skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One that hit me hard was a homework assignment that I absolutely aced. It was timed and I was super proud of myself for not only getting all of it completed including the bonus questions with what I considered very good quality code.

But I hadn't talked to anyone in the company prior to them giving me the homework. So they are impressed and move me on to the next stage, I talk with them and immediately find out that 60+ hour weeks are the normal for them several months out of the year. So my time on the coding exercise was wasted, a simple phone screening where they gave me details of the position would've saved me from that and I now insist on a quick chat with the hiring manager to "find out if I'm right for the role" prior to completing a non-trivial exercise.
Imagine if Mark created Facebook as an open source alternative for Myspace. Would it ever succeed ?

Good technology is not enough to replace a popular product. We need to find the next popular product. The next cool, fun product can be also an ethical one if right team works on it. It's harder than building a robust decentralized network.
without trying to be harsh to EU, they do have a bad record. 2 examples: Cookie Law, EU VAT (by common admission it is a system that is impossible to implement correctly)
> Nobody wants to do a take-home assignment that doesn't really impact their prospects of getting a job

I spent a few days on one, sent it in and was told that day that they had made an offer to someone who accepted the offer. Then I did another one over the course of a few days which was looked at, but a new VP came in and eliminated the opening.

It's similar to asking me to come down for an interview for a few hours during the work day (and then to come back, because one person I had to talk to wasn't there). Or before I've even talked to anyone, they hand me a form asking for three references, preferably (or exclusively) former managers, and their current phone numbers.

I don't mind them asking or me giving these things if they are near a decision about me, but almost every short phone screen I have nowadays is followed by a request for a work sample that in reality would take a couple of days to do (between my schedule, and wanting to send it in near-perfect).

Something I think is preferable is for them to ask me for code I wrote. Then I can write something once and be done with it.

As others on the thread have said, in a tight market, companies put up huge new barriers to getting a job with them like several days worth of free work, then bemoan the fact they can't hire qualified (young, SF local) people who "care about their mission" of selling advertising junk from one corporation to another corporation.
It's not a hobby to everyone, some people survive by subsistence hunting.
Linear types support is coming along nicely, there is a fork of GHC with a prototype implementation.

https://github.com/tweag/ghc/tree/linear-types

However, to allow the compiler to optimise pure operations to impure ones, I don't think linear types are sufficient. You need something like uniqueness types.
However stereotypes about journalists from the tech crowd doesn’t have much visibility.

The journalist crowd thinks a bunch of stereotypes about tech. And they have the platform to broadcast their prejudice to the world. Some of their stereotypes are quite insulting to any quality Engineer.

Why is it bad when we stereotype them, when they have been doing it aggressively for years?

Rather, I believe it is our duty to start reporting on the media and our opinions about the media, as no one does. The media holds all the power in broadcasting opinions on the populace, and there are very little entities that check their power.
Peak traffic hours in Delhi,Mumbai,Bengaluru and Mumbai costing $22B a year:Uber
Thanks. Do you think there is a use case for traditional "small data" analysis in R, i.e. standard CSV->dplyr->output sort of transformations?
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It's being reported that she was wearing her seatbelt:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/19/woman-sucked-sou...

It seems reasonable that a band of fabric over your lap wouldn't restrain you from being pulled upward out of your seat, unless it was pulled extremely tight.
NASA or the FAA would seem a more obvious choice for regulating space debris than the FCC.
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No it’s not
The idea of https to have a secure communication channel where you can verify that the other party is who they say they are. Each https domain needs a certificate that is bound to the domain. It is a good way to prevent malware to be installed on your machine.

A website only needs to require you to login if they want to make sure that you are who you are and/or to prevent others from accessing information that you have shared with that website.
I don't know why you seem to think I have some kind of authority. I feel like I'm being propped up as some sort of powerful villain here, or maybe that there are strikes being taken at my agency.

>Reddit isn't going to take away OTHER people's choice because you say so

Why use language like this? I bring it up because this is exactly the sort of haughty writing style I'm used to hearing when I engage t_d users... I don't know if it's a dialect or simply an artifact of shared mindset.

Reddit does censor, don't forget! They've even banned self proclaimed safe spaces such as mgtow hangouts.

I'm also curious where you get your sense of authority, saying things like "I'm informing you of the fact that reddit...". That's powerful language! Do you work at Reddit? If so, can you offer further insight?

Using words like "facts" seems silly. Given enough advertiser pressure, I bet reddit would content tweak. If t_d lost it's fragile control over it's users and went full blown hate speech, I bet it would vanish. So, where does this confidence come from?

EDIT: Shit, we've hit the reply depth limit or whatever. I'm happy to continue this conversation privately if you wish, my email's in my profile.

