skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've seen of KStar's stuff is good for functional strength, but for posture in general he advocates the more traditional, conservative PT approach of "just straighten the back", which has become controversial in more recent years as studies have shown that it's actually not that effective at reducing pain. I think Gokhale's book is a little more honest in not coming from any sort of academic background, even though I've met people who have exaggerated sway back postures and believe they are following the advice in her book.

What I've taken away from years of reading this kind of stuff, of dealing with back pain, and of exercise and sports is this: the body is meant to move in many different ways, and the ones you don't use, you eventually lose. Each joint has a certain range of motion, with muscles to support the full range. Correct posture is neutral and relaxed, and there is no one, fixed "proper" form - humans are built to move. You should be able to hold a J curve, an S curve, and a C curve in the spine with relative comfort, at least for a short while, and should put all of your joints through their full ROM daily, and gently.
Coding questions are not language independent though. You might as well ask to write a monad transformer in a language of their choice.
>But this Email in response to hackerrank - would make me perceive this to be someone who would respond with a complete change to our CI/CD processes, to our infrastructure, maybe to even using Node - as this sort of task is beneath him.

This makes me think that you're a poor judge of character and of a slightly authoritarian mindset.

This email is one of many protesting an industry interview culture that prioritizes badly thought through exercises that bear little relationship to the job being interviewed for.

>What I want is the node version updated

And do you really think that seeing candidates reverse a binary tree without protest will tell you how well they can perform at this kind of role?
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Alright, imagine you worked for top engineering company, have github full of bleeding edge stuff anyone can observe, wrote books, have patents under your belt, do public speaking, teaching at universities etc. and some HR person comes in and wants you to do trivial HackerRank stuff. She basically interrupted you from working on something benefiting humanity just because she was lazy to check your CV and ignorant of the industry. Then you see the same company awarding their good jobs to friends of higher ups and all they have left are generic jobs they need to fill that would end up with all the work, complaining "where have all the good programmers gone?". And then you read on HN post like this and wonder why there is so much resistance to acknowledge one's qualification from what they provided in their CV. Imagine the same doing in other areas of industry - we don't care you won these multi-million law cases in the past, all we care is how the history of US North-East affected common law between years 1870-1893.
Wasn't Apple a huge EMC customer not that long ago?
The GP's sentence was in the conditional perfect (would have), which means he never met someone like that (otherwise he would have said "did").
What about Northern Ireland?
So will high powered AI lawyers band together to form "white USB cable" law firms?
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The Poloniex press release:

https://poloniex.com/press-releases/2018.02.26-Poloniex-join...
Yeah, sounds a lot like a CF DNS resolution problem at one particular edge node. Are you able to stop the browser on the CF error page and copy/paste the RayID for me? Would be helpful for us to report upstream and ask CF to flush their DNS cache at that location :)
In Germany, it's allowed for educational or scientific purposes, artworks, clearly negative symbols (e.g. crossed-out swastika symbols of anti-nazi activists) and for religious purposes. Everyone knows what a Swastika looks like.
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They will also charge you with a felony if you accidentally lie to them. If you tell them "good morning" as a greeting, and the weather is actually a bit lousy outside, they could charge you.

You really need professional coaching in order to talk to them. You'll have to program yourself to say things like "in my opinion..." or "in my memory of that event..." or "hypothetically, if..."

It's really counterproductive. Because any conceivable response could incriminate the respondent, the interviewee can plead the 5th to anything they are asked, including "is water wet?"
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Agreed. I would like to see more people approach Marxism as a critique of capitalism and move forward trying to improve it(capitalism). Unfortunately, there's still a lot of stigma(in the US).
Well worth reading, considering the Ask HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16465762
At least "exclusive economic zones" around islands are mostly respected
Couldn't tell this driving around Loudoun County, VA where I live. Multiple large scale data center developments on going and it seems a new one gets kicked off every couple of weeks. A new 750,000 sq ft data center complex was just approved at the end of January and initial delivery is expected this fall. Such a quick delivery seems to indicate there is plenty of construction resources available.
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You're confusing Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
Sorry about the slow reply, it’s a very reasonable question you’re asking.

http://www.kguttag.com

Let your fingers do the walking.
A lot of people experiment with various psychedelic drugs for the psychedelic purposes. Marijuana is pretty much normal. LSD is sometimes used in the form of microdosing that produces no psychedelic effects and should improve focus and creative thinking. And of course coffee and alcohol are abused hugely.
This looks like it might be your personal email. Consider protecting yourself by making a temporary email for the purposes of your research such as booktitle@gmail.com.
Does GCP GCS really autodedup? I haven't seen anything in their documentation that suggests they do, and generally deduplication is known to have unavoidable performance characteristics, especially if you're in a very distributed environment.
Thank you sir! I'll do some part searching this week.
I skip all the companies requiring something like HackerRank. Not worth the effort.
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Fyi I would recommend the top 100 by market cap, as that appears to be really what people look for.
There's a Nature documentary about the Eastern Coyote/Coywolf called, appropriately enough, "Meet the Coywolf," available on pbs.org[1]. It was surprisingly non-fluffy for a Nature documentary and if you're interested in learning more, it's a good place to start.

