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I think I've been rejected for all 3 reasons:

1. Docusign, for not using Coffeescript, Angular, and Stylus (3 technologies I had never previously used) to solve their very long take-home test. I apparently provided a great solution, but they were concerned that I didn't follow those rules specifically. No, I'm not going to spend hours getting up to speed on your framework just for an interview, nor am I going to submit sub-standard solutions to to conform to your arbitrary restriction of using the framework du-jour.

2. Google, for not being able to, "prove a random number is truly random," during my onsite interview panel. The guy offered no hints when I wasn't sure where to start, he simply continued to repeat the question, a bit slower each time.

3. A local Seattle startup, who required 3 onsites: A technical, a culture, and then a full-day of "integration" (working on real problems with the team). I apparently passed the first 2, but was not invited to the 3rd. Turns out the HR director that was working with me quit before scheduling the 3rd. I never found out until after I had already accepted another position.
Why come up with an elaborate story that would garner maximal attention if they were smuggling? If they'd already tossed the goods than they could just tell the CG they were recreational sailors. No need for a headline grabbing tale of survival.

Plus they really seem to have been at sea for six-months. If you're smuggling I assume you want to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible and get rid of the goods, not drift around the Pacific with the contraband.
> "So I think we both disagree with the commenter's assertion that everything other than military spending is subpar by the measure their own example suggests."

I don't disagree with GP, but I don't live in the US, so all I have to go on is what I'm told in the media, which I'm aware is open to manipulation. However, what I can say, based on the statistics available, which have been backed up by official sources, is that military spending seems much too high, which is a sign that the US government does not seem to have its priorities in line with what the people want (on the assumption that most of the US population is anti-war). With that in mind, the services you receive for your tax dollars can be seen as subpar as your government is spending a high proportion of the money you gave them in taxes on services that you neither benefit from nor desire.

For what it's worth, I'm from the UK and the priorities of the current UK government is far from aligned with the general public (cuts to the health, cuts to education, tax breaks for corporations that are already engaging in massive tax avoidance, etc...) as well as government programs being hugely wasteful (this was an older example, but it does make me wonder how things managed to get this bad before it was stopped https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-... ). I just wanted to make it clear that I wasn't just criticising the US government, any country that has big issues surrounding wasting tax payer money is providing subpar services. There should be a way of making governments more accountable for their fiscal decisions, but I don't know how to best implement that. Suggestions welcome!
Giving up the bread and keeping the butter would be the more healthy choice.
You can do it pretty easily in the terminal using Python too, I don't really know what they needed pygame for.
H1B data is official and updated - including this year. But for Bay Area, yes, 250K sounds realistic. I can't imagine someone wanted to move there for less.

> I know the salary ranges at nearly all major valley companies

Can you comment on Netflix? They say that they significantly outbid Google or FB... So e.g. 500-600K is the norm there?
Writing Japan off is another favorite pastime, I notice. What most impresses me about Japan is their ability to weather the doldrums of their current economy, and still have a higher quality of life than Americans do. How well do you think America will fare under similar economic conditions? (You can probably guess what I think.)
As always, thanks for the very thorough write up. My immediate thoughts were highlighted in the "Discussion" section. Namely, the demographic of your website might respond more negatively to the presence of ads than the general population. This seems to be substantiated by the unusually high use of ad blockers (~60% vs ~18% [1]).

I also wonder if some of the drop off could be explained by the use of Patreon and ads. For instance, I would never pay for Hulu because they still show ads. Did you receive any Patreon cancellations or negative feedback from pledged users?

[1] US ad block usage as of Feb 2017 https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/adblockreport/
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https://www.orau.org/ptp/articlesstories/invisiblelight.htm
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> We argue that many popular "quantum paradoxes" stem from a confusion between mathematical formalism and physics [...] most "conceptual puzzles" of QM are not much different from the well-known paradoxes from probability theory

This is really really true. Particularly for any experiment with "delayed choice" in the name, where pop-science explanations follow correlations backwards instead of forwards then confuse correlation for causation and start talking about time travel (sigh).
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I've probably had more problems trying to work with bosses who were couldn't make decisions at all and avoided all confrontation and let the project slip to the level of the lower common denominator. By any reasonable definition, Linus Torvalds is a "tyrant", and the resulting quality of linux speaks for itself.

All successful projects of sufficient size probably need a tyrant at the top someplace who can and will make final decisions and enforce them, otherwise everything falls apart in conflicting requirements and bike-shedding.

