skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "When I look at more senior developers I notice...[they] take multiple short breaks throughout the day and between those breaks they tend to be very focused on the tasks they have to complete. They don’t have their Slack open all the time and they work on a single thing at a time. And they are consistent about that."

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Explore NYC like a tourist would (if you haven't already). There should be plenty of fun stuff to keep you occupied.
I started taking fixed breaks every hour to (try to) reduce my rsi pains and it does seem help my productivty. I used to check reddit/hn/feedly whenever I got really frustrated with something but now I usually power through it because I know I'll get a break soon anyway.
> they still pose an element of risk that isn't necessarily present with cash and credit.

The element of risk is ALWAYS present with cash and credit. You could be handed counterfeit bills. You could be hit with chargeback fees (even when the CC processor will let you keep the money because it was a card-present transaction). But somehow merchants accept these risks... so why not Bitcoin?

Sounds like your employer isn't as confident/competent as other point-of-sale manufacturers who have been able to support Bitcoin, like point-of-sale giant NCR http://www.ncr.com/news/news-releases/small-business/ncr-sil...
I disagree. Id rather be deaf than blind. If you are in front of your laptop all by yourself...you generally are pretty quiet. If the NSA has your laptop camera...they could see your keyboard which means your password. I usually don't talk to myself when I'm at a computer.
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Wrong? no. Differently? yes. Because sheetcake. :)
oh since postgresql 9.3 upwards + repmgr(d) it's now way easier to scale and running postgresql clusters, even in docker.
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It was filed last December, so maybe it wasn't resolved yet?
This is exactly correct. A work-sample test needs to capture the normal parameters of the work. If team members aren't routinely called on to solve programming problems in a high-stakes stick-the-landing-or-you're-fired exercise on a whiteboard in front of an audience, then the prediction the test is trying to make is confounded by all those factors.

* Eliminate live audiences

* Let people work in the environment they'll be able to choose on the job

* Ideally, let people work in their own comfortable environs, even if they won't be able to do that on the job

* If you're worried about cheating, build that assessment into your in-person followup interview
I'm an ex-Clojurian using Haskell, and my time spent in console REPL vs. Emacs Haskell REPL is pretty evenly split.

I'm was quite grateful the terminal REPL (ghci) is better than `lein repl`. Which I use (Emacs vs. term) in what circumstance depends in part on how long I'm going to be heads down on the problem I'm working on.
Why do we trust journals at all, instead of the community of respected scientist?

We could capture a network of trust among scientists, where individual scientists vet other scientists and articles. Think of it as ScienceRank, a PageRank where the nodes are individual scientists and the individual articles they publish, and the links are publish, review, reproduce and consistent-with events:

- scientist A published article X
- scientist B gave a positive peer review of article X
- scientist B gave a positive peer review of scientist A
- scientist B gave a negative peer review of article X
- scientist B gave a negative peer review of scientist A
- scientist C independently reproduced the experiment in article X
- scientist C failed to independently reproduce the experiment in article X
- article Y is consistent with article X
- article Y is inconsistent with article X

Trust would flow from trusted scientists. Scientists gain and lose trust via the positive and negative reviews they or their publications receive. The algorithm would be a little more complex than PageRank's, given the different treatment required for the different links.

Technology could be a multiplying force in the positive direction instead.
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Yet none of the setup guides really stress this and there's no preferred method to keep up to date on things. Arch really needs a better system for making it obvious when nontrivial updates are about to happen.

Note, I use pacmatic, which pulls the news feeds, but it took me getting bitten a few times before I learned to do this.
> weeds out those that may need a lot of hand holding early on.

i.e. You are using interviews in order to avoid paid in-house training.
I've had apt-related troubles in the past, but they almost always were caused by the use of custom repositories/PPAs.

