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WOCKHARDT FOUNDATION AND FASHIONALBYIN START CHARITY VENTURE FASHION.NGO
Shopping will feel better than ever, thanks to a special charitable-giving fashion website launched by the Wockhardt Foundation and Fashionablyin.

Fashion.ngo will promote anyone who hosts a trunk show anywhere in the world and sell their products on their upcoming website by retaining 15% of that sale revenue for various programs such as Mobile 1000, Shudhu and the Pronto Bio-Toilet.

Mobile 1000 – To operate 1000 Mobile Health Vans to provide free primary healthcare to 25 million Indians in rural India

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We're so excited about this site, says Dr. Huzaifa Khorakiwala, founder of Wockhardt Foundation. As much as we all love to shop, nothing will feel as good as giving back to the community.

Fashionablyin also acquired the domain fashion.ngo from the Public Interest Registry in December last year for this project.

Founded in July, 2015 Fashionablyin.com has grown to become the world’s most comprehensive fashion search and discovery website. The company founded by Mumbai based entrepreneur, Tarun Thadani raised an undisclosed sum of seed funding late last year has already started making benchmarks in the global fashion industry.
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Look for .po files, xliff or .property files. There are quite a few standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_memory

There is desktop software as well as SaaS websites who offer to manage those files with online editors for you. Some have APIs that allow you to pull new translations (or whole files in the format of your choice). It makes it also easier when dealing with external translators or if you're in a hurry and want to pay somebody to translate just one string.

I used http://gengo.com/ in the past but they seem to have gone full enterprise now. https://www.transifex.com/ and https://poeditor.com/ look like good alternatives. I'm sure there are many others.

You can download and install the open source http://pootle.translatehouse.org/. That's what big open source projects like LibreOffice use.
The 'personnummer' is also publicly available, though the sites usually have to limit access in order to comply with Personuppgiftslagen/PuL (Swedish version of the Data Protection Directive).
Do you have any evidence, like a study, to back up those claims of effectiveness? I'm sure you can find someone claiming any sort of useless hiring process works for them. I mean, how do you even know how things would have turned out with an alternative process?
> (feels like they train for it)

They do.
Missing something doesn't rule them out, nothing in the test is a hard failure. That said, the candidates that really shine are the ones who do spot the things that others don't. It allows for the really good candidates to differentiate themselves.

Mostly though, we're focusing on the assumptions that the candidate is making about the problem, and the data structures they use to solve it, we just wouldn't be able to analyse and compare to the same extent between two pieces of portfolio code from two different candidates GitHub profiles.
Getting to the next interview stage is not 'getting something back' according to his criteria - at that stage he doesn't know if he wants to progress, and doing a test doesn't provide more information. It gives the company information on whether it wants to progress, but not the candidate.

Also, refreshing memory on coding tests is not exactly getting a lot back. You don't need to do an interview to do a coding test, if that's your fetish.

Not that I completely agree with the guy. I don't mind coding tests or assignments, except when I have no idea whether or not I actually want to work at a company when they give me one. So, in that case, unless I'm really bored or feeling especially unemployed, I don't put a lot of effort in. I do understand why companies do them, and the company I work for does.
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"I won't spend a sizable chunk of my free time so they can tick some boxes about my coding skills..." but you don't mind spending an entire day (for which you presumably took a day off work, if you're currently employed) doing it at their place of business?
var naming aside, the whitespacing is perplexing:

U = random_double(); negSreal=-S;
y1=exp(log(U*Nreal/qu1real)*nmin1inv);
Vprime = y1 * (-X/Nreal+1.0)*(qu1real/(negSreal+qu1real));
if(Vprime <= 1.0) break; y2=1.0; top = -1.0+Nreal; if(-1+n > S){bottom=-nreal+Nreal;limit=-S+N;}
else{bottom=-1.0+negSreal+Nreal; limit=qu1;}

Sometimes two statements per line, sometimes one. Sometimes spaces before and after equals, sometimes none. Sometimes multiple ifs, breaks and statements on one line.

It looks like it was copy-pasted from a pdf. Maybe it was.
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HN has talked about ad-blocking, and about how that might increase the use of paid-for-content.

This article is a reminder that the paid for content needs to be clearly marked as an ad in the UK.

This article is from the Competition and Markets Authority (a non-ministerial department of UK government). But there has been enforcement action from other regulators too.

Here's what the Advertising Standards Authority (an industry group) say about vlogging and sponsored content: https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Media-Centre/2015/New-...

https://www.cap.org.uk/Advice-Training-on-the-rules/Advice-O...

