skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It does imply that it just doesn't prove it.

@mxcl's experience doesn't imply it either. The only evidence for a widespread problem is the number of people who have that problem. I have never had an interview where I felt rejected for what I thought was a single dumb question, ever. And I've never seen it happen to someone I know personally, or at a company I've worked for.

> A wanton disregard for realism in interviewing is, in my experience, very clearly systemic and industry-wide.

I don't necessarily disagree with this, but could you elaborate more on what bad things are actually happening that affect people? Are good coders, by and large, not able to get jobs? Are good coders having statistically significant problems getting paid or finding enjoyable work? I don't think so. Please elaborate on what actual damage is being done, I'm not seeing any.

> Seriously wtf?

Seriously. I don't know what happened, but I'm not automatically on the side of @mxcl because he was turned down or because I'm a fan of Homebrew. He might be exaggerating what happened. Do you know for a fact that it was specifically the binary tree question and nothing else in his interview that lost his chances there?

For all I know, the binary tree question was put there just to see if he would scoff at actual programming questions given his high profile status, and he failed because he scoffed and not because he got it wrong.

> I think you're starstruck by Google and that is affecting your judgement.

Why? What have I said that suggests I'm a fan of Google at all? It seems to me like you're making wild assumptions here.

> Asking him about binary trees was dumb.

That's an opinion. One that is based on not knowing why the question was there, or what the other questions were. I do ask questions on topics that I don't expect the candidate to use in their job. I'm interested in whether they paid attention in school. I'm interested in what they know, regardless of their skill. I'm interested in what they don't know, and where their limits are. I'm interested to know if people are curious about software. I'm interested to know how people react to questions they don't know the answer to. And I have a rule to specifically reject candidates that get upset about being asked technical questions. Those are people I don't want to work with.

None of that precludes asking some realistic questions about things people will use on the job, in addition to any unrealistic ones.
That's called a marketing agency, and they come in all shapes and sizes. If you're a very small company then there are plenty of freelancer marketers that can help you out, even if it's just to setup a basic framework for running campaigns.

An "app" would not be sufficient to handle any of the complexity here.
I mean, you can say the same thing for progressive taxes. The point is that "gouging" implies something somehow unethical, while price discrimination is at best morally ambiguous because it benefits customers with less means at the expense of customers with more means.
I don't think this type of thinking is very productive - it's a romanticization of an ancestral past. The ancestral environment is useful for context for why things are the way they are, but it tells us nothing about the future. We can point back to the habits and lifestyles of the past and imagine cargo-culting their behavior will grant us the outcomes we prefer, but there's no understanding in it. Various communities even implement this, with varying success - see the Amish or Mormons.

As an aside, drug use was extremely common among indigenous peoples all across the world. I don't even think this naturalism fallacy supports these particular claims.
> We're all people that enter into deep states of flow when stoned, and many of us believe the pot is required to quickly enter flow and then stay there for hours on end as we develop.

Same here. Extremely deep flow state. Anything distracting or urgent is largely ignorable. Rewards from accomplishing things are increased. The problem at hand becomes the main thing. Anxieties, fears and worries are greatly attenuated.

I spend a lot of time meditating, trying to reduce the negatives so I can cope when I'm around normies at my day job. But I get much more done at home alone, vaping.

btw, have you experimented with edibles? Might be easier on your longs than bongs...
Anecdotally: Work in wireless telecom. Tower climbing contractors have shifted to hair tests for drugs because so many applicants try to evade tests, or test positive. They also regularly have issues with people who get their drivers licenses revoked for DUI, to the extent that job postings including "must have current/valid drivers license".
> The story usually boils down to some version of "I succeeded in a harsher environment, suck it up".

Mm, that quote characterizes the root of a lot of evil in the world (or at least propagates a lot of evil).

Anybody know a graceful way to disincentivize that kind of thinking?
Did she ever explain this preference?
We using MongoDB for many internal projects (ASP.NET Core) in our big company.
Biggest replica-set - 3x(8 Xeon cores and 32GB RAM) has
600 inserts/600 update/500 deletes in second without any sharding.

Average document size ~ 50 - 300KB.
It work perfect with authomathic failover, when Oracle with their CLOB types collapsed with Disk IO.
MongoDB save a lot of time for us.

But first you need to understand how it works and then you'll love it too.
>Would you call pre-streaming Netflix a tech startup?

Startup, but not a tech startup.

>Maybe the difficulty in categorizing is that every company today has to use technology.

