skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I would say is just talk through problems with candidates as simple as that sounds. Try to grok how they think through software problems. Nothing mind-blowing there, but what I'm saying is how someone codes fizz-buzz tells very little...or to me this is like hiring a driver by taking them out to a parking lot and doing doughnuts. If you can fathom the idea that they can drive a car (at all) it seems like it is much more enlightening to hear about how they organize a schedule, clients they have picked up, problems they have solved...how they react and comment to situations you pose to them,etc. I guess the key here is to do this conversationally, and not like you're grilling them. Or you have to be a good question asker and a good listener..but if you are, or can become one, I 100% believe you can get the information you need in a humane and efficient manner. But even as I type this, I'm wondering if the ability to read people is why this so hard for software interviewers...or maybe it's for lack of that simple skill that our industry has resorted to silly proxies like fizz buzz, etc.
>Nah. As far as I hear, most of them moved away from OOP a long time ago. "Component systems" have been hot for more than five years.

Nope, that's just hype. Good ole C++ still rules the day, except for specialized (and smaller in scope and speed needs) games.

>Come on, what a GUI does vs a non-GUI "realtime" app is pretty trivial.

You'd be surprised. A guy is not just "call x program with some flags" as you might believe.

Something like a NLE editor for example or even an IDE can have GUI needs that go far beyond hundreds of thousands of LOC...

(Not to mention that I was referring to GUI libraries themselves, complex beasts on their own, not GUI code as used by applications to build their GUIs).
It only applies to cryptocurrencies.
If you're still interested I've updated the site to include the privacy policy.
Which provider is the best, network wise?
I wore a blazer, shirt and tie for every year of school from 11 to 18 years old, everyone did. In fact the last two years we a full tweed jacket that spelt like wet dog when it go wet and was nigh on indestructible.
Quite right; in fact, before independence Portugal was a county (as in, ruled by a count) of the Kingdom of Galicia, which has been a territory since the Roman times (called Gallaecia then).

Of course, the county was just the northern tip of what is Portugal today, before the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista
I touch on this point in my talk, “The Two Question Code Quiz”

Slides
https://slides.com/scottconnerly/2questioncodequiz

Video:
https://youtu.be/x8vmNXULbp4
Good reason to buy Monero
"I’m not sure where the cultural expectation that houses should last forever originates."

Probably partly from ownership of buildings transitioning form wealthy capitalists to middle class. For the capitalist the house is an investment since they get rent from it, but for the middle class family who own their house the house constitutes a huge portion of their wealth. Banks are the main winners, as they profit from loaning money to middle class to purchase the house.

The second factor is the rise of cities. As more people come closer together, the value of land naturally rises. Hence, the "natural" portion of the houses price does not come from the structure itself, but from the value of the land, and the market forces demand for the building.

If the building becomes... defunct, a huge portion of the middle class familys wealth disappears (sans the land - but, often the land is rented from someone).

Hence it's nice to imagine buildings last forever, while paying back your 50 year loan on the house.
No, they should not. They are not under russian jurisdiction and are not obliged to comply with russian laws. Or should they comply with laws of Thailand, Iran, China and North Korea too? Kick out sites that criticise communist party?
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Why all the downvotes? We have serious social issues for not taking male mental health seriously.
You can still use ELB's to hide behind amazon.com, right?
Bitcoin fanatics know how to deal with Government enthusiasts
Indeed, its _so amazing_ it has potential of replacing $.2 watch battery some day.
Ok, so what do you do when you're asked to do homework?
As a Portuguese myself, I can assure you I'd watch every single video!

Do they build old-style houses for clients too?
The 97% white men stat is easy to explain: I imagine it difficult to really prove yourself against implicit bias in the humanities.
This is kind of off topic but we should really get rid of all income thresholds for government services and safety nets. They divide people and make them resent one another. I think we should instead make these programs available to all otherwise qualifying applicants (New York excelsior can keep the state residency requirement but should not be allowed to say it applies only to people who make under $125k a year).

If we "can't afford" to offer a program to all qualifying people regardless of income that means we don't have the political will to make the program happen and should get rid of it.
So what? Jupyter sounds like a name of a planet in English.
Does Knex.js prevent sql injection?
The thing old houses like that have in their favor is that the timber they are built out of is usually better quality than anything you could possibly buy today. Consequently a lot of things could be significantly overbuilt in a way you can't do today.

