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I kind of think this fundamentally doesn't work. But I do wonder what can be done to leverage web based stuff to help support a healthy local economy. Help local artists, writers and what not to make money online. Maybe help give exposure to small towns to promote tourism. That sort of thing.

I like the basic idea of fostering local business in some way. I just don't really see an Amazon style fulfillment deal working. I feel like Etsy is the Amazon of local retailers.

But how do we turn this into a means to give pushback against the big getting bigger and eating the world? How do we use the web to help solve some of the problems it is helping to create?
I never consider interviewing to be a waste of time.
First, no matter what happens, it's great practice.

Last time I looked for a job -- even after filtering for salary- I had 15 jobs that I was actively pursuing -- meaning somewhere in the process of phone screen-> in person -> waiting for an offer -> company waiting for me to accept the offer. I've been successfully interviewing for 20 years and the one or two times I didn't get a job was solely because I lack the qualifications. Not because of my interview skills.

Besides if I'm already working, I have to be careful about how many "appointments" and "personal situations" I have before it becomes obvious I'm interviewing.

Second, if I impress the people I interview with I could get another job offer from them in the future.

If they aren't willing to offer you a job then, why would they offer you a job in the future?

Third, I get to meet some interesting people and find out a bit of how their systems are set up.

During work hours when you're already trying to juggle your current job and job hunting....

Fourth, they might be able to be negotiated up -- after the interview, and after they decide they like me and they want to hire me. There's comparatively little negotiating power before the interview.

If you have the skill set the market wants and you are in a competitive market, supply and demand gives you your leverage. If my resume is good and accurate, and I know I meet the requirements I've always felt that once I start the interview process, the position is mine to lose.

Fifth, even if they finally can't meet my salary requirements, they might be able to offer me something else I value in compensation. That's what negotiation is all about.. and that's what you won't get to do if you disqualify yourself from consideration by naming too high a number before you've interviewed.

I work every day exclusively for the salary. I'm more than willing to "disqualify myself" from a job that won't meet my compensation requirements. No I don't consider either stock options or 401K matching (unless you are immediately vested) part of my compensation.

Finally, even after the interview, I don't name a number first. I wait for them to make me an offer. Then we go from there.

How much more do you really feel that you can negotiate for outside of what the market will bare unless you have a really specific skill set? I know my local market very well. I don't lose sleep at night over a few thousand if I know I'm getting paid competitively based on the market and my skill set.
And they wouldn't have a job if nobody did the accounting, and they wouldn't have a job if nobody did the building maintenance, and they wouldn't have a job if nobody designed marketing material...

A lot of jobs are important. That doesn't imply that everyone should want to do every job.

Customer support is just one job among many. And disliking customer support isn't disliking customers.
There's the same implied prerequisite as with BASIC: you need a personal computer. I mean, you seem to know how to uninstall the browser from your laptop, but is not doing that a meaningful prerequisite?
Mesopotamian and Egyptian writing goes Back much further than that, and while the alphabet has it’s origin in he Phonician sea peoples, it didn’t become widespread through Europe and Central Asia until the Greek empire a thousand years later. Alphabet like writing systems have been prominent for less than half of written history, hence recent.
Recently experienced No. 3 in form, was scheduled with the wrong person and the remote conference room was empty. Turns out the interviewer was another person in their own other room. Emailing the HR rep ten minutes in resolved the issue within five mins.
I agree it's a shame that it's downvoted.

A huge percentage of Japanese young people don't want to have sex. We may want to understand what's going on in the national psychology.

BTW isn't Japan on the cutting edge of robotics and always has been? I remember dynamism.com website like 10 years ago.
Is there a plug-in similar to video speed controller that works for embedded audio widgets like these?

Being able to speed up slow video is great, wish I could do the same for audio without figuring out how to download it first.
I have had some sad rejections over the years.

I remember one company rejected me a few months ago for not knowing enough algorithm/data structure knowledge - I subsequently passed interviews with two teams at my current employer, one of the famous big tech companies.

I had a startup pass on me as well that prior job search for reasons unknown even after acing their interview. I found out only 2-3 weeks after interviewing, and I think they’re still trying to hire for the position (it uses Angular 1 - I also happen to probably be still one of the most knowledgable people about Angular 1 outside of Google).

I got insight into one company’s interview process after doing a take home project, and one person mistakenly replying to all with me in the email chain - the person didn’t think highly of my work on it, despite that I only spent 4 hours (the time I could spare on it) and kept clean abstractions, setup, and accomplished the main point of the take home project. That experience cemented to me that take home projects are a race to the bottom with it being necessary to spend an extraordinary amount of time and little reward back.

