skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
File system monitoring:

• sudo fs_usage
• sudo opensnoop
• lsof

With respect to package-based installations:

• /Users/*/Library/Receipts/
• /Library/Receipts/

Tools of interest (check man pages):

• /usr/bin/lsbom SomeBOM.bom
• /usr/bin/defaults read /Path/To/Receipt/org.example.foo.plist (Explicit, general PList reading example.)
• /usr/bin/defaults read net.example.Bar (Searches in Preferences locations for matching name.)
• /usr/bin/installer

Preferences (configurations):

• /Library/Preferences/ (Computer-wide, Local Preferences)
• /Users/*/Library/Preferences/ (User Preferences)

Application Support (serials, etc.):

• /Library/Application Support/
• /Users/*/Library/Application Support/

Further/related readings:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOS...

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/FileMa...

http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/...

http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/22/monitor-mac-os-x-filesystem-u...

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2006081704414926...

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#featuredarticles/Fil...

http://superuser.com/questions/97980/view-filesystem-access-...

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwi...

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Develo...

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26118?viewlocale=en_US

Note: Different tools are available/unavailable in different versions of OS X.
Good people are difficult to get in any profession. Good Hackers, product guys, business guys, sales people are all difficult to get.

The problem starts when every Joe at the end of the street thinks merely having an idea merits him to become a millionaire and guys who work that to happen are fundamentally easily replaceable slaves. This works the other way around too, if you are a bad programmer and you think selling is easy, and sales guy is unable to sell you bad product then your wrong.

Execution is a art, no matter what is getting executed. Great execution is difficult in any walk of life.

Just like how good hackers are a scare resource, so are good business people. In general good people are difficult to get.
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Moving forward, we have established the following clear criteria to explain
how employees will be eligible for the $10K referral bonus:
- The employee must provide a referral for a full-time hire.
- The referred employee must work at Miso for 6 full months after hire date
(excluding any leaves of absence)
- The referring employee must be employed at Miso and not have given notice
to depart the company prior to the date of the bonus payment.

I don't understand the point of the third rule. Why isn't that 6 months too? This way they have an incentive to delay payment if they think an employee might leave.
Sounds like the definition of capitalism. Dev Bootcamp worked because the people behind it had good intentions. Other programs will fail of that's not the case.
> You have to be very smart to be able to design a normalized constrained DB well.

Eh, nit picking, but I think "very smart" is overkill--I think "just smart" people should still be capable of designing normalized constrained schemas.

If they are incapable of doing this, then I don't want them writing any code anyway.

Being capable of doing it and choosing not to is either at least forgivable or completely understandable, depending on the situation.
Agreed, I had the same issue when I first hit the site.

Also: ability to seek would be nice, these are single tracks that are an hour or two long... not like you can just skip to the next song :)
But really, humans aren't that much smarter. If we didn't collect and teach knowledge we've gained from the past then an adult wouldn't be too much better off than a child. If this chimp was capable of passing on his knowledge to the next generation, I think they would only be a few thousand years off from where we are now.
Agreed. There's a big difference between being sorry and being sorry you got caught. Miso management is sure coming off like the latter.
That's why reputation plays such a major role. You can't just create a school and expect people to sign up for it, unless you're doing accreditation which is expensive, and eventually employers will see how poor candidates are from technical interviews and word will spread about those schools.

What DBC is doing is building a brand and a reputation for having really smart people in their program. That's defensible and scalable. There are a lot of high-caliber people being involved with DBC now, it's no longer just Shereef (who is awesome).
Usually attributed to Lincoln:

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Perhaps he is trying to suggest that Joshua gave notice before his 6 months were up, therefore shift the blame back to the ex-employee. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.
I think that the problem was that nobody had experience with online banking the last millennium. The sad thing is that Koreans kept the system after they knew that it was a really bad idea, instead of evolving it into something better.

Do I think that it would have been better if no government intervention had occurred? I have no reason to believe that.
> Yes, ask any Facebook/Google new grad.

What percent of new grads work at Facebook/Google, do you reckon?
__future__ is per-module, so while it is good for syntax changes, I think it is inappropriate for runtime pragmas.
Skip to 1:28 if you just want to see the finished product.