My house is 1880s vintage, and it's sorta post-and-beam, with 10x10 beams making up the frame, and double layers of 12" to 30" wide pine floorboards. You can't even begin to find lumber like that today, unless you've got a stand of high quality timber that's been saved out and not cut already, and a sawmill to do custom sawing.
This couple (yt:Pure Living for life) are actually building in Idaho. They seem happy, good for them. The video on the importance of neighbors helping out was particularly insightful to me.
How is death less high pressure that an exam so as to seem more enticing an option?
"Hard for companies to make money" is seen as a benefit for some
It's not goods, it's a labor market. And when supply is out of whack with demand, your bargaining power goes through the floor -- which leads to situations like this.
RCS should be backwards compatible, so if the carrier is blocking it, the users simply see a normal SMS message.
Ruby’s New Infinite Range Syntax: (0..)
Mathematics I Use (2012)
Richard Proenneke built a home in the middle of no where Alaska in the 50's, using only hand tools, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke

Alone in the Wilderness - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss
Brief History of Graphics [videp
> It's effectively a wealth tax.

No, it's a 30-34% wealth tax! (Or better, transaction tax.)
People that fled Trump's America
Just tried to run it on few images from the internet, looks very good to me.

Screenshot of Marsellus Wallace from Pulp fiction:

- original: https://vgy.me/7aljyA.png

- contrast lowered: https://vgy.me/fxzO6J.png
Why software engineers hate dealing with legacy code
I think that it's safe to say that once the cat is out of the bag, there's no way it's going in again.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16882539
Nope thats not it. Many houses built in the UK now have a timber structure with a (mostly) non load bearing brick or blockwork skin on the outside. Most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a new build house that is timber or masonry structure, once it has been sheeted out inside. Timber cladding externally is less common.
Design for Discussion: Solutions That Value Reddit’s Conversational Corners
Too expensive to delete millions of mugshots of innocent people, minister claims
Let's coat ICE engine hood with this and gather some waste heat energy.
ContextualWeb Search Engine. Mimics the Human Brain
Agreed. At the same time—believing one can do something is something that can help people continue to be persistent when it doesn’t come right away? It gives a goal even if never achieved. I never made it to the Olympics but I did become a scholarship-college athlete by dreaming of being an Olympian(hopefully this doesn’t seem boastful). I like to know who the people are at the top of their game. It’s a good way to measure how much I may be able to improve. I can create a gap-analysis of how to get there.
This does sound strange. My understanding is that here in the US if you win a huge jackpot at a casino but then spend it all on slots (I don't know how or why anyone would do that but this is a thought experiment) over the year, you effectively don't owe any income tax on that jackpot.
Is there a pandas equivalent / Dataframe library for Go yet?
You are exactly right.

As a doctor who sees patients with a legitimate use for compounds that come from the cannabis plant, the people who want recreational access just bog down the health system.

I am strongly in favor of federal recreational legalization, if for no other reason than to get it out of my office.

Prohibition has failed, and legalization is a far superior public policy option.

Recreational use should be available through places like Meadow, and medical use should come through conventional pharmaceutical manufacturing methods (like you would want for any other medication you take).
I did not say that. I said that Telegram moved to their clouds to evade the sentence of a judge, which means Russian ISPs resorted to banning entire IP ranges, which means law-abiding customers are now affected by it. This is, because of the malicious actions of Telegram, now Russian citizens can't access law-abiding websites hosted in Google and Amazon. That should bother Google and Amazon, who should guarantee the connectivity of their law-abiding customers by kicking out Telegram so the IP range bans are lifted.

In the end Google and Amazon will kick out Telegram, it's probably a matter of days, so I don't understand what this fuss is about.
Businesses Using Augmented Reality: 5 Use Cases of Augmented Reality – IQVIS Inc
Be likeable or get fired
That blog entry is well worth reading. It put a smile on my face! :-)
Ask HN: Advice for senior product leader
Hey HN, looking for a little advice here about negotiating some upside from the revenue our product generates.

I am CTO of an established startup and I am about to build a new (vastly) improved version of our product that I know is going to generate a lot of new business for the company.

Q1: Am I just "doing my job"?

Q2: What should I ask for? % of new revenue? Bonus? Raise?

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Right, but putting a face to a blocker in a project is hard to remove mentally.

In an ideal world, IT and Devs would be on the same page - after all who will be first contact when an end user encounters an issue?

The separation of development and support makes sense from a budgeting point of view, but operationally should be intertwined (IMO).
> ... even if Pepsi managed to make a perfect Coca-Cola recipe clone, they're missing the main ingredient - their brand.

Also their distribution network. There's plenty of stores that stock Coca-Cola products exclusively. Having the exclusive contract to supply McDonalds must help them a lot, for example.

That said - in Australia, Pepsi Max is actually #1 [1]. Coca Cola has had some problems in Australia with stores & supermarkets refusing to stock their products. (Dominos Australia recently dropped all Coca-Cola products & switched to Pepsi.) [2]

[1] https://asahi.com.au/brands/soft-drinks

[2] http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/drink/woolworths-deliv...
There's a tool that's been on my mind, all the time,

Su-Su-Su-dee-oh

Now I don't even know its name, but I do ones that do the same,

Su-Su-Su-dee-oh
'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving
I'm not sure if the roof construction is the same in the US and in Germany.

