skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think whiteboard interviews do show one can "think like a computer scientist." What they might show is that one can recognize that a toy problem can be solved by some algorithm that was research paper-worthy some years ago. Do you think the authors of those papers wrote them, or came up with the fundamental algorithms in 45 minutes?

Regardless, what companies should be looking for is "can this person do the job." "Can this person think like a computer scientist" is a poor proxy for most jobs. It would be more appropriate to want to find out "can this person think like a software engineer," but, instead, we get "can this person regurgitate problem 257 from LeetCode."

I would argue that the negative signal is probably pretty high from this style of interview. That is, you're unlikely to have someone who's capable of writing down a nontrivial piece of code who can't actually write any code. But, the positive signal, the "can this person do the job" signal, is very very low.

I'll give you an example of a question I've been asked multiple times in a 45-60 minute interview: implement a text-based connect 4 game.

This is a totally valid programming task. That's why it's an assignment in some beginning CS classes. Without such tight time pressure and scrutiny as an interview implies, I would expect any working software engineer to be able to come up with working code in a fairly short period of time. Under interview conditions, where one has to not only come up with working code, but chatter constantly while doing so, it becomes a lot harder, simply because one has to multitask a little. Writing code and talking about it simultaneously is hard, and it's not a skill that's necessary to the vast majority of software engineer positions. Writing down tricky algorithms on a whiteboard without notes is not a skill that's necessary to any occupation as far as I can tell.
Try using Google Scholar?

It's at least 20 years old, if I read https://patents.google.com/patent/US6065012A/en correctly.
They care about your daughters but they care about their children too. If they do not fill in electronic records they will have to stay after work. Many doctors have to work at home until 1-2AM to keep up with recordkeeping.

On the other hand, healthcare administrators who demand doctors spend no more than 15 minutes per patient AND fill pages and pages with summaries of visits really do not care about your daughters even a tiny bit.
Does this require a special antenna besides the SDR dongle?
Text-only version, for anyone else who happens to be at work and doesn't want all those racy illustrations on their screen:

https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https%253A//www...
I think there is some conflict inherent in 1) constantly trying to improve and 2) accepting ourselves for who we are that isn't expressed well in the above article. At what point are you "good" enough to be valued or loved? This is something that's never answered anywhere in our modern culture of self-help and social media, and it is this culture that makes us feel unhappier with ourselves despite any improvements we make.
If BGP4 were designed today, it would look very different.
Seems like a pretty logical theory. If you ever use a password manager on desktop and then decide you need to access the same service on mobile... well typing in that 20 character string of random characters becomes a real pain in the behind.

Though it's also quite likely a lot of users don't even remember their passwords at all now and just use password reset every time they want to log in.
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I work as a coder for a big porn website and I can confirm this. I've seen customers throwing away $10,000 a night on our site. Much like mobile gaming, this industry heavily relies on whales.
Isn’t that what this is, in the end? The supposed reason for courting these deals is always the jobs it brings, and the reason for jobs is to attract new residents, or retain existing ones.
What kind of app?
In the strangest of ways, I hope that ISPs do get the ability to "exercise editorial control" - because I think that will be the proverbial straw that breaks the camels back (i.e., sparks the kind of innovation needed to break the ISP monopoly).
Luckily you can carve up the angry peoples’ electoral districts every 10 years assuming you are in power at the right time.
Server market. Make it a return of the Xserve :)
> The usual VC company failure mode is the "zombie". A zombie generates enough cash to cover its operating expenses, but no significant return for investors. It won't die. It demands attention from the VCs on the board for years on end. Too many zombies can choke a VC firm.

This is basically the problem with VCs. If a company is making enough money to cover it's expenses, it's successful. We need more companies like this, rather then more companies that try abusive practices to extract more market share.
The main thing I've noticed with the most useful API documentation is that it was written by a human. Lots of tiny examples also help.

Whereas the auto-generated Java Docs are some of the most useless docs I've ever seen. I know thet can be improved, but generated the docs from the code is a good way to stop people from updating the docs... As now they have to update the code as well...
I appreciate the quote but I don’t appreciate your comment. It seems to serve no purpose but to be inflammatory. To signal to “your people” that you’re with them, and signal to everyone else that you think they’re an idiot. I have half a mind to flag it.

I like neutral ISPs, but I think Kavanaugh is probably correct, from a strictly constitutional sense ISPs should have a right to modify traffic in any way they like.

