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How do we explain the vegans and the vegetarians who still get plenty of heart disease? If veganism were a silver bullet, I'd be the first one to jump on that bandwagon, today.
Why? I'm on 10 acres. I like it for the isolation. Just got it, so maintaining and improvements are going to be interesting and a big learning opportunity.
Well, go ahead and list your examples, then.

There’s a big difference between places where you can walk (technically that’s almost anywhere) and a city that was built for walking (ie was large before cars).

On the east coast these are much more common, for obvious reasons. Places like Charleston and Savannah have a very similar feel to San Francisco. Some of New Orleans. Most of the center cities in the northeast. A lot of Chicago.

But the common thread here is age of the city and how well it has held on to its historic core. Out west there’s just not much old enough to qualify. Sure, there are some nice small towns here and there with historic main street areas. Portland, Seattle, and Boise have a neighborhood or two. But just ask the question “would you live here without a car?,” and then look at what percentage of the population does. Outside of those aforementioned bits of the country, not owning a car would make life extraordinarily difficult.
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This is really neat!

While we're on the topic of neat things you can do with `curl`, check out:

curl parrot.live
But what's her actual point? They're not allowed to fire disabled veterans? You get to keep receiving bonuses after firing?

"A signing bonus or sign-on bonus is a sum of money paid to a new employee by a company as an incentive to join that company.

To encourage employees to stay at the organization, there are often clauses in the contract whereby if the employee quits before a specified period, they must return the signing bonus."
Coming from someone who mostly works on web projects, I am not a huge fan of Flutter or React Native. While they are suitable for simple projects, I think the real value in a mobile engineer is extensive knowledge of the features offered by native platforms. Libraries like those I mentioned remind me of Bootstrap, where there was a period where so many websites were so obviously built with it.

That said, I think progressive web apps have a lot of potential if the native platforms continue to embrace them and expose native functionality.

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Now, actually on point with your question, one tool that I fell in love with while learning mobile application development was Fastlane: https://fastlane.tools/ I'd recommend any mobile developer check it out, especially if you have a small team and aren't particularly experienced with distributing applications through mobile app stores.
There’s a difference between quitting and being laid off, you know that right?
>...Our technology allows predictive screening solutions and enables Preventive Actions in the public safety, smart cities and homeland security...

That could never run into problems, whatsoever. /s
Most people get tired of the verbosity of createElement + appendChild + createTextNode, so they whip up a utility function, something like

element(‘h1’, {class: “foo”}, “Chapter 1”)

Then they add method chaining, support for event listeners, and various other bells and whistles.

And that’s how new Javascript frameworks are born.
I gave up trying the get my first mouse working after hours of tweaking win.ini...
Non stick pans have always seemed to me like the classic marketing thing of selling what uninformed consumers think they need, rather than what is actually more useful.
Retracting a sign-on bonus when you're laying someone off -- rather than them quitting or being terminated for cause -- is wrong. That's tantamount to wage theft, IMO. Reversing someone's yearly bonus after the fact is just as bad.
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Unfortunately I don’t believe regulation would work in this case. Not because it wouldn’t be effective, but because it wouldn’t happen. People tend to wonder why e.g. Nordic unions are so strong. It is because they have real power. They have organizations, newspapers, building, cash and everything else that you need. The prime minister of Sweden was even recruited directly from being the head of a union, because of that unions long standing relationship with the party.

This is why I always smirk a little bit when Americans speak out against unions like they actually would have a choice to form a an organization that would take power from the corporations and politicians.

Eh, I don’t know what my point was. I guess I wouldn’t expect a solution anytime soon because it is a power issue.
Why should not all those be together and be the bar for senior starting at the start-up layer? I think the only big difference is working/navigating in a small or large org, no?
think of an egg on its side, it can rest anywhere along it
You can throttle serverless services by invocation count. AWS will alert you when an account exceeds a budget, Azure used to let you put a hard limit on the spend, not sure if they still do.
While persistence is good, it has to be applied correctly. It can become the opposite problem as stubbornness, spending too much time in a small thing that is not actually that relevant because the person really wants to get it done.

More important than persistence IMHO is to know when to be persistent and when not, and those two qualities by OP seem to be quite related to it: "raw algorithmic skill" (to know whether something is optimizable or not) and willingness to say “I don’t know” when you don’t know" (seek help, get the right person for the job, etc).

Edit: I know because I was like that in the beginning; it was okay to learn e.g. micro optimizations when learning programming for fun at university, but it'd have been a big issue if I had not been able to correct it.
Meanwhile in the real world....
I've seen so many posts here complaining about how stock is worthless and please just give them cash. You literally can't win against the mob.
as noted below, it's Dunkirk
This might be a weird question , but within topic.

