skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo. He also most likely exposed additional valuable and proprietary IP to a third party that a) has no formal business relationship with the company and b) operates in a country notorious for IP theft.

Firing him is a no-brainer here, if this story is even true.

EDIT: he also opened a large portion of the company's codebase to potential sabotage. If I was in Company X's shoes right now I'd be doing a full audit of everything this joker has touched since he started, in addition to a full internal security audit of everything this mystery third party had access to. This kind of security breach is a Big Deal.
So is using the iTunes coloring algorithm enough to entice me away from Google News or Yahoo News or cnn.com or bbc.co.uk or whatever else I might use to get my generic current events updates?
Give as much as you can without registration. This way, you lose some valuable information about the user, but it is really better from a UX point of view.
Brace yourselves for copycats.
Strange analogy. That happens for all politicians regardless of party. Example: Anthony Weiner
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No, at one point pg definitely condoned downvoting comments for pure disagreement. Poor idea, in my opinion.
I really feel like the idea for this App is sincere, but it seems to be yet another technological 'tether' to our gadgets and material world.

Meditation should not be 'gamefied' or at least not quantified in such a way... What next, you can post your results on FB?

So wrong ...
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Yes, but it's a popular platform that doesn't (at first blush) appear to meat the assumptions on the page I posted. My question still stands at "Do I need to have all my machines in the same datacenter"
...but not the ability to work a spell checker.
This is a gem, considering what's out there atm.

I've heard interns work their way into the big 4 and then squander it - they expect to be in charge of cases, call the shots, and some even refuse to come in when called - "I'm watching a movie."

IB isn't like fashion industry where interns are usually delegated mundane tasks like fetching coffee, but it's good to see this guy willing to doing w/e it takes.
To respond to those asking why I made YET another sudoku game...
Well, ... As I explained here : http://www.buildnrun.com/sudoku-as-an-arcade-whould-you-play...

This game is in the pipeline since a few month now (I made few mistakes by not being lean) but I wanted before the end of the year get it out and see how it's really look like to be out there in the wild. And YES it is out, and I'm not feeling like throwing it, so I need to see what I can make out of it.

There are very good piece of advice bellow though.
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I've worked for banks and financial firms (in Italy) and I've always seen image signatures only used for sort-of-personally-signed communications (i.e. a letter from the CEO stating that we're changing conditions) but not for "real" contract signing.

On other side, AFAIK, in our law simple plain text email (neither PEC nor s/mime signed email) and faxes are considered legal methods of communication and I cant really understand why (it is so easy to create fake email or faxes)
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How long does something need to be provider for for free before you trust that it'll stay that way?

My personal answer: never. Google has killed free apps that had had lots of users for years. If Google can't guarantee that a free app will stay free and available, nobody can.
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Very interesting! I just started building a CLI for one of my apps to aid in debugging; this means I can scrap that dead-end work. Forked, will check it out.
One of the comments:
"It's funny that all these guys loved the letter, yet didn't realize it's their fault that the letter even had to be written. If only they hadn't been falling for trumped up resumes and bogus cover letters for years."
No? Do you mean "no, your recollection is not incorrect"?
I take the points, but with a caveat. The overriding issue here is one of signal to noise and it isn't a simple proble to fix with the pervading attitude exhibited in this thread overall. It'd be interesting to know exactly how much demand there was from Android users. We see stories that are similar to this reasonably often. The trouble is that the discussions are way too emotive. Reasons put forward are generally dismissed as "FUD" or "fanboys", with emotional response always seeming to block rational discussion. Until we get pas this, we won't get beyond where we are.
Try a little AppStore SEO

Using my AppStore SEO tool (still in beta) I see you only appear in the results page of one popular search phrase "amazing sudoku"...
http://www.straply.com/app/android/guru-mobile/empire-of-sud...

But some other Sudoku apps appear in the results of hundreds of popular search phrases...
http://www.straply.com/app/android/genina-com/sudoku-free/so...

Perhaps you could try expanding your description to include more of the popular phrases related to Sudoku?

But the real problem is what everyone else has been saying. Sudoku is just too crowded.
I guess that adds some additional legal protection in case there is some dispute in court (e.g, the court may believe you that you always sign via HelloSign and that HelloSign is sufficiently trustworthy to trust that absence of a audit trail means that it was not you who signed the document). It is probably still easy to forge things, after all, you yourself may also be signing documents without HelloSign sometimes, but I don't think that is much of a problem. It has never been all that hard to forge signatures, so in the end it comes down whether you can actually make a court believe that you signed the document or not.
This is so inspiring :)
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The explorer edition is not going to be the same as the commercial edition. This is a developer only release so the specs are bound to change and are not quite as important, imo.
>He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China

Haha. This guy is my hero.
If you're applying for a dev job and you mention open source, that's not entirely extracurricular the same way playing in a bowling league might be.
That's a case of reality being less constrained than the theory, assuming the theory actually proved a maximum utilization of ~1mbps; perhaps they were assuming all nodes were saturating the line?
Yeah, if I were looking for an internship, I'd hate to have my cover letter and resume circulated on personal emails where it's sure to be read closely.
I'm so tired of "Security" getting in the way of being able to do your job.
It even says at the bottom "This email is confidential..."
Firing a prosecutor precisely over the overreach issue creates structural change. The irony of reversed change-through-intimidation is evident.
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serioulsy, what are you talking about ? This kid needed a job (pretty bad i would think) and he wrote a "smart" cover letter with his name/email address. HOw is that information being passed around other members of the company a violation ? I don't know about other countries but in the US, I would think it is normal. I mean u need a job. Do you really think your email address is that critical to hide from other senior members of a company u want to apply to ?
I've thought a lot about this very problem. In fact, I've spent the past 8 months or so thinking about that very issue.

