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Oh, there is none. Government is as pure as the driven snow here.
Really?? Where does it state that?
Well, that's poor planning on the user's part. In this case the OP stated he registered using a gmail address.
I am a young and relatively healthy person.
I believe this would be allowed in the US. At least, I know that there are real-life clubs that charge covers to men, but women get in free...
This was a few (3) years past, but they accepted root@localhost sendmail messages just fine in most cases, and delivered alerts within a minute or two of sending. We didn't rely on this long term, but it was a "good enough" first pass.

I'd probably recommend using one of the gateways (or a more fully-featured service like Pagerduty) for more serious businesses, but for personal use (or where an outage detected the next day isn't crippling), it's remarkably useful.
Where do you live? I think city is highly variable. It also gets easier as you get older (for heterosexual men) which could be a factor.

This is the kind of thing where you can’t trust what people say since what they say and how they act are very different (the dataclysm book is good for this).

For the matching case if you get zero matches you can’t progress to dates (or even chat). The selection happens prior to that.

You're probably right though that it's not only attractiveness, there's also a selective pressure where men are generally okay dating 'down' economically and women are generally not. While more women become economically successful (good thing) it further constrains the availability on the dating market. The only reason I focused on the attractiveness stat first is that on apps like Hinge/Tinder it's a prereq to even getting to the economic piece.

Diana S. Fleischman (evolutionary psychologist) and Julia Galef discuss some of this and other things on this podcast which I thought was pretty good: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-216-diana-fleis...
What differentiates US (most big software names come from there) from the rest of the world is their ability to sell. There are already enough countries on this planet that can produce high quality software that could be sold as hot buns.What most of those countries don't have is the huge VC industry+ tons of people who know how and who to sell be it B2B or B2C. This, however is changing slowly and you can expect much more level field over the next 10-15 years.
It's impossible to figure out real world numbers from hype, but my impression is that It's Just Lunch has made a ton of money in the US on exactly this business model.

Interestingly, their reputation seems to be again at similar risk because as they've scaled up across the country they've relied more and more on high cost being their gatekeeper over more direct contact with matchmakers. Or at least that's they way it seems from the many emails and calls I see to rejoin with "discounts" jumping an order-of-magnitude every few years from tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars, to now thousands. It's rather extraordinary and it doesn't give me a lot of confidence to rejoin even if I was interested.
> archive.ph

When/why did they remove that one? Have you got any source?
“You can pass every interview with A grades and still not get a job, because a senior Googler decides that you're the wrong person to be hired.”

Google doesn’t need you. They probably already have a clone of you. They have gobs of rank-and-file SWE effort on reserve should one of their key products fail.

The process is designed to entertain the hiring manager and certain key employees. They don’t want you for your productivity. They want you for the chance that you help surround one of their favorites with things they like so that this other guy doesn’t bounce elsewhere. This other Googler likely already has a competing offer— that’s how he got promoted last year.

At this stage, if Google hires you, you are almost certainly being used to aid in the retention of somebody else. You’re going straight for the bench.

Don’t prepare for months for just Google; prepare for your own future. Don’t let Google hijack your capacity for critical thinking.
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Offhand that makes me suspicious of the jug gust chain. I’m not sure how often that would come up though. Maybe just in vim. One shortcut for finding words that end in phonemes I’ve already tested, is to find words with the exact same ending sound as another word in the alphabet, but with a sufficiently distinct starting phoneme.
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Eh. Every time this comes up what is often missed is that humans are complementary to machines and we don’t yet understand conscience and identity all that well.

You’re right that the jobs as they exist today won’t in the future. Just like manufacturing replaced agriculture which was then replaced by services, there will be higher orders of creativity and problem solving that most humans will be engaged in the future.

There really isn’t a lack of problems to solve. Consider that we’ve barely scratched the surface of the earth and the farthest we’ve sent humans to is the Moon. The Space Industry might as well be the economic market that keeps expanding forever...
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Speed dating is a horrible thing, but social events don't have to be speed dating.
My understanding of OKCupid is that it caters to 'free for all'. The site choices they made was to increase TAM by stating their addressable market is 'YES' (this is not a dig on the choice).

I have not heard about consensual non-mog/poly/name du jour had a TAM problem-- can you point me to sources? My sources of 'not a problem' suffer from geographic and socioeconomic biases.
I guess I'd have to say that single data point only really allows for the generalization that some people are unhappy at Google. I think it's probably quite a few but that's just my suspicion, the single data point isn't enough to go on.
Strange, everything works great on my Pixel 3 with FF. I'll take a look with more mobile testing, thanks !
Yeah... you're only going to save money if you're an absolutely enormous scale. I'd also really question that point at all when you can compress JSON as it's being transmitted (GZIP, baby).

