skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that the gap between "is (probably) good at computer science" and "can program our website for us" is so large and diverse... When I was a recruiter the university degree was only important because they had to be a certified engineer (mech e chem e etc), beyond that I still had to make reference calls, the hiring manager still had to check their technical skills etc. When we did hiring interviews for programmers at my current job I didn't even look at the degree. My boss is the API engineer here and he's got a degree in literature. The lead frontend guy doesn't have a degree, he's just been doing it since before JavaScript existed.

Basically, whether or not people filter on degree, or even this cspa thing, they're still going to have to do all the tests they did before. I guess the hope is that they'll have a higher apply-to-hire ratio? But I think that'll only last as long as it takes people to figure out how to specialize to pass this test.
"You're either a 1 or a 0, alive or dead" -https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r3cM5P8tUhc
Here's the EFF's Civil Liberties Director coming as close to standing up for Alex Jones as any reasonable person needs to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/beware-the-digital-c...
Hey John -- I recall seeing on your Mastodon account recently that you were interested in supporting ActivityPub for Ghost blogs. Any news on that front?
Except they set this goal for themselves.

And they couldn’t don’t without an 85% defect rate.

That doesn’t look good.
Microsoft releases security tools for political campaigns to combat hacking
I've only interviewed with one company that did a homework assignment "right" - it was time constrained, it was after an initial phonescreen, I was still more on the junior side, and the onsite interview included a follow up on the homework assignment to extend it in some way.

But generally, I agree. There are enough other ways to screen people for basic competency (20 min tech conversation, looking at StackOverflow profiles, etc.) that it seems unnecessary for anyone except junior developers.
Morning pages has been an incredibly helpful tool for me to process the difficult emotional states associated with acute and chronic PTSD. I kind of do the slacker version by typing them out as opposed to writing freehand, but hey, it still works.
How to Beat Your Competitors Using React Native Technology
How come you are not complaining about Fox News bias? Obama tan suits/Dijon mustard/flag pin/Bengazi/her emails etc
SwiftEngine Open-Source Just Released – Serverside Swift Platform
The range of these things always astounds me. There's one that's like "it's a social network but with avatars" and then there's one that's like "we can repair damaged livers by turning fat cells into healthy liver ones to replace the damaged ones."
Prime factors of the first 1e6 integers, laid out using UMAP
This looks very interesting. Has anyone here used it yet? And does hedging really work with such low numbers? I thought the point of hedging was being able to spread the risk across lots of large investments. Can you really spread enough with only $1000?
10/10 for putting a serious subject in bunny rabbit ears to trivialize it. There's no good pretending we're not in the middle of a cultural war.
This got out of hand. TL; DR: If the fantasy novels you're reading don't work for you, try different styles or even different genres. We don't all have to read the same books.

I'd disagree strongly that fantasy novels have only mild escapism, but that leads me to this point: It sounds more like you need a different genre of book or style of writing. Fantasy may just not be engaging for you, or maybe you need something less Tolkien/Robert Jordan/Steven Erikson style. Something more escapist/lighthearted (Brandon Sanderson is good, R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms novels are good, L.E. Modesitt Jr's Imager series, etc.). Or vice/versa - escapism may just not work for you, in which case something more thoughtful like Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen may be worth trying.

I will say I've rarely put down a fantasy series in the middle the way you've mentioned. Scifi will get me to do that though - I have the entire Mars trilogy on my bookshelf, but I've only read half of the first book - it's just too dry for me (and, frankly, I dislike the author's style. Revealing plot points near the beginning of the novel was a very poor choice). On the other hand, I very much enjoy the Culture novels, and Peter Hamilton's work.

For other unrelated genres: I really don't do mystery novels at all, as they don't interest me. Alternate history, I quite enjoy (at least Harry Turtledove's work- I can't say I've read much else)

Incidentally, there's one other thing that just kind of happens, but avoids me avoid dropping a novel - I rarely start a new series with only a short time to read. Get 15 minutes in to a series and go away for the day, and you may not feel that it's interesting enough to come back. Get an hour in, and usually that's not a problem.
Can someone explain to a software person why this wouldn't basically just ground the power?
Seems down for me:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180821173206/http://timdettmer...
How to Make Swagger Codegen Work for Your Team
Re-post. Already posted multiple times.
Millennial Survey 2018
So if they strip out the words and post it anyways, it isn't doing enough, but if it just doesn't allow it to be posted, then it is a tool that allows traffickers to groom their adds?
Oh shit I didn't even see that they were on the list! They recently opened up a location across the street from me, at Polk and Vallejo.

