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> This is an article about a different trade agreement.

It's about a trade agreement which demonstrates that trade agreements can change laws even against obvious reasons not to. Q.E.D. Now check bad aspects of TPP which go beyond current law, and you can reasonably assume that local laws can change to match that as well. I already brought you DMCA-1201 as another example.

And you can assume that it would be much harder to fix what's already bad in the law, because of such agreement even if it doesn't change that. I.e. it just preserves that bad. For example TPP requires certain copyright length. It means that current reforms in US in that aspect (shortening of the copyright) could be easily stalled with an argument "but international trade agreement obligations!".

So, any claims that such trade agreements have no effect on the law is simply a lie.
Maybe not walking speed, but perhaps biking speed? Text messages? Caller id (for screening calls)?
Cultural observations: Lots of people currently believe in the idea of go to school, get degree, get great job, and work hard, get ahead or at least don't get downsized. Today we laugh at people in my grandfather's generation who had weird employment ideas like lifetime employment at one firm, college isn't necessary, and no women allowed (well, we laugh at dinosaurs like that outside silicon valley where its still prevalent, etc).

Cultural analysis and conclusion: Generation AJSKGJ, or whatever the marketing people will call tomorrows kids, are highly likely to laugh at our ideas like the previously mentioned "school/degree/job" or "work hard get reward or at least not punished" axis of evil.

We have other weird cultural hangups that'll likely look weird in the future, its hard for us to understand how nationalistic foreign cultures (nazis, communists, etc) in the early 20th century were all into promoting the nation ahead of their citizens, yet today we see corporations as the only important members of our culture and we're mere resources to be thrown away at their whim, this is likely to look equally weird in the future. Or how about endlessly describing boring old corruption as holy capitalism, thats going to look totally weird to people in the future.
I find it presumptuous that the authors lay depression and so forth at the feet of unemployment and not the obvious: poverty.

If folks could live, unemployed, receiving mincome that supported a reasonable quality of life, is there a reason to believe these various effects would still be a major issue?
I wrote a similar thing with an emphasis on multiple analyzed fields (making it slower to index) but much more flexible to query.

https://github.com/andrewvc/wikiparse/tree/java

That being said, when it comes to indexing wikipedia, the indexing can be done well across multiple threads internally by elasticsearch. Multithreading the reading/parsing isn't a huge win. Doing decompression in a separate thread is however.
It'd be fascinating if it was primitive life - some form that doesn't require water to sustain. Would definitely throw some perspective into the very earth-centric idea of life
There are areas in the world where coca cola is cheaper and more readily available than clean water. Are you trying to say that the only reason for that is that most people prefer it that way?
"The really exciting point comes when we can re-run all this analysis, basing it on actual job performance, rather than interview results"

I'm not sure how this gets around the circularity arguments though, since you never get to evaluate the job performance of someone you selected out already. Only the tiny fraction of coders that make it past the initial test get evaluated, which could serve to reinforce the potential biases rather than ameliorate them.

The one case in which this would work is if they hired a number of coders that didn't work out well, and could add or update a feature as a negative predictor of job success.

I'm assuming that they're not at the scale of a larger company with thousands of engineers, and that the observations going into a regression model are relatively sparse. If this is a startup with a 20 hires, I'd be surprised if there was much to do to refine the model after a round or two of evaluations, but would be excited to learn otherwise.
"Stress" is not some monolithic, universal feeling. This line gets trotted out frequently in these discussions, but no one has shown a correlation between the types of stress induced in interview situations and the types of stress induced in whatever situations are typical for your company. I would hesitate to even equate the stress of high-pressure situations in different companies.
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I'm not sure, I'd already left reddit by then. We tried to get him to do an AMA in 2008 but he wasn't interested. :)
University of Chicago can't afford secretaries? What do they put academics through this crap? This is part of why PhD students drop out and become dotcom millionaires instead of academics.
Where "Best" = "Most performant". Of course, there's other ways to judge a regex - readability, specificity, robustness...

In most places I used regexes, efficiency is the least of my concerns, though for a company whose product is focused around parsing massive amounts of logs, focusing on performance does make sense.
Ask HN: What's a bad programmer?
About 4-5 times a month the number one topic on HN is a post about how to hire the perfect programmer. For reasons outside the scope of this discussion I find them annoying.

