skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t, but it’s not the reality. Reality is that 80% or more of companies (in my experience) rely on those types of questions for interviews.
yes, but that "we" was a very small number of people. Pretty much the same number of people who could do it today.
It's funny, I read this as "Austin is building a Mini in Silicon Valley." It had me thinking "But Austin hasn't operated since I was a kid..."

Go figure one word missing changes the whole context of the sentence.
Definitely true that the treatment of employer-managed health care is a barrier to startup innovation.
Couple each experience with social workers, religious staff and the patient’s care team. While a physician isn’t physically in the room, a caring influence over the discussion could help despite being a cold doc or a cold robot.
Splitting a large monopoly into smaller territorial monopolies gets you all the drawbacks of a monopoly with none of the benefits of centralization. Pretty much a total loss. Improvement in US telecom probably had more to do with demonopolization wholesale at the national level rather than the formation of the baby bells.. which pretty much all failed.
Not that know of.
We can't measure that evolutionary advantage.

What we can measure is fatalities
They already know the answer from your credit report and other databases... If you answer incorrectly then you get denied opening a bank account online and you'd have to jump through extra hoops, either going to a branch or mailing documents.
AI has become exactly like most complex issues with multiple distinct 'sides'. For whatever reason everybody is expected to have an opinion even though, of all people, it's generally safe to say < 1% have the knowledge and experiential basis to form an educated opinion. So the other 99% are mostly just picking sides semi-arbitrarily. And it's this arbitrariness that leads to overly, and inappropriately, simplistic responses to issues. This simplicity in turn also tends to drive responses that are either radically 'for' or radically 'against' something. Understanding drives nuance, and nuance drives uncertainty.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

Though in this case, stupid/intelligent are probably overly harsh. Intelligent people are certainly not immune to this 'trap'. In some ways they can be even more susceptible since they may themselves know very little, but that very little is still enough to put them ahead of 80% of the rest which can yield unjustified confidence. So let's just say uninformed/informed.
Netflix, Amazon, Boeing, Verizon, these companies are already dodging the regressive taxation we have. How will we enforce progressive taxes?
[From the tech scene], not just general quotes about the state of the world or life.
My observations are as follows:

1) Vice.com, so it is automatically edgy, scant on actual facts and details, and often just completely wrong.

2) SV has a lot of people who work too damn much.

3) Not everyone in SV has "money" as in "Fuck you money" and for those who do, it should not be hard to purchase intimacy in some form.

4) All these cuddle parties, eye gazing, and what have you events are a poor substitute for actual intimacy (not that I am against holding them) in a loving relationship, which makes me think the substitution must mean something--people there are desperate for any human contact. We are PC-ing ourselves to death.

5) Every generation thinks they invented sex. This current go around is risk averse while attempting to appear edgy and yet at the end of the night, I'm sure there's the same hurt feelings and sense of rejection we all have had. It doesn't matter how inclusive everyone is, the hot chick is not going home with the fat, bald guy (unless he has #3).

By the way, I went to an engineering school, I know quite a bit about problems dating and how that all plays out. Seems like things are just a bit worse these days.
You've confused some things. "Economic efficiency", as espoused by Bork and the rest of his Chicago School crew, came as a result of consolidation. His argument against strong antitrust enforcement was that it lowered economic efficiency to benefit smaller non-monopoly companies.

This of course was a disaster for the American economy and it's taken 30 years of increasing corporate concentration for the politics to finally swing back against monopoly.
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Kaiser only started implementing Epic in 2005 and finished in 2010. So any lock in is squarely on their own shoulders.
There's definitely a balance. Switching languages doesn't always make you a better coder. There's the danger of shallowly scratching the surface of a bunch of different languages/ frameworks/ etc without deep knowledge in any of them. That by far has been my biggest career challenge - trying to pick the right things to invest in.
I don't have a huge problem with the supposed goalpost movement. I am wondering though if drivers need to keep a fairly close eye on things what the true benefit of self-driving is in near future.
That feature has been extensively A/B tested and every argument about how garish it is fails while someone points at a number on the screen that is long and has $ at one end.
Breaking AWS away from Amazon might not be a bad thing.
Why can't they profit from the troves of info they have about you, and will continue to collect about you, if your 'account' is 'frozen'?
If you are looking for cities with a decent tech scene then for SF weather it is probably London and for peninsula and south bay weather maybe Barcelona.
Yes, but it also means fixing all of that old code before you can turn the depreciation into full on removal.