Next, I have yet to see somewhere... anywhere, not at the scale of something like Uber, or a high-performance game server, really need to worry about serialization and deserialization of JSON. Almost all serialization libraries are written in C for MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE regardless of the language you're using, or some sort of hand-tuned-magical bytecode fuckery which has the same effect.

I honestly can't imagine this being useful except for obscenely high throughput service to service communication or as an internal serialization protocol (for something like FoundationDB where you're storing the Avro encoded instance to disk). Truly, JSON and REST are good enough for 99.999% of services and the overhead of using something non-standard will likely never pay off due to the increased developer overhead and maintenance.

This just smells like tech debt and an architecture that can't be debugged.
Those versions literally mean that they're part of the spec. That other companies are shipping out of date ARM specs doesn't mean apple has magic proprietary instructions. Hell, IIRC the first we heard about the new ARM8.3 instructions was a Qualcomm white paper.

Anyway, this is no different from targeting x86_64 - you can compile targeting the most recent ISA, or you can run on more hardware. No one says AVX2 is a proprietary extension, but it sure as heck won't work on an older x86_64 cpu.
If we were in the 1970s and I described Instagram & Tinder to you, you would be saying the same thing.
Most of them. At least most parts of most northern European cities that I have visited.
The problem is that current dating apps consist of choosing people whose in-person behavior (as well as resources in some cases) you care about based on self-selected photos and their ability to write text messages, so it's pretty obvious it doesn't work very well.
I think this is awesome. The colors are garish, but also, totally 80s nostalgia. I think this is creative and fun. I just have two small suggestions:

1. If I click a window, it gets brought to the front. Awesome. if I click it again, it gets sent to the back!! Not cool.

2. Consider holding off on getting me to buy you a coffee. Having that popup upfront, before I've had a chance to explore the website, doesn't make a lot of sense. Consider displaying it after 30-60 seconds, and adding an icon to the dock.
Even in 2020, many countries with nearly unlimited funding cannot get manned rockets to work.
The problem is no one in the 25th-75th percentile thinks of themselves as being in that band.

And those that do, don't want to date someone in that band.

Said more crassly: if I'm a 7/10 on the looks scale, why would I want to date someone who is a 3/10?

Another point--you stated desirability. Other than good photos and well crafted bio, how do you indicate your desirability?
The CTO at Cloudflare has to ask his supervisor before trying to help someone over at hacker news? :)
> Us rubes can figure out how to sift through b/s and make our own determinations on what passes the smell test.

Yeah, no. If "smell tests" worked, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
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Could you please explain this line of reasoning? It's not immediately clear why a middleman reduces chances of malicious behavior. Do you think the risk of malicious behavior could be reduced through individual confidence, judgement or leadership in the same way or differently?
Interesting, did you reveal your pre-Google salary to Google during negotiation and they doubled it? (without changing the location).
As for your current position (Netflix?) - I guess it wouldn't matter if you came from Google or no, their standard package would be the same (around 450K) I believe.
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The argument as I've seen it presented was that a large part of the army was already moved up close to the border and in attack positions, and not set up for defensive operations. Which is why, the argument goes, there were so many soldiers to surround and cut off.

I'm not endorsing the argument, note; I haven't looked into this enough to have anything resembling a useful opinion.
Most of the top discount brokers either own a bank or have a sweep arrangement with banks, specifically to get FDIC insurance for large cash balances, which you do not want to have.

The specific things M1 offers that make them close to this blog post are a) low margin rates (3~3.25%) and b) autoinvestment of deposits (including payroll deposits), which is grumblegrumble rarer than you'd guess.
In the past week it’s been discovered that the virus has spread in two developed countries - South Korea and Italy. Already a bunch of countries have created travel restrictions and it’s only a matter of time until the restrictions increase. If a similar outbreak is discovered in the UK while you are there, you might become subject to similar restrictions. You’d be unlucky if it happened while you are there, but it wouldn’t be shocking. We’re trying to predict the policy response to an unknown future so it’s very hard to say.
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If I have a rightful complaint and it costs me $300 to resolve I am done with that business.
Socratic method?
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Yep. IE went so far as to add support for VBScript (a language based on visual basic) to compete.
Of course it does...
The claims of the patent [0] are extremely specific. I doubt a competing company would be unable to get around this patent.

[0]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9733811
No printf. Less keywords than Java. Lame.
For my addition, why oh why, do people who are at the edge of RSI use laptop keyboards?

Yes, laptops are convenient. But not so convenient to risk losing your wrists.
That’s not what the data shows.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-bad-looks-good/2...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/mar/02/evolution.ge...
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Top down management doesn't work in software engineering unless you are in an industry that does not value creative solutions (which is possible, some industries want extreme reliability and this means less exploration for solutions). In other words, what is the point of giving instructions/directions to someone who is supposed to be a problem solver (a.k.a. engineer)? There is no point to hire problem solvers and then give them specific solutions to your problems.
In all honesty, there are not that many "bog standard SDEs" at Google. That's not what the company is hiring for: it wants engineers who are comfortable with complexity, whether measured in technical challenge (Tensorflow, Dart etc.), robustness (cloud, GSuite) or extreme scalability (Gmail, ads, search etc.) A PhD is clearly not the only path to that skillset, but it's not unusual either.

Separately, I'm sorry the original poster had a crappy experience: that does sound awful. It happens, unfortunately, and I'm glad they drew attention to it.

Disclosure: I work at Google.
Haha, I mean if they'd actually improved every part that prematurely broke on the Lada for the past 40 years it would probably be the perfect car by now XD

But Henry Ford lost this argument 90 years ago when GM proved that styling newness trumps all other factors when it comes to sales.
I really like the colors and your idea for the portfolio! However, as I opened your website, I immediately thought it was one of those fake virus warning websites due to the sound and popup. Almost close it due to habit. Not sure why you are asking for money upfront when first-time visitors have no idea what your site has to offer. A bunch of your links open in a new window which makes it a little annoying to stay on your site. I'm also unable to resize the windows so the pictures in 'Photos' are tiny and hard to see. Since you're a product designer, I would recommend writing case studies for a couple of your projects to best showcase your process rather than just high-fidelity mockup and a few sentences on Dribbble, which doesn't tell a whole lot about your skills.
> The reality is that 99% of working developers are not implementing complex algorithms

> The vast majority are delivering wet. messy business logic

Ok, notice something wrong here?
My experience has covered a number of different areas (in the US), and I've used such sites occasionally for a couple of decades now. I've not noticed a significant difference between areas or age ranges.

But I'm working with male sample size of one (me), and a female sample size (women I've talked about this stuff with) of a few dozen, so this isn't anything like a reliable study. It's just anecdotal.
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From past experience we know that our user will use only one filter and forget about all the other. Having 10 and plus filter tend to overwhelmed most user. We believe in the DOTADIW concept : "Do One Thing and Do It Well."
Supposedly horse traces were also much more expensive to make & maintain compared to an ox yoke.
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As #2 has come up quite a few times I increased the time on it. Thanks for the feedback!

And totally agree on #1, trying to resolve the bug there. Super appreciate the nice words and feedback! :)
If anyone in this thread is interested in talking about their experiences with HackerOne, please shoot me an email at david.morris@fortune.com.

Positive or negative. We can set up a time to talk, or if you're more comfortable, just include details in your email.
not sure why people are downvoting this.

I'm no expert and if someone more knowledgeable thinks there is something incorrect, it would be useful to clearly state what's wrong with this article instead of downvoting.

Well, you can downvote too if you want, but some explanations would be great!
I don't think there is such a social contract. As far as I can tell, the only two things Bohemian Rhapsody got right was a) Freddie Mercury was gay, and b) Queen played at Live Aid. One of the villains in the Titanic movie in real life was a hero.
I believe this is the root problem of all dating "apps" or websites, assuming the goal is for two people to find each other and settle down.

Without computers, databases, and the internet, you might only have so many chances to meet someone, and so you are mentally ready to accept someone that may be a few bands "below" you. And you might grow to like them.

But with so much of the cost and friction gone, and a seemingly infinite number of chances to meet someone, especially in bigger cities, that mentality is gone. Why accept someone who might be okay for you when you can aim higher? And if everyone has this mentality, then you can see where the market goes.

I also think there is an issue with wealth/income gap and easy availability of data rendering certain people who aren't seen as able to be economically viable mates to have a value so low as to not be worth dating period.
jgrahamc is the CTO of Cloudflare. His only supervisor is eastdakota/ Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare.
Are you a trained microbologist? Any form of contagious disease health expert?

I understand viewing the media with skepticism - they make money off of generating emotional reactions. That means their reporting is unreliable, it doesn't mean it is utterly false.
It's not about race at all -- China isn't exactly a vacation destination; very few non-Chinese visit China. Considering the lunar new year was timed right with this outbreak (and the Chinese tradition to visit relatives on LNY), it's not ridiculous to assume that areas with higher Chinese populations have a higher chance of having the virus.

This whole outrage culture thing needs to go away.
This, sometimes has very interesting consequences. A friend worked for a company that basically moved parts of sales/customer service to a Northen African country.They hired people on a few hundred dollars a month(if that much) to sell high ticket hotel bookings sometimes going for thousands/day.The team struggled to comprehend that anyone could get a room that costs 10 times more their monthly wage.This highly affected their ability to service/sell. Eventually the entire thing got canned and moved to Europe.
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Can you imagine working with that guy though - "Hey guys, I'm just about done with this feature get ready for the PR". "Paul, you've written it all on the whiteboard again. How many times Paul, it's got to go in the computer."
It might be possible the second infection will be more severe than the first, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhanceme...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-018-1178-...

4% seems like it could be a difficult market to function in, especially since that cannot be assumed to be a random sampling from the background population. I'll assume that anyway, for the sake of simplicity. That limits you to a TAM of ~12 million Americans, of which you would do well to get 10% as users and 1% as paying customers.

120,000 paying customers isn't a vast customer base. That's an upper bound, meaning any app is going to come in well below that for a variety of geo-demo-socio-economic reasons. Or just because getting high market penetration is difficult.

Again, I would love to know if there's something I've overlooked that changes this significantly.
I am relatively sure that you could tell that my keyboard is primarily used for coding C# in Visual Studio just by looking at which keys are the most worn and which carry a significant layer of dust on them.

The keys that complete an Intellisense selection (space, period, semi-colon, Enter) are nearly ground down to nubs, and the open-paren and open-bracket keys are worn smooth, while the corresponding close keys indicate near complete disuse. Similarly for F5 (Start Debugger) and F10 (Step Over) compared to the rest of the F-keys.
> What kind of bullshit does it do?

It doesn't utilize a hardware-backed secure secret storage on Android (~80% of marketshare in EE if I remember correctly). This means vital key material is unsafe from any compromise, just a plain file somewhere. This means that they have to go into a lot of effort to detect clones, which is also certainly not infallible. Cloning or compromising an ID-card of Mobile-ID is way way harder with it's audited security.

The technical overview describes how key is generated on the device and half of it is sent to AS SK's servers. There's no security benefit in that (they can't really verify you've deleted their half of the key from your device), except that now AS SK has half of your private key. In general their technical overview gives the feeling that like they want to pull wool over people's eyes, it's IMHO a bad sign.

It also totally lacks any privacy, every login you do is logged and counted. SK AS shouldn't mandatorily have that metadata.

It relies completely on their centralized servers, they go down, your authentication and signing goes totally down. Neither service owners or their clients can do anything about that. Identity mustn't be like that.

It's totally proprietary, thus their claims about security can't be easily verified, and it's limited to their blessed OSs (and versions). If they go bankrupt or similar, the identities of all those people are in jeopardy.

It's also expensive for server administrators and thus has a high barrier of entry. Identity and security shouldn't be behind a paywall for neither side. The web has LetsEncrypt and now a lot more sites are protected, the web is better off, SK AS has done the opposite.

In comparison, ID-card's PKI is usable for free, supported in every system (that can do TLS basically), entirely FOSS if you wish, the hardware is much more secure (EAL6+), it doesn't mandatorily leak metadata, doesn't rely on a centralized proprietary server to work.
Young people. For people in their 30s, it's a different ball game. Lots of well-off career people panicking to pair up. I have no doubt there is a lot of money in that. Actually I'm bullish on 30+ arranged marriage apps. It seems like one of those megatrends that's going to hit like a tidal wave.
>>A friend of mine with a Ph.D. in math and a Master's degree in electrical engineering works in industry in data science. He once told me that he would not want to hire people with a Ph.D. to do non research.

Does this mean that he considers himself an outlier (assuming he's also doing non-research activities), or that he feels that PhD holders need an extra high "tolerance" for many (most?) of us who don't hold a PhD?

I'm not sure where or how labour market regulation will help in this specific instance.
Ask HN: How to improve a whiteboard interview performance?
I have recently started looking for a new job. And I think I have a performance problem when it comes to a whiteboard interview.

I often struggle to come up with any kind of specific solution on the spot even if I can outline the general idea. I don't usually feel particularly nervous, so it is not that. Shortly after an interview ends, on my walk outside, I often have a breakthrough when the solution comes to me in a much greater detail, so that I can articulate it much better at least to myself.

I have also noticed that I can typically only solve Medium problems on LeetCode within an hour when left alone. Hard problems often take me a couple of hours at least.

The observations above make me think that maybe I'm slow and/or ill equipped when it comes to solving problems on the go. And certain types of problems are easier for me to solve in solitude.

Does anyone have any suggestions what I can do improve my onsite performance? I will of course keep on practicing, but certain opportunities are getting away from me.