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I agree that the hiring process is broken; but when I look at this, it just comes across as ordinary recruiting with some (snaps fingers) pizazz.

How do you help the hiring companies choose the right candidates?

In my experience, the best recruiters are those who bring in ideal candidates without being pushy or overselling. Do you have some objective way of ranking candidates? Do you filter out unqualified candidates?

(Snaps fingers) PiZZaZZZ!
This looks cool! Do you guys only coaching for junior/senior positions or internships as well?
Why is there a binary blob in their Android repo, and what does it do? Is it just compiled open-source Telegram code?
My guess is that they're saying 20% of the input electricity is wasted.
Is this just a thought experiment? If not, why not use that sun-electricity for more useful things?
From my understanding, judges/prosecutors are trying to make no mention whatsoever about nullification. Probably because then juror might actually consider it.

But I am not citizen and never been juror or witnessed one :) just read some wiki pages.
That's the theoretical view of the VCs that they propagandize and that is accepted pretty widely.

The reality is, VCs are herd animals, and when the herd is spooked they make a lot of stupid decisions.

I've seen this more than once-- a later company was forced to sell for $10M, by the VCs, during another "oh the money spigot might be turning off!"

It is not an orthogonal concern-- how was I to know the VCs were going to screw us over? The return would have been dramatically better if that hadn't happened.

So the lesson learned is-- the right company to work for is one where the founders either don't take VC money or are very distrustful of VCs and only take it on favorable terms.
> Yes, this process requires so little electricity that it can be powered by scrap solar panels.

What?? The amount of hydrogen released is equal to 82% of the electricity input. Why are you saying "so little electricity"? If you have "so little electricity" you also have "so little hydrogen".
Surprisingly good :)

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~szheng/crfasrnndemo/classify_url...
@venomsnake - That's a great method. Reminds me of the old coffee can + rock salt + ice approach.

"Perfect Scoop" is a superb book.

Another great read for an ice cream lover who loves nerding out is: "The Science of Ice Cream" by Chris Clarke. Some highlights:

-the equations of ice cream... for example ice cream mix is a shear-thinning liquid (solution of sugar/stabilizer and a suspension of fat droplets) with viscosity as a function of shear rate (aka power law fluid aka viscosity=b(shear rate)^n where b and n are empirical constants)

-particle size distribution chart for optimal mix

-force displacement curves for different ice creams with different ice contents

-microstructure breakdown during consumption

-melt down curves for stabilized vs unstabilized ice creams

-relationship between mean gas cell size and temperature over hardening time

-rheology of ice cream (aka comparing newtonian fluids where velocity gradient is proportional to shear stress i.e. not velocity gradient versus non-newtonian fluids like ice cream aka solutions with polymers which exhibit shear thinning)
> But there aren't very many FOSS clean-room implementations of Git, at least not this far down the chain (packfiles).

I know at least of gogit (https://github.com/speedata/gogit), if only a little, because I've contributed once to it. I don't want to belittle your project, but I'd like to know: what are the differences between gitgo and gogit ?

(I see at least one similarity: the name is extraordinarily unimaginative :)
Water is cheap, so converting X% of it to gas isn't the issue.

The main issue is how much energy are you putting in to get how much hydrogen gas. That hydrogen gas can be used to power a fuel cell (for example) which generates electricity.

Historically, the amount of electricity you get out of that conversion cycle (through the production of hydrogen gas) isn't great (don't have numbers in front of me). If they're improving that ratio, that is good news. If they're doing it with a cheap and durable catalyst, that's even better news.
"And unfortunately, no community can completely avoid politics and groupthink at all times. So if you see a large number of people who seem like they will violently disagree with any but the most tactful of arguments then you can always just let them have their echo chamber and move on."

This was my entire point of posting everything, and the HN community made it quite nicely: real science can't be accomplished because group think and politics are getting in the way.

Silencing political opinions (this has become a political opinion now) is never the answer.

Thanks HN, I just wanted to thank you all for making my point for me, so I didn't really need to.
Ah, different language, same script. TIL.
> Probably best used in large industrial scenarios, e.g. storing excess energy from solar or wind, and fueling gas turbine generators at night or low-wind periods.

