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The technical interview is not the only stage in the interview process. It might be better thought of as a way to filter out applicants who have poor innate ability and/or poor learning skills.

I would argue that being able to study leetcode and then apply that new knowledge you've learned is an important skill in and of itself in this industry. Isn't that what all of highschool and most of college is? Signalling that you a quick learner and a hard worker is important.
Whether and when the current Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, will be removed, is decided by CCP.

Let me explain.

Excluding the current (4th) Chief Executive Carrie Lam, there have been three other Chief Executives [1], and the upshot is that two of them experienced large protests--in 2003 for 1st CE Tung Chee-hwa, in 2014 for 3rd CE Leung Chun-ying--and both could not complete their second terms due to protests.

It is common knowledge in Hong Kong that they were pressured by higher-ups for not completing their second terms as Chief Executives, in exchange for seats as vice-chairmen of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in China: both gave ridiculous reasons to not complete their second terms to serve Hong Kong, but then went on to become vice-chairmen serving China. They were not immediately removed after the protests only to save grace for them and for CCP.

The 1st CE Tung Chee-hwa resigned in 2005, less than 2 years after the protest in 2003 and 2 years into his second term, for a ridiculous medical reason [2]; the 3rd CE Leung Chun-ying was about to run for his second term in 2017, 3 years after the Umbrella protest, only to announce in a sudden that he did not intend to run to take care of his family [3].

Now in 2019 the 4th CE Carrie Lam faces the anti-extradition protest. And we wonder what the outcome will be.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Executive_of_Hong_Kong

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung_Chee-hwa

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leung_Chun-ying

(Arguably, the 2nd CE Donald Tsang, the only CE not facing large protests but who is serving prison time, also has his fate decided by the CCP, with the speculation that he refused some orders from China, but I digress.)
If such a device were used in the course of an investigation, wouldn't the defense have the right to examine the device and cross-examine the responsible engineers to ascertain how it works and to ensure that the recovered information has not been tampered-with?
In my academic mathematician life the path was clear: write a paper, place on the arXiv then submit. However I have sets of notes I'd like to put out there (some day), but are in much too fluid of a condition to commit to the arXiv.
It really is about physical implementation. In TTL "single input NAND" and invertor is the same physical structure and extending it to multiple inputs involves just adding additional emitters to one BJT structure. For CMOS logic, NOR is the smallest two-input "true" gate, because PMOS transistors have to be larger than NMOS and two series connected MOS transistors can be collapsed into one structure with multiple gates that is significantly smaller than two connected transistors.
But this is about Linux.
The problem is that jobs are over, but we are still taxed the old fashioned way - mostly to pay for the healthcare and pensions of baby boomers who had steady careers and cheap housing.

Healthcare and pensions make up 66% of the US Federal Budget. Its a similiar case in most other Western countries. If we could somehow find a way to relieve ourselves of that burden, taxes on labour could be much lower and life significantly better.

I think this is partly why we've seen such a huge boom in freelancing. Its much easier to optimise your taxes that way, instead of working for a company.
It doesn't surprise me. The Chinese government isn't dumb enough to say "we want to abolish the rule of law in HK", instead they say "we want to stop rapists and murderers from escaping justice".

Honestly in most places in the world, that kind of appeal to emotion is an effective way to dismantle the rule of law. It is only because the people of Hong Kong are both highly educated and distrustful of Beijing that it doesn't work on them.
Genius does not appear to give a number on how many of their lyric pages had the hidden apostrophe codes, so we have no idea what the actual total count of copied songs is. I think the bigger issue is that Google denied having done anything wrong until this came under public attention, and there is no way for smaller companies to effectively pursue legal action against tech giants.
>“We take data quality and creator rights very seriously and hold our licensing partners accountable to the terms of our agreement,” Google said.
*when it comes under public scrutiny, otherwise we continue to profit from it as long as we can.
What about take time back to 9th, June. The time the first protest happening, almost every famous media reported this but except Chinese. Is it wired?

And take a look at the links you chose, I don’t think it maybe a fair stand view because of already being defined as a riot.
IIRC “Jazz is musical wanking” is a line from The Commitments
I’ve heard it suggested that the point of the polygraph isn’t to serve as a prop or to discern truth from falsehood, but rather to direct the interrogation toward topics that seem to cause the interviewee the most stress.
> To see this more clearly, consider interviewing a pilot. After establishing basic bona fides, it would be reasonable to ask the candidate about what to do in various emergency situations. Emergency situations aren’t representative of the daily work of flying, but safety is important so nobody would accuse such an interviewer of asking irrelevant questions.

