skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that people are so up in arms about having prospective employers browse their facebook, but have no problem when asked if their employers can peruse their blood, hair, or urine under the guise of a drug test. Private, recreational drug use seems just as much nobody's business as private recreational drinking or sexual promiscuity that could be uncovered by facebook investigations...
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Privly allows you to seamlessly view and post encrypted content on any website
Privly is a proof-of-concept for a new standard of private sharing. It is the only way to maintain control of your data on the social web.

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Can you share if/where you do FP, or was that at the recent ex-employer?
> I've seen these used rather sporadically in academia

It really depends on the area. In some areas, like graphics and control theory, convex optimization is the norm. In others, like parts of AI, randomized optimization is a lot more common. Traditionally GAs were more strongly planted in the IEEE-flavored parts of AI, sometimes called "computational intelligence"; for example, the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation has one of the higher impact factors of AI-related journals. I agree there's no great reason to treat GAs as categorically different from other randomized optimization, though; I suspect they get more press because of the biology metaphor.
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Turn-key solutions for creating basic sites have lower margins but make it up by being able to sell at larger volume either by offering the same set of themes or offloading design costs to the community or customer.

If that's what he's going for, then it's workable, and I agree with you, it's a good market to target. But that's rather different from creating custom prototypes for $99.
These are both great ideas. Unfortunately I don't have time to work on this myself, but I'd love to see them implemented (especialy #2). I encourage you to submit them as issues on github so that they're not forgotten.
Is this open source? The source files say All Rights Reserved.
Update: worksforme on Mac and iOS, going to start playing with this tonight
NeXT, OpenStep and the return of Steve Jobs to Apple
The reviewer says that for users who already have a smartphone the Nokia Lumia is a downgrade.

I wonder if dissatisfied customers will be returning them to get a better working iPhone or Android?
just bought all your apps. any other useful and/or interesting and/or fun audio analysis apps out there anyone can recommend??
I don't think it's so bad if you have a clean server side API that enforces your business rules. The application code can then be run anywhere.

I assume you'd write code for client side execution (i.e. don't fetch unneeded data, reduce round trips) and get the the server side excecution and a battle tested public API for free.

This seems similar to the approach Parse is promoting with their service.
Hey guys, I'm the author of the survey. I deleted the original post because there were some methodological quibbles and technical mistakes that I wanted to straighten out. I assume shubber resubmitted survey, thinking it was wrongly flagged. Thanks shubber. But if you could please ignore this submission.
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It was written by some dude who "sold two companies". Quite out of touch with the working man who needs references. Safe to ignore in that case.
I apologize for the cheese factor of the "goal" beforehand, but here's a Python program I wrote recently that does the same thing:

https://gist.github.com/1649116

I sat down with my fiance on Valentines Day and asked her if she could figure out what the letters on the screen were trying to spell. I think she really loved it!
This reminds me of the saying "just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should", on the other hand it's a cool hack.
Yeah, I kind of enjoyed the weird uncertainty for a few minutes.

I thought the Nixon letter was a nice touch.
Now of course, you would never refuse to hire someone because they plan to exercise their legal right to parental leave, would you?

I'm sympathetic to the principal message of this post, but regarding the bit about parental leave: Has it really come to this? If someone takes a job intending to "exercise their legal right to parental leave" shortly after joining, it's the company that's the bad guy for wanting to stop it? To my eye, such behavior identifies the employee a special interest parasite, feeding at the public trough with a smug sense of entitlement.

It's effectively illegal to ask a job applicant, "Are you intending to take an extended paid vacation shortly after starting?" That's not progress—it's madness.
Yeah it definitely wouldn't be good if that were the only thing done, but as one of several things it would make a lot of sense.
I use LDS often, but it'd be considerably more useful to me if you relaxed the requirements on the root search to allow fewer than 3 characters and allow numbers. Is there a technical reason why you don't allow short or number-containing searches?
The biggest difference is how Bootstrap does margins in their grid. The Row has a negative margin and the columns all have left margin only... The 12 column 960 grid is 60px with 10px left & right margin, so the spacing doesn't match up.
Absolutely hate the name.
I am a GSD metric guy as well. I have two laptops , one mac for apple development (iPhone etc) and a windows machine to do blackberry development.

When im doing multimedia stuff , say using progs like xtranormal i have to use my windows because again, no port for mac is available. If im coding on an xterm connected to my amazon instances im using my macbook because its just alot nicer and basically all the tools i need come installed with the mac.

