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I recently interviewed at Apple and one interviewer caused me to decide to never work there. I was put into a conference room and had 8 people over 6 hours come in and interview me one after another. Each person asked me about my background and then jumped into a whiteboard coding problem. Most of the interviewers were understanding of the fact that writing code on a whiteboard is nothing like writing code on a computer, and were helpful in pointing out simple mistakes that a compiler would have caught.

While writing code for the last interviewer I had to do some simple division. I came up with the wrong answer and told the interviewer that I wasn't sure if that was correct, and to let me know if it was incorrect. He blankly stared at me and said he wouldn't help me. Usually I would be able to do the division in my head, but after 6 hours of constant interviewing my brain was starting to turn into mush. I went on and finished the solution and he said that there was an issue but wouldn't tell me where. I asked if it was an issue with the division and he said yes. He still wouldn't tell me the answer, so I floundered for a bit while trying to remember how to do long division.

At one point I turned to him and said "I'm sorry this is taking me so long, it's been a very long day" and he replied "sometimes you will have to fix your code on the spot". It seemed like he was trying to see if I would crack under the pressure. Eventually I came up with the correct answer and was able to finish the problem, but it completely drained me.

I decided then that I never wanted to work with that person, or with other people like them.

Some jobs require performance under pressure, but programming is not one of them. The only thing that the interviewer was evaluating was my ability to do math problems in my head after being interviewed for 6 hours. Don't they have calculators at Apple? Or phones, perhaps?
I get 50Mbps with 4G connection for 20euros per month. No data cap. Public ipv4 address.

Router is 4 years old Huawei 4g router and I have installed outdoor antenna on the roof for stable connection. I have been with this setup at home for the last 4 years.

I could propably get faster connection with new router but this is fine.
Do you let the people who have "no idea what they are doing" write functions too? Put code into production? You pay them right? You train them?

Why not teach them about macros and have code reviews on things they submit, just like you would normally?
So Sony gets to control his facebook page, wow.
Yeah, Objectivism and similar is a good example of capitalism as an ideology. So those would be meaningful, apple-to-apple comparisons to socialism.
Really excited to hear this now!! I've been watching the job postings appear for HumanDx and I'm looking forward to what the YC companies can achieve together. I think in healthcare it's particularly important to understand the "user(s)." YC companies have a great opportunity to use smart startup techniques to make healthcare more accessible and more successful.
> ...even without the use of brainteasers (which, for the record, are not used at Google), the interview process is hard. People rarely come out of it without at least a twinge of frustration of humiliation.

Which is unfortunate. To measure something, it's necessary to test to the boundaries of its ability, which basically means crossing eventually into the realm of failure.

Too much of testing both in education and in job interviews is oriented to get a pass/fail result. Interviewers should understand that a good interview is not like this and should communicate this to the prospect: the goal is to measure your abilities and compare it to the needs of the position. Answering well for the most part, but not remembering some obscure academic topic or missing a particularly difficult part of a logic problem means that part of the interview helped find that boundary.

Honestly, if you answer 100% of the questions in the interview it means that they don't know how good you are, what they should pay you, or what you can expect to be challenged by in the job. They will want to know how much more they should offer and ask if they can take on much more difficult projects, but they don't know how much. That's an interview failure by the interviewers.
I don't really see how this is a problem worth addressing. The lights are literally only on for one day of the year, are drenched in light pollution from the rest of the city, and have a killcount lower than my neighbor's cat, and under one thousandth of the humans killed during the attack this memorial is built to honor. Honestly it seems almost disrespectful making such an issue out of this.
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It happens in part because large, very successful organizations adopt it and then it spreads as a cultural practice. Microsoft (way back) and Google (back, but less way) were infamous for this. It'd be like if you heard at F1 teams, mechanics have to disassemble and reassemble a vintage carburetor blindfolded and decided to try it with your applicants.

There are also lots and lots of places, large and small, who never adopted that sort of nonsense.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7025261
For me my trust is breaking over a couple pairs of socks, of all things. I ordered some socks from amazon which were a larger than normal size. I was actually excited when they arrived and they actually fit perfectly - something thats difficult when trying to find specific styles of socks.

