skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that's very interesting. I think you're right that within those first questions you do get some sort of perception about technical capacity in some raw form. Maybe it's even worth not trying to disprove that hypothesis by asking a separate question.

But what I'm confused about, that I'd like to hear your opinion on, is why if you have this confidence that your first three questions contain 90% of the signal, that you spend the rest of the interview doing anything vaguely related to that? Like it sounds to me that you just told me, "I get a 90% accurate measurement in the first, say, 30% of the interview, and then I waste my time for the remaining 70% trying to up it from 90 to 98%," and that just doesn't seem like a great use of your time after that point. Can you help me understand -- why don't you pivot to something like trying to evaluate their conscientiousness or openness to learning or emotional intelligence or ownership of their previous projects and mistakes and such? Or do you mean that you ask these programming-type questions and you indirectly learn about those other dimensions of success?

Also, I'd be curious to know what you do about teachability for some of the skills -- I know that sometimes it's just "we're hiring for a senior role and we cannot accept a junior/intern at this time," but very often it seems like it's just "we're growing in general" and then you are open to saying "hey we don't have an opening for you as a mid-level developer but we would be willing to hire you on as a junior-level dev and if you are as good as you say you are we'd also consider promoting you after your 90-day-review when we've seen you really shine." Are you trying to assess the level of the role that you would offer the candidate with your questions, in other words? Or are you just judging fitness for a fixed role?
Because enough people are making a lot of money from the status quo
Reading Forbes now and getting a seizure are the same thing. Mini video with autoplay that either doesn't have a close button or I can't figure out how to close it combined with ads.
For germany, there's a study that estimates that up to 30% of a flats rent in densely populated areas is directly or indirectly caused by car-centric planning. And if I just go round the block and estimate how much space is taken by (toll-free) parking and car lanes, I can quite well imagine that this number might be on the high side, but not entirely unfounded. Just half a block from my flat is a road that is double lane, at intersections 3-4 lanes including turn lanes in each direction, each direction offers a parking along the road and in the middle are two parking lanes 90° to the road. The parking space allocated would be sufficient to create a full house the entire length of the road. All that road space is built and maintained by the city, which receives neither vehicle tax nor any petrol taxes or any of the taxes that car owners pay.

I'm not generally opposed to people owning cars and using them. I'm opposed to people offloading the costs and space requirements of their private property onto the community.
I wasn't intending for it to be part of a series, but I agree that the OLLP technique may be of interest to a general audience and therefore a good subject for a future post.
Dave Cutler is famously reluctant to talk to the press.

Any subordinate giving details about him would certainly earn the ire of the entire corporation.
Google's DeepMind AI Beat Two Pros at StarCraft II
Ironically, unions always seek legal monopoly status.

https://www.nrtw.org/right-to-work-states
Why Science Fiction Authors Need to Be Writing About Climate Change Right Now
You really need a disabled placard. There's no shame in using it when you need it.

The parking spots aren't just for people with wheelchairs. My grandmother got one when she had to use a walker.

You deserve it!
Being a non-profit exec is often extremely well-paid.
Top comment on New York Times says this is deflection from the Roger Stone indictment. I think it's likely this is true, since he didn't get anything solid politically. He might let the government shut down again and pull the same rabbit out the hat next time Mueller issues an indictment.

On a related note, one article I really enjoyed a few months back was the decreasing relevance of the nation-state in an era of prolonged peace. It seems like solid logic: power cannot exist where it is not regularly exercised, and in an era of conflict and deadlock power can be exercised most at the local level, where the error kernel is smaller.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-end-of-a-world-of-nation-states-m...
Pretty sure it came from DOS. This behavior existed in Windows 95 and earlier.
Good enough is the enemy of great.
Indeed, the government should be small since I don't need big brother to govern me. It is not government's business to spend my money on climate speculations or other feelgood communism. The climate changes, just get over it. Live like a monk if you wish and actually care about the environment but do not try to force others in any way.

The government shutdown is indeed worth celebrating. IMO the people should reject the dirty IRS jobs anyway. Stealing is not a good career choice.
Patent claims define the legal scope: if "using Swift" isn't in the claims then using another language, provided it fits the language of the claims, is also covered by the patent.
Do you assert that the Great Depression was caused by rising inequality?
Not to mention the abuse of handicap licenses in the states. I speak to this as witnessing an acquaintance borrowing a handicap permit from a family member and using it for themselves. This kind of behavior would have to be enforced more strictly.
I have friends and co-workers with free access to the MBTA because it's paid for by our employer. I see them pay for ridesharing when the free public transportation is a reasonable option for the same trip. I see some people paying their own money to commute to work every day when they live inside the city and could be doing it for free.

