skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's not contrived and disaffected, that's even worse. This particularly:

"They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work. I could see all this. Why couldn't they? I figured the park bench was just as good or being a barfly was just as good"

Could have been posted on Reddit IAmVerySmart or im14andthisisdeep for the style of writing. He genuinely believes that he is more clever and seeing something they cannot see? (Why does he think they are unhappy at all if they can't see that?). And is somehow working under the idea that he could have no income and a bar would still serve him alcohol, because if it's his role in life to be the more-intelligent-than-you outsider, of course the bar would fall in line with this vision (narcissism). And note that after seeing this truth which they were too dumb to see .. he didn't go and live on a park bench. It clearly was not "just as good" to him, he only wants to posture that it was as good so he looks better. So much for deep insight nobody else possessed, he was doing the exact same thing they were.

They know this. Everyone knows this. Everyone who has had a job they don't like for more than a month realises they have no way out. He even quotes several of them saying that exact thing he claims they can't see, in his letter.

I now write from an old mind and an old body, long beyond the time when most men would ever think of continuing such a thing,

Oh fck right off, 66 at the time of writing and still singing his own praises like that? The USA and UK are raising state pension age to 67 as we speak, and that's for labouring jobs as well. Working at age 66, Writing at age 66, is no superior feat of endurance. Admiral Grace Hopper retired at age 60, was recalled to the Navy within a year, retired again four years later. Returned to active duty again, was promoted again, retired again at age 79, then went to be a senior consultant at DEC and stayed employed there until her death age 85. And she wasn't boasting about how great she was, she was talking about the younger people she was training and supporting.

Even Heinlein doesn't explicitly self-promote this hard, at least he tries to lecture the reader with "worldly wisdom" for the reader's own benefit, and you just get the superiority as a secondary effect from the way every wise character is Mary-Sue, and it's never done in a "plus you're a loser" way.

He is celebrating his freedom from bondage at age 65, from the tyranny of a boss wielding his fate at a whim

According to the article his income depended on him being a full-time author, and the whim of a wealthy patron. And his "freedom" was age 51.

from suffering the fate of “emptying out”

Jobs he somehow survived thirty years of, and didn't quit to be on a park bench, and didn't consider himself empty and broken and devoid of anything to write about. I guess that's just another way he's better than all those other shlubs, eh?
> Also, why was this story flagged?

Lord if I know... it seems like it fits all guidelines, and I've seen no comments that object to the story itself.

Paging dang... unflag please?
Fair point. I do love the simplicity of double pendulum demo though.
If you don't have equity, are you actually a co-founder?
Does anyone know how Corellium works?
I see ads for IT jobs in NYC in the $50K per year range. It boggles my mind, from the perspective of a couple of hours north.
You're just using the law as a proxy for correctness. 180 years ago a similar argument would have said that black people should be chattel because the law says that they should be and Congress passed those laws.
I thought that case design reminded me of something, then I remembered the one laptop per child (OLPC) project from years ago. Apparently it is still going and their latest offering is based around a celeron processor, not sure they would even consider selling them to the general public though. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/catalog-2019.pdf
but that one should be, in fact, well known. i've been out of school forever but surely it has to be taught now?

so, this question isn't testing if you can find a loop, it's testing whether you have enough experience to have heard of it. which is a fine enough thing to test for.

i understand your point, that questions are often designed poorly, but your example isn't necessarily a good one.
Same here. He made my commutes awesome for a few weeks.
For the same reason a host is entitled to prior disclosure of its unfixed vulnerabilities.

Selling vulnerabilities on an open market should be outlawed. Either disclose them publicly for free, or participate in a bounty program by the software owner. People selling undisclosed vulnerabilities should be considered accomplice of people who then use it to break into systems.
Early in my career, I went to an open house sort of thing. Hit it off chatting with one of the chief architects who basically cut through all the red tape and got me a position. A couple weeks after starting work, I get a rejection letter from HR. Was a bit awkward conversation when I went up to their office with the letter to check if I still had a job. (I did, but boy was I sweating at the time)
If that's the case I would have much more sympathy for Apple if there were a legal way of doing this.
The Godfather the AI Community Wants to Forget (Schmidhuber)
Nah, man, this is absolutely wrong.

Companies are all over the place all the time. And I have seen this from both sides of the isle.

For example, at one company I was at, we said we were hiring for a full stack position, and we had a candidate come in that did well on all the questions, but then afterwords, we decided that we actually wanted a dedicated front end engineer. So no job for them!

It was no fault of the candidate. We just didn't know what we're were doing and screwed up by interviewing someone who was better suited for a different position.