It would be interesting to note that such warnings would undoubtedly point out a few errors in existing code where people 0 padded a number they expected to be decimal. Many would be harmless, 00001 for example, but a few could have been causing unintended side effects (incorrect initialization values for example).
These are KBA questions, which are generated by a third party based on information on your credit report. For the types of questions you describe, I just use my password manager to generate random strings for each of those answers and make a note of what question each string matches with. To make sure the strings are not rejected for special characters I use passwords a la https://xkcd.com/936/
I saw the post and immediately thought of this video, glad someone posted it!
I mean, my experience is that these aren't actually opposing problems; it's wretchedly common to find a file where informative comments are scarce, uninformative comments are too numerous, and all the substantive comments are out of date.

If code had one problem or the other, we might be able to judge which issue was more common and push people the other way. As is, it tends to have all three diseases at once and I'm not sure what the cure is except screaming "do better!"
Snap had a good product and plenty of customers but was crushed by Facebook. What competitor will tower over Lyft like that?
...with devices that we're emotionally and physically addicted to flashing and making noises that are designed to ignite a flurry of activity in our reptilian brains sending the message PAY ATTENTION TO ME IMMEDIATELY!
That logic assumes ISPs would be interested in helping out smaller players.

That seems suspect to me...
You mean like this...

https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-65/ap...

The person you are responding to is correct. "Apologist" may be used as you say often in "modern" vernacular English, but it still is properly used as suggested.
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Thanks! I didn't realize that, good advice. Didn't notice the 'likes' .. I mean, I'm sure it's bothered me, I just didn't realize why it was happening, just closed twitter every time i saw too much junk.
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Well it's effectively free if you're life-long unemployed.

But almost more importantly, the healthcare isn't being delivered by companies trying to make a profit but from central funding instead. Sometimes that means making really difficult decisions such as NICE refusing to fund a cystic fibrosis drug because the US pharmaceutical company wants to charge $138,000[1] per patient per year.

But those difficult decisions mean the limited funding (and no funding can be infinite) can be targeted and spent to deliver the most benefit as a whole. Heart-breaking for those with children with C.F. but hopefully the U.S. drug company will soon back down. If it weren't for brexit they likely would have done so already.

This article explains NICE's QALY (Quality adjusted life year) methodology: https://www.nice.org.uk/news/blog/carrying-nice-over-the-thr...

One of the most important reasons to resist the privatisation of healthcare is because it would actually lead to worse outcomes for the same money spent as the decisions of where to direct funding would be less evidence based.

You're right, it's not free, and in fact needs more investment to prevent it being privatised. Britons spend less on healthcare than most, even in fact spending less per person than the US does through taxation alone[2].

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l1094
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42950587
Those are from a call to action campaign from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office...
I thought the comment was exactly as negative as it ought to be. The author is an idiot and he should be lampooned like one.
At this point I've decided refuse to deal with publishers/journals/etc. who don't accept .tex. (Unless it's at the explicit request of a close colleague.) .doc(x) is not a professional file format. (Nor is .odt for that matter.)
This is very insightful. When one considers how a monolith application could be split into a collection of microservices but STILL serve the same user experience, it becomes evident how trust-busting won't affect meaningful change.
My understanding is that we think Orcas are speciating already with some focusing on hunting seals and others hunting salmon and they don't have overlapping hunting grounds.

Additionally they seem to differentiate and prefer their 'own' type so we might be actually witnessing a new species there in and of itself.
I can confirm (like smueller1234) that it is a real number (within reason on data flowing and estimates) which is actually a surprisingly hard engineering feat to achieve.

I have heard several other sites where the number is a lot more… interpretative.
TBH, twitter's UI is so atrocious and takes up so much real estate, it's less information-dense than FB, somehow. Neither one is good, though.
They also have strong safety nets and pretty much the strongest unions in Europe, state backed, state financed, with extensive legal protections.