To reply in an edit, I agree that typically spez has taken a pro-free speech line, but given that we're discussing this in an article that contradicts this from an insider perspective with lines like

>and then, ultimately, these things will bubble up, make it into the press, and then we would make a decision to change things. We would deal with the immediate impact, which was painful, would last a week or two, and then it would go away.

Which leads to my belief that if t_d lost just a little bit of control, and the press caught wind, that reddit would cave and ban it.
How many days of vacation per year does the average employee take?

> I personally am so spoiled by this

I had the standard six weeks of vacation per year at my first real job. How many weeks of vacation do you use per year?
more like great opportunity to use a different cdn
what happens if they don't ?
It feels like increasingly they are shifting away from focusing on the comments and discussion, to trying to get readers to click, consume, leave and keep scrolling (to generate more impressions).

I'm saddened by this, and in digital battlegrounds (and I'm not using that term lightly) like /r/politics or /r/worldnews where it has been very obvious for a long time that hostile foreign nations are conducting operations there, it can result in a lot of the important meta-chatter being pushed down, or troll comments being gamed to the top without the accurate counter-response being visible anymore. This results in further distortion of the truth (or at the very least exposure to multiple sides of an argument).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
I am big fan of PostgreSQL but it would prob be a good idea to look into a thing you are commenting about.
As it should have been. The fact that you have a PhD means nothing to Google, Facebook, and the like (except possibly a slightly higher base salary than a new grad w/ only a BS)

The question is, can you whiteboard? They will be testing that. If you can, then all is golden and you probably didn't need to waste those 4-6 years getting that PhD because what you will be working on will have nothing to do with your topic of research (unless it was AI/ML).
This is still returning the error for me:

https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js
You have to handle the case of people who belong to multiple communities though, whether through context switching or otherwise.
It is too bad that the HTML standard has no built in way to fallback.

They've added a cryptographic hash/integrity and the async/defer attributes to the script tag, but something as essential as a fallback if a script or stylesheet fails to load (which the browser is best placed to know), has no built in functionality.

Instead you're left doing JavaScript tricks which for missing CSS gets a little ugly[0]. But CDN with local fallback (or visa versa) has been common now for decades but yet no official support at all. Honestly if the integrity attribute is specified the browser should just be able to fall back to a cached copy it has (e.g. jquery.1.2.3.min.js has a crypto hash of ABC123, and I have that file already).

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7383163/how-to-fallback-...
Spot-on.

also omitted from Greenspun's article was the fact that the plane first listed more than 40 degrees and had to be recovered from that attitude.

But this completely contradicted his narrative that the autopilot just takes care of that sort of "mis-rigging".

Yes, the pilots practice for it, yes they are experienced, and yes they have help on a large plane. But a successful outcome is not a foregone conclusion, and a hundred things could go wrong that would end it in disaster. Acting like it is no big deal is a really bad take, and the pilot and crew deserve every accolade for getting it right.
It probably helps, since solar impulse works with that. But if it makes a difference for heavy planes .. good question.
You don't have to shit all over romance novels, "the kids the days", or (through omission) music made in the last half-century to encourage people to appreciate poetry more.

Incidentally, many forms of poetry are fairly popular these days. The Hamilton musical is one of the most successful pop culture phenomena of our time. Tons of artists like (recent Pulitzer Prize winner) Kendrick Lamar are shoving poetry into the ears of millions of people constantly.

Edit: I'll put this here as an example, and since it's a cover it shows the widespread enthusiasm that's out there for the material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqGGmfDZsWU
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No need for the disclaimer, post a link to your benchmarking results.

We don't compress as well as CRAM, but distributed reads across an Apache Spark cluster are much more efficient via Parquet

http://adam.readthedocs.io/en/latest/benchmarks/storage/
2 trust fund babies drink wine, brag about drinking wine, and theorize about monetary value as a whole. And they write on the TABLECLOTH. Whatever restaurant they were at I'm sure appreciated that. And they use the word "guesstimate".
LinkedIn’s AutoFill plugin could leak user data, secret fix failed
Woman sucked out of Southwest plane window 'was wearing seatbelt'
But it's a business decision to pay expensive engineering time to automate what can be done by people for much cheaper. If the people become too expensive, the business decision becomes easier.

There are places in India where they pay 100 men pennies to dig a trench. Sure, they could buy a machine so 1 person could do the work of 100, but if the machine costs 100k and the guy who is trained to operate it makes 10 an hour, the payoff time is too long to justify. If the guys digging the trench demand 5 an hour, the barrier to the investment goes down significantly.

