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After working there for eight years, I can confirm the contrary of this statement. Google cares very much about user privacy -- the engineers doing the work even more so. The quote from one of their SREs swearing about the Snowden revelations was drop dead true, and engineers there have been working /very/ hard to fix issues like this.

Google does not operate like Apple -- there are many hands at the tiller, and the ship moves in almost arbitrary directions at times. Situations like this do come up, and they are most of the time honest mistakes or oversights.
They've written though that they have chosen a particular layer in the network, which reads like "independent of the output layer". Features in such a layer correlate with certain classes, but I don't think they have dealt with classes at all. If that's the case, then the question is how they've amplified the detected features.
The same cases where you would want to go with 10% down instead of waiting to get 20% (such as increasing home prices in the area), are probably the same cases where you can refinance in a few years and take advantage of the increased assessment value to get 20% equity so you can drop PMI.
> There is not guarantee the sane governance your HOA provides today won't be insane next year.

Participate in your HOA elections.
I kind of agree with you, point 7 is unrealistic, What problem could you give to the interviewee that could take a couple of days and that he/she will resolve it willingly and honestly. Yes it sounds nice but in practice I don't think so, totally agree with points 1-6 though
Boy do I hope you're right! Performance is likely an issue tho. Wasm is designed to be faster, both loading/parsing and execution.

I did notice that es6 import/export works for Wasm, so I can write performant segments in C. Whew!
Isn't there something you've done in your career that you take enough pride in that you'd enjoy explaining it to people who would appreciate it (not including that time you gamed an interview)?
I use iredmail for my personal server. It does the work of configuring postfix and dovecot for you and allows you to make any changes you wish. I host it on digital ocean.

Still I think this could be a interesting idea, you'd have to change the way we think about email, but everyone having their own dedicated, always on device rather the google holding on to all of them has to have an impact on privacy.
By fining the business you will directly affect whether or not Chromium continues to exist if at all, because it then becomes more of a liability than an asset to the company.
I've noticed that there is a great number of interviewers that do not take the initiative to just be nice. I suppose they just forget that the interview process is a two-way street.
-1 for CEO to be sitting around reading HN enough to respond within 45 minutes. Get back to work! :-)
I'd like to know what type of support and skill set you are looking for in a co-founder. I'm a tech guy who really gets excited about health and fitness some details would be excellent.
Why is that, and why are you supporting such sheer stupidity?
yeah, but Line 1 is considered unreliable and stripe doesn't automatically use it - they have an API to let you know if line 1 fails, but you have to cancel the transaction yourself
I don't think that's true at all. Manually entering in transactions is error prone, time consuming, and most importantly, boring as fuck. Especially because machines can do it for us.

Not wanting to do the boring, not needed stuff does not mean that I'm not interested in personal finance, and don't want to know where my money is going.
I am reminded of customer support lines in general, which somehow always seem to be experiencing unusually high call volumes...
if the tone came off as railing, I should have dialed it back a bit

its strikes me that a big issue with renting is the liquidity of the market you're renting in

especially if you have kids, and changing school districts becomes a big deal

all in all, I'd rather not make a 30 year bet on the US residential real estate market with a whole mortgage worth of my net worth

but its seems currently I have to pay a pretty steep premium to make the opposite bet
I've got more familiar later with PS2, as I move to another studio, and was an audio programmer there (Treyarch) and had to do a lot of "PS1" programming on the SPU. I was later reading an article on the TRON operating systems, and found that a lot of the primitives on the PS2 were based on it, even the scheduler to the point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project - but never got much of it.

Oh, these were some exciting times! - the whole systems was there open for you to see (at least from the software level, and to some point HW).
"Talking about something you've done?"

EXPLAINING something you've done.
You might not have entered your old friends in your computer ever but they might have entered you. Just "invert" this relation and its quite reasonable to assume you know them also. Still spooky though.
Yup. TDD, object orientation, agile, functional programming and whatever else are all good ideas. In some cases they work, in others not.

But it seems people have a tendency to make them into ideologies/religions that when applied correctly will solve everything. I guess it's a way to exercise power over people. No individual thought allowed.
Oh, we do -- we've hired a few people to help users in #stripe on a full-time basis.
Web browsers are not addictive, nor are they toxic. The argument doesn't hold water in this case because there are alternatives.
Stripe hardly qualifies as "Cheap credit card processing".
One way which may help with the interview anxiety is just to interview more. Even if you're not really looking right now, why not interview at a few places just to work on your chops? You could also role-play interviews with friends, family and co-workers. It may not remove the anxiety, but exposing yourself to the process a little more could really help.

