skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like Bike is a simple query interface whereas phpMyAdmin is a whole suite of tools akin to the desktop Workbench for mysql (at least, the administrative side).
Perhaps an astrophysicist will one day explain why communities like Reddit tend to implode.

Once the "pressure" of those in the core, which are the ones doing most of the work to keep people in line and promote healthy community behavior, start to fizzle out and aren't replaced, the core will implode and the whole thing will go supernova.

Smaller communities, like smaller stars, seem to have much longer lifespans.

The good news is when a site like Digg or Reddit goes supernova it spreads a lot of well-intentioned people around the greater internet to create their own new communities and start the process all over again.
Unless he did them in batch mode. Apply to 30 positions in January, go drinking for free 26 times in March-May.
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Said better than I could've.

Thank you.
The smark thing for dropbox to do is to create a service with similar price structure (perhaps a tiny bit more expensive), and allow this sort of supposedly grey activity to take place there, and brand it differently.

Extract as much revenue from their software and infrastructure as possible, while not tarnish their name.
Try doing an advanced search for firstname: Pete lastname: London region: San Francisco Bay Area
Haha, figure 1 is just awesome.
Bah. You already know it's a rejection letter before you open the envelop. If they're actually interested in hiring you you'll get a packet from HR instead of a letter all by itself. It's not much different from applying to a college.
There are times when good writers use "bad grammar," though. More often though it's "good grammar in a non-standard dialect."
For Windows users, HeidiSQL is also pretty damn good: http://www.heidisql.com/
Articles in The Economist don't get bylines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_economist#Tone_and_voice
I've read about his GPS adventures before, but I didn't know what it was for. Is this to be able to inject packets with precisely known start times for measuring latency across the network?
Thanks for that link -- I was pretty sure that Fresnel lenses were refractive, and I ended up reading most of the article trying to reconcile the plastic lenses that I've seen with the copper diffraction grating that it seemed to be describing.
I see no problem with trying to hire developers from the contributor pool of the open source projects my company has helped found.
Part of what motivated my question today was the amusement at being called Dr. by some guy at work. Since I work in a hospital, he just assumed I was an MD. Alas, I am "just" a programmer.
Having worn a interviewing & selecting hat for <corporation>, I can say my objectives for rejection communication were:

(1) conveying the fact of it politely and unequivocally,
(2) ensuring that the process halts immediately, and
(3) leaving an impression such that the candidate's likelihood of thinking & speaking ill of us in future is minimised.

The fact is, rejection usually amounts to disappointment and in some people that means they're about to pass through the stages of grief, often quite quickly. As the rejector you have a chance of being on the receiving end of the anger & bargaining stages from a rejectee.

This creates an incentive to give away as little as possible. If one states that the candidate was weak in a specific area, there are a few - just a few but it's enough to be a major deterrent - that will treat this as an invitation to negotiation over that and/or related points. In the worst case this led to a large volume of unsolicited communication that proved challenging to curtail.

Thus goals (1) and (2) had not been achieved and goal (3) was abandoned in the interests of time.

From another dimension, IANAL but I have also been advised by Ms.IAAL that being specific also opens the door to a risk of being wrong (or even being simply perceived to be wrong), and thus a liability concern.
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I'm guessing in some cases they've made a hiring list and you're on it. Just not at #1. They don't want to reject you and then find out everyone above you on their list has taken another position.

On the other hand, most of them are probably just jerks.
Awesome. Thanks Brett. I love Jekyll. People are usually surprised when I say we power everything public facing for our company using Jekyll. But, it's ridiculously powerful and static sites rock. I try to take care when choosing URLs and Headers for our blog posts and pages, but getting help from a script with SEO going to be a great help.
I'm too dumb for gradschool. It'll have to be self taught.
Interesting! Where can I find out more about this more efficient market exchange design?
That's what I used to think. Then I started using Sublime text and it's project management features (together with Ctrl-P/Cmd-P) and realized what a huge productivity booster it was to me.

I know Vim has NerdTree and the equivalent Cmd-T plugin - I have tried them and they don't work out quite the same.

There are still lots of things I like about Vim that aren't there in Sublime but it's all about compromises. I still use Vim for editing single files but use Sublime for any project that requires multiple files to be opened and edited.
Ah. Sorry, didn't realise that you were using MVCC. That puts a different light on things.
Indeed. But in this manor is the median the messuage?

(Despite what my spell check says, there are no misspellings there. A dictionary might be useful though ;-) Apologies at picking on typos and showing off knowledge of obscure words.)
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In theory, if this system were to be adopted, the Stock Exchange Operator could charge a small tariff so that some of the money that now goes to HFT's goes to the stock exchange, with the rest going to the shareholders. So in theory, adopting this more optimal system would be financially beneficially to both the corporations and the Stock Exchange (and in theory, those two are the only two players who's agreement is needed to change the system). So I wonder why the optimal, auction based system does not get adopted - is there some reason for the status quo other than the normal inertia and stupidity of large institutions?
"Good grammar doesn't indicate a good writer, but bad grammar does indicate a bad one"

that is not true at all - not knowing grammar well doesn't mean the writer has nothing good or creative, or worthwhile to say (or write about).

Grammar is just a technicality to be overcome. Creative writing (as opposed to technical writing), is something that is not measured by the knowledge of the language, but by the knowledge of humanity, science, culture and anything that intersects in between. An eye for details also helps. But not grammar.
I use vim. As a software craftsman I want my hammer to be Open Source.

( just see what happened when TextMate got stagnated, there must be other examples )

It's my hammer, it must be open source if possible.
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Our public facing sites and documentation are all Jekyll also. I'm glad that you can benefit.
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(Off-topic, but surprising to me -- Tumblr isn't blocked in China under the Great Firewall. I clicked on the link, saw my VPN wasn't on so didn't expect it to load, and then it works. I wonder why they didn't block it when almost all blogging platforms are blocked.)
Linode's Fremont datacenter seems to have power outages every three months or so. I believe they're using HE's facilities as well.
The issue behind phpMyAdmin IMHO neither is the fact that it's written in PHP nor that it looks unsexy. The problem is that it exists.

It's too tempting to leave it running on some server and promptly forget it. Or get it installed without knowing by some third-party CMS.

Even if it had a spotless security track record (it doesn't), this is just too big an attack surface.

MySQL and especially Postgres have really good command line utilities you can use over SSH which will have the additional advantage of you learning DDL syntax for emergencies. And of course GUIs exist too (use SSH port forwarding).

About Bike: I didn't install it, but this looks like a pure frontend to type in queries and get back results. This provides the security problems of phpMyAdmin minus the specialized GUI to save you from learning DDL or server internals.

As such it provides the worst of both worlds. I wouldn't call that "phpMyAdmin for geeks". CLI mysql is phpMyAdmin for geeks.
Grails is an amazing technology founded on two very time tested technologies being Spring and Hibernate. The programming language itself is Groovy which in turn is founded on Java

For those coming from PHP, Python and Rails the thought of using something based on Java frameworks may be a turnoff but I assure you all the boilerplating and configuration complexity is hidden away with the preference being the convention over configuration approach.

The beauty though is if you need to reach down and leverage some specifics you are free to do so, Grails doesn't tie your hands allowing you to have your cake and eat it to.

So in a nutshell, Grails gives you all the things you love with frameworks like Rails while under the Hood you can leverage the power of Java and all the supporting libraries and frameworks developed for it over the years. Anywhere it can go Grails&Groovy can go to (well almost). Oh and in terms of performance, the upcoming version of Groovy 2.0 will provide performance enhancements that will bring it seriously close to Java execution through static type checking and compilation. These two options are once again free to use or ignore as the developer sees fit.
I think they are allowed to make their choices just once, so they will both see rock and make their change to paper. After that the loop will stop.
My vim setup has typically been two vertical split buffers,
one with whatever code I'm looking at, the other running either another piece of code, or ConqueTerm (bash console within vim).

Ideally I'd like the same environment mixed with some nearly "ide-looking" find-and-replace/refactoring support.

ST2 supposedly has these features from what I've read, just haven't dug into em yet.
One thing it could use is table/column completion assistance.
I found this counter-intuitive as well, for the little it's worth. My intuition was "Wow, there's a lot of lines on this graph. I'll clear everything off and then add things one at a time to see how they compare. Click, click, click wait, what happened there?"