Amazon ghosted me while we were in the process of setting up onsites in San Francisco and we were taking about compensation in parallel (they started the comp conversation) - I’m pretty sure they did so after a few back and forths due to not being willing to bend on comp numbers. I still get emails from recruiters about 10 times a year from them.

I’m sure I’ve had others, pretty sure most people who’ve been in the industry for a while gets them if they have interviewed around.
Speaking of one-liners, this one is pretty cool: https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/447568252223647744
It's simple physics. Think about the volume of seawater being evaporated, which has about 35 g/L of salt in it.

Human body needs salt, but too much salt will kill you.
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I think this is great! The offline first approach will clearly help to adopt this in a case when there is not central class management system in school.
Are you suggesting running a company is the same as leading a country?

As for the election, history says otherwise. DNC incompetence as well as Clinton arrogance all but handed Trump & Co the win. In addition, the fact that a "political unknown" was able to bubble to the top of the GOP ticket is more of an indictment of that party than any significant skill on Trump's part. Who did he beat? Cruz? Rubio? That's a notworthy accomplishment?

Pardon me for saying so (as it's not very HN) but...you're funny.
> The entire point of any currency is easy, cheap and fast transactions.

All of those are relative, and part of tradeoffs with other values. If you think those are the only important properties of a currency, you're missing the entire motivation behind crypto currencies.
Ah, if only we could reliably predict black swans and winning lottery tickets.
It’s not a nitpicking point. Bitcoin doesn’t provide any anonymity at all. It explicitly breaks anonymity and great lengths have to be taken to recover it. Pseudonymity is a fundamentally different property.
Yeah, my first reaction to that prompt is "it can't be done. Saying whether or a not /a/ number is random is meaningless, only sequences of numbers can be treated with statistical methods"
>Because it's rude. It has always been rude, but now with the phone in your pocket it's that much worse. She doesn't know what her friend isn't doing at the moment, and shouldn't impose.

You have to understand people originally got phones so they could be contacted which is in direct contradiction to your assertion "It has always been rude". Actually no it was originally desirable. A whole unwritten social etiquette sprung up around use of phones, in fact, because some people could be rude or found certain behavior rude. But people got phones because they wanted that medium.

Certainly when cell phones first sprung into existence some of those social contracts changed due to the cost and the fact in the US the recipient paid for the call and there were no unlimited calling plans. It could be considered rude keep someone on the phone then they're paying anywhere from 25 cents to one dollar per minute to speak to you.

When texting first came into play each text could be 10 or 20 cents each. Again, sending excessive texts would be considered rude.

Social norms have changed over time and I really don't know anyone young or old who shares your view that they consider any phone call an intrusion no matter the reason.
In any military force,turning your weapon against your own people is worse than being a traitor,running from battle in cowardice or surrendering to the enemy.

Their continued attack(yes,using malware and implants against someone is an attack) against their own people is in my opinion completely shameful and unpatriotic.

As someone who has no intention of breaking any law or of harming the united states,it is simply not ok for me to have to include my government as part of any threat model or as a potential attacker.
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I'm curious,how do you evaluate candidates? Or are you just never in that position?
They have them because they published the Panama Papers before. They had them because they recognised the name of a secretive law firm and took the John Doe seriously, which other organisations had not.
Agree, though the only thing that gives me any comfort (and it is the same with google, gmail, facebook, etc) is that the amount of data they collect is nearly impossible to ex filtrate because of its sheer size.
He will likely not go to prison since this is an administrative affair. However, he'll likely get his cert pulled for at least a year.
"I don't believe I need absolute 100% control of all things going on in my computer"

Neither do I and probably also operating systems developers, but having control doesn't imply having constantly to fiddle with all internal hardware bits of a machine with no remaining time to do actual things (if you meant this I'm totally with you on this one). To me having control means preventing others to do things behind our backs, sort of a switch we use only once to turn off that crap, and keep under watch just to prevent others to use it.
Public information about ME and similar subsystems should help us to do that.
Reminds me of a question one interviewer asked me to do at the very beginning of the session when I did my first onsite at Google - write a regex for emails. I told him no, and explained why. He then asked me to write a naive email regex to catch a simple situation, which I subsequently did.
Your post is borderline trollish considering Luxembourg has a population of less than San Francisco. And the fractions are somewhat different with the US in much closer per GDP striking distance to the tiny city-state protectorate of Luxembourg versus the huge per capita gap between the USA and China.

Please try to post constructive comments. This is not Reddit.
> Unfortunately, there’s not an easy path to become an expert. One just has to dig in and learn from the ground up.

Indeed, there's no royal road to geometry!
> It's possible to get the equivalent of a bachelors and masters in math within two years (which is enough to overcome the issues listed in the post), but it's all you'll be doing for that period of time.

