skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work Rules by Lazlo Bock may give you some good insights. It references a rigorous study by Frank Schmidt and John Hunter. The gist of it is that the 3 best indicators of on-the-job performance is a work sample test, general cognitive ability tests and structured interviews.

If leadership quality is something you wanna test for, you just have to design the questions in that manner - for example ask about how she handled professional failure in the past, ask her to give you some tips to motivate subordinates, to teach you something you dont know, even its a fun fact, like turtles breath through their bottoms.

As for your concern that "most people would have read about these sort of questions and come up with some template answers". You could flush their prepared answers by asking the candidate to give you a 10 second summary of their answer first, then ask them to give another example in a 10 second summary. After they have exhausted their "template answers", ask them to take their time to give you an example other than these 2. Give them ample time. Don't bully them or put them under pressure, work with them to elicit another example and dive deep in a collaborative manner. for example with "why did you think at that time, this was the right approach", "I messed up recently by doing xxx, how do you think I could have handled it better". (Don't do this for all your Behavioral Questions. Pick the last question especially if the candidate is performing well)

End of the day most interviews are a waste of time because 99.4 percent of the time is spent trying to confirm whatever impression the interviewer formed in the first ten seconds. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313878823_The_impor...). I cant find the reference for my life, but I think it was Google (or Amazon) that found out that given the same structured interview process, some people were better than others in selecting great teammates that performed well on-the-job. The key is to encourage these type of interviewers to do more interviews.
People don't throw away cars. Where did you get that idea? Those who don't want to keep their car after a few years already lease and everyone else sells their car if they want a different one. Even cars that have lost 90% of their value can still be exported to developing countries. Meanwhile video game servers often shutdown within 10 years and you will be left with nothing.
How's that different from Star Citizen? They're also doing that.
> Whoever said programming side projects should be “full-stress cases”?

That's what the context is here. There's a notion in the software development profession that you should have a side project which you put near full-time hours and / or effort into. Because you love coding so much you can't stop.

Be it your future start-up, or contributing to an open source project (or 3).

Studying law is equivalent to reading the tech news / seing what other people are doing / keeping up with best practices. Actually writing a project using it is another level of complexity.

It's the difference between reading and analyzing the arguments of a legal case and reconstructing and presenting the arguments yourself.
How do we know the object first sited was the same one seen later at the CAP point?
I don't know about other countries, but in the UK the approach is to set the minimum wage significantly lower for teenagers.

Which sucks if you're an adult making a living who happens to be young, but that's what we do.

There's also a dirty hack: We call some young people "apprentices"(1), which sometimes means the same job as before and not having to pay the minimum wage, with a veneer of marketing. See also "unpaid interns".

(1) I don't want to disparage proper apprenticeships, which from reports can be excellent, e.g. at engineering firms like Rolls-Royce.
In 2016 when you could pre-order a model 3, Musk said first deliveries of model 3 would begin in late 2017. About 2,500 to 3,000 model 3 had been delivered by the end of 2017, and over 200,000 have been delivered to date.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/31/11335272/tesla-model-3-an...
It’s pretty boss on a Vive Pro. You’re right, the extra resolution and screen refresh really help.
Google will soon let you auto-delete your location tracking data
How Integrity Is Your Brand’s Greatest Weapon
This is actually pretty cool, reminds me of recording macros in MS Office, great for people who don't want to code.

Integration testing a UI directly is extremely fragile though, as a simple CSS change could break all these tests. As long people don't get carried away, this looks like a great way to ensure basic functionality of a deployed site.
SIMD is available on more than just Intel. What platforms did you test on?
Buzz Aldrin: It’s time to focus on the great migration of humankind to Mars
Julian Assange doesn't consent to US extradition, court hears
So pulling the brakes on further investments.
This might be a good time to watch “They Live”.
I'm having a hard time reconciling
"They see how people purchase food differently in bodegas, konbini, and darshinis. They know why it is important to engineer robustness in the face of slow, unreliable internet connections. They have worked in and run businesses that don’t have access to global payments infrastructure." with this precision.

What's the point of mentioning typical south american or asian shops names and then offer north america only remote jobs ?
And may be a a road to gradual typing, i.e. a forward looking auto. The language spec will probably never allow if (maybe someday in C++), but IDEs might fill in the type for you if it can be deduced from a call site later on.
That would be a straightforward way to know the truth. But it can take a long time until a UFO would crash in someones front garden, if they are real.

An alternative path is to use the inductive research process. In this process, we assume that testimonies are reports of real encounters with Unconventional Flying Objects. These objects flying in our atmosphere must respect the law of physics that we know very well. Could we deduce their propulsion mechanism from the collected data ?