Pitched roofs do well against storms (30° roof slope is best).

Luckily, we don't have deadly hurricanes.
OSHA is ridiculous, nobody actually does everything it stipulates. It's a CYA set of regulations. Under perfect circumstances, with money and manpower and equipment, and time enough, you could follow all that garbage. But most of the time, you don't have any of that, and shit needs to get done, so you do what you can, as safely as you can, and accept a little risk.
It does, actually.

The doctors who do this (largely running a cash-only practice) are really a disgrace to the profession.

It's good to be willing to think outside the box and practice with compassion, but it's another thing entirely to create prescriptions for surreptitious indications that is motivated by personal profit.
Terrorism may be a very rare cause of death, all things considered, but that's little comfort to the widow of a firefighter who died on 9/11. For the same reason, someone who just quit their job over sexual harassment by co-workers might not be too moved be talk about how much of a problem it is or is not overall.

The closest I can think of a non-partisan example is talking about how safe flying is as a mode of transport, to someone who had the incredibly bad luck to lose a loved one in a plane crash. Is there a name for this kind of thing?

I agree that at the organisation or nation level, you want to invest your time and money based on better evidence than media reports about sharks. But I also understand that at the individual level, you care more about issues in proportion to how they affect you or those close to you.
I found it completely impossible (and I did try) to pass university level maths courses without carefully doing every tutorial.
ICONOMI Proof of Solvency: Technical Overview
Terahertz electrical writing speed in an antiferromagnetic memory
I don't know about Canada/US, but I think the equivalent OSHA / H&S stuff only applies to employees typically over here, what you get up to as a self employed person is your own lookout.
The only entities that can enforce GDPR are the DPAs in various EU countries. So if some action is taken against a non-EU company, it's anyway done by one of the DPAs - e.g. if there's a complaint against some USA company by a German citizen, it would be the German DPA handling that.

Any decisions of German DPA can be contested just as any other administrative decisions in German courts, the German DPA is fully under their authority. Yes, you won't have your local courts, but it doesn't mean that you can't appeal - you simply have to file this appeal where the contested decision was made.
And the constant taunting they get when they are not able to get 'expected' package .
'Oh you are from IIT why working in this startup at such low package.
My friend from XYZ college is working for much better company/salary than you.'

Interests, skills, background, ambitions and the human behind the degree all goes to hell.
It has been unfortunately.
Yeah, this is a discussion. That's what it is.
Verge’s crowdfunding: timing, backfiring, short-term financing and diffusion
In that case they wouldn’t be showing losses, though, would they?
All striving to conform, what a waste of minds. Poor people, they should rebel.
No, ~9GHz is the fastest real one I've seen: https://valid.x86.fr/show_oc.php?id=2385966

More details: http://www.theoverclocker.com/9-ghz-barrier-falls-hard-amd-h...
What is Bootstrap?
I've frequently noted that it takes longer for me to drink a Pepsi, if I even finish it at all. The initial taste, especially while eating, is more pleasant with Pepsi than it is with Coke, but the amount of Coke I can drink comfortably is higher than with Pepsi.
If RCS is not supported, the metadata is stripped and it arrives as a normal SMS at the destination. It doesn't require support from the carrier AFAICT.
In my country houses are built with concrete, much easier with wood.
Show HN: AI-powerered live breaking news aggregator with local reporting
Our team is building a knowledge sharing app Tipi (https://tipihub.com), so we understand the value of Stripe Home.

When startups start to grow, they face this problem of not knowing your teammates well, and there is an even bigger problem of all this scattered information that becomes a big bottleneck in daily work.

With Tipi were are focused on the latter problem, yet we also have people profiles, private messages, etc. It's good to see more startups working on these kinds of problems!
Bias is certainly possible, but you need proof of racism before you proclaim it
So how did this evolve over the past 1000 years? Selection pressure? The ancestor who could dive better had more children? Could feed his family better? Was it just one person with mutation that started it? Or, did the frequent exposure to deep diving triggered something in one generation that influenced the genes of their children (along the lines of Epigenetic magic)?
The hodl subsidy
One of the government departments I interacted recently here in Australia answers phones with a voice recognition system that is significantly easier to deal with than the usual outsourced-to-a-call-center-in-Pakistan systems. If this is the AI future I'm all for it.
It's possibly a function of cost of labour and climate.
How a Soviet A-Bomb Test Led the U.S. Into Climate Science
Twitter doesn't care that someone is building a bot army in Southeast Asia
>web and sql is all I know

Honestly, people who actually know sql enough to build a decent table design are super rare these days.

As far as everything else, you're pretty spot on.
Beautiful photograph.
> I've used Lucene on top of HDFS and S3 quite nicely.

