skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've dealt with several recruiters each from Huxley, NJF, Selby Jennings, Open System Technologies, Crystal Equation, Workbridge Associates, Jobspring Partners, Cybercoders, and Grady Levkov. And also one from Gina's Tech Jobs, and two freelance recruiters who had been recommended to me by friends.

If, for example, you say you won't reveal your previous salary or your current expectations until after speaking with someone to get a sense of whether you're a good fit for the role, then they will throw every excuse at you to get you to say a number first, and if you still don't, they simply will not work with you. No matter how much I practiced and no matter how politely and professionally I dodged the question, I did not ever encounter a single recruiter who would agree to help me without first having me name a concrete, specific number for my salary.

In a few cases, the recruiter even told me that to submit any applications on my behalf, they needed years of salary history including any equity or bonus payments. In one case when the number of years needed was 7, when I refused, I never heard from her again. That recruiter was actually referred to me by a trusted friend who had used her help to get a job, so it was not some fly-by-night scamster. While my friend, I guess, was OK sharing 7 years of data with some random recruiter, I was not, and so they simply did not contact me further.

On the few occasions that I've opened up about what would actually make me excited about a job (having a quiet, private office is by far #1), they basically just say "yeah right, never going to happen, move on." So if I stick up for what I am seeking (or at least was seeking at that time) they also just discontinue all contact.

Finally I just gave up on this and stopped ever telling recruiters anything at all that I felt they might think would make me 'weird' or 'unusual' or 'quirky' to present as a candidate, but because they all solely cared about getting that concrete salary number in the first conversation, this largely had no impact other than at least making the conversations take less time.

They also often submitted my email/phone/resume to their general recruiters, so then I started getting spam mail and unsolicited phone calls at odd hours about positions that are extremely inappropriate for someone with my particular background.

The time spent patiently explaining my background and current career goals to recruiters has been painfully wasted. If there is some way to locate good recruiters apart from the firms I've contacted and the people referred to me by friends, I certainly do not know how to do it.
> Go is not ready to solve problem «right now» either

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Yup. I'm surprised an advisor would sign off on this thesis.
Somehow this all seems illegal. I'm not that familiar with the US law so can somebody explain if the defendant can claim that the judge has a conflict of interest and is not fit to handle the case because his son profits from it?
The documentation for the new thread pool APIs in Windows say that it is more performant than the old ones. Do you have any experience transitioning from the old thread pool to the new one, and if so did you notice performance differences?
Identity politics has a long history in both parties. Reagan was all about it, not that he started it either.
How about "petition for an icon"? I find 'suggest' goes too far the other direction, it's discouraging because it means nothing. But here, if I can get a few votes from other users, I do actually get it. That's a petition for me. Or maybe even 'start a referendum', but I don't know how commonly known that word is.
Gamification: it only works to a point. As he pointed out this isn't something people are SO keen on that they want or need to incentivize their employees to do it.
> The Mac app eco system was thriving

Was it? What's your source?
If anything, this should have been an A/B test.
I think they could be much improved by allowing all the features to be modified with sliders and checkboxes with the Free/Advanced/Pro presented as presets.
You may find this writeup from an Amazon veteran about how Amazon goes about designing things. It's 100% about accessibility over aesthetics. Ihttps://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
1. This is a good place for use of log or semi-log plots.

2. How do the authors unambiguously search for 'R'? Monocharacter language names are difficult search keys. (C, B, S, R)
I think that's referring to the prolog/epilog convention and "homing" of parameter registers, e.g.

Frame struct
ReturnAddress dq ?
HomeRcx dq ?
HomeRdx dq ?
HomeR8 dq ?
HomeR9 dq ?
Frame ends

NESTED_ENTRY Foo, _TEXT$00

mov Frame.HomeRcx[rsp], rcx
mov Frame.HomeRdx[rsp], rcd
mov Frame.HomeR8[rsp], r8
mov Frame.HomeR9[rsp], r9

alloc_stack 64

END_PROLOG

; *do stuff*

BEGIN_EPILOG

add rsp, 64

NESTED_END Foo, _TEXT$00

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tawsa7cb.aspx
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There are some keywords that could help: R Lang and Rstats for instance
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Mathematica isn't being used at all? That's surprising. Mathematica is wonderful. I wonder what's holding it back?

It doesn't seem to have a package manager. Could it be that simple?
What does "accept" mean here, is it a matter of refusing to understand what someone is trying to communicate until they use the lexical conventions you prefer? Words have meaning whether you "accept" them or not.

"People" aren't really a useful measure here because there is slang that achieves popularity out of the subculture that produces it, subcultures composed of people, just the same as it may not propagate, in which case it naturally remains useful to the in-group. To reject slang as valid language until it achieves mainstream acceptance is a) not measurable as there is no line that is crossed, and b) antisocial.
Hi, I'm interested in how much experience/prelim data you had and how large and experienced your team was when applying to ycombinator with this plan.

I applied with my partner with a similar goal a couple of years ago, and was rejected. The criteria for biotech applications was very vague then, and we tried to keep our pitch as non technical as possible which I think worked against us.

Also, do you have an in house gene design method or do you rely on the supplier to optimize? As I see it, the two major obstacles are reaching commercially viable expression yields, and identifying market demand.
Awesome! Will definitely use it for my next project!
It was not an argument, just a comment. But to address your second comment, part of the point of my post is that people outside the black community can do many things to improve the conditions that lead to a negative culture (which is not necessarily about being black but more common to poverty broadly): provide better schools, better housing options, decrease discrimination of all forms, better/fairer policing, replace the war on drugs with a fight against addiction, ...
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This crosses into personal attack, and you can't do that in comments here. Please (re)-read the following and don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11864766 and marked it off-topic.
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Just for the record, I want to point out that it does not render well on Netscape Communicator 4.75.

http://grab.by/QH2u
That might be a cool diagram to show! I honestly know nothing about kernel programming, just happened to come across that a long time ago and bookmarked it.
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Yes, it's extremely easy to link to packages in R, and even to include C++ programs to make your R package run faster. Mathematica, on the other hand, is a large proprietary package that involves a bit of effort to install and use. I'm not sure about what statistical features it has, but perhaps they're not as developed as R's.
There is a lot of demand for this. Unfortunately people are often very unrealistic about doing business in China. Being the contact point, translator or consultant means taking the blame for the usual problems. When translation does not get good results the translators are blamed because no one else can understand or really cares if the client is unhappy so they become a “whipping boy". Often very publicly.

If I were not a local I would use a contract manufacturer. Westerners often think it’s a communication issue when it’s an relationship issue. Who you know and have relationships with. If you have established relationships with the people not willing to lose your future business by delivering poor quality then you are a contract manufacturer. You are not going to put anyone else in contact with those people since that is your IP and poor behavior from them would reflect on you and hurt your future business.

But people want to save some money and try to do each little thing themselves. When that does not work there is always finger pointing. And I’ve never seen anyone blame themselves. It’s always the factory, the local Chinese, the translator/assistant etc.
> A few moments later, I was on eBay, where I started to bid on strangers’ dusty collections of early issues of Wired, all from the years 1993 to 1995

It's interesting that the author never tried to get these from a library (or at least doesn't mention it). Do libraries not keep back issues anymore? Growing up in LA, I could get back issues of almost any magazine from the library going many decades back. Sometimes my local library didn't have it, but the LA system did.

Also, since she lives in SF, I'll bet should could just head over to Wired HQ and ask to use their collection, and they'd probably be thrilled that someone is interested in back issues. They have them all on a bookcase since the beginning of time. I used to read them when taking breaks.
This was incoherent.
I really like the design of this site. Is it full custom bootstrap?
It sounds like your review process went very well. Those hardened anti-novelists have probably rejected piles of genuinely crank material. They're needed to keep the literature free of true rubbish. Of course they're not perfect so sometimes rubbish gets through and sometimes good work gets blocked, but if the researcher really believes in their work, they'll go to extra lengths to break through, as you did.

Maybe the world would be a slightly better place if your overly skeptical reviewer had reviewed this http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-paper.htm
If boasting had a legal basis for the courts to respect, a lot of rappers would be in trouble over the past decades.

I get it: you think sentiment should be conclusive, and in many cases you could say that it is in practice, but it's hard if not impossible to make a case against a disfavorable entity solely on that basis.

And the RIAA has certainly disparaged defendants in many if not all cases. Hard to say how much effect it really has, though.
The nigger thinks that a talking space alien is nothing special.

I have something far better than investors. I could not buy rights to create the IBM PC future specs.

With God, I get full control of the IBM PC hardware.
> Of course a cow should be more work to raise than a chicken. But it has so many times more meat on it than a chicken, and is more energy efficient per calorie consumed too.

Wikipedia says quite the opposite:

"Two kilograms of grain must be fed to poultry to produce 1 kg of weight gain, much less than that required for pork or beef."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry_farming#Efficiency
In a way, I feel amazed that it even recognized that TLD.
zer00eyz comment is pretty accurate. Gamification is something that came up during brainstorming, but most business users tend to view all but the most subtle approaches as distracting. We concluded we needed something that actually made their task more efficient or effective.
1. There is a log plot at the end of the article

2. The author posted the exact search terms used for all languages in an earlier post [0]

[0]: http://r4stats.com/articles/how-to-search-for-data-science-a...
Who wants to carry a year's worth of book-bound magazines around? Nobody can see the neon covers, meaning nobody can appreciate them amid the sea of 'regulars' at Zeitgeist.
1- a more stable, faster version of ubuntu/unity with customer support

2- a good linux ide for native remote developement with proper support for debugger and profiling

3 - a cheaper version of vtune with support for arm and powerpc
I've been playing since about 2009 or so, and I've actually almost never used a numeric keypad. Unless I'm forgetting something in some deep part of my settings, you don't actually need anything in particular from the numeric pad that you don't get from a standard laptop keyboard layout.
It is like using all web apps in native wrapper and the telling that all web apps looks like native apps.

Slack desktop is a webapp packed in native wrapper.
To add to mwfunk's fine comment, one of the lessons I draw from HN is that interesting things emerge when you have more complex feedback loops between community and moderation. Entirely unregulated discourse seems to trend to extreme states that turn out to be boring and ultimately turn into a desert, at least for a site whose guiding value is intellectual curiosity. We knew about some of this when pg started HN—that's why its original prospectus talked about trying to avoid the typical fate of online communities—and we've learned a lot more over the years.

The key, of course, is to stay within an optimal range of moderation. One wants enough to avoid the perils of unsupervised discourse, and then stop. Do we get the balance right? Hard (and not) for me to say, but one thing I'm sure of is that we're not interested in controlling this place, only helping it be as interesting as it can.
I do as well ... I've used mocking frameworks, and about the only time it's useful is if you have code you don't control that includes static methods. But in those cases, there are still ways to abstract that out of the code that needs to be tested
The underlying idea behind what he did here is sometimes called Ethnography. There was another great article a while back on this going on at adobe/photo shop: https://medium.com/startup-study-group/my-two-years-as-an-an...

As far as tools go, ethnography can be very powerful in the right hands.
One of the (former?) main kernel developers on ReactOS, Alex Ionescu, is even a co-author on the latest editions of Windows Internals.
No.

She's a woman, naturally she would use female pronouns. However, that does not equate to using/playing up the fact that she is a woman (as a differentiator etc.).

That said, #ImWithHim is equally silly.

Once again, policies and issues are what matter.
You fool!

I have a space alien.

One day, the world news will be about me 24/7.

I will have 400 million customers over night.

why would I even pay attention ot 10-20 downloads these days. It' means nothing.

I get 400 million downloads the first day public space alein world news.

Nothing matters until the Day God decides we should be world news.
Not respected maybe but lolcode is functional, complete, and extensible.
> You are right, but those points are details.

Uh, no, they are very crucial details. For example, it means the difference between letting root delete /dev/null like any other "file" on Linux, versus an admin not being able to delete \Device\Null on Windows because it isn't a "file". The nonsense Linux lets you do because it treats everything like a "file" is the problem here. It's not a naming issue.
This is just hosting.
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no mention of Incanter . . . is it really that niche?
I was fascinated by BeOS in the late 90s when I had a lot of enthusiasm (and little clue). All their threading claims just sounded so cool. I was also really into FreeBSD from around 2.2.5 so I got to see how all the SMPng stuff (and kqueue!) evolved, as well as all the different threading models people in UNIX land were trying (1:1, 1:m, m:n).

NT solves it properly. Efficient multithreading support and I/O (especially asynchronous I/O) are just so intrinsically related. Trying to bend UNIX processes and IPC and signals and synchronous I/O into an efficient threading implementation is just trying to fit a square peg in a round hole in my opinion.

As for reading list... I've bought so many old books lately. Here's my "makes the short list" bookshelf: http://imgur.com/DfTUVQx

And the more ridiculous one that I use as a cover page on my resume: http://imgur.com/0u9OZcN

What things in particular are you interested in?
Wouldn't it be great if someone got a job with these companies, as a mole? Then snoop through their activities, and write it up as an exposé?
The classic solution to storing potatoes is the root cellar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_cellar

In the US they were used to keep vegetables warmer in the winter (while below household temps), but they should also work for cooling.
Agreed. I find NSubstitute incredibly easy to use compared to others.
A big problem for machines of this vintage is HTTPS everywhere. Google still works pretty well and will let you access it over HTTP, but the rendering of the search results is a bit janky.
This is Javascript.
I'm not sure if Mathematica is on the radar if you are looking for "just" a stats package, it can do way more.

I have no idea how it compares price-wise to SAS?
>It isn't an unconditional open door. That's why there's a separate...

That is exactly my point.
"It would have been different if we had been debating which plan among several to implement or how to shore up specific weaknesses, but we had nothing."

I don't really understand "having nothing" -- you're either creating value or you're not. You guys spotted a real problem, but your v1 solution was meh. There were certainly multiple ways out (and not just tack on gamification), and even if some were long-shots, the uniqueness of a startup is to place those bets.
If Google won't step in and litigate the patent trolls into poverty, ruining everyone's life who is involved and possibly even promising to ruin their children's and grandchildren's lives long after the actual patent trolls are dead...

that would stop it.

But in the meantime, guess I'll just be writing webapps.
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Why not make an open offer to anyone who thinks they can solve this problem and turn this around?
> replace your requested part with a similar one or get you a cheaper part without checking with you and put the difference back in their own pocket

This even happened to Bunnie (featured in the video)

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022
It's pretty surprising to me that there was no way to shift enough of the value gain from "huge gains in efficiency" forward to keep people motivated about the product.

For example: use a chunk of the $500k as rewards to push people through the initial adoption. Then presumably the real gains would take over and they'd be happy customers.
Well now I have no idea what you're talking about.

I can barely remember the password to this hacker news account let alone managing multiple identities.
It sucks when you realize you have built something that users like, but they don't really NEED. I like the good habits analogy - I built several great workflow apps for a Fortune 500 company in the past few years, but discovered most users don't really want the yoke of workflow and there wasn't enough immediate lift to tempt them.

Sorry man. Good call not to waste a year of your life.
Good idea. Thanks!

(All: suggesting a good title is the best way to complain about a bad one.)
I think he just doesn't agree that there were multiple ways out. He seems to believe that they exhausted options and couldn't figure out a path.
wow, thanks, I had never heard of Campbell's law, and it really puts into a concise form what I believe about a lot of things (from science publishing to interest rate manipulation).
> China Lake, California, home of the Navy’s China Lake Naval Weapons Center
After this, I'd never give this guy time or money and I doubt anyone else will either. No matter how shitty you feel about your start-up, if you have a willing team and cash, you should see it through. Being an entrepreneur isn't always about having all of the answers. It's very often about not knowing the answers and figuring things out. Especially if you have a team and cash flow and investors.

I think this guy needed to take a day off or seven and get his head back on straight. I'm nearly positive every entrepreneur goes through the "doubt" process many times in a given start-up.

It's the person that figures out how to renew themselves that ends up succeeding.
> I said both are bullying each other.

How can a city - a bureaucracy - be bullied? If I file a lot of paperwork they get paid for dealing with it. If I scoff at a law, the city employees don't personally suffer.

> The solution to this problem is for the parties to talk it out.

The city has nothing to offer except to stop interfering and they win simply by dragging the process out.

> That's a good thing. City officials are incentivized to bring in more tax money.

Yes, they are incentivized to do it but those incentives don't align with the residents.

We could extract more money by raising your personal tax rate to 100% but while that would superficially help revenue it would ultimately hurt the community (you'll feel robbed by your neighbors) and the business climate in the city.

People already pay sales tax on Uber rides, and Uber (drivers) pay tax on gasoline, cars, etc. The city is already collecting at multiple points.

> They also need to balance public safety

They've shown that's not a concern with this nonsense over fingerprinting; Uber rides are already an order of magnitude safer than cabs because your account is linked to the car you enter, whose path is being logged in the cloud, etc.
The interfaces are terrible. The price is high.

If you need to call one of the built-in pieces of Magic (TM) then Mathematica is OK, but if you want to build something new that needs to interface with literally anything outside of Mathematica, then Mathematica is a PITA.
"The things that bothers me about all the 'async I/O' libraries out there... is that the implementation -- single-threaded, non-blocking sockets, event loop, I/O multiplex via kqueue/epoll, is well suited to Linux/BSD/OSX, but there's nothing asynchronous about it, it's technically synchronous non-blocking I/O, and it's inherently single-threaded."

https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...
Just because controllers have proportional and integral terms does not mean they are PID controllers!

I'm not just being pedantic here, there is a world of difference between a modern servo controller and a simple (or advanced) PID controller. Good servo controllers include completely different topologies including state feedback decoupling, disturbance decoupling, state tracking feedforward terms, advanced notch filters, sliding mode gains, and many other techniques. This is not just an advanced PID loop, but a different controller design method altogether.

Source: I design servo (and other motor) controllers for a living
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