skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still can't make a profile with the name of your business. And I could be wrong but I checked this morning and I didn't see any way to add a "Google for business" account to my existing G+ account, so I would need to create and manage two profiles with the same name: my old one for "personal" stuff and a new one for the new G+ for Business features.
With MongoDB, you are able to shard your system. This means you can grow your databases horizontally. This is not something you can easily (or cheaply) do in the world of RDBMS. You will see much better scalability with MongoDB than with something like MySQL.
It was earth-centric due to budget cuts, so that wasn't really under their control.
If you feel the need to leave an interview early it's best to do it in the least rude manner possible. Unfortunately, someone is bound to see whatever you do as rude to some degree, so be kind, and courteous, honest and polite.

Explain to the most senior participant possible (such as the hiring manager) or barring that someone from HR why you are calling it off early. Don't get huffy and spew on the staff as that's needless.

Culture mismatches may not be obvious to young inexperienced staff, but to management it's an obvious red flag for team work. And it's management's job to keep the team highly functional so they will thank you for your honesty.
This article is not very enlightening. It: doesn't address any of the claims; views the jury decision as if it were the final adjudication rather than something that will be appealed and likely modified; quotes Apple rumor website commenters.
Issue spotter: I think we've got him on trespass to a protected computer system used in interstate commerce, common law fraud, and theft of services. What other crimes did he just admit to that I missed? (We'll ignore that he hacked a computer while on an airplane, a detail which I would not expect the government to be neutral about.)

Seriously, kids: this is an astoundingly bad idea.
If I can't write code during an interview, neither can I coordinate a staged release of a fix I just wrote during a 3 AM outage. That shouldn't have happened but sometimes it does; pressure isn't always artificial.
How do you intend to handle legal matters? News sites fiercely defend their content so if I make a haxxly of CNN news site and remove all ads would you be liable and forced to remove that haxxly site?
You're creating a false dichotomy here. No one is saying you should go around 'asslicking' as you so colorfully put it, no one is even saying you should be sucking up to them, just be polite.

But are you seriously condemning being polite? Just be a decent human being, don't act like you're better than everyone while ditching an interview.
I have a corp account and a personal account. What I do is make two different pictures for my avatar: I use one avatar of me for my Google-internal account, and a different avatar for external use. Then I can just look up and see which picture of me it is, and I instantly know whether I'm on corp vs. personal.
That's not a correct solution. Try using that solution to find pi to 2 decimal places (delta of 0.005) and you'll wind up with 3.139..

A solution to this is looking at the distance from the current sum to the "boundary":

abs(round(sum, 5) - sum) > next_term

which works because this is an alternating series.
"[getting] mixed content issues worked out" seems like such an incredibly weak signal to determine whether someone is trustworthy "with the security of my money". Is this really the best tool you have available to decide whether to trust or not?
37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady
Depending on who you are, this advice can be anything from perfect to the worst possible thing you could try to do. I'm guessing that it is perfect advice for you, and it is not bad advice for me, but I know a lot of people for whom it is bad to truly terrible.

The issue is that we have to work with the limitations that come from the people we happen to be, not the people we wish we were. If something has happened during an interview that makes you actually angry, and you stay in a stressful situation for several hours following, it is extremely likely that your anger will come out in a bad way. If this is your situation then leaving, despite being bad, is the least harmful thing that you could do.

Yes, it is convenient not to get angry. Yes, it is wonderful to keep a professional face and pleasant demeanor no matter what may have happened in the interview. But we are humans. We have human limitations. If your limitations have been exceeded, the sooner you recognize and cope with that, the less likely you are to do something you will really regret. And getting space is one of the best techniques available to us. If that means leaving the interview, so be it.

Now you may agree and immediately say that this is a personal limitation that should be fixed ASAP. I strongly disagree. I recommend reading First, Break All The Rules. We're talking about a personality trait here. In adults, trying to change your personality is usually a lost cause. For most people it is FAR more effective to find ways to structure your environment so that you play to your strengths rather than your weaknesses.

So try to keep an even keel. Avoid argument. And if, in the stress of an interview, you get angry, try to get space. If need be, ask if you can have a few minutes alone in a room to collect your thoughts. But if you can't get that, and fear you'll do something you regret, you're probably right. In that situation, exiting the interview may be your best remaining option. (But note that best does not mean good.)
If the Facebook IPO ratchets down the breathless nonsensical exuberance in the funding landscape, I will personally like to shake Zuck's hand.

I'm also okay with people turning off from the "whole social media thing". Any reasonably savvy marketer has known for some time that social media advertising isn't worth anywhere the amount that heavy-intent advertising is worth (say, search engines). It's about time the public cottoned on to this.
I agree, though I would extend the call to more than just a programming journal.

All my life I've been told that keeping a journal would be a worthwhile and valuable experience. However, I could never stick with it for more than a few days or a week at max.

Cut to this summer, where I got my first "real" job, and made friends with a very cool guy[1]. At some point, he mentioned how he adapted the idea of journaling into his life. He had encountered the same issue I had, where he could never keep a journal for any amount of time. Instead, he bought a moleskine large notebook and began using it for notes of all kinds.

The genius is that while it is an organizational tool, it also acts as a "no-effort journal." He showed me all the things he had been working on and thinking about just by looking back at the previous pages of his notebook.

With his advice in mind, I have also started keeping a notebook just to write things down in. It's tremendously helpful for my own organization, and it gives me a clear view of all the things I've had on my mind.

In short, I recommend a notebook for everything in your life, not just programming (although a separate programming notebook may be worthwhile to you).

[1]http://adamryman.com
As far as online stuff goes, I can't recommend codeschool enough. Really kicking myself that I didn't contribute to their IOS Kickstarter (good excuse - I planned to yesterday but I forgot I was having surgery :)).

You really would do well to subscribe, bang through their javascript/coffeescript/git stuff and if rails/ruby intrigues you stay a while. Otherwise cancel your subscription (they are very rails-centric so there will be a continued focus on that I believe) and just go forth from there.

Not to throw conspiracies out there, but I think they are suspiciously un-emphasized here a lot because they are competitors of codecademy with a better product...
With TrustEgg you will be able to share the account with grandparents/aunts/uncles, etc and they can make deposits as well.
The only bridges that were burned were from the candidate to the company. In other words the company made the mistake. Not the candidate.

Having a blanket policy on not walking out of interviews is ridiculous. The manner in which one walks out makes all the difference. The rockstar you mentioned probably walked out the wrong way. Namely sulking, pouting and not saying anything. The right way is to be polite, clear and concise. It's exactly what the company does when they think it's not working out.

Think about this from an employer's perspective. Someone cutting the interview short actually piques my interest. This is especially true if they pass all the technical interviews. I'd probably follow-up with them and see if they were interested in contract or part-time work. On the other hand I don't look too highly upon candidates that just sit through all the interviews by default. I want someone who will speak up, be confident etc.
- A dissatisfied customer will tell 9-15 people about it. And approximately 13% of your dissatisfied customers will tell more than 20 people about their problem. Source: the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, Washington, DC.

- Happy customers who have their problems resolved will tell 4-6 people about their positive experience. Source: the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, Washington, DC.

http://www.customerservicemanager.com/customer-service-facts...
HTC has no intention of settling with Apple, says Co-founder
HTC Co-founder has said they have no intention of settling with Apple Inc.
and obviously, it wouldn't hurt to get a short-term programming gig to get going with stuff.
I actually respect more programmers who do other things on their spare time. Cooking, traveling, photographing, sports, volunteer work... Doing other things add knowledge, build character and improve your level of happiness.

It's important to be open-minded and possess a large array of skills. Specialization is overrated, an invention from industrial era. Ideally, everybody should be a da Vinci.
What are the optimal biases to overcome?
I'd like to know more too. Steve Yegge gave a data point about SREs in his recent liberal/conservative software rant: he said SREs are extremely conservative, and that he finds it normal given their duties. So it follows it's not a good position for a liberal dev.
You are framing this as a matter of personal ethics, rather than a business decision, so it's difficult to answer your question. You feel that Twitter did Tumblr and Instagram wrong. I tend to think that taking sides between two giants is dumb - the giants won't notice, but you'll get hurt.

If I had already built the Twitter functionality in, I would not preemptively rip it out, I would wait for them to shut that functionality off. Then I would raise a huge stink about it, get the name of the service in the news and maybe capture some Internet good will.

If I hadn't built Twitter functionality, I wouldn't spend any resources on building it until after launch.
Similar to my app also, submitted app to iOS App Store took 11 days to go in review, then took 17 days to be accepted to the app store.
While I agree with you, I believe this is partially due to legal pressure - companies can open themselves up to litigation if they give too much information.
There's a world of difference between saying "I'd use a laser to melt the metal" and actually perfecting the process to the extent that (a) the metal being deposited is adequately fused, (b) the metal underneath is not disturbed every time a new layer is added, (c) the over-shoot of the laser beams doesn't randomly melt holes elsewhere in the piece, (d) it works at all angles, and (e) concerns I can't even think of yet.

There are lots of scholarly articles about the laser process dating back to at least the 1990s. No patent would be granted today on the general idea. But if this research team invented a unique way to prevent any of the problems listed above (that nobody had thought of yet and solved a real problem --- maybe they flick the beams on and off in a particular pattern, or use different wavelengths in a novel way, or have a unique mounting system that swings the beams off the work more quickly, etc.) then it would be perfectly appropriate for them to obtain patent protection on that improvement.

As somebody said on a different HN patent thread, it's the difference between trying to patent a Star Trek "warp drive" today versus patenting the individual inventions that add up to an actual working warp drive. You'll be laughed out of the PTO if you file on "Step 1: Build a warp drive. Step 2: Profit." But if you can invent the technology to actually make it happen, you can get a patent even though the idea of "warp drive" dates back to 1960s (or earlier) SciFi.
I am guessing Google will be upset with him too when they get wind of this.
I'm much like you. But there are enough side projects at work to keep me challenged. In fact I am working on one now. It started as an idea I had a couple of months ago and it's grown into a team. I have another skunkworks project up my sleeve once this thing is in decent enough shape...
If one side can end interview half way, the other side can too. Don't see any problem of that.
I think the article might be exaggerating the success of the UK scheme. I am sure it was fairly successful when the government was giving kids money, but now it is just a tax exempt savings scheme (like children pay tax anyway) not sure it has made a difference.
OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns
I hope this succeeds. I have 2 kids , and my basement is full of gifts from birthdays past, that they will probably never use. Now bear in mind that these gifts are from relatives with great intentions. If instead of those gifts, my kids had received a contribution to their trust funds , I think that would have been more beneficial.
How is Lua to teach to 7-year olds? Any body has any experiences to share?
In a subsequent post about his current project and conservative vs liberal coding he seem to have mentioned it was not accidental.
In work I'm concerned with writing code my colleagues can maintain. Often the most sensible design decision is to use the technology stack my team mates and I already know. If everyone else uses Linux to write Python web apps I'd need a very good reason to write a Windows only GUI app in C#!

Five years from now, my employer's standard technology stack might be obsolete. If I only gain skills at work, my skill set would be obsolete too. This would harm my future career prospects.

Could an employer pay me enough that I'd give up my side projects, sabotaging my future career prospects? Probably, but it would have to be a lot of money.

Of course, I also maintain a healthy work/life balance and have hobbies that let me get away from the computer and meet other people. This is also important.
I'd be shocked if they can't add that in in < 100 lines of c# or whatever they use.

If Microsoft continues learn from their mistakes they will be very scary. Scary in a good way for once.
I'm not seeing how this is at all legally problematic. AFAICT there's no TOS violation, and if there were, TOS violations don't make it a crime. The user agent is totally discretionary on the part of the browser and price-discriminating based on one is in no way an access control mechanism.

It seems equivalent to saying "red computers get charged half price", and then objecting when someone snaps a red shell on their laptop.
I want a lot of things, but sometimes I just have to wait. I feel like piracy has spawned an entire generation that feels the same way you do: entitled.

I sell books as a side-business and I see it with college students especially. They demand things to be exactly their way or they threaten to complain or send me nasty emails.
Festal? ;)
If someone doesn't take care to make sure there are no mixed content errors, they may be less likely to take the care to make sure there are no other obvious security problems in their system, which handles money.
I understand the proof of concept is cool, but why do this? High speed Internet at 35k feet isn't worth $15 to you? You said yourself it was going to be a long flight. Why hussle them out of what is one beer on a plane?
Not sure what's less impressive. A pricing model based on browser headers, or a 10,000 word article on "hacking gogo inflight" based on changing a browser header.
Numeracy is the foundation for math. That is what we should be teaching kids. It makes it much easier to transition to more logic-intensive modes of analyisis later on.
Alasdair resigns as OpenIndiana Lead Dev.
This is definitely a cool trick, but the real problem with FB app privacy is that unless you completely disable the app platform on your account, any apps that your friends install can also see information about you.

Does it really matter how much you can limit your own apps, if anyone on your friends list can install any app and silently give away your information to some unknown third party without your knowledge or consent?
Pseudo-Liberals will pretend that they're 'all for' prostitution. They say it's a consenting act between adults and they make like it's a good and decent thing to do, because these people have shed their "inhibitions and sexual guilt after a religious upbringing" - like it's something to be praised

I wonder how many liberals would marry a prostitute/support their daughter or son's prostitution 'career'/would turn to prostitution themselves.

> This represents a tiny percentage of all the people in the world who have sex for money

Highly dubious about your statement here. You/we have no way of confirming such a statement.
Lift launches to help you accomplish anything
Fun trivia: the Keith Winstein that authored this article (in 2005) is the same one that is now lead developer on mosh (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819382)
Yeah well it doesn't take 2 months just to get a response on iOS. There's a huge disparity between the review times.
I thought the "smoothing" was done entirely in software because my old genius mouse wheel behaviour changes according to firefox "smooth scrolling" setting.

It still seems weird to me that if the smooth (pixel-at-a-time) event is sent two-fingers scrolling fails while a mouse doesn't. The OS or the application is accepting pixel-at-a-time event and fails or succeeds regardless of the originating device (mouse, touchpad, wacom, etc.).
FreedomBox 0.1 released
This is not a gotcha. Any non-junior Java programmer knows the difference between == and equals. By the same argument one could say using arrays instead of ArrayList is a gotcha...
No one posting on HN or SO can claim they don't have enough time to do a full evakuation of an interviewex.
Hardly. The screen on Buxton's multi-touch tablet in '85 was capacitive!

The patent system is so broken.
..... but we are hackers and we like green fonts on black terminals.
From the sound of it he could have been more graceful about it. Speaking to the manager and thanking him instead of just walking out.

Maybe this guy is such a super genius that everybody will forgive him for being a socially ignorant ass. Those of us mere mortals though should probably learn to be at least a little considerate and not burn bridges wherever we go. People are not robots - they don't like being treated as such even if it is "logical."
This is really interesting. I've always thought there are a lot of opportunites in democratizing this sort of legal stuff.

Have you guys considered branching out into other types of trusts?
Without the ability to look at code you've written "on the job", side projects are the next best thing. Get a license for code you've written at previous employers and showcase that during the interview.
Inevitably I feel that Nokia and Microsoft are each other's only hope for survival in the mobile space.

That lack of differentiation is murderous for OEMs - this alone is a brick wall against OEM adoption. The fact that OEMs have to pay to install this thing onto their phones is also not going to sit well at all, not when the competition is free.

The fact that it's a superior consumer experience won't matter at all.

Microsoft inevitably will have to start building their own devices a la the Lumia series, except they will have to really step up the game a lot more than they have so far. If I were MS I'd eliminate Nokia from the experience branding - their name would be on the box, but every slice of the out-of-box experience needs to scream Microsoft, and it needs to be comprehensively end-to-end. You use the Nokia name to make the sale, but the software should be 100% MS.

And for fuck's sake, they need to get their act together on the marketing front. We've seen precious little marketing for WinPhone, and worse, the little we've seen has been completely flat on its face.
I've learned to keep a log of all the work I do (so I can search for information on request or if I want to recall something months or even years later), but I just use a specially formatted vim file (that has references to other scripts etc. if needed). More recently I've started a personal version of this to keep me on track with my own app projects. I love the look'n'feel of a physical journal, but it's just not practical in the long run for the work I do.
> At the height of his fame, he refused a million-dollar award for his work. Then he disappeared. Our writer hunts him down on the streets of St. Petersburg.

I hate to break this to you, but this doesn't reveal a defect in Perelman, but in you, the writer.

> I HAD NEVER BEEN ON A STAKEOUT, but I knew how it was done. I took a book. I brought a few sandwiches. I flipped on the radio and listened to the traffic report in Russian. That kept me awake as I waited for the mathematician.

This is known as "stalking." It's illegal. No wonder Perelman thought you were a policeman.

> Perelman last gave an interview six years ago, shortly after a collective of Ph.D.s finished a three-year confirmation of his proof. Since then, the domestic and international press have harassed him into reclusion.

And? Explain to us how your stakeout differs in kind from the behavior you're decrying.

Based on this article, it seems that privacy is truly dead. As to the phrase "shattered genius" in the title, the shattering was at the hands of people violating this man's right to be left alone.
During a break go to the font desk and tell the receptionist, "I'm here today for an interview today, can I please ask to see someone from HR". Wait for the HR rep. "Hey, I spoke with the first couple interviewers and it seems like it won't be a good fit. I would hate to take the next interviewer's time". They will understand and everyone will be happy at the end.
Damaged as in mentally imbalanced or unstable. I've interviewed with people who fit that term.
Get a good job offer first. It'll be him asking you why you consider leaving. If the talk goes bad he suffers his own inflicted wound and perhaps will learn a lesson, while you land on your feet.
Wiper May have Links with DuQu, Stuxnet; Kaspersky Analysis Indicates
Totally agree.I wonder why Caltrain is inefficient at times.

What prevents Caltrain to do better in terms of keeping up with schedule? Also, there must be a way to keep fare reasonably cheaper than cost of driving a car to work.
To clarify, I'm certainly not approaching this from a personal ethics standpoint. It is I suppose a question of social service authentication elasticity. Will removing twitter at the outset significantly reduce my sign ups to the point that it would be smarter to deal with the repercussions of losing API access in the future? Or are most users not so sensitive to which service they use to sign up for something, such that if facebook is the only option, I can guarantee a consistent experience for all users going forward?