skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flight paths change. It's been a big issue for these folks in some pricey neighborhoods:

"The FAA implemented NextGen, changed flight procedures, and moved vast quantities of jet traffic over Palo Alto."

http://www.skypossepaloalto.org/
Last week I saw a full page ad in our local paper, written by the Chinese government, "debunking" the stories of Falun Gong members being tortured. It seems they want it both ways.
Perhaps YC’s Sam can chime in with his reasoning of prepping a loaded gun, and private jet to New Zealand.[0]

Also, if he could chime in with any advice he has to make sure that the hired armed guards don’t turn on him. Perhaps disciplinary collars or controlling the food supply?[1]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-val...

[1] https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef...
39-year-old retired millionaire: 'Budgets don't work'–do this instead
I understand the reasoning now since I know the answer but I still don’t think I would arrive at the answer even with the reasoning. I don’t use it as an interview question so I don’t know if people ever genuinely solve it or just memorize the solution.
I wonder how the author would approach the "infinite scroll" problem.
Am from India ....This newYear2019 goes very difficult to me...Because same email am also received about the Google Play console account termination ...if some buddy has answer for that please reply me...am waiting for you all answer.

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I suspect you're not a parent. "The kid" mostly just wants to lie on the couch, avoid doing homework, and watch youtube all day.
I would look at the history of the Soviet union for an example of how brutal authoritarianism can influence the cultural evolution of a people. The Soviets were fairly isolated, and more or less their censorship did work. In China there was also the cultural revolution which wiped out a lot of traditional things. If the brutality of the CCP is sufficient to destroy their own culture, why can't it destroy foreign loan-culture?
The poster literally said they were going to intentionally say things that they know are false.

That's pretty much the definition of a liar and outright deceptive.

Besides that, the tactic of trying to be debative and in this case outright dishonest and slightly combative is an incredibly terrible method for interviews.

Honestly the poster should be banned from giving interviews.
If the dongle is for licensing:

1. You probably don't need it. I don't know about the legalities involved here or what the specific license is, but there's probably a trivial way to circumvent the hardware requirement, especially with a VM. Back when Windows 2000 was a thing, people were still using MD5, and nobody was using secure elements. Worst case scenario, they've got some of the actual program logic on there, and you'll have to either reverse it or replace it. Again, not commenting on the legalities here, but seeing how the software was (presumably) legally licensed and the company is long gone, it couldn't hurt to ask the lawyers whether they think it's safe.

2. You can pass a parallel port through to a VM if you really must.
I cannot fathom the logic here. Movers and shakers who shape the world pissing away resources on some kind of personal "insurance" if everything goes to hell instead of investing in making sure things don't go to hell.

If they put half as much time, money, thought and effort into fixing some of the glaring boils on the butt of the world, they could stop metaphorically sucking their billion dollar thumbs this way.

There is plenty of evidence that a lot of the financial distress in the US of the masses is rooted in a lack of genuinely affordable housing -- and, no, I don't mean poverty housing. In 2010, an architect coined the term "missing middle housing" to describe middle class housing historically widely available in walkable urban neighborhoods that we have largely zoned out of existence. In the last roughly fifty years, we've torn down a million SRO's in this country.

Health care. We need a single payer system. The ACA is not a great solution. It was just the most politically viable. Frankly, that sucks.

This country already has a system where you flash an ID and get care and there is minimal paperwork and almost no billing. It's well-established and well-developed, but it only serves military members, retirees and their dependents. We don't need to look to other countries and wonder how they do "free" medical care. We have a system on US soil doing that.

Research shows that proper medical coverage helps reduce homelessness. If you provide proper medical coverage and make appropriate housing available to the masses at a reasonable cost, then we can stop living in dread of the collapse of civilization.

I blog, but I have no audience and can get no traction. If rich guys in SV propose ridiculous solutions, like UBI, they get interviews and yadda and everyone takes it seriously, though they aren't actually particularly qualified to propose some solution and it looks to me like BS preening. I feel like if I say too much on such subjects, I risk being banned from HN because I'm just a woman, I'm quite poor and I was homeless for years and yadda. If rich people who haven't actually studied it say something, it's charity or kindness of some nonsense like that. I've actually studied this stuff, but if I say something, it's "political" because I'm not the right kind of people and Hacker News eschews politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-missing...

I've redacted multiple paragraphs of "Doreen is finally snapping after 9.5 years of being essentially shunned and yadda."

Could someone kindly tell me where and how I can successfully get an audience and some kind of engagement, in spite of being the wrong gender and the wrong socioeconomic class? I would be happy to just go the fuck away and leave you folks alone who clearly want nothing to do with me if I could find some means to get engagement elsewhere.

