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1. Spend a few weeks practicing the whiteboard interview format. Seriously practicing it. Get a friend to grill you for an hour over the weekend. Next weekend, get a different friend to do the same. Repeat until you can solve whiteboard bullshit problems in your sleep.

2. Interview at FANG.

3. If you get a junior-level offer, you're looking at 160-180k total comp. If you get an engineer-level offer, you're looking at 190-240k. If you get a senior-level offer, you're looking at 240-300k. These numbers will increase if you perform well for 12 months.
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This is why I would want to send in other people’s DNA to be tested and they send in mine (like a bitcoin mixer).
Absolutely. Last time I looked they refused to update their fact check about Nathan Phillips false claims of Vietnam service.
Of course not. One could give any number of examples where a benefit for society takes precedence over that of the individual.
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It appears that the SLA guaranteed uptime for Azure SQL Database is 99.9% or 99.99%, depending on tier. That equates to the following allowable downtime per month (which I think is what they base SLA fulfillment on):

99.9: 43m 49.7s

99.99: 4m 23.0s

Sounds like they need to cough up some money for their four 9s customers...
First of all, I don't have any idea what you're talking about when you talk about "comparing." I'm not comparing any two things.

Secondly, partisan or not, the Federalist was not the one Snopes was unfairly attacking. They simply reported on the effects of the Snopes attack on a satire site.
Same reason the government should be allowed to search Facebook for information on a person of interest, or use the whitepages, or search public records such as property records, or use Google to search the web. They don't have any more access than a normal user, so they don't need a warrant. They are acting just like a member of the public and get the exact same results you or I would get if we used that site. If it's available for a member of the general population, it's available to law enforcement without a warrant. That's the way it's always been.

People are putting their genetic information into a database in order to be searchable by their genetic information. If they have a problem with being searchable by their genetic information, then they shouldn't upload their genetic information into publicly searchable databases.

>The Family Tree database is free to access and can be used by anyone with a DNA profile to upload, not just paying customers.

>Officials at Family Tree said customers could decide to opt out of any familial matching, which would prevent their profiles from being searchable by the FBI. But by doing so, customers would also be unable to use one of the key features of the service: finding possible relatives through DNA testing.

>In December 2018, the company changed its terms of service to allow law enforcement to use the database to identify suspects of “a violent crime,” such as homicide or sexual assault, and to identify the remains of a victim.

>In a statement, Greenspan, the president and founder of Gene by Gene, Family Tree’s parent company, said the firm would not be violating its terms of privacy to its customers, despite the FBI’s access.

>“We came to the conclusion that if law enforcement created accounts, with the same level of access to the database as the standard FamilyTreeDNA user, they would not be violating user privacy and confidentiality,” Greenspan said.

>In a statement, company officials told BuzzFeed News that despite the FBI’s access to the database, agents would not be able to obtain more information than what is accessible to normal users of the service.
> Otherwise, they just get out of the way and let the team do its thing.

Are you saying the next best thing to an involved manager is one that's not involved at all?
It means you will be unidentified by political groups. EG let's say a right wing goverment in France finding all the gypsies in Paris.

Or a life insurance corporation seeing that you have predisposition for heart disease, and refusing to provide services to you.
Yeah. What I found particularly galling is that often it's cheaper to send something from Shenzhen to Europe (from aliexpress, say) than the 50 km over to Hong Kong. Arghh.
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I do almost all of my hiring from Upwork, although most of my freelance costs in 2018 were to hire a former colleague who went freelance.

I've written posts about how I hired the blog's illustrator[0] and editor[1].

My screening process varies depending on the job I'm hiring for. The #1 thing I'm looking for is communication. I look hard at the quality of writing on their profile bio and cover letter. I've been hiring freelancers for several years (before I quit) and the most common reason it doesn't work out is that the freelancer is a bad communicator and we burn excessive time on miscommunication.

When I find someone who has promise, I generally just hire them for a small job (capped at 5-10 hours) without a lot of interviewing. I have this theory (not rigorously tested) that putting developers through a lot of screening is counterproductive because the people who are good have lots of options and don't want to jump through lots of unpaid hoops for you.

I don't have a defined trial period, but I just incrementally start giving them more responsibility and increase their hours cap.

