skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever your job title might be if you are the eyes and ears that generate feedback for the CEO and other management teams what are your ways of leading and guiding a lazy employee? Software developers or not it seems like as soon as everyone gets a degree they forget that we can still have toxic people in our field that slip through the hiring process and just bring everyones day down. When I say I would let someone go I mean I would suggest it and only after many attempts of me and the rest of the team trying to get through to them which seems pretty standard to me. I'd rather not work in a corporate place where I'm forced to work under or over negative people without options. Though I'm sure I come off as a typical grumpy jerk online I have to deal with being a passive aggressive person at work and I have noticed that has led to a employee or two attempting to take advantage of my hospitality and I end up working crazy hours to get things done for releases because I'm not the type of person to demand you stay late or work weekends. Everyone under me has a laid back job, I would also have a laid back job if I swapped one bad egg with a good egg or rebranded his position. I feel bad for the guys destroying work left and right while this other employee wants a red carpet laid at his feet every week to write a line of code. Maybe the 10x programmer doesn't exist but people who read about silicon valley and think free cupcakes and energy drinks should be everywhere certainly do.
Same goes for Google and Amazon. I'm sure each of these companies may lease out space from another colo for their edge computing needs, but the are primarily using DCs they built, own, operate, and staff.
The iPhone SE I bought recently is really fast. Waited a while to update to the latest iOS version as it didn't look that good judging by the betas I was using on my iPad before it's official release. But it's running great after holding off for two months, zero problems.

GeekBench is like one or two dollar in the AppStore. If the score has a significant difference with other iPhone 6's probably you're having a battery problem.

Also factory resetting the phone can help. Try to figure out if there are any apps using a lot of battery in your battery overview. Some apps consume more in terms of background activity than others.
I wonder if this says something (good) about the Tether situation, given Poloniex uses USDT.
Great article about this acquisition and the emerging world of cryptocurrency according to the Circle founders:

http://fortune.com/2018/02/26/circle-cryptocurrency-trade-bi...
> There is an incredibly strong “birds of a feather flock together,” effect at play

Agreed.

As an engineer who doesn't take any stimulants, what does it look like when another person is on Adderall? Maybe I'd notice a person snorting cocaine at work, but if I saw someone taking a pill? I'd figure it's probably just a painkiller, or a multi-vitamin, or for some health condition. Never would I suspect Adderall or some other stimulant. I basically presume that nobody at my office takes Adderall because I would never take it myself.
IIRC didn’t wolf and doom use ‘binary radians’ where 2π = 256
should the last line of the second function be fragColor = vec4(c1, c2)?

I just see an unused c2.
Of course they can be 'spiritual' (i've known several), with one clear philosophical caveat: religion, by definition, is dogma which requires faith. Faith requires, by definition, that one accept as truth universal aspects with no evidence. Being a good scientist requires, among other things, to accept nothing without supporting data - which is the opposite of faith. So, religious scientists who i have known notably split their understanding of the universe in two. Over coffee with one of these chaps i'll never forget his saying "Well, there's my professional system of belief, and there's my personal awareness, and I strive to keep them separate at all times." Just for the record, i couldn't manage to do that.
It's tough even with a big tech sector salary. I don't know if your kids are in school yet, but the cost of living in a good school district or paying for private school makes things way more complicated.
that OS shipped with 65,000 known defect

Issue tracking at Microsoft (and presumably all large tech companies) includes things like:

* localization errors

* typos in user-visible text

* suggestions for rewording user-visible text

* issues related to icons and other graphics

* issues related to sounds that ship with the product

* feature requests

* feature enhancements

* tracking tickets for work to be done or work in progress

* tickets for unverified, incorrect, and unreproducable bugs

So a. 65,000 tickets, not 65,000 defects. b. "65,000 tickets" is meaningless without knowing more about them.
I'd still replace the battery regardless of what they tell you.