You can also probably find it elsewhere if you're not a supporter of your local PBS station, but I'll leave that search up to everyone and their conscience.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/coywolf-meet-the-coywolf/
I would consider the entire Wolfenstein game as negative material, but that is probably going too much into taste of individual to allow it.

But yes Wolfenstein was banned in DE. I did not know it was that strict.
If someone has never seen a REPL before, it'll take us less than 90 minutes to figure it out, so we don't tend to waste applicants' time with those.

Going through someone's Github (or any other project they feel is worthy of sharing) and asking them questions about why they made the decisions they made has been orders of magnitude more illuminating than asking them to come up with an algorithm for solving the subset sum problem without Googling.
I feel like the comparison of deaths abroad to total population of the US is a bit disingenuous. Surely, not all 316 millions travelled abroad, or travelled abroad for a significant amount of time, and so on. So comparing this arbitrary ratio to the homicides occurring in the US seems to me like comparing apple to oranges.

I wonder whether something like homicides per total days spent abroad by Americans might be a more interesting measure.
"Since the OS is unreachable": "ideally and theoretically, the OS is behind layers of opaque abstraction and we hope nobody will find security holes to directly access it"
I think a human being is really only capable of like 6 hours of solid mental work throughout the day. And even that is tough, with all the distractions of modern life. When you take something like Adderall, that doubles to, say 12 hours and enables you to get hyper-focused on the task at hand. Sure, you can still get hyper-focused on the wrong thing, but if you can reign that in you're golden.

Not only that, the amount of things you accomplish in that time span is far greater. So it really does turn you into a 10x engineer. If you're already very strong, experienced, pragmatic, etc.. then the stimulants will truly make you feel invincible.

So if you see a software engineer at a big company who is making 200k a year while simultaneously putting out dozens of open source projects a year, maintaining them, speaking at conferences, managing complex hobbies, etc... chances are that is due to a stimulant drug. I know very few people who are capable of that naturally.
Ah, but Daniel was training, not interviewing :P
Does one really need to practice to reverse a string? Do we now live in an age where a programmer cannot reverse a string purely from basic knowledge about programming and common-sense?

Reversing a string takes 2 minutes or less even if all you know is how to work with strings and how to write a for-loop.
Nope, it's not moving from there. HackerRank is now the step 0 before the whiteboard interviews even start. At best it removes the technical phone interview.
Isn't this just a very long-winded way of saying "lift with your legs, not with your back"?
> I'm hoping ABC's recruitment policy is flexible enough to let me offer alternative, or at least parallel, routes to quantifying my skill in coding [...] Would ABC be willing to work with me to define a better way to check my technical qualifications by choosing one of these projects?

It's good to see someone take the initiative to express this, but IMHO, it would be even better to just take the initiative to contribute to one of the proposed open source projects and put it on your resume, and participate in the Hackerrank part of the interview.

I like the proposals, and I'd probably land on the side of impressed if a candidate I was interested in sent me a letter like this. But, I still need a quick way to screen people, and I also need a set of standard questions that all candidates get so I can compare & rank them. I don't use Hackerrank, but I do ask easy weeder questions in the same style.

Then, after the candidate passes the easy part, I look at their portfolio of work projects and side projects, and consider everything they have to offer.
Can't you use a hybrid strategy and use the cloud only to handle the peak load?

Handling variable load is not free in the cloud, so if you are going to pay it anyway, you can keep your predictable cost down and use the cloud when you have that temporary extra load.
thanks for sharing your story. the state is great
I wish such a technology could be in hands of ordinary people, so that one wouldn't need an expensive lawyer to spot a contract that is being unfair to him.
It appears they derive the chunk encryption key from the chunk content, so dedupe will be possible if they don't randomize the IV or nonce ([0], page 53). The guide also mention convergent encryption, which would confirm this. Personally, I find it sketchy privacy wise.

