skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not the 70's any more, people rarely solve problems on whiteboards and paper. They solve them on the computer, sometimes through knowledge and their skill-set and other times through luck and Googling.

This isn't universally true. Anecdotally, I often find I'm much better able to think through tough problems if I step away from the keyboard and spend some time sketching out ideas on paper or on a whiteboard. I also keep the on-paper results in a notebook, which is occasionally useful to refer back to later in a project.

Sometimes just introducing some distance between you and the problem is enough to give you a key insight. That said, the interview environment is still nothing like this. There, you're under great pressure on the whiteboard, something which is probably not true in your day-to-day.
When is the last time you heard of a system administrator writing down problems on a whiteboard as opposed to asking a colleague or Googling the answer?

"You're a site reliability engineer at Google. Google is offline and you have to fix it, what do you do?"

"I'd Google the answer"

"Try again"

"I'd ... Bing and decide?"

both laugh
You're mis-reading. That's not what I'm suggesting.
You might want to take a look at: http://www.codetriage.com/ which is build precisely to help you find out OSS projects to contribute to.
A %*% B != A @ B
InstaCart bills itself as uber for groceries, but I think something like TaskRabbit + Uber, where it's "crowdsourced" instead of using hired reps is a great idea too.
Interesting theory. Considering the ignorance displayed, I think you're correct. Microsoft quality anti-Unix FUD.
If you're really determined, you can use `.` as an operator via __getattr__ and inspect :p
I'm not sure how it looks like, but I think people who invested in big data, would cry.
Without taking any position on this specific case, there have been times where I wished I blew the lid on a horrible situation instead of just walking away.

I know a man who just got accused of sexual harassment and said (in effect) "fuck this" and walked away from the job. (Everyone I talked to, even extremely progressive women, thought that the accusation against him was bullshit.) It wasn't worth it to him to prove himself right because doing so would have opened up the accusation to the public and a bunch of people would have thought him guilty, even without evidence.

It was the right decision for him and his family. But if this person doesn't need to support a family, maybe it's the right thing for her to do.
No - I was absolutely serious. If you travel slower than Speed Limit + 9 in the left-most lane when traffic is clear, you will annoy people, cause people to swerve around you, and generally increase the odds of an accident.

Drivers who are driving slower than this speed need to move over rightwards. Speed Limit + 9 is a minimum speed for the leftmost lane.
Titanfall, the game that will ruin all other shooters ...
Detection of the game-over state seems buggy: I had moves left on a full board then got the 'GG' modal.
There are some areas where Amazon definitely outshines Netflix, particularly children's programming, which honestly is 80% of the streaming video my family does - Amazon has all the Nickelodeon shows, which Netflix doesn't, which is a key edge for them. We recently went back to cable after cord-cutting 5 years ago, and prime video allowed me to drop Netflix and Hulu without much disruption to our viewing.
The Pursuit of Hapi-ness – An Introduction to Hapi 3.0
The search query was "tptacek negotiation" the new search could not find the comments from tptacek about negotiations.
It's irrelevant in practice, mostly because log(n) is very small for essentially all values of n, so one could consider it "close enough to constant". Close enough in the sense that a reasonably small constant (like "64") bounds any value of it you could possibly encounter in a sorting algorithm. But that's true of many things in big-O analysis.

If your temporary space was used by some indices represented as unary-encoded integers (which take O(n) space), it'd suddenly be harder to ignore the indices, because O(n) is not "very small" for many commonly encountered sizes of n. So I don't think taking the temporary space used by indexing into account is conceptually wrong, it just happens not to matter here because log(n) factors often don't matter.
IIRC, SW and SE interviews in SRE are about 80% the same, the primary difference is that one of the 5 on-site interviews is on a different topic and the phone screens may emphasize slightly different topics. But the tracks for the two positions are very similar.
Something like that. I think it had more comments than votes all the way up, it was when it hit 40 comments it got dropped.

Crappy algo, I would think that lots of comments indicates that people find it interesting... Next time I won't reply to peoples comments :/
Heh, I deduced a way it might be possible, assuming sufficient coordination.

I don't know specifics of radar, just the general principles. The major possibility here is that your suggested transfer of which transponder is saying "I'm MH123 at the same altitude" happened at a range where no radar would be giving a good enough return from the putative small jet assuming the role. Which upon review wasn't the scenario you were positing.

And if it was giving enough of a return to be seen, especially in retrospect as experts reviewed it, well, we'd have heard about it by now.

But if AB123 was big, we'd really have heard about it and it's near collision with MH370, or someone would be wondering why AB123 moved really quickly a noticeable distance at the same time MH370 went off the air. Or perhaps AB123's altitude was different, they were far enough the radars' couldn't tell that, and it's transponder was customized to lie about the altitude.... But people would still wonder, and would be questioning AB123's flight crew if they saw anything, etc. etc.

(I'm tired enough the above isn't entirely coherent, but it'll give you some things to chew on.)
I don't - I created this because I needed a reliable error scan for websites that depend on good google rankings and those sites usually don't require authentication.
Did you really just use number of followers to gauge something?
Do you have the uncrushed source somewhere?
These alternative house construction strategies always get my attention. But the real tough part is finding affordable and desirable land upon which to build one.
It's kind of absurdist humour. HN has been full of responses to the rather clever 2048 game lately -- 2048 in HTML5, 2048 in the smallest number of bytes, the 2048 AI solver, 2048 in Brainfuck, 2048 in Latin, etc etc etc. This is amusing to me because the subject line looked almost like one of those obnoxious Bitcoin transaction posts, thus bringing together HN's latest fad with its eternal obsession, in my mind at least.

Now, complete this sentence: 2048 on HN will jump the shark when someone posts...
german academics get a lot of money from industry too. but the numbers are absolutely not comparable to the numbers in the us.

this is not always the case as you can see from the nepomuk thing[1]

but to further strengthen your point, in europe program code or implementation is not considered research. european scientific funding is reserved for research, so a lot of the research you see will never be turned into viable products. that notion also exists in german universities. universities of applied sciences see this differently, but people sometimes joke that these are not real universities.

a lot of what was turned into money is actually european inventions. most americans, don't even know that europe has a lead in neuroscience research(that includes countries like spain). or at least used to, most americans also don't know how great the cs dpt of the tu wien(vienna) is for example.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPOMUK_(framework) rdf based semantic metadata thingie with a cost of 17 million that is now being ditched partly because it's rdf
The website look truly dated, and they not answer the emails.
Tesla's Eco-Friendly Cars Intensify Pollution Situation in China
I think you were filtering on "Story" only, right? By checking "All" or "Comment", you'll find the comments.

http://hn.algolia.com/#!/all/forever/prefix/0/tptacek%20nego...
I want to make an AI to play this. This might be a dumb question, but how would I get the input and output to and from the game?
Until she posts about what happened I don't understand the point of her Tweets.

If you are accusing a company of something, do so with facts.

This is not something you beat around the bush with.
So, yes, Google hasn't changed a bit. Curious about where the interview took place (I don't think there's a hotel across the street from Google in Dublin)

I'll just point them to this article whenever this kind of questioning happens again: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373310 - questioning is the first comment)
> Around a week later the recruiter called and once again reported "very good" feedback, so I could go on and have an on-site interview in London.

> The hotel was right across the street of the Google building, which I really liked a lot, since it meant I didn't have to find my way through London in the morning before the interview.

Seems like it was in London.
Gender seems quite irrelevant when it comes to what colechristensen is saying. It'd apply equally well to a male who feels wronged in some way at his place of employment.
Unless Amie Street has a patent on demand-based pricing (which would now be in Amazon's hands), shutting down just means the market is open to a fresh, nimble competitor.

Now, said competitor may just end up being bought by Amazon again, true. But until then, they will be a viable "other" choice.

The same goes for every other service bought and modified by Amazon. You're complaining about them, so there's at least a demand of 1 for a replacement service :)
Vigilantism is not anarchy either.
Those lunches are a test. They're for 'culture fit' questions.
So, it places another block even if you don't move blocks, which vastly simplifies the game.
Lossy compression, yes. Lossless compression, not so much. And, the parent post seems to have been hinting at this. I.e. being able to usefully "tl;dr" all of Wikipedia would require a rather intelligent system. But, recapitulating all of Wikipedia's content word-for-word and pixel-for-pixel (including page layout for the truly pedantic) would not meaningfully test the sort of abstract pattern recognition that you seem to be confusing with lossless compression.

In other words, though often conflated, information and meaning are not equivalent. "Meaning", as people typically use the word, seems to include some concept of the utility of a bit of information. Most information in typical text/images/sounds/etc. is really quite useless. Being able to discard the useless while keeping the useful actually seems like one of the key traits exhibited by intelligent systems, and this ability is not measured (and perhaps even selected against) by lossless compression performance.
... http://rwg.github.io/0/
After hammering on my keyboard (somewhat) coherently for a long time, I would conjecture that the board is too large. So I tried to us down and either left or right alternately and switching left and right when a position would not move anymore. At least until 8192 and ~200k points, random fluctuations seem to clear always enough stones that the board was never more than half full.
There is no such thing as a "Sysadmin SRE" , it is just SRE. Went through it and was the same, granted i didn't make it to the on-site interviews as i screwed up on the last call after a really bad day at work.
I wrote a <1k version of Threes, a similar game, for js1k:

http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demo/1667
Lots of research projects in the past were underwritten by rich people for the lulz, or by newspapers in exchange for exclusive stories to sell.

I've often wondered why big corporations, as marketing, don't finance something like launching another Hubble space telescope. The corporate logo would go on the side, the corporation could host a conference to collect and analyze the results, it would be fantastic PR (instead of those silly commercials and celebrity endorsements they spend so much money on).
Former Google SRE here. Trust me, many of the problems we faced were solved on whiteboards, during chats at lunch, or via email. Most of issues we faced were of a class that simply isn't covered on basic sites like Stack Overflow.

The interview described is pretty much exactly as I remember them. SRE is actually quite difficult to get into, precisely because you need to have fairly deep knowledge on a wide range of topics. The "ways in which you were asked to solve problems" are actually the best way to determine if an application actually knows about what they will need to know.
I just got to that manualy... its not that hard.
> NYPD counsel rules freedom of information manual is confidential

This sentence seems straight out of 1984.
I noticed this too... it means you don't have to risk getting pieces on the wrong side of your pile just to keep moving things along.
"According to Julie"

GitHub went through tons of PR issues, if she had a valid complaint do you think HR would ignore it? Let's use common sense here for a minute.

If she had issue with the company and went public with this, she can say what it was. There is no need to post tweets and beating around the bush on this issue.
Mixpanel: How addictive is your app?
Given the state of legal regulations in most of countries in the world, you're probably waiting for some revolution. It's practically impossible to legally use the freedoms given to you by such free modem firmware (theoretically you could send it to certification each time you do something with it).

Neo900 project realized that (and the lack of resources to build the modern modem at all - the needed amount is enormous), so instead of trying to make free baseband and failing inevitably, it's going to include some kind of "sandbox" allowing for tight monitoring of everything the modem does.
Same here. Our school has a club called "Spread the Word to End the Word" which aims to remove 'derogatory' language from our diction. Removing words isn't going to help, removing prejudice and bigotry in itself is.
> American science, long a source of national power and pride, is increasingly becoming a private enterprise.

Oh how quickly journalists forget the past. The only reason we ever became a scientific superpower in the first place is because of one man, John D. Rockefeller.
They're using the term passive house to mean the 'new wave' passive house, which is more about super-insulating a nearly airtight envelope. Usually a heat-recovery ventilator is added to recover interior heat when cycling in outside air. While thermal mass can be an element in this design it's not a major factor like in a 'passive solar' house.
Circus Charlie remake in HTML5 with phaser.io 2.0
I've said this on previous threads, the problem isn't the availability of cheap building material or designs, it's the availability of cheap land. There's no pop-up property unfortunately.
The Google lunches are emphatically not a test. It's very rare for the lunch "interviewer" to provide any feedback at all. That usually only happens if the candidate starts spouting racist comments or punches someone in the lunch line, etc. The real purpose is to answer any questions the candidate has about culture, perks, etc. and to give them a chance to relax, catch their breath, and feel at ease in the middle of a stressful day of interviews. If the candidate was referred by a Googler, then often that person will be the one to take them to lunch, which would obviously create a conflict of interest if real feedback was expected.
...2048 in Dart cross-compiled to Julia with Flappy Bird graphics.
The goal of this controller is to be good with most Steam games, which have been designed for computers. Traditionally, console controllers predate the games, the Steam box is trying to be a "console" that goes the other way.

Basically, imagine trying to create a "controller" that works well with Civilization, and you're on the right track. (That isn't the only example, but it's a nice, concrete one to try to think about.)
World's first solar-powered toilet set for India launch
Comparisons on Searching the Indian Ocean for a Plane Crash
I don't understand the prep part. If you have to do a lot of prep for the interview doesn't that mean your current skills aren't a good fit? And if they don't want to test your skills but your ability to solve problems wouldn't they want to test something you're already skilled at?
This reminds me of golang vs brand-x http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
> "that's not really sexism"

The thing is, sexism and sexual harassment boils down to a lot of he-said-she-said, people individually passing judgment on what happened, and one person's definition of sexism isn't another person's definition while whatever happened has happened. Just because some people have a way thicker skin doesn't mean that even the smallest things should be given a free pass, and in a lot of these situations it's nearly impossible to get any proof of anything happening.

Like I hate that it's only March this year and I've had two men in 4? tech events with men attending just sit down next to me without asking if they could do so and try to talk to me - while I was coding on my laptop sitting by myself in the corner of the room on purpose while everyone else was further away chatting next to the food. Like if that's not a cue to leave me alone, I don't know what is. A shirt that says "fuck off" or telling them I'm busy like they'll even acknowledge that unless I just get up and leave - but then why do I have to do that? And of course, this wouldn't be complete without people telling me that that experience was just normal so be quiet and I shouldn't be surprised to encounter people with terrible social skills in tech. Thanks? Like, I should stop feeling uncomfortable when strangers sit close enough for our thighs to touch because at least they're not groping my breasts or raping me on video so that meets your standard for proof? And my terrible social skills can't be that terrible because I know when to leave strangers alone?

