skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's public here:

http://developerauction.com/for_employers
We did elect at least one (a five-term congressman, representing Princeton, NJ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_D._Holt,_Jr.
Wouldn't Amazon stomp on you pretty quickly for this?
Ask HN: Why Do I keep freezing up on my technical tests?
I've started applying for jobs for the first time and I'm seem to not be doing well on any of my last/first two technical assessments.

The odd thing is their not hard, which makes it all the more confusing. I've never really programmed on a time limit before.
So when I took my first assessment test (1 hour long).On javascript/jquery its like none of the techniques I'd learned I bothered to use (object literals to structure my methods and properties, I didn't even use functions). I just started writing code, like to only prove I could get something to just work( the stuff you do when you'r learning a language for the first time).

My second assessment was even more puzzling, as the lesson I thought I learned from the first was to relax, ask a question (which they encourage me to do, but I stubbornly refuse to).
This test was 3-4 hours. Again these questions where things I was familiar with and had done dozens of times for my own projects. Yet I froze, I waited 30 minutes to ask for help on a slight syntax oversight, and once it was pointed out, I proceeded to solve the task in less then a minute. I'm not sure why I don't ask for help sooner, ( fear of not being thought of as an independent worker) I don't know.

The problem now is I have another interview lined up with a company that I'm excited to meet, and I've got virtually no confidence now. And I'm not sure what the take aways from the past ones are. In university it was usually I knew it, or didn't know it (study harder). Now I'm looking at stuff that I know that I know, because I've built things using them, but can't seemingly demonstrate it on the spot.
Want to be taken seriously? Use colors other than those adored by teenagers.

1. Your article is organized hierarchically, but without any indentation. The options for "grep" are pushed against the left margin along with grep itself. Then a new command is described, with the same indentation -- none. One would think you copied the article from somewhere else and lost the original's formatting.

2. Your white-on-black page has links that lead to black-on-white pages. Not for the faint of heart.

3. Visited links disappear because the "visited" link color was meant to be used with a white background.

I would go on, but reading your page is too painful.
Sorry, I'm looking for confirmation that they've booted a mainline kernel on it. Bonus points if the graphics chip is supported (I was confused, I thought it was on-die but it's not)
This is like trying to tell people to stop typing

cat file|program1|program2

instead of

program1 file|program2

It is futile. There are so many examples of programmers just doing mindlessly stupid things, often because "everyone else is doing it" or they read some "howto" they found somewhere, or they are using some library written by someone else.

How many times do you think people use extended regular expressions and backtracking when it's entirely unnecessary? They often have no idea that there is even a simpler way that will work (in some cases it might be faster). They think more complexity is actually making things "easier". Must have PCRE. Why? "Because I can't get basic regex to do what I want."

Let 'em enjoy their complex regex. Until there's a problem and they have to try to decipher what they heck it's actually doing.

PEG is fine. Lua has a good PEG library.

Still, a good handle on basic regex will take you a long way.
Note that Pagerduty also has a $9 per month plan (up to 3 users), aiming at startups...
I am afraid that unless Google is compelling people to accept a deal by force, that using a good bargaining position is just the free market at work.
I am a Wikipedian. So I immediately noticed that the Wikipedia article you kindly recommended has been flagged for revision for a year. I dig into its sources and note it largely reflects the official view of the Singapore government, which, as the thread has already noted, is not fully democratic. Anyway, the article SUPPORTS my claim that the generation in Singapore that grew up when I grew up mostly didn't speak the language of school instruction at home and came from such a diverse language background that there was no spoken language that was a majority (rather than plurality) language for school pupils in Singapore.

Because I am a Wikipedian, I don't rely on Wikipedia to tell me things that I know more thoroughly from better sources, including but not limited to personal experience. I speak Chinese (the four Sinitic languages Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Hakka), and I can understand the jokes that people of differing Chinese ethnicities tell about people of other Chinese ethnicities. All I can say is that if you think "Chinese" is one ethnic group practically or for purposes of educational policy, you should have another think coming. Even in China itself that is an issue. By official Chinese government survey,

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/07/content_5812838...

barely more than half of the population in China is even conversant in the national standard language.

So thank you for your suggestion. My suggestion is next time, please, do more than 10 seconds of research. You might learn something if you are open to more sources than just the University of Google.
It's a lot nicer, but I see switching technologies as being a formula: if the benefit minus the cost is greater than zero, switch. The benefits can be gigantic and it can still be better not to switch if the costs are high enough. Your bank still runs COBOL, after all.

Most of the people writing these articles are in the best places to switch: noodling on the side, between gigs, or they're students. They're not running an enterprise supporting millions of litigious customers on hundreds of servers running millions of lines of proprietary software that all depend on MySQL. It would be absolute lunacy to switch in that case; even if Postgres were twice as fast, used half the space and cut your costs in half, it would still be hard to justify the cost and danger.

I think Postgres is a lot better, and anybody for whom the equation justifies it should switch. But that isn't going to be everybody every time, and that's fine, because we should make these decisions rationally rather than because it's cool now or it looks like it will be fun.
i thought it said paperweight..because thats sure what it seems like
No, the issue is not conflicting SQL. An ORM solves that problem extremely easily.

It's the fact that query planners and performance optimizations implemented by each database are different, and thus directly porting your current schema and queries doesn't work.
He came to speak to my High School civics class in his first campaign for the House - very proud to say he represents my district.
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Very true, also, the computer isn't trying to trick you, stop blaming it and go look in the mirror, there is your adversary.
This is, of course, assuming, that the government is creating this law for the reason of solving crime and not for some special interests / lobbies.
So they think that people who work at medium to large corporations are better engineers than people who work at startups. Personally I've found the opposite to be true.
An interesting development in the tablet market, but hardly a new business strategy.

Cell phone companies have done this for years. Cheap iPhone + high monthly contracts with 2 year lock ins.

But before them, video game console companies did it. Sell console with razor thin margin (or in XBox's case, at a loss), and make it up by selling lots and lots of games.

But before them, Gillette (and others) perfected and honed the idea by practically giving away razors and then selling you the blades. I got a Mach 3 in the mail days before my 16th birthday (which is another story of amazing data mining in the 1990s), and they've hooked me into buying those stupid blades for the last 15 years.

Bezos is no idiot. He's applying well known business models to his market now that he knows he can achieve the necessary scale.
How could it be unethical? I could offer Ferrari $500 for their latest model -- they would would tell me to stick it where the sun don't shine, but it hardly makes the offer unethical. If I was Jay-Z, they'd probably accept my offer for the publicity value, which is what Google is hoping happens to them.
They have a hard problem. Looking for a job makes you less attractive, and there are a lot of people on the market who aren't qualified at all (non-Fizzbuzzers). They want to have only desirable applicants, which means they need to control quality (otherwise they'll get spammed) and the intention behind the exclusivity is rate-limiting, which makes a lot of sense, but I think they douched it up by focusing on the wrong things (school and company affiliation). That's especially bad now with all the MBA carpetbaggers in tech. Focusing on degrees and prestigious companies makes you (at least seem like) the wrong kind of people.

I would have made it Silicon Valley only: either you live there, or you'll move there. (I'm in New York, so it might seem unusual that I'm suggesting excluding my city, but you need to limit inflow and that's the best way to do it, because job markets are pretty local. You add cities once you have traction and are looking to scale.)

Then I would have partnered with a company like Kaggle in order to get access to people who can actually code. I've met a lot of mediocrities with prestigious resumes. One of the biggest problems with hiring is the number of people who have established a great connections <-> great jobs loop but don't know anything.
Given by his parents?
Just ordered the book, thanks!
Could it be that definition of edge of the solar system would change in such a way that Voyager would always be nearing its border?
To accept your statement that I'm "wrong," I'd need to see some examples of false business fronts that were not obviously bogus from day 1.

On eBay, yes, it was pretty easy to play the "Sell a bunch of stuff for 99 cents and then pull the big scam" game. But none of the widely-publicized cases where PayPal has basically attempted to wreck the lives of startup founders fall into that pattern. These people have all had independent web sites selling actual products, and/or a background in other ventures that could be checked if PayPal were to spend 5 minutes doing due diligence on them.
Of course I've heard of ORM.

Theoretical "Database independence" is easy to achieve: just follow the SQL standard. All your queries will execute. There's nothing java-specific about this at all. ORMs are extremely common across most languages.

Practical "Database independence" is very hard to achieve, because the query planners and performance optimizations differ between databases.
I recommend TonidoPlug. It runs debian squeeze and comes with complete ssh. You can also boot it directly from 2.5 inch SATA disk and install additional packages using apt.

It has good reviews in amazon as well: http://www.amazon.com/TonidoPlug-Network-Attached-Storage-Pe...
I was also wondering how many scientists run for political office. I have never heard of one (although maybe they don't advertise it loudly due to fear of a bias). I think a lot of it has to do with the amount of time and effort that goes into specialized knowledge. As a healthcare worker (not a scientist), politics is definitely looming over me, although on a daily basis I rarely if ever think about it. I don't think I could ever pursue both.
Interesting. This is the same chip that's used in the Netduinos. It's quite a step up from the Atmel chips used in most Arduinos but I can't quite find a use for one.
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Sending people to their emailclient would probably decrease conversion too much.
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Android has had turn-by-turn navigation at least since 2010. Having a GPS is irrelevant if you've got an Android.
Wouldn't getting around China's firewall mean that security is more, not less, important? I know that if I was in a country where the government could imprison me for what I read or write, I'd make double-certain my security is up to par.
Maybe he works for Apple, they're his main client or owns lots of stock or something.

The Apple worship is truly mind-boggling.

OpenStreetMap is where the crucial data comes from. And if I'm not mistaken it's submitted by volunteers.
Their value proposition is that you don't know how to identify the best candidates but you can outsource the problem to Developer Auction, which applies arbitrary criteria for you because as they admit, they also don't know.

Yeah, I don't get it either.
"but I think they douched it up by focusing on the wrong things (school and company affiliation). "

They focused on the right thing. The target audience isn't the startup that cares about getting the best people, just the ones with the best pedigrees. This would be perfect in finance.
At the risk of sounding like a hyprocrite since I just advocated for minimal validation of emails... that is a nonissue. Nobody actually does that.

Anyway, the regexp I use is /.+@.+\..+/ which supports the address you describe, but (usually) catches the relatively common mistake of user@yahoo,com
"They are attempting to create an artificial scarcity that promotes their idea of what a good dev is."

No. They are catering to a group of people who specifically care about pedigree. They are trying to replace the role of the recruiters who do the same thing.
Unfortunately, PayPal has reached the point in the market where it is truly useful. A merchant account solves one angle of the problem of finding a replacement for me - the other side is paying people, and I've been finding more and more lately that almost everyone I encounter or hang out with has a Paypal account - if I wanted to pay by CC, it's difficult - even most of my small business friends can't do this conveniently - but when I offer to settle up with someone by Paypal, they almost always have an account and it takes only a minute.

Square would solve the problem for many, but... would the average person carry around a hardware device so their friends can give them money by cell phone? Probably not.
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Maybe it's not that the founders don't understand convertible notes. Maybe they are taking the funding at a lower valuation because they're willing to gamble on the likelihood of a (big money, not acqui-hire) acquisition by Google later down the road is more likely.
Yes and no. Oddly enough, Oracle has owned the most important part of mysql (innodb) for years, so them buying the rest of it was almost a benefit to have it all under one roof. They then went on to put out a very good release (5.5) that didn't suffer from the "don't use it till its in the teens" birthing pains that most previous releases did.

The thing is, most of the improvements in that release were really the work of a bunch of companies that had given up getting their patches accepted upstream and were trading around and maintaining their own patchsets. "The Google patches", "The Facebook patches", and "The Percona patches", etc. Mysql/Oracle brought their long stagnant release up to where the rest of the community had already gotten.

The nice thing is that means its already been proven that if they go dark and just squat on a stale code base for years, its not actually going to hold anything back.

The two things they have done are raise prices, and stop providing source code for new unit tests. Neither is a good thing, but they're pretty trivial in the overall scheme of things.
I guess I'll stick with my v1 Kindle. The light seems nice but not worth giving up hardware buttons.
You're right, but the way they are lighting it is indeed different.
I don't think they actually are "elitist douchebags". I think they needed a filter and executed, in that dimension, poorly. I'm sure they'll get better over time. They had to come up with a filter and didn't focus on how it would come across.

I would have partnered with a company that already had peoples' code and some experience using it to find who the good coders are. My recruiting experiences with coding-test sites were not very positive (as with dating, the sites were fine, it's the needle-haystack problem because there were few good ones and they got lots of attention) but Kaggle (which focuses on data science) might have greener pastures.
or their infographics...
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This is fantastic. A must read, IMO.
I'd wager the overwhelming majority of the peanut gallery doesn't even understand Bayes, or how to be Bayesian, to even know what to do with science. They hear "theory" and immediately reject it, unaware of its status as a claim of certitude based on decades of observation that increased its probability of being correct toward 1 more than competing theories.

I've tried having conversations explaining Bayes, general probability, and its relationship to scientific theories. Almost always falls on deaf ears. People are incredibly horrible at math--and I don't even consider myself to be that great at it. Their failures at being good with understanding maths flows into being horrible at understanding science, especially that which involves mathematics as integral part of its probabilistic standing in relation to alternatives.
I was thinking this...so true!
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What is the first thing you need to innovate?
A credit card number would be hard to fake.

A scanned pic of govt id that matches a name would work too.
"I don't know why people defend PostgreSQL on this and aren't pushing for a more coherent, in-built solution."

I specifically said that I wasn't trying to make excuses, and that people are actively working on built-in multi-master replication.

I encourage you to keep pushing though. People have been finding weaknesses in postgres for a long time and those weaknesses have been disappearing quickly with releases delivered every year. All the while, some great innovations have been coming along that no other database has.

I've been involved in postgres for a long time and it's always interesting to think back on the way features have been demanded and then delivered. After multi-master, there will be another round of must-haves. But in the meantime, it's important to also work on new innovations that might ultimately be more important to the cloud use case than multi-master is.
Obviously there's not enough context here to figure out what happened, but from what's presented, I'd side with Re-invent.

I don't trust anyone who takes a screenshot of only two posts in what was almost certainly a long thread.

Another red flag is the assertion that 'my code doesn't need to be updated because it works on my local machine'.

I suspect good riddance.
I'm sure this is both true and reasonable for some companies that did notes with absurdly high caps earlier (which many have) and are now raising more money. Nothing to see here.
So is GV consistently approaching startups that are already being funded, i.e., making offers after the project has had a little time to mature?
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You're begging the false dichotomy here.

Insisting on personal liability for a corporate account is equivalent to denying the account to the corporation.

Bankers would prefer to have you sign away your first born children too (sounds like something out of Dickens). But we've made such practices illegal and there's no evidence that the money supply is suffering for it.
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Isn't common or even expected for founders and 1st round investors to get diluted by subsequent investment? This comes off to me looking like YC just doesn't want to get diluted, but that happens. Is that not the case?
A guy just left where I'm working to move down to the states. Makes around 2.5 times what he did here and gets extra benefits (apparently extra for living expenses and such).

I am considering checking out the states. I can always come back to BC later and earning some extra money would be good considering my loans. Job I have now isn't bad, low stress and 8-4 every day. pay is decent. Problem is that if I stayed here the pay would pretty much stay constant. Plus I hate living in northern BC.
Ironically the fifth paragraph has this to say regarding iTerm vs. Terminal... "The default green and black matrix color scheme is also much easier on the eyes than the black and white default of Terminal- though these settings are all customizable."
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@wamatt, agree regardless of the "why" PG's email feels petty, YCombinator and its way too many startups are jumping the shark
Dilution is usual and expected. A down round is different and worse. Please look it up.
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i got one of these when there was £100 cashback, meaning the total cost was about £130. I paid another £40 for 4gb of ECC ram so I could use it like a real server.

It's an excellent case design - there's a huge fan at the back pulling air over the 4 drive bays and my TB drives never go over about 25C. It's in a cupboard and unless I open the door it's totally silent.

From what I've seen of other NAS-style devices, it's pretty much unbeatable for value since it does all the same stuff but is ultimately a real, if basic, server.
This is actually a "first round investor" coming in later in the first round and asking for better terms then previous (maybe only days previous) investors got. It's not an additional round of investing.

Traditionally you'd give later investors higher valuations/caps/etc, particularly if you were at or approaching the magical amount of money you need point.
We just went through the process for the first time and landed right around 50%. Our claim was reviewed (this is typical for first time claimants), and while non-trivial the process was well-managed and clear. We did it ourselves instead of using a consultant, and they were very understanding of a few mistakes we made, helped us rectify them and sent us on our way. I don't know if this is typical, but I really can't complain; it seemed entirely fair given the dollars involved.
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