skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I've always had with these take home tests is the open-ended nature of completion. They will tell you it should only take a few hours of work, but when it's not a timed assessment I'm always going to think, 'well, if I spend a few more hours I'll stand out more.'

How does a company compare two candidates take home assessments when you have no idea how long they have spent on the problem. Candidate One is a great engineer but only has a few hours to work on it. Candidate Two is a mediocre engineer who spends 40 hours on the same project. Of course candidate two's solution is going to be more complete, but you haven't considered the time difference between the two candidates.

When I'm hiring I've given coding homework, but it's time limited; 2 hours, scheduled at the candidates preferred time. I'm not looking for a complete solution, I just want to see how far you get and how you think through a very basic problems. It's trivial to compare two candidates when you know they've spent similar amounts of time on the problem.
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Writing is hard to get paid for because every CEO thinks that they could do it themselves. Too much supply vs demand suppresses prices: too many applicants for too few jobs.
But there's no point paying dividends to shareholders who aren't demanding them.

Why would a company 'throw away' surplus cash to passive uncomplaining shareholders instead of intercepting it upstream and ploughing it back into tax-reducing activities? Like burning cash on R&D that provides opportunities for pivoting in the future. Now that is prudent and sound.

Eventually shareholders might gain enough voting power to demand dividends but there's no point in piling-up taxable cash until that happens.
I had to dig this deep to get any specs:

https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/omega2.html

And even then, it doesn't even tell me the very basics, such as what SoC does it use.

When it's this bad, it's automatic discard.
Were apps really the reason for the growth FB experienced in the past decade?

I'd argue it was the apps (and the publishers) that led to the decrease of organic posting in Facebook. Instead of seeing posts from your friends, now you see viral articles, and app-related statuses.
Move Fast and Start a Kessler Syndrome Cascade?
Not every government in every country is of the same quality in terms of e.g. corruptibility and willingness to improve. That's just how it is. It's not too different from other companies that are not expanding into certain regions because they don't consider the region politically stable or developed enough, for instance.

That doesn't contradict the belief that law enforcement is necessary and good.
> Not to mention the DoD provides us with the security to pursue private ventures.

Citation needed, because there have been a lot of injuries and deaths they have failed to prevent (domestic violence, poor healthcare, etc) and even many cases of them causing death for US citizens (wars on vague ideas like "drugs", "terrorism", etc).
We love Donut. At least half our company uses it on a weekly basis to grab coffee.
Equality of what? Should one of the people who works in their warehouse in North Carolina make equal pay with a software engineer who lives in Seattle?
My last job hunt (only a few months ago) I probably approached/applied to around 50 companies, got about 10 interviews and 1 offer. I don’t think that’s too far from most tech people’s job hunting experience in today’s environment. If you are getting 1 offer per 3 interviews, you might be “punching way below your weight class.”
Does it have to be a day? Multiple days? I limit case work to 2 hours, on something we've already solved. Too many of these interviews apparently seek free labor and ideas.

What's really simulated by going off and building something on your own start to finish? You miss out on all the collaborative skills required to ensure you're writing the right code.

If you only care about hiring programming, motherfucker (google it) then by all means.
Unfortunately I think she might be shadowbanned as her comment was immediately "dead", so I'll repaste just in case:

Not yet, we're still very new! Being able to interact easily wherever you are is a high priority for us, however, so it's high on the list. We do have a Slackbot already.
Sure, but there's only so much responsibility one can take for this stuff. Presumably there are other candidates willing to respond.
Does anyone know if the python API for fdb works with asyncio?
It's not an expiry. It's a cert name mismatch. CN is *.ssl.hwcdn.net
Perhaps this is just a depressive thought.

But I don't see any of these services taking over Facebook or even making a slight dent. What might happen is that Facebook dies a slow death and none of my friends keep in contact on there. But then none of us really built up and real friendships on there so there's no incentive to start again on another site.

I guess, even say we all got our wish and Facebook died, I don't see utopia running up behind it. Utopia for most geeks was probably the early days of the internet. I don't see anything bringing those back.
Towards a better service development story
Haskell's type system works because of purity, and purity doesn't generally mesh well with performance-oriented applications like game engines. There are some type-driven approaches to gamedev, like https://github.com/jonascarpay/apecs, but it's fairly experimental. There has been some talk about linear types, which would allow Haskell to have controlled impurity similar to Rust, but they're still a ways off.
Perhaps you're right.

Mine was a hypothetical about priorities, as well as some social commentary. That is, the more we look down at our shiny objects and drool, the less likely we are to see how a handheld mobile device is relatively low hanging fruit.

