skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're still new to this, but we have tried a few interviews where we pay the candidate $80 an hour (~$160k salary annualized). On average, good candidates complete the projects in about 3.3 hours, so that's a ~$270 expense to us, which we've been fine with.

Candidates who did the unpaid version saw the clear value: they invest 3-5 hours once, and potentially cut out 20+ hours of first round interviews, or even all the studying like the OP did.

Nobody that we've tested in the beta complained about a few hours of free "work" - they were actually excited about it.
This was the complication that the coinheads chose to ignore. Cryptocoins, like their bullion cousins are awful mediums of exchange for precisely this reason.
When farmers force chickens and cows to live in high density communes, they are decried as inhumane and people advocate for low density farming practices.

Apparently, the opposite is advocated for humans.
Maze: Analytics for InVision prototypes
When you find domains that contain useful information, crawl and index them manually.
Not exactly sure where it was developed (I am working in the heathcare division). Today most of it is in Eindhoven. I would guess the R&D divisions in Eindhoven developed it but that is pure speculation.
> Hates freedome how? This statement is overbroad.

In the sense that their devices are not free.

> Besides which, I just want to use my phone, not spend endless hours fucking around with it to install all manner of stuff.

The fact that you don't want to use it that way is hardly relevant to the question of freedom.

Listen, i'm not saying they should spend a bunch of time engineering a solution to support this use case. I'm not saying they should aid people in doing it in any way. But that's not all they're doing. They actively expend resources to thwart people controlling their own devices. It is their corporate policy not just not to support this behavior, but to make it technologically impossible. That is the key point.

If Apple had just said "if you modify the OS, you void your warrant and you're on your own - we offer you zero support", i'd be totally fine with that. Personally, i'm not interested in modifying my device at all, i'm happy to leave it as is. But to go out of their way to make it impossible to do that? That's anti-freedom, no matter how you slice it.
Isn't this obvious blog traffic generation against HN guidelines? I'm flagging it.
IRS doesn't treat chips as stock-like things, they are treated as cash. Can you imagine if crypto currencies were treated like foreign currency instead? You wouldn't be complaining about bookkeeping at least...
Agreed. The best two interviews I've had was one that was similar to your experience. The other was being invited to pair with a team member for an afternoon.

Interviews where people just wait for you to make a mistake should be not a thing anymore.

(Looking at you, Google)
not really impressed, quite far behind from geany and vscode, vim is handy enough too, so what's the selling point that I have missed?
I agree, targeted ads are valuable but when you’re getting this granular the computation, network and storage costs start to exceed the marketing benefits. It’s unlikely to increase conversion by much, and almost all companies and brands that could take advantage of this at scale are going to really struggle to actually implement a campaign that does this (because it’s hard to figure out and test what to target).

They are more likely collecting this data to use it to convince CMOs to continue plowing money into Facebook ads, even though they’ll never actually use it. The power that comes with being able to control the population through government relationships is a long term strategy to avoid any government sanctions, nationalisation, taxation etc.
This is how my wife and I are saving for our son's future. We gift him money (you can each gift up to the limit without reporting it or decreasing the lifetime gift limit) and then we invest the money on his behalf via a UTMA account with Vanguard.

He'll owe taxes upon withdrawal in the future, 17 years from now at the earliest, but he'll also have full freedom to use the money any way he sees fit. So school, starting a business, buying a house or letting the investment ride until retirement.
The first enemy of C++ is its past
> Apple can make a very good case that your vision of freedom is in opposition to privacy. By preventing certain things you categorize as 'freedom' Apple can provide stronger security and privacy protection, they can limit the ability of untrustworthy developers to sidestep protections, they can make it incredibly difficult to set up side-channels that leak privacy, and they can set OS-mediated protections of device info (GPS, etc) that are difficult to bypass.

None of that is true. All they need to do is create an opt-out mechanism to over-ride those security settings that requires authentication. It's trivial to have both, they just choose not to.
From the description seems you have fully entered alpha brain frequency. It is not exactly hallucinations, just brain disconnects from body while retaining consciousness. I recommend looking up Silva method which developed various ways to achieve this healing mind state, such as countdown meditation or binaural sound.
I gotta say Godot is one of those open source projects I want to see more commercial adoption of. Not only is it well done, it is miles ahead of the commercial offerings and everything from the tooling to the engine is MIT licensed. You can do plugins not only for the engine, but the tooling itself! This means that you're not limited only by what is already available through the standard IDE they built (which is really already great) but by your imagination entirely. You can code plugins in any native language you so desire as well thanks to GDNative (this includes Rust, D, and more).

Also don't forget, they've got the latest of Mono available to you, so modern C# features at your fingertips, no more C# 3.5 like a certain industry slowpoke...
So this is just minor tweaks (not that anonymity is not a bad idea per say) to the already despised status quo.

