skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree.. to many applicants I see think having a cert alone makes them gold, but they can't answer a thing about the topic that's not in the certification exam.

APPLY the certification in some way that YOU own and you're better than 50% of applicants I see. Many have certs, some claim some knowledge.. but few seem to actually have done anything themselves... They claim cloud CICD knowledge, but it was set up by someone else, and they don't know what a security group (firewall) is.. or they deploy to CloudFront, but don't know where the files are behind that... It's frustrating as a hiring manager spending an hour on these interviews with people who expect that paper to mean something without even 1 week of their own experience to back out up
Ask HN: Can companies ask for private info before any interview/offer?
We are talking about abusive privacy issues that several agents in our society are practising, some countries have laws regulating some issues like what a company can ask for a job applicant.

Today I received an email inviting to participate in the selection process for a company that praise privacy in it's main product, but surprisingly it doesn't seems to apply the same in it's internal workflow, for example see what they ask in their invitation (the company listed it's offer here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055166 ):
watch the Mickmake video on the NEO4.
I say this as a customer: Modsy's product execution is top-notch. You submit a bunch of pictures of the room you want to re-design and they create a 3D model of it that you access in your browser. You're then assigned a designer who works with you to re-design your room with actual pieces from real furniture stores, also in the 3D model. Think designing homes in The Sims, but for your actual home. And it all just works.

If this type of job is your jam, it has the endorsement of this super-impressed and super-happy customer.
I think a lot of it's for the kids. Kids are naturally violent but shouldn't be having sex.
I'm not sure veganism counts as a superstition.
Sounds like a brave new world
Because it would increase the price. Their focus is on having one SOC that can do most things, instead of specializing it on, say, GPIOs.
That's helpful, thank you. However, I'm not conjuring the "2 weeks worth of logs" phrase out of thin air:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/quantifying-the-impact-of-cloudb...

"We have the logs of 1% of all requests going through Cloudflare from 8 February 2017 up to 18 February 2017 (when the vulnerability was patched)...Requests prior to 8 February 2017 had already been deleted."
Here is what they ask:

Hi XXXXX!

Thank you for reaching out to us, may I ask you how you found us and what peaks your interest in XXXXXX ? You have built some impressive tools, and I think we can offer you a set of great challenges in your daily work. You can find a brief intro to XXXX: https://XXXXX.XXX/onepager.pdf

I will briefly outline the steps of our hiring process so you have all necessary information and know what is going to happen. Luckily, it's not that complicated. As a startup, we can allow our hiring process to be a lot simpler and faster than what you will find at most big companies! We just want to evaluate a few core competences, the rest we can teach you.

Step 0: CV

Could you please share your CV, including:

- date of birth

- phone number

- physical address

- citizenship

- marital status

- IBAN

- Copy of your passport

After we collected all information we will start the evaluation process. Please note that if there is some personal information which you prefer not to share yet, that is ok! We hope that you can send this to us before the interview in step 2. Furthermore, any confidential information can be encrypted using my PGP key: https://XXXXX.XXX/pgp.asc

Step 1: Challenge
We first give all of our candidates a challenge. This challenge is by far our most important means of evaluation, so your effort will be greatly appreciated. Instead of a whiteboard interview, we have chosen for our test to be more similar to the type of work that you will be doing at summitto on a daily basis. That way you know what is awaiting you and we know that you are up for the challenges ahead. Although most of our applicants have been able to finish their challenges in a weekend, we do not set a time limit on any of our challenges, and the time is not taken into account in our evaluation. For us, communicating well and achieving good results are more important than the speed at which you can achieve them. We prefer quality over quantity, same as in our daily business!

Step 2: Interview
If the results of the challenge are promising, the interview will only be a formality in which you can talk to our team members during two to three interviews. This is really just a social check to see if we like each other and to see whether we can work together for many hours a day in the same room ;) but no more tests or coding required!

Step 3: offer
You made it. The challenge looks great, we match on a personal level, and you've managed to excite us about your talent. We'll send you an offer as soon as possible, normally within a week, and we will discuss which items and equipment we can order to get you all settled in our office.

We're looking forward to working together with you!

Secure regards,
Sometimes I think that it is a way to filter out those the company doesn't think are "go-getters", or to have something to hit back with when salaries are discussed.
When I was a kid there were very few black people on television, and no major black characters (I'm from the US). Likewise there was no sex; Laura and Rob Petrie slept in separate beds, etc. There were three majors-- CBS, NBC, and ABC-- and people with names like Pastor Bob from Decent Society Now! would get their folks to pressure network departments, and these departments found it easiest for business to just not run this stuff. All very comfortable but all very wrong.

