skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those look like software design skills. Also the type of systems you describes use something like Hadoop, and use things like Hive and Pig on top of it. Once you get the data out you use Python or R. And you generally use a standard library to work with. That really SQL + general programming.

What new problems are you working on that require you to invent novel algorithmic techniques?
It's a bit idiosyncratic for sure. For one I always thought why the hell would you design a language and not use "=" as an assignment operator. On the other hand it's not a good reason to reject a programming language when it has a lot of other good features.
But it is bananas.

https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/0018.html

Tcl was my first language, and I enjoy it very much.

But I hope I will never have to write anything serious in it. And I write Perl for a living.
$75 for french onion soup, a caesar salad, and two beers

$55 for a bad 18" NY style pepperoni pizza

There's an 18% gratuity and a $10 delivery fee for every order.
Opposite for me (for fiction). I started reading ebooks with the original Kindle keyboard and never looked back. I always felt that books were cluttering everything up (I read 20-60 per year), I enjoy not having my arms hurt from holding books in an awkward position and I feel that the eInk display is just as good as books, but it's better for reading in some light conditions.

I still buy books once in a while, but those are either non-fiction or I want them for the pictures (e.g. a book by Brom whom I knew through his art on MtG cards)
Unless the wealthy decide to opt out of currency wars(see Turkey).
Funny how it's just become the first european city to top the economist liveability index.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45174600
So pair programming is a bad idea?
Model 3 US sales were 14,250 last month (July). That's what I was getting at when I asked you about the Leaf getting dethroned.

https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
Sometimes it's just not worth it to own everything. Renting makes a lot of sense for a lot of people. Blockbuster et al were doing this forever ago. If you only cared to watch/use something once; renting it made a lot of sense, and still does.
i don't understand why people do this. you're raging against a machine. do you think you're going to change this person's mind on how effective whiteboard questions are?
Thanks, I was wrong then.
As a man from history, I concur. It's amazing what we're having today at those prices... but, they could go down too!
Inside the Lab Where Spiders Put on Face Paint and Fake Eyelashes
So to be clear, in response to me asking why a developer in this market would intentionally put himself into a disadvantageous situation, you have chosen to list off a bunch more disadvantageous situations a developer could put himself into.

I’m willing to concede that one can find a second tier company willing to pay sub-market rates for boring work in a cubicle, if one chose.

But again, I’ll ask why you would do that to yourself when there are such better options?
It's a bit more complicated than that.

Renting absolutely means more freedom to move. It also means less freedom to, say, tear down a wall in the house. I think home ownership is over-rated, but I wouldn't draw such a clear line on "freedom."
Elon Musk Wants All Autonomous Cars to Be as Secure as Tesla’s
The 5 Marketing Benefits of Acquisitions
You aren't testing their coding ability though you are testing their ability to remember how to implement a very specific algorithm.
You can still go to very inaccessible areas that have little to no tourists. Much of Canada is wilderness for one to dig a hole to put a roof over and fell trees with one of your sharpened soft axe.

If you want a warmer clime you could venture up the Amazon river into the forests and fend off Jaguars with your rifle loaded with bullets made in your bullet mold.

Australia is pretty much empty too.

You can still roam wild places in the Steppes of Mongolia, wonder for weeks in search of Shangri-La in the Himalayas without seeing anyone. There are many, many places you can go travelling in the wilds.

Point being, there is a difference between touring and the kind of adventure travel the author is talking about. Both touring and adventuring style of travel existed in the 1800s and today. You can still do it! But I agree, it is relatively easier to get to places, and medically one can be much more prepared for disease and infection. That said, it is surprising how quickly you might need to revert to the practices described in The Art of Travel once you are outside of modern life. It's still the stone age when you are on your own, injured, and in the middle of no where.
> I've mastered Pilates, increased flexibility and strengthened muscles. At one point, my abs were so strong my husband nicknamed them "the plate."

still not doing the right thing

you need to strengthen the lumbar muscles, eg with a specific weight machine (see Kieser Training, MedX) or other programme that can do that
Ask HN: Why is there no cafe on the Moon?
We are talking about space tourism and visiting Mars. Wouldn't something like building a small building on the Moon, with a bar and a couple of tables be much more easier to pull off?

I bet there are many rich people who would pay millions for a trip and a drink on the surface while looking at the Earth in the distance through some thick plexiglass wall.
> The goal is just to extract money from you and keep costs down

While this mentality definitely exists, this doesn't account for brand and a wish to protect reputation. Hence why personally I tend to stick with established companies for things like trades as in the absence of a personal relationship, knowing someone has a brand to protect (and history against it) improves my chance of receiving a quality good/service
They definitely require routine maintenance and inspection.

