skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashed_zero#Similar_symbols:

”The slashed zero causes problems in all languages because it can be mistaken for 8, especially when lighting is dim, imaging or eyes are out of focus, or printing is small compared to the dot size.”

I think that can be a valid reason to use regular zeroes on all kinds of numeric indicators in airplanes, where context makes it clear that O’s cannot be present.
Electronic Flight Information System. The flight deck information display, but not mechanical, digital.
I did misunderstand :)

It would be interesting to see what the GP is describing.
As much as I agree, bright colours would be a step up!
Most UIs these days seem to be a blend of contrastless greys.
I think what the OP is hitting is the difference between being able to explain something and being good at it.

With a deep enough interview process you’ll find people who know what they are doing. But it won’t tell you anything about their practical coding skills; it won’t matter if you are hiring an architect, but if it’s for a main developer you’ll want a decent level of productivity, proficiency with the tools, application of best practices and reviewing skills.

Those aspects are a lot easier to understand with actual code produced.
> What happens to every candidate who gets flustered by the questioning and seems to bow out earlier than their technical depth?

I'm not sure I get this question - I'm not talking about a white-boarding exercise. I'm just talking to the candidate about a technical project they have worked on in the past, the pain points, how they resolved them, etc. If that results in the candidate being flustered it's not a good sign on numerous axes.

> How do you hire people who are more technical in a subject area than your current staff, if your test bottoms out at the depth of the current interviewer in the room?

That is a _very_ different hiring situation. If you have no one in the company that is equipped to properly technically interview the candidate they obviously you can not properly technically interview the candidate. You'd likely have to leverage the connections of the management team to find the right person to lead up unknown territory.
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i dont want to convert HTML into any other format...its like coffeescript. somebody is gonna pick up your code and they see all these el('h1','OMFG HN SUX'); instead of normal sane HTML.

don't reinvent the wheel man.
Isn't that the paperwork?
But do you have the skull lid/cover or the boring black one?
My first thought was "Thirty centimeters seems a bit large for a message logger.".
More like an hybrid.
Alien Dalvik is a great idea and theoretically works well, but it's proprietary software and its developers don't seem to have any interest in anyone actually using it.

There doesn't seem to be any free software effort in prong
porting ART to a real linux system (which shouldn't be hard at all), which could've happened for years and I'm not sure (though shyly hopeful) the Librem 5 will change anything about that (so the only realistic option would be full emulation, which would require a good bit of power).

Edit: Just realized that you could theoretically run Android apps via Chrome. But shit, that'll be slow.
I was able to install Steam on openSUSE if you don't mind openSUSE, it's a good alternative option.
How does that differ from state registrations and fuel taxes?
Screenshots are beautiful! Really nice design I think.
They do mention that it is less brittle (more flexible) than concrete. This would mean that less cracks might form, which would be very helpful in increasing rebar lifetime.
What about if the best teachers are basically AIs that are so good that you can't even tell it is an AI.

Look up google duplex to see what I am talking about.
I have 2 left ... six dead over the years.
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I switched my mom from Windows to Linux years ago and have not had a single issue since. Actually, the only real issue I have is her distro is now so old it's well beyond LTS and I'll have to probably re-install to do any upgrades.
> Who owns the intellectual property created by the grant recipients?

> We believe that projects supported by our funding should be able to benefit everyone. If you are selected to receive a grant, the standard grant agreement will require any intellectual property created with grant funding from Google be made available for free to the public under a permissive open source license.
Bringing more talented minds to Google to work on another Google project will not benefit the social good. It seems this is just a PR trick to lure in more AI talent so they can put them to work on something that will not benefit people at all.
The internet is sort of like a local neighborhood in that regard, it's just that your neighbor next door is The World's Biggest Genius in [whatever your passion is] and down the road there's a few more contenders.

Now you could look at others too but when everyone around you talks about the same few people over and over, it's hard not to think that "unless I'm as good as them, I don't matter".
Honestly, I love sweet potatoes so much that I don't really use them in recipes, per se. I almost always just eat them as-is, completely on their own!

There was one time I made mini sweet potato pies with the Okinawa variety inside a muffin tin, and another time when I made a cheesecake (vegan) that incorporated them. Obviously not healthy, but it was the holidays, hah.

I think in general, tasting them on their own and figuring out what pairs well is your best bet. I think like "typical" (orange) sweet potatoes, they have that sweet-flavor-but-works-really-well-with-savory-foods property.

As for the Asian/Japanese variety: those are my absolute favorite, and I only ever eat them completely plain, on their own. I just cut them up, steam, and eat. So delicious, although I suspect they're not quite as nutritious as the orange variety, but it's usually hard to find information on less well-known cultivars.