Stuff like this happens all the time. Even if you blow the interview out of the water, there is still only like a 50/50 chance that you'll get the job, due to no fault of your own.
Some groups do claim that "fear of God's wrath" (or Satan's) makes people behave better. I will agree that different sects have widely different interpretations of such.
I’m no biologist but coral seems incredibly f*ed whenever I hear about it. Is there any chance of us actually saving coral?
>One can do simple math (calculus, even) while having a complicated conversation<

As I said you can’t do math. You can recall facts, like say what the capital of France is or what’s 3 * 7, but you can’t do computation requiring working memory. So, at most your making a semantic argument based on misrepresenting what doing math is.

This is not a semantic argument, we can argue about the difference between practicing juggling vs learning juggling. But that’s all worked out in the literature and people doing decades of experiments.
Capitalism, as It Is Practiced, Defies Christian Principles
A complex system such as the climate (a huge understatement) is full of non linear of feedback loops that we don’t understand or are even aware of. It’s very hard to model such a system accurately.

Chances are humans will be a blip after all? It’s amazing to me that we humans usually wait till the shit hits the fan before we do something about it. It must be some kind of evolutionary advantage inducing strategy in our behavior.
Parent was making a joke about their own name.
what WiFi module does this work with?
Congrats on the release Brian!
Fortunately, they have an issue tracker and a documented update process: https://github.com/publicsuffix/list/wiki/Guidelines
This is not a new phenomenon. About 25 years ago, I bought an airbed and a pump from Argos (UK), a popular bricks and mortar retailer. They had two pumps that worked with that airbed, and I bought the cheaper of the two.

But it just didn't work, because of something about the way the tube joined the body of the pump. It didn't look like a manufacturing variation, but a design flaw.

I returned the pump and paid more for the more expensive one, which worked fine.
I'm surprised disks are still as prevalent as they are for music and movies. Thumb-drives should have replaced them years ago. Perhaps there are copyright-related reasons holding it back?
Okay, so most Americans are not on public assistance. That seems to agree with what I said.
Here is a graph of how this thread trended: http://hnrankings.info/20709563/ .
What are you getting at? That this is a trick or bad question?

This is on the order of fizzbuzz +1 level maybe. It's elementary stuff.

Or was he looking for best-case optimization or something more than just binary search.
> I don't know of anyone who likes high pressure time crunch interrogations except maybe the ones getting to do the interrogating part.

As someone who has been through this early career I agree with the sentiment. But being mid-career it is kind of fun to go through one now, the catch being that you shouldn't give a sh/*t if you get through or not. Think of it more as two-way courting instead of a one-way interview, not all of them pan out.
Perhaps as a counterpoint, this poem:

The Men That Don't Fit In [0]
By Robert W. Service

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.

If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.

He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58012/the-men-that-do...
Here is a graph of how this thread trended: http://hnrankings.info/20709448/ .
> Hard work is neither necessary nor sufficient for great success.

It does, however, make it a lot more likely.

Conversely: Not working hard makes failure a near certainty.
> had no advertising.

That means they needed a lot of startup capital to get started. No adds no income. Give the heroin out for free until people get addicted.
I worked for electronic stores in the 90s. Certain products gave more commission. We sold the products that paid more. I sold phones at some point.. Depending on the brand I might get an extra 5 dollars. Those are the phones that were sold more.

An employee isn't going to give you an objective honest answer or they would tell you walmart has it for cheaper.
The triple bonds have a shorter bond length than the single bonds, so presumably each vertex is a C≡C pair.
More like:

How about we also give you this other project?

If it were 5 hours on-site versus 5 hours at home, that would be different than 5 hours on-site plus 10 hours at home.
$120K?

Here's an ad from someone looking to hire a programmer in Nassau county:

VOIP company looking for a technician to assist with programming back end systems. Should be knowledgeable with various database programs and voice services and applications.

Primary experience: Windows Environment - IIS / ASP.Net, VB.Net, MS-SQL, XML, Json.
Primary helpful: PHP, MySQL

Secondary helpful: Google SDK, ffmpeg / sox, SIP Voip , basic CentOS / Debian navigation

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $35,000.00 to $45,000.00 /year
I think it is. I answered it, along with others. But hyper is changing a lot so the question is asked again.

Strangely, the OP says async/await won’t help with things but in this case it would be a big help!
Apple Sues Virtualization Company Corellium for Replicating iOS and Apps
Store employees might also have been incentivized to suggest a specific product based on kickbacks the store receives. There is a precedent there. You shouldn't expect unenforceable honesty from anyone.
> It's paying its workers market wages and returning the rest to investors.