Apple once told me I had a good battery even though my phone would randomly shut off and attaching to a charger was the only solution to get the phone to turn on. Thankfully I had AppleCare and pushed for them to replace the phone.
I'm not suggesting either. I drive a car from 2001 that has spent most of its life in the US north-east. Rust can be an issue but you would be surprised how many cars don't have major rust problems. However, if I had an option of getting a more expensive car (7k was out of my budget) when I was looking for one, I would have gone with something more like what you mentioned. I'm just throwing out the idea that 7k isn't necessarily in the same price range as an old civic. It's definitely rolling the dice with an old car but I have only had to pay for one battery and one alternator (notice I said pay for... in all actuality I received a free battery and had to have an extra alternator replaced as the shop I went to was garbage but owned up to it).
I couldn't do that at first either, but I learned to do it. The key is stretching exercises and practicing wall facing squats. You can progress in a few ways, like sitting on a low couch and then trying to get up without supporting yourself with your hands. Hint: place knees wide and move your head forward (but not pas your knees).
Agree, but for volumes to be meaningful, crypto currencies still need to be a thing.
Seven Benefits of Mindful Breathing
> Despite months of breathless hype, the iPhone X hasn’t sold as well as expected since its debut last year. Apple sold 77.3 million iPhones in the final quarter of 2017, below analysts’ projections of 80.2 million units. Some consumers were turned off by the iPhone X’s $1,000 price despite liking the design even as they wanted something more cutting-edge than the cheaper iPhone 8. With its next lineup, Apple is seeking to rekindle sales by offering a model for everyone.

This seems like color commentary that isn't supported by their sources, or data. I'm not sure how they are supporting this statement. Apple's recent quarterly earnings [0] showed iPhone sales as (essentially) stable, year over year. ASP increased to $800 dollars (!) which would point to the iPhone X doing relatively well, despite not being available for the entire quarter.

Even beyond that, there is no way for Apple to begin product development at a point after they saw the Q4 results. There is far to much lead-time required for them to be able to wait until now to do so.

My guess is that 1) the rumors of these 2 new models are true, 2) Apple committed to this product roadmap a long time ago, and 3) Bloomberg is adding it's own spin to make the leaks more salacious.

[0] - https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/02/apple-reports-its-holiday...
I must say I am surprised by the number of upvotes this gets, and the number of downvotes crescentfresh seems to be getting (I actually upvoted GP). Not knowing about Wolfenstein is very understandable nowadays.
What I find hilarious is when I post a very detailed technical android answer and then someone comes along and edits it to be incorrect. I wish there was a way to make your posts only viewable or deletable. The people who go around editing do a terrible job...
I used to think the message in Dallas was "get rich". The city had almost no flavor to it and seemed all about the money. Having leaved here for a few years, I think the message is "work together". The economy is amazing and the opportunities here seem to encourage cooperation
So do you think the scandals that always get exposed here in the US are a normal part of that cycle then? The tree of liberty refreshing.
Seems pretty desperate. It was known they were having a real hard time bringing up Altera's gigabit transceivers on Intel's processes. I guess they've given up and decided to just bond separate chips together.
Apple to suspend iTunes Store support for “obsolete” first-gen Apple TV
So this thing was launched in December, and news on whether or not it was successful?
I have never known anyone I have worked with to do drugs (in order to aid work). Doesn't mean they don't, but I hadn't even thought about it until I read this post. One of the first things I learned in my (albeit young) career is that my brilliant, complex, I-worked-all-night-to-make-this super code is total garbage that no one wants to work with. Yes, it's amazing, but if no one else can understand it or wants to, it's dead in the water.

Making code simpler is more important, being reliable and sustaining a constantly improving level of code quality is pure gold. This will allow my team to be more productive, we will get better quality products out faster and be able to build upon them. I think my natural mind is best suited for the complex demands required by collaborating with others, thinking deeply, and turning thoughts into clear, clean, testable and tested code.

