skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the individuals doing the recruiting and what their incentives are. If you're talking to someone who just wants to fill chairs in the short-term, you can make certain plays like that. Some recruiters are just trying to fill chairs and will overlook certain behaviors in order to "close the deal".

On the other hand, I know that if I were trying to build a team, and someone said that he could get 10% more as an "analyst" at Goldman, I'd advise him to do so. Why would I want to hire someone who wants to work an entry-level banking job? Some people care more about remuneration and cachet than interesting work and that's fine, but like should dance with like. If 12 months of punishing hours and miserable work humbled him a bit, and he realized he wanted a work environment that assessed him according to ability rather than pointless sacrifice, I'd be willing to talk to him again after that point.
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Very cool, what are you using to build the graphs? (not the data, the actual visuals)
I've found http://www.htmldoc.org/ sufficient for converting pages like that for my kindle.
Wow, backbone.js really did catch on, heh? Way to go, jashkenas! Now, literate programming.
At the same time, that's a very prejudicial stance to take-- that anyone ever convicted of a crime is forever untrustworthy. Look at Tim Allen, he was a coke dealer going away for life who then turned state's witness, turned in all his accomplices and now he's in Toy Story trilogies.

I'm taking no stance until actual evidence comes forward or this goes to court and the emails in question can be examined and verified, if possible.
Venture Studio Episode 8, with Josh Weinstein of YouAre.TV
Absolutely. Would love to read more about your thoughts on negotiating contracts.
Failing Toward Success at Google
* Bugs in the spec

* Bugs in underlying system calls

* I/O error handling

* String processing (if you want to tell me how a type system prevents string processing bugs, I'd love to hear it)

There's no such thing as a magic bullet, and the claim is way overstated. It might be less prone to bugs than loosely typed systems, that's something I'd have no problem believing. I'm a fan of strong typing myself.
IF the allegations against Mark Zuckerburg are true then the answer to your question is don't be shady. From the sounds of things Mark may have done some shady things when he was building Facebook, never thinking that it would get as huge as it is and that those things would come back to bite him. I think that the Winklevoss lawsuit is BS, but the one from Paul Ceglia has me on the fence. The fact that he's an ex-con and waited 7 years to come forward makes it sound like it's BS, but the emails are very convincing.

On the other hand, when you're on top everyone will be gunning for you, trying to find a way to get their piece of the pie. Money makes people do crazy things and the thought of being able to sue Facebook and get a multi-million dollar settlement will bring people with allegations that they somehow owe them money.
Fair enough - though I think senior people would probably have worked out the major categories by now, and there definitely wouldn't be an "OS" category.

The Chinese site where this originated has posted both real and fake stuff in the past; they seem to be fairly indiscriminate about their sources. That's why I kind of have a "presumed fake until shown to be real" mentality with their leaks.
New Proposal for Sales Tax on online commerce
Is it really a team? I thought it was just Igor Sysoev :)
Woo! So launch is going well! Just got on LifeHacker: http://lifehacker.com/#!5791193/cardnap-is-an-ebay-for-gift-... and Twitter is going crazy! http://twitter.com/#!/search/cardnap
Launching Trajectory: Communication Builds Better Software
The problem for MZ is he apparently did deal with this guy on StreetFax. MZ and his attorneys have conceeded that point. So its not like this is some guy who has never actually talked to MZ.

Second, MZ has a credibility problem. He has a reputation of duping people, or at least not playing it straight. While a lot of people give him credit for being able to use some good tactics to screw over people, those same tactics can also end up biting you too.

I don't know if the emails are credible or not, but I'd take them seriously.
If someone's going to turn down a great job over a couple of grand that means he's insanely greedy. Why would you want to hire an insanely greedy person?

Salary matters-- you need enough that money isn't a personal problem for you, and salary is an indication of how the firm perceives your professional maturity-- but small margins don't.
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How are 7-year old emails from an ex-con convincing? The only "authority" that thinks they are convincing are some editors on BusinessWeek and Reuters.
Ritholtz graphed recent consumer credit activity, and student loans looked to be all of the recent credit uptick.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/fade-the-consumer-credi...
"The "faults" of javascript are primarily inexperience with event looped architectures that use callbacks"

Maybe for a lot of people this is true, but for me the faults of javascript are ingrained language "features". Actually, I'm not the only one who thinks so, because theres a website dedicated to it[1].

