skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Contractors are generally not the strongest technically"

Where does this come from? I actually see a contractor as someone who had experienced way more "war stories" than the guy who has been sitting in the same chair for 10/20 years. As a contractor, you are exposed to more technologies, more business sectors, different working cultures.
Judge asks "jail or rehab?"

"Jail, your honor", said no one ever.

>Rehab stats for weed have nothing to do with addiction.
Primary marijuana admissions were less likely than all admissions combined to be self- or
individually referred to treatment (18 vs. 37 percent). Primary marijuana admissions were most
likely to be referred by a criminal justice source (52 percent) [Table 2.6].

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http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/2003_2013_TED...
> private location diary

> you can be sure your data stays secure and private.

By using the Google Maps API you grant Google the rights to your data to use as they see fit. You cannot have private or secure data if you use the Google Maps API.

(edits: however, I think if you pay Google for the premium or business access to the Google Maps API, then Google does not claim their rights to your data)
Why StringBuffer class not overriding equals() method
Metamaterials: Engineers Design Stretchable Material Based on Geometric Art
> This was a professional event.

It was an after-conference party at a games conference. How much more "entertainment" can you get?

Mind you, I personally also wouldn't have liked it. But I also don't like most conference parties and I don't like games. But to me it seems perfectly OK if other people like conference parties or games or conference parties with dancers. And sure, male dancers would probably have been a good addition.
I would. Encouraging a 5-year destructive war is evil. And they were encouraging sectarian islamists authoritarians to go to war against inclusive secular authoritarians.
The World’s Most Prolific Twitter User Tweets Mostly About Nothing
Replace .NET with Java and Visual Studio with IDEA/Eclipse and you'd probably be right again with the same post. It's not really a .NET problem, more like a bell curve and popularity problem.
You seem to be opertating under the delusion that the law is logically consistent. It isn't. There are some things you can allow by contract/permission and some things you cannot, and circumstance matters.
It really depends on the people, you get good/bad contractors and good/bad employees - it is just a useless generalization.
Would prefer it if it used OSM anyway, which I can also run my own version of if I am little twisted.

Basically, with a bit of work, you could produce a completely-self-hosted solution where there are no calls going out anywhere to anything you don't host yourself.

That's progress to my mind. Just needs a little more work to get there. If I didn't have family over this weekend...
This is an interesting one. I have sleep apnea, the result of which is basically chronic sleep deprivation even though you spend lots of time in bed. I struggled with all sorts of depressive symptoms (depression, anxiety, panic attacks) for years before getting a diagnosis, and 90% of the symptoms vanished overnight after treatment.
I've been "cash only" for 8 months now and I love it. Of course I need a credit card if I buy something on Amazon or a one-off web store, but the point is to move as many transactions offline as possible.

There are so many privacy benefits to using cash, but one that really resonates with me is the physical nature of it. When you pay for something with cash, you can feel the transaction of money exchanging hands and it can have a psychological effect to prevent frivolous spending. Or at the very least, further reinforce that YES we are spending money!

Also, store clerks, cab drivers, any anyone who accepts tips always love getting cash.
I think it is possible for life to evolve on a planet with only plants and fungus.

That's kinda circular, given that plants and fungi are examples of evolved life :)

You are correct that plants don't strictly need help with pollination (they simply release their spores to the wind/current and hope they land on a receptive partner), however the odds of a succesful pollination decrease sharply as the number of competing plants in an area increase.

In my (uneducated) view, in a scenario where all life is stationary (rooted to the ground, hur hur), you are much more likely to find monocultures -- where most plants can interbreed -- or more species using asexual reproduction.
> I find Windows (and Outlook and let's not talk about Sharepoint) not a good product and thus not worth the money

This is exactly what I mean. Them opening up the patents wouldn't change your bias against their products (justified or otherwise isn't relevant) like you just described, making it a business decision with very, very limited gains and billions in losses.
There have been a number of posts about hiring practices lately. And a lot of them contradict each other. My conclusion is, that people hire people that are similar to themselves or similar to how they would like to see themselves, and the whole hiring process, the style of interviews and coding tasks and the sources from which they hire, is based upon this model.

A company founded by Stanford CS students will focus on ivy league CS students; friends of mine have a pretty successful consulting company and none of them has a formal CS background, but years of experience delivering complex software; they focus on guys that can deliver, regardless of background. Some people never went to MIT, but have a deeply ingrained wish that they would have - by surrounding themselves with MIT grads, they suddenly generate the wanted association.
Works as a sort of proxy as well. If you point it at an html url, downloads it as a file.

curl -I 'https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3a%2f%2fnews.ycombinator.com%2f&container=focus'
It's reminiscent of NDC 2012 (Norwegian Developer Conference), where also the event planning contractor arranged similar 'entertainment' (although more awkward than offensive, really), and Microsoft apologized afterwards [1].

