skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Force engineers to come in by 8-9am in order to have a 'scrum'/paycheck validation meeting.

Ours is at 9:45 so that our colleagues in Dublin don't have to stay at work until 8pm.
> A lookup table requires an extra memory access that by its nature is incoherent.

Pedantic but, the LUT would also remain in the cache if there wasn't some issue with cacheline contention.

Although, I do agree that POPCNT + prefetch and unrolling will do much better.
I'm aware that Ubuntu uses Gnome now. But it's especially annoying now, that I know Gnome has got functionality for it, but they didn't bother to add an option for it in the settings for normal users.
As a Dutch person, it was great reading this, because I always assumed that the Netherlands had cycling ingrained in its culture. This would of course make the cycling success of Dutch cities hard to replicate elsewhere. To see that activism and political will played a large role in creating the current cycling climate makes me hopeful it can be replicated elsewhere!
Google does the applications at scale and then each layer below and a big one is TF. A great example is the recent release of the new text to speech using NN.
We switched from Slack to Twist https://twistapp.com/ about a year ago and haven't looked back. Conversations are threaded like email and the communication is designed around an asynchronous style instead of an always-on, always-notifying model.
Last year I lead a project called Paratransit Pal to enter AT&T's Civic Coding Challenge in Atlanta ... the project was all about improving accessibility and clarity of information about trips for users with cognitive disabilities. But it was still basically a hackathon project, which doesn't help many people unless we actually roll out a full production version. (We're working on that!). The twist is that we won the competition, and the whole team had agreed in advance to donate any winnings. So our prototype app for people with developmental disabilities generated $34,000 in donations to organizations in our area who DIRECTLY HELP those people (and another $6,000 towards programming tuition in Mexico, where one of our team members was from).

We have written this up here: https://medium.com/paratransit-pal/paratransit-pal-won-40-00...

Right now we are trying to find our niche and cater specifically to those who are left out of UI solutions that target the general user. But even if, like most projects, this does end up fizzling out, it has already done some good and not just been a dead end.

>The best bit about being a developer I've found is when working directly with the customer who is in some distress and the look on their face when you solve the problem and make their life easier, even if it was easy to solve. I'd love to find something where every day was like that!

AGREED!
Maybe because they began their comment with "conveniently". This implies the people who wrote this article have some kind of agenda. I, at least, don't know any specific reason to believe they do.
Actually you perfectly illustrated why it's in fact great analogy - nobody listens to other side's argument, everyone is "obviously right". Or other side's arguments "obviously flawed".
"they don't have to worry anymore about viruses " lol!
Could you try to make that point again but without the hyperbole and with some specifics? It's possible you're trying to engage in a real discussion here but it reads like you're just venting.
Terraform just released support for the unlimited flag via the 'credit_specification' field

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aw...
So who at Google is using Google Docs to write their code, day-to-day? No one, right?

And 8 interviews? Was it even the last potential interview? That is indeed fubar. They do this because they can. Hiring is an expensive process, and not everyone can afford to dump this much effort into a single hire.
Google asked if I would do a phone screen a few years ago for an SRE position, and I thought that process was hilarious. In my case the questions had nothing to do with my background (microcontroller firmware for sensors) and it was only by incredible luck that I could answer them. For example, I had just read about some data structure the day before.

The recruiter didn't spend much effort telling me what the job was or why I should consider leaving my current great position for it. I said, "no thanks!" when I found out what an SRE actually does.

It seems like Google's interview process is designed to measure how much a candidate wants to work at Google. This is probably okay for them, but it's going to result in them overpaying for good people.
State owned mass communication has been an utter failure, too.
Not sure why this is so highly rated when it's so blatantly wrong. There are literally dozens of director-level interview samples online (as well as people discussing these on Quora and other platforms) and they all start with the recruiter screening process. To say that only SREs get screened is incredibly misleading.
That's familiar. Towards the end of my Google interview 10+ years ago I was asked "What do you think Google could do better?" and my answer, which was constructively framed in terms of my wanting to help fix it, led to the technical interviewer saying "Well I won't waste any more of your time."

Like OP, I was told that I was interviewing for a managerial position (in my case, a PM in SRE) but was given a technical interview that seemed designed for recent grads (I had about 10 years of experience at that point). My interviewer was < 6 months out of a grad program and seemed to have very little context for functional or programmatic management and mostly asked me a bunch of big O and algorithm questions. I was doing pretty well until I had the audacity to suggest that maybe the Google Docs/Drive/Whatever needed to be better integrated at the time.