The Nondestructive Testing article I linked to in another comment said "significant environmental damage requiring repair typically occurs before the average bridge reaches mid-life."
>>If you disregard existing knowledge, you are likely to spend a lot of time cooking up something complex and half-assed that creates an unnecessary maintenance load.

Unless you are stuck on an Island coding during a vacation, not one person on earth faces this kind of a situation.

Almost anybody doing anything apart from basic beginner level coding work knows to look up to a solution on the internet if a solution is not scaling already.
Computer Crimes and Capers

Edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh

Publication date 1983

Table of Contents:

Introduction -- crime up to date Isaac Asimov
DARL I LUV U Joe Gores
An end of spinach Stan Dryer
Computers don't argue Gordon R. Dickson
Goldbrick Edward Wellen
Computer cops Edward D. Hoch
Sam Hall Poul Anderson
Spanner in the works J.T. McIntosh
While-you-wait Edward Wellen
Getting across Robert Silverberg
All the troubles of the world Isaac Asimov

Borrow for 14 days on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/computercrimesca00asim
According to news reports, likely immediate causes include lightning striking one of the pillars, wind and overload. It seems quite certain that the bridge was somewhat decrepit, and some media report that consolidation work was in progress.
Are rich people more likely to lie, cheat, steal?
Why decentralized blockchain reputation platforms can help people thrive
Swift's satire of Leibniz wasn't premised on science, it came down to them each occupying opposing political stances at the time in respect of the Whigs and Torys. Remember they were both heavily invested politically.

Wiener argues that Swift also had a go at Leibniz through his satire of the little people who tie up Gulliver, which can be read as mocking his concept of infinitely divisible substances. Had a go looking for the refference but can't find. Might be in the manuscript to his last unpublished lectures...

What really damaged his reputation for centuries was not Swift though, but the debacle with Newton over the invention of calculus.
I completely forgot about that, I've been sitting on a 970 for years now, I stopped checking prices for video cards early last year and haven't even thought about it in months.

It's quite bizarre to effectively be unable to upgrade your computer for a year or two. I had forgotten how regular that process was for me.
With software the pertinent metric is the number of quality-adjusted life years (QALY) lost. Most software systems don’t directly kill people but the amount of stress and wasted time incurred by poorly-designed dysfunctional systems does add up.
It's funny how this is said on HN while at the same time another top thread is trashing crypto.

Hint: Crypto is the thing that saves us from this. We aren't using it properly.
You are absolutely right. Hungary is a sovereign country. If they don't like their citizens having access to a particular private platform/medium, they can block access to it. It's very simple. The same way it's done with everything else. If a country doesn't like a particular book, they ban imports into their territory. If they don't like their citizens having ability to catch a TV/radio transmission from a neighboring "enemy" country, they can jam the signal. They don't ask the publisher from that other country to modify the contents. So, if they don't like Facebook operating in their territory, they can copy what China does and get rid of it. But once a country decides to do such things, they can no longer be considered a democracy.

Facebook should not accept instructions from Hungarian government. Now it's "Please don't remove videos from our minister", tomorrow it will be "Please immediately delete any bad comments about our government. Oh, and that opposition candidate's page? Delete that too"

Facebook's community standards should not be universally accepted. Does anyone force Hungarian people to use Facebook and accept their community standards? No. But if they freely choose to use it, of course they are expected to accept the rules of the community they willingly chose to participate in.

I am not a Hungarian, and I don't care what the Hungarian government is doing within their own country. If they want they can censor newspapers, ban TV shows on local media, close the borders, not have foreigners in their country, whatever. But they shouldn't influence foreign media the same way that they cannot ban a TV show airing on some Croatian television because Hungarians near the border can catch it...
Summary of the paper: yes, we think so.
People who upload content and content producers have no necessary relationship. Paying uploaders is not a rebuttal to a charge that tube sites are dominated by piracy and don't pay content producers.
As someone who does have a large investment in it. I'm genuinely happy that's happening.

Way too much marketing + pump-n-dumpness occurring for anyone to make some real solutions out of the blockchain. Maybe now that the fervor has resided, the quiet minds can get to work.
I think it's fair to say that eBooks haven't revolutionized the way the majority of people read books to anything like the degree that was expected (or has happened with music and video).
Key takeaway from the paper

> Instead of supporting more transparency, the results imply that technologies and organizations should be redesigned to intermittently isolate people from each other’s work for best collective performance in solving complex problems.

In addition, Jesse C. Shore, the author posted a Twitter thread summary about this research [0, 1].

