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What would be a good selection strategy without technical interviews? I've seen people with good CV and reference projects being hired, only to turn out they literally couldn't program. It's old news that sneaking to a CS degree without learning anything substantial is possible, and those are easily debunked in even simple task like solving FizzBuzz on the whiteboard.
John Doe could say he had an account with company website. He can't log in because he has got shadow blocked. There would be dozens of such claims .
Ha, this is great.

This is about as effective as Microsoft turning off internet access through IE unless you specifically approve each address.

If I could run this in docker - then we'd really have something.
When I'm looking for a job, I usually have 3 or 4 strong prospects and looking back on my spreadsheets that I keep when I am looking, it usually takes about 2 weeks from the time I reach out to my network of recruiters and I have an offer (the shortest was 4 days from looking to having an offer from what was then a top 10 Fortune 500 company).

Why would I go through that trouble? I have 20+ years of experience that I can explain how I architected and developed from the website, to the middle tier, to the database to multiple VPCs on AWS and dev ops. I'm not going to do homework.

When I was first starting out I might, but living in a major metro area that's not on the west coast, there are more openings for senior devs/architects than people to fill them.

If a company wants to try me out, I'm more than willing to do a contract to perm, but my hourly rate is going to be enough to cover self employment taxes, make up for not getting paid for time off and at least two or three weeks between employment.
Islam has the ultimate answer to all these personal journey questions. No need for greek philosophy.
The dimmer and brighter is because when you are closer to a light source it is brighter, and when you are farther from it it is dimmer. So when we are closer to a star, we expect to see it brighter than when we are farther.

This effect is seen with planets.
> building and deploying quality software in a timely and cost-effective manner, then a CS and/or SE degree may be very important

I've yet to see a correlation between the two.
Wow I have never heard this story before! I had to look it up, for anyone else interested here's a quick wiki about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
The premise is not that they're getting unpaid work in the form of programming, just unpaid work in general. If they replace 8 hours of reviewing a candidate's open source contributions and/or side projects with 4 hours of random walks through an undergrad CS textbook, then they're using the candidate's unpaid work to cut down on their HR spending. "How many round piano tuners are there in Fizzbuzz" isn't programming, but it is HR.
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There's a line beyond which Jobsian behaviors will ruin the productivity and happiness of the Woz. Holmes/Kissenger and friends flew over it and landed in "scientists are being forced (and encouraged) to lie to keep their jobs," territory.
"Bugs are prevalent in both young and mature file systems."

"Over time, the number of bugs does not diminish, but rather remains a constant in a file system’s lifetime."

"We observed that similar mistakes recur, both within a single file system and across different file systems. "

Essentially a completely different approach to file system development is necessary to produce something more reliable. But there is no market for it and no right people to do it. And I have doubts such people can even exist, because it requires both understanding reliability well enough to have a decent approach, but not well enough to be blind to many risks and think pursuing such project is even a good idea. So kernel file systems are sort of always written by people who should not be writing file systems.

Anyway, relying on the lower layer was never a good idea to begin with.
I wonder if we would have had something better though, if Cisco hadn't gotten their early start on blatantly and unashamedly stolen IP.

EDIT: For those downvoting: https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2013/12/10/the-real-stor...

Cisco got started by blatantly stealing the Stanford Blue Box code and board layout, replying with "well sue me then" when Stanford found out, and put so many legal roadblocks up that Stanford finally said "fine, whatever, just give us some proceeds".
Well, what's your goal?

Get your feet wet into Philosophy? See what Philosophy is all about? Do you enjoy Philosophy?

If so, you already know the answer (hint: YES). Otherwise Philosophy is not for you and George Pólya is a more suitable reading.
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No whiteboard doesn't mean no technical interview. You can pair up on a real computer, you can have a take home, things like that.
> These keys are usually stored on a HSM. Even if you want to, you wouldn't be able to access the keys stored inside. This is specifically designed to protect against rogue/bribed personnel.

Sure now they often are - after many security failures 10 years ago before HSMs were widely deployed. A decade ago a much more common ‘secure’ mechanism was to store the keys on an airgapped machine that had never been connected to a network and use sneakernet to get binaries signed.
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Sorry, I don't know the details.
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Carbon taxes apply to power generation, not power utilization.

Put another way, why is it not a problem for millions of people to turn on tv sets and "waste" electricity watching football? What is the logical endpoint of the regulatory approach?
Philosophy is a cumulative field just like programming. If you're only involved with the most modern framework, there is a lot of magic happening underneath the surface. Most of the value to me seems to be in understanding an idea and then reading and understanding someone refute it later. That's basically my whole experience in reading philosophy "chronologically".
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The only solution I found is to build a new tool, and that required a complete rewrite of existing optimizers and significant changes to underlying libraries.
> a take home technical exercise

> prove to me you can (do the work)

A take home exercise only proves they can get the work done elsewhere. It doesn't prove that they actually did it.
> However, I read her bio and she was a genius on par with Jobs.

In short, why do you believe that Steve Jobs was remotely close to being a genius, and what made Elizabeth Holmes do to lead you to believe she also met you definition of a genius?
I don't see how that argument is justified. Maybe the Marshall Plan and the European Community saved Europe from war. Maybe Maybe globalization and general civilization-wide wealth creation made it so the elite's and xommonners businesses are less profitable in large scale war. (Note that even today, wars happen in poor countries, not rich countries). Maybe democratic evolution made the "send peasants to war" model obselete, and maybe modern communication made it harder to sell the fascist lies that motivated WWII.
Nuclear Weapons didn't prevent Vietnam or Korea or the Middle East wars.
Don't forget cars, even in their current state they still have modems connected to the celluar networks.
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If private search engines like Duckduckgo or Search Encrypt use other search engines algorithms, don't they introduce the same biases?
There isn't ifttt for Nest Secure yet, but it does integrate with Nest Cam and nest Thermostat.

My workplace was across the street from my house though so I had trouble with the GPS stuff on ifttt when I tried it a few years ago. Bah.
Just add a grain of AI or blockchain and you’ll be fine!
> It's the most sophisticated piece of malware, that's for sure (at least counting the ones we know of).

Isn't Stuxnet a part of a family of similar nation state malware that would also include Flame and Duqu?
It also has a terrible UI, considering it's a 19 year old product that seeminly never gets updated.

1) The IP input field is a text box; meaning I can type in 24324.3453.546.12321 and there's no mask.

2) Weird mess of modal and non-modal dialogs.

3) On a related note, if I open a shell window, close the main PUTTY window, but then the shell didn't manage to connect... it presents an error dialog and closes all the windows. How fucking annoying is that? You then have to open the start menu and run PUTTY again.

4) Copy/Paste is a total joke. Want to copy just a line of bit of text? No you get the whole 20 pages worth of scrollbuffer copied into it.

I really welcome this change. PUTTY had it's chance and they didn't even attempt to get a nice UI/UX.
UI Design or a Frontend Software Engineer? I'd expect people working on the frontend to just as proficient in time complexity, space complexity, and performance analysis as a backend engineer. I don't particularly gravitate towards companies working in CRUD apps, but single page applications with complex UI flows and data collection can certainly need those abilities. For one, it's not particularly uncommon to have an actual tree in the UI. How would you represent that tree? How are you going to handle it as it grows to thousands of nodes?

I think few frontend developers would consider the work they do to be "UI design".
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So do we need more people like Max Plank and Einstein or we need Elsevier?
Referring back to my natural gas pipeline example, just install the nasty centrifuge control software at the factory.

It is easier and more likely to succeed. Also, stuxnet has now been repurposed by multiple governments and criminal organizations. So, it’s creators built a symmetric capability, and gave it to their adversaries, when they could have used asymmetric capabilities that are more expensive to reproduce.

[edit: Also, it is still well within the Iranians’ capabilities to build a bomb, and our recent foreign policy greatly increases the chances that hard liners will take over and restart the program.

Contrast this to the outcome of the broader cold world strategy, which was a regime change to a relatively US-friendly government.]
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>Do you find it hard to believe that I, as a person that has managed this particular condition my entire life, is able to tune out the pain as long as I'm completely still and have my eyes closed?

Quite frankly, yes. I don't mean to belittle your condition or be a gatekeeper, but cluster headaches and severe migraines can be so bad that you are physically incapable of doing anything but laying still. It's not a choice. It's not just "knife in my eye, I should lay down and try to tune it out", it's "firecrackers are constantly exploding inside my skull and it's affecting my cognitive functions so much that I cannot walk straight, I cannot speak clearly, I cannot see things two feet in front of me, I cannot chew, etc". And it is simply impossible to "tune out the pain".

I don't doubt that you've had some bad headaches and I'm sorry that they have negatively impacted your life, but again, if you've never considered heavy medication for them then no, you do not know the full extent of how bad they can be. You should be thankful for this, not belittling other people's experience with them by implying they can "just take a paracetamol and tune out the pain". The fact that you are able to take paracetamol and that's enough is testament to the fact that you experience less severe migraines/headaches than some others do. A single, severe cluster headache/migraine the likes of which some people get would have sent you to the ER immediately begging for any medication to ensure that such a headache never, ever, ever happened again in your entire life. These are the types of headaches that paracetamol has no chance of even touching. Only incredibly powerful opiods/barbiturates even have a chance of relieving them. And that's just talking about the acute pain. The other terrible part about migraines is their chronicity.