About that - I don't think OP (or their research group) can afford to hold off publishing and attending ML conferences for 2 whole years while brushing up on math.
I always worked in NH, which has no wage income tax, but if you live in Maine, you have to pay Maine income tax, whether or not that income was earned in Maine. At least that is how the accountants have explained it to me.
Since I am an external recruiter, I ask for payment on behalf of my candidates but I can imagine if you formulate it nicely that it might work out, too without having a recruiter representing you.

You can argue that you are interviewing with five companies and all have 4-8 hours coding task, you can't possibly do all of them and you will just do three maximum.
Anyone remember HTA? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692768.aspx

It seems oddly familiar, don't you think?

Thinks change so much!
Since a pence is 1/12 of a shilling, does the `d` stand for "dozenth"?
Considering the sprawl of sponsored content, maybe because it's cheaper/easier to just buy the author?
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Title says "how", not "why". ;)
In the distant past, when I was an undergraduate at Wits University in Johannesburg (around 1970), someone discovered APL and they posted a 1-line APL program that printed the multiplication matrix for all numbers from 1 to 10. This lead to a flurry of postings on the (real!) bulletin board, but the show-stopper was a very short program written in IBM Assembler language, using macros. The code was written by a brilliant physicist named Colin Marquard who also single-handedly re-wrote (in assembler!) the so-called time-sharing system that we used for our courses. (IBM selectric typewriters connected by a proprietary network to the 360). Colin later had to flee South Africa (see, for example, https://goo.gl/Hw3WWb) because of his anti-apartheid activities.
Awesome! I’ll take a look when I get back from my current travels.
Think you meant to say Javascript front-end world, and yes I'd agree then.

Yet many of it's patterns are rehashing of previous front end patterns - it's very similar to e.g. Winforms in a lot of ways.

Conflating Javascript front end to front end in general is just an example of the myopic short sighted focus of the overall Javascript community, that caused them to miss out on the pre-existing body of knowledge in other languages for as long as it did..
Where did I suggest that?

And you try to beat Cruz or Rubio (let alone “arrogant” Clinton and the entirety of mainstream press), and then come here and tell us if it’s a noteworthy accomplishment.
All those comments seem to be 4-6 years old
Iwan, another angle to diversify from other recruiters - orient (at least partially) on REMOTE.
OP here.

1) The candidate implicitly thought he should use it, because I liked his stuff during our technical interview. But then the interviewing engineer at the firm did not take time to look into my notes. So it's more an example of me pushing what I like instead of assessing what the firm likes / how much time they really have looking at profiles.
I have been wondering why that isn't done more often myself. I mean,it isn't like tv ads didn't work.
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My biggest question is why do people get worked up over this? They are clearly dumb, and I don't see what sort of personal gain they would get from this. It's not a story of heroism, it's a story of being relatively dumb and surviving by luck. There's not much here to celebrate, so whether or not they are lying, there's not much worse they could look. But the number of people who are getting worked up and feel like they should "expose" these people are much higher than I would have imagined.

The other thing is, every single one of the "problems" the post brings up could be easily explained by "They are idiots." There's no mystery that they already seem dumb, why is it such a mystery to the blogger that they were able to survive by simply being lucky and prepared? Their explanations are off because they're dumb and they don't know what they're talking about, but in that context, all their explanations make sense.
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My understanding is that Intel management engine can absolutely be disabled, and isn't enabled at all on some vendor computers, eg Apple.

So while ppc is interesting for certain applications, I think the sky-is-falling type message is kind of off putting here.
Am I right in understanding that Bubble is a GUI for building CRUD applications?

If so, great work! It shows there is a need for these simple, automated tools for building simple CRUD applications, and that it is possible for these to be built and automated.
But since everybody got both they didn't lose anything: they got some jstanleycoins too (unless you were lending dollars, then you may not get them both back). So the wealth/spending power didn't decrease, there was no inflation.
> Mass is Lorentz-invariant, energy is not.

That's not completely accurate. Chemical energy and binding energy are also Lorentz-invariant.

The only type of energy is not Lorentz-invariant is velocity energy, so you are putting your distinction in the wrong place.

On top of that, there are other violated invariants.

The weight of a lump of iron near a magnetar is greater than the weight of the same lump of iron near an identically massing neutron start.

This is because the potential energy of the iron is greater near the magnetic field, so its mass (as seem by the magnetar) is greater, and so is the gravitational attraction between them.

This means you can't just say "No velocity, the mass is identical", it's not - the extra potential energy means extra mass.