The parent comment also isn't telling the entire story.

The Fed survey from 2016 indicated that about 52% of American families own stocks, directly or as part of a fund (other surveys support that general figure). A very large number of American families own shares in Apple and own part of its $911 billion market cap. The next counter would be to say that it only really benefits the top 25% of families or similar (those with meaningful equity assets), which would be a goalpost shift.
Trump Has Asked His Lawyer to Look into Buying Greenland
Antonius Block is the knight who plays chess with death in the Seventh Seal.
My suggestion would be to reconsider local shops—even if they’re chains—as they’ve gotten much better at stocking good items these days. (Obviously this can’t apply for everything) Many stores have drive-up pickup and ship-to-store options, and have even gotten better about stocking good products on their shelves.

I have started to consider stores as “immediate delivery” over the two-ish day delivery of Amazon, and it has really helped me leave the Amazon machine. I never really needed all the impulse purchases from Amazon, and more standard purchases are far more convenient than any subscription or Dash purchase could ever be. And if the item is a dollar or two more? Oh, well; if I could upgrade my two-day shipping to “get it in 20 minutes” shipping for $2 more, then I’d probably do it.

You might have a different experience or a wider range of purchase history than me, but unsubscribing from Amazon Prime and driving to the store was a great choice for my shopping needs.
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Runs smoother than the ELK stack.
Of course not, but there's a long road between "disagreeing" (which is no problem) to "saying you're being misunderstood" (may be fine, but usually is already a step down in discussion quality) to "you're completely missing the point" (outright swipe). Commenters here should stay in the former zone and avoid the latter. That's not hard to do.
I have worked at 5 different companies over the years, and Every single one of them was absolutely terrified of firing engineers.

Not only have I worked at a bunch of different companies, but I have also straight up failed at some of the earlier jobs, and have been in situations where I absolutely deserved to be fired, yet it took literally months for anyone to even approach the topic of my performance.

I am talking, situations of me not doing any work, for months, because I didn't care and was looking for new jobs during that time period.

My experience has shown to me that engineers are pretty damn untouchable. And yes, these have been (mid sized) startups.

The one time I had a reloc bonus, of a job that I left after 5 months, they did not ask for it back, and simply never talked to me again.

It is not about signing bonuses though. It is mostly about things like bad Glassdoor reviews. Many engineers would never ever work at a company where the engineers were constantly terrified of, and complaing about being fired quickly.

Also, disgruntled ex employees are something that you don't ever want to deal with.
Apple lawyers clearly think it does.

Part of their legal argument is that the tool doesn't have valid uses.

Apple lawyers are expensive and know what they are doing. They think that bringing this up will increase their chances of winning the lawsuit.

Therefore it's perfectly valid to point out that their argument is BS.
I hate leaving no answer here but I’ve accumulated what little understanding I have through a sort of extended research exercise. YouTube, PubMed and just googling around has led me to a lot of info. Studying the mechanism of action of various therapies tends to surface specific systems within the cellular lifecycle and immune system. Read enough of them and you start to recognize terms and things make sense.

Hope that helps
The East Coast is a lot more than Maine though. By that point the Gulf Stream has already moved eastwards...
No, those don't sound like discrimination. Discrimination would be if you spent that year learning the material then went into the interview and they gave you a problem that was utterly irrelevant but more familiar to those bootcamp kids. Or if they gave you a relevant problem and you solved it fine using an obvious-seeming algorithm you learned ten years ago, then got "corrected" because everyone uses a different algorithm nowadays. Maybe even an algorithm that's objectively worse for that particular case, but arguing the point would only cost you more points. Those are things I've seen happen.

As I suspect you know, discrimination rarely declares itself. It's usually subtle, sometimes even unconscious, but often it's still there. "I didn't care so I didn't try so I have no direct experience" is not a good argument for dismissing others' choices as inferior or their experiences as insignificant.
Add to it

3)They should ban Z from doing W

at the same time.
Couldn't you find a niche in video and deliver value there? Seems like a pretty big space.
With an imap client you should be able to download emails from the old accounts and upload them on the new one.
I think this is a protection mechanism. The absurdities of the corporate world are a lot easier to deal with if you consider filling out request forms for a day just ‘a day job’.

And you absolutely need that, because the reality is soul crushing.
My take.

It is my learning style but I would have a hard time sitting through a 30 minute screencast never mind 30 hours.

I prefer reading to listening to lectures, but for most topics i think you are best off focusing your learning around problem sets. This way you know if you are succeeding or not.

