skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya I agree, I was all ready to blast it but then realized it had a couple good pointers in the case that you are gonna offer homework.

I do disagree with the premise though. As someone who's worked in the tech field for 15+ years and has been on plenty of interviews, I for one would much rather do a short homework assignment than have to stand in front of a few people and white board shit in real-time.

Here are reasons why it's a solid idea:

1. Way more closely simulates a real work environment. I've never had a job where I get the assignment moments before I have to code it, use a whiteboard to write code, am severely time-boxed and have a group of people watch me work.

2. More inclusive. Your work stands out more when someone isn't making judgements based on looks, age, gender, etc.

3. If you complain about having to spend a couple hours outside the interview on work, maybe you don't really want the job that bad enough. People will spend weeks on an unpaid open-source project but then complain about 2 hours for something that might get them a great job.

Having said that, I agree with you also that the interview can be a great time to go over the homework and ask questions, talk about why a particular strategy was chosen, etc.

I would personally love to see more interviews go away from whiteboards and more towards homework.
Gecko Robotics Raises $7M from Founders Fund
Here you go: https://teamsecondchance.threadless.com/designs/epicbatch (this is rather fun actually)
At the voltages involved in power transmission the "grounding" will cause an arc that'll do a lot of damage and take the transmission line out of service until it's dug up and fixed. And that takes awhile and costs a lot of money not to mention lost revenue while the transmission line is out of service.

Above ground is the way to go since it's cheaper to construct and much easier to service when things go wrong.
Declaring variables in if statements, and the curiosities of scope that follows
>Whiteboarding to "see how I think" is not at all how I would think if I were work for them

Someone nailed it finally
Wait we're talking about Vitamin C here? Really?
Excellent!

One of my little side projects (perpetually in progress, unfortunately) is an Apple Watch app with exactly the same mechanic.

(That is, to budget food in terms of points where a 1 point == "my estimate of 100 calories", and you adjust your daily budget based on long-term weight change.)

The idea is to distill the benefit of tracking calories -- which I think is (1) the basic mindfulness around eating to stop and think for just a second before stuffing something in your mouth; and (2) the valuable feedback loop it creates... while minimizing the tracking tasks.

However, I think this is really best for experienced calorie counters because while the estimates don't need to be accurate, they do need to be fairly consistent and proportionate. And, I suspect, you need to be ready to calculate calories when you're facing an unfamiliar meal.

I'm encouraged that it has been working for our author.
The role of dissolved cations in coffee extraction (2014)
The moment for me is when a Jack in the Box TV commercial mentioned Bitcoin
Perhaps, but totally unenforceable... It's a non-issue.

Developers are not slaves, and you cannot prevent them from doing outside work while looking for other jobs.
The larger screen and compute too! I used a MacBook for the last 5 years but after switching to a 24 core, 64gb RAM desktop I’m never going back... the extra horsepower makes my ide, debugging and startup times buttery smooth ...
I wonder if they will let you advertise to people based on trustworthiness, seems like a metric that would be rather useful for a lot of different scenarios.

Also fantastic as a hiring screen.
The Guardian is currently featuring (21/08/2018) a very enlightening podcast with the author (Paul Kildea). It's available at:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/books
Thanks, I searched and GoDaddy indeed suspends domain if you violate their ToS, especially if it involves Phishing https://in.godaddy.com/community/Managing-Domains/Domain-Sus....
Maduro orders 96 percent devaluation in hyperinflation-stricken Venezuela
Wind-reading satellite set to transform global weather forecasts
> I would go all-in in a bubble if I had the confidence someone would tap on my shoulder to let me know when it's going to crash.

literally you and everyone on earth would do this
>High rework rates are indicative of overall quality issues

Maybe, maybe not. We can look at the actual quality of the new cars instead of trying to guess.
So it was an accurate depiction of what they would be working on? It seems like this is akin to the goal.
I mean, the Macri government is clearly not at all like the Fernandez government. The problems you list are real, and they are making mistakes as they always do, but the Fernandez govt really did want to go the way of Venezuela. The Macri government just doesn't have the oomph to push through the reforms they want -- whether for lack of seats in the congress or lack of conviction or fear of a repeat of 2001, I don't know.
These candidate screening portals that make me code in a web IDE are nightmare to me.

My main problem with all of them is that I don't have a chance to talk to an interviewer real time to ask questions, express my thought process or go though the problem together. The time limit is usually harsh, once I needed 5 more extra minutes and the system shut down the test, zero points, but I had it coded 90% and the rest was in my head.

Test cases are revealed _after_ the code is submitted (or not even at all) which is the reverse of what happens in real life.

