skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
junk implies zero value, which is very far from accurate
> How is proving self study ability relevant to a job? Doesn't my resume of wildly varying projects and my ability to competently talk about them prove that?

People usually trust their own assessment of a candidate much more than that of others. While your projects might help generate interest in you and get you an interview, the actual interview process is meant to be an assessment by the Company conducting the interview. So you shouldn't automatically assume you have the jobs simply based on your past projects alone. I'm not saying I necessarily agree with how this works; I am simply pointing out why it works that way.

> It sounds to me like a way to weed out pesky applicants who have families or who are simply older.

Perhaps. It seems unlikely since many of the senior developers/hiring managers at most mature companies are older and have families.
They really aren't. I have friends at bulge bracket banks that easily worked 12 hours a day and sometimes weekends. At Amazon I was hard pressed to find anybody work more than 10 in the office on crunch weeks.
What are the graph representations that are used at larger scales? They're not adjacency lists at bottom? Can you point toward some resources to read up on?
Maybe because they are plentiful? I'm not familiar with infosec but if the bar for getting certified is "I can take a class and pay $XX to get this certificate" then of course they're worthless.
This is an amazing idea!

Are the actual apps it runs just Android apps with their default interfaces, or is each one something you've custom-built internally, or what?
Sums it up! Thank you!
> As it turns out, the getpid function supposedly takes no parameters, so the inclusion of the parameters in the call above perplexed me.

This is due to the fact that dtruss is actually a shell script trying to emulate truss with a d script and not quite succeeding.

See the section starting with the comment "print 0 arg output" in dtruss if you wish to understand the meaning of the 3 "arguments."

getpid() is most likely being called with 0 arguments.
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You also need to ask about resource time and money budgets here some little start up is not going to have the resources a tier one TLA will have in its black data centre.
With a little twist, you could make it asynchronously iterable, i.e. if you wanted to iterate over the 'data' chunks/events as they arrive:

http://2ality.com/2018/04/async-iter-nodejs.html
A party that has requested a review can take the USPTO to court over its review decision.
It would be pretty easy to build. Probably something you can do end-to-end in one or two days.
I remember BMW pushing the concept too, around 2016.
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Best advice I got when starting out was an older colleague who encouraged me to invest early and often. The sooner you start saving the longer time you have for growth. Invest as much as you can afford to in 401k (see if you company has matching).
WeWork buys Lord & Taylor’s flagship store for $850M

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/10/24/wework-b...
It's also possible everyone was interpreting what it legally required right but interpreting the material facts differently than the Brown court, and that the mistake prior to Brown was one of fact, not law. “Separate is inherently unequal”—in the specific context of public education—in Brown was a statement of an important factual conclusion underlying the decision.
Would it be better to have the interviewer provide take home context a few days before the interview that will be related to the coding problems during the interview? Somewhere between the take home coding problem and the whimsical toy problem solving by during the interview?
Capital vs Labor.

They don't care. Never have, never will.

It's a one-way street, any "give" that there is, is out of self interest and necessity.
The browser is the time-sink for me too. Unfortunately, iOS makes it difficult to get Safari out of your life. My dream is a content blocker that requires you to unlock it in order to browse the time-sink sites you choose to greylist; and each time you unlock it, unlocking gets more arduous.
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Thanks for the good work on GitLab, I tell everyone I can how great of an experience it was to use it at my last company. The CI integration was GREAT, the ui is pretty nice and the maintenance overhead was minimal.
I don't think your concerns are invalid.

I can't source it and it is not a study/statistics, but I did see a piece once on a Black American with a brain injury in a coma who was declared dead and then their organs were promptly harvested. The article suggested the patient could have recovered from their brain injury with proper care and that a well off white person with the same injury would have gotten the care they needed to recover instead of being declared dead and then essentially parted out.

It's a pretty macabre scenario. It's a question most people don't want to ask. Organ transplants get hyped a lot as miraculous and entirely positive events.

I used to belong to a number of cystic fibrosis lists. CF accounts for about a third of adult lung transplants and about half of all pediatric lung transplants in the US. I have seen plenty of discussions by family members, recipients or other concerned parties about things like being listed and waiting for a donor, as well as stories of people dying slowly from rejection.

So I have thought long and hard about this and I have my misgivings about "heroic medicine," such as insanely expensive drugs (one new-ish CF drug costs about $250k-$300k annually) and organ transplants.

The patient who received a new penis may not have gone through this, but one of the things that horrifies me about transplants is that, once you are listed, you essentially sit around hoping that a young, healthy person who is a tissue match dies tragically in the prime of their life in an accident so that you get a second shot at life. If your condition is deadly, you have been listed because you are basically dying. So you sit there hoping someone dies fairly soon. I can't imagine what that does to someone psychologically.