Thanks.
> Blaming highly paid admins would be great, except that university presidents...

When people talk about the cost of university administration, they're not always talking about the cost of the most highly-paid, but rather the aggregate cost:

"Since 1980, the number of administrators per student at colleges has about doubled; on most campuses their numbers now match the number of faculty,” the study reads. “Here are some of their titles: senior specialist of assessment; director for learning communities; assistant dean of students for substance education; director of knowledge access services."

from http://mediahub.unc.edu/administrator-salaries-drive-cost-pu...
Nowadays I do all my diagrams in Figma. Its a ui tool first but its so flexible it just works for any use case. And it has a strong component functionality so once you build a library of "blocks" for you use cases it's trivial to creatr alternate diagrams.

For those dismissing figma cause its a ui tool.. I'm a dev first but did a short course on ux/ui and got introduced to it. 15 min you tube tutorial was all was needed to get it and they have a Web app that works on all oses.

Try it
Seems like they're able to get it both ways, so why not?
Clearly the spiral algorithm is useful when you forgot where you buried your survival cache.
Why would a wealthy person trust something like the Survival Condo Project? Once SHTF and society collapses and rule of law goes away, what's to keep the armed guards from taking over and eliminating their formerly wealthy clients (or just locking the place down and refusing to let anyone in)?

Why bother keeping a bunch of old (formerly) rich men around when the guards can just get rid of them and take their share of the supplies to help ensure the survival of their own families and friends?
Douglas Rushkoff had a podcast where he talked about being paid by these guys to come up with ways to keep their armed guards from turning on them. The billionaires suggested shocker collars (maybe even with explosives) and controlling the food supply by a combination lock.

https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef...
> I might be a minority, but I would refuse to spend two of my evenings per week interviewing people. I’d rather spend time with my family instead.

It seems to me this is an issue with your employer not the interview process.
When society falls apart the rich won’t have anything that the poor won’t. The people who built these bunkers for the super rich are going to put a 9mm in the back of their head and invite their brother Steve to take the owners spot. “Combination locks on the food supply?” Waterboard the guy till he gives us the combo, then kill him.
I have a friend who knocks off expensive and vintage RC ICE's in China by casting with minimal machining. Does it more as a hobby than gray market counterfeiting imposing on brands.
I switched to linux in 2010 for this reason. Removed my dual boot this year. Unfortunately curiosity and boredom got the better of me and I was able to get Star Craft 2 running in wine recently.
I think a healthy mix of open-ended questions (such as those in your post) and closed-ended questions is key. Open-ended questions are useful for getting at how an engineer goes about solving a problem. Closed-ended questions reveal whether that engineer has the tools to solve the problem to begin with.
Fake-porn videos are being weaponised to harass and humiliate women
> But in recent years survivalism has expanded to more affluent quarters, taking root in Silicon Valley and New York City, among technology executives, hedge-fund managers, and others in their economic cohort.

Rich people being paranoid and preparing for disasters is not exactly a new thing. I guess we are supposed to believe that the affluent are somehow more sane than the rest of us.
You can relive the dream if you believe. I still operate in makefiles and shell scripts to this day.
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Personal attacks, such as you posted here and in your comment upthread, are not allowed on HN and will get you banned here. Nationalistic flamewar is not welcome either.

Please edit these things out of your posts to HN and follow the site guidelines, even when someone else is breaking them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Url changed from https://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-testing-creepy-dove..., which appears to be a shameful ripoff of this.

A reader helpfully emailed to point this out, but unfortunately we didn't see it until later.
Learning from the Soviet Union I see. The fall of communism in the USSR was in large part due to Western culture influences. A new generation grew up and they didn't give a shit about the old fogies in Politburo or the system they stood for. Instead they'd listen to bootleg Western records and Western propaganda on shortwave radio. The colossus was weakened. And then, once the critical mass was reached, an economic crisis (crude oil price crash coupled with unprecedented defense spending to counter Reagan's Star Wars) did it in in just a few years.

China saw all of that up close, and ever since then they have been trying to avoid the same fate.

The CCP will try to "mind control" the Chinese populace to the maximum extent possible, through censorship, incarceration/torture, "social" points scheme and whatever else they can come up with. But in the end the colossus will inevitably fall. It'll just take longer. The USSR too looked like it was going to last forever right up until it fell apart.
I hope it is because otherwise I'm a moron.

