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Ask HN: Why do FAANG help you prepare for interviews?
Every company designs its interview process to understand whether the candidate fits the role and can do the work the company needs.

What is the point in teaching candidates how to solve interview problems if it positively skews their interview performance? Doesn't it make the interview process more biased?
Many other things are possible, like breaking into a video surveillance system and replace the actual footage with a fake one incriminating someone else.
In northern climates the best tool to defrost locks and remove extremely thick deposits of ice from mirrors and windshields is a cordless hairdryer.
It really shouldn't even be in the path. There's basically no reason for an admin to run it by hand.
How do you turn around the culture of a 130,000-person company?
* McKinsey may be a horrible company, but they didn't make opioids.*

For a nice fee, I'll draft you an actionable plan to commit the perfect murder. But hey, I'm not committing any myself and I can't help what people do with the things they learn from my super-specific and reliable murder consultancy services.
Also design mechanical stuff for a living. I’ve spent multiple days over the course of the past six months creating drawings to demonstrate how a design will ‘feel’ once made. A 1:1 3d model that other stakeholders could walk into would be so much more effective.
They treat merchants slightly less crappy than credit card companies.
That sounds like l10n gone seriously wrong -- maybe they literally wrote something like translation_helper(0) in that header which translates to Monday in $asian language and Sunday in English.
What problems can arise when law enforcement agencies are able to match DNA to catch criminals such as rapists and murderers? Wouldn’t that bring benefits to society and make it safer.
Not the person you asked, but in my case, yes, after additional independent verification. It is not a huge deal, but it did result in a real quality-of-life improvement. I am grateful for what I learned.
That's currently only supported by 86% of browsers. A few years ago when they might have designed it, that number as much lower.

See https://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime
Regarding input type="date"

> Recommendation

> While convenient where it works, the failure mode of type="date" and its associated date and time types is very poor. This makes it a risky choice that could leave users struggling to meet validation criteria.

[0]: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/01/html5-input-types/#...
Caltech is an unusually focused school. If your only goal is to churn out future STEM PhDs, admitting based on an objective math test is probably not a bad approach.

Harvard's goal, traditionally, has been to [re]produce the ruling class of America, and their admissions criteria are geared accordingly.
The people I really think should be held to account are those that suddenly cut off all the prescription opioid addicts by changing the rules without putting in place treatment options first. To expect millions of addicts to not switch to street Fentanyl and end up dying in large numbers after being cut off from prescription opioids is criminal stupidity.
I assume they (and/or lyft and google maps) will eventually do what google maps should already have in my opinion, a final option next to car/walking/bike/transit/taxi: "multi-modal".

A lot of times the fastest way to get somewhere in LA is actually:
walk to a scooter, scoot to the train, train to the closest stop, then uber to your final destination.

But that isn't shown automatically and it's a lot of work to calculate it yourself.
Have you ever tried freshly made soy milk (i.e. made the same day from just soy beans and water in the traditional way) ?
For better or worse, 99.9% of the web uses custom datepickers, if not for other reason than the fact that <input type=date> is not supported by all the browsers out there.
>Of course, if intelligence is only partially hereditary (as you suggested) then Harvard would do better to just apply some uniform standard of intelligence measurements to all applicants, assuming that the goal is to admit the most intellectually gifted students.

Isn’t this the role of the SAT?

I’d be interested to see the data for legacy versus non-legacy SAT scores for applicants, admits, and matriculants.

I’m not defending Harvard’s current admissions policies nor their historical admissions policies, which seem indefensible by modern standards. My interest stems more from the theoretical implications of assortive mating for traits that are both very heriditary and very valued by society (or very deterministic of “success”.)
That's not more money though; that's less money exchanged into a weaker (more inflated) currency. Four pounds isn't more than three kilograms just because the number is larger.
I was meeting a client yesterday at their office, they offered me coffee and asked me if I wanted milk, then whether I'd like oat or regular. I said regular (usually drink oat but was somehow preoccupied) and the response was "yea, fortunately that's still available".

To me that was a pretty striking example of how the realities of what climage change is going to push us towards are sinking in.
If you are going to x86_64 you might as well run Linux these day. The only people who might still need HPUX are people who have binary software packages that only run on HPUX, and they obviously won't run on x86_64.
Autoscaling is not just about scaling. It’s also about high availability.

I have two or three ASGs up with a minimum and maximum of two and an HTTP health check that will kill an instance if the health check doesn’t pass and bring up another one.

I also have applications that autoscale based on queue sizes.
We still rely on fingerprints which have never been proven to be unique, much less actual pseudoscience in the USA like "fire analysis." Might as well be dunking the accused to see if they are witches.
You’re missing the notion of cultural continuity - legacy admissions support that effort.
Sometimes the client want different look and behaviour for componet, not Just the simple HTML5 input
> Now it smells like old fingernails and skin, which makes perfect sense.