How is this going to broaden the application pool to include neurodiverse candidates and not just pander to the credentialist notion that rote leaning to get a piece of paper makes you the best candidate.
We need the DoJ to take Facebook to court for being a social network monopoly. If AT&T exhibited destructive network effects, Facebook is them times ten. “Market share” measured solely in purchasing consumers is no longer a good sole metric for monopolies.
Netlify + Jekyll can get this done with some amount of customization. Static, but using Netlify's identity service. This has worked well for me for many clients.
The Master Algorithm
I jokingly said “used to” as Philips split off the lighting division. It is now rebranded to Signify. Technology will still be sold under the Philips brand.

The indoor positioning is also still being sold as a product. As far as I know we are doing some mega stores and expanding.

If the contact form doesn’t work DM me and I can see if I can get a direct contact for you. (Added email to bio)
I'm not conflating the issues. What i'm saying is that Apple acts like they care about privacy, because it's in their strategic interest to do so. However, truly caring about privacy tends to go along with caring about freedom. Apple does not care about freedom, as evidenced by their device locking. Ergo, Apple cares about privacy only insofar as it benefits them to do so.
> Can it open big files

Yes it should be able to do that. Neovim runs separately from frontends like the one in the OP.

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Plugin-UI-architecture
Here is idea for you, aspiring recruiter - you want great engineers to interview? Pay them $150/hour to work on your github repo that you want to use in interview.

Everyone wins - engineers don’t get their time wasted, and interviewing companies are quite interested in not to waste theirs.
I like that it's transparent, and I've gone through a similar enough process several times, but as much as it gives your company a realistic sense of future performance, I think it's unfair to candidates. One job made me do this with two onsite interviews and then I waited three weeks to hear back. They were comparison shopping during that time, but as a candidate it was stressful.
In a chocolate-related note, a tip from a friend who is a candy maker: if you enjoy 'delicassy-X' and some time down the line, someone comes up with 'chocolate-coated-delicassy-X', stay away.

(Apparently) Chocolate has such a strong taste/odour that it covers many smells/flavors, and you may end up eating outdated or reduced quality (e.g.) baklava.

As for the hoax.. Peter Steiner drew it in 1993:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_know...
> In that git repo is a project with real code and a few features/bug fixes for you to implement.

Is this from you or from the company? If it’s from you what kind of project is it? Web development? It seems like the technology stacks are so diverse it’s hard to give a coding test that’s applicable to a wide range of companies.
I've been through and used several different styles of interview and the one that stands out as being "the best" at predicting whether a person will fit on the team is just to bring them in and work with them for a day on your actual product

1) You don't do problems you've already solved that they have to come up with same answer to.

2) You don't do algorithm / problem testing that they're never going to use on the job.

3) You don't do whiteboarding except as you would in real life.

Engineering teams are people working collaboratively to solve complicated problems where nobody knows the "right" answer. Any interview that's going to tell you something is going to measure along those metrics, and not "can you invert this b-tree on a whiteboard."
Decentralization is mostly about power distribution, it doesn't imply privacy. There are a couple of decentralized projects that are worse for privacy (for the sake of decentralization) and ended up being used for OSINT.
Off topic complaining about the website:

What’s up with scrolling on that site? I’m on iOS safari, and when I click through to one of the pages (say Mastsdon) and do a quick “throw scroll” (you know, when you move your thumb quickly across the page and lift up and the page keeps scrolling by inertia), the page stops immediately after my thumb leaves. (See any HN page for a working counter example.)

Why does this happen? Why is someone overriding scroll events? Why not just leave stuff alone and allow a consistent experience? Why? Why? Why?
Another reason is for most demos and examples of Genetic Algorithms, that Simulated Annealing is almost always more optimal.

Let me first say that I'm not certain this is the case for the purposes lined out in the article, because I'm not entirely sure what they're trying to do.

Unless you have a crossover operator that really makes sense for your fitness function and problem, a GA is basically nothing but a bunch of SA processes running in parallel. In that case you would prefer SA, because it has less hyperparameters to tune, convergence is better defined, and there are proven methods to tune the hyperparameters.

It's not that hard if you have a working GA optimizer, to test how well it does with SA as a baseline, because the algorithms are fairly similar. Unfortunately not many demos do this baseline comparison and I'm pretty sure most of them won't do significantly better with GAs.
I don't disagree. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from buying their products. If you care about privacy, absolutely, buy an iPhone. I'm just trying to point out that their caring about privacy comes as much from a place of greed and fortunate coincidence than anything else.
No and why do you think the current system is good?
Ultimately this whole issue of "what action to perform for deepest satisfaction" comes down to the brain's reward system. Actually tangentially related to ML.