However, my father and my ex were both career army. The military has a very long association with experimental medicine and this relationship is more responsible for medical advances than people realize. I'm extremely sympathetic to this story in part because he's a veteran.

Returning to the question of studies, I do recall a blurb about Puerto Rico being a major source of organs for transplant. The article went into some of the reasons for that, though I don't recall any of the details. You could try looking for info on that angle and see where it leads you.
^ yes anyone using moment do not forget to clone() or you are in for surprises :)
Initially, it seemed to be a temporary regression. Later that it may be related to Meltdown/Spectre mitigations. Currently, it is well-known to developers and remains patiently waiting for improvement.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=827497...
Can you elaborate you that last statement? Are Rails developers less terrible than the C/C#/C++ people with whom you’ve worked?

If so, what are your thoughts on why that may be?
This appears to be an artifact of dtruss(1). Syscalls that aren't special-cased are assumed to have 3 arguments: https://github.com/joyent/dtruss-osx/blob/c3b23e279187056e76...

There are special cases for 0..6 arguments (including one for close(2)) so I guess getpid(2) slipped through the cracks.
Have had the opposite experience, HR sells the company hard, then you get a piss off email a week later. :-/
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HabitLab for Chrome has this as a nudge.
That's a tough one... I guess it would make it better, but I'm not sure about how the taxes and relationship with the company would play out...
I opened tickets with GitLab support, which were eventually closed due to inactivity (i.e. support let the issues time out without a resolution, despite me doing two 1-hour live debugging sessions with a support rep and a full stack trace highlighting the failing code).

In general I wasn't expecting to have to raise issues on the open source tracker myself after reporting to internal/paid support, but perhaps that's where I went wrong.
If people are considering degree marks for a senior role, they have big things to worry about than if their candidate can whiteboard
> You must be American.

I'm Danish :-)

> People have laid out how this "free" services, like education or healthcare, can lead to a more productive, fairer society (e.g. less people off work sick, because they go and get treatment sooner, and recover sooner).

I can point you to countless articles, anecdotes and videos showing the exact opposite.

> Or why do you think tech companies offer good health care? Out of the kindness of their heart? No, because having people worry about basic needs and not get medical treatment when they need it is counter-productive.

I don't disagree on your statement about basic needs, and as your own example illustrates, these can be served by the private sector. But the reason most companies in the US offer healthcare to their employees goes back to the time of FDR, when it was illegal for a while to compete on wages but not on benefits (if I remember correctly).

> But it seems like all you care about is how many taxes you pay, and how much you get back for it. Fair enough, if you're selfish and have no compassion for your fellow countrymen and the next generation that much, we won't be able to sway you.

I care about the taxes everyone pays. It seems paradoxical to me to claim, for example, to care about the poor and at the same time make everything expensive through taxation.
> For all the claims of companies that they only hire the "top 10%" or whatever of engineers, the interview process is often optimized to the benefit of the median engineer.

This really seems out of necessity. There are going to be a lot more qualified median engineers rather than superstar coders, so it makes sense to optimize your hiring pipeline to assess these folks.

In my experience, most of the "top 10%" hires are either through interpersonal contacts or a fast-tracked interview process for a specific candidate.
Wow, this is actually pretty strange. It feels as if the ability to query your own food stamp information should be free and publicly accessible. But the food stamp information is hosted on Conduent private servers that are getting a huge increase in requests due to Propel users.

Very strange, feels like the correct distinction between private and public is very messed up here.
And even if you want to ship native code within your Electron app, why would you use wasm instead of the native code with ffi ?
So what is the interviewer supposed to do to find out if you can code?

I’ll take someone who gives an idiomatic answer over someone who reinvents the wheel anyday. Who is likely to be more productive on the job?
Worth pointing out that the Moment.js eng team also built https://moment.github.io/luxon/ as a faster, lighter, more modern alternative to their LTS project. https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/why.html
> I'd suggest a widely-accepted professional certification could help a lot, like doctors and lawyers have with the medical board exam or the bar exam.

"i passed the bar exam!" and nothing else doesn't get you a legal job you want.

and your medical boards, if i recall correctly, just mean you're qualified to go be a slave, er, uh, resident, some place for a few years.
What are you wondering about? They can squeeze more money out of businesses because it is sold as enterprise feature.
I think the 10% is exActly what these AI first companies should be targeting .
"A: Nope! Everyone just sucks."

I do think this attitude genuinely limits many startups. Software engineers will always be the first to take up hobbies like fixing old motorcycles or building a house from scratch, yet they view mediocre engineers as things that can't be fixed up in the same way.

