skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recruited by a large travel company that advises people on trips. They sent me a questionnaire beforehand and asked that I send them my answers. Being earnest and naive, I spent a couple of hours writing a bunch of short essays as answers. When I arrived for the interview, nobody had even read them. Needless to say, each time I've been re-recruited by that company in the intervening years, I've declined. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
This lines up with what I finally concluded (and blogged about) as well - find some small, somewhat isolated project and pay them for it. My preference would be for it to be a project you actually intend to use, especially if they also need to interact with your team in some small way. This way you get to actually seem them in action - how do they communicate, what questions do they ask, how do they approach the project. You see the candidate in the context in which you intend for them work.
We used timed (8 hours), paid homework to hire recently. It definitely was really helpful for one position in particular. Dunno why the article doesn’t mention this option.

Looking at the profile of the blog post’s author, she went to a prestigious school, worked at prestigious companies, and wrote a book on whiteboard challenges.

It is clearly very heavily in this person’s favor that interviews stay focused on these criteria over actual performance.

Our homework ended up weeding out some impressive looking candidates in favor of people who were less impressive and good at interviews but better at getting things done.
Hopefully it's private.

As far as the legal requirements, I believe in the US it's permissible for debt collectors to contact friends/family in order to get in touch with the debtor, but there are certain limitations (like they're not supposed to disclose the amount of the debt, etc).

I think you're right about the practicality issue - I doubt twitter or any other network would want anyone using their platform for that type of activity.
It's not like being exposed to content biased contrary to our view changes our view; it's just more readily detected as biased, and in certain ways may reinforce our view as we defend it.

In any case, the ratio of bias reports/views for content is likely to be inversely related to its value and general appeal.
I think it's not so much a complaint, as a suggestion to include a short recap of what the project is in the introduction of release announcements. I don't think OP was so much annoyed, as much as that they considered that it's a smart thing marketing-wise: those who don't know what the project is are unlikely to read on to the third paragraph.

See e.g. Rust, which does this really well: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/08/02/Rust-1.28.html
Weren't Teslas creating a reputation of being unreliable over the last few years? I remember seeing a lot of stories on HN of people trying to get their teslas fixed, and how sometimes it would take months.
If I'm not mistaken they provided specific feedback to folks they knew to be trafficking sex on how to make their ads appear legal. That's the opposite of stopping sex trafficking on backpage - especially since they benefit.
Bitcoin has been through at least 3-4 major "run ups" already. Those who do not look at the log chart think that "this time it's different" and Bitcoin will surely die for good. Later it'll crash from $250K to $50K and then it will certainly be the end.

2011: $1->$30->$3.

2012: $5->$15->$10.

2013: $10->$270->$80.

2013-14: $100->$1100->$250.

2016-2018: $500->$20000->$6000 (so far).
>>In this paper, we have used fractional calculus in order to generalize and provide a mathematical frame for circuit elements with memory: memfractance. We have emphasized that the memfractance is a general paradigm for unifying and enlarging the family of memristive, memcapacitive and memin ductive elements. The motivation and significance of this paper is that there may exist future nano-electronics devices that are more realistically modeled with memfractance elements

That sounds like a hoax to me. I had to look up fractional calculus, but it appears to be a real thing. It still sounds ridiculous and appears to bring in memcapitive and meminductive elements to their odd new world. At the end of the day, writing papers with strange terms isn't nearly as useful (to the rest of us) as actually producing a new device.
Of course Russia is still a threat and NATO (while serving primarily American interests) helps to protect Eastern Europe countries from Russia. We should not forget that in 1939 USSR invaded into Finland, Baltic countries, Poland if I remember correctly. In 1968 they invaded Chekoslovakia. With NATO those countries probably feel safer.

Ukraine didn't have NATO bases - and lost its territory. This is a reminder for other countries.
Avoid coffee, for me this have been key.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine-induced_anxiety_disor...
Yep. If I had a time machine some of the first stops would include dropping off some meds for Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, Pergolesi, ...
People also use all of the available actions completely different

Some people view a like as a personal read receipt

Some people view a like as a broadcasting to their friends/network that they saw it

Some people view a like as consent to the message

Some people view a like as liking the message

The most extreme of those benign actions are the ones making its way into public policy.

So it isn't surprising to me that a moderator also had no clue what people do.
I grew up in suburban MT, and was one generation removed from rural MT. I never heard “cowboy up,” but “is there a bone sticking out” definitely checks out.

The stresses of being in a rural state can be good and bad. Even in suburban MT, it would never have occured to my parents to be helicopter parents. Power tools, dangerous play, and “don’t you dare come inside unless you’re bleeding” were all par for the course.