The thing i never understood is, if you are a mac fanboy and would never use windows or visa versa how do you manage to develop properly. How can an apple fanboy who refuses to use windows do blackberry development and how does a windows fanboy do any iPhone development, do they just restrict themselves to programming in objective C and dot net respectively ?

Yeh you could use a VM but i just found it easier to have two separate laptops with whatever OS i needed to run to get the job done

I guess you can have a preference , me i prefer my macbook when im doing general stuff because again all tools are included and if i need to fire up an xterm, run some network tool, quickly whip up a shell script or try some random thing its just easier on a mac but to be a fanboy who refuses to use the other OS makes no sense to me.

It just limits you ... doesn't it ?!
I started in 1990 [1]. Learned COBOL, courtesy of the Marines. Then was side-tracked into a series of billets where I did micro-computer repair, LAN, dBase III. Never had a job, since, where the title was 'programmer' but I've programmed regardless: scripts, dbase, blah blah blah.

[1] I would have started six years earlier in high school. But a (probably) well-meaning guidance counselor convinced methat I needed trigonometry or something to even begin thinking about programming a computer. So I took the basic 'intro to programming' class offered in 1983 at my high school and dropped the whole business.

Pity - I really _liked_ messing around with those Apples.
I have a history book that my great-grandmother used in the early 1900s. It's nice to look at when you need a reminder of how far we've come as a people.
Blocklisting Older Versions of Java
I'm thinking of abstracting out some of the quirks and open-sourcing the audio engine at some point, but it isn't nearly as intuitive or compatible as this library as it was developed recently along with the application that uses it...

On top of that, no vector operations or ring buffers are currently implemented, so I wouldn't be surprised if this library has significantly better performance. I do have a bit of a wish list of features to add to my code after taking a look at some of the techniques used here. It's complicated work, but I've never had a better experience learning a complicated system.

My implementation basically added a playback and mixing interface to the audio engine from this sample mixer project: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/MixerHost...
Some VCs sound pretty radical, but I don't think you'll find too many who will make a startup-sized investment without actually insisting on your real life name. :-)
Don't forget the Stanford name drop.
Initially I thought it was funny because it reads exactly like a lot of the "landing pages" (also from LaunchRock) that really don't say much but imply they will save your life one day if you signup now. I wonder how many email addresses I could harvest if I just made a LaunchRock page that said "Give me your email address if you don't want to miss out on the cool stuff that I'll show you some day."

And then it occurred to me that they might actually be serious with this pitch... but that made it even funnier. Because, really, if I didn't laugh at it I would cry if I let it sink in that this is the future of how business is started.
This got me thinking, does a friend request from your boss constitute an inquiry with possibly the same effects?

Personally, I try to avoid sending friend requests to subordinates, but it wasn't necessarily for this reason.
Oh, come on! If you're just going to be an employee, possibly for ten years making money for other people, instead of taking some initiative and having your dad set up a lunch between you and the VCs he prepped with and having them teach you how to work for yourself and join Those Who Have Completed An Exit, well then... then you deserve the mediocrity you get!
Introducing our New Head of Talent at First Round Capital, Jack Leidlein
What development stack are you using?
I have been deep in the Microsoft camp of development for more than a decade. Occasionally when I look into what my OSS counter-parts are up to I find myself instantly confused by all the various languages and frameworks. To make matters worse a lot of the technologies seem to be fad driven (will Node.js be widely used in three years?). It is unclear to me what OSS development stacks have made it past the honeymoon period and are now in wide adoption.

As an example, if you were to ask me what the typical web development stack is for a Microsoft shop I would say:

Framework: ASP.Net MVC

Language: C#

Web Server: IIS 7.5

Data Layer: Entity Framework, NHibernate or straight ADO.Net.

Database: SQL 2008 Standard

OS: Windows Server 2008 Web (for IIS), Windows Server 2008 Standard (for stand-alone SQL), Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (for clustered SQL)

Training: Pluralsight has just about everything I need from beginner to advanced to train staff. Alternatively, highest rated books on Amazon using the above keywords also works out really well.

Technical Reference: MSDN is the go to technical reference for all of the above products once initial training is complete.

So, what is your development stack? What resources would you give your staff for training? If you were a Microsoft guy, where could you go for training on your stack?
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TrialPay - Mountain View, CA

We're looking for back-end generalists.

Some of the shiny, new things we're working on this year include managing huge volumes of data (~we're now getting 100 million unique visits a day), creating mobile apps for multiple platforms, and getting really good at figuring out which offers we should show to which users.

