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I don't usually engage on Crypto posts but I'll bite. What specifically do you believe in with regards to Bitcoin?

I'm bullish on crypto as a global "internet dollar" but bearish that Bitcoin is the right one.

I might add that banks want in because they make money on orderflows. Bankers will trade anything (orange juice concentrate/pork belly/oil/derivatives/shares/you name it.)
"Oops your WebGL implementation has crashed!"

The wonderful world of mobile WebGL.

It looks great on the desktop, though.
Think heel striking happens because of the large heels we have have in shoes. I wear zero drop shoes and focus landing on mid/front foot is much easier. Didn’t realize how different my walk is compared to others until my coworker recognized me in a different building because of the way I walk.

Was also told to heel strike by my mom, makes less flopping noise doing so. She has a way of doing what blends in, doesn’t want her kids to be different, the whole largest nail gets hammered.
Xservice is a simple generator to generate services quickly for proto buffer
> Is your company considered the best, properly paying top talent, to employ the same schema?

Yes, this was true of every job I've ever had. Maybe I've been lucky.

I don't really understand why asking someone to do a small amount of programming for a programming job interview, when they claim to be an experienced programmer, is any sort of "extreme" practice.

You've expressed a lot of complaints about coding quizzes, some that many people here share, and some that I agree with.

I would urge you to spend your energy making a specific alternative proposal that companies can actually use. The OP's proposal isn't something companies can actually use for all candidates, even if they could use it for him.

I'm very interested in how to better screen and interview devs. I want to improve my process. But no process I've ever been exposed to is even close to perfect.

Make sure your proposal considers the company's perspective. The ideal process will benefit both the candidate and the company, but something that's pleasant for the candidate and unpleasant for the company will never get adopted no matter how good it sounds.
> But they still put you in an environment and context where you don't have the advantage of being an expert ahead of time.

Yet by forbidding the use of external research and libraries they remove the two main tools I would want some to use "in an environment and context where you don't have the advantage of being an expert ahead of time"
Without. The BOM is for UTF-16 and UTF-32. Nor would would you want a BOM on every string in memory -- that would make it impossible to cheaply substring, for example. BOMs are for external documents -- for interop.
> Links to other implementations

1. Google dominates search. So other caches are basically irrelevant

2. To create a competing cache you need to make sure Google's search uses that cache and that your cache is big, fast, and powerful enough to pre-render AMP pages on Google scale

Which comes back to the original problem: AMP is not fast until someone caches and pre-renders it.

> Custom elements are in the WebComponents spec, which is "valid HTML".

Will all of you "opponents" please read the article you comment on?

Since you can't, here is the six paragraph:

> AMP makes up its own standards that break with what is considered valid HTML. Case in point, have a look at how the AMP project’s homepage, which itself is an AMP page, produces over a 100 validation errors

You can check it yourself.
It would have been softened by the CRTs of the time, though (or, at least, the CRTs I had...).
RADWIN Announces MmWave Mesh Solution,in Collaboration with Facebook and Intel
There are other CDN beside aws/gcs.
Is there some sort of pollution ranking of sorts? Something with hard data behind it.
I was talking about Apple.
I need to get to bed, so I'll save you my (continuing) story of retraining my body to move. But this is from the mystical days of old when FAQs on Usenet contained magical information: https://archive.org/stream/Stretching_and_Flexibility_Brad_A... Hope it helps you!
So it is the same symbol, recognized as that symbol, meaning the same thing but showing up as what some people consider comic sans?

So the problem is the font?
> Is there latent demand that may be induced into the legal market once the costs are cheaper?

If I could get legal documents reviewed cheap (10-20 bucks ?) and fast for problems (new job contracts for example), I'd happily pay for that !

I don't "have a lawyer", and always have had the (probably wrong admittedly) feeling I'll go bankrupt just saying hello to one...
Great writing, with a punchy closing statement:

"He takes pleasure now from the caged birds he collects. He loves their song. They sing and are trapped, just like him."
Stimulants are not free energy, that’s for sure - my impression is you get more done for 2 days, nothing done for 1 and less done for 2 days, making it a net loss of productivity. So they’re ultimately only useful in short spurts where haste is needed.
Unicode abandoned unification.
That sounds like a great process there. It staggers me how much people a) underestimate the investment required to maintain that kind of documentation, and b) underestimate how much value it brings. It's like brushing your teeth.
A 3-D Look Inside the Tasmanian Tiger’s Pouch, Long After Extinction
I wonder if it has to do with too much sitting in chairs? Prof. Galen Cranz discusses some of the effects on posture of western sitting styles in her book, "The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design". Though not scientific, she compares the common slump shouldered, curved spine posture of many westerners to the (better) posture of those who grew up without frequent chair sitting. It may be there is also a connection to lifting posture.
That's not the case everywhere. Some companies pay managers less than engineers. From the company's perspective, a manager deals with a larger chunk of the business, while an engineer solves just one small part. Not saying it's right, but that's my simple guess.
For those interested, the Library of Congress has a substantial number of Lewis Hine photos available online.

https://www.loc.gov/photos/?fa=contributor:hine,+lewis+wicke...
If your company wants people to just do straightforward tasks without raising pertinent questions, your company sounds like a bad fit for many good engineers I know. For example, I personally, would never work for a company like yours.