What makes fonts convey other information? Why is comic sans so derided? (It obviously is.) What makes the emotion of a font come out?
It's a process similar to creating a minimum failing case for a regression: take a tightly scoped problem which you'd actually reasonably assign an e.g. intermediate engineer to in your company. File off the serial numbers if you need to, then start reducing all of the unnecessary scope from the production environment until you get to just the core bit that can reasonably be explored in $TIME_BUDGET.

Package that up in a self-contained Vagrant image / Docker image / whatever with all of the skeleton required to run a full answer to completion. Then, take out the full answer. Consider leaving a reduced test suite so that candidates can see if they're making progress in a positive direction.

Now write the rubric by which you'll assess candidate answers. Generally, you'll want to pick ~5 areas which are important for you and write prose describing what 0 points through 4 or 5 points are worth in each of those areas. Then, determine what a passing score is, perhaps by calibrating through running it with existing engineers at the company. And then (this is the brutally difficult part): convince your organization that the rubric now makes hiring decisions.

Then, create a way for people to submit these into your hiring process. This might be as simple as "Create a private gist of this file and email me the link" through something with material tooling developed.

(This answer may or may not be exactly the same as Thomas' answer, but we were co-founders at a company which was quite related to this problem.)
I see you're a recent joiner of the site and have another comment much like this one. For what it's worth, I suggest reading the community guidelines, as you'll see why this is getting downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Algorithmic ability has no correlation to the ability to write maintainable code, though. Most time at work is not spent demonstrating ability to regurgitate algorithms.
It's difficult to appreciate how freakish industrially farmed chicken is until you have a comparison point. I'm typing this in Fiji, and yesterday purchased three local chicken breasts: the total weight including skin and some cartilage/bone was around 500g, which is about the same as a single factory-farmed, boneless, skinless breast fillet in Australia.
There are other places in the US that are hiring senior developers outside of Silicon Valley and the FAANG companies. There are major metropolitan areas in the US where you can start a company, get good senior engineers and not have to pay the wages that FAANG companies pay.
This is nearly pseudoscience..

Indians have one of the highest rates of heart attacks even though a significant population is purely vegetarian.

I think science has to be focused on biology and science, not social surveys and asking questions to a small bunch of uncontrolled strangers.
You can get those with a startup. I sort of did, for some definition of "certain environment" and "specific technologies" and so on. I still do actually, post-startup.

Notably, I got what most software developers would describe as "fewer hours". We tracked time and got paid for actual hours worked. (still do) Since the company would be paying more, we were/are seldom asked to work beyond 40 hours per week. Much of this comes naturally with government contracting. You must track time, and you must pay employees for their time.

Being onsite is a positive. I'm never expected to work at home. Work is work, and go home I can focus on my family or hobbies or sleep.
> A and C both need information from each other

Sounds like a monolith pulled apart :-)
Debian also does not have anything above python 3.4 on the stable packages branch

3.6 has been dev and test since 2016
It sounds like the sign on bonus she’s referring to vests over 4 years. Unless I’m mistaken, this is an initial stock grant and you only get the full amount if you stay with the company for 4 years.
> It's not like we were asking candidates "hey, how did you enjoy your last software security job?". We were doing something closer to "here's a piece of code with a heap overflow in it; talk us through how you'd write an exploit". It didn't work: there were people who could answer those questions indistinguishably from an exploit developer who nevertheless couldn't write a 1995-era stack overflow exploit if their life depended on it.

Something about this example is not registering for me. I can't imagine how this situation is possible. Going from a detailed, step-by-step description to a code implementation is a trivial rote task in my mind. I must be missing something.
Only to short term business interests. Long term the costs of cars to society are absolutely abysmal compared to bulk transit.
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Games can help motivate people in otherwise nongame scenarios
The same call-and-response style is the standard for modern sailboats even if they can be single-handed in operation, because if somebody's out of place during a tack the boom can sweep them right off the boat when it goes from one side to the other.
Forget about a tech hub, what city with jobs at all. Ten acres is more like a small farm than a house, by definition at that lot size almost nothing can be within five minutes, lol.
I recall an interview I was brought into early in my career to talk with someone being brought into be a senior architect... in my mind this meant this dude must be crazy smart right. Everyone in room had all basically made up thier minds and loved the guy. I gave a variable like

a = [1,2,4,8,9];

And asked if he could write a loop and print out the values of each element. He embarrassingly could not.

I always ask this question and then talk and then have everyone solve a problem a simplistic one but it always involves an Http request and some loops...

