skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the goal is to test the thought process why not give interviee a self-directed project then ask them to present a 10 minute talk about it? You get some code written to verify the engineer can build something, plus you get confirmation that they can organize their thoughts and effectively communicate them to another engineer.

Isn't that a more realistic scenario? How often do you give an (employed) engineer a task then ask them to immediately explain what they'll do to implement it?
This isn't weird at all. I'm jealous of your 1%. The default low on my phone is maybe like 5-10% (I don't know how to check this), and it feels crazy bright when I'm in bed.
DMCA process is far from perfect, but is a good example. Everyone can fill a DMCA, but if DMCA are abused, you can sue back.

Banning Gab for what one of their user did seems outside of any process.
How was it with the origin and design with Python, NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas? Were the people who originated these projects in their time any more professional and seasoned than Julia people are currently?
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If the existing search algorithm is the cause of the outage, maybe. If I a clever search algorithm will help me filter the data so I can reduce the scope of the outage, yes.
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The gyroscopes in your phone can (at least in a lab) be used to listen to conversations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10914666 Out in the wild, it is unlikely that anyone is listening to my conversations because I'm not that interesting to anyone...but like cookies tracking me across the internet, I'm not imagining that I can beat a well funded and mildly determined Eve...never mind a state level actor.
Maybe the network he has available to him could have helped? /s

It is unfortunate there are two funds already with essentially the same name
Well, if you're bored, one of the ways to have fun is to gather up with some friends (other officers) or staying home because you're lazy :P
It depends on how you define conservative.

The typical guidance is to shift towards bonds and short-term instruments in a fund or ETF over time. The problem with that is that the yields have been poor for many years.

A nominally safe investment like the Vanguard Short Term Gov Bond ETF is down in real and nominal terms over the last decade.
Can you link to any info about implementation details for objc? I’ve been trying to make my own language and this seems helpful.
What's in it for the hosting provider? How many sites are so often toeing the gray area of acceptable conduct that they would monetarily benefit from it? Does it make economic sense?

This is really just the "free market" at work. IMO, this time it's working for the good of society, somehow
You have a software engineering job and you never used recursion of any kind? This strikes me as super odd.
Sort of. Banks don't actually have that high of return on equity compared to industrials.

I tend to think of it more like a source/sink model. Some companies are net sources of capital: agencies, most manufacturers, etc. Then there are sinks: railroads, blast furnaces, semiconductor plants. Sources produce free cash flow, sinks are a great way to earn x% on a billion or three of capital (not as easy as it seems).

This is how Berkshire runs their balance sheet and it's pretty smart.
As I wrote in another comment, you can still come up with theories for certain types of simulation, and test whether their properties hold or not. I suspect no one in the “simulation community” ever expects to disprove a simulation completely, but as the authors did you can try to come up with a likely simulation model (maybe close to how we would do it) and try to refute that.
There's a substantial amount of Clojure jobs every month on the "HN who's hiring" thread.

Personally I would have loved Clojure to absolutely win, but being an elite language for senior devs isn't a bad situation either (I'm much enjoying my latest Clojure jobs and the peers I could find there).
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It is like asking prospective students to boycott applying to elite schools like Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Even if you convince a majority of people, say 60%, there are 40% others who want to apply to elite schools, or work at elite companies.

In the end, what matters is money. Subordinating money to ethics works well for those who are reasonably well off financially; for others, it is a way to become reasonably well off financially.
The computer could have enough error correction where it doesn't matter.
> Secondaries - shares sold by employees or early investors - can be sold at any time, at fair market value

This is a consistently under-appreciated part of modern venture markets. (Disclaimer: it's also one I'm involved with.)

Spotify did $16 to 20 billion of private secondaries in just the first month and a half of 2018 [1]. This gave shareholders public-like liquidity, reducing pressure on management. It also gave public investors years of price history.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639920/000119312518... page 170
You posted them as examples of "bad ideas." Shouldn't you be able to tell me the factual standing behind the positions you hold?
First off, kudos on launching multiple successful restaurants in a tough city like SF!

> Our technology differentiation is taking advantage of the growth

What does this actually mean? Reading between the lines, sounds like you're going for a standard cloud kitchen model. Besides nicer packaging for delivery, seems like you'll be operating a regular kitchen that does take out. Some platforms like Uber supply restaurants with analytics and data for optimize the menu, I'm curious what you guys planned on doing in-house that was tech heavy.

