skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cynically? A bunch of entropy.

Optimistically? One of the newly minted millionaires will go on to do something great, like the people who built the fiber net.

Realistically? Who knows...
Sure but if that were the case wouldn't you think it's silly that you need to train months to be able to juggle to land a SWE position? wouldn't it be stupid? the current interview culture in those companies is not as silly as juggling but is also not a fair representation of candidates, with too much weight being in algorithmic puzzles and behavioral checkboxes you can train for.

Obviously if the process was a 100% fair assessment of knowledge and potential and people do better than you then good for them.
That first recommendation is pure genius!
Here is how RFC 7230 defines "HTTP/1.1 pipelining":

"6.3.2. Pipelining

A client that supports persistent connections MAY "pipeline" its requests (i.e., send multiple requests without waiting for each response)."

AFAIK, the curl binary does not do pipelining.

And, AFAIK, it will not generate code to do pipelining by invoking it with --libcurl.
Hmm, just looking at GDAX's API, you aren't able to tell who's making an order. You don't know if it's one account with ten orders, or ten accounts with one each. So I don't see why multiple accounts would be an advantage.
well,just list the things you do on a weekly basis for a family

- making meals
- driving kids
- laundry
- grocery and other shopping
- picking up
- finances and planning

I think all of these are ripe for (more) disruption.
First of all, perhaps you want to use proper capitalization in your posts. It adds to the readability of your post.

> blockchain has limited scalability, second layer doesn't. also blockchain transactions were never supposed to be instant.

Of course it wasn't supposed to be instant. That's why its a shit system to use as currency just like gold bars are a shit currency cause one has to drag them from the mine to the bank to the store. This Bitcoin thing was meant to be a currency, right?

I guess you're talking about Lightning Network though which Bitcoin evangelists appear to market as the Second Coming of Christ. Well, it isn't active yet, and it isn't part of Bitcoin ie. it isn't "Bitcoin". So... I was right.

> there are plenty

Not really. Many have been removed lately. There were Bitcoin debit cards. Well, they got revoked. Steam? Doesn't accept Bitcoins anymore due to high transaction costs. And those are just a few examples.

> in fact nothing is instant, check this thing called physics.

That's odd. I just put money on my debit card from my bank and it took like a minute. And I consider that slow! If I buy something from a store, which I did today, its instant enough that I can put my bank card in my wallet and move on. That's why I call it instant. The fact it isn't instant, is true, but it is nowhere near the latency of Bitcoin. And Bitcoin's latency is nowhere near my bank to debit card transaction. My statements regarding slow (and expensive) transactions were true.

> bitcoin is not even a blip in total world energy spending and less than that in total world energy production.

Yes, when it consumes more energy than my entire country, it is. Plus, when it is thin air we're discussing, it is.

> also if you check the dictionary for word sustainable:

How about you look up the word in your dictionary, called environment?

> bitcoin is sustainable by design.

Circulus in probando.

Wake me up when I can pay BTC at the same places where I can pay with EUR. I'll even do a concession! Wake me up when a United States resident can pay BTC at the same places they can pay with USD.
YESSSSSSSS!!!! To both of you. This is what I want and makes me super happy there are people like you. Can you guys shoot me an email mark@gunDB.io because this is critical!

Note: I do believe JS ought be taken seriously but I can't ever seriously tell that to people because nobody does. But I hope because of projects like yours that people stop having arguments against it. Great job, let's chat.
How much will this (eventually) cost? I'm hesitant to adopt any new workflow tool without knowing what it's gonna cost me once I'm completely hooked on it.
> I have no use for drones, or bipedal robots, or some kind of other walking robot at all

Bipedal is the hard half of the fold clothes and put them away
http://www.prutchi.com/pdf/implantable/nuclear_pacemakers.pd...

Last paragraph on page 2... quite a long damned time; by 35 years it was still going strong.
As another commenter has mentioned, Netlify is fantastic. It takes care of everything and migration is painless. And the best of all, it's free~

This year, one of my goals is to migrate all my Wordpress blogs to Jekyll and host them on Netlify. I'm almost done with 2/3rds of them and couldn't be happier. Highly recommended.
Was the light pen used?
I have 4 broken and beloved Model M keyboards that I can't throw away. Which Cherry switches would make feel like I were using one of them?
This may not have been a serious question but I'll give a serious answer: depending on the interviewer, you could get bonus points for going "above and beyond" or, yes, you could be penalized for "not reading the spec."

I've found that the best way to handle it in a conventional whiteboard interview is to mention it when appropriate and offer to add the functionality later.