That's burying the lede a bit surely? If this process could actually be cheaper than nat. gas power plants as a backup for solar or wind grid electricity generation—or, of course, ideally if it could be cheaper than just forgetting about solar or wind and simply generating all that grid power using natural gas—then that would be big news, right? Any viable application to transport would just be icing on the cake.
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I was tempted to make the same comment. But that enforces the idea that the first team to implement a feature is the only team ever allowed to mention it.
I wonder if the numbers have improved any in the 13 years since that was written.
Your friend sure appreciated that...
Yes because Go generates static binaries and requires no toolchain. Once you link a C library, you loose these benefits and cross-compiling returns to the "normal" difficulty. In addition to that, Go code may be buggy but it's safe, while linking a C library means dropping this guarantee.

So in the Go ecosystem it is actually preferred to use pure Go libraries not to loose these benefits.
Well, there's all that federal land, right?

Personally I just walk out my door - I have 80 acres of rolling hills, trees, occasional waterways, deer, pheasant and miscellaneous critters. Bought by selling my quarter-acre in San Jose and relocating.
I had an idea the other day of using electrolysis at the bottom of an extremely deep water filled shaft to generate gas bubbles that could be harnessed to turn turbines as they rose to the surface.

Whether that could ever be more efficient than other power generation methods I have no idea. I guess the initial construction and ongoing maintenance requirements might make it not cost efficient. It was a fun idea to think about though!
Well, carbon dioxide's interaction with infrared radiation would be more studied by physics than chemistry.

Also, I kind of hate these types of statements. I could say something like, "Anybody that knows anything about music should know that parallel minor of A Major is F# minor," but it's not like I would be adding anything to any discussion by saying such.
Well, it really depends on one's definition of spam. I personally consider emails that are bulk and unsolicited, but provide some sort of actual information or help to not be "spam" but instead just call it what it is, a bulk, unsolicited email. To move it over to the spam category, I also would require it not be at all useful to me. Of course, that's just me, which is why I asked the question.
Advocacy. That process. Not unique to the USA.
So obviously some human actions can make the planet uninhabitable, so humans are capable of impacting the planet. The question therefore isn't whether humans are "big enough" but whether particular human actions are impacting the planet.

My entire point was that the line of reasoning that we're not big enough to impact the planet is nonsense since not only do smaller things than us impact the planet, but there's indisputable methods we are capable of rendering the planet uninhabitable.
What when I want to login at a computer but don't have my phone with me?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_hydride adsorbtion? It works, but it's rather expensive.
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Hi there,

At http://InterviewKickstart.com, we're trying something similar, but from the other size viz. Candidates.

Our hypothesis is, that if someone showed candidates how to prepare rigorously for interviews, how good engineers actually do things, and how to think about things the right way, then they'd avoid making several mistakes in interviews and at work.

We're taking a very hands-on detailed human approach. Because interviews are more like a date, than they are like a test.
It's also technically more challenging.
#!/bin/bash
#
# 'High Performance' Server Statistics for Ubuntu

LINEONE=$(landscape-sysinfo | grep Memory | awk 'BEGIN { FS = " " } ; { print $1 }' | tr ' ' '-')
LINETWO=$(landscape-sysinfo | grep System | awk 'BEGIN { FS = " " } ; { print $1 }' | tr ' ' '-')
URL=http://memegen.link/10guy/$LINEONE/$LINETWO.jpg
wget $URL --quiet --output-file /var/www/stonedserverstats.jpg

Demo:
http://memegen.link/10guy/--memory-usage:-45%25/--system-loa...
No, that's not the ground truth. That's the rationalization that founders tell themselves to justify being screwed over.

If you take someone else's money, they should get ownership proportional to their investment, yes. Their impact on whether original management retains control should be proportional to their ownership.

The problem is, the crazy ideology of VC worship that has taken hold allows VCs to get disproportional control and chunk of the proceeds.

People are saying that founders shouldn't be wary of VCs. VC blogs are full of propaganda and rationalizations for giving them more control and more upside than is proportional to their investment. When the blogs make it to HN, the commentary is universally in support wit the rationalization that "they're taking risk, they need to protect it". They are taking a lot less risk than the founders who can only work for one company, nota portfolio... and the risk VCs are taking is covered by their equity. They don't need second and third helpings of control and equity to cover the risk.

I'm getting downvoted for saying VCs are idiots. (elsewhere people are getting upvoted for saying "Deniers are morons", so it's not the name calling. Its' the "if I can just get thur YC and get VC funding I'll have it made!" ideology that pervades HN.
This is basically it. Don't get me wrong, it can take a lot talent and hard work to hit it big, but alongside that that talent is a large series of fortunate events (luck) that helped that person achieve their goal, whether it happened to be timing, networking, etc.
Need to review films of rush-hour traffic in Delhi. Cars stream pell-mell through intersections as a living fluid. No such thing as nosing forward to indicate anything. Its a whole different world.
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One of our applications has user generated content with a geolocation attached to each of the items. For several selections we want to show the top 10 nearest items. If they are only a few, the radius has to be very large to have some items in the result set.