Notice that the vlogging guidance says the marking-as-an-ad needs to happen before the user clicks anything - a message at the beginning of the video is not sufficient.
It's not difficult to see that AR/MR/VR will alter our current conception of IoT; imagine the functionality that can be layered onto objects/devices with MR alone. The nature of IoT as embedded robotic systems will become much more apparent, and spacial rendering, and other potential bandwidth intensive sensing capabilities, will push higher upload bandwidth need.
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Because DMA occurs when the CPU writes to memory, and as my comment above states this occurs after the condition is evaluated and the jump instruction (not) taken.

Speculative execution is purely within the CPU and doesn't leak out - except in the case of worse than ideal performance.
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The Manjaro community is separate from the Arch one. Typically, Arch has looked down on spin offs, and in particular on Manjaro because of the way they manage updates.

That said, I don't feel the idea of the Arch community revolves around professionalism; it is really an amateur thing, in the positive sense.
My limit was reached a while ago when intrusive ads starting becoming the norm. My personal least favorite are ones that move the content of the page so I'm bouncing around trying to read the same paragraph and ones that somehow think my cursor hovering is sufficient reason to play sound or "expand" an ad.

Monetization from advertising must be brutal if so much content is being displayed in worse and worse ways.
The mentioned websites contain at least the full name, birthdate, registered address and marital status of every Swedish resident (at least above the age of ~16?), with the exception of a very small percentage of people with protected identity (which you can only get if you're under a "serious and concrete threat"). They get this data straight from the government - it's all public.

Go to e.g. http://www.ratsit.se/, write "Stockholm" under "Var" and hit "Sök" and click on a name for an example.

You won't see the personal identification number ("personnummer") that we use for absolutely everything, however as tednoob mentions you can get access to this by paying for premium access. Or you can call the Swedish Tax Authority. They don't have the right to ask who you are or why you want someone's number.
I'd argue there is none, because friends and family already know how to reach you. However, both sites display ads.
Your sources are second hand, and old. The article you picked was from The Telegraph and was published in 2010, about the government report "Is Britain Fairer?", which was also published in 2010.

The latest report, from 2015, makes for interesting reading. It shows that:

a. White people have a higher rate of employment than for ethnic minorities generally (74.7% vs. 59.3%)

b. Men have a higher rate of employment than women, and women are more likely to be in part-time work and less likely to be in senior management positions.

c. Religious minorities are more likely to be unemployed, and in particular Muslim men experience the highest levels of unemployment.

There's no analysis though of why any of this is the case though. All the things you highlight aren't necessarily issues that can't be overcome. But you have selectively cherry-picked what you want to see, and I can't see that you can provide any sources that back up your assertions about why Muslims face high unemployment.
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Oh that's easy (joke)...

int min(int a, int b) {
ArrayList<Integer> numbers = new ArrayList<Integer>();
numbers.add(a);
numbers.add(b);
Collections.sort(numbers);
return numbers.get(0);
}
I agree, I wouldn't ever consider buying new unless it was a company lease.
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Another advantage is that most people don't have to file taxes anymore. VAT is handled by companies.

Personally, I think we should also tax land owners. Likewise, this does not affect most people.
You think that if it is not getting posted on HN than nobody will notice it? What would you qualify HN worthy submission? I did not read the URL just read the comments but it was quite entertaining, HN is not responsible about the content of the submission URLs but it is a great place to discuss the subject with other people.
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I'm not sure I agree with it either, but it is certainly newsworthy.
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Good point. For example, I find it really strange that lots of money is spent on improving infrastructure in London rather than building new subways etc. in other cities in the UK:

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/aug/07/london-...

I wonder, is it the same in the US (and other countries)? Lots of money being spent in cities that are already large, rather than building new roads, tramways and subways in smaller cities?
Is it possible that http://explainxkcd.com/ being unavailable is down to the number of people confused by this
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The winners here are fraudsters and the losers are the Turkish people. Cryptographers never enter into the equation.
> Unfortunately in many juristictions seeding is copyright infringement and leeching is not.

At least in Germany, both leeching and seeding are copyright infringements as soon as you upload any data back into the swarm. Since leeching also does this (though not exclusively), it is also copyright infringement. Pure downloading is not, though, which is why streaming websites (just downloading, no uploads) are fairly popular here.
Telcos hate low latency. High latency is in their DNA. Nobody has ever been able to sell low latency except to HFT people, and until they started asking, nobody knew what a circuitous route the cables took from Manhattan to New Jersey.