I like to see how people type too... if you can’t type it’s usually easy to tell if you spend most of your time with a computer or not...
The map on that page has pins on Tunisia, Georgia, Brazil, US (NY i think) and the Caribbeans. But yes, most of the others are in France.
I dunno, I’d say people probably worry more about health care than their optimal productivity.
There are two sides to this story, we don't know why he was fired, and we don't know Tesla's policies regarding bonuses.

It sounds like it wasn't a one time payment, but rather a monthly addition. It makes complete sense to retract that after firing.
Or people who weren't disciplined enough to stick/adhere to the veggie diet, likely also had other parts of their life with less than healthy discipline.
Talk your grandmother through anything GUI related over the phone and compare. Spend half an hour trying to help her figure out which button she should press only to find out at step 3 she opened facebook instead of the start menu, and that she actually has been pressing buttons randomly for 15 minutes while producing assorted nonspecific vocalizations of agreement while doing literally none of the things you've asked.

Or even get the legendary confusion of them never having turned the machine on in the first place.

Generally, after years of experience doing exactly this, I've found it is a lot easier to dictate a literal sequence of characters over the phone than coordinate a complex visual action with only confused verbal feedback.

Of course, with terminal stuff, you have even further options in, say, sending an email with an attached bash file for them to download and click, or if this continues, set up a script for them (and ad an icon for it in their start menu) that ssh's them into a handy aws or digital ocean instance so you can then ssh into their machine from the comfort of your own home and do it yourself.
I’m surprised there’s a need for this kind of thing or even much of a difference between most sans serif fonts. It seems there are dozens if not hundreds of open source programming fonts which are all quite legible.
What are the likely dietary habits of people that have time for academic surveys

Just college kids and mechanical turk penny vacuums

So probably a little predictable
Two days ago I started an HTML application. One day ago I realized, I'd want to add localization to it. Today I realized, that I may be better off to have the whole document be created dynamically, since I can then easily implement localization. Note, this is an "app" not a "doc".

Too bad I am forced to use ES5 (IE9).
Well, feel free to name names then if that’s the case.
They seeing a return to the gold standard for the dollar?
filesize. flac is about 10MB/min, opus 160 is 1MB/min
It appears that they covered it with glue, so that they could count the insects at the end of the day. While this does definitely raise some questions, it also made the initial test probably quick and easy; no human test subjects needing to sign a waiver that they were willing to hang out covered in glue all day. Kind of like testing things on lab rats first.

Definitely would need to be tested in some other way, though. Lots of things that work on lab rats don't work on humans.
It's not very clear, but this release is last release supporting 2.7 & 3.4. 1.5.6 supports 3.4.
That sounds like a Shadowrun plot hook.
If I was doing this at Google, I would spend a lot of time thinking about test fraud. At a 40-50 person company? Not so much. We do simple follow-up things that raise the amount of effort you'd have to put in to fraudulently submitting work sample tests, and we know pretty exactly how we'd randomize our work sample tests to make it hard to cheat (at least, hard to cheat without doing something we'd be interested in anyways) --- but it's just not worth it right now.

Work sample test fraud is one of those things that sounds like a huge deal on message boards, but when you game through what would be involved in doing it in real life, it makes very little sense.
> The practitioner there did an electrocardiogram and said the left side of my heart was slightly enlarged, but my discomfort was probably just gas. Don’t worry, I was told: “Your heart’s not just going to stop. You’re not going to drop dead tomorrow.” But that’s what almost happened.

This is worrying. The habits of doctors can kill. They're not cautious enough. My grand mother was misdiagnosed (not coronary but cardiovascular). My aunt was misdiagnosed and sent home. I had clear cardiovascular issues but got laughed at by half the people I talked to.

Non invasive diagnosis is one the few places where I do want tech to get one or two more decimals of precision.
You are correct. For many commands such as raising sails we would repeat the command across the deck. My recollection was that distinct responses were reserved for potentially dangerous maneuvers where the helm needed to make sure the crew was performing the correct step at the correct time.
You think that Zhang odometry paper is good, you should see the stuff his grad student came up with for his thesis[0]. The results look almost as good as the figures from the Ouster blog post! ;-)

[0] https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/2016/8/DLL-thesis.pdf
There is a lot of complaining about hiring processes these days.

I think both algorithmic questions and work samples have an important role.

Algorithmic questions are presented with a time lot, you get an idea of how the candidate thinks through problems. These questions I think reflect general intelligence.

Work samples reflect effort and experience, which is also important.

People like to complain about one or the other like they're entitled to a job. It's hard to hire senior engineers because there aren't very many good ones, a mediocre engineer who hangs on for 5-10 years is now a "senior engineer."

