skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I'm taking your point, at the moment, to be that you are getting exposed to more folks that seem less capable in basic interviews. Even at the higher education levels.

My priors would label this as just you getting more exposure to what is out there. Previously, you were likely mainly exposed to your peers. Did you personally perform more of the interviews in the past, or more in the present?
At an absolute level, I would tend to agree that increasing the volume increases both good and bad. Where the contention seems to be, is if there is truly a lowering of the bar across the board, or if you are just personally exposed to more of the folks that can't make it?

And I confess I have no numbers. I am terribly optimistic and generally forgiving of interview gaffes.

Don't get me wrong, now that I do interviews, it has been somewhat baffling just how wrong some folks can be. The most troubling are the folks that seem genuinely clueless that they have done a poor job.

However, the "strawmen" I'm asking are not hypothetical. I've literally been asked some of those. My favorite was when I was asked what I knew was a de Bruijn cycle, but confessed I would be unable to code without reference. And even then it would take time. Interviewer insisted I try, and seemed to get frustrated that I didn't succeed. The very next interviewer basically asked me to do A*. Something I feel like I should be able to do, but quite frankly it has been a long time since I did those and I have grown used to reference material.

Similarly, I have been asked "how would you build snapchat/instagram" and "how would you build maps?" Both of which, I feel like I could have better answers for, but the truth is that I would start by trying to understand exactly how they are built today.
For learning how the machine functions, Amiga is still very much relevant as a teaching tool, as I’ve come to experience recently.

As someone who is part of the C++ experts group and maintains the GCC compilers at my organization, I will “keep my assembler” over C++ any day of the week.

But in one thing I’m starting to think that you actually might be right: it is I who seem to be hanging around with the wrong crowd by being here on “Hacker News”, where actual hackers (in the MIT sense of the word) are in very short supply. The more I read what people write and how they think around here, the more n-gate.com is right, critique by critique, point for point. As it stands right now, this site is a gross misnomer.
Briefly. But as a long time Kodi user (since early XBMC / XBOX days) I'm probably quite familiar with the concept and while it certainly fits into my living room setup, it's way too heavy for casual use alongside other activities on my iMac. There I'd be fine with something slightly better than the file system: List shows, build a library, add some meta data, track progress.

There are countless music library management apps (iTunes, Swinsian, MusicBee, Roon, Foobar, Vox) - something similar for video is needed.
NeXT is definitely the mother of today's Apple. OSX is the NeXT operating system and application stack repackaged with the Mac look-and-feel. More importantly, Steve put the entire NeXT management team in all the VP roles at Apple, where they were in charge of reworking the entire Apple software stack. iOS is a stripped-down version of OSX.
In wickard vs filburn the govt made the case that a wheat farmer that grew wheat only for himself was subject to the interstate commerce clause. The reasoning was that he impacted markets by not having to buy wheat and therefore he should be fined for violating farming restrictions. The supreme court ruled in favor of the US govt.

This expansion of the commerce clause could lead to trump being able to get something like this through. Be wary of expansions of federal power predicated on reinterpretation of the constitution.
(Just so it isn't completely lost, I basically merged my answer for this in the above branch. Realized it was both of us on both of these out croppings, didn't see the point in pretending it was two discussions. :) )
Then ask your state to enact tougher restrictions
It’s not 49 other states. Over half the US population lives in a state that enforces the CARB standards.
Yup, this also happens with euro-spec engines. The new V6 diesel in the Ram 1500s comes from across the pond is pretty darn efficient/clean.
The challenge is arranging for those at the stop to understand what's going on. It is disconcerting to have the #75 bus go past without stopping when you're waiting for a #75 bus.
Yep. Italian here, Can confirm.
If laws could be invalidated simply because "California is a big state". Then so could elections.

Think about that for a second. Then you will understand ridiculous this notion is.
Congress would need to repeal the relevant portions of the CAFE laws, which specifically allow CARB to propose their own standards.
That's the point, they can't. Only California is allowed to do so.
I left 25 a few days back. The closing note was shooting an erotic art music video experiment thing, and in another few weeks I'm heading to a letterpress program in Switzerland. Life takes unexpected turns.

Looking forward, how can I imagine where I will be in five, ten, or twenty five years if I don't even understand how I got to now? I only started learning letterpress eight months ago and am—at first glance at least—almost a stereotypical programmer. Part of me is afraid. I have met with so much success that where is there to go except down? Part of me is hungry. I want that next challenge, to take things to larger scales. And as I don't think I will live very long, why wait? When I start to feel that I am already behind, I have to remind myself that I am only 26. And I try to stop and ask myself, "If this isn’t nice, what is?"

Advice for future me from the present:

- Remember what it feels like to be on the outside.