Far from wanting to stimulate myself to work more, I'd love to be able to turn my mind off and relax more quickly, and get a good nights sleep to start again refreshed. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of coders had a little alcohol in the evenings, maybe marijuana. The coders I know drink a little (not too much) and one of them smokes weed. That's it.

I agree with other comments that I think people self-select into different groups. There are people that take drugs. They hang out with people that take drugs. Maybe some of them have gotten into coding. There are a lot of people who don't take drugs, and they usually work with similar people. I don't think this is a coding vs non-coding thing, but maybe what type of person you turned out to be in high school. I'd bet most coders aren't the drug-taking type.
Mate is the 'same' as coffee, in that it's just caffeine. There is some research to say that the mate derived caffeine is largely an isomer of caffeine, in that the molecule is shaped differently. This is then used to explain why mate is more potent to users without a habituation to coffee derived caffeine. However, the research is still ongoing and the isomer theory is not yet proved, AFAIK. Likely it's just a placebo effect, but a strong one nonetheless.

Having spent some time in South America, mate sure is nice and a good change of pace. In the countrysides, it's not uncommon to see people with large thermoses slung under the elbow (for hot water) and a mate gourd in the same hand, happily sipping the days away. I'd recommend it for anyone looking to add some variety in your daily routine. Be advised that it is an acquired taste and may take a week to get used to, just like coffee was in the beginning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Guayaki-Traditional-Organic-Yerba-Loo...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Mategreen-M0035-Argentina-Yerba-Gourd...

(though there are cheaper gourds that can just sit without tipping, I prefer the traditional hand-held ones)
The whole question doesn't make sense. Any Airbnb tier had comparable in price hotel options since forever.

If the question is rather "Airbnb’s new Plus tier costs about the same as a high-end hotel–so who is it for?", the answer is obvious. People with more money, that still want to rent their own place instead of stay in a hotel. DUH!
> This microgravity-produced fiber has numerous applications, including trans-Atlantic telecommunications

That didn't seem feasible - my first guess was that you couldn't possibly use something that you need to bring to space to cross the Atlantic. My gut was that the math would put it somewhere above the economic output of the planet. But when I stopped guessing to actually do the math, that 5,000 km multiplied by $300/meter is 'just' $15B. Still just one fiber, and still a lot more than the $300M that a traditional cable costs, but it could be done.
VGA seemed downright HD compared to CGA.
Show HN: MatAngular – Angular 5+ and Material Admin Template
Are you male or female? My wife had been (rightfully so) griping about how difficult women's clothes are to find. Getting good fitting pants that are modestly prices and don't wear out in some short amount of time like 3-4 years is very difficult.
A joke ?? The joke's on us!

Remember, ancient Romans were masters of the world, but they drank wine from lead cups, used lead for plumbing etc. Just because a culture is kinda dominant at the moment doesn't meant it can learn nothing from other parts of the world.
A hefty box is a SPOF, so that's an apple to oranges comparison. How do you upgrade that machine to a newer Postgres version?
It's actually closer to the Wolfenstein rendering engine than one might expect... Like the original, it does a ray-march in the ground plane to find map objects:

https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/0516778/WOLFSRC/W...

And, like the original, it separates the cases of wall blocks, door blocks, and sprites. It also expedites ceiling/floor drawing by just picking a flat color for the top and bottom halves of the screen:

https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/0516778/WOLFSRC/W...

But it naturally differs from the original in that it is rendering per-pixel rather than per-column, so it does not need to accumulate a list of sprite intersections to draw in reverse order over the walls -- it can just stop raymarching when it encounters an opaque pixel:

https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/0516778/WOLFSRC/W...

