skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are ways to do biographical interviews which DO produce worthwhile results. Topgrading has examples of how to do this, and Aaron Patzer (the Mint guy) spoke about it -- basically you go through someone's resume and job/life history and ask why they made decisions at each step, which exposes most lies (due to inconsistency) and does reveal novel predictive information (even if a resume is relatively polished-for-application-purposes.). It's similar to the Israeli airport interview technique. http://fi.co/posts/599?target=Guadalajara is an apatzer video about the topic.

I'd argue you want both work sample (for technical competence) and the biographical interview (to determine provenance, likely future behavior, etc.), and then combine with some "see how the person works in real time" situational/performance/behavioral interview.

The interviews which are worthless are: technical interviews conducted by non-technical people, meandering style unplanned interviews, and "language trivia" interviews conducted by the marginally competent.

Essentially, interviews should be formal, measurable, and then tracked against performance.

I'd put some basic pre-screening at the top of the funnel if you have too many candidates. My personal first stage filter right now is "referred by someone I know and trust", which is a very selective filter, but at a larger company you can use a less selective filter.
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Does Watson 'learn'?
Your first line still rings true to me, it also reminds me of a quote.

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!” ― John Waters

Though I remember reading a much more eloquent version of that quote somewhere this is all google brought up.
2008, why didn't the patent office say this is basically Tivo? Is there really anything new here? It was filed in 2002, but Tivo (and diy copycats) were already out in 2000, iirc.
I think the best solution would be something like "Hope setproctitle() is available and use it".
You can easily read all of that in the public PAIR database, it's not hard to find.

Btw the wording did indeed survive, the patent as it stands is sufficiently broad to cover all pinch-to-zoom implementations on any kind of touchscreen.
Maybe because it landed her in Forbes?
I'm always puzzled when the Datomic folks speak of reads not being covered under a transaction. This is dangerous.

Here's the scenario, that in a conventional update-oriented store, is termed as a "lost update". "A" reads object.v1, "B" reads the same version, "B" adds a fact to the object making it v2, then "A" comes along and writes obj.v3 based on its own _stale_ knowledge of the object. In effect, it has clobbered what "B" wrote, because A's write came later and has become the latest version of the object. The fact that DAtomic's transactor serialized writes is meaningless because it doesn't take into account read dependency.

In other words, DAtomic gives you an equivalent of Read-committed or snapshot isolation, but not true serializability. I wouldn't use it for a banking transaction for sure. To fix it, DAtomic would need to add a test-and-set primitive to implement optimistic concurrency, so that a client can say, "process this write only if this condition is still true". Otherwise, two clients are only going to be talking past each other.
I'd love to know how this works: http://bookshelfporn.com/post/26256181298/upstairs-in-the-th...

I presume this is either a) pressed together like stones in arches are (therefore rendering the books inaccessible), or b) held in by hidden shelving, wire, magnets or magic. :D
And also the built in Tab Groups feature. (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + e)
This is a symptom of a very common problem in the startup world that even I am guilty of...not checking references!

This woman isn't a college graduate. She should have references.

This is how I use linked in: before hiring someone pull up their linked in profile and see if you have any mutual connections. Then reach out to those mutual connections privately and ask their opinion of the person. If its a sensitive hire you can say something like "Hey, I met XXX at a dinner party, couldn't really get a read on them, what do you think about them?"
I don't think being in financial dire straits is usually a reason for people to turn to crime anywhere in the world. Usually the "conversion" to criminal activities happens before they reach financial issues. The whole link between unemployment <-> crime does not make sense in most cases. There are many ways to survive before resorting to crime.
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zero will have argc == 0.
That answer was below the confidence threshold, so it just guessed, because it was final Jeopardy and it had nothing to lose at that point by guessing. For something like medical advice, AI tools like Watson are meant to be used by a domain expert, anyway. Even Starship Enterprise still had doctors...
Saying what needs to be said
This is a priority. The numbers are small today but they're growing and we can expect more HiDPI machines from Apple in the not too far off future.
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"Good Design is Iterative" ? Nope, you reach good design by iteration, but once you reach that point there is not need to keep iterating.

If it's iterative then you never have a final design by definition, so how can you judge anything? You can just say "it's beta, it's not finished" to avoid criticism. That's the typical BS we hear from poor software developers all the time.
Exactly. My only thought is, why her only? I admire what the author wants to put forth, but why only expose a single person? Doesn't it almost seem like a vendetta? If this is a common practice, then there will be many more examples. A better way to approach this IMO would have been to have different examples and not focus exclusively on one single person.
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This is really pretty cool but I had a major issue not relating to the content but more about the goal. After spending about ten minutes navigating the "site" I still had no idea what this company was about or what it had to offer, I still don't really know quite frankly. I was so distracted by this really cool and novel concept that I didn't even bother to find out what the "point" was. That's a very serious problem.

Now if this is just a proof of concept then it worked, however it appeared as though there was a real company behind all of the distractions.

It's kind of funny really, as an indie game developer myself I find one of the hardest tasks to portray to the user is the "point" of the game so to speak, it's kind of cool to see what types of challenges this site and the developers are going to have to face.
Patents Are Worthwhile For Startups To Pursue In the US, But Not Abroad
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Thank you, didn't knew about that.
What happens to stolen bicycles? Seriously, what happens to them? This article doesn't begin to address the question within the first paragraph, and if they can't format their article properly I can't justify spending time reading it.
Non-linear control flow added to AS3 through a new 'goto' keyword.
Maybe check out Leaflet: http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/

It works with many different tile providers, including OSM.
Glad you shared this. I just got my first Android not too long ago and haven't hacked it yet, so it didn't occur to me that the modding community was achieving their goals by defeating Android's security model.

With F-Droid, if they were to just distribute preexisting APKs that correspond to free/open-source software — like your TextSecure APK — it sounds like it would have your signature on it, and updates wouldn't be a problem. But they compile the apps themselves to let you be "absolutely sure the binary package[..] is identical to the source". So ironically, they're actually adding a kind of security feature, and it is this that takes away your ability to provide updates (they might say by design, since you could otherwise push a closed-source update to their users).

Theoretically that problem could be avoided if you signed the source code, F-Droid distributed that, and any necessary compilation was done directly on the smartphone. I suppose this is impractical, but such a setup might work on Mozilla's forthcoming Firefox OS where all the apps are written in HTML5/JS. Just as long as you signed a non-minified copy of the code, it wouldn't be an issue.

On the other hand, I think the problem with updates, if we're continuing the F-Droid/Debian analogy, really comes down to how much you can trust the "distro". I use Ubuntu on my desktop and if there's (say) a Firefox vulnerability, the security update for that will come from, and be signed by, Ubuntu, not Mozilla. And it works because I trust Ubuntu. They monitor high-profile applications like Firefox and if a fix is needed, they'll ship it ASAP. Whereas, the F-Droid people were apparently not watching TextSecure closely enough, and either didn't notice there was a new release, or couldn't be bothered to update their copy in a timely manner. I'm not convinced their model is inherently insecure; it just requires I put my trust in them rather than in you (in this case perhaps a questionable decision).
I was totally expecting to see bootstrap ... heh.
We make it really easy for anyone to use 2FA. The reason 2FA is not popular is not because there aren't enough solutions out there, it's because all of them are basically really hard to use. Specially those that claim to be easy, they are the opposite.
Your program doesn't actually start executing at main(). It runs a bunch of code before it gets there, all of which is farther up the stack.
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That's ironic - I read the same article you did, and came away thinking that it was a puff piece on A16Z.

There are lots of negative things you can say about Ben, Marc and the others in the name of "Balance" - and other than saying "They are paying a lot for companies" (which isn't even an indictment on them, just a description of their strategy) - I didn't see it.

I'm surprised they didn't mention Instagram/PicPlz in the article, that was a bit of a stumble (though for honorable reasons)
I think you can turn an average coder into a good one. Just not a average / good one into a great one.
At a deeper level they are both pragmatic philosophers. They think at a high level but they are hands-on and have their feet firmly on ground realities. Inventing on principle is Bret Victor's contribution, but Rich Hickey surely lives it; and Hammock-Driven Development is Rich's notion, but there wouldn't be "Inventing on principle" without HDD on Bret's part. These two are awesome.
People tend to be more conservative about data than they are about the other parts of their stack -- probably for a good reason.

I don't think datomic (or it's kin) will have that huge of an influence until years from now.
If they leak from a common pattern we've identified and fixed, you should be able to enable them and no longer have leaks. If you do continue to have leaks (you can watch in about:memory) then please report them to us so we can work with the authors to correct the problem. Thanks!
"Many of the jurors," you mean. A jurist is a judge or a legal scholar.
> A function can be inlined when the following constraints are met:

> ...

> * The function does not contain any activations

Does this mean that a function can't be inlined if it calls other functions?
This is a common misconception. You should read https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/29/debunking-a-....

(Forgive me for replying twice to your comment; this comment prompted me to go do some research and write that post.)
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You are incorrect -- datomic transactions can depend on the previous state of the DB, and prevent it from being modified from under it. To do this, you do the transaction in the transactor process.
Agreed, this doesn't surprise me at all these days. Even my dad has Google Alerts set up for his name, so I'd expect it to be pretty much a guaranteed given that most companies would have it set up for their trademarks.
Might want to post that to the issue tracker
Isn't it a bit late in the year to be introducing the "theme of 2012"?
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I almost wonder if the authors didn't read the analytic-rheumination hypothesis. Adding another thing to a depressed person's plate, and then hounding them when they don't do it, is exactly what they don't need.

> The addition of a facilitated physical activity intervention to usual care did not improve depression outcome or reduce use of antidepressants compared with usual care alone.

I wonder, did they think this was a good idea, or did they see no other way for the clinician to increase the incentive to do physical activity?

Any depressed entrepreneur out there: if you're thinking about exercise, do it! Outdoors if you can, but by any means, listen to Nike: just do it!
In my experience where this has happened (mostly, but not exclusively at larger companies) the following observations have been true...

Engineering staff have been hired with a range of work experience, i.e. some college hires, some self taught, some with industry background, any combination of the above - the (engineering) corporate culture grows organically as the team matures and works together

Marketing, BizDev, &c staff have been hired with significant industry experience, I don't know where they serve their apprenticeships, but it isn't here wherever here is - they bring a view of corporate culture with them from their previous experience, this doesn't seem to meld well with the growing culture on the engineering side.

I'm sure this isn't ubiquitous, but the tech industry seems to be very keen on nurturing engineers and, in a sense, taking a responsibility for the quality of the engineering community at large, but for other job functions is happy to be, for want of a better word, parasitic, relying on someone else to train those people, whether they be HR, Marketing, BizDev or whatever.
I feel the same, I could live under the stairs if I lived in NY.
This is a proper use of Quora: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/Is-Shirley-Hornstein-a-g...
Slight tangent: Forbes now takes contributor submissions which are (frequently) worthless fluff pieces, as is the one she is in. It's not by a Forbes staff member, I think they're really killing their branding with the contributor idea. Every time I see a forbes link now I have to make sure to check if it's just someone that applied to submit articles or actual Forbes staff.
It all sounded so AWESOME, up until...

Known issues:
Flex compilation is not supported.

So much for multi-threaded compiling. Pfff. I guess we will just wait until the open-source people do it, sometimes next year?
Which in its own way may lead some visitors to get an impression of your reading tastes too :-)

Oh I know, that is exactly what I meant. I fear the conclusions people might draw when the only reading material they see in my house are my girlfriend's Us Weeklys.
The big number change means we're breaking binary compatibility which does happen every 6 weeks now. The version isn't meaningful to most users these days but it does matter to developers who must adapt and adjust as Firefox progresses.
It's interesting to wonder if Intel went down the P4 path knowing AMD would follow them into oblivion. For years after Intel turned the ship around, AMD continued selling hot power hungry chips (now with 900 watts of power!).

Until very recently, AMD basically conceded the entire mobile market to Intel, which it turns out is also a profitable market to dominate.
This is actually an entirely new compiler written from scratch since 2010.

https://cwiki.apache.org/FLEX/falcon-overview.html
> If it were pg I'd understand, bit this is just sad.

Wat. pg photoshopping himself onto a photo with JT is less sad how?
Author here,

Cooked this up earlier this year just for kicks. It's been a side project since then, but it's fairly stable these days.

In fact, my team and I use it on a continuous basis now as we work on our real project (completely unrelated).

It's served us well; IRC serves a similar purpose, but we already use Gtalk heavily and find it more non-hacker friendly.

I'd love to hear feedback and suggestions!
For Jeopardy, they had to beat 2 champions in 3 seconds on a wide range of subjects. For a more specific topic or "good enough" answers, you would not need so much hardware. For example, they kept the whole database in 16TB of RAM!
So tech crunch is now officially the new ValleyWag? As one outside the valley circle-jerk I can't work out whether I'm laughing at this article or moderately disgusted by it.
people are idiots. the only reason someone like this makes it this far is because everyone else is stupid enough to believe her.
The hold up is that the person working on this has higher priorities. It is progressing. If you want to use it, move to the nightly channel.
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John Waters has written some great books--I read an autobiography of his years ago called Shock Value and some of its hilarity is still with me.
While I agree with this interpretation, here's an explicit quote from the OP:

"Even though most of the computations occur at the data center, a Watson smartphone application would still consume too much power for it to be practical today."
> a message appeared on his phone saying the AirPlay display couldn't be trusted

I got that when trying to mirror to my AppleTV when the TV wasn't set to the right input. Like eridius said, there is likely a problem with the HDCP protection being broken.
Because people here love the guy, regardless of his conspiracies about McDonalds franchises.
I think Datomic is potentially disruptive and represents some great thinking on the part of an individual. Whether it will be disruptive will hinge on how well that thinking has subsumed the years of industry experience and practicalities, not to forget the conservative approach to data. I'd be interested to see how it pans out.
Good tips. Specially comparison operators.

The fact Javascript has both "null" and "undefined" is not just a stupid idea, but might be the biggest source of stupid bugs. You need a long, repetitive construct everytime you check a variable:

if((typeof banana === "undefined") || (!banana)) {
banana = "banana";
}

But instead you see code like:

if(banana == null) {
...
}

Argh!
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Whatever happened to Digg?
By "poor" do you mean information poor, or plain?

I can't speak for everyone else, but in my experience the reference manual is quite complete, and Programming in Lua is perhaps one of the best technical books I've ever read when it comes to concision and clarity.
One of the big things I have come to conclude is that the best idea is one which is both scalable and doesn't need VC funding to get going. One can then take one's time, think about the drawbacks and benefits of VC money, and decide which is the right way to go.

I consider my business to be moving from self-employment mode to start-up mode, but I am not at all sure that I want to be a "start-up" in VC terms because this has a very specific meaning there. The meaning is "this is the stage before acquisition or IPO" and therefore it locks you into the VC exit strategy. I would like to be a start-up in the sense that W. L. Gore and Associates was in 1958....
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They don't have to. They have chosen to. Their policy may say they have to remove every video, but they chose the policy.
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I do use authorized_keys, though PAM is good for a lot more than just sshd; that's why I say it is more flexible. For example, I could see two factor authentication being used to log into shared workstations through XDM/GDM. This would eliminate the possibility that your users are sharing passwords for their accounts.

Also, the way I would intend on using this is such that if your public key is in authorized_keys, you log in like normal. If not, you authenticate with PAM using both your unix password (or ldap or whatever you have configured) and your 2nd authentication system. I log into one or two of my servers from strange computers often enough that disabling password authentication entirely on those servers is limiting.
There's a lesson this for me and my partners. Everything we publish to our investors should be written as if it will someday be published in Gawker. And every action we take in structuring our business, our relationships with our investors, and our relationships with the entrepreneurs we back should be conducted as if it will someday be published in Gawker.

This is nothing new. When I was studying political science in the early '90s it was called "the Washington Post Rule": a canny politician should never put anything in writing unless he would be comfortable seeing it on the front page of the Washington Post.

(Why the Post? Woodward and Bernstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_President%27s_Men I have to believe the rule goes back even further than that, but presumably before their time it was called something else.)
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I know a couple of people who live like that, they have a pretty spartan condo in San Francisco and then larger places out in Portola in one case and Morgan Hill in the other.

My thought is it sounds lovely, if you can afford to keep two places running :-( But maybe an AptBnB kind of thing, work apartment by the week or something.
Perhaps they are referring to speech recognition, which would either consume a lot of bandwidth being sent over the wire as audio or consume a lot of power to be processed on-device.
There already is too little money for courts (and the prisons the subsequent influx of prisoners are going to need), so where is it going to come from?

It's pointless, really, because if you honestly don't think that overincarceration is 'actually a problem', then you're so one-eyed that nothing I say will sway you.
I worked for a company that sells software to people who do this. Do some searching on "managed service provider".

You may also find MSPMentor (http://www.mspmentor.net/) interesting.
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Samsung could have asked for him to be excused. The fact they didn't means they thought his feelings/experience/whatever would be to their advantage. You roll the dice, sometimes you lose.
+1 for Haxe. One of the coolest projects happening right now, IMO. The community is awesome too. I'm just in love with it!
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I think Jun8 meant that photoshopping yourself onto a photo with pg is less pathetic than photoshopping yourself onto a photo with JT. pg = actually relevant to startups, and it's highly plausible for someone (especially someone working for YC companies) to meet him and potentially take a photo with him. I'd sort of assume some slight endorsement if a consultant 1) knew who pg was 2) met him and got a photo, whereas a photo with JT is just Hollywood celebrity namedropping. (Ashton Kutcher, who is a legitimate tech investor in his own right, is different)

(unless you were jokingly misunderstanding this for comedic effect)