Here's the problem as I see it, and feel free to debate with me:

Our digital worlds are a much more seductive reality than what we've got in the real world. Our minds simply weren't built to handle notifications everywhere, games which exploit our psychology, etc.

We need new tools to help manage our minds in this new frontier. Because we simply don't get these addictive notifications in reality. And for evidence that this digital world is more seductive, just look at how many people have their faces in their phones.

So what is the first step in helping us manage our minds more effectively? I researched all the data I could find, and it turned out meditation had the most potential.

So I turned to meditation and said how could I improve the experience? This is my first iteration at giving us tools to improve control of our minds. Its a very basic tool, and I'm very aware of the potential downfalls.

I'm willing to hear any advice you or anyone else has on the future of mind analysis with tracking devices.
The input consists of voice commands and a trackpad on the side of the frame. It's not like you can't turn off the screen.
http://www.ce.rit.edu/research/projects/2009_fall/Wearable_C...
While relying on something like this for you meditation may not be ideal, what harm does this do? If this helps some number of people begin to regularly meditate isn't that a net gain?
Pretty cool that you launched iOS and Android together. Did you use a cross platform toolkit to do so?
That was one of the first thoughts I had. This is the example of what that book lays out.
I thought this was awesome until I read your comment, now I am thinking it again. You are correct in saying this eases forgery.

We should definitely rethink the whole thing. In a sense a signature is nothing other than authentication. I would be comfortable authenticating through my mobile phone and have that be the signature.
Hey founder of Pitchbox here. We're definitely focused on more then just Silicon Valley. We are working with startups and interesting companies all across the US. We're even connecting developers with companies that support full-time telecommuting.
This is what he should have done. They wouldn't have had any reason to look into that traffic.
And feel free to contribute changes back. So far there's the shell, but I think many different tools could be built on this. I'd love to see someone do a column browser for objects.
For socialism to work the nature of people has to change. The nature of people is to be greedy and keep what they "want" or think they "need", not just what they actually need. Socialism asks (and eventually commands) people to give up things they wouldn't otherwise give up for the good of others who don't have those things with the motivation being either A) it's for the good of everyone and ultimately B) you'll be breaking the law if you don't.

Capitalism on the other is based upon everyone desiring to make a profit and thereby providing their own wants/needs, with the wants/needs themselves being the motivation to do so. At first blush, it seems like everyone can't make a profit. Someone has to lose, right? But that thinking is incorrect.

In the words of Paul Graham himself:
"What leads people astray here is the abstraction of money. Money is not wealth. It's just something we use to move wealth around. So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth. Wealth has been getting created and destroyed (but on balance, created) for all of human history."

In other words, profits come many times from created wealth that didn't otherwise exist.

So, while I don't know what particular flaws of capitalism you were referring to, capitalism is inherently based upon freedom of the individual while socialism is inherently based upon lack of freedom for the individual.

I'll take 100% capitalism with all of its flaws, no question, over most any brand of socialism, including the one we have now in the US.
If your rationale is to find out if you're going to work with competent peers, why not asK a question that leads into a proper, deeper technical discussion?
Evidently other people must have been through the same types of interviews as I have.
Usually there is a convention to put parens around if-assignment clause, so it is detectable.
There's no privacy statement involved. It's an email. Emails get forwarded. It's polite to ask first.
You're right, a coloring algorithm certainly wouldn't be enough. Tightrope has a method to score and select media for 'Yesterday' and 'Trending'. 'Yesterday' gives a summary of the past day of media, while 'Trending' gives the bursts of media. You can read more on it here: http://blog.tightro.pe/post/40632430244/introducing-the-simp...
except the copycats should ensure they have something substantial to show. In this casem, the guy had a near perfect GPA (whatever that number is)
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I think this would organise different topics into categories and make those categories obvious through the use of colour. Nope. It just takes the image associated with the story and sets the background of the table row to an appropriate colour (the same way the new iTunes works in Album view). It's good that you've built this and are trying new things but the title makes it sounds much different to what is actually is.
What kind of extracurriculars would you actually count against someone?
It's nice but most contracts that I've signed demand that you return the contract to them in paper form anyway.

But having the option to sign it, then print it off and send it via snail mail does save one step I suppose
University of Massachusetts Amherst has been doing this already, I took care of some requirements this summer that way
You would be better advertising those features rather than the colour thing which is unfortunately useless (although kind of cool).
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As an iOS developer I've used Flurry for my analytics for some time for many of my apps. There are some ok iOS apps to check your stats out there already but I ended up making my own for the pieces of information that I most care about and check on a daily basis. I used it for a little while myself but recently submitted it to the app store.