I am quite lucky to have worked in companies where the peers and management encourage debates and arguments and do not take it as a sign of incompetence.

I had no idea there were companies that would take perfectly reasonable questions on a broken process as a sign of incompetence. Thank you for enlightening me. I now know to be careful enough to avoid such organizations in future.
It would be interesting to be able to change the map depending on the country of origin of the vessels to see the distribution. The article says that Spain is one of the major presences here; but certainly I've seen Chinese fishing boats in the Atlantic
Peter Thiel Is a Flawed Messenger with a Crucial Message for Tech
Warning: NSFW if you're in Germany
i think the article is missing the point. public markets are dead, and that's not the metric of a successful venture capitalist.
You jest but I tend to think it'd be much better for posture and breathing if pants with more flexibility and wiggle room were in fashion for men. E.g. sweatpants. I had a teacher at uni who wore those and I thought he looked rather funny, but in retrospect I can empathize.

Some companies make "dress sweatpants", e.g.

https://www.betabrand.com/collections/dress-pant-sweatpants/

but I never bought any because even in promotional pictures they still tend to look too much like sweatpants.
I can't do that squat. My hamstrings aren't flexible enough due to too much sitting in the first world.
Pretty much, yeah.

Postdocs and junior faculty are generally worked to the bone for little money. Postdocs need to crank out papers that benefit the lab, but also advance their own career prospects; faculty need to do the same, as well as write grant applications, serve on prestigious committees in order to look good for tenure review, etc.

There aren't enough hours in the day.
The point is that the supply of humans doesn't track with the demand for them like it does for horses.

We will find something to do with humans because we'll be forced to. Humans are exclusively more qualified for existence.
> Compared to having your own car, even the absolutely best, world class, mass transit service is just terrible.

That seems an overly strong absolute. I would easily take a quick, clean, close, and reliable bus over car storage, maintenance, insurance, driving in traffic, ensuring I'm mentally alert enough to drive, finding parking, and paying for parking at my destination. That doesn't even mention the purchase experience, which is probably the worst buying experience there is. I've had such transit to some areas of different cities so I know it is possible.

Generally, the more urban the area, the greater the benefits to transit and the higher the costs of car ownership, which makes your comment about properly designed cities questionable - what do you see as "properly designed" that still supports density?

Even if you would never personally see the transit half as worth more than the car ownership half, can you see where others, who have different needs/uses for transportation, would?
"Power obsessed" is the answer to your own question, I think.

And it's not just because they enjoy power. It's more like riding a tiger. There is no time, ever, when it is safe to get off.
Having to get out of bed and go turn the switch off with your hand builds character.
> "...working on something benefiting humanity..."

I think you forgot to add the "/s" to this statement.
The problem is not the font. Users of CJK actually want this distinction in codepoint assignments, not font choice. Non-CJK users might think it silly, and maybe it is, but whatever the case, unification has been abandoned.
I can't speak to the business side, but I certainly like Paper much much more than Quip as a product. In general I find integrated multi-function suites to feel janky and half-baked compared to their single-function competitors.
In absolute numbers, New York would be at or near the top of the list just out of sheer size. New York has a lot of people doing IT work because it's a huge city and every business needs some IT to a greater or lesser degree.
If they were capable of thinking like that, they wouldn’t be in the position they were in. It must take a really incredible lust for power, and a very high opinion of oneself to be what amounts to a dictator in the first place.

Humble, sensible, rations, people don’t become the Mugabes of the world, in the same way that people who can measure rewards and risks don’t rob liquor stores.
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This makes me think that approaching scripture intellectually must be a waste of time.

If Newton couldn't distill any worthy insights after a lifetime of study, then there mustn't be anything to find.

I mean reading the scriptures allegorically, or as poetry or with the 'right brain' can be a valuable thing to do, but to parse them too finely seems like the wrong way to go about it.
Pretty much all major religions are compatible with each other. You can move towards a particular sect if you have specific needs. A polytheist Christian would tend towards Catholicism, etc.

