skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if bewitched by the phrase. It's hard enough to agree philosophically on what constitutes well being for humans, so to accept psychological measures of it without very careful examination is a leap of faith I wouldn't take.

> And I can deny the detrimental effects of gaming because studies have repeatedly debunked that idea.

Again, you're taking a lot on faith there based on a relatively small amount of research done during only a few years. Exposing young people during significant portions of their waking hours to computers/screens is one of the widest-scale social experiments ever undertaken. It could take generations to fully understand its implications.

I don't have a horse in this particular race and agree that many comments on the topic smack of moral panic. The most rational thing to do at this stage is reserve judgement. We don't know everything, and it's very early days yet. Having said that, if I were a parent, given the gravity of the responsibility, I'd be cautious at least.
I went to a state school. Their curriculum is easily and readily available online. It's nothing like what you describe. On top of that, you could have seen that and known it was the case before you sent him there. I'd really like to see the curriculum for the school you describe, I have a hard time believing it could be quite that different.

http://www.cse.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Selectio...
I think Costco even sells Casper now
https://www.costco.com/Casper-Memory-Foam-Queen-Mattress.pro...
I've found that even quotes don't always work with Google these days. Google's insistence on returning results to more popular, but distinctly different, queries than what I actually searched for is what finally prompted me to switch over to DDG full time.

Overall I've found DDG results are actually better and less frustrating than Google's for this exact reason.
Definitely going to put more muscle memory into !s, thanks!
I would kind of expect that if you can design a highly available, fault tolerant, redundant system then you would figure it out. I can see how you could find the question easy and not allowing you to show what you can do. But that is opposite situation. A lot also depends on the position. If the position is not leadership position and does not require specialized knowledge you have, I don't think the company does wrong by not asking about it. Then those easier questions have place. I assume that overpriced "digital transformation consultant", "implementation consultant", or "solutions architect" does not write code or only little of it. As such, code focused interview makes no sense. It is however different for position that writes code a lot.

I don't get insulted over basic questions. Mostly because I worked in a company that did not asked programming questions. As a result had to work with few people who could talk design and maintainability such, looked like great socially and turned out they could not write the code except in simplest situations. It was not good and harm was long term, Largely because of resentments etc that build up in team who had to do someones work while that person was treated as superstar. Such person needs strategy to mask inability and those are all toxic - masking own inability by blaming others etc.

What are alternatives out there? Take home assignment, fizzbuzz, simple algorithm, trivia questions, requiring you to already know exact technology they use. Someone complains about every one of these. There is no hiring process that make everyone happy and fit everyone, but imo, as long as company does not go to some crazy extreme somewhere it should be fine. If candidate have to balance red-black trees then it is very clearly too much, figuring whether string is palindrom is not too much.

There is also something good to be said about repetitive hiring process where company can compare how people did on interview and then how they did in real life. As such, it will contain some generic or easy questions.
Yes, but I'm not sure if you're implying that it's a nonsensical situation with that example. Lots of real-world graphs have genuine cycles.
Storing the hash is not the same as storing the actual data.
This search in the url bar thing bugs me to no end. A little part of me dies inside when I tell a non-tech person to go to duckduckgo.com and they type duckduckgo in the url bar and click on the google link.
What do you want to know that isn't available from many of existing sources, like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=flask+django .
They do retain the mac for scanning networks that they have previously connected to AFAIK. This is what allows the correlation of mac approved (ie paid or bound mac networks).
That seems unique to you. I'm not experiencing that, and I'm running vanilla chrome without an adblocker.
Not that this is intended to be the end-all-be-all of "Must Read" Software Engineering books, but I find it refreshing that Clean Code isn't listed. It has some good points, but I think in the wrong hands it proves to be too dogmatic and can create friction within certain teams.

Then again, I'm just some random dude on the internet, so what do I know.
If I need a GUI for MySQL, I find MySQL Workbench to work great:

https://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/

But in 90% of cases, I do find that the cli sql client for your DB of choice is sufficient.
automl is pretty horrible if you're doing anything that is complicated, even at Google-scale compute power SotA DNNs are hand crafted, not auto-found. Feature engineering is also quite important for a lot of data types and that has too large of a phase space to probe with automl. At the same time if your problems are mostly solved by logistic regression/random forest/etc with simple features (ie you have well defined categories and/or states or your task is well solved in literature) then ML is not your value proposition, it's more data/business analytics (and autoML should enable you to provide your value faster).
Why is it that people who post on Tedium find it hard to hire people or get hired?

Maybe the problem is that they are writing on Tedium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f4oJ-DQdSY
One of best ways to increase parking revenue would be to set up a system to automate parking fees (similar to automated tolling).