This is the research path followed by the physic professor Auguste Meessen since 1972. The result is the pulsed electromagnetic propulsion system (PEMP) that requires an intense alternating magnetic field. He also suggest a new type of oscillator that can produce this intense field. The outer shell of the UFO must be supraconductive at room temperature and above. The side effect is that it isolate the object and the passegers from the intense field. This theory still needs experimental validation.

Since humans don’t master supraconductivity at room temperature, it would be a strong hint that UFOs are from ET origin.

This is just to remind that ufology can be matter of scientific research and that we don’t have to captured a UFO to start studying it.

1. "Pulsed EM Propulsion of Unconventional Flying Objects" http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/UFO_Pulsed_EM_Propulsion_of_...

2. "Evidence of Very Strong Low Frequency Magnetic Fields" http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen)/UFO_Evidence_of_Very_Strong...

3. "Production of EM Surface Waves by Superconducting Spheres: A New Type of Harmonic Oscillators" http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/UFO_Production_of_EM_Surface...
It's interesting that this paper talks about compilers becoming a lot more sophisticated and powerful, and simplifying many aspects of programming. I've always hoped for this, and want to work on this as a personal side research project.
I don't believe there is a role like this in the product teams at Microsoft anymore.

There are groups within Commercial Software Engineering who are technology-aligned and work within a specific domain (ex: Kubernetes or Machine Learning), but that may not be what you are looking for. I did a quick search on the Microsoft Careers page and didn't see any openings in those groups.
You can assume that git packfiles are immutable. They may disappear from under you as a repack happens, but they will not be changed.

They even have a name like pack-<SHA-1>.pack where that <SHA-1> is a SHA-1 of the contents of the pack (minus the last 20 bytes, the checksum SHA-1 is also part of the pack itself).
I don’t want to find out about any of those things. They don’t, as the saying goes, spark joy in my life. Sure, trips might be the exception from your list, but also any trips I go on I can plan for myself in a way that is both cheaper and more enjoyable.
BTW, this article lists Pebble as a failure of crowdfunding. But . . . didn't they deliver a smart watch? I had one once upon a time, and it seemed to work fine, especially on Android. The company did not ultimately succeed, but it did at least deliver on its promises. I'd call it a kickstarter success, personally.
The new darter pro gets decent battery life, I get around 7 hours on mine. It has similar hardware to the galago pro, but with a 54 whr battery instead of 35 whr.

Their other models do have poor battery life though. The galago pro is especially egregious, I don't know why anyone would buy a 13 inch laptop that only gets 3 hours of battery.
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I would vote for you to worry about increasing restrictions of freedom by governments outside of the west, since the overton window for acceptable policy proposals will be pushed on by what other nations get away with.

If China succeeds in monitoring all of their citizens and manipulating them into an easy to govern mass of conformity and subservience through their social credit system, it seems highly likely that that will at least make people in the west slightly more willing to move in that direction than if the whole world would just agree that it was far beyond the pale.
Of course not. It's just an illustration.

Being willing to take on tasks as menial as picking up some pencils for the team might be a symptom of desperation. It equally might be a symptom of a lack of egotistical arrogance [that one is above such tasks].

Also called into question is the definition of a lesser task. You see, in the Feynman scenario they could not have got much work done in a short time without more pencils—no matter who was fetching them.
The point is that I'm fundamentally disgusted by an incitement to spend money being thrust in front of me in any form, for any reason.

I see it as exactly at odds with what I'm trying to do with my life and my attention. I do not consent to have my time and attention taken from me in this way.

Yes, I am a free rider on much of the internet today, such as it is. That the entire internet is based on this absurd proposition is a symptom of its rapid growth and industries going after the lowest hanging fruit. I am confident that the internet will find another way forward.
Did you do each of these after a clean reboot, or are we looking at possible caching effects from the kernel? If any part was in cache, then we might be just comparing shared memory against IPC, and that's an obvious performance win, but not really what's intended to be examined here.

The first numbers seem to imply that it takes equally long for pread to copy bytes from memory as it does to fetch them from the disk. For a quick back-of-the-napkin attempt at checking this, lets assume that disk IO accounts for 100% of this workload, and that local memory is one order of magnitude faster. In that case, I would expect the difference for an optimized implementation to be at most 10%.

I do think it is true that there are scenarios where the file mmap is faster, or that certain operations on each kernel might fall off a cliff. I just find it hard to believe that `mmap` must be as much faster as shown here in a typical situation (e.g. after a clean reboot, doing about the same amount of work, issuing optimal syscalls, with the OS/kernel not doing anything foolish).
> Q2 is going to be a positive quarter

Tesla sold 10,000ish Model 3 cars in April. That's 2500 Model 3 cars/week. Remember, 5000ish cars/week is the breakeven point, when Tesla is profitable.

https://insideevs.com/news/347137/tesla-model-3-s-x-sales-ap...

