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In my experience, overwhelmingly, intrinsic value means something has value "just because." That's how most people discussing monetary concepts use the term. Also true in philosophy. It's basically a magical thinking/religion type of idea.

If you have a citation to the contrary, like in an economics textbook, I'd be interested to see it, and I'm open to that possibility. But I would still think that most people are using the term the way I described [unless you have a citation about that...].

Today, the price of gold is overwhelmingly determined by its use as a financial instrument. Not because it's pretty and not for its industrial uses. To the best of my knowledge. I don't know how to actually measure this.
Isn’t it the same as an index fund?
I went to a Cal State, and I recall in the last few years Google has taken professors to their campus and pretty much preach Cracking the Code Interview. So it looks like schools are already making that their standard. I have yet to see what classes look like but I could see there being a required technical interview course you have to take in order to increase school’s numbers on where their alumni work.
Bayesian Statistics, Critical Thinking, and Effective Political Discourse
> you don't need to spend money to give people a tax break.

Only if the government is running a surplus, and the tax cuts are less than the size of the surplus.

When the government is running a deficit, any tax cut results in additional debt, the financing of which is paid for by future taxpayers. So yes, in this case (running a deficit) there are measurable costs associated with tax breaks.
The article can't even render fonts correctly. Beta since the last 10 years. Language design is 1 step forward 2 steps back.

That's the problem with Perl. Overpromise and underdelivers.

Javascript does everything that Perl6 does.
Most recent one I heard was to day trade mean reversion for instruments within thirty minutes. No data or proof to back it up. Everyone's got an idea. What kind of glimpse are you referring to?
Slightly above market rate for the area, all in the low-to-mid six figures.
If you can deduce something from your current knowledge, you don't need to do an experiment for that. Certainly people knew that putting fragile semiconductors under roads isn't the best idea, but they went on and spent time and money. I would call this a waste.
That is a lot. I love saag but would need 6 servings just to get enough calories for 1 day.
Notice how whenever someone claims there are ways to consistently beat the market by some incredible amount, they never seem to be able to point to anything specific. It’s always “Ohhh, there are these hidden wizards who do it, and they (conveniently) don’t tell anyone the ways of their sorcery, but trust me, they exist in dark smoky rooms somewhere!! You’re just not invited.”

It’s like “I assure you, extraterrestrials exist, there’s just no visible evidence of them and they never show themselves. But they’re out there I swear!”
My Myers-Briggs type is like my IQ: I know what it is and I have no issue telling anyone who asks, but I don't advertise it or offer it without specifically being asked.
The WSJ is owned by "Dow Jones the company". Not "the" Dow Jones, I'll grant.

It comes up in their articles sometimes, and is probably why they prefer to refer to the DJIA as a measure of market price than the SPX.
Disability law gives people that have been dealt a strictly shit hand by life--like eyes or legs that don't work--a bit of a less shitty day to day life.

Are all the people endlessly whining about airplane seats really going to make the case that being tall is a strictly shit hand in life? Given all the data about better pay and relationship outcomes and everything else? It's an obnoxious and the posters deserve all the downvotes they get.
If you're operating in an environment in which an at-risk population is known to exist, and to which you pose a lethal threat, taking measures to reduce that risk absolutely makes sense.

It's the core message of TFA. And an explicitly raised point:

One solution has shown promise: slowing ships down. In 2008, NOAA required certain ships to travel at 10 knots (about 12 miles per hour) or less in areas along the East Coast to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales. One study found that the likelihood of whales being struck and killed by ships was reduced by 80% to 90%.
You’d need international exposure on your national exchange. Also by this logic multinationals should be solid investments but maybe they lack growth potential.
Doesn't the Bitcoin blockchain serve as a strong, independent, difficult to manipulate source of entropy that gets published every 10 minutes on average?

Why not just use that?
Nearly $3 into $1 actually last quarter
A Ponzi scheme lies about the source of returns. WeWork is not lying about any financials. WeWork is not a Ponzi scheme and you know it.
Like $110k-$150k?
Are you a fucking moron?

If you know that an acre of topsoil yields several KG of a given element, then you also know that the key application to utilize said element relies on a specific rare isotope of said element.

And if you know that, then you also know that the yield among common ore for said rare isotope is a small fractional percent of the total quantity of common ore, by way of radioactive decay over geologic time scales.

That means the common ore in the top meter of the soil on your property is tied up in the implicit mineral rights bound to the deed of your home and applicable zoning laws for your jurisdiction.

To wit: People aren't strip mining their lawns.
The question of whether the case or bag is secure enough will vary by the TSA inspector. I flew from Austin to SC and had no problems with the case leaving Texas, however the TSA agent on my return flight wouldn't accept it. I ended up mailing my pistol back to myself [0]

The criteria seemed to be that the case or bag can't be pried open enough to dump any of the contents out (gun, magazine, ammo, etc). Which makes sense until you realize that a thief is just going to take the entire thing and open it when they get home...