"Now, here's the part of the code where I'd deal with odd N. Since we're guaranteed even N in the problem statement I'll skip this for now, but we can come back to harden this function later if you like."
Have you been diagnosed with meibomian gland dysfunction? Did you, by any chance, ever take a drug called Accutane (Claravis/Amnesteem/isotretinoin)?
By the very nature of being Turing Complete it can do anything any other Turing Complete language can. I didn't claim anything about ease of use...or really any wild claim at all, except maybe a DAO being controlled by an AI..oh well. My point explicitly is ETH is a Turing Complete decentralized runtime.

If you want to build a better language for interfacing with the VM your free to do so.
A general purpose housekeeping robot would be revolutionary and would sell extremely well, but we are probably decades away from having one that would even function correctly, much less be commercially viable.
Even specifying `eh_unwind_resume` as a lang item gives me a linking error in debug builds.
These are really good ideas, I'll give some of them a shot.

I routinely listen to Sam Harris, his explanations are amazingly clear and concise. It's quite impressive.
Krypton Core (storing/using your SSH/PGP keypair) will be free forever. Stay tuned over the next couple months for updates regarding the teams product.
That's an awesome video, thanks!
Here you go: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...
What is a "spacer"? Can you link to some photos of them in action?
Yes, it is silly that you have to train for an interview for months to land a SWE position at a top company. However, until someone comes up with a less gameable system or a magic wand that stack ranks applicants, then I don't see a viable alternative :\

As someone who gives a lot of interviews, I'd love a better way to assess a candidates ability that is less gameable, but we haven't found one yet.
>foldimate:

Here is a video of it working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uay9hzwusk

This looks like it would take quite a lot longer than just folding the clothes yourself.
I’ve thought about getting like 5 and replacing all cabinets. A lower end dishwasher is about the same as a custom cabinet $150-$300).
Yeah, those tray-like expansion cards were neat. Too bad that idea never caught on, and there were only a few expansion cards (all by Tandy) available for the machine.

PC compatibility basically steamrolled over all that. Maybe it was seeing what happened with the 2000 that convinced me from an early age that PCs were going to conquer the world, and Macintosh and Amiga fanboys were next on the chopping block. I couldn't even guess then how right I'd be; not even game consoles avoided turning into cut-down, purpose-built PCs.

At the time, I was just disappointed that the only graphical game that actually worked with the 2000 was a specially ported Flight Simulator 1.0.
Because most people write on HN in English and most HN users are American. I'm not, as it happens; but I don't know what constitutional freedoms you take for granted in Germany, as I'm not so familiar with your country's constitution, and it wasn't entirely obvious at first that you're German.

The German Constitution is pretty long so it'd be really helpful if you could perhaps cite specific articles to provide some context for your assertions.
If your challenge is novel, as I said, then it should be difficult for them to cheat. All the same, people are welcome to cheat. It should become clear that they've done so when you're interviewing them if you ask the right questions when they're explaining what they did. And if they somehow make it through anyway, you should be evaluating the quality of their work until they get established in your company. If they're underperforming over the first month, you should be showing them the door.
Even on Linux it's best. Tooltips suck a bit compared with those Electron editors.
Altruism probably works here. It's cheap to pick a pseudorandom value. But if you didn't want to rely on altruism, the system could offer a reward to anyone who reveals the secret someone committed to early (half that provider's security deposit could be destroyed; the other half given over in reward to the reporter).
"The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of the man who succumbs to infection with the penicillin-resistant organism."

- Sir Alexander Fleming
I used to work in the event services industry and CES no longer needs to exist.

All of the major companies can hold their own press events and promote their products. Why buy an exhibitor booth at CES when you could take the same money and DIY. Apple , Google and Microsoft get this. Also, things like Kickstarter do the same. In a few years CES , E3 won't really exist anymore they are already dead.
Two things there:

1. leaking

2. taking off without a full load of fuel

It makes sense for the first to be thermal expansion issues, and the second to be tire pressure issues.
http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keyboard-acc...

FWIW, first result after searching for “keyboard spacer”
Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of this web form
Usql 0.6.0: universal command-line client for SQL databases
Sounds like dating.
Hawaii missile alert: How one employee ‘pushed the wrong button’
Found this 2012 article about a joint NYU / Stanford study regarding terror civilians face from drones.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/25/study-...
Agreed. I downsized my entire media center to just the Chromecast and it was getting quite frustrating. I disabled ipv6 on my LAN a few months ago and it drastically improved the situation. Still it works better on my Android devices and PC's than iOS devices.
Right now the algorithm basically looks at the most upvoted items on HN in the last 24 hours, and then searches those articles for certain STEM related keywords. Please feel free to reply to any of the emails with suggestions/questions, I'd like to continue refining this project!
> Finally, moving things around isn’t free. Yes, solar energy and electric cars means that it’s renewable. But doesn’t mean it’s unlimited.

I don't think it means unlimited, but perhaps essentially unlimited (do any of us realistically worry about the sun dying during even our most distant descendants?).