> when people interact intermittently (as opposed to constantly or not at all as in previous work), they explore on their own AND learn from each other.

[0] https://twitter.com/jessecshore/status/1029124892439072768

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1029124892439072768.html
Are your live local channels on a streaming TV service yet?
Do you have a cite/example of a lecturer doing that on an exam? Are there any examples where that has been successful?

I had never heard of that happening! It would be extremely cool if it ever worked.
sitting differently won't help much in the long run unless you fix the underlying weakness
One more bitcoin bubble poppin'.

Does HN think it's the last one, or will the pattern repeat in a few years again?
I'm very hopeful about proof-of-stake for this reason.

Mining is a massive waste of resources, and isn't very effective at decentralizing the network.
That's to say nothing of the ecological damage caused by wasting energy calculating trillions of useless SHAs.
That's a somewhat reductive take on it (e.g., car ownership, though often a huge hassle, also bestows an immeasurable degree of freedom), though I do empathize with the general sentiment. I personally find that each thing I own causes me a small amount of additional anxiety that accumulates and can only be relieved by getting rid of things (or better, not spending money on something I don't really need in the first place)... does it make sense to describe it as a mild version of the opposite of hoarding?
Oh being addicted is not rational. But you know the whole road where you're headed to (hospital/cemetery).
Yeah I suppose my attitude will change should I ever start needing to do heavy lifting. But I'll definitely explore instrumenting bash through ruby first, just to see where that line lies.

There's also the option of pushing the workload off onto AWS that I may look into.
Or prostitutes?
Persian Gender Detection
So it is a double life sentence for nonviolent crimes. Isn’t it a little ridiculous?
Agreed. As least there's an asset with owned items.
> I had to train extensively (reading CLR, practicing)

I didn't know what "CLR" was, so I searched around:
Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest's "Introduction to Algorithms" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms
> However, if I subscribe to a service to keep my food and beverages at a certain temperature, then the company has the incentive to make the fridge last as long as possible.

Theoretically, landlords would have the same incentive to purchase the longest lasting things for their rental units. In my experience, both as a renter and someone who designs buildings, the directive is "get the cheapest possible thing that will work".

Sometimes that's because the person paying to build the building is going to sell it once it's rented out, so they won't have to deal with the long term consequences. Sometimes it's just budget restrictions that won't permit the funds to buy the high-quality option. Sometimes it's just short-sightedness. It's rare to meet an owner who truly wants to invest in high quality, long-term solutions.
This reminds me of Twitter mixed with a dose of slave-wage Mechanical Turk labour. Although with Twitter, the signal to noise ratio is much lower than 1% but I think you get my drift.

Granted there are "gems" to be found anywhere but it's still largely far too much of a waste of time for most people.

See also: "the attention economy". What can you offer that others want more of - news, publishing, self-publishing, tweets? What's the cost and reward for each party? Who is paying for the food and bills, and how?
There's a strange conflation in the article between "owning things" and "owning land." I think there is something fundamentally different about the two, in that having a patch of ground for which you are responsible for can help build a sense of self-reliance, investment in the future, skin in the game. Accumulating a wall-full of VHS tapes doesn't do that.

I don't much mourn the lack of ownership of a lot of worthless junk that doesn't bring fulfillment or human flourishing. The late 20th century West let itself fill garages and storage units with consumerist nonsense.

But it's important to recognize that the corporate consumerist system is all too willing to mutate, to adapt to people's changing tastes and to offer them a product they feel is liberation. If you've heard "Don't buy things, buy experiences," then you've heard this new advertising. Companies are all too willing to make you think that an "authentic" vacation around the world will bring happiness and meaning in the form of selfies. Restaurants play up the 'foodie' advertising to make consumption of their product seem like a life-altering experience. The companies realize they can sell the same thing again and again digitally to customers who binge-watch Netflix and pride themselves on cutting the cord and not vegging in front of the TV like their parents did. And at the end of the month you find yourself subscribed to so many services, so many pseudo-addictions, you wonder where your money is going.

Rather than buying things or buying experiences, consider what you can make yourself or find for free. There is already more than enough media content out there to last many lifetimes; why not look for old material that has stood the test of time? Why not build a skill and learn the value of becoming self-reliant in some small way?
You're running dozens of threads over 16+ cores who don't all have the same properties to access and share memory (speed, invalidation, permission, ...).

The OS is in charge of deciding who runs where, and who shares a core with who.

So ... A lot.
I will also be glad when this craptocurrency nonsense is done. It was never meant to be a long term investment or to be used in the way people are trying to use it.

Once people stop thinking it's a cash crop maybe cryptocurrency can start being useful again.
Turning “Pokédex” into an Android App Powered by Machine Learning
Given the amount of "free giveaway" scams in twitter there's still an endless supply of gullible people with money to spare
Planned obsolescence should be illegal

Is there a clear line between planned obsolescence and just making a cheap, low-quality product?
I've been in the same boat for most of my life. I've been lucky enough to make a few friends in the past few years but that's not to say that I trust them with my life.
How styled-components works
Show HN: Baker – a simple tool for baking vms and containers
AFAICT graphics card prices are dipping a little right now, but at least part of that is fairly strong anticipation of nvidia announcing a new generation in a few days. Guess we'll see....
They metioned "Porn performers/activists", while the violence and everything else will be from the producers/"pimps" involved.
Anyone has pictures or examples?
> There is nothing novel in merely knowing an algorithm. And you also have not tested a person's ability in inventing an algorithm either.

The goal of this is too test whether the interviewee can recognize that this is a case to apply this algorithm in. It pattern recognition, not memorization, that is being tested here.

Whether that is particularly useful is of course the million dollar question.
> it's also nice to say well this one didn't start today oh well how bout this one.

It's also nice not to give zero fucks about a dent or scratch. Some people get so worked up keeping their cars perfect, like its jewelry or something.
I enjoy pair programming on occasion, but I can imagine doing it all the time could be detrimental.
Ha, this post seems to mark the "this is good for bitcoin" meme.
As someone who is also on a 970, and was tied into the regular upgrade cycle, it has actually been good for me. I have noticed I spend a lot less time reading up about new parts and chasing minor %s. I also think it's made my wife a lot happier haha.
Your own free will and speech is usually bounded by the assumption that you will not encroach on others' personal rights and freedoms. Schizophrenia may carry some risk that one individual will incorrectly perceive reality, and cause harm to another person or animal. It is this risk that makes mandatory treatment necessary.
"Bitcoin could be on the verge of breaking through as a mainstream currency. At least that’s the goal of a startup that is soon to be launched by one of the most powerful players on Wall Street, with backing from some of America’s leading companies.

This morning Intercontinental Exchange—the trading colossus that owns the New York Stock Exchange and other global marketplaces—announced that it is forming a new company called Bakkt. The new venture, which is expected to launch in November, will offer a federally regulated market for Bitcoin. With the creation of Bakkt, ICE aims to transform Bitcoin into a trusted global currency with broad usage."

http://fortune.com/longform/nyse-owner-bitcoin-exchange-star...

So, you guys really think this doesn't matter? A bit one-sided imo.
You can always save a Chrome shortcut to your desktop, but the app is entirely serverless javascript, so making a desktop app would be not much more than that, but with the disadvantage of not getting the Chrome updates.
Not an exam but:

>An event in Dantzig's life became the origin of a famous story in 1939, while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Near the beginning of a class for which Dantzig was late, professor Jerzy Neyman wrote two examples of famously unsolved statistics problems on the blackboard. When Dantzig arrived, he assumed that the two problems were a homework assignment and wrote them down. According to Dantzig, the problems "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for the two problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.[4][7]

>Six weeks later, Dantzig received a visit from an excited professor Neyman, who was eager to tell him that the homework problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig
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> the US, at least in theory, we have a system that is founded on the idea that a human being has inalienable rights

As long as you're a US citizen.
"Still, anyone expecting Bitcoin to provide a haven from turbulence in global markets will have been disappointed."

No judgment on the future of cryptocurrencies (I'm not prescient), but wouldn't you have to be incredibly naive to think that bitcoin or ethereum would be stable, either in the long or short term? If nothing else, this is a space that is so new that a lot of countries haven't even had time to figure out how to legislate around it.
Proof of stake has issues too I believe, such as the big getting bigger, "not at stake", etc. I agree it's a shame the work in bitcoin etc is useless for everything besides securing the blockchain, though.
>Also GPU prices going down would be great.

Yes! I haven't had a gaming PC for a while. Been looking for GTX1080 for an ITX case, but ... it appeared that small form factor graphic cards were particularly popular among those miner guys

I think I will take GTX1170 once it out there. People expect 1080 baseline performance at a saner power budget.
I work at Google and no it's not easy for us either. I've heard many of my coworkers joke that if they went through the interview process again they'd probably fail.

That said I see two kinds of interviewers. One kind (the good kind) takes a medium difficulty question and uses it to explore the candidate's coding, algorithms, communication, and problem solving skills.

The other kind has a super hard question with a single algorithmic solution that tells you nothing about what kind of engineer the person would be. This kind of interviewer takes too much pleasure in being a gatekeeper to Google.