skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can ask them what they prefer. Also, communication is an important element - in real work you may be spending time on something that's already obvious to someone else, or getting stuck on an approach which is known to not work.

I think actually solving those problems or failing in the end is random (unless you know the answer already). But if you get a good chat out of it, it may be in your favour.
"Dissenter is designed to extend American civil liberties protections for political speech to every corner of the planet, and allows people to express themselves on any subject, at any time, on any url, in a manner which is or would be permissible under U.S. law."
>All this to say, I wouldn't really call what you're suggesting a benefit by any view.

It's certainly a benefit from the view of the Chinese government.
My estimate is 30-35 years, about 10-15 for the technology and another 20-25 for the law to adapt.
> a custom bootloader created by me to impress technical recruiters

Recruiters don't have time to go through the process just to see your CV.

You won't impress them.
This seems like a folk etymology, and a dubious one at that. A quick investigation of support turns up a Wikipedia article that's cited to an about.com post that's cited back to the Wikipedia article (where they claim a Spanish etymology), and the Spanish-language article on the topic is cited back to the same About.com post. :P
I live in Minnesota and have my entire life. I hope very much that self driving cars lead to a more sane response to icy conditions, which is to not drive. If the vehicles are in a position to enforce that at a technical level then all the better.
DITA and Dockbook are not a fragile proprietary system, quite on the contrary.

There is a reason LaTeX is barely used out of academia.
Yes, "both sides" lie incessantly, embrace dictators, attack our norms and institutions, engage in voter suppression, and deploy bots and trolls to engage in earnest, non-contemptuous discussion (including right here on this thread).
Clang by default shows only 20 error lines, or something like that, so you have to scroll up a ton less when compiling. I swapped to clang just for the improved error messages.
Last time I checked, the three pillars of InfoSec were confidentiality, integrity, and availability. On Windows 10, way too much info is shared with MS, equating to loss of confidentiality by default. The update system is rather heavy handed, leading to loss availability (at possibly important times).

For the above reasons, Windows 10 is not secure enough for me. I still use windows 7 and have not experienced any security issues. Windows 10 has the potential to be more secure, but sadly MS choses to treat its users with contempt.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19342184
At least the weather would be better, no? I’m in Chicago and had to bear the brunt of that ridiculous polar vortex at -29F. I’m sure Detroit had to as well.
Funny. This reminds me of all the comments about apps like Dropbox. "Do you happen to live with strict low data caps?"

Well, guess what, those guys are still on Reddit making snarky comments and the Dropbox guys have IPO'd.
I thought that there is a way to have a title URL and description under the same post, though I wrong
The lowest common denominator is driving. A driver's license is way easier to obtain than a pilot's license.
I'm really bad at reading tea leaves, what does this mean?
> work for free on someone else's proprietary software and there is a very real risk of companies trying to abuse this practice to extract free labour from candidates

This may happen in some places, but in practice I've never seen a task which actually could be applied anywhere. Most of the time these were toy projects, or simple exercises.

I think you'd easily notice if giving you the test was worth more to the company than all the recruitment time spent on taking to you. It's not free labour if you end up spending hours with each candidate, splitting up real work into "exercise chunks", integrating wildly different styles, validating results, etc.
I am not sure why you have been downvoted. I agree with your logic.
Nice, I was just looking at this very topic today.

Note that with `itertuples()` you can also access the values by column name as well, so in your example you can also do `namedTuple.Name` or `namedTuple.Skill`.
I agree that the primary cause of all this is government interference regarding barriers to entry. However, did the regulation help insulate these companies against competition in the first place or did they use their money and power once established to pass laws that would keep competitors at bay? Lobbying reaps disproportionate rewards---those CEOs who stick by their non-rent-seeking principles are leaving big money on the table and will likely be replaced by shareholders. (Econ Talk had a good podcast on this recently.)

Regarding trust busting, it is worth noting that these tech giants give an immense amount of money and support to the left. Might as well give Warren some bipartisan support so we can thrash them a bit---it would be sweet poetic justice to attack these statist zealots with the very government power they worship.
Very impressive. I do hope that a recruiter who understands this sees it.
This where -- literally -- the rubber hits the road and we need extreme regulatory oversight over cybersecurity in cars. I don't like fearmongering but can you imagine what would happen if a terrorist group got hold of an exploit like this??
I agree that this is most ideal. Thank you for the suggestions, let me investigate and see what I can do :)
People take their commuter Teslas off-roading? Every time I try it ends with strange looks from the tow truck driver.
Every single major car company is working on this tech. There is no way they can keep it to themselves. Plus put aside private ownership, those car companies will just become other Uber and Lyft competitors.
i am 30 now, and started at 24. i'd be willing to train you.
I agree; that does look indeed a good reason to set it to zero. Once the end of the function code is reached, ret is either zero or undefined, so there is no need to keep track of the value of ret; just assume that it is zero.

