skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree and find these comments very accurate.

Plus, I always thought that becoming a programmer meant learning how to make a computer do what you need it to do by learning how to command it in various languages.

Along with that, I always thought that writing this language is a skill required amongst other skills to qualify as a programmer, and another major skill that is required is to be able to walk into many different problem domains, familiarize yourself with them, learn them, understand them, and attempt to fix them with efficiency.

So while there are many specialized types of programming, we are all programmers, just writing our favorable language to speak with a machine, to solve a problem, in domain X.
I don't know how you did it, but I'm pretty sure you were spying on me. I was literally talking to a friend about this exact idea this weekend. We're trying to hire some developers and wondered if anything like this existed since its becoming very difficult to poach. I almost built the same thing this weekend.

Edit - I'm curious. Have you thought about how you will tackle the potential spam problem? Recruiters are going to go crazy over this. We tossed around a few ideas such as charging to contact the individual and making it more expensive based on things the jobseeker could do. Those things might be paying to have JobPoacher contact referrals, coding tests, etc.

Good luck with everything.
Difference between Apple and Samsung commercials-
Apple shows its products,features and what you can do with it but Samsung shows people and every other shit expect for their products.
This ad does not make any sense!
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Please don't beat yourselves up about this, only men use the internet anyway. Men definitely wouldn't be offended by this misogynist word
Personally, i really don't like to see profanity in a professional context, but having said that...i really like the way these guys handled it, and not only that, their honesty and transparency really endears me towards them.

Edit: Interestingly enough, come from Britain, i think something like this would fair worse of in the UK. I think we're a little more 'stiff' than our US counterparts.
This is a red flag:

"Be Patient with the Marpa Grammar

As with the STT, this, at least for me, is very much a trial-and-error process.

Tips:
o Paper, not code

A good idea is to not code with your editor, but to draw the grammar as a tree, on paper."

I don't think parsing and lexxing should require a paper and pencil or be a trial and error process.
Does anyone know the historical justification for charset negotiation in the first place? I guess the idea was that the browser and the server would agree on what encoding they'd use and the server would auto-translate for the web visitor. But I can't imagine that ever being used in practice.
Feature request: What happens when there are hundreds of listings? Would people be reading all those listings line by line?

A search box with filters for each input data you are collecting would be a nice fit.
We're getting closer and closer to The Matrix. Before you know it, you're going to be able to upload knowledge straight to your brain.
Unsurprisingly, it appears this community frowns on telling someone they're "in the service of evil" based solely on the fact that they do Risk Management Quantitative Analysis.
It's more complicated than that, but you could do worse than start with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation
What I really like about the old style bind/live/delegate is that it's so grep-able. The new on()-based API makes it much harder to search through a codebase.

In addition, when you see something like:

$('.table a').click(function() { ... } )

it immediately looks wrong, because there are probably multiple links in the table. Wrong code that looks wrong is great, because you can then refactor it as you come across it. But now you have to check if a second selector argument is passed to "on", to see if unnecessary event handlers are created.
When working on drivers for capacitive touchscreens (of which trackpads are a pretty close sibling), we put all kinds of IIR filtering in there to smooth out the cursor and usually a variance filter to take away noise. Since those filters (esp. IIR) rely on data from previous scans, they naturally introduce a delay into the chain.

Usually this is all on the sensing side and not the host side. Perhaps there's some trackpad filtering that's being applied to the mouse when it didn't need to be?
FB's been switching over the VeriSign -- at least, in my neck of the woods. I pay attention to certs, so I noticed this and took some time to somewhat reassure myself that no MITM was going on. (If I'm wrong, someone please tell me!)
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That's a good point. Thank you for telling me about that.
Hard is quite different to impossible, which is what achompas implied. The beauty of computing is that you are only limited by your imagination. Anyone can accomplish anything they want. You do not need a CS degree to get there – though for some, it might help.

My point is that you simply cannot generalize. You have absolutely no idea what talents someone has just by looking at their history. It is simply irrelevant information if you want to hire the best of the best.
That is very interesting. It looks like they even have a "starter pack" that approximates much of what jQuery does: http://ender.no.de/#jeesh

Thanks.
I previously worked as a developer for a startup regulated by the Gambling Commission (which coincidentally was formerly situated in the same building and adjacent to the Smarkets team, both having raised money from Passion Capital), and we experienced the same problem with Barclays, i.e. a letter informing us our custom was no longer welcome.