I do fixed costs if it's a job that has a very distinct deliverable (e.g. convert this AngularJS site to Angular7). But if it's just that I want someone to do some of the dev work on a project, I'll just pay hourly.

Price is determined at the start. On Upwork, the freelancers bid on the job and that's the price you go with. If I work with someone for a long time, I increase their rate periodically.

If I'm not happy with the work, I pay for the time they put in, but I end the contract.

I only refuse to pay if they either fail to deliver or deliver something that's unusable. That's very rare, though. It's only happened to me once out of 50ish hires on Upwork.[2]

[0]: https://mtlynch.io/how-to-hire-a-cartoonist/

[1]: https://mtlynch.io/editor/

[2]: https://mtlynch.io/upwork-scammer/
Bizarre behavior all round.
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It is for embedded development - e.g. your car radio or washing machine. You wouldn't use this for desktop.

BTW, it is written right there in the title "runs on MCU ..." (MCU = microcontroller)
Why have parking when self driving cars can at like taxis?
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With regards to political groups, what would DNA tell you that their Facebook profile and network wouldn't?
As I recall, the guy who developed Make wrote it in a weekend.
I agree with you, but looking all along history, the whims of the ultra rich or the ultra powerfully or the ultra influent _have_ structured the world. All this time, the people with the means to shape the world have shaped it. So, maybe, no matter what we do, there is no escaping this. Only maybe filtering the poeple who get the power somehow.
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This is for embedded development (e.g. a gui for your washing machine), not a replacement for Electron, Qt, GTK or what have you.
For so many news/media companies to be cutting all at the same time, I wonder if they're all having issues with earning enough ad revenue all of a sudden? Maybe the high spenders like Squarespace, BlueApron, and MailChimp are pulling back ad spend?
Those reboots are heavy handed because attackers are heavy handed with new attacks and if not forced to reboot, you never will.

You get plenty of time to prepare for the reboot that's coming. You can even delay it by a day or more.

It isn't Windows' fault that you aren't prepared for it when it comes; it's yours.
If people are going at the same time in the same direction, then take more than one person.
Good point. Is this the committed total comp, or total comp stuck in vesting period during which stock luckily appreciated?
Doesn't take too long to prove it is too low. Lets say this fancy self-driving car cost $50,000. Lets say it is expected to go 250,000 miles in its lifetime. That is $.20 per mile! If it cruises at only 25 mph, that is $5 in wear and tear alone! Even if you slash the price and up double the life of the vehicle, you are paying more than $.50 an hour.
> Shared vehicles are just gross.

They are called busses, and trains, and trams. And they are not gross in most of Europe, for example.
I filed my taxes with TurboTax last year. Did you account for state tax deduction, mortgage deduction, property tax deduction, standard deduction, child tax credits, 401k deductions, charity deductions, and a myriad of other options ? There is no way for anyone to say what an accurate effective rate would be. Mine was 28% last year
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At which point, your costs = costs of owning a car for each commuting user in your area + overhead + profit. So unless you are offering subsidized prices, it will be cheaper for everyone to just own their own car for commuting.
It's bad but not unexpected, overreach is what these people do. Day to do though everyone should be far more scared of Insurance companies getting hold of their DNA test results.
Perhaps Google Fuchsia[0]?

I hope not.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
Good idea, thanks for the suggestion. I have thought about whipping up a version of ghp in a couple of different languages as a comparison - I originally wrote it in C#.
How many millions of users does it have?
When self-driving cars are common, most people living in the city won't own cars. It will be cheaper to take a cab and if you need to go out you can rent a car. Skyrocketing insurance will be the real killer of urban free-driving.
I use Prompt these days, but iSSH's Remote Desktop client was super useful back when I was doing admin work and didn't have the luxury of never needing to work on a Windows server!

As I recall, I also used its X server for remote display from an OpenGenera instance running on a Tru64 VM, back when I was still indulging my hobby for Lisp system archaeology, and network problems were stopping me displaying to the VM host's X server. Good times...
We're inching our way there!
Really depends on how the company is setup. If you have shares issued, you really only need a majority (not everyone) of the people with voting shares to be ok with it.
I just hope one day they add regular expressions to Excel.
>Actually, most do. There is almost always the one big break, where you are launched into the public's view. It is a step function. (...) Pick a number of artists, and look up their career, for most of them you'll easily find their "big break"

You seem to have the stars in mind, which are a tiny minority of working musicians (and even less so of working actors, even less so for journalists etc). The majority of working actors have slowly building careers and never have any great breakthrough.

