skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grad schools look at GRT results, but usually only to make sure you didn't completely bomb the test.

You will not get into a top ten Economics grad programme without a perfect GRE Math score unless you are really impressive on some other metric. Neither (near) perfect grades nor undergraduate research of a high calibre will either. These are basically expected. To my knowledge Math and Physics have equivalent standards. These programmes (Top 10) graduate the majority of Ph.D.s in their fields. Within them it looks like GRE doesn't matter but that's because everyone there reaches a high minimum.

But GRE scores predict research productivity so they're definitely measuring something meaningful. Programmes that are less selective have worse outcomes. They're less rigourous than programmes that can assume greater ability and preparation of their students.

Many people love to hate on standardised tests but IQ tests and IQ test equivalents like the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, SAT etc. are the best predictor of workplace performance besides work sample tests. For the time investment involved they are absurdly effective. If you want to improve the usefulness of certifications like A+ you could just show percentile score rather than a simple Pass/Fail.

I regret that being on my phone renders me unable to provide citations but if you HNsearch tokenadult worksample tests you'll come up with sone relevant stuff.
lmao if you misread Smith
If you have a phone that you could manage to get by with for another few weeks, I'd wait for the Nexus 4.

If you really can't wait, there are still some good options. The S III is one of the best phones ever made. The Note II is just as nice as the Nexus 4 and the S III, but it might be too big for some people, myself included. Also, you might be able to find the Galaxy Nexus, which is the phone I currently use. The Google version is no longer for sale, but you might be able to find a brand new one on Ebay, or if you aren't comfortable with that, some of the wireless carriers might still be selling them.
Definitely brought back some great nostalgia :)
you can not please everyone. some users can give you a one star review simply because of a minor bug or missing feature.

do what is good for your business.
No if statements and a single, convoluted line: http://jsfiddle.net/P8Dr2/2/
HackPad is expanding its reach, maybe even to the White House
What Bravo's Start-ups:NYC Would Be Like
It's criminal because he disregarded traffic signals (I believe he recently pleasded guilty BTW). It's also negligent when he gets sued by the decedent's relatives in civil court.

That's not the app's fault, but it's not the only case where people have got into accidents because they were pursuing the status of fastest rider on a particular route. Where rewarding people (even intangibly) encourages them to push up against the limits of safety/legal restrictions, there's an argument for proximate causation, eg 'but for Appmaker's reward of an exclusive title (King of the Mountain) to the fastest cyclist on that stretch of road, Cyclist would not have habitually ridden at such high and dangerous speeds.'

It's not a million miles away from prosecuting people for organizing street racing: http://twitdoc.com/upload/onaccel/san-diego-illegal-street-r...
Maybe you aren't familiar with Vandy but I assure you - they are a highly respected university in the US. There is zero chance - none - that Vanderbilt University is creating a shadow puppet institute.

My brother and sis, who both went there, love to point out that it is called "The Harvard of the South"
Comparing Offline Store Visits to Offline on Black Friday
I didn't specifically prepare for my interview with Google. A quick poll of my office mates indicates that they didn't either. This might not be typical, but I don't think the OPs degree of interview preparation is necessary.

I've interviewed (and gotten offers from) Microsoft and Amazon as well. Their interviews were different (Microsoft asked more puzzle-type questions, Amazon was very OO-focused), but I didn't feel like the Google interview was substantially harder or easier.
I can't think of a specific example where I personally am concerned about it. As long as demand for a cloud service is real and profitable to serve, some entity will do it.

Data portability is only a problem with unproven services. If Facebook were to shut down, photo and data export services would immediately crop up.

I'm more concerned about the opposite scenario, where I own something and mismanage it, like losing my hard drive without backup, or having a disaster hit my car / house where I don't have the proper insurance.
I remember learning this trick, not sure where I learned it from but this particular snippet had a huge impact on me. I spent hours and hours playing with variations on this.
I'm founder and CEO of Shopify and I was trained via apprenticeship. Germany has the brilliant dual education system where apprenticeships have never ceased to exist and It's the true driver behind Germany's incredible performance recently. After 10th grade I left high shool and joined a company ( Siemens ) "full time" as a trainee. This means that 4 days of the week you work and 1 day you go to vocational school where you learn about CS fundamentals like compilers and algorithms. The program takes 3 years ( just like the rest of high school ).

It's true, you make almost no money, the work is hard, and you are at the bottom of the food chain but if you get a good placement you will never learn faster in your live. Trying to finish programming projects while also keeping everyone coordinated and cleaning the kitchens also does a great job of stuffing out the entitlement that so many people join the workforce with.