It looks a little flimsy to me. I am not sure you could cross the street quickly without the ipod coming off...
Lilyhammer was actually pretty decent. I think a second season is already in the works too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilyhammer
I wouldn't have any problem hiring him. And I'm sure I am not alone in feeling this way.
One assumes there is a tacit acknowledgement being made that the "product" here is not a 100% substitute for, I don't know, a 2350 SAT Stanford undergrad who has been programming since the age of 6. That may or may not be rational discounting.

On the plus side: someone who is both a) a productive engineer and b) not as abominably terrible at negotiating as the typical engineer will, two years out of this program, be able to lateral into an intermediate engineer position at their next company for a compensation package worth north of $150k.

(P.S. Folks who think purewater or I are grossly off the mark for current conditions in Silicon Valley may wish to take a few people on coffee dates. What you learn will buy an awful lot of lattes.)
I think his point is non-engineers can only add second level of value. Meaning you still can't make things. No matter what your are selling, you are still selling stuff 'made' by others.
Is Pixelmator not a decent alternative to Photoshop? What about the GIMP? I haven't installed Photoshop in years, but then again, I'm a developer, not a designer.
Probably more relevant material taught (well) than in my 4-going-on-6 year education right now, too.
I see your point, which is very persuasive, but this case is ambiguous because it could be interpreted in either way. As an agreement between the employer and employee, the agreement might be interpreted to apply only to active employees, and on resignation vanishes.

Suppose a company's expense report policy does not clarify whether they will fulfill expenses incurred during employment but filed after resignation. The day after you quit you find an expense receipt you forgot to report. Must the company compensate you? It's ambiguous.
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If this program only selected 10% of the applicants, I am sure that they chose the top 10% that would have succeeded anyways. I would be more impressed if they were less selective in their admissions process.
They asked themselves what almost every businessman asks himself: "what is it going to cost me not to write this check?" They didn't expect their former employee to go to the Internet. They were exposing themselves to ever increasing liability by publicly posting in their former employee's blog. The cost in legal fees and additional negative publicity wasn't worth it to them not to pay after that.
Pretty cool. I've always thought it would be cool to do something like this for glasses, but never had the guts.
What do you mean by "basic programming"? What do you know already? What are you capable of building? I ask for more details because you may already have enough skills for find an entry-level engineering gig. A physics degree, in particular, bodes very well.
He gave them three chances to right their wrong before going public. That's plenty enough, don't you think?
255 is not because Google designers chose 255 specific shades but rather the limitation of 8-bit GIF color palette.
This is really neat. One of my favorite Windows design features (there aren't many) is the way icons in the taskbar are highlighted with their primary color when you mouseover. This seems like the perfect solution to replicate that effect elsewhere.
That's exactly what he's trying to do. This isn't an apology or an admission of any wrongdoing, it's an obvious attempt to reshape perception of their original actions by pretending their motives were different than they really were. Motives that were utterly self-evident from their very first reply:

> After you lost our data and caused our entire company to scramble for 3 days, I am hesitant.

Everything since then has been trying to unring the bell.
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There's some important points missing from the '88% have offers' title...
- 400 people applied for the course.
- 20 were accepted into the course, after interviews and screening.
- 17 were "ready to work at the end". (does this mean passed?)
- 14 got job offers.

So the prospective employers can be fairly certain after all of this that the student can code, and that's what makes it so attractive to them. For the student, I'd imagine just making it into the course itself is quite hard but if you do get in then you've got a good chance of success.
That's well done, hope you find a way to keep it alive.
He probably does lots of explaining on TSA scanners at airports.
"You have to be very smart to be able to design a normalized constrained DB well."

But you can be a complete moron and write "[a] properly written application layer [that] prevents data loss from stupid mistakes"?

What's the difference? Writing correct code can be hard. I don't think it's particularly easier to apply all your constraint in app code unless you just don't know about the database backend you're using.
I agree completely ... it's not really interesting when it just goes to twitter. That's why it's designed to talk REST, EventedAPI, and MQTT to other software. The real value begins to grow when more complex rules systems can be applied to larger numbers of sensors, and then integrated with sensor data from your mobile phone, etc.

You leave home ... the security is enabled ... home environment reflects you being "away".

It's when all of this begins to reflect a more "neural" pattern that things get really interesting!
I think you're right about home automation. There is also potential for home analytics/intelligence as well. For example, water sub-meters on each water faucet could help conscientious water users conserve.
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I agree fully, but filters are edge cases, and in general you will see the highlighted posts.