Also! I should've mentioned this, but if anyone is searching for the Okinawa variety and can't find them, there's another purple sweet potato called the Stokes Purple sweet potato[1]. I have never seen them in person and have no idea how they taste, but I would bet they're not too different.

[1] https://www.friedas.com/stokes-purple-sweet-potato/
When the network is saturated what do you gain out of a free ride for everyone? More crowded trains and more people hating trains. Well done!
Author here, you were right though, that was the actual intention. I even cheated a bit on the highlights. I just wanted to get my point across and not get lost in details.

Not revealing the employer (without going through the work of unblurring as the HN detectives have already done) was just an added bonus.
CNR was years ahead of any of these app stores, really wish it had continued on rather than others having to build APT clients that still don't work quite as well.
Thanks for the tip! I usually guess this command to be available in a text based UI and represent a search, but it's presence in a menu list UI like Spotify and it's function as a filter is a complete surprise.
Are you running it yourself? The K8S dashboard gives you logs and basic monitoring out of the box, or you can get logs directly from kubectl.
"if another engineer is doing the interviewing,..."
It is about a notice, but once you lay off a person it is a liability to give them access to internal systems. So majority of companies turn it around and make it look like that's also part of severance. It makes them look better and they follow the law. There is no requirement to pay severance anyway.
Just like Tokyo's density is actually lower than Paris, the elephant in the room is the number of people who commute to the city center every single day. That is the only metric that matters for transports.
This is a sendup, right? Down to quoting the last starfighter?
>There’s a fashion maxim that you should look at designer magazines from 15 years ago.

Everyone is copying the typefaces and color schemes from the magazines which came in the 70's.

>The rise of windows 95 ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ

Most of the kids with the ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ meme didn't even use Windows 98 or be even aware of computers. I remember w9x not as a fashion trend, but as a shitty os with a nightmare to manage in order to not crashing while intalling a driver. Installing games took ages, and viruses were a real thing.

Also, everything was shareware. Libre software and Linux/BSD were not known outside academics except at very late 90's.

If they knew and be alive into that, they woudn't be so fake nostalgical.
> I'm sure Google will be working hard to prevent this use case though

They can't do much about the runtime. ART is part of AOSP so theoretically anyone can come along and just port it. It hasn't happened so far though, for reasons I don't quite understand.

What Google can do (and is doing) though is increase developers dependence on Play services, which they guard well.
One of the very best people we ever hired was so flustered in his final interview with us (a formality, after work-sample challenges) that he was visibly shaking during it. If we had taken the "numerous axes" on which the was "not a good sign" seriously, we'd have missed that hire --- and, I think, an entire business unit in our firm wouldn't have been started.

I generally think software developers (I count myself among them) know far, far less about psychological assessment than they think they do.
While playing a song in a playlist, clicking on the album art next to the song name will bring you to the song in the playlist, if you're using the desktop client. Doesn't work on mobile. Clicking the song name will send you to the song in the album.

It's similar (well opposite) to Github commits view, where clicking a user avatar will send you to his profile, while clicking his nickname will show you all his commits in the current repo.

It's not a very good affordance.
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Yeah, I think 1-3 month probation is really the only way to do it.
Ironically, Patrick, Erin, and I did a company after Matasano that was based (sort of) on work-sample hiring (really, more based on CTFs) that was called Starfighter.
It just kills me the wireless version isn't as good.
This also applies to when you're actually interviewing. I once went through three rounds and they wanted a fourth. No is such a powerful and unexpected word. That they're still talking to you means they're interested but that they haven't offered you the job means they're not 100% sure. This one scenario I said No they came back with an offer. But it was rejected.
A football field is 1.3 acres, so a 1 acre lot is going to be expensive anywhere.
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0 percent means you cant invest in transports anymore? Or do you include investment before the profit calculation?
> everything was largely consistent between each app.

Except MusicMatch Jukebox, Sonique and zillons of "who made this?" shovelware.
This is probably true, but it's not the only way to attract seniors. As in the other discussion above, I'm convinced there are many very good people that will gladly trade a significant portion of their salary for other perks.
Get started with HomeBank, an open source personal finance app
The tone here is extremely disrespectful. Calling out someone’s opinion bullshit is not the way to go - no matter how popular you are on HN. It isn’t like he’s offering a troll comment/opinion here. You have just lost my respect for you.
If they're running Linux, I can ssh in and do it myself. :)
> Strongest possible disagree. There are people who can talk all the way down to the point where they're basically dictating code to you, who nevertheless cannot deliver on a real project. There's a difference between knowing, intellectually, how to solve a problem with code, and actually being able to deliver working code.