You're not special. If you want a high paying job of your choosing you have to earn it. Only a vocal whiny minority is heavily complaining online. If you think you're highly competent and the problem is with all of these companies, in whose best interest it is to hire good people, you should think again.
But this is also why Silicon Valley didn't happen in Norway.
You know, if Batman were keeping tsetse flies and mosquitoes at bay, he would save a lot more lives, really.
Nice, but I like this one better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAU_btBN7s
Same here. Took me totally by surprise. I was much more ready for death at 26 than I am at 56, because kids. It hits me pretty much every day.
10 acre is a lot of land. 435600 square feet intact. When I lived in NZ our home was on 9000 square feet. And that was a lot of space... I would think a fairer example is living in a landed home instead of an apartment. I’ve spent the last 11 years in apartments and just had a baby, now wanting to move back to NZ to have a landed home and back yard...
Its part of why I don't trust childless politicians. I want the people making tough decisions to have that existential pull
Public companies in the US must file with the SEC. Generally, the SEC site is the best place to find this stuff. https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html
That is an issue, depending on the printer you have for them, but is solvable.
The typical approach is to setup Fluentd for logging. You set it up as a daemonset, and have it mount /var/docker from the host. That gives it access to all container logs, which you then stream to your desired store.
> mechanical turk penny vacuums

Wait, what's that?
This is a bad idea: The ticket price will raise for everyone else or the taxes, remember "there is no free rides"
If you are truly a senior software engineer with all of the common skills living in most metropolitan areas in the US in 2019 and can’t find a job, it most definitely is the fault of the job seeker.
Gnu/Linux
That'd be an improvement for many people compared to the status quo.
Respectfully, I don’t think you can really determine much from the outside, there are just too many things that happen. Maybe they hired someone and then they ran into visa issues, maybe someone switched to a different team, the possibilities are endless.

One thing I will say is that for many employers, a "no" now doesn't mean a "no" forever.
That's not what the thread is about. It's not about disadvantaging older workers. It's about discrimination based on age. Just as an example, some states are no longer allowing insurance companies to charge a higher rate for younger drivers.

> is actually bad for other group, for example, poorer untrained workers.

Those poorer untrained workers will also eventually become old. What then?

> A relative advantage for one is necessarily a relative disadvantage for another.

Could you explain that in terms of not allowing companies to discriminate based on race? Who is that a disadvantage to in any sense that could be framed as just or ethical?
I don't have a perfect theory for it! It's just something I've repeatedly seen happen.
In Prague (Czech Republic), public transport is completely free for people under 11 and above 70 :)
"because I felt like uncalled code".

This is why HN is home.
For someone out of the music codec game, is Opus generally the best codec to go with these days?

Any alternatives that work with iOS?

What software do you use to listen to music on your computers?

Is there a good media streaming server with iOS / desktop apps which I could use and then store FLAC on my server and have it transcoded to serve to clients?
And they were probably well aware about this when he joined. He must have signed and agreed to those terms.
Is it the public purse?

Or is it unions? Or maybe something down the chain?

The TTC/Subway in Toronto has 'change collectors' - people at every station who do change, they earn over $100K if they work a lot of overtime.

There are effectively no automatic change booths at the stations, and no automated way to just 'buy a token and get on'.

Can you imagine why it's so inefficient?

Why they can't just get machines for that?

My cousin is senior at a contracting agency that's building out the new stations - everyone from top to bottom is charging huge for government work.

CGI, a Canadian consulting firm billed the US Gov. more than a $ 1 Billion for healthcare.gov - something that Google had to 'come in and fix'.

Governments are much bigger and more powerful than ever before, individual litigation is on the rise, 'special rights and concerns' are at the forefront, and there are a million legal tangles to any major project.

Many of these things, on their own are 'good things', but on the whole, it really creates a tangle.

The reason very little gets done is that we are caught up in our own efficient bureaucracies, public and private.
Same for assessment centers. Huge red flag.
Yeah, God forbid anybody pays an extra Euro per ride to provide kids with some freedom of travel in their city.
As most modern sailboats are much smaller than a "Tall Ship" it is also a lot of fun to switch from port to starboard while the ship is coming about ... hopefully before the boom starts to swing.
We spoke to a Waymo One customer
Norway is probably better off by not having Silicon Valley.
Top comment poster here. You distilled the point I was unwittingly getting at: technology is rules-based and as we wrap ourselves in tech we wrap ourselves in rules.
I've thought about that a lot, and I wonder if the number of frameworks mentioned in a job posting indicates poor job quality or just an inept hiring manager.

Either way, I purposely avoid those type of job postings. I don't want to waste so much as 10 minutes on a phone screening to find out that even though you mention Ember or React that what you really want is someone with Angular 1 experience.
Similar thread from 2014 (lots of comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550315