Experiments showed that even a Pelican brand case isn't sturdy enough to prevent this. The only one I've found that works are the cheap stamped steel pistol cases (with the easily picked wafer locks). You can't pry open a corner on them with just hand strength.

[0] https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearms-frequently-asked-quest...
Mainframes used to explore this long ago, leveraging different microcode for different workloads keeping the hardware of processing unit the same, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIIP

On the other side of the computing spectrum, there were a couple of papers in 2010s about offloading most common mobile tasks (like CSS layouting) to the specialized mobile CPU subsystems. Maybe this should have been implemented if Google made their own mobile CPU.
Not a good analogy because the people who hypothetically can best the market have incredible incentive to not share the details.
Yeah, I already find myself ordering saag paneer via food delivery apps about once per week. This service seems really cool, but I'm not sure if I have any incentive to use it.
So, has anyone here actually experienced this problem?

How are they enforcing this?

Just banning any Apple laptop with USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports?

Do they make you crack open your laptop and go to the “About this Mac” menu to pull out your model number, and then make you go to the Apple website to check your serial number?
> busybox can be kept the same, and the parsing can happen in the shell.

Busybox includes a shell, ash.

Thanks for linking the FAQ; that clears a lot of things up. I can see how the incredible opinionated of python 3 on the whole unicode mess might be an issue. You're maintaining what you need (the big concern) and have clearly done your homework. Clearly you're pretty invested in it, which makes the project look much more interesting. I will be so happy if some one finally gets shell scripting right.
> Is this kind of code problem too complicated in your opinion? For all I join in when complaining about irrelevant algorithmic

No. Just programming is actually not easy and a lot of people apply for jobs they can't do.

Plus, a nonzero number of people freeze up in any interview situation.

I once failed an interview loop because I forgot how bucket sort works.
>>> how you think it should be done. Because I have to admit I'm pretty much lost right now.

- Treat recruiting in the same way as you do software development.

- Formulate a set of requirements.

- Define interview questions that give insight into whether or not the candidate meets those requirements. This is the equivalent of "tests" in the software process.

- Specific skills with your technology stack is good, but not necessarily essential.

- Ability to discuss sophisticated software concepts, and to explain software that they have built, and how they would build out ideas given to them is good.

- Evidence that this person gets stuff done is good (ref Joel Spolsky).

Coding tests are, for the most part, garbage. Not because the test is of no value, but because you the employer probably don't evaluate the result properly.
I once interviewed at a startup for a senior engineer position and was asked “if aliens came to Earth and asked you to go into their UFO with them, would you?”...

As much shit as we give white-boarding, I would have chosen it instead if it were an option.
HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts to shut out trolls
> I feel managers, directors, etc. who cannot code should not be managing, either.

Somewhere, in a different forum there is a bunch of managers discussing an article where a project has completely failed because some completely naive engineers made a bunch of rookie management mistakes, pissed off half their employees and crashed the whole project.

And they are busy saying "Engineers who don't know anything about management shouldn't be managing stuff..."
Yes...but. Be prepared to spend up to an hour extra at the airport to try to find the one person at the TSA who actually knows the rules and will OK everything. It took several hours for some folks to get out of McCarran (LAS) airport at DEFCON just last week.

This isn't always the case, sometimes it's only a few minutes. But it does add some "unpredictability" to air travel.
If I were to do 3 meals a day (1500 calories is low but let's say I snack inbetween meals) and $13 per meal on average, this will cost me $39/day, $273/wk, $1092/m. Maybe that's unfair. Maybe I use this to supplement one meal a day and cook the rest. That's $364/m to supplement lunch and I'd still probably have to cook some rice to go along with that. I just checked my local Indian restaurants on Postmates in San Francisco. The highest priced one was at $14.99 but ~%90 of the other options were from $8.99-$10.99 and I pay for Postmates free delivery which is 7.99/m so pretty much negligible. The other thing is that by buying from local restaurants, I can actually make a deal with the owners if I wanted to replace all my meals for the month. Let's say the catering discount I can get is %20, which is usually what you can get on large orders ahead of time. I'm looking at $10-$2=$8 a meal or $672/m to supplement all of my meals.

Finally, I've seen your response to this point elsewhere which seems to be, but those restaurants won't provide the macro nutrient breakdown or have different options for proteins. Just in the dishes provided around my house there's chicken, lamb, tofu, cheese, beans. The only thing missing really is seitan. And if I'm ordering from the same place consistently, can't I figure out what the macros are by asking the chef for an ingredient list? One and done.