In a sense, the shader works like rewriting and optimizing the original renderer so that it renders to a screen of a single pixel, then running 147,456 instances of the renderer to fill the 512x288 pixel screen.
I work with information security. I have depression and anxiety (I know lots in infosec and software engineering who also has - maybe it's a mix of loneliness, impostor syndrome and the feeling of underachievement?) and I use marijuana (a blunt per night) to help me treat it. It doesn't affect on my daily work in any bad way. Besides that, on the past I've used a lot of alcohol and occasionaly MDMA to party on weekends, which didn't lead me to heavier drugs and/or more frequent uses and it also didn't affect my job.

As a side note, I'm not sure about the relationship between this industry (infosec) and mental health issues, but, from what I know/have seen, the numbers are very high compared to other industries. And mental health is sure worth a look to find more about drug (ab)use in a particular industry.
Quantum Biology at the Cellular Level – elements of the research program (2013)
I wrote this in a bit of a frenzy. I'm very curious as to the parts that folks collectively feel I got wrong!
Can highly recommend PlatformIO and something like Atom or Visual Code, etc.

The Arduino IDE is... unique.
> Despite months of breathless hype, the iPhone X hasn’t sold as well as expected since its debut last year. Apple sold 77.3 million iPhones in the final quarter of 2017, below analysts’ projections of 80.2 million units.

Considering the iPhone was going to be a flop by those same analysts, I’d say selling 77.3 million of them is pretty good.

Who actually writes this rubbish? They missed out on 3 million phones, based on a number you made up? It was out of stock for weeks and is only now really available.
I had to upgrade from an iPhone 6 that I liked just fine, because the OS keeps getting slower and slower. I suspect it relates back to the 3d shimmer effects and adding depth to everything, and transition animations. I suspect Ives needs to be knocked down a peg so that the phone stops getting worse. Apple is still selling the 6s so they test that one a bit more, and it it's completely dead, but it's still pretty laggy compared to how it was when it first shipped.
Pseudonymity might also be a good option (although it also has its pitfalls):

https://twitter.com/jaipelai/status/900513036552859648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15918851
What kind of household is spending enough on consumer goods for that to matter? I am not exactly thrifty or a Luddite, but electronics, clothes, etc. have never been more than 5% of my spending. I don’t feel comfortable spending on travel at all given the Herculean savings targets needed for an emergency fund or down payment here. Rent is 67% of my outflows, followed by food (my main luxury purchase is not having to cook).

Regardless, good cost of living calculators don’t just take the ratio of housing prices, they use a typical consumer’s basket of goods, some of which may be the same price.
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Is it that because you don't use drugs, the people who do use them tend not to discuss them with you? I was just joking with a colleague about trying the gas and air when his wife gives birth, and everyone in our bank of desks thought that would be outrageous behaviour.

There's no way I'd admit to these guys that I have a load of N2O canisters stashed at home and will go full-balloonatic during festival season, let alone anything else I may or may not get up to.
Here's the thing. Not every interviewee is going to care. You do it on a case-by-case basis where you weigh the importance of the position you're trying to fill with your time. Looking for a productive, average developer? Then say no to their terms. Looking for the best of the best? Then you may want to spend that extra 5 minutes looking over their CV and consider if they might be worth your time.
Just to chime in, in my response to OP I felt like I was making myself vulnerable. I was honest about what I experience because someone asked and was clearly hurt in the past by the lack of honesty around it.

I don't feel attacked, but I also really hope I'm right about that. People talking about this stuff openly are exposing themselves. I didn't do it to brag. I just saw someone who was making a genuine request for experiences like mine, and I answered.
Please propose a better process!

> Google wants to waive their interview process as you are an open source contributor. Other companies beg you to work for them even if you don't consider them interesting, willing to overpay you and pamper you.

That's not a realistic scenario, your point seems contrived. Google doesn't waive their interview process, as the @mxcl example demonstrates. Companies only beg to throw money at you and overpay you if you're famous or have a niche skill. If that's true for you, this conversation is irrelevant to you.

> Now comes your unknown company/startup. In order to even talk, you require passing some HackerRank coding test.