They have flexi- but they also have -security.
> they overestimated how many people desire variety in dinner choices.

And here I thought it was because they are pretty seriously overpriced, not to mention environmentally questionable.
Equifax has the unique ability to collect the most private information available, even when they have never or will never interact with that person.

I think the entire credit system needs to be changed. If credit bureau's can't be responsible then citizens should get a choice in the matter. These companies have us by the balls and we have no recourse. It's a monopoly complete with price fixing and everything, except the price is privacy and you don't get any options.

It reminds me of an episode of Hotel Hell I saw where the front desk stored all guest credit card numbers, expiration date, and security code in a white lined notebook unlocked behind the counter. Gordon Ramsay walks up to an unstaffed counter, grabs the book, and walks off with it.

Now imagine that the hotel blatantly admits to not giving a shit about your credit card details, and you don't have the option of checking out and taking your business elsewhere.
Also Comcast is more politically mature and dangerous, and more capable in manufacturing consent around issues of monopoly.

The average person will have an easier time understanding the concept that his favorite pundit is less discoverable on Google properties than his political opponent than the concept that Comcast owns Sky, MSNBC, Rotten Tomatoes, Universal Pictures, Telemundo, E!, Vox, The Verge and has all manners of pervasive influence in your thought.
> so was SOAP

You had me until that (j/k)(mostly)

> Is it really meaningful to go all in on learning how ....is all that fundamentally different?

That'd be the diminishing returns I mentioned up-thread: each iteration of learning a new way to do an old problem gives you less. I'd argue it's still more than 0, but we aren't comparing to zero, we're comparing to the opportunity cost.

That said, I think, as a generalization, experienced devs tend to be prematurely dismissive. That is, however, a personal opinion.
It wouldn't be the first.
I think it is much more interesting to look at the inverse. i.e. employment rate and it is quite a surprise to see this in the last 10 years between a slight growth in the euro area and decline in the US.

Also the difference between unemployment rate over time and labour force participation is interesting. https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/united-states-l...
Someday someone will write a password manager equivalent for keeping track of one's lies.
Looks like it may have been from the EFF based on this comment:

https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/eligibli...
Yeah, it's the ampersands and ordering and placement and numbers that always throw me, not the concepts. Thanks1
This is what I noticed and reasons I left after living their for 3 years.

I lived downtown proper and had no interest in moving out in the suburb areas where these bigger tech opportunities were. The appeal of Austin is downtown to me. The areas in which these larger companies and opportunities are in Austin (or Round Rock actually?) is a rather time consuming commute. I also didn't want to have a car and the transit system is... there isn't one. There are some smaller well established and known startups closer in downtown. I applied to a few, but I guess I'm just not what they were looking for because I didn't get offers. I guess I'm not the super rockstar they want.
Do you have anything to back up your claim about math?

I see here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/02/08/geog... -- that Texas ranks pretty low in math. But it's hard to say what that really means.

I've been under the impression that Texas's k-12 education is much better than California's and on par with New York and Illinois.

Texas has something crazy like 1/5th of all k-12 students in the country. That number has shot up faster than any other state, so I think it's reasonable if they're having some "growing pains" so to speak.
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Because one shouldn't be forced to illegally obtain and run a second-rate operating system to run a third-rate application?
Nutrition is hardly a "solved" science, but your body needs more than raw elements to live. You cant just eat a plate of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen (some of the most common elements in organic chemistry).
I am ok with betting. But the writing is horrible and the thinking is one dimensional.
That's not the common flu, it's not the same, and the regular vaccine wouldn't work against it.
It's not working. Anyone can spend $1 to make $0.50.

> Why not also just hand wave that Lyft is a mere messaging app company that provides communication between people who need rides and drivers willing to give them?

If this was their actual business model, they might actually be able to turn a buck. Drivers can pay a small monthly fee to be enrolled in the service, lyft takes a small cut + payment processing fee. Drivers paid weekly or after X amount of revenue, whichever comes second.
Call it 250k/car. $125B. That's not chump change, even for Google (COH ~$100B).