I am in the process of withdrawing from opiates that were prescribed for an injury. Over time I realized that my wear-withall to do hard and long term rewarding tasks was being degraded by the opiates. I still have pain but narcotics training my brains' reward system are so much worse than pain can be.

We all have seen movies and have that visceral image of the executive or city slicker who does hard drugs but still has drive to take care of their family, pay the bills, and do the hard things -- as if they lived in two worlds and were somehow hardened against mixing the pleasure rewards of drugs and the real rewards of life. Well it is pure bullshit. For only one reason if any: the brain physically changes..no matter how tough mentally a person is.

Ultimately, if one doesn't reinforce medium length promises of rewards and doesn't de-emphasize short term rewards like Netflix, drugs, and other consumables..then the brain has much larger of a reward gradient to scale..a steep cliff that is likely to require mental reserves that are likely to be exhausted, failing to push through. The only way to do long and hard tasks that have worthwhile rewards is to...train for them..by consistently going against the empty vapid consumption culture. It is just dopaminergic biology. Don't get used to easy and hollow pleasures. Because though day to day pleasure might be dictated by simple chemical concentrations of catecholamines, happiness is a complex thought..a function of memory and past effort... nothing easy gives real happiness. Only pleasure. And cheap pleasure is something we end up becoming stale and miserable over, wishing we hadn't reinforced our weakness to fleeting and short term, short sighted, moments of incredulity.

Happiness comes from knowing we did the hard things that went against our feeble reptilian neurological reward system. That we truly defeated easy and thoughtless inclination.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/best-life-advice
There are now phone plans that are paid for by selling your data and sending you spam SMS. There are e-mail providers that operate similarly, and most e-mail addresses are registered with one of them. Those things don't really work for snail mail, but few people use it anymore, because sending a letter costs more and they have come to expect communication not to cost money.

The formerly decentralized services are no longer so decentralized since "free of charge, paid for by data and ads" has shown itself to be a viable business model that users love. (Until they understand what's happening, at least.)
Smallworld is a board game with a rise and fall game loop. It works very well in the game because your "civilization" is very obviously growth limited, and you don't spend much time building up a civilization so seeing it decline is not very painful.
We actually pay contracted engineers (up $100/hr) to write these projects. They're usually recreations of interesting problems have had to implement or work on in their careers. Some are just forks of open source projects.

We don't turn around an use the code the candidate wrote. If you consider the cost to use to write the project AND the cost to have it reviewed N number of times, we'd be overpaying drastically for that feature to be implemented.
You can decide for yourself whether you believe Apple or not, but they're pretty clear on what data is available to Apple in these circumstances:

Apple Pay:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203027

> "Apple Pay is also designed to protect your personal information. Apple doesn’t store or have access to the original credit, debit, or prepaid card numbers that you use with Apple Pay. And when you use Apple Pay with credit, debit, or prepaid cards, Apple doesn't retain any transaction information that can be tied back to you—your transactions stay between you, the merchant or developer, and your bank."

Also (https://www.apple.com/privacy/):

> "When you use a credit or debit card with Apple Pay we don’t keep transaction information that can be tied back to you, so we can’t create a history of your purchases. And when you use Apple Pay Cash, information is stored only for fraud prevention, troubleshooting, and regulatory purposes."

If you're suspicious, there's plenty of room in "fraud prevention" and "trouble shooting" for you to make whatever case you want. The first sentence is pretty clear that there isn't enough information to create a history. I suppose there's wiggle room to interpret that as they may be keeping some kind of summary of the purchase history rather than a detailed transaction log.

Health data:

https://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/

> "When your phone is locked with a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID, all your health and fitness data in the Health app is encrypted. And any Health data backed up to iCloud is encrypted both in transit and on our servers."

> "We also require apps that work with HealthKit to provide a privacy policy for you to review. Your data in the Health app and your activity data on Apple Watch are encrypted with keys protected by your passcode."
Concurrency Limits by Netflix
> How would it work with just a regular database?

You'd set up another centralized honey pot that these psychopaths actively look for.

> How would a blockchain make it better?

Besides censorship protection, the platform could reward users to make itself better. Lots of things become possible when you have control over the reward system and don't just extract the value to the top.

> What coalition of people will run the blockchain, and why would they be more trustworthy than whomever would run the database?

This is the decentralized aspect. Whoever starts the project isn't necessarily more trustworthy. They might build that trust over time(or not). Either way the project doesn't live and die by them if successful.
> Despite the title of the article, it doesn't show that Facebook use makes people unhappy - merely that it is correlated with unhappiness.

True. Correlation is not causation. However, my argument is that it doesn't seem to solve a problem I can think of well that leads to healthier real-life relationships and heavy use instead seem to correlate with the opposite. Can you think of any? I do think it solves image-sharing and life-updates with remote-family as well as remote-friends well.