They are solving the wrong problem. Yes, hiring is broken, you made it better for employers, but not for candidates. I guess this is what we get for bashing the whiteboard interviewing for years, finally the disruption has arrived.
> I got too caught up in the fear of missing out and trying to make a quick buck

People that aren't FOMOing are still making money. Many people are still up for the year.

Just requires more calculation and precision and that can remove an outsized influence of luck, just like every other market on the planet.

I think it is disingenuous to make an article about retail traders that had never entered the market, and not mention how institutional investors and accredited traders are faring. They don't care if the market sold off 80% if they got a 90% discount, as they're probably still up 100%.
​Cloud Foundry survey finds top enterprise languages
From the article, "Yes, this requires pre-mapping, but so does lidar. And WaveSense says that remapping should be far less frequent as conditions under the road are less subject to change than they are above ground."

I don't know that I agree with this statement given that this technology is meant to operate specifically in cold weather climates. I live in Montana, which is, of course, rather cold in the winter. We get frost heaving every spring when temperatures begin to rise. Frost heaving is caused by the formation of ice lenses in the soil below the road. Ice lenses form when water is drawn via capillary action to the same level as frost depth. The water then freezes. Frozen water acts like a solid and can them draw more water in via further capillary action thus increasing the size of the lenses. The ground penetrating radar will be able to see these lenses.

In an urban environment, this will likely be less of an issue. However, in a rural setting where there is less built environment to reference, it may cause some issues.

I am sure those working on this technology have though of these issues and will be able to filter out the noise that subsurface water/ice will create. I just feel it is disingenuous to think that the subsurface world is static.

Ultimately, more sensors using different detection methods will help to improve the operation of autonomous vehicles.

Edit: added a few words to clarify a thought.
It specifically says they invest in your name and pick shorts based on your risk profile though, which is where I got confused. It is not pooling everyone's money together. So not sure how it actually can hedge with such a small amount of money.
I would go beyond that and say that the average person should use those retirement date targeted funds. Those are usually cheap and minimize risk towards your retirement date.
The funny thing that restriction of free speech is advocated as a cure for "modern fascism". It some kind of homeopathic cure, I assume - let's have some fascism to prevent modern fascism!
<< There won't be a war, by the way. I honestly think we're past the point as a species

What if climate change cause a massive movement of people? Can this scenario bring old school war for resources?
Well don't just stop there... Do tell
This is crazy. People don’t go from saving up 90k in their 40s to sinking all that into a gigantic lottery. Do they?
MAC'D is interesting because it can use low-cost ghost kitchens (e.g. commissary kitchens and only a couple staff) and logistics middlemen (e.g. Doordash, Uber Eats) to spin up high-margin, operationally efficient restaurants. I believe they've already started to expand beyond SF. Pretty neat stuff.
Unpopular opinion, but I prefer to be “under the gun”. So much more efficient time wise.
Holy moly, I hope that was just some elaborate troll.
> Yes, and 95% percent of them are intended to proof that BackPage knowingly facilitated prostitution.

Which, incidentally, wasn't a crime until March 2018, when Congress passed a law that not only made it a crime, but retroactively criminalized it for Backpage.

This is absurdly unconstitutional, of course[0], and the bill's author (Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut) should know that, since he was the Attorney General for Connecticut before.

Of course, Blumenthal does know this, because he's been waging a personal war against prostitution for the past decade. He's the reason that Craigslist shut down the "erotic services" section about ten years ago, which meant that sex workers had to start posting in the personals section. (Of course, this gave them cause to write FOSTA/SESTA, at which point Craigslist had to shut down the entire personals section as well.)

[0] https://medium.com/@TechFreedom/yes-sesta-is-probably-uncons...
Laughing gas may have helped warm early Earth and given breath to life
The article is clear: homework is the best approach from the perspective of company time. That this practice is widespread should be interpreted as a lopsided labor market with a glut of supply (workers) and limited demand (companies).
Yeah, last year when my 76 year old mother asked me about bitcoin, I knew the bubble was about to pop. I've never been a bitcoin gambler myself, and I told my mom to stay the hell away as well. That continues to be my advice.

I still think it looks like a big well-constructed scam designed to pull vast amounts of money from starry-eyed naive people and transfer it to a very small number of sharks.
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About damn fucking time, pardon my language. Was a real deal breaker for some projects of mine.
I think the use of "trustworthiness" is misleading. Really it's more "how likely is this person to accurately flag an article that matches Facebook's internal definition of fake news."

That would mean that your number would be on the lower end, but that's not a reflection of your character. More likely it just means that whatever queue is set up for review will wait until more and higher-scoring individuals also flag the article before bumping it up the queue.

