skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting about the 3 life goals. http://chizzl.com/ is anchored to that -- a sort of Asana for your personal goals, if you will.
Guy is a billionaire and wont pay for his own daughter's college? hello?
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> Um, banks are no different than your auto mechanic. They want and are competing for your business. You can always tell them take it or leave it.

Allow me to generalize here but in the minds of the majority of average folks pretty much everywhere in the world, banks and bankers used to hold a certain status, an image of serious business and grave importance and a position of some sort of respect. Same goes for politicians. And I cannot tell you how many times such average folks would not believe me that banks loan out, let's say, 10 times as much as you are giving them and that's already conservative. It has only started to slowly change now after all the crises that people start to look down on banks and bankers but you have no idea how many banks over here are pulling the "that was them, not us, we are still serious business and reliable!!!" to win customers over and get away with it.

The point I am trying to make is, most average folks really have no idea what a bank is doing exactly, how they work and how they are doing stuff you can definitely describe as playing with money; and they have no way of evaluating whether that friendly guy with the nice suit and tie and firm handshake is actually just an office drone, like most "bankers", who acts all important and serious, or if they really have anything to say - which most of the time they don't. So banks get away with holding up that "serious business" status with which they can shame you.

And most people typically want something from a bank, at least they walked up to the bank, and aren't exactly the most mature and educated kind of customers to begin with, so they definitely do see banks as something different from their mechanic and they certainly won't slap their oh-so-trusted banker silly with demands but will suck it up and sign and feel like they came begging the whole time. And how ridiculous it would seem to them to suggest maybe bringing in a lawyer so your trusted bank doesn't rob you blind!

And banks know exactly what they can get away with - the masses who have no leverage will certainly not get the humane and professional treatment of an exclusive private bank or a family office; they have no leverage, so they get treated like shit and beggars at their local SuperSeriousTrustworthyPlebeianBank because they hardly have an option or choice anyway. Go to PlebsBank instead, they will offer you practically the same deals in different wrapping and same shit treatment.

And finally, most of us are brought up with respect for money and professional business settings, so banks, bankers and their suits definitely trigger and touch the right buttons on most people there and shame you into feeling bad since most money issues are pretty tough for the real 99%ers. IT guys are usually well off and could easily cut most of their monthly expenses since none of them are vital.
Thanks.

Yeah, I need to fix that, this is link to my wrong sampling implementation.

If you use only 1 sampling you will see it is fixed.
Great read.

I wonder, how does the "Salary depends on learning" work?
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Good points. That is probably why people are often not successful on their first interviews. It takes a few to get into "interview mode" where you have good answers for common questions about your CV.

I was quite dismayed when I called them out and they didn't come back with new questions or made up some on the spot. They simply decided to drop that part of the interview and move to the next section.

I've seen too many good people (friends and students of mine) miss out on jobs simply because they failed these type of problems.
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Conclusion: you don't actually intend to pay anything but somehow think freeloading should be respected. Quality content doesn't come for free: if you valued Ars' content either unobtrusive ads or $5/month are good options for ensuring that they'll be there next year.
Something to keep in mind is that these groups spend months building a world in these 4096 bytes. These aren't weekend hack jobs. Near the end they may be hacking off individual notes from the music, or letters from the credits to fit within their byte budget.

Very little of modern programming can replicate what it was like to work on old systems outside of these kinds of competitions.

For those interested in the music side of these productions, many of the composers use this to write the music. http://4klang.untergrund.net/
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Unless you promised otherwise, the users bought the application as-is (or as-it-was), without any guarantee of future updates. You are not bound to provide updates. It's a good idea to do so if you can, but perhaps favoring working on new applications for a while would be preferable.

I had several applications on the iOS store, which, after the $100 annual fee, were costing me money! I hate to do it, but I haven't renewed my developer subscription for this year. Maybe someday I will build a new iOS application and try again, but for now, continuing support just makes insufficient sense. I've made lots more money developing applications for other people than selling my own...
Asana looks pretty interesting.