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-apologizes-for-cringe...
Don't listen to people who say you are stupid. Do your thing, don't get exploited and you'll have fun.

Some people pay to do things they find fun.

But don't get exploited. Seriously.
From someone else with apnea: absolutely none at all.

I didn't have to use CPAP to treat it though, so other people's experiences might be different.
http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-tha...
Small payments using BitPay require one confirmation, and that typically only takes a minute or so. Their fee (1%, I think) covers reversal risk.
If anything, using a non-windows OS teaches you about being able to even "navigate" a command-line, or understand basic concepts such as file-paths. Such as "../" or relative vs absolute paths, what "/" means, etc. I'm amazed at how often such things are missed and never understood, even by individuals who are in the "maintenance" side of IT and have bazillions of "certs" for everything from networking to administration.
Europe is not a monolithic uniform state. Spain has very high unemployment in the 20-30 year old population, Norway has very little, and most countries are somewhere in between.

Just as unemployment in the US is not evenly spread over all states and industries.

One major difference between the Scandinavian countries, especially Norway, and the rest is that not only is vocational education alive and well but a person with a qualification in, say, plumbing or electrical installation work is not looked down on.
Fitting Animations into Your UX Strategy
I'd be curious to hear about profit sharing or bonus structure ideas that still align the employee with the actual outcome of the business, but give them a more direct benefit.
> as long as I like doing it and have something to eat.

Maybe it's enough now. But in 20 years, when you start to have medical expenses, kids, you may regret that you didn't earn a little more while you still could, especially if all you have are technical skills.
Were you paid for your time when doing that? Kind of curious (I guess 2 hours isn't a lot of time but there's the principle)
How are you assessing their enthusiasm and passion for your company?
It's tricky for corporates to host an uptempo afterparty.

"Booth babes" demoing products are OK during the day, but if you dim the lights, perceptions change.
There's big differences. US 4th Amendment is similar to Article 7. However Article 8 covers things that aren't in the US constitution, e.g. the requirement for an independent authority to ensure compliance, the right to access the data, the right for it to be accurate, the requirement that data is processed fairly for specific purposes on the basis of the (informed, unambiguous) consent of the person.

And the 4th Amendment doesn't apply to non-US people who aren't in the USA.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has found that US data protection law is significantly lacking compared to CFREU. If the US 4th Amendment was the same as the CFREU then there wouldn't have been that Safe Harbour case.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights...
Antivirus software is by definition a black list approach. A white list approach means code signing. iOS does that. It works fairly well in conjunction with certificate revocation for anything bad that managed to be signed by a trusted certificate. That means you have both a whitelist (that is append only) and a blacklist (to fix mistakes in the append only whitelist).
Not necessarily. What we're seeing with Ethereum, for instance, which seems to be the main blockchain technology that banks want to use right now, is that it was "customized" to fit the banks' needs to the point where the blockchain used by the banks doesn't even need to be public, the way Bitcoin is. It also doesn't need to work based on the "consensus" mechanism. And it could be further modified so that each transaction can also be wiretapped/blocked directly by the NSA, and so on.

I don't necessarily blame Ethereum for this, although they did have a hand in following the banks' rules and essentially writing software for them, but this would've probably happened even without Ethereum agreeing to do it. Maybe the banks would've forked Ethereum's technology and then they could've done whatever to it, or they could've written their own tech from scratch.
You opinion is -most definitely- in the minority.

There was a ticket sale experiment done about that. You should hunt that down, it was an eye-opening read.
Hmm. You can also arbitrarily set the mime type of the returned content.

curl -I 'https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=https%3a%2f%2fnews.ycombinator.com%2f&container=x&rewriteMime=application%2Fx-shockwave-flash'
Success or failure of an employee is based on what the company does with them after they are hired. It doesn't matter how "great" an employee is when they come in. I've seen people come in as senior devs but you'd never know it. I've seen some employees hired and ran off when they couldn't clean up a hot load in record time.
Illegal is not the same thing as criminal, the latter being a very special subset of the former.
Its a crap waste of time. Take home exercises have little more in common with the job than a white board exercises. And not all devs are going to do half a days work for free.
Ethical Design
I'm blocking it once it reaches my computer. The website doesn't have any say with what happens on my computer. I'm not hacking their servers or doing anything their servers disallow. My web browser is sending them a request and they are responding with content. That's their only point at which they have a say in what happens.
Yep, one place where I used to work, the owning company's policy had "Linux" on its whitelist, but not "Wireshark". Even though the company was developing software which communicated over the network in various protocols.
Since I can't edit the comment above anymore;

I thought of another thing: you could use a combo of permanent and electropermanent magnets with a magnetometer to make buttons on a surface that are flat across the surface when the device is off, and that raises up to a specific distance when switched on (like the polymagnet spring example that when rotated becomes attractive like a regular magnet).