I homeschool my son in math and used Kahn academy for the curriculum. I knew if he could do the problems there he was meeting common core requirements and the school district could not complain. I felt qualified to tutor math at that level but would have been lost without a curriculum.
Circa 2011 I was doing support for MaxCDN and from time to time there were recurring issues with Cloudflare and our service being used together with a WordPress plugin. They ended up reaching out and we all got on a call not knowing what to expect. Long story short, call went great and we worked together on a solution that helped our shared customers. Cloudflare has made the CDN industry better. They've made huge contributions to the open source and webperf communities and I'm really happy for them.
I Built an Automated Point of Sale System Using NFC for the Campus Thrift Store
Interesting case. Corellium should be allowed to sell to bonafide security researchers, Apple even admits it themselves - "“Corellium is not selectively limiting its customers to only those with some socially beneficial purpose.”".

That said, who gets to be a bonafide sec researcher? Love to see how apple can define that.

The fact that they encourage vulns to be sold to an open market is likely a problem. They might have to shut that down and move to a wink wink mode.

Very interesting case indeed.
The easy proof of this is in the cracker section: "family size" is always priced more per unit than smaller sizes.
Or not sufficiently cynical. What you describe sounds run of the mill caution
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/02/15/corel...
So they're basically going to pay for the CO2 emissions at around 100$ per tonne (10 cents per kg), right?

Well, we can calculate the C02 exhaled by a typical human, as [1] 36.84 mg = 0.03684 kg of CO2 per breath. (0.03684 kg @ 10c per kg) Therefore each breath you exhale is worth 0.003684 cents....

So how do you want to pay me @stripe?

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-mass-of-the-carbon-dioxide...
There are programmers who mostly work on code that does a lot of work with the CPU, and needs to be multi core. For these applications, async/await has little to offer.

People who are puzzled by async/await often fall into this camp.
I think this is obvious. If you can get the same salary in 20 hours that you previously made in 35, no sane person will opt for the 35 (I hope).
Does Russia really need it? Other than have a foothold close to the U.S mainland ? By most predictions, Russia is going to do well with it's Siberian region due to climate change. plus it already has easy access to the artic.
U.S. has very strong free speech protections, codified as First Amendment in the Constitution.

As such it's unlikely that such restrictions would survive a constitutional challenge.
To confused HN commenters: Correlium works by offering VMs of iOS and all models of Apple device, and allowing Terminal access (i.e. pre-jailbroken) access the operating system underneath.

For example, as a security researcher, I could order a copy of iOS 11.1 running on an iPhone 6 32GB. It would be spun up and accessible in about 3 or 4 minutes, and I could run direct commands on the Darwin kernel underneath.

Why is this illegal? Correlium DOES NOT have a physical iPhone 6 that it is screen recording. They actually have made copies of various iOS releases, and are running them on virtualization software, while making big bucks from the researchers for this technology.

Will Apple win? Well, if you look at the Apple vs Psystar case of 2007 (in which Apple won pretty much every case and appeal and every injunction they filed for), the odds of victory from Correlium is about as likely as Bill DeBlasio winning the 2020 Election.
It’s the “it” thing right now. Everyone wants to “leverage” their data and projects in that space get readily funded. It’s also seen slightly better than the typical IT-is-cost-center mentality because of the immediate potential benefit or the risk of losing to a competitor.
Would be cool if they could quantity the gains in productivity - eg before we put in the static analysis we had x level of software defects, following these improvements we saw a drop to level y. Trying to introduce similar improvements at my current place but it’s a hard sell without data
I have never been asked an interview question where I am expected to sanitize noisy real world input, report meaningful errors to the user, or create a few classes that interact in a SOLID way. (I have been asked what SOLID stands for.) Maybe these questions are asked but unfortunately I haven't come across them.

I have been asked many times how to solve crazy, weird problems in what is the equivalent of a couple of functions.

The first kind of test, which I have not been given, is highly relevant to my daily job.

The second kind of test, which is administered in every single interview, is relevant maybe 1% of the time in my job.

I try to keep this in mind when I am on the hiring side of the table.
If I understand the EC2 instance lifecycle correctly, shutdown causes ACPI shutdown, and the machine does not enter stopped state until the OS in turn requests ACPI to power it off. That means shutdown time is dependent on the configuration of your software -- for example, if a single service is configured to gracefully wait up to 10 minutes for, say a persistent database client connection to disconnect, you might pay the full timeout during shutdown.

There is also a 'forced shutdown' API, but for whatever reason in testing for me it has always been slower than a graceful shutdown. I have no idea what it does internally