It's not a question of Smarkets being a startup that their account has been closed, as the title suggests. I believe that the current British banking climate is overtly hostile to companies of a gambling nature, unless they are very large and well established. My previous employer found it extremely difficult to obtain even basic banking services after being shut out by Barclays. I'm ignorant of the process which lead the bank to deem Smarkets inordinately risky, but it's somewhat unconscionable that a nationalised bank should treat them in this way. RBS should be stimulating economic growth, facilitating job creation, and ultimately creating value for the economy; shutting the door on Smarkets, a viable business is incompatible with that notion.

As I say, I do not have a full appreciation of the bank's logic for this decision, nor do I know Smarkets' position, exposure, etc. However, I have known Smarkets for some two years and seen them grow steadily and reliably over that period, without a blip. I certainly find the bank's decision surprising.
Interesting, I had no idea that existed! Completely agreed on the different channels point -- it certainly seems like there's space for multiple players.

Anyway, good luck with statuscode!
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The question was overly vague, which is why the first thing I said was "it depends on your definition." The broad estimate is on the first line.
Billy Beane's shit doesn't work in the playoffs

What is this supposed to mean? The season gives you a 162-game sample. The playoffs are a coin-flip, by comparison. It's just too small of a sample to draw any conclusions, which is why both old- and new-school baseball guys have an endless array of cliches about how anybody who makes it in to the playoffs has a chance to win.
Great. Let us know how it goes. It has definitely inspired me to atleast run a variant of this.
I don't know where you get "less functionality and worse performance in the same or half as much space"- the point of the link was to show that 256 byte demos actually demonstrate more functionality. What makes you think you have more functionality in 1k of JS?

As you said, "if you could get the WebGL syntax overhead to work in 1k, you could kick the crap out of the 256 byte demos." I believe that's exactly the point. Even if there is all this theoretical power in our JS environments, we aren't using our environment nearly as efficiently as the 256 byte demos used theirs.

It's also worth noting that those 256b demos ran on the standard platforms of their day, which yes, required MS-DOS, but then could run on any intel compatible processor, with any standard motherboard, with any standard bios, with any standard video card. And I would be surprised if they actually called into MS-DOS at all, and didn't just talk to the hardware directly.
The problem (well it's not even really a problem I guess) is that nowadays you're not sure any more if this was an 'accidental' slip up, or a bold marketing tactic. They surely are getting a lot more exposure with the 'slip up', and if it had backfired, well who cares really - in 2 months time nobody will remember.

Maybe I've been on the internet for too long and have become too skeptical.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Another O'Reilly book to read!!
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I really do hope I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure that you can't do that.

EDIT: First section here ( http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/crashcourse/rights/ ).
Is this the 'Our language is not a font, but its own set of characters different from chinese' argument the japanese are complaining about?
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Before someone preach the high and mighty status of Apple once again, I just would like to remind everyone that Apple's pivotal moment in its history when it aired Macintosh ad in 1984 with strong anti-IBM flair.
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Great job! I would change the cursor to a pointer when I hover over jobs so that I know each job is 'clickable'.

EDIT: The filter doesn't work :(
This seems really interesting. Have you played with it? What's your experience?
Don't know why this was downvoted; it seems probable that Google would leave before the issue was escalated to the point of their executives being arrested.
I have seen similar things play out in blogging, screencasts, and elsewhere. People are not doing X, then one person does X and does OK at it, but then more people turn up and the entire market blows up because the larger number of producers validates the idea in users' minds! :-)

(All of the interactive "code learning" sites are a current demonstration of this phenomenon.)
Engineering is about constraints. Any damned fool can build a 10km suspension bridge given enough unobtanium and micraculum. That's cheating.

You can get quite interesting and very creative solutions when you apply artificial constraints.

This stuff happens in the real-world all the time, especially in consumer electronics. I've had to do video-rate unpacking of samples that were aligned on really nasty boundaries. Far cheaper (in this instance) to do it in software . . . so we got clever.
Certainly not on the web, it’s disallowed in the HTML5 spec:

User agents must not support the CESU-8, UTF-7, BOCU-1 and SCSU encodings.

and major browsers removed support, e.g.:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414064
Am I the only one who feels surprised that they spend 10 million on this?
Hackful.com is blocked at work :-(
I've learned over the years to never put profanity or anything even mildly offensive in test data. Too many times have I had to give an impromptu presentation off my test database, only to see user names like "Asshat Joe" and "Jack Off" show up big and bold on the projector screen.

Always, always use plain, non-offensive vanilla boilerplate text in everything you do.
As they say - the only bad press is no press at all.
I've contributed an edited, shortened version of this manifesto to http://leanpub.com/uncensored, a benefit book for the EFF that Hunter Walk and Eric Ries edited and Leanpub created.
nice. Where are you getting the recruiting traffic from?
I know. I hated the part where they had that chick throwing a sledgehammer at a giant screen.