Funny how this article is something I would flag if I used your definition of fake news. To me this article is trying to allude to some nefarious Black Mirror nonsense.
To save mass (and thus cost) they'll probably dehydrate the water before shipping it back to Earth. Their target market won't care.
USSR already did this in 1939: annexed a part of Finland [1] to move the border further from the city.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
Theory predicted A, practice made B. Nobody is contesting whether B was made or implying B is fictional. Everyone can see B exists. The debate is whether the claim that B = A is correct, i.e. whether A is fictional or whether A has been found or whether we should keep looking. If all you care about is the present then that's your prerogative, but the people making this stuff you use need to know when they need to stop vs. keep digging for you.
Tesla expands solar roof tile installations to the Northeast
I’m sorry about my new joint Instagram account, but not that sorry
I suppose that's true; no test like production.

I think it was probably a good thing that he was declined, a company that would do that probably isn't a great place to work.
Overview of Inverse Dynamics
Just out of curiosity, how is coughing related to high blood sugar?
One racetrack or sports event would choke any of the existing blockchains.
Hi folks,

I am a bit confused about a citation given in this opinion piece and ask for your help. In paragraph 5, the author mentions the effect of manual labor and cites an article published in the International Journal of Surgery Oncology. In this article they state that:

"Adults working in unskilled manual profession are over 4 times more likely to be classified as morbidly obese compared with those in professional employments",

and they show a graph to support this. However, the graph seems to show the opposite. I looks like males who perform manual labor have a lower prevalence of obesity than those of non-manual labor. Am I reading this wrong?
We only do homework as a final screening test for candidates. If it's any more than a simple project, we pay them standard rates. That way no one feels taken advantage of. Plus, if they bomb it and they're getting paid for it then you KNOW they're not the right candidate, even if every other test was aced, so it really is an excellent tool for us. But again, ONLY at the end of the process when we're making a final decision between, most likely, two candidates.
Me too. Also, I don't want to do some work for "free".
> Then eat less of that.

The hard part is finding a way to do that, especially over a longer period of time. Generally people are working against some combination of social, cultural, psychological, physiological, and financial pressures so it is not necessarily simple to do.
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Layman's Guide to AI
"Thank you for the interest you have shown in me. With regard to the current home project you have assigned me to progress in the interviewing process, I cannot but feel it's somewhat excessive with regards to my time, while being completely free and noncommittal for you.

On the other hand, I certainly understand that you must vet that candidates can actually produce quality software before extending an offer. I believe we can reach a reasonable understanding where I am compensated at my standard consulting rate of $150/hour for any project or homework you might have. This way, the process becomes fair with my time and it also gives you the possibility to thoroughly test my abilities by risking no more than a token amount.

Thank you, eagerly awaiting your response."
If that was the case for C#/.NET, they really didn't have much to show for it at time of release. IntelliJ IDEA that came out a year later was a fancier, more 'integrated' IDE.

But beside smalltalk, there were lots of others. All the commercial Lisps, Dylan etc. Somewhat more mainstream-ish - the NeXT Objective C environment is a good and much earlier example.

There were lots of interesting things about .NET when it came out, the IDE-ness of it doesn't strike me as one of them at all.
I saw a video where the lineman was actually left on the line by the pilot (hanging in some kind of rescue harness), then retrieved when the work was done. He could move along the line using it like a zipline. I guess it depends on the malfunction and the way it's solved; an overheated line connector is not something you want to touch or hang on.

Not sure what they do if the line to be fixed is not the one on the top (fixing one of the lower lines would mean the helicopter interferes with the upper lines).
100%. Paying someone or spending your time to work with them means you value their time.
50% salary isn't adequate protection. Imagine taking a 50% salary cut to change jobs. Pretty much pulls the rug under any motivation to do that.

Of course, that's also 50% of base. For the type of well-performing employee against whom non-competes are typically enforced, that means you have to settle for 25% or less of your total comp.

I am not a lawyer either, but from what I've seen in states where compensation is required, non-compete comp is typically 100% of base.

Of course, bonus is still a huge factor.
I've found that using a bookmarking system helps cut down the use of cd a lot. That's the latest addition I've made to my terminal setup, and it's helped a lot.
to be clear, Teams comes with one of the lowest O365 packages at a meagre $5/user/month (if i'm not mistaken on the price)...
that's a big difference against Slack.
YouTube creators reinvented diss tracks to make millions
I don't like that gambling (on an obviously ponzi like scheme) is called investing.
Securing the Cloud: Inside the race to keep us all safe (2017)
Dataset: US House Price Index (Case-Shiller)
Or they could sell it in different concentrations. You can get 1% moonwater for $1000/bottle, or 99% moonwater for $100K/bottle.
He got himeslf in over his head with arbitrage. Hindsight is always 20/20, but if he had waited a bit, he could have turned that into what... a 10 million profit?
There's already attempts in recent years sponsored by Rep Stanford

http://apps2.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Year=2017&BillNumber=196...

https://www.geekwire.com/2016/non-compete-bill-stalls-washin...