[0] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
That's actually exactly the opposite of what Netflix (I think) was saying. Netflix point was that basically Cloud provider are very good as long as you are a regular user (which can still be massive volume)

Snowflake customer requires too much custom feature and that lead to less competitive prices. When you reach the point you pay Amazon/Google/Apple as solution provider (think SAP, IBM) you need to bite the bullet and build the expertise in-house to avoid unhealthy ties between your and your provider business.

See also, Apple Maps.
Not to mention that "IP" may indicate not just Internet Protocol. My first reaction after reading the title was: "Wow! A satellite service using no patented hardware/software! Can't wait to find the project on Github!".
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There is a middle ground between the two extremes of building your own datacenter from bare land, and using GCP or Azure or similar to host everything. Using WA and Oregon states as an example there's plenty of datacenter companies that will rent you "powered shell" space with cooling to do whatever you want with.

There are plenty of datacenter-owning real estate investment trusts that build huge facilities expressly for the purpose of turning around and immediately subleasing space to large third parties. With facilities that are already built and online this can reduce your 3-year timespan to a couple of months from contract execution to thousands of live servers, if the people doing the contracts and technical specs are sharp.

For a company the size of Apple, if they do have intentions to 100% own their datacenters, this sort of thing would be a stopgap solution. But it's a possibility.
My experience has been worse: After I'd do all that, they said "great, we'd like to hire you at 80% your current salary!". It angers me.

Nowadays I say up-front "I just want to mention this because it's generally been a sticking point and I don't want to waste your time, I'm looking for a salary in the range of $X". That has saved me a whole bunch of time.
Indeed, and I'd expect ATM's fixed packet size to make for more manageable flow control over variable (and simultaneous) pipes.
It's already happening, it's just not visible because the lawyers being replaced are the young, entry-level people that get stuck doing research early in their career.

I think many people are expecting this to democratize the legal system. My fear is that it will consolidate power into the hands of a few top firms and raise the barrier to entry dramatically.
I'm not against people having kids.
If I could, I would upvote this 100 times! I can only confirm that, after spending a year or so trying to perfect swings, front squats and low-bar back squats, I felt my posture, strength and fitness were as never before. At the age of 38.
Idk, seems like that would be a pretty standard abstraction layer to implement at a large company.
Yes, please! This aligns with my rants on the subject [1] because I want all software to use UTF-8 by default. In my experience as an application developer nearly all of my character encoding grief has been caused by an application or library somewhere in my overall system architecture not using UTF-8 by default. This is followed by me needing to find how to configure it. I am by no means a character encoding expert, but I want everything to use UTF-8 unless there's a very particular need for something else (I'm still waiting to find out what that might be).

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/utf8-everything
Why did owning multiple devices result in your photos being spread across multiple services? Other than iCloud they're all cross platform. They all offer easy ways to download your entire library, is there a problem with downloading everything and reuploading to a different service? Also if you really want to keep them for 50+ years I think you'd be crazy not to have at least one on-site copy and one off-site copy.
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticl... - refers to "display in public" except for film, show, or "d'une exposition comportant une évocation historique".

The history is not suppressed and very much is taught in school. It's just the public display of the symbols. It sounds like you can acquire them in private, provided you're not actually trying to be a member of the banned organisations.

"membres d'une organisation déclarée criminelle en application de l'article 9 du statut du tribunal militaire international annexé à l'accord de Londres du 8 août 1945" refers to the Nuremberg accords.
>There is always a shortage of good jobs.

If their hiring process involves jumping through hoops before being granted permission to interview and if the tasks assigned to you bear almost no relationship to the job at hand, the chances of the job actually being good are low.

Employers that do this kind of thing typically have an entitlement complex and not the smartest. People with an entitlement complex who are not very clever are bad to work for.

>Why would you assume someone else knows anything about your accomplishment and credentials and trusts the skills you list on your resume before you've demonstrated anything?

In my case because I have a bunch of open source available that they can just read.

If a company expects me to complete a 1 hour badly thought through exercise that is at best barely related to the job before they grant me permission to talk to them, just exactly how well do you think they'll treat me once I'm actually hired?
People doing stupid things with shorts and options.
dup. this same article was posted earlier without the /amp/ suffix and has a higher score.
The public transport described seems very focused on American systems. Saying "public transport doesn't work" is far easier to defend if one only looks at America, where a number of elements (distance, jurisdictions, influence of car manufacturers, cultural perceptions, cultural priorities) are different than many other countries/regions.
What made you decide to go cold turkey? (which sounds almost not-doable it's so tough). Did you hit some kind of wall? And would you mind commenting on what you think happens to engineers who don't use some kind of stimulant?
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and 11.50 doesn't include traffic, which can get you even higher.
Evaluating someone based on their GitHub repos isn't trivial at all, and it's not something a (non-developer) recruiter generally can do effectively. At the stage when HackerRank is relevant, the recruiter is trying to decide who to put in front of a technical interviewer.