Now I can see how x86 C ABIs is working; thank you for explaining because I did not know much about that before, but now I know, and indeed it is making sense. (On a different instruction set, something else might make sense; I don't really know.)
Congrats on a cool project.

As a hiring manager for embedded software engineers, I have a couple of thoughts that maybe helpful. I come at it from an american perspective, and I know europ is different but anyways:

1. I have to be able to read your CV. When I click on the link on github it says error, and I had dig around to figure out how to open it. When I’m scanning applicants I’d probably have just said “oh they don’t even know how to attach a pdf”. I know how cute it is, but I have to able to see your CV.

2. What do you want? Your CV is a good CV, in the sense of it lists what you’ve done. But give me a short executive summary, what do you want, what amazing thing have you done? But it’s also really long for someone with no work experience. Condense it down.

2a. Yes you might include a cover letter, but when I call you I’ll have your CV open, don’t make me hunt for it.

2b. Example: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-this-is-an-excellent-res...

3. Your FAQ, this rubs me really wrron “Writing a boot loader is REALLY HARD.” Ok I’ve writen a few, and it’s real pain in the ass, especially since you’re normally bringing up hardware while doing it that may not work. But it’s a solved problem that’s painful. Tell me you did it to learn and expand your knowledge and learn asm. That’s more impresive imho.

Keep up the good work!
I'm not a recruiter, but I am a hiring manager and I'm impressed.

I'm not going to go through the assembly with a fine-grained comb, but I don't need to. The existence of the final result demonstrates someone who persevered to do something novel that required more than a superficial understanding of their tools. It also lends itself to interesting questions for an interview (what was hardest, what would you change, are there other file formats that could work with this).

It's not by itself something that makes me want to hire you, but it certainly makes me want to talk to you.
It’s a valid PDF that can also be used as a boot loader.
The video is from Moon Machines. Great series if you're interested in Apollo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Machines
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> No other animal engages in such.

This unsupported statement has been made about so many things that we later found out many animals DO engage in.
I found that Candy Crush and other junk kept coming back after updates, wasting a lot of time and data. This combined with the crazy amount of telemetry sent to MS makes it less impressive from a security standpoint. It's a pity because Windows 10 does have great potential.
For some reason, peach juice hasn't really caught on.
You know, you make an interesting point. I think you're referring to the same thing that the author is referring to.

On the left side of the political spectrum, It's not a single phenomena though, I think you can break it down into two camps on the left:
1. older-school globalist liberals. Probably older, supported the Clintons, ect. These people seem to have traditionally looked down on the right as backward, uneducated "basket of deplorables" or whatever. Plays into the ivory tower liberal stereotype.
2. New-school farther left. Probably younger, fans of AOC et al. They'd also be likely to look down their noses, but in more of a moral superiority perspective.

I think the condescension of #1 goes back decades and has already borne its fruit in (at least to a degree) the political situation we find ourselves in today. I worry that group # 2 hasn't learned those lessons and is proving that they'll just repeat the same mistakes. Unless they self-destruct arguing about Israel, which totally mystifies me.

That said... so much of what comes out of the right is complete and utter bullshit. From the massive propaganda machine that is fox, to infowars, to tiny hyper-racist subreddits — there's a lot of noise to separate from the signal that might be a valid, reasonable conservative argument.

With that in mind, sometimes I wonder if we don't need a bit more contempt.

Maybe if the type of outright hate speech the mainstream right seems to support was not acceptable, that would open the floor for some actual conversation.

To summarize: I wish that democrats and the left weren't been so quick to dismiss legitimate concerns from everyone outside of NYC and SF (hyperbolic, I know). But it's right wing (and especially religiously-motivated) politics that have completely skewered our politics and media.

Saying "fuck that and fuck you" to anyone who supports that system is a reasonable reaction, in my opinion.

But where does that leave us? I don't know.
Upvote for the links.

Yeah, I've been following the Portland thing a bit. To my eyes, it seems a bit like frenemy sport between PP (kind of full of themselves) and antifa (wannabe fascists without the martial skills).

If this is the extreme of right-wing violence in the US at present, well, wake me if something interesting happens.

Seems pretty minor compared to that prof that tried to murder someone with a bike lock (for example): https://www.foxnews.com/us/felony-charges-filed-against-alle...

And don't miss antifa hating on senior citizens: https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-antifa-protesters-caught...
It's a felony to receive unregistered chemical apparatus, such as an Erlenmeyer or Florence flask.

https://www.dps.texas.gov/RSD/Precursor/Laws/index.htm
I wrote a couple articles about structured data over pipes, which may motivate some features in the Oil shell [1]

How to Quickly and Correctly Generate a Git Log in HTML http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/09/19.html

Git Log in HTML: A Harder Problem and A Safe Solution http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/09/29.html

I'm interested in ideas for structured data over pipes, or even better a prototype and example programs :)

[1] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html
That situation will need to be handled by the law. Let's say stores are required to accept cash. Are they allowed to charge more for someone who pays in cash? Will they be required to provide change? If they run out of change, would they be subject to a fine?

If stores wanted to weasel around this law, they could keep their supply of coins and dollar bills low so customers are forced to either leave or pay without getting change back.
I thought humans are animals?
Monthly HIV injection could free patients from daily pills
There are two sides

1. Buy-side - ETF for companies leading in clean water or purification, or the second level that companies provide components for those companies in the first group.

2. Sell-side - bet on the companies will do badly in the situation e.g big polluters.

But the hard thing is timing, you can sit there for decades for the outcome and so many factors can affect your bet between now and then.
As someone that had the privilege to see the start of it, it was a pity how everything went.

It if weren't for the whole Linux vs Symbian, plus rebooting devenvs multiple times across Symbian and Maemo history, things would have turned out much different.

But like all major corporations, politics play a big role.
On top of all this there's the theory that gas giants typically migrate towards their star, it may be rare for a gas giant like Jupiter to find a stable orbit where it can shield the habitable zone

Another thing making earth rare is its high proportion of iron ore. That and our abnormally large moon are thought to be the result of Earth colliding with another large rocky planet. The tidal force of an extra large moon + our extra ironey core give us an extra strong magnetic field to keep the nasties out and hold our atmosphere
Dumping is about selling at
a marginal loss. For example if it cost you $7 to make a widget but you sell it at a loss for $5 because you’re trying to drive a competitor who can make a widget for $6 out of the market. Linux (like most software) has no marginal cost so unless you pay someone to use it dumping doesn’t really apply (Google did do that with Android). For Uber and Lyft I think a reasonable case could be made that they are dumping if they take a marginal loss on each ride to force a lower cost provider out of a market, but companies get a lot of leeway for money spent on “marketing”, eg the losses can be structured as “new driver bonuses” and “new customer discounts” rather than a cost per ride.
Hey, I'm curious, would you mind turning 'showdead' on and replying to my comment here? I'm shadowbanned on here and would sometimes actually like replies in discussion with interesting comments like yours.
Thanks.
Machine learning productivity hacks
That’s missing the point. His resume is now on the front page of HN!

Also, the resume opens as a regular PDF, so there’s no extra work to see it unless you want to try the bootloader.
You said, "No other animal engages in such."

Which is the point of the article. You cannot make that claim. You do not know what all the other animals are thinking.

Maybe the elephant is thinking, "You have everything you need. Why do you want to kill me for my tusks?"
This is Space X.... let's go for a splash down in a water park in Wisconsin too!
All political mud-slinging aside, all weighing and apportioning of blame withheld, the main suggestions of the article are worthwhile.

1. Don't allow yourself to slide easily or prematurely into contempt. We do it too often these days.

2. Disagree better. You can disagree, but make your case and engage in the responses. Rhetoric has a place but it's being overused.
Do you think Ford, GM, Toyota, etc will just give up and say Google owns the car market now? Nobody is going to have a monopoly on this technology.

If there’s no monopoly then you want to sell as many cars as possible and that means personal ownership.
A reasonably dense geo, timestamp and IP address event stream over time (ie. Multiple apps sending over time reasonably frequently) should have sufficient information to associate ids. However most ad tech companies including I believe Google and FB are very leery of doing this "Harry" type of stunt and arrange data pipelines in a way that this cannot be done at any aggregation less than a few hundred IDs and export anything beyond segment data to prevent re-identification. I'm very surprised these people are touting it
> when I can just get very good at dynamic programming and topological sorting

might work at one place, but the next will ask completely different questions. You can’t know everything.
IQ tests are one of the best-known predictors of performance in any occupation.
Just copy the description as a comment in the other link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19344510
This is the most detailed and well reasoned comment I've read here. Thank you for your thoughts!
Judging by the emails I receive it doesn’t take much to impress some recruiters. I had one tell me one of my Github projects was impressive. The problem is the repo was literally empty.

Another was impressed by https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/

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I'm ancient by HN standards, but I still find my skills are in demand. I would categorize myself as a lifelong learner; I got into python over 15 years ago, mongodb almost 10, and I have taken the time to understand what I need to know about front-end frameworks like angular and react. One employer called me a Swiss army knife, and I take that as a compliment. My knowledge is quite broad and quite deep, though I'm not a super expert at any one thing and I can't claim to know everything about everything.

However I have several friends around my age who never bothered to learn anything beyond C++, and they are definitely struggling. They either are stuck in jobs because they're the only person who knows how to recompile some ancient module, or they're out of work and freaked out about the future.

Ageism is real, but so are some of the stereotypes. Older programmers are often going to be more resistant to change, and can be more sure of themselves even when they're wrong. The flipside is they often have forgotten more than a young programmer even knows.

Present Valley hiring practices seem to optimize for general aptitude, and downplay or disregard the value of experience.

There's also the undeniable fact that older people in general have built up more obligations and responsibilities, and are often more skeptical of the value of equity because they've been a few startups and their options never amounted to anything. Therefore, they are going to prefer stability and cash over the promise of future rewards.
If your cost per employee is approaching half a million dollars or more on average, you've probably messed up somewhere.

If you're a taxicab company and your non-driving staff is making that, you've definitely screwed up somewhere.
Oh yeah - if it kept coming back that's pretty annoying.
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Taking morality out of it for the time-being, taxes serve as an additional barrier to entry for smaller companies; these tech giants have hordes of lawyers and accountants to make sure they pay very minimal taxes (if any). These companies are also multinational, so they can keep money overseas and search for tax havens globally---a choice smaller companies don't have.

The point is: you can give big companies whatever rate you want, but they're in the strongest position to circumvent it, and they will. The better choice is to lower taxes substantially and give the smaller companies a chance to accumulate capital faster, so they can compete.
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There are plenty of places in Austin proper with as gorgeous hill country views. Mt Bonnell Drive overlooking the river is fantastic, as is the hiking along Bull Creek and the Barton Creek greenbelt.
> The validity of IQ as a predictor of job performance is above zero for all work studied to date, but varies with the type of job and across different studies, ranging from 0.2 to 0.6

Best know doesn't mean good. Any occupation also fails:

> for minimally-skilled activities, athletic strength (manual strength, speed, stamina, and coordination) are more likely to influence performance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

Also, that's a predictor for "any" job. You can do better if you know exactly what job you're interested in. Do a sample of work that's very close to the real one and you'll have a better prediction.
To be fair, you describe the last step of one of his analyses. He starts with 900gb of data.

One could of course discuss whether spark is the right tool for filtering a text file for a pattern, IMHO the post is interesting nevertheless.
Thanks, that is amazing feedback! I am looking into the issue of the PDF not loading in github, probably I just have to put the magic numbers sooner.

You are also right on the FAQ part, this was more a learning exercise to prove if I could learn and do this more than anything, I have to update the README with further instructions and will most likely address this.
That is just not the case. Hunter gatherer societies have rich narrative traditions around every kind of animal imaginable.

You only need desensitization once you are massacring animals on an industrial scale.
That minority better be big enough to pay additional development costs.
It sounded like the post you replied to was referring to emergency maneuvers, and I think automated systems are probably better than humans at some kinds of emergency maneuvers even right now.
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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Especially not in Show HN threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Thank you! Yes, ffmpeg;)
I recently made a simple React resume app to start applying for jobs - https://iamskok.github.io/react-resume/

If you are looking for a job too, you should fork this repo https://github.com/iamskok/react-resume, edit `resume.json` and share your personal resume built with React.js. If you are not looking for a job, then help me get one by sharing this resume with your dev team. Cheers!
The idea behind it is that you don't need to go to the process, I am telling you that it is possible to do this and if you don't believe me you can verify it.
This is an argument you can make regardless of what is actually going on on the ground. "The problem isn't policy, it's actually polarization" -- but the article completely fails to examine the causes of said polarization: What are people feeling angry about? Which people feel angry about what? Are those people justified in feeling angry? Are those angry people just doing it for show or are their lives being actively ruined?

You end up having to view the conflict through an ideological lens, but claiming there is some enlightened non-ideological view and the "real problem" is contemptuousness is mega disingenuous.
Uhm... I get why you would want stuff like data visualizations on your debugger (I missed that enough times already), but which debugger has all of these features out of the box?

Also, VS is much more extensible than people tend to give it credit for. So even if the advanced debugging features are not avaiable out of the box, you can add them.

I am not a VS fan boy, but compared to the competition, there are some things where it is absolutely worth its money (in other cases, it isn't).
It's sad. But it's real. Its not hidden behind concrete walls.

You're doing that. Not paying 18 people away to do it for you.

And the chicken probably had a better life.
Surely this offends some virus scanners.
Thank you! This is exactly what I was aiming to, I don't expect the recruiter to go through the process but at least I can easily show some technical background.