Minor nit about what is really a pretty good post. This paragraph sounds quite reasonable to this non-pilot, but do you notice what it doesn't say? It doesn't tell you whether pilots are actually interviewed this way.

Here's an actual example I know of, though it's not making the point the author wants to make. At an old job, every so often, a guy used to wander over from the other side of the yard and ask us to cut a few random pieces of pipe. We then carried them across the yard for a candidate pipe welder to weld them. If the welds looked good, they'd probably hire the candidate. It was pretty close to actual work you'd do, and the results seemed ok.

I'm sure there are examples that would suit his point and be real, not just speculation.
I'm a jazz bassist. The author seems to pit stereotype against stereotype. I can't fault his analysis of ragtime music, but he needn't paint me as an enemy. His description of jazz musicians and fans seems to be from a movie, not from real life.

I play in a large jazz enesmble. We tend to favor newer material when we can lay our hands on it. The musicians and audience members come from all walks of life, and at least according to my own impression, are generally a cheerful lot, just happy to be able to experience the music.
How is Genius.com in a position to make any claims on "its content" when said content is entirely the copyrighted works of various artists?

Just because the lyrics may be entered by users has no bearing on the fact that the lyrics are copyrighted works and that Genius.com doesn't own or have any rights to them. Just like doing a cover of another band's song doesn't mean you now own the song, reproducing and distributing a song's lyrics doesn't mean you now own the lyrics.
I miss my Commodore 64 hardware. I can still feel the clack of the keys.
I’ve interviewed many developers who pass a code test, get hired, and then can’t design a basic interface for an object. Or take forever getting through a large feature. Or can’t commmunicate clearly. Or go down the rabbit hole and implement something really complex and shiny but irrelevant. (Irrelevant isn’t always bad, but does often expose a weakness in effectively interpreting user needs).

Maybe 1 in 10 engineers who pass a code test end up being actually good software engineers. The yield definitely varies by the role.

Wait, if code tests aren’t perfectly predictive, then how do interviewers get feedback about failures (or even successes) of the screening process? They don’t, because recruiters and hiring managers tend to keep that to themselves.

The story is way way more complicated than this post alludes.
Hi guys, I am a software engineer from Uruguay. I know nothing about electricity systems.

We are being told by authorities that there is no better system design than this.

That is, Uruguayan network is interconnected to Argentina, what gives us more robustness. If something small/medium fails here, Argentina compensates, and viceversa. This has improved our system for many years.

However, it seems to have this very improbable issue. If something big happens in Argentina (which is much bigger than us), there is no way Uruguay can supply the energy they need to keep running.

Is there any other way to interconnect two electric networks (having more robustness for the normal cases) but avoiding this kind of high-impact issues?

From a computer network point of view, this doesn’t make much sense, but there are physical limits here I guess...

Why can’t we just have some kind of limit condition to switch the connection off, instead of trying to rescue the other network?

Thanks for your explanation.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15497442
Not caring about what other people think is truly freeing. The other important ting to realize is people just don't care most of the time.
I think part of the reason that the number of people protesting has grown over the years is that a lot of the people who would have been protesters left around '97. A new generation has grown up with many basic freedoms and they don't want to give those up... And they don't want to leave HK either. I'm not sure if it's harder to get visas to other countries nowadays, but a lot of people are choosing to stay and fight for their country and their way of life rather than running away.
Freeing slaves had the effect of taking away "property" from people.

Any change to the status quo that affects someones finances, you'll see some level of opposition.
When I search for "Star Spangled Banner" I see "The Star Spangled Banner (Super Bowl XXV) lyrics © Concord Music Publishing LLC"

They're saying the lyrics come from the arrangement used for Super Bowl XXV, and that arrangement is copyright Concord Music Publishing. It would be better if they used the lyrics from the official public domain national anthem, but this isn't that weird.
I don't see how asking a potential software engineer to write a 30 line function in 30 minutes is bad. Being able to write code is part of the job description.
You're right, I didn't mean to compare them in that way. There is a difference between government-mandated vs corporations voluntarily censoring.

My point was just to highlight that even here in the US we accept some level of censorship. Most of us are okay with Islamic extremist propaganda or videos of violence being removed from websites if it's done to prevent future violence. And that should explain why there are so many people in mainland China who accept censorship without seeing it as excessively oppressive. Especially when they aren't fully aware of what all is being censored or why.
These are not the only two options.
Those students see the government mostly aligned with their interests and have benefits from a lifetime of indoctrination via a higher end public school system. Censorship is more for the less elite classes that don’t have those benefits.