Out of curiosity, what led you to do this? And what does it do better/worse/differently than out-of-the-box things like Elasticsearch or SOLR?
Why is graphene better than silicon?
Concurrency Models and Clojure
> They should always do the take home test first or after a short phone call.

Absolutely not. If most applicants need to do 4-8 hours worth of homework, they'll never have the time to review the results for every applicant. And making me do 4-8 hours of work without getting it reviewed thoroughly and getting personal feedback is not valuing my time.

In the process above there already was a screen sharing coding test. Adding the homework on top is redundant. You should be able to tell if someone can code in one hour of screen sharing, but you can't really tell if someone is mediocre or top notch from a single homework assignment.

Only once have I been given a homework from an interview and it was a solid 10-20 hours worth of work. I refused to do the work and I got the offer anyway, but I turned it down in favor of another offer.
Any time frame is quicker than waiting forever. More a problem of infrastructure than one of bureaucracy.

The town had plenty of land available. Data here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclana_de_la_Frontera

But unless you owned 1 ha, regulations required an urbanization project. There weren't enough of them to cover a population that doubled in fifty years.
Can you try and at least send them an e-mail asking them to clear it?
It could be possible that students in a high-stress, highly-competitive, financially-addled situation are unable to see the cold logic you've presented.
The timber parts of houses built in the UK look pretty much the same as this - eg engineered joists and OSB sheathing. I'd be surprised if these kinds of products (lighter and cheaper for the same strength) aren't used in at least some other parts of Europe.
Non-paywalled version?
You can think of feelings as a mode-selection heuristic - most of them have direct analogues in any sufficiently adaptable system. So it's a pretty safe bet that "real AI" will have "feelings" or some reasonable analogue thereof.
Apple Pay and its effects in next generation apps
On the whole I think there's likely to be rather more resentment bred by cutting the subsidies of people that need them to ensure people that don't need them have equal access...
The Contradictions of IBM’s Platform Strategy
As I think about it (not in depth, though), does it matter? If you're building it yourself, you can't go that fast. The amount of building materials you can buy each month with what would amount to a mortgage+taxes+insurance payment each month would be just about what you could use up. So it would probably work out OK.
A honest 501c3.

Kinda like Wikipedia, but no shenanigans.

The first sentence should be,

"We, the founders, are not here to be billionaires. We are happy with a $200,000 yearly salary, with that wage tied to the inflation rate. We will not beg. We will not be foxey. We will be here because we love what we do, and value our customers. We will not exploit. We will not be megalomaniacs."
Apple’s iMac Pro will be launched with Siri mode always-on
They can still require mandatory reporting when real money enters and leaves the system. Everyone is going to need to convert currency into Monero or vice versa and governments routinely require disclosure information at such points.
Is this really the case? My expectation would be that you would be taxed on the net profits at the end of the year but would have no deductions on net losses at the end of the year. It's a bit skewed but I'm pretty sure that's how profits from overseas online gambling is taxed here in Denmark.

Either way, it would make sense to tax cryptocurrency trading by using the same tax code as other kinds of overseas online gambling.
This isn't really mature enough to be considered an equivalent to pandas, but that seems to be the aspiration: https://github.com/kniren/gota
As someone who hasn't worked with Jupyter beyond a simple iPython shell, this comment sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. If anyone's interested, here are some links.

Jupyter docs for making a kernel: http://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kernels.html

List of jupyter kernels: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels

Jupyter seems like a cleanly designed piece of software that is easy to integrate with. I like the use of ZeroMQ for the wire protocol.
Thanks. Shameful how poorly educated we are in this era compared to the era of the founders, that I should not know this example, or of GW's admiration of it.
Cost of wood and weather. But probably mostly cost of wood.
Cutting-Edge Microscope Spies on Living Cells Inside the Body
Anybody know if the military in any country is looking into using similar strategies to manage real wars?
How does a city get to be 'smart'? This is how Tel Aviv did it
And it's only "primitive" in some sense, his threaded leave baskets have some beautiful symmetry in the threading process. There's nothing crass about how it's done, on the contrary.
Kota has become infamous but there are other places like Hyderabad where student suicides is a serious problem. This happens even in IITs in India.

Taking admission in a prestigious college is a pressure situation in every country. What separates the rest of the world from India is that Indian students are left in isolation during this time in places like Kota. Family is not around during this vulnerable time. This sure will change in the coming years.
To be fair, although perhaps a bit impenetrable to outsiders, pretty much everyone I know uses airport codes almost exclusively to refer to cities in texts... or made-up TLAs like JKT for Jakarta when the airport code (CGK) is non-obvious.

It's just a habit and I'm sure the GP didn't intend to be obtuse.
I doubt they ever became good, because to grow good "anyone" is very hard in such a harsh dictatorship.

It's much more likely they just hire technical mercenaries.