanto denied requests by university researchers to study its XtendiMax with VaporGrip for volatility - a measure of its tendency to vaporize and drift across fields.

The researchers interviewed by Reuters - Jason Norsworthy at the University of Arkansas, Kevin Bradley at the University of Missouri and Aaron Hager at the University of Illinois - said Monsanto provided samples of XtendiMax before it was approved by the EPA. However, the samples came with contracts that explicitly forbade volatility testing."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pesticides-dicamba-in...