skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although confusion can figure into a trademark action, it isn't the only thing that can. The rule of thumb is that if someone is using your name you should at least attempt to enforce it, lest someone later try to use that lack of enforcement as evidence your mark is no longer "in use." You can read this as "jfarmer's rule of thumb" if you'd like
> "wahriable"

Indian (dot, not feather), right?
Here's the answer if you're curious: http://www.programmerinterview.com/index.php/puzzles/25-hors...
A picture would be worth a thousand words here. An interactive illustration would be worth a million. Instead, the article has two totally irrelevant images and a bunch of hard-to-follow prose.

Why, in 2013, are we still forcing people to construct images in their head based on words instead of showing them the full picture on their computer?
The article author comes across as bitter. He's clearly talented and productive, but likely is not strong at the kind of skills you need to solve puzzles in an interview setting.

A good interviewer will be able to spot that and evaluate his skills based on his real experiences and previous successes.

That said, I don't think these kind of puzzles are that bad at evaluating what it will be like to work with someone. If a problem comes up will they throw up their hands and say I never thought I'd have to solve a problem like this?
Yes, but from what I understand you could still get a couple of loopholes and exemptions in the pre-Hitler Youth era.
Not to get too pedantic, but by inviting him to provide concrete evidence, are you not asking him to dispute it and thus proving his point?
You certainly can, and I've done it myself.

However, author's statement that they made a decision to spend their money travel, rather than housing and goods, doesn't suggest that that is what they are doing.

Poor is not being able to scrape up enough money for a plane ticket and hostel accomodations, not 'choosing to take a break from this pesky job search business'.
Alternatives:

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/tumblr.com

http://downrightnow.com/tumblr
Consider the case where the three fastest horses are raced together initially. My lowest is 7.
Well, by that rationale, the worst your hiring process, the more you gain by stack ranking once. But, even if you hiring people by tossing coins, if you don't have huge teams the results won't be fair.

Yet, just defining a minimum performance and firing the people that don't reach it outperforms that first application of stack ranking. And you can apply that filter as many times you want, with no loss of quality.
I recently mulled this over on a project. If you have to support multiple font formats to support a variety of browsers, I think the http request latency is less of a factor than forcing all browsers to download all formats even if they won't/can't use them. I think most sites fall into that category.
State of Developing on a Chromebook
> the fewest uses of the track.
"Having lived in more traditional places"

Gonna cut you off right there, mostly because this is a topic that I didn't mean to dive into. My intention with that comparison was merely to compare it to another case of people being deliberately obtuse. Regardless of the merits of gay marriage (I don't think the merits are relevant to my comparison), the objection "But they CAN get married..." is deliberately obtuse (deliberately obtuse because the person saying it knows that the right to marry the opposite sex is not the issue, but are pretending to fail to understand that), and I think people on either side of the issue can generally recognize that.

My point here is that the people who claim that flying "is a privilege" and that nobody is entitled to it (having not been stripped of the right with due process) are being deliberately obtuse because they know, as well as the rest of us, that flying can be necessary in this modern society.

Deliberate obtuseness is my point here. I don't want to get into gender politics or the like.
> Why, why aren't you asking about my portfolio?

Awhile back I brought in two candidates for an interview. One candidate's resume had experience going back to the early 90s, programming games on the original Game Boy in assembly, and pretty much every platform after that. Lots of senior developer titles, lots of products to his name.

The other candidate had graduated a couple of years ago from a game programming school, and worked on a couple of miserable movie tie in games.

I was looking forward to the first candidate for weeks, I thought about not even calling in the second candidate, but opted to anyway "because why not".

So I get to the interviewing part of things. "Heya, we are doing embedded development here, so we have to do a lot of basic things like data structures on our own. Here is a binary search tree, can you give me the code to walk it in order?"

15 minutes later, not a line of code. OK, so, instead, walk a link list. Nope, the rest of the hour went by and he wrote a sum total of 1 IF statement, and it was wrong.

Candidate B? Holy shit. So the walking a BST took less than 5 minutes, he did Find First Cousin in a tree in another 5 or so, he then spent 15 minutes implementing a bit packed RLE system, and another 15 minutes doing some other random crazy crap I asked him to do.

He blew through all my interview questions in under an hour.

Unless I have some assurances that a candidate actually wrote the code on the projects on his or her resume, I am going to demand that the candidate write some bloody code on a board.
Highest-paying jobs for those with a college degree
It also matters a bit more in the sciences, where an undergraduate degree is just a ticket to get a Ph.D. unless you want a career as a lab tech.

Also, this is in the context of Princeton, one of the best of the Ivies, I'm told the most academically rigorous. I suppose ... ah, here's the key: the Ivies have to admit way too many "legacies", children of alums. Enough that it makes a massive difference in their student bodies compared to MIT, where being the child of an alum doesn't hurt, but is no help at all if MIT judges you can't do the required calculus and calculus based physics. So maybe it does make sense to grade on a curve ... still, MIT grades on mastery, and I know if I found myself in this situation:

The undergraduate student body president, Connor Diemand-Yauman, a senior from Chesterland, Ohio, said: “I had complaints from students who said that their professors handed back exams and told them, ‘I wanted to give 10 of you A’s, but because of the policy, I could only give five A’s.’ When students hear that, an alarm goes off.”

[ Followed by the dean of the undergraduate college admitting they've got a fixed quota system. ]
(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/education/31princeton.html)

I'd find another school to transfer to, or at the minimum work out an arrangement for a great grad school recommendation from the guilty faculty (would not be hard since I can/could do research).
If the license supports website usage, I can't see that it would matter which mechanism you used to deliver the font to the browser.
What about NewEgg? You also have to look and see if there's a brain drain going to Taiwan and China, because Taiwan decided, years ago, to focus on making PCs.
Asking him to prove his point is the correct thing to do. If he is correct, then I want to hear it. If he can't prove his point, I want it to be apparent that he is unwilling to attempt it.
> the laws that eliminated the homeschooling option literally date back to the Hitler regime

So does the Autobahn. Clearly, it should be torn down and replaced with gravel roads.
Yes! I still own all three sets of Connections (I, II, and III) as well as the game.

He is _so_ good at taking ideas from many sources and presenting them, showing how they might fit together or did fit together to create whole new ideas....
I think further to your point of "They only take notice of people when they're connected to...", the real issue is you have no way of knowing when you are connected to something you shouldn't be. Moreover, a group that was once seen as innocuous can all of the sudden be targeted for persecution when the new powers-that-be decide to move the goal posts.

The HN crowd could be considered worth monitoring.
IANAL.

Yeap. Put the burden for remedy back to the other side. Go through the motions and hope you'll waste enough of their time, energy and money such that they may reconsider the value of their present strategy.
Book by Nancy Kress: Beggars of Spain (series, actually). Great exploration of some of the social costs of this type of enhancement...
In this case, it's just due to sunk costs. You've already given this defense contractor a trillion dollars. Ten years later, the contractor has a flawed project with a lot of holes in it... but what can you do? If you cut them off, then you have this shitty product that you've already spent a trillion dollars on. Getting someone else to fix it (or develop something else entirely) would cost even more. So you grit your teeth and pay them the 200 billion that they need to redesign and fix it. And then, when they still have a fucked up product a year later, you're facing the exact same problem... except now you've spent 1.2 trillion dollars.

The interesting thing is that in the long-term, it's actually a good idea to tell the contractor to fuck off. The contractor then goes out of business, and the rest of them change their tune really fast. Meet your fucking deadlines, or we'll cut you off regardless of the cost. The end result would be much more realistic cost estimates, better timelines, and a much smaller chance of fuckery. Of course, tell that to the project director who is getting hounded by Congress and is looking for the most cost-effective (short-term) way out.

In the brokerage and bank case, it's due to the government saying, "Well, we can go off of principle and tell them to go through bankruptcy like everyone else. But if we do that, then the economy will tank and we'll be looking at trillions of dollars in damages. So we'll pay the couple hundred billion dollars that we need to keep that from happening."

Unfortunately, that leads to the exact same thing as the contractors - these banks say, "Well, then all we need to do to get free money from the government is to get into the position where it costs more money to do the right thing than pay us off for making bad decisions!"
A better title for this post would be,"I'm a Designer™. Where's my silver platter?"
I'm planning on asking the people who have those questions, once I hear who they are...

crickets
Not quite, assuming both observers had an accurate model of physics physics they would construct identical models of what happened. The difference is simply which coordinate system was used. So, they could for example predict what an observer on the other object saw.
Finally! Something original acking fowesome!!! =D
Would you say all data structures and complexity questions are bullshit? Mrainteaser / estimation questions? Is all coding bullshit, or only on whiteboards? Only coding algorithms from college? Is asking someone to code 'fizz buzz' bullshit? I'm interested to hear where you consider the boundaries to lie.

Or have I misread your post, and you mean something else?
> "Will I be sentenced to death or torture if this document is discovered?"

The fact that one now has to ask themselves this question is disturbing. Torture is now a part of the american thinking.
No: they could've done different.

As it is, it's sufficient in battery life but slightly larger and much more expensive. Close, but not worth upgrading for.
I'd be willing to help edit or write (probably better at editing...)
Passports are state property, they don't belong to you. Besides, they're the state's children, they're just letting the biological parents mind them. Should they be found deficient, better parents can be found.
The big problem with this approach (focusing on what a candidate's done before) is that there's a surprising number of people out there with great CVs who can't actually code. I've interviewed a number of people who looked amazing on paper, and passed a phone screen¹. 7-10 years of experience. Positions of responsibility. They knew how the internet works. They knew their OOP. They could talk about how to troubleshoot performance problems. They could explain MVC to a non-technical colleague.

But when it came to an in-person interview, they struggled with FizzBuzz. They couldn't write the add() method for a linked list. Please understand: I want a candidate to thrive in an interview. I don't say "Please write the add() method for a linked list on the whiteboard," then sit back in silence with a stony look. No: I ask them if they've heard of a linked list, then (regardless of the answer) give them a refresher. I talk about what it is, and draw diagrams of the data structure, and code an example of how it's used & a Node struct they can use, and write a class skeleton for it. If they jump in then, great. If not, I'll suggest they start with the empty list case, and keep trying to be a friendly guide through the exercise. Even then, some candidates can't do it. At all.

This isn't quite a bullshit brainteaser, but it's definitely not a real-world problem. Nobody who got hired would be implementing their own collections. But that's not what the question's about: it's about understanding how two simple pieces of data interrelate, and being able to manipulate them. If a candidate can't grasp that, then I'm not going to hire them no matter what their CV says.

I don't think this is the best way of hiring people. I like the short term contractor approach – candidates get a real-world project to complete that should take 2-3 evenings, and their solutions are code reviewed & discussed. But that's not always feasible for the business or the candidate. So I don't think we'll see the death of this kind of interviewing for a while.

(¹ As a result of these experiences, my standard phone screen now contains some basic programming.)
Woz plans to become an Australian citizen, but he has said he is NOT going to give up US citizenship.
The Butlerian Jihad...a new meme?
And I would be unhappy if I forgot to mention Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson...
> So does the Autobahn, clearly it should be torn down and replaced with gravel roads.

Except Hitler's plan for controlling the country didn't hinge on providing fast roads.
I can understand the State Department's point of view. All Germans are entitled to live and work throughout the EEA (EU plus Switzerland, Norway and Lichtenstein). Most of Western Europe is okay with homeschooling. I know it can be done in Austria.
I am not sure it is necessarily a bad thing.

The problem is we have an extraordinarily male-centric look at society and history. In this view, men do all the important things in history and women are more or less repressed bystanders. This is a natural consequence of the fact that men were writing the history books.

But there are reasons to question this. Chris Faraone recently wrote an impressive survey of gender in ancient Greece looking not at the Aristotelian view, but rather at a demotic view through thins like references to love magic. His book is "Ancient Greek Love Magic." What Faraone showed was that while the misogynous view was alive and well, it was coupled with a nearly opposite misandrous view as well. In other words, women were portrayed both as dangerously sexually insatiable and seductive during some parts of their lives but virtuous against the insatiable male in others. In my view Faraone stops short of the logical conclusions of his work, namely that the idea that women had no rights and that men were in control was largely a convenient fiction, and that the women had at least as much power as men did in ancient Athens. To my mind this represents the first crack in the modernist women's rights narrative.

I actually think that's we can show long-standing patterns regarding what is missing from a populace when women aren't there, and what is missing is basically what we would call society. In particular things like rule of law do not apply to areas where women are absent. But if this is true, then it seems like the norm is for women, far from oppressed onlookers, are likely to have been major actors and decision-makers throughout most of western history, but largely ignored because the decisions are made while beating flax, weaving using a warp-weighted loom, or carding wool instead of official institutions.

I think there are reasons to think there may be essential differences between the sexes regarding types of power relationships formed. Women even in Western cultures, I think, form power relationships of greater nuance, variety, and complexity than men do and this may be a key reason why society doesn't seem to really exist in times and places where women don't.
that may be true but now you're acknowledging that you are likely a bad hire because you're still figuring out what you want to do and are therefore a high flight risk.

Figure out what you want to do on your own dime, prove it, and then you'll be marketable.
Wait to see which 3 finish the race first.
You could be right. If you are, Tumblr will be the worse for it and you can feel vindicated. On the other hand, maybe that's a risk Tumblr is willing to take.

Who's to say the cost in attorney dollars and company focus of having dozens or hundreds of one-off conversations or more every month isn't greater than the cost of all this supposed resentment? Who's to say that the opportunity cost of addressing that resentment is too high to justify spending time on it? If you were Tumblr's CEO and believed either of these were true, would you still spend time fiddling with your trademark C&D process?

To be honest, I suspect Tumblr builds up more user "resentment" every time they change the placement of a button on their site than they have from all the C&Ds they've ever sent out.

I've received aggressive, company-and-livelihood threatening C&Ds from companies like Groupon, Facebook, and others of similar heft. Sometimes I complied, sometimes I didn't, and sometimes we reached an agreement. There's no reason to take it personally. Lord knows the other side isn't!
What if that liberty, that sense of discovering how to change it was not an intended side effect, and the more controlled ipad environment is?

agree that exposure to that "primitive" environment and the desire to create something great would force the user to make use of ingenuity.
agreed that incredibly constrained tools and no very high level language is included, yet still reducing high level problems to low level instructions can allow to discover and see something that could have been hidden by better tools.

or can it be just nostalgia?
I never thought anyone would be solving this kind of problem. I had the same problem last night while writing a paper for an online course. I think in outline first then elaborate over several iterations. I tried using a wiki (sphinx-doc.org) but it got in my way immediately. To find this new paradigm, today, in HN, made me immensely happy and hopeful about the future. I agree, this is the way we'll read and write in the future. And the future is now! Thanks guys.
Proof by insistence? In a different time Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, and that book set the forces in motion that gave the country inspection of meat products and also the FDA. I do realize that there are problems with that public authority, nevermind that it is intentionally underfunded, but no public oversight of the food and drug supply would be even worse. We know that for a fact, because we have seen it.
@znt, just have to say this is a brilliant idea!
For some reason that guy has a writing style that makes it extremely hard to figure out what he's trying to say. Specifically:

> really great partner consultant

Who is that? So far we had a dev and a chief architect, no partner consultant.

> who thought I had a really bad attitude problem

Where did that come from?

> desperately in need of a drink

Is that some kind of euphemism?
The Mexican Spanish "r" is close to the Japanese r/l. You don't say "bulito" or "burr-ito" like a burr of metal. You say "burrito", and know that people who can speak it add a tiny bit of a roll to the "r". The Japanese R is not rolled, but it's like just starting the roll.
So where do you draw the line for "worthwhile" laws? Almost any modern state has systems in place to protect children, its most vulnerable citizens. Even from their parents, if need be. Which, in Germany, includes providing sufficient education and socialization to each child.

I understand that a lot of people (especially those with some religious beliefs that contradict curricula) disagree with that and consider this a slippery slope, but then again, almost every intrusion into the rights of a parent could be judged that way. So just let 'em do whatever they will, parental instinct will prevail?
"According to his study, in one day (May 9), playing one stock (Apple (AAPL)), Hendershott walked away with almost $377,000 in theoretical profits by picking off quotes on various exchanges that were fractions of a second out of date."

This is a massive red flag. There's so many things that could be done incorrectly that the result is meaningless if the profits were only theoretical instead of observed.
"its," not "it's"
All highly selective universities have student populations that come out of the cream of the crop. All the admitted applicants are bumping up against the highest percentiles in SATs. All have straight As. Why would you expect a bell curve from a sample like that?
Actually it did as the roads where of significant military value. (Not that it is relevant to this discussion or most of today's users, just an interesting side note.)
I think you are wrong. I think randomly drawing any significant number of people from a pool that isn't normally distributed is still likely to result in a normal distribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
ad hominem : rolleyes :

known liars make all their analyses useless: you can't tell what crucial facts they elided or what quotes they selectively quoted; it's worse than uninformative, because you have to question every fact presented and go dig, as I said, for a first-party source to verify.
I am not sure if it is a dark pattern, but I hate it. Hidden tax/shipping costs. I have to go through the entire check out process, which is usually multiple screens, and requires a credit card to continue to find out how much shipping will be at the final confirmation screen. Is this done on purpose so they think people are already invested in the checkout, so they won't abandon it due to high shipping? Or notice shipping? I don't understand why not just give me an estimate based on fuzzy location before I start the checkout process, so I don't waste my time if the total cost is too high.
... And Windows is sitting in a corner, fans kicked on high, trying valiantly to manage with swapping to disk until a sysadmin gives up trying to connect via RDC and yields to the age-old "have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
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His comment has no merit whatsoever. EFF are good guys by any measure of good. Their vision and their purpose are absolutely noble.
Oh comma yes obviously.
Notice the bit about the children's passports being seized?

I don't think that nice theory is going to play out well in the real world.

As for the asylum case, Romeike v. Holder, the government appeal succeeded and its now in the hands of the circuit's Federal appeals court.
Rim Fire: Did illegal marijuana growers start the blaze?
Just another example of socialist statism run amok. You would think with German's recent past, the authorities would be wary of snatching kids from their parents and putting them who knows where.