Or in other words there is no such thing as mass as distinguishable from energy.
I get the sentiment. But now the tools are available to more criminals. And that's hardly good, is it?
Try telling that to Johnny Ive.
My favorite is Texas with no income tax and a.)chronically underfunded public schools with the situation getting worse as tea party influence on state legislature increases over the years b.) maternity outcomes worse than almost every other country on earth.
I have lived in Shenzhen for many years, traveled to tons of cities in China, and recently am back to silicon valley. From what I can tell on the ground, China is going to be in decline for the next 10-20 years. (I have a good hunch most people that comment favorabily on China here, have never been)

- Myth: China is developed. Truth: Start in Shanghai Huangpu (very rich neighborhood, in a very rich city). Take a subway a few stops in any direction. When you come out, you are surrounded by dilapidated communist blocks and electric bikees. Take another ride a few more stops, you are surrounded in villages that are right out of middle ages (shoddy huts with shared toilets). This is the same for any of the rich city in China. 90% of people in China live in middle ages. 9.99999% of people live in 1950s. 0.00001% of people live very richly.

- Myth: Chinese citizens saves and are rich. Truth: most rich people have left China already. The remaining middle class ($1000/month, many of my Chinese friends) are able to buy into the massive inflated housing with savings from parents. The savings, borrowed money from relatives, credit card debts are now stuck in real estate. My friends all have (fake) gucci, LV, brand name products. They take out loans to afford conspicuous lifestyle. These things are all for show. Some of them are paying all of their salaries into the mortgage payment every month!

- Myth: Chinese economy is doing fine. Truth: Many of my banker friends (expats and locals) know that it's all propped up by debts that will collapse any day now. There's a massive inflation happening everywhere, from food to housing to foreign products. It's harder to harder to get money out of China (I'm helping some with bitcoins). Most of them aren't optimistic.

- Myth: China is leading in green-tech, research, innovation, etc. Truth: tons of copy, chabuduo (good enough), cheating in classes and in business, pollution in Shanghai and Shenzhen is still cancer causing, most smart people want to go abroad.
It'd be fun to do a long-time study to see if working at highly competitive places like Amazon increases mortality rates among employees.
No, there's plenty to gain from this, fame and fortune. This is the kind of story that leads to TV shows, book deals, movie deals. etc. Plus, of course, the obligatory GoFundMe.

The other thing is using The US Navy in this way could be criminal.
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There are already platforms that have the info and could probably roll this out with minimal effort. Etsy, squarespace, Shopify, etc all know what you are selling and where you are located. They just need to enable a search by local.
Really excited to see this - my field is moving more towards a causal inference framework, but there's a pretty desperate need for easy-to-use implementations of various g-computation approaches not written in SAS.
The following of course is a comment on the quote not on your comment, but no Kochen Specker is not a generalization of EPR to 3 particles. It's easy to come up with a generalization of EPR in 3 particles - just exhibit a 3-party entangled state! (e.g GHZ state). K-S theorem exhibits something a lot more subtle than entanglement known as contextuality. There are examples of systems which have the K-S property but doesn't have any entanglement.
The SUSE distros are patching Firefox to use QT dialogs for everything, but kept the GTK core loop.
The biggest indictment of the NSA is the fact that there has been no visible internal dissent after Snowden regarding mass surveillance.

Their willingness to overlook the constitution because it's inconvenient is a far bigger problem than leaks, IMO.
we do that aswell, but we are in germany and there an interview is still standard.
Shouldn't the title say "learn" instead of "lean"?
There's a difference between random and uniformly distributed.
> A process on a single machine somewhere has to get enough of the indexes and data into memory to answer questions about it.

This common challenge is perhaps magnified in systems that have deep storage indexes. For example, the link you posted seems to suggest that queries in Datomic may have cache misses that require pointer chasing down into storage, adding latency. Depending on where that latency cost is eaten, it could have a lot of side effects (e.g. long running query vs reducing transaction throughput).

This problem is likely exacerbated in the key-value store running on zlog because the red-black tree can become quite tall. Aggressive, optimistic caching on the db nodes, and server-side pointer chasing helps. It's definitely an issue.

I don't know anything about Datomic internals, so disclaimer, I'm only speculating about why Datomic doesn't have low cost clones: which is that the underlying storage solution isn't inherently copy-on-write. That is, Datomic emulates this so when a clone is made there isn't an easy metadata change that creates the logical clone.

Despite the lack of features etc in the kv-store running on zlog, database snapshots and clones are both the same cost of updating the root pointer of the tree.
Most places will stop contacting you if you tell them to.
There was never "easy stuff". Thinking of "developed" versus "non-developed" nations is setting up "developed" nations as a place of stagnation and no improvements. That maybe have happened in the hippy controlled west since the 1970's, but their generation is on the wain. Tech progress outside of computing is making a comeback. I think some people are now trying, with a lot of hard work, to get the tech of atoms improving again. Elon Musk being the most high profile example.