skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally mail every package to my work rather than home. No worry of leaving the house for one 15 minute window in the entire day and ups showing up and taking my package back with them. ($1800 laptop so taking it back was better than the porch but it was still annoying.)

That said I am the IT/Electronics tech for a small machine shop. Most of us here have items we order come to work.
Another gem: Trying to use `npm shrinkwrap` will cause npm to enforce peer dependencies as required instead of just a warning https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/12909 Despite the issue being automatically closed by a bot (due to apparent lack of interest from the npm devs) this bug is still going strong a couple years later. Switched to yarn haven't looked back.
That could surely explain some of it. And since foodstamps apparently account for 48bln usd yearly, one could also assume, that a lot of companies directly, or indirectly make a lot of money of it, and are determined to keep the status quo.
The cross platform part is called source code. If all the chunks you use to build your app are cross platform packaging wont be horrible.
This article is weird. His resume looks impressive and it looks like he has done some solid work but from the article he sounds like he feels entitled because of it. Also I find it annoying how little he mentions about the kind of companies hes applying to or even what country he's in (apart from one reference to a company in California so I guess we can assume he's in the USA).

> If an HR person says to me “Oh and we administer a coding test” then my first response is “I’ve taken a bunch of those, which one do you use?”.

If I was hiring and a candidate said that to me on the phone I probably wouldn't invite them for an in-person interview.
I worked in the industry for three summers, and they were interchangeable there.

Additionally, they could be 'tur-bans' or 'tur-bines' as well.
There's a huge variation in recruiter quality and it's pretty easy to tell the good ones from the bad. Just spend a couple of weeks taking calls and emails and following leads and you learn quick.
Yeah, same.

One other thing I do is have physically separate devices for work versus entertainment. A spare phone is my Twitter/Facebook phone. I have a separate laptop for watching videos, playing games, social media, and HN. (I also have a tablet for long-form reading: Kindle, Instapaper, The Economist etc.) It helps establish that there are separate modes, which limits FOMO for me.
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Some of the most important skills programmers should have--in my opinion, more important than writing code--are reading code, debugging, adjusting to the project management strategy of the company, and interacting in functional ways with the team.
Not yet AFAIK (but I'm not in the US, so maybe there're things I don't know). Look at the Purism 5, slated for delivery Jan 2019 -- if I had the cash I'd have pre-ordered one already. Choice of PureOS (Debian derivative) a Touch-KDE version thereof or Ubuntu Touch. Hardware kill switches for microphones and cameras. I think it's the first time I've ever seen a phone (admittedly still technically vapourware) that I actually would /like/ to acquire.

eta: Upon re-read I sound like a shill for Purism. I have nothing whatever to do with them, but their products do appeal to the inner tin-foil-hatter in me.
Poorly written opinion piece by a known anti-tax nutjob who believes that taxes aren't necessary because the free market will automagically solve all of society's woes.

By the way, she quite happily lives in NYC and has for many years. For all her talk, she really likes the quality of life that her high tax load makes possible--a lifestyle you can't get in one of the low-tax red states she reveres in her writing.
It's worth emphasizing that for the first example, the answer was provided free of charge within an hour. I don't think I agree with any assessment in which this is not an unqualified success.
> a tutor or technical mentor

Is there any site that provides this?
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This was probably just due to someone being stupid but the conspiracy theorist in me asks: Sabotage by the Google Cloud team?
I think the main point from a candidate perspective is that long, unusual or difficult interview processes are fine as long as we have already decided we really want to work for you (that is you are Trello or SpaceX or some amazing startup we love)

otherwise, just as you are faced with picking a rose from a faceless mass of candidates so are we faced with picking a decent place to work from a faceless mass of mission statements and "100%code coverage" blog posts (if we can find any)

And 2) yes I can believe it - that's what fizzbuzz and its ilk are for. The number of companies offering hackerrank/codility tests and justifying it as we only hire the very best has left the lake woebegone test way behind.

There has to be some
middle ground - where someone can pass a basic capability test to weed out the crap without demanding several hours of coding. I mean I spent two evenings recently polishing up a "Oyster card system for TFL" as a hurdle for a government department I have been angling to get in for a year. A no-name corporations wanting CRUD development can take a running jump if it thinks my evenings come cheap.

(amazingly at the turn of the century I used to use "has listed Python on CV" as a marker of "worth an interview" - it was rare enough and indicated an interest outside of corporate mainstream. Maybe Erlang today??)

Edit:

So my compromise suggestion is for companies to say "We have an OSS project (or even recommend one of the bigger ones). Take any of these 5 bugs and supply a pull-request"

At least then the evenings work is not totally wasted and you get to see an important skill - how fast can they come up to speed on an unfamiliar codebase?
Purism and UBports officially collaborate to offer Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5
>Last twice I've looked for a developer job, I got offered a position and was hired within 2 weeks.