But the same stresses that result in kids’ freedom can also overwhelm some people. My own grandfather committed suicide, and I have to wonder if (even in a small town where he was well-loved) less isolation and more mental health services might have given him more years.
Your comparison doesn't make any sense. You would use a language like Elm/Purescript/Reason etc for the type safety, that's completely orthogonal to whether something has classes or not.
I completely agree with that. However, at least in my experience, the take home assignment was used to replace one or all the phone screens. So it was always an elimination round until getting to the whiteboarding sessions.

I would especially like to call out Uber on that as a couple of years ago they wanted me to write some local public transportation service endpoint integrated with Google maps in order to get to the onsite interview. Told them I don't have time for that with my full time job and they just shrugged and were like 'ok, no worries, we look forward to seeing you on X'. So I guess it was also a sucker elimination round.
There was an old game called Eternal Sonata that based around the life of Chopin. One of my all time favorites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sonata
Depends on your skills and preferences. I would choose Ghost since I am a JavaScript developer and would be more comfortable with a node.js solution. I'm actually so happy I was reminded about Ghost by this post, I might try to set it up myself tonight.

Lacking PHP experience, I've never felt that comfortable in WordPress, but I can't deny that It Just Works. Easy to install and there are millions of users for easy troubleshooting.
Yeah! Very interested - we have a highly voted topic for it over on the forum with some ideas, too. It's not a primary focus of the core team right now, but it's the sort of thing we'd be very interested in open source contributions for.

One of the main motivations for people using Medium is the network effect. I think it would be really cool if that could be recreated in a platform-agnostic, decentralised way :)
One of the big protections in there is that a noncompete can not be enforced against someone who is terminated without cause or laid off.*

There are certain kinds of maneuvers that Just Shouldn't Work. Laying off someone and then invoking a non-compete against them is one of them.

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* The one exception being if they put in a non-compete as part of a severance payment.
I am not quite seeing how clicker would work for precise stuff like money/budgeting. Perhaps the opposite would work - you "click" when you save? I.e. you look at something you want to buy impulsively, and refuse to do it. And reward yourself with a point (or multiple)

Just throwing an idea.. :)
and how many of them have made any effort to clean up the permitting processes for rolling out fiber.
Seems unlikely. It doesn't have any known health benefits (which is generally what people mean when they say "wonder drug").

If you want more focus etc, there are better drugs than nicotine these days.
I disagree. It's very unclear what strategy will work over the next 20 years. Many people are bullish on index funds because research has shown that they outperformed managed funds over the past 10-20 years. It doesn't mean they'll outperform over the next 20 years. Past results are no indication of future results.
On the other hand, they also believe in homeopathy, so you would only need 1 litre of moon water to produce billions.

edit: excalibur beat me to it.
So the bots will auto-post links to Wikipedia articles in certain groups and then 1 in 1,000 will be on the target groups with the fake news.

This will become like gaming Google rank.
Ghost is fantastic if you just need some simple features and a good Markdown editor.
Army Tried to Get Data on Soviet Lasers with Hidden Sensors
Maybe you would like to point out exactly who you are talking about and describe how they have affected the content.

This is the author of the content.

https://www.cato.org/people/ted-galen-carpenter

There are other articles and sources events described

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26089450
God willing, I look forward to the next NYT article posted here about Crypto in 4 years time about another bubble
Oh, and I’ll add that i’ve been self employed with no insurance or financially reasonable access to health care for almost all of the time my health was slowly deteriorating- over 18 years.

When I did see doctors, my symptoms were diagnosed as other syndromes or dismissed as something very mild. A family member who has celiac suffered from years of misdiagnosis and ineffective treatment, including surgeries, for conditions they don’t suffer from. So if I had been in the medical system all this time, it’s not clear the outcome would have been significantly better.
As a back end developer that’s been slowly getting into web development, I find the article helpful because it informs me of some design decisions I should be thinking about. By no means do I expect the author’s opinion to always be correct, especially since the design should always be driven by the content and intended audience. But it helps to know I should think about serif vs sans serif, etc. and how it may impact the final product.
Coerced wealth redistribution is about the furthest thing there is to libertarianism.
> except we are being categorized by corporations instead of the state

Considering that the state very likely has wholesale access to all the data, I'm not sure that's making actually much of a difference.
> Facebook/YoutTube/Google don't want to be common carriers though. They're DMCA safe harbors, but that's totally different.

I didn't say they should be. I was correcting your analogy, then I reiterated the idea that you can be a publisher with control over what you publish and liability for what you publish, or you can be free from liability and not have editorial control. It's an easy concept and it fits perfectly as a principle to strive for with regards to net neutrality.

> Do you think newspapers shouldn't be allowed to have opinion articles that are prefaced with "not the opinion of the paper"?