This is why, if a 15 dollar minimum wage is passed nation wide, you will never order from a person at McDonald's again... and any niche restaurant that does use people will cost significantly more. A large business like McDonalds benefits from this because they can absorb the cost. A small business can't, so big corporation's have less competition and can make even larger profits because they have less downward pressure on their prices.
Mystery of sea nomads' amazing ability to freedive is solved
That's a very special high school
How to book cheap airport taxi online now
Answered my own question (seems like the answer is yes):

https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/master/bindings/p...
Communicating in the office is quite different than communicating in an interview setting.
later: I realize that the word is actually 'tic', which is a funny error coming from someone talking about others' questionable English.
I have yet to see a GDPR article with concrete , worked out example cases. I think EU should have published such a guide out. The law is more vague than a gospel.
This is why you self-host all project dependencies.
https://www.jsdelivr.com is a good alternative.
We actually monitor for https failures and automatically remove the problematic CDN.
Looks like it's working again.
More like you "might not need a CDN" unless you're hosting video files or other bandwidth hogs. Stripping out jquery from legacy projects is a waste of time.

Why do people add dependencies like CDNs for tiny .js libraries?
And the number of coding schools that have popped up in the recent years and the fact that every econ major and their mom is trying to become a developer now isn't helping either.
That is something I look for in candidates, passion for the work they will be doing.

How do you differentiate passion for the work they'll be doing from a complete willingness and competency to do the job because they've got to put food on the table?

I'm not passionate about programming (and certainly not passionate about freight logistics), I just happen to be very good at it, I like my coworkers..oh and it pays the rent and tuition.
The problem is that you'd have to descend rather steeply for any sort of "braking" to work. In practice, you're unlikely to get more range by descending steeply and then using the power gained from that to fly level than you would get by descending at best glide angle.
Hmm, the interesting bit was why the bear trap didn't catch this one, and sadly they don't say anything about that ...
Looks like they used Let's Encrypt to save the day!
I actually took it as people who were building the sharpest minds, not necessarily those who had them.
> How can this be right? Aren't you kind of fudging it a little?

10^(3/10) = 1.995262315
> If you can't handle the stress of me watching over your shoulder while you code then you can't handle the stress of getting a critical bug fixed immediately.

Those are two very different kinds of stress.

In one situation you're stressed because you feel like your every action and step is being judged. Every moment you spend floundering you feel is being docked against you, you can't help but worry about how the person breathing down your neck is expecting you to approach the problem.

In the other situation you are a part of a team, you have each others backs and trust each other to make sound judgement calls. You're working together for a common goal rather than judging each others every movement.

Your hiring method sounds like hazing, you're putting interviewees though unnecessary stress to see if they crack. Stress that isn't the same as they would feel on the job, at least I hope you don't also treat your employees the same way.
I worked as an engineer at my previous company, where I was responsible for optimizing the onboarding flow. Existing onboarding flows often discard the fact that onboarding is a continuous process, not something that just happens during the first session. This was a problem we encountered, too. My team and I built an in-app bot to tackle this. It works "out of the box" with Intercom, Segment, and Mixpanel data. I'd love to get your feedback - https://onboarding.traitly.com/
> But if you can work with someone before you hire them full-time, you'll greatly increase your hit rate.

Sure but you also filter out a ton of good candidates. I can't do my full time job plus family life stuff and work for someone else on a side project.

And I'm not going to resign from a job for a "maybe" contract to hire type position.

So it's just a non-starter. And most other programmers I've talked to are the same.

It's different for younger people who don't have families but that's exactly my point. You filter out whole demographics with the contract to hire style.
Unless you’re seven directories deep and accidentally hit the <enter> button instead of the <shift> button.

In which case, uh, you want the current functionality.
I always self-host my JS/CSS libraries: the connection is already open (thanks to keep-alive) so what's the problem of serving a couple of more KiBs of compressed data instead of making an additional DNS request and a new connection to a CDN?

I understand that the CDN version of the library may have already been cached by the browser while visiting other websites, but does it really save that much time/traffic compared to self-hosting?
I've never used it as a shell per se, but another little tweak I do sometimes for shell script type things in Lisp is install a read macro like

(set-macro-character
#\$ #'(lambda (stream char)
(declare (ignore char))
`(uiop:getenv ,(symbol-name (read stream)))))

This lets you read environment variables like $home, and write to them like ordinary variables, eg (setf $message "hello"). It reads the variable name as a Lisp symbol, so by default it will be upcased; this happens to be convenient for environment variables, but as with any symbols in Lisp, you can escape lowercase characters using either \ before the character or |'s around the whole symbol, or you could change the readtable case, or just preserve case initially in the read macro.
I agree with 1 and 2 but I don't understand 3. Can you please elaborate?
According to the Outer Space Treaty (1967), which is still current international law and of which the USA is a signatory, the LAUNCHING STATE is the responsible party. The FCC is overstepping its bounds here.