Further, it might seem arcane to have to type "apt-get install -f" to install dependencies for an autonomous .deb package, but I'm not sure how different that is from having to learn, for example, the myriad switches for pacman.
Yes, they are different

What I think end up happening with those Fermi Problems (or other problems) is that the interviewer knows one specific answer and then ends up rejecting alternative answers
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Well... I may be biased as one of those folks who uses both vim and emacs, but: there is a big (positive) difference in my opinion between evaluating code in-line, right from your source file, in your editor, than copy+pasting it into a REPL somewhere. Loading up your ns in cider and then being able to evaluate functions, edit them, and see their output right in emacs is terrifically powerful. Even in SublimeText or IntelliJ or something you have to wrap the function in question in a print statement to do that, sometimes affecting lexical scope, etc.
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There are wildly different risk and trust profiles at stake. Your analogy is incomprehensible.
Are you using a bleeding edge distro? I've been using the version of xmonad from apt-get in Ubuntu (usually the latest release) for ~3 years and it's never broken or required me to change my config.
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I'm a 21 year old web developer from Belgium.
Next year I'm going to look for an internship.
My main skills are on the backend side but I can do frontend also. I can write in PHP, Ruby and Node.js. I have done this extensively.

I want to have an internship in a foreign country. Currently I live in Belgium but I would like to experience the work ethic and culture of another country.

Does anybody know the best way to find an internship in a foreign country. I thought about contacting some companies but a foreign intern could be a pain to deal with.

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This is a testament to how helpless the average person is when it comes to using, much less understanding, modern computer technology. It is the equivalent of "duct tape and WD-40" to repair a broken down vehicle.

As a software developer I'm regularly ashamed by the inaccessibility of computer technology. The non-technical individual's inability to control what happens to them and around them in regards to electronics and software is rapidly outstripping their capacity to act in their own self interest.

It's kind of depressing.
Some previous discussion on the same topic:

"Facebook Is Making Us Miserable" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335947
Absolutely. The quality of other's solutions and the more Clojure centric atmosphere are pluses compared to for ex. HackerRank. The reason why I personally chose HackerRank over 4clojure was the Ranking/Badge/Percentile central theme. I just got hooked on competing with other people and upping my profile. Though now I am thinking I should give 4clojure another go..
What about the advent of current technology that Samsung recently acquired, Looppay (MST), that uses a magentic tokenization to be able to complete transactions? These are useful and readily accessible with 90% of POS terminals that read the magnetic stripe on your credit card. It if different from the RFID-based NFC but it can be used compatible as current POS systems transfer to EMV-updated systems that will also support NFC transactions. This MST technology is mostly srpead to Japan and not neccessarily in the US though our current terminals are already ready to accept these payments.
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That is true of a surprising number of concrete-seeming programming questions, too, which is another reason you should standardize your questions.
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Perhaps someone who is brilliant but perfectionist and not interested or capable of doing the work to glue/shim a canonical example into a working product.

Some folks are good at the former, others are good at the latter. The really good ones are comfortable with both.
that's not true. what happens if one of your server dies?

you either heal it back or you shoot it.
shooting is way faster and docker could help you by that.

Also 1-10 servers could be much, it really depends how much stuff you need.

Also docker adds "some" security.
Docker isn't the perfect match, but on our site we run a match between ansible and docker (without coreos) and are very happy.

In our aws cloud we have another system which only uses fleet and coreos, the cluster upgrades itself which is a big plus, but doesn't work that good in our internal infrastructure with proxies, firewalls, etc..

We run 5 machines in aws.

And have like 6 vsphere esxi nodes.
Coverity has been improved so that it now detects Heartbleed and similar defects via static analysis:

http://security.coverity.com/blog/2014/Apr/on-detecting-hear...
The site was developed in Scala + Java, and the dev-version uses Play Framework, but the public site is statically hosted on S3 + CloudFront.

Each page takes O(10 seconds) to generate and the machine that does the generation needs ~20+ GB of RAM, so for ops reasons we pregenerated all the content.

(I'm one of the devs)
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Out of the box mobile browser support is a big one.
Have they changed this process recently? It was only 3 years ago they were trumpeting their brain teasers in the WSJ.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702045523045771125...
Actually Emacs does have a Clojure debugger now. http://endlessparentheses.com/cider-debug-a-visual-interacti...
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A better idea would have been a "Rand-aid". A sticker in the shape of a band-aid that covers the webcam so you can still close your laptop.
Waiting to get my hands on this. Has anyone received access yet?
Which is the reason they could be completely different from brainteasers, but are the same in the form used in interviews. People are very, very bad at evaluating on the spot if some "solution with thought-process" which differs from their own is actually completely valid, usually it is: "Nope, that's not how you do it. What did he think?!"