People just want to take the path of least resistance and there's a lot of young tech workers with low expenses and high salaries who don't think about the long-term impact of the money they're spending on unnecessary conveniences instead of saving.

The real problem is that complaints about a shard public resource grow disproportionately like a meme and people codify that public transportation is terrible and unreliable, when in reality it's imperfect and that's an exaggeration.
I wondered how many others experienced this. It really makes it demotivating to use YT
You obviously disagree, but JMAP made exactly the right choice: A simple, pull based protocol, with a side-channel for notifications. It's not clear why anyone would want a complex websockets-based monstrosity when the simple approach solves the problem perfectly.

I am not at all convinced that JMAP will succeed, I think it's along shot, but it's failure will not be because of the choice of HTTP.
Just look at their cars in the parking lot. Doctors are doing very well.
> ... box-blocking laws aren't enforced as it is in NYC.

I'm from NYC and they're definitely not enforced. (Outside of rare exceptions?) They happen all the time. On the major street I live on (two lanes each way), they recently converted one lane each direction to "bus only". There's more cars than fit in one lane, and so there are /regularly/ cars blocking the box, and I've never seen any kind of enforcement, just awful effects to traffic. (Even as a pedestrian. It's hard to predict what the drivers of those cars are going to do, even if you have the signal and you're in the crosswalk.)
Just curious, did you build Cyrus yourself or there is beta server already?
What is, these days, an appropriate background?
Nitpick, reading this published in 2016:

> At the time, some questioned why Microsoft developed a 64-bit system; today most computers are 64-bit systems and even our phones will soon have a 64-bit operating system.

I've had to refresh my memory: the first 64-bit iPhone was released on September 20, 2013. It was "we have 64-bit since almost 3 years ago" for Apple in 2016.
That sounds like one of those super useful features that's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with. Perl has a few of those (cribbed from AWK, I believe):

$, : The output field separator

$ perl -E 'my @data = (11,22,33); say 11,22,33; say "@data"; say @data; $,="|"; say 11,22,33; say "@data"; say @data;'
112233
11 22 33
112233
11|22|33
11 22 33
11|22|33

$" : Interpolated list separator

$ perl -E 'my @data = (11,22,33); say 11,22,33; say "@data"; say @data; $"="|"; say 11,22,33; say "@data"; say @data;'
112233
11 22 33
112233
112233
11|22|33
112233

And a bunch more, including input line/record separators (so you can slurp a whole file into a buffer at once instead of line by line), etc.
I really wish Brooklyn had as many latitudinal lines as Manhattan. Whenever I visit Brooklyn, Uber/Lyft is always a better option.
Nobody ever accused me of being a Facebook shill, I'm happy to say I've helped a number of people off WhatsApp after Facebook bought them.

But let's keep this serious: Instagram isn't a tool for secure messaging. It is a tool to publish images, mostly public images.

A person might very well decide to move sensitive communication off Instagram and continue to post their cat videos on Instagram.

A valid reason for not using Instagram however is to lead by example and weaken the network effect of Facebook.

Facebook is already in panic because users are leaving the platform so IMO now is a good time to test out alternative solutions :-)
That is a really good salary, considering COL and taxes for Dallas.
Other than the tags, the Harmony code was completely original too, with the exception of the nine line range check code that was the only literal copying Oracle could find.
That they will receive backpay has been settled (signed law) for about 10 days now and made headlines on all those sites.
You love it that all your communication is controlled by only a single for profit company?

I wonder how you will feel the day FB decided to ban you for whatever rule their algorithm would decide you violated.
Walking off in a rage is still not ghosting. Unless you do it silently when your boss doesn’t see.

I’ve had shitty jobs including a stint at Walmart. You may leave without notice but the vast majority of people had the decency to tell their manager they were out. People working crap jobs have self respect and common decency too.
Yes and no. In this case, Trump is basically holding government hostage. If congress doesn't want a wall, he cannot force a wall on them.

EDIT: Better yet, according to that logic, a mugging is just a failed negotiation. If the victim was just more forthcoming with their money, it wouldn't have been a problem!
Cutler is famous in his derision of early UNIX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler#Attitude_towards_U...

The quote most often heard is that "UNIX is a junk OS designed by a committee of Ph.D.s."

Showstoppers goes into some detail about his career goal "to get UNIX."

Whether this is is purposeful or not is likely subjective. It is, in my opinion, informative.
Again, more than half of Americans do not live in a city. Being able to get from one city center to another solves none of the problems that having a car solves.
Patent law that allows software patents is already seriously messed up and urgently needs fixing. When it allows patenting programming languages, it's outright sick.
Your second hypothesis echoes something I read by Picketty: historically, inequality has only decreased through conflict and revolution.
Critical RCE WiFi firmware bug affects laptops, phones, routers, gaming devices
>If you're only now within range of one shop for x, prices are likely to increase in short order. And that shop will have less shoppers.