His resume is the problem. Two immediate things: (1) His most recent job lists junior level work and (2) He is claiming 3 concurrent jobs over the last two years.
Here's a less dumbed-down article from a bit earlier in the process: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/sites/dailyreportonlin...

A 2012 law created an administrative review system for challenging patents, meant to reduce the expense of challenging patents by keeping the process out of court. That law was challenged as being an illegal taking happening outside a court of law. The Supreme Court disagreed, considering it just a corrective action of the patent office's discretionary granting abilities. More or less.
Maybe I will try it if the font can be set to something big, but I'm one of those bastards that prefer proportional fonts even for source code. However it's still not "links -g" - this one supports images. Images are mostly useless on most pages, but with uBlock Origin I also limit images bigger than 50kB, that filters out most junk, but probably also have a lot of false positives.
Users don't care about any of that. They look at the answers on those questions and think "wow this is great content!" then they get mad when mods shut down the discussion.

It's important to remember that users don't care what SO's purpose is, they care about their experience with the service and for a lot of people that experience is extremely negative.

I think it would be in SO's best interest to actual listen to the complaints people have instead of just saying "you're not using the site right". People wanting to use a product is a privilege that is best not taken for granted. After all, the customer is always right.
That is indeed extreme.. obviously it would be preferable to have the proper motivation to stop this type of behaviour on your own but a detox period is required for that.
Chevy Malibu is folded down from the trunk at least on the 98 model.
Hopefully they use this to build more housing.
JJ makes the most reliable tubes on the market now. They are fantastic.
> and get away with it.

Good luck. With that. It'l still probably be taken down and there's nothing stopping them from denying the appeal as well.
> No one believes that anyone can actually code.

Is it just our industry where you have to prove you aren't a complete impostor every time? Basically we treat every applicant like they are Frank Abagnale [0].

A senior role should be focused on more overall system and performance aspects of the software, using good practices.

What does writing out a solution for fizzbuzz (or equivalent) prove during an interview? If they do it easily do you suspect they memorized it (our base assumption seems to be they are an impostor right)? If they fail, do they fail the interview?

In the real world if you had a database call in some recursive loop that would be bad for performance. The number of times I jump to using recursion in a solution is near zero.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
Yeah, a lot has changed since the 90s. The '94 "Assault Weapons Ban" made them popular; when it expired in '04, production shot through the roof. Various panics have happened since then that kept them relatively expensive, but since Trump's election prices have fallen through the floor.

These days you can easily get a lower receiver (the part that's considered a firearm by the ATF) for <$100.
Integrating nsp is a very welcome move. It's heartening to see npm taking the security issue seriously and taking steps to start addressing the problem.

That said, the problem remains largely cultural rather than technical. The community needs to make significant changes to how it consumes and publishes dependencies in order to reduce the attack surface. The massive, bloated dependency graphs that developers who use Node tolerate with cavalier indifference are not safe or sustainable in the long term.
It's hard for an ISP to justify switching. It costs money now, so your competition who do not switch can use the money saved to outcompete you. Switching costs are also likely to fall the longer you wait. Customers don't demand it.

If I was CEO of an ISP, I would have ordered a plan, but not put it into action just yet.
Neither. As far as I can tell, levels.fyi is mostly new-hire offers. This is reflected in the mix of compensation (large bonuses are signing, not performance bonuses).

It's also based on relatively small sample sizes. As a result, you get things that are, sort of by accident, mostly within the ranges you would expect for an employee at that level (because new hires normally start lower in-band, but they have large 1-time bonuses to make things up).

So, sometimes they're low in the range. Sometimes they're high in the range. They almost never reflect the actual compensation mix an employee would receive over a sustained time period. Maybe they're better than nothing?

>Also, are levels pretty translatable between big corps? Does level at one company have weight when interviewing at another?

Depends. In my limited experience, these levels are certainly more translatable than other titles (ie. someone who is L5 at facebook is likely to be hired at L5, or at worst L4 if they perform badly in interviews at Google, whereas someone who makes it to Senior SWE at some random software company might not have been exposed to the skills and tech necessary to be considered an L4 at Google or Facebook). That said, its not like a perfectly rigid hierarchy where putting in your time at Microsoft will guarantee you a higher level job at Amazon or whatever.
It's hardcoded to be broken in too many devices. NANOG has long and winding threads about reclaiming the class E space - there was consensus that it wasn't possible to get enough devices unbroken for the space to actually be usable.

