skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't imagine a universe where a well-qualified senior developer would be so obsessed with such a pedantic thing. To call the code unreadable because it needs a small refactor... that interviewer was clearly letting their emotions guide their thought process. Advise why to use the namespace, hear what the interviewee has to say, tie off the discussion, and move on.

"Rockstars" who can't teach do long-term damage to engineering culture.
I ride a dedicated BRT lane system every day. Part of the way they have overpasses and it's super fast. Then they hit downtown and have dedicated lanes but have to deal with normal intersections. It's dog slow.
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, just moved to Stockholm from The
Netherlands

Technologies: C, Golang, Java, Python, Haskell, Bash, Linux, embedded

Research: static analysis, abstract interpretation, programming language theory, program transformations, verification, proof writing

Résumé/CV: available on request

Email: hjdskes@gmail.com

I am a recent university graduate with a Master of Science in Computer Science. My thesis had to do with abstract interpretation of program transformations. You can find more about this on my website[0].

I strive to write idiomatic code that does its job well. I prefer to keep my solutions simple, adding complexity only where necessary for performance, maintainability or other trade-offs. I have solid programming experience in
multiple languages and paradigms, having developed real (open source and/or university) projects using both. Due to my university education, I learn new techniques and systems quickly and I have good logic, troubleshooting and problem solving skills.

Aside from my studies, I have been contributing to GNOME and other open source software projects. In particular, I have participated in Google's Summer of Code in the summer of 2017 where my project was to rewrite Piper. I did this under the mentorship of Peter Hutterer from Red Hat. You can read more about this project on my website[1].

My website also lists my other projects[2] and my other contributions[3].

[0]: https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/msc/

[1]: https://www.hjdskes.nl/contributions/piper/

[2]: https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/

[3]: https://www.hjdskes.nl/contributions/
Working with data on the Command Line
Interestingly enough, as I followed along with your description of the demonstration, I too "painted in" the pirate. But when analyzing the rest of the scene, I realized that I had already created the background of the picture (ship, deck, sea, sky, rigging) and just had to look at those elements.
Obviously, don't cite Wikipedia as Wikipedia themselves say, but ignoring that:

Trumps personal lawyer is the same one I mentioned in the comment you're replying to. That's the biggest revelation yet. Do you have anything bigger or not?
IBM Research develops fingerprint sensor to monitor disease progression
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We are a team of really smart people working in a very well funded startup trying to disrupt insurance in Italy by using technology as our main competitive advantage.
We employ a micro service architecture (10s of them are in production atm), Docker and AWS.

Most of our micro services are written in Elixir, we also have some Ruby, Haskell, Python and Rust in production besides a legacy Symfony 2 application, while on the front end side we are mainly using Elm.

We have a lot of automation in place, we run a pretty comprehensive test suite on Drone CI at every push and every developer can spin up QA environments that mirror our entire stack for a given feature branch (this is made possible by having all of our infrastructure managed through CloudFormation templates). All of this allows us to confidently deploy to production multiple times per day.

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AWS (a lot of services), CloudFlare
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CD: Drone CI, Docker (dev -> qa -> staging -> production)
Container orchestration: AWS ECS
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Backend languages: Elixir, PHP (we're phasing it out long term), Haskell, Python, Rust, Ruby
Frontend languages: Elm, Javascript

If you're interested or just want some more info feel free to email me directly at andrea.usuelli@prima.it
I hate typing the same thing over and over... so, yeah, I'd use namespace std.

However, for an interview, you are correct. This is something too trivial to mention or "get mad" at...
They probably wanted you to fight back.
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E-mail address in the profile.
It This Intelligence? Solving Mazes with Soap, Milk and Ink
Hydrogen power: China backs fuel cell technology
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Full stack software developer with 15+ years experience including a PhD in software verification offering:

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SEEKING WORK - London, UK - Remote preferred, happy to visit clients anywhere in the UK.

DevOps / Python guy with a decade's experience building, hosting and tuning applications.

I work with engineering teams to make their products as scalable and robust as possible. AWS, Kubernetes, load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it.

Recent projects include:

+ Re-hosting a large microservice node.js + RethinkDB web application on Google Cloud. The resulting stack (serving a busy news site) is deployed to GKE with a set of Helm charts and a minimal amount of custom tooling for CDN & image serving. GKE has turned out to be low-maintenance and rock solid; I'll be glad to work with it again.

+ Rewriting a Python big data stack for a bioscience client. Result was a robust, scalable system deployed with Terraform/Docker to spot instances managed by AWS Batch. Benefits included better resilience, higher resource utilisation and vastly reduced cost/processing time.

+ AWS/Kubernetes/Docker deployment to support a large distributed (15 microservices + persistence layer) application. Updated a sprawling Django/Postgres app to fit modern containerised hosting, resulting in a stack that makes great use of k8s' scaling & resiliency features. Templating via Helm for multiple, namespaced stack instances & continuous integration.

+ Another AWS/k8s/Docker stack, this time with a persistence layer comprising Cassandra & Kafka with service discovery through Zookeeper. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring.