Don't get me wrong - having a high-growth, low-tech company is amazing - but I'm sensing that the tech-side of this business is overstated by your comment.
“Individually, each team’s approach is almost certainly wrong. But collectively they are doing the right thing. They are an antiflock, exploring a tarpit.“

Last week we were trying to find a solution to a tough product decision. Here is what we did: We asked 5 product designers to spend a week on it (we do this time to time and call it design week).

In the beginning they were pretty hopeless. They started trying different things. During the middle of the week, I met with them to see where they were. I was also pretty hopeless. But one of the designers found a way to solve the problem in an elegant way which also solved many other problems.

Here is the twist. We’d have never found that solution if we attacked the problem head on. Because this Designer wasn’t very familiar with that feature, she made a weird unexpected illogical change and that change opened the door for the accidental discovery of the good solution.
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This is scarily close to me.
I doubt you can map the time at all. At best, you can probably make the case that the internal time of the simulation is bookended by the external start and end times of the simulation.
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I don’t care if candidates can figure out BFS under intense pressure in 30-60 minutes. That is nobody’s job anywhere ever. I want to know if someone can think creatively, if they’re a pain in the ass to work with, if they’re thoughtful and careful or if they shoot from the hip. Admittedly, these are hard to measure (which is one reason why I would support some kind of mild licensure, but that’s a different subject), but being able to derive BFS does not correlate with competence or ability. Maybe if you’re doing router hacking or something, I guess, but specific algorithms are so little of most developers’ careers.

Honestly, we all might as well read chicken entrails because that would be about as predictive as our current interview practices.
I'm pretty sure the people being hired DO understand gaming culture, and this is as much of a critique on how much toxic masculinity and the "old boys club" mentality permeates gaming culture.

Just as its not a valid argument to say hey its my culture to repress minorities and claim my race and gender is superior, its also not a valid argument to say using the N word and worse and sexually harassing coworkers and their partners is just "my culture".

Gaming is a legitimate, large, potentially wonderful community (see GDQ and a lot of other great organizations and subcommunities), but asking people to not be total abusive assholes to female coworkers is NOT much to ask, and the only way it can diminish the community is if the community believes that harassing and being abusive towards women is one of the primary pillars of that community.
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==And yet very few people who are aware of that case will even think of applying the same approach to other typically-nationalized industries.==

Airlines were also deregulated and it hasn't really led to a "boom". Lots of bankruptcies and massive consolidation has made for a pretty poor flying experience.

==That might be surprising, since in Argentina just about everything of note has been nationalized at times. It makes sense though: Argentina has a strong central government, and weak local governments, so the central government nationalizes things of national importance, and the local governments not so much.==

Is this true? According to Reuters, the government of Buenos Aires raised bus prices in January 2018 [1].

"Bus, train and subway fares in the Buenos Aires area will rise this year, the Argentine government said on Wednesday, despite fears that the increases will stoke already high inflation.

Fare increases on buses and trains will start in February, Transportation Minister Guillermo Dietrich told reporters, with an initial average rise of around 35 percent."

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/argentina-transportation/bue...
Your comment was killed very quickly, strangely, but I though it had valid content so I revived it. The actual issue against inlining is that anybody can intercept method calls, even from places that the compiler cannot know about such as bundles loaded at runtime. So this isn’t even an issue with Turing-completeness; it’s an impossible problem to solve at compile time.
What if you consider part of someone's job to be communicating concepts to people, possibly with the help of visual aids and diagrams?

This is incredibly common, and you tell the candidate in advance that they will be expected to give an n-minute presentation on a subject of their choosing (need not even be tech) so they can prepare.

Tell me this: when did a mob last ambush you at your desk and demand that you invert a red-black tree on a whiteboard that they happen to have with them right now? I'm guessing that never happens where you work. If it does then fair enough :-)
>I reject the idea that being put on the spot is necessarily "artificial". To the contrary, I think that the number of engineering jobs where you can assume you'll never be put on the spot or have to communicate complex ideas verbally or visually is relatively low.

I think it's safe to say that being put on the spot in front of people you don't know who are judging you is quite different from being put on the spot in a team meeting with someone from product who will watch your demo of a potential new project/idea/concept.
> “make it work, then make it fast”

Funny, in my education I was taught that making it fast, safe, smart, and reliable were all part of making it "work"

Not to say I haven't missed the important thing or caused problems and serious bugs before, but it was certainly never intentional

Can we stop pretending that we write shitty code on purpose, and admit that sometimes we just aren't good at it?
I don't know about moon landing, vaccines or whatever internet stories, but revisionism about gaz chambers and the 6 millions number is heavily documented. I read quite a bit about it to make my own idea and it's... disturbing. And the anti-revisionists do not answer with facts or science, so it's even more "disturbing".