IIRC, a lot of networking equipment chokes on it.
They do, they're called Amazon Lockers, https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=6442600011
A Developer’s Guide to GDPR that won’t make you sweat
My office won't accept any delivery over 5kg or of a certain size - I know many people who had their orders from Amazon refused and then the nearest courier depot is 45 minut drive away which is a massive pain. If they could just leave the box in my car that would make it much simpler.
They are, it's just that Apple was by far the worst tax evader of the bunch.
Nintendo Labo Review
Water met peterselie drinken doet buikvet smelten als sneeuw voor de zon
I don't have a citation either but when looking into Android for a project I read that GPS doesn't really turn off, you can do it but you have run your own Android brew. I was trying to save power so that's the kind of thing I was looking for.
"We will need to compare feedback but I'm confident we will be in touch soon".
Well it is a 3D rendering, and that color might suggest the device has a metal heat spreader not a colored plastic molding.
Are you SOLID ?!
At times, I have tried to press a contact from a job lead on what I could have done better in my interview. They will not give you even a single bit of feedback--a seemingly innocuous yes or no question is met with dissembling or equivocation, always.

What bothers me most is that employers don't seem to be showing equal commitment to the interviewing process. They will ask you to do hours worth of homework for them, but then can't be arsed to discuss it with you for five minutes. They will ask for your salary history, but clam up if you ask them what they pay other developers in the same position. They will take your application as a senior developer, then ask if you'd consider being an entry-level tester. They spend hours grilling you to prove your worth, then spend zero minutes trying to sell you on their company.
These notes are exactly what I was looking for, thanks for writing them.
Think this is a dupe from a few hours ago.
That's a fair summary of the finding (and I would contend, the major issue in this case).

The counter-argument that might lead one to disagree with this decision is that the Patent Office reports to the President, so it is subject to the political motives of that branch.

For example, let's say, a major democratic donor receives a software patent on a novel ML algorithm useful for predicting voting behavior. Under inter partes review, the President (or his subordinates) could invalidate that person's patent if challenged regardless of the evidence. If inter partes review were found unconstitutional, they would need to convince a jury that the algorithm was, in fact, inappropriately granted.
A World First: Trillion-Cell Simulation Run – Oil and Gas Technology
It's weird, I've heard plenty of stories about this kind of thing but when I sat on the hiring side and interviewed for intermediate roles (couldn't even afford senior) I didn't come across anybody who was stumped and simply couldn't code.

There were people who were bad at (possibly some because they were under pressure), it but nobody who couldn't do it at all.

I wasn't giving out a trivial question either.
Yeah, I very much had to reread the headline to see if it was a death squad for patents or a patent on death squads.

I'm a bit surprised at Bloomberg, because they had as much space as they wanted. Normally this happens with things like the BBC app, where full headlines are truncated down to a few words. That's how we get winners like "New powers over death considered".
Agreed. And not just any cables, but polarized cables, with gold plated connectors, and the copper wire formed in oxygen-deprived environments, with individual strands following certain twist-pattern to optimize the electron flow, etc. To read the descriptions, one would think the ore were mined by elves on the moon! Nonsense, all.

I'm hoping these blokes never crack open the amp to look at the plain old PVC-insulated wiring within. And don't tell them the oil-in-paper caps are fading over time. Ditto with the carbon resistors.

Meanwhile, humidity of the air and barometric pressure has a measurable affect on the sound of paper-cone speakers. How long before an "audiophile" barometric chamber is marketed?
https://www.google.com/maps/timeline If you run android this is the same thing. It can be turned off but most people will probably have it on.
Try Flask, and writing extensions for your favorite services if they don’t already exist.
It's worth noting that Spolsky lost the "How do you move the turtle in LOGO" philosophical debate. [1] Atwood won and thus people get an excuse to treat people badly. Particularly relevant is that people get an excuse to treat new comers particularly badly. Sure, there's a scale at which aggressively closing questions is administratively necessary. [python] or [android] are at that scale. But the small corners of StackExchange are often dominated by Usenet behaviors because such behaviors are sanctioned from on high. Policies that encourage treating people badly are established by fix or sixteen votes on the related Meta site. And blessed in the moderator discussions as site wide policies based on the administrative needs of tags like [php] on StackOverflow.

A lot of StackExchange is similar to comp.lang.c did in the Usenet era. As in the days of the Usenet, They tolerate and encourage those behaviors. I think there's a critical lower bound and a maximum upper bound for the number of users. The topic has to be big enough that there is a steady stream of new questions and small enough that regulars talking among themselves is a meaningful percentage of the activity.