I enjoy them so much I decide to order 3 packages for the future. They come in the mail - all of them are the smaller size (but have the markings of the larger size). The colors weren't the same - it was clearly from another manufacturer. I go okay, that sucks, I guess I should just return them - Amazon decided that now was the time to make me ship them back rather than taking my word for it. The $20 wasn't really worth the time for me to do so - but that $20 is going to end up being a pretty important one for Amazon as I don't have any trust that what they're selling is what will arrive anymore. They could at least be internally consistent.
Maybe the correct stratagy is turn the tables and try to lighten the mood of the interview if a brainteaser is asked, and sort of shuck "oh one of these things? (laugh)...ok let's work this out together" and proceed to try to engage the interviewer with estimating the number of floors in an average building, the number of windows per story, and the number of buildings, all the time asking the interviewer what his estimates would be?

Like anything to prevent yourself from locking up and taking the damn thing too fucking seriously.

The reality is we are all going to interview, they are going to mostly suck, and you will almost certainly eventually be hired somewhere.
There are several reasons, and this list is far from complete:

Hemp threatened the cotton industry.

Cannabis was more usual among Mexican immigrant workers, which is why they renamed it to something more Mexican sounding.

It was a convenient way of breaking up the hippie movement and avoiding Vietnam war protests.

It has many medicinal uses and less side effects than the artificial crap we call medicine these days.

It scrambles the programming, people start asking themselves the wrong questions when using it.

It allows the government to conduct a war against its own people, and discriminate freely; while claiming to protect.

And on it goes...

States have managed to foment different levels of social stigma.

In Sweden, where I was born; you might as well do crack cocaine in most peoples eyes.
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Years ago, when a few of us were shifting from Atari 800s to PCs, a friend asked me to write a TSR to put an Atari 800-style key click out the speaker. I did so, but found it amusing; I'd wired a toggle switch in line with my Atari's speaker so I could turn it off.
A bit misleading out of context but it is bio from a market standpoint in that it rises and falls with it. Just like how working with refinery sensors is oil industry even if you are thousands of miles away from a refinery or drilling platform.
Yes, if pundits and lobbyists abuse this paper by relying on it to expound policies that it can't actually support. (Maybe they already have?) But that's a more general problem with how our political culture permits politicians and pundits to abuse science in their rhetoric.

There's also a problem in academia where intense pressures to publish and to be cited incentivize researchers to make radical claims, exaggerate the practical utility of their findings, gloss over weak points, etc, ripe for political fodder. I won't claim to understand all the technical details in the paper but I didn't sense any of that in the paper. The authors seemed to establish a fair analytical context, and they plainly articulated a limited policy conclusion--"it does not necessarily imply that taxes should be more steeply progressive". (Emphasis added.) Those don't feel like weasel words; just true and straight-forward without inviting misinterpretation.

It's a cool paper that credibly does what it sets out to: explore what can happen (in a formal and fair but, clearly, limited model) when you give rent-seeking a first-class treatment and carefully analyze how it interplays with the rest of the system.

By contrast, Arthur Laffer very actively advertised his research as justifying policies that it simply could not. And he continues to do it--he actively promoted the 2017 tax cut using the same intentionally misleading arguments he always has.
I've read a lot about carbon capture lately, and this is one of the most promising approaches. Another very interesting idea is simply splitting the CO2 into oxygen and carbon monoxide
So you met 8 people, and one of them was a jerk? I'd say that's a pretty acceptable jerk coefficient for a workplace. I've been in places north of 0.5.
I worked on a project in this industry with PG&E in California. The amount that these companies spend to have humans fly power lines for inspection is incredible. Besides the cost of the helo, they have a pilot and a second person inspecting the lines and recording on a camera for review later.

Good luck, there's a lot of cash up for the taking if you're able to automate the process.
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You can make it 1-day workweek in any 1st world place right now, you only need to convince the people to lower their living standards by a factor of 5x.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2010/08/27/what-is-d...
I can understand the French/European's perspective because American companies, especially the GAFAM titans, do have a lot of power and influence. I'd say these companies are among the most powerful in the entire history of our civilization.

That being said, it's up to Europe to compete and offer meaningful alternatives to these companies.
Dunno about sweet.js, but in Lisps, it's usually source order. E.g., read the next token, is it at the head of the list and names a macro, if so, call the macro function, and pass in the code as the param, take the output and replace the macro form with the expanded version, resume reading...
1) Amazon can lower fees easily, that's a 10 ~ 20% profit margin, which invites more competitors and thus lower prices.
I recently moved into an area that is served by Spectrum and a local ISP/electric company that is providing fiber internet (100-1000mbs). They haven't run the fiber lines by my house yet (they state they will by the end of the year), but during my communication with them they stated that "IPV6" was in the works. Promising to offer that by the end of the year as well. I just checked some online arin records, and it still shows them as having no ipv6 allocations...