Then you also adjust the magnetism so that at a given distance you can feel a "click" feedback when you push the button down. You could even have controllable variable resistance and click depth, depending on what you're doing. A gaming mode, a typing mode, a casual mode, etc...

No need for mechanical switches and buttons, just an attachment to hold the buttons in place.

So you could have a completely flat folding keyboard that then has the buttons raise up like on a standard keyboard, feeling like a standard keyboard, yet with 10x the longevity.

Better yet: make a surface with an array of electropermanent magnets and magnetometers, let each key have a Qr code like magnetic pattern with "magnetic anchors" plus a key identifier, and then you can place arbitary keys in arbitary positions to make yourself a keyboard looking however you want with no other manual work than key placement!

You could even have keys that can rotate or slide and even have switches, and the keyboard's magnetometers would identify the key patterns and your computer would download the instructions for parsing the inputs from that key.
Is there really a UK food chain called "Tossed"? Isn't that slang for masturbation?
Biohacking Mini Lab Signals a Growing Interest in DIY Biology
> They can keep their money, while I keep my passion: I think I get the better end of the deal.

I think many HN readers here could tell you that the better you ensure your compensation the better the work itself is.

The respect you get from "the suits" comes both in pay and in the kinds of work you get to do.
I tend to agree with most of this (university, GPA, subject, blah blah blah). Bits of paper that are signals of arbitrary things (family standing, ability to take on debt, country of birth).

Anti-Windows bias doesn't really feel like an example of 'pedigree' to me, though.

I can't imagine programming on Windows. I can't even imagine using the OS. I moved away from Windows ~a decade ago and haven't looked back - it seems to be getting worse every year (the business model for W10 appears to be surveillance?).

Anyone care to chime in? What's the appeal of Windows in this day and age? To me it really feels like 'big companies use it so their programmers do'.
I get what you are saying, but Stanford isn't an Ivy League school. :)

But yes, I agree with everything you're saying.
Before deleting your account you should edit out and overwrite as much information as possible. Things like your name, e-mail, and any other fields should be falsified before deleting. You have no way of knowing if their "delete" mechanism just flips a deleted bit or if it actually erases your data.

The problem, in this case, is that the company might notify your employer that you're making those changes. Not sure what I'd do in this case. It might be worth creating some dummy accounts to see what actions actually trigger notifications.
Have every candidate work on the same problems, and
let them do it from home

To be fair, I've seen a lot of good arguments against programming assignments. I think at the end of the day, the employer needs to conduct some method of determining if the employee has the technical capabilities needed for the specific job they're being hired for. However, there are MANY other factors too like "how well they get along with the team" that need to be considered. That's what they're trying to determine with the pairings and other stuff you mentioned I think. Whether that works is another story.
There were "booth babes" at another GDC after party and I, as an heterosexual male, was uncomfortable encountering them.
I haven't had any reason to touch a DLL file yet.

However, I still use the terminal by using ConEMU with Git Bash to get git in the terminal because I don't know how else to do it. But you mention bash and awk, I have never in my years of experience really used these tools a lot either.

Maybe some small bash-script to backup or something similar, but nothing else really. You don't have to use it and most of the times it's easier to write a python script or what not.

I haven't really bothered to learn any PowerShell except "Update-Database" in the Package Manager Console.
CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database
Exactly.

And at least they should do it publicly.
When will they stop marketing junk content at internet.
The first part of this reminds me of what I think when coming back from a k hole.
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I put this in a bookmark in chrome and use it whenever i need a "specially crafted" printscreen.
javascript:(function(){ document.designMode = "on"; })();
Actually, they say they found time bomb detonators based on this watch.

United States Military intelligence officials have identified the F91W as a watch that terrorists use when constructing time bombs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Qaida_watch_timer_on_p...
How to Monetize Your Video Content
I have had a few of these the last year or two. Never been paid. More than half of them are a waste of time. I have refused quite a few of them.

The last "shouldn't take you more than two hours" exercise that I was given involved jumping through hoops to get set up on Instagrams API, only to discover that I was in a sandboxed mode, and needed my account approved before i could get anything more than metadata out). I didn't even get started coding, so I am not sure what exactly the test was meant to achieve.
The things you listed is downsides, not something to be proud about. To play on terminal you still need large screen, and colored, since NetHack utilizes colors. This makes an obvious downside of not using any kind of images or cursor. This makes the game unplayable for all people except few old programmers and system admins used to do everything with commands.