Currently the Geo module only supports a range up to 20.000 km. So your idea does not work at the moment. I agree that those items are not really "nearby", but to be consistent through out the application it would be nice to be able to select without a max distance.
I'm fine with describing Uber that way too. I didn't go out of my way to do so, because I was replying in-kind to someone who was asking why people defend Uber; I was merely pointing out the same could be said of the Taxi industry.
It wasn't libel the last time you brought it up and it isn't libel this time. Soon failed to disclose non-trivial amounts of funding that he received from parties who have a vested interest in deriding climate science. Given how often his work has failed to pass muster when scrutinized by climate scientists and skeptics, it is hard to fathom how any of this can amount tosimple incompetence.
I'd always wondered why query engines don't create such temporary indices, for example in the case of large subquery queries, where creating and index AND doing the query with an index runs way faster in total than waiting for it to run without the index. Any insights on this? I guess predicting the gain could be difficult.
I'm probably going to get a lot of negative comments. I've a simple theory for compensation. First, pay me salary and bonus for my work that I deserve in a given market, for a set of skills and experiences I'll be bringing in. And second, give me stocks for the risk I'm taking on a nobody inc. 9 out of 10 companies or hiring managers don't give a second thought about failed startups and its stories.
On OS X, why does sudo ls show hidden (dot) files?
Study Says Mars Had a Lot of Water Just 500,000 Years Ago
The process, as described, used 1.5v. That can be produced by a common solar panel. Thus we can scale it. And spread it across a small amount of time.

Did you and everyone think I was proposing to use gigawatts and electrolyse 1% of ocean water in a few seconds? O_o
One way you can use a higher mutation rate is to only mutate children, but keep the parents without mutation (as the first two children of the next generation). That way you can always remember the 'best of previous generations.

Or, you can vary the mutation rate with a normal curve -- so say most of the population gets a small rate, but a small percentage gets a wildly higher rate and wildy lower rate.
I paid for it because I've found it superior than all the other text editors I've used (those that are comparable e.g. Atom / MS Code just seemed to steal all it's ideas). Plus it's a business expense so you save on the taxes.

It's:

* Cross-platform

* A small scale team

* One license and I can install it on all my machines

* Excellent plugins [1]

* Fast

* Low memory usage / leaks

* Lovely UI - tabs, distraction free, removal of dividers, scroll bars, text rendering

* Great syntax highlighting (I'm a solarized fan and it's implemented very faithfully)

* Originator of some very good and well implemented ideas (AFAIK) - Crtl+Shift+P, Distraction Free, Document Map

* F12 to go to the definition of the function / method

[1]: http://txfx.net/2014/11/08/my-sublime-text-3-packages/
Slack is non-optimal for open source projects because each project will require you to have yet another Slack account. It also isn't IRC-like. With Gitter, you can be on multiple projects at once in one client UI.

So different use cases mean a different product might be better. Particularly if business concerns limit how one can use existing products.
Hmm, I wouldn't try that again.

Prosecutor: In Officer Wiggum's evidence he stated that you said you had a
"pretty good idea" why he pulled you over. Is that correct?
You: I guess.
Prosecutor: And what was that idea?
Really, I think from what I've read, there was some talk about sun-spots, which actually lower the sun's temperature or something. I'm really not convinced that they are measuring the correct value there at all.....
As someone outside to redis development, I'd like to know: is Dynamic Redis that more performant than good ol' lua scripts that it's worth introducing potential incompatibilities between redis instances deployments ? I stumbled upon the old discussion about adding a scripting language to redis, and the number 1 requirement was that additional code should be "migratable" very easily from instance to instance.

A related question: is there some kind of repo for "useful lua scripts that everybody could use but didn't make it in core redis (yet)" ?
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In other words "It's easy to make money if you have a lot of it already"?

Useful advice for a micro-fraction of the population, but this sounds like advice on "How best to wax your yachts" compared to even the average developer.
Please could someone correct the grammar in the question?
VCs are terrible at this. I can't tell you how many times in the past 20 years I've heard VCs say things like "you should move into [tangentially related area that we can't add value to that just had a big exit]"

For instance, when youtube got bought, VCs were all interested in investing in online video companies. At that point, though, Youtube had already been bought! They were like 5 years too late.
I've thought about the problem before, and I think a good model is the judiciary. You can "lobby" the Supreme Court, but only via amicus curiae[1] briefs.

This preserves the benefits of lobbying (conveying to the ruler that "if you do this, you will cause this bad thing"), but makes it more obvious when someone is receiving bad arguments.

Unfortunately, representatives aren't required, like the Supreme Court, to declare "I'm voting this way because of these considerations", and it's not a 100% good thing either -- sometimes there are politically sensitive compromises where candor is punished at the polls.

[1] "Friend of the court"
Once again, these aren't so much opinions as they are mathematical facts. The modal outcome for a portfolio of startup A rounds is a 0% return on investment. If fully half the companies in a portfolio exit in the money --- which seems wildly optimistic --- and their average return is 150%, the portfolio loses money.

Nobody is entitled to venture capital. Plenty of people start companies without it.
It boggles my mind that people use the term sealioning unironically. How can it possibly be that a sensible person thinks it's ok to make a hateful statement in a public place and when someone asks clarification about it they are the harassers?!

You are not a priest preaching to the ignorant congregation, if you don't want to deal with the bullshit get off the fucking podium.
. . .

Yes, this is a thought experiment.

Were you seriously concerned that I had a solution for rising ocean levels?
End-to-end encryption by default kills one of the advantages of Telegram - crossplatform history synchronisation.
Really? Ireland has 13% of the population density of England, and around 1% of the population density of Greater London, both of which are keeping their heads above water just fine.
Interesting! Thank you for your answer. I have previously heard that people use that to do cache server for websites. How does that use case is covered by reddis? Also, what are other common use cases for reddis? Thank you.
Look, bare hydrogen from electrolysis is not magic and not that useful. Hydrogen is a pain to store.

What it is useful for is as input to the Sabatier reaction, where it can be combined with CO2 (if you can extract it from the atmosphere without expending too much energy) to produce methane. Which can be stored or turned futher into gasoline, jet fuel, etc.

Or you could just use free Canadian propane: http://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=1041736&men... or any of the natural gas being flared at the moment because it's too cheap.
I'm certainly not here saying "if I can just get thur YC and get VC funding I'll have it made!". I bootstrapped my last company and am bootstrapping this one. The mathematics of VC are a big part of why.
That went from 6.6 -> 5.6mb - super heavy footer, or what else changed ?
Eh, you're right. Transporting water is stupid, I wasn't thinking that through very well.

That said energy in different mediums does have different useful properties, and while transporting water may not be too bright, the fact that it's fairly ubiquitous at many locations, and while hydrogen may be hard to store and transport, I believe in some instances it's easier to transport than electricity when there's no infrastructure in place.

I interpreted the top level comment's stance as this is a non-story because converting water to hydrogen is worthless (or at least it's worth hasn't changed). I still reject that stance, as I think efficient conversion between mediums may open possibilities that we previously discounted, so may be strategically useful.
Why can't I be told what the strike price will be for the options for the next four years?
It's not a simply "$100k/$30M = Equity" situation, and I wasn't expecting people to go into this much detail.

My equity at hiring time was probably %1.5, I think. But there was vesting, of course, and also a whole lot of unsavory business, mostly perpetrated by the VCs.

Trying to go into the detail and tangle out exactly why I got what I got would be just airing a lot of drama from the past and not really applicable to others.

I only presented those numbers because they're two objective facts from the best payout I got working for a startup.
It's an interesting idea. It seems a little crazy to go through the extremely energy intensive process of electrolysis just to create a gas, but you could recapture the gas and use it for something.

There's got to be a catch though. I think it's going to be that gas is too light to effectively move a turbine so the amount generated will be really small (i.e. smaller than the electrolysis costs)
If you add enough oxygen, and keep adding oxygen, then eventually you'd get enough to breathe?

Earth air is mostly a mixture of 72% nitrogen, 24% oxygen, 6% carbon dioxide, and other stuff. Could humans breathe if they were in an environment that was 78% carbon dioxide and 24% oxygen? (IANADoctor)
Cool one! Thankfully postgres allows creating indexes concurrently (without blocking writes) but 'hypothetical indexes' seem more convenient.

What would be even cooler though is the ability to see multiple plans considered (and rejected) by the planner with all associated costs. It often takes a lot of painful guesswork to understand why particular superior plan is not used.
How are you able to find opportunities to invest in early stage startups though?
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