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Ask HN: How do you conduct remote coding interviews?
Hi,

I need to conduct a few coding interviews next week. Given the pandemic, I can't invite the candidates to an onsite interview.

I would like to be able to monitor how they go on about their coding challenges and also be able to talk to them while they figure out the solutions.

I could set up a live video call via zoom/skype with a remote desktop client to see how they go about their coding.

Are there other ways of going about this. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks.
Yeah it's definitely legal, I don't think that's the issue. The issue is whether advocating for the legal use of force constitutes "inciting violence", which is against FB and Twitter's ToS.

The central debate is: should the ToS disallow incitements of violence, even if it's actually legal?
Interview with VP of Customer Success at CloudBees
I mean just think about it. You write some critical piece of Amazon S3, generates massive value for the company. Amazon knows they cant lose you, how are they not paying you a ton of money? Individual employees can get into situations where they have massive bargaining power over large corporations. Your average or even regular top performer is not getting this, but people definitely are.

The bonus structure works like this.

1.) You provide massive value, maybe move the needle on the bottom line

2.) Someone way high up who probably doesnt even know you wants to know whos responsible.

3.) He tells HR, give that guy an extra million and let me meet him
A clarification: I'm talking about tactics from 2010-2014. I left in 2015.
Gaia GPS is fantastic. You can mix and match layers, and specify what bounds you want to download for a trip.

Right now I've got 3 GB stored locally, some of that for the usual locations that I wander out of connectivity, and some for a trip next week.

Garmin (formerly Delorme) Earthmate despite their other issues is great for state or province wide vector maps. Not as great for fine navigation and tracking (as it's designed to be paired with and control an InReach), but good for point of interest exploration.
> People working for tabacco companies have always been in the same boat.

That's not a very fair comparison - there aren't exactly any huge positives associated with tobacco use. So it's not like someone could work for a tobacco company and say "sure some people die from consuming our product but on the other hand look at all the good we're doing..."

That's very different than Facebook where yes there may be some negatives but there's also positives (e.g. it's certainly raised countless millions for various charities, helped people keep in touch with others and discover (or rediscover) relationships, and spread the awareness of important social issues).
The initial email was pretty bad, I immediately deleted it and contacted them, but it included:

- Full name

- Date of Birth

- Some kind of National ID number

- Bank account details

- Address

If I was of a lesser moral character I'm sure I could have been very naughty with that information.
Except when a satellite explodes because of a weapon test, it endangers commercial space activities for all of us.
T-Mobile will soon require VoLTE; non-compatible devices kicked off in Jan 2021
I'm sure they'll be incentivized to do their best to push the sale price up ;)
this is great. it really helped demystify rust and get me started writing some. thank you.
High-skill usually implies that some sort of specialized training or schooling is required. Working an espresso bar is also a delicate skill, but no one calls baristas high-skilled workers.
Ask HN: What use cases are you using/considering GPT-3 for?
Infiltration
I started suspecting my partner not long ago but I had no concrete evidence, then I was recommended to this professional hacker by the name CodingSet,
then i was not pro enough to carry out the hack as i was still learnig hacking ethics.

codingset (insert @ G Mail by yourself at the end of codingset..for security reasons)

His WhatsApp contact being +1 802 693 0768

He helped me to expose all my partner’s secret by hacking into my partner’s phone & social media accounts at a very affordable and perfect price.

Other services he provides include all types of mobile hacks; Credit score upgrades, unrestricted and unnoticeable access to your partner/spouse/anybody's
Facebook account, email, WhatsApp messages.

He also makes changes in databases/websites such as your college/university grades as well as deleting CCTV surveillance video as well as providing surveillance
video footage's he is a professional hacker.

You can contact him for any other hacking related problems like hacking websites, bank statements, grades and many more!

He will satisfy you to the maximum level.
NY Charges First American Financial for Data Leak
Just a word of caution regarding the throwaways in this thread. Take them for what they are, anecdotal claims
From what I understand that was the original policy but when COVID hit they announced that they were removing those restrictions. Commenters went “you’re gonna get sued” and then archive.org was all surprised Pikachu face when their mailbox filled up with lawsuits.
The parent is referring to the blocking of an acquisition. There have been many examples of that type of action on the basis of competition concerns. The Justice Dept and FTC routinely try to block acquisitions where there are competition concerns. They don't always win, as in the case of AT&T / Time Warner (or in the case of AT&T / T-Mobile, they did successfully prevent that). Some other examples: Anthem & Cigna, Sabre & Farelogix, Edgewell & Harry's, Office Depot & Staples, Sysco & US Foods.
Programming from Ground Up, by Jonathan Bartlett.

https://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/Pr...

I was able to learn a lot about low level programming. The problems with this book: the examples are in Intel syntax (I find AT&T's syntax better to read and it's more common to use), and not in x86-64.

Also, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation (https://nostarch.com/hacking2.htm) have a nice introduction on Assembly, from the standpoint of a person doing reverse engineering, debugging with GDB or shellcoding.
Best React-like JSX UI libraries in 2020
If zoom is possible, depends by method of generation
Apple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAANG
It’s time to say goodbye to the EU-US Privacy Shield
No, that's editorializing based on the few differentiating factors I found.

Though I think the idea that the more expensive model is pushed by dealers makes sense too.
> That isn't really the point. The point is that the US armed forces already use space for military purposes so extensively that they even have a whole branch dedicated to space militarization.

Military use of space != "militarization [of space]." My understanding is that the US Space Force pretty much just controls space assets used by the military that are comparable to civilian ones (i.e. sensor, communication, and navigation satellites). I don't think they've stationed any actual weapons in space.
Hard to blame economic woes on internal threats; "the Americans are sanctioning/interfering our exports" is a lot easier to sell.

Cuba and North Korea have done this for decades; it works well.
"The company's 7nm-based CPU product timing is shifting approximately six months relative to prior expectations. The primary driver is the yield of Intel's 7nm process, which based on recent data, is now trending approximately twelve months behind the company's internal target."
Apple license the instruction set and make their own designs, so the interest in all that overhead business, let alone the political fallout (too much power in one company and fuels the Apple TAX headline mantra that will just roll and roll) - Apple don't want that hassel.

But many reasons Apple buying ARM is not a good fit for Apple.

Nvidia may well be good fit and a better fit than Apple by far, though would it be best if ARM is owned by some company or publicly listed?

If I was Softbank, I'd go for IPO route as I do feel out of all the IPOs, this is a mature tech firm. That makes this one that will be popular on many levels, let alone the number of Geeks who will want an ARM share certificate upon their wall.
I always find this kind of title weird.

Coming from a relatively "homogenous" (for lack of a better word) ethnicity, I think I can see a point to generalize something like "this is how X people teach their children math", but "control anger"? This seems to me a very personalized thing that varies wildly from family to family.
How about the people who were waiting for the work to be done? Users and customers.
If you want to learn more about Russia and China's militarization of space, The Shadow War by Jim Sciutto (Chief National Security Correspondent for CNN) is a good place to start. It could be a one-sided effort (I doubt he has access to RU and PLA national security insiders like he does in the US), but it definitely sounds like Russia and China have moved ahead of the US in this realm, in terms of actual satellite based shenanigans.

You'll also understand the at times seemingly random actions of those two countries a little more.

https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-War-Russias-Operations-America...
Slack vs. Microsoft Teams: Sorry, Slack, your complaint is a joke
Why is Microsoft not interested? Or they are and it has not been reported?

ARM should fit well with them, plus it would give them a way to enter the mobile space again, this time by owning the IP and not making hardware.
Maybe that will help with the model scouting -> human trafficking pipeline.
Someone envies that position..
There was just a criticism of YC earlier this week about YC spinning out SaaS products for startup founders, and then this comes along right on cue.

This reads like a solution looking for a problem.

I have a screen. I have a camera. In fact I have two screens, three cameras, and four microphones on my desk right now. The hardware isn't an issue. But what really struck about this announcement was this passage:

> We talked to many teams that tried to hack together a solution with Zoom on an iPad. From the teams we spoke to, we learned that it's really hard to consistently get the team in the room at the same time. Users are constantly leaving the room for other meetings but for everyone still in the room, it seems like nobody wants to use it because it's empty. This causes a negative feedback loop where even more people leave the room and the hacked together solution quickly becomes useless.

The problem is people are clicking "leave", if you don't leave the call, you're still there. Even Sidekick doesn't solve this problem, because you are sending a nag notification to people telling them to join a room and just hangout. The innovation is nag notification.

Even your vanity metric of "our users are in their Sidekick rooms for 6 hours a day" is kind of meaningless when the device is always on by design. That's like saying "on average, our refrigerator uses use their device 24 hours a day" -- well you don't have an off switch. The real metric is how often people are actually talking on it.

You seem to figure that this is niche product at best. I know you're trying to replicate the drop by, but it's hard to see how this is better than the "Hey, join my call when you have a chance," slack. Even if you think that it is better, this experience is worse than the physical interaction, because everyone is within very close ear shot of every conversation. That doesn't happen in the physical world. We're physically separated, and the sound is attenuated. It's not when everyone is inches away from a microphone and amplified into everyone's ears.
Regardless of the pros and cons of letting the intelligence agencies have some kind of moderating role on social media, they take a lot of pretty weird positions (not helped that they were previously accused of distributing disinformation for the KGB [1]). Their thesis seems to be:

* the report doesn't provide enough evidence that there are any bots (despite both Twitter and Facebook claiming to have removed thousands of bot accounts)

* the report doesn't do enough to assert that any bots, if they exist, are Russian in origin (despite the known existence of e.g. the Internet Research Agency)

* if there were bots, they weren't effective at manipulating elections/referenda

> Because despite near-constant braying from some corners of public life, the idea that Russia sustains prolonged, successful disinformation operations with the power to swing elections rests on a shaky evidence base.

Part of the problem is that we don't (and arguably can't) know if they affected elections/referenda but we do know there's been attempts by Russian-backed criminals to access data owned by political campaigns in the US and France [2]. Were they doing that just for fun?

We do know that in, for example, the US elections, some counties/states swung for Trump in 2016 by pretty narrow margins. Were those affected more by "but her emails", some sort of disinformation campaign, or the general unpopularity of Clinton? Maybe all of the above but it's a stretch to dismiss it all.

> This was the Robert Mueller inquiry, which didn’t turn up any evidence that Russia colluded with Trump to influence the outcome of the election.

Well no, they didn't find evidence of direct collusion, but it also concluded that they'd have indicted Trump for conspiracy to obstruct justice if he weren't PotUS [3].

> There’s also the important point that the upcoming generation is far savvier at discerning ‘fake news’ or ‘disinformation’ than older generations. All of this begs the question, how much of a threat is so-called disinformation really?

We know that older generations are more inclined to turn out and vote [4], so where is this going?
If upcoming generations are better able to distinguish 'fake news' then do we need to prevent the older people who aren't from voting?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Statesman#After_Kingsley_M...

2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39705062

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_Report#Episodes_of_all...

4: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/insights/general-electi...
I suspect there is a bit of a Catch-22 with any sale.

Purchase by any ARM customer (including Nvidia) potentially reduces the value as it will alienate other ARM customers who compete with the buyer (e.g. AMD holds ARM licenses so how would it feel about using Nvidia controlled technology). Yet who else will be able to generate synergies from the acquistion?

Of course Nvidia may feel that the synergies are big enough to offset the loss of business plus its share price gives it a fantastic acquisition currency.

Plus, the line when Softbank bought ARM was that ARM as a listed company was constrained by lack of cashflow, so a deep pocketed owner would be able to take up opportunities not available to ARM as as stand-alone company.
Perhaps I misunderstood. Here is the logic flow I followed:

(1) Apple has a virtualization framework that can "...boot and run a Linux-based operating system on an Apple silicon or Intel-based Mac computer."

(2) The virtualization framework for arm-based Macs will virtualize arm-Linux and x86-based macs would virtualize x86-linux. There maybe a semantic issue here if you believe that this api would also allow the "virtualization" of x86-linux on arm. That would not be considered virtualization to my best understanding of the definition.

(3) Looking at Apple's VZVirtualMachineConfiguration, VZVirtualMachine and "Virtualization Constants" there is nothing apparently exposing the underlying virtualization mechanism. So we don't know if Apple uses hardware (ring -1 in x86 parlance) or software virtualization (almost always para-virtualization) under the hood. Likely it uses both depending on the context.

(4) We know that Apple's current dev kit hardware (A12z) doesn't support hardware virtualization. Hardware virtualization is commonly referred to as the "Virtualization Host Extension" in arm64 parlance.

(5) We know that Apple demoed virtualization on arm with what appeared to be a arm64 ubuntu guest.

(6) Your original message said that you believed they weren't using an a12z for the demo, likely because its aforementioned lack of hardware virtualization.

(7) The comment below yours suggest that "One can certainly write software that virtualizes another machine". They were more than likely referring to para-virtualzation in their comment. I don't know any other blanket type of software virtualization.

(8) You responded saying you didn't know what software virtualization was, it is almost always para-virtualization. Para-virtualziation does not require a hardware hypervisor and predates all hardware virtualization technologies.

While there is full-hardware virtualization, it basically never a thing that happens anymore because of the rather large overhead. I don't know of any modern virtualization software that offers full software virtualization. Especially if your guest is Linux.
Using controlled digital lending, yes. Why not? The libraries hold licenses to lend this media in physical format but were temporarily shifting to lending using controlled digital lending.

They didn't just give away unencrypted copies to be pirated. They did what libraries do, lend media.
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Almost every established VC is a potential competitor as much as a potential backer, because they already have backed ventures in/near your market, you won't get approached by one without expertise in your market. Any of their other backed ventures might be mulling over a new strategic goal and doing indirect research on you via their sponsors. Before you say NDA, it's practically unenforceable, you can't stop a VC chatting about what they've seen in confidence to a trusted friend, the bar to prosecute breach is far too high.

You can't stop someone seeing what you offer, and it's hard to prevent competitors from seeing how successful you are, especially giving the lack of privacy in consumer space. In this article, we don't know if Amazon used any IP, we are told they just copied the offering, which anyone is free to try.

I bet the problem with DefinedCrowd is not so much they revealed too much, rather they revealed too little. How so? The VC dance is really about demonstrating to the uncertain backer-competitor that you are so good, it's not worth competing. That's a main point to inviting outside parties in. I imagine these guys were just so weak, they made competition more appealing that partnership.
> The US said the Russian satellite system was the same one it raised concerns about in 2018 and earlier this year
Microsoft beats Q4 estimates thanks to strong cloud sales
There's also another benefit around using of as a queue, you can just publish your messages from within the same transaction you are using on the request, and that's nice, all or nothing..

I will dig on your elixir queue, just build my own some days ago (mostly for fun) but also for solving some limitations in rabbit (mostly time based scheduling at short periods of time.. and control the throughput (to solve some rate limits).

Mine is here, https://github.com/vinissimus/jobs

The main feature is that it's built with pl/pgsql and allows to integrate so well with the rest of server backend (publishing jobs from triggers... ) Also listening on results with pg_notify
Would you be willing to have an email chat about that? I'm thinking about doing a similar strategy with our relational database and wanted to get your experiences with that.

sam at havenconnect dot com
Sometimes not even management has the whole picture knows. I know someone who was a former employee (top performer) at FB. He would have his end of year (or half year? Not sure what the cycles were) with his boss, receive his bonus and salary increase. Then his boss's boss would pull him aside and give him another bonus, that his own boss was completely unaware of.
Ask HN: You get a msg written by you in 2030. What does it say?
Apple – The whole working-from-home thing
Super green
And it seems to me that deliberately teaching and practicing these methods in early childhood -- like in school -- could have profound implications. Right now, my impression is that public schools tend to take the approach of letting social skills develop organically through peer interactions. This seems like a huge missed opportunity.
No, that's how it was.
Huh, I just realized that this was ambiguous, and people might be (validly) interpreting as "Get better theory [and there won't be a difference!]"

For the record, I meant "Get better theory, and your theory can also talk about the difference between practice and theory."
This is exactly why I stuck with DelayedJob after all of these years. The community seemed to flock to Resque or Sidekiq, but I always felt my needs were met just fine with Delayed Job. I never was interested in adding more unnecessary complexity to our dev and staging environments for a trade-off I didn't need (there wouldn't be a significant performance increase for my needs).

I've seen this pattern happen with a lot of Ruby projects: there's a popular Gem that people use that grows over time, then someone writes a blog post about why that package isn't suitable for their needs due to a design trade-off (often introducing a new Gem that is advertised as superior to the previous one) and then suddenly the old Gem stagnates, causing the maintainer to lose interest and updates stop pacing Rails versions. Sometimes the old Gem gets deprecated altogether and maintainers stick a big DO NOT USE sign at the top of the github README, all but guaranteeing there is no further community traction or organization for the project.

Meanwhile those of us using the old project chug along with a forked Gem that we cobble a bunch of patches into to meet our needs because there's no longer a centralized place to contribute to anymore. In some ways it's the double-edged sword of OSS. Maintainers aren't obligated to stay as maintainers of course, but it does get frustrating how quickly the community is willing to drop support of things that a lot people are using in production systems.

It definitely makes me reconsider the "don't reinvent the wheel" advice that is so adamantly thought of as a common sense convention in our craft.
I dont think its just about playing by the book of law. I'm sure they also consider optics and trust in the brand.
The photo at the top of the article is the author, not the CGI model.
I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I'm trying to make the connection to what happened and your comment:

>I do think "do what you love" and its cousin "shoot for the stars" get a lot of people in trouble.

Are you implying your sister was doing what she loved and it got her in trouble? Because the opposite comes to mind when I read stories like this, that perhaps people feel driven to follow the path they feel they are "supposed" to and are worse off for it.

I'm genuinely curious about your perspective but I hope it goes without saying that you don't need to respond if it's too painful.
I'm confused by this article. As I remember Archive.org created a "National Emergency Library" basically breaking the 1:1 ratio of physical to digital books in Controlled Digital Lending, and allowing unrestricted use.

The lawsuits were brought on June 1st, while the NEL was active. Are these lawsuits based on the CDL (which I personally support) or based on the NEL (which could be considered piracy)?
Also, it seems to me that whatever they do to make the TLS handshake and certificate look more like a typical web server, they would never be able to make it exactly match. Tor connections could still be identified by simple things like the self-signed certificate, the random hostname, the hostname<->IP mismatch, and so on.

Trying to fix this would be a never-ending losing battle, I can understand why the Tor project aren't that interested in changing things.