Perhaps just correlation / coincidence but adoption of modern technology tracks well with the loss of the middle class, at least in the USA. Yes, a stretch. I'm not going to the mat for this idea. Just a simple observation; worth pondering?
Lip service
bigger discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16876040
The concentration of gun ownership varies markedly across regions though. Not sure that's true of drinking, which I expect would be pretty universal.

In any case, at worst your data suggests that banning guns in the US would be just as impossible as banning alcohol turned out to be, which very well could be true.
Introduction to Python for Engineers and Scientists
I think the point is facebook didn't have everything myspace did when they started but brought in users for what it offered. What they offered was a semi-private network for your college. Very local. Only later did they open up to all.
Updated to a generic "having SSL issues"
What is with headline writers?

> The last major tremor on the Hayward Fault was a magnitude-6.8 event that happened in 1868 -- exactly 150 years ago. So the region is almost overdue for another one.

"Long overdue" is not "almost overdue." But it probably gets more clicks.
https://github.com/andyleap/go-ssb
[I am a Cloud SQL-er, and worked on region expansion... among other things]

Cloud SQL has only been available in regions with at least three zones (since we believe that is the minimum to make sure we can maintain HA in the event of a single zone failure). asia-southeast1 currently only has two zones, when a third zone is launched, Cloud SQL will become available in that region.
The take home exam is quite a bit more of an efficient filter than a blanket phone screen. Anything less than a 20 minute call isn't going to tell me much.
People who make 100k per year feel like they are struggling. Their feelings about their finances place the company under no obligation to pay them more.
Why do we even want to be in a creepy digital relationship with our grandma? I used to think like you, then one day I realized that the real life is outside, I began calling my aunties, visiting them, and also created a Whatsapp group so the big family can have fun & share updates.
There cannot be "internet" companies, because a company has to be registered in an internationally recognized place

After SpaceX puts up LEO satellite Internet, maybe someone needs to put up an LEO satellite cloud?
> But a nefarious state (fascist, communist, dictatorial) will always use ‘safety’, ‘security’ as a concern and an argument to block and jail.

So what? Are there not valid reasons to bring up "safety" and "security"?

Unless you're claiming we're dealing with a "nefarious state", this statement doesn't carry any weight. For that matter even nefarious states may have valid safety concerns, including preventing orbital debris.
In [218]: female_founders = 0.17 # https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/in-2017-only-17-of-startups-have-a-female-founder/

In [219]: male_founders = 0.83

In [220]: female_founders ** 6
Out[220]: 2.413756900000001e-05

In [221]: male_founders ** 6
Out[221]: 0.3269403733689999

It wouldn't have stood out to me.
The Neural Network
Does anyone know what services at Apple are built on top of FoundationDB?
There is no such thing as being "overdue" for earthquakes, if they ran on predictable schedules things would be a lot simpler, they don't.
I agree this point is valid, but I think it's much more exceptional than whiteboard interviews are. I've personally never applied for such a job, since I typically work on consumer products at BigCos with a glacial development pace.
The most complex program I can think of surely has to be something like Facebook. It’s like a 4 GB executable isn’t it? I don’t think compilers are that large or complicated.
Shows posts that have been flagged from mods, users, or shadowbanning and hidden from the normal display.
I don't see a top level comment mentioning this, but what if UBI just doesn't work? That's certainly possible - that it works seems to be taken as a given, and evidence against that seems to be dismissed frequently in this thread.

A lot of things that work seem like they shouldn't (flight, capitalism) even after a lot of consideration - similarly, a lot of things that don't work seem like they should (Mendelian genetics). Maybe this unfortunately just doesn't work?
It's more like you would build a better Elasticsearch using Lucene to do the indexing and FoundationDB to do the storage. FoundationDB will make it fault tolerant and scalable; the other pieces will be stateless.
>“If the editors announced a 50-cent per word pay cut next week, I don’t think any of us would quit,” one contract staff writer told me, “and they know it.” [...]

... somewhat contradicts the claim in the next paragraph:

>There are other consequences to the declining value of the written freelance word. The most obvious is that skilled and insightful writers will ditch the profession for greener (but arguably less prosocial) pastures.

The ugly reality is that insightful writers won't quit. Or even if they do, they will be replaced by other insightful writers willing to charge $0. There have been some amazingly insightful posts written here on HN that obviously paid $0 to the poster. In contrast, some of the computer books for which I paid $39.99 were worthless.

The economics of writing -- shares the same dilemma as other artistic vocations such as music composing, computer graphics drawing, film directing, etc. People would still want to do those activities even if society pays nothing. Those activities are both vocations and avocations so getting paid well isn't what drives new participants into the market. New economic participants all trying "do what they love" creates intense competition. Only a lucky few get to be paid very well. All the rest are perceived as "commodities".

A janitor might fantasize about being a journalist or writing a book. But no novel writer fantasizes about being a janitor.