[1] http://wtfjs.com/
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I remember you showing this to me last year I believe when it was still being designed, nice to see it live!
He certainly talks about himself a lot.
Programming in an "event-based way" is a huge part of writing traditional JavaScript in the browser. You're handling user events, Ajax responses, the page load itself. And JavaScript's first-class functions and closures are extremely well-suited to the task.
It's raw canvas. I didn't want to use any libraries to help me out in the graph-building - that was the main focus of the weekend project. My next steps, of course, are to learn more about graph theory so I can implement less naive physics calculations.
Anyone have any useful links for non-mathematicians learning to use one?

http://sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Course.htm

http://www.sliderule.ca/intro.htm

http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/howto.html

http://www.hpmuseum.org/srinst.htm

http://thinkgeek.com/files/slide_rule_manual.pdf

I am relearning how to use a slide rule (I'm old enough that I had lessons in using a slide rule in my secondary education) to teach basic principles to the pupils in my advanced supplementary mathematics course this summer.

http://www.ecae.net/2011/02/summer-2011-course-schedule/
Harvard Video Series on Justice
THE BALVENIE RARE CRAFT ROAD SHOW AT CASA FUENTE 4/18/2011
I agree, it would make more sense to also have discounts on the books.
Is there anything like cpanel / webmin but for managing nginx?
I'm not saying that Mr. Ceglia is right, but the amount of people on this thread outright dismissing his claims is laughable.

He has now had his claims vetted by at least one major law firm. I guarantee you they looked closely at his claims (they have both a legal and financial interest to do so) and found them worth pursuing.

The risk to Zuckerberg is probably a lot higher here than most people think.
Seems like an analysis in the first place might have been a good idea from the beginning.
Normal Lua's performance is also quite decent (especially compared to its peers: Python, Ruby, and Perl), and has a very clear path for moving hotspots out to C. LuaJIT's performance is just a bonus. :)
Has anyone come across a calculation on how this affects the local climate? Won't this system be sucking 390MW of energy out of the environment to convert to mechanical energy?

The effect must be noticeable. I get the same feeling about wind. If solar ever became large scale wouldn't we be directly countering global warming? And won't solar panels/mirrors be directly competing for the solar energy that wind uses?
I can vouch for this. "Extreme" sports practitioners are divided into two groups: those who own a GoPro, and those who covet them.
View it in your browser via Zoho office:

http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/urlview.do?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww....
Lack of the ability to filter out irrelevant stories and the people that upvote them.
A much more recent and complete book on the same topic:

http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/milca/courses/comse...
sigh

Still don't quite get what people mean by a 'closure.' Maybe because I've not realy tried hands-on programming with something like Lisp. But the concept seems to oscillate between being duh-obvious, to subtle but comprehensible, to transcedentally complicated depending on who's explaining it or in what context.
Ah, yes, you are correct. Then consider for the sake of discussion that I said "asynchronous."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#The_Archimedes_Heat_...

Two millennia or so. Power generation has always been applying new ways to boil water (save wind and hydro).
Trying this out now. Interesting idea! It sure does load slow on 75,000+ reblogs. Also, I wasn't quite sure how it worked when I clicked (didn't realize it showed up below the post) and clicked it twice. It's loading the graph twice. Maybe make a second attempt on the same post not load another copy of the graph?

I wish there was metadata about individual nodes or the structure. I would also like links to the nodes to find tumblr blogs that get a lot of reblogs.
Newz.io- Create HTML5 powered realtime news magazines for any topic
If the conviction is for fraud, and it seems like the current case might be fraud, then it's a little more relevant.
I've never heard of GoPro before, if skiing and racing cars are your markets I don't think it's competing with Flip.

I think Flip actually lost the fight against PRO-ish (high-end) photo cameras, now they're cheaper, smaller and shot video just perfect, I have seen many youtubers using those instead of Flip (what I believe was their market, home videos).
PEAR and PECL are great, but they add requirements to your application that live outside of the system.

You have to worry about your application being compatible with the version installed on the server and all sorts of other madness. Through this incredibly simple system (which will shortly become more powerful with its own interface) we can basically just install a package into your application in the same way most people would normally download, unzip, etc.

php oil install foo

Then add it to git, push and you're all good. Otherwise you have to run around installing dependencies and all sorts of other junk.
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Peter Thiel Believes the Future Belongs to College Dropouts
> but that is to be expected with any new currency.

I think the problem is somewhat unique to unbacked currencies. BTC has value solely because some people agree that BTC has value. It can go to zero (and stay there) for any reason.

The value has no minimum that can be defined by looking at the industrial value of a commodity (as with commodity monies). Nor is there a minimum that can be determined by comparing the money supply to the underlying productivity of a nation whose residents are required, by law, to use the money (as with fiat monies).

As an aside, if I wanted to setup competing currencies, I'd create a brokerage that allows the cheap, easy, instant transfer of ownership of fractional securities from one member to another. Then we'd have tens of thousands of competing currencies, all of which are backed by a combination of assets and productive capacity. Entrepreneurs could even setup companies designed solely to work as currencies.

I know that wouldn't appeal to those who care primarily about traceability, but frankly, I don't foresee any government allowing the widespread adoption of any mechanism that allows for untraceable transfers of large sums of money.
The NREL figures are for plants with heat storage (large tanks of high-temperature molten salt which accumulate heat, to power turbines at night). Without heat storage you only have 20-25% at most. Ivanpah has a capacity factor of 31%, but that's not solar; part of that comes from burning natural gas.

http://www.nrel.gov/csp/solarpaces/project_detail.cfm/projec...
I think learning sin/cos/tan before learning that they are based on a circle is ridiculous as well. I had an epiphany when I learned that.
$25 sounds generous to me. Google's revenue per user is $24 a year, and that's extremely high for an ad-only site. Facebook by comparison generates $4 per year per user. $25 is a lot considering usage is likely to drop after a year and might be replaced after 2.
CPB agents much to young to know what 'Jack Boots' are, who wore them and what 'Papers Please' really means.
Have you read them? I'm not denying that it's easy to fake emails, but if you really pay attention to how the emails are written and how natural the flow of conversation between them is then you can see why they're convincing.
This also works on Finder to create new windows
Presumably, there's a memo box that says wikileaks, since I doubt these guys knew him by name.

I was ok with wikileaks when I first heard of them. After seeing the type and character of their opposition? I'm now a rabid supporter. What they do is legal, this has been upheld in the supreme court, and these people are being fundamentally unamerican in the 1st amendment sense by trying to extrajudicially harrass people.

EDIT: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_St...
And of course, as every aspiring hacker in high school knows, graphing calculators come with a Turing Complete scripting language that's powerful enough to defeat this stricture for most use cases.

Then again, by the time one is done translating an algorithm into TI speak, one's understanding is as high or higher than a student who spent that time learning to execute the algorithm by hand...
Might want to FOIA / Privacy Act request them for the information in your file. It should make for interesting reading. The person who'd be authorized to say "no" to that has very, very different motivations in life than a ground-level security screener. For example, they're paid to avoid bad PR, and "The Privacy Act, which was established to prevent government abuses of power like the secret files the FBI kept on folks, does not prevent us from keeping secret files on you" is the definition of bad PR. They would also have to commit to that position in writing. Every bureaucrat learns very quickly that things which are not written down never happened. The events described by those tweets? Never happened. Get a signed logbook entry, though, and you have instant chain of evidence going back to God Almighty.

This is, generally, one of those "letters on paper can be used to hack bureaucracies to one's advantage" kind of things.

c.f. http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/admin/fl/foia/reference_guide.xml

The above is mostly motivated by an enduring interest in the inner mechanics of complex systems, not by any particular feeling with regards to Wikileaks.
So it's like Wufoo for mobile phones?

The landing page is too generic, you should add examples of how to use this.
"I suspect there is more interest in the latter."

Right, that's definitely true in my case, since I'm targeting people w/o programming skills for my startup's services.

BTW, if you do go ahead with the ebook and would like to use eBookBurn (http://ebookburn.com/), let me know, and I can issue you a discount code as a courtesy.
Great to hear that there are others out there like me. Normal artists are too "touchy feely" for me. I thrive on art and creating, but not in the typical "I notice your oeuvre is monochromatic." sort of way.

I've developed a digital metrics application for my current employer that polls data from several sources, and presents it in an easy to digest infographic for employees.
The latest example on that blog (from Feb. 5th) examines the unexpected effects of type coercion when using double-equals for comparison. That's fine, as far as it goes, but, like most of these examples, it's a WTF that experienced JavaScript developers know how to mitigate (triple-equals) and not that big of a problem in practice. I'm trying to think of a time that JavaScript's wacky coercion rules actually bit me and I can't.
Ouch! I wouldn't try to do it on 75,000+ reblogs. Since Tumblr doesn't expose reblog data via their API, I have to manually go and load 50 notes at a time via the urls from the 'more notes' link. Each request takes about 700ms and is ~75kb of markup. For 75,000 reblogs that would take about three hours. Plus, rendering them all - keep in mind this is O(V^3). Definitely not optimized. That's why I suggest a typical maximum of around 500 notes to visualize...

Adding metadata for each node on-hover is definitely, definitely on my to-do list. That will make it useful and not just a toy, I think.

Some other metadata besides just which tumblr each node represents that I want to get on there eventually is its centrality.
> Money has marginal utility for me. After a certain amount I do not care. Isn't that ultimately made me the geek I am, spending time on things that others saw very little social value?

You should please consider the effect it has on the overall profession. If you are not getting remunerated appropriately for the value you create, that surplus is captured by someone else. If this continues at a systemic level, many interesting people who could have been your colleagues will be turned away from the profession. The layman's description of what you are doing is is "pissing in the pool". You are, of course, free to make your choices and live by them; but please make sure you are building a healthy ecosystem in which you can indulge in activities that give you pleasure.
> But I could tell Matt wasn’t entirely convinced.