Ahh, you might reply, but these are "toxic" tyrants, a phrase this article never bothers to define, allowing everyone to just project their own vision of a bad boss onto it.
> "If you don't care too much about cost"

Just to be clear, if you're already running Windows, RDP is free.
Nice initiative! I would like to see some systems programming challenges in the future. Hopefully, one day the software development industry will be cured of the mass psychosis brought about by coding puzzles. And you have taken the first step in that direction. But you need to promote this site like crazy. This should be on the front page of Hacker News. Good luck with this endeavor.
I don't know how much research has been done on the subject,but personally I don't mind ads in general,I mind ads that target (stalk) me and intrusive ads.

I can tolerate ads that target the page content or random ads just fine.
When I left school, I found myself in a similar boat, and decided to set a goal of getting myself the knowledge equivalent of an undergrad degree in math. I already had a physics degree under my belt, so it wasn't as long of a path as it might be for others, but over a bunch of years of self study it paid off. When it comes to your career a few years is nothing. The strong foundation pays regular dividends because learning things that use it comes so much more quickly.

It's a huge, slow, painful investment, but totally doable and with tremendous ROI if you want to work with stats/ML/optimmization/really any numerical computing for a living.

The reason I recommend this route is that most of the more advanced math books you will encounter will assume this stuff as the readers' common knowledge. Having that foundation, the majority of the literature is already tailored to you!
Don't worry about the downvotes. Freedom of speech is a pillar of American society, until you express doubt about their unassailable exceptionalism, at which point the censure is relentless.
NSA is also responsible for establishing computer security practices for the rest of the government to follow. That they don't eat their own dogfood is damning.
The upgrade today to BCH is addressing this.
Do you mind sharing what it is?
Thanks. So maybe it is saying that the field overlap with capsules is implicit in network, not a step in the calculation? That's my conclusion.
Sure but there is no threat of centralization of bitcoin itself.
Yes, you are mistaken in thinking that.

I think you're confusing responsibility with micromanagement though. If you delegate a task, you don't have to be aware of the specifics of how that task is executed, but if it's executed badly, yes it is still your responsibility.
The only thing this tells me is that you did not read the text surrounding those mentions.

They all portray him in a rather neutral light, except perhaps the "again on Saturday disputed his intelligence agencies’ findings on Russia and the election". You can hardly criticize that though.

You could even argue that the last mention paints him in a somewhat positive light,

>The Trump administration says it will soon announce revisions to the system, making it more transparent.
What if the Japanese don’t want to move forward and are happy to live out the remainder of their lifespans as is?

Progress without purpose is not progress. GDP over quality of life is like measuring your success of curing HIV in a human using bleach. You’ve succeeded, but for what?
I used to roll my eyes every time I saw someone on HN talk about "signal to noise ratio," but I'm getting more and more swayed. Humans deal in abstractions: more clean an abstraction is, the more we can hold onto it.

So when I read a ~10% difference in traffic, I'm not surprised. Art, in absolutely any form, is always about focusing on your theme. And ads, by their very nature, blur that focus.
Patreon-wise, I had ads long predating Patreon, so presumably anyone signing up was already OK with that? I don't remember anyone ever complaining about both ads & Patreon, unless there's a complaint form on Patreon.com I haven't been checking. (Looking at the signup numbers, it goes from $619 for August to $645 for September/October, which at least is in the predicted direction, but too few datapoints to tell since the usual trend is upwards.)
Pretty common to use that terminology in the sciences and government work for small "kernels" of code that does one thing really well.

EX: Water simulation codes, cryptographic codes, FEM codes, etc.
What if you really like your job? What if you have invested years in building your product and want to keep working on it? What if you have lots of stock options that are vesting in the coming years?

There are lots of reasons why people would want to stay at a job.

Also, you are going to run into assholes in all walks of life. Learning to deal with them gives you options and puts you in control. If you lack that ability then your only option is to walk away.
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This was covered in a recent kaspersky paper[1], which I found in [2], where it is termed "fourth-party collection". The pdf gives a more complete description on page 2 (I found the increasing level of separation between collector and reciever to be almost comical)

[1] https://cdn.securelist.com/files/2017/10/Guerrero-Saade-Raiu...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663985
> The guy offered no hints when I wasn't sure where to start, he simply continued to repeat the question, a bit slower each time

I hear the same approach works really well when trying to talk to someone that doesn't understand english
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook has a chapter on silver that’s a good start. The whole book is well worth reading for anyone interested in early modern globalization.
I think this entire exercise is conversational bullshit because there is no metric for 'winning'. Quality of life is relative. People prefer different things, that's why those who are able, relocate to somewhere that suits their preferences. Japan benefits greatly from being an island, not having to worry about their national security for decades and a tight immigration policy.
I know there is fraud going on, but I see it as a (unintended) consequence of the general increase in production. I also know the scientific literature and there is a huge production of real papers from Chinese authors, so yes, this is just another way to badmouth the changes that are happening in China.
Wow, that sounds so bad there are multiple compounding problems in that environment.
My brother in law spent 10 years in China doing business and went from "China will rule the world" to "China is Enron." I suspect the truth is between these extremes.