The first research project Bell labs did was a test to see how much latency they could get telephone users to tolerate.
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Yup. My test for this kind of thing is to ask people to write a function that can sum the numbers between two numbers. It's simple, touches on enough to show if the dev is at least minimally competent, and it's a bonus is they give the O(1) solution.

It's surprising how many timewasters even a simple test like that can weed out.
sense2vec tags tokens with information from syntactic parsing and by that offers finer grained meaning on the word level. Here is a good implementation btw: https://spacy.io/blog/sense2vec-with-spacy

lda2vec has a different goal, namely classifying utterances with features on the sentence/document level. Thus it is to my understanding doc2vec with regularization for enhanced interpretability.
Well, they could not have known in 2012. But, they did just re-air those episodes in the last few weeks as re-runs. So, that was either a big coincidence, or they knew it was coming.
> When are we as a community going to stop cheekily "tolerating" piracy and finally stand up against the unjust and immoral lie that is the concept of intellectual property rights?

Probably never, and that's fine. At least not until the avalanche of inevitability gets rolling and then it doesn't matter, and that's fine too. That's just how real social change happens. First you get the majority on board, then the rest is just bookkeeping.

Nobody "as a community" stopped "cheekily tolerating" casual cannabis use and "finally stood up", but tolerance got so ubiquitous that suddenly the "squares" were out of touch and suddenly has to "stand up" for what was already the law -- not the other way around.

I'm pretty sure "cheekily tolerating" homosexuality also cumulatively did more for gay rights than "standing up" did.
Code tests are:

1. Intrinsically unbiased.

2. Applicable for remote candidates.

3. Easily verifiable (unlike a github repo)

I'd take code tests over alternative interviewing methods any day.
For anyone that still wants/has to use MySQL, there is always MariaDB - a drop in replacement that is evolving a bit faster.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/
Many companies use date of birth and address for authentication. The only thing that is missing is mother's maiden name, which then would be enough to access confidential information at most banks (though they wouldn't be able to transfer money without authorisation code).

Maybe they should learn a lesson from here - information that you do not control should not be used for authentication. Especially the one that is in its essence public.
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If you choose to sign up for facebook with real information, sure.

You don't have much choice in the data your government loses about you.
Hmmm. This only includes 344 different dependencies from npm. Not sure why I'm concerned. Is this more dangerous than my webpack build? Probably not but it certainly reminded me that convenience comes at a cost...
I used the .NET wrappers for Dokan to write a read only version of ZFS in C#.[1] It was pretty easy to get things to get started with.

[1]: https://github.com/AustinWise/ZfsSharp
Any time I see one of these rants I can't help but assume that the author has never been remotely involved with hiring from the other end.
The sheer volume of crap resumes you get from people that can't code is utterly astounding, especially from recruiters.
A simple blanket "Yeah sure here do this test first" is necessary to stop your engineers drowning, though even then you still get a whole bunch of recruiter forwarded candidates that simply cheat on any test you give them, automated phone or otherwise.

That said, if a company is actively trying to poach someone, asking them to do a coding test is rather stupid, since you wouldn't be going after them if you didn't know they were good.
>I would think the median price for vehicles tends to list high as trucks which account for a large number of sales regularly have stickers in that range.

That may be true for the US market but Tesla is selling globally now. Trucks don't sell very well in Europe for example.
I agree with down being insufficient.

I have 15/1. Everything is latency-city compared to everyone else out there. I would literally trade 15/1 for 10/5 if I could, even though that means I would lose SuperHD on Netflix, which is the largest consumer of bandwidth in my house (and virtually Bluray quality when SuperHD is enabled).
I'm not sure what you want a study for, I assume you want a study about the effectiveness of coding tests as a measure of ability, but that's not the point I was making. My points were addressing the rejection from the author of the blog post.

I feel we get a large amount of information from coding tests, but it is only a part of a larger interview process that covers communication abilities, and many other important aspects, so it's very difficult to test in isolation.

I don't have data to back up that claim of effectiveness, but I have nearly 2 years of seeing this particular hiring process (and seeing the 'borderline' test candidates come in and always fail the interviews - tests are anonymous, we only find out after interviews). Our CTO has quite a bit more experience with this process and appears to hold similar opinions based on our conversations about it in the past.
> averaging 200 km/h on the Autobahn

The recommended average speed on the Autobahn is 130 km/h. In reality due to congestion, noise reduction, construction work and maintenance there are probably more stretches with limits below that than not (typically 80 km/h or 60 km/h around roadworks, though there are also plenty of 100 km/h and 120 km/h stretches for no obvious reasons). Typical comfortable driving speed tends to be no more than 180 km/h, though if you don't want to have to break and accelerate all the time you probably don't want to go too far beyond 160 km/h.