If you disagree, at least give me a hint as to your thinking.
It may surprise you to hear that the U.S. is on track for energy independence by 2022, based on increased American oil and gas production (third-biggest oil producing country in the world) and flat domestic demand.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/united-states-will-be-a-net-...
Out of curiosity, if the pipes were open to multiple ISPs instead of the limitations that exist now, would you still disagree with ISPs being allowed to be non-neutral? I often wonder what the net neutrality discussion would look like in an environment with many providers and easy ISP choice/creation.
We should definitely talk more about those CAs and should totally have a way to force only certain CAs should be able to give out certs for a domain. Oh wait, it's called HPKP and it's being removed D:
This should be observable today; that generation is already in their 30s.
Maybe ora.pm? https://ora.pm/project/442/list/953 (once you are logged in there are also other options).
"Banality of evil" by Hannah Arendt explores the topic of acts by individuals that can make profound difference.
Somewhat offtopic but which tool shows you the AS number + info alongside the traceroute in the screenshot?
I think the big difference between the other three is that the Internet and telecommunications in general (even phone and text) are first and foremost, primary means of speech. That is protected by the first amendment.

You could make the argument the government cannot regulate it at all (at least to limit it).
more like 99.
To my downvote. Tell me how you get ahead without working harder than you're currently working? How do you get a raise without showing you've put in the requisite work? How do you gain the experience you need to move from junior to senior other than working harder.

I'd say you could get there with time. But how do you make future possiblities happen in the present without working harder.
Yes, but that won't last very long.
Java emulates macros via annotations and compiler plugins.
> 1) Neurogenesis halts in your early 20s. After that, no new neurons for you, sorry. Although the connections may change.

This statement as written is almost total nonsense. A cursory internet search yields abundant studies on adult neurogenesis. Even small amounts of cardiovascular exercise increase brain volume, stimulate neural growth, and create synaptic connections in adults well into old age.

At best, one could claim that neuron growth slows as we age, but it absolutely doesn't halt.
[Computerphile - Why electric voting is a bad idea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI). No hacker can hack paper.

Don't be triggered, but I still haven't seen any real evidence of "Russian Hacking" of the Election. Until now it has only been a political game to discredit Wikileaks. You can find some reasonable neutral info on https://original.antiwar.com/

But there were some actual hacking reports like plugging USB-sticks in voting machines. The most recent one I found is an [alleged failed hack in Georgia](http://archive.is/d9d4a). These are all cases that I want to be looked at, but I do not see that in the news.

There are plans by Homelands security to take over the election infrastructure. If you trust them it is ok. If they start to plant their own votes, we may never know. That makes some people afraid that it is the patriot act for elections.

The simple and cheap solution is to have no computer voting without a clear paper backlog and registration. Let's make recounts standard (and put those pensioners to work). No computers, no hackers, no cheaters, no problem.

A more direct problem is corruption due to too much power and money in politics. Organisations like http://represent.us may stop that.

Anyway be friendly to humans that think differently than you, and vote for what you think is best.
How hard is it to make FLiBe?
What are the benefits that you're experiencing with increased reading?
It would probably just confuse HR directors and your application would get passed over.
I think it's less that it's a misread poem than it's an unread poem for most people, who only know a few key lines taken out of context.
I'm waiting for a massive exodus of US citizens to Europe for healthcare.

Also the perceived society crumbling is self-imposed. Raging culture wars, terrorism as an excuse for totalitarian paranoia, freely accessible firearms, school shootings, obesity epidemic, trade tariffs, monopolistic corporations lobbying for laws, ecological disasters.

Frankly, I'm happy with my European backwater if the cost of getting off well after WW2 would be the list above. No wonder the US collectively is stressed out to the extreme.
Whatever favors the sponsors of their political ideals.
World annual production of Be is just 220 tonnes.

A single ARC reactor would use 40% of this.

The total world Be resource is estimated at 100,000 tonnes, and if fully used in ARC reactors would supply just 1% of the world's primary energy demand.
It is: https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c99/n1256.html#6.7.2.1p13
Did you read the whole article? It goes on to talk about people who actually have sexual encounters with partners.
> I wish there had been less focus on the alleged sexual assault and more focus on the fact that Kavanaugh doesn't understand the constitution (or just ignores it) and supported the Bush administration in defending torture.

Since the sexual asssault allegations came at the tail of the process, had there been attention to the other things (EDIT: or the serial misrepresentation in regard to his role in the Bush Administration detainee policy, which ought to be disqualifying for the federal bench whether or not his actual role was problematic), the sexual assault issue may never have arisen.
I think insecurity is a driver for it. Fear that if they work just 40 hours they'll get replaced with somebody working 50. Not to mention some cases of sociopathic "sacrifice mentality" where they think if they aren't extracting as much as possible they are leaving money on the table even when both productivity and cost are the opposite with turnover. People living paycheck to paycheck excaberates it.
Much of post-industrial Protestantism and the 'American Dream' is predicted on the belief that individuals can redeem themselves through 'grit', determination, and 'rising above' adversity. But an increasingly technological and winner-take-all economy makes biological and economic factors possibly more important than willpower alone. As it turns out, successful people are not successful because they worked really hard (although many successful people work hard), read a self-help book book of vapid affirmations, or have a lot of willpower--but maybe due to having an high IQ, or having a lot of family connections and wealth, or just plain stupid luck. Maybe instead of trying to optimize our lives, we should try to just enjoy it.
> There have been recent bugs in major systems where people with non-ASCII passwords couldn't type them.