- Don't dismiss, or be beholden to, or fall back on past you.

- Look out of the spotlight for people doing interesting stuff that they believe in. Try to help them, or at least say hi.
It sounds similar to Foveon sensor
"Arnie" has absolutely nothing to do with it. California has been the critical point of failure in the conservatives' attack on the environmental regulations since the 70s. Due to the size of the California economy, CalEPA and California Air Control Board emission standards are the floor for regulatory approval, even if national EPA standards are less strict.

This is nothing more than special interests dictating policy, helpfully exposing GOP hypocrisy in its wake. "State's rights" for me when I want to enslave someone, externalize costs, or infringe on civil rights but "federal supremacy" when you don't do what we want.
Okay, but then that doesn’t sound like phishing protection, but obviation of theft of secrets ... aka regular multi factor authentication.
> Going to trial just because you can even though your case is a slam dunk guilty verdict is an abuse of privelege, imho.

It's a right, not a privilege. There is a fundamental difference.

Economy of justice is an important consideration in the civil system but if there are too many criminal cases for courts to providing way the process to which there is a constitutional right, that's a problem of the legislative branch criminalizng too much conduct or underfunding courts or the executive branch engaging in overzealous prosecution. Rigorous questioning of criminal cases isn't just a right of the accused, it is the manner in which the public if assured that real crimes are being properly prosecuted rather than the government lazily scapegoating convenient, vulnerable targets while the real perpetrators go free.
Car manufacturers are perfectly free to not sell cars in California. Turns out, they want California business.

There's no "more fair to other consumers" here, nor is there any "imposition" by California on consumers in other states. There is, however, an imposition on car manufacturers who wish to have their vehicles operated in California. Not seeing the problem here.
In theory, the US system is supposed to allow the states to act as laboratories for trying out different policies and seeing how they work out. But when the federal government passes a law, in an area where both the federal government and the states theoretically could exercise jurisdiction, the federal law often pre-empts any state-level laws.

California's clean-air efforts were one of those laboratory-style experiments, though, and were deemed worthwhile enough that, when the federal Clean Air Act was drafted, it was set up to allow California -- the only state which really was experimenting in this area -- to obtain waivers allowing it to continue exploring its own policies. Other states have the freedom to choose to adopt California's standard, or the federal standard.

Also, the Clean Air Act is a bit interesting in how it works. Rather than applying for a waiver and having to hope it's granted, California is basically entitled to the waiver unless the EPA can show certain conditions have not been met:

https://www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation/vehicle-e...

Which in turn means that a President who simply dislikes California is not in a position to deny the waiver on a whim. Trump would have to show that the conditions for the waiver were not met, and would likely have to prove it to a court, rather than just give the order to an administrator who's beholden to him for employment.
If there's a bus 250m behind it that confusion will not be long lived.
> automakers are forced to comply to keep access to that huge market

As has already been explained, this is false. These rules are for CARB states, not for California. California is in charge of working with the other states to set the rules.
States have the right to make laws that agree with the ruling party.
For anyone else who doesn't know what XDP might refer to,
eXpress Data Path :

https://www.iovisor.org/technology/xdp
The phrases you're searching for are "state's rights" and "free market capitalism."

No one is forced to do anything. Car manufacturers have the privilege of selling in California if they follow California's rules. They have decided that the privilege is worth standardizing emissions requirements everywhere in the united states.
What? Do you see no use for proprietary software at a home linux setup? What about video games? Do you expect all video games on linux to be open source?
Can you explain why? And does that manifest on a daily level?
Not only web searches.

Tracking Google Maps journeys, YouTube, Google Analytics across most of the web, a major portion of global email communications, Hangouts, Google Drive, etc, the list goes on and on.

Immensely valuable data that is able to predict trends and behaviour of both businesses and people in many instances
Textbook No True Scotsman.
Says the company that claimed it would be 1000x faster than NAND flash, it isn't, and moving the location of the bus isn't going to change that.
"Very potent carcinogen" is scaremongering and alarmist.

Don't drink if you don't want to, but tone down the retoric a bit.

Generations upon generations of Germans have enjoyed beer in moderation, and they don't seem to have higher cancer rates than other western countries.
Tech Gaints came together for data protection and portability
Republicans really hate the free market when it works against them. Car manufacturers are free to sell worse cars in the other states. They just want CA's money without following CA's rules.
There's an exemption from reassessment if the California property is held in a real estate trust established by a financial institution, and the shares are sold. My understanding is that it's common for large commerical properties to be held in this fashion, such that they can be sold without triggering a reassessment. No tax haven required.
The problematic equipment you're trying to dump also has a small benefit of helping the environment.
https://amp.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8qqhlz/office_...
There is a joke I like that goes

A professor of mathematics noticed that his kitchen sink at his home leaked. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day and sealed a few screws, and everything was working as before.