Even then, if China decided not to censor anything tomorrow and just went with western-style spin, 80% of the population would basically still agree with the government. That they don’t bother is basically a hold over of old-fashioned thinking, and once the last cultural revolution era leader (Xi Jinping) retires, China’s government should modernize very quickly. That this leader has decided not to retire on schedule is very disturbing.
Also don’t assume Chinese people are like brainless idiots, people READ the news and will wonder what ACTUALLY happened. Ironically, though silently, most educated Chinese people won’t trust official newspaper that much. so thanks no worries
I never really understood how Chinese people could live under such a regime until a read a long-form book about life in China by a New Yorker journalist who lived and reported from the for many years:

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Ambition-Chasing-Fortune-Truth-eb...

It's really hard to grasp how effective information control, combined with 20-30% of the population being "party members", and other means of control can completely convince (or more likely blind) the population from external realities.

It's hard because you can see how smart and capable Chinese-Americans (or Canadians, or whatever) are at anything they set their mind to, where it almost seems like something is missing in their culture vs the West.

The general lesser educated and poor swath is easier to understand how they can be lied to and believe. The key is the smarter-than-average Chinese who do end up getting access to outside information are thoroughly convinced by the state early on that 'western propaganda is merely constantly trying to denigrate China's great, big, neverending achievements. But not only that, they amplify all of the negative things the western countries do poorly like class or race relations or other things citizens are constantly complaining about in the media, and try to pretend they are covering up those while hypocritically trying to judge Asian countries.

It's really quite a genius type of system when you look at how successful it is, which legitimate the US contributed to with all of the pysop/intelligence community stuff that they mastered. But of course it's 100x easier in a system where media and education are entirely controlled, not just partially like in the US (the Chinese aren't just dumb drones is what I'm saying but I'm not convinced the state can maintain this delusion forever).
I’ve found this paper [1] which has data from 1960 to 1990 in a plot on page 3. The peak is in 1978 but the number range is very similar to today’s numbers (~1 million employees). I’m assuming the numbers in that chart are in manufacturing alone (didn’t read the paper), because today’s numbers including retail trade, wholesale trade and services add up to more than 4 million jobs, according to my second link above.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/24ba/b100ea6eb7d96c9c4247eb...
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The difficulty with this statement is it requires that the people have the ability to affect their leaders through voting which in Hong Kong's case does not.

In HK, the people can vote for a Chief Executive of HK, but the pool that you can vote for is now only allowed to be "pro China", this is what the umbrella revolution was protesting and sadly failed. "Universal suffrage but only with the people we let you vote for."

Today, impeachment of the Chief Executive is overtly not possible[2] since China controls whether that vote is allowed to take place with pro China people doing the voting.

By overtly, I mean I personally cannot see a way forward, but I admit, I'm very surprised to see this bill be rescinded. Tactically speaking, I would have expected the same thing from the Umbrella Revolution. Which was basically let the protestors occupy the streets and let the public become annoyed to the point where the oppressed (protestors) become the oppressors.

Why wasn't the waiting game played this time around? I'm not sure. I'm super happy they were successful in this, and I hope/pray for long term change as my heritage is from HK. But... I'm extremely skeptical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment#Hong_Kong
It's the same power dynamic that will be in place forever, incumbents unable to recognize talent outside of their narrow perspective. The penalty is paid by the candidate, and the company will usually go along just fine, but it is a sad broken system for a lot of qualified people.
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Despite trying using it a few times I've never seen the appeal in BEM, it's just bringing excessive and redundant verbosity to CSS class names as well as introducing unnecessary complexity in maintenance (e.g. if you change a class's name you need to also need to apply the change to any derivative class names)
>How could someone with 10 years experience on their CV be unable to start a new project in their own editor

This is something I need to study each time I want to change jobs.
I suspect that I will have to create a new project somewhere in the interview process but it is just something I very rarely do in my day to day job, if ever. I suspect that it is the same for many engineers.

FWIW, at my current company, the interview projects come preconfigured, so you only have to import them and start coding.
We have also already imported some popular libs.

Watching somebody rightfully struggle to do that is :

- a pain for the interviewee

- awkward and uninteresting for the interviewer .. I don't expect many people to have to create new projects often so it is totally ok to have forgotten it

- a waste of time for the both of us.

We also actually don't do algorithms.

We have a debugging interview, with a shitty codebase where you have to find the issues and correct them. When you are done with the bugs, you can collect your thoughts on what's wrong with that codebase so we can discuss how to do it better.

Another interview is to have to design a product similar to ours (a simplified version of course) and you have to come up with API and app technical designs.
No way - it's derived from a conception of rights derived from Reason, God, or both.

What you say sounds like a Postmodern interpretation, even revisionism, of the original intent. What else do you think self-evident meant?

