skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo.

That's good enough to avoid having your resume deep-sixed. The next stage would depend on the position you're applying for, and whether it's algorithms, web, systems, maintenance, whatever. There are now several questions I could pursue, but that's enough to get you through the door, offered a beverage of your choice, and effectively courted.

By the way, not knowing what the modulus operator is no bar - all you have to do is write:

if is_divisible_by(n,d) ...

or something similar, and then say - "I'd need to look up the idiomatic way to do that in your language of choice."

But you are already way ahead of the game. FWIW, when we have been hiring (which we aren't now, by the way) the person who wrote something like that got the job. And yes, out of several tens of applications, only one could do it.
Upvoted.

It's a sad day when people on HN don't get the reference.
It works fine. Python (outside of the admittedly limited scripting SDK) is not a first-class API for Android. But it was running on the G1 within weeks of release (as was most of debian, FWIW) and there are certainly no barriers to using it.

But the supported API is Java-based, and that legitimately annoys some people even if it pleases others. Google isn't banning python, certainly, but neither are they pushing it. No different than any other phone, I guess.
If you visit a page on Mahalo that you think doesn't cut it, be sure to hit the 'Ads by Google' link and send feedback to Google about it.
As the HN link you posted demonstrates, query strings quite often determine the content. You can't strip them out without introducing reams of false positives.
I think Google prefers to programmatically detect and blacklist behaviours, without too many innocent casualties - even if working out how to do that takes longer. They aren't interested in playing whack-a-mole.
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Digital systems could care less whether you're black, white, brown, red or yellow.

This is a great point but it's not applicable here. I'd agree with your argument if the article were, for example, insinuating racism because code written by blacks and Hispanics had more bugs in it or had poor test coverage. That would be absurd; as you said, digital systems don't care about your race. Sadly, people usually do.

Metrics like how fast you can run and how many users like your software are objective and essentially independent of race. The article wasn't talking about objective metrics like those but rather how many blacks and Hispanics are being hired — an area in which race-based discrimination is well-documented.
"even if half of tweets were sent via text message that would still only be 1% of the text message traffic."

Only if you assume everyone has zero followers (who receive tweets via SMS).
Thanks for the PDF, looks like a good read.

First let me disclaim that I am by no means a crypto expert, and perhaps I am actually way off base here.

I'm not suggesting that Gmail could revolutionize popular use of encryption overnight. What I AM suggesting is that by storing and making it simple to send and receive public keys, Gmail could very easily and transparently facilitate the growth of such webs of trust. Simple example (what TFA seemed to be):

1) Alice, a crypto-savvy non-gmail user, sends Bob, a non-crypto-savvy gmail user, her public key. (Or, better, Alice gives Bob a thumbdrive with her public key on it for upload to Gmail.)
2) Gmail stores it.
3) Alice later sends signed mail to Bob.
4) Gmail verifies it, and prominently notifies Bob whether it is a valid or invalid signature. Perhaps it even presents a link for Bob to learn more about how it knows this, and how his mail from Alice is different from un-signed mail.

So with extremely little forced interaction on Bob's part (nothing to install, nothing much to learn, no key generation), there is now some added security between the two of them, even if it is unidirectional. From this point, Bob could then quickly learn enough to be able to encrypt the email that he sends to Alice from within Gmail, and Alice, using PGP in her mail client, would be able to decrypt it.

It certainly doesn't cover every angle, but it would improve relative security and it would allow those who ARE familiar and experienced with public-key cryptography to bring up basic concepts with their friends/family/coworkers (among the ~150 million monthly Gmail users, anyway).

Edit: wonky formatting
interesting. perhaps that was the idea he was trying to convey, then. or that the same store is perceived differently, from the relative consumer's standpoint.
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Who'd have thought that "knowing your code / sql" would be a problem when using software that writes most of it for you!

I'm sure Rails is great for getting an application up quickly, but once you get some traffic and the application gets more complex surely you'd end up hacking it so much you might as well have written from scratch in PHP or similar?

That article just confirmed that I made the right decision when staying well clear of Rails.
All of the posts on twitter don't come from some single source. There are millions of people posting things.
An old boss told me, "When you're the man, the rules don't apply to you."

Not to say that Calacanis is the man, but to illustrate that rules are there to suit the rule makers and in this case, it suits the rule makers to ignore their own rules.
Please.

There's no need for pointless dialect chauvinism; "radii" is the accepted and more common plural in American English as well as the UK version.
I basically agree with this and find this to be the most likely scenario by far.