Read more about us here: http://allthingsd.com/20120131/visa-places-bet-on-new-approa...

If you're interested, contact me: aline at trialpay dot com
The PayPal form seems untested, because all the options have the same value of $1.
That's actually the worst size. There are all the pathologies of a startup combined with all the pathologies of a bigger company.
Simplicity Realized: 20 Examples of Brand Spirit
I'm not sure I understand your reply:
Protein: OK, add to the hypothetical experiment enough protein shakes.
Carbohydrates: their inclusion in your list seems to suggest that a calorie is not a calorie, in the sense that one can't substitute all one's carbohydrates with fats, as long as the calories add up to the same amount. Right?
Fats: Mayonnaise has quite a lot of fat.
Vitamins, minerals: Take enough pills of those.
Water: OK, drink water as much as you want.

Would a person living on this diet be healthy? If not, and we controlled all the non-caloric variables, does that mean that the premise that "a calorie is a calorie" is false?
I assumed that meant "Give a good enough offer that the candidate doesn't bother returning the other call", as a truly exceptional candidate is likely to say no if you press them to decide immediately.
By vector operations do you mean using something like the Accelerate framework? or SSE/NEON primitives? or just retooling your code so that your compiler can make attempts to vectorize when possible?
I know that you're not serious, but I just feel the need to reinforce that having to hide a portion of your identity does not in fact shield you from discrimination. The simple fact that you have to do so is discrimination itself.

Of course the idea is to eliminate a subset of discrimination, which arguably it does well, but to do so it introduces another sort.
I can't tell if this is brilliant or terrifying.
In theory you could do charity hiring and it would be blessed. I think that's not a good idea if it's critical. However, it seems reasonable to deduct it from your 10% tithe.

I got a saboteur from the CIA. Really turned-me-off. Everything is fake. God sees though.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

or I seek not your's but you: for the children
ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the
more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty,
I caught you with guile.

12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
12:18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a
gain of you? walked we not i

---

reason is completely useless. I cannot cause event B to happen after doing A.

---

20 Looking at his disciples, he said:

“Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.

23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

24 “But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

----

Novocane? Pleasures and pains balance. Ba ha--I have no orgasms. Yer fucked. Ice cream is no joy. Ya gotta eat shit food for a while if you want to enjoy food. Meh.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\DARWIN.TXT

and in the hybrids produced from this cross.

In the same manner as in grafting trees, the capacity in one species or
variety to take on another, is incidental on differences, generally of an
unknown nature, in their vegetative systems, so in crossing, the greater or
less facility of one species to unite with another is incidental on unknown
differences in their reproductive systems. There is no more reason to
think that species have been specially endowed with various degrees of
sterility to pre
The Guild: I'm the One That's Cool - Can’t resist posting this video.
> isn't it unfair to take a new job and get away for 6 months for parenting purpose?

There's a number of answers to that:

1) Biology is unfair. Birthing a child obviously takes much more effort and time from the mother than the father. We have societally chosen to make up for that a little bit by giving the mother a legally protected break from job demands.

2) It should come out in the wash on the back end. When it's time for reviews and raises, the new mother has three or six months less of productivity and accomplishments, so it's natural and not discriminatory for her to receive less reward here.

3) Maybe it IS unfair and that's why companies would seek to avoid hiring likely-to-become-pregnant women if they were not legally barred from doing so.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle of all these, in different situations. Some women can bear a child and not miss a beat in productivity at a job. Some perhaps do use maternity leave as an excuse for a vacation.
It's the same reason why we have to codify "thou shalt not murder" into our laws - because some people are selfish, greedy, opportunistic assholes, and you have to twist their arms to get them to behave like civilized human beings.

In an industry (and this includes ours too, techies, don't be deluded into thinking otherwise) that's driven by the bottom line, practically without morality, perhaps the best argument you can make is something like this.
Right, and suppose like me, you don't actually have a facebook page. I have a pretty common name. There's at least 25 people with my same name living in the same city as me. Are they going to believe me when I say I don't have a facebook account?
Honest answer: No, but college will increase your opportunities and marketability.
Prevent back button to serve cached content with ASP.NET
I don't expect to ever be rid of HR, but can we as an industry at least collectively stop pretending that HR is on the side of the employees? This is a pervasive, explicit lie that's told by HR departments everywhere.

Sometimes I wonder how HR personnel sleep at night.
I'm a bit new to this stuff, so I'm not exactly sure to be honest! It looks like he is piping several array operations through Accelerate, and I suspect there is at least one part of my render callback function that would finish faster with appropriate vectorization.