I've had some issues with the whiteboard in the past. After I blew one interview (partially based on my whiteboard performance), I spent a lot of time coding solutions with a pen and paper, working on my penmanship (so that I could read my own writing) and just getting used to solving problems away from a screen. It really helped me get over a lot of my issues with that particular situation.
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Right, but now the app is limited until I actually do it. Which I'm going to forget to do for a few months.
Because you don't have to write code on a whiteboard with someone staring at you in your daily work. You're free to sit alone, make a stupid off-by-one error, misspell a var without feeling like you'll be fired for it.

Technical discussions at work aren't so high-stakes as ones in an interview. If you do badly in an interview, you've wasted an entire day for nothing. If you fail to speak in a technical discussion at work, best case no one notices, worst case they think "Hm. Looks like Brian didn't get much sleep last night". Just the knowledge of these stakes can affect your performance.
Sorry for the late reply.

I'm just saying I don't think most fat people act the victim based on my observations, I think you're overstating the amount that do.
I don't understand your point about property taxes. If you are renting you are still paying those taxes, it's just included in the rent. If someone buys a house without figuring the property taxes into their monthly payment, then, well they are idiots.
Moving is a very disruptive life change, becoming more disruptive the longer you have been at your current location. It isn't something to be undertaken lightly, so it would probably take a significant move in property taxes to induce one to move.
I'll take your word for it - I don't recall a single advertisement, and I was listening as closely as I could for one. Not to say they didn't happen, but they weren't anywhere near as annoying as the spotify/pandora ones are.
Is that available to all accounts?
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Agreed! Making what you yourself want is actually a legit thing to do in a startup as long as you know that there are more people like you!
This is a fantastic analysis, but one also needs to think about the less quantitative benefits of home ownership. Owning a home gives you equity in your community because your economic outcome is tied to the neighborhood. In fact, home ownership rate is tightly correlated with reductions in crime rate [0].

As a renter in SF, I feel more like a tourist than a resident -- I don't care very much about the schools my kids will probably never go to or a lot of the far off political issues that will probably never affect me. I'm a young programmer and don't really have roots here. I think it would feel really different if I owned my home.

Home owners, did buying change your sense of community?

Disclaimer: My company Open Listings (YC W15) is trying to make it simple and more affordable to buy a home [1].

[0]: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/neba/journal/EBJIP2009NiDecker.pd...
[1]: https://www.openlistings.co/
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I have pretty bad social anxiety, which is never a problem in my day-to-day work, where I know and trust the (awesome) people I work with. I'm more stressed having to meet a dozen people over a very brief period of time than I am fixing a failing production server, but I do perfectly fine at the interview as long as my anxiety isn't bad that day (by the 2nd or 3rd company I've spoken with, I start to get more comfortable with it).

I'm interviewing right now and all except one have lead to offers, so no, I'm actually good at my job. I'm just a better engineer than I am an interviewee.
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That time that FB lost 80% of its value
See also Debugging at Full Speed http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/3731019771001
Yes they play with various layers. Layers closer to the input act more like edge enhancers, while higher layers emphasize whole objects ("animal" enhancers). You get increasingly less syntactical and increasingly more semantic as you go deeper in the network.
One thing I find annoying is that interviewers expect you to think out loud "continuously". If I stop talking for 30s or 1 minute, I am in trouble. That is not applicable to everyone. I myself feel more confident to think in silent (may be 5-10 minutes at least) before I can tell interviewers my whole train of thought. Speak out loud what I'm thinking could easily interrupt it!!! Everyone is different!
Re: 20% down... You're completely and totally right. It's 100% the prudent financial move.

However there is a bit of a problem with market forces in this regard. No (or little) money down mortgages have become almost the norm. The average homeowner puts significantly less than 20% down. This inflates home prices for several reasons:

1) People can buy more expensive homes on less money, allowing land owners to increase prices

2) Mortgage rates/plans are now structured to cover for the higher risk quotient (even if you do the usual 20% down you're still paying for the idiot who bought a million dollar home with nothing down)

3) Potential first time owners are forced to buy less for their money, further inflating that specific market which has huge ripple effects into the more mature sectors (first time home owners are far more likely to sell their current home and now there is additional financial pressure to make a profit, etc. etc.)

4) People, wisely or unwisely, exploit these new conditions to "play" the real estate game

5) The market becomes less sane the larger/more expensive the home, as the higher prices (even normally) encourage people to put less down

And guess what... all of this just makes it harder to put 20% down on a home, further exacerbating the cycle. Especially when you're in a bidding war and someone is willing to outbid you because they're putting less money down (which is a terrible financial move, but one that happens all too frequently). Bidding wars are low key one of the biggest reasons people go into housing debt, they get caught up in a specific house and aren't willing to walk away regardless of how the finances have changed since they first looked.

