skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But do you want someone who cannot handle an interview?

Perhaps take-home testing works if you want a "code monkey" who can sit in a box churning out code according to specifications, but I cannot think of a company that doesn't want more. The ability to interact with others in sometimes stressful environments is, imho, an essential skill for all.

There is also the danger that companies will turn these "tests" into work product. I did an interview last year (legal) that requested "writing samples" on very particular and timely subjects. Once I realized the game I asked them to sign a copyright agreement. They got screaming mad and tried to get me to sign all sorts of NDA junk.
Depends on how large the company is. For small startups, a glassdoor review might be specific enough to identify the candidate. Bigger companies, I suspect won't care and/or don't have take-home tests.
This x100. I hate these interviews as one of the first exercises. More than once over the years I have spent 5+ hours doing a coding exercise for a company only to get a one sentence response, telling me that my "code fell short". If I pressed them further they might say my code was "hard to read" or "not what they were looking for". Vague, unhelpful, and pitiful responses. 0 interaction. No chance for a rebuttal.

Its a very lopsided assessment. Normally an in interview you can judge the company while the company judges you. That way in an hour interview you both can probably tell its not a good fit. If I'm applying and coding in python and within 15 minutes of a live coding exercise they tell me I shouldn't use list comprehensions because they are hard to read, I'd be out of there faster than I could measure. If I just spent 5 hours coding to get the same response? I'd get a little upset.

When I give critical feedback I will typically go through line by line and tell the candidate what is wrong and what is good. This is done with the candidate, since nobody is 100% correct so my judgement might be wrong and they can correct me. Many, many companies skip this crucial part and as a candidate you don't know if they are going to do it or not, so why waste your time?
Thank you for that, that was an incredible article. I was ultra surprised that just after finishing that, this popped up on HN's front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9970336
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All I'm asking is to show me the numbers and quantify that risk. With dozens of drones flying around there's minimal risk, but what's the risk look like when there are many hundreds or thousands of drone flights every day across every city? People and buildings have already been hit by drones despite the fact that drones are relatively rare.
True story for almost anything in food. The industry is famous for razor thin margins. We're passionate about small-scale local food systems and the ability of certain models of said systems to better weather economic downturns. That's all a part of our larger mission and vision, to see which systems work and promote them. Wish us luck =)
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Alleging Labor Abuses, U.S. and Mexican Workers Call for Boycott of Driscoll’s Berries

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17865/alleging_labor_a...

http://boycottsakumaberries.com/why-boycott/
I view these as a good litmus test for the company too. If they won't answer a question about the problem, or think it's very self explanatory, it might mean they're not the best at communicating.

I recently did a clojure problem where in the gist itself I asked for feedback and showed my thought process, but crickets until a month later when I followed up and they said they had moved on. I think it was for the best.

A good preventative measure might be agreeing beforehand on a time to discuss the solution. I know I certainly will next time.

Also hiring managers need to ACTUALLY read code. There have even been times I've asked if they've read my code before doing a lengthy drive, they've said yes, only to realize upon getting there they haven't. If you won't take some time to assess the code I've written and put my name on, I don't think I should be expected to drive 3 hours to meet you.
I think setting up a regular UPS truck with a couple of drones that land on the roof to pick up small packages and deliver them is pretty compelling.

In Houston there are only a couple of logistic centers for UPS and FedEx and whatnot. You wouldn't have a drone fly 40 (or maybe 100) miles round-trip to deliver a package all the way across town.

But if every regular delivery truck has 2x or 3x drones on top they can make small package deliveries without the driver stopping on his route as he/she delivers the bigger packages. The ones too heavy for a drone to lift.

The drones could make deliveries during the driver's lunch break which is a nice bonus. An hour with the truck parked in the same spot.

You could also have drone-specific semis that go on a very slow rotation around the city, moving a few miles quickly and then stopping so the drones can make deliveries from a "home base".

Drones are a good last mile solution but will never replace the back haul network. Wheel on pavement has incredible efficiency versus rotor through air.
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Oooh thanks for asking, why don't I give you my personal code: "jamesdd". It'll get you $25 off when you sign up for any of our plans =)
Some people claim that a basic income would lead to people doing nothing useful. Examples like these would seem to indicate otherwise.
That's a good point about the windage. I'm skeptical that you can really conclude much about the original impact site from a single piece of debris anyway. On the other hand just being able to narrow the origin down to even one half of the arc might be beneficial at this point.
I don't know anything about architecture or power usage of these CPUs, but it wouldn't even surprise me if that 200MHz CPU took less power than that 12 MHz one.

There also is a window of almost 9 years between the launch dates of these systems (January 2006 vs December 2014)

That's six times the 18 months of Moore's law, or a factor of 64, so it could explain much of the difference.
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This is presented as a weeding out technique but it is actually a negotiation step. This allows the employer to establish precedent that you work off hours from home. This allows the employer to identify candidates that are willing to do whatever it takes for the job. These are the same people that won't do hardball negotiations for salary, employment terms or working conditions. Rather than weeding out the people who will fail the test, it weeds out the people who understand that asking for homework is unreasonable.

My last two phone interviews ended with the recruiter / hiring manager explaining that the next step was a take home assignement or test. I said OK, but haven't done either one. Next time I will politely tell them that they can look at code samples in my gthub but I am not spending my time jumping through their hoops just for the chance to have an in person interview.

It's bad enough that we have to burn an entire day to do an in person interview...there shouldn't also be homework.
Sorry about that. It's currently hosted on Heroku with limited dynos. I'm planning to move it into a VPS today.

Gemfly does a simple thing compared to bundle update. The purpose is to replace the versions of your gems in your Gemfile with the latest one. It also adds version if it doesn't have one.

If you have this gem:
gem 'rails', '~> 3.2.12'

It will become:
gem 'rails', '~> 4.2.3'

If you have:
gem 'rails'

It will become:
gem 'rails', '~> 4.2.3'

It's recommended to put versions in your Gemfile specially if you're updating to a major version.
Every technical problem is boring and monotonous to somebody, the trick is to find someone who can get interested in it and pay them to deal with it.

With any luck I'll be paying Foxpass to solve this one for me in the near future.
In many ways, this squares with my experience (~6k rides on lyft, San Diego, San Francisco).... Although $29 a night seems rather low.
Maybe, but my kids won't. They've never seen one.
The technology is kind of cool.

Unfortunately, I absolutely loathe Driscoll's raspberries. I will buy anybody else's raspberries first, and I will simply not use raspberries if I have to buy Driscoll's.

They're big and red, but they're too firm and fleshy. They have very little juice, and, even if you get lucky and they're sweet, they don't have a robust raspberry flavor. I used to fight with the yellowjackets to pick raspberries in the Northeast US. I can't even imagine anything in nature wanting these raspberries.

I'm not terribly fond of their strawberries and blackberries either, but they're no different from the rest of the industry on those. Again, the fruits are too big, too fleshy, and not juicy enough. Consequently, they are far less flavorful.

This is standard across the industry. Water content == bruising and lost sales. So, anything with water content gets bred until the water goes away. Tomatoes, raspberries, strawberries, etc. have all gotten this treatment.

It's just like roses, we've bred them to last long when cut, but that breeds out the fact that it smells like a rose.

At some point, we have to accept that getting that last "9" of efficiency on a biological organism isn't actually worth it.
That's a great deal. I've been looking for an email setup for the family that doesn't cost a fortune and this is the best I've seen. I am tired of running my own mail stack, what a PITA.
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Would love to see something like this more for the Play Framework to get a very good Java/Scala webframework together with GraphQL to have best of both worlds. But nevertheless great to see adoption in other languages than JS (on the server side)
For real work you want MIPS or SPARC, Intel just don't cut it.
Single non-technical, first time founder, 33, no ivy league degree, non-technical, no big brand experience searching for a co-founder.
You should be a former Google or Apple employee, repeat founder, ideally technical, with an ivy league degree,active on twitter with no connections to First Round Capital.Oh, and you should be female, and 16 years old.
We're gonna build the next Unicorn.
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Seriously,
This is the type of irresponsible analysis that sinks ships. Fun to consume...But causes serious damage because it is complete non-sense, but everyone exposed to it will believe it...even with knowing it isn't accurate...it will still influence people who read it long into the future.
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> The same thread has hundreds if not thousands of posts indicating how easy the install was, only a few people are having issues which is to be expected on a product launch.

It's not "having outliers" that is a problem: it's how you treat them that matters.

"Something happened" is not useful a useful message to anyone: not the end-user, nor Microsoft. Imagine being the poor dev having to troubleshoot problems based on that message alone.
It's unclear to me what "did better" means here? Is it that they raised more money, perhaps at higher valuation, OR are they looking at exits. I hope it's the latter and not the former since raising money and/or valuation is not success.
Incredible to read so many cases here where people have done a take-home exercise and heard nothing back. I had assumed that the normal practice would be to give a take-home exercise as part of prep for an in person interview, so if you do the work you're at least guaranteed the opportunity to talk about it.
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I really like the Debian version of whois because it solves this problem by automatically picking the correct server based on the query (even for .ninja) and following referrals to a whois server with more details.

https://packages.debian.org/stable/whois
Ask HN: When the computational power of humanity was lower than of a smartphone?
It's hard to find good data on this. There are multiple dimensions to the problem, I'd like to focus on three: flops, non-volatile memory and RAM.