Even white collar professions have the same envy. Many lawyers write novels on the side and quit practicing law when they have a hit (John Grisham, David Baldacci, etc). How many successful writers dream of quitting the written word so they can go to law school to become attorneys?

Computer programming is one of the lucky professions where there's overlap between enjoyment and high pay. I just heard about billionaire Jim Clark (Netscape) recently programming Objective-C for his home automation system.[1]
He already owns a private jet and yacht but didn't hire someone else to do the programming. A 70+ year old billionaire... programming... for fun.

- $0.00 : "It was a dark and stormy night. ..."

- $100k+ : printf("It was a dark and stormy night. ...");

[1] deep link: https://youtu.be/_rL1LnXo3Gs?t=1h2m32s
I mean, my little sister grew up with a member of the Seminole tribe in SFla, I can tell you from experience that her family didn’t have what is considered a “job”.

Also, my friend was a medical doctor tending to a large group of them and would constantly comment on their alcoholism and shenanigans (which sounded awesome) with atvs and off-roading.

I don’t really understand what you’re nitpicking with the money passed to tribesmen though.

In theory UBI is passed to every one in the US based on citizenship. Same applies for that cash transfer for the seminoles. Same thing goes for Saudis and other gulf state members. Same thing applies if you were a stupendously wealthy man, you’d probably pass some cash around down to your descendants.

A rose by any name, I’d say.
Servers are just tools for entities. If all your servers are hosted on the moon, you still need to form a company to own the servers.
That page says nothing about what Donut actually is/does.
> It also effects more than just the version you're linking to

Of course it does; it’s the same domain for all versions.
Does it use the full 160hp while cruising though? I’d imagine most of that peak power is for take off.
That's easy, there is a vast chasm between people who say they can do things and people who actually can do things. This is precisely why these filters exist!
I've been saying that about everything related to government. Their phone calls, their sms, their email, office visits, etc.

The thing about government is that no one, not even government can be trusted. Government however, has power. For obvious reasons, no one can govern the government, so all we're left with is improving visibility, heavily.

Absolute power corrupts, and without oversight, they basically have absolute power right now.
Move fast and break other people's safety.
Looks interesting but I think that something like Mastodon is more approachable for a general audience.
Robots Continue Attempting to Master Ikea Furniture Assembly
>...blames gun manufacturers for school shootings...

If a new item today entered the market and was misused to the tune of 30,000 deaths per year. Misused far more often than legitimately like stopping an intruder. And the manufacturer knew in advance this would be the outcome, I think we would be right to blame them.

There are many extremely dangerous substances with legitimate uses that would instantly be widely abused that we wisely restrict. I can see no metric that puts most personal weapons outside that category.
It often takes decades. There is still debris from the 1960s in LEO, which has a lot. Five satellite collisions have complicated things. I suggest this Wikipedia article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

"Below 2,000 km (1,200 mi) Earth-altitude, debris are denser than meteoroids; most are dust from solid rocket motors, surface erosion debris like paint flakes, and frozen coolant from RORSAT nuclear-powered satellites."

And the journal Orbital Debris Quarterly

https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/quarterly-news/newsletter...
> And what amount would be the correct amount?

Full time employees, at any position, should at least be paid a living wage commensurate to the local standard of living.
Do we have simple board deck suggestions? As a startup what shld we cover
Great opportunity to strip out unnecessary uses of jQuery, and move to vanilla javascript.

http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
Things don't really leave the gravitational pull of the earth -- it's still on the order of 9m/s^2 in low earth orbit. In order for things to stay up, they've got to be moving around 9 km/s sideways -- essentially constantly falling towards earth, but going fast enough sideways to miss.

The issue is that at those speeds, anything bigger than a fleck of paint hitting anything else will turn both things into a bunch of tiny chunks. See [1] for an example of two satellites colliding.

The big fear is that if you get enough stuff up there, even if you control most of it, one collision would be enough to trigger a chain reaction. [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
dankiewankie.com was already taken?
It is no worse than email is now. In fact, it's better because only allowed clients can read messages authorized for them.
Maybe it's better to have as a GitHub repository so people can add new stuff there through pull requests and it can be indexed by Google so others can find it?
I would add two missing sources myself, they are not the greatest but I found my previous remote job on one of them.
I can see that. There are various vectors to performance. I hear you saying transactions per second would be unimpressive.

A couple of less time sensitive applications are: 1. distrubuting information the entire fleet should eventually know, 2. event log aggregation with fine-grained time alignment among nodes.

Both are probably silly problems to solve with a database, killing houseflys with sledghammers and all that, but it never hurts to explore creative tool misuse :)
Has Trump achieved complete de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula?
That's an uncharitable interpretation of what are, I think, pretty clear words on his part.