I've been using TeamworkPM for 2 years now. It has been through a lot of improvements lately, which makes it very powerfull now. It organizes client/partner companies and projects in a matrix sort of way that allows you to really flexibilize access to tools and documentation. I like it.

For my personal stuff I use a simple TXT file with markup.

E.g.

##House Maintenance //Project or recurring work

+ Clean patio //task that must be done

- Paint doors //optional task

No dates or anything. I just look at the list early in the morning and decide what I'm doing for the day.
Later I'll add categories, page with list of all tags, links to prev and next project and some more changes. All those projects are created by me and it probably would take me a couple of years to do 300 projects :)
What happens if you just sign with a fake name? Is it still binding?

They lie, you lie ..
>> It was the company's responsibility (too) that there was no database backup when he wiped it.

I always say "If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail." I'm seeing a pattern here in the OP's behavior that led to him wiping the database and his naive reliance on his former employer to do the right thing before exiting the company. This guy has no clue about how to contingency plan.

As for the company, shame on them, but that kind of douchy behaviour is rampant in startups and small companies. You always need to look out for your own personal financial interests first with startups, no matter how 'collegial' the work environment is.
They may have, but the charges were "assisting copyright infringment" and not copyright infringement.
(Medhjälp till upphovsrättsbrott).
Ransom would be if Ars editors stormed your house and forced you to watch their ads. Business models don't get much more textbook than offering free and premium versions.
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www.demoscene.tv

www.scene.org

http://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/

I understand lots of the scene is still active on IRC if you hunt around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contracts_of_adhesion#Contracts...
Is the benefit only for those who don't brush? Isn't it meant to provide the body with the fluoride it needs for the teeth?
> Charge them money (and ensure you can force them to pay it back, e.g. wage garnishing)

Would this not give rise to a class of super-wealthy-scott-free-law-breakers?
What you can do within severe constraints can be very impressive.

Particular impressive results may not fit into severe constraints.

Do not confuse the two.

Even a small "that's great, but it needs to do..." can change 4KB into 4GB.
good C programs use [macros] sparingly and clearly mark the macro with an UPPER_CASE_IDENTIFIER

This is only necessary if (a) the macro has side effects, or (b) the macro interprets its arguments multiple times. In cases where the macro is functionally equivalent to an inlined function call, there's no need to capitalize it.

asked Tavis Ormandy (a fellow Googler and security badass) which language is easier to audit for security and he said C for the reasons of transparency I listed above.

I agree on both counts: C is much easier to audit, and Tavis is indeed a security badass.
I can easily see this as being the beginnings of a great community. Everything I've clicked on has appealed to me.

"That's neat". "Ah, that's cool".

I'm an experienced developer, but I still have those moments where I can't quite be bothered to reinvent the wheel by starting from scratch in creating something I'm sure exists elsewhere. I also have no problem in contributing some of my "cool snippets" back.

Few comments also.

[1] Licencing. Your licencing page should be more expansive. While I'm sure you intend total free use, specifically saying something is creative commons will really help. Currently you have "All resources on this website are free for use in both personal and commercial projects.". I'd suggest that you licence under https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0

[2] Work on signups as soon as possible. Try and build a community like Dribbble but built around code snippets. Allowing people the ability to even iframe their "jsfiddles" would be a good/quick solution that is "good enough for the moment".

[3] Navigation is tricky. Once you have browsed a single item, it's hard to either, move back to the top item, or move to the next item. Consider implementing some kind of breadcrumb or better to move from snippet to snippet.

I like what you've done. It's simple and attractive.
The number one lesson I learned from this saga is:

Do not hire Joshua Wu.
The entire 4k competition from that party is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdG-5Fhnx-I

well worth the watch...
How far do you get by monitoring whether the blower for your furnace is operating?
I have completed two undergrad Intro to Programming courses with Java. I am able to perform 3D data processing in MATLAB, and so far I've used Python to make a wrapper which controls another program as a subprocess. I'm not sure if that gives you an idea of my abilities/knowledge.
> Rumford's soup is not noted as particularly tasty, but is palatable with long, slow cooking.