Google, etc., seem a lot like the majors of our time. Sure they are private businesses acting according to the business environment they find themselves in, but the outcome may be, in the long run, bad for all of us.
Same here. I sometimes use incognito mode if the spellchecking is... off pattern.
"give money to orphans" is harmful to you when the target is your 90 year old mother for her social security check that would otherwise allow her to be financially independant. Doubly harmful when a very small percent, if any, actually goes to helping orphans and instead supports the continuation of the predetory practice.
> My insurance policy is about $600/year and covers up to 25 million(!!!) euro in 3rd party damages. Like, I'd need to crash into several Bugatti Chirons or a plane to actually exhaust my policy.

Or one crash where you injure someone so bad that they cannot work anymore for the rest of their life, maybe need specialized support and so on. The damages in property are usually the least important part of a car crash.
This seems to be the nature of things, we rebel against or parents, and mature and change, our children rebel against us, ...
How many colleges and universities have closed since 2016?
You realize that all bitcoin transactions can be tracked. People have sent BTC from their wallets to Quadriga, it should be trivial to find the cold wallet address. Should be easy for anyone who understands blockchain forensics.
It's fairly straightforward if you know what you're doing. I did it myself, I had been meaning to put a blog together about it but never got around to it, you know how these things go. I'm happy to give some pointers or find something that looks suitable when I get home, if you like.

Edit: This is pretty close to what I've done with mine: https://petr.io/en/blog/2015/11/09/read-only-raspberry-pi-wi...

When I need to update I just run the remount command (IMPORTANT: on both /boot and /), make your changes, perform your updates, clean up the apt cache, then remount read-only or just reboot.
I... Don't get this mentality. Yes replacing 25k worth of contents isn't that big a deal (although it would suck), but in a fire there are other costs that dwarf your contents. Think about how much your building/unit is worth. If the fire started in your place, you could be responsible for all these damages (and especially your neighbour's). Can you afford to repay a whole new building for you and your neighbours + their contents? How about living out of a hotel for a few months while the place is being repaired (which repairs you'll have to cover too) and potentially paying your neighbours' bills for that as well? How does that compare to a 1000$ deductible and a 300$/year premium? To me it's a no brainer. If you really want a low premium, get a 2 or 5k deductible, 5k contents, and shop around. You'll also get added protection like third party liability which is usually minimum 1 million $ and covers any damage you'd do to other's property. Of course no-one wakes up thinking they'll set their house on fire or flood the unit under them. And yet that happens every day. I don't know anyone who didn't have insurance and who got struck by a fire/flood/other damages say that they regret nothing and wouldn't buy insurance if they could go back in time.
How did you verify that you got all the theaters?

Having looked at the code in regards to only using zip codes that end in 1 in order to eliminate overlapping neighborhoods, it seems like you missed some.

Why not grab all of them and clean the data? Maybe it is too intensive, but insisting you have "all of Fandango's movie listings" is actually false.
Meanwhile the hinge in my £600 Lenovo ideapad broke after 4 years of carrying it to university pretty much everyday. After a quick phone call they agreed to fix it free of charge (including return postage to Germany). This was because Lenovo had independently determined that my laptop model suffered from weak hinges. A year on, I am typing on that very same laptop. It is starting to show its age and its price. And you know what? When I do finally replace it, it is probably going to be another Lenovo. That is great customer service.

Meanwhile the richest company in the world fails to acknowledge a significant design flaw in their expensive, "Pro" laptop. Really, they should be willing, if not eager to replace the screens in every affected laptop free of charge. A laptop that fails after opening and closing the lid for a year or two is defective. There is should be no doubt about that.

I don't know how the laws stand in the US (it probably varies state by state), but in the UK with the 2015 Consumer Rights Act, customers have potentially up to five or six years to make a claim irrespective of warranty: https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-...
It’s defensible because people who have had a first gen of every new r/MBP for the last five years who experience no problems whatsoever (such as myself) do not take to the Apple support forums to post their counter anecdata, and Apple is a hardware vendor, and it would be terrible for people prior to sale to visit the Apple website (ie the support forums) and get a wildly inaccurate picture of hardware reliability from only seeing posts from a small fraction of people having problems. It's (self) selection set bias.