As I said above, I'm assuming this process only starts when you express interest in the company. If you're complaining about having to respond to recruiter spam, I can't help you. Nobody is forcing you to take any tests. You should only do it when it's for a job you want.

> In the end I won't work for you. I won't consider anything you offer.

What you're doing is avoiding false positives by screening for something you care about. The same thing Google does. Except Google has statistics on how well their screens work.

> You wasted time and money on me.

Or, more accurately, they saved time and money by not doing lengthy and involved interviews or researching you heavily before discovering it's not a good fit.
I've been watching a lot of Jordan Peterson lately, and your story sounds exactly like part a lecture he'd give. It's sad that you figured it out the hard way.
Wolf3D is a pretty easy-to-understand renderer by nature (it's a 3D representation of what is really a 2D game, so it's a matter of matching columns), and that simplicity lends itself to creativity.
Side projects, generic comp sci interviews help, but essentially to get started bootcamps/udacity nano degree might help. Like you can take a mobile app or full stack online course and quickly build a portfolio.
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There are many metrics you could use, as you and a couple other commenters have suggested, including the diverse verticals in NYC. In the end we made the claim based on deal volume + total amount, using that as a proxy for company formation and growth, both now and into the future. New York is WAY behind Bay Area but ahead of New England and the Northwest. (The CB Insights/Money Tree data goes by regions.) Here's the report: https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights_MoneyTree-Q4-...
Pants with a gusseted crotch will help with squatting and hip-opening. My personal faves[1] also have some lycra in the fabric. Also seen in pants marketed to climbers (they make it easier to climb, and also to sit in a harness).

1: https://www.duluthtrading.com/store/mens/mens-pants/62752.as...
I would really like to see how the leg assembly works.

the joint reminds me of troody a little.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/walking-the-dinos...
I think the least ambiguous name is "wall facing squat". Good for googling more information.
(Excess) scratching, excess fidgeting. Staring off into the distance in the same direction for a while. Overconfidence and they really like to talk about stimulants ;-).
I agree those are good criteria but they tell only half the story. The other commenters metrics are more outcome focused.

It's great if you have a lot of VC funding, but if it's not necessarily leading to attractive outcomes for investors or early employees then that's not going to be sustainable.
Well, there are recreational and performance-enhancing drugs. The attitudes about the two types are different.

Coffee, alcohol, nicotine, and pot are all just normalized. Nobody cares. We chat about it in passing (e.g "so Friday I was high....blah blah rest of story"). Coffee is perf-enhancing but people treat it recreationally.

The performance stuff is alluded to but not really in any detail. Cocaine, adderall, ritalin, modafinil are all considered "ok", to some extent. As in, "ok. You do you, I guess" and it's fine as long as productivity isn't impacted. Cocaine is definitely the black sheep of that bunch, but it's still a fairly clean sheep.

Psychedelics/dissociatives are never admitted to, at least where I work. I have used them (LSD, DXM) but I wouldn't ever consider doing them at work or on a weeknight. They have little business in programming, I think.

Then, finally, the "white-trash" drugs. I don't know anyone who uses opiates, meth, crack, PCP, ketamine, kolonopin, etc. RXs are probably being abused more than I'm aware, but generally, our drug use is pretty elitist. If a poor person would do these drugs, not-poor people stringently avoid it.
Given the vandalism risk as you say, combined with it being buried in a mountain and being fully mechanical, it's probably one of the few machines whose life would be improved by nuclear war or an asteroid extinction event.
The Bluetooth in my car worked reasonable well for a couple of years until one day it stopped working entirely. Thankfully it has an aux connector (and I'll never buy a phone without a 3.5mm jack).
I've always thought the stereotype was that of the metropolitan North East pooh-pooh-ing the West, e.g. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MaCXa3ZSH8
This is the way to go. These are comfortable, warm and breathable, and look decent.