Some historians have publicly gave up trying to fight revisionists with facts, because they can't - there is no material to help them.
Calling revisionism silly is literally anti-intellectualism.

BTW, the only story I want to believe is the MASSIVE CONSPIRACY WITH CHEMTRAILS :D
Edited: Hmm. I wrote a long claim here and now I'm not sure depending on exactly what you steal, from whom, and when. I will re-think and re-post this.
>> Don't Mozilla plan to replace Gecko in Firefox with WebRender from Servo anyway...?

> No they don't

It's in progress and due for Firefox 64 later this year (if projections below are current):

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/firefox-58-the-quantum-era...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Quantum_Render
Wow, what a genuinely useful feature baked into the OS that mass consumers will soon be able to enjoy!

>While the quest has now been removed, the instructions outlined the basic system requirements—a Windows 10 Enterprise system with virtualization enabled and adequate disk and memory—and briefly described how it would be used.

Nevermind.
Which is fine, but completely denying someone the chance to get any type of qualification whatsoever due to a single event seems very harsh. There is precedent of a sort for softening assessment, in that here in the UK the introduction of GCSEs swung assessment toward coursework rather than exams.
Are there no existing tools to search through data?
If you go with name brand software, you can find someone to support it 20 years later.

I doubt the same is true with most FOSS
Thought experiment for you:

Say we remove Qanon from all platforms of reputable note. Do you believe 4chan would ever comply?

Secondly, what impact does that have on the reputable platforms vs 4chan?

How does that all break down for people?

My thoughts are:

1. 4chan will continue very liberal speech. People will continue to visit, and those numbers will increase due to the Streisand effect.

2. The number one and two responses to Alex Jones recent and wide spread ban are:

Who is next?

FINALLY!

And those trend along authoritarian lines most clearly. Anti authoritarians are more critical and make it clear they do not need to be protected from bad speech.

Authoritarians make it clear they value said protection because of what could happen.

I bet the same happens with QAnon, should that decision get made.

Net outcome:

Polarization along authoritarian lines.

Frankly, I think Jones is laughable. I also think specific speech he made should be removed because it is defamatory and or inciting in nature.

I think a blanket, "fuck this guy" is a grave error.

I think that because:

The answer to bad speech is more speech, and post removal is a form of speech, given it is used where speech is actually criminal. And it is understandable too.

Bans are not those things and can create martyrs as well as augment attention to other platforms where fans, supporters will quickly gather to discuss injustice.

I think the laughable should be laughed at too.

Civility is difficult here. Forcing that, as in nobody gets offended, dilutes speech down, and prevents "more speech" from working as it should.

That all forms a resonant cycle we probably will not like very much.

At the root of all this is forced trust and an abandonment of safe harbor. That will not be easy to undo, and it will divide people into those authoritarian vs non authoritarian camps too.

I gotta be honest and will gladly side with the anti authoritarians.

Do not need the protection, and I have a very, very thick skin. There are few ways to actually impact me, and I do understand my agency in conversation well.

I can't control others, but I can control me. Bad speech from clowns and asses is entertainment. It isnt something I give weight to. Nobody should.

That they do, and that they are enabled with this idea of protection being somehow needed is likely to do more harm than good.

Anyway, the Qanon types will find and communicate where the speech is, just as the Alex Jones types will. And then they will share that and martyr status should prove effective in rebuilding the lines of communication, only now we have doubt.

Who is next and why?

How do people know the difference between corruption and abuse of power / money from a genuine act to manage criminal speech properly?

What of things like profanity?

More basically, how do people understand they are having a real conversation as opposed to just a permitted, even encouraged one?

I want the real conversation and will seek that. Got no time for Disneyland type conversation.
Which other smartphone runs mainline Linux and Debian? That's what Librem 5 is announced to be able to. Is it perfect? No. But it is not just snake oil.
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They might generally use a library that handles a lot of common usages for recursion, like traversing a tree for whatever reason.

A question I've had in an interview was what is the difference between recursion and iteration. Fairly easy to explain, including examples of usage.
I tend to agree with (what I think is) the sentiment of some of the respondents in the article: if your whiteboard interview is a game of gotcha, then the problem is your interviewer, not the whiteboard.

