skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's way too easy to set a project that takes too long.

They do often take longer than they claim. That's true.

> Take home projects inevitably have issues ("bugs", if you will). You can't just "resolve" those problems if the person who set it isn't sitting in front of you.

In my experience, you're usually assigned someone you can call or mail with questions. Asking questions is good. Though I usually figure it out on my own.

> Take home projects take employer skin out of the game. It's way too easy to give out twenty tests and ignore ten of them

Only if they do it wrong. The right way is to give this assignment only to candidates you will definitely want to hire, unless they produce terrible code. The candidate doesn't mail in their code, but presents it to a group of developers who ask questions about it.

This gives the employer skin in the game: they're not going to keep their developers off their work for dozens of candidates who are probably not going to make it; they only bring them out to assess a very likely hire.

I guess some employers use these coding assignments badly. You're totally right to avoid those.

> I could just have copied someone else's.

But could you have been able to explain the choices of that someone else?

> You lose a valuable source of feedback which allows you to iteratively improve the test if you're not watching the candidate while they do the test.

Maybe, but to many people, coding on the spot is more stressful than it is at home. Although I've also done some really enjoyable pair programming on what was probably my only long interview day (which had an interview, pair programming, and a game to get to know each other).

> It's valuable to talk through the solution with the candidate while they do it

But it's also valuable to talk through the solution after they've done it. That's when they have made those trade-offs.
Couldn't agree more. I happened upon an Annie Dillard book ("For the Time Being") at the last day of a HalfPrice Books moving sale. I'd never heard of her before, but I randomly picked it up, flipped through a few pages, and decided that I'd really enjoy it. Sure enough, it resonated with me and led me to her other works, which are equally - if not, more - compelling.

So, I discovered one of my favorite writers because there was a bunch of books before me and I decided to pick one up.
Do you realize the scale of the work, negotiation and monitoring that went into making the ozone hole not be a problem? It took decades and we still have people trying to cheat the agreement and produce CFCs. CO2 and greenhouse gases in general is a problem several orders of magnitude greater and we're already decades behind where we should be on slowing it down much less undoing it.
There are these things called "vegetables" which some people eat. You may have heard of them?

And then there's dairy (like milk and cheese). Just because someone's diet is vegetarian, it does not mean that they must exclusively eat wheat or barley.
"Or people at Boeing/Lockheed-Martin/Northrup-Grumman can rationalize their work despite it being aimed at killing people - not all of whom were about to cause harm."

The overwhelming majority of casualties in modern warfare are civilians.
Your response is so entirely off base I don't know where to begin.

> Yup on high dimensional data of dimension as fantastic as 12

Who says that has been the limit of classical statistics.

> If one computes stats on 600 data points with 10 dimensions and feels king of the hill, they can continue, but there is likelihood that some one else will be eating your lunch and you will be left behind.

Again, why do you have this impression? You clearly have no experience in the field if this is what you think statistics is. Unless your intent is to simply construct strawman arguments.

> Statistics could have been what machine learning and datamining is now, been the main driving force, the owner of initiative.

This is entirely based on the assumption that machine learning and datamining and statistics are distinct and separate, which isn't the case and is my entire point.

> On the contrary other communities are using statistics and probability motivated approaches but engineering them well to grab (funding) attention, well deserved in my opinion. It is them who got the ball rolling again.

Seriously, wtf are you talking about?
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As any satellite project takes many years from planny to launch, I could imagine it will take the marked quite a bit to fully absorb the availabiltiy of the SpaceX services. Launches get cheaper and with the F9Heavy larger satellites could be designed.
Bitcoin will live on. It might get to a fraction of a penny but bitcoin will live on. My opinion is that the mining algorithm will change so that mining will be less energy intensive but it's still early days for it so don't count it out.
When discussing project Dragonfly there are two perspectives:

1. what's good for China's citizens

2. what's good for the rest of the world

You must keep this in mind. For China's citizens it's undeniably good for Google to be there, because Baidu lacks competition and I hear that it sucks. Having a good search engine is important for education.

For the rest of the world, Google being there is backpedaling on their core values and we're then in danger for one of the world's most powerful and dangerous software companies to succumb to Chinese demands, because of money, which can affect all of us.

I would prefer for Google to not go to China. I'm a privacy fanatic and a liberal, so I don't want the Chinese administration to further destabilize our liberal democracy, which is already too fragile these days. But if there's an uproar, let's not do double standards. Google isn't a special snowflake. I want the same outrage for Microsoft or Apple or other big software companies that sell products and services in China. Because they aren't much less dangerous and prone to succumb to Chinese demands.

But that's a personal opinion. Maybe having these multi-nationals pull out of China would be a net loss for the whole world. Who knows. And having some Chinese acquaintances, I certainly don't wish for them a lower quality of life.
> They should be free to live their life.