Doesn't make 'perfect sense' to me. Maybe poetic sense if you're coming from a certain point of view.
Not all of those correspond to patterns of crystal structure (although some do: tetrahedron, cube, and octahedron, IIRC).
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Save games is a poor example.

Users often need to back them up. Backup systems often include Documents by default but not AppData.

Files in AppData are hidden, and you would not expect users to find them.

Further, many save games can be opened with a text editor just fine :)
'In my view, the defendant’s ambiguous and equivocal reference to a “lawyer dog” does not constitute an invocation of counsel that warrants termination of the interview and does not violate'

Stunned or not, it seems pretty clear the judge is referring specifically to the phrase "lawyer dog" in the summary of their judgement. I don't see how 'reference to a "lawyer dog"' could be interpreted any other way...
Even with on prem solutions, I would hope that most websites are behind a load balancer with at least two instances. Storing session state on the web server hasn’t been something that I’ve ever done and I have been developing websites since at least 2002.
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I have. I've also met several long term clients with interesting projects via the "Seeking freelancer?" thread as well.
Would your attitude change if, say, until 11th grade nobody had told you that college prep begins in middle school (or maybe kindergarten, depending on who you ask)? It may shock you but that is actually the situation a lot of students and their parents find themselves in: they find out too late that they were supposed to be preparing for college admissions for the past few years.

(I am not claiming that you have to believe that this justifies affirmative action, but you should know that the situation is not as simple as the media talking points would have us believe.)
The hardware is fine. (What's more arguably lacking is software)

Yeah resolution could be better but it's far from being a deal breaker for viz, modelling etc.

Curious to hear what you thought the blockers were?
Would have to be self-contained; otherwise, the video could always be edited...
Well. Regular milk is also mostly water.
I disagree - your “90%/7%/3%” seems completely arbitrary. It might be appropriate for some projects but I think it’s wrong to adopt as a hard and fast rule.

IMO, the correct amount of testing is the amount that lets you refactor quickly and with confidence that you haven’t broken anything, and that tests pathways/edge cases in complicated logic.
At one of my companies we were encouraged by our investors to do Phase I (and some Phase II) clinical trials in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Angola, and other such places.

Back then we did do device studies in Germany because the regulations were at the time quite lax (basically you just needed a German MD to decide it was OK and to actually use the device). They've since tightened up the rules.

Interestingly, in the device case, people who were squeamish about doing studies in poor countries with poor IRBs and such were perfectly happy to do the device studies in Germany. Not sure what to make of that.
I work on the UX side and you can email me at firstname.lastname @ microsoft.com (it's my username and in my profile).
I hate to burst your bubble but we've never lost a paypal dispute and they have treated us extremely well. Further, I can call them any time and talk with a senior rep relatively easily.
dnautics and TylerE were talking about the 10k/day boundary. If your reply isn't about the 10k/day boundary, then I think you misunderstood them.
Best co-working spaces are cafe's with WiFi and no time limit. It costs ~$10 to use a cafe in coffee/tea. At 20 days a month, that's ~$200/month. WeWork is $50 a day, or $350 a month. WeWork has no cafe with food and drinks.

To me, co-working spaces are just shitty overpriced cafe's without the drinks and food.

I alternate between home and my cafe's of choice.
All of these products are some mush plus sugar. Soylent is expensive old people food supplement.

All of these things are just ways to extend the dominance of big agriculture, dressed up in various healthy use cases.
Indeed. Similarly, a lot of the "shot on iPhone" (etc.) footage was shot on a iPhone... that was in a bespoke mount, using professional studio lighting-- usually continuous lighting since flash sync with a camera phone is difficult. Exempli gratia: https://petapixel.com/2017/06/30/truth-shot-iphone-style-ads...

For studio photography, the lighting is more important than the camera. I once brought a pro-grade DLSR, a $400 entry-level DSLR, and a final-gen film SLR to the same shoot, and created images with all three using the same lighting setup. The difference in results wasn't immediately obvious.

Modern camera phones have good sensors, so if you drop one into an otherwise-professional studio setup, you'll get good results.

cf. https://www.diyphotography.net/samsung-used-my-dslr-photo-to...
Because it's convenient for end users
Cow's milk is mostly water.