Yep, this is exactly what I was trying to get at. That being the case, it seems more accurate to shape a definition of "tech" companies based on output (i.e. products/services offered) rather than input (i.e. tools employed).
I really think it's that drug users are very good at recognizing who's "cool" and who's not. I wouldn't be surprised if half the people at my undergrad CS program weren't even aware of the stimulant phenomenon because they just weren't friends with people who did that kind of stuff

There's also a huge age gap in that older people are probably less likely to abuse drugs for maturity/responsibility reasons, and that no 25 year old developer in their right mind would mention their/their friends' drug use to their 40 year old colleague. And older people didn't grow up in during the era where stimulants were being handed out like candy to kids to get them to shut up
We want our children to surpass our own success. I don't see why a hypothetical race of artificial brain-gods would be any different, as long as they propagate our values and don't crush us.
"Double taxation" would be if you paid income tax in full to both NJ and NY, but that's not what happens since NJ provides a dollar for dollar credit for the income tax you pay to NY. Therefore, you only ever pay the maximum of either the income tax you owe NJ or the income tax you owe NY.

You're right that the new federal tax law could incentivize people to move from places with higher state and local taxes to places with lower state and local taxes, but the differences between NJ/NY/CT are negligible. The only big difference would be moving out of New York City, as that would save you up to ~20% (federal tax rate) of 3.5% (NYC income tax rate) of your income, but I doubt many people are willing to trade in their quality of life in NYC just for that.
What I always wonder when seeing animal-like robots: they don't have a tail, which however seems to be pretty important for animals to keep balance... how do robots (or de-tailed animals) compensate for the lack of a tail?
> TheVerge.com non-AMP
> yada yada

For some reason you think that the solution to that is "let's do a standards-incompatible aggressively preloaded slimmed down page that will live on our ultra-fast CDN/cache servers".

Can you see the problem?

Also, can you see why web packages don't solve the problem (hint to start you thinking: not everyone can run their pre-rendered pages off of Google's CDN. Even Google's own AMP isn't fast if it's not preloaded from Google's cache)?
you've been seconded: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461676#16463992
Also Dallas resident. I would agree that "work together" is a message here, but would add to it, "work together, play together". Dallas is all about the social life. Not in the way LA is with "A-list" or "who you know", but simply just doing things with friends. All the time.

I'd also say the message to me is "work hard, play hard, and keep a work life balance". People in Dallas get shit done, but they aren't going to work for more than 40-50 hours/week. I'd say another 10-20 hours per week is spent on hobbies, with friends or not, then the rest of ones' free time is social. Whether it be family or friends or both. Perhaps that is why people usually say "people are so nice here".

When people visiting ask me what I do on the weekends here in Dallas, my response is, patio drinking with friends or traveling. Dallas, being centrally located and having two major airports, is a great place to be able to take off for the weekend for a fairly low price anywhere in the country. For as much as I'd be paying for rent in NYC, I can pay for a mortgage and travel to a different city almost every weekend. Although I usually average twice a month. And the friends you spend time with while you are in Dallas are very open to traveling with you as well.

I've now traveled to almost every major city in the U.S. in two years time, some cities multiple times, and I think for somebody in their mid-20's to mid-30's, this is a great place to be. During this time in ones career, you can get industry experience in a field and then go start your start up or just move up once you know a thing or two.
I find it odd that they did an LLVM port and even another blog about dealing with 16bit char types, but none of the target specific changes are going upstream. I can understand a company not wanting to help their competitors, but it sounds like they're still going to try to get the 16bit char changes pushed upstream, which is likely one of the more useful pieces for a competing DSP vendor with a different instruction set.

In 5 years we'll all be using risc-v with a nice DSP extension anyway... And after typing that I felt the need to google: https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Wed1000_dsp_isa...
Ask HN: What's your take on the homeless crisis of San Francisco?
Hey HN. I've been wanting to see some discussions on HN about poverty in San Francisco. I've been planning to move to San Francisco for a lot of obvious reasons, but the current state of the high number of homeless in the streets and safety in the city has been making me think a lot about this decision.

I wanted to know how poverty is perceived in SF and the bay area, and what are the different organizations that are set up to help. I wanted to know if this is a problem that has sprouted start ups or involvement from big tech companies.

Also, is this problem a state problem or a federal one? Is there a solution being planned? Or is there already something in place that sets to reduce the number of homeless in the region on a 5/10-year period?

Thanks!
Any idea when a curved back isn’t bad? I mean we have the ability to curve the back for some reason.. right?

Feels weird to completely make the back stiff forever
> We're all people that enter into deep states of flow when stoned, and many of us believe the pot is required to quickly enter flow and then stay there for hours on end as we develop.

Same here. Extremely deep flow state. Anything distracting or urgent is largely ignorable. Rewards from accomplishing things are increased. The problem at hand becomes the main thing. Anxieties, fears and worries are greatly attenuated.

I spend a lot of time meditating, trying to reduce the negatives so I can cope when I'm around normies at my day job. But I get much more done at home alone, vaping.
So I am at the beginning of my mechanical and materials engineering education, but I do know enough to tell you that making your injection molding come out okay is not easier than swapping the head gasket on your motorcycle.

