skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you've just described sounds like the exact opposite of a rigorous, objective, work sample based hiring approach. Crappy companies have crappy hiring processes. It sucks to deal with that.

When we started doing work sample hiring, we put a process in place to handle many applicants, make sure we were responsive, and work people through the funnel as efficiently as we could. I don't think it's possible to take advantage of it any other way.

We got complimented several times on how reasonable the process was (by people we turned down!). This both made me feel good, and caused me existential "the world is broken" sadness. It's not a high bar to be decent to people.
Sounds like a rousing success in terms of qualifying/disqualifying candidates.
What exactly is the problem? The date he provided seems to be correctly formatted on a superficial (5 minute) comparison. Venting without explaining what you're upset about isn't likely to change anything.
Stack architectures (at least Forths) typically have multiple stacks, which tend to make both locals and stack shuffling hell unnecessary most of the time. In gforth for example, you can use the return stack to retain temporaries:

: expr1 1 ;
: expr2 2 ;
: f * ;

: test
expr1 expr2 2>r \ retain both results temporarily
2r@ + \ copy both to data stack as needed
2r@ -
2r@ f
2rdrop \ dispose of temporaries
;

test .s \ 3 -1 2
Correct. The only API for sending SMS is to open a prefilled, system-controlled "compose new message" modal. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
This is why we need to raise domain registration rates. $20 or $30 should reduce speculation to the point where good names start flowing back into the system. The .com rates are way too cheap right now.
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I see that they are paid to promote some of those cards and that influences which ones they recommend, so this is just more Google sleaze.
I think the way the terms are used is that laid off means the company no longer needs anyone in your position, while fired means they still need someone to do your job, but it's no longer you. The implications of this are clear, I think - if you're fired, it's your fault; if you're laid off, it's either the fault of your company (not enough money, perhaps) or of the market (robot does your job).
Does this matter for this example? It scans every single record, and adds it to the output with a certain probability. The ordering of the original stream doesn't matter I think.
I'd like to know how you get something viral to happen with beer drinkers like the ritual of putting an orange slice on a Blue Moon. I've seen people actually get upset when they're handed a draft without it...like the brewer ships mandatory oranges with the kegs or something.

Kind of like the whole Corona lime-in-the-bottle-neck thing. Nobody knows or remembers how it started (or so they say).
Serious is "testable", in the sense that you can ask them a specific question about the job to see if you get a response. We warm people up on the phone when they're putting special attention into our positions, and give everyone the opportunity to answer work samples (whether they seem serious or not). The point of warming them up is to balance out the effort — we're asking people to spend a few hours on this stuff, it's fair to give them time.
The early stage, unless they have control, wonder why on earth they should listen to the newly hired management layer when it was them who build the damn business.

I've been in this situation before. I couldn't take direction from anyone who thought they knew what we did better than me, since I had been there from day one and saw the thing through. Also there's resentment that they're jumping on late and riding coat tails when you've already done the hard yards.

I don't think executive leadership is actually about motivating staff per-se and more about building little fortresses to further their career ends.
You see the title and a legible paragraph when you're scrolling through a feed of random tweets. Seems superior to any alternative I can think of.
I personally believe in not giving a crap. This puts things into perspective and I can focus. I get a lot done this way.

Here is the bottom line... you are going to die. You are going to die, and no one will remember or care after a short time. Then, the earth is going to crash into the sun some short time later. In fact, the entire cosmos is probably going to crunch back together in a blink or two. The human condition is absolutely 100% hopeless. But here you are...here, right now. This is what really matters. So take a deep breath. Don't sweat the little stuff. And in the end it's all little stuff. Little stuff that really isn't important and shouldn't steal your focus.
And, on the other hand, when managers are flexible they can be rewarded with loyalty worth many times the value of any lost productivity:

> Erik Wolpaw, a writer at Valve fell ill (diagnosed with ulcerative colitis) in 2004. He knew he couldn’t fulfil his duties at work and made the choice to leave Valve. Erik tried to quit, Gabe refused to accept his resignation and said “Your job is to get better. That is your job description at Valve. So go home to your wife and come back when you are better.” On leaving Erik turned to fellow Valver Chet and said “Well, I guess we know where we’re working for the rest of our lives.”
Well, in that case I'm a commando and I hate everyone.
For some it was Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet, "Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeWUXV89w0g

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/quotes
yes, you are correct.
From other perspective:
I use linux in terms of free speech and not in terms of free beer. I do give back to linux community by donations & open source work . Since i don't want to be cheap.