My sense was that they were looking for extremely pedantic and detail-oriented programmers and nothing that I was being asked had to do with real problem solving, design, abstract thinking, or interpersonal skills.
Go to: https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/QJPS-16112 and click "Supplementary information" below the abstract.
Ask HN: What are the “View issue” and “Modify reservation” buttons in Gmail?
This morning, my Gmail inbox had a message with a small gray button on the right-hand side that said "Modify reservation". It was an email from my son's baseball team. I've seen similar "View issue" buttons that point to Github issues.

How does Gmail do this? There must be some standard content in the body of the email, some kind of semantic markup, that tells Gmail what the link means. But I can't find documentation on it anywhere.

The ability to put a button in someone's inbox could be a really useful feature for a variety of apps. Where are the docs?
If he really wanted to prove his point, he'd raise someone else's kid to be good at chess, not his own. I don't think what he did is evidence for nurture > nature.
How about living?
RStor.io
Using Magic SysRq keys shouldn't require recompiling the kernel. Magic SysRq is toggle-able and configurable via sysctl. If you're on Ubuntu, see /etc/sysctl.d/10-magic-sysrq.conf
Most of the reviewer's comments aren't about anything new in 18.04. It's like he didn't see any of the 17.* releases?
I’m unsure about the cameras in the Tesla’s, but modern cameras (Sony A7M3 being the current leader) have a way better view than the average human. So much so that it can take sharp and accurate pictures in the dark while a normal human eye wouldn’t even see anything / it would seem pitch black.

As for dynamic range: HDR and the like can easily take care of that. The proliferation of phone cameras has thankfully taken care of this. I don’t think cameras are even remotely a bottleneck here.
Ubuntu lost me years back when they introduced Unity. The single biggest issue I had with it was the positioning of the dock and how there was no officially supported means of changing it. I didn't like it from a design perspective but far worse was my RSI which was particularly bad at the time, even subtle things like button placement would just set everything right off.

I wasn't the only one who wanted the option to customize this but such requests fell on deaf ears, I was told by one of the Unity devs that the dock placement was a "design decision" and that they had no intention of changing it. Until they did but that was many years later and long after I had moved on to Linux Mint and Cinnamon.

I think adopting Gnome is a positive step in the right direction for Ubuntu, it sounds like they may actually be listening to their users now.
my interview process spanned 5 months between all of them. really wasn't fun trying to have a convo and answer questions while the interviewer types down every word you say. seemed very robotic.

you get almost no feedback for spending all of that time, so you don't really know where you went wrong or how to improve. i understand they can't say anything due to the possibility of a lawsuit, but they should be able to figure something out with that
Insurance != Gambling. You will not get more out than you lose. It will only make you whole.

You may get more money out than you put in, but they are compensating you for a loss. You are paying for risk mitigation, not potential profits.
Since around Vista, I thought that OEM keys were embedded in the BIOS, so they can use the same disk images.
So in the realm of infinite knowledge and experience candidates may have, the signal you want is based purely on the specific contrived questions of your choice.

You should be aware this is not unbiased, it's just biased towards those who happen to have worked on similar problems to what you think is important.

Google can probably get away with this due to the size of applicant pool, but when I see other companies cargo-culting this approach I can't help but see a huge talent arbitrage opportunity.
Maybe they created the company fifteen years ago and growed it to manage $200bn just to prepare this hit piece. They really disguised it well, hiding their negative opinion on Tesla within a long article about bubbles published on their website with no reference to Tesla on the title.
I mean, you maybe wouldn't just send an offer letter to someone who wrote an app, sure. (But depending on what they wrote, maybe you would. Something reasonably large and open-source, where they ended up incorporating a substantial amount of code from other contributors?)

But if someone's got 30kloc sitting there, why wouldn't you look at that body of work instead of starting from scratch with "please write FizzBuzz on this whiteboard"?
http://www.linfo.org/inode.html

I swear this is about the 20th time in a week I've seen a good comment (the parent) in the gray. Unless I'm imagining things, this has been happening with extremely noticeable increasing frequency. I've held off saying anything about it for days while it keeps happening more and more.
When you use a Google service that uses the TPUs they are indirectly selling the TPUs.
JD Power typically produce rankings of faults per 100 vehicles, which seems to be the best metric: http://www.jdpower.com/press-releases/jd-power-2018-us-vehic...

Unfortunately Tesla aren't part of this study.
Fascinating. I'd be extremely surprised if this disorder was not somehow related to vampire myth origins long ago.

Poor understanding of the world before science came around lead to lots of folklore and myths (i.e. fake explanations), given the facial features I'd be interested to know of any historical link.
I visited your country few years ago, its astonishing how bad the media present it compared to reality. Extremely friendly people everywhere, highly educated, even last taxi driver spoke english well (and most signs were in farsi & english even in remote desert places like Yazd).

