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The typical developer interview {random ramblings. Waste of time if you read it}
Exchange between Candidate and Interviewer:

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Interviewer[thinks: I have to test how his thought process is, we need people who are detail oriented].

Interviewer to Candidate: Tell me how does one go from point A to point B in a City.

Candidate : you look up google maps and key in point A and point B and you fetch the result. You then take a print out and you follow the route according to the map.

Interviewer: You forgot to mention that you have to key in maps.google.com in your browser window. [ has already begun thinking that the candidate cannot think through].

Candidate: Ah, I forgot mention that step, I thought it was obvious [Interviewer has already decided to pass on this candidate, he now decides to go though rest of this canned questions to the 'access' the Candidate. The Candidate tries futilely to answer the interviewer's questions which never really seem adequate to the interviewer.]

Take away:
Well, developer shortage? Well it's more like the fact that developers have not intellectually matured to a point where they do not realize that someone who is as capable as them or more, can express a thought in way that is different and may sound deficient compared to their own way of articulation.
I'm trying to look for the inequivalence you pointed at. The two definitions written are-

1.A prime number is a natural number that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself.

2. A prime number is a number that has exactly two factors - 1 and itself.

Both statements clearly seem to be accounting for 1. Am I missing something here?
There are projects that are close to bugfree, though. You can use a 3 year old version of sqlite without any difficulty. I don't know what version of "ls" or "mkdir" my machine runs, but I never worry about these simple utilities being out of date or behaving differently in release/staging. These utilities are essentially done, and 30 years from now they'll still work fine.

There is no software without bugs in the same sense that there exists no hardware that cannot fail. But you can create software that is so close to perfect that hardware failures outnumber software failures 100:1, so there is no point in pursuing perfection any further.
It is not only about connectivity. The smarter city becomes, the more question of privacy arise. While it shouldn't be a stopper for further digitalization, cross-integration and overall efficiency tuning, putting it in the recipe should be done right now. I like the solution by Hannu Rajaniemi in his masterpiece Quantum Thief: every citizen in City of Mars had a complex "gevulot" (a complex set of a keychains, like in PKI), where he can decides what to share, with whom and for what time. There were news from Canada about designing similar system for national ID and other important documents. But the part of online-selection every time what to share is important in my opinion. We'll see what future will make of that.
Taking away personal freedoms isn’t ever going to be a selling feature of any country. I can think of some good things about Germany, but I wouldn’t be so quick to tout that as one of them.
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I never, ever work for sweat equity but what I've started doing for "idea people" is offering unlimited free consulting that doesn't include coding.

In these engagements, I'll do everything but code; requirements gathering, research, design documents, etc. And there's no obligation to work with me later.

This gives them a sounding board for their idea and removes the pressure, which makes it more enjoyable for both of us. It also lets me see what kind of owner they are.

I believe when people ask for you to work for "sweat equity," this is really what they need. They aren't ready to spend money but still want to know if their idea can work. It's better not to start coding on projects like that until someone is ready to drop some coin.
Only way of fixing most of the third-world countries is within Western countries. You don't understand how "problems" work in the third-world, the real problems can't be fixed on-the-ground, most attempts only end up enriching the bloodthirsty puppets of yours and establishing their domain of power even further into the roots of these animal farms.

Also, individuals, including me, never signed up to fight unwinnable fight against your tyranny when we were born, so give me a fucking break.
I guess that makes the comparison the GP post made even more interesting
> Maker of artisinal, small-batch simulation models for the discerning infectious disease consumer.

Could you talk more about what that entails? That sounds fascinating as hell.
Very true. It's interesting to think of what you describe as a side-effect of the design decision (by Satoshi) to "bootstrap" the currency by strongly incentivizing speculative mining.
OK so I was on my phone trying to hastily type out a comment and I got sloppy. I think the intent was still abundantly clear, even though the loss of precision in my choice of words is unfortunate.
I meant to add 'perceived' on value, and the 'scarcity' aspect can play in to the perception of value too.
They get paid a housing allowance, but their base salary isn't higher. The single soldiers live in a dorm that they aren't charged for.

Granted, the dorm isn't great, but it's not a straight salary difference.
That's what they used in the end, but what led them to have these things?
A founder's salary should strike a balance between maximising their ability to work on their startup and minimising the startup's burn rate. Distractions like spending time finding somewhere cheaper to live, trying to decide whether you can afford something, or having arguments about money with a spouse reduce the likelihood of the startup succeeding so the founder needs enough for those problems to just go away. That means paying yourself enough for them not to be an issue any more. Equally though, paying yourself so much that the startup's capital will only last 6 months is stupid if you're a year from getting to market. You have to be sensible.

What you could earn elsewhere, what you earn compared to your co-founders, etc are just unnecessary distractions. The startup and the future value you're building are the only things that matter at this early stage.
Related to that, here's an observation about English vs. German writing:

English has a huge vocabulary, so educated authors show their mettle by using "big words": the one word from amongst all the approximately 600,000 English words that precisely fits the meaning they seek. (If it has Latin or French roots, so much the better...)

The German vocabulary is estimated at about half of its English counterpart. However, the grammar is quite a bit more complex. So if a German author wants to show off his learning, he does so by utilising the whole spectrum of grammatical constructs to find just the right inflection for what he wants to say. He proves his mastery not primarily by the wealth of his vocabulary, but by his command of the syntax.

(OK, that last sentence was probably superfluous. But it was too fun to exclude ;-) )
Here's a counter to the tax cut trickle down theory.

Suppose we make corporate taxes 0%. What would corporations do? Simple, they would hoard profits, saving them for whatever need they might have in the future.

Suppose we make corporate taxes 100%. What would happen? Corporations would spend their profits down to zero so they don't just lose the money.

Want investment? Want trickle down? Make the corporate tax rate higher, not lower.

Source: was CEO of a profitable company for almost 2 decades. Learned that hoarding was expensive, you get double taxed, once at corporate and then again at personal IF you retain earnings. Even at 35% that hurt so we spent our profits down to zero each year, invested and handed out bonuses. There is the trickle down and it happens because of corporate taxes.
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>They require some form of collective action and solidarity

This is perhaps easier with Germany's population of ~60M vs. the US population of ~300M. I'm much more comfortable with something like this happening at the state level because, for example, I have almost nothing in common with the people of Alabama.
Probably not...getting any business off the ground usually requires a god awful amount of work at the outset. That's the trade off.
I'm American. I don't give a shit for your PR articles. We make things and we're gonna MAGA brothers and sisters!
In most of Europe, Germany has been seen as a solid, hard working nation for many years. If I had to use one word: efficiency above all.

But recently, with Merkel's immigration policy (or ineptness?), the country is being overrun with North Africa immigrants, who are a drag on rich social care system, taking a lot out while not contributing their equal share back to it.

(Eastern Europe calls this process cultural enrichment, which is a clear sarcasm.)

I'm wondering about contrast between "best international image" and the perceived reality. Good marketing comes to mind.
Snubs was straight up groped by a stranger at a con. She told the organizers immediately and they still invited him back the next year. https://youtube.com/watch?v=oxLENeCf3OA Recently Hak5 has decided not to sponsor events that don't have a Code of Conduct anymore, which is potentially losing them a bunch of money but it could also save people a lot of trouble. https://mobile.twitter.com/snubs/status/916477812646612993
Seems too early. My laptop wouldn’t reboot until I unplugged my external miniDP monitor.
Binaries (without external runtime dependencies) generally don't just "stop working" like that unless you change something significant about your system.
I think you should read a bit further: "The Nation Brands Index (NBI) survey, carried out by German-based market research firm GfK and the British political consultant Simon Anholt [...]". It's not just a German company polling people.
Why is there a need to scrub resumes if they're doing all the interviews/whiteboards/etc?

Also, you mention an office of 45% women and 40% minority. Is the split the same for your technical team?
Having kids or not is a personal decision

Could extend that thinking to living in the middle of an ultra-expensive locale like SF or London and take that multiplier away too ;-)

I do kinda agree, though. If one founder needs more salary, they should pay for it with (slightly) less equity IMHO.
Is the amount of chemistry, then, or length of signal transmission, the measure of consciousness?

What is the implication for the conscious experience of the camera?
searx protects your privacy much better.
Isn't the founder salary something that only the founder and those who bought a board seat should care about? If I'm an investor and the founder wants a 40% premium over what the algorithm recommends, I may or may not agree, but surely the founder's judgment on that one issue is not an outlier from other good or bad judgement he or she may have.

I'd actually be more worried about minor graft like the founder hiring a family member to provide catering or the founder taking bonuses when most employees are not paid bonuses.
I don't want to get sidetracked into our subjective impressions of Stockholm, but for the record, I live and work in the center of the town, and my preferred means of getting around would ideally be cycling and walking - neither of which are directly encouraged by the fact that during the 1960s to the 1980s large areas of the center were demolished and replaced by an extensive network of motorways and wide feeder roads directly into the city center. If you take a look at the google maps link [1] you can see the central train station over the horizon of multi-lane motorways, and looking around the panorama you should be able to get an impression of the massive network built for cars around the entire central area.

These roads don't connect the 'bunch of islands' (which are all linked by quite short bridges) they were intended to transport people living in the suburbs to their jobs in an otherwise uninhabited town, and back again in the evening, travelling by car. Trying to cross this network from the city-center to the neighboring island (Kungsholmen) involves the sort of dystopian walk I described above. Naturally there are other ways to get from one island to the other that circumvent this mammoth road network.

The center of Stockholm was viewed as unmodern and slum-like in the 1960s, and the planners at that time intended to completely remove all of the buildings and streets that you refer to: they were prevented from totally razing the Old Town (Gamla Stan) by local activists and protests, but large areas of the City were demolished and replaced by faceless office-space, with no entrances, shops, cafés or any features that would encourage people to do anything than walk or drive past as fast as possible on their way elsewhere.

These streets [2] have only begun to be 'humanized' in recent years, now that planners have seen the error of attempting to empty the city-center of all people before and after work hours - and now the process of establishing restaurants, hotels, cafés, shops and other lively street activities is really in full swing, with construction across almost all the streets listed in the note below.

But the attitude that car-traffic comes first is hard to shake for a generation of planners brought up with the feeling that masses of cars is a sign of a 'big city' and of 'city pulse' (stadspuls), so cycle lanes are generally rubbish [3] and pedestrians' needs are generally subsumed under the requirement to keep car-traffic moving (framkomlighet). Although much lip-service is now paid to cycling and walking in towns, very little is done outside of the tourist-visible areas in the center.

[1] https://goo.gl/4sWntM
[2] For example: Vattugatan, Malmskillnadsgatan, Herkulesgatan, Mäster Samuelsgatan
[3] https://goo.gl/JfWRtU
This is why you should eat your own dogfood, right?
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It's a (somewhat controversial) book.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
I still don’t think that really avoids the issue of devices losing functionality if the company folds. If an IoT company goes OOB, you also lose things like security updates, tech support etc. I would give an ‘orphaned’ IoT product a year tops before it was no longer safe to have on your network.

I think consumers need to understand that when they buy a connected device, they are also buying a license to the software that powers it. That license is generally not perpetual unless specified.
It's not a fixed mapping. It's more like a function that produces a mapping. It depends on the selection of:

- A pitch standard, like A440, which anchors one arbitrarily chosen note to a specific frequency.

- A tuning system, which defines the frequency ratios between notes.

Almost all modern music assumes _A440_ and _12-tone equal temperament_. In 12TET, adjacent flats and sharps map to the same frequency. It's said that they are _enharmonic_. But there are many other systems where this isn't true. In _just intonation_, notes are defined by simple frequency ratios, and there is no enharmonicity at all. Every number of sharps and flats map to different frequencies.
Also, there is alot if interesting info regarding the 2 companies tech. stacks, deployment processes, and cultures.
~80M† actually

† source? The CIA :) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Agreed. The line of thought probably ends up being an argument to have tax cuts for parents
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The example has sine of a vector in it. I haven't had coffee yet today but I've never heard of being able to compute sine of a vector. What does this mean? Defining it by its Taylor series doesn't work like it does for square matrices because vectors can't be multiplied, and if you assume the direct product is what's meant then each term in the Taylor series is a different sized matrix and can't be added. Surely it doesn't mean elementwise sine?
Diversity is Americas’ greatest strength and also its greatest weakness.
An analysis of the one model that predicts Brexit income gains
The new normal sucks.
This article complains that clicking a button that says "install" starts installing.
Primes have always fascinated me despite not being a mathematician. Counting numbers are regular yet the pattern of primes seems not to be (although there is a way of plotting them that makes pretty spiral like structures).
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You should come. Texas has very wonderful German areas where you could feel at home during transition or you wanted.
either that or it was snorted from Amber Heards tits
State populations are not monoliths. I live in exurban Atlanta. I have more in common with someone in Atlanta than with my neighbors. There are people who want Atlanta to break off from the rest of the state, and people further downriver who don't appreciate that Metro Atlanta has so much control over their water supply.

There's no amount of division that can neatly contain a group's interests. Gerrymandered maps are an extreme example. 60m vs 300m is no more meaningful a distinction than 500k (Atlanta) vs 6m (Atlanta MSA).
> He told her that her comment had violated our policy, but that he understood that there was a broader context

Ah... so the rules don't matter, because excuses.

Look, if Sargon and his ilk did something, fine, punish them. But so far, the only response to my request for evidence is insults.

And side-stepping the topic.

> a broader context (which to be clear, we were blissfully ignorant of until this weekend, and remain inexpert in.)

Which means that they didn't talk to the victim in this case (Sargon). Only the abuser (Anita). Sargon said as much on Joe Rogan's podcast.

i.e. accusation of guilt is assumption of guilt. Evidence be damned.

> which resulted in her being subjected to a hostile environment that she had not signed up for.

People who showed up and did nothing and said nothing to her. OMFG, crucify them.

Look this whole victim complex is appealing. But did any of it happen?

According to everyone in this thread? Nope.

> it boils down to trusting those responsible for rule interpretation and enforcement.

Nope. If they show they're biased, I don't trust them as far as a shit-flinging monkey can throw poo.
Its downplayed but the Tr7mp election which was possible even likely once he got the nomination, was the complete implosion of the Republican party and inability of any republican candidate except Trump to remotely connect to the needs of the people.

Two issues particularly, immigration which yes plays to darker impulses, but also represents law and order to the average conservative. And free trade, endlessly flogged by so called conservatives and was increasingly exposed as more shilling for powerful interests and more benefit to them than the average american.

Even though they lost the election Dems had their shit together much more compared to Republicans, and as much as we say we want disruption in presideantial politics, we see what happens when one half of the system goes completely limp.
It is a notice that they removed this item from the main page of HN.

I do not get why it got removed. It is about a case of online harassment with all the details there. It is probably the first case that was scrutinised so much.

Re: HN, there are all sort of opportunities for startup ideas to protect when a person is being harassed.
> I guess other than finding a way to make space heaters that generate money. That's pretty cool.

That's the fundamental flaw in the blockchain, IMHO. The amount of resources in terms of computing and electricity you need to verify transactions at scale is ridiculous. Nobody's going to bother with that unless there's a serious payoff involved.

I find it helps to mentally replace the word 'blockchain' with 'triple entry accounting.' You don't expect much groundbreaking tech work to come from something like triple entry accounting.
So I know you're a German, but I think what I'm going to say here applies more broadly and you inadvertently brought it up. I don't mean what I'm about to say to be aimed so directly toward you and it isn't a personal attack.

When things are bad like they are now, we need people to stand up and do work to try and fix it instead of giving up. Instead of moving back to Germany, try and fix things here. If all the good people give up and leave, we have nothing but the bad left.
It's amazing how little VC's value early stage founders. It's an accepted fact that hiring a competent CEO is going to cost you well into 6 figures and up. Because their experiences and track records are rare. If we all know having a good CEO is well worth that kind of money, then why don't we apply the same logic when allocating capital for paying the founder(s)? It's a hard job, fraught with literal peril. Founders often face personal financial ruin if the venture fails. Founders are literally pulling on a yarn to iterate on and articulate very broad visions. They are faced with critical decisions that will affect many people's lives every day under incredibly stressful conditions. If there's $1,000,000+ in the bank, it's a disgrace to pay a founder what amounts to Jr. level rates anywhere else.
As I’ve said several times, you can easily view the unexecuted pdf ‘deed’ for verification purposes if it is hosted on ipfs and referenced in the contract. You can also validate the contract code itself to confirm that the executed pdf that would be delivered in default will match the unexecuted pdf. Finally, you can be confident that if the contract code is changed in the future, you will know.

As I understand, your objection is that current systems are OK, therefore we should not discuss blockchain-based solutions. You’re right, I do not understand that objection.
How long ago did you move from Berlin?
If in (2) “itself” is 1 then you are listing the same thing twice—that shouldn’t count as two factors.
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Sometimes I think that the Hacker News crowd overlooks how terribly fussy tech can be. For those with technical literacy, spare time, and a genuine interest in electronics, figuring out how to get their <insert smart device here> working again probably isn't that big of a deal. However, if you are not this person, you are probably better off sticking with the analog version. At least for now.
Actually DW is a public news outlet so this is country PR.
Honestly I am surprised to see the US even in the Top10, people usually have nothing good to say about it for various reasons.
Complaint is more about unprompted 5.3GB download.
Definition 1 says that 1 is a prime (it has no positive divisors except 1 and itself (1)).

Definition 2 says that 1 is not a prime: it does not have exactly two factors, but just one.
I think just about every non-mathematician has at some point been enamoured with either primes, or pi.
How about: Every piece of information you collect online can and probably will, at some point, be used by someone, against someone, unless you, Mr. Software Engineer, do something to prevent it. Something effective, not symbolic.
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Are you meaning USA, or all of North and South America?