The professor was delighted. However, when the plumber gave him the bill a minute later, he was shocked.

"This is one-third of my monthly salary!" he yelled.

Well, all the same he paid it and then the plumber said to him, "I understand your position as a professor. Why don't you come to our company and apply for a plumber position? You will earn three times as much as a professor. But remember, when you apply, tell them that you completed only seven elementary classes. They don't like educated people."

So it happened. The professor got a job as a plumber and his life significantly improved. He just had to seal a screw or two occasionally, and his salary went up significantly.

One day, the board of the plumbing company decided that every plumber had to go to evening classes to complete the eighth grade. So, our professor had to go there too. It just happened that the first class was math. The evening teacher, to check students' knowledge, asked for a formula for the area of a circle. The person asked was the professor. He jumped to the board, and then he realized that he had forgotten the formula. He started to reason it, and he filled the white board with integrals, differentials, and other advanced formulas to conclude the result he forgot. As a result, he got "minus pi times r square."

He didn't like the minus, so he started all over again. He got the minus again. No matter how many times he tried, he always got a minus. He was frustrated. He gave the class a frightened look and saw all the plumbers whisper: "Switch the limits of the integral!!"
Do other sleep aids not work for you? Trazodone has helped me a lot.
How so? Foveon used penetration depth to discern color, giving higher resolution (and noise), which is very different than this.
It says the guys they've caught were laundering millions of dollars; they probably only got to keep a percentage of that, maybe even less than $1M.
Well, sure, if we enter a world where criminal convictions aren't politically useful stepping stones in the way successful criminal defenses aren't, the plan is great.
who owns the data collected on the groups in the circle?
that seems like a strange conclusion, since a huge majority of the revenue and growth is still coming from Google.
I suspect the odds that there is no one that wants to alight at a particular stop on a fully crowded bus are rather slim, both mathematically and anecdotally.
I submitted the OP, and am a bit surprised to see it flagged. The OP looks to me like a sincere attempt to analyze fatality data.

Yes, the authors are short Tesla, but they disclose it. Yes, the analysis is naive, but that doesn't necessarily mean its conclusions are off. Yes, the inclusion of data from China is... questionable, but the authors address it upfront: "To have the largest sample size and best confidence intervals possible, we also included international accidents (three total, from Canada, Holland, and China). Given the higher incidence of fatal accidents per vehicle-year in China compared to the United States, and the lower incidence of fatal accidents in Holland and Canada, these three deaths should adjust to 3.63 deaths. However, for the sake of conservatism and to avoid a large debate about a rather small difference, we use 3.00 deaths in our analysis."
So, your computer not gets stuck half hour with a lot of hard disk work doing some Windows 10 stuff every time that W10 boot ups ?
I actually I have only W10 installed to play a few games. My Kubuntu install works far better and faster that Windows for everything that I do.
It creates a race condition in transit - if they can use the code before you, then they win. I can intercept at the network level, but also via phishing attacks - there is no domain challenge or verification in TOTP.

I know having someone malicious get into your account multiple times vs once is likely worse, but its hard to quantify how much worse it is - and of course using that one login to change your 2FA setup would make them equivalently bad.
> C# has the internal scope for each assembly, but this breaks in combination with unit tests placed in seperate testing assemblies.

This is a limitation imposed by the IDE, not the language. There's nothing stopping you from compiling code and tests into the same dll that you unit test. Likewise there is no need to separate code from the tests (apart from different files), they can simply not be included in release builds.

Source layout structure does not have to be a 1 to 1 mapping of the output structure.
You are talking about Wahhabism, not mainstream Suni Islam. Wahhabism is supported and sponsored mainly by Saudi Arabia, good old buddies of the US government. Both governments are inciting wars and terrorism and benefit from it. The only God they believe in is money and power.
This is not at all surprising.

Dropbox put Condoleezza Rice on their board, who supports warrentless wiretaps [1].

I deleted my account when they did that. Not so much because it would have any direct effect, but because it’s clear that we have differing views on how user data should be treated.

I surprised that people are shocked by them treating user data like this, it’s absolutely in character.

[1] http://www.drop-dropbox.com
Manufacturers are perfectly free to run separate lines at their plants to make more polluting cars for other states to take advantage of this theoretical market of consumers clamoring for pollution. Also, a number of states require adherence to the California standards.

It should also be noted that California is the fifth or sixth largest economy in the world that's dramatically disenfranchised with respect to its representation in US government.
Getting downvotes for saying this, but why should California be the only state allowed to set stricter emission standards? Why not New York or Rhode Island?