I get that it's just a demo though, not behaviour the end developer has to put in their app. It's a really nice set of demos overall. :)
I still believe building open source libraries, then building a paid service using those libraries is the best way to have your cake and eat it too. A fantastic example of this is Shopify and ActiveMerchant.
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Haha, I hope you don't have a 401(k).
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984932

Basically, he was too mean in a comment thread. The submissions on HN typically run media hot (X is doomed, Y is for idiots, Z is braindead) while the comments run media cold. He got the two mixed up, and was banned.
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Having written a few of these in my time I'd like to pick out the best and the worst.

The worst is surely from the University of Colorado at Boulder. I find the prose florid and demeaning. Lowlights include implying that many "well qualified individuals" applied, using a sentence structure that clearly suggests you are not counted amongst them.

Yale runs a close second worst, for their brutal and brief suggestion that you go "elsewhere".

The best is from the Colorado School of Mines. It is pleasant, warm, apologetic. In particular, it bothers to express appreciation of time & energy invested, and it speaks of a "closer match" of the shortlisted candidates rather than pompously announce how grand their field was.
No, I did not get it. I think this is because, as I said, I just recently started learning to program. I started in January, but I do not commit 100% of my time to it, as I have a full time job that deals with something completely different.

I know nothing about hiring developers or being a developer.

Also, for the record, I just read in Hitesh's blog's comment section that this is not about hiring writers.

Thanks, everyone, for not beating me up for it! :)
I'm living in a service hotel in China. This means no torrents. I can VPN into my University back in Yerp, but they block torrent traffic as well (duh). Luckily there's still zbigz.com which offers pretty much the same service.
Okay, well Google doesn't want to hire you if you can't write efficient and elegant code on a whiteboard for a problem they've specified while they look over your shoulder. Me, I only don't want to hire you if you can't take a few pages of code you've written for fun and make it presentable. Who would you rather interview with? (Assuming, of course, that I was offering jobs as nice as the jobs at Google.)
Using it as an alternative to documentation is a small part. First of all you get a confirmation that what you have up to that point is somewhat correct. If the dropdown doesn't show then something's wrong - sometimes that's ok and expected. You also get a type confirmation and actual completion as in type one or two characters and have the rest filled out for you.
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He is also the maintainer of gpsd so some of the gps material might have been for the gpsd project in general.

From what I understand the GPS device is just used for getting accurate time stamps (via gpsd not ntp reference implementation). It is odd because no self respecting time-nut[1] would use PPS over usb, too much jitter. But the meat of the project will be the system for measuring latency so its not vital that the measuring nodes have microsecond offset agreement.

[1] http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
> Spanking a kid has never killed anyone

Yea, that make it right, it doesn't kill them.

> I don't really understand the popular mindset now that education should be done entirely without touching your kid.

And I don't understand the old mindset that think teaching a lesson requires physical violence. Discipline doesn't require physical assault, it really doesn't. The question isn't why not spank; the question is why spank when it's entirely unnecessary. Why do you want to hit children? Why do you think you need to? Is it fun to bully and intimidate a child into doing what you want? Do you need that?
Why not try joining in a competition while you're learning?

http://www.kaggle.com/
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I'm quite receptive to arguments about why San Francisco is horrible - after ten years in the place, naturally I like to see my decision to leave validated - but this is really a lot more about the author than it is the city.
For a corporation, the psycopathic behaviour is that if it makes a profit and is not illegal (yet), then do it.

The real problem is that large financial institutions have somehow ingrained themselves in society in such a way that they bring us all down when they fail, and so society would _have_ to bail them out. It is an ingenious stragegy - by aligning failure with the downfall of many others, these large financial institutions gets the protection they don't deserve. I wish it was me who was reaping the benefits, but unfortunately, being a "commoner", that aint so.
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You need to know very little of this actually.

EDIT: I will expand on this a bit.

First, the real question you need to know, is, who owns the building your servers will be in? Lots of people claiming to have datacenters are actually renting from someone else, or even sub-leasing from somewhere else, putting you 2 places away from the owner. As much as possible, get into a situation where your monthly payments go directly to the true datacenter owner.

Second, what about the network? Rather than engage in a lot of hand-waving, just find out who they are directly connected to.

Third, do they have both UPS and diesel genset backup for your power? If you are able to physically visit the place, have them show you the physical stuff.

Ignore the "Tier" datacenter and "SAS70" crap, Tier X != reliability and SAS70 is a load of BS (CPAs trying to soak up some consulting dollars - yes, an SAS70 report can only be prepared by a CPA firm...)
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I couldnt agree more, setting up Bike on every other server gives you the same maintenance headache(perhaps a little simpler) as having a version of phpMyAdmin on each.

I just yesterday wrote a blogpost about tunneling mysql and using a locally hosted phpMyAdmin for those needs. That will give you the benefit of having phpMyAdmin at one place and you'll be motivated to keep that updated and properly configured.
http://text.krona.tm/post/25982176151/using-phpmyadmin-witho...
Yes, I am telling you that.

What stops them?

How about :-

The multilateral complexity of negotiating the removal those pieces that aren't desirable anymore from those that are

The massive number of directives that have been issued under the auspices of said treaties that have to be reconsidered

The lack of political will

The need to recreate the political sentiments active in Europe in the '50s

The necessity for every European state to ratify said rewritten treaties in their parliaments

We're talking about disentangling tens of thousands of pieces of legislation and policy from the last fifty years, at both national and international level.

Honestly, it would be easier to progress to full federalism or just ditch the whole thing, than try to edit the EU and achieve any kind of systemic consistency at the end of it.
Some have suggested that the problem was when the quotes were timestamped.

http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/FlashCrashAnalysis_NBBO.html

I don't really understand how you could abuse an exchange through quote stuffing - I've heard(and it seems reasonable to me) that they would use round robin queues to protect from exactly this sort of thing.
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So, what's the consensus regarding colo vs. the cloud? I've enjoyed walking through rows of colo'd equipment, both as a security guard and as a technology professional. There's a lot of romance to it.

It also seems that we've entered an era where you're a fool if you colo a lean startup. Is there a best practice, book, really good blog post, etc that helps one determine when it makes sense to colo vs just spinning up more Heroku dynos?
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Uh, where do you think we can get more mathematical talent from? At the end of the day, there's only so many people at the right end of the bell curve.
Spot on, gnaritas. Karl Popper wouldn't change a word in your reasoning.
> More often though it's "good grammar in a non-standard dialect."

Exactly! I wrote a blog post about this: http://kuznetsverve.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/what-is-grammat...
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I pretty much stopped looking at his advice when he said he went to HE. If you create selection criteria where HE passes, the problem is with your criteria.
Agreed. And in the "what matters most" question they didn't include anything about making something useful for the customer, users, world, society, etc. Doing something meaningful is the most important factor to me.
"It boggles my mind that this is apparently a big question for techies and, to me, is a perfect example of the Silicon Valley mindset that doesn't understand how to build products that real people want to use.

"The short answer is that OpenID is the worst possible 'solution' I have ever seen in my entire life to a problem that most people don't really have. That's what's 'wrong' with it."

http://www.quora.com/OpenID/What-s-wrong-with-OpenID/answer/...

The real question is why these guys didn't let you signup with Facebook.
There is also power factor, as well as surge capacity.
What's generally meant by the mind being separate from the body is that the idea that we control our bodies by thinking is actually an illusion. The way Buddhists know this is that in the body starts controlling itself without any input from the mind, something you can experience relatively easily from meditating. It only took me about 6 or 7 days to achieve the beginnings of this. (Scared the crap out of me, but it was insanely cool at the same time.)
This kind of reinforces my belief that Dropbox is merely a segway toward a more private, decentralized (self-hosted), cloud-based filesystem.

How is Dropbox ever going to stay relevant in the future if they go around telling people what they can and can't store in their directories?
How would this be better than what we have now? Right now stocks already go to the highest bidder - if there is a seller willing to sell at that price. how would you run an auction if there are 40 firms trying to sell the same stock?

The ad market is well suited towards auctions because you have one seller for many buyers, but in finance you have a symmetric relationship between buyers and sellers.
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If you have entire schools or districts signing up for your product, Clever is a great fit. We build co-branded signup forms for developers like yourselves, which make the account setup process dead simple for schools.

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Yeah, luckily, the guy I’m working with is quite good about testing. If that weren’t the case, then I’d have a different opinion…
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