skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm referring to the '80s because that was when I was residing in Massachusetts, and that was what I could look forward to if I used lethal force in self-defense. Also an automatic 1st degree murder trial, "Let the jury sort it out" was the AG's idea of prosecutorial discretion.

As for the Wisconson case you're referring to, the facts not surprisingly paint a very different picture. Per this news item: http://fox6now.com/2012/05/05/photos-of-bo-morrison-crime-sc... and others, the porch was only technically one, it was fully enclosed and furnished like an interior room, had an appliance (fridge/freezer?) and other indoor style stuff, and critically, from looking at the outside, it appears to be fully a part of the house. I say critically because the outdoor pictures make it very clear this can be legitimately scored as a home invasion, whatever friends and family of the deceased propagandize.

And per this from the shooter's wife, "[she] told investigators she heard her husband say, “What are you doing in my house” twice, then “Stay where you are” twice, and later a single shot was fired."

So only "weak", no duty to retreat (in 46 states) Castle Doctrine comes into play. He was not shot out of the blue or from behind, there was a confrontation, so as long as the couple have proper account of the story and the authorities don't catch them lying the failure to prosecute looks like its solid. Just like the Zimmerman/Martin was before it become a political show trial.

ADDED: Not surprisingly for a state that was until that year solid Blue, Wisconsin as of 2010 didn't have a strong Castle Doctrine, the case law explicitly says "The doctrine is for defensive and not offensive purposes."

When you hear "unbelievable" stories like this, you should be suspicious, they're generally unbelievable because they're flatly not true, except in the sense of Revolutionary Truth, which as techies we shouldn't approve of (our computers do not care about politics, just that 1 + 1 = 010).
I can see it now: second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.
I guess it depends on the industry/clientèle, but meetings are fundamentally very similar. You are worried about what "they" will ask and if you will be able to answer the questions.

With a client, it's about the software you're developing, with a interviewer, it's about software architecture or coding principles.

In your example about HTML -> CSS I think you missed the point. It wasn't so much to check that you have something memorized, but to check your familiarity with the subject. Everyone sits with a browser while they code - I don't think that's a unique workflow. The thing is, if you've done this HTML -> CSS conversion a hundred times before, you wouldn't need to look it up. They're trying to gauge your experience level and if you've done this stuff hundreds of times before. I bet even a highschool student could find that with Google.

EDIT: I think a more relatable example would be if the interview gave you a simple geometrical problem and you were upset you can't look up the Pythagorean theorem. You're not being tested on your ability to memorize the Pythagorean theorem per se - it's just that everyone is expected to know the Pythagorean theorem b/c it's so fundamental to the sciences. Super simple problem with no google are testing if you have domain familiarity and experience and are a metric of whether you will hit the ground running or not. They're not gauging you problem solving ability, or your ability to memorize crap.
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You aren't looking at the entire picture. Some have trouble in interviews because of learning disabilities and social anxiety but do well in the workplace once they are comfortable with the people.

Add to that the fact that most tech interviews are held in non-real world situations and it's easy to see why some people have problems. Putting a person in a room with a piece of paper with a chunk of code that has a 'hidden' flaw with no access to any other resources isn't real-world.

All of us have access to books, manuals, the code, google, any number of places we can use to help.

And usually these interviews focus on nuances of a language or a programming trick that you only know if you've seen it before or encounter it regularly.

The codebase I'm working on now targets the iPad. If I were to interview with a company and the tech reviewer asked me about an IE specific hack chances are it would take me a while to come up with it. Assuming I've encountered it before.
In what way is a paid membership going to stop you from selling our data?
I've been playing with a lot of blogging platforms lately and they're all bad in some way. Having more options is good.
The speed of light isn't directly why commercially available CPUs stopped getting faster (in terms of clock speed). That's more related to the fact that the increased transistor density and thinner gates (with more leakage) have pushed power dissipation to its limits. If we clock any faster, the CPU will burn up. That's why you can overclock if you use liquid cooling, for example.

That said, I'm sure there are fundamental limits to transistor clock speeds imposed by the speed of light. It's just not why CPUs stopped scaling around 2-4 GHz.
While scary, I think such a system is a long ways off. It's one thing to siphon raw bits flowing through an IXP for later analysis, and another entirely to censor specific pieces of content based on keywords(assuming of course you can't or don't want to simply censor entire domains). It would require a pretty cozy relationship between government and telecoms(already in place in some countries, of course) in the form of some staff to keep afoot of new content that may need to be censored. Automating that part implies that the government would have a list of sensitive, potentially damning subjects that are not publicly known in order to preemptively censor them.

Replacing that content with propaganda would be even more complex(and potentially vulnerable to discovery).
They want to focus on what, though?

I think that's the main problem that people are having - is they don't get what makes Google decide on what makes the cut and what doesn't. The decisions Google has made don't make sense to them, so they have nothing but fear.

> They aren't going to get 10,000,00 people a day trading skills and cash

If there's a $0 option, I'm not so sure you're right.
>I realize that it can be hard to understand without having experienced interview anxiety yourself, but it is an entirely different environment.

my point isn't about denying interview anxiety existence (i suffer from it myself), and it has solid science foundation - speed of dopamine removal once your system is flushed with it. Some people have it faster, some slower. The former ones are great performers in acute short-term stress, while the latter ones are better at long/deep concentration on a task.

My point is about interview situation being preview to a lot [not all, yet a lot and many of them will be key ones] of future situations.
With regards to "branding", I agree with this comment elsewhere[1]:

> I think the 'brand' problem people have with Medium is less "my post looks like the same as all of these other posts!" and more "when people want to read more of my posts, they're more inclined to go to medium.com instead of my personal site!".

Medium is a very compelling product, but it isn't for everyone. I'm not sure what your argument is, other than "Medium is misunderstood, so people should not create similar offerings."

I think the OP understands Medium, and opted to create something that would suit his needs as well as possibly others'.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6251620
Those European university tests copied by Google, then copied by SV startups, mostly deliver two things, making the interviewer feel superior and filtering for submissive coders.

All managers dream of robots that can read minds and work for titles but lazy managers prefer to hire those who do what they are told, even if its pointless, even when done poorly or without imagination.

A good manager is worth his weight in gold. "I will not do your tech interview" while offering a short contract is an excellent way to screen out the lazy managers.
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Netflix should buy the NFL Sunday Ticket rights, not Google
Actually, the OP is about an attempt to build a tsunami-proof boat. The about/"what is it?" page gives more insight.

Hope things work well for him.
I really wish there was some magic way for Google to figure out what is good quality content and float it to the top. I'm sure they are working on it c'mon Google you can do it! Before all the people on Youtube complaining about being asked to link a G+ profile finally adopt.
Exactly. They pester you quite often to try to link YouTube with Google+. I'm surprised I haven't accidentally clicked the wrong choice yet. The copy for the two options is confusing!
So - giving your own ignorance the benefit of the doubt - I'm assuming you intend to imply that baby killing is trendy in fashionable in the Arab world? But (white) people calling for the extermination of entire swathes of the world population don't exist in the United States?

That's a pretty fucking big benefit I've extended your own ignorance. I recommend you pull your head out of your ass and examine reality for once, my friend. You've clearly never been to a red state if you think blacks, Latinos, and Moooslims have a monopoly on violent thought.

I have no idea why you bring the recreational pharmaceutical economy into the picture. Consider learning to argue a single point. Are you trying to imply that only one vice can be attributed to a single ethnic group at a time?

And wait. Are you honestly trying to tell me that trendy baby killing is a root cause of Muslim violence? To bring things back to your pharmaceutical argument - what the hell are you smoking, son?
I'm sorry to hear about how stressed you get during interviews, but unfortunately the stress you demonstrate during technical interviews is a useful heuristic when determining whether or not a candidate would be a good fit for a company. Is a good signal all of the time? No. Is it a good signal most of the time? Probably.
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So, the government did contribute to his death, in at least an indirect, inadvertent way

> Hastings was intensely interested in government surveillance of journalists. In May, the story broke about the Department of Justice obtaining the phone records of Associated Press reporters. A couple weeks later, Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's massive surveillance program became public. Hastings was convinced he was a target.
Actually, this is a problem that runs through all of academia, and is hardly confined to crypto. Program committee members (at least in computer science) seldom have the time to thoroughly review submissions, and computer science papers submitted elsewhere (say, PNAS or Science) are rarely given a thorough review by computer scientists.

As a particularly fun example, see this fun example of a computer vision paper that was published in Science in 2008, titled "100% Accuracy in Automatic Face Recognition", published by two psychologists:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/319/5862/435.abstract

The title should say enough to anyone who has the faintest idea about computer vision. Then read this very politely-worded response:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5891/912.3.full
I don't think I'm using WebForms. If so,
then so far I'm not doing anything clunky.
E.g., I'm not using anything like a
calendar control.

> presenting me with hundreds of different knobs about which I don't want to learn

I certainly haven't been using lots of
such knobs. Nearly everything I do
in VB.NET and ASP.NET
is obviously quite close to
really simple HTML and CSS.

As far as I can tell, C# and VB.NET are
equivalent ways, different essentially only
in syntactic sugar, to get to the
basic .NET classes and common language
runtime (CLR). C# seems to want to
borrow from the especially succinct syntax of C/C++ which
I don't like. I prefer the more
verbose syntax from the history
of Fortran, Basic, PL/I, etc.
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My experience has been that with a client, the universe of potential questions is much smaller than the universe of potential questions in an interview. An interviewer can go almost anywhere. . .that's not usually the case with the client. As you said, the client is asking about the software you are developing, not - typically - details about how you would handle their business need in a different language or on a different platform. Or about textbook information you may have covered in a class a few years back and haven't used once since.
There is a popular myth amongst the sheeple that those in power share a citizen's best interests.

I find it hard to believe than anyone except for a small minority actually believes that to be the case. If it were, vast partisanship wouldn't exist, since whoever was in power would be considered to "share their best interests".
Well in the case of Heroku, the free tier is really not designed for any sort of production use and the next level up is considerably more than $29/year.
The primary way in which interviews are different from after-the-hire social interactions is that interviews are high-stakes events, and the candidates know it. For some people, that knowledge is enough to put them into a self-reinforcing mental death spiral. Their fight-or-flight response takes over and they literally stop thinking as their bodies switch into survival mode.

That's why, when you're interviewing candidates, your first job is to get them to relax. Start out with small talk and softball questions until you sense them unwind. Then move slowly into the real questions.

When you get to the coding problems, again, start with dead-simple questions so that the candidates have the time to gain some confidence before the harder problems arrive.

The first programming problem I give – and this is after some small talk – is usually something like, "Print the odd integers between 1 and 100, in increasing order." This problem is so simple that it doesn't tell me anything about the candidate's ability, but that's okay. It helps to calm the candidates so that when I get to the problems I care about, I'll get better measurements.

That's the goal: To measure how the candidates actually perform, not to see whether they'll choke under interview stress.
I use Colemak and vim. I used to rebind the keys but it's not worth it since you have to redo it for every emulator (and some of them don't support remapping).

Since vim is mnemonic rather than ergonomic everything works great in standard Colemak - except hjkl.
The length of his sentence is similar to that of Jeffrey Carney, who was sentenced to 38 years for

>espionage, conspiracy, and desertion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Carney

>While working at the Marienfelde Field Site in Berlin, Carney began copying classified documents which he then provided to the East German Ministry for State Security (MfS) by repeatedly crossing back and forth into East Germany. In 1984 he was involuntarily transferred to Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas to work as a technical instructor. Unfortunately, Carney believed, Goodfellow AFB was a training base with no real-world intelligence of any interest to the MfS. He soon discovered that he had been very wrong. He continued providing the MfS with documents, meeting his handlers in Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro In 1985.

Carney spent 11 years in prison.
The number of people who would call that city Three Rivers is probably as big as the number of people who still refer to St James street in Montreal, that is, very small and dwindling.

It's probably much more likely that google translate did a literal translation of the city's name.
I am under the impression that most boats are tsunami-prof as long as they are out at sea since, at sea, tsunamis basically just manifest themselves as very large swells.

This looks pretty neat though regardless. Wooden boat building is very cool.
Huh? BS. I come here to HN to grok the truth, to see other side, not to nod head in agreement. I learn so much from rayiner's view point. I don't agree with him on all points, but I'm definitely a better informed person because of his reasoning.
Julian, that's very, very impressive.
How long did it take to get this together?
This is really cool. Wondering why not WebGL?
>The US government spying on citizens is not new at all. It has happened for as long as our nation has been one.

The mission and organisational capability of the government as changed dramatically. Nations in the late 18th Century (1776+) didn't have intelligence agencies per se. Some had military intelligence that was focused outward and they had various figures and organisations that would informally engage in domestic espionage usually in an extremely targeted fashion. Remember that formal police departments didn't exist until the 20th Century. Most of what we think of as the Government didn't exist in your Great-Grandfathers time. None the following existed in the US in my Great-Grandfathers time:

1. Intelligence agencies CIA/NSA/CSS/NRO,

2. Dept. of Defense,

3. Welfare,

4. Police Local, State, FBI, DHS,

5. FDA (Drugs were unregulated),

6. Income Tax/IRS,

7. EPA and consumer protection agencies,

8. Public Education in its present form,

9. Federal Reserve Bank

The US Federal Government was the Postal Service to most citizens. It is really important to understand that we are living at the height of Federal power in the history of the US.

The closest thing that Europe pre-18th Century had to the NSA was the Inquisition and it was more focused on "investigation".
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>Without measuring it A/B I cannot guarantee anything.

You don't need to guarantee anything; I know my navigation and coding are way faster my way than if I were to ignore my shortcuts.

>And I don't think they were keyboard un-savvy

As a sister comment to your mentions, MOST users, even developers, are still extremely limited in the number of keyboard shortcuts they use. I'm an outlier.

If I want to save, my fingers hit Ctrl-S before I could even FIND where the mouse pointer is on the screen. Same with Ctrl-A for Select All. Or Shift-Ctrl-Left for select the previous word. No A-B testing required; it's seconds using the mouse for any of those, and 300-700ms for the keyboard.

And those aren't even my most powerful shortcuts; they're just the ones ANYONE can use on Windows. If you get into "complete this word from [above/below] in this file", "jump to definition of this function" or "show references for this function", or "jump to previous bookmark", or "set bookmark" even, all of these are sub-500ms key sequences that would all take longer than a second if I had to use a mouse. It's not even close.

Part of the problem with the study is that it was comparing using shortcuts vs. mouse on the Mac, where shortcuts are far less useful than they are on Windows. Navigating through menus by keyboard is easier for me with the keyboard on Windows as well; that's not even an option on Mac.
What? Not everyone works on front-facing, UI applications. What if I contributed a good amount of code to a large tech company's networking infrastructure. What do you want me to show you? A picture of the servers? A picture of Amazon's homepage or google.com, if those are the companies I'm working for?

Not being able to show "code" or "screenshots" is not the fault of the prospective employee (as you "oh so subtly" implied with your last sentence).
> There even exist situations (in the case of some positions) where you will be talking to a client of the company you're working for, effectively interviewing with the client, representing the company.

What positions would require you to prove the technical capability of your company at this level?

I've been working for a consultancy for a few years now. I can't recall a time when a client asked me to describe a closure or what I thought of !important. If I'm on a development team, the conversation with clients is generally about the time and effort required to implement something, or the options we have for delivering the functionality. If I'm pulled into a sales meeting, it's usually high-level architectural discussions.
From the "What is it?" page:

"After the Japanese tsunami in March of 2010 I started to wonder how a family might survive such a brutal and sudden event. The project started as a series of creative conversations and sketches with friends about possible ways to escape a tsunami with your family in tact."

I'm taking this to be for a family that isn't already at sea but can, on short notice, crawl into the emergency floating-ball escape pod for safety.
Positive results occur only when those companies are well-regulated, else exploitation is the most probable outcome. If companies companies can exploit and make more money, they will usually go ahead with that.
I think it's more of a comparative statement. Interfacing with C in Rust is very simple, as he details in the article.
I'm glad to know that somehow being at a good college makes learning about linked lists somehow more relevant to employers.
I wonder if the recent nova event visible with the naked eye can be used to do an experimental measurement... or perhaps it has to be a supernova as the article suggests.
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I think this is where you failed, though. If they asked you back, then even though you didn't feel good about the interview process, you must have passed.

Sure. But do I want to work somewhere that has such a broken policy? Why haven't they fixed it? What other areas of the company have a similar lack of attention?

Interviews go both ways. The candidate and the company only get a small glimpse at each other and have to extrapolate from there. What I extrapolated was not positive.
| Btw, is anybody else recently becoming optimistic that we could actually see some real reform?

Not really, no. The factions which benefit from this have not been hurt much, if at all, by their exposure. Nor has there been any call for a change in policy from those in a position to do so. There has been increased protestations from the political edges, but the core remains solidly in
favor of privacy invasions and absolute government power

No Congressional hearings, few editorial calls for change, and a President who continually lies about it and has expressed no outrage whatsoever.

The oligarchy remains as powerful as ever. If anything, more so, because now that the people are aware if it they will begin to adjust to this new reality.
"I was asked to code a singleton" This interview is over!
I think calling it a trick is unfair. It's not just P(C3), it's really P(C3 | !C1 && !C2), where C1 and C2 are really big events, so the fact they haven't occurred narrows the search space quite a bit.

Remember, he's not just talking about any conciousness simulations but a specific type - ancestor simulations, which allows him to pull more rabbits out of his hat than might normally be able to hide in there.
Ok, so at least photograph his inventions and share them with us :)
The real problem here is that one of the players has the ability to alter the rules of the game as the game proceeds, to ensure a win.

The only winning move is not to play.
The column store research that started it all. Definitely read the paper if you haven't already:

"The Researcher’s Guide to the Data Deluge:
Querying a Scientiﬁc Database in Just a Few Seconds"
(http://oai.cwi.nl/oai/asset/18546/18546B.pdf)
Not illegal at all. We have plenty of towns with English names.
A fair critique. I should write more on the subject.