You'd have to capture the answer and then study it later, possibly multiple times to overcome any: "Hm, this doesn't sound right, why didn't he think of x, y and z"-feeling and understand that x, y and z are just your bias, not some kind of "correct" part of every answer. I've never seen that happening.
Isn't this more an issue of class more than race, doe? Even with the argument that members of a certain race tend to belong to a certain class it doesn't change the fact that its still inherently a class and environment issue.

Like, from your post, I would say that Crew is an obscure reference for anyone living in the inner-city, not just minorities.
Yes, "high performance computing" is dying. There's no commercial market for it. Check the list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world.[1] The top 10 are all Government operations. In the top 25, there are a few oil companies, mostly running big arrays of Intel Xeons.

CPU clock speeds maxed out between 3-4GHz a decade ago. Nobody develops special supercomputing CPUs any more. The market is tiny. Old supercomputer guys reminisce about the glory days when IBM, Cray, Control Data, and UNIVAC devoted their best R&D efforts to supercomputers. That ended 30 years ago.

Supercomputers have poor price-performance. Grosch's Law [2] stopped working a long time ago. Maximum price/performance today is achieved with racks of midrange CPUs, which is why that's what every commercial data center has. Now everybody has to deal with clusters of machines. So cluster interconnection has become mainstream, not the province of supercomputing.

[1] http://www.top500.org/list/2014/11/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosch%27s_law
What annoys me is articles perpetuating the myth that such questions are still asked at technical interviews.

Google banned them from its process ten years ago and most large companies did as well.
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So, your hiring practice is biased. Google is aware of this and accepts this results in only getting 'some' (a specific grouping) of the best people. Google has had success with these individuals. Thus, there is no reason to change up the formula. In cases whereby you don't initially capture a broader spectrum of the best via direct hiring and thus miss out on more forward thinking products and approaches, you use your capital in attempts to acquire them. This is a solid approach and an industry-wide norm. Thus, your level of comfort in stating this truth.

Caveats : Someone who refuses to play ball with boat loads of cash which of course is rare but will likely be the type that develops something that is the biggest threat to your business.

*Edit : the claimed VP Google worker who suggested the above deleted their comment..
I've looked over the code and I can't figure out what makes the particles brighter. Some of it is when the particles overlap, they appear brighter, but if you don't touch the screen, all the particles fade out to black. Anyone know how that is done?
I figure so long as the software is stable, responsive, and does not depend on a backend somewhere to function, it's fine.

We are accustomed to constant updates, but it is hardly required. Software, so long as it is quality, can stand alone as an "appliance" for a long time.

My truck's onboard computers and smart radio come to mind. As does the intel 486 ROM burner in my college lab. The world marches forward, but they still do the job.

The biggest "risk" is probably just the advancement of media formats. My smart TV will probably support fewer of the most common formats come 2020.
Unfortunately, I've also had a few problems with Manjaro. I still think it is great and would recommend it, but it certainly is a 'plan to move on' distribution for me. I think I'm going to try Antergos next. I'm not quite ready for the Arch install. If I had a laptop with an Internet connection next to me, I'd probably have a go, but being a single comp desktop...will try Antergos for a few months.
What was he incarcerated for? Edit: Two counts of first-degree burglary and three counts of aggravated robbery
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How can one not being a "culture fit" be interpreted in any way that is not blatant discrimination?
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> Modern nutrition seems like an endless merry-go-round mindfuck. (Not saying non-modern is any better of course)

Agree. I can see two reasons for this. One is that all humans are biochemically unique. A diet that works well for one person won't necessarily work well for another.

The other reason is the food industry financing "research". For example, sugar companies financing studies that tell you that artificial sweeteners are unhealthy.