I don't want standards to be rolled back, but it's hard for me to defend the principle of this waiver even if I like the outcome.
The planet follows California bureaucratic edicts, whether it's banning plastic shopping bags or complex legislation on vehicle or power plant emissions, California decisions define other nation states manufacturing and laws...
Most people who go to school (even up till something like elementary school) do not take up those jobs, hence the jobs do have something to do with illiteracy.
I suppose it depends on your problem space.

If I'm writing an API to move a robot, my problem space is fairly bounded, and I know that someday I will want force control at some end effector. I know that there's a 6 axis robot I've been eyeing, etc.

Maybe I'm being downvoted by web devs?
That’s not what historically has happened. Cars in California have special “California” or “50 state” emissions. You can do this economically because California is as large as a market as Canada.

Also, it’s important to know that special California emissions standards have been the case for over 50 years. Additionally, I believe 14 other states have also adopted CARB standards.

There is no economic reason to be doing this in 2018.
From what I've read the victim is asked to go buy itunes gift cards and read the numbers to the scammers. They are looking for only the most vulnerable of people.
It's also never quite as simple as looking at each generation as a discrete unit of upgradability.

Not only can the price:performance spread vary between generations, but this can change over time, particularly because the model availability within a generation broadens over time.

Add to this the dimension of low power versions of certain processor models (whose selection is therefore strictly a cost/longevity decision, presumably invisible to someone like a cloud end user), one can't safely generalize.

The other problem is that the CPU isn't even, necessarily, the majority of the purchase cost of a server.
The receiving provider usually gets paid to terminate the call.

It may only be a fraction of a cent per minute, but these are the same telecoms that will gladly send you a bill every month because you owe them 1 cent.
A fake IRS phone scam? So it's a real IRS phone scam, and not a fake one?
I think the problem has gotten so serious that the traditional voice-based phone system is pretty much unusable. I don't even bother to answer the phone. Instead I have a voice mail message that tells people to send a text message instead. I can't be the only one who does something like this or has some other system in place to not have to deal with robocalls/scam callers.
Thanks for your insights. May I ask why you believe too much info is leading to analysis paralysis? Because of Binney or Snowden?

Also, I read the document just now that Snowden leaked related to the corporate espionage. What our IC was doing is nothing compared to the broad theft other cultures engage in without any moral concern as a matter of course in that culture. I find Snowden and Greenwald leaking such a document to be hugely offensive and anti-American. The intercept’s analysis of some “subversion of society” is totally overblown. Such an underworld of spies is bound to be dirty and the general public doesn’t know enough of the reality to understand that. I believe in the American way and disagree that we should not have an offensive cyber strategy as well, but agree about fortifying (and reinventing) our defenses. Offensive biological strategy is something different, not seeing the parallel.

As for your insights about Iraq I’ll ask around. Good to get your info here.
> It's problematic and I'd love to skip it on my next purchase.

I'd like you to go ahead and not pump a crapton of pollution into the air, thanks. Sorry for being so direct, and I would generally prefer to be more civil, but your comment strikes me as incredibly tone deaf and frankly, destructive. You are one inch away from advocating peeing in the swimming pool because it's cheaper than building toilets.
I consider possession of my device and a knowledge challenge in the form of the password and pin to be two factors. Use of a biometric in lieu of password is also two factors.

I don't see a way in which having the possession factor be on my keys is stronger than having it be in my laptop. In fact, for sites that require it my U2F key is in my laptop (Yubikey nano-C).

(Aside: That doesn't limit the usefulness of having a possession factor that is portable between devices, just I don't think it is necessarily stronger)

This is actually why I very rarely opt into the 2FA features of websites - I figure I already have two factors protecting me, but not necessarily factors recognized by the site.
Dinosaur-era geckos and chameleons perfectly preserved in amber (2016)
Currently 25. I'm currently working full-time as a programmer in a startup, and working another job on weekends. Have been trying to spend an hour or two every day in exploring the domain of Machine Learning. The rest of my free time is spent in reading (I try to read a book a month), watching a TV series or just browsing various tech and business related websites.

I've never been busier in my life. And yet, I feel like I haven't been able to accomplish a lot with the limited time I have at my disposal after work and a long day's commute. As a result, I have to cut back on my sleep. I average about 5 hours of sleep a day every week, which is not nearly enough. I do get burned out from time to time, following which I take a day or two off every month or so to recuperate.

My plan for the next few years is to start my own tech business. At 25, everything I do on a daily basis is my attempt to attain financial freedom so that I can spend the rest of my life doing what I really want to do and no longer work for money, but work because I want to on things I find meaningful.
TSLA was going to die anyways, mostly from competition from better manufacturers.
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