My main complaint with that I spent a large amount of time a year ago deploying ipv6 dual stack on my home network. My router is a debian box with shorewall, so I had to learn what was needed all manually. And now, a year later, I'm not even sure how it works as I've forgotten everything. It took a bit of work to figure out how to get my router/shorewall box to request an ipv6 prefix for each internal interface, and then how all that is handled. And now I don't even know lol

So if this local ISP doesn't offer IPV6, I get to tear all that down and then I guess start over again re-learning in a future date.
In one word - syscalls. What do I win?
It is also worth noting that TALENs were implemented for genome editing [0] before CRISPR/Cas9 [1]. And that there are ongoing trials in human subjects that use TALENs for editing instead of Cas9 [2].

Though I agree with a sibling comment that we might not find another system with the same advantages as CRISPR/Cas9 (ie, only having to generate RNAs to engineer site specificity, rather than the more intensive task of generating a protein coding sequence like you do with TALENs).

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21179091
[1] https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/projec...
[2] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/new-gene-editing-trea...
You probably should have searched for the name Lumen before you chose it for your project. Lumen is a framework for PHP:

https://lumen.laravel.com/
> France is a very socialist country (esp. compared to the US of A),

Compared to the USA - yes, compared to the USSR - no. France is largely capitalist economy with a lot of socialist policies. As long as the engine of the capitalist economy (private ownership, private initiative, private capital, substantial competition, etc.) is intact, it can bear a lot of socialist policies without breaking down (even at the cost of some slowdowns and inefficiencies). Once you break that, there's pretty much no chance.

> Aren't you talking about oligarchies rather than socialist regimes?

No, unless you choose to redefine what has been always known as socialism as "oligarchy" and what has been always known as capitalist economy with substantial government intrusions as "socialism". This would make conversation very awkward, as any non-traditional term usage tends to do, but will not change anything of the substance. USSR economy and French economy (and both societies of course) were different in principle, not in degree, and you can not ignore that while staying in the realm of reality and outside of fairy-land economics.

> The fact that some oligarchies were born under the pretense of socialism doesn't mean socialism was the cause.

USSR was one of the largest and most complete and consistent implementations of socialism ever attempted. If they didn't do it right, on your opinion, then nobody could do it right, ever.
If the universe were "infinite by definition", it wouldn't be an open question.
Obviously. I'm non-sarcastically saying that cap-and-trade won't work, because any meaningful cap is unrealistic to achieve. The political reason is: We want cheap energy. The politically acceptable choices boil down to burning coal or gas, no matter how bureaucracy is layered on top.
The USA national debt is only a number.

As you say, money can be created out of thin air. The money that the USA spend in a moment in time is limited by the real resources available (overspending would create inflation) [1].

The 'national debt' in only a number reflecting pass spending and has very little relevance. The USA dollar as the currency of 'the empire' have a special status, but that it's not what protect the USA of default, but the strength of the real economy and being the issuer of their own currency.

[1] - http://hir.harvard.edu/article/?a=2853
Agree completely about parents. Also I think that was extreme about not celebrating a goal. We did keep score, because the kids keep score in their heads anyway, but at a young age we didn't emphasize it and there were no trophies or medals.
> Don't need war for R&D. R&D money was going to be spent regardless.

I would say that is an assumption that is not fully true compared to knowing that war R&D has in fact produce technologies adapted in civil society. Reminds me of a false claim that if the Wright Brothers never were the first to have a successful flight, we would still have planes. We could have easily never have had a successful flight -> airplanes. Although negative, we should still give credit to war R&*D
Isn’t that the opposite of a hedge? A put on coke would increase the risk of a long bet on Pepsi
I agree. That is often the case with taxes and tax incentives.
True, and the lesson to be learned from North Korea is to depose despots with nuclear ambitions early.
We need to focus on building a civilization that lasts millions of years. Currently we're focusing on building a civilization that could go extinct at any given time.
If you don't have a lab you are not into bio.