Actually, there seems to be one more reason. Cultural "taboos". For example, lots of people will tell you that eating too much sugar, fat, salt etc. are bad, BUT you never hear that eating too much protein is bad, even though there is research that shows this. Seems like there's some sort of taboo against saying anything bad about protein.
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"These TVs wake up quickly"

So a TV that turns on when you turn it on is a feature worth certifying for, now? Ahh the joys of smart equipment. My dumb TV turns on instantly.
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Yes, from a 2013 interview with Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google:

"We found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time." "They don't predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...
This ^. I'd venture to even suggest that this strict and narrow hiring focus results in many of the short comings of their products. Can't have it all I guess.
I know Google has interviewers copy down character-for-character what is written on the whiteboard for their whiteboard programming questions. Presumably this is so that their hiring committees can dispassionately review what the candidate produced, instead of relying on the interviewer to report success or failure.
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Don't have kids so you can focus on what's important to Mark.
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One of the founders has made some comments[1] on r/bitcoin

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Do they really - do you have a source on that? (no pun intended)
"Both men received two counts of first-degree burglary and three counts of aggravated robbery, for each of the three employees they made cooperate at the two stores... Then came the kidnapping charges: three counts of second-degree kidnapping, because they’d forced three employees in those two robberies to move from one part of a store to another."

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You could just shave layers off the bottom and have no problem at all, or, you know, math.
This is another very important article about the difficulties of a career, rather than a stint, in high tech.

I've noticed that many health-care related professionals, such as dental hygienists and registered nurses, have median pay that is close to or exceeds the median pay for software developers [1], and that well paid professionals such as dermatologists or radiologists often earn vastly more. These fields also offer what I'd describe as career flexibility.

As a software developer, I can almost always go off and have a cup of coffee when I please. So in that sense, yes, it is "flexible." But one very attractive quality of being a dental hygienist is that you can step back from the field for a few years, work part time (or not at all), and re-enter a few years later. My cousin is a radiologist, and she worked half time while she had kids (collecting a much higher salary than the typical full time developer). I also know an emergency room physician who was able to scale back while she had small kids without badly compromising her career progress.

Add in open offices, back visibility, a dave n busters vibe, mass layoffs involving work visas and "knowledge transfer", frequent allegations of sexism and discrimination, an insistence that you locate to a place where the median 3br house is well over a million… and now, as it appears, a situation where you they don't want you if you have kids.

At this point, why do we keep acting like there's some mystery why people with choice (i.e., whose professional options aren't limited by the visa process) are avoiding this field? Why does President Obama nod gravely as he stands next to tech CEOs talking about severe shortages of tech workers at press releases?

[1] check out US News Best Jobs, which provides a summary of BLS data on median salary by region. In San Francisco, dental hygienists earn $112,970, software developers $114,400, and registered$127,670. Physicians and lawyers, of course earn considerably more.
Slim is still working for me on systemd here. Didn't even know it was abandoned...

I guess I'll give LightDM a look, just in case. Thanks for the heads up!
Awesome breaking config so often is the reason why I currently run it with default configuration only. It sounds like I should give xmonad another look.
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Not having the desired personality or attitude type I would imagine.
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IMHO this isn't about spying, or control. No, this is about the DC culture of spending and institutional power. DHS is trying to grow as fast as possible. Inside the US government, power is equal to how much funding you can grab and how many people you can employ. And the DHS is on a mission to grab as much as possible right now, while congress is willing to fund it all. Congress certainly wouldn't want to go against fighting terrorism.
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> But I've never even heard of retail bitcoin fraud with zero-confirmation transactions.

Then you are simply not very well informed. Problems with BTC transactions have happened repeatedly. Here is a great example of a successful 10k double spend during a chain fork: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5372956
It was was made possible buy slightly different behaviours in the different client versions. The core developers had to get on IRC with the miner using the 0.8 version and talk them into giving up their (correct) chain to resolve this problem. Currency of the future!
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Those machines came with a camera that had a little door you could slide to cover it, so at least he had that protection.

Yes. Here's one in the closed position.[1] That feature seems to have disappeared.

There was a time when people were bothered about phones where the switchhook didn't physically disconnect the microphone. All the Western Electric phones had a hard disconnect when the phones were hung up. Many digital office phones don't have that, and can be used for eavesdropping.

[1] http://www.tamayatech.com/ProductImages/S/SGI-0138737XXX.jpe...
Yeah, definitely keep draw calls low. I'm not surprised to see instancing beating that.

I'd be curious to see your comparison over non instanced/single draw call though. I threw the adapter code I wrote for my instanced version up here if it helps: http://pastebin.com/1gjvreBs
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Yes, but for something slightly more complex than a "fixed answer" problem I would expect some flexibility in the answer.

(Especially because of limited time in an interview and the candidate is under pressure)