I played Zaarly’s Startup Weekend LA pitch on YouTube, the most irreverent and inspiring startup moment that I have ever seen. Bo Fishback (CEO), Erik Koester (COO), and Ian Hunter (CTO) shared their vision for a new buyer-powered marketplace, and it felt more like a Judd Apatow movie than a sales pitch. <

I came into watching the pitch with skepticism. It is an awesome pitch because the team was having fun and being spontaneous. Entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBk_339RqI
Sounds fine to me, just so long as every B&M is required to check ID and collect the appropriate sales tax as well.
A rescinded offer is, at least from what I've seen, unlikely. The person is more likely to be hired but with an already negative reputation, not be successful in the company, and be laid off or fired early on. How it plays out: after 6 months, the person is let go with 3 months' severance not to disparage the company. That's actually a small price to pay for silence: 9 months' pay for 6 months of work and a gag rule. If the offer is rescinded outright, there's no chance to draw up a severance contract and that person will damage the company's reputation and make recruiting harder. The added recruiting difficulty might not be much (maybe 5-10% in the candidate's school/network and 0.25-0.50% globally due to negative internet posts) but firms don't want to take that risk, because recruiting is seriously expensive and hard.

This is why companies don't rescind offers unless people do something really bad. It's much less risky to have the person work for a few months, fire the person if he or she doesn't disprove the negative opinion (which is hard to do, because once a negative opinion is formed of a person, it's almost impossible for that person to change it) created by the bad behavior, and get a non-disparagement clause in severance.

What this means is: just because you're hired doesn't mean they actually like you. The post-offer stage and first 180 days of any job should be considered an extended interview. In that light, respectful negotiation is actually a good thing but being a jerk is not. Saying "I'm going to choose based on compensation" makes a really shitty impression. It's best to say, "I think I'm actually worth $<X> and here's why." Also: don't mention other firms or their pay packages, ever. One of the easiest and most common ways to make a bad impression in job searching is to disclose sensitive information (and competitors' salaries qualify).
Could Bing challenge Google for top spot?
You have two ways of doing this, the No Fly List and the Secondary Security Screening Selectee (SSSS) list. I imagine that there may be a cross-check with the FBI on either list (although I don't know) but there's enough heat on him to trigger whatever it is that they want with him.
Yes exactly, we like to say "SurveyMonkey for Mobile", but perhaps yours is better.

When you say examples, do you mean more smartphone platforms? More screenshots? A video demo?

Thanks!
They round off after 1000 Likes/Shares/Comments anyway (the widget reads 1K for more than 1000, etc.), so many people won't expect it to be a perfect statistic.
Arguably all that video would have been created anyway.
I wonder what happens when I like and then comment on an item. Is that counted twice?
Unfortunately, courts are willing to give pretty broad authority to the government to detain/search/etc. people reentering the country (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception). There are some sort of outer limits to the authority, but not much in the way of real enforcement from the courts so far. I would guess that they'd punt on this one as being national security + borders = defer to the executive.
Honest question: How might one prove that an email is real?
But we aren't talking about Javascript. It's about a theoretical replacement language.

Also, the reason you care about the "synchronicity" in the first place is because your environment forces you to care! When it all Just Works (TM), you don't care whether it's "synchronous" or not. That's a deficiency in your language, not a feature.

I'm not theorizing. I program in this sort of language all the time. You worry much more simply about how long something will take, which you can never not worry about, rather than how many bits are "synchronous".
You didn't recognize how you did just the same with bitcoin - taking out one of the value points and creating strawman out of it?

1. CDS is basically an insurance product: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap

2. I mentioned CDO just as an example of "risk analysis" failure by credit rating agencies.

I did this to point what kind of innovation you are talking about in your impressive list of acronyms that you mentioned in your first post.
That seems like something that could be run in a parallel fashion on EC2. Run it for every possible value up to 40 significant digits.

It's not really something that can be run as a unit test, but it might be nice to be absolutely sure all the bugs have been ferreted out.
In another interview it was said that Ceglia found the facebook stuff while reviewing paperwork for the fraud case. He might have honestly forgotten and found the documents 7 years later.
It's quite tiny as a fraction of the total solar energy. Remember also that all energy we are collecting by burning coal, gas, and oil today was once solar energy as well.
Is there a legal defense fund I can donate to? If anything, it's time to start FOIA-ing the files.
Looks good. Interestingly a browser extension rather than a google app, which kinda of loses the deal for me atm as I need it on my phone. I also browser juggle a lot as I have 3 different gmail accounts (pita). Looks a lot better than manymoon, which I am steadily growing to despise because of its buginess and overcomplicated UI.

BTW, your getsatisfaction account is showing 'Tyrant' as the company name.
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Con-men get pretty good at being convincing. It's something of a job requirement.