I'm a little confused by this statement. Is your issue that they aren't _capable_ of writing the code or that their job performance isn't there once hired? i.e. Are the technical chops not there or is the work ethic not there? It seems like you are describing the later to me, or we are talking about different levels of conversation.
(that was my point...)
I am or actually was in a similar situation as you. I grew tired of developing software just for the sake to earn money (selling things, improving conversion rates, booking systems, etc.).

Eventually I ended up only applying for jobs which would enable me to work on something which actually could or will make a difference or I cared about. Was hired in the end (even found very few positions available in those spaces). You have to decide for yourself what things you care about to support and then find businesses or companies in that area which currently hire someone with your skill set. I admit there is a bit of luck involved, but should be possible if you are living not in the middle of nowhere or find remote positions.

Keep also in mind that this does not necessarily mean good pay (but should be decent at least) or a good company culture in the end. But I think this is the same risk you would take with any job.
I think you're spot on with that observation. One reason for me to never ever consider going back to Germany.
Malice? No. Prioritization? Sure. Monetization never affects prioritization discussion?

I understand not everything that can make it in and I understand not making features for power users, especially ones that clutter up the UI.

But this is a basic use case. Maybe people use Spotify differently than I do, but I would assume they add their favorite songs to a playlist, put it on shuffle, and that's basically it. Having this functionality be effectively append only doesn't make sense to me.

https://i.imgur.com/a4PWICd.png

I don't see adding one extra option, which would logically fit next to "Add to Playlist", to this context menu with 8 options to be crazy.

Another user stepped in to let me know that playlists can be filtered with Ctrl-F. Now that's a feature for power users if I ever heard of one.
I think it's really just a question of mindset. A lot of recruiters don't have a background in tech. They don't understand that the market is completely upside-down. It's a huge change in mentality and it takes a bit of humility to see.
Pretty sure the Google Duplex demo has been proven a fraud...
"Steer zero nine zero", "Zero nine zero aye" is the right way of doing a callback compared to "Ready about!", "Ready!" Repeating the information back, instead of just saying "yes" ensures that the correct message has been received.

My experience with this was relaying a message between the driver and guard, to reverse a train on a main railway line. The guard answered "yes" and there was hell to pay as the train reversed across a section boundary. The "yes" response ensured the guard received a message, but not that he received the correct message.
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The indicators are normally not used, but when they are, they're very useful. When the screen is off on a laptop, is it because the whole machine is off, just sleeping, the video output is set to external, or something wrong happened? I've had to use a laptop where the POST was unusually long, and without the power LED I would've probably accidentally turned it off again because I would think I hadn't pressed the power button hard enough, and try pressing it again.
On a similar note has anyone ever come up with a way to differentiate k/K more in regards to "not all characters are on screen to compare"-ability?
Being able to talk intelligently, in depth, and at length about code is not the same skill as being able to write or debug code.
That is horrifying.

I don't suppose there'd be any way to know if companies are using this neo-phrenology during interviews?
B612 is the name of the asteroid from Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince). The narrator is a pilot.
`strcpy()` and `strncpy()` were defined at the same time, but to understand `strncpy()` you have to understand the original Unix file system. Directories are special files that map names to inodes [1]. Back then, each entry in a directory was 16 bytes---14 for the name, and 2 bytes for the inode number. `strncpy()` was designed to slap filenames into the directory; adding a NUL byte would either restrict filenames to 13 bytes, or overwrite the inode number. Also remember, this was done in the early 70s, when space was at a premium and computers weren't networked with every other computer in the world. It was a different time then.

The ANSI committee, when standardizing C, were trying to keep existing code valid when possible. Up until that time, you had a lot of different C libraries. Some defined `bzero()` to clear memory, others defined `memset()`. The C committee had to distill all these conflicting libraries so as to minimize the work each C vendor had to do to get a conforming C library.

[1] Inodes contain all information about a file except its name. Still true today.
I long ago switched to Classic Start Menu (part of Classic Shell), and I love it. I have a hybrid of Win 98 and Win 7.
Hit start, type the first few letters of the program, hit enter.

Launchy is really great as well.
> If that results in the candidate being flustered it's not a good sign on numerous axes.

Are you hiring sales reps or engineers? Why are you asking for an engineer to sell you on their past project(s)?

Interviews by their nature are about judgment, and knowing you're being judged by a complete stranger who holds the power over this potential path of your future is enough to get anybody flustered, especially a brainiac that just wants to work in relative peace behind their desk.
Interestingly, IBM successfully used similar arguments after WW2 and escaped with barely a scratch on their reputation.
The top companies with these leetcode tests probably don't care that good people being rejected or avoiding them because of the amount of preparation required. Middle sized companies and startups doing leetcode tests are missing good people and probably can't afford the same number of false negatives as someone like Google with an endless supply of candidates. It seems like smaller companies often lazily copy these processes despite it likely costing them good engineers.