In my eyes this game along with many other terminal games are "toys of old unix admins". It's really mind-boggling how anyone can think that a game with worst possible production quality can have a word as "greatest" associated with it.

Just because you feel nostalgia, it doesn't make the game good.
I don't think it has to do with any of that. Its just inappropriate for a professional software conference? (and at the risk of sounding like a Tumblr EssJayDoubleU, assumes that everyone there is a horny hetero dude).
It was an optional afterparty at a dance club.
That looks like DNA lounge, which definitely does not have go-go dancers by default. If so, it's pretty likely the Microsoft event organizers specifically requested/hired them.
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>rather than having to grow for the sake of spending their VC money.

Please forward all jobs to me, as I am happy to take their money.
> We already live in a world that is, as far as the
> distribution of wealth is concerned, about as unequal
> as it gets. It may even be as unequal as it’s ever been.

Sure, if by "a world" you mean "a hyper-prosperous nation like the US or the UK"... and if by "unequal as it's ever been" you mean that third-world countries are taking our jobs and becoming much more prosperous, hitting our middle income brackets - the global 2% - harder than anyone else.

If you really mean globally, then inequality is in fact falling.

But sure, yes, the "cashless" ideas going around today are just a way for the government to enforce surveillance and steal away citizens' money with negative interest rates.
"If a small amount of federal funding meant they had to make everything public domain, they'd probably just give up that funding and make some cuts. No one wins there, IMO."

Well, except the public, but they are never a concern in these decisions. Just a cash cow to be milked.

Not just picking on NPR, PBS has exactly the same problem. The folks who want to educate the world want to upload entire legal episodes to youtube, but the business folks in charge of the local stations don't want to go out of business, so...
I'm biased (being a long-term contractor), but I would agree that this statement is exactly wrong.

Breadth of experience counts and you can't get that without having 'been around'.

On the other hand, if you're hiring a contractor who has had lots of very short contracts, that should raise a warning flag.

Quite simply tho, why would any good contractor want to go permie? the attraction for me is simple... I get paid twice what I would otherwise get in a permie position.
Would you rather have 32 or 128GB of RAM on your computer? It's a rather pointless question right? As long as you have enough, having more is not worth the hassle.

Same thing with currency, as long the threshold is met, the rest is worthless (IMO).

It's not that I don't value my work, but instead that more money doesn't mean more value for me, so even if a company wanted to reward me more they couldn't add more value through money.

Don't you think having a peaceful life doing what you like to do in exchange for your work is a fair deal? I think it is ^ ^
The problem is that with .Net experience comes a very big reluctance to "re-use" existing, open-source libraries. I've seen it first-hand, devs that "only" know the .Net stack. You come at them with any solution that involves "free" due to a library/project being open-source, and their brains nearly explode (bit of hyperbole, there).
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Yet we don't have a high precision value for it.

From the same Wikipedia article:

"Published values of G have varied rather broadly, and some recent measurements of high precision are, in fact, mutually exclusive.[4][6]"
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It's not that unix folks don't appreciate it, but that it's not clear what to appreciate. From solely a personal standpoint, years of both using and programming on Windows taught me nothing about its values. However, I can talk about Apple and its values for hours and I've never owned anything Apple except its keyboard.

Joel, the author of the article you linked to, states the core value of Windows as being "useful to non-programmers" basing it on "By contrast, Windows was created with one goal only: to sell as many copies as conceivable at a profit". The former does not follow from the latter.

Microsoft didn't need to rely on usefulness to anyone to sell many copies, and they didn't. As for why Linux isn't non-programmer friendly, I beg to differ. Android is a prime example and the argument as to why it's not doing well on desktop, as Linus Torvalds puts it, is because no one ships Linux on their desktops. Microsoft has a lot to do with that. When and if they ever do, Aunt Marge will be as happy using Linux without even knowing it's Linux (does the average non-programmer know that Android is Linux?)
I will not edit it to preserve this statement of my ignorance about the American university system for eternity, but thanks for pointing this out!
getcontext and setcontext are fundamentally about saving and restoring CPU registers. setjmp and longjmp are also about saving and restoring CPU registers, and they (and related functions) give you much more complex of whether you want to save the signal mask. Since saving and restoring the signal mask is the objectionable part of setcontext, setjmp is a decent alternative.

If you want to unwind, just unwind. setjmp and setcontext neither help nor hurt you here.
Also see
https://github.com/HenryHoggard/OpenLocate-Server
https://github.com/HenryHoggard/openlocate
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