This is very hand wavy, but I feel like once we are able to store the energy we create (and so easily discard without even a thought), we'll realize just how energy abundant we really are. I mean, the US had an over abundance of energy, it's just stored on our guts rather than a battery.
We are constantly moving, our pets are, our entire life is filled with energy we never store or harness.

Once we're able to store this, I have a feeling our worries about energy will take a back seat.

Again, hand wavey, but that's also kinda like this article :)
Eating out every night takes a lot of time and is not cost-effective for a huge percentage of the population.
The conclusion about the UV diffuser isn't quite right. It clearly preferentially attenuates around 365nm for example. Good article and solid conclusion though.
It's not illegal in the US, from which they are operating. That's what matters.

Yes, they chose that tradeoff over leaving the market

They don't want to leave the market because the market is where the revenue stream originates. Markets are local; the location of the HQ is irrelevant.
Windows support is slated for the first half of this year (you can follow this issue: https://github.com/kryptco/kr/issues/87 ). In what environment did the kr install fail? We only currently support Bash on Ubuntu(16+) on Windows.
The premise of "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" is strikingly similar to Larry Niven's short story "Rammer" - down to the somewhat unusual terms "corpsicle" and "State". Revived, no rights (though in a wiped body; and intersteller terraforming).

Hopefully, a homage, flagging some inspiration/similarity with Niven?

Bob: http://dennisetaylor.org/legion/

Rammer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452990.Rammer

EDIT: he does seem to be a fan: first Bobiverse book. Chapter 14 intro...
Lawrence Vienn is a tuckerization of Larry Niven. http://dennisetaylor.org/about/
I was going to comment that it doesn’t matter how slow it is as long as it finishes overnight or whatever. Good thing I decided to actually watch the video first. What’s the point if a person has to be so involved!?
Take home assignments are easy to cheat on? What does that mean (in the context of a take-home problem as an interview method)? Are candidates expected to derive solutions to coding or engineering problems themselves from first principles as their day to day? The answer is "no" almost without exception, even in serious research or hard core low level systems programming jobs.
>I understand and agree with these desires. However, getting fewer and simpler clothes can near solve the second problem for much cheaper.

Good luck convincing most people to wear t-shirts and jeans every day, let alone a small number of them. No thanks.
The toes which are sore are those of "discussion".
Could there be a clearer sign that the quality of higher education in our time is in steep decline?

If, one hundred years ago, Oxbridge had floated the idea of sanctioning a student to embark on a program of study designed to anticipate questions that might arise in a job interview, it would have been as preposterous as suggesting that the Queen should take her meals in a pub.

And yet today, we have one of the preeminent universities not just of the United States but of the world offering a course that appears to amount to Kaplan for a tech job.
But we don't need a general purpose robot, just a degree of automation that goes beyond what was achieved in the 1960s (washer/dryer/dishwasher).
2. In the US it would cost at least $400/yr per person for a pickup/drop off laundry service. Foldimate sells for $850, and can presumably service an entire household. If it was more capable (just put clean clothes in a hopper, or connects directly to a dryer) it would be significantly more economic then human labor.
Why? Personally I'm hoping for some kind of telescopic arm in the ceiling, bipedal robots still take up storage space and get in the way, ceiling arms could work around me, are probably easier to deliver and are probably better to interact with "hey arm, can you give me a reading light and put my book away when I fall asleep".
yes, if we take away the "he who does not work, neither shall he eat" incentive[1] people will work less. Is that good or bad? depending on your ideology, it could be either one. Do you think that it's ethical to threaten the poorest with starvation to add a few points to our gdp?

My own personal view is that using starvation to incent work is acceptable only if society is unable to produce enough food for everyone; in that case, those few points to the GDP have real impact. I personally don't feel that it's okay to use starvation to incent work when that work largely produces luxuries, but that's just me, and everyone has an opinion on this one.

[1]Interestingly, historically this aphorism has been a leftist saying... that is, the rich should have to work, too. Leaving aside my controversial views of the bible, in more recent history, John Smith used it to this meaning in Jamestown, and then in the early 20th century, Lenin argued that it was a fundamental principle necessary for socialism to work. Both were talking about situations were people were starving (the early days of Jamestown and the early days of the Russian revolution, respectively) More recently, it's used as a rightest saying, arguing that the poor ought to work or starve, something that was the assumed truth in earlier ages.
Any recommendations on physical (non-app) pomodoro timers?
It's possible that even when slowing down the roundabout still ends up being more efficient, since you don't have as much "stop/go" action going on
What does Detroit really have to offer?

If Amazon did setup shop there, it would be a blow to rust belt companies as they start a salary war trying to their keep talent.
Bitcoin is made of software . . . do people not know that software can get better and better over time??

I used a js map function yesterday, worked like a charm!!!
I have sketches
As crazy as these interviews are they have to be working right? Some people must be passing these things otherwise there would be a lot of unfilled positions.

So much for there being a staffing shortage in our field. These types of interviews imply there is a much higher bar that exists to weed out all the chaff due to oversupply or companies won't settle for anything less than the most academically best people.
I thought Nate Silver had a good take this week, which was basically that Nuclear Weapons have not been around long enough for us to draw statistical conclusions.

He continued that even if the odds were small, like a 1% chance a year, it would very much be worth being prepared for.
Really how well does that scale though? At a minimum, being able to eat a vegetarian diet—depending on geography—is a luxury. Eating at a vegetarian restaurant in place of meat in general is completely out of the question for most. Granted, if it's a choice to eat meat 3 times a day, than you certainly could be in a position to eat at a vegetarian restaurant 3 times a day.
The average person wouldn’t even know what you were talking about, never mind actively trying to stop you from pursuing it. The only way they try to enforce anything on you is by dominating the market for a given service, and you are not going to change that.
its potential lies in ruins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
Any challenge that doesn't change across applicants at a company that has a large enough applicant pool, will eventually be solved and prepared for so well, that almost any question you can ask will be prepped for.

Beyond that, if you do use a single question, you're now playing a game of whack-a-mole: I used to ask this question about the challenge, now I can't because it is leaked and people prepped for it. How do you scale that across an engineering organization? Do you have weekly meeting with every interviewer informing them of the questions about the challenge that are now blacklisted? It's going to be infeasible for any reasonable sized organization.

The challenge with this idea as well is that the risk of false positives is much higher than the whiteboard interview. The current interview process is designed around minimizing false negatives.

False positives are really costly to an engineering organization. It's not good for morale when engineers are being hired and fired in the same month on a regular basis. It's takes time to onboard, and slows the team down. It's also not good for the company reputation - would you apply to a company who had a reputation of firing a good chunk of its new software engineers within the first month?
Not everyone is (or pays as well as) Google. Many companies don't have a bar as high, there is still a lot of work for B and C players to do (albeit, that is probably true even at Google).
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> the putting away is the least time-consuming step

I would imagine that for most people, putting away is the annoying and effortful step of the cleaning process. I wouldn't really count gathering dirty dishes as a step that's specific to having a machine since without a machine since they'd need to be gathered to be cleaned anyway. Once dishes are gathered, loading the dishwasher is easy because the dishes are already as close to the dishwasher as physically possible in most kitchen layouts, the specific organization of the dishes in the washer is generally more flexible than how they are organized in the cabinets, and gravity assists you while loading while it works against you while putting away.

> I don't know what benefit you would see by having that automated instead of done by a human.

The same benefit as anything else that's automated - not having to deal with humans. A machine where you could dump dirty laundry in any time and have it pop out neat and folded would be far superior than having to work with a third-party schedule and live human beings, just like an ATM is far superior to a bank teller 99% of the time if you need cash at a specific time and location.
LKML.org is hosted by a single server with no backups
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I'm going to revisit the program with the above in mind. Thanks!
What if I don't want to engage in group shaming? What if I don't want to tell other people what to do?
1. The thing that preventing me to put a dirty set of dishes in a dishwasher is a clean set of dishes from the last wash. Most of the time I just end up watching them by hand.

2. You still have to arrange time to meet them or drive there, putting your clothes together and then taking them back
Thanks for sharing these links.
It's kind of a sad spectacle to see mayors across the country abase themselves in the hopes of currying favor with Amazon.
Am I weird for being more upset about this than the rest of LinkedIn's shady "public" page treatment?
I doubt this is a sign of a decline in quality of higher ed, and more a sign of the popularity of CS as a major and software engineering as a career.

These kinds of courses and prep has existed in similarly popular fields for many yeas: law, medicine, finance, etc.
A Look Back at 2017(V): 11 Best UI/UX Design Articles of the Year
Yeah, there are a lot of confounding differences between Americans and Norwegians here.

History, terrain/density, climate, culture, and even genetics all likely play a role. Not just policy.

I would be curious to learn how the numbers compare between Norwegians and Norwegian-Americans. That'd cut a few confounders at least.
This community has an active mailing list with various experts and motivated patients: http://www.fiteyes.com
Dumb question, but would it be possible to have a nuclear-powered object in your body producing energy for your body to use?
I thought with parimutuel betting, the odds change depending upon the gamblers who are placing bets and the house ensuring the house makes money, not the house setting the odds by some insight into the field.
For dishwasher, for me the big missing piece is Tupper I can use in my kids' lunches. I'm always suspicious of breaking things down in the Tupper with the scalding dishwasher treatment, and glassware is too dangerous, so I still do that stuff by hand.