Forget that, I've lost track of how many times I've hit the horrible bug of "site X lets me enter password Y, explicitly compliant with stated password rules, but then rejects it at login time." Either the registered password was mangled by some input sanitization/encoding, or the login password was. After some do-overs, it becomes clear that many "valid special character lists" are just plain wrong. It's 2018, and there's an appalling number of cases where someone doesn't understand that quoting/encoding ASCII/UTF-8/etc. is a 100% solved problem.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/catchup-keep-in-touch/id1358...

Here's a similar app that is less of a "platform". It just gives you reminders every day/week/month to keep in touch with someone.

iOS only right now.
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It's worrying how much influence Amazon exerts over book selling online. In the UK, Amazon have pretty much conquered online book sales. For antiquarian book sales, I can't think of anyone else as alternative online rival to AbeBooks (eBay?)

If you're buying books through Amazon, consider purchasing from Amazon sellers. If you're in the UK, try Wordery. (They are based in the UK but offer free worldwide delivery - much like The Book Depository before them which is now owned by Amazon.)
Your solution is worse than the problem. Votes are confidential for a reason--to prevent voter intimidation, vote swapping, and more. The time to check one's vote is when it is cast, not after the fact.

The easiest--and still the best--way to vote is by paper. Physical, unchangeable proof. Easily watermarked/holographed for audit purposes. Lasts a long time. Requires no special software or hardware. Best of all--it's easy to trace at every step of the process.
That’s like saying GE can’t atteact skilled staff because people only know them for their light bulbs. The sort of people that TI needs to attract will know that they are far more than just old-fashioned calculators.
Well what do you want? You can't expect anyone to go back in time to improve your situation for you.

The 250-character path limit is gone. It's fixed. You not adopting it is a wholly separate issue.
This is what I'm working on, a human in the loop approach to Solomonoff induction.
Inkscape in the browser? This is running Linux apps on Docker then X forwarding the GUI to the browser right?
I don't think this is that fallacy. It's also fallacious to dismiss something as wrong if an argument in its favour uses a fallacy.

If something is described as 'cloud' but uses a definition most people don't recognise or describe as 'cloud', that's at least worth noting. It's arguably prescriptive linguistics.
The enriched 6Li in a single reactor would correspond to 1/4 of that produced for the entire US hydrogen bomb program. There is no facility in the world that could make the 6Li required, and the technology that was used in the US is now prohibited due to large leakag of elemental mercury into the environment (the plant used thousands of tons of liquid mercury metal.)
http://old.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/ has almost the same content that you see on HN.
You lot, by the strength of the hatred I'm reading, here.
I don't know. Open access has been advocated for 15+ years, but scihub has the most impact in everyday work. At this point i think we should push for governmental intervention that retroactively abolishes the copyrights for all existing publicly-funded works or otherwise mandates the creation of publicly-accessible copies.
Do you know of any interesting alternative protocols proposed recently?
That's a fair critique. I think my main point wasn't made clear by my comment: all states – even those we consider as Blue as California or as Red as Texas – won't necessarily stay their current color forever.

To discount any state as unchanging is doing a disservice to all US Citizens: public opinion changes, demographics change, politics change, and people change.
"re-interpret the struct to a pointer (length would simply be truncated)."

Wrong. It will be pointer-to-pointer.

Reinterpretation (to treat struct as a pointer to C string) is only possible if you have something like this:

struct BSTR {
size_t length;
WCHAR chars[N]; // N is length + 1
};

and you return pointer to chars[0]. This is so called Basic string - BSTR is a WCHAR* pointer to memory location prepended by string length field.
Here are two scales, two buckets, and two knives. Whoever bleeds the most, gets the HQ.
Swedish ISP blocks Elsevier’s website in protest for forcing it to block Sci-Hub
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This one looks nice, I'm having a look into it. Thanks
My understanding is the issue at hand is whether the government can block ISPs from metering and throttling different kinds of traffic differently.