How does an on-call rotation prevent this?
I've worked as a developer oncall, and as dedicated support engineer oncall. You're absolutely right - management will absolutely refuse to allot time to improvements and bug fixes when there are features to make. It's frustrating being a Dev and knowing how to fix an issue, but not given the time to fix it. It's equally frustrating to cut tickets and mail reports on issues to see them sit forever in the backlog.
Could that imply that you have a bias error in your understanding of Eschenbach and McIntyre because your understanding is based more on the interpretations presented at ClimateAudit than from the primary literature?

Certainly. I actually started by reading MBH98 (after a friend interviewed Hughes) and I found it statistically very weak. I then discovered McIntyre's pre-ClimateAudit site at the time he was working on his rebuttal. Discovering someone else who was bothered by the same flaws (and was able to discuss them in a more rigorous form than I could) predisposed me to view him in a positive light. I'd like to think my continued positive impression of him has to do with the strength of his arguments since then, but probably at least some part is path dependent bias.

And yet the 'hockey stick' remains in all the analyzes.

The issues with post-hoc screening are separate from his initial criticisms, and are about statistical principles rather than the resulting graphs. McIntyre isn't saying that you only get a hockey stick if you screen out certain proxies. Rather, he thinks the analysis is overly sensitive to a small number of problematic "stripbark" series in the American West. If you include these series (or a small number of alternatives), you get a blade; if you leave them out, you don't. He believes that since most of the other proxies are only weakly tied to temperature, they average out to a mostly flat red noise that forms the historically flat "handle".

I don't feel qualified to make his full argument, though. While I tried to keep up with the primary literature at one point, I haven't been reading much lately, and I've never been as deeply into it as McIntyre himself. My goal was simply to say that I think that both he and Eschenbach have some good points to make, that both are interested in finding the truth rather than spreading misinformation, and that they should be read and considered rather than being rejected out of hand.
Hey, if we are not there yet, I volunteer to try the "Godfull" server. Does it work better on Sundays?
This is one of the most important reasons for FIRE / FU money. It's not about drinking martinis on a beach, it's about not having your values held hostage to economics.
Populism [Noun]: The politics of resentment, and the aesthetics of superficiality.
A simple use case would be mining asteroids for ice and selling it to NASA for use in the ISS.
Applying Occam's Razor and Hanlon's Razor.

Also I look at everything through the filter of evolutionary psychology. I call it "you in the grass" and mentally take myself all the way down to it's just you and your tribe in the grass, you're tired and hungry, theres nowhere to sleep and everything is dangerous. Then I analyse things through that filter first and slowly add the additional layers of society back on.
Exactly. That's why you let them show their code to the other devs who get to ask questions.

I don't believe someone who can't code can explain someone else's code in a convincing way.
Stopped using IRC as a place to hangout when I was 17.
I'm 42 now.
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more openings for me. Is anyone actually leaving?
This is the second rocket launch today! The earlier one was Soyuz Launch to ISS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18587943

I didn't know that there are so many rocket launches going on all the time. Here's a list of them: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

There a launch almost every second day.

The most interesting ones are Dec 7 Chinese launch to the far side of the moon and Jan 30 launch of India's moon rover.
Nvidia officially unveils its flagship Titan RTX GPU for $2.500
I was only asking what the basis was for the assertion that the cave entrance has been persistently covered with snow year-round prior to 50 years ago.
They have one, it's called google.com. It works as well for Chinese users as it does anyone else on the planet. The entity that disapproves of this is the Chinese government, hence designing to suit the government's needs.
And please make it usable without a dedicated app. Over the years I have been using tumblr less and less because most templates will crash any browser should you dare to scroll down.
yes and the OP sums up Dragonfly's specifically known problems with:

...blacklisting the phrase “human rights,” risking health by censoring air quality data, and allowing for easy surveillance by tying queries to phone numbers

there seems to be a parallel between China's desire to censor local air quality information and what certain US presidential administrations have tried to do with scientific research on climate change
DigitalGlobe did something like that recently: http://blog.digitalglobe.com/industry/sending-data-from-spac...
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The Long(er) Read

We all know companies that have transformed industries (e.g., Google, Netflix, Spotify) by analysing information about you and giving you personalised suggestions that seem to know you better then even yourself – but where is the equivalent for jobs? Netflix’s recommendations are not based on “back of the box” blurbs - instead, they extract traits from movies and match them to your taste, based on your interactions. So why are we still evaluating people based on their “blurbs,” i.e. their CVs?

We use a combination of unique behavioural data, machine learning, and of course efficient product development, to go beyond the CV and find patterns that humans would otherwise not detect (at least not at scale).

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We are very serious about finding the right mix of talent, passion and ownership that meets our values, and is necessary for an ambitious early-stage startup. As we grow, the expectation is that you will too. All doors are open, from diving deeper into a technical speciality, to moving sideways into another area, to mentorship and leadership roles - in the end, it's down to you, your goals and your performance.

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If Microsoft does well, it's because of Satya Nadella's brilliant leadership. If Space X or Tesla does well, it's definitely not because of Elon...because he tweeted a bad thing once?
Are you hiring multiple people for any role?
Don't facebook ads let you target pretty specific demographics? (Likes programming, likes video games.) I guess you'd just have to do a trial run and see what happens. I'd also make the first video a gameplay video, but that's my own bias as a gamer filtering things.

> How do you market such game outside of Steam?

You should probably be asking that to someone with experience in marketing, preferably marketing games. Lacking funds to consult and hire someone/some company with experience, perhaps you can convince someone with the right personality (someone who doesn't see marketing as "so much time and energy") to help out with some sort of revenue sharing contract.

I want to make some indie games myself one day; I'm grateful I had a crash month of attempting to be a knives salesman many years ago because I know if I do make something and it comes time to ship I can't be the one responsible for marketing it.
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Tumblr as a platform exists on shared content, and actively measures, and provides to the user-measurements of "reblogs". In the context of this discussion, so many user account blogs that could be tagged as 'adult content' are full of reblogged sexual images that the account owner identifies with or wants to advertise as the type of sexual activity they are interested in.

Many comments here are pointing out Fetlife as a refuge for some tumblr ex-pats. Speaking as a Fetlife user, it's not hard to see why the 'their' is in quotes. When you see a tumblr profile on someone's fetlife profile it's often described by the profile owner as "you can see the kind of stuff I'm into on my tumblr" with a small ratio of original content to reshared content. Either images from a movie, online porn, or just "reblog" of another tumblr user's content when not the blogger's own images that are being posted.

This isn't me taking a position on adult content on tumblr, denouncing it or condoning it either way-but I think that bit of context might help answer your question.

It doesn't define the entire experience for the entirety of the porographically inclined userbase, but it's relevant.
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HAProxy Technologies is the company behind the world's fastest and most widely used open-source software load balancer.

We're looking for developers stretching across many spectrums: C, Golang, and Frontend (javascript).

We're also seeking support engineers for our enterprise product.

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C:

We are looking to reinforce the development team of HAProxy and are looking for developers who have solid skills in Shell, C, HTTP, TCP/IP and uses Git. Knowledge of cloud environment is a plus. We are looking for people who are not afraid of patching the Linux Kernel and who can quickly become autonomous.

Golang:

We are looking for Go developers with 2+ years of experience in Kubernetes and Cloud environments, as well as load balancing. A Bachelors or higher degree in IT is desirable. If you want to contribute to the software enabling performance and reliability of some of the largest websites on the internet.

Frontend:

We are looking for an agile and responsible person to join our team as Frontend (JavaScript) Developer. Our department’s mission is developing high-performance, high-quality intuitive user interfaces to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations.

Enterprise Support Engineer:

We are seeking support engineers to work out of our Waltham, MA office or remotely in the EST/CST/MST/PST timezones. Responsibilities will be supporting our customers who are using HAProxy Enterprise and ALOHA load balancing products (and new products as they become available) by assisting in writing configurations, solving issues, and performing remote debugging.

Please send cover letter and resume to careers@haproxy.com
NASA seems to be open-sourcing some interesting projects, ie. https://github.com/nasa/openmct

I wonder if SpaceX will publish some of their tools to the public in the near future.
How do you find non-on-call jobs? Seems like that’s just expected of devs these days. I have a very “chill” on-call policy but it still gives me a ton of anxiety.
> But there's always the question: Do I stay and try to change things? Or do I leave and expect others to?

This logic would apply if you were a board member or you held a significant number of voting shares.

As an employee, your role is to do what the board and shareholders want you to do.

As an employee, you will be replaced should you rock the boat or affect their bottom line.
Not sure if you're being serious.

On first thought I thought you were joking, but then real time traffic, Forest fire/ eruption/ tsunami alerts. Massive amounts of data to process, but could be useful.
Late reply, but my take is that he wasn't being hostile. He had a genuine question about why that should matter.

And I agree with him. Not everything needs to be sustainable. Not everything needs to be profitable over the long haul. Sometimes getting set up to take advantage of a one-time event (e.g., "Snowcopalypse" T-Shirts) with a short horizon is worth doing and worth studying for future opportunities.

My personal take on what he's saying is "adapt or die."
We also provide an Export tarball with everything inside you project, including the repo, issues, merge request content, etc.

We do not lock you up in a walled garden.

It's also easy to import the whole project/group from one instance to another.
"Anybody who does business in China compromises some of their core values."

The same can be said for Europe.

Does Google want to omit search results for publicly crawled Euro information? Probably not. But GDPR requires it.
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I believe that those systems are currently in place, but either aren't considered to be "enough", or people aren't using them properly.