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darrenkoppon OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships

T1 towers don't have backdoor protection though.

darrenkoppon OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships

Really was quite interesting to watch (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/166172514?t=7h3m10s). Honestly, the bot played _extremely_ well, but I think the biggest advantage was how much faster it's reaction time was and it's movements were likely much more precise than a human is with a mouse.

I'm pretty interested in seeing their 5v5 results as well. It seems like that will have similar results as the bots can coordinate, but it's still a bit up in the air.

I'm really not sure how well a bot like this would do with 4 human teammates though. I would guess the bot would be a strong laner, but fairly weak overall due to it's inability to communicate, though if it's really good at learning how it's current teammates are playing as it goes, it may do alright.

I'm also pretty curious about the match limitations: no shrines (regen), no soul ring (mana regen at expense of some health), no raindrops (fixed amount of magic damage block)

darrenkoppon Free 2 day shipping is a joke.. (2016)

I guess Amazon has to dumb down their marketing for some people but it's always meant, and I've always understood it to be, two _business_ days. If the shipper doesn't deliver on the weekend, that's not Amazons fault.

darrenkoppon Uber loses ground in US as rival Lyft accelerates

Honestly, I always use lyft for business because they have the ability for me to store a company card and when I use it to add a memo for when I submit expenses.

darrenkoppon Google Trusted Contacts

It would depend on where you are. Here in Utah my cell service goes out within the first 5 minutes of the hike I do by my house. The hike itself is about 2 hours in and an hour out.

darrenkoppon Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS

Did this replace another browser they had? I woke up this morning and it was already installed on my iPhone, so I must have had something else already installed if this was just launched today.

darrenkoppon Paper Planes

You can turn on GPS location in the settings

darrenkoppon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)

Lupulin Exchange | Full-Time | Remote (US only)

The Lupulin Exchange is powering the peer-to-peer hop sales market for professional brewers. We're solving the hop allocation problem in the industry that plagues all brewers. We've been in business for a year and a half and have been profitable since first month. We're completely bootstrapped and haven't taken any outside investment. We are looking for a full-stack engineer who can help us tackle our current backlog and expand internationally. Our current stack is asp.net mvc, sql azure, and azure websites. You will be engineer #1, so you'll have a high impact on the existing code and the platform moving forward.

Pay: $50k - 80k depending on experience, insurance + other perks.

If you are interested, please apply to our StackOverflow listing: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/122646/profitable-startup-see...

darrenkoppon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

Lupulin Exchange | Full-Time | Remote (US only)

The Lupulin Exchange is powering the peer-to-peer hop sales market for professional brewers. We're solving the hop allocation problem in the industry that plagues all brewers. We've been in business for a year and a half and have been profitable since first month. We're completely bootstrapped and haven't taken any outside investment.

We are looking for a full-stack engineer who can help us tackle our current backlog and expand internationally. Our current stack is asp.net mvc, sql azure, and azure websites. You will be engineer #1, so you'll have a high impact on the existing code and the platform moving forward.

If you are interested, please send your resume and a small introduction about yourself to jobs@lupulinexchange.com. You can find more details on our blog: http://blog.lupulinexchange.com/the-lupulin-exchange-is-hiri...

darrenkoppon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

Lupulin Exchange | Full-Time | Remote (US only)

The Lupulin Exchange is powering the peer-to-peer hop sales market for professional brewers. We're solving the hop allocation problem in the industry that plagues all brewers. We've been in business for a year and a half and have been profitable since first month. We're completely bootstrapped and haven't taken any outside investment.

We are looking for a full-stack engineer who can help us tackle our current backlog and expand internationally. Our current stack is asp.net mvc, sql azure, and azure websites. You will be engineer #1, so you'll have a high impact on the existing code and the platform moving forward.

If you are interested, please send your resume and a small introduction about yourself to jobs@lupulinexchange.com. You can find more details on our blog: http://blog.lupulinexchange.com/the-lupulin-exchange-is-hiri...

darrenkoppon Fitbit Acquires Coin

the finger has to be warm. cutting off a finger won't actually let someone have unlimited access to your device. the mugger may not understand this though...

darrenkoppon Ask HN: How do you use Amazon Echo?

It's excellent if you have kids friend's coming over. We used to have to keep track of who had to go home when, but now they just come in, say "set an alarm for <time>" and go off and play.

darrenkoppon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

Very cool man. I don't want to hijack this and just say that back in the day I used w3counter on my blog before google analytics was a thing and it was awesome and I just want to say thanks for that. Now I have nothing on my blog and work uses google analytics, but it's very cool to see w3counter still in use!

darrenkoppon How to Pass a Programming Interview

Great point. I tend to be the person that realizes that interviews are stressful and I'm not gonna hold it against you if you miss sanitizing your input or similar issues, but I will call you out on it with a question like "well, what if you get X" and at least verify that you know that's an issue and let you then add the code in to accommodate for that.

darrenkoppon How to Pass a Programming Interview

Your experience doesn't directly translate to what is relevant for the company you are applying to though. You may _think_ it does based on their general description, but it may not. One of the questions we give has you design a data model to store certain information and then query it out. It's not complex at all, and they are in full control of the design. You'd be surprised how few people with 15 years of experience in senior level positions are unable to query out the information using a data model they designed themselves.

darrenkoppon Show HN: Host your status page on GitHub

The likelyhood that you have downtime at the exact same time GitHub does is fairly low though.

darrenkoppon Visual Studio Code for Go

The plugin in question works with visual studio code though, not visual studio community edition. VS Code is free and open source.

darrenkoppon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)

DevResults | Remote | Full-Stack Software Engineer

Apply at http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/108465/growing-profita...