Having gone through the process recently I avoided companies with puzzle solving hiring procedures because I was confident that I could find well paid, interesting, work without jumping though those hoops. As you get more senior there are more people you have met and worked with with employment opportunities. It gets easier to find work by asking around and finding someone who will hire you based on recommendations or having worked together before.
Lighter??? You mean thin? Lowercase is what, short like the 'x'?

That is exactly the opposite of a good programming font. These characters should be extra-tall. They should go at least as low as any other ASCII character, and at least as high as any other ASCII character. An extra pixel (or several on a 4K display) upward would be even better, up there with the accented uppercase letters like A-with-ring.
OK, fair enough. I could have sworn I tried this many, many times and never got it to work. Possibly because you have to click on the image and not on the expand button and not on the song name or album name for this to work...

And it's still too many click IMO.
GANs are a battle between the discriminator and the generator. If the G places eyes in the wrong place, the D and G eventually get error signals that cause them to improve. Using pooling layers, CNNs build features that look across the entire image. So it can learn that eyes need to go across each other and above the nose. It is just that when used for classification, CNNs may not need to learn this because it is never trained to discriminate real and fake faces.
Great points, thanks for the feedback!

The code base I created is super flexible, if you let me know what your area of work is, I might be able to set something up.
This would make me damn uncomfortable and stressed out once I started the job, and I'd likely take any other offer over this.
I couldn't find any references to what you mentioned ( very quick search ), but this turned up about using stripes to camouflage surfers against sharks.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/shark...
So was the author Antoine de-Saint Exupery
I'm really not comfortable talking about specific patterns of questions and answers that turned out not to be predictive, because I feel like they'd be traceable (or at least appear, to the people involved, traceable) to particular candidates.

Happy to answer any other questions you might have about our erstwhile process at Matasano (which is more or less our current process at Latacora).
There is a very big gap between IaaS and PaaS. K8S is an abstraction on top of VMs so you can have a customizable PaaS that runs on YAML code. It has nothing to do with how complex your app is because K8S is about running it with less work in a declarative fashion. I'm currently in and have worked with dozens of startups that have saved lots of time by removing all the ops overhead with K8S because it runs the servers and we can just deploy our apps.

It seems like most of the problems are actually about installing and running K8S software itself, but then 95% of companies won't be doing that and using the managed offerings instead. This is no different than companies using the cloud over running their own DCs.
In my opinion, there is without doubt a market, but your main challenge is going to be marketing your themes.

In a professional context, paying $29 or $50 or even $up-to-a-couple-of-hundred for a base/starting theme is a no brainer _if_ it's good enough, and you're convinced it'll not be a nightmare to adopt/extend/maintain in the future.

That "convincing" bit is hard...

Like pickpuck points out, ThemeForest will be one of your major competitors, so you'll need to work out good answers to two fairly difficult questions:

1) How are you going to differentiate your themes from free or inexpensive ones from ThemeForest?

2) How are you going to compete on marketing - SEO/Word Of Mouth/developer "mindshare" against ThemeForest (and al the other longstanding well-SEO-ed theme suites in Google)?
Uh, I have non-stick pans last 4+ years. It sounds like you are getting them too hot, which wears out the teflon--or worse--causes it to leach carcinogens into your food.
They got the idea from one of those assassin contract killer movies.
Right, totally understand.

Thanks for the offer! I'll read your post some time tomorrow and might send you a PM, if that's ok.
Did you counter or flatly reject and it ended there?
Under ideal theoretical conditions, yes.

In practice, friction and material deformation will probably give the top of the crest some degree of stability, possibly enough for a demonstration. At the very least it will probably be much slower to roll from such a metastable orientation.

Edit: also, based on the following gif someone else posted, I don't think the top of the crest is the metastable point. You can see the object linger at that point before seemingly spontaneously finding true equilibrium - illustrating my point rather well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gömböc.gif
Simplified Kubernetes is a thing that exists. OpenShift (and the open source version, OKD) jumps out as the immediate example. There are other non-k8s tools that cover some of the same territory, like Docker Swarm or Cloud Foundry.

There's still a learning curve, but it's much more humane than Kubernetes.
It all depends who you are trying to reach. My audience is obviously designers or people who are interested in this field, and ProductHunt is certainly a great place to reach this audiencw. And as you might have seen in the article, it was trending on other Design-related places as well, but I chose ProductHunt for the title simply because it's what most readers can relate to.