It's pretty darn good, decently priced too. Food takes a weird amount of time to make, maybe because I went in a day after the new shop opened.
The term is purple prose. It peaked around 1920 or so, I think.

Our aesthetics have changed, that is for sure.
>Supervisor had candidate sign mutual-NDA, work for hire at $X/hr rate & IP assignment agreement on docusign.

This would be a violation of the candidate's employment contract at many companies.
Oh, haha! Cool.
Lebanese militias killing Palestinians has to do what with Israel?

Black September you know about that right? Want to blame that on the Israelis too?

Even in the region when it comes to Palestinian casualties Israel isn’t playing even in the same league as it’s Neighbors and world wide the scope of this conflict is so negligible it’s not even deserving of a footnote in the grand scheme of things yet over half of the UN declarations are about it.

The human scope of the conflict is nothing it’s far less than the drug violence in Mexico not to mention actual armed conflicts.

Heck 70 years of the conflict won’t amount to a few bad weeks in Syria.

The reason why it’s so easy to claim that criticism of Israel is anti-semitism is exactly because of the level of disproportionate attention this whole conflict is receiving and maybe just maybe if we tone it down a notch they’ll be able to solve it.
Even if everyone did it (they don't; most countries have nowhere near the necessary capabilities), it does not follow that all can or do do it to the same extent.

And this is not a situation in which all sides doing it makes any less likely to continue. It is more akin everyone polluting because everyone else does.

Not all polluters are equal, but they should all be condemned and if possible stopped.
On the other hand, if one believes automation and AI is competing with and encroaching on the economic productivity of humans, then having a larger population can potentially be an economic liability.
This is bonkers, but slightly less so once you realize that the author means "mouthfuls of food or caloric liquid" rather than literal bites (which you hopefully do many times per mouthful of food).
now .net core in standard environment!
Code snippets in Slack
I'd be shocked if you could put down the entire Mac n cheese on your own... It's at least a 2 person meal and my GF and I usually have leftovers anyway.
@newman8r owes @PG&E $100 #PayYourBills
Where do they find these people? Is this what a lot of "ordinary" people do? Take out tens of thousands of dollars in loans to invest in cryptocurrency? Are the people profiled in the article a representative sample? Or are we hearing about the worst cases only because they are so notable and out of the ordinary? Will this post ever stop asking questions??

Stories like these are full of anecdote and short on facts, it's hard for me to know what to make of them.
Agreed. YC has moved "upstream" from the idea stage.

Startup growth is a funnel. Idea stage is at the top, and unicorn is at the bottom. The further down the funnel you invest, the more likely you are to end up with a unicorn.

YC is in the business of investing in startups that become unicorns. YC's brand, and initiatives like Startup School, have gotten them so many more qualified applications. They no longer have to invest in idea stage companies, unless they're insanely promising.
You need multiple passes, because while doing the first pass, contact is still being made on an angle. Tie all the nuts at least once, then you won't have an angle and will be able to tighten better.

Same like you should do on your car wheel. First put them all ass much as you can without force, then apply force. In a star bolt pattern.
> Now, eight months later, the $23,000 he invested in several digital tokens is worth about $4,000, and he is clearheaded about what happened.

> “I got too caught up in the fear of missing out and trying to make a quick buck,” he said last week. “The losses have pretty much left me financially ruined.”

I think it's distasteful to criticize the decisions that lead to someone's downfall, but maybe someone will read this and take heed for the future. If losing $19,000 will genuinely leave you financially ruined, cryptocurrency is way too high risk of an asset to get involved in.

I feel bad for him and hope nobody ends up in the same spot.
So it's more solving the wrong problem than solving the problem wrong.
I want to know who all these people are who just thoughtlessly pay every bill they receive in the mail as long as it looks official. I have some bills I need to start printin’!
>Candidates spend many hours completing homework assignments for companies which are not sufficiently interested in them. This is abusing candidates. Knock it off.

Given a choice of spending 2-3 hours on a take home assignment vs. 1 hour of writing code on a whiteboard in front of 3 or more developers, I'd choose the former any day. It's not even close.

The author is taking one end of the spectrum and painting it as an endemic problem. It's not that.

edit: my strong preference for homework vs whiteboarding is because that's how I've solved problems and accomplished tasks for years. Whiteboarding to "see how I think" is not at all how I would think if I were work for them.
Why MiniDisc wasn't more successful, or why Iomega wasn't more successful?

For Iomega, it was because of terrible quality control, leading to fiascos like the Zip drive "click of death" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death#Iomega_Zip_driv...). A storage vendor whose products develop a reputation for frequent, catastrophic data loss isn't going to stick around long.

For MiniDisc, it was because MD didn't offer a clear leap up from what you could get from compact discs, and because Sony couldn't help but be Sony and go off and develop their own system while everyone else in the industry was using a different one (DCC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette).
Consider looking into CBD. It has the anti-anxiety benefits of cannabis without the psychoactive effects of THC which can amplify a panic attack. And none of the awful poison of benzos which will kill you if you take enough of them for long enough.
This is perfect timing for me. I'm interested in getting serious about starting a technical blog. I've been deciding between Ghost and WordPress. Does anyone have thoughts on that comparison?
Hmm. Interesting take. I hadn't thought about that.
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This is very much a case of checks and balances. This article is a little misleading because it only quotes those filing suit saying that they don't like the FCC's actions. The actual suit filed (https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/nn_govt_petitioners_br...) has actual legal arguments. First, they argue the process by which the rule was passed was in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act. Second, they argue that the rule exceeds the FCC's authority by preventing states from enacting their own net neutrality regulation.
To be honest with bitcoin currently still over $6,000 there is a lot more pain to come.
Except that essentially no one is paying $30k in any of the cases despite the “price tag”
What Is Two Factor Authentication?
I sit in neither camp but I see almost as many anti-Tesla commenters, too
Hey! Our business model involves just directly giving money to our users. =)
Speed doesn't matter if bandwidth went down aka download caps.

So, speed can go up on the "preferred service" while speed goes down for "everybody else".

Lots of the ISPs now have deals where traffic to their preferred video streaming service doesn't count against your caps. And, wonder of wonders, that traffic is somehow faster than everything else.

NN isn't about "speed". It's about the fact that everybody's packets are given the same "speed".
Ok, but you a seven year old still needs the internet to have a level education playing field, and her mom needs it to sort out her taxes and ID applications and look up nutritional information and SNAP information and parks nearby and how to register a car and available jobs at the DMV and...
Exactly, it's a question of capital costs vs burn.

If you need say 100 million in hardware and 1,000$ in manpower to build a car then spending an extra 100$ in manpower is cheap even * (5,000 * 0.14) = 70k per week. Meanwhile you might be paying 70k per hour the line's stopped.

Granted, you don't want to wait a full year to fix a production issue, but you can batch things so you are fixing several parts of the line at the same time. And if one of those batched fixes was not 100% correct but is re-workable then you can wait another few weeks for the next batch of fixes.

Conversely, if you where producing 50,000 cars per week then rework costs go up and shutting things down quickly to make a minor fix is more viable.
If they pay you for that task I don't see why this could be bad
Still have my minidisc somewhere, loved it. Though I think my latest was from Sharp and I could record, not from Sony.
> With enough ice sitting at the surface—within the top few millimeters—water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the Moon's surface.

OR: It could be collected, shipped back to earth, bottled, and sold to the wealthy at ludicrous prices.
I am a founder of a company that helps companies with screening candidates[0]. I understand the negative response towards this. But I feel there is a balance here: We advice our customers to send smaller problems (~30mins) meant to pre-screen the candidates (without wasting too much of their time). This followed by a phone interview is currently the best funnel we know so far (and we have been working on this problem for years now).

[0] https://remoteinterview.io
I was on propranolol for 4 years or so because I was having panic attacks but had an irrational fear of antidepressants, which is what most doctors suggested I try. My logic was A) I'm not depressed, and B) I don't want to mess with my brain chemistry and become normal and boring. I was young.

In a case of cruel irony, I actually became quite depressed during the time I was taking propranolol. (Recent studies suggest this is not coincidence.) It also had no effect whatsoever on my baseline anxiety, which remained uncomfortably high, though it did prevent me from having the actual attacks that I considered my worst symptom.

At one point I stopped taking propranolol for a year. The highlight of this year was losing a prestigious international post-grad fellowship when I had a complete anxious meltdown during my final telephone interview. When it was over, I vomited. After that, I finally gave in and told a doctor to give me the antidepressants (in my case, 75mg venlafaxine).

For me, the effect was immediate, and I can only compare it to a case of cured tinnitus. All of a sudden, this uncomfortable thing that I could feel at all times and that I was always conscious of possibly overwhelming me was gone. Presto. I must say I immediately felt remorseful and a bit stupid for prolonging my suffering for as long as I did by refusing to try antidepressants.

I stayed on venlafaxine until a couple years after my wife and I started dating, at which point I felt like I could taper off, and I did. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to look up how much of a pain that can be.