China's formula has been GDP at all costs. It's an experiment in Keynesianism on meth. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. One visible result is some of the worst regional environmental destruction in human history, which could be considered a form of debt.
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>Google, for not being able to, "prove a random number is truly random,"

I really hope they just wanted you to argue that the task is impossible.
> I don't see people gawking at MIT's admission standards. MIT turns down ridiculously talented and accomplished students all the time.

Well, MIT or any other university has a limited number of free seats which is not true for Google I believe - I don't think they have a problem with the desk space for engineers, also considering their open space hell, or at least the desk space (limit) is not the reason of not hiring someone, I hope :)
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Now try being not an ex-googler, or not so great on the spot. Have been a great Python developer for years but personally have given up on jobs that require “tech” interviews.
Would you agree that if there was a unit for 299,792,458 meters called 'q' then the "speed of light" could be expressed as 1 q/s? Then e = m*c^2 is e = m x 1 or e = m (but the units of q^2/s^2 are still there, just the arithmetic is simplified)
I like the bit about how Pop would do everything himself. I think it's a huge skill just to realize how approachable things are. Especially with the increasing potentiality that the digital era gives us, it's important to have big ideas and go for them in smart & pragmatic ways.
The three onsite days were paid I hope? If a coding task takes longer than four hours I ask companies to pay for it.
Interviewer didn’t have context, says in the article.
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Consultants and conferences are a warning sign ..
The paper is way more nuanced than the abstract suggests. There are huge numbers of papers on the arXiv which try to say, "quantum mechanics is normal and boring, these fools are trying to dress it up as something special because they don't understand probabilities". This paper is more interesting. Here's a quote:

> In fact, QM is so weird and surprising that even the very esoteric interpretations, such
as the many universes one, can not capture the subtlety normally associated with quantum
paradoxes. For example, theorems such as the Kochen-Specter theorem [23] (essentially,
a generalization of EPR with three particles) imply that during its quantum evolution no
”classical” variables can fully describe the probabilities of a quantum system.
> Furthermore, the data presented in the paper clearly indicate that countries like China are bridging the gap with respect to how impactful their work is (see Fig. 2 in the report), on top of bridging the gap with respect to the total volume (see Table 1 in the report).
Yes, it is, in an economy where exports are a huge part of the economy. Fall behind and you're competing with Bangadesh for the T-shirt business.
The "tech interviews" are way too often more about stroking their own egos than to understand how the candidate works.
I get where you're going with this, and think it's a great question. But I don't think it's as plausible as you do.

It's possible that a massive musical AI/idiot savant could eventually produce an infinite amount of pleasant background music sans lyrics. But for music people are actually listening to, I don't think we're anywhere close.

But even if you're right, it won't matter. When Prince and David Bowie died, people weren't primarily upset because there would be no new songs in a particular style. It was because they'd formed a deep emotional connection to the artist. To the artist's personality as expressed both through their music and through their presence in the world. As another example, hip hop and Latin music are valuable to me not just for the sounds, but for the window into cultures that I didn't grow up in. I don't just enjoy the tune.

What you're really talking about is not just AlphaSong, but something close to solving the Strong AI problem so well that you can create totally believable synthetic characters. At best you situate a synthetic mind in a real culture, which I think would end up like Vanilla Ice: extractive and disconnected from the tradition. Or do you make a bunch of synthetic minds generate their own synthetic culture? It would be interesting, but I'm not sure it would displace much.

Even if you're entirely right, though, that AlphaGo produced superhumanly good synthetic music, I suspect it won't matter much. Long ago the technology of photography produced superhumanly good synthetic image reproductions. Human art mostly turned away from strict representation, and human artists seized on photography and turned it into an art form in its own right. Synthetic instruments allow anybody to simulate a arbitrary number musicians, but people still go to the orchestra and still see live bands. We could eat take-out or go only to restaurants, but people still have dinner parties and enjoy cooking together. People are social animals.
Nice. I thought the heat/work thing was an interesting angle on it and I'm glad it worked.

Edit: I also want to say that I didn't find the comment I replied to rude in any way. It's direct and straightforward, but that's pretty common around here.
> What do you think the mechanism is on the connection between ads and pageviews?