I would gladly pay the $1 fee to park for 30 minutes in my downtown. However, I often skip paying because of the hassle of walking to the pay station, waiting several minutes to complete the transaction, and then putting the receipt back in my car.

If they just detected by license and sent me a bill, they could have my money!
That doesn't just increase supply. It also reduces demand.

There may be a billion people who would move there now if they could afford it. The additional units required to get things into the affordable price range would degrade the experience though, causing most people to reject the result.

So what this accomplishes is the destruction of a desirable place to be. The smaller buildings and easier parking are inherently part of the desirability. Even the exclusiveness itself is part of the desirability.
This.

Implement -> Evaluate -> Refactor

I'd rather have someone who could caveman the first approach, recognize the inefficiencies, and improve the execution than someone who rattles off a memorized algorithm to a common problem.

If the interviewer is wanting the eloquent solution right out of the gate, then the manager might be hiring for the wrong position.
We have an ikea spring mattress in our spare room - and it's really comfortable. It came rolled up just like a foam mattress does.
Things3's projects and areas all the way.
The “if you compete with mongo corp” is probably exactly what the parent comment means. It doesn’t effect a lot of people who would use that.
Just as webdevs are “full stack engineers” now
I remember when San Diego streetlights had radios strapped to them for the Ricochet wireless internet service. 56-128 Kbps wireless internet was a damn cool thing to see back in the late 90s/early 00s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)
If you want to know how much of a real, self-sufficient search engine it is, just look at the hardware footprint. You need a lot of computing and storage just for the crawling and indexing (webspam included), let alone the serving.
Meeeh. I paid $600 for Tufts&Needle. I don't have any complaints but it just feels like... a bed. I literally cannot tell any difference between $30 Ikea mattress and $600 Tufts&Needle mattress, and if I spend a whole lazy weekend on my bed then maybe I can say yeah Tufts&Needle is more comfortable than $30 mattress. While these expensive mattresses aren't bad -- so I don't think they're true scams -- they're extremely low value, so the marginal benefit you get from them is imho extravagant luxury.
Yeah, since most or all of our interactions with authors is their writings, if they say asshole things, then we think they're assholes, which is reasonable. But among the people I know, I know some who run their mouths too much but are kind and generous, and some who speak kindly, but have screwed me over (in pretty minor, but quite irritating, ways)

There are multiple ways to be an asshole, and so maybe we should say Heinlein sounds like an asshole, but by many accounts was kind to those who knew him well.
Video Gaming as an Unfair Advantage
I hear this a lot, but I've been in interviews were, yes, it really is about writing the BFS (or whatever algorithm they were asking for). I can remember one, where I was asked to write write an algorithm that, given a vector of points, calculates the euclidean distance between every pair of points. I wrote out a one-liner in MATLAB that accomplished the task in about 2 minutes, but then they wanted to see it in C++. Then I wrote it out in C++, which I don't know so well, so it ended up being in pseudo-C++. Then we spent the remainder of the time quibbling about syntax errors and missing import statements. It was very clear to me the interviewer only wanted to see perfect, compiling C++ on the white board, and had no interest in my problem solving or thought process.
They need to get rid of that email registration to download the software.
What part of the AGPL violates the open source definition?
My 401K is on a different fund only because VTSAX is not one of the options (but it's on an index fund tracking S&P 500). My IRA is fully on VTSAX. If I have an option, I'll put all my investments on VTSAX - I'm rooting for the US economy!
I think that you can count Laravel as one if PHPs strengths. It is a modern, beautiful framework that took a lot of the best stuff from Ruby on Rails and ran with it. Seriously good stuff.

If I need to build an API, or want an app with backend/frontend separation, it is my go to.
Timeline / flame chart profiler for Clang
I followed a similar usage pattern, but find myself using !g less and less. I use it if I know I need a google cache link, or on the odd chance the standard DDG search doesn't give me something relevant, but that is happening much less frequently.
This. Very misleading without this.
AMD is edging closer to breaking Nvidia's graphic dominance
Yes, this page provides virtually no detail either before or after getting a SLOW or SOME PROBLEMS result. I spent a lot of time in the weeds of EDNS a couple years back and I tested that company's domain, and have frankly no idea what the results mean, what the change is, etc. Seems like a source article trying to encourage change could have been a little helpful beyond "upgrade yo' shit" without explaining what it means.

If you're running a DNS server and have problems, it's probably not a simple matter of blowing out the latest version of your software. You probably have a rat's nest of thousands of entries added over a decade or more, different firewall policies in front of different authoritative servers, caches, etc.
Of course you can be harassed on Blind, "real raw opinions" and "harassment" are not the same thing. And "don't use Blind" doesn't really help with the knowledge that people you work with are willing to express those attitudes.
Molecular machinery that makes potent antibiotic shown after decades of research
> Most of them will probably be lost from disk drive failures, accidental erasure, hardware failures making them too expensive to recover, software obsolescence (pictures are on the device but they don't make the software to connect to the device any more)...