This is just a company doing what any good company would do, shopping around for the best venue/set of rules for it's business. That's why companies physically located in Illinois or California incorporate in Maryland. Since India was willing to take responsibility for the launch, the USA (and FCC) is just out of the picture.
Software is not a Model-T
City specific subreddits are really hit or miss. Often it's people complaining about newcomers and how the drivers "here" are the worst drivers anywhere ever. Sometimes a good news story comes through. Some are better than others but that kind of discussion/complaining bores me.
(I'm the author of the repo in question)

Note that this repo has been sidelined, as I have fundamental issues with the protocol SSB is built on. Unless there's changes to how the messages are signed and verified, I'm not planning on putting any serious effort into SSB.
I think C++ compiles down to a pure functional language that is then optimized into an efficient beast. So I'm not sure that pure code is hard to optimize.
That's not what i said at all. I said some things have been really great, some really not so great. This isn't even a controversial view among long-time llvmers.

Heck, last time i asked him (a few months ago), even Chris Lattner agreed with my view, and he used to run his stuff at Apple, so i don't think it's unreasonable.

I think it's perfectly okay to be cautiously optimistic instead of fawningly happy.

Do you actually have data or a real argument you'd like to use to suggest otherwise (IE that it's been all overwhelmingly positive?)
The Russian government just managed to hack itself
In your head and the head of those with extreme anxiety it is quite different. You're meet people who might be nice or not and chat a bit, you answer some questions, maybe there's a free lunch involved, you either get a job offer or you don't and you continue your search, and your life continues on without the sky collapsing
> As others have said, arrests and indictments aren't a "nothing burger"

Arrests and indictments for things unrelated to illegal dealings with Russia, except for maybe failing to renew registration as a foreign agent but that's a stretch.
This is a meme that isn't 100% true. There are many many companies out there that have, yes depended on a 3rd party API, but also built something incredibly valuable, profitable, and even reaped financially from it (see Buffer, Hootsuite, Radian6, AppAnnie, etc)

No, it probably isn't going to last forever (then again, what company is?), but the alternative is... not building a business and waiting forever until they discover an idea that has no 3rd party dependencies AND has lots of demand (ie probably never).
But that costs you cache hits, increases the real world size of your site, and slows loading. I'm sure mobile users with metered internet would prefer you didn't download that 100 KB JavaScript library for the nth time.
It does encrypt, using Windows DPAPI :) They are freely available to any program as long as you are logged in, or offline if you know windows/victims password.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/65qrlb/impo...
Mt. Gox and the Surprising Redemption of Bitcoin’s Biggest Villain
It should make things a bit faster, and a bit easier to collaborate with people using other languages.
Sounds like a good idea, although I just wanted something to check on my living room when I'm out.
I accidentally the whole bank
Facebook is going to scrutinize third-party apps now. They don't want another scandal similar to the Cambridge Analytica one.
Wells Fargo Said to Be Target of $1B U.S. Fine
"but we have lost machines, connectivity, seen kernel panics, EBS failures, SSD failures, etc., your usual day in AWS " <=== This I wish more people realized that is a day to day reality if you are in AWS at scale.
We're in the HR business and we don't offer a cool off the shelf app like this (we should! I took notes!)

I don't know if you would find a good off the shelf product that meshed with Stripe's vision. Some of the discrete pieces, document sharing and search, maybe.
Would you be OK with interviewees giving the interviewers a quick coding test? You know, to make sure they won’t be working with people who can’t carry their weight?

Remember, interviews go both ways.
If someone with authority to use force can get to you with a gun, it doesn’t matter where your gear is.
The clause is unenforceable in most (perhaps all) US states.
How a Private Intelligence Platform Leaked 48M Personal Data Records
> Misused far more often than legitimately like stopping an intruder. And the manufacturer knew in advance this would be the outcome,

Yeah, I'm not convinced. If enough people enjoyed using the item in question recreationally, there'd be enough pushback to an outright ban.

> I think we would be right to blame them.

This doesn't follow from the premises. I'd wager that every item has an ethical use.

> There are many extremely dangerous substances with legitimate uses that would instantly be widely abused that we wisely restrict.

"Restrict" does not entail "forbid". There are already "gun restrictions", just as there are "chemical restrictions" and so on with all the other items you're no doubt thinking of.
With the major caveat that piping commands together doesn't work that well, eshell has been an amazingly useful feature of emacs for me. Combined with TRAMP support, it makes dealing with remote machines much much more friendly. As an example, "cd 'ssh:firstmachine|ssh:secondmachine:/'" works just like you would anticipate, bounces you through first machine to second machine. All commands from that point are executed as if you were on second machine. You can even run "shell" to drop to a more traditional shell at that point. Even better, "cp someFile ~/" will transmit a file back to my local machine so that I don't have to work with the scp commands that it requires. :)
That’s completely compatible with an upvote only system. So I don’t see your objection?