I managed to chlorine-gas myself right before a date once because I threw a little bleach on the bathroom floor before I took a shower and it turns out there was a mostly dried puddle of piss in the same spot. Only thing worse than chlorine gas is chlorine gas that's been nebulized from steam...
vendor lock in, the movie
As mentioned in my comment, I realized mid-writing I didn't necessarily have point of contest to the thread OP. In retrospect, there was probably a more coherent place elsewhere in this thread to put my comment. Just providing context to what I've seen in the state and that from my subjective experience, Texan polling affinity for renewables was less related to environmental concerns and more towards economics. I'd consider this a much better vehicle for renewable adoption than ideological alignment anyway since it's significantly harder to convince people of environmental priority than it is to put more money in their pockets.
For some reason apple blocks access to appleid via Digital Ocean. Have you experienced this?
Why is being biased in favour someone with domain knowledge a bad thing? I assume that is the domain you are hiring them to do.
Im an automotive mechanic by trade for a chain of shops in the midwest. The point to clarify in this article I think is that cast vs billet crankshafts are almost a pointless argument outside of classic car enthusiast communities, or race communities.

>Brady finds out that new forged cranks can be made for about $1000.

Bull shit, and I bet he knew it too. China can cost-cut some manufacturing by shifting the prices to human labor, but they cant drop the price on precision machining. Every US manufacturer I know who cuts cams or cranks is feeding billet stainless or billet high nickel into a 5 axis CNC. If its a big enough customer, they'll ship that part to another machinist to have them QC things like center-process and calculated c(pk) ratios.

>Compression dropped off, and an inspection showed that the exhaust valves were bent. Usually the only thing that can do this is putting the cam in several teeth off, something a lifelong motorhead like Steve isn’t likely to do.

Chinese manufacturing has about as much trustworthiness in it as the chinese communist party. Which is to say, im not surprised to see hidden rework on this part that caused a failure. heat-treated composite Steel is not cheap in china, so the pressure to rework is enormous. Whereas in the US we throw out NG spec pieces on the daily, an NG spec crankshaft at a thousand dollars is valuable enough to feed an entire village for the week.

>In the end, the Chinese kept all his money, he lost his business, his house, and a lot of the other things in his personal life unraveled.

speaking from experience, the chinese are just now getting around to manufacturing tooling that can withstand more than a few drops in the toolchest. high speed steel parts for example are still prone to fracture at ridiculously high rates. chinese fasteners are spot-on clones of german and american fasteners, but fail at much lower levels of force. Even the steel stamped to make bolts, cotter pins, and collars is riddled with QC variances and imperfections that can cause a part to fail in hours.
This would be the "theme-color" meta tag[1] which I think only works in Chrome on Android, at the moment.

[1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#meta-t...
Purposely saying something wrong seems a little dishonest, like you are setting a trap. It really sets things off of the wrong foot if your first interaction proves that not only can you conceal your true thoughts and express something that you aren't thinking, and not only are you willing to do it, but on top of it all it doesn't take much motivation before you start. It would be a lot better to wade in to something you honestly didn't know about, so that your expression of not knowing enough to ask good questions was not only completely realistic but also truthful. If you can't think of anything that you don't know enough about to ask good questions, then you either need to evaluate yourself better or get out more. ;)

To see it from another perspective, imagine what your response would be if you found out that someone you were interviewing was pretending to know something they didn't, just because they preferred to work with people smart enough to notice they were faking.
In fact, the article makes it clear that this is exactly the case:

' “Oh, the joy, the sheer pleasure of pushing that button and seeing the complaints mount up,” she wrote in response to a reporter’s query. “We are over 115,000 complaints for BWI, more than 35,000 in just the past 30 days! So now when MAA wants to know ‘which flight bothered you,’ I have a real answer! ALL OF THEM.” '

Sure, noise complaints can be valid. Even saying "all the flights bother me" may, in some cases, indicate a real problem with the noise abatement procedures at the airport. In 99% of cases, however, noise complaints are simply NIMBYism, or people for whom any amount of noise is too much. Everyone wants to fly somewhere on vacation, or order cheap products from China online and have them delivered by air within a few days. Aviation is necessary, and airplanes need to land somewhere, but too many people are unwilling to tolerate even a small amount of discomfort to allow that. It doesn't matter that there's literally nowhere you can put an airport where the planes wouldn't fly over someone's house, as long as it's not _their_ house...