In case of my phone, Nexus 5, the triplet is (5 GFlops (estimated), 32GB, 2GB).

My initial research shows the point is somewhere in 60s, meaning there are people in the prime of life who were born then. I think the most interesting would be to see if this range shrinks or extends in time.
Why did the Israeli Defense Forces use Nazi fighter planes in the late 1940s? I assume that it was because ME-109s were easier to come by. (OK, Wikipedia says it was the Czech Avia-S199 variant, but still.)
Take-home interviews are a perfect match for startups - they really reflect actual working conditions. One way or another, you'll be taking home your work every day! :)
Modern C++ can really shave some of the rough edges off of using COM.
It would be great if you find it's reasonable to support React UI Builder

https://github.com/ipselon/react-ui-builder
The problem I find with these is that while solving a problem might take 3 hours, you can spend an essentially unlimited amount of time polishing code - writing comments/javadocs, neatening up the code, writing more unit tests etc. etc.
If only we had some sort of take-home exercise for interviewers.
Why didn't the maintainer just take it down? Why comply to such a stupid request?

Github profits from people going to their service because it makes them more popular. Complying to the request is encouraging them (even if it's the switch between retard and git).

I'd just have deleted the repo saying "We moved to * (ex. GitLab) with a screenshot of the email as a reason. If they don't want your content on their servers, fine, too bad for them
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Will an upgrade to Windows 10 on a dual-boot system mess GRUB up?
Okay, to address it from that aspect then:

ECC RAM will both work-around and warn you about the start of RAM failures before complete DIMM failure.

And sure, consumer drives have the same MTBF as enterprise drives in practice[1], but: when RAIDing consumer disks, make sure that you get models that immediately report read/write errors, instead of retrying, which is the main (or only, if SATA) difference between enterprise and consumer drives.

If you have a nice RAID setup, you DO NOT want a drive to retry a failed block read 15 times before reporting a problem, and causing latency: you want the failed read to be reported immediately, so your controller can pull the same block from a different disk, and start diagnosing possible faults.

1 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/enterprise-drive-reliability/
Ofair will increase throughput in a queue where you have mixed-length tasks, because in a default configuration long tasks will block the queue from starting new tasks. I believe this is because the main process distributes some number of tasks, waits for them to finish, then distributes another set of tasks, and so on. (Would love more clarity on this — I haven't dug into it too much.)

Assuming most Celery task queue work involves network requests that can be unpredictable, I think Ofair is a more sensible/understandable default.
These things aren't able to follow instructions, target people, etc.

Go ahead and tell me what we will actually do when these things appear.

You can poo-pooh security through obscurity but we're all relying on the "infeasibility" of defeating various systems. Just as one example, reputational attacks followed systematically without rest or hesitation can subvert entire communities and make them not trust each other. You only don't realize what dedicated technology can do to subvert human systems because you haven't had to face it yet.

If every time you launched your startup, an automated process would find, hack in and bring your network down or make a thousand sleeper accounts which will bring it down later, when you couldn't rely on them "just not finding you long enough for you to secure your network", then you'd have a different attitude.
I have used Summernote on previous projects and found it easy to use, powerful enough, and good browser compatibility. Also has inline editing capabilities.

I have also heard good things about textbox.io but have never used it so can't give an opinion.
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Just looking at data and making assumptions is no better than astrology. For a supposedly scientifically literate field, tech makes use of a TON of pseudoscientific hand-waving.
If a human trespassed on your property, would your first response be to shoot him?
>"Reasonable discourse" doesn't start with denying that racism exists in the United States.

Would you mind quoting the part of his post where he says that racism doesn't exist?
While there are some professional pilots on airliners.net, that forum is also frequented by many ... how can I put this politely ... armchair pilots. Best to take the discussion with a grain of salt.

In general, airline parts come with serial numbers and other means of identification. It's best to wait a day or two until the origin of the part is ascertained.
does it check conflicts in dependencies
I think the key point you (and many people) are missing is understanding how much racist behavior is unconscious. I'm engaged to a woman who's half-black, and I still occasionally say something slightly racist by accident.

Check out the Implicit Association Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit-association_test) for an introduction to this line of research. You can still be doing/saying racist things while meaning well. The only solution is self-awareness and humility.
Unfortunately, a big part of this problem is that companies face serious liability risks if they give useful feedback.