Stars are not the only ones targeted in such e.g. "tweet-hit-mobs" though.
GMOs, together with massive animal agriculture are a black swan in the making.
Let's modify the organisms, create billions of them, have them as a testing ground for bacteria and viruses, let the bacteria and viruses evolve to eventually kill the resistant individuals, then after it happens we need 10 more years until more than a thousand billion individuals produce a human targeting strain.

There is absolutely no scientific way anyone can measure the risk without the effect of time.

Not to mention that my story is only one outcome out of many downsides and it's already happening with antibiotics abuse in animal ag.

The avian flu is a good past example. The disease sparked from a population of animals we raise the most. Hundreds of billions of chickens were Petri dishes for the ultimate strain of mammal killers. Intuitively these kinds of situations are inevitable.
It'll depend a lot on the difference in price for people - or another way of thinking about it is you can rent a better car than you can buy.

I think a lot of people will have much higher cost pressures than many of us on HN (at least, my impression is that we here are typically well above local median wages). That may push it a lot, and even more when you remove the upfront costs.

Also personally I'd love to not have to own a car. If it's even cheaper - great.
That’s a neat idea
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Hi HN, I'm a solo founder in the early stages of bootstrapping a SaaS company where my product, if adopted by a company, becomes a critical part of their daily workflow.

Understandably, one of the most common push backs I get from potential customers is "what happens when you get hit by a bus". So far I don't have a great answer for them and I'd love to hear how others have overcome this sales hurdle.

Obviously finding a co-founder or getting to the point where I can hire someone else is ideal, but neither of those look likely to happen in the near future. I can also offer to give them access to the AWS account their service is hosted under, but these clients generally don't have tech saavy employees and so I'm not sure how useful that would be to them (of course they can hire someone to help, but that might take them days or weeks).

I'll be extremely grateful for any ideas or advice anyone can give me.
I know I'm not a serial rapist &/or murderer.

I hope my family members are not. The question is: what do I value more? A society without serial rapist killers or my family? I guess I prefer a society without that sort of nonsense, so even if my DNA is used to ensnare a relative, and they were doing horrible stuff, I'd be heartbroken that a family member had gone so astray but grateful they were unable to hurt anybody else.

See the investigative work using shirttail relative DNA to isolate the Golden State Killer.

That said, do I want law enforcement to have willy nilly access to DNA to, for example, chase down littering? No, IMO that is an inappropriate level of intrusion for the societal problem. Do I trust government to exercise good sense with these tools? I fear not so much. But I guess we will get used to the intrusions just as we have become accustom to the gov hoovering up all our communications metadata to find terrorists.
Yeah, that's a legal gray area. (also, from looking at the example code, it's unclear what the service is value-adding anyways; you still need to do most of the legwork by figuring out what/how to scrape).
Do you mean to imply that dark matter is just regular matter we somehow can't see because it's too small or dark? Because they've thought of that (obviously), and it doesn't work.
Guess the OP files taxes as married filing jointly. That could cause a dip in the effective tax rate.
This is a really cool example of ReadyPipe - It's a great demo of scraping a site that's got some intent not to be scrapeable :D

On the other hand, your data just seems to follow https://xkcd.com/1138/ - What happens to the prices if you adjust for cost of living index? What about if you adjust just for population? It looks to me just like a Cost-of-Living heatmap.
Forgot to add "for now."

The risk with this sort of thing is you never know which way the political winds will blow.

Case in point, I thought we progressed to the point where concentration camps were inconceivable in America given our past history with them nationally and internationally. And yet here we are.
> Engineering managers at CircleCI are now dedicated to people management: focused on development of a set of engineers, tech leads, and team leads. They hold regular 1:1s and career growth conversations with the engineers who report to them, and are responsible for goal setting, feedback, coaching, and mentoring for them.