I don’t think you need to adhere closely to one single tradition in order to be “religious” if that’s what you’re getting at.

To answer your question directly though, I was raised in a Christian church. I adhere to some basic form of that. Humility, forgiveness, we were made in Gods image, the original sin of the knowledge of good and evil, etc.
There's air quality maps at https://www.airnow.gov/, and similar websites.

Mind you, there's a lot of day-to-day variation.
> renaming Hitler to Mr. Heiler

I don't know if it's the same Wolfenstein but I was somewhat amused to read, or see on Youtube, recently they renamed Himmler to Hoeller. (Himmel being heaven in German, and Hoelle being hell.)
Seems like too much code. Like I just want journald, consolidation and search.
In your experience, is there more substance use (drugs, assuming alcohol is used sometimes to excess by all age groups) among the junior folks, because of the difference in the pressure they feel?
as someone in his late twenties from the netherlands, i roughly have the same experience. The recreational drug use has more to do with age in my experience then workfields. Most people i know who did softdrugs casually stopped doing so once they either settled down or got kids.

It might just be my enviroment, but alcohol use is rampant and also heavily culturally ingrained in my area. (i live in the southern part of the netherlands. Drinking during dinner is not uncommon for example, even on weekdays.
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Should You Install iTunes for Windows?
Sorry for the double reply but I can't edit my previous anymore. I just saw an ad for a "TokyoTreat" while on Facebook too
thanks. Will do that now.
The untold story of systemic gender discrimination at UC Berkeley's IT Dept
I... doubt that's true. I imagine there are people who think that this help will help them become top scientists (and maybe we should have a talk about the pressure to succeed etc.). But I suspect that a lot of the actual top scientists are plain good at what they do, and they neither need nor want the effects of drugs in their work.

(Which is very different from recreational use, of course, or recreational use turning into addiction.)
Is anyone aware of a GAN example using propel or deeplearn.js ?
Maybe you are idealistic and work for non-profit dealing with human trafficking in your spare time and have to cut it to take a silly HackerRank test?
I don't see what the federal tax changes would have to do with commuting from NJ to NY?

The change in federal law has to do with deducting the total amount of state and local taxes paid, which is, going forward, capped at $10k. New Jersey credits any tax paid to New York, which is staying the same.
Replying to myself as I can't nest further.

I never said raising issues is bad. Where I work, we highly encourage people to bring up issues as they see them.

However, when you bring something up as an issue, it usually helps to suggest a solution (which this original GitHub post fails to do) and we don't generally try to take unsolicited advice from people who aren't even part of the company yet.
What’s your ML test score? A rubric for ML production systems
Arduino TFT Touch Screen Calculator (MCUFRIEND) Part 1
Being able to have your children transport themselves where they need to go is a major win for raising a family.
Using UTF-16 is silly because it doesn't mean that length in code units == length in codepoints -- that was only ever true of UCS-2. Not that length in codepoints is all that useful anyways (because of decomposition: you can't just split on the Nth codepoint, only on the Nth character). But because that was true of UCS-2, some systems (e.g., Windows) selected UCS-2 and then UTF-16. Sad, but true.

UTF-8 is clearly superior.
Ask HN: Where to go for short term expertise?
generally while learning something new i catch hold of my colleagues who have prior experience with what i am trying to learn. I ask lot of stupid questions initially but get upto speed relatively quickly.
Unfortunately this technique does not work if i don't find the expert i get blocked by my stupid questions and endless search for answers in stackoverflow/irc/slack without making much progress.
Any idea/suggestions/pointers on where to go to find expertise?

PS: I don't mind paying for the expertise either.
I never really got the point of people referring to things other people eat or drink with terms like "poop".
That presumes that his planned reforms are in fact a "good thing". That's possible. It's possible that they aren't, too... and, if that turns out to be the case, nobody can stop him.
I don't think Apple has the kind of technical know-how's that Google has. Google develops their own tools to support their infrastructure; Apple is narrowly focused on a few areas in product/services, namely mobile and desktop, only and buys off the shelf-ware for everything else, from storage (EMC Isilon), to OS (Redhat Linux), to orchestration/mgmt (Mesos), etc, etc...
There are a ton of tech meetups in the city, check them out. https://www.meetup.com/find/tech/?allMeetups=false&radius=5&...
state capitalism
China was on its way to becoming more democratic. What happened?
Also NSFW if you're, you know, at work.