Doing Mont Damavand and visiting Isfahan, Yazd & Tehran was one of the best (if not the best) week-long vacations I ever had. Can't recommend enough!
Switch your remote access to x2go, you'll thank me.
So we gave Iraq military intel, but no weapons of any sort?
Iran, on the other hand, was using almost 100% American weaponry.
The stock price is always connected to a future state. The PE ratio is one way to think about that connection. But if the future state is going to be amazing, then the (current) PE isn't really a relevant number. The PE only works if there's normal continuity between the current state and the future.

Or rather, the PE only doesn't work if there's a large discontinuity between the current state and the future. If the amazing future isn't going to show up, then you're left with "the PE ratio is too high".
Since the 5th grade, I and others have turned fellow students and teachers into cartoon characters on paper. Automating it shouldn't make the very act of cartoon-ifying a person itself patent-able. Slapping "via computer" or "via the web" on a process should NOT be a means for legitimate patents on acts, but this does keep happening in various forms. Patent a SPECIFIC algorithm, okay, but not the mere act of achieving something.
And somebody putting only lies in a resume will turn super honest on the phone?
To love God and your neighbour. Neighbour being in the abstract sense, not just the person who lives next door.
The US housing bubble is another good example, other than a few bloggers almost no one was covering it, and then once it happened everyone had seen it coming, it was obvious.

This might be repeated in Canada within the next few years as the sentiment of "we're different" is extremely strongly implanted in the Canadian psyche.
The question has been answered countless times. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928452.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928127 and marked it off-topic.
I've noticed at least in 17.10 that hitting enter does not always seem to work and I have to drag up (this took me a while to even figure out).
Travel time calculations for traffic and time dependent vehicle routing problems
Thanks for the link, I jumped at this, but, alas, they require one to create an Adobe ID and use Adobe Digital Editions.
Try a live CD/image?
1200 is a lot but it might include other things like water pump. And definitely some engines (my Honda Civic) are very difficult to access the belt path. Still 1200...
Yes this guy might have an inflated complexion of a self-claimed all-star but to be honest Google and all big tech companies have really frustrating recruiting process and most of the time interviewee's frustrations go unheard. So this guy took the only approach that he could think off, is to take his plea to the internet.
I was being sarcastic, but then wasn't sure whether the comparison was actually wrong.
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Personal attacks will get you banned, even in wretched flamewars. Please don't post like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My predictions:

1) College cyber-security clubs will spend less time dealing with bureaucracy in order to get 24/7 access to their facilities.

2) Someone will procuction-ize this and sell it to cops at 9001% markup. (I don't mean beat cops executing legit warrants here, I'm thinking more along the lines of drug units and "well your honor we didn't need a warrant because the accused failed to ensure his door latched behind him.")

3) This will go mostly ignored by everyone else.

I know this stuff existed before but this is a massive drop in barrier to entry so adoption will increase.
That's totally fine. The problem is this way is a dumb way of doing it. Send out screener coding questions and have an engineer quickly review the responses rather than someone with a business degree that has no idea how to speak the same language an engineer would.
That sounds kind of similar ratios to Barcelona. Do you think its related to them being tourist cities pushing up proeperty prices.

(On a side not Barcelona is pretty strict on AirBnB. Still screw AirBnB, there is no need for residential accommodation to be used as hotels when rents are getting ridiculous like this).
how do you separate work from the relationship? in the startup she's the boss, in marriage you are ideally equals.
it's not warped. a camera lens is round, it makes a circular image. here that circle is smaller than the sensor. all they're doing is wasting 1/2 the sensor's pixels :)
Some other interesting facts from the article:

> Also, the [CIA] noted that the Soviet Union had previously used chemical agents in Afghanistan and suffered few repercussions.

> Top CIA officials ... were told ... that Iraq was about to buy equipment from Italy to help speed up production of chemical-packed artillery rounds and bombs...
I was just having this discussion with my children. How much sense a rule makes depends on the altitude of the observer.

For instance, it makes sense to all people to choose for themselves whether to smoke. It also makes sense to protect people from food poisoning. Does it make sense to disallow the sale of raw milk because somebody might get sick but allow the sale of cigarettes with a big sticker that smoking will kill you?

Sometimes the sense of something changes between the small picture and the large picture. So it is with deciding which rules are ok to break.
Doesn’t sound like the interviewee has an inflated sense of worth from what’s written and it sounds like the interviewer cheated off someone to get his degree
Shutting down the product is exactly what they were trying to avoid. As a business owner, he made commitments to his customers to support the software he sold them. Walking away from those commitments would have compromised his reputation and hurt his ability to sell in other new markets. I think it was primarily a personal obligation he felt towards his clients, and a matter of integrity.

