skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I questioned the same thing, but he answered with "the list might have millions of items".

Java isn't my strong point but I struggled to think how it might be an issue. Interviews aren't the place to possibly end up making the interviewer look foolish. I just let it go.

If I was working with him I'd say "Show me". As I'm still curious as to whether it makes any difference. Wasn't the point though, Big-O still doesn't care about the implementation.
Great work, this is awesome. I just used it to check out my site: http://dfcb.github.com/Responsivator/?site=http://flipmeme.c...
Feedback sent. I preferred #141 & #118 as they show the different sports. To me, it makes it a bit more obvious what you do.
Other.

I'm a freelancer, and most of my work comes via referrals now. Not always, but it's been the case for the past few years.

Wasn't much different back when I was looking for full time work though. Even though I only worked for 2 companies, I use to get interviews through referrals, or through past colleagues that left and wanted me to come aboard.
Personally I would prefer a reverse set-up, post everything to my own site, automatically re-post to big players of my choosing.
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Sure, let's isolate LGBT youth even further by making them avoid Facebook entirely.
I've always used Ctrl-[. It's there in all Vim installs, doesn't conflict with anything else that I know of, and is a quick, no-glance pinky shift for both hands (assuming you remap your Capslock to Control). Edit: Ninja'd by top-level comment!
>> Everything is data at the end of the day.

But you have to interpret the data within the context of the business need/requirement.

Building a credit risk model is vastly different from building a (personal) insolvency/bankruptcy model though both may entail the same set of steps in developing the model. The variables that make it to the model depend on the business need.

In kaggle, one of the datasets that I messed around with had variable labels as Var_1, Var_2, ..., Var_X. So while fitting a model, I would not know why a particular variable made it into the model. You can see that this kind of variable labeling does not give me any insight into how that variable was generated. I need to know whether the variable was raw/aggregated/transformed etc. And that takes you back to understanding the data in the context of the business/domain.
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Agreed...do you have any idea how effective the big job boards are? In my experience (one post for a somewhat weird job), we didn't get any hits from the big boards.

Is there any sort of public reporting/metrics for the effectiveness of these boards, or do people use them because every other company does so it seems necessary to compete for candidates?
>You're saying kaggle is fundamentally different to what data scientists do

Yes. Your view of data science is extremely narrow, there is more to it than creating a predictive model to optimize a single metric. Reread the second paragraph of my first comment.
I've been working in the same place for 11 years now! I know it's startling but it's a pretty sweet place and I've moved myself up through the ranks so-to-speak. I have perused a few jobs on Stackoverflow careers a few times but never applied. They tend to have pretty decent places with interesting work.
> I post it to HN every month but it never gets more than a few votes...

I can't imagine that in-depth scientific articles would garner much interest from hackers. You might be better off with technology-oriented pieces.
No way can I agree with that. Indeed, the "cool" thing for the time being is to NOT be on Facebook.
Is there anything inherently wrong with ARM servers that give you legitimate reason to immediately balk at the suggestion? As far as I can tell, ARM servers are no less reliable or speedy as x86 servers. They just cost less to own and run. In fact, there's already a sizable precedence of ARM server clusters like EC2 (and including EC2). See:

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/arm

[2] http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-releases-EC...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/your-v...

[4] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5N...
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In the context of what actually happened in the article (did you read it?), your advice amounts to "If there is anything about you that needs to be private, don't have an online presence."
Holy wow. I expect that from Chrome, which is basically spyware, but not from Firefox.
Alternativeto.net is one implementation for software. For example http://alternativeto.net/software/google-tasks/
I've noticed it depends on the type of company too. For example, startups tend to be comfortable with remote working arrangements and paying a better rate, while traditional big companies and/or agencies of many sizes want your ass in their seat and paying you as little as possible.

We recently opened up the beta of matchist (http://matchist.com) to help those freelancer web/mobile developers out there looking for quality work (at quality wages) find it.
I still think we're misunderstanding each other. I think:

"Hey you are a shitty coder trying to destroy our business" is analogous to saying "hey you're being sexist".

"Did you know that, when you make the site crash because you're testing code in production, we lose users because they're frustrated about our uptime?" is analogous to "hey look, that is uncool, it undermines the women here, and comes off a bit piggish".

All I'm saying is that I don't think the author is intentionally being sexist. I really think he wants there to be equality. An I think that throwing around loaded phrases doesn't help anyone, but puts them on the defensive, and underlying a lot of the author's position is him reacting to the connotations of the term sexism, and that is interfering with his ability to understand privilege.

As much as it seems silly, people's fears and emotional state matter in this sort of discussion, on all sides. We have to be willing to work within that to accomplish anything. It is why terms for various racial and ethnic groups change a lot - the old terms get loaded with connotations and misconceptions, and we have to move to a neutral term to have rational discussions. There's an apocryphal tale of some pollster asking "do think we should increase welfare" and getting an overwhelming response of "no", but later in the poll asking "do you think we should help more people" and getting an overwhelming "yes". It's absurd, but just a human nature thing.
Thanks for mentioning loved.by. I had never heard of them. AFAIK the Referly team started working on the idea about two years ago about when loved.by first debuted.

I think Refer.ly could work if they add enough value to the end user by aggregating every imaginable affiliate service into one and offering some sort of easy to understand and consistent metrics across all of them.
> Most importantly, his opinion was NOT silenced.

Well, /he/ is not silenced, but definitely the next thoughtful persons will likely decide to keep silent.

In a very brief skimming of this topic, I noted even tweets dragging his employer (and by extension his livelihood) into this, which imo is likely the real reason for his departure from tweeter.

The fact is that there are dissenting views on this topic by well meaning and civilized humans.
It seems like it would be simple enough to convert a video into an image like these by isolating a single column of pixels from each frame and putting them together chronologically.
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Elige tu talla según el volumen de menstruación y el color, según tu gusto.

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I've found Santander to be absolutely ghastly as soon as any exceptions to their core process occur. Anecdotal, but in my opinion you're probably better off avoiding them anyway.
And here I thought Bank Of America was crappy for sending me a letter about fraud on my Home Equity Line of Credit which I do not have. And I did check, I still don't have one, and have refinanced since then which would definitely have turned one up if someone had committed identity theft.
An interesting solution to this is a negative income tax. I am generally libertarian leaning but I do think a negative income tax would be way better than a big government that provides various services. It allows capital markets to work properly while still providing for those who really need it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
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I almost ended up in those statistics. The ropes of my chute got tangled up when it deployed. Thankfully they untangled in time :-) Got in on video too, ha ha.
I'd rather see complaints followed by improvements than to just throw in the towel.
I was at the hub for this discussion. Alexis is an awesome, down to earth guy, and had a lot of valuable wisdom to share on starting a company.
Were they all yelling "shut up, and play nice - please limit free speech"?

Or where the comments and the signs more "threatening" - like using words "violence" and "terrorism", even in quite innocent looking phrases?

I wasn't there, but my bet is on #2

What's the rhetoric - free speech and hurting someone feelings is bad, but threatening violence, maiming and killing people is fine?

Hey - if you don't like the movies DONT WATCH IT. Nobody is forcing no-one to go to youtube. The movie is bad and didn't catch a lot of attention since its upload in JUNE. Yet suddenly everyone is in a frenzy about it. Coincidence?

Free speech is indeed in danger in Europe.
I don't think Laura dismissed anything, she just pointed out that the problem is not as universal as some make it out to be. The response by KS to me boiled down to "just wait, it'll happen to you, too", essentially claiming that it does effect everyone after all.

I intend in no way to diminish KS' personal experience, it just seemed odd as a response (to me anyway).

To put it into an extreme example: I think it must be possible to say "I have never been raped" without being accused of claiming that nobody has ever been raped.
The study I linked to is absolutely not a "narrow experiment" - it's the largest and most thoroughgoing study of its kind ever done. The study you're linking to, by contrast, is a narrow experiment, is more than three years old, and has been superseded by new data. It'd probably be worth actually reading the link I gave.
The solution is to this is to build, as I was asked to design once in a job interview at a major tech company(!) a communal dossier that collects sighting reports and tracks the movements and details of these people, and see how they react to a site like whereiseric.com that shares his life details with us as much as Google snarfs our details.
>> Master keys are the very definition of "security through obscurity".

Not really. A key is like a physical password. Security by obscurity is "I'm betting you don't know what kind of lock/encryption I'm using." Legitimate security is "I won't give you my key/reveal my password."

Just because there's a secret doesn't mean you're Doing it Wrong. "Something you know" is a valid authentication factor.
Funny that you switch gears and talk about ethics after basically saying it's much cheaper to steal than to buy products and actually support the people making your entertainment.
To be fair, Einstein addresses his inexperience in the field of economics in the first few paragraphs, and argues that the "[facts deriving from the science of economics] belong to [Veblen's "predatory" phase, i.e. capitalism] and even such laws as we can derive from them are not applicable to other phases. Since the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development, economic science in its present state can throw little light on the socialist society of the future."

In other words, he claims that a lack of expertise in economics translates into an inability to describe the rules of a capitalist state, but not an inability to describe the resulting observable socioeconomic effects.
Interesting. How does PostgreSQL with hstore compare to a dedicated key-value data store?
We just bounced this idea around a bit while launching the beta of matchist (http://matchist.com).

The way I see it, every email is an opportunity for feedback and I like to make it as easy as possible for customers to give us feedback. So we've started sending all our emails from founders at matchist dot com, so if they reply, they'll actually reach us.

I also think the "no-reply" thing is very impersonal. I personally HATE when I read emails that say "DON'T REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. IT GOES TO AN UNMONITORED BOX AND HONESTLY, WE REALLY DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY NOR DO WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR WHINING."
I'm going to diverge a moment here as say that it's incredibly difficult to prevent big budget software from leaking. When you have hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals involved in the process, some of which who inevitably just won't care about the franchise or value "internet" cred more than keeping the game a secret, you're in a hard place. Putting more internal controls in can drastically slow things down and get in people's ways, and it can build ire when people feel like they're being treated like irresponsible children instead of employees. Then once you start gearing up CD production... You've introduced thousands of underpaid laborers who probably don't really care about your franchise.

Back on point, you can absolutely blame people for playing the game and then maliciously attempting to spoil the ending for others. Pirating is not a passive action. Some people believe information wants to be free, but since my pay is dependent on information/software as currency, I'm not about to subscribe to that ideology. Since I like the products that have come about from people willing to pay for information, I'm not going to evade paying the creators.
Any tips for new grads? Currently in my last semester of undergrad.
That's an excellent starting point to explain why we shouldn't accept encryption that has backdoors.
I just remapped Caps Lock as Escape. I use Escape a lot between tmux with vim modes, bash, and vim itself. I do this in OSX and for the linux console and X11.
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Not in the US of A.

About 1.75 centuries elapsed between 1776 (when the US said a farewell to kings) and 1958 (when the predecessor committee was established). I guess science in the United States just progressed without non-scientific scrutiny during that time.

At least for the topic at hand.
Ask HN: Is it me, or is this very stupid?
For some (entirely irrational, I'm sure) reason, the idea of constant and automatic deployment of my dotfiles across all my boxes gives me the shivers. I like that extra bit of control I get from doing it with a git repo.
This is a feature. If an email newsletter doesn't have a functioning opt out (one that works with email address forwarding , I must add), the sender is not a good internet citizen.
My comment was not directed at any particular group. I do not believe that Facebook is a net positive and believe it should be avoided.
Never. We need to communicate. As 37 Signals say, your startup is known by the amount of responses it give to people. Engage your customers, where they are and in what way or by which medium or mail they want to reach.
I'm not sure I understand how this hack my workflow. Some of them are neat life hack enablers, but my workflow doesn't actually depend on the weather, nor on how many emails I've send or received...

Quicksilver is the only tool on this list that seems to directly relate to workflow.
Right, there's a difference between tolerance and embedding it in your community's culture.
It's a standard feature on e.g. Adobe After Effects. I hope someone will do it!
> maybe could be done using a headless browser to take screenshots?

Or more simply, pass the request through a proxy which sets the right user agent.
Disappointed that it didn't do that?
Well, capitalism, which is about fostering competition, has led to faster progress than the alternatives (assigning duties to specific people - communism or dictatorship).
Opening speeds vary a lot, some are very hard and some are very soft. It's dependent on a lot of variables, with a lot of randomness thrown in. You probably just had the fortune of having a hard one. :)
You're right. When the parachute deployed the jerk was unlike anything I ever experienced. The straps around my thighs rammed the loose-fit jeans against my thighs and the thicker stiched part of the jeans made for a few blue "souveneers" on my skin.
Got this using Safari 6.0 on OSX too
Does it come close to the advertised performance efficiency of BigTable? HBase is a resource hog, often blamed on the unoptimized Java of the Hadoop stack.
Oh, but it's so delicious! Meat almost like charcoal, become what born to be, broken to amino acids by fire outside my stomach! The efficiency!

Denatured--red in only claw...ahh...
I guess I use the term "workflow" more loosely than some. I consider keeping on top of my finances to be a workflow. Same with following my app sales, etc.

I agree that Dark Sky is the loosest relation, but if I know it's raining, it prevents me from doubling back to grab an umbrella, which used to happen to me all the time.
Flagging is the extreme version of a downvote. Rather than expressing the uselessness of a post, it expresses the need for the post to be reviewed by a moderator (removed from the site altogether, reworded headline, merged with another article). Generally it's used on articles that are obvious troll articles, completely illegitimate articles, or highly inaccurate headlines.
I'm very surprised that they are "corrupting" files. I don't disbelieve you, but I'd be very interested to read some more about that.

I thought they'd learnt their lessons from the "Tree of Evil bares bitter fruit" thing.

This 1985 article mentions the tree of evil string. It also mentions MS thinking about dropping copy protection on some software to help get more market share. Kind of scummy behaviour, in my opinion.

(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OC8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&#...)

(Oh Google, your funny URLs.)

This PDF also talks about the psychological tactic:

(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-20.pdf) (on page 417).

I seem to remember people actually losing data to this, but perhaps my memory is faulty.
As soon as I hit reply I felt ill. You're right of course. I recall reading about the origins of the plate tectonics and the experiences of women trying to make careers in academic geology in the 1970s. Those women experienced explicit sexism, being told that women don't have a place in geology departments. Those women were certainly playing on "hard mode".

But I still can't believe that it's useful to apply this concept to everyone on a society wide basis. It just seems like too wide a net. The world is more complicated than that.
Currently the customer drive their own traffic (via the guides on the website). Mechanical turk is something I've thought about, but it's not really an accurate representation of a wide market, so I'm not sure the results would have much value.
I'll second that. We had a mortgage with them for a while and the general impression was one of a constant state of chaos and incompetence.
I've also seen setups that somehow let Caps Lock work as Ctrl when used as a modifier key, and Esc when used regularly.
Ask HN: How to cheaply print cards with different qrcodes?
Hello, my startup use some cards to recognize the customers of our customers. In these cards we must have a different qrcode for each of them.

Currently it is quite expensive to print all these cards.

Do you know any place where I can do this printintg cheap? (I'm in Brasil, but depending on price I can import them)

May you help me think in another approach for this? Maybe making our customers pay for the cards, or a different tech approach.

We use qrcodes because it is easy to be recognized in tablets that we provide to our customers.
Why not just give all data (or as much as you can afford to) to the data scientist and let them figure it all out.
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Slightly off topic but I bank with Natwest.com and I have gone to their homepage today and am AMAZED as to what I saw.

If you navigate to their homepage - in prime view you'll see a section that says:

"Great ideas come from great conversations"

Under this is feedback from customer - 90% of the feedback is incredibly negative. For example:

""Tell your customers the truth how bad a silver account is. Premium numbers to contact and register, cannot register mobiles for ..."

"Natwest is an embarassment, you have lost a customer for life".

This just sums up how out of touch banks are today with the internet. Don't advertise this sort of feedback! Especially on a homepage! What are they thinking?
Yup. Logging in to NatWest requires that you know your customer number, 3 numbers from a login PIN and 3 letters from a password.

They do use 2-factor authorisation for any new payees, so it's not totally insecure.

On the other hand, their recent 'get cash from the nearest ATM with a code we send to your phone if you've lost your wallet' app was soundly compromised by criminal gangs within days, and the service had to be pulled entirely. They're still advertising it on the homepage, but when you click through it says "We're sorry. Get Cash is not available at the moment. We are currently updating this service to increase the level of security around it."

Reading the blurb for the Get Cash service made a likely compromise route immediately obvious to me: it seems very likely that anyone who's had sight of your debit card could register an arbitrary phone & extract cash from your account, because the only details needed to verify your phone were on the card, or easily guessable (NatWest customer numbers are extremely predictable unfortunately).

If there was anyone obviously better I'd be dumping NatWest, but it's not obvious that any of the other major banks are much of an improvement :(
Same, which is why I git repo them as well. It's mostly a nice way to keep a few bits of code in check, plus handy for quick private repos without needing all the nice stuff from GitHub/BitBucket.
Slit scan photography has been used artistically before:
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/belden-adams.php (the picture of the runner and the cyclist is nicely mindbending)

And pretty much everyone here would be familiar with a couple of artistic uses of slit-scan photography - the opening credits of Doctor Who ( http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A907544 ) and the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I meant that you have to hit an extra key to actually make use of the mode's default bindings.
Mostly yes, but "writing production grade software" is the distinction that separates the fast and loose ad hockey Data Science team from the Engineering team.