As a shareholder, I entirely support exercising this type of control of the message (on their own website). It is the right thing to do. Nobody has any right to have their words hosted on apple.com except Apple, and I would prefer that anyone with a sample size of less than ten not post negative things about their products on a site potential customers visit.

You may not agree with it, but this is a legitimate defense of what they are doing.
Not sure if serious, but sex censorship is mostly a bi-partisan endeavor these days. See, e.g. the whole controversy around Patreon, where creators of sexually-suggestive content and right-wing/conservative intellectuals are both facing the prospect of being "de-platformed" for political reasons.
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What you bring to the battlefield:

You know your way around PHP and/or Python and/or JAVA and/or JavaScript and/or (Postgre)SQL. You have some exposure to JS/CSS/HTML5 doing modern frontend work, possible wit a Frontend Framework like Vue, Angular or React. You’ve used your favourite browser's Developer Tools You have installed Linux somewhere once or twice.

Your responsibilities:

Help us design and implement new features and grow infrastructure. Improve our CI/CD pipeline (GitLab). Deploying on a Friday night and actually enjoying the weekend is our end-game. You'll research and implement algorithms from the Machine Learning, Statistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP) domains to improve critical parts of our product. Plan and grow Cloud infrastructure (AWS).

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I tend to hire a lot more people that personally tinker without certifications, than those with certifications that don't have a pet project.

Certification proves memorization. Tinkering proves interest. I don't want a candidate that is not interested personally.
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Don’t the Pinkerton agents always get killed in movies?

I think I saw two of them in one of Indiana Jones.
You missed the "not for pleasure" part.
I agree that it can't hurt. My point was simply at this time it's not enough to solve the problem so it can only be a part of the solution.
It is probably worth noting I purchased the laptop from a major computer retailer sans extended warranty.
Something more relevant to contemporary society is that it also works with prudishness, but through a different effect. Rather than a loss of business there will be a loss of support for non-prudish behavior.

As an example imagine video games that have characters in skimpy outfits. A tiny minority may complain about this. And it's often the case that this minority is not even actually a consumer of the products they're complaining about. But there will rarely be any meaningful voice against this minority going, "Wait.. no, I want my characters in skimpy outfits." Because to do so it makes you look like some sort of 'something' that's certainly undesirable. And so from the perspective a company that may not be particularly well attuned to its own userbase, it will see 100% of respondents on a given topic support censorship, 0% oppose it. That's not such a hard choice to make.

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-25/video-gam...
In the US at least, asking for DOB and marital status could potentially put the company in hot water.

The rest just looks sketchy from an identity theft perspective and is truly unnecessary at the early screening stages of hiring. Even if it’s legal wherever this company is located, I would hard pass on this.
To be fair, they only lead the world in AI because they bought DeepMind.
So when you are young without the track record it is harder to prove and get past the gate keepers for jobs. I had the same issues somewhat, but I had the advantage of having grown up in an entrepreneurial family and having been able to release real client facing software starting when I was around 13-14. So even when I was in my 20's I had a lot of coding experience to draw upon to get past the interviews.

A few things come to mind though.

1. Don't try to overreach for a "senior" dev role or something similar. Take the jr and mid level positions and build up your skillset and validation.

2. Apply where the gate keepers are not recruiters or a large HR dept where they only know to look for certain things on your resume, one being a CS degree. So that means stick to smaller companies or early stage startups (though this can be hit or miss since a lot of startups interview horribly and for the wrong things).

3. On everything you do, underpromise and overdeliver. Don't try to be a hero and say you can do it in a day, tell them a realistic time period and then give yourself plenty of buffer. Better to be known for delivering early or being a "padder" than being chronically late and over promising. In the end, you'll still wind up being late on projects because it is the nature of our work sometimes, but at least if you aren't "known" for it as a rule which will make you more respected.

As crappy as it is, age plays a factor in a lot of peoples minds because they equate age to experience, which isn't necessarily valid. Everyone on my team right now, including the CEO is within a few years of my oldest son's age and in their 20's, if I didn't think they were capable or smart I would never have worked with them, age is not relevant to being good. Experience does come with age however, so I can't say it is never relevant in some aspects.

I do get discouraged when I see people with 3-5 years of experience calling themselves "senior engineers" as they are just barely into a mid level role in my opinion, at least in general terms. There are exceptions of course, for example, I will give more credit for 3-5 years experience in startups or small businesses, since typically they move much faster and are more dynamic, but it is very person dependent.