Yes Amazon, Microsoft might be against, but the other tech Giants in the area but with their main campus in California probably are supporting it as this article points out: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/scaled-back-bill-aimed-providi...

"Microsoft and Amazon opposed the original 2017 bill" ... "According to the House staff memo, labor organizations and Google supported the original bill"
Exactly.

Tesla says they pay $25/hour at Gigafactory, glassdoor says they’re paying $17-$22 hours to manufacturing workers.

I’m not into manufacturing, but extra $10-15, for a car with starting price $35k, looks normal.
Chronic migranes is defined as 15 days or more per month. Many people have it 24 hours a day.

Frequency is what chronic migranes are about.
To start with: a variant of FizzBuzz (string manipulation, sorting, fibonacci etc). We then combine this with plagiarism checker and code playback for the employer. Which gives them a pretty good signal if to set up an interview or not.
Now if they only would support Perl...
It is Turning complete, but also pure (side-effect free).
Bucharest, Timisioara, Belgrade, Zagreb, Osijek, Sofia, Madrid, Barcelona, are fairly livable, yet they all boast a decent tech scene.

I can provide intel on Bucharest, Timisoara, Belgrade, Zagreb and Osijek.
> People who never traded before, who didn't knew what a bid or an ask was

and the more amazing thing to me was that they also didn't even want to know

the markets were moving too fast to learn anything, too fast to learn about the history, too fast to put any asset under scrutiny because there is another shiny new thing to trade with a cool name and interesting founding team

or as the ZCash employees and fans are programmed to say "the math is interesting and the cryptographers are highly regarded so--" THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CRYPTOCURRENCY TRADERS
Is this not a repost? Quick search for the magic word 'ruggedized' turns this up from last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17754079
The article has a bit of a weird structure. The premise is that homework is abusive. And the final bullet points elide the exceptions to this rule... which seem broad enough to make the premise weak.

Using homework as a first-pass screen in your interview process, unchecked, is definitely a smell that you're not using this tool appropriately.

However I use it in the process I've set up successfully as a way to give me something to code-review with a candidate when we do a final interview. It's a small, limited scope project. We give plenty of time to finish it. And the chances are good if you complete it we'll give you a final interview.

I find it helpful because I don't have to make assumptions about the candidates knowledge and skill level from a cold-start. I can ask them questions based on their code. How did you interpret this requirement? What trade-offs did you consider when you chose this data-structure? Etc. If their code shows an aptitude for computer science fundamentals I can ask them questions about algorithmic complexity in Big-O notation or I can scale it back and see if they understand the same concept using more descriptive means. Conducting an interview is hard if you don't have a starting point for a conversation.

For more experienced candidates with a history of open-source work do consider allowing them to present their own code in place of your standard homework assignment. It has the same effect and shows that you respect them enough to review their work. I think that's rather nice.
For me it was even earlier, forced to read absurd amounts of very boring textbook material for early school. Put me off reading for life, just like an abusive piano teacher would for music.
I'm with you there -- I just don't see the actual value as being worth that much. Stocks, bonds, commodities, government-backed currencies, they all have clear value other than their speculative value assigned by the current craze of the time. Bitcoin of course has some value, but $6,000 for one unit is certainly inflated. And what's worse, its value fluctuations make it unlikely to be used for what it was designed for: paying for things.

At least with a stock you are a part owner of the company, and you get the rights inherent with that.
Yes, completely. Which is why I personally find the proposals so baffling.
I think you confuse the caricature of Trump that is pleasing to you to behold because you disagree with him with the actual Trump. While it is pleasing to think people you disagree with are blithering idiots, in case one of them is a President of the US the ignorance of the real state of affairs is not on your side and is not going to serve you well. It is always wrong to underestimate your opponent, it's particularly dangerous if the opponent has a lot of power.
The MacBook Pro Is Dead. Long Live the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
You haven't a clue what my politics are so stop trying to throw mud hoping some will stick.

My initial comment called for less of this kind of thing on HN but it seems that some of use here will always be at pains to show the rest of the world how on the correct side of history we are. How tedious. What this has got to do with Facebook's trustworthiness score machinery I do not know.
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Such things were possible with core memory, bubble memory, and FRAM. None are really fast enough by today's standards, though you can get some microcontrollers and battery-backed SRAM replacements made with FRAM.
Any chance of a cheaper / more minimal plan for a small personal site or blog?

I suppose at that point, it's better for you for us to run it on our own hosting, though...?
For non-technical people, WordPress is your best bet. It definitely has its warts and flaws, but there is a giant pool of learning materials available and many people are already familiar with it.
So you're arguing for not accusing people of things?
That is what I am moving to. I currently use their hosting but plan on moving to a DigitalOcean box soon.
That's not what this article is saying. It's not curating anything...