This is one issue that the (usually upper middle class or better) car-free advocates completely ignore that really ticks me off. I don't want people who don't have much money to have to choose between spending that money somewhere local but overpriced and taking a bus across town to go somewhere that actually gives them a good value.

I grew up somewhere that is almost an island and when there's little competition (everyone has to choose between the same few local options) all the businesses turn into rent-seeking scumbags. I remember when we used to leave that dump to visit relatives we'd always do our shopping on the way back because the non-local supermarkets were cheaper. When I go visit my parents I still ask if they want me to bring anything from Walmart.
Because nothing communicates "I can be fun and exciting" as a stiff headshot.
Tangent: I'm expecting a kid, and time will come in couple years, when I'll want to show them kid videos. I fully intend to set this up as streaming from a library curated by my wife & me, populated with youtube-dl and through other means.

I know some people on HN have such setups; could you share recommendations for hardware and software stack? I suspect a Raspberry Pi may not be enough (having network and USB sharing capacity), especially if we want to simultaneously stream movies for ourselves. But I also don't want to turn it into some $1k+ server build, the way they do on /r/plex and elsewhere. Could anyone recommend a "compromise" setup, that would allow to comfortably stream HD videos to 2-3 devices simultaneously?
State of Messaging 2019
Actually, I'm going to argue for just the opposite: Let users of cars pay for the infrastructure they use (through gas and plate taxes), let users of public transit pay for the services and infrastructure they use (through ridership fees). Right now, public transit is heavily subsidized by income taxes and use taxes for cars (at least in my area). I think that if all transit users were forced to pay for their share of the cost of the services they use, you would see public transit use decrease in many mid-sized cities, and potentially increase in extremely dense cities.

If you really have a desire to 'stick it to the wealthy' while still enabling all to use the roads, sell access to HOV lanes at some extremely high cost and use it to pay for improvements to the infrastructure as a whole. I honestly think that this is a much better plan than the current (ridiculous) trend of offering HOV access to hybrids and EVs, because getting people into hybrids and EVs does nothing to ease congestion, which is the purpose of HOV lanes. Charging an extremely high tax for single-occupied HOV use would provide additional money to build improved infrastructure for all users, which would achieve the HOV goal of reducing congestion and pollution (because for traditional cars, congestion = horrible MPG).

PS - hybrids and EVs don't make sense in all areas. I have a Fusion Energi which has a plug-in range of about 20 miles, and I live in Michigan. I bought it because I wanted to be able to eat lunch in my car without idling the engine (to save wear and tear), but in general, hybrids and EVs are a complete waste of time in the midwest. 1/3 of the year is spent in arctic conditions below 30 degrees, and another 1/3 of the year is spent in sweltering 85+ degree temperatures ... and in both cases, hybrids and EVs don't do notably better than gas cars (first hand experience here).

As an additional aside, until we build more nuclear plants, and/or provide infrastructure to charge EVs during the day, they are kind of pointless. Solar power is not available at night (when most people charge EVs), so the electricity ends up coming from hyrdocarbon fuels plants. The conversion and transmission losses associated with going from Thermal->Mechanical->Electrical->High Voltage->Transmit->Low Voltage->DC->battery are so high that EVs really are currently not better than gas vehicles in much of the country. In areas where the waste heat from the gasoline is used to provide cabin heat, EVs are significantly worse in terms of overall energy use (especially those that use resistive heating for cabin heat).
What's YOE?
Ahhhh, the classic "Both sides"ism. Both sides are not responsible for this. One party is almost exclusively at fault (in fact, 2 men are almost entirely responsible: Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump). The "deal" the President just made is the same deal the Democrats proposed 35 days ago. It's the same bill the Senate passed unanimously in December. Mitch McConnell refused to have a vote on the bill, because Donald wouldn't sign it. Do not, for a second, pretend both sides are at all equally responsible for this mess.
I think it's fair to assume no collaborative text editing would actually occur on that field at all. And so last write wins is perfectly acceptable strategy here and no coordination is actually necessary, and neither is necessary to inform the user about conflicting edits. For UX it might be useful to observe own edit, but that can be done completely locally with data only eventually propagating farther. Incidentally this is also pretty much the only way to make the edit reliably synchronized with the remote system, because users don't have perfectly reliable computers, perfectly reliable internet connections and won't wait long for anything.
Because I want to be treated like a human not a nuisance or just a mere number.

I do not have the time to wait and I do not have the nerves getting misdiagnosed.I do not have the luxury of wasting time and my own resources being treated by someone that does not care.
Dont take me wrong I do not think that the private doctor cares about me.He cares about me because I am a paying customer.