In the B2B space, the costs of switching vendors/products is often a really big deal. Spinning the product off released him from the obligation (allowing him to focus on more promising products), and avoided (most of?) the pain for his clients.
"For a bubble to occur investors have to be irrationally exuberant."

Well, if some system which guarantees a class of investors won't suffer even if the market tanks, you can't really say these investors irrationally exuberant. It's more like they're quite rationally enthusiastic, knowing full well they can't lose.
There is justification in regarding that as a form of video call rather than media playback, even though the video may be only in one direction and the reverse communication (flow of bids) isn't AV.
you can tell beforehand that its possible for somebody to suddenly jump out, so yes, you probably should be going 5mph
I'm from the UK, and citizens can only own shotguns or sporting rifles, and the checks and character references are very strict. Pretty much no one owns a gun other than farmers. Read this to see how strict the checks and rules are:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_policy_in_the_Unite...

The police even have to get involved. More to the point, no one in UK wants to own a gun. They feel safe without them. America's obsession with guns and the delusion of thinking they are safer because of them, is insane.
The history of software engineering
Right. Those towns are designed in an era of horse and train. You see this in the U.S. on the east coast. The older the town, and the more developed it was before the arrival of the automobile, the more of the walk, horse, train design you still see. As you go west, you see a large percentage of towns and cities designed based on the automobile, and their "old town" is smaller or has completely vanished.
It seems Google is more sensitive to false positive than false negative because of their very good compensation and the relative high demand for Google jobs + the unbalanced high costs of a false positive.
At their scale they can afford playing the stats and not be bothered with individuals. Further more any promising rejected engineer will be asked to try again every six months which alleviate the false negative problem.
seems reasonable from this perspective.
uBlock: Origin's with default lists blocked 43 for me and allowed 9 domains out of 24.
Raising my son.

Playing music with my friends.

Building a home and relationships with my partners.

Building my body and mind through long term studies of various branches of philosophical and intellectual inquiry.

Caring for specific peoples' specific needs.

That all might sound hippy-dippy or unrealistic, but because of the history of our economy we tend to value only monetarily compensated public labor as "work", when in fact the domestic labor that recreates ourselves across time (like building homes and raising children) is far more intimate and important to our lives.

That is just my limited experience; I'm open to being wrong about that in other people.

And that's maybe a tough set of priorities if you're working 60 hours a week (including commute and the domestic labor that goes into maintaining yourself for the sole purposes of being able to do paid labor).

So, as I recognized that, I optimized my for-pay labor (I'm a web dev) into a 30-hour-a-week salaried 100% remote deal with a person who is a fantastic sales person. The work is fun and interesting, but more importantly it can be "just about the paycheck" because the meaningful work in my life gets enough time and attention for me to feel good about that work and see the results.

I dunno if that would work for other people, but it's been working well for me.
> The response to an answer should be "OK" and then you note down the answer and show your notes to an engineer at the end.

This kinds of defeat the purpose of the screening interview though doesn't it?
The point is to not disturb an engineer when 99% of the people that are being screened are unqualified.
Fair enough! My main point was it's not clear that engineers at Tesla are better than those elsewhere. Even if all car companies are terrible. The other biases are my own, and are purely anecdotal based on my own experience and what others tell me. I'll leave it to other people with more time to do a scientific comparison.
Google Apps Script is great for tools like this: I have used some at work for a while to manage gig listings for a musician... just the tiny bit of automation happening at midnight let's them add shows via a Google form and forget all about them, knowing that geocoding, and removing of old shows, and other funny business, will all happen without them needing to maintain it. BUT if they ever do need to modify a show, they are dealing with a google sheet, which they understand.
Sadly just my blog at https://blog.claisne.io. It's not much but seeing users visiting on google analytics is quite rewarding !
What is the difference between Matrix and Origin?
—Manuel, the Troll
More precisely, for it to be a bubble, people have to be buying because the asset is going up, not because of the fundamentals. It's hard to do that and not be "irrationally exuberant", because you are explicitly disconnected from the rational valuation of the asset.
https://media.giphy.com/media/LFlT04CTtrwc/giphy.gif
Rolling releases break more. If you get to far away from the current version, good luck updating.
That really depends on the service. For on-demand services like Netflix or YouTube your argument is a fair one. But for live services it matters a lot more - particularly in broadcasting. Even more so if your clients are watching the same feed and using that to determine when to inject ads (eg in a live sporting event). Then it quickly becomes very important to keep latency as low as possible.
Agreed. Maybe they didn't manufacture 10 million of them yet, at least?