I wish you all the best, and I actually love this idea but I can't make this work in my head. To me this just seems like a new, order only, expensive Indian place opened up near me. If you could reduce prices to at least meet brick and mortar restraunts then I'd consider using your service occasionally if it tastes good.
nice trolling!
4 days ago, over 200 points, over 200 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20691283
The problem is, most companies in the US want to hire you on as a Contractor and not a full time employee for those three months. I can't speak for everyone (but most folks, I assume), but I need medical and dental. I can't go three months for the chance of maybe getting it. I can't do it personally and i can't do that sort of thing to my family. there are other options in other countries (depending on the country). I'm a centrist by nature, but this makes a "three month interview" untenable, IMO.
There was a fairly ridiculous promotional video going around YouTube circa 2014 about a couple who “invented” solar roadways. I’ve placed a link here for your amusement.

https://youtu.be/qlTA3rnpgzU
Ask HN: Self-hosting interactive app prototype?
What is the best tool / way to export and self-host (on something like S3) an interactive click-through protoype?

All I could find was some kind of SAAS like Invision etc.

I want to export the html & JS and host it on my site. Is it possible? Do I need XD or Sketch or something else for it?

The app in question is for iOS
Some directors may have dozens, if not hundreds or even thousands, of people under them directly or indirectly. This rapidly grows beyond the scale where the director can jump in for anyone in the tree beneath them.

Your comment probably applies for a team lead with a half dozen IC reports. Add in one other layer (i.e., a half dozen team lead reports) and it might still apply in some cases. But double that number or add in another layer and things are probably far beyond the scale you were imagining. The manager’s job now requires a vastly different toolset that most developers know nothing about, have no experience with, and generally wouldn’t even know how to think about.
What if people not being able to answer simple programming questions is a problem with the interviewers, and not the interviewees?
Personally I can't see an issue with very simple FizzBuzz style programming interview questions. I used to ask a simple "count duplicate substrings" question [1]. Maybe some people consider this too hard? I never used to require exact syntax, and would have been happy with pseudo-code. Using libraries is fine etc..

I also found very few people could solve this (similar non-SF large city location). Occasionally, people who could not solve this were hired for other teams. Based on their performance, I don't think I would have been comfortable working with them.

I don't think it's unreasonable. But I'm not sure I'd use it as a screen if I was hiring now. I think I'd just have a chat and try and discuss a previous project. After that I'd move to a paid take home project (ideally representing real, useful work).

[1] Take a string, for example "ABCCABC" and count the number of times each 3 character substring occurs. In this case the answer would be 2xABC 1xBCC 1xCCA 1xCAB.
> Perhaps companies will start asking candidates to construct mathematical proofs of data structures, algorithms

Perhaps we’d produce better software if people prioritised correctness like this in practice!
Where are you posting your jobs? Are you paying a recruiter? How much? Maybe you could have interviewers rank candidates (hire; competent, but no hire; slightly incompetent; how did they get here?), then see where the majority of your "how did they get here?" candidates come from.
You can always transfer the domain to another registrar. I got mine though Google for the free Google Apps account (no longer available AFAIK), and that ended up having GoDaddy be the registrar. I spent maybe 5 minutes and started the transfer process to a registrar I like better, and within a week (may have been 24 hours, I can't remember), the process was done.

As for services like this, I think they're mostly useful for domain arbitrage. I certainly wouldn't bother.
> "top talent" isn't going to charge bargain-bin prices for their labor

Purchasing power differences in the world are insane: $65/h in Vietnam can represent a much more luxurious life than $200/h in San Francisco.

In fact, the global top 1% starts at US$35k/year!

At $65/h ($130k/year) you'd be able to buy a home outright in about a year, send your kids to snooty private schools, hire a maid and a private driver, etc. in a large part of the world.
Sorry what I meant was US companies could treat the first 3 months of any full-time/W-2 employee as probationary because they can fire anyone for any reason other than protected characteristics. It doesn't even need to be an official company policy documented anywhere.`
Guy bills himself as a “software designer”. Not programmer, developer, or engineer. I wouldn’t be surprised if he can’t code his way out of a paper bag.

Yet another leech in the software industry riding the wave and getting some of all this money that’s being passed around.
It’s an interesting thought experiment, but I don’t actually see anything here that seems likely to be something that someone is actively working on.
No code expert is faster than no code expert.
Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?
While that's true, you can achieve impressive results offloading particular parts of particular DBMS code to the specialized CPUs, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0...
No mention of MyShake [1], a California-based effort to use smartphone sensors to detect earthquakes. The potential is incredible but with actually popular apps - presumably like ShakeAlert - not contributing data it seems like an epic lost opportunity.