Do you really need this? Developers will have their own set of mentors, coaches as well as people in their network that will help them grow if they are interested in remaining relevant. Why one earth, would you spend so much money on EMs when developers should be given time to think about what they want to do themselves.

The title should be changed to engineering nannies. Furthermore, having non-engineers as engineering managers _can_ work, but it can be a risky move if the person in question does not have enough respect and empathy for the work an engineer does.

It saddens me to see the continued emphasis on hierarchy throughout the industry. Best way to support an engineer is to give him or her a fixed budget for development, and time to actually learn new things and not have their skills stagnate.

I think we need to go back to team leads having hiring and firing power. At the end of the day, they code and are down in the trenches with the rest of the engineers.
I should have used better and clearer wording, so apologies.

What I meant was, strategic thinking on FreeBSD has to follow (not precede, in my view) the goals of the project.

Which is what I was trying to say above, but poorly.

--

FreeBSD dev summit in 2018 made an effort to define the goals

https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201809/13goals

A piece of that the author of the article is describing,
is in the goals too (virtualization tooling).

But other points do not seem to have equivalents in the 13goals.

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I have a personal set of 'wants' for FreeBSD, but felt that without clearing understanding its goals, I should not be just throwing the 'wants' out there)

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In my projects, I prefer to support where possible all the BSDs (NetBSD, openBSD, dragonflyBSD) -- so I compile and test there, too, where possible.
These projects leverage and follow FreeBSD porting efforts, so FreeBSD, perhaps acts as 'big brother', or may be 'leader' for the other BSDs packages... if may say so.

If anything, I would prefer that FreeBSD recognizes that role, and somehow helps the portability of the packages to the other 3 to be at least 'in the sight' (for example by templating/allowing placeholders for the other ports config/make files)

There are porting efforts I could contribute to (small code bases in C/C++/Erlang).

But something like even a small contribution to a Java11 port (which is still not in any of the BSD) -- is well outside of my capabilities (both skill and time wise).

Delay of having, for example, java 11 in FreeBSD -- is, I think, negatively affecting adoption of the other bsds.
I guess, that's an example of my specific want.
> Define "morally wrong".

Yeah, you hit that libertarian sauce way too hard. Stop worshiping money and relearn how to respect humans.
One costs a lot to maintain, another doesn't.
You're right. We'll eventually make a new API that doesn't have those limitations.

It wasn't carelessness, btw, but technical constraints we were under at the time. We've slowly been removing those.
> Or a life insurance corporation seeing that you have predisposition for heart disease, and refusing to provide services to you.

I don't get your example. It's a private company and has a right to decide what risks it should take...Unless there is a government control over life insurance rules - why would an insurance company risk losing money? It's the same as charging an 80 year old man higher premium than a 20 year old.
Why is matching DNA analogous to "stop and frisk"? If the govt doesn't actually get access to the raw DNA data, but only the records that matched the sample they submitted, it sounds like a very narrow tool that doesn't infringe anyone's privacy without a valid reason (i.e. if there's a match).

I mean, fundamentally, how is it different from the police asking a hotel administrator whether John Doe stayed there?
In which case no one with a limited budget (i.e. most people) is going to rely on this for commuting.
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Architected for throughput instead of latency.
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It's important to know when to give up, sure, but what did he actually start? Everything that carries MS today (Azure, Exchange Online, subscription software, Office 365, XBox) was started and got traction under Ballmer.
Funny! A link to a satire site (at least I hope it's satire?) to prove Snopes has issues.

Stories Snopes fact-checked from that 'Christian Satire Site': https://www.snopes.com/tag/babylon-bee/

At least half of them would be believed by those who trust the Federalist.
Best style I have seen is 'people' manager that has the soft skills and interest to do the organizational performance stuff, and separate 'project' managers that manage the work and teams. This allows technical staff to easily move around as needed to different projects without it being a big deal. That also encourages the project managers to be good so that people will be interested in working on their projects.
There are other large software companies with competing cloud offerings, including Oracle[1], IBM[2], Alibaba[3] and more.

[1] https://cloud.oracle.com/home

[2] https://www.ibm.com/cloud/

[3] https://us.alibabacloud.com/
Contrary to popular belief, gas taxation does not come close to covering the cost of road maintenance and construction.
None of these outlets do investigative journalism.