Thanks
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This is a really cool tool. Just curious what the "real world" use case for would be for it.
Thank for providing these insights! I used to play a neat little terminal game named "atc" in Linux (it's a part of "bsdgames") which I thought simulated air traffic controller's job to a decent level of accuracy. It was fun to start off with but I just couldn't cope up for more than 30 minutes. There were just way too many variables to hold in my working memory. E.g., an incoming plan that could potentially miss landing; a plane which is low on fuel, collisions and what not!

Given the amount of stress levels I'd imagine ATC operators are rotated frequently; say once every hour or so?
A lot of people do - the second link is not mine.
I guess, they just need to mirror the display.(ubuntu,mint,fedora,arch) does works perfectly.

which linux distro you are specifically talking about ?
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Should everyone do a rotation through the QA team? (2014)
I lived there for 18 months. Very westernized, and surpassing the west in modernity.
What do you mean by "GPS transponders"?

A transponder replies to an interrogation with a squitter response.

Navstar satellites zip along merrily broadcasting to anyone who will listen ( regardless of the receiver's ability to process the signal ). You as an intending user don't communicate with them at all.

In the receiver there is no transmission capability related to GPS. Why would there be? The only uplink to which Navstar sats will listen is that from Boeing's system control center ( or presumably a spoof thereof ).
"first there was ie and Firefox"...

holy crap I am old ...cello anyone? :|
No, it's not a high bar to be decent to people, yet many companies (and people) still aren't. The problem then is that prospective employees have no way of knowing that a company is decent versus another company that is not. Will I do another work sample for another company? I'm thinking likely not, but I haven't ruled out the possibility. Note though, that the company must offer something of great value for me to even consider it. In my case, that's remote work. I would never consider it for a non-remote company. Period.

Still, a company could have a great, responsive process in place. But my experience, and that of others, is that it's not worth my time and effort to do work for free. Let's be clear: this is what is being asked of the candidates. It therefore starts to undermine any company using such a process even though I don't think it's an inherently bad process.
It's not just research published in journals. Siri was largely developed by the government, for example. There's a lot of tech transfer. The people who work on these projects with taxpayer funds go on to start U.S. companies or work for them. The U.S. also spends billions on procurement that's only for nascent U.S. companies while they bring tech to market.

The claim wasn't that SV tech is successful because hiring is easy. The tenure system shows that easy firing isn't essential to successful tech innovation.
I thought the same exact thing. I wonder if maybe it's a trick of the audio (someone else actually came on the line), or if that was actually what happened. It was pretty surreal if so, just like you said.
Amazing text, last month I have screwed up at an interview just because I had no knowledge about what they were asking. After the interview I google about it for 2 minutes and then I was able to quickly answer that question.
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The problem with allowing special arrangements is that politicians can--and do--use regulations in anticompetitive and manipulative ways.
I've been drinking Blue Moon for years, and I didn't think there was any secret or mystery to the fact that Coors was behind it. Furthermore, reflecting on this, I'm pretty sure I discovered that shortly after I discovered the beer. I guess I assumed everyone else knew as well.

I'm not sure it's something worth getting upset about. It tastes good, so I drink it when I'm in the mood for a sweet wheat ale with a hint of orange flavor. IMO, that's the most important criteria for a beer, be it a some mass produced product, a limited release from some forgotten mountain monestary or anywhere between. It has to taste good.

I am mildy curious if it is brewed in the same brewery in Golden, or if the subsidiary mentioned in the article has another site and brewery of their own. I shall have to investigate this and see if they do tours.
I just ran this for two hours and it was still thinking when I gave up. What if anything does it actually do?
He wasn't arrested in the US, he was arrested in Abu Dhabi.
Setting Up a Jail to Safely Execute Code
>>Money and low taxes

More like no taxes. From what i heard, they have no sales tax, or income tax (including companies). And a flat 5% duty on all duty (with that even exempted on certain goods such as computers).
During the ' Troubles' in Northern Ireland, chassis inspection mirrors were a common sight.

These were large convex mirrors mounted horizontally on castors and with a long handle. They were slid under the car to look for suspicious packages that may have been attached covertly with malicious intent.

Very quick to use and were widely issued to individuals who might have been at risk. So it was common to see people using them each morning before heading off to work ( by a different route each day of course ).

