skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author's complaint has merit, but I don't think tying this complaint to wanting Zelda to be "saved" makes sense.

The issue is genre. To take an extreme example, I might like the brutal open-world genre a la Dark Souls and complain that the Forza games are all garbage because they aren't that. Most would recognize this complaint as silly, because if I want a brutal open world with no hits I should find a game that purports to contain that, not go bashing racing games because I don't like that genre as much.

What the author's doing to Zelda obviously isn't as extreme, and it is a bit more grounded (Zelda games did used to be more like what the author wanted). But it's the same type of argument: back when there were no open world games, the author played one called Zelda and really liked it. Since then (starting with the third), almost /every single title in the series/ has been an extremely dungeon-focused, puzzle-focused game. The overworld has always been a big part, and there have always been some secrets, but the defining aspect of the genre has become these dungeons and puzzles.

This isn't to say the complaints are invalid; there's nothing wrong with wanting a game that is more hidden, less hand-holding, more focused on the action and less on the gimmicks that let you solve a puzzle. But that's not asking for a better version of Zelda, that's asking for a different genre altogether. Focus on asking for new titles in that genre, and leave other genres in peace.
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Reading this and other posts, is there even a market for an American Mediocre Programmer?

Seems like employers would rather just hire a H1-B from TCS instead because then they know are tied to them via the H1-B, whereas a mediocre programmer who is trained up would become a better programmer and might leave once they are good at their salary doesn't commensurate?
I was thinking the same things. When camping we use a simple water agitator to wash clothes, and we can bake bread in the noon day sun and a solar oven. But it does take time, but if that is how you choose to spend it (as we do while camping) then its great.
I just looked at their $ per kCal that they displayed under your currently selected order option and compared it to the same number for the powder. I do dislike swapping around serving sizes and stuff though since it's mostly arbitrary.
It's crazy. If you were really committed to not using AC, you could still put some bleach + detergent + cold water in a basin with your clothes to manually agitate, and then air dry.
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I also want to say that I quit my day job to start working as a freelancer about a year ago now and the HN freelancer thread has been a huge part of it from the get-go, so thank you, it's been an exceptional experience. Here's to the next year! :)
Is the light transport integral isomorphic to what Heckbert's paper [1] refers to as "gratuitous partial differential equations [2]," as explained by Fuller [3]?

>The “begetted” eightness as the system-limit number of the nuclear uniqueness of self-regenerative symmetrical growth may well account for the fundamental octave of unique interpermutative integer effects identified as plus one, plus two, plus three, plus four, as the interpermuted effects of the integers one, two, three, and four, respectively; and as minus four, minus three, minus two, minus one, characterizing the integers five, six, seven, and eight, respectively [3].

[1] http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~wrf/Teaching/graphics-s2005/heckber...

[2] https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/bg-equat...

[3] Fuller. R.B. Synergetics. MacMillan, New York, 1975,~. 125.
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Keep trying. It's a numbers game and as long as you're getting interviews you're on the right track.
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Lamps? There are full ovens with a Shabbat mode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode#Oven

"the standard six- or twelve-hour automatic shutoff is overridden"
Hi Daken,

Check out this video: https://vimeo.com/90597950
Pitampura, Delhi, and elsewhere in India for the right person

I'm hiring data scientists (and learners) at Visual Website Optimizer. To give a flavor for the type of work you'd do, think monitoring realtime data streams, developing new statistical models and packaging it all into deployable code. Day to day work ranges from writing math papers, using category theory and functional programming to build fault tolerant and scalable systems, and making sure the UI people don't miscommunicate the stats.

This is the perfect role for a good engineer looking to level up their statistics/data science. My blog (see my profile) also gives a good flavor for the role.

A quote from someone getting involved in the project: ...regarding the mails you sent yesterday related to less memory usage and post segmentation, they were really interesting.. spent the night reading about Probabilistic Data Structures... for me it was new as we never thought of it this way...

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The main thing the author complains about is difficulty. I'm playing through Skyrim for the first time now, and the fact is that no matter where you go, enemies level up as you do. With very few exceptions, there are no places you can go that are too dangerous for you at your current level.

The dungeon "puzzles" are almost insultingly easy, too. Even easier than typical modern Zelda dungeon puzzles.

I'm loving the game, especially the non-linearity and the numerous choices without clear right/wrong answers. But it really just does not provide what the author is looking for.
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Willing to relocate: no

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"Source? So what?"

Apologies for that intro, I had planned to delete it but I'll leave it so your comment makes sense. I was planning to expand a thought about how it's always the rich who casually conclude that lower taxes and less welfare will help the economy.

"Can people who are part of the lower earning rung of society give a unbiased opinion of the system?"

In a democracy, yes, they do. Someone who is lower down on the earning rung of society (say earning the median US income), has a far more accurate view of the "average" society than someone who is at the very top, merely because they represent an average citizen.

"Yes the evidence does speak for itself. Capitalism worked out pretty great for much of Western Civilization. Everywhere where more socialist approaches were tried it failed. Just ask all soviet countries', Japan, East Germany, China etc. citizens if they are happy."

East Germany no longer exists and Russia is essentially a dictatorship with a very powerful upper class of plutocrats, not unlike the US. The happiest countries in the world are Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada according to the World Happiness index. Do you notice a trend among those countries?

"America is not for nothing the land of opportunity, and it is not for nothing that emigrants are flocking to the USA, Europe and Australia."

Denmark has twice the social mobility of "the land of opportunity" as defined by the probability of someone born in the poorest 25% of society making his/her way up to the richest 25% of society within their lifetime. I don't think America is the land of opportunity, unless you count the children of the rich who were shuttled into Ivy Leagues as those with opportunity.

"Unfortunately the soviets discovered you cannot have a classless society. It is that drive to elevate yourself to a higher class that makes us want to achieve more than the absolute minimum required effort."

I do not disagree, it is impossible to have a completely classless society. But that does not mean that the lowest class cannot have a decent quality of life and financial security. I think it begins with education. After all, only 5.7% of the US population has an education above high-school level. (obviously skewed by <18s, but still a shocking number)
You might consider whether this is really a valid test, or just something that you _think_ truly evaluates whether a candidate can do the job. In my experience hiring, it's not that valuable. I do think some kind of screening for basic skills is valuable at the low/inexperienced end, but writing code in front of an expectant audience may not be it.

I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of shipping code, and I've faced this kind of code-for-an-interview process repeatedly. The last time I had to do it, I found that I actually choked on a simple string reverse problem.

It was a really basic algorithm; there was absolutely no difficulty with my understanding of how the algorithm worked, or how to code it. I just choked. I was talking to three people on Skype with a shared whiteboard, and I had to give up. It was very frustrating. This had more to do with the fact that I had been out of work for several months and was facing a huge amount of stress about things like paying the mortgage than it did with my actual abilities on the job.
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I really wanted to like it, but the directing and writing is just so sloppy and relies heavily on bashing you over the head with the message, it's hard to enjoy.

I mean, they literally had the "bad guy" go beat up a homeless man a few episodes in (it had nothing to do with the plot -- they just wanted to throw that in there) when his character became too sympathetic. For all the hours of this show that I watched, it still feels like the characters are very two dimensional, even the main character.

I did like some of the things they put in -- a recurring character revealing himself to be a hallucination of the main character when his reflection does not appear in a subway window, for instance. But it's just been difficult to slog through lately. Side plots that I normally wouldn't mind now feel like they're just thrown in to lengthen the series.
I don't think it's the fear of pushing to production on day one, but that a day one employee would not yet be able to produce anything worthwhile enough to push.

A very well tested codebase with resilient systems and tooling takes time to learn, it will take time for a person to become productive within it - and that time is a lot longer than the 4 or so hours you get on your first day after the legal paperwork is done ;)

So pushing on day one - regardless of dangers it poses to the system - seems like pushing to production for the sake of pushing to production.

On another note though - I've worked at companies that have adhered to best practices and done remarkably well with continuous deployment and testing, but the risk of a pushing code to production is never zero. The intent of testing and resiliency is to reduce the odds of catastrophe and increase your confidence in your systems - not to make you overly cavalier.
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GitHub readme.md to PDF and save in local
Location: Sydney

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Laravel, JS, MySQL, 'full stack'. C#. Happy to pick up and work with other tools.

Résumé/CV: https://au.linkedin.com/in/rhyswilliams0 (CV available on request)

Email in profile, immediate availability.
They were probably afraid that people wouldn't be able to figure out what to do if you didn't hold their hands during the first hour or so. After all the scripted events and lecturing, though, it's anything goes. They do provide some ways of getting hints if you get stuck, but you have to actively seek these out. By default, after the initial lecturing, if you see something interesting you can go explore it whenever you want.
Feynman's concept of scientific integrity
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We're hiring developers and many other positions. We're one of the fastest-growing companies in Arizona and we'd love to meet you!
The problem is whenever an attractive male engineer is on an ad, people say they're advertising to engineers which happen to be mostly men; and whenever an attractive female engineer is on an ad, people say they're advertising for men which happen to be mostly engineers. The values "embedded" in advertising comes from an understanding of the observer and the observer here is a male engineer, always.
Startup Lessons from the World's Oldest Companies
I have long wanted to fully switch to DC in my life and would love to see common appliances designed for a DC world. It's a shame that the opportunity to discuss this is lost in this post because of the pedantic tone of the author.

Phrases like "I think it was a bit presumptuous for the architect to assume I wanted a kitchen with my apartment and make me pay for it" or "I don’t want to live with red hot heating elements and razor sharp knives. That sounds like a torture chamber" are ridiculous, even if you really try hard to see them as an attempt of making a joke. The continuous references about how many books he has and reads also threw me off.

The best part, so far, is the first Discus comment at the bottom.
OK, thanks for the clarification.

Nonetheless, many sites do load dramatically faster with ad blocking. That's especially so with high-latency connections. I often use Tor through nested VPN chains, and total latency can be 1-2 seconds. Some sites are unusable without AdBlock and NoScript.
Beneficial Mental Attitudes
I imagine that the women in that picture is supposed to look like she's taking in a breath of fresh air, but she looks incredibly smug.
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Our security group is split into two teams - Security Operations and Security Governance. SecOps builds security software and features for our customers and employees (like two-factor authentication) and Security Governance performs security assessments on our existing and pre-release software. You would be joining me on the Security Governance team, doing web and mobile penetration tests, source code review and incident response.

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Speaking of GitHub, we use it for everything. Even our HR and marketing teams use GitHub. We are a very engineering-heavy organization. We also offer a lot of support for remote employees - I work fully remote from NYC. We use a private IRC server and Slack for chat, Zoom for video conferencing and we even have two Double Robotics robots in our office to remote into.

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Feel free to shoot me an email at dsaccomanni@simple.com, I'll be glad to talk more about the company or the role. If you'd like to apply, apply directly through the link above and I'll see your résumé.
Many of us aren't aware of our monthly food spending. If you were at a store, would you really stick with the $1 ramen lunch, or would you go for the $3.30 snack pack?

Do that once a day for a month and you have the same situation.
You have summed up my thoughts exactly.
If you're in a dry climate, it still seems like a bad idea to run a washer. Since he seems to be OK with high shipping costs, he could send his clothes somewhere that has more water to be washed.