> It's not clear to me that the purpose of Facebook is to make people happy.

I agree with you there. What problem Facebook cures is dependent on the person and situation. Things I can think of is; boredom, anxiety, loneliness, social recognition, etc

> That people are uncomfortable with boredom is not an inditement of the balm with which they sooth themselves.

Yes, that is the issue. Real life is hard and when attempting to connect we might receive the same rejections that we are afraid of. At least on facebook someone will like your post and comment on it, although maybe it doesn't strengthen a core group of friends like comments/likes in real life would.
> "No", respond taxpayers.

"K, enjoy prison. And the fines. And interest."

> How do they intend to record this?

Coinbase shares data with the IRS. I imagine Kraken will also, as they are US-based. Maybe you've used a foreign exchange that isn't obliged to share this data with the USG, though if you've received large fiat sums to your bank account you may have raised some AML flags already...
Happens that I just posted an essay on that topic:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/03/google-doubleclick-mozi...
For tax purposes, the complexity is roughly the same as if you traded stock shares of (say) a closely-held private Belgian company for stock shares of (say) a closely-held private Luxembourgish company.

Neither is easy to value, but the rules for doing so are well-defined.

The only thing that's new about this is that the average person can more easily get themselves into a difficult tax situation than before these tokens existed. That's in turn because of the SEC accredited investor rules and other countries' equivalents, which make these tough securities rarely accessible to ordinary folks without financial & tax sophistication. The accredited investor definitions have a lot of flaws, but not the idea behind having such a barrier.

And, indeed, the SEC and foreign equivalents are starting to pay more and more attention to cryptocurrency... The rules are still the rules, as much as people don't like it.
This is great! I think it could have uses far beyond the Raspberry Pi. As someone who's worked in the consumer electronics industry for years, I think we desperately need to rethink our approach to Linux-based electronics with respect to both the userland and the primary application. A legacy-free framework written in a safe language could go a long way to improving our currently lousy reputation with respect to security and reliability. (Yes, fresh code will have fresh bugs even in a safe language -- but it's a start!) I'm also keeping my eyes open for similar ideas using Rust.
During the Gold Rush there was also a heavily skewed gender ratio in the Bay Area—funny how parts of history can seem to echo :)
Unity can use .NET 4.6 now. It wasn't because they were slowpokes, xamarin would not license it to them until they were acquired by Microsoft.
Mark Zuckerberg takes out full-page newspaper ads to say 'sorry'
I encounter people who can make pleasant conversation about programming all day... but literally can’t seem to actually program in practice. Do you see that? How does your interview check for that?
Well, people clearly like this kind of social network thing. It makes sense that the open source community would try to replicate the experience without the tracking.
Lost assets are commonly reported on this form, which you should file if you knowingly hold coins and then lose access to them:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i4684.pdf

If you recover the property in the future after filing it as lost, pay a tax professional to advise you.
I think putting a gopro on a balloon would have been easier.
The flat-earth stuff is nonsense, but I am glad he stuck to it and launched. Congrats, and even a bit of admiration.
They chose to kill the use of cryptocurrency as currency outright. It was a swift, but calculated decision.
So it’s like it’s own OS almost? What’s a userland?
Ask HN: Cost of Remote FE Devs in Kiev vs. Krakiw vs. Warsaw
EDIT: Krakow

We are considering a remote team for FE & JS work. We have direct flights, so one of us will also fly back and forth for technical supervision.

Can HN readers please advise on typical cost for developers in these locations?

We are building a B2C app, with some graphical content, nothing mission-critical, but lots of different features.
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I would be more impressed by the map if the cooking and eating areas were removed from the data as the sleeping area has been and then the results re-normalized. We are compelled to use these areas. The issue in this article is where do we spend our DISCRETIONARY time and is that space significantly utilized.

2)
Having designed and built multiple houses, I felt compelled by the cost of land and other irreducible costs and by the demands of the market to build 3 bedroom - 2 bath houses. On the opposite side, today buyers are compelled to buy such houses because that is largely all that is available.

3)
I sympathize with the values expressed in the article. I spend 6 months of the year living in about 110 square feet in the woods. The rest of the year I have to live in a mostly empty 3 bedroom - 2 bath house, because that is all I could buy.
Well, earth looks like a frisbee disc from 1800 feet up...
For pure algo Q I would agree, but being able to use a white board to sketch out solutions to wider problems can be usefull - remember some people are more visually biased and may find visual aids like this usefull.
I really like that you compensate candidates for their time. I can't think of anyone else who follows that model presently, so thank you for keeping in mind being fair to prospective hires. Are you all SF-only?