There's a lot of economic intertwining here with QE, general interest rates, and the economy at large so I'm not going to profess to know what's really going on here, but the housing market is very close to "utterly f*@#ed" for the middle class with no foreseeable recovery. And that's not even getting into the pandora's box of how the new exploding rental market is also skewing the market heavily.

Quick thought experiment: How many people that are buying at 100k do you think have 20k in the bank? Now how many of those do you think have 20k to drop on a down payment? Now look at what 100k gets you in a modern metro area and cry yourself to sleep.
You don't mention the principal part of the mortgage payment and the tax benefit of mortgage interest and property tax.

You might not be paying much more than rent.
I'm not sure that's a very good argument.

50 years ago there were a ton of companies that were confidently using hex machine code for large systems in production. That doesn't mean things wouldn't have been 100x easier for them with higher level languages and more modern tools.

Of course I can get by without a debugger if I really need to, but that doesn't mean I won't be a lot more productive with one.
There are certainly exceptions. When my partner and I purchased our place we only put enough down to avoid the extra insurance for down payments below 20%. With a 2.9% interest rate on our place, most indexes should perform better.

Having said that, the cause for my initial comment was just expressing my worry that if everyone was only able to put down a small amount of the total purchase price, then we're likely financing a lot of people who probably cant afford the place they're living in as soon as something small goes wrong.

Do we know how people defaulting correlates with their initial down payment size? I'm sure someone has studied this, but I have not been able to find any stats.
> The PS1 had 2MB of RAM, and we had to do crazy things to get the game to fit.

That's what? About $80-100 worth of RAM back then? On a product that sold at $299 (July 1995 pricedrop) that's incredible. Nearly a third of your cost was ram alone.
Nobody ever seems to acknowledge the possibility of another across the board 30% drop in prices all over the country. This is my main reason for not buying. I think another severe, deflationary recession is almost an inevitability. Apparently I'm almost alone in remembering that housing can go down a lot.
I suspect a large overlap between the words likely to be used in email to Stripe (support or CEO) and the words likely to be used in e.g. 419 scams. Bad Bayesian filter seeding could easily impact legitimate messages in that case.
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A donation button is a poor way to monetize. If you're actually proud of what you've built, do not be afraid to ask money for it.
Great calculator! I like that they take into account the opportunity cost, or foregone investment income.
even if I'm missing half the rental market, that seems pretty illiquid to me, and again, Westerville is considerably larger than most American suburbs, if I want to keep my kids in the same school district, I don't want to be limited to picking between 8 landlords

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how old is your house?

how much of your maintenance budget have you actually used?
Saw this while reminding myself about regex in python: One dev congratulates the other on their wedding in a SO comment. I found that just a little adorable.
If you follow the link to the article[0], it quotes the rule this was done under:

Offenders in the custody or supervision of the Department are not permitted access to the Internet, nor are they permitted to obtain access to the Internet through third parties.

It also notes the sentence in this instance was overturned once the EFF and ACLU got involved.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/new-mexico-inmate-face...
I think your response is way too literal. junior people routinely sit (quitely) in higher-level meetings so mid level people don't need to regurgitate stuff. They also spend alot of time developing lower-level social networks so they can function and get stuff done (doesn't need to be socializing with ceo). and all investment banks are (essentially) dealing with other peoples money unless they are prop trading, which is of course not how actual ipos are financed. etc.
Unfortunately this is pretty small potatoes; the prison-industrial complex basically does what it wants. For clearly illegal conduct, if protests continue long and loud enough (e.g. Ferguson, Baltimore) then policies might be changed or murderers might be charged. For something like this, which is unethical but not obviously against a law, we rely on the ethics of those who manage the different parts of the system. Since very few of them possess any ethical sense whatsoever, correcting this injustice would require years of lobbying, lawmaking, and oversight, rather than a simple request to stop extrajudicial punishments.
>Amabainis et al refute a major conjecture about the biggest possible randomized/determinstic classical gap.

Sorry, but could you explain what that major conjecture is?
Hm? I don't think I made any claim that 'most fat people act the victim", only that the ones that do ruin it for everyone else because the large majority of the ones who make excuses are lying . If there wasn't some significant number of people who make these excuses - there wouldn't be jokes around the concept.

I think there's a case of miscommunication somewhere. I'm not saying most fat people are lying - but that most fat people who are making excuses are lying. Most fat people I know own up that it's their poor diet/lack of exercise/love of food that is the reason they are fat. However most people claiming that it is their genetics are typically lying. Which is why we have tasteless jokes around the idea. [0].

