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Interviews are a joke and are as useless as randomly selecting people.

I did 14 interviews at Google (two applications, first one after being contacted by them, for second one I contacted them to try again). As far as I could tell, I passed most of them, and for some of them I even provided new, unique solutions that the interviewers were amazed by. That being said, both times I got reject in the last step before the offer without being given any reason why. The only think they told me was that I should learn less from programming books and have more experience actually building things. I have never read a programming book, only learned by doing and had many projects to showcase.
Some interviewers were not even paying attention to what I was saying, seemingly working on something else on their laptops. My recruiter was both times so certain that I would get the job (based on the very positive feedback she received from some of the interviewers) that she started telling me about the relocation process.

Today, 4 years later, I am not mad about it as I got to work in a very cool gaming startup for 2 years and now I run own company where I have created a product used by thousands of webmasters. I am honestly just confused about the process, as I know that I am a top-tier programmer and, based on what others said, a nice person to work with. I guess that ultimately it was their loss, but it's just a machine so no one really cares if X gets the job or not.
Sure was, but 1980's Ireland had pretty much no economy at all. Emigration was an expectation, not a privilege.

The country needed all it could get. And it eventually did very well, then screwed it up in the Global Financial Crisis, but now seems to be doing quite well (until Brexit starts to have an effect).
It is useful to ask why. The constants are often for confusion and diffusion properties: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_and_diffusion
That's not new. AFAIK, Apple promotes all of their tweets, so they don't show up on their profile.
The beauty of the PinePhone is that there's literally nothing tying it to UBPorts, I've flashed Mobian[1] on mine an am supper happy with it. The Arch builds are also coming together nicely. [2]

1 - https://mobian-project.org

2 - https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases
I would've expected a DLL load error to be ACCESS_DENIED instead of ACCESS_VIOLATION because the path for the DLL goes through a system call to open the file.

ACCESS_VIOLATION would be more like dereferencing a null pointer, but it's been a number of years since I had to troubleshoot this far in on Windows.

I suppose it's possible they didn't check for the error in the open file syscall then tried to use the uninitialized file handle for the DLL which caused the segfault.
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Link to address:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
> Are we protecting ourselves from false arguments?

In some cases I do think we can and should protect ourselves from arguments for intolerance.
Indeed it is. I have an European Apple account and all my purchases get billed by Apple Distribution International Ltd. [1] which is an Irish company.

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[1] https://www.apple.com/ie/contact/
All of Apple‘s Tweets Have Disappeared
Wow can’t believe you didn’t say “your mom”
I'm guessing they'll end up with ~100-300k total after all is done and they tumble, launder etc. the coins.

I am not sure how much that is for them but there are claims that the 'regular' version of that scam already nets millions a year.
Did the hackers remove all tweets from Apple? Wtf
This is the earliest non-deleted tweet I've found referencing the bitcoin address (or rather, noticing that an account got hacked). It was sent at 12:23PM Pacific time (more than 1.5 hours ago): https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1283481418518208513
"Preaching to the choir to make it sing better"
I don't agree with you on this. Let me ask you, are there connotations in the word choices that make you think of "whiteness" in a certain way? Do you think the infographic treats whiteness as:
- something to celebrate?
- a set of beliefs and attitudes with no associated value judgment? Neutral?
- something to work on in yourself? Something to be a little ashamed about?

I think the infographic connotes a negative view of whiteness, and that translates to racist, IMO.
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I'll start:

- Offering candidates their choice of whiteboard vs take-home. I've found that different people have different preferences, and they liven up when they are told they have a choice in the matter.
Wow, up to 11 now
Thank you for the wiki link. But I didn't say that "ought statements" are unverifiable.
The scammer has got $100k and counting in less than 30mins. WOW 2020.
There's an ongoing Twitter hack, primary discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851275
God, I hope not. Nobody actually stops at stop signs.
for conditions in Clojure also check this: https://gist.github.com/msgodf/6f4e43c112b8e89eee3d
Nuclear power is like Aboetion: a complex issue with major implications that has turned into A religion on both sides. You can't have a sensible discussion without being written off. The middle is shelled by both sides.
Quantum Computing May Help Us Study Quantum Gravity
Don't know why you're getting downvoted here. The after hours moves in TWTR and TSLA (assuming they're mostly attributable to the hack) absolutely dwarf the amount collected by the hack itself. TWTR has shed about $643 million in market cap, TSLA $2.4 billion.
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I flagged this because the title is clickbait, and not news whicj in my opinion goes against the spirit of hacker news.

If this would be just a direct link to tencent investing in Reddit, or how Reddit has not taken any strong stance against HKs new data privacy law, then I think it would fit here.
I really don't think so? It's an equally serious crime either way.
I'm guessing a social media manager application got compromised, or an exploit in Twitter's API that allows you to post as someone else. It's hard to see all these different accounts falling for the same scam + not having 2FA, etc.
Would be too obvious. Noone believes what that account tweets anyway.
Loads of accounts still tweeting it in realtime. Follow it live: https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...
Everything you need to know about OAuth 2.0
Yep! We wrote a post about it a while back (https://www.givelegacy.com/resources/will-covid-19-affect-ma...). I was proud that we have developed enough domain authority to be the #1 Google result for a couple of months for 'COVID19 and male fertility'.

In brief:

1. Theoretically, yes. The testes have the second-highest number of ACE2 receptors, after the lungs. This could explain why men are more likely to get COVID-19 than men.

2. In the short-term COVID-19 is likely to decrease sperm quality, similar to the flu. this we can say with reasonable confidence, but it's nothing particularly scary.

3. We don't know if there are longer-term effects. We've already heard about potential scarring in the lungs, for example. What is the same was true in the testes? After all, some viruses like Zika CAN have longer-term effects.

The fact is, there has been no conclusive research yet, so we are running a study ourselves to try to identify some preliminary evidence.
Twitter dropped support for SMS posting earlier this year:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/27/21238131/twitter-sms-noti...
I wouldn’t buy a Tesla. I don’t like the interiors, and like you said they've burned their reputation with me.

I was skeptical of how wide spread the the panel problems were with the 3’s initial rollout, until I examined the 3s in the parking lot at work. Every car was bad, including one that was a shockigly horrible.
Jeff Bezos just got hit as well:

https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1283508547897171969
This problem has a rather profound solution: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Consolidated_Corporate_...

Companies should have never been taxed based on a virtual, and fundamentally nonsensical, figure as the location of their headquarters. They should be taxed based on substantial things, like (the location of) capital, labour and sales. This is what CCCTB establishes. States are still free to set the tax rate as they wish. It's just that then the companies can't escape with the turnover money to another state, essentially robbing the state where the profit was generated.

This is the most important tax legislation of this day. No other debate about taxes, like the rate itself, or harmonisation of the rates across states, makes sense before this gets implemented. The reason is that now the tax rate is evadable and only stifles local/small businesses who don't/can't cheat. Sadly, there are few states that are successfully blocking this: Netherlands, Ireland, Malta, etc. But I hope to see this one day.
No. Clicking into a tweet shows you which app was used to post it. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet#sourc...

These tweets are showing up as being posted from the Twitter web interface.
Yes. You're absolutely correct

We did used to buy the surveys to understand the results. But the awards themselves weren't worth much.
You're trolling. There's your argument.
Bezos now, too!

https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1283508547897171969
I believe OP meant that the attackers got access to the account by hacking SMS, thus getting the verification code and legitimately logging in the accounts.
11 BTC received !!!
I'm about 99% certain that the actual cause for the disparity between the two is that Boeing is a publicly traded company while SpaceX is a privately held firm, which completely eliminates the need for management to focus on short-term profitability. When you look at stupid practices inside of a company, and cultural erosion, you can almost always trace it back to decisions that management is making to maximize profit. I'd go so far as to say, this is the ONLY reason why smaller companies are able to outmaneuver larger ones.
> There's basically no advantage to Ubuntu now except community.

That's the best and worst reason to reccomend ubuntu. The best because it's community is large and somewhat stable. The worst because that community is under the thumb of a corporation that does not seem to understand it.
It's much more likely a common social media marketing platform was compromised.
Numerous dupe submissions, primary discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851275
Well I’ve seen at least one crowd fund project to sequester co2. It wasn’t particularly impressive scale though iirc.
No but I can imagine a senior software engineer that couldn't write FizzBuzz during an interview. I would probably stumble on it myself. I prefer to look at what people have done and not their credentials. I don't hire people that haven't shipped something.
> Describe a fictional system, what would they suggest to make it scaleable? What would they suggest to improve performance? What would they suggest to reduce the time between writing the code and shipping it.

These questions are very senior dev focused, not so sure I'd ask a junior candidate much in this direction. But I always did a question like this when I did my share of interviewing. And the idea is basically to see if the candidate has been around the block. Have they seen the sausage being made, or do they only have academic understanding of the software engineering profession?

And being on the other side, some of the best questions I've gotten was always like "describe the weirdest problem you've encountered". Talking about unexpected shit usually leads to a fun discussion, and you can showcase your ability to problem solve.
Apple's account is usually empty.
The domain associated with first round of tweets wasn't anonymized.

Could be a setup https://twitter.com/jfbsbnix/status/1283487977591767041

Or maybe a dodge https://twitter.com/verretor/status/1283506654521094146
Did Einstein say that?: Testing content vs. context in quotations (2017)
Thank you for the link. How should I credit you?
At 13:47 PDT, there's a 60.4 BTC one[1]. That alone is half a million USD.

EDIT: Replies are right. Now I see that the majority of it went to the same address as the source.

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/4df1391d936d3256ce84a867e1...
"Hacking Elon’s Twitter account and using it for a crypto scam rather than a stock-trading scam shows a complete lack of imagination" - Naval

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1283507218294292481?s=19
I mean, tax rates can change over time. It seems like the goalposts have now been moved from "did they pay US tax?" to "did they pay enough US tax?".

You're free to argue that 15% is not a high enough corporate tax rate, but it is factually incorrect to say Apple did not pay US tax on the money they earned overseas.
I do use brew on my Linux machine too - mainly because it's easier to duplicate my Mac workspace that way.
Thank you for introducing me to arxiv-vanity. I've always hated reading PDFs of papers on my phone.
Haha, I apologise in advance, but for some reason, the tone of your post just made me chuckle. It just had an amusing sort if naivite'. It was most likely the hacker's own BTC address.
Last one 6 minutes prior being:

„ We are giving back to our community. We support Bitcoin and we believe you should too! All Bitcoin sent to our address below will be sent back to you doubled! bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh Only going on for the next 30 minutes.“

Hard to imagine that neither they, Coinbase, Elon Musk etc used 2FA.
40-some% of Americans do according to polling at least :/
Searching for the bitcoin address in twitter gives an absolute ton of results. Are all these accounts hacked, or are people now posting just to joke around?
They do use a lot more addresses than just this one too
I guess some of it is the people who get in this business and get used to abusing people so much they expect it to be okay. I’m glad this kind of thing that has historically been accepted is seeing light of day.

Just because you’re being paid to perform doesn’t mean you’ve signed up for abuse and violence.
Or was it a marketing platform that was owned? I worked for one a few years back and they used the same fb key for all of their 500 musicians they represented. One day facebook enforced key rotation and a bunch of fan sites went dark. Imagine if someone got access to our codebase, this same type of nefarious action would have happened

The curtain has been pulled back for some. Their favorite tweeters aren’t actually tweeting themselves

Edit: I also wonder if it’s an elaborate money laundering scheme. Mix coins with deniability. Combine with the Epstein drama, maybe there’s more to what meets the eye. Either way it’s popcorn time
Should Twitter start supporting cryptographically signed messages? In any case, I wonder about the legal ramifications of this kind of event, for Twitter and for the individuals that have been hacked.
> First: I think we can agree that house parties alone don't create as much social contact as house parties AND restaurants, salons, gyms, nonessential retailers, hotels, etc.

In places with much lighter lockdowns (or no lockdowns at all) we still had significant social distancing. It turns out most people don’t want to catch a deadly disease.

So we are comparing strict lockdowns compared with sensible social distancing - not with doing nothing.

There are strong arguments to be made, and we will have to see how they play out over the next 12-18 months, that strict lockdowns actually resulted in more deaths because the fear they induced stopped people from doing regular health checkups etc.

> The death rate in Sweden has now risen significantly higher than many other countries in Europe, reaching more than 22 per 100,000 people

There is endless misinformation being put out over COVID.

Comparing the other Nordic countries to Sweden is misleading because it was on a different trajectory before any lockdowns were implemented.

Note if you compare Sweden to the US it’s around half of the US rate per 100,000 despite lack of lockdowns.

Now the nice thing about Sweden is they have open data and accurate reporting of data - and so you can dive in and see that their total deaths haven’t changed significantly compared to prior years.

They have had ~100 excess deaths/week - and if you remove the older population (>65) then it’s basically 0 excess deaths/week.

It will be interesting next year to see if (as typically happens with the flu) we see significantly fewer total deaths - which would indicate for those 100/week excess deaths this year the total life lost per death was 1 year. But that’s just my speculation for now.

Edit: A clear trend is emerging that a countries deaths come down to two factors:

1) Ability to properly protect the old

See the failures in Italy and NYC as examples.

2) The overall health of your young population

See for example Singapore where the majority of infections were in young healthy men - and their corresponding tiny 26 deaths for ~45000 positive cases.
Or SPX puts, /ES futures, etc and a tweet from a certain political account...
Why? I don't think that it's really even speaking to the individual values. My interpretation is that it's making the (unsupported) assertion that the entirety of those values represent the pinnacle of what appears to be normal or culturally appropriate, from the perspective of typical white Americans. So for example, if you say to a white American, "tomorrow will be better," that's an uncontroversial position to take. Or, "my kids each have their own bedroom," seems like a fairly normal and uncontroversial expectation. Whereas if your behavior goes broadly against these norms, say, "My kids all sleep in the bed with me," or "I just go with the flow, professional advancement doesn't interest me," then you will seem out of step with what (white) society deems as most appropriate. It's not saying that all of these values are exclusively the purview of white Americans, nor is it saying there's anything wrong with these values. To the extent that anything is implicitly discouraged, I would venture that it discourages taking for granted that cultures that diverge from this specific value set are inherently defective.

Also, this comes from 1990. A lot has changed since then. Maybe it's not quite as controversial to be non-Judeo-Christian, for example.
Oh wow, now they're doing multiple tweets/minute: https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...

It might make sense for Twitter to redirect all non-retweets of that address to /dev/null (or a sandbox) for a little while.
> Solar (photovoltaic) has its maximum around noon, when there is high demand.

I think it's exactly the opposite: see [1]. It's a increasingly big problem as more renewable sources are deployed. The peak demand happens at mid-evening and morning hours while, as you said, peak production from renewables is around noon. A possible solution is energy storage but, as far as I now, it's not yet common and not always available depending on the location and type of plant.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
I remember at the start of this an infectious diseases professor commented how if you had the antibodies already against CoV you'd be fine, but if you had only half, you were at a significantly higher risk of death.

I guess the immune system can misidentify as well--I bet we haven't taxonomized everything fully yet so eventually we'll have a new name for what immunity is required.
> Pausing this setting doesn't delete any of your past data. You can see or delete your data and more at myactivity.google.com.
I don’t disagree but “good enough” comes with its own risks. That may be fine for an organization that has a lot of inertia and is biased towards the “maintaining” side of the house. However, I think it would make it make things more difficult if the intent was for bold, transformative change.
... you're using a single city anecdote to say something about two huge landmasses...?
Here's an algorithm some elite CS PhD took a year to research and solve. You haven't seen it before? Too bad, better come up with the solution on the spot. If you can't I'll have to write another blog post about how no one I interview can program anymore?!?
Tweets posted through Twitter's ads platform, even non-ads scheduled tweets, will show up as normal twitter web posts.

And approved partners can use the corresponding API to post this way.
There's no proof since there's no official incident writeup yet. For now there's just Occam's razor since majority/all of those accounts will be 2fa protected.
On TSLA? You can probably blend in with all the YOLOers on /r/WSB.
Are bluetooth, air conditioning, or airbags really considered 'premium luxuries'?
Jeff Bezos too.

https://imgur.com/a/Zd668ao
That would be the Nokia N900, which used Maemo, a Debian-based distro. It runs PostmarketOS, as well [0].

[0]: https://invidio.us/watch?v=eux9IcB2lfg.
C2H is terrible for the employee and you should know that, as a professional headhunter.

Negotiating your salary upfront is likely going to give you the best deal you can get. Don't kid yourself into thinking that you can "show your value" to improve your negotiating position. Your first few months on the job are usually when you are at your lowest performance, since you are learning the company's processes. That is your trial period.

You are in your best negotiating position when the company needs you more than you need them, and that is absolutely NOT after doing contract work for them for a while.

Once you're at the point of converting, if you get a lowball offer, the contract position is a black mark on your resume that hurts your negotiating position with other firms.

That said, I would be happy to do C2H if the following conditions were met:

* Signing bonus paid in full at point of signing the contract, with no clawback.

* Full health coverage during the contract portion (extra money plus the option to buy from their plans).

* Severance pay at full salary for at least 6 months if you choose not to convert.

* Non-exclusivity during the contract period (I can do other work if I want, and you don't own any IP I produce other than what I produce explicitly for you).

I think this is sufficient to equalize the negotiating disadvantage that I get for taking the contract. I don't think any of your clients would go for it.
I think they meant sex with the wrong person, not the killer.
Poll: Will this affect your trust in Twitter as a source of information? If no, why not?
At this point brand names seem to be very weak indicators of value, except a few exceptions in a specific niches with exclusive technology.

Most brands that get any traction seem to abuse that halo to also shove mediocre product to the middle/lower market. In the end we still need to do a ton of research to see which product is individually good, and looking at reviews is a way better indicator than brand marketing.

I hit this issue when trying to buy a vacuum cleaner. Perhaps it would be different if I was willing to pay a grand for the top of the line, but otherwise house name brands had at most mediocre reviews, often with documented cheaping out on important parts. We had to go through video reviews of each specific model of the price range targeted to get a decent idea of what we were buying.
Other companies. Yeah FAANG is probably trickier. Part of the reason I haven’t ever applied is that I cannot be bothered to study. In addition, their salaries aren’t that overwhelming in Europe so why bother...