The best reply - and by best I really mean the stupidest one - is when my friends and acquaintances take my complaints seriously and offer to go with me in the future or do something about a guy annoying me or help me with whatever I'm currently doing for other women in tech, but then they complain that Shanley or some other "feminazi" is whining on Twitter again why can't that bitch shut up. Like what the hell. I just don't like to complain about things but I have a MOUNTAIN of stories to tell you if you were interested. And complaining and making things public doesn't make my message any less valid.

Even if it's something trivial, even if it's after all that Julie has said against other feminists, even if there's no proof that anything serious happened but something happened... if it made her uncomfortable, there's a problem there that needs to be fixed.
Nice work, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to implement the card draw algorithm correctly, which leads to unplayable games pretty quickly (the card draw algorithm must pick the same number of 1s and 2s over a short time horizon for the game to be playable).

The actual algorithm used by Threes is as follows:

1. At start, shuffle a deck containing 4 each of ones, twos, and threes.

2. For each round, roll a 21-sided die. If it's a one and the largest value on the board V is >= 48, choose a tile that is randomly chosen from the range 3 to V/8 inclusive. Otherwise, take the next tile off the stack.

3. If the stack is empty, refill it as above.

Here's a Scala implementation of this logic: https://github.com/mwylde/Threes.scala/blob/master/src/main/....
Admittedly I was extremely turned off by all the preparation materials. My instinct was that if I had to prepare and study for an interview, then I wouldn't be too qualified for it in my current state.
I think a good way to gauge your skills is to do job hunting, even if you don't need a job, go on a couple of interviews. Have them evaluate your work and very soon you will be able to gauge your skills, you will also discover things you need to improve on. You can try using recruiters as they can put you in a lot of job interviews very fast.
Helpful (http://helpful.io). Ruby on Rails helpdesk software trying to make things like ZenDesk & Desk.com suck less. Github: https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web. There is always a list of things to do (https://assemblymade.com/helpful/wips) and a community around to help. We also share the ownership (and profit) of the app between the contributors. Anybody is welcome to be "Helpful" and join in building it.

Full disclosure, founder
The CPI is an average based on a somewhat arbitrary bundle of goods which individually vary in price. People are used to the price of internet services declining over time (e.g. Google drive pricing), but Amazon prime incorporates things like shipping and movie royalties, which probably follow inflation similar to the CPI. Delivery companies surely increase in efficiency by adopting new technology, but they are also highly dependent on the cost of equipment, fuel, and labor. In the first few paragraphs, Marco only mentions the nominal cost, not the fact that the real price has been declining for eight years. Amazon probably went with $100 because its about right, which might be high or low for their bottom line, because consumers respond well to round numbers.
The inputs are infinite. The harvesting equipment has a limited operational lifetime. I'm pro -renewable, but but it's not a silver bullet, which is why I'm also pro nuclear. Renewables are also a long way from taking up the slack of fossil fuels just yet, so you can't just say 'renewables!' and call it done.
Bill Press (the quoted adviser) is an outstanding physicist -- I believe he was the youngest physicist ever tenured at Harvard. I think the quote was out of context. He wasn't saying he doesn't like physics, he was saying it can be hard to sell as a political priority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Press
Are you serious? To touch the car the metal bars must be above the floor, unless you spill tons of water enough to fill the garage you should be okay.
> You can easily decompile it, and without copyright nobody can tell you want you are allowed to do with it.

Easy to decompile, is not the same as easy to deobfuscate, understand and create deriviative work from. The entire point of GPL or any license is to tell what's allowed to do, that means you can share source code, and have legal means backing you up.

> How would you profit from the work if you can't "sell" the work?

You are the one who say that you can not sell the work. Of course you can, but it may not be relevant to the question of profits here since we are talking about source code, it may be incorporated in an existing system or service or even in a hardware product just to give some examples.

> in how many other disciplines do you expect compensation for finite effort for infinite time?

It's not infinite, it is restricted to a finite time. You do not get compensation unless you sell a product, selling that product it self takes work and investments. The amount you get paid, and if there are any reoccuring payments depends on the terms you are able to negotiate with who ever it is you sell to. It has nothing to do with copyright.
Thanks. I've turned down a couple interviews knowing I'd bomb at least one, didn't want that on my perm Google Record. It's nice to know it's not just me, and also there's redemption.
Where do you live? I use "how come" frequently. To me it's a formality / feel thing.
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Huh.

After a few minutes of this, it told me the only way to win was not to play the game.