If you have any doubt about the merit of this style of education simply look at Germany. It's vastly superior and I'm raking my brain on how to reproduce this system in North America successfully.
I work with HTML emails all day long and it's awful. The short answer is this: remember, it's an email, not a full blown website. You should not have as much CSS as you're describing in your emails to begin with. The more CSS the more chances there are for it to break. Images and tables are the way to go and you'd be surprised at how creative you can get under those constraints and how beautiful the result can be.

Most web based email clients will rip out your <head> so link tags aren't a good idea. You'll need to inline 90%+ of your CSS. I usually create the table layout then add the inline style later. You can use the Mailchimp CSS inliner tool for quicker results.

I usually inline it all and leave some bits in a style tag. That's really the best you can do because of the crazy inconsistencies between email clients. Email clients render HTML and CSS like it's the 90's. Check out Campaign Monitor's blog. They have a big chart that shows you what HTML/CSS is compatible in each client. It's a life saver. I have it posted in my cube and I use it every day.
The article seems to be a a lot of hyperbole without much substance.

The code itself is simple. CHR$(205.5 + RND(1)) becomes CHR$(205) or CHR$(206) depending on the random number. 205 generates a \ , and 206 generates a /.
Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games
Yup, it operates on a new range of frequencies.
Don't think so, but it seems Wirth is revising the Project Oberon book. This time he'll include the design of his own RISC CPU, targeting a $100 FPGA board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIqHIYSDrk
Oddities like that render "intellectual property" useless. Since copyright (in the USA) lasts for life-of-author + 70 years, or 90 years for corporate authorship, you can't tell on the face of some information whether it is "property" or not. You need to know when/if the author died.
Or just get things delivered by a sane service that stores your packages at a neighbourhood postal office rather than a warehouse in a distant suburb :)
I'd like even more to see Self-driving van with bufferbox in the back. A mobile self-driving bufferbox if you want, that comes where you are. You schedule the delivery via a web/mobile interface, car arrives, you go, put in the one-time security code and get your package just like a normal bufferbox but at your home!
You are correct, but the author doesn't seem to be either from the US or a software engineer (his LinkedIn profile indicates a non-technical role).

That said, there's also little harm for a programmer brushing up a bit further than needed on algorithms: skip list, for example, is a great example of a data structure that is less known (perhaps less so after ConcurrentSkipListMap in JDK 6), is commonly used for interviews (as it's easy to explain the general concept in the scope of an interview), and is also practical (used in BigTable/HBase amongst many other places).
I've found nixnote to be bulky and awkward. I love it on my phone and the web interface is good enough for use (though I'd still want a native linux client).
I will use them as minimalist/simple website templates lol :)
In theory. Not always in practice.
Twitter App UI Through the Years
The link to the image was posted here nine days ago[1], it wasn't missed. These sorts of 'Execute a few basic commands to do something on the RPi' posts are becoming a bit ridiculous and fluffy.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4812749
That was very much not the idea. People renting their apartments were in charging.
The described articles may be impeccable, but selected because they agree with whatever viewpoint an institute wants to present. It's possible they've ignored anything not agreeing with them. And it's probable that groups do research that isn't published when it doesn't agree with whoever's funding it.

Ben Goldacre's book (pro science, about flaws in current system of research and science reporting) "Bad Science" is w useful read.
The first night, you do one pull request.

The second night, you do one, two pull requests.

The third night, you do one, two, three pull requests.

...

36 pull requests (plus the shamash each night. Maybe that's a patch to your dotfiles to get the juices flowing )
Also the Foundation Series (Hari Seldon).
I've been thinking a lot lately about what sorts of systems "the rest of us" (where by "us" I mean "them") are able to program effectively.

One thing I've noticed is that people that don't really know programming in a hacker sense seem to have no problem creating a spreadsheet that calculates even fairly complex things (not that FizzBuzz is complicated, but see here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnUa0E6R--UedGd...).

I think one of the biggest factors is that users don't have to keep track of the order of operations. If you change the value in cell A1, and cell B6 depends on it, and D5 depends on it, and so on until you get to Z22, there's no step-by-step thinking about what order the calculations will be done in. Basically a change in the input is instantaneously (and automatically, transparently) reflected in the output.

Another big factor is that all state is made explicit by default.

In some ways it seems similar to functional reactive programming. The code for e.g. FizzBuzz looks crazy complicated (http://www.lejordet.com/2012/01/fizzbuzz-with-reactive-exten...), but if you hooked it together in a GUI (sort of how Quartz Composer works on the Mac) it would probably be pretty easy to wrap your head around, and probably possible for someone with no formal programming knowledge to figure out, if not recreate.
Intel's Next Unit of Computing HTPC and Raspberry Pi Compared [video]
This is highly specious reasoning. I would guess the vast majority of American municipalities have far fewer regulations in gun possession that NYC, and despite the number of tragic stories that you hear, virtually all of these municipalities are quite civilized and pleasant.