Phones have been able to detect earthquakes, changes in the weather, magnetic field changes, but we (the tech community) are not doing any of those things at scale. IMO all these things should be built-in to phones OS' as a kind of distributed multi-purpose sensor network. For now, we just have a smattering of not-very-popular apps that can potentially do neat things but are not centralized or popular enough to actually do them right.

[1] MyShake article: https://www.popsci.com/now-you-can-download-an-earthquake-se...
Was this a position where they were expected to write code? I'm surprised that developers making six figures couldn't solve a problem that an interviewer considered trivial.

Any chance of a sample or maybe an alternate version of the problem?
Resumes and prior experience should be taken more seriously, backed by more rigorous verification of said things and real reference checking. In a way, that is what already happens for the more technical positions (someone already knows you can do the job, the interview is just a formality) and sucks for those who don’t have well known enough reputations.
Y'know, as someone who went to a very competitive public school, there were a particular brand of driven, studious kids who knew exactly how to paint along the lines, play the game, and get into the college of their choice. They understood the precise combo of grades, extracurriculars and essays to get into a "good" school.

I definitely see some of those kids doing the same tactics to get into a "good" company. The steps are slightly different but the philosophy is the same: grind Leetcode, participate in tech clubs and take bullshit jobs juuust long enough to get an internship, get said internship and parlay it into a return offer. Put your head down, play the game and reap the rewards.
That message would take about one minute to send. But it could be sent with very low power and received well below the noise floor.

I'm not suggesting JS8 is the ideal communication mode for dissidents, only that it's far better than FT8 for arbitrary text.
They trademarked the words "Core Exam"? That seems like a rather generic term.
Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly
Yes plus the baby cry is perfectly tuned to wake you up, so any alert this does will be inferior. Plus if you recognise types of cry you’d lose that fidelity through this.

I’d consider pivoting this into a sleep study device. Ie collecting stats so that you can reflect on the quality of baby/toddler sleep with recommendations to see a doctor if appropriate.
If your infrastructure is complicated enough to make let's encrypt non viable then you're large enough that a certificate renewal period of a year isn't that onerous to begin with. If anything at that point having multi-year long renewal periods just leads to more of a headache when it inevitably gets forgotten about since it's such an infrequent task.
From a physics perspective, perhaps not.

From a real-world perspective, fiber buildouts almost always include newer hardware and better routing, resulting in lower ping times on average.

Additionally, fiber (along with copper) is going to be faster than anyone on satellite internet.
“The Environmental Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster“

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/dong1/
$230 for 5, or $230 each?
Of course some people will consider that question to be too hard. But you may not want to hire those people. The point of an interview process is for you to pick the people you want to hire, not to ask questions that everyone agrees aren’t too hard.
Because you get the college applications problem, where you stop getting the people who have a real passion for programming and coincidentally have problem solving and algorithms skills, and start getting people who are really good at problem solving and algorithms and may or may not have a passion for programming.
Thank you, this is fantastic. I am working with a 100+ employee company doing highly technical engineering work in a very rural location, currently trying to run their business off of 10 MBPS. They are getting quotes exceeding $500k from most people they talk to just get any additional bandwidth to them (presumable fixed line fiber), which has resulted in this critical upgrade being put off for quite some time. This guide makes me think they could quite possibly build out their own backhaul system to a neighboring town for substantially less money. Should make my next conversation very interesting.
It still has investors, and shares.
Some people deduced one thing, and others deduced the other thing. There was plenty of excitement about this idea on this very site when it was first proposed. Seeing something once is better than hearing it a hundred times.
This is Perl, remember. It's rendering just fine -- it's not your phone: I see the same ₙ boxes in Chrome on my MacBook Pro. He meant to use those ₙ boxes on purpose to show off how unintelligible he could make the code look.
Speaking of tiffins, here is a video of the lunch delivery system in Mumbai I think others will enjoy... https://youtu.be/dX-0el2wuEU
A smart phone from 1984 – the STC Excutel
There's a gas station I used to live nearby, they have a free plastic glove dispenser glued to the side of the pump, so they you don't have to directly touch the pump
It touched a nerve with engineers because nobody listens to engineers and they’re getting completely sick of it.

Engineers are paid to work things out on paper and determine whether something will work or not. Bridges, airplanes, power distribution systems, those kinds of things. They don’t use arrogance, they use math.

This isn’t particle physics - there are no “unknown unknowns” here that required a real world experiment. The economic infeasibility of solar roadways was an absolute slam dunk case.

So now we have confirmation that it was, in fact a bad idea all along. What’s the reaction? “Well, nobody could have predicted this! We had to try.” No, you didn’t have to waste all that money, you could have just listened to competent people in the first place, who all predicted this.

I mean, excuse the hyperbole, but you may as well applaud the audacity of launching Challenger in temperatures below the booster o-rings’ rated spec. Who knows? It could have worked!