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> Notably, “potential” is nowhere on the scale. Many posts talk about hiring entry level engineers on their “potential,” but the term is seldom defined. Most people use “potential” to describe a sense that, even though a candidate currently cannot be an autonomous engineer, someday in the future they could be. We did not attempt to predict the future for any of our candidates but rather evaluated them on what they presented through the interviews.

Well...

> Some of the qualities we looked for in our associates in particular were:

> Resilience: Learning on the job is hard and we assumed that the associates would make mistakes and struggle through difficult concepts. We needed people who could endure these struggles and bounce back ready for the next challenge.

> Willingness to learn and the initiative to do so: Clover would assist the Associates in their growth, and provide teachers and mentors to help along the way, but any incoming Associate would need to be responsible for their own growth.

> Humility: This is an important trait for all Clover engineers, but we paid special attention to it in our Associates. They would have to learn from those around them, be respectful of others, and be able to take difficult feedback with grace.

> ...

> Deciding the technical skills to evaluate was a long process. We expected to teach our Associates most of the technical skills they would need to do their job, but we couldn’t accept candidates that were completely blank slates.

It really sounds like this is measuring the candidate's "potential".

I would argue they defined "potential" as "resilience, willingness to learn, and humility", which they feel is an atypical definition.

(Personally, I think that's a decent set of criteria to look for in entry-level engineers.)
Did not see your reply earlier. Quite informative indeed.
> Since Ronald Reagan there's been a precedent set that it isn't a bad thing for conservatives to have previously been in showbiz.

Being previously in showbiz isn't the issue; having no government experience when running for President is.

Reagan was two-term governor of California before running for President.

> Same is definitely true on the "other" side.

Er...what? The Democrats haven't nominated a Presidential candidate with a Reagan-like showbiz background.

> I honestly would prefer to see some salt-of-the-earth person not involved in politics elected to office ala Ricky Muir in Australia (where I'm from).

I'd prefer an inexperienced government head about as much as an inexperienced brain surgeon.

> I don't necessarily think lack of political experience is a bad thing for a politician to have.

A lack of government experience may be fine in someone running for city council, or the lower house of their state legislature. President of the United States isn't really an entry level job, though.

> Many of the positions which hold the requisite political knowledge and support elected officials are hired, not elected.

Sure, there's several rings out from the President, both in and through the cabinet and in the executive office of the president, that also aren't ideal entry-level jobs.

But your not going to be able to evaluate what you get from those people effectively without substantial grounding in government as President.
Thanks for the response. I don't really like peanut butter all that much, but my approach to food is to just generally eat high-satiety foods and not worry about counting the exact quantity. I've found that it ends up netting out to eating the right amount anyway, without much effort. Calorie density by volume doesn't really figure into the way I eat.

It was along those lines that I figured that something that consists largely of healthy fats wouldn't pose a health concern. But I guess I wasn't thinking about other approaches to nutrition: it's entirely possible that a different approach would lead to overeating peanut butter, I guess.
I'd love to see KeyKOS on modern hardware. http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/upenn/ for docs, http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/KK/Apridos/ for code for old hardware.
With all the life coaches, "content marketing" and "SEO" specialists, "business development" people, I find the barrier to staying on LinkedIn is really bad.

When it comes to B2B marketing I spent a lot of time on LinkedIn which was a big waste; I switched to another channel and things turned around immediately.
This article basically said that water is wet.
He's on tape saying that women will let you do anything when you're rich and famous. That's certainly a crude thing to say, and an unhelpful attitude toward women. However, you may not be aware of this, but both the Nazis and ISIS did, and said, things that were far worse.

Is it so much to ask that you restrict yourself to saying things that are true? If you said that "Donald Trump has repeatedly said things which are contrary to the ideal of treating men and women as equal" then you'd be stating a simple and defensible fact. When you go to extreme and perverse lengths, like equating the former with "Trump is like a Nazi" then you're just willfully engaging in empty partisan rhetoric which is obviously untrue. Ironically, that's a claim that could be made against Trump. The hysterical Trump critics aren't so far from Trump himself.
Their technique doesn't actually do any image analysis at all, since the video stream from the drone is encrypted and they can't view it.

Rather, they monitor the bitrate of the video stream and exploit the fact that static/unchanging scenes compress well and have a low bitrate while scenes which are changing have a higher bitrate. They then deliberately change the scene (by blacking out a window) and see whether the bitrate of the video stream increases.

If there's a strong correlation between blacking out the window and changes in bitrate, they can conclude the drone is observing their window.
> And S.F in the 1980s was very much a liberal place.

Ehhh. Richmond and Oakland, yes. Berkeley? No. San Francisco? No.
Oof. What happens when a huge chunk of these default because educating everyone doesn't magically create jobs for everyone?
There were definitely large swaths of history where having kids was a net economic gain (they could work the fields, help with chores, etc).
I've never done hiring, but I've chosen roommates, and I feel like it's the same. You make a checklist of stuff you're looking for and red flags, do a reference check or whatever, but ultimately, the decision always comes down to some gut impulse. My gut has always been right so far, but I guess the day it burns me is the day I start trying to find some optimal solution to protect myself from letting an asshole move in.
G.M. Says Its Driverless Car Could Be in Fleets by Next Year
What population number makes childbearing selfish, and why?
Do you propose that it is impossible to "do the right thing" and make a profit?
So this seems to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency

Including "The attenuation of ELF waves is so low that they can travel completely around the Earth several times before decaying to negligible amplitude, and thus waves radiated from a source in opposite directions circumnavigating the Earth on a great circle path interfere with each other.[20] At certain frequencies these oppositely directed waves are in phase and add (reinforce), causing standing waves. In other words, the closed spherical Earth-ionosphere cavity acts as a huge cavity resonator, enhancing ELF radiation at its resonant frequencies."

Does anyone have a technical explainer of Tesla in modern terminology?
More Idiocracy than F451, IMO.

And not just the politicians.
My social anxiety makes interviewing very difficult. I freeze up to a single-track-mind. Every spare bit of processing available is used up on guessing social situation around me.

I recently had an old boss try to bring me on to a new job with him, but wasn't able to get me through the interview phase, despite knowing I'm capable, because my interviews with the rest of the team went so bad.

I've been a software engineer over ten years. All of the positions that I have been offered have come from especially kind/empathetic teams, and the interviews usually focused more on conversation than quizzing.

It requires an unfortunate amount of rejection before coming across my more selective criteria, but I guess that is what it is.
I thought it was to make best use of all those hexagonal monitors ?
I was pretty nervous at my interview; no test was mentioned until the day, at which time (after the rest of the interview) I was presented with two sheets of xml-style configuration code for the company's proprietary build system.

The task was super simple - basically just duplicating some of the configuration and renaming some values to create another job, but at the time I just froze and couldn't see it. I managed to get some sort of answer out, but wasn't happy with my response. They claimed that they were meant to give this to me in advance as a homework question and somewhere the ball got dropped, but I had a feeling they wanted it to be a more on the spot thing considering the problem was so simple.

Thankfully I had the wherewithal to ask if I could take the problem home with me after the interview. When I got home and looked at the problem with fresh eyes I facepalmed so hard. I wrote up the correct answer and emailed it over to the company recruiter, hoping she would pass it along to my interviewers, but didn't get my hopes up.

I guess she did, since I ended up getting the job. I still cringe a bit about how I just blanked on that stupid question. Thankfully I got ramped up really quickly once I actually started the job and had no problem figuring things out after that.
Does the Pigeon Take Help for Building Nest?
Or and even easier way: just have the drone fill up the stream with random data so that the data stream never goes "quiet" when the image is mostly unchanged.

No sacrificing video quality or freshness required.
Resilience, willingness to learn, and humility can be the potential, but I would also say that they are the candidates attitude. Yes, I would say that attitude makes a big difference.
I have never heard of this library before, which is surprising, because I've been looking hard for such a hexagonal privacy-fencing system for a long time!

I can't find anything that explains how the partitioning in geohex works, but the Uber system makes it clear that they are using Dr. Sahr's partitioning scheme: https://github.com/uber/h3/blob/master/docs/doxyfiles/h3inde...
2008.
10 billion people with a broad mix of ages will be more capable of coping with those changes than 7 billion people without anyone younger than their 40s.

The human population is ultimately independent of the biosphere through technology. And, in fact, some of the worst impacts on the biosphere are when we lean strongly on the biosphere to provide for us (for instance, cutting down forests to provide fuel and to clear land for inefficient farming practices vs using solar/wind/nuclear to provide energy while using dense and hyper-efficient farming practices).

Technology has huge returns to scale, and technology is how we're already able to handle our current population. So I'd say we are indeed better off with more people than less, particularly if we reduce agricultural land usage (which we're already doing) and switch to non-burning energy sources (so no fossil fuels and no biomass). An effectively vegan diet (either truly vegan or using lab-grown meat and dairy and eggs) would, by itself, drastically reduce both our reliance and impact on the biosphere. Vat-grown staples (think specialized microalgae) substituting for field-grown staples like corn or wheat or soy would further drastically reduce our impact.

The Earth ought to be a garden, but not one empty of people! And a human society without children would be some kind of dystopia.
I think some of them might be testing to see if you double opt-in. I also think I might have pissed somebody off once and then faced a campaign from somebody who spammed with fake sign ups to hurt my deliverability.
They're protected from defaulting by law, because they can't be divested by bankruptcy.

... which merely means you need to calculate where the knee in the curve of issuing them was, extrapolate to life expectancy, and know when to cash out. Convenient!
After coding enough Crystal, which instead of optionals have raw and anonymous sum types, I can say this: I don't see the point of a type system where nil is a special case. I don't want optionals, I want to have nil as a totally separate type.
"A clever radio trick can tell you nothing" - works on drones for a living.
The problem is probably going to be that if you really want to be innovative and not just reimplement decade old ideas then you will break a lot of existing applications. There are certainly hundreds or thousands of nice and well researched ideas out there but if you fundamentally change how you handle address spaces, perform inter process communication, isolate processes, store files or what not you will break applications and have to reimplement or at least adapt them, too. You will also need drivers for hundreds and thousands of components. And thousands of protocols and standards. A billion Dollar and a decade of work will probably not be enough to seriously compete with existing operating systems. Maybe you could build a POSIX layer for compatibility but now you are already building two operating systems.
I have been skeptical of the real "value" of cryptocurrencies (outside the technical ability to allow for value transfer, which does not necessitate the coins having value inthemselves), but assuming this is true I have a lot less faith in dollar bills and the fact that they are backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US government. If the student debt bubble really does pop, the government (and thus all of us tax payers) are going to be the ones holding the bag.
Where I grew up, they could ticket you but it wouldn't stick because I might flash my lights for any number of reasons. The fact that there was a cop nearby was mere coincidence.
It'll be interesting to see how it works out. Without some kind of real-time test of facility with abstract symbolic reasoning, I would expect them to get burned. It's way too easy for people to fool themselves and others about that kind of capability.

If they asked the subjects to modify the homework slightly during the debriefing, that might be enough.
> you need to calculate where the knee in the curve of issuing them was, extrapolate to life expectancy, and know when to cash out.

Sorry, what does that mean?
must be alot of unhappy note-taking devs
UV actually had a Rust based OS class four years ago! The language was at something like 0.7 so I'm really excited to have this course with up-to-date Rust.
Facebook Updates News Feed to Make Friends a Priority
I don't think the JVM guarantees the bit pattern will be preserved when passing it around. I know this is the case for NaNs where I have experienced the bit pattern change [0].

0 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43129365/javas-math-rint...
Questions like this only get useful answers if you come clean with the details.
Satoshi worked online with a group of developers for more than a year while keeping perfect operational security. Developed a solution to the byzantine generals problem, but has no published maths papers, otherwise something would have come up through text analysis. Designed bitcoin as a financial instrument, indicating inside knowledge of the banking industry. Has mined enough bitcoin to be on the list of the world's 100 richest people, but hasn't shifted them.

Satoshi is a team employed by something very rich, probably a government.
> They're protected from defaulting by law, because they can't be divested by bankruptcy.

True. I think most people don't realize this. Government programs push young, naive people to borrow to pay for degrees that are unlikely to have positive ROI, and then if life doesn't go as planned there is effectively no bankruptcy protection.
Well, given the only way to escape student loans is death... good luck defaulting?
FWIW, if people can learn to use a cellphone and order things online, they can learn to pin themselves.

Regardless, I understand and agree with your point. I just think difficulty with pinning on maps[0] limits its adoption vs. actually eliminating it.

[0] reasoning about maps in general is difficult for many people, not everyone has well-developed spatial reasoning.
No worries. The US government will just borrow more. I mean it's not like it has a balanced budget anyway.
Recent reports from the Treasury Department show that the US government owns nearly $1.5 trillion in student loans.

That’s pretty sad when you think about it: the US government’s #1 financial asset is debt owed by tens of millions of its young people for university education that didn’t even necessarily qualify them for a real career.

Millennials are the most educated generation in history. Yet there are record numbers of them working off student debts as waiters and bartenders, and supplementing their income on the side with ‘gigs’ (like being an Uber driver).

...

On top of all that, young people will spend their entire working lives paying into a pension system that likely won’t be there for them when it comes time to collect.

The Board of Trustees of Social Security tells us that the program is going to completely run out of money within the next 15 years. Millennials’ retirement horizon is far beyond that.

...

Miami-based homebuilder, Lennar Homes, recently announced it would pay a big chunk of a student loan for any borrower buying a home from them.

Through its subsidiary Eagle Home Mortgage, the company will make a payment to a buyer’s student loans of as much as 3% of the purchase price, up to $13,000.

Debt has become such a keystone of our society, that the only way we can afford something is to swap one type of debt they can’t afford with another type of debt.

-- Simon Black
So here's the US financial accounts report from the Fed (the source listed):
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/html/defa...

I don't see anything in that report that confirms this.. did I just miss it? where did the data come from?
The banks that loaned out all that money will need massive bailouts or else shut down.

Let’s be clear, students will NEVER be allowed to default these loans, nor should they. They must either pay it or take their debt to the grave and pass it down to their heirs.
Indian government, faced with massive data breach, targets journalists
how does this bubble pop? isn't this debt something you can't default on?
buy gold now. you’ll thank me later
In what sense is it a bubble? What assets are being bid up by enthusiastic investors and could suddenly collapse in value?
While the halting problem can be pretty important in some cases, it's not very relevant in most day to day code. If you're not sure if your code will ever terminate, that usually means that you're doing something wrong.

So sure, sometimes Coverity will fail because of the halting problem, and in those cases it can give an appropriate error message. Most of the time, though, it'll work just fine and be a very useful tool.
There's a bit of shows and entertainment in Macao, like the House of Dancing Water, but yeah, in that area, it can't compete with Vegas. (I wouldn't call Vegas particularly interesting or cultured, though...)

However, the gambling industry in Macao dwarfs Vegas, with revenue 7 times as high or so (it fluctuates sharply, depending on how many people China lets go there and how much it cracks down on corruption).
Buffering doesn't eliminate the VBR issue, it just obfuscates it in a breakable way.

The fix is a constant bitrate with a sensible block cipher mode.
Almost assuredly false. The Federal Reserve balance sheet is US treasuries and mortgages, and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac are mortgages as well. Probably not a complete data set.
Aren't they always the ones holding the bag? Auto industry bail out, bank bail out, insurance agency bail out from Katrina. This responsibility is what stabilizes the world's currencies I suppose.
Most of the student loan debt is owed to private creditors and it is the federal government that insures these loans. If a student doesn't make payments, the lender gets a guaranteed bailout by the government (no need for congress to step in like they did for the banks and auto companies). Basically, all the lenders are incentivized to give out as much money as possible, which incentivizes universities to raise tuitions, all because the US government decided to give lenders free money to play with at the cost of those who take on the debt and the ones footing the bill, which are usually the same people.
Trying to raise your kids differently from that in the US is quite the hassle though. There are plenty of news headlines where it got ridiculous, but here's two examples from my life, with my oldest daughter (I'm sure I'll have more as her siblings get older):

Someone called the cops on me for leaving her, at 8 years old, in a car, parked in the shade, on a cool day for 5 minutes.

She was questioned by a stranger at age 10 (where are your parents, what are you doing alone &c.), when I let her walk by herself through the safest part of town for 3 blocks from my office to an after-school activity.
I believe what they were implying was that such a bubble can only "pop" if a bunch of the debt is discharged at once, which in this case means a bunch of people who still owe student loans on their deathbed die with more debt than assets. The commenter suggested trying to figure out when this would happen, and making sure one is ahead of it.
"Time sharing" is different from "pay for usage".

"Time sharing" is "pay X per month and use up to Y hours".

"Pay per usage" is "pay X per hour of usage, no minimum requirements".

In a time-share it can be very hard to break out of the contract.
Calculate where, approximately, we get to the point where the average issuee will not be paying the value of the loan back in their lifetime. That's the point where the average loan is not worth is face value and a housing-style mass write-down is imminent.
Administrative bloat feeding into administrative bloat.
Ask HN: Pandora like station creation alternatives on other services?
My Pandora subscription is expiring and given their delays in bringing premium to the desktop, I'm looking to move on to a service that plays on the Echo in addition to the desktop.

I've looked at multiple other services and cannot find the ability to create a personalized station by seeding it with a few groups I like. On Pandora, you create a station, give it some names and Pandora learns from there what you like by the thumbs up and down. You don't have to manage it past the thumbs up and down.

I just like to set it and forget it.

Every other service I've looked at lacks the ability to introduce new music automatically and/or personalize the station.

Spotify offers the ability to create stations, but you have to manually add music. Amazon automatically adds to stations, but you cannot save them as your own. Google Play has a feature like this, but doesn't play on Echoes.

What have I missed?
Large providers do scrape this kind of information, but I'm not sure anyone discloses it.
This usd has entered the economy via universities. The inflation is already out there. The issue comes when the loss is chrystalized. As in 2008 the state is filling in a hole not building a hill.
Do you take time to rest every so often? I used to work 7 days a week on my SaaS but now I make sure to take some time once a week to have a day off, to relax, to mediate, have drinks, see friends, etc. No code for a whole day.