I realize that my entire comment is ridiculous because it's essentially saying "no, my headache is worse than yours!" But saying "well I have headaches too and I'm fine" (like you are doing) is just as stupid.

>and I would feel guilty not doing anything with a headache, because people around me constantly said "I have a headache" but acted like nothing was wrong.

This is essentially what your comment is doing right now, and that's why it's insulting.
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I love FizzBuzz and am constantly astonished on the amount of candidates it weeds out in the first in-person interview.
>>> Mr HashiCorp has gone way too far down the rabbit hole, by the sounds of it. It makes sense to set up a subsidiary when you have a larger group of staff in a single location.

Or when you want to do things like give them stock or healthcare or pensions
> The most sophisticated software in history was written by a team of people whose names we do not know.

Isn't this hyperbole? I'd grant that Stuxnet is probably the most sophisticated malware ever written, but calling it the most sophisticated software is a big stretch.

Stuxnet seems to be the product of a competent, professional, and well-funded software engineering organization that writes malware and understands the domain of computer espionage. That was unprecedented in the malware space, but it's not if you include other domains.
If the example of coding bootcamps is indicative, then there will be a period of hiring of Data Scientists with minimal background, and an institutional learning period of "oh they are cheaper but don't deliver results we can use", and thus the job will still remain one with more openings than qualified candidates for some time to come.
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In your FAQ: How long does it take?, you have a typo: "can sometmes take a week."
Are you being serious or trolling? How on earth can you consider PUTTY's only copy/paste functionality of "Copy literally the whole fucking screen to the clipboard" as better than Windows 10's actual copy/paste functionality?
The sequential write performance of local NVME on GCP is... not great.
Without any kind of metric for “sophisticated” it’s all subjective anyhow. I like Stuxnet as an example - it’s devious and a true hacker approach, albeit as blackhat as they come.
No, secondary weapon functions were never a q3 thing. They wouldn't have nerfed the game for OS X regardless, especially not when you could just plug in a PC mouse or rebind the controls to use some other key.
Like many companies its size, it does not operate like a single company but like many companies. I don't know what you are implying is the true cause, but developers make these kinds of bad decisions all the time in companies of all size. Most likely explanation to me is a calculated risk on the part of some middle manager.
Much appreciated.

Hmmm, that's an interesting question. It's the Price is Right closest without going over solver...

Practical answer, drop from the first floor and then the second. You're probably not going to make it to the third.

I don't want to put my actual answer in case others want to solve it. But I will say there's an obvious solution, but if you apply one of the hard problems of computer science you might eke out a bit of an edge.

EDIT: Actually I don't think that's right. I think the answer varies based on your expectations, and should be tuned after each run if you run the same test multiple times. I do have a good starting point in mind though.
There are thousandss
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Maybe because sometimes it can be relatively easy to to write some software, but much harder to find its bugs and write exploits for them? otherwise, why would bugs even exist?
Right, but at the low end, there are better options than Cisco (all 3 you mentioned really). At the high end (carrier grade), there weren’t necessarily.

They’re not going it alone; ONOS [1] is basically the open source carrier-grade networking platform. Think of it as Kubernetes for SDN packet routing that they’re building custom network integration solutions (think routers, bulk fiber termination, RF, satellite, laser, WiFi mesh) on top of. Then get Chinese manufacturers to build the hardware (which doesn’t have anything proprietary in it — all white box with Intel or ARM CPUs).

Incredibly powerful and flexible, and they have all the heavy hitters involved (Google, Intel, Samsung, AT&T, Comcast, etc.) It will be a game-changer for telecom in another 5 or 6 years once the management tools mature and commercial solutions based on it are developed.

[1] https://www.onosproject.org/
It is hot in this part of the world as well. I have a few friends who wouldn't pass as programmer (not because they don't know frameworks, but because they're weak in logic), but earn handsomely when they claim as "data science" guy.
FTA (examples of data science):

targeting health-care customers for hospitals
people who can turn social-media clicks and user-posted
photos into monetizable binary code is among the biggest
challenges facing U.S. industry
“sentiment analysis,” or finding a way to quantify how
many tweets are trashing your company or praising it
determine how customers prioritized paying bills
“recommendation engines” - those programs that predict
what you may want to buy next
advertising

My background is traditional business intelligence, finding actionable data for high level leaders.