The mechanism that makes the most sense to me is via influence in social media resharing. This requires affecting only a few people (power users/the '1%') but can plausibly deliver the necessary effect size. The logical next step in the analysis would be to go back into Google Analytics and pull out another set of time-series and try to split between search engine, direct, and referrals; the decrease should be concentrated as search engine < direct < referrals. I'm not looking forward to figuring out how to code that up as a time-series model, though...

> Or the mechanism for the autocorrelation of pageviews?

Well, some of the mechanisms there are obvious just from the referring URLs. Many people don't read HN via the front page, they use a third-party interface or a daily newsletter; so while OP is getting substantial traffic today, it'll also get traffic tomorrow from people catching up with today's 'best of HN' etc. And from HN it gets auto-posted to Twiter, and of course many people will only see the tweets later when they log into Twitter the next morning or evening. Then you have timezones - perhaps someone is asleep now even if they do read the HN frontpage directly. It might get included in blogger link roundups or sites like The Browser weeks or months from now - more autocorrelation. What about search engines? They'll notice, and will update. No one has mentioned any comparable experiments so right now my A/B test appears to be _sui generis_, so people debating the costs and benefits of advertising might link it over the next few months. And so on. Lots of possible ways.
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The block diagram seems to be missing one or two things, too. How does the SoC query the battery charge, for example? Or is this accomplished as a push-based API from the System PSU (the only power-related component connected directly to the SoC)?
But if Bitcoin is competing with another crypto such as Bitcoin Cash when buying the pizza... why not just buy it for next to no fee with Bitcoin Cash? Doesn't matter who the target is - its a no brainer. People don't want to spend extra money.
Oh yea definitely, lot of whole empty stack apartment complexes. Those are freaky to be near, especially the ones where you suspect the builder ran out of money or failed some kind of inspection and the stuff is only like 95% done and already decaying.

Just not whole empty cities...
Imagine if it was a race. Say, a matter of national security, national pride, etc.

India vs China vs Japan vs the United States vs ...

Trillions of dollars invested into research.
This is not true. There are quite a number of reasons to be found in the article. They are just not listed for you using bullet points.

E.g.:
Focus on investigative journalism - << After publishing the Panama Papers, in 2016, Krach declared Der Spiegel’s monopoly on investigative journalism in Germany over. Part of this push, he said, arose from the need to secure the future of the paper. “The only strategy to survive in the long run in this very complicated and economically difficult environment is that we have to differentiate ourselves from others, so that people can find in our newspaper something they cannot find anywhere else,” Krach said.>>
And then further arguments: Success with the Panama papers, etc. etc.
If that's the argument it's fallacious. China and USA is not an apples to apples comparison. China would need the kind of explosive growth we have seen just to get everyone a refrigerator, while the USA is struggling with the "what now?" question of advanced nations. All the easy stuff is behind us and there is nobody for us to just copy.
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My abusive boss was my CEO, who I reported to directly.

I attempted to deal with the abuse directly, after appeasing for a while. I just couldn't feel good being treated the way I was - CEO was passive-aggressive to the extreme and treats every other than herself like they're idiots.

Anyway, two days after politely and diplomatically attempting to stand up for myself, I was fired.
I don't know of systematic research on this but it's consistent with what I've seen in the fields I've worked in (linguistics, psychology, geochemistry). The AlphaGo paper was special because it's a super-hot high-profile topic and the journals don't want to get scooped (remember Nature is in competition with Science, PNAS, etc. for eyeballs). However exciting a conclusion may be for psycholinguistics, it won't get fast-tracked in the same way.
Yeah but engineers usually don't, and that is why I try to "teach" them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6PTaTDHUG4&feature=youtu.be...

"if no one follows up, it does not mean no"
I think that is literally survivorship bias.
When I was roaming the halls of UC Berkeley 25 years ago, the use of countable "codes" was idiomatic in the numerical computing sphere at the intersection of computer science, mathematics, and parallel computing. A code was more or less a program or application. A frequently linked idiom was "kernel" to refer to the inner-loop of a particular numerical simulation, generalizing a "filter kernel" (matrix of coefficients) in signal processing/convolution.

I have heard similar usage from academics working in various US national labs, so it was not confined to a single coffee klatch. Some of the professors and postdocs using it back then are probably lab directors and program managers by now. I can easily imagine that this usage would be widespread among academic and federal lab computing environments. Like many kinds of jargon, it is both more precise in its meaning when used properly, but also what you might consider a "dog whistle" used for virtue signaling.
That depends on lots of factors

However what you see after five and ten and more years is often very different than in the early years ..
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Completely useless on a mobile device.