Net neutrality = yes, legislators can say all ISPs must be neutral to traffic content

Non-neutrality = no, legislators may not regulate the way ISPs differentiate traffic because traffic differentiation is speech
Not if you control CAs. Cert pinning only works in a limited amount of cases, and certificate transparency only works with CAs who have agreed to implement them (Which is not the vast majority).
I think you're confusing the current condition of the federal government with America as a whole. At state and local levels, there are plenty of examples of more collaborative thinking. And a great deal of what happens in any country happens with little relation to the government. We can always collaborate as individuals.
It's a horrible idea. Votes are private for a reason.

Vote buying is not a concern in the US. The privacy of the votes guarantees that the vote buyer can't be certain that the voter voted the way they said they would, so the vote buyer can never know if their "purchase" actually mattered. This inherent uncertainty makes standard means of political persuasion, i.e., political advertising, a more effective spend.

Vote buying is a concern in places like India and South America--coincidentally, jurisdictions which already allow mobile voting...
Distributed trust and vouching systems are going to be the next big thing.
Unicode itself gets pretty complicated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence
Then don't use Windows 10 if the terms and conditions are a problem for you...

If you don't use Windows, or are forced to, then just admit that you want/need something to complain about.
I don't follow your reasoning. If we take the set of problems a complete halting oracle can correctly decide, and set one problem to an incorrect answer, a normal TM still cannot correctly decide this reduced set. This example seems to contradict what you are saying.
That is a true statement for the majority of rants in computer science.
Aid that comes equally from the rest out of the flat 15%.

Its a different system one where the top 90% each cheap in to help the distressed 10%, another one where the top 10 give to the top 20, the top 20 to the top 30, etc.
Please, advertising is not the only viable business or economic model. Darn right I hate omnipresent intrusive brainwashing and the cognitive and aesthetic pollution it generates.
I was thinking about this... but I'm not so sure :)

JRE, JDK, Java EE, Java SE, Beans, Enterprise Beans, Managed Beans, JEE APIs vs Implementations etc, containers, app containers, app servers.

'Enterprise' has to be the worst prefix/name ever for an API or technology.

It is a tough contest.
True, almost everyone has baggage. I think the difference is one of scale.

For example, in grade 5 I got a C+ in fine arts. It devastated me to the point where I questioned my abilities and disengaged from schooling. Permanently. It's only been in the last few years that I've actually been able to apply myself to anything.

Now, I can see that was an unreasonable reaction. At the time though, I didn't even understand what was happening.

If I hadn't got a lot of help, I believe I would still be driven by my insecurities to this day and would be impossible to work with.

Edit: typo
It is not inherently bad, but it should not control your life. You should not beat yourself up for not fulfilling an unrealistic idealization of perfection. Not everyone can be like Tim Ferris. You take 500 people who did what he did many maybe two succeed and the rest are mediocre. Luck, whether it's the birth lottery or being at thr 'right place at the right time' (such as buying Bitcoin in 2009-2015), plays a bigger role than we may want to accept.
This. I think Slack is doing this perfectly, they still use passwords but emphasize the magic link email. I find it a lot easier to just use the magic link the first time I join a new slack. Then once you are logged in you basically never need to log out and if you ever need to reset the password its just a click away.
You may want to check out the proof:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18377525
What you're describing sounds an awful lot like Flutter's architecture to me, which ships the rendering engine + code as native ARM code to any supported OS. Currently it targets Android, iOS & Fuchsia, but support for Windows and MacOS is in the works; the only requirement for the OS is that it supports OpenGL.
That's neither here nor there. The actions of a swarm of ants or Windows 10 can look dark, mysterious, inexplicable, or downright malicious, but there's nothing in their behavior that warrants something out of our known physical law.

That doesn't necessarily mean we understand their behavior, of course. Complex behavior can arise out of simple underlying rules. That's hardly controversial, except (for some reason) when it's about human brains.
That would also make it very convenient to travel between the two, since DC and NYC are so well connected. Dozens of planes and trains every day (including what passes for “high speed” trains in this country) and it’s reasonable to drive too.
I think the hangup there is that in many cities there exists a government-sanctioned monopoly in internet access, in many areas the public actually funded the infrastructure, or in other areas collusion exists to limit customer freedom to choose a provider. Monopoly of access and absolute control over the network should be inversely proportional.
I am the creator of https://DNDEmail.com --- a very similar app that implements do not disturb for your Gmail. I launched in April 2017 and have struggled to get users. I have 1,500 users, including 15 who pay for premium accounts.

I will say, adios.ai has really nailed the marketing message. The website does a great job explaining a modestly complex idea. I have struggled with the message and marketing. Mostly, my users are people who knew they wanted this solution and went looking for me. I think adios.ai will do a better job of convincing people who didn't realize this is what they wanted.

Kudos!
Flutter is a better tool for this.