+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated crypto trading. Didn't get rich, still posting on here.

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Nope, "small tunnel" is not an accidental property, it was a core part of the proposal ("big tunnels have big problems, are expensive, this is different.")
Are you thinking they're talking about using Google Image search instead of Google Photos? Photos is all stuff you've explicitly uploaded/backed up to Google why would it be 'scary as hell' to be able to search those and have it work?
Actually, I believe the OCR information persists as an invisible layer when you export to PDF.
> Reheated bacon and eggs probably tastes awful.

No more "awful" than a McDonald's McMuffin. Since that's literally what they do.

Bacon surprisly reheats in the microwave well. Its better fresh. With that being said, I can feel the oil and grease so I'd personally prefer not to eat bacon every morning.

Eggs taste fine cold, so I personally go with the boiled (but currently cold) egg.

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At minimum, something as greasy as bacon gives me pimples if I eat it every day. I can't imagine bacon each morning is healthier than even Cinnamon Toast Crunch (which has less sugar than most people realize...)

http://smartlabel.kelloggs.com/Product/Index/00038000787225

https://www.crazysquares.com/products/cinnamon-toast-crunch/...

Cinnamon Toast Crunch has 9g of Sugar. Special K Oats and Honey has 11g. Granted, Special K has a bigger serving size (31g vs 42g), but the sugar content is actually comparable between the two.
> I don't really understand why, but the idea of somebody sitting behind a computer somewhere, controlling my vacuum is just really weird and unsettling.

Understandable. But if there is a good value proposition many people could probably get over that.
Is Design Valuable: 2018 Case Studies
This fucking guy is a pseudoscientific swindle.
A New Type of DNA Testing Is Entering Crime Investigations
Both your statements are not clear to me. There still seems to be some unstated assumption that is confusing one or both of us.
Simulating Distributed System Consensus in JS
Good example, they have dedicated and priority intersections.
How does a software engr go about mastering medicine enough to cure a disease?
Same kind of thing here in India. As per Indian tax authorities, if your "effective place of business" is India, you will be taxed as per Indian laws.

I believe many countries would have DTAA with Estonia.

Tax-wise Estonia may not be right for you, but starting a company is a lot easier depending upon where you live. In India, it takes about 30+ days to open a company, not to mention stupid, useless forms and KYC-terrorism.
>However, people can be pressured or even forced into taking on these careers in order to be less of a burden on their families.

You could argue that able-bodied people are also pressured or even forced to take on careers. What fraction of piano tuners, sighted or not, could quit their jobs and live without being a burden to their families?
If you look at the number of hours an average person (worldwide average, not restricted to Detroit factory workers) must work for the same amount of food, energy, clothing and transportation, the costs have been slashed to a fraction of what they were 50 years ago.

If presented with the purchasing power of today, 50 years ago, the average person of that time would see 2019 effectively post scarcity. They would hardly be able to imagine how they would need more wealth that what we have now.

But 50 years ago, the coffee was cooked in a kettle at home, while today, people expect to buy it at Starbucks. In East Asia, most people of 50 years ago hardly ever ate meat. Today most can eat at McDonalds, but Kobe beef may still be out of reach, etc.

As long as our expectations grow faster than our income, we will feel poorer as we get richer. Today's luxery goods will be taken for granted, and new, more expensive ones will be available.

Unless social hierarchi position somehow becomes independent of wealth, some people will continue to see themselves as poor.
Mechanical Engineer here and I design stuff in CAD for a living. OpenSCAD is great for the basic stuff but doesn't really scale well. It's fun to play with and to teach people programming and CAD at the same time. If FOSS is really a concern, FreeCAD is probably the better route.

However, like others said, Fusion 360 for hobbyist is the way to go. For professionals, just go with Solidworks. IMHO, it works better than anything (though I only also know and have been trained how to use Inventor, Creo, and NX so I do not know how other software like Catia will compare). Solidworks is way more advanced than Fusion 360 when you need to design something a bit more complex. Don't forget, CAD modeling is only half the work. Making good drawings is the other half and Fusion 360 drawing capabilities is pretty crappy as of right now.

As for the FOSS debate, it's quite interesting because no one in the industry cares about being locked in. $4000 for a license is nothing compared to "$140/hr" rate that engineers cost a company. As long as the software works and the engineer produces tangible results, closed source software will continue to dominate.
>Why would it be that cheap? Fusion 360 is competing with SolidWorks.

I wouldn't really say that's true. Inventor is really Autodesk's competitor to Solidworks. Fusion seems like it's competing more with hobbyist tools like Sketch-Up, and maybe open source tools like FreeCAD & OpenSCAD.
After you calc X^Y, when you will calc X^(Y+1), doesn't it worth to calc using the previous result (X^Y)*X instead of another power X^(Y+1) ?
I wondered the same thing myself; looks like it's MacTerm:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18767483

https://www.macterm.net/
I had already begun using QR codes to provide signed urls to images (graphs showing data and the like). Something like this permits transferring the graph image directly. Walk up to a smart device and retrieve its data without any convoluted pairing process.
Brussels is out of control: Emergency services tricked and attacked
Indigo Agriculture | Back-end, front-end, DevOps, PM, Data Science, Computational Biologist | Boston, MA | Full-time | On-site | https://www.indigoag.com/join-us

================

We're the fastest growing unicorn you've never heard of [0].