It's important to keep in mind the big advantage of tools like HackerRank: They're scalable for the employer, allowing the employer to take a chance on more candidates.

Without something like HackerRank, recruiters will tend towards lesser heuristics, such as top schools or top firms on candidates' CVs. While HackerRank has its issues, it's certainly a vastly superior heuristic than the alternative for those many of us that don't have that kind of CVs.

It's also relatively scalable for the applicant, because it is asynchronous, and can be taken whenever convenient. For many people in jobs, taking a phone interview during business hours isn't easy.
I've gone back and forth between having a lot of money and not having any money at all several times by now. It's getting to the point where I don't want any money as long as basic needs are covered. Money is a seriously addictive and destructive drug; and like all such addictions, it's impossible to get a perspective from the inside; you don't see what it's doing to you until you're out. And the fact that it's everywhere makes quitting really tricky.
They also just straight up sold ARM SoCs, with ARM cores as the main processor in their StrongARM days.
I am not surprised to read this and also not sure what makes this article/publisher the assumed authority to christened NYC as #2. After Silicon Valley one might argue that Seattle has better tech than NYC but again NYC always has breadth and depth of diverse markets such finance, fashion, ads, hotel, food, law and education to name a few. Not to mention, easy access to EWR/JFK/LGA airports from European continent makes it easier for people to come here and get involved.

Updated: Improved verbosity
Or they turn off their transponders or whatever.
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Journalists tend to want people to be able to contact them. The spam etc. is just the cost of doing business.
It's just habit. If you decide to do proper form picking things up, just practice a bunch and try to remind yourself to do it right. If you catch yourself doing it wrong, do it over right. Eventually you'll have the good habit.
Modafinil is a hot topic these days
Out of curiosity, did the stuff you learned during that time also increase 10x? Did it all stick with you, or did it just temporarily increase your ability to hold it all in your head?
Nobody cares about keeping source code safe in a busy startup
I spent three months in S. Barbara. I hated it for this reason. All I could see were the homeless, ignored. Once, a homeless person's wheelchair tripped on a curb and he fell off into the street. People literally walked over him until I picked him up and back into his chair.

I'd lived in Atlanta for several years before but the attitude of the well do to the poor was obscene.

When I left, I vowed I would never live in coastal California again.
Or better, consider protecting those offering their experiences as well by using an encrypted email provider like protonmail, or offering a GPG key.
Nah it's all fairly off the shelf at this point. You can run Ceph on top of server designs from Quanta and already be at near parity with S3 under your own roof. You just have to want to do it; something I bet Apple doesn't care about yet
Cheaper rent than Silicon Valley, tons of cultural diversity, and amazing food. Really nice place to live.
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Very insightful, I think, about the exec at a big company. A therapist who treats tech people in Sil Val said she has been told there is coke being done openly at some exec committee/board meetings, etc. and pressure to do it. Like Wall Street in the 1980s. Do you think there's any validity to this?
Cheaper? Bullshit. Look at Dropbox, they saved $75M since they moved out of AWS.

If you are a big player like Apple, the cloud is a horrible choice.
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> Each file is broken into chunks and encrypted by iCloud using AES-128 and a key derived from each chunk’s contents

this is exactly the strategy described at the Google Cloud Summit 2017 relating to how security is managed for their platform ... so it lines up
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And MDMA.

I've heard a fellow engineer say, "it lets me enjoy being an extrovert."
Your comment with the intended meaning is still incorrect.

HackerRank test can be as standard or as non-standard, and as easy or as difficult as the individual employer wishes it to be.
I went cold turkey because I did not like the fact that I needed the drug to go about my day. I also started to get into crossfit/fitness and the really high dose stimulants made intense exercise feel like it was taxing my body way more than it should have.

I wanted to achieve everything naturally. I knew going off the drug would slow me down, but I was willing to trade general health and well-being for a drop in productivity.
I appreciate the caution, thank you. That email is what gets funneled from my website, so it's fine. It's not my personal personal email. It's for the book.
If your complaint really is "This entire statement is useless, because the specification should explain what to do with given input, not what input must be", then I have good news: the spec contains far more words, and some of them even cover what you claim it doesn't.
Yes, absolutely. It's still here, thankfully :)
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