If anyone has any relevant tips about how the Obj-C LLVM or whatever it is actually works and what it means for low-latency audio, please do share. My current strategy is ruthless and minimal static allocation but I don't know what is best.
It wasn't quite clear to me. I know you write in metaphors sometimes, but it was hard to tell if this was real or not.
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Past two places I've worked, I was asked on a pre-employment form that I had to fill out, and I refused. I still got hired.
Google Scared This 27-Year-Old Entrepreneur Into Changing His Idea
I think you didn't really get to the motivation, which is simply that the carriers want a piece.
Thanks for that. I always enjoy hearing about what goes on inside bigger tech companies, given that I've never worked at anything other than small startups.

I must ask: You're a motivated and (probably) skilled developer. Why keep working at big bureaucratic businesses? It sounds really frustrating, and there's never been an easier time to set out on your own.

Btw, the high-quality games strategy would have been interesting. I think it's impossible to say that any particular strategy will allow Google to beat Facebook. But I do agree that would have been much more interesting than what they're doing now. Better to attack a niche and grow from there than to go for everyone and remain stagnant. My G+ network is a ghost town, and has been since about a week after they opened it up. What's weird about it is that Google doesn't seem to be doing anything to change that. From my limited perspective, they only seem to care about achieving feature parity with FB.
OS/2 was actually quite good on underpowered hardware if you stuck to console apps running fullscreen. I started with OS/2 2.1 on a 40Mhz 386 with just 8Mb RAM, connecting to BBSes and reading FidoNet with a newsreader called Blue Wave and programming with the Boxer editor. OS/2 Warp was the first shrinkwrapped software I bought, still on floppy disks; I was quite proud of that as a 14 year old, as piracy was rampant in Brazil at the time.

I remember OS/2 was quite popular with both BBS operators and BBS users around here, as it was the easiest way to multitask on a PC in the early 90s. It had a quite vibrant shareware/freeware scene. You did have to be picky about hardware, though, but even here it was easy to find video cards, sound cards and modems that ran just fine.
"- RSBAC. Does basically the same thing"

And a nuclear reactor does basically the same thing as my electric tea kettle;)
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Thank you. Yes, I have already seen libevent. In fact, it was of great help to me when I was trying to learn about select/epoll/kqueue etc.
Framework: Django

Language: Python

Web Server: gunicorn/nginx

Data Layer: Django ORM

Database: Postgres 9.1/PostGIS

OS: Linux (Debian)

Training: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTraining

Technical Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/
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That sounds amazing. How do I get it? Buy any Tom Tom? Do I have to subscribe to anything?
Which is absolutely correct for someone who makes as insanely stupid business decisions as this COO. Was recently at a company where the same thing happened and everyone hated it. You'd think some blame would fall on the COO for not understanding how a business operates, but instead, people who criticized his stupid work were lectured. Real surprisingly, they quickly started leaving in droves.
I was actually surprised when for some position I was not asked to sign a NDA for the interview. I was actually expecting it.
Yeah because if you have beef with more than one company doing sketchy shit its probably your fault...?
It looks like the Linux penguin guy has a catheter.
Because it gives you absolutely no idea what the product actually does, and it's un-googleable. Try googling novocaine - guess what, you won't find this in the first page of results. Good luck with it. I'm sure it may be one awesome piece of software, but the name is just dumb.
The published examples that I have seen were teachers and prison guards. Employers of these folks want evidence of fraternization with students and inmate families, respectively.
I'm a bit late to this comment but there's just one thing I want to say. I agree with everything you for the most part but Adobe is in effect charging for the distribution of their platform. For example if you built a game with Unity you could either publish on Unity's browser plugin or pay 9% to publish using Flash Player. What you're paying for in that instance is the fact that any user will most likely already have flash player installed and ready to go.
This is actually pretty cool. Makes me think of the potato powered server posted a few months ago.
Water cooling feels like brute force. Why not give it plenty of air, and have the apparatus underclock itself enough until it's within a designated temperature envelope?
If you ever decide to put together a social network dedicated to games by gamers (or people who want to play them), please let me know. I have a half dozen half-developed HTML5 games because I can't figure out how I would make enough money to pay the hosting bills. Would love to team up with someone who can build a platform that I could put these on.

I could do these as Flash of course (did do so with one game a couple years ago), but I can't say I'm interested in putting in library after library of ads and optimizing Actionscript to support a shrinking audience.
There are far fewer protected classes in most US jurisdictions than in canada. E.g You can be fired for being gay in most states.