Sounds like there might be a new market for them.... I should have bought a few hundred when they were being sold as surplus!
You seem to have missed my point. Either way, you are making a lot of assumptions. It's like "assume zero friction" vs "assume friction follows exactly this formula". In either case, your result is wrong if friction isn't exactly as you specify.
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Is fast food making us depressed?
Well, a new position just opened. So...
It's most devastating when you've built up a community, a way of life, around a car insurance comparison tool. Then the company pulls the plug, and even if you can download an archive of your data, you lose a lot that of the connections between you and your car insurance social network. That's why car insurance comparison is best as a decentralized network, so that if one provider goes away, you can still call the other fifty providers as usual.
Father A's truth speaks, such clarity.

Buddhism has been my guide for many years, by virtue of the fact that the philosophy and practice are so pure, without trappings, without a "thing" to belive in (quite the opposite, the core teaching is non-self, which is to say, neither the existence of a separate self, nor the existence of a non-separate self -- honestly, I'm not sure what remains).

And yet, this notion of sin that Father A brings up, something rings true; it's as if the busy-ness of life, one's myriad interests, etc., are all just covering over, just avoiding that which must be faced; without doing so it seems even a "rich", fulfilling life is lived on the surface of an ocean deep (i.e. from the POV of a monastic/mystic).
Yeah, I dunno why it says generating random numbers is expensive. I was just quoting his linked source.
It's possible. My issue is I'm not sold that in networks of any size (the Le Mis network is pretty small) that this doesn't end up in a similarly difficult to interpret mess. I may try it out, but the initial demo didn't trigger much beyond "Neat".

But to be honest, I don't tend to work in .sif format networks, and I don't have time tonight to try to get something I actually use in that format.
Are you willing to trade the warranty that every protocol that you are EVER going to use will be treated equal for a better TV reception NOW ?
Hi, I see you're a new user here and I hope you come back to check on this and it's not just a throwaway account.

You saw the flaw in the system and studied so that you could exploit it improve your own situation. Some people may be mad about that, but I'm honestly not. I'm sad that you put effort into practicing interviewing and sound like you're not putting effort into practicing your actual job. You say "I'm a shitty dev", which is a fixed mindset type of thing to say. You identify yourself as your current capabilities, as opposed to a growth mindset where you may say "I'm working on improving my dev skills".

It sounds like touchy-feely pop-psych, but think about it: you saw that getting better at interviews would land you better jobs, so you worked on interview skills, and you got better jobs. Now if you took your current job (and your next one) as a chance to work on your dev skills, maybe you won't get fired after 6 months. Maybe you'll grow in to absolutely deserving the awesome job, and then grow beyond that.

Please think about it. Paraphrasing an Adventure Time character, being a shitty dev is the first step to being a kind of good dev. And we need more good devs and fewer firings.
I don't know if they're really concerned about boosting their main brand with the craft brands. InBev produced a Budweiser Super Bowl commercial slamming craft beer, particularly a "pumpkin peach" beer, just a week after they bought a craft brewer that makes a pumpkin peach beer. That leads me to believe that their goal is just to have separate brands that target different demographics.
Why would you leave your job the next day, though? It seems unlikely that an employment offer would be conditioned on your not giving notice. And giving notice smooths the transition for your colleagues, whom you can use for networking in the future.
A friend of mine teaches at an international school in Abu Dhabi. He's fond of saying that its a thoroughly modern place but its not quite civilized. Don't mistake one for the other.
I'm glad you all seem to have understood what I was getting at. I think you're nailing it best, Silverstorm; career growth, long term goals, adding new skills...I put them all in the same bucket.

In my experience, when you help people with their long term goals, even if it's not their core job, you get a much more motivated team member.

I'm a big fan of what Reid Hoffman advocates for in the Alliance; work is a two way relationship and if we treat it that way, and are honest about it, we can all benefit more.
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In fairness this is only a brief translated extract from a 35-minute panel discussion. My German's pretty weak, so it's I can't tell if if there's any additional context, but I don't think it's a good idea to draw firm conclusions based on selective quoting.