I think the complaint that programmers pretty much never have to think about code under pressure is a fair criticism. The whiteboard really puts you on the spot. But if it's your company and your hiring managers are playing a game of gotcha on the whiteboard, you need better interviewers.
I would do the exact same thing as if I thought it would have been right for me prior to joining... then realized it wasn’t a great fit 6 months later. I would indeed look elsewhere.
It is true that when there is more news about one party then there needs to be more reporting on that party, but I'm not sure it really negates what the parent was saying. I do get the feeling there are outlets that have become either biased in their reporting. (Of course, I also see ones that haven't.) As an example, check out this segment [1] that I was watching from CNN just yesterday. The anchor is trying very, very hard to persuade the viewer of what they assess to be a fact, not that differently from how Fox News sometimes seems to. It does not seem like the kind of unbiased, professional, arm's-length fact-reporting that I seem to (hopefully correctly?) remember being the norm. On top of that, it doesn't help that their words are more casual/informal than what I remember to be usual news reporting. (e.g.: look at the word choice, intonation, and body language where she says: "Right..?? He said it was 'cause of Russia to /NBC news/, and another time he said it was 'cause the deputy attorney general told him to /do/ it... this is a president who changes his story"... it does not make the storytelling come across as unbiased.)

This is not to say I don't understand why they're infuriated with Trump (I likely would be too), or that I somehow think they're spreading fake news, or anything like that. But the thing is, some outlets (like CNN, but it's not the only one) do at least appear to have become less neutral and more hostile to Trump (even if justifiably so). It's by no means anything close to all of them, but the effect unfortunately does seem apparent for some of them, and it does almost seem like they don't really notice or mind it.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/08/08/donald-trump-...
Sounds like more governments around the world could use a dose of layer cake Federalism.
I have a theory for you - that the maintainers monitor for these events from a teapot somewhere between Earth and Mars...
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The Chief engineer at my current place of employment said, and I quote verbatim: "I get a sort of sick pleasure from watching them squirm."
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I did one about ten years ago, two of the guys asked me to do the program on legal pads, two on a whiteboard, it was kind of funny because the Google HR person gave out a pdf explaining they were going to use a whiteboard and to practice on a whiteboard before coming on site.
How exactly would the 1:1 bit correspondence work in practice? What is the binding between simulated and external bit? Wouldn't we need to operate at the edge of Landauer's principle to really rule out this possibility?
What world do you live in that presumably most donations to a political campaign are spent on ads?
Would love an invite to lobste.rs my man.
The frustrating part about Uber is that I have to wait 10 minutes for each one before they refuse to take me somewhere. With a taxi I can just walk down the row of taxis at the airport. On the other hand, the only reason taxis can get that benefit is because they lobby so hard to kick the Ubers out to a parking lot 10 minutes away.
I mean, any difficulties would be accidental difficulties, not essential ones. I mean, according to the article, the system already has consistency and integrity issues. (And no one is dying because of them either.)

The point is that the job is essentially data management.
> some research was done on TrustZone, TPM and other related topics. There have also been some internal discussions about tamper-resistant boot, Heads, and alternate USB modes for video output. So we’re really starting to think hard about implementing security measures for the Librem 5.

Isn't it very late to start researching and thinking about those things? My general instinct is that security needs to be designed and built in from the start - what about the components they've already developed, and how they integrate with each other? - including as part of the development process and even as part of the culture.
I read your article, carefully, twice, once this morning (I briefly tweeted about it but didn't feel like I could do it justice and deleted the tweet) and again before writing this.

I've read all of your comments in this thread to date and, as you can see, replied to some of them.

I feel like I have fairly summarized your arguments.

"It should use both", you say. Signal disagrees. That makes Signal evil, according to your argument. "That's not how the world works" is my rebuttal.

Signal could easily keep a record of every pair of users. So can every other mainstream chat application --- and several of them do. Signal doesn't. My reply on the subthread about this issue explains what Signal does differently here, and it's not "publish the source code of the server".

People can simply read your comment on the thread --- I made clear where the quote came from --- to see exactly what you said about Wire and Telegram and Tox and Ring. I'm satisfied that I've represented your argument well.
This is Europe, nobody stealing a car is carrying a gun.
This depends. Mostly it depends on whether similar subsidies are included for other production methods.

Typically nuclear power operators have capped liability (e.g Price-Anderson in the US), or are simply assumed to be bankrupt in the event of a major incident, and taxpayers would need to pay the cleanup. This liability cap, and hence cap on insurance costs, is a subsidy.

So in short, it’s very hard to disconnect energy prices from various taxes and subsidies.
I think you've touched on a crucial point here about making the comparison "fair". In my view, I find the "trivia questions" approach to be an abdication of responsibility for the difficult, nebulous task of assessing a candidate's abilities. It gives you an objective measure by which to compare candidates... even though the measure itself is usually arbitrary and irrelevant.