I think the economies would have to be much more decoupled than they are today for a war to happen, and I don't see that happening.
I've got an easier solution than the one proposed : just don't buy any rubbish food in the first place. If you want to snack at the office, bring in a container of fruit.
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It's a pity memprof doesn't support 32-bit linux yet. I would like to try out the method in the slides on my 32 bit machine.
A cache conscious hash table that outperforms java.util.hashmap
Implementing HAT-Tries in Java
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Android is pretty slick and the Nexus One is a nice phone, but there will always be employee bias. I can't imagine an Apple employee publicly stating they prefer BlackBerry to iPhone. Or a Microsoftie admitting to having "iPhone envy" (see http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2009/11/thank...).

And, as I mentioned, Jeff is the author of two books dedicated to iPhone software development. What else would his blog be called? And no, he's not neutral, no one is. But Jeff isn't a Google employee.
If you haven't, tune the garbage collector for rails. By tuning, I was able to improve the performance of my production application by about 60%.
You don't have to be an expert marksman to shoot yourself some food.
I decided this seems like something one should be able to calculate with conditional probability.

Let P(A) be the probability that someone is a pretty good programmer. (I said top ten percent, so .1).

P(A') is 1-P(A) = .9

Let P(E) be the probability someone is employed. I guessed and put that at 1-P(E'), guessing programmer unemployment rate at 6%.
P(E) = .94
P(E') = .06

Here is a more wild assumption. Let's say that given that someone is a top 10% programmer, there is a 98% probability that he or she is employed.

P(E | A) = .98, and conversely, a .02 probability they aren not.

With these assumptions in place, I ran the calculations. I was intending to type them up, but it would be difficult with just a text area.

Here is the punch line (with those symbols, and assuming I did this correctly, which I did it on the bus on the way home, so probably not)...

Given that someone is unemployed, there is a .033 probability that they are in the top 10% and a .96 probability that they are somewhere among the rest. (The 'rest' includes a lot of pretty decent programmers though!)

In other words, 3.3% of applicants would be top 10% candidates, and that's assuming equal probability of them sending in an application in the first place.

I might rework it with different assumptions. Anyway, you said the math was pretty simple. If someone wants to see how I screwed it up I can type it up into latex and upload it somewhere.
Ruby is known as the slowest and memoryhungriest language in common use today, is there any reason why people should know how it achieves that? How does this advance the state of the art?
Using ReportLab to prepare nice PDF reports in Python
In case anybody thought aresant was going nuts, the URL still says "george".
Lose your house over hosting fees? When has that ever happened?
I'm not sure I'd consider it "almost nothing"; if your startup budget is $10k and ramen, it's a noticeable chunk of that. In California, it's $800 per year to keep an LLC incorporated, plus an extra $200 or so the first year in fees. In NYC, it's $1500 or so to set up an LLC. Some states are cheaper, though (Texas is a one-time $300).
Isn't there a search engine out there that takes into account the advertisements vs. content ratio? It would be trivial to get rid of Made for Adsense sites by scanning for the Adsense code used and seeing how often it's used on a page and the percentage of the page it takes up.
Although I agree, I think a viral "kick in the nuts" such as pleaserobme has been long overdue; it's about time people paid more attention to how much they reveal online.
Wouldn't a personal umbrella policy cover this, for a sole proprietorship?
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You might like the "labs" (exercises) that come with J (http://jsoftware.com/). It's a real language, albeit a very unconventional one - it's a descendant of APL.
He touches on a lot of potential answers to PG's request for startups #1: http://ycombinator.com/rfs1.html
Whoa extremely informative slides, thanks for those. Alot of stuff in there I had no idea about. I love learning.
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"Neither are indices, data, corpora"

Seriously? Just a quick Google suggests otherwise:

36,900,000 for indices vs 29,200,000 for indexes

1,440,000,000 for data vs 11,900,000 for datums (Heck, many people aren't familiar with "datum" to begin with...)

7,710,000 for corpora vs 239,000 for corpuses

Linguistics student or not, do you have anything more than "people you talk to use these unusual forms" to base all this on?
Google Using Bloom Box, But Not in its Data Centers
A similarity may also be seen regarding the occasional anti-Americanism in poplar media (that is, not in the political arena) in Europe, particularly in France and Britain (albeit drastically reduced now Obama is president).

Both countries, like all countries I suspect, would like to be the sole superpower, and when an occasion occurs to poke fun at, or seriously criticise, justifiably or not, the actual superpower then it will of course be readily taken up.

This is not specific to either European countries or the US, but I would argue at any power-relationship: with those at the lower rungs vying to take their place at the top, and voicing their arguments against the one at the top at any time possible.

Arguably China isn't the sole or a superpower as yet, but it seems to be a worry for the US (as it was regarding Japan in the 80s) and it seems to be a goal of China, aiming to regain 'honour' after the British opium wars and the Japanese invasion, among other events, which seem to have caused the Chinese to feel such shame.
>> "Currently when I look, Google tells me that Mahalo has 356,000 pages indexed"

I see 'Results 1 - 10 of about 2,200,000 from mahalo.com'

Have things stepped up a gear or am I misunderstanding?
Those books are both good suggestions too ;)
Where it gets interesting is in colder climates where the waste heat could be used for space heat and domestic hot water production, a.k.a. "combined heat and power".
Extending that, is the fact that clarity is relative to your audience. Specialized jargon that is opaque to the layperson is also (ideally) far less ambiguous than everyday language. If you're familiar enough with the jargon, technical writing isn't just more concise, it's also an actual increase in clarity due to the precision.
can't do anything about Mahalo's spam, it's off limits
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You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I
bring my army into Sparta, I will destroy your farms, slay
your people, and raze your city.

SPARTA
If.
Don't worry, it will get federated pretty soon. Remember when AOL owned instant messaging?
This is the cost of starting up a business. It's not a Wordpress Blog--it's a business and it's gonna cost money. If you can't stomach $1000/year in filing fees you either need to find a business that will earn some revenue in the first year or move on to greener pastures.
Some of this may be due to selection bias. The good programmers find jobs quickly, whereas the non-programmers go to interview after interview, until they finally find a company dumb enough to hire them.
But there is a single company in charge of the service... if that company disappears or the company servers shut off, your messages will disappear (just as it happens when twitter shuts off).
Another factor is that reviewers are sometimes inclined to reject papers that are too straightforward: if the final result is so simple, is the work really novel or interesting?
Except the post explicitly mentions that spams are removed.
Yes. See: "VTLN". Also, the audio feature transformations are adapted during recognition in most cases. For instance, speaker independent recognizers generally do runtime adaptation on a per conversation basis. Speaker dependent ones generally continually adapt to the user using the same techniques.
Thanks I was hoping someone would say this. There is a general lack of knowledge about how android handles processes. I've seen it all over the place and commonly from android users who try and get "auto-kill" apps to save power.
"It won't happen. You'll get the German ö, but not the English ea."

Cool! Now I know how to pronounce a German ö!
I wonder if attention plays a part. I have noticed that people can interpret what I say if I start with a grunt or other vocal sound, but if I start off with the thing I want to say immediately, I have to start over. I realize that it can be explained by this "human brain interprets your two syllables" idea, but if a mere grunt also does the trick, this suggests to me that attention plays at least as much an important part.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but IM is about as far from distributed as it gets. There are only 3-4 big players in a given country, on the high side. Better than Twitter maybe, but just barely.
That's insane. Although I find myself a little annoyed at the "can't disable the camera" part.

A little electrical tape will fix that. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best.
I won’t be able to get to 0% sugar ..., but I’m trying to stop eating sugar, ...

I guess we have to be worried if we don't hear from him any more.
"Please note that tweets from accounts identified as spam have been removed so the counts in this chart do not include spam."

Yeah call me crazy, but I expect there's a large amount of spam, bots, auto reposters, etc included in there.

It's hardly a trivial thing to identify and remove spam. Especially where your data is limited to 140 characters.

The other question would be are retweets included in the total.
"Now you know, and knowing is half the battle."
This might eventually scale down better than a microturbine (65kW is enough electricity for a large neighborhood (on average), and enough heat for a handful of homes), and I would bet it also operates better at part load.

Microturbines aren't especially quiet either, but it's hard to know how much noise this thing makes without more information.
$125 a year for a PA LLC (and a PA LLC is a strong LLC, in some states an LLC is missing some protections that corporations have).
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There's also the possibility that aggregator sites are actually useful for some portion of the Internet users (read: the "facebook login" set) and the advertisers that cater to them. Too bad "we" have to share Google with "them".
Yes. It was pretty weak when he tried to tie the whole thing together with an optimistic message at the end...

His plan for a better future is mindlessly optimistic: everybody is observed -> everybody behaves better. Apart from being bad in and of itself, it is actually pretty unlikely to come about in any way like he described (if you think about it), and it is fairly insidious to place it on an equal footing, rhetorically with all the other outcomes.

The reality is that people are having their own psychology increasingly 'gamed' by corporations and this is not a good thing. I predict that the ready supply of instant gratification will be as or more harmful than fast food and the obesity epidemic. One day we may find an easy way to overcome or sidestep our unwanted proclivities (assuming we're still in charge of ourselves enough to make this happen) and that will be a different story, albeit possibly an extremely dull one.

Somewhat ironic as he's just giving the viewer 'what they want' - a positive message.