Indigo is revolutionizing agtech by offering better crops to farmers through technology. Agtech is one of the most underhyped technology trends [1] and we're serving a multi-trillion dollar marketplace services industry [2].

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Our tech stack includes AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (DevOps), Postgres (DB), Node & GraphQL (back-end), React & Apollo (front-end), and Python (data science / comp bio).

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[0] https://www.builtinboston.com/2017/09/26/agtech-startup-indi...

[1] http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2018/#trends-and-takes

[2] https://andrewchen.co/how-marketplaces-will-reinvent-the-ser...
Interestingly. You could remotely train a robot. Which things go where. After that the robot could do a lot on its own. And you could remotely manage a fleet of robots.
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Given that your examples of using std::cout are using the wrong I/O direction, I am surprised you have "25 years experience of c++".

Perhaps, that annoyed him too. Still, yelling doesn't help much of anything.

Edit: OP changed post. Not fair to down vote....
Pretty cool, I've always wanted some topics to write about.
Written just vague enough on almost all the points to seem credible without actually saying anything. Guy above gets it right, this 2019 post is SV Tech Bubble at its finest.
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We are the UK's fastest growing consumer lending platform. Well-funded and profitable after only three years, we're a small team of high performers who have built outstanding technology to deliver real innovation in lending.
A key contributor to our growth are our Data Science team. To facilitate further expansion and impact the data science team are seeking a Python developer who will take responsibility for bringing internal Data Science products into production. This is a greenfield role where the successful candidate will sit at the intersection of engineering and data science. The role offers autonomy on implementing professional structure to existing data science services.
The role would by its nature result in exposure to the data science project lifecycle where learning new technologies and skills will be supported and encouraged.

Tech Stack: Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Angular

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Dietary cholesterol consumption has almost no direct relationship with serum cholesterol and in fact has been removed from dietary guidelines. [1]

Also, "A landmark systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies showed no association between saturated fat consumption and (1) all-cause mortality, (2) coronary heart disease (CHD), (3) CHD mortality, (4) ischaemic stroke or (5) type 2 diabetes in healthy adults.1 Similarly in the secondary prevention of CHD there is no benefit from reduced fat, including saturated fat, on myocardial infarction, cardiovascular or all-cause mortality.2 It is instructive to note that in an angiographic study of postmenopausal women with CHD, greater intake of saturated fat was associated with less progression of atherosclerosis whereas carbohydrate and polyunsaturated fat intake were associated with greater progression.3" [2]

There's plenty of evidence, however that sugar is a much more dangerous driver of CVD [3], which is obvious when you look at the pandemic levels of obesity and metabolic syndrome (and co-morbidity and lack of decline in CVD) that coincided with the demonization of saturated fats (and replacement with much worse trans-fats and high n6 PUFAS [4])...

[1] https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-you-should-no-longer-...

[2] https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111

[3] https://openheart.bmj.com/content/4/2/e000729

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335257/
I feel like the distinction between copyright (with term limits, but strong protections) and trademark (with no term limits, but strong weaknesses) should be enough for a company like Disney. Maybe there should be some sort of "franchise copyright" somewhere in between the two, but I've never heard a good specific idea to that.

However, I heard one proposed idea that prolonged copyright extensions (or variable copyright terms, if you'd prefer) might make sense as a corporate property tax that increases over time after the baseline expiration (and better if you reset the baseline to something smaller again).

That would at least trigger bottom line decisions in corporations if keeping something in copyright (and out of the public domain) is worth the annual property taxes on it. Some of that tax could go directly to archival/preservation efforts for those properties in the proper spirit of insuring their legacy for the public domain, eventually. Most of that tax would indirectly go towards discouraging companies from IP "tenements" where rent is collected (subscription/access charges), but innovation/investment diminished a long time ago. (Mickey has new cartoons on YouTube every so often, but how many properties does Disney own that other than maybe a bare conversion to Netflix or soon Disney+ streaming they haven't done anything with in decades?)
Even better, don't link to some random version in GitHub but use the Fossil version on SQLite's site:

https://sqlite.org/src/artifact?ln=43-66&name=48388821692e87...
Why bother giving feedback to the recruiter? That's only going to improve the company he's not going to be working at, rewarding them for already failing to do their jobs (who put this guy is an interviewer's position? etc.)
I'm with you. I'd say "Thanks for your time" and leave, giving feedback to the recruiter. If anyone at my company did that in an interview, we'd certainly never put them in an interview rotation again, and there might be further repercussions. There's one guy in our office who is a brilliant programmer, but when reviewing code, he's incapable of seeing anything but the negatives. (Upon reflection, he perhaps did this on purpose to get out of interviews... ha.)