Passes my binary test for food (is it palatable with long, slow cooking).
Thanks for the link, learned something today, "Contracts of Adhesion"
Create something cool and fund it using kickstarter? Though it's hard to offer advice without knowing your skillset, what are you good at? :)
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I would agree with him but this only applies to the 1% of companies that are "awesome" and only hire "awesome" employees (and where the existing employees think like founders and only have the good of the company in mind). Most companies aren't like that, and also most employees are not awesome, they're average.

Referral bonuses are a great way to save money on recruiters while at the same time getting better employees.
Wow I had never heard this term before. Thanks for the link.
That's not correct (at least not according to my understanding). GPL license "attaches" itself to any project that uses it. So by including any GPL licensed library, you must also release the source code of the thing you are including it in. The LGPL allows you to use the library in a project and only commit back changes to the library but not open source the project you use it in. So if that's your intent (to just make sure that library-level changes are contributed back, but not to only restrict usage of the library to fully open-source projects), I would suggest going with LPGL (or, again, MIT, if you want people to be the most comfortable including your library in their projects). More info here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/94346/can-i-legally-incor...
ha! I got a job with them in a polo, cargo pants, tennis shoes and a hoody. Looked fantastic in the team photo too, what with everybody else in formal.
" Packages are, of course, a legitimate way to push out changes but the downside of deploying with packages is that it takes time to build them and upload them"

Hopefully your CI server is building them. Packages (whether native or otherwise) come in quite handy for loads of reasons. Native package managers mature? and have fantastic tools available
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The review article "The Validity and Utility of Selection Models in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical Implications of 85 Years of Research Findings"

http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...

sums up, current to 1998, much of the HUGE peer-reviewed professional literature on the industrial and organizational psychology devoted to business hiring practices. There are many kinds of hiring screens, such as resume reviews for job experience, telephone interviews, in-person interviews, checks for academic credentials, and so on. There is much published study research on how job applicants perform after they are hired in a wide variety of occupations.

The overall summary of the industrial psychology research in reliable secondary sources is that two kinds of job screening procedures work reasonably well (but only about at the 0.5 level, standing alone). One is a general cognitive ability test (an IQ-like test, such as the Wonderlic personnel screening test). Another is a work-sample test, where the applicant does an actual task or group of tasks like what the applicant will do on the job if hired. Each of these kinds of tests has about the same validity in screening applicants for jobs, with the general cognitive ability test better predicting success for applicants who will be trained into a new job. Neither is perfect (both operate at about 0.5 level in validation studies), but both are better than anything else that has been tested in rigorous research, across a wide variety of occupations. So if you are hiring for your company, it's a good idea to think about how to build a work-sample test into all of your hiring processes.

For legal reasons in the United States (the same consideration does not apply in other countries), it is difficult to give job applicants a straight-up IQ test (as was commonplace in my parents' generation) as a routine part of a hiring process. The Griggs v. Duke Power, 401 U.S. 424 (1971) case in the United States Supreme Court

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8655598674229196...

held that cognitive ability tests used in hiring that could have a "disparate impact" on applicants of some protected classes must "bear a demonstrable relationship to successful performance of the jobs for which it was used." In other words, a company that wants to use a test like the Wonderlic, or like the SAT, or like the current WAIS or Stanford-Binet IQ tests, in a hiring process had best conduct a specific validation study of the test related to performance on the job in question. Some companies do the validation study, and use IQ-like tests in hiring. Other companies use IQ-like tests in hiring and hope that no one sues (which is not what I would advise any company). Note that a brain-teaser-type test used in a hiring process might be illegal if it can be shown to have disparate impact on some job applicants and is not supported by a validation study demonstrating that the test is related to successful performance on the job. Companies outside the United States are regulated by different laws.
> The interviewer cannot guess what's in your brain. Part of being a good communicator is being able to actually spell out your thoughts when necessary

The flip side is when the interviewer doesn't communicate well. Or asks a specific question, but means something slightly different.