So by your reasoning, the gun laws in NYC aren't needed.
This is just stupid. Caffeine should either be consumed in moderation or not at all.
So should you be allowed to have any overnight guests in your home?

These same arguments apply to family and friends coming for a visit and crashing at your place. Or to a kid's sleep-over for that matter.
From the article, it seems to me that "later" is "when you get an Internet connection".
Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company
Rather than get into a huge discussion here, I'm going to spend my time working the ticket I mentioned.

This isn't production ready code/documentation, it's a BETA release. Your issue has been noted and we are digging in. :-)
It's a little bit of a shame in my eyes. They could've built out a network and been bought for a lot by Amazon, Rakuten, eBay, Best Buy, etc or have built a big company. They obviously saw value in joining Google as they were still early on.
Think about the next small thing you can do right now to move it forward from being just an idea. Do it. Repeat.
Can this book not be available in digital form? Amazon and MIT Press only list the hardcover edition.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/10-print-chr2055rnd1-goto-10-0
What's the difference between server push in SPDY and a multipart message in HTTP?
See the "required is forever" warning here: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto

You may want to make even your conceptually required fields optional.

As an example, if you tried to proxy a newer version of the protocol through an old proxy (assuming it's deserializing), unknown enumeration values for required fields could cause errors.
I know this doesn't pertain to the article specifically, but I wanted to say it anyway.

I would like to see a built in password-based mutual authentication in addition to Basic and Digest authentication.

Additionally, I would like to see a header to drop and forget HTTP authentication.

Also, can't the server just send a multipart message with assets in it (like SPDY's server push) already (by the spec...support is a different question)?
From what I understood, that's exactly what the paper proposes. You store the raw data, and only correlate it with the ephemeris later. I don't know why the author involved the cloud into it, it sounds like it can be done very easily on any Internet-connected device.
We're hiring a test lead, help us make a great product!
And what about real e-mail, e.g. text-based? An e-mail is not a webpage, for me it’s nonsense to put HTML in it.
Agreed.I particularly liked the 'reward feint' idea, and now I might even watch the linked video talk.

(Possibly the article title could have been tweaked to avoid some of the piling-on: How I hacked my interview preparation process?).
Find the fastest path to revenue/profit. Nothing else will matter if you can accomplish that.

Since you'd be selling to large organizations the most critical issue is figuring out the sales process, the MVP and what you can charge them. You might want to follow Steve Blank's process for market / business model discovery: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/ep245/CourseRev/1
the street memorization example certainly strikes me as one with dual motivation. It doesn't benefit people who want to become Taxi drivers, but it certainly benefits drivers who are already drivers.

Aren't you leaving consumers out of the equation? After a decade of living in London, where Black Cab drivers are required to pass a stringent test of street knowledge (you can see would-be cab drivers zipping around London in the evenings on small motorcycles), I find it infuriating that American cab drivers frequently have no idea how to get me to my destination. As often as not I'm taking a cab because I don't know how to get where I'm going in the time available.

I have frequently raged against the taxi monopoly and in support of Uber, but as much because the licensed taxi drivers provide a crap service as anything else. If they were held to high standards by a regulator (as they are in some places) then I'd be a lot more supportive of restricted entry.
Meanwhile in Firefox, since 2008: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabinta/
>>Why do we assume that the Coffee Association is promoting bad science for their interests, rather than finding scientists who are working on things that relate to their business, and supporting those works?

This is the exact equivalent of the coal industry finding the minority of scientists who think climate change is not man-made and funding their studies. The problem with this is obvious, and it is not good science.

>>This is how the free market works; as long as the science is sound, who cares who is behind it?

Often times, those who are funding the science have an impact on whether that science is sound. It's called a conflict of interest because the source of the funding can corrupt the motivation of the scientist to practice good science.
Not at all. As the article says, it's perfectly legal to rent out a room in your apartment, provided that you are also living in the apartment. The fact that some people use AirBnB illegally is neither here nor there.
Why is this "ironic"?

Or are you saying that if BP steps in with a generous donation of gasoline supplies during a natural disaster, the government should give them more leeway in environmental regulations?
I agree that there is no correlation between the quality of music and repetition. There are even a number of "high brow" musicians and composers, such as Philip Glass or Terry Reily, that have had repetition as a common motif in their work, and for which they have been heralded by many.
I've always thought there's room for a startup that's an abstraction layer above AirBNB. Anecdotally, I know 2 or 3 people who do this semi-professionally for their friends. They'll put up the listing, price it, manage contact with guests, handle all the cleaning/key exchange etc in return for a cut of the profits.

If you're out of town for a month, the effort of setting up an AirBNB can be enough of a deterrent to keep a place empty for many people but if there was a service to abstract away all the details, it's win-win.
The courier doesn't deliver directly to the box, they deliver to BufferBox's warehouse (where there's someone to sign for your parcel) then it's taken to the box.