A common response on this thread is that little data science is actually occurring in the business world. It would be incredibly useful to me (and I suspect other readers of HN), to hear from other participants on the thread what data science and methods they are using.

I'll kick it off with data analysis examples from my workplace:

1 - Analysis of patient accruals to various clinical trials.
Mainly tracking against goal numbers. No statistics or ML.
2 - Analysis of tissue collection opportunities to answer the question:
Are we obtaining samples useful to future research opportunities? No statistics or ML.
3 - Creating models to accurately predict patient accrual rates for individual studies across various
different variables (race, ethnicity, gender, age).
Simple statistics, probably just a linear regression model. This is a new effort.
4 - a long, on-going, and currently unsuccessful attempt to extract useful data from pathology
reports (free text descriptions from pathologists examining various collected tissues for
both medical treatment and research purposes)

In addition, I know of a few NLP motivated efforts to train classifiers - say, given a set of 500 manually labeled papers, can a classifier be built that would be effective in bucketing an additional 8,000 papers?
Von Neumann was also fairly normal. I can think of a few, but I can think of far more who were crazy (many, quite literally).
> Data Protection Officer

He doesn't need one

> Crashes

So don't send the users IP with the crash report?

> Push

I don't know enough about this, but:

"APNS push tokens are associated with devices which can be traced back to a user if combined with info on the originating XMPP server."

I didn't think monal ran their own XMPP servers? If they don't then is there really a danger of someone combining the data from the two services?

> Honestly, I do not know if XMPP federation is legal anymore in the EU with GDPR.

I have no idea, but if the monal developer isn't running any XMPP servers then is this even an issue?

This all seems like someone who doesn't like GDPR having a bit of a tantrum and interpreting the laws in a way that makes it seem like they are in a worse position than they actually are.
Your data is using up too many resources!
Semantic UI is anything but lightweight.
MAD is a local maximum of peace, but only if we define "peace" to include "tense standoff". It appears to be the best we can do in the presence of overwhelmingly powerful offensive capabilities.

Imagine the different "peace" if instead we had overwhelmingly powerful defensive capabilities.
i'm really happy there's a white paper on this, when I try to explain how i came up with msg being the cause I'm told there's no evidence and i'm just an anecdote.

when I was younger I experimented to find the migraine trigger, we suspected msg quite quickly by checking all the ingredients (back before it was masked by just calling it 'natural flavour' or boullion) I usually happens 1-2 days after ingesting it as an ingredient.
Sorry film is a strong word for it. Movie I should say.
Yeah, that's what I meant, especially the second example, which is closer to my experience from clojure.
It's not like that at all; some of us are small business owners who don't have to take any action, because we already were not mishandling PII and already had a PII-handling section in our data-handling policy.
NetBurst was heading for 10 GHz; I don't know that Itanic ever made that promise.
I think Windows and Stuxnet are sophisticated in different ways.

Windows has to cover a huge area and a lot of "known" unknowns and be able to recover (somewhat) reliably. Stuff breaks, you get weird error messages, that driver for your Wi-Fi never really worked right, but at the end of the day you have a computer that works pretty well, and that's quite remarkable. The same is of course true of Linux and other operating systems.

Stuxnet is a hyper-specialized piece of software (malware) that cannot fail or it loses it's purpose. The authors clearly knew they had to have multiple fallbacks for every step of the process, but I find it very impressive that it reached it's end goal successfully and without being discovered. A lot of software (including malware) break because of regular software bugs, environments that differ from the expected, interference by the user, the list goes on. For Stuxnet to have avoided all of those, that is quite sophisticated.
I believe if you're _really_ brilliant - then you are as aware of the beliefs of other people around as much as you're aware of the inherent truths you have discovered for yourself.

These two sometimes works together, against each other or are absolutely ambivalent to each other.

So the question of eccentricity becomes a question of how do you need to project yourself upon others.

"All the world's a stage" as they say.
We have much work to do on https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris... if we want to catch up.
Yup, the classical the teacher's revenge. Let him go away as fast as we can.
The level of discussion here that veers from the scientific mainstream re: nutrition, diet, and exercise, is comparable to that found in your local hippie dippy whole foods co-operative or crossfit gym.

i.e., mostly useless, and possibly dangerous.
And rules-based regulation means you commit 3 felonies per day https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438...
Good that the Americans and or Israelis got what they wanted without bombing away ...
when i get migraines, it's not really pain but inability to function.
If I run a soup kitchen and new regulations make it too costly for me to continue, I'm in the right to shut it down if I want. If anyone is against this decision, then they should open their own soup kitchen that meets the new regulations.