As for alternative milks being a fad, it's a fad that's more than a thousand years old -- for example, almond milk was important in Europe for meatless Fridays and during Lent. I'm not sure who "should know better" when it comes to religious doctrine affecting food choices.
Further, it should be possible for Rust to eventually reach a state where it's faster than C because of the lack of pointer aliasing. This opens up a whole host of optimization opportunities, allowing it to get closer in performance to Fortran (which is intrinsically the fastest of the bunch).
The last bullet point often should fall down. There are a lot of tests that aren’t worth the effort of making them run reliably, but most organizations have (understandably) strong norms against fixing a failing test by removing it.
It's more of interest for curiosity's sake than anything else. It's always been the case that a person could be framed with "DNA evidence" with the considerably more low tech approach of obtaining leftover hairs or bits of skin (or legally mandated DNA samples for testing) and depositing them at the crime scene, or simply finding a lab willing to lie about carrying out a test. DNA testing as evidence has always relied on the assumption the people collecting and testing the samples are honest (and competent)
Harvard wouldn't have nearly the prestige that it does without legacy and purchased admissions.
Wasn’t this the whole idea and purpose of the successor to NTFS which was supposed to ship with Longhorn/Vista? What happened there?
You are just wrong:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

I know it is ideologically uncomfortable but this is a fact you will have to get used to. Cognitive genomics is coming. The undeniable is becoming laughable to deny.
I use Citymapper for this; have for years (https://citymapper.com/). It does exactly what you're asking for. I too am surprised that Google hasn't eaten their lunch by baking this into Google Maps.
Well in my local city before (Troy, MI) it was illegal to spit on the ground. Apparently it was a law designed to be selectively enforced to allow police to target who they want.
Welcome to another year of not trusting cell towers.
The article mentions that what it calls "Black English" has been compared humorously to slang. I believe there is a lot of room for debate and discussion between mocking a way of speaking on the one hand and designating it a separate language on the other.

As for respect. Respect matters because laws are enforced by people. When you're in an exchange with a cop or a judge how things go for you are tied to both the letter of the law _and_ the laws of human nature. We live in meatspace.
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Legacy media such as NYT and WSJ are refusing to properly cover the real issue of surveillance capitalism duopoly of Google and Facebook. When Candy Crush knows your hometown and your hobbies, there is no need to serve ads on your local newspaper's website and there is no need for hobby websites, or professional sites, or smart sites for kids. So we have no content creation on internet outside of WSJ, NYT, Youtube, etc. And there are no investments in media. And there is no money in media. In turn we have a static internet and privacy scandals and fake news on a few swampy platforms. It's really bad for democracy and for us. And it's bad for startups.
Of course this has been happening for a while. When I was a child, I recall reading this in the newspaper when it was revealed that Johns Hopkins dodged normal process by testing drugs in India. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121689/

Interesting that you could simply test on people in India without establishing safety on animals first.
Don’t blindly submit resumes. I always go through local recruiters who I’ve used over the years. They vouch for me with the hiring manager. I can say in 20 years I’ve never had a recruiter come back to me and say the company wasn’t interested unless they had already filled the role or they had budget issues and closed the req.
True. I just think it's a mistake to force a pattern into a language that doesn't support it well. In the end you get sort of pattern matching but you have also to write a lot of code.
I see it the other way. I've noticed a very marked increase in promotion of these tests over the last year or so (including people on YouTube being sponsored to take them). I think we're now seeing some of the backlash to that promotional onslaught.
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I had a company reach out but they were east coast and remote wasn’t an option for them, and relocating not an option for me. Ces la vie.
Yes, seen this once before, where the shipping price was calculated client side, then sent to the server with no validation. You could craft a request with a negative value and get the price down to a cent for the entire cart!

At least in e-commerce, you can always send an email to the customer explaining the mistake, and cancel the order...
Right, but you don't need "smart people to converge on" an agreement as to whether or not the 2nd of February is a Thursday. That would seem to be pretty well-defined.
Mostly unrelated but Are there “dark journals”? Ones which will only establish the knowledge validity of something and ignore the ethical standards?
How does an interpreter written in a statically compiled language use the type system of said language after being compiled?
As evidenced by this example: in such cases, the client is probably wrong. They'd be better off letting the user agent display the date picker that the user is used to.
As a hobbyist - the CAD tools I've used (Fusion360 and Inventor) - are clunky with arbitrary 3D shapes (e.g. a Porsche door panel). How do people in the "real world" do it? Iterate in Maya / similar and then export? Think in parametric curves? Something else entirely?
Ok, thanks for clarifying. I wonder how all this is going to unfold in the next 3-5 years. Rereading 'Zero To One' makes me feel that Mark Zuckerberg is not going to make this an easy fight for anyone trying to limit Facebook.
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Had something similar trying to schedule a phone interview. The confirmation email text gave a time 3 hours before the date picker time displayed on their site. I spoke to them on the phone to manually schedule me and then we ran into a problem where there were no daily saving time zones so I had to give myself a two hour window to be sure.
I've had a PayPal account since the beginning. At least 15+ years with zero problems.
Who is they in this case?