A mediocre engineer is actually a really good bargain. Obviously a great engineer who doesn't know it is ideal but I'd toss them in with the mediocre engineers for that reason.
Yes I get your point, but again, in my opinion, if there's no Q/A yet for how to replace a lamp, the others seeking an answer should just ask that question specifically. The net result being both the original OP and the others are helped in a clear way. Unless of course someone comes up with an all-in-one answer to the original question laying out all possible reasons why there's no light. But that's the edge between way too broad vs specific question.
You got downvoted, but currently the top-voted comment does exactly what you predicted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16913397
I believe the reason people get hung up on that is because, many times, the "duplicate" isn't actually a duplicate.
> What are you referring to?

Probably this: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571
Our telescopes and other instruments are getting more powerful. All we have to do is look...
The author is assuming that (a) someone who's making all their ordinary purchases with ETH instead of VISA isn't holding any ETH, but making a separate buy on an exchange for each individual purchase, and (b) anyone who receives ETH immediately sells it for some other currency, despite living in a world where it's possible to use ETH for all purchases. These seem like questionable assumptions at best.

There's an underlying assumption that a cryptocurrency must be either a store of value or a medium of exchange, but not both, which is a bit odd since every fiat currency is both, and gold was both for thousands of years.
You've said elsewhere that you're in the 40k range. Median Central London Salary is ~35k, so you're actually well above average salary, even in London.
It surprised me to find out that you're right, for anyone following along, I ended up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3453141
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> Ruby is hard to get a job in, so you are off to a rough start.

Why do you say this?
Are you suggesting that AI/ML makes those new requirements go away? Or that managing those requirements becomes easier because AI/ML software figures it out?
Thanks, Google.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-...
It also entirely depends on your career path. Mine didn't involve programming outside of shell for most of it, and involved tons of deep expertise on a variety of topics.

I was shocked doing an interview in my last round and got so many test questions. I bombed so hard because it wasn't what I was doing.

The real key to me is, we treat all of these jobs as more or less the same, when in reality they are all vastly different. There is no singular senior engineer skill set, but a variety.
I am also interested in that space and would like to pick your brain on: what do you read to keep up in this space? Personally, I follow Crain's, and CREtech.

And speaking of cap rates vs. multiples (valuation per sq foot), wsj had a great article on the Wework business model on how artifical it's valuation seems versus traditional office-leasing:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-a-20-billion-startup-fue...
Use one of the fetch modules from npm.
The part of the comment about trans people is an off-topic derail. Sex reassignment surgery is not free for the asking. There is substantial prep work preceding it, including psychological exams. You have to convince a bunch of people this is merited and appropriate in order to get such surgery.
Why I'm Quitting Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple for a Month
The headquarters are in Germany, but tiny Slovakia, for example, has huge car production facilities.
Can you install apps like a simple web browser, Google maps or whatsapp/telegram on it ?
Serverless by design – a visual approach to serverless development
There's this great article I came across a few weeks ago:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/human-ex...

About how we may expect life to be more prevalent than it is because our own existence is so miraculous. Though the other side is - if the universe is so large, with so many planets, then there may be a chance that there's life out there that's just as incredibly lucky as us.
Thanks for the direct link! hacker news is the best.

Also, I was very partial to Gorsuch's dissenting opinion, even though I believe patents in general to be a problem.
>7 years programming in X? YES, 4 years writing scripts in Y?

To be fair, there are a lot of job listings where X hasn't even been around for 7 years.
>Then you've got the current funding climate that absolutely loves companies that look like lifestyle businesses.

Can you elaborate on this? I do keep some track of the startup world (since I consult to them) but was not aware of this point.

>Also - a failed VC-backed startup looks better resume-wise.

Why? Genuine question. Why would a failed small business not look as good?
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It sounds like you've got neither recall nor precision

If you are looking for rare positives, you’d use F1 score ;-)
It's a dumb policy, but it's true.

I was on a team with no one above SDE-I. That was bad.
> This is a contributed post by Bill Harris, former CEO of Intuit and founding CEO of PayPal and Personal Capital.

I was not in the least bit surprised that what followed this disclaimer was by and large the same tired anti-Bitcoin arguments we've all been reading since 2010. Not to mention the title is a gross exaggeration and undoubtedly fishing for angry clicks.

The worst part is there's a nugget of truth hidden amongst this FUD: the danger of ICOs and other varieties of altcoin scams. There's really no value being created when yet another coin is created that's just an existing coin with a new PoW algorithm stapled on, yet the creator stands to make tens of thousands off of his or her 2% premine, because of people speculating that this might be the Next Big Coin.