So, my recommendation to fellow anxiety sufferers is to not be afraid to try antidepressants even though you may feel anxiety is the opposite of depression. At least don't settle for a half-cure until you've explored all your options.
So candidates who have worked at other companies which have internal source control, you simple think they've never coded before since it's not somewhere you can see? Or you expect that they should be coding at home after having coded all day at the job they have?
It would also increase the cost a lot due to the digging and actually requiring insulation that will hold up where the overhead lines are bare aluminum insulated by air.
If the task is paid, I don't see anything bad about it.
Poe's law may be in effect here, especially as I'm unfamiliar with SSC Moloch, but I can't agree with you if you are serious.

I don't need to win a knife fight against an opponent who poisons himself. And, well, we're on HN: as we all know, burnout will pretty quickly put you out of the fight.
The article was excellently written and worth the time to read & digest. Your comment is beautifully indicative of the shallow "garbage in, garbage out" point the author made at the end.
Best use of ones time during YC is to focus on growth, talking to customers and making sure you are building something that is a real pain point than initial development. This also helps in the program when you hold yourself accountable to a metric (user growth, revenue etc) and after demo day raising capital.
For the majority of people this is obviously true, but my MD was so much better than my Discman. I could record MDs and it was rock stable, while the Discman (even the later models with buffer) would jump all the time. Would have loved to own DAT, but was too expensive.
In Spain and Portugal there's a company that sends people dressed in frock coats and top hats to the debtor's workplace entrance and such, to publicly shame them: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/09/spain-debt-...
Using concrete blocks to store energy
Exactly. It's mostly cost that keeps underground transmission lines limited to very specific situations. I forget the exact figure, but underground transmission is something like 20x the cost of above ground.
> Those helicopter pilots must have a very steady hand.

Piloting a helicopter in general requires an incredibly steady hand on unintuitive controls that interact with each other in ways that are difficult to predict[1]. Being able to do that with high precision, a disturbingly small margin of error, and fatal consequences for almost any error is basically a superpower.

[1] SmarterEveryDay has an interesting video[2] about learning to hover a helicopter, which apparently requires trying to hover (badly) until the brain learns how to abstract away all of the complexity.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXR1olg_I0w
I don't think any investor saw this as anything else than a bubble, they just wanted to enjoy the ride up. 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. Investing requires discipline.
There's Prolog online if you want to try it: http://rextester.com/l/prolog_online_compiler
Cell phone calls are regulated just like land lines... But yes I think data should also be a utility.

Being banned from Facebook/Google/Amazon doesn't prevent you from using the free irs file option, or applying for your ID online, or helping your child with math homework you have no idea how to work on cause you grew up without access to schooling, or etc.

I'm more talking level playing field for your average American, not your average hackernews poster.
I work in a software firm. Last autumn half of my team was "investing" in cryptos. People who never traded before, who didn't knew what a bid or an ask was, and who complained to me that exchange interfaces were terribly complicated. Some of them were mulling breaking their 401k (or whatever the term is) so that they could invest the money here.

In January they were saying to me "it's not a loss if you don't sell, right?" Literally 0 financial education.
Try voat.co or gab.ai, there's some really lovely misunderstood people over there who have been poor victims of Reddit's "censorship" /s
This is one of the exact points made in the article: if it’s a screening question, it should be really basic, like FizzBuzz level. If it’s an evaluation that goes into whether to make an offer, then the scope needs to be clear, and it should replace a portion of the actual onsite interview.

The problem is that it typically doesn’t replace part of the interview. Incidentally, this is my criticism of TripleByte... pass their interview, and you skip to the onsite with a bunch of companies. But you still have to do the full dog and pony show with the client company, except the phone screens, and there’s a substantial time investment involved up front. You need to do a lot of onsites before you recoup that.
Investors? More like speculators, gamblers...

Most people buy crypto because they believe the price will rise and they will be able to sell at profit. Investing is when you buy something that generates profits or utility, for example a share of a company or a house.
That is ridiculous. As you say they got banned. If them being on the platform annoys you that much didn't Discord do exactly what you wanted?
> Or rather, absence of action in this case.

Issuing an order is an action. The states claim that the federal executive didn't follow the legally required procedure.

> The system working for the people would be the states to make their own legislation.

The federal executive says they can't. The states are asking the courts to say they can.
(And to the--edit: before looking at his comments, I said "well-meaning" here, I retract that--hellbanned poster who replied to me: I am not being facetious, I am being descriptive. Homeboys thinking Nazis had some good points are very comfortably called fascist, thanksforplaying.)
I've found the opposite, all the momentum seems to be with Reason - I don't hear of many new people picking up Elm.

A release with smaller bundle is an amazing technical achievement but doesn't really address the underlying language and ecosystem issues.