DevResults is a bootstrapped startup improving the world of international aid and development. We are a completely remote company and you would be employee eleven. We are looking for smart, self-driven individuals to help us make a global impact on the world by improving the effectiveness of aid and development organizations.

Experience Needed: * You are comfortable working in html, javascript and sql. Our backend is in c#, which you don't have to know, but you can't dislike it either. * You care about performance and understand how to dissect a function and improve it's big-O performance * You are an excellent communicator. We are a completely distributed team and communication problems really slow us down

http://devresults.com/en/p/home

darrenkoppon What Developers Should Know About Job Searching and Negotiation

Riddles, sure, those are stupid questions to ask. Always assuming something is a riddle can be dangerous though. I've had a few candidates basically challenge my question before that this was just a puzzle and they likely wouldn't ever run into this normally and the question was literally from our code base.

darrenkoppon Crash iPhone from Safari (Warning: Direct Link)

locks up chrome on windows as well

darrenkoppon Amazon building its own overnight airfreight operation, sources say

I'm not sure if that makes a lot of sense... how would they recover the drones? Drones have a pretty short range.

darrenkoppon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

DevResults | Washington, DC | Full Time | Remote

DevResults is working to make international development more effective and we're looking for a passionate developer who wants to change the world to join our team to help us accomplish our goal. We are looking for smart, self-driven developers who aren't afraid to dig in to legacy code or write brand new code.

• Web Developer - you will work on a web-based application that utilizes a mix of asp.net web forms (legacy) and angular / asp.net web api that runs on windows azure.

email jobs@devresults.com with Engineering in the subject.

darrenkoppon Take-home interviews

This is great, but I feel like take-home interviews are better for a first-level filter. I went through this when I applied to Thoughtworks, but it definitely wasn't the only interview. This may have been because I was in a different state also though, so before they would pay to fly me out, they let me pick out of a few problems and then email them in within 72-hours.

darrenkoppon Microsoft Announces Nano Server

I'm not a ssh expert (I live in the MS world), but powershell remote sessions (PSSession) seems like what you are talking about here... it's like running in a powershell window on a remote machine.

darrenkoppon The new MacBook

Seems like you'd need to run that "benchmark" on windows. My 2014 MBP gets like 4 hours on a full charge while running windows.

darrenkoppon Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

http://devresults.com

We're working to help aid and development organizations gain better insight into how effective and where donor money is going, monitoring and evaluating organizational goals, and aggregating raw data into useful reports for both the organization and donors.

darrenkoppon Google search – “king of united states”

still happening for me.

darrenkoppon Irony of a status page: status.azure.com

yeah, we are hosed right now also.

darrenkoppon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

DevResults (http://devresults.com) Location: Washington, DC + Remote

DevResults makes international development, grant-making, humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief programs more effective. It's a web-based tool for monitoring & evaluation, mapping, project management, and collaboration.

REQUIREMENTS:

* You've spent at least a couple of years building web applications using ASP.NET, jQuery and SQL Server.

* You love to write code, and you can also work directly with customers. You're a self-starter who's able to work independently. You don't mind working really, really hard.

* Although you won’t necessarily travel much in the long term, you’ll may need to do some international travel in order to meet our real-world users.

Full Details: http://devresults.com/en/p/jobs

If possible it'd be great if you would apply via StackOverflow Careers since it's easier to manage (http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/72264/growing-profitab...) but you can also email me directly at darren+whoshiring@devresults.com. Feel free to mention that you came from who's hiring when posting via StackOverflow Careers as well.

darrenkoppon A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D.?

For the past few years I've taken both Adderall and Vyvanse, with the past 2 years being Vyvanse. I thought I would be taking these drugs for the rest of my life if I wanted to be successful, because when I didn't take them, I could not focus on work tasks at all. However, the "cost" of these drugs for me was that I couldn't turn off. I was driven from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. My social life definitely suffered.

So, as I started a new job this year in January, I decided to make a clean break. I quit Vyvanse cold turkey and started a new job. I've been doing exceptionally. I never thought this could happen. Thinking back on the issue just yesterday I was telling a colleague that I thought this was likely because I must have been bored with the tasks at my previous job, and I've found all the new tasks to be interesting enough to bring out what I consider great performance from myself, though not the insane amount of performance I was doing on Vyvanse.

Anecdotal at best, but I independently came to the same conclusions as this article, for whatever it's worth.