The swiss army kitchen knife cracked me up, however!
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Also, having read a few (first year grad student here), I'm starting to think it might sometimes be a simple matter of lack of space. Explaining algorithm and method correctly requires examples, precisions etc. which might take away space to pack in more results and experiments. (I know some conferences have submission guidelines with page limits)

There might be "shadier" reasons, but if that explanation makes sense, I for one would like it a lot if some researchers got in the habit of having longer explanations somewhere, say on their website. I don't know if that'd somehow break implicit rules in the academic field, but it'd lead to less head-banging-in-the-wall-trying-to-understand-what-that-damn-symbol-means.
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Cool :)
Duck Duck Go tries to do this.
I disagree. I am a late-stage PhD candidate in CS, and I cannot stress the importance given to quality writing in academic circles. All of us know that clear, concise writing plays a large part in getting your paper accepted, and we're repeatedly told that if a reviewer did not understand something in a paper, the fault should be assumed to be with the writing. Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style" is a permanent fixture on most grad student desks.

My point is: if you're reading a reputable CS paper published at a top conference, it is less likely to be hard to understand due to writing flaws than due to the complexity of subject matter. Journals are a different beast, but most good CS papers get published at conferences anyway.
Google is providing a free service in a field in which there is intense competition. I don't see what basis anyone would have for filing a lawsuit for not being indexed in Google.
After this many lies, do you actually believe he is planning on actually taking that step? In my books he's already used up his credibility. I won't believe anything he says until he says what he has done and someone else publicly verifies it. (He has lied enough that I don't think it worth my time to bother verifying anything he says. The bozo bit is well and truly flipped.)
Reading both of the two blogs, it looks like the Googler is trying much harder to by fair to the strengths and weaknesses of both platforms. Jeff comes across as though he couldn't possibly be satisfied with the N1 unless it was identical in every way to his iPhone.
I loved the mechanical latches old Macbook Pro's had for this reason. Creepy story and great reporting!
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http://67.55.50.201/lilly/janus00x.html
I don't see the reunification happening in the next few decades. Taiwan is a democracy these days, and the public mood there is very strongly against reunification. Unlike with Hong Kong there is no third party in charge that the negotiation can happen with.
Cold calling is one of the best mechanisms for customer aquisition - whether B2B or B2C - you can do if you've got the stomach for it.

If you haven't seen JigSaw.com that's one of the most valuable (and yes a very questionable business model!) resources for B2B - makes it a piece of cake to get directly in touch with company VPs etc.
I understand that many of us disagree with with what Jason is saying in his comments, but I don't think that we should be downvoting his comments below 1. He is at least making an attempt at reasoning argument for his actions, and taking the time to post them. It makes the discussion hard to follow when all the detracting comments are a barely visible grey.
That's exactly why you shouldn't employ "good enough" programmers - always try to recruit the best possible. It takes time, but tools like http://codility.com might help with the elimination of wrong candidates.
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I'm just waiting for the inevitable "creeper in the IT department used spyware-laden laptops to take pictures of kids in their bedrooms".

Parents seem to have weird privacy expectations of their kids but you can be sure they will scream bloody murder over a peeping tom.
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I've been busy trying to get a college degree. Most of my projects also involve RoR and Python nowadays and I've gotten a bit out of touch with the Kohana codebase. Some real improvements have been made though. Perhaps I'll get back in to it over the summer.
Just wait until Wegmans comes to your area. They're fantastic, except for the fact that it takes an enormous number of customers to sort one, and so are usually surrounded by parking-lot oceans.
Well, it's rather obvious that 10,000 hours of practicing golfing strokes without spending any time learning how to aim would be a waste of time.

From what I can see, this doesn't inherently conflict with your claims about innate differences or luck, but it does indicate that there is value in practicing things correctly and potentially little value in practicing things incorrectly. Obviously a fully grown 4 foot individual won't become center for the basketball team, but only practicing 3 point shots won't help someone who is 7 feet tall do much better in the pocket (under the net).

Can you please explain what I am missing?
To provide an idea of just how easy it is to incorporate a limited liability company (Limited / co.uk) under English and Welsh law, visit Companies House:

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/infoAndGuide/companyRegistr...

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Impressively, they even offer same day incorporation.
The first interview's purpose - whether in person, over the phone, or via e-mail - should be to weed out the obvious idiots.

If you don't know what the modulo operator is, door is right this way, operate it by placing your hand around the knob, turning clockwise, and pushing forward.
To be clear Sachin is not talking about setting up an LLC or an S Corp. He's talking about setting up a C Corp, probably in Delaware, for a start-up where your immediate intention is to go out and raise funding.

Service businesses don't apply and neither do bootstrapped web apps. If you're doing one of those go ahead and form your legalzoom llc or s-corp and get the worry out of your mind.

There's a reason YC and others want you to wait and its because untangling the mess that self-incorporation can create is a needless and sometimes expensive time sink when preparing you for investors who are used to dealing with this specific case.

I'm not sure Sachin's part about needing a good lawyer for introductions is important but the part about doing incorporation for a C Corp raising money correctly is a proper point.
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I wonder how many of those text messages are facebook status updates.