If the box is full, they hold your parcel until there's space. Presumably they could offer to deliver to a nearby alternative box if it came to that.
Unlike Microsoft, it seem that Google changed the interviewing process for many companies and I am grateful for it. My interviews pre-Google were primarily trivia contests about the language used for the position I was interviewing for. I was never asked to actually write code or break down a problem. Phone screens were mostly used to verify a candidate had a pulse.

Now I've noticed that almost all phone screens require some type of shared-document coding exercise, and some knowledge of algorithms, followed up by a series of whiteboard coding or problem solving face-to-face interviews. Some companies will ask for a homework problem or code sample as well. It was quite a shift for me as a developer, but a welcome one. The up side is that preparing for interviews now has actually improved my skills as a developer where before I'd learn about aspects of software languages that were often never used (such as details about EJBs when interviewing with companies that never used EJBs) and didn't translate into a hire actually being able to do the job they were hired to do.
Build a minimum viable product (MVP) as a side project and then actually talk (face to face or over the phone if you can't face to face) to some prospects to get their feedback.
The day you can actually get someone to pay for your product - jump in.
According to campaign monitor(http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-...), that is 15% not tested 'so far'(support dropped?) Is it worth it?
Nonetheless it does look very interesting.
Would be much more convincing if the preview can be sent to an email address though.
This article presents a false dichotomy:

"Could you afford the kinds of fines that Mr. Warren was facing? If not, take your listing down."

This assumes that a majority of hosts are breaking the law. Yet early in the article the author claims:

"...he was breaking the law. And that law says you cannot rent out single-family homes or apartments, or rooms in them, for less than 30 days unless you are living in the home at the same time."

I've stayed at roughly a dozen AirBnB listings, and only once was the host not living in the home during my stay. In fact, as the article mentions, that's a big part of the AirBnB guest experience-- interacting with the hosts.

Perhaps the problem is that many hosts are treating their homes as small hotels, letting out all the rooms and moving themselves elsewhere. Curtailing this practice would avoid legal issues and improve the guest experience. A win-win if you ask me!
> I think it renders your comments to you alone until $delay minutes elapse.

Yes, that's correct.

I think the main purpose of 'delay' is to allow you to edit your comments before the rest of HN sees it. A lot of us read through our comments and edit them after we submit (to cut out snark, clarify a point, make it more concise).

> Notifo is new to me. Maybe a public email address?

Notifo is a YC company: http://notifo.com/. They used to email you when people replied to your post on HN: http://notifo.com/hackernews. I'm not really sure if it's still working anymore, since they said they were shutting down a while back: http://blog.notifo.com/notifo.
That's unlikely to happen. There are extended-stay hotels for people who come from out of town to work temporarily and that are often paid for by the employer or a corporate client - they're basically little studio apartments with some extra services laid on for the convenience of the residents. To the extent that they're liable for hotel taxes or regulatory fees, the principle of equal protection under the law would require an ABB hotel to be be similarly liable.
To all those asking what they are spending the money on: secondary financing means that the money is not going to Evernote. Instead, the new investors are purchasing $85M of shares from existing investors. Evernote's bank account does not grow by $85M.
My dad always told me an employee who wants a competitive salary needs the negotiating leverage that if he isn't paid market rate he'll have to look elsewhere. He said you need skills that more than one employer wants, and qualifications more than one company will recognize.

I'd be interested to hear how other companies view employees who've been through "Zoho University"? Have many of your students got jobs with decent salaries after leaving your company?
The article links to the book's (free) download page: http://10print.org
what do you mean? it's all in 'saved'.

btw try https://bitbucket.org/zalew/hackernews if you want to crawl it to save elsewhere.
I've always had a soft spot for mazes. Seeing how a recursive function could solve a maze was what got me hooked on programmng to begin with. At the time it was mind-blowing. It was the first time that software seemed like magic.
#1, #3 are all different ways of saying that the housing supply in SF is very tight.

That's a situation where creating more supply by renting out your room when you go on trips can be really helpful. Supply goes up, demand stays the same, rents fall.

#2 I think is an exaggeration of what's happening. Most places listed on AirBNB are occupied by owners putting their place up when they leave town. A few maybe not, but even in that case, why favor long-term renters over short-term renters?

#4 is a great point, but insurmountably restrictive laws make things worse by not allowing people to come to negotiated agreements with their landlords on using AirBNB. E.g., I'm sure landlords would be more amenable if they got a cut.

My take on this is that the problem here is that it's basically impossible to jump through the hoops necessary to legitimately rent out your room for a weekend, and that seems silly. You should be able to just fill out a form with the city, maybe pay a registration fee, and agree to comply with regulations.