Quick disclaimer: an excuse can be legitimate and someone "making excuses" could have a legitimate excuse. Some do, but most people who attempt to use those excuses are lying. That is my claim and is what I recognize to be the majority opinion and the majority result.

[0] Tasteless joke http://i.imgur.com/dl09rDa.png
Probably it has something to do with software patents.

The cost of litigation in the US is very expensive, and players like Microsoft and Apple have legal teams that could litigate forever into destroying any small competitor.
You still have the problem of battery consumption by the mic listening 24/7
I once came across this AMA of a burglar on reddit, much more interesting than the above article: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eewou/iama_retired_cat...
This is the reason I like to use something like BananaTag[0] for all my emails. It helps provide me peace of mind, and transparency, even if the person on the other end has no intention of doing so.

[0] http://bananatag.com
I feel like Notch because I know I will never create something as popular as my first comic. I put so much more creativity and effort into writing this post but only a few hundred people read it.

http://kelukelu.me/interview/powerpose.html

Also, I'm embarrassed by how bad my art is. I was learning to use a brand new tablet.
No but everyone's "funny friend" is. I find humor to actually be a rare talent. Maybe very rare. How many Jon Stewarts are out there per million people?

I wonder if the copying a lot of young men do (endlessly quoting movies and such) is some kind of evolutionary trick to come off as funny or smart, like a bird fluffing its feathers to come off as a larger and stronger potential mate.

Yeah, that's pretty reductionist, but it really makes you wonder why this behavior is so common. Past "mating age" its insufferable if someone does it.
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>which somehow always seem to be experiencing unusually high call volumes...

That's because the times you call, by the laws of probability, are exactly the times when it is most likely to be busy. The same principle leads patients to estimate the business of a doctor's waiting room higher than the doctor or staff would.

There's a name for this type of phenomenon in the abstract, but it eludes me.
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Interviewing is actually very easy. Every job I post gets 100s of applicants - so finding them is not a problem. I've got a piece of software that lets me A/B these candidates resumes & profiles side-by-side so I rank-sort them quickly. And all "interviews" are small-boxed projects that I ACTUALLY PAY FOR THE WORK.

See, most interviews are along the lines of:
Q: Are you smart and good looking?
A: Yes!

This is why I don't really intervew all. When I take the "best" ranked applicants I give them actual work; small slices from our actual code base. I provide them a complete, functional dev environment with one restrciton: cannot commit to git. I can see their work directly, I work with them directly and get real-time data on what it's like to work with them, how they handle a project, how they communicate blockages, how they figure out our existing systems.

In four to eight hours of work I know who is the right fit for our team. My cost to find and filter is very very low and rather than waste 2-4 hours per interview for 10 candidates I pay for 16-24 hours of work for 2 or 3 candidates. The hard costs are the same, it consumes less of my (or my engineers) time and the candidate fit is very good.
What you will notice, after playing around a bit, is how incredibly sensitive the results are to interest rates and returns on investment.

Good thing those are easy to predict!
And you think if I solve fizzbuzz in 15 minutes on a sheet of paper, you can be sure I can handle those things?

That's the part I don't get. It's so arbitrary and artificial. All you can be sure of is that I can solve fizzbuzz in 15 minutes.

> Programming profession is hard and full of rough edges, unfortunately.

I agree completely, but I think paper programming exercises produce false positives AND false negatives.
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I think everyone would agree with your initial statement - there is a healthy amount of teasing and there is too much teasing.

After that, though, you start to give your opinion, and your own personal experiences, as if it were facts that apply to everyone.

You have no way of knowing that the OP comment indicates that s/he is "someone who is not in touch with the fact that he is over-teasing". Heck, you don't even know if s/he is over-teasing, something you call a fact.

Your opinion about that teasing should be left in childhood is just that, an opinion, and one that actually contradicts your earlier statement that there is a healthy amount of teasing.

I think I understand your point - some people excuse bad behavior with claims that they are "only teasing". That's valid criticism, but we need to address the specific behavior, though, not a whole method of interaction that can be used in a healthy way in adulthood.

If this behavior is the biggest issue two parents have between them then they need to have a discussion. Contrary to your comments, though, it's not clear that the teasing and challenging needs to decrease. It could be that they do, or they need to be done in a different way, or in an way that doesn't make the other parent uncomfortable, or many other solutions.

Like most internet discussions, we just don't have enough information to be sure.
Thanks, I totally agree with your advice. I actually did buy a whiteboard a while back, and drilled a lot of algorithm problems, and it's helped a lot.