Around the time that the Itanium project was announced (and had presumably been being worked on behind the scenes for quite a while) was when Compaq bought DEC. HP wouldn't buy Compaq until about 5 years later. So Itanium was already well underway by the time switching to Alpha would have been a remote possibility.
Hm. I ordered a hotel room for today (Saturday, Feb 2) earlier in the week, and was messaged asking what time I would be checking in on Thursday the 2nd. I wonder if the big is in a common industry tool.
All the company has to do is pay the person their new market value. I came to a company with lots of development experience with the sole purpose of getting AWS experience and leaving in two years.

After about one year, I had a discussion with my manager, I said I did everything I said I would do to help him meet his technical goals, I have both the theoretical knowledge and real world experience and my market value is $x. They gave me $x and now I have no plans on leaving soon.
I agree that legacy should be done away with. However, the class of people who legacy harms is those whose parents did not attend Harvard. The overwhelming majority of White students fall into that class as well, and are just as harmed by legacy admissions as non-White students.

Also, as a Jew, I would rather not see people act as if anti-Jewish discrimination is so special that we somehow cannot look to that history for lessons on any issue that is not anti-Jewish discrimination. Be happy that (in this country) the overwhelming majority of people have come to accept that anti-semitism is wrong, and lets leverage that to help other groups. There was a lot of suffering to get that recognition for Jews. There was a lot of suffering to get that recognition for Blacks. Maybe we can short circuit some of the suffering this time around for the next group. [0]

[0] Although, frankly, I doubt we will see a turn around in our view of Asians anytime soon. If there is one thing I have learned from American History, it is that anti-Asian sentiments seems to be immune from social pushback for some reason.
This is great marketing, but I don’t see the purpose to arear facing camera on the iPad. I have never needed the one on mine. I find it cumbersome to use and the rear camera bump ruins the design on the new one in my opinion.
If it's a "best-practice", I honestly don't know any large, consumer-facing websites that just use input type=date, mainly because that UI sucks in most cases.

Even in this case putting the dollar amounts in the dates, which is a very useful piece of information, would need a custom date control.
The SAT is not an intelligence test; it is a test of a student's educational background and the degree to which they engaged in college prep in the years leading up to the test. The fact that the 2/3 of the test is devoted to some measure of literacy should tell you that (literacy is an absurdly poor proxy for intelligence -- especially when it is confined to a specific language). Even the math section is in part a test of a student's educational background, as you must at least be familiar with the specific field of math and particular notation that the test uses.

There is a reason parents enroll their children in SAT prep as early as middle school and even elementary school. Again, let's assume intelligence is hereditary; then an ideal intelligence measurement would be impossible to prepare for, because it should measure something that a person cannot change about themselves (their genes). The fact that SAT prep measurably improves SAT scores says at least one of two things must be true: the SAT is not measuring an innate property, or that intelligence is not simply inherited.

(Spoiler alert: both of those are true.)
Google Maps announced this back in October:

> Drive , walk and ride : support for mixed-mode commutes

> There’s a new feature for people whose commutes involve both driving and public transit. You can see helpful information about when to leave, and for each leg of your trip: you’ll know if there’s traffic on your drive, when the next train departs, and how long it’ll take to walk from the train station to the office. We do the work for you and automatically factor this into your ETA so you can anticipate exactly when you’ll get to work.

https://www.blog.google/products/maps/take-control-your-comm...
> The personal ratings look different depending on who awards them: alumni interviewers or Harvard’s internal admissions staff. On average, alumni give white and Asian American applicants similar ratings, but Harvard staff give whites substantially better reviews than they give Asian Americans. For the alumni-assigned ratings, 50 percent of Asian American applicants and 51 percent of whites were rated as having “very strong” or “outstanding” personal traits. But for personal ratings awarded by Harvard’s internal admissions staff, only 18 percent of Asian Americans were in the top group, compared to 23 percent of whites. White applicants received these top ratings about 30 percent more often than Asian Americans.

What would the response be either in mainstream media or social media or from proponents of Affirmative Action policies, if African-American or Hispanic applicants or other demographic groups (e.g. women) were given measurably lower scores on personality traits Harvard rates like 'likability' or 'integrity' or 'helpfulness'?
I've always been so annoyed that every program I install seems to think that my home folder is a garbage dump for it to pile on whatever it wants.
Maybe the state and corporations are developing surveillance capabilities because 3rd-party information can't be trusted.
Don't conflate the simple fact that there is an outright bug here with the presumption that the browser's date picker would be a better choice.