That said there are a lot of companies that are trying real hard to replace their labs with software.
>> look at the companies buying intel chips, are they getting more output with the same dollar input?

Probably not. The ones who were constrained by computing power are now doing higher quality work - FEA comes to mind as something that seems to produce more accurate results with increased computing capability. Games get "better" but their market doesn't get bigger - just more demanding. Hollywood does more CGI, but that doesn't actually increase their market. These are all things that don't affect GDP.
You had me at "Kung-fu like Neo" ;)
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Not sure it's possible. The more accurate the models get, the buggier they are.
You are confusing socialism and communism. Communism is where money is gone. Socialism is where money is very well present, but the capital, the means of production and the economic planning is controlled by the state. The workers still can get paid (and some may even have certain freedom in where to work, though that tends to shrink very fast as central planning is not possible if you can't force people to work where you want them for salary that you want to pay them) and still can buy stuff (provided the central planners thought in advance of producing this stuff in enough quantity), but the overall control of the economic processes rests firmly in the hands of the state.
Well, let's be honest. The vast majority of jobs are just that: jobs. They're not something that anyone particularly wants to do; they're just willing to do it because it's better than the alternative.
> Some jobs require performance under pressure, but programming is not one of them.

In fact, programming under pressure is the leading cause of programming disasters. It's the exact opposite of what a rational employer should want.
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Very cool stuff.

Are you doing anything special for 3D trajectory estimation (any visual tracking / SLAM)? Or is it just GPS or whatever DJI puts in?

Also, would it help with defect detection and classification if you had LiDAR data as well?
Depends on the kind of software, though. If you're writing an interpreter/compiler, web server, database or operating system you don't have much choice.
Supply and demand. Everyone in high school is expected to go to college; you're essentially considered a failure if you don't. Couple this with easy access to student loans and other forms of credit and it's easy to see why the price of college has just gone up and up.
Can confirm--API Gateway pricing is nuts for many use cases.

"Think of it like a Swiss Army Knife; it does a lot, it's easy to hurt yourself with it, it can be incredibly expensive, and the instructions are all written in Swiss German."
it sounded right to me, and i got to this [0] after a short google

ericsson doesnt sell mobile phones however, and nokia got screwed over by microsoft in that department.... that's probably at least a big chunk of that revenue.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/314657/top-10-telecom-eq...
So edgy

I doubt you can tell the difference between PTT and a proper (speak: normal) setup microphone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17923138
Thank you. I had a healthy skepticism about this, it feels almost like a piece designed to manufacture desire in its readers for next day delivery which is a "expected thing
in the US (it isn't, it varies based on which seller on Amazon it is). One could imagine an Amazon rep calling the author up and suggesting this might be an interesting story...for reasons.
And thus we see the problem with this "voluntary" enforcement that YouTube and FB do. While there are penalties for false DMCA claims, there are none for claims in these "voluntary compliance" systems.
I didn't see this discussed in the article, but IMO the main driver is the availability of student loans. When the government guarantees loans, you can lend whatever you want!

The price of a TRIPLE occupancy dorm + 7 day meal access is $14,813.29/YEAR at UC Davis. The "meals", if they haven't changed in the last decade, are Sodexo garbage. And don't forget a "year" doesn't count the summer, or winter break.
Many western states got together to provide a cheaper alternative to state schools. Western Governors University is about 6k a year and is online and accredited. Its also used for teachers to get their advanced degrees while working full-time jobs. You can also go as fast or slow as you can/want. You could, in theory, do it in 3 years, so 18k TOTAL, that's pretty affordable. No idea if there is an option for eastern states.

They have IT/Nursing/Teaching/Business degrees upto Masters degrees.

https://www.wgu.edu/
What I find weird about these questions, is that they are expected to be answered without any research? How often do you expect your people to solve a problem in a domain they know nothing about without doing any research? And the given example is odd, a lot of useful information that would help to answer the question will be public, and the obvious way to answer the question would be to look it up, before estimating the stuff that isn't public (but you won't know what information is publicly available until you look for it)
Division. Damn. That's what calculator is for. I would just whip out my phone to do it.

Human has evolved to leverage tools to augment intelligence. If he can't understand the advantage of tool utilization, he's not a good engineer.
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> It would spit out react code that you'd otherwise have to write -- or that you'd have to write a metacomponent for.

Do you know if anyone is actually doing this?

edit: As it turns out, https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/3675, yes!
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