I've dealt with that before. Assumed they meant what they said, when the reality was, they were being more precise than intended. My fault for assuming I guess. I now try to clarify the intent, and make clear the precision.
It's more common than you think.

You might not see this in a small startup where the owners/managers don't have much business experience, but the rule of thumb is you NEVER sign this paper unless you're absolutely sure you will never cross paths with your previous employer again, no matter how much $ is dangling in front of you to sign it.

For a lot of departing employees, the stress of the situation leads them to sign it (i.e., sign now or you lose the chance to get this money we're dangling in front of you), which is often a mistake, because you are often signing away your right to sue them.
This third category is made up completely from the people
the employee wouldn’t have referred if the bonus didn’t
exist.

Maybe the candidate has multiple options and the person referring them will give them a kickback for taking the job.
Um, most of us already have a job. We don't think about doing HR's job most of the time, we're busy. And there's an emotional hump to get over, to beg a friend to consider moving jobs to work at your place.

$10,000 does a lot to realign folks' attitude. I'll go to my old colleague John McGinty (actually he referred me :) and say "Sococo is a great place to work, we're ramping up and getting new customers daily, the work is exciting and we need you!"

Maybe I'd go to somebody less able too. But we're looking to grow lots, folks don't all have to be architects. Its not black and white who is a fit and who isn't and its essentially not my call anyway - its the hiring managers'.
The technique used here is raymarching. Relevant thread on pouet: http://pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920
I only ended up mentioning Steve Jobs because the Apple II came to mind as a piece of technology that was so awesome and beyond its time that it really ought to sell itself. It just so happens that Steve Jobs was the sales side of that business at the time (at least according to the biography).

I tremendously respect what Jobs achieved, but I don't think I'm putting him on a pedestal. Are you guys suggesting I should deliberately avoid using any of Apple's products or achievements as an example for anything because I might end up having to mention Jobs? That seems extreme, but it's the natural conclusion of your reaction...
Does anyone know if this would be useful for businesses?
In 2003 I wanted to import my car from France as I was moving back to Poland. As I bought the car in France, all official paperwork I had was the French registration card and a car "cession" document. There was no price stated on the cession document.

The official at the Polish registration office gave me a photocopied Belgian registration form and told me to fill that in, fill the price and sign for the seller (in other words, forge the seller's signature).
pouet.net, #coders on ircnet, or just visit a demoparty in your area.
I don't know how it is in the US, but here (Greece), most people aren't aware that you can modify contracts, or even that they're binding.

I've had various people come up to me with company offers and asking me to sign things, which, after I've read, I said, for example "I'm not authorizing you to use my email to send me things, so I'll strike this clause out". People (including the person who handed me the agreement) looked at me as if I were the most pedantic person in the world, or as if I were trying to make things fall upwards.

It's very disconcerting, because nearly everyone treats contracts as a "take it or leave it" affair. Sure, when you're getting a new phone, the employee doesn't have the power to agree to alter the contract, but in many cases you can do it.
Curious: How has Asana improved in the past 6 months?
I'm good with computers, in general. I know very basic stuff about programming which doesn't really count.

I see fake/scam kickstarters all the time and I don't think I can create something good enough so people don't see it like that.
This is called a transdermal implant. It basically has a broader bottom than it has on the sides, kind of like a cufflink. The skin heals around it over time, and it becomes a part of you eventually (assuming its not rejected by your body)
First hitting his iMac at 4:54am but also finishing work at 6pm with time in-between for his kids before school, the gym, and then finishing at 6pm. And...a four day week. I'd say he's got it figured out.
No prob :)
iq has a presentation on the techinques used

http://iquilezles.org/www/material/function2009/function2009...