What relevance is your question to the topic at hand? It's not like newspapers are absolved from liability for what they publish, even OpEd's and opinion columns. Imagine a newspaper publishing a six hundred page sunday edition, chock full of advertisements, and the full contents of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone under the byline potterfan69 and a header on the page saying "Opinion."
Your thinly-veiled derision doesn't mask the fact that you are being willfully ignorant of the intent of the person you're replying to. You're not here from Reddit, are you?

It's not about entitlement, but it is about common convention. Docker's offering isn't unique enough for them to betray that convention.

The point of making something open source is to benefit from collaboration. Is not making the argument, "locking software distributions behind a login wall is harmful," simply a form of collaboration?
...which they're now allowed to do, without net neutrality.
best advice here IMO

also just memorize a bunch of common food items you eat, bananas are about 100 calories, bowl of cereal + milk, protein shake, etc. Should be less than 10 items you need to commit to memory, you can guesstimate everything else off of these. For reference, a burrito bowl from chipotle w/ everything but guac is ~1000 calories, ~300 calories for a tortillia shell, its a good balance eyeball measurement to use, since most of the food groups are in there.

Have some nonperishable consumable foods to balance calorie vs hunger intake. I use jerky.

Drink increased amounts of water to reduce appetite on weight loss

Unfortunately my dinner and lunch meals have too much variability so it becomes hard to keep track of though. Mine looks like breakfast <300 calories, early lunch and late dinner <800 calories.

For bulking you just need to adjust the breakfast / lunch / dinner values. Easiest way is to make breakfast a fullmeal, and add a 4th meal (protein shake) at night, but keep everything else the same
That is just gambling...They are at their own risk.
This discussion is about shallow DoF. You cannot have shallow DoF with a lens with a small aperture diameter. Both the aperture diameter and sensor must be large.
Based on the article, they use holdings of the same 20 stocks, and seem to adjust risk exposure by varying the percentage of short-sell. Their Program Brochure[1] backs this up - you get fractional stock as part of an investment pool in the 20 stocks they choose, instead of entire shares, so you get the same relative hedge you would otherwise. They do mention direct ownership, but it's fractional shares still held through Apex.

[1] https://cdn.titanvest.com/library/Titan_Investor_Materials.p...
Americans are vastly more educated than even a few generations ago.
Absolutely insane? I’ll pay for it if it’s better 1080Ti and it should be a pretty significant jump from the 980Ti I have now.

Just because something seems expensive to you doesn’t mean it looks that way to others.
Unless you have some kind of special insight, why would you not just go with the flows of the overall market and invest in index funds? Seems like a good default when all options are technically unknown.
What Will You Do If WWVB Goes Silent?
While I'm happy to see some sensible restraints come to noncompetes I'm sad that it wasn't taken further. I actually applied, interviewed and got a job offer to a great little startup in Boston. After all was said and done they slipped in that I had to sign a noncompete.

This noncompete was incredibly broad. It could have applied to nearly any future employer. I worked with my lawyer and asked for some further limiting language but everything I asked for was rejected by HR.

I stuck to my guns and said that I could not sign this. The job was a perfect fit for me. I still wonder what I could have done there.
Consider how much money had to enter the market for the price to reach $1000.

Consider how much money had to enter the market for the price to reach $20,000.

Now consider how much money will have to enter the market, after everyday “normal” people from outside of tech have lost hundreds or thousands, for the price to reach $250,000.
Fair point, I probably could've included some useful context there - thanks for the tip!
If anyone wants a sound track to this tragic story, Pearl Jam’s “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” is—I’m convinced—influenced by bassist Jeff Ament having grown up in Big Sandy, which is the town discussed in this article.
While that is what I have mostly done, the retirement date funds I have had access to tend to have significantly hire fees (sometimes close to double) compared to the index funds. Not sure their performance actually justifies it either.
I agree there are valid tradeoffs. In my experience, because Clojure code is so concise and tiny by comparison to Elm or most other language's, refactoring is usually replaced by actual re-writing, since the small amount of code is just as easy to architect again, maybe just saving particular functions, rewriting others.
A big part of the point is that almost nobody has any options. If there were room for real competition in the space, regulation might not be necessary. Part of the barrier of entry is inherent: building infrastructure is hard. But part of it has been artificially constructed by the existing players through lobbying: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/utility-poles-important-future...
I think some simple tweaks by your employer could have made this system more comfortable for you too:

- Like giving ample time to the test and then deciding from the report if to approve or reject.

- Hidden test cases are to avoid hardcoded solutions. I think these cases don't map to unit tests, they serve a different purpose here.
Check out the NY filing for more complete information about their arguments (https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/nn_govt_petitioners_br...). But the short answer is that the FCC is being accused of violating the Administrative Procedures Act.