Er, wait, maybe that was somebody else.
I tested a very similar device for the company I used to work at, the UI looked identical at least. There was very little relationship between my actual mental state, and the state of the display. The device I used had an API, so I wrote my own visualizer to make sure they weren't just blurring out the data -- long story short, I was never impressed with it. Blinking or moving your head triggered a larger reaction than any thought impulse.

Maybe the tech has gotten better, but I wouldn't hold your breath for anything that costs $100.
studies has shown that people dont know what the green bar actually means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate...

imho a extremely overrated (and overpriced) features, which imposes no extra security what so ever.
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Luckily with software you can earn or raise more money to 'change your team' to then be fit for the playoffs.
Kendo UI Mobile (beta)

http://kendoui.com/mobile

jQuery-based. Automatically adapts to native layout/styling conventions of iOS and Android.
I really hope every brand doesn't decide to start swearing at me. Personally, after having a product that was supposed to be "the next step" in our company's evolution get blasted in the press because a developer left a smartass comment in (Google "you have to install directx dumbass"), my policy is NO profanity, period, in any string, any test message, anything.

If you are trying to build a brand around it, great. Make a conscious decision and go with it. But doing it to be funny, "just amongst the team", has a nasty way of biting you.
From a search perspective I might click on car A's add first, but then I would click on B's ad before contacting A. It would only take one little thing to make the difference. Nicer car color? Built in navteq navigation with a good screen? V8 v.s. v6? Smoke free? I could easily pay 1K for those differences.

Hiding similar, but slightly more expensive cars also means that you will be showing more entry level cars. I wouldn't wish the entry level chrysler 300 on anyone it is a stupid car that shouldn't have been made, but it will show up first on this search interface because of everything they stripped out and downgraded to make it cheap. If I was searching for a car with something more I would have a better time not using this interface.
I always knew that there was something off about the Mac OS X mouse pointer, but no one I knew really thought anything of it. Coming from using high end gaming mice on Windows machines for 8+ years, I could feel the difference with the mouse pointer on Macs having a slight lag to it no matter how fast the machine.

That being said, Mac touchpads feel like heaven and I haven't used a single PC touchpad that even comes close to it.
If a hiring company were look at this they'll naturally see the "I currently make" amount and consider that market rate. After all, it matters not what people want to make, but instead by the amount for which people have demonstrated that they are willing to work.
Followed closely by interacting with other people. Who knew?
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s/toolbag/scapegoat
So, I noticed that something like half or so of the projects here are C++.

Depending on the codebase (and what bits of the language it uses), you may be in for a real treat. Especially given the fact that this is your first exposure to the language, I would be unsurprised if you end up introducing new, fun bugs into the codebase. Godspeed!

(and don't worry about said bugs--this is a chance to learn, so make the most of it! Somebody else will more than likely be able to clean up any missteps. :) )
When I was searching for my newest (used) car, I wrote a little algorithm that could strip the relevant data down to something I could parse at a glance, including looking for keywords like "4x4" and "heated seats", etc. I ended up settling for the basic model and paying for the upgrades out of pocket. One thing I've found is people grossly overestimate the value their add-ons provide. I bought the car with the features I needed and went after-market (and self-installed) for the features I wanted.

Saved $3000 on the car (paid $5500 for it off the lot), and only spent $2000 and two weekends adding in leather seats, a locking rear differential, upgraded suspension, and extra power outlets. It's the hacker manifesto, why pay for it when you can build it?
Third installment of Think Complexity, a new book about complex systems.
Why would people disclose the current salary they have?
Personal anecdotes do little to sway statistical significance.
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To a U.S. observer, the U.K. (or maybe just the monarchy?) has a very peculiar notion of what "pardoning" (even ceremonially) means, or is meant to accomplish.

In the U.S., many (Presidential) pardons are used for crimes that everyone agrees were indeed committed, and even crimes for which we fully intend to continue prosecuting other people in the future!
I don't really think that was the pivotal point in Apple's history. Regardless, Apple, until a couple of years ago, was making those obnoxious I'm a PC I'm a Mac commercials. Making anti-[the_big_guy_in_tech] commercials seems to be what companies do do when they're the little guy. Not that I personally find them all that effective. If you want to sell me electronics, show me why the thing you're trying to sell is awesome, not why the things you're competing against aren't awesome.
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The difference here is that the "disregard and deletion process" is an ad-hoc mechanism put in place by an ordinary act that can be later repelled.

In many legislation such a favor rei mechanism is a funding principle and a tenet of law.
The history of the free market ... shows that your view in italics is not correct.