> Meanwhile I have a box of family pictures, some of them from the 19th century (a few tin types), but most of them from the 20th century, that are still good most with negatives intact. I could print a brand new print of any of them anytime I want.

This is really where cloud storage solves those problems. The photos I care about are shared with friends and family and are safe from hardware failure or house fire. The only scenario they aren't great at is the inter-generational one, but if dad gives kids access it's no worse than a shoebox under the bed. They'll just have to pull stuff down into their own digital lockers before MasterCard and Google realize I'm dead.
I used the workbench all the time. Only niggle is that it hangs if you connect to an older version of MySQL, but the older version of Workbench works.
I wish I had the same experience as you. I use MW at my work and it is constantly crashing, hanging, freezing, and otherwise puttering out. We don't have a stupidly large database either. Lately I've been hounding my team to switch to another product, such as HeidiSQL or DBeaver.
I think it is worthwhile to know that a liberal arts degree when done right teach you how to think, and therefore how to effectively formulate problems and evaluate solutions.

A classic liberal arts education is therefore generate reliable value for the holder in the same way as the sciences, because you would be a perfect fit for complex jobs in running our government and corporations.

Professor Drout makes a great argument for this in one of my favorite books that made me as a physicist and computer science PhD finally appreciate the value of the liberal arts [1].

The problem is that many of our universities have abdicated their responsibility to teach a liberal arts curriculum that teaches people how to think, and are instead teaching people what to think in a very political curriculum. Employers recognize this, and therefore we see the decreasing value of liberal arts degrees in the market.

Learning how to become an effective activist is not worth $90k+ in loans towards your future self.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Scholar-Think-Liberal-Enduring...
Hah, I never thought to just "write my own" custom homepage, this is so simple and yet so genius. Thanks for the inspiration!
True. It also seems rather odd to be mad at HR for not being able to find the person who posted anonymously about you on the app you specifically went on due to it being anonoumous.

I mean it sucks that the world has racists, bigots, homophobes and all tons of other sorts of rubbish people. But you can’t really fault a company for the fact that they manage to get hired as long as they are dealt with when they are actually discovered.

Where they supposed to ban every employee from making any kind of anonymous comments online after this case?
Obviously, the comments on Blind are not direct harassment, as you are not expected to read them, or can obviously choose not to read them.

The point is that it provides:
hard data about the whispering campaign going on behind your back, the conversations from which you are excluded.

that the harassment does actually exist, and is not a mere allegation by you being paranoid.

that other people can go verify the hostile attitudes and expressions for themselves.

provides real, externally verifiable evidence of problems at facebook, not coming merely from the famous "disgruntled ex-employee"

Stop trying to minimize serious issues (and if you do want to minimize them, at least make sound points that are better than trivial sophistry, a half step up from complaining about typos).
Would you mind explaining that? I'm pretty certain doing this would get you in trouble with a range of other legislation around the EU and put you in line with similar PR nightmares in the past but I don't really see how MAC addresses alone would be covered by the GDPR (at least not in the text/precedence I'm aware of).
True, but on the other hand those technologies have evolved more or less drastically as well. E.g. the Java or C++ skills from 1995 won't get you that far today, both in terms of the language itself and the framework/library ecosystem.
Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
GitHub Desktop 1.6 now available
Actual Salesforce is just expensive, complicated, cumbersome, opaque, legacy-encumbered, and programmed in a unique language and UI framework. Marketing Cloud is all that, plus what you said.
Not that anyone ought to continue at a place they feel unwelcome, but if people that fall under the diverse demographic they're advocating for quit, aren't they just bolstering the status-quo they wish to disrupt?

That said, according to the article's statistics diversity is continually increasing at Facebook.
One pernicious problem I had with tinydns and EDNS support was in an environment where one firewall, for whatever reason, did not permit tcp/53. So DNS replies worked, EDNS0 replies worked, but not from certain clients that insisted on retrying the query over TCP.

Needless to say, after tons of time getting into the weeds with EDNS, and STILL not understanding why certain clients weren't working, that was a fun one to solve.
If you want to buy a home and can't where you are, change where you are!

I know it sounds obvious, but if you haven't looked into it in the past year, I think you'll find it's easier now more than ever to manage the (admittedly many) logistics of finding a new area for yourself and your family. Tons of tools for each aspect.
That's a serious citation needed. There's lots of speculation but if it disappeared tomorrow, almost nobody would be inconvenienced in any way other than having failed to cash out their speculative bets before it happened.

Also, “censorship resistant” is the new marketing spin but it's never been true about Bitcoin. Anyone for whom that's valuable will be at risk if they fall for the spin.
Doesn't need to be Lego. Buy most popular items when discontinued, hold for a year, some people will be willing to pay more for it.