I also made a feature to check an iOS app rank within a specific category, device and country. It is a little work to set up but if you know your app's market and you are within the top 300 I think its a great way to find your real time rank.

Here is a direct link to the app in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daily-statistics-for-flurry/id590200641?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2

(Unfortunately iTunes changed their screen shot upload policy so I will have to wait for a new version to update more of them.)

I hope this is helpful to other iOS developers like it has been for me and if anyone has any feedback I'd love to hear it.
I agree with parts of it, but I disagree with the basic premise that hiring programmers is like renting cars. When you hire a programmer, it is like hiring a car mechanic, not a car driver. Some of the questions do seem appropriate to ask to a car mechanic.
> I would hope that someone would realize that wearing a ski mask for no reason has considerable downsides

On this note, I recall several years ago while in college getting a mass email from administration that warned students not to wear masks during Halloween on the street because doing so was banned in the city. A quick googling just now doesn't turn up anything of the sort, though it does seem some other states have laws concerning masks, though often with exceptions for children, holidays, religion, education, etc.
who's this kids uncle?
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Redshift is a column-store database for big analytics workloads and has a lot of very big established competitors, though the cloud space for that is mostly startups. There's a number of products that are really storage backends for postgres, or use its SQL parsing frontend.

What's different about Clustrix compared to all the other distributed databases branding themselves as "NewSQL" is that it's intended for totally traditional OLTP workloads (though it can distribute OLAP queries across the cluster too as a bonus).

Disclaimer: I work there
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Ask HN: What do you think of implementing Gravatars in a social site?
I am developing a new social site, which is going to go live in February or March. (if you are curious it is: http://www.chilledlime.com)

Now, I have to make a decision on how to get avatars.

Should users be able to upload an image? Or should I let them link to an external image? Or the third option: Gravatars?

What do you think? Is it OK to use Gravatars or maybe I should use something that is more customizable?
That's interesting, I've never seen that convention in use before. Or at least never picked up on it.
Maybe it's because I just made the egregious mistake of getting drawn into a gun-control debate with a friend and his friends on Facebook, but hyperbolic arguments by analogy feel really silly, cheap, and disingenuous to me right now...
i'll play the devil's advocate role, not that I really believe what i'll write:
unfortunately we don't rellay know if he's really honest, or just playing a role..

* what if he hasn't really met the recipient of the mail? (it could be just a way to connect with him, maybe he meets so many kids, he wont remember me)

* what if he hasnt really interned for ML? (will somebody check?)

* are we sure he's really waiting for admission to MSc in Accountancy?

etc..
I saw claims that Clusterix is very good for OLAP applications. Can you shed more light on it? Does it support materialized views for instance (to speed up calculating aggregation on higher levels) ?
I did that a couple of years ago, and I had no "issues" with the Sandbox.

I remember that, in Sandbox, for testing purposes, 1 day == 1 minute

Also, sometimes, things didn't work. One thing that sometimes fixed that, was to login in the Sandbox and delete and create new accounts.

I'll see if I can find my code and be more helpful. Write an email if you want.
superdbg is a more fitting name, anyone searching for a super database that's cloud-based, auto-scales, handles web-scale type load for their next generation social network might stumble upon superdb and be utterly disappointed.
His odds were close to zero with a "me too" resume, so he risked it all. A lot of Wall Street companies want Ivy League caliber and a GPA of 3.5+ as a starting point--or to have your case considered.

Now I'd say, his resume will be read and he will be judged on his merits.
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I believe that any type of curation is still not the answer. The issue has always been passive candidates. How can you expose an opportunity to someone that is not looking? DA does not solve this problem. The only problem that it solves is negotiating salary. You are still dealing with active candidates, candidates that would have found about the companies without going through a recruiter.

I have thought about the recruiting business a lot in the past couple of years. I have a few ideas, but I do not have the time to implement them. They are not trivial and I am content with my day job.
Forwarding emails is a copyright violation.
I'm switching over to a much more minimal XMonad setup now,
but that's a different story and a much larger shift.

I switched from using Gnome on Debian (work) to XMonad approximately one year ago (I am running Arch with XMonad on my MacBookPro at home and been very happy with this setup), and I didn't find the shift that large: the basic configuration pretty much works out of the box without the need for customization - at least at the beginning. And if you are eager to customize, there is a lot of information on how to set up xmobar, trayer and some Haskell XMonad stuff out there.
He's saying that the questions they ask get them no closer to finding out whether he is a good programmer.

A lot of the time they're not meant to. They're meant to figure out whether he's a bad programmer (or bad cultural fit, or something else bad).

The cost of hiring someone bad is way higher than most people would guess. I've come to believe that in many cases the questions asked in an interview almost don't matter - they're just there to give you an opportunity to fail, or to say something incredibly dumb or ignorant or obnoxious so that the interviewer can quickly reject you and avoid an expensive mistake.
We have been using clustrix at AOL for quite a while. You can check their site for our testimonial. We find it to be reliