skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Capable of writing software that solves a real world problem” isn’t necessarily Google’s bar. It’s entirely possible that the creator of Homebrew doesn’t have the level of skill that Google requires.
yes, the goal is standardization of interviews, not hiring the best candidate, but it's also about signalling the cleverness of the interviewer and the company. if you're actually clever, it will be evident during the interview without having to plan for it with a pre-determined interview puzzle.

but your "zero risk" assessment is a common but unproven justification of such hiring practices. with good management, you can easily bound the cost of a bad hire to a few (tens of) thousands of dollars. it's hard to estimate the benefit of a good hire since that's an alternate reality not taken, but it's probably many, many times higher than the cost of a bad hire:

opportunity cost of losing a good hire >>> realized cost of a bad hire

(the probability of a bad hire is higher than of missing out on a good hire however, so you'd need real numbers to estimate the relative costs)
I share the author's concern about kipple, although I came to the same conclusion from a different starting point.

It's very difficult to jump off the train of kipple. On one hand, it's hard to make unwanted items useful again. Barely anyone will accept old electronics for free, tiny items like gifts and poscards are destined to be burned like the flowers in the article.

On the other hand, there's an expectation that everyone will keep getting new things. Family will notice the same sweater as last Christmas. Coworkers will organize Secret Santa where 90% of gifts serve to satisfy curiosity and nothing more, doomed to be thrown into a bottom of a drawer. Sellers will try to push for replacements instead of fixes once items start showing signs of wear.

For me, the journey didn't start from flowers, but from living in many places for a short time. Every kilogram off the back makes moving (and, conincidentally, life) easier. This minimalism blends well with the idea of overproducing, and now I know the word - kipple - that describes what I'm trying to fend off.
> under the employ and compensation of Verizon

Not necessarily direct employ, but serving their interest. They wouldn't be so stupid as to publicly employ him.

> they certainly wouldn’t need a former employee to do so

It was the path of least resistance for them. He was already in the FCC, and he was always backing the interests of ISP incumbents against the public, if you paid attention.
>The event will take place on 22 February

Gonna have to wait for while....
Airplanes are an extremely energy inefficient means of transportation. Lots of carbon emissions. It doesn't strike me as the transportation of the future.
Diamond dependency like issues crop up.

Imagine I have Repos A,B,C. A is a base repo. B and C depend on A, and C also depends on B. If I modify some API in A, and also update all the callsites in B and C, I also have to bump the version of A depended on by B and C, and also bump the version of B that C depends on, otherwise I'll get version mismatch/api compatibility breakages.

To make this work that means that nothing can depend on latest, everything has to have frozen dependencies, and you either need to manually, or via some system, globally track all of the dependencies across repos, and atomically update all of them on every breaking change.

In other words, you reinvent blaze/bazel at the repo level instead of the target level, and you have to add an additional tool that makes sure you're dependencies can never get mismatched.

The monorepo sidesteps this issue by saying "everything must always build against latest".
> The only way to make that fair to both that artist, and to Taylor Swift, is to make the monthly subscription fee change depending on how much music you listened to.

It doesn't follow at all that a constant price per stream can only be achieved by charging users a variable price based on usage. Film and TV streaming services charge a fixed monthly rate to each user, and light users almost certainly subsidize heavy ones.

It may be that a $10 a month simply isn't enough for Spotify to pay as per stream much as they are now. But that's Spotify's problem to solve — labels and artists really should only care inasmuch as it affects their streaming royalties. The fact that Spotify has figured a system out that lets them stay afloat and pay some amount in royalties doesn't mean it's a system that treats all participants equally.

> The problem is not that indies are getting screwed, the problem is that Spotify charges someone streaming 24 hours a day the same amount that they charge someone streaming 24 minutes a day.

This is how subscriptions work. Someone who watches six hours of Netflix a day gets more out of their subscription than someone who watches six hours a month. Someone who reads the New York Times cover to cover gets more out of their subscription than someone who just reads the front page. Someone who buys from Amazon every week gets more out of their Prime subscription than someone who buys every month or two.

It's no different for Spotify. People for whom the price isn't worth it can just use the free tier or buy albums (the original pay-as-much-as-you-use way to consume music!) instead.
Here's a boingboing post that contains some of the text of the article:
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/10/shanzhai-futurism.html
Unfortunately the US is the biggest market. So for businesses tou habe little choice but to play by the non-neutral rules.
> Seems like the issue is that Washington changes the mission directive every voting cycle.

With adequate funding, it's not that bad. Just build modular ships, probes and landers. You can get more done by custom building, but a generic backbone can resist political changes.

If the focus goes back to robotic exploration, your lander can, at least, carry the robot. The same propulsion system that would take a crew to Mars could take a small probe to Pluto and slow it down so it can enter orbit. Or drop a couple smaller probes on its way out.

The design of the ISS changed as it was being built. We can certainly do the same with a craft that can leave Earth orbit.
See my other comment! I wasn’t necessarily talking about that (depends on what exactly you mean by that). Although that’s true too. Anything they can do to improve the product, even if it’s a trade off, can be a good thing. Shouldn’t take a narrow (or so it seems) view like that!
My wording was unclear by positioning it as "the appeal" as opposed to "one of the appeals".

Hitler promised a lot of different things to a lot of different people. The Nazi party was extremely cynical in its application of promises and even ideology. One of the the most interesting and disturbing pieces of Nazi propaganda was a poster of a banker and a communist holding hands, with the caption, "Marxism is the guardian angel of capitalism."

An absurd and nonsensical statement, it was instead appealing to a particular segment of German society's emotional rejection of both the banks and communist movements.

What Orwell is referring to is not the totality of Nazi appeal, because they positions themselves to have many, often conflicting with each other, but one particular appeal to a certain segment of society.
Scaling a Couchbase Cluster for Increasing and Decreasing Demand
That exemplifies the article.

In your example, optimizing for X in C isn't the answer to A over B. The answer is to add X to C while keeping I, J, and K.
Building an App with React Native, Redux, and Realm
A very enlightening and interesting article. I always wondered how difficult it would be to open up a successful eatery in a big city. Now I know it's nearly impossible. Kudos to the people that pull it off.
> How can artists distribute and sell their work in a digital economy beholden to ruthlessly commercial and centralized interests?

Well the distribution side is easy. Unless you have something special, you can just put it on a torrent and have other people help you distribute it. It's the making money part that is hard.

It's still amazing to me that we have things like Spotify trying to control distribution. We don't need any more gatekeepers trying to block users from digital media. Instead we need to start figuring out how our economic models are so broken that they led us to our current situation.

Virtual goods are so fundamentally different that we have companies who don't even realize that they've been automated out. And even worse: We have users who don't understand that and are willing to give these companies money.
Yeah I also don't think it is not an issue, but even though I'm T-Mobile customer, I think FCC should block it.

It's equivalent of replacing blacklisting with whitelisting. In the end you can achieve the same thing what NN supposed to block, so allowing it creates a loophole (e.g. start provide only plans with ridiculously small data caps, and do zero rating on affiliates)
I think our money might be better spent on multiple machine only missions that accomplish some difficult task through automation on the surface of the moon. For the cost of sending a few people we could probably pay for machine only missions that build structures, drill functional water wells and grow food.

Those kind of things would prepare us for future colonies off this planet wherever they might be. And we'd gain a lot of value in important emerging industries that could be quickly applied to great benefit here.
I've solved 249 of them. I don't remember when I joined, but it must have been about 10 years ago. Solving PE problems was a great way to unwind in grad school (studying math) and learn some cool math in the process. There was a period where I was knocking them out pretty frequently, but I've only had the time to solve 4 problems in the past year.
> people will soon find them living in the past

Sorry, but all that MAGA stuff is pretty much this, but based on an imaginary past that never was.
Sure it's possible, but I'm trying to make it as hard as possible. Currently I think NW.js source protection is the hardest.

I think there are times when open source isn't the best. I never would have spent so much time making art software if I didn't think I could make it reasonably hard to crack. Eh, maybe I would have anyway, but I might have just made another mindless web app that wasn't difficult to code.

I think there are definitely cases where closed source works, especially when certain algorithms are easy to read but hard to contrive.
The ABA criteria require a judicial nominee to generally have twelve years of legal experience, which Talley obviously doesn't. If that's all the media said about Talley, that would be fine. But the criticisms go far beyond that, misrepresent the strength of the rest of his background, and veer off into ignorant assertions about "trying cases."
Learning to fail – a startup diary
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102
Let me just get this straight because I really want to make sure I understand your point. The act of the government defending the people it represents stifles the creation of new drugs. Am I missing something?

If the above is what you meant to say then what is so bad about these drugs that getting them into the market is detrimental to the population? Drug companies will always make drugs. To say they won't is patently false, most of their research is paid for through the government grant system anyways, the trials on the other hand can be expensive, bu they already conduct their shady trials in poor countries and only bring them to developed countries when they have the best chance to succeed. I'm not really sure what a percentage cap on profits would prevent especially since most of the complaints are against existing drugs becoming more expensive. Few people complain when cutting edge drugs and therapies are expensive, everyone understands progress is expensive. No one understands a well established drug suddenly becoming 800% more expensive for what only seems like profit motive. Greed is not acceptable when it comes to human life for most developed countries.
Does the "* is product management" feel odd to everyone else?
Its become so generalized that it basically comes down to anyone who gets things done but doesn't have direct reports (and sometimes even when they do) thinks of themselves as a product manager.

I very much think that there is a role for these sorts of people, but being called product management has always seemed like an odd label to apply and something it seems everyone either struggles to define or outright ignores others definitions.
Israel's Antitrust Authority investigates Google's dominance in web advertising
At least you know you chose a good set of options. It just flew right off the lot.

Did they at least have the decency to refund your $1000?
I've been trying to get my identity verified on GDAX for a week. Is there some trick I'm unaware of?
Top 10, yes, but not top 10,000.
I'm amazed it isn't full of dry rot by now. Tires don't last forever.
IMHO tradeoffs is the key word here. In all the auto examples, the customers said they liked X, but disliked Y - and then the manufactured fixed Y at some (slight, but still) cost to X, and that wasn't acceptable.

The fact itself that they bought that car is an indicator that to them, X is far more valuable than Y - the "missing" feature is a nice to have thing that they'll consider as a differentiator only if the things they liked in the old car are the same or improved; they're not eager to trade off the feature because of which they bought the old car just to get the missing one.
I think it's more like a java addin. Which if properly sandboxed is a good thing.
I agree. But companies will never learn this lesson as long as they can still hire there easily.
Is there a template out there for these types of "farewell letters", it feels like every leaving CEO, every startup that pulls the plug and every company that is bought by one of the big ones, these letters all have the same buildup and delivery.
The "Randomize order of array" snippet isn't actually random. It would just confuse the sorting algorithm.
Normally messing with the cable gets it to pick up a proper address.

Strange that other two machines aren't effected if the DHCP server is to blame
I have 4 courses left in this program. There is a subreddit
here https://www.reddit.com/r/OSUOnlineCS/

The program has it's pros and cons. People complain but they expect a top 5 CS education from an online program at OSU which isn't going to happen. Overall I learned a lot though and I found it better than attempts at learning through MOOCs, mostly because of the motivation behind paying.
Think Secret? Wow, that takes me back.
I mean, not to be a wise-ass, but have you seen who's been appointed to the FCC, EPA, HHS, and other three letter orgs? FCC is saying net neutrality is bad, EPA is saying that climate change is natural and can't be affected by humans and isn't actually happening, and HHS is basically saying that being poor is a poor persons fault for being poor in the first place.
Yeah this happened a couple times last week too...I just assume it happens every time there's a huge jump in volume...
Nice! Why did you use golang over other programming languages?
It's also a good indicator of support.

As well, people tend not to donate to people who they predict will lose. Like how many people are going to donate to a Republican running for Senate in CA?

Given the security of the seat, how many people are going to donate to a Democrat other than the incumbent in CA?
The Alexa and Arduino Smart Home Challenge – Arduino Project Hub
MacOS Scroll Direction:  “Natural” or “Regular”?
My girlfriend and I are in a fight right now about which scroll direction is proper.

I don't like the natural scroll direction, because the laptop is not an iPhone or iPad. I view the track pad as a mouse, and the "Natural Scroll" feels backward to me. She says that the "Natural" scroll matches up with all the other devices we use. Which for me is just an iPhone, and a laptop.

HN: Which way to you scroll?? Help me resolve this debate.
Trump signs new space policy directive to send Americans to Moon, Mars
BS corporate red tape is a reality, though. So why not offer workarounds that help them give you money?
Binary tree questions probably come up as often as they do, relative to how often binary trees are actually used, because so many interview questions can be solved trivially with hash tables.

Just because you don’t use binary trees doesn’t mean Google or Amazon don’t, though. Maybe not binary trees themselves, but b-trees and similar data structures are widely used in file systems, databases, and other large scale systems that these companies routinely work on.

Also, everyone knows that companies ask questions about data structures and algorithms. If you’re have the ability and inclination to prepare for these interviews, that says something about you as a candidate. If you don’t prepare at all and then go on the internet to whine about it when you don’t get an offer, that also reflects on you.
Pulping and paper plants in the Northeast US used to dump all kinds of junk into rivers. You could tell what color paper was being printed by what color the river was. Lots of really toxic things were done by the US on their way to where they are now.
Theoretical Impediments to Machine Learning (Judea Pearl) [pdf]
Yes, and WebAssembly runs on top of the existing JavaScript VM engines.
> (removed explanation because it seems not appreciated)

I think describing the reaction as lack-of-appreciation is a bit misleading. Perhaps disbelief might be a better description.
Right... which is what I meant by "laying the track". If it was just a question of putting down rails it wouldn't be very expensive.
Why is this flagged? Oakridge is a reputable national lab - just because their research is unpalatable, doesn't make it irrelevant. HN - denial is NOT the answer
Go build it yourself in an afternoon and come back.

Then we'll talk.
ODU (Old Dominion University) has an online cs program, ranked in the top 10 of online cs programs for undergrad. I work with an engineer who completed his degree through there.
I grind my beans on demand and usually brew with an aeropress if I’m making one, or the appropriate sized moka pot for making several. (I also have a couple of coffee syphons, which are fun to watch, but too fiddly and too much cleanup for everyday use.)

Aeropress makes a good cup and is super easy for cleanup.
I totally agree with you but at the same time - we can't tell people something is free and then get upset when they treat it as such.
Thanks for sharing your experience with OMSCS.

Did you work on OMSCS full time or part time? How did you end up scheduling in studying masters level courses into your daily life? And how long did it take at the end?
Picture of new CEO Bryan Crowley looks like a parody. And this line!

> First of all, I want to take a moment to say hello and thank you to all of our Soylent friends out there who have helped turn Rob’s vision into one of the most talked about and fastest growing brands in the food and beverage industry!
Yes, this is what I'm always looking for too, along with examples of idiomatic usage and guidance on commonly-used libraries.
Could be a new business idea. Farewell Letters As A Service
(full disclosure, i work as an engineer at coursera)

just wanted to highlight that one of the degrees that UIUC (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) offers, the Master of Computer Science in Data Science, is available on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/degrees/masters-in-computer-data-sc...

the benefit of this is that the way we structure our degrees, they mostly end up being a collection of courses and specializations already provided on the platform; you can try some of the courses without having to go all-in on the degree just yet. (of course, there's a ton of added benefits for enrolling in the degree program, like high-engagement learning opportunities that you don't normally get from the MOOC experience)
According to the itinerary for the event, then I suppose Robert L. Strayer from the State Department, Boutheina Guermazi from The World Bank, Nuala O'Connor from the Center for Democracy & Technology, Mozilla, Facebook, and Microsoft must all be corrupted/on-the-take by Verizon too?

http://www.iicom.org/events/item/tmf-washington-2017-event-p...
Effective marketing for introverts
Yes, you can look at the frequency with the highest intensity in the FFT. This is the "dumb" version of converting music to notes (and is what I really intended to say but didn't choose to for sake of brevity).
I skimmed it. I missed that point. That does address the concern, though. Thank you for pointing it out.
China denies using LinkedIn to recruit German informants
For a company with offices in the most expensive cities in the world $120K is likely closer to the starting salary than the median.
redirecting to install.php

either malicious, infected or just broken.
I used to think the same about some things (like design docs). Then when I became slightly senior and started writing those, I realized that for such common things, following best practices can lead to template-like things (which is not bad, IMO. The goal of this letter or a design doc is to deliver information to you, constrained by company needs. Not to tickle your creativity or something).
Probably in the majority of the cases it makes sense for the founder to step aside for a new CEO, but I can only imagine how brave and difficult decision must be.

Edit: Maybe some HN folks who have done the same can share their stories?
The soy boy memes must have really got to him.
Here's the WB link: https://web.archive.org/web/20171211174656/http://www.hillar...
All signs point to net neutrality being killed this week no matter who opposes it, but I applaud all those that stand up for their voices to be heard. Just because those currently in power are choosing to ignore those voices doesn't mean they aren't heard, and even if net neutrality dies this week doesn't mean it can't be resurrected later. The more voices loudly protesting, the more momentum there will be to help correct this travesty in the next election cycle.
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
Distance learning with a traditional university, or The Open University (OU), might be what you're after.
I opened my company with Leapin. Easy and fast.

If you don’t need a bank account and you can live with PayPal you don’t need to go there. I needed a bank account and credit card so I traveled to Tallinn and opened a bank account at LHV. You have to sign the documents at the bank office.

I think LHV Bank is working on a remote process with an interview using Skype, but it was not available several months ago.

Still, I have faced several issues setting up my small SaaS service: Stripe is not available and my Braintree application was rejected because they did not understand why I wanted to create a company in Estonia! It took me two weeks to explain that I was a nice guy and then everything went fine. I also had issues creating a merchant account in Coinbase, so I had to use Bitpay.
I updated the certificates using the tool they provide. Anyway I'm using the app most of the time.
I wonder if this was submitted as a grand announcement or as a case study. The idea of a drink having a "next chapter" is pretty comical.

What radical twist is in beer's next chapter? More hops?
As mentioned above, offer consulting services and accept corporate purchase orders. Be able to give and receive PO numbers. This is the language the bean counters speak, and sprinkles magic pixie dust on your invoices, ensuring you get paid.
I'm honestly surprised to learn of such a precipitous decline. But still, stories like this one keep popping up, and many legitimate businesses have organized crime ties. https://news.vice.com/article/this-may-be-the-most-dangerous...

e: Also, for reference, the American mafia supposedly has about 3k members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mafia
Really? I thought he looks like an ad model. I guess you have to have good looks to become CEO these days.