Inside EV is pumping the story. But anyone paying attention recognizes that Q3 2018 and Q4 2018 were the quarters to look at. Q3 2018 sold 4653 Model 3 cars / week (and also sold way more Model S / Model X cars).

Tesla is severely behind on Q2 numbers, there's almost no way they're going to hit their guidance. 100%, Q2 will be a miss as well, I guarantee it. The numbers are already quite bad for Q2. Either that, or "Inside EVs" is wrong (quite possible... but buy the rumor, sell the news, amirite?)

Q3 is where you can hope for Tesla to become profitable. They gotta expand into Europe and China and make up for all the lost sales. Americans are at the end of an automotive cycle, Americans are not going to be buying cars for a long time (in general).
You can play Star Citizen for free this week with their "free fly" promotion: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/35-Free-Fly

I installed it last night. It's a ~40 GB download. Right from the start it's very confusing and quite buggy. I'm sure there's some cool tech in there but they need to work on the initial experience if they want to attract new players with a free play week.

I also think it has "too much realism" disease. It's delivering on the dream of a space simulator where you can wake up in your bunk, walk to the flight deck, use the computer console to request your ship, walk to your assigned landing pad, climb the ladder into your cockpit, run through a preflight routine, and take off. But is all that fun?
An increase in aggregate worker productivity isn't necessarily an increase in the ability of workers; most productivity gains are attributable to capital investment. If you took a productive modern worker back 500 years, they wouldn't be much more productive than the locals of that time, as they'd lack the tooling, machinery, resources, equipment and factories that magnify human productivity today. It hence makes sense that the gains from rises in productivity wouldn't all accrue to workers, as the gains result from the actions of business owners investing in better means of production, not from action on the workers' part.
The article's definition of "good job" is cost-of-living adjusted:
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It has to pay more than the national median wage, $37,690 in 2017, adjusted for the cost of living in the area.
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It's a well-written article that's reasonably fun to read, if anyone has five minutes to spare.
Another reason for the "country’s shrinking appetite for nuclear" that I can cite is the North Korean terrorist threat.

Rationally, there is little reason for the North Korean state to cause long term damage to a soil that they claim belongs to them, and also the number of such attacks is now close to zero, but as we all know this kind of fear will not go away.

Renewables could work as a replacement, but this may only further weaken South Korea's position in the energy sector in the 21st century. They have a large petroleum and natural gas refining sector, which as we know needs to be phased out. What will be their trajectory in this context?
I hope other companies follow Stripe's lead here. Anecdotally, I've never been as happy and productive as I've been the past few years as a remote worker. It seems to me too few companies are taking advantage of the opportunity here. The few challenges I've encountered seem solvable:
(1) effective team culture building: can be solved with travel budget & prioritization of good team cultural norms by team leads
(2) whole team collaborative brainstorming (particularly when facing a "fire drill"-type time-constrained challenge): more challenging to solve from what I've seen, but might be solved by some combination of better tech and better work practices

I'm interested to hear how Stripe addresses these and which challenges they find.

One question at a higher level: what are the immigration law impacts here? Does Stripe need to get H1Bs for internationally located workers? I hope not: effective remote work is fantastic step toward bringing labor mobility more in line with capital mobility, with potentially positive effects on income, taxation, and social policies for people around the world.
You've kind of hit the point with the second half of your comment. Two populations are virtually never identical, so you don't need any statistics to answer the question. A more reasonable question is whether or not you have the statistical power (i.e. measurement precision) to see the difference, and whether the difference is big enough to matter.
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Got a list of such software?
Well said. Myself specifically, I'd like to think science is supposed to be better than that -- neutral, dispassionate. It probably isn't because it's done be humans, but I want it to be.
Is there a problem with dm_crypt?

I can't afford to lose work time every time I fly internationally.
> Those 100 star systems? He has not completed a single one. So far he has two mostly finished planets, nine moons and an asteroid.

Lord. I had no idea it was THIS bad. This game was my son's first taste of Kickstarter pseudofraud. He got a good machine out of it from his dad (me), but he's still bitter 5 years later not being able to play what was promised.
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You made me laugh. For some reason the image of me (an overweight programmer) writing my next website via interpretive dance - in the vein of the dance scene in "The Big Lebowski" - won't stop running through my head.
Not exactly desktop, but for GUI Linux has GTK and QT. GTK is by far the most common and I'd say the standard. Anyone who argues is a KDE fanboy ;)
I used to feel that way, until I built several services (the latest being tomotcha.com). Turns out, once you've built something, you need to advertise its existence out there. I mean "advertise" in the largest meaning of the word, not only paid for advertisement on Google/Facebook/Twitter/Criteo. That includes writing blog posts for people to stumble upon, talk about it on Hacker News, send samples to reviewers, etc.