Optimistically with economies of scale you can get that down, but even without it's within the realm of possibility if they've got the technology working.
Frankly I wouldn't trust anyone who brags this loudly about a $100 bet and home schools his children.

Seriously: "radical deregulation of Europe’s labor markets is long overdue" because you won a pub-sized bet? I'll take economic and financial advice with a tad fewer delusions of grandeur, thank you very much.
> SSN on its own is sufficient for verifying identity.

No. It's sufficient for identifying someone, but not at all sufficient (not even close) for verifying someone is who they say they are.
Not the same thing. It's called flu, but it's only in name.
... and Microsoft Tinker in Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. (-:
As an aside, I could save $XXXX a year by having a roommate/living in a worse house/having a crappier car/never going out for drinks/etc. The list goes on. There is an incredible number of things your average first world worker could give up to save money per year. The reason people spend money on these things is that they spend 40+ hours a week working so they CAN afford to spend those unnecessary dollars a year on things they enjoy, that enrich their lives. Otherwise we would all have plenty of money in the bank while we live in a 5x5 concrete cell and literally only go to work/sleep. Some things are not about maximizing profit.
Is "not in the labor force" the right category? Treating it that way will reduce unemployment numbers by reducing the counted population.

No matter what category you put these groups in, you will have an uncomfortable discrepancy similar, although to a lesser degree, of comparing apples to oranges. This is because prisoners are not identical with non-exsistant people nor are they identical to employed people.

Additionally, since military is considered employment, Europeans could boost employment just by expanding their military: as if unemployment is caused by a small military. I sense this is not the conclusion the authors would like.

So I too will bet that 10 years from now, European unemployment numbers will be higher than the US. My explanation: the counting techniques, prison ratios, relative world influence, military sizes as well as greater employment security will remain about the same.
You don't get it. She's aptly taking advantage of a liberal trend which is negative sentiment to companies causing income stratification in their respective and potential locations.

She doesn't really care about the underlying cause. If that was so then your points would be valid.

But look at how many news articles got published and how many people are getting excited about the thought. Being against successful technology companies is currently what liberals want and she's feeding her party.
There are several copies, and one is explicitly that: they have loaded the same page recently. There are other copies, like rooms remaining, the recent slope of bookings is steep and will hit zero soon, etc. All are reasonably true.
Yes, we can.

I apologize for the extreme edge case.

In a way, the applicant is still hired because of a degree rather than skill if that's what's used for initial filtering. Everything after that is derivative reasoning.
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> ...(in areas where demand is high...

or areas/weather conditions which they know are difficult for their autonomous cars to navigate.
I'm baffled by this. Do Americans really keep their shoes on at home?

What do you do if it is wet and muddy outside?

Do toddlers wear shoes inside as well?

So many questions...
Those look horrifying.
> Generics are slower, that's the trade-off. Developer time vs. execution time.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

> Saying Go has it's head up it's ass is extremely disrespectful to the people that created it and are maintaining it. You lost all credibility when you chose the low road and said that.

No it's not disrespectful, it is entirely true. Do consider the origins of Go, where it all started as an experiment in combining bad decisions into a single programming language to see what would happen. What those very people didn't realize upon releasing it to the world is the sheer amount of people who fell for it, it was supposed to be a joke, with a stupid looking mascot and all... Now they have to take it seriously - and Google has to choose between keeping it alive or getting a forever bad rep for killing it - because too many companies rely on it, and they are forced to retrofit useful features on top of the giant pile of garbage they've created.
I apolgoize that I don't have any references available at the moment, but I've read in several books that Microsoft insiders said it made an enormous difference.

Having the government essentially watching their every move caused them to moderate their actions, and make sure they were on the right side of the law.

They were much more conservative than they otherwise would have been. It was described as a large cultural shift in the company and their way of thinking.
Have you considered the acceleration that such a nuclear pulse drive creates? I am totally with you on the topic, not just with living organisms. If it were only electronics that need to be transported the force by acceleration wouldn't be such a huge issue. But any living organism that is to be transported is such a way needs to be able to adapt to pretty extreme acceleration/deceleration forces.
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