For every legitimate complaint caused by changes in approach procedures or the use of new navigation technology, there are 10,000 that can be summed up with "flying a hundred tons of steel through the air generates sound, more news at 11!" All it achieves is drown out the real problems in a sea of pointless griping.
One company wanted approached to interview me for the position of a "scientist". Their initial step of the interview process was to spend 4-6h on some "challenge" they designed. I told them, I can't spend 4h of my time on the 1st step where I have no clue what my hiring manager even does! I made a counter to their proposal as all my research projects are publicly available. My counter was similar to your proposition. I asked them to pick any of my research projects and talk about it, I told them I just need a 5 minute heads up. Of course, they didn't take me up on it because they required "commitment from the candidate". I chuckled on the irony in that last phrase. Interview is a 2-way process and it seems a lot of people have bought into some of the kool aid.
NetBSD entering 2019 with more complete LLVM support
Decision time in the router usually isn’t an issue. That’s mostly a fixed cost that can easily be kept under a millisecond. Most of the time gets spent queueing for your turn to either come off of the interface or to go onto the egress interface.

All of your jitter in a stable configuration router is going to be coming from those varying queue depths.
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Bitwise operators and tricks
My HP 48G(X) from the 1990's did automatic symbolic differentiation and integration. And, IIRC, there's probably a textbook in either Fortran or C for symbolic mathematical evaluation (partial evaluation, simplification and Monte Carlo fallback) and transformations. We had to deal a lot with this in the code used by a nuclear reactor simulator (in Fortran) that effectively did glorified finite element analysis with some actual direct calculations here and there.
> I think the job of service providers should be to semantically annotate their data, so that a general purpose client can dynamically render it.

You mean like HTML? We tried that already and people disliked the lack of branding ability.
Anyone who played Civilization knows how important culture can be in the Great Power geopolitical game. And of course, the US player is generating more culture points, so the damage they inflict on other players is greater than the other way round. Only a noob would ignore that.
Off topic, but .... Wow ... technical debt anyone?
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I've heard that interpretation. The US post office has a government-granted monopoly on delivering mail. There was an exception in the original law for "extremely urgent material", which allowed Fedex to come into existence [0]. If Fedex hadn't been tough (and beloved by law firms who needed a lot of overnight delivery) they might well have been sued out of existence by the USPS.

So early users of email tried to be careful to not too obviously use it a replacement for postal mail.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-US-postal-service-considere...
The HAKMEM (the Hacker Memo) paper by Bill Gosper, details work done at the MIT AI lab by the first known code hackers.

Stories about the MIT hackers (Bill Gosper,Richard Greenblatt, and Stewart Nelson) are detailed in Steven Levy's book about the beginnings of the hacker culture.
For the non U.S. readers: worry not, my friends.
Doomsday apparently only means “heavy social unrest or natural disaster in the coastal United States of America”.
And for a cool $1 mil. that someone can probably find someone to remove it. Though a foil lining under your Kevlar might work well enough.
There's a lot to nitpick here but I guess the most interesting thing to me is that, for all their wealth, access and smarts, none of these people seem to actually be trying to solve the systematic and endemic problems which would soften the blow of a major existential risk.

When the best and brightest of a society are heading for the hills, that's a sign problems are coming. It's not that just they may have concrete reasons to do this but it seems like the society itself by this fact has lost the cohesion that would prevent disaster. And if powerful people don't imagine themselves are the protectors of the common good, who does? etc.

Of course, this situation is a bit of a self-fulling prophecy.
The problem is that access to the airport becomes a location amenity for some businesses, which in turn will draw housing for workers, and eventually the city will envelop the airport.
Yes. All-or-nothing, black-and-white thinking appears to be a cognitive simplification that discards nuance in order to model the world more simply. Being depressed takes more effort to think and do almost everything that would/could be routine when not depressed,
coupled with a mental fog and internal disorganization that makes it more difficult to function normally. This introduces both more errors and a propensity for drama in cases of being wrong, which also often introduces an inflexibility, which leads to more conflict with others. Overall, I'd say depression reduces critical thinking, multi-model thinking and prioritization by making it easier to focus on edge-cases and catastrophication (cognitive distortions).
Poor Man’s device discovery (DNS) (2016)
> The advertising ID they do let apps access is unique to a publisher so they can't be tied together with behaviour from apps by other publishers, and it's trivially disabled/resettable by the end user (Settings > Privacy > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking / Reset Advertising Identifier…).

They still let apps give you a unique identifier through shared containers, those will only be deleted if you delete all apps that can access it. There is also some other container (I forgot the name) which will never be deleted unless you get a new device and don't restore any backups.
You can see this kind of behaviour when you delete Instagram and they automatically fill out your username the next time you install it.

With Facebook owning WhatsApp, they are already able to give each iOS device a unique identifier. What is Apple going to do about it? Remove WhatsApp from the App Store?
> American culture is so pervasive and widespread

It doesn't happen by itself.