Machines need to be operated and maintained. How do you properly load the feed stock? How clean does it need to be? Will humidity duck it up?

A lot of this is lore and experience, too, because the manuals are often pretty bad(or written for the engineers, which is bad when you have someone less educated doing the operations).

I mean yeah, you can be the apprentice and do all this under the supervision of someone more experienced, but usually pay scales accordingly. I am not saying it is as hard as chip layout or anything, but there is skill and experience involved.
'Please' and 'thank you' go a long when requesting additional features for an OSS project.
hallucinogens, sure. There is definitely overlap between the seattle area tech scene (more so people who live in Seattle proper, not people who live in Redmond/Kirkland/Issaquah and have a marriage, a mortgage, 2 kids and a minivan), with tech workers who are also regular Burning Man attendees. At least to the extent that if a curious person wanted to find a source of Psilocibe Cubenses mushrooms, they would know who to ask.
Lots of suffering and death. Unless we act using our ability to make predictions about the future. Act now, speak out, reach for common ground with critics, avoid spending to much energy on trolls and lost causes.
Yeah, I thought that part of the point of the LLVM project was that front end language compilers (entirely language agnostic) could target non-platform specific LLVM IR code, and then let the backend LLVM compiler compile to multiple backend targets. It simplifies front-end compiler development by having a single IR target over multiple native target.
Sadly, I don't know (or remember) any more of the story than that, and she's not around anymore to ask... It doesn't seem likely that they would have gotten huge amounts of coal by doing it.
Atmel Studio just works.

The 'new project' menu even includes 'import from Arduino sketch', and it's easy to add an external tool link so you can use avrdude to program the Arduino, just like the Arduino IDE does.
A behaviour tree is sort of a hierarchical state machine but one in which the states are not explicit. They fall out of how you arrange the nodes in the tree.

Actual hierarchical state machines are pretty common for driving a variety of things. Probably most commonly animation but also driving game state.
I lived in Harlem 30 minutes from Midtown in a 2bdrm with a roommmate for 850, I now live in Boerum Hill (really nice neighborhood) 30 minutes from Midtown in a studio for 1800. It's really not hard to find places that aren't that expensive, you just have to be patient / willing to have a roommate or two.
Yeah unfortunately I don't know of any way to differentiate the different types of links. Wikipedia's pagelinks database doesn't different them. I agree it's undesireable but I just cannot figure out how to cull them.
> Paired with estimates that incivility can cost organizations an estimated $14,000 per employee

I would love to hear how they arrived to such a precise number. Unfortunately, no references in the article.
Got five! https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Living%20Compu...
"Ozymandias" (1818) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Kind of reminds me of PageRank in someway; the number of "backedges" is not guaranteed to equal number of "forwardedges", hence the difference in number of paths.
Speaking to a few anime/manga fans I know Bemmu has to compete with giants like J-List who dominate this space. Then there are local "Kawaii companys" in each region, for example Tofu Cute in the UK.

Why doesn't the Candy Japan Website have prominent links to Twitter and other social media?

Have you thought about using Social media more? Let's look at Twitter. Bemmu has almost 6,000 twitter followers, I'm guessing the Candy Japan Twitter account is @candyjapanese with about 250 followers?

While rivals - http://www.japancandybox.com/ has 23K follows and J-List has 155K followers.
To add to this - people often equate energy with productivity. I see a lot of comments saying "it was the most productive I've ever been in my life".

As someone who's been on both sides, I used to believe stimulants granted exceptional focus and productivity as well. After starting my own business and seeing what real focus and productivity look like, I believe stimulants only help when it comes to slogging through proscribed, boring work.

If it's a task that requires creative focus, you are better off getting a lot of sleep and letting your subconscious churn on the problem.
[copy of answer from below] The Wikipedia database doesn't differentiate links which appear in the main article versus in the sources or categories sections. It's possible one of the intermediate links is in there. You sometimes need to do a CTRL+f in "View Source" to find the link. Also, the latest Wikipedia dump is from February 2nd, so it's possible the link has been deleted since that date. I'll regenerate my database when the new dump lands in early March.
I was honestly thinking about landlines when I wrote this :)

Sidenote: I've never used the voice recognition myself, honestly.
> Newton, Pythagoras, Socrates, columbus, genghis khan, soviet union, Mao

Not sure why you didn't add some example pertaining to the U.S. such as:

"Or how the United States promotes freedom of expression while locking up over 1% of its adult population."
I heartily recommend PlatformIO. It makes hardware programming much, much easier by handling dependencies, compilation, etc.
It's a directed graph. Your source is Uruguay and your destination is Obama. You'll find Obama on the midpoints.

Opposite direction: no Myanmar
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Uruguay&target...
These moral fiat statements are unhelpful to no one. You simply don’t know the context. In a very flat power structure or a very small company (2 to 3 employees) at the office, social dynamics change dramatically.