I fought through a lot of crap when I was young in my career, dealing with CS grads who thought they were the shit and I was scum and didn't deserve a dev role etc. I had to prove myself more, and that was ok in my opinion cause I was capable. But it did get old sometimes. Changing jobs was a little harder at first, cause you had to get past the filters more than a CS grad etc. Some of this is a lot better now for people like you, but other parts not so much. For me after I had about 5-7 years of positions on my resume I was past all the filters and had no issues.
Let's just say conviction (in this case, it was also just a side effect).
It adds up really fast, especially when deaths or disabilities (even worth from a financial perspective) are the result of the crash.
By reading your comment and making that very clear, I did!

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I think more people should take it to heart. If you want to influence cultures for the better, you need to interact with them. It's obvious when you know it, less obvious when you don't.
I'm not sure why this is the way that it is, but it's emblematic of human nature. Information isn't always composed of raw facts. There's a presentation layer that sits on top and is needed for humans to parse and process that information. i.e. You can present the same facts with a new interpretation, making it essentially new information. I'm not sure this isn't a feature, as opposed to a bug, of human thinking.
> It's just that Google's 2018 algorithm upgrade filters out news with the word "porn" in it. Like articles about porn performer suicide, tips for revenge porn victims, parents who oppose porn website age-verification

I'm puzzled - I searched for "porn performer suicide" and the other two in Google and it returned relevant searches in each case. I don't particularly want Google bring up porn results when I'm not looking for it and it seems to work ok if you do want to look.
I have an ODROID U2 and love it, but it was much more expensive than my Pis and is a pain in terms of OS support (I'm still running the original kernel since Hardkernel has pretty much dropped support for it, and have hacked my way up to Ubuntu 18.04 on top of it). The Pi's popularity helps a lot in terms of support.
One thing that got me thinking the other day, is that English is the only language that i know of that has the X-word replacement for swear words. In other languages people either use a similar sounding word (fuck/fudge) or just don't use it.

I'd be interested to know why is this and if other languages have a similar way of putting the word in your head without saying it.
Completely agree. Server admins are still super important. Not everything fits in a nice server-less box. Developers also tend to have issues with containers, and firewalls, and monitoring/troubleshooting (depending on their skills and interest). People whom enjoy the server admin side can still find rewarding work in a more serverless environment
Great Point. This is the right approach,as I have come to realize.
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By my calculation just about half (maybe just 1/3rd) of the world population doesn't eat pork for various reasons, and Coca Cola is an international brand, so be careful who you call a minority.

Of course I just added practitioners of religions that forbid the consumption of pork together and I'm aware some of those eat pork anyways (because they don't adhere to it too closely), but still: It will be a sizeable market.
Don't forget to also avoid row 12 just to be sure!

They could have counted the seats from zero, but labelled them from 1.
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Not even mentioning the ridiculous costs (especially in the US) that come into play should the fire that started in your unit injure or kill anyone.
I have used Alexa Top Sites but have never paid for it. There is already a free csv you can download daily that contains the top million sites. For more granular lists, Builtwith often satisfies my needs.
Software engineer with some machine learning experience. I’m not really sure what to try.
I am not saying capitalism as such is terrible, or that we should abolish it etc. What I do think we need is to have a more healthy mix of properly regulated capitalism, higher taxation of top earners, closing loopholes and corporations storing cash overseas and healthy social programs, infrastructure development etc.

As for " it's better to be impoverished today than to be middle class 50 years ago", there was certainly less access to all kinds of goods, but there was much more job security as well, (you could work for a single company all your career), there was also more opportunity to own a house at a younger age and move higher up the ladder with lower education and less debt.

What you also need to look at is things like student debt, 50 years ago, higher education was free at the point of use. Now, it puts you into dept at an enormously young age, before you even fully realize what it all means.
Disclaimer: ex preferred partner early AWS client-facing Fortune 200 consultant.

The senior sysadmin at the DMDC around mid California coast: only one certification, VMware. A French offensive exploits broker, solid researcher and reeigne: no certs. I only have a few certs because work paid tens of thousands for offsite training. A few certs are okay because corporate HR wants staff to demonstrate continual learning and achievement, lots of low-quality ones (A+) are a negative signal. It's more important to keep up on news, tools and techniques on the front lines.

My opinion is managing \aaS needs solid rack&stack ops experience at scale. For IT folks: either start huge if you can or start small and move towards huge. The biggest challenges are customer communication, managing expectations, anticipating and planning where possible and showing empathy... it's a 5% technical skill and 95% getting along productively game. Communicate the business impact, don't overwhelm customers with unnecessary* detail.