I do not want the doctor acting like I am 5. I do not need an authoritative figure that acts like a bureaucrat. I want a person that gives me an honest, objective assessment.

I want to be able to talk to my doctor about things that matter to me and I do not need to make a visit every time I need to ask something. I would rather shoot him an e-mail get his opinion and act accordingly. I do not want to waste time going to the doctor getting some generic drugs.

I want the doctor to be professional, giving me you know options regardless of whether they are covered by an insurance or not.

And also because I really do not want to visit doctors. I do not want to plan it. I do not want to spend half a day going from one doctor to another.
I want an exact appointment and I want the doctor not waste his time gossiping with patients and nurses. He has the right for break but not every 20 minutes especially when he has people waiting for him.

The amount of money I spend on healthcare with my taxes is MUCH higher than what I spend a year.
And now I do not have any sense of solidarity with the rest of the country. I could not care less.
To me this kind of taxation is nothing but a theft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpaOy8b8X6A
Sadly it's not from an site that covers it all. I too am interested in the topic.

This was just a local news story, they tend to do a good job:

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/01/22/rural-clinics-end-b...
As an interviewer, I try to apply the robustness principle: Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

After all, if I was scheduled to interview someone and they don't turn up, that just means I get a free hour to work on something more interesting!
Not to everyone, for sure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18998227
Lol definitely agree that this thread is mostly filled with extremeness. I don't think people should be advocating the removal of all cars/vehicles on the planet until there is a reasonable way to replace their functions (how do people, goods and large-scale construction projects get around in in normal and emergency situations). Similarly I don't think providing specific car free zones in small 1 mile blocks is the same as murdering elderly and pregnant people.
I have just the opposite feeling. Facebook is going to remove end to end encryption as the default from WhatsApp and turn it into something like Messenger or Telegram, where chats are by default not end to end encrypted, and the user has to explicitly choose it. There'd be some backlash in the press. But most users won't bother about it, just like they don't bother about all the Facebook scandals to move off the platform or care enough to look for better privacy elsewhere.

What's more, Facebook can, and will, paint this as something it's doing in order to monitor content and handle fake news, earning brownie points from various governments who'd be eager to tap into this new source for surveillance.
I agree. A very simple “I choose to terminate my employment with your company effective xx/xx/xxxx” is much more respectable. No need to give a reason, just state the facts and move on. Ghosting seems really immature, like the person doesn’t want to face up to their actions. As well, I was always taught to never burn a bridge because you have no idea who you’re going to see again in the future. Impressions matter.
...I hate that feeling when I browse youtube and want to watch a trashy video, but then have to stop myself because of the negative effects on the recommendation engine. (yes, if I'm in browser youtube I have the option to open an anonymous tab)
A city of 500k inhabitants doesn't have even a bus between the airport and city center? That's quite interesting, one would think it'd one of the most sought after routes.
People unable to use public transit are eligible for subsidized taxi rides.
Open source client doesn't really get you much, since you would need to audit the entire source code, then build it yourself, which you probably won't do. If you aren't doing that, you're implicitly trusting others to have audited the source code, and to provide builds that actually correspond to the source code. Now there are reasons to trust the open source community like this (lots of eyeballs, and people who care about security and privacy can inspect the source code and third party builds), but there is also one advantage to commercial software (including closed source) over open source: you're more likely to have someone to sue if they lie or mess up.
When one party conducts themselves with decency, and the other doesn’t (employer), the decent one is ripe for being taken advantage of.
U.S. Healthcare is more expensive because every single step along the way costs more.

This blog series[1] by healthcare professionals goes through it all. The primary culprits are: more expensive inpatient care, more expensive outpatient care, more expensive drugs, higher administrative costs, higher insurance costs, higher health investment costs, higher disease prevalence costs, and higher defensive medicine costs.

https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/what-makes-the-...
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Competition can destroy any position with oversized profits. Try again!
The From header has always been spoofable. It's just most ISPs (and Google) chose to disallow it to address low-hanging fruit in the fight against spam.

But anyone can set up their own postfix/qmail/sendmail server and put anything they want as the From.

Or am I misunderstanding the issue here?
Uber and Lyft increase downtown congestion (like sometimes up to one third of cars I see are Uber/Lyft in downtown Chicago) and routinely block bus stops and in bus lanes. This further slows down buses even more and screws up schedules. I wish bus drivers could automatically ticket the drivers.

I have a CTA pass so I almost never use Uber/Lyft because it's so much more expensive.
Forbes "Sites" pages like this have opinions from "contributors", not Forbes itself.
Hey Jeremy, just FYI this release seems to have broken the links to the Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders course. For example, I can no longer access it from the fast.ai front page (I get a 404 error.)
I think the opposite is true: the Depression led to the New Deal, and to WW2, both of which destroyed great wealth and made lowly workers better off.