[1]: The discussion from 2009 in SO Podcast #58 (under the old numbering system): https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/18/podcast-58/
Big Mechanism (started in 2014)
Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Understand How Language Works
Introducing Partner Interconnect, a fast, economical onramp to GCP
Depends on the vehicle. A great many vehicles have open compartment trunks. Pretty much the majority of vans, SUVs, and station wagons.. and most hatchbacks just have a small plastic tray that is easily removable from the inside.
It's pretty weird. We've taken that bit out of the title above.
Microsoft also did it with the XBox. Comparatively, they were hemorrhaging money. It worked. I still maintain that Google has a better product (having superior voice recognition) and that this race is far from over.
But doesn't it have the same index as Google? I would probably prefer to have my idea of a search engine implemented before the browser one. Because then not only the search interface would be light and serving me instead of corporate interests, but also all the found sites. Also I could use it on regular browser.
How are you liking GoCD? I've been looking for an alternative to GitLab for a while.
>Most EBT cards I’ve seen also have a toll-free number on the back to call and check your balance through an automated system (similar to gift cards).

Yeah, and my bank does online phone banking. Which I've literally never used because it takes a couple of seconds with online banking to check my balance and roughly 10,000% more time to perform the same action with phone banking and that's IF I can remember all the details needed to get to that point.,
From the emotion in your response I gather you interpreted my words to be derogatory. Far from it, I see self worth and identity as important, and I don't want to judge those who involve their sexual functioning or their appearance in their sense of self worth. I certainly do, to some extent... I just think (or hope) my sense of self worth would survive without it.
Number 7: Companies Really Want to Know Your Salary; Don’t tell Them

So true. Do not tell them!
Billion dollar blockchain investment funds and industrial parks in China
Just photoshop a male nipple on top
Are you sure? Do you think, for example, that Brown v. Board of Education was the wrong decision, since the lawmakers and courts at the time the 14th Amendment was passed clearly did not intend "equal protection" to mean "forced integration"? Should the court have waited until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed before reinterpreting the amendment in this way?
My iPhone 5s (still my favourite iPhone design) died a couple of years ago (well, the battery did) and since then I use an iPod touch for apps and a cheap (£30 IIRC) dual-SIM little Nokia for telephony. The latter keeps its charge for days and I don't worry about losing it.

I confess as a news junkie I enjoy twitter, youtube, podcasts and reddit etc on my iPod but as it is wifi-only of course there are built in constraints in its use. I also have taken to going out without iPod or phone after work hours... very liberating and almost revolutionary! Nice to have an untracked-feeling if nothing else.
> Is it just our industry where you have to prove you aren't a complete impostor every time? Basically we treat every applicant like they are Frank Abagnale [0].

The problem is that a large majority of candidates lie on their resumes. This means that hiring managers have to work harder to qualify a good candidate -- which often ends up turning into a process that hurts and annoys those that are actually qualified.
Let me ask the crowd. Would you use a browser plugin that eliminates newsfeeds?

One of the things I struggle with is the endless novelty of a newsfeed. I can always scroll and get more. And then I can reload for another chance at finding something interesting.

There are extensions that do this for Facebook alone, but I was thinking something more general. And something that's also clever about eliminating the way companies use notifications to for similar novelty-injection, rather than true notifications.

I suspect I also need a "please temporarily show me the newsfeed" mode, possibly on some sort of time restriction, with mandatory delay, or requiring some boring work, so as to raise it from "compulsive response" to "considered choice", but still keeps people from removing the extension on the occasions they really need to see the feeds.

Would you use it? And what services would be required?
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar.
> When? That hasn't been the case in a long time

When they were still primarily a CDMA carrier. The only reason they changed is because they adopted 4G LTE (which is in the GSM/3GPP family) which uses SIM cards. Proving the point.
Your laptop is not a distributed system. If it is lost or destroyed, you lose your feed reader.
> Robert Bringhurst didn't have final say

He could have taken the book to a different publisher!
I tried to google which island you could have been visiting. google didn't cut it, but Wolfram Alpha understood what I was looking for and found four islands.
care to share which one you visited to see whether WA had a hit?

Ahhh, what a fabulous waste of time and resources. So... what was the thread about again?
There is no pen support on linux for Surface pens. Wacom, yes. Surface pens, no.
> My least favorite case for this is "a new poll shows people think X", with no link to the actual poll with the actual questions.

They usually announce the source of the poll. Many polls don't have a freely-available link to the details, though you can sometines spend lots of money to buy that access.
Mind expansion is for those who want to go beyond "grocery shopping".
That's not at all what's happening here.
NAT is the problem. If you are behind a CGNAT, then you effectively can't use the Internet properly.
I’m curious how the 58kb savings are achieved. Which functionality has not been implemented? I couldn’t find a list that highlights the differences between the two libraries.
Even though Sotomayor was appointed by Obama, she's a lifelong independent. She probably aligns closest with the left, but from her bio I did not get the impression that she is a ideologue.
What was the compelling reason to switch back to npm versus yarn?
Exactly. Nothing against firms trying to optimize their fiscal plan but if you have to pay then shut up and pay it up.
So IP lawyers (and their accounts receivable ledgers) are quite unhappy about this ruling, I'm sure.