I assume most people don't apply filters, or if they do, only in very limited ways. Obviously if somebody is very annoying they will be filtered, but this is unusual.
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They were both wrong. Any employee who leaves 10k behind didn't care enough about it in the first place. The fact that he forgot is huge.

A company that talks about bonuses of that size with no legal contract didn't care enough about it to start with.

The developer will pay with his reputation. Any employer who knows what happened will never fully trust him, except after a long working relationship.

Miso will pay by losing potential hires.

Each side loses more than 10,000 dollars worth. Justin's professional rep is worth a lot more than 10k, Miso's hiring future is worth more than one bonus. They should have worked this out in private.

They couldn't, and they both lost.
Out of the 3 from that 20, 1 is continuing their studies, one is looking for a job still, and another is starting his own startup.
The best damage control would have been to admit the mistake and move on, not try to blame it on the "unclear" company policy. The founder tries to make it look like it wasn't his fault, but ends up looking even worse.

There is a silver lining for all of this -- future company founders will know what NOT to do when presented with bad PR.
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This cannot be stressed enough. Benzodiazepines are insidious because people get used to taking them when they have trouble sleeping, and when they try to stop, they cannot sleep properly for a very long time. I have seen this happen with two of my friends, and it is painful just to watch. Not being able to sleep is a crippling enough horror that people go right back to consuming. To paraphrase Fight Club: NO, what you NEED is some exercise, good food, and to relax.
How is the rise of the (unfortunately) sole technology that the ubiquitous multimedia platform of the beginning of the 21st century understands "surprising"?

The fact that we still haven't found a way to use anything else easily after about 15 years and are still being somehow coerced into developing with it is what's surprising really :/
As I see it, they just patched up the situation. My beef with them is not that they screwed up on the policy front. It is about the underlying ethics.

It was ok if they said they did not want to pay him as he is no longer and employee and later correct themselves saying that it was a mistake on their part as he was an employee after 6 months.
What is not ok is that they used an emotional line of defense. Saying he doesn't deserve it 'cos of a screw up, tells me that both Somrat and Tim are kinda characters that would bail out when push comes to shove. Its the question of integrity and you just have to stand by the right in a startup. To me, this is the exact warning sign I need before thinking of a startup.

I hope employees of Miso read into this and take home something. Many might not care, but its their opinion.
Except for virtual products this analogy always falls down.

Ultimately, the issue here is that content producers don't have simultaneous releases of this content online (for a worldwide standardised fee) because they don't want to.

Selling and delivering a virtual product in Australia doesn't cost significantly more than it does in the USA.
Notes' main problems are/were the lack of joins and most aggregates, lack of proper transactions, lack of indexes that would permit useful runtime queries, somewhat slow data access layer, and glacially slowly-evolving, ugly-ass UI.

It is also so easy to build on, that people who don't know what they're doing and shouldn't be building any software for redistribution, will do so anyway, and gain just enough success to become extremely annoying. Its IDE is about on par with most other IBM-involved software development exercises, i.e., fairly bad.

Now, all that aside, it is a very powerful, but not generally well-appreciated, system, and is great (fast, cheap, hard to kill) for a large swath of applications that don't require any of the stuff from the first paragraph.
It really depends on what your background is / what context you're learning in.
One point no-one else has raised here, is that (as far as I can tell) no employee of Merck was punished for this. How can Merck the company plead guilty to a misdemeanor, but no individual be held even partly responsible? "Under separate criminal proceedings, Merck plead guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge relating to the marketing of the drug across state lines, incurring a fine of $321.6 million." From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxib .

It frustrates me that people in big companies have no deterrent from acting unlawfully. The same thing happened in Wall Street companies in the GFC.
"but it won't be the present until it gets a lot more expensive."

but the point is to make it cheaper. If this model can't be viable until its just as expensive as the cable model, then whats the point?! Gawd damn.
I guess that makes sense, but the concept is only scalable if they can keep differentiating themselves from the inevitable charlatans that they will be competing with.
I know Hacker News comments tend to go stale quickly, but this should be in here as well:

http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/mapreduce/listing.htm...
Completely agree. Rich black kids would have no problems; poor white kids are just as badly prepared as poor black kids; the common denominator is economic resources more than anything. Being rich affords the child several benefits:
1. Stay at home parent with the time to take the child to enrichment classes, help the child with homework, challenge the child to stay on top of his classes
2. Child has access to extracurricular experiences such as summer science camps, weekend scouting trips, leadership retreats, etc.
3. Parents are involved and interested in the child's activities - parents of challenged backgrounds work so hard to make ends meet that at the end of the day, they just crash in front of the TV and tell the kids to play outside.
Admission wasn't granted on the basis of programming knowledge though, it was on the basis of motivation. Yeah that skews the playing field a little bit, but I like that kind of skew.
"17 ready to work" means 17 wanted jobs and didn't want to start their own thing.
To be more clear: many economists think there should be no minimum wage because it sets an artificial floor on the market. An unpaid intern is earning what the market will bear. Put another way, they are paying for an education with time instead of money.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/MinimumWages.html
I'd like to find or make a ruby version of this.
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I'm of two minds on this; I think maybe Jason could have understood how chargebacks work a little better - but at the same time, I think Square could probably streamline this process.

Most of all, this bit of one of the emails from Square kind of set off alarms in my head as bad practice:

"It is our pleasure to inform you that this inquiry has been preliminarily closed in your favor. While this is promising, it is also conditional. Your funds are eligible for automated release on or around 30 April 2012 once additional confirmation is secured."

I don't think "preliminary closure" of a chargeback even makes sense, does it? Either it's closed or it's not closed. I understand that they might have various steps in the inquiry, but letting the customer know ahead of time that everything is probably going to work out well for them, apparently in order to soothe them, is setting the situation up very badly in cases where the preliminary positive resolution doesn't actually get confirmation later on. What's more, it's clear that this didn't even set the correct expectation in the event of a positive finding. They named a date, and then promptly failed to meet it.

If I were designing a system to do this, it seems like it would be best just to let the customer know you're inquiring, that it may be a few weeks, and that they must keep a certain amount of money in their account until the inquiry is over.

(Obviously I haven't designed such a system, and I know it's difficult. This approach just seems inevitably problematic to me, though.)
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> How is the rise of the (unfortunately) sole technology that the ubiquitous multimedia platform of the beginning of the 21st century understands "surprising"?

I recall that 14 years ago DHTML was the all the rage and javascript was the key to DHTML. So I took up JS and bought books and went in head first.

Conclusion: it was impossible to take that language seriously. Javascript was a hack.

So for me, the rise of javascript as anything more than a browser helper language has been very surprising. I still have some prejudice towards it. Maybe others feel the same way and knowing how O'Reilly comes from the UNIX tradition, I'm sure that's what they meant with that title.
Yes, but the public doesn't know, or care what the actual company policy reads. Even if the company was 90% in the right, they should still accept all the blame, just to appease the pitchforks.

Remember that incident with Airbnb where a woman's house was trashed? I'm sure Airbnb had all the proper fine print to prevent them from liability, but they still went out of their way to make sure the woman was properly compensated. I'm sure Airbnb was never at fault here, but they were able to turn a case of bad press into good press.

The Miso founder simply took a case of bad press, and turned into worse press.
> Malthus was right: population is limited by food supply and any increase in food supply results ultimately in a higher population with a roughly constant standard of living.

That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time.

You're asserting that we have roughly the same standard of living as people 200 years ago? 1000 years ago? 10,000 years ago?
Your decision to offer a wage IS the market. Its no different than paying more for a stock than I am willing to do. I might wish I could get Google at $10, but the market shuts me out.

Once upon a time there were a lot of companies that allowed you to "get paid to surf the web!" They are all out of business or have different models because they were overvaluing those assets.
If he goes through THz scanners and holds his hands parallel to the sides of the scanner they probably wouldn't show up at all.
10k isn't small claims in any jurisdiction I'm aware of.
As an incoming student for the next round, who just quit his mech engineering job to do this, I can't tell you how nervous I was about signing up a few months back. Before I decided to take the plunge, I talked to Shereef, audited the class, emailed then-current students, and followed their blogs, and I can tell you it quickly became obvious this was going to be very successful.

With less than month before the next cohort begins, the incoming students are already prepping themselves, going to study groups, going to meetups together if they're in the area, asking questions through a facebook group. And the mentors are already helping in any way they can. I love learning but the level of camaraderie and community I feel truly gets me excited for my 10 weeks there. This is teaching done right.
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Yeah, and the screening of admissions is obviously working well for them. I did a free online course with Coursera recently and was surprised that only something like 5% saw it through to completion, after hearing that 100k had signed up for it.