My experience with tech interviews is that they are actually exams, taken under stressful conditions, with none of the courtesies normally extended to a student.

For instance, in college, or grad school, there is a process for taking an exam. There is typically an affiliated study path, you receive feedback on your performance by a set deadline, and at a good university, someone highly competent grades your exam.

In spite of this, people often describe exams like the bar or their medical boards as the most stressful academic experience they've ever had. As programmers, we have to go up to the whiteboard regularly to take a test, or complete a take-home exam and send it off to who knows who, but we often don't know the subject that will be tested, the competence or credentials of our examiners, whether it will reeve a fair assessment, or even any assessment at all (do they just throw the thing in the trash and say "we decided to go in a new direction"? Truly I have no idea.

That's a huge problem, and it is actually outright harming our industry.

Check this article out

http://www.fastcompany.com/3043082/most-creative-people/why-...

This particular article is about hiring women, but I'm absolutely certain that plenty of men are also deterred from pursuing new tech jobs because they can't stomach the idea of another round of technical testing (with none of the factors I listed above that makes it more fair for the examinee), whether that is white boarding data structure or doing take home projects. I think a lot of people may look at this and decide to just enter a different industry altogether, and I really can't blame them.

I'm on a tangent here, but I really think that tech needs to heal itself, and we're a long way form it.
I hear you on unskilled interviews.

I guess the challenge in this situation is that the whole reason for take-home work is that introverted interviewees get flustered in person. Won't this happen when the review happens?

This still seems like a better idea than "Tell me about yourself" and "How many golf balls fit in a 747?"
You should read through the RISCV mailing list archives (https://lists.riscv.org/lists/) for discussions on these topics, and contribute your own thoughts if they haven't been covered. The ISA-dev list should be the most relevant. They have thought very carefully about these things and I'm sure they'd appreciate additional feedback on the topic.
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The difference is that we will have self-directed autonomous technology running rampant outside confined areas, and you only need 0.1% of it to go rogue to cause serious damage.
They are connecting to Chinese networks from the border areas; it is there in the article.
>Edit: The downvoters are free to be subjects for future genetic engineering projects themselves.

Where do you think food came from in the first place?

Do you seriously think strawberries are in any way a product of a natural process?
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Won't the same programmer who got flustered in front of a white board also get flustered explaining the code?

I'm being the devils advocate here, trying to hone in on the best way to do this. I still think work products are a much better predictor than most any other interviewing technique.
I was wondering how you went about selecting specific videos, and clicking through it found mostly the "Official" Vevo releases and such.
It is pretty good, but it’s not an “SSL” config generator; it’s an “OpenSSL” config generator. It only supports OpenSSL. No GnuTLS, no NSS, nothing but OpenSSL.
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Yes, I'm an idiot, I forgot the link. That's exactly what I was referring to - these rules, not the ambiguous rules that reddit actually applies on their site these days.
Primarily they use "silicon on insulator" fabrication, such as silicon on sapphire. Since the feature size on these chips is usually many revs behind the current state of the art that results in fairly large transistors on die which helps a bit as well. There are some other techniques used (such as designing to avoid latch-up) but the fabrication technology is the major difference.

As much as I hate slide decks as an information source, this one is actually moderately informative: http://meseec.ce.rit.edu/551-projects/fall2013/2-2.pdf
Here is a quote from the product spec about the radiation hardening technology that HIREC developed:

Space radiation environments present severe problems in semiconductor devices for space use. Conventional space-use devices are fabricated with special radiation-hardened processes. However, it was not feasible to continue this method because it was difficult to maintain and
manage the manufacturing processes. In addition, it will be necessary to utilize state-of-the-art commercial processes to improve the performance of integrated circuits for space use.
HIREC established the Customer-Owned Tooling (COT) procedure for developing advanced LSI circuits for space use. Hardening techniques utilizing the hardness-by-design (HBD) approach are utilized to ameliorate Single-Event Effects SEE).* Moreover, a radiation-hardened ceramic
package is utilized to reduce the influence of Total Ionization Dose (TID).
Seminal work!
I was referring to user data, not program data/log (despite it can as well containing some user data in some way).

Syslogd can be compared to windows event logs.
Yeah, this is very likely as well, especially if the t was printed incorrectly
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In San Francisco, Lyft line is apparently a vibrant dating scene for young start up employees: I have witnessed it, heard it from the drivers and now Lyft app allows to connect in Facebook with your fellow riders. The demographics of the Lyft line here is 22-27, more than 50% female. I took 44 rides on Lyft, perhaps 20 using Lyft line.
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Yes. Your bundle should not actually contain the top-level CA certificate which is present in browsers.