I'm not impressed with him, but nor am I very impressed with the non-substantive response of demanding lists of every product, installation, and system - a bullshit non-argument when the discussion is clearly about trying to come up with a framework that protects both sets of interests. Perhaps the Commissioner's attitude stems from a failure of the Pirate party to persuasively articulate their case? I haven't followed the debate in Germany, but I'm often struck by the way that political arguments can end up with people talking past each other and dogmatically repeating their own ideological standpoints without really engaging each other. Simply repeating 'the internet does not work that way' isn't a good negotiating strategy.
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China's wind farms now produce more energy than all nuclear plants in the U.S
If only they could send you the device so you do could a proper teardown video :)
Just ask "what is your process and criteria for hiring?" It's a fair question, a company should have a good answer. A thoughtful process is a good sign.
Oh, well, missed that. That's what I get for replying to an out of context snippet.
A month ago I dove into the topic of "Craft" vs "Crafty" to produce a map of the actual owners of "craft" beers as well as other brands that are marketed as local/independent.

The result @ http://vinepair.com/wine-blog/map-actually-makes-your-beer/ received a LOT of attention in the beer world.

It's been updated four times as it was tough to sort through some of the confusion and obfuscation in marketing, even with the benefit of having had dug through SEC filings, the COLA registry at TTB, and other sources. FWIW, I was contacted for direct clarification from one of the companies indirectly called out in this piece (Kona/Craft Brew Alliance).

All that said, I'd argue that association (and particularly a lack of care about such an association by many, many consumers whether or not they know about it) is less interesting than the advantages of being purchased/created by a macro brewer, such as distribution and how that plays out in the 3-tier system in the US.
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It doesn't matter, really. If you like it, drink it! There're plenty of more esoteric styles represented these days so that whatever your taste you can find a great micro or macro version. I like Belgians, and think that Fin du Monde is the best of them, regardless of being brewed in Quebec and being owned by Sapporo.
It's pretty offensive that people are using 'Taliban' and 'Isis' as throwaway rhetoric to collect political points.

Unless the people in question are throwing gay people from buildings or killing girls for attending school, then no, it's not a Taliban like issue.
As a founder, you already have the ultimate, self-actualized career: founder. Gates never really had a job. Neither did Zuck, and we all know Jobs didn't last at Atari...and when they did build a company, they were caring about their career: to stay as CEO of their respective companies.

The post was focused on the employees and what happens to them, because they do care about their careers.
But compared to the traditional high tax, high income areas? Like New York, SF or London?

http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/mountain...
I don't think there's any problem with a large brewery creating a sub-brand to differentiate its products that are aimed at a different market.

But I do think Coors has crossed a line in trying to make people think Blue Moon is a craft beer. I don't know how many people they fool, but I certainly thought it was one (though I rarely ever drink it; I also think it's an overhyped beer, perfectly drinkable but not something I'd choose if given a reasonable alternative). For comparison, I didn't realize Shock Top was Anheuser-Busch, but I also didn't think it was a craft beer. Maybe I don't pay much attention and it really is marketed the same way Blue Moon is, but in my mind, Blue Moon crossed a line that Shock Top didn't.
I submitted and got that one. Problem is it had already vanished from the "new" page so wasn't going to make the front, ever.

Resubmitted with "Backblaze" in the title to get better traction. I got lucky this time, sometimes I submit something and get nowhere while another submit is the ones that takes off.

Maybe a tweak to the new page so that if somebody resubmits a URL that has fallen off the new page it gets pushed back on there. The current system is a bit of a lottery, just one chance for a URL to make it and then it's gone.
Let's put it this way: I've worked with people I disliked and even some I found incompetent. I would never dream of calling them out like this. Putting that page up filled a need in my sense of justice in the world - which probably also motivated the guy who put up the other page, too. To quote the poster above, "But part of the problem is that in a meritocracy you need people to know who the bad actors are".
It seems we've traveled the same path at different times :)
In case you didn't know, you can have Django auto-generate models from existing databases. I've used it a couple times and it worked very well.

Relevant docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/legacy-databases...
Every engineer knows the pecking order of who the top performers are. The trick is not determining merit, it's arriving at a consensus about merit without politics hopelessly skewing the result.
TDIL: Air controllers would probably make great consultants for many startups.
This the most exciting astronomical development I've heard about for several years. One gets the impression that there might be perspectives like this all over the place, much as the discovery of the first few exoplanets was followed by an avalanche of others.

Am I right in thinking that the temporal offsets of the gravitational lensing allow for a sort of controlled experiment, eg where astronomers study the oldest image of the supernova and form hypotheses about its development, then test those hypotheses against the later ones?
> instruction stream density can be puffed up if we don't have a getvar instruction that takes an immediate operand, but only a register pair

It's hard to imagine this being a concern. If you are in a position to choose whether to use a register or stack VM, you are certainly in a position to add such an instruction (assuming the encoding allows it, etc).