This is part of my e-commerce business. (I do some regular items as well but discontinued items are often lucrative).

See e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-H720-Bluetooth-Headset-Packa...

Two years ago this was going for $23.50 wholesale (I was offered by a large supplier) and $35 retail. Tens of thousands of units sold. Price went up over time and whoever still has units is making a killing now.

It's definitely possible to deploy millions into the business, but it's far more of an active part of a portfolio. You can't trade an index of discontinued products that appreciate.
That's very cool of you. Very youthful.
Of course you can be harassed on Blind; I've seen it happen plenty of times. It's no different than the kind of pervasive harassment that caused the death of Yik Yak.
Then you are part of the problem.

Perhaps you might consider actually looking out for the struggles of other people and helping them, instead of just avoiding the uncomfortable issues.
If anyone wants to chat about the business there's an email in my profile that still forwards to me
>> I have never written any BFS code,

I'm primarily a backend dev who did a little js a couple of weeks ago that required me to populate a dynamic tree with the results of an api call.

Although I think I went depth first, so I guess technically you're right....
Modern PHP is much better than the old one. One feature I miss from Kotlin are Infix-Functions: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/functions.html#infix-n...

Even the newest PHP feels somewhat dated, Infix-Functions could reduce a lot of typing by making library and custom wrapper code – which almost always exists – resemble more.

function foo(String $s) {...}
// current function call syntax
foo('hiho');

// just syntactic sugar - below code is the same as above
function String.foo(String $s) {...}
'hiho'->foo();
Tested my Debian based server running bind, all good. Thanks Debian!
Yesterday. I drove there in a car piloted by a human. I ordered by talking to a human. I handed cash to a human. My food was prepared by a human and handed to me by a human. For all the tech articles, little has changed since drive-throughs were invented back in the 50s.
If a recruiter/hiring manager sends one of these nonsense assignments to me, I refuse them outright and thank them for their time. It only took me one frustrated night trying to bang one of these out after a long day of work to learn my lesson. This method of testing a potential hire is lazy, ineffective, and frankly rude IMO.
There's plenty of precedent here, there's no reasonable expectation of privacy on a public street in the US[1]. Now, that doesn't automatically mean your argument can't stand, but it becomes a quantitative one - random people snapping your picture in passing are not equivalent to the city bureau of planning feeding all that camera data to ML (unless Google / IG / etc. start picking you out of all those random photos... but I digress). Clearly the biggest experiment of this kind has been in Britain[2], no pesky 4th Amendment there, but the outcome doesn't seem to be entirely positive or negative.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy#Overvie...

2: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10172298/One-surveill...
Exclusionary zoning and high university administrative costs are basically a transfer of wealth from millennials to baby boomers.
And it provides a mechanism for people to spread lies about you and collaborate against you. You can't simply turn a blind eye to this stuff; it does affect you, whether you read it or not.
>HeidiSQL or DBeaver

I've used both, and they're both good.
I had nearly the same experience. Leaving later than usual from work, I had to exit through an entrance gate, which left my approach to the road at a different angle than usual. I looked left and right, then started into the road (doubt that I stopped completely). A car seemed to appear from nowhere. I had time to stop, but was embarrassed and agitated. The next day I recreated the scene and realized that the window frame on the right side had a slope that matched the slope of a section of the road, blocking my view. The speed and timing of our approaches and the angles of the road and window frame hid the approaching car from my sight. A full stop would have allowed for the approaching car to move through my blind spot.
It conforms with OSD for the same reason GPL v2/v3 does. As I understand it, AGPL simply treats "networked access" as a subset of "linking".

There's a ton of legal grey area that hasn't been tested or has been hand waved away (do I have to open source my web application if it connects to a database that is AGPL licensed?)
It's build on top of the abstractions; not depend on someone else's implementation of all the abstractions...
No one said GDPR was well thought out.
I'll second DBeaver.
Depends if you can argue successfully that a MAC Address is Personal Data or not.
The average competence is NOT reducing. What is reducing is demand for mediocre (and low) competence.

This trend results in less competent people flooding the job market.
I'm confused. What moron would pay $270 for that cheesy bluetooth headset?
I've slept on quite a few futons, especially in college, and I've never slept on one that I would consider comfortable, only merely better than the floor.
Does this app actually export to CSV correctly, because MySQL Workbench and SSMS both screw it up?
Johnson and Johnson and Apple to Collaborate on AFib Research Study Apple Watch
It may have already vanished from your shelf.
I doubt only because of that. It’s quite easy to end up in an alternate reality where you get $30k/year for doing boring manual work, or indeed anyway sitting behind a screen all day.
Sounds ripe for a speculation bubble.