Never mind that caffeine is legal yet it’s the shittiest productivity drug I can imagine yet everyone is falling over themselves to serve it to you and get you one while they’re out on break. I’d much prefer people ask me if I’d like a pill of modafinil to the addictive cranky horror that is caffeine.
Annihilation Is a New Sci-Fi Classic
writing about high level tech and strategy is an art form. you probably want to see deeper detail, more in depth examples? me too. but although he isn't saying much of anything to you, (and sometimes I struggle to understand it too), be careful of dismissing things you don't understand that have gained a lot of validation. The crowd may not always be wrong and I like the challenge of understanding a different mindset from my day to day level of thought.
You know of tools like this?

I don't. I do have a background in dictionaries, though: I created The Online Slang Dictionary (http://onlineslangdictionary.com/) which is the eldest slang dictionary and thesaurus on the web. I've given some minutes of thought to turning the underlying code into a product...

What sort of data would you like to capture in the DB, and what would apps do with it?
Sure: I'd like to purchase three versions of it _simultaneously_ to learn how it works: fully assembled, as a kit, and in a source form. That way I guess debugging it would be much easier, and should the two get assembled successfully, they'd make great gifts!
In the scientific / numeric space it’s not unheard of to buy Intel Fortran/C compilers for performance reasons.

Also, it’s been a few years since I touched IBM’s POWER hardware with AIX, but I’m pretty sure XLC and whatever the Fortran compilers were didn’t come free.
Reuse reuse reuse, Prefer glass over plastic and walking more are my personal ways of offsetting my footprint.
I'm trying to figure out how that second point worked. Is it that you were whistling too often and it would have been a problem even if you were going with, say, the Andy Griffith theme, or did you both whistle so well and have school administrators so educated that they identified that you were whistling Nazi propaganda?

It's not that characteristic a tune.
I'm not sure, but some version of pointing out that men are being held more accountable these days? That is, success shouldn't be dependent on some innate ability to fend off, deflect, or ignore sexual advances and other forms of gender discrimination?
Water testing is now so good you could just gather samples from the sewage line of various companies to do some testing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516581/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4746787.stm

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z43kk9/the-plan-t...
Then why is it a web app? What happened to open standards? Why not just make it a standalone application, following your logic?
Yes, Paul Erdős apparently was capable of using amphetamines without excess. I don't know how someone would know whether they could prove capable of doing the same.

Also, at the start of World War II the German soldiers took amphetamines. Accounts of the invasion of France describe some unusually daring/reckless and physically daunting tasks that likely, w/o amphetamines, would not have been done. Staying awake for days seemed to be part of the job:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=amphetamines+and+invasion+of+Franc...
To some extent the map is showing your population density.

But yes, fishing is a big part of the cultures of many European countries.

Having said that, my favourite bit of US cuisine is Jambalaya, which seems to feature shellfish at least.
I know Russia is doing things that I, and a lot of people, disagree with and think are just wrong. Lots of people, money, governments are invested in fighting against this.

The thing is, governments often turn out to be quite awful. Japan, China, Russia, Germany, Spain, etc, etc...

I love many things about America, and that's why I appreciate Greenwald. Who else is invested in investigating the un-American lies and corruption, who is looking to protect our civil liberties and constitutional rights? I don't think cable news is doing it.
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Flux Shifts Direction, New Platform Due Mid-Year
And now they get to do it again, brought to you by the financial-media institutional axis - now supporting Crypto™!
I guess it depends on how much they acquired for their $15M in 2015. Let's say it was 49%, then that would say the company grew a little.
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Comparing Elasticsearch with Solr
I would like to hear a little more on how you organized the search and what you are pre-processing and what you calculate on-the-fly. Thanks.
Why should we put so much weight into the personal experiences we're told about instead of statistics?

Doesn't are reality then get warped by whatever people have the biggest megaphone for their personal experiences?
I definitely fall on this side of the scale. I've certainly heard of people using "performance enhancers" in a programming context, and have seen hard drug use at parties (very infrequently), but it was never my thing (hell, I don't even drink coffee), and none of the people I know well and consider solid developers have a drug habit.

I think -- and this cuts both ways -- people into the drug scene naturally gravitate toward others that are also into it, to the point where they think "everyone" does it. I suspect tech's drug problem isn't markedly larger than society's drug problem as a whole; it's perhaps smaller considering knowledge workers get paid based on how well their brains work, and long-term most drugs seem to mess that up.

I'd love to see a concerted effort to study the prevalence of this sort of thing. It's frustrating that I can't validate my expectations here.
That is contradicting - such labels would be regulation. The best free market are small family run poultries where you can witness meat preparation yourself, no need for labels.
Not wanting to pay for a level of service you know you won't use isn't being cheap, it's rational behavior.