How else would people learn about it? Turns out, if you don't talk about it, very few will come...

I think this is why HN has a lot more goodwill towards self promotion (Show HN style posts) than a lot of other communities (reddit notably, depending on the sub). Entrepreneurs know that advertisement is a necessary part of any business.
The biggest difference is Elite is a released and playable game, and Star Citizen is currently a series of tech demos and promises.
The atmosphere of the moon is not 'clean'. It is -almost- nonexistant. Unless you are thinking of mars?
It's the same on Windows Store as well, UWP crapware.
> As for the people spending thousands of dollars on promised future digital shiny things? I just don't understand it

It's all relative. I'm sure those with very little money wouldn't understand you throwing $50 at Star Citizen.
As VIM user, a licensed driver, and a pilot, I would like to point out that there’s a huge difference in risk of death and injury between those.

Learning vim can be done quite safely by trial and error, then googling for how to do specific things when interested.
The other two, not so much.

So unless you’re product has a risk of death or severe injury then I will agree that it shouldn’t need training.

About planes. Unlike cars, they don’t have a standard cockpit layout which leads to lots of bad design In my opinion.
This is a misleading title. Title of the article is "BRIEF THOUGHTS ON THE STATE OF WINDOWS" and features a discussion about Windows UI being facades upon facades on older UIs.
Out of MVP, they have none of those 3, it seems.
> I was under the impression that the constitutional protections of all citizens have been suspended 100 miles from all borders including airports in the united states.

By who? And who decided that arbitrary number (just because it's a nice round number doesn't mean it isn't arbitrary. And why 100 miles and not 100 yards? etc)?

The Constitution is there precisely to limit overl oppressive ideas the "government" may come up with.
This is the best thing I've read in a while. Thanks.
For Stripe, no, this is not common. You should receive feedback, and I'm very sorry for the lack of response. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?
You’re under that impression because the ACLU did some very dishonest reporting about that subject. (I’m an ACLU member, it’s a fantastic organization. But it’s marketing people have a questionable commitment to educating the public truthfully.)

The “100 mile” regulation involves the scope of CBP patrol authority: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/does-a-constitution-free....

The law, 8 USC 1357, says that CBP agents have the power to patrol and search “a reasonable distance from the border” to prevent entry of illegal aliens.

First, calling that a “Constitution-free zone” is rhetoric, not fact. 8 USC 1357 only refers to the CBP’s power to patrol and search, not other Constitutional protections. And while there can be reasonable disagreement about where the line should be, clearly there must be some distance within the US where the CBP must be able to patrol and search without a warrant. The border is an infinitely thin line. CBP can’t patrol foreign territory. It necessarily must patrol US territory some distance inward from the actual border.

The “100 mile” regulation was an upper limit on what “reasonable distance” could be. The actual regulation requires the CBP to define “reasonable distance” based on geography, where border crossings are, etc. The idea is that checkpoints must be at the “functional equivalent of the border.” In the middle of the desert or the Alaska tundra, the checkpoint might reasonably not be exactly at the geographic border. But in no event can it be more than 100 miles from the geographic border.

So all those graphics of how many people live within 100 miles of the border were very misleading. New York City is not within the extended border, even though it’s within 100 miles of the border, and CBP has never claimed otherwise.
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I've found F2 to be much more exciting than F1 this year, and I think a big part of it is that the cars don't have as much "innovation", and are much closer to identical performance-wise.

Barring some surprise changes or race-by-race accidents/failures, we're looking a season of 1-2 Mercedes, 3-4 Ferrari, 5-6 Red Bull. That doesn't feel like racing.
The article the GP posted (which I read in its entirety) is rambling clickbait.

If there's a long list of situations in which owning is less expensive than renting, it is intellectually dishonest to then assert that they cost the same.

The key mental breakthrough for understanding homeownership is that it's just like renting, except you are the landlord as well as the renter. So if you can imagine a bunch of different ways in which a landlord makes money with a rental property, then you can start to imagine situations in which homeownership will be better than renting for you.

You can buy foreclosures, short sales, estate sales, or just contact someone to buy their house.

You can hold property for the benefit of inflation-protected wealth preservation (in fact, this is one of the main ways homeownership helps build wealth).

You can speculate on potential appreciation (in fact, many people do this when selecting where to buy).

You can inherit property, or (more under your control) you can pass property on to your children.

You can hold a piece of property for decades, pay off the mortgage, and enjoy the greater cashflow--in your case, from income that would have gone toward rent.

Etc.
What’s strange to me is that we get lot of good quality dash cam videos of recent meteors but somehow never of UFOs.