I won't deny that depending on the time of day and the particular route you may be able to drive 200+ km/h on the Autobahn but talking about the implications of 200 km/h average speed as if it was an even remotely realistic representation is frankly absurd.
Damn near the whole country was burned flat in 44/45, so there's that...
The server's quite slow at the moment. Adding a new light just took it nearly 30 seconds, so I wonder if that's affecting the behaviour of the thing in general?
What are these EV clones that are fighting the Model S? Also, the Model 3 hasn't won anything yet, except a lot of refundable preorders alongside a soon to be expiring tax credit.
If I am already employed or not desperate for work, I will not do your coding challenge unless you pay me for it. Why? Because you get most (all?) of the benefits of the exercise but I need to do all the effort. Actors do get payed for doing castings.
Requirements for 5G are getting equally ridiculous [1]. 5 ms latency and 100 devices per square meter? Whenever I hear something like that, I like to outline a meter by meter of empty floor space and ask people what they imagine 100 devices will be doing in that particular spot.

[1] https://5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BROCHURE_5PPP_B...
What is your opinion of MariaDB?
Simple, it's critical to the industry who saw existing hardware sales stalling and needs a boost - ergo 4K and VR. Now they just have to convince the consumer his life is miserable without them.
Also adding to that most of the intelligent people who are moving out and settling else would have studied with governments money from premium institutions
Monopolistic copyright abuse by rights purchasers not necesarily authorial rights are the issue.

The GPL depends on copyright to protect programmers freedoms & the public domain from appropriation.

Is this a technologic or moral problem and can laws solve it ?

Is easy to feel that the issue is artists should be paid, but if one is poor then access to culture and information can be simply unaffordable.

Everyone listens to more music than they can buy. Truefans moreso.

For most artists obscurity is the issue and realistically the big studios/ labels steal more from artists than anyone.

A tricky moral issue that could trivially be solved with strong government and enforced licenses like they did for radio & libraries.

Just like artists get paid when the radio plays a song, it should be the same for sharing, remixing & mashups.

But lobbies legislate these issues, so the monopoly of ludditism prevails.

IMHO false scarcity of knowledge is immoral and unnecessary and if we ever going to get off planet before a meteor hits we must advance beyond the Status Quo.
If Apple can come with a solution for recycling these second hand phones I'm all ears. So far there is no word on that issue. We already have a lot of e-waste in the country as it is. Adding more to it will cause serious environmental hazards.
>People buy Teslas because they are the best car money can buy.

I can't imagine you can make a valid case that there is one best car that money can buy, presumably for everyone who can afford one.
In other words, India is trying to look after its own interests instead of being 'fair'.

Is there any country that doesn't do that?

Note: I'm not commenting on whether or not this practice will actually work for India in the long run
That's not really true. Often you can order stuff from the internet with only knowing the SSN. You can order on invoice with Klarna for example.

Of course, for things that really matter, you need an ID.
However note that in the Vitter's paper all discussed algorithms are O(k) as per previous notation, or O(n) using paper's notation where n elements are selected from the set of N:

http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~jsv/Papers/Vit87.RandomSampling.pdf

In short, it's worth reading Vitter's paper, the original post is just a post containing the C code, but the discussion of the algorithm and the comparison with the alternatives is in the paper.

(Edit: corrected the notation of O() as robrenaud suggested)
The England situation is a bit odd because London is such a distortion. We've entered into a weird feedback loop - London generates so much money that companies and government locates there, so a bunch of infrastructure is built and maintained there, which makes it more attractive for businesses to locate there.

Upgrading London transport has "trickle down"[1] benefits outside London. Some of the older London trains are sold off cheap to be used outside London, where they're newer that current stock.

I'd love to see better transport links between Bristol, Swindon, Birmingham, Manchester, and London. And some tax incentives to make it easier for companies to locate outside London. And for more government departments to locate away from London. And I'd freaking love it if Houses of Parliament relocated and turned current Westminster into a museum. But I don't think any of that is going to happen.

[1] I'm aware the term is tainted.
Craig Murray has not been shy of calling out The Guardian in the past: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/08/rusbridger-h...

His opinion is fairly extreme, though if you read carefully and follow the links in that post you might conclude that some of his concerns are at least worth bearing in mind.
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