While some co-workers may recognize the game, others may be put off by large swastikas zooming around your monitor.
Before going down the path of fashion pioneer, I would suggest taking a look at "Rapid Movement Denim" ;)

It will change how you regard jeans (and what you can do in them).
Yes except that there's no way to choose a font that all users will be happy with - if you switch your application to a font that uses the Japanese way of writing the character, some Chinese people with that character in their name will be equally unhappy. (It's hard to create an exact analogy because there's no country that the US has the same kind of tense relationship with, and we don't attach quite the same personal meaning to the exact reading of our name - we're used to seeing our names written in capitals and lower-case and being the same name, we don't tell people the meanings of the characters used in our names as we spell them, but I guess imagine having a 7 in your name that you care about quite personally and then a program you use renders it as a French 7 even though you hate the French - you can tell that it's the same character, but it's still wrong and feels very rude. It's the sort of thing that seems trivial in the abstract but ends up being felt surprisingly personally - I'm always a lot more pissed off than I expected to be when people call me "Imm").

You could do something like switching the font based on the system locale, but at that point you're no better off than when you were using the system's character encoding, and following a less well-trodden path.
Creating an Immutable MultiMap in Scala
Part of what I'm trying to determine is if that pressure to succeed makes people believe they need something to be competitive. My daughter, for example, sometimes feels like she's at a disadvantage at college because so many of her peers are taking adderall (w/o a prescription) for tests and studying. Is it the same after college, professionally?
Wow, I wondered if that was what happened. Someone should crawl the site to collect other examples of this at Quartz. It would be a fascinating study of linkbait being formed.
You should look at Gwern's research on the topic:
https://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
How so? It's not like I say "oh, that's too bad then, sorry". It just takes longer to interview those candidates because we don't have that shortcut.
It is (as the Wikipedia article points out). It's basically equivalent to storing passwords hashed without a salt, it makes makes it obvious when a password is reused, or in this case the same file stored twice.

That means that the provider always knows if a file is shared across multiple users (even if they don't know what the file is) and given a cleartext file they can always check if somebody has it stored on the service. It's not ideal at all if you want good privacy.

SpiderOak is explicitly supposed not to do that[1] to avoid these issues, however I refuse to recommend them until they finally decide to release an open source client and 2FA support so caveat emptor.

Anyway, in this case it's irrelevant because Apple has access to the keys anyway, it's only supposed to prevent the third party (Google Cloud in this case) from having access to the files.

[1] https://spideroak.com/resources/encryption-white-paper in the "Data Deduplication" section.
In my previous job an honeypot field with a random name in the form of email__($randomString of 3 to 6 chars) was enough to block 100% of the spam.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Because if you have in your CV verifiable statements that you worked on some super tough engineering challenges, including advanced snippets of code/projects on GitHub demonstrating your dominance in that area, doing silly low-end coding quizzes seems like a total waste of time. Can't you really see that? It's literally like if I asked you if you ever ran a company and if you could handle preparing a budget, despite knowing you are a serial entrepreneur that sold multiple companies already. It's just super arrogant.
Last year, I left Menlo Park and moved to Brooklyn. No regrets.
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That's a very good point. We should interpret as a red flag the rhetoric around "harmony" put out by the communist party.
uBlock Origin with EasyList and EasyPrivacy (https://easylist.to/) enabled blocks nearly everything that’s practical to block. Note that EasyPrivacy may need to be manually enabled in uBlock extension settings.

Disabling third-party cookies (desktop and mobile) is also easy to do. The only thing I’ve seen this break is inline support chat widgets. Enough clients have third-party cookies disabled (Safari defaults to disabled) that the chat widgets usually test for it and show an explicit message.

It’s much harder to block anything based on being logged in to a site (Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc), because:

* for retargeting based on intentional actions done while logged in (such as liking a YouTube channel): these can always get recorded, since the requests must succeed in order to complete the action you wanted.

* for conversion tracking: the hostname and even path of the conversion request can be very similar to that of an intentional request (like to login with SSO or to show content inline). The filter list entry is more brittle.

* for retargeting based on something done on a mobile device: you’ll need an ad blocker on the mobile device as well.

uBlock Origin with EasyList and EasyPrivacy gets as close as any other simple approach, though.

If you’re significantly more motivated, don’t browse while logged in to Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook (and set their cookie duration short, like the current session). For most people, this is past the point of diminishing returns. If you change only 1, make it Google; it has the largest market share of advertisers, has the most services to target based on, and has the largest inventory.

Otherwise, put your money where your preferences are: move to FastMail or the like. Not because there’s anything wrong with Gmail (there’s not), or because they’re unethical (I have no reason to think they are), but because their product choices don’t meet your privacy preferences.

Hopefully anyone reading this far has already done it, but if not, pause everything on Google Activity Control: https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols