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I've been trying to weed out a lot of these problems from my team's interviewing set- they filter for CS students, not practical development knowledge. I can honestly say I've never used a linked list in 15 years of being paid to develop software. I've been pushing interviewers to come up with a problem based on code they've actually written in the past and use that for their interview question.

I'm starting to think I might have better luck having a pre-built some code with some poor practices and asking a candidate to refactor and improve it- evaluating their ability to at least know what clean code is supposed to look like.

That being said, I'm not willing to give up my whiteboard code interviews yet- they are too useful a filter. I still get candidates that sound fine talking about their previous experience and then say things like "oh man, its been a while since I've used arrays" when asked to code.
Did you factor in taxes? I'm not sure if that 150k (which the article states varies from 80k to 150k actually) is net or gross. If it's gross, chop off around 25% for good measure.
> The students were expected (and encouraged) to cheat on the test but told that if they were caught, they would fail the exam. Of the 20 students in the class where this exercise was tested, all succeeded in cheating without being caught, much to their professors’ delight.

Absolutely fascinating.

This reminds me of the mythbusters lie detector episode (For the moment, let's disregard the efficacy of the polygraph). One of the things they said was there has to be a physical, actual, realistic, consequence for the test subject in order for the polygraph "to work."

Similarly, if all the exams were setup so that the only possible way was to cheat or face failure, I think you would force them into the mindset.
Police service, for one.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
It's bananas that emergency medical services like air transport can be "in network" and "out of network." As if the patient in need of services has the capacity or ability to control which helicopter comes to pick them up from their near-death experience.
And to be fair Microsoft only includes Office365 revenue which consists of storage, active directory support and not standalone office that you can download.
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I will add on- no, I didn't find out how its possible to professionally program for 5 years and not use arrays. But the poor guys response showed he hadn't.
The claims aren't just repeated the evidence for it has expanded over time. Like I said you really have to try at this point to ignore everything that has come out.
Yes but it was easy enough to show file extensions. I am not sure how much Windows has changed. I think the last time I used it consistently was Windows XP.
I bought HL2 (disk) on launch day, had to wait 3 or 4 days to play it. 56k dial up was not fun at the time.
> but my point is that it filters out great engineers who worked and delivered solid products because the interviewers are just not interested in details of past work experience

Again, yes. It is hard to fire a bad candidate in case the interview was misleading. Companies would prefer false negatives over false positives. What you see in interviews is a product of laws about hiring and firing.
I just noticed this issue yesterday as well.
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In some ways? Or by design? After all ACA was always a capitalist form of healthcare.
It's time to hunt space rocks.

https://www.scribd.com/document/374712301/20180227-David-L-G...
Look, you haven't addressed my response, you've just reiterated your point, which I already understood.

We're obviously not going to come to agreement on this, so let's leave it be.
The trick to get company support is to imply that a bug could render them liable for damages with other customers. Some well spread keywords and a imaginative perfect storm horror story.. You basically need to write a social engineering virus for the cooperate process. Normal approach you don't even make it pass the endoplasmatic reticulum.
That's okay. The important thing is their knowledge of common problem patterns and solution patterns.

Ask them how they identified a complex problem, what process they used to get to its root, what they thought was causing it but actually wasn't, which solutions they discarded and why, etc.

You don't need to have a better understanding of their project than they have. You just need to determine whether they have the ability to solve complex technicals problems in competent ways, and at what level.

For example a more junior person might talk more about solving the problem for today and less about solving the problem for tomorrow. Let them talk it out and see where their attention goes.

A more senior person might talk about similar problems they've seen on other projects and how they leaned on past experience to discard non-optimal solutions faster.

You don't need an algorithms test to determine if someone is likely to be able to "get stuff done" in their role. Talking through past problems and solutions might be a better predictor.
> the goal of which is to stop the kind of manipulation that happened

That's the problem, right there. FB, as a company, believes they can somehow stop propaganda/agitprop from being disseminated on their platform. They are desperately trying to apply pre-emptive filtering, and will fail.

They have no desire to actually work on improving the situation. Once someone has been subjected to this kind of messaging, FB will do nothing to educate the victims. The aim should be two-fold: to minimise damage (100% prevention is just not possible), and to heal the damage done. But no, that would require them to take responsibility.

I have talked with some FB people who are hiring for these integrity teams. When I asked about whether they are willing to take responsibility and educate their users to prevent further damage, the answer was - and I quote: "we don't do that".
Anecdotal, but a friend of mine was hired without having used Facebook. He had to create an account to log in to their platform so he could sign the offer. This was in 2016.

Not to say that they don’t do some such screening, but I thought I’d add another data point.
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Mercedes has spent some thought on this. They propose having LEDs in the front of the car that colour where it sees pedestrians, so you know if you've been seen.
I'm also worried about the increased fat diet that could clog the arteries.
Zapier seems cool, but it doesn’t seem like it’s target is for “regular people” at $240 a year.
There was a discussion a few weeks ago on whether Guttenberg was end of WordPress or a new start that prompted Matt Mullenweg to comment on a few threads.

Most HN people to their credit do seem to state if they are employed there but it would be difficult to differentiate between a fan and an astroturfer.

Probably more difficult to moderate would be employees or PR downvoting a critical comment rather than actually replying.

I believe there is an algorithm that picks up on crowd voting/downvoting.
Yes, you simply consume less calories on a keto diet because you feel less hungry. For whatever reason consuming carbs over a certain threshold is addictive.

Either way, they did not include a keto diet. Instead they used a "relatively low carb" diet of 20% carbs. Since ketosis is an entirely different metabolic state there is no reason to extrapolate from 50%-5% (keto). They have no theory so they need to actually measure this, and every single academic nutrition study I've ever seen on % carbohydrates in the diet fails to do it.
That carries the significant risk of getting chewed out for being completely ridiculous.
Really like version 1 ? I thought they would have move to Ang 2,3,4,5,7 ?
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> Looking into the Russian activity without approval, she said, had left the company exposed legally.

Ooh, what an insidious tension. I actually never considered it as a security risk of proprietary systems.

Can someone here on HN filter for posts that rankly speculate about how secure FAANG must be based on the high skill level of the security teams there? I know I've read some. I'd like to read back through them with this threat in mind.
Isn't crouton support being deprecated in favor of crostini?
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* It's not even comparable to a national forests in terms of size. But, it happens to be in the southern part of the city and it's quite beautiful area to live. Everything else is empty prairie grass for 500 miles (until you hit Denver essentially).

Grocery quality though is definitely a strength; Kansas and its neighbors are farm or ranching states. Hunting is [stereotypically] a big thing here, and that's about as 'natural' as your meat can get (free range, non-gmo, organic, etc)
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simple ankle strap will let you avoid that

A rubber band will do in a pinch.
About the voting system:

1. Anonymous

2. Hard to game

3. User privacy

Pick two!
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Fun fact: MySQL has actually supposed CSV files as a storage backend for quite some time now[1]

1: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/csv-storage-engine.h...
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Pretty much. Does Visual Studio run well on a Mac or is it hot garbage like Office?
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Indeed, it's hilarious that people are concerned about "socialized medicine" here when we already spend more public money on healthcare for worse benefits that any other developed country. We keep on passing up opportunities to do it right because our politics are so broken (to be clear: intentionally broken by one party who represents a minority of the population).
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There are a few crates around that help you get over the hurdle with some (but not too much) awkwardness, like https://github.com/dzamlo/rust-bitfield
>I didn't find out how its possible to professionally program for 5 years and not use arrays

Python maybe?
This is awesome! We now have the ability to fully customize the trade off between cost and interruption while still guaranteeing a base level of capacity/reliability.

This should make it much easier to run properly containerized web apps using (a percentage of) Spot instances without worrying.

In some cases the two minute Spot interruption warning time would be sufficient to launch a new instance and avoid a drop in capacity, but I don't get the impression that AWS handles this for you. I need to look into this some more.

Of course you shouldn't ignore the additional complexity this brings, so be sure to understand, design and test the different scaling and failure scenarios!
EDG's frontend used to be prelinker based. I would guess that it supports the weak symbols method now, since they were involved in developing the itanium abi:

https://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/abi.html#linkage

[Edit]

EDG has a customer list here, but not all customers are compiler makers; frontends are useful for analysis too.

https://www.edg.com/customers
They told me in Grad interviews that a majority of their grad hires are into Google Cloud right now.
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Exploit != vulnerability. You develop an exploit to take advantage of a specific vulnerability. An exploit for a hypothetical vulnerability is a valid concept, and their conjecture that such a vulnerability may exist is justified in the paper.
Good of you to also accomodate the disabled.
Tracking your location and speed is fine. What is creepy is sending that data off to fitbits servers where they do whatever they want with it. Fitbit have also been known to hand over your health data to police when requested.

There is literally no reason a fitness device could not do everything locally.
There is so much wrong with this comment.

> It's like the "Why this is the year of Linux on the desktop," but for media companies.

I don't think this is an accurate analogy. In fact, I think this analogy just muddies your argument. Its only analogous in that its a an event ("year of linux desktop" == "lets delete facebook") that pops up every now and then. But while the former argument is mostly one of technical adoption, usability and taste, the latter has morphed into a more insidious need to protect the public from targeted disinformation campaigns. The delete facebook movement is not just a technological/taste argument anymore, its a political one and you're doing it much disservice by comparing it to something which has much less impact.

> I think the conventional media sources, including the NYT, doesn't want to confront its own role in the 2016 election (the relentless media focus on Clinton's email server was insane). We don't want to acknowledge that most people's epistemological skill is low. Why look at ourselves, when we have this handy scapegoat right... over... there?

I think its important to not lump conventional news media into one big blob, just like we don't lump tech firms into one big blob. Cable News is, IMO, much more culpable for Trump's rise than NYT. NYT does actual reporting while CNN/MSNBC/FOX cable news have more punditry/opinions (NYT does have opinions too, but it doesn't dominate the medium).
-->I hire like I'm trying to form a rock band: I don't tell them what to play, I give them permission to show me what they've got.

I liked this approach of hiring.
> Your image processes run on the host anyway, so just `ps` or `lsof` from the host.

You can’t do this if you don’t have access to and root privileges on the host.
> A trillion dollar company is not supposed to pay anything to New York. The minimum NY was getting is $0. That's the starting point.

Your entire post just described, by definition, a race to the bottom.

Obviously the US is winning that race relative to other developed countries, but I'm staggered you think it's a good thing.

It's absurd to think Amazon is doing NY a favor by bringing more than $0.

That's like if I walk into McDonald's looking for a job and they say to me "Well, you currently earn nothing, so you should be mighty thankful we'll pay you even $1/hr".

There are laws against paying people $1/hr for a very good reason - because if they could corporations would do that to maximize profits. All the employees would suffer. The corporation would make more money.

Which is exactly what's happening with Amazon/NY.

You are right that NY will get more money now that if Amazon had not come, but that's also true that my life would be better getting $1/hr than $0/hr.

But is that a good thing? Do we want people to get paid $1/hr? Does that make for a happy and healthy society? Of course it doesn't, and letting Amazon pay less than they should is exactly the same, and has the same outcomes.
I actually found this view point interesting. If you wouldn't mind elaborating on why you feel that way, I think it would be productive. Because it never even occured to me that these photos could be perceived that way by someone.
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Can you explain the last sentence? Sort of blew my mind..
In case anyone is interested, this thread includes a more specific set of methodological critiques made by Dr. Kevin Hall at this week's ObesityWeek conference (unfortunately does not include Dr. Ludwig's rebuttal):
https://twitter.com/YoniFreedhoff/status/1062760576869371910

Hall's research focus is on mathematical metabolism models, so his critique comes from that angle: it is possible doubly-labeled water measurements of energy expenditure may behave differently in a lower-carb environment, so the observed EE difference may not be meaningful. Ludwig actually briefly addresses this in their published paper, citing a few other studies suggesting that DLW is accurate and carb intake does not mess with isotopic measurements.

Hard to tell if this is a meaningful advance for the low-carb crowd, or just an artifact of insufficiently validated methodology.
We did too. Had to use Lego Mindstorms. It was a pain in the a$$ to program back then.

One of the guys built a very fast line-following robot, much faster than what we see here. It was simpler though, it was a solid black line.
And as we know this has a side effect on C++ with globally constructed (but unreferenced) objects. These would get "dropped" essentially when linking, and they come from a library.
My tip: check all routes options from the standpoint of a pedestrian rather than a vehicle.

I used to bike from Sunnyvale to Menlo once or twice a week. My boss at the time tipped me off to some pedestrian-bike bridges that made for great off-peak, quiet routes through neighborhoods.

Specific local tips:

There are bike bridges over creeks and major roads alike (e.g. over 280 in Cupertino, over 237 near the Shoreline trail, and from San Antonio Road into Palo Alto (behind Sprouts)).

A long stretch of Bryant Street in Palo Alto is a dedicated bike route, blocked off from auto through-traffic every few blocks.

The only major hassle to cross at street level was Embarcadero.

I always brought extra work clothes the day before and always showered upon arrival at work.
You cannot get "macros" from fat - you get energy, but you need more than energy to survive. If you don't get carbs, your body breaks muscle tissue to produce it. There's also evidence that muscle is burned first before fat deposits. The only thing that fasting does and people misunderstand the results is increasing HGH, but any growth factors are cancer factors,m too. Increased metabolism also means faster aging.
Totally agree. But unfortunately our healthcare system looks like it's going to require the stacking of 50 or so of these 5% fixes.
But 911 operators do also already receive more information about who is calling them, and perhaps the quality of that information can be improved and augmented.

Yeah, I didn't say the information didn't exist, I'm saying the phone company makes it basically impossible to get, and certainly the most difficult for home customers.

because the Internet itself supports anonymity and location transparency

I don't care. If you're calling me, I should be able to find out who's paying for the call, and the phone company knows this info. Sure, there's still an "over 9000 proxies" bug, but that's not the problem. The problem is robocallers and telemarketers, and I should be able to configure my line to block every call that originates from any portion of that billing entity. Heck, when I describe it that way it could be blockchain'd!
Presumably, the things a government needs to buy to help are housing and personnel, which are unusually expensive here by a wide margin. So having far and away the highest spending per person needing assistance seems correct.
There are many "jobs" or tasks that can be automated away as they are tedium nonsense tasks that interfere with the work people are doing or trying to do.

I have spent much time in the last few decades automating such tasks out of existence. Many times at the behest of those who were doing these tasks so that they could get back to doing their real jobs.

From my perspective, the problem that arises is where "management" are sold an idea that automation can do more than it really can.

As far as AI is concerned, this has been very much hyped up and exaggerated over the decades. What we have today is far less than the "promise" of the technology from way back in the sixties and seventies. Certain kinds of tasks currently being done by human intelligence could be replaced by the highly primitive AI technologies available to us. But one would hope that these systems would be reviewed continuously by human intelligence. Otherwise, we can expect disaster to occur on a regular basis as these system fail due to all sorts of "buggy" software and hardware and unforeseen error conditions.
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I'm not that small a fish as far as GCP customers go and 80% of my support experiences have been ridiculous.

20% have been fabulous, so there's that. I'm also still very fond of GCP as I don't rely on support to operate my service.
I corrected that part of my comment ("with the majority of your calories coming from fat macros"). Regarding "If you don't get carbs, your body breaks muscle tissue to produce it", this is a myth (as long as you are consuming an adequate amount of protein; strength training is helpful if able) [1]. Your body will produce ketone/ketone bodies (an adequate substitute for bodily organs demanding glucose) once your glucose stores are exhausted, and will continue to do so as long as you restrict ingestion of carbohydrates and don't run out of body fat.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1373635/

> More recently, Willi et al. examined the efficacy and metabolic impact of a VLCARB in the treatment of morbidly obese adolescents [4]. Six adolescents weighing an average of 147.8 kg consumed the VLCARB (25 g of carbohydrate/day) for 8 weeks. The results indicated that the weight loss with VLCARB is rapid, consistent, and almost exclusively from body fat stores. Changes in lean body mass, as estimated from DEXA and urinary creatinine, were not significant over the term of treatment. Bioelectrical impedance measurements reflected a greater loss of lean body mass, but changes in total body fluid and electrolyte content, as a result of dietary ketosis, may complicate these measurements.

> Although more long-term studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be drawn, it appears, from most literature studied, that a VLCARB is, if anything, protective against muscle protein catabolism during energy restriction, provided that it contains adequate amounts of protein.
That comparative advantage has also made them the most valuable company in the world so your normative lens may be a bit biased — it seems like one could easily say googles comparative disadvantage is their business model precludes then from offering lucrative high margin privacy-protecting products.

The point about maps feels rather non germane as apple does have its own maps product.