He says he doesn't know how to fix existing broken entrenched sites like Reddit and Twitter but does have suggestions for sites that are just getting started.
> What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that users should own and control all of their data.

I find this to be fundamentally wrong. After you post something on Scuttlebutt, you have no control of that data. Sure, it's stored on your computer, but it's also shared with your whole network who now have as much control of it as you have.

I'd instead put it like this:

> What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that no one entity should control all of the users' data.
No, it's always been possible to have as little as one fdbserver process and have a complete key/value store. Internally it is "microservices" though - it will start a "proxy", a "resolver", a "log", a "storage", etc within that one process.
Yes but at the same time, like they said in the blog post, this particular problem reared its head when they were approaching and passing 150 employees. At that point, yes, people can take some time off to work on a truly nice solution to a problem that, like others have said, mostly receives half-baked solutions.
2018 will be the year of "alternative to facebook" apps that are in no way an alternative to facebook.

To be an alternative to facebook, it should at least do 50% of what facebook does, and it should be accessible to all.

Anything that takes more than 3 steps to get it running it's going to keep people out. And if you keep people out, you don't have a social network, at least not anything like facebook where your grandma and people you went to school with but never met (or pretend you never met) are.

Plus you need marketing, a business plan, and so much more than just code that puts people together on the same page.

I hope for a social network where the data belongs to the user, but unless you get the complication out of it... it will be just something cool but not worth the time.
Absolutely. But you can apply all that to the Southwest incident; the captain didn't fail her checkrides, she didn't come to work tired or ill, she managed her crew resources effectively, etc., etc.

On some level, I agree that nobody is a hero for just doing their job. But when not doing your job leads to people dying, it sure is nice when you do it efficiently while under pressure.
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This is a good explanation of how it happens on a single node. What do you do when the transaction is distributed? How do you achieve consensus? Is there a write up on it anywhere?
And that's why I pointed it out
Interesting, I actually prefer take home challenges to the previous trend of whiteboard interviews. And within the realm of take home challenges I prefer ones without time limits which usually implies they are full or multi day assignments.

Even with rehearsal I am not a great public speaker and impromptu formats certainly don't make me better. I also prefer take home assignments since it is more closely related to how I actually do work: Get a problem, think about the requirements, do some research and design a solution, implement.

Since I personally prefer this style of interviews, I have given assignments like this. Usually a simple microservice that is given AWS t2.micro size constraints and no time limit for a response. When I get a submission I am looking at code style, tests, and documentation as well as solution quality to get a better picture of how a candidate approaches tasks and gauge how they work independently. It's amazing how much you can tell about a single person from a challenge like this.

I also think it is more flexible since there are no strict pass/fail criteria. A solution in C/C++ that optimizes heavily but skimps on documentation could be just as impressive as someone who uses Python to stitch together multiple tools with more features and more thorough documentation.

Interviewing is difficult...for both interviewee and interviewer. Finding the right compromise between depth for the interviewer and work required of the interviewee is a challenge. I am sure there are take home challenges that are ridiculous, but I wouldn't dismiss all take home assignments.
> You've asked me to define what is anti-social behavior. That is an existing term on which lots of study have been performed.

So you're still not defining it or referencing it. I asked you specifically in a previous question if you're talking about the DSM-V criteria, or perhaps the DSM-IV. There are many more definitions of anti-social behaviour than you seem to be aware of.

> People also do not owe you solutions to hypotheticals they never suggested in the first place.

Except policing antisocial behaviour is exactly what you suggested, and that's specifically what I'm asking you about. So answer the question, or you have no idea what you're talking about.
[I am a Cloud SQL-er]

Yes, you can use both standard and SSD persistent disks. If you create a larger instance with more vCPUs and a big enough disk, you can achieve greater than 240mb/s, see the docs:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance#ssd-...
Okay, but FB wasn't something your grandma used when it began.

Arguably it isn't FB if regular college kids can't use it. If they can subsequently onboard less tech savvy people, so be it, but that could be a future goal.
1GB ddr3 sodimms are pretty much free/garbage(friends, IT at work) due to being outdated and too small for anything, or $4 on ebay including shipping if you cant be bothered to ask around.

Those were just first random links from ebay, you can get better deals if you search harder, for example EU $15 http://allegro.pl/org-sprawna-plyta-glowna-lenovo-x220-core-... whole lower case +wifi +bt +cooling, one usb mechanically broken (out of 3 sockets, 9 more usb available if you solder directly to motherboard in strategic places like camera/mpcie/fingerprint/expresscard/dock connectors). Thinkpads can boot from SD card just like raspberry pee. You boot without keyboard by shorting one pin on keyboard/dock/debug connector.

did I mention full schematic? http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/hardware/thinkpad/x220/x220.s...

mostly open source firmware is also available https://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x220