I'd really like to hear experiences with bad programmers - from people who have actually worked with them instead of just interviewed them. Was it personality - passion - tech debt creation - they destroyed your billion dollar empire? Thanks!
Out of curiosity, what do you use for Android Development with Emacs? I haven't tried for a while but last time I did I couldn't create a setup comparable to Android Studio.
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That's actually really surprising. I was part of the Digg exodus and I'd barely heard about Reddit at the time of the v4 debacle, while Digg was a pretty big brand in tech circles. Was it just better marketing while Reddit actually had a larger-but-quieter userbase at the time?
I think people have this viewpoint because Reddit's popularity exploded after Digg v4 (August 2010):

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=digg%2C%20reddit&cmp...

It could be that Digg "power users" moving to Reddit helped it gain even more traction.
IP-IP is the first encapsulation supported, but the Fan is engineered in a way that any encapsulation scheme can be added easily. We'll be adding support for VXLAN, GRE, STP tunnels as well. My colleagues will have blog posts about how to enable Kubernetes clusters with Fan Newtorking.
Insulin resistance is defined by abnormally high blood glucose concentration in the presence of insulin. It may be true that for sedentary people who consume a typical western diet, abnormal is "normal" but that doesn't justify the statement "everyone has insulin resistance to some degree".

As for "spiking" insulin levels as the cause for insulin resistance, that is hardly proven. Inflammation has been shown to directly induce insulin resistance. Current evidence seems to indicate the problem is blood glucose levels remaining elevated (despite elevated insulin); this happens because there is a limit to the rate of receptor mediated transport.
What's going to happen whem Word is dead is 20 years and they have all these useless files?
...I guess i just misunderstood the nature of your question. Yeah there's no way to tell if the history is everything they send or just the commands it heard. But at least it's something. Guess you're looking for something more along the lines of this type stuff

https://www.piettes.com/hacking-alexa-the-new-amazon-echo/

http://echo.amazon.com/js/eb25f-app.min.js

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_l...

But who knows. they could still be hiding stuff. time will tell

// TIL about JTRIG. neat! HN wouldn't let me use TravCav. Search that if you're curious.
That document is from 2013; did the government even know Force was guilty of anything at the time?

And that doesn't prove your claim that he was sentenced to life based on Force's testimony, only denied bail. There's quite a large gap between those two claims.
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What visa do you have now?
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There's IPv6 in some clouds. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=536049
A world without work was a pretty common vision in the 1960s. And the 1860s

But humanity has a remarkable capacity to invent new outlets to fill our waking hours as we redeploy resources used to make stuff to make other stuff or sell stuff. We didn't have (or foresee!) social media managers or video game designers in the 1960s. And software doesn't just make our production efforts scale, it makes our consumption scale. You can fit far more lifestyle apps on your phone than chairs around your table, and a couple of decades back few people would have foreseen mobile phone apps as a category of product that needed people to make, still less an industry reportedly topping up the paycheques of a million Europeans.

I'm not seeing the developed world's desire for more stuff reach satiation point, and if anything desire to subsidise unemployment is trending in the opposite direction.
Another major concern in 2008 was how little equity homeowners had in their property. If they had financed 100% of their loan, had exotic loans, or paid interest only, etc., then they weren't actually losing any money to walk away from a property. We're now seven years on, which means a hypothetical homeowner who financed 100% in 2008 may now hold about a 15% equity stake. That home could lose 15% of its value and the owner could still sell it to pay off their loan.
Plato made plenty of bad arguments, too, and there are a lot of arguments that go back to his time. Anyone who is learning a language receives a constantly stream of feedback about how their communication is perceived, whether or not this feedback is explicit, modeled correct behavior, or delivered simply through incomprehension. Children are constantly deducing good and bad hypothetical "rules" all the time, and putting them to the grim and unforgiving test of trying to get people to understand them. Kids will happily overapply a general rule (like forming a past tense with "-ed" with a strong verb, "I readed it") even in the face of constant explicit negative input, but if they try a bad rule of syntax they'll get a string of gobbledygook that people don't understand and may even ask for clarification.

There are many, many fewer linguistic universals than some would have you believe, and many of these are best explained as similar tradeoffs between different needs, rather than a universal underlying pattern mysteriously encoded in the human mind.

The centrality of the distinction between linguistic competence and linguistic performance is exactly one of the bad premises of Chomskyan linguistics. The ideal speaker-hearer is as worthy a topic of scientific study as a unicorn: nothing more than a thought experiment. But then, Chomsky was not trying to describe the psychological reality of language use and language production, but rather articulate a formal system that could represent the structure of carefully curated and constructed phrases.

Humans are embodied, and they have things like working memories and perceptual metaphors. And human languages are not formal schemes of rules, but rather a complex and messy welter of social conventions.
I can only follow that argument if we're talking about citizens that already have assets. Increased competition for houses, used cars, and rentals will drive up prices, which is good news only if you own houses, cars, and rental property respectively.
Great point. This gets at the impossible endogeneity of the subject. Are the jobless miserable because they're poor, lonely, bored, or distraught? Well, perhaps they are lonely and bored because they can't afford to socialize. And perhaps they're distraught because they're failing to live up to a cultural expectation that, with more wealth and more redistribution, wouldn't exist. Etc etc.

One last thing, apropos of nothing except my stream-of-consciousness typing and the feeling that somebody might bring it up here, is that some people have pointed out to me on Twitter that I should have studied students or retired people, who both seem pretty happy and don't work. I don't accept the comparison. Students essentially have a job with school and a camaraderie on campus that the unemployed have lost when they lose the water cooler. (It is, perhaps, important to note that people choose to go to school in order to find a job, and what happens to college attendance if the expectation of full-time work takes a hit?) Retirees, for their part, do seem happy overall, but those with comfortable retirements are living on savings that they earned through work and they have the pride of having worked to earn their retirement. This is one of the hardest things about imagining the demise of a full-time workforce: Where else could this sort of pride come from?
people failed to realize while still in time that the outsourcing of manufacturing would have destroyed the production chain of all related goods.

even if one were to reduce labor costs to china level, china has the infrastructure (technological and industrial) to build things and the countries that were abandoned 20 years ago do not, not anymore and not at the level they have.

it is not about, say, producing mobile phones or cars, it's about the steel and plastic they need. and at least all around my area all refineries and mills are long gone. even if we drive down labor prices, china is now technically more advanced than us and at a scale we would never reach.
Let us not forget that the Sierra Club proudly proclaims on their website that, "2014 was a monumental year for dam removal projects. A record-setting 72 dams were removed across 19 states...While the best reasons to do away with old dams are certainly the ecological ones, it doesn’t hurt that the massive detonations involved are pretty dam fun to watch."

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2015-2-march-april/green-li...

These people are not anti-fossil fuels or anti-hydro or anti-nuclear; they are anti-development as such. They reap the rewards of an industrialized energy-rich economy which can provide them lives past 70, decreased child mortality, eradication of most disease, incredible mobility, plentiful food, etc., while they decry the means by which this life is made possible.
> Why are people so afraid to pick up the phone and talk to references?

First, references are chosen by the candidate, so they are almost universally expected to say good things.

Second, many companies explicitly prohibit their employees from giving meaningful references about former employees. Relying on a process that needs people to violate company policies or to have moved on from the role wherein they worked with the candidate is not really a good idea.
Great news! Now reproduce it again, independently, in more labs.

Sidenote re: the photo: would one expect the device here to be in some sort of insulated box? Or are the cameras sufficient to do all the accounting?
Neat idea, especially for someone like me who's trying to get out of support and into development.

From Triplebytes' FAQ:

"When do I meet companies?

If we decided to work together after giving you feedback post our technical interviews, we'll start introducing you to the companies and guiding you through their hiring process."

So, just to be clear, first you quiz/screenshare/interview with Triplebyte, and then you still have to go through each company's search process? Or do companies partner with Triplebyte to fast-track candidates who've already been vetted?
We're talking only about the "in their own time" take-home types of tests. The type of cheating I'm talking about is outsourcing the problem or even just having a friend do it for them.
hiking, biking/rollerscating, enjoying a picnic, having friends over for card/board games, having a lan party are also valid and cheap/free alternatives :)
Yep I've been burned a couple times by this and only under certain circumstances will I do a take home project.
Even worse is when they also ask before hand not to post it to your github account. If they aren't going to give me feedback, then I'm going to host it and seek it out elsewhere.
Up and till approx the 40s we imported our culture from Europe -as did much of the rest of the economies of the world. American culture exports didn't become popular till the US became an economic power to contend with.

In Asia, however, the cultural exporters, at the moment, are Japan and Korea, not so much China, despite its economic size. Fortunately and unfortunately, Asia is more pragmatic about cultural imports. There isn't the OMG our indigenous culture is being subverted and devoured!!

The pragmatism is in the form of foreign ideas with Asian values which seems to make the ideas less problematic.

Never the less, I think in many places, it's uncertainty or inferiority and superiority complexes which give rise to ideas of wanting to preserve culture. A fear of change. In the US people lament the change in our culture for 'the worse', as some believe. In other places, similar local changes are interpreted as 'westernization'. But really, do they want to go to how their culture existed in 1900, for example?
> Am I wrong to think if I'm going to manage a 60-100 person organization across three timezones I don't really need to be under the hood in the code any longer?

An organization that does this is hiring stupidly. They have clearly demonstrated via interview that they don't understand the job to be done and/or how to determine that a candidate can do that job. Asking low-level technical questions is a terrible way to answer what I'll guess was the intended "question", something like:

Does this candidate understand the technology and work well enough to make executive decisions grounded in our organization's reality?
Yeah, I agree this is surprising. If all the data in their CPU implementation were stored in a well-packed columnar format, I'd expect something close to theoretical memory throughput on the query they describe (intermediate counts table fits easily into L1/L2 cache and results are commutative and associative). Cache-coherence issues in the aggregation code are a possible cause.

If I were building a speed-freak analytics database I'd be focusing on making my CPU implementations as fast as possible, since that's what 99% of potential customers are already running. Assuming you get to 40GB/s on this type of query, that's only a factor of 5 slower than the GPU implementation. I'd imagine that for most workloads, a factor of 5 speedup that requires new hardware and lots of energy is kind of a non-starter.
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Depends on what the average and standard deviation are. If the average is shitty in the absolute sense, I probably want one well above average. If the average is stellar, I probably don;t care as long as I am not getting bottom of the barrel.
Only slightly related, but for as much as Americans consider ourselves inextricably linked with Europe, we're much more similar both economically and culturally to South America. The average American's life looks a lot more like that of an office worker in Colombia or Brazil than it does someone in Berlin or London. This is likely because South American countries developed using the USA as a model, but it's interesting nonetheless.
This strikes too close to home. I am packing my bags and heading out soon too.
I have spent 5 years here and have a masters in computer science from a top ranked school. The H1B visa is essentially a lottery which locks out talent from American companies. I failed to get a visa through the lottery process and I have to head back home too.
Agreed, it would be more useful to know the false negative rate (i.e. those incorrectly 'rejected' by fizzbuzz). The small / negative correlation could just be caused by a high number of false positives.
Interview stress is of the type I call "defusing the bomb": everything at stake, essentially immediate time constraints and confrontational. This never occurs in real life.
"I think it's reasonable, for the purposes of HN discussion, to use the 2-8% figure with a qualifier as I did ("if the 2-8% error rate is correct")."

I understand that, and what I am saying is that I don't care if the person who wrote the editorial was a judge or any other person, his numbers aren't cited in any way shape or form and are left to rest completely on his laurels. That's fine for an op-ed, but you then latching onto those numbers, even with a qualifier, still undermines your position on the matter.

"You also misinterpreted the contents of my link."

Indeed, I seem to have focused too much on the tax crime angle, so I'll cede this point, but I still think that the numbers backing your linked blog are dubious, eg;

"In one study of his 10 of his colleagues by Judge Weinstein..."

"In a larger survey of federal judges throughout the country... Of the 171 judges who responded"

"ther attempts at empirical studies of these issues show that judges and suggest that jurors are all over the lot on the issue."

All I am saying is this: Show me the empirical studies and not the hugely biased numbers from some small pool of judges being asked how they rate their average conviction probability.

Sorry for the haste and missteps in my original comment.
I do not see a big benefit from that. Reading from the DOM will already be fast and can be handled in one thread. And you won't have concurrent reads if another thread is writing to the DOM.

I think the designers of web workers made this decision thoughtfully. Other environments like iOS and Android only have one UI thread as well.
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Sorry I didn't mean to suggest that at all. When I wrote "the ills of unemployment go well beyond the loss of income" that was my way of saying loss of income is the first-order outcome of losing a job, but there are more complicated effects to consider.

The reason I focus on the other effects is that, in deciding how government/culture might rearrange itself to replace work, I think it's critical to see that work is about more than money--and the benefit of work is about more than a paycheck. It is about esteem, flow, purpose, community, a sense of meaningfulness in life, and it's not clear to me that all of those things comes with a monthly government check; so it's useful to think of ways we could replace these values in the future.
Hell, modern theory has it that the pyramids were in essence a type of stimulus program to keep folks busy and fed (and no, they were not in fact slaves)!