But even worse, you left out the very next part: "endowed by their Creator with Certain unalienable Rights".

No, it is NOT about making change happen, or whatever hijacking of Truth is being attempted here, it's about solidifying a state (as in authority) different than other states created with other underlying principles.
Hopefully to crystallize what everyone else said,

The American Civil War was not only about slavery; however, slavery was the primary motivational reason for the War.
when I was in grade school I learned that the Civil War was all about slavery. In college my roommates educated me about the numerous reasons for the civil war. After researching it more I've discovered that the Civil War was all about slavery.
Any time I hear another impassioned plea about some southerner's pride in displaying the Confederate flag as a mark of their "cultural heritage", I roll my eyes. Sure, I'll recognize your freedom of speech as to the display, but you'll never convince me that the display is anything but bald racism. The closest thing I've ever heard to a rationale from a defender is basically "because reasons". Even "states' rights" requires a clear motivation when you're talking about one small part of a federation, and still boils down to racism if you take it to its logical conclusion. As a rebuttal, you need only look at quotes from prominent Confederates to know the truth; that you're going out of your way to defend the acts of some very evil men. Reading these stories made my stomach churn. I'm done with [your] moral equivalencies.
What can I say, these people are brainwashed from birth to think that what they have is good. Once we put enough economic pressure on them the paper tiger will fold.
>Fix a real bug or implement a real feature. Beyond the obvious copyright issues if you don’t get an assignment from the candidate,

Irrelevant if you've already fixed or implemented it and do not intend to use the candidate's code.

>there’s no good way to make this process repeatable,

Select fixed bug/feature, isolate code, create question, use in interview, iterate on task.

>no way to ensure the question always fits the available time,

Other than selecting the question such that it does and/or tweaking it such that it takes more/less time.

>and no way to ensure you see a good range of programming skills (e.g. the feature may simply involve copy/pasting some existing code with minor tweaks).

Other than selecting the question such that it isn't that.

>It also assumes you’re hiring Java developers for a Java codebase or Ruby developers for a Ruby codebase

I'm certainly not going to hire ruby developers for a java code base or java developers for a ruby code base, and I find it weird to assume that I would.
I have the opposite experience. I’m in a React team that was doing BEM via Sass for a few years. Almost two years ago, we moved to Styled Components. The only real difference is that Styled Components automates

* naming of classes

* creating components whose sole purpose is styling

* eliminating unused stylesheets

It’s not like we became any less strict about specificity or used inline styles any more or less than we did with BEM. I find the differences to be purely logistical. Styled Components simply automates a lot of the grunt work and allows us to focus on more important things.
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Yes, these are my experience. Please suggest if I had missed something which could provide a better experience.

My configuration to minimize variables which diminish Pi desktop experience - USB SSD boot, Zswap, Btrfs on Arch Linux 64bit (for better support for the latter 2).

1. Enabling VC4 driver at boot, enables OpenGL support to Pi.

2. For Wayland compositor, I used Enlightenment (Gnome, GDM didn't launch). I enabled HW rendering via OpenGL for all default rendering. Basic windowing experience is fast, as expected from HW rendering. Few default applications like terminal (Terminology) if used carefully(not resizing windows, not dragging etc.) works. But any other applications which use OpenGL like screenshot (or) applications which use XWayland chromium, firefox failed to launch. So, my conclusion is that this setup works only for basic windowing i.e. file transfers and careful use of console.

Perhaps Wayland via SW rendering (likely the one mentioned by you) could provide a crash free experience, but that defeats the purpose of getting general screen drawing HW accelerated (to feel responsive)?
Agreed, which I was surprised the waiting game wasn't played like during the Umbrella Revolution.

I'm glad they were successful in this piece, but man... what's the long game and how do you get there?

Is there a path to keeping Hong Kong truly separate? A Crimea? An independent state?

Personally, I don't think so, but keep fighting guys, it's basically all they've got.
In vivo bacterial population data isn't all that accessible yet either. Faecal bacterial samples have turned out to be poor representatives of the gut microbiome, so in vivo sampling requires endoscopy.

Fwiw, there are multiple biomes to sample too, with different types of bacteria lining the intestinal walls and other kinds populating the crypts, for instance.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837114/
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Fair stand view would be too much a luxury for those media, but the tone isn’t that aggressive as CCP used to be (like calling them “terrorist” or “separatism”)
> The difference is that this is private companies doing it of their own volition and not by government demand.

Is this really a meaningful difference if the end result is the same?
We should not allow an economy where all of the gains from disruptive innovation are effectively subsumed under a few companies that take all the profit with no incentive to innovate on their own. We're already seeing the tech giants eat up every startup they can.