For this reason, I think the cryptocurrency market is definitely in a speculative bubble. But so what? So is Silicon Valley. Is a Wi-Fi enabled plant waterer really worth $30 million in VC funding? Probably not, but that doesn't mean the Dropboxes and the AirBnBs of the market aren't adding value. The abundance of worthless altcoins doesn't mean the cryptocurrency market as a whole is worthless, but it does mean you should be careful what you invest in.
There's a strong argument to make that executives are strongly incentivized to make their companies riskier and more prone to bankruptcy in the long run.

The bulk of executive compensation is in either outright equity ownership, or increasing bonuses based on equity price increases. Equity can be viewed as a call option on the enterprise value of the firm [1].

If you own a call option, you can increase its value by either making it 1) more in the money (by directly increasing the enterprise value, i.e. by generating value 'the honest way') or 2) increasing volatility directly, either by taking real economic risks (investing in more assets) or utilizing leverage (debt). Here we see both.

Note that financial investors in a company can be perfectly OK with results that boost the bottom line today, but lead to disaster down the road, so long as they're convinced there will be a short-term boost in the share price (at which point they exit and sell to the next sucker).

[1] https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/09-10/fin...
Thats super cool!!!!!!
> now a chunk of the API that references that method is broken, but you only happened to run a test for the method you changed
There's already related questions on the side.

Here's something I've never really understood: What is the downside to leaving the question up, even if it is an actual duplicate? Instead of "closing as duplicate", just answer it with a link to what you feel is the question it duplicates. If that works, then the original will score higher on Google, and if it turns out it's not a duplicate, the asker is able to provide more information as to why that answer doesn't work for them.
The high parasitic capacitance of solderless breadboard makes it unusable above about 10MHz. You also have to deal with unpredictable contact resistance. PTH ICs are increasingly hard to find. Breadboard is fine for basic classroom experiments, but practically useless for most prototyping applications.

Electronics hobbyists would be well-advised to learn SPICE as quickly as possible - breadboards are an endless source of frustration once you move beyond the basics.
"This is a contributed post by Bill Harris, former CEO of Intuit and founding CEO of PayPal and Personal Capital.".

"Cryptocurrency is best-suited for one use: Criminal activity"

"... rest of article..."

When something is 100% in one (from the authors view negative) direction and no technical, economic, social future potential gets mentioned something seems not right. I should not even post this, don't feed the troll.
Are you arguing that no-one should be allowed to make a profit when providing services to low-income people? What incentive would there then be to offer these services?
People are strange. I can totally picture someone who is an experienced senior, a hero under the pressure of a critical production outage, yet whose brain goes into a crash loop when sitting across from someone who has the power to deny them their dream job.

Not claiming to be that hero, but I have personally had those moments where I came out of the interview, and as the disorienting fog of pressure lifted during my drive home I said to myself, "WTF happened to my brain in there? I know that stuff cold!"

EDIT: I think I read this one from a commenter here, but it's so true: We're interviewing people to be music composers, but judging them by their ability to be performance artists.
Nice! I hope we can connect you with some awesome people nearby.
Many wireless APs have a "guest filter" mode which prevents devices on the guest SSID from communicating with the LAN outside of DHCP and optionally other approved services.

I use this on my home LAN, guests can communicate with the Chromecast and media server but can't reach the printer or others.
well said.

dumb question: why would anyone “invest” in an ICO?
If it happens 7/10 for you it should be easy to find and link to some blatant examples. Since I have the rep to vote for reopen, we might be able to improve the world together.
On my Android phone I have no app icons on the home screen. The apps list is eight pages long and the extra few seconds it takes to find anything is a good deterrent.

Another good trick for those that absolutely need to keep social media on their phone: use the accessibility settings to make the phone's screen black and white.
I did DB work forever never hearing ACID. I initially heard of it certainly from slashdot or hackernews, and it only ever ended up coming up due to not DB work, but DB analysis of tools.

Once you start working on a particular database, and are working on all of the specific details of that db, how often does ACID come into things, really? It just doesn't.
Will there possibly be a way to just buy the app?
I am interested, but I will never pre-order another product.

Has anyone seen any details about ship-date / progress?
You can get one of these on Amazon.
> Because then FOMO takes over

This is the real problem, not the phone or its apps. You need to eliminate FOMO from your life. You'll be much happier for it.

I don't have a recommendation on how to do that. For me I came to the realization and acceptance that there is always more. More work, more knowledge, more news, more parties, more potential friends, more opportunities, etc. It never ends and it's impossible to know or participate in it all.

If you find yourself having anxiety from that thought you might want to see a psychologist.