The APA was created in response to the growth of government agencies tasked with creating regulations, essentially to curb the power of bureaucrats. Agencies are required to keep the public informed about possible changes to regulations and to allow for public participation, but what's relevant to this case is the process by which proposed changes are approved. In order to change the existing regulations, there has to be a formal review process, which involves gathering evidence and making a decision based on that evidence. Essentially, agencies like the FCC can't just change their rules on a whim, they have to look at all available evidence and actually come up with an argument for why the change needs to happen based on that evidence. Agency heads still get a decent amount of leeway, but standard is that their decisions cannot be "arbitrary and capricious." That's a legal term with a whole body of precedent behind it, google for more info.

I should also point out that suing based on the APA has come up a lot in this administration. My girlfriend is involved with environmental lobbying groups, and a number of the EPA rule changes proposed under the Trump administration have been thrown out because they did not properly follow the APA. The DOJ's repeal of DACA is also currently being challenged as violating the APA.
Will I be denied employment if I don't have social media?
Just a question, is there any reason why whenever we detect frozen water its on the north pole or south pole of any circular object in solar system? I guess ones of them is sun heating up everything in the equator region.
That looks like skillful manipulation to me. There is an important difference with the most recent bubble -- now bitcoin is a household name. Where is the next pool of gamblers coming from?
> I don't hear of many new people picking up Elm.

We sure do in the Elm community! I suspect this has more to do with who you follow than anything else. :)

For example, if you follow a lot of React folks, you're naturally going to hear a lot more about Reason, because there's a lot of overlap in the people who work on those projects.

Come check out our #beginners channel on Elm Slack sometime! It's constantly buzzing with activity:

http://elmlang.herokuapp.com/
It seems that with enough hype, they actually do.
They do this when their 90k in savings isn't going to cut it in their retirement, or sending their kid to college. Desperation and duress cause people to make poor decisions, in finance, health, jobs, marriage.

It is this fact especially where "advice" doesn't really help. I have not seen that coping with need, whether perceived or real is something people tend to do rationally. And, unfortunately, once you are in that situation, telling real vs perceived needs apart becomes just as difficult.

my opinion/theory is that our social ties and cultural norms are meant to allow us as a group to help individuals out of this, but that our current culture has subverted this norm. It seems self-evidently true that it is better attempt to meet the needs of individuals before the costs of their poorly judged actions force us to deal with the ramifications.

Edit: double negative removed.
Then why do people say "invest in the stock market for the long run by buying an index fund?"
It's better to waste a little bit of time and money upfront then a lot of time and money later, especially when the one-time fix will eliminate a recurring time/money sink. It may seem insane to you, but it's just common business sense to a carmaker thats been around for decades.
> but China has recently taken up a very potent type of hybrid economic development, where free-market startup-culture is encouraged, but guided and pruned by the government.

I don't think the USA gets enough credit for inventing this hybrid economic development system. Good examples include:

* Military computing -> Intel, IBM, etc. -> Moore's law

* DARPA cash -> early networking/PC projects at universities -> hacker/hobbyist culture -> Microsoft and Apple

* Gov't really emphasized "finding information" in CS the 1990's -> NSF grants at Stanford -> Google.

* The Human Genome Project -> Illumina, Solexa, etc. -> Moore's law-shaped cost curve for sequencing

And less R&D heavy examples like the national railways and the interstate highway system.

This pattern continues today. Self-driving cars started as several decades of NSF-funded research projects that turned into a DARPA-funded competition a decade-ish ago that turned into an industry-funded goal rush today.
I don't think it's crazy to wish for some kind of interface or trait-like abstraction mechanism in a language. Anything taken to the extreme can sound stupid.

edit: I'm not saying Elm should change, the time for that is long gone. Just that the idea someone would want an interface (to do things like bound on generically) isn't that far fetched.
> After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors

After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Crypto"currency" gamblers.

FTFY.
Naomi wu is a harasser
She harassed few journalist and reputable human beings from well known companies. Yet, she still able to get away by using the sexism/gender related card?
What the fuck human? This has got nothing to do with female tech anymore. This pathetic human is clearly a persona and using other's work and yet garderning sympathy from female particularly.

Please wake up people.
Currently some importer makes a profit from buying desktop fans in China or Vietnam, and selling them in the US and EU. Say the finance investors just use their Finance Bucks to buy those fans themselves, pay that importer to ship them and then they sell them to the companies that were already buying the fans from the importer, getting Real Bucks back.

Literally nothing in the real world changed, except the importer now gets a bit of extra cash (probably almost nothing, since it doesn't cost him/her anything) to allow those investors to "own" those fans en route. There's no extra jobs, and the demand for fans hasn't really changed.

What's the point?