I completely disagree with your analysis of history (although I'm aware it's the commonly accepted and promulgated one).

Still, a fine technical analysis of history is not needed to see the truth of my point.

Think about the PC revolution, or the Industrial Revolution, for example. Think about how trade and commerce is carried on in aspects thereof that are not highly regulated.
This analogy doesn't hold true when OSS is pushed into government.

Also, this holds true with copyright: If you don't want to pay for it, don't pirate it.
Hey, in what case is the filter not working?
Well, they spent it on the airtime, not the spot I guess.

Nonetheless, the ad agency simply failed to highlight the possible use cases of having a pen on a tablet/phone. Showing people writing names on the screen with a pen fails to communicate the phones unique USP.
Also, many people will remember the times when they had to use the pen as a crutch on Windows Mobile phones of the old days.
So I guess many people will simply go, "what do I need a pen for?"
I believe Samsung should switch their ad agency asap.
Exactly, thats why I hate that commercial with the dancing mp3 player ppl, oh wait...
Ubuntu Unity vs. Windows 8 new start menu
Ubuntu Unity caused a stir as the top Desktop Linux disto. Not because it does not work but because of lack of customization. During this time Linux Mint took over the number one spot. Microsoft should be watching this and how users were in shock over all the changes to gnome 3.

Windows 8 has a new start menu that they took from Joli OS,MeeGo, or Smeegol Linux. What they did was take the start menu and flattened it out to dumb it down even more to turn it into a Tablet/cloud OS. Makes me wonder what they are going to do when the tablet market crashes before Windows 8 comes out. I purchased a 27 inch iMac and two laptops, one for windows and one for Linux. Microsoft should have spent all the money in making windows 7 more secure since that has always been one of the major flaws of windows.

What are your thoughts on Windows 8 compared to Ubuntu for a productive Desktop workstation?
The current accidental death and non-age based disease mortality still has us averaging a death at around 550-650. It's not forever.
It's different though. I've gotten addicted to things like facebook and twitter at times (where I have to check my status every 5 minutes). But, if I force myself away from it, the feelings slowly fade.

Cigarettes and alcohol are chemical addictions. It's not always as easy as just quitting.
It's amazing to me that every single clone out there looks worse than the original.
I agree, I've never understood why that data point is relevant to the job I'm applying/being-recruited for.
I typed in 'django' under technology. None of the links I clicked contained that word.
Just because that's the "obvious" difference doesn't mean it is the correct one; in fact, it doesn't even mean there /is/ a difference. I am constantly involved in situations where people online are claiming something I know a lot of internal details about (whether it be my own company or some larger outfit where I happen to know people) "is unfair because Y does the same thing we do and isn't getting flak" when in fact Y actually is getting flak (but isn't complaining about it in public) or is really not doing quite the same thing.

Honestly, this is sufficiently and irritatingly common that unless you've talked to the people at Betfair and gotten them to agree with your story, I not only am going to have a hard time believing your take, I'm going to have a hard time not negatively judging your company for telling it like that. :(
> Google only refunds the portion of the earnings that they find to be in violation

This is the issue. I've never seen that happen. Every account I've read of a closed AdSense account, accounts that were in good standing for years, has the entire balance of the account taken.
Saw a friend's new iPhone 4s last night. Didn't recognize it at first, because of the thick, rubberized shell he had wrapped around it.

Wondering what is "thin enough" and when people start to compensate to up durability or even just grip-ability.

P.S. The shell, of course, had an extra hole in it to display the Apple logo. (Which I saw once he stopped performing data entry.)
I think this is a very Apple-like ad. It shows the lifestyle of the users of the product, adds flair, and focuses mainly on how the product can change your life as opposed to raw firepower (Droid).

Apple's ads are all about their reputation and lifestyle. Samsung's ads are the same. Even Sammy's attack ads are right in line with "I'm a Mac". The only difference is Apple displays minimalism while Samsung goes all-out. They cater to two different demographics (Samsung wants people who are tired of being understated and underwhelmed).
This is kind of an obvious idea (in general) that for some reason wasn't obvious until very recently. Why would you show me two cars that are nearly the same except that one is more expensive? Why shouldn't we just show the best flights (Hipmunk)? Why shouldn't we organize our Q&A site around the question and its actual answers (Stackoverflow)?
how are you going to avoid head hunters' spam, either as fake candidates to discover new clients or with fake offers for CV mining?
That ad aired when I was a very young child, and I have trouble believing anyone took it seriously. Like, really? You really think using a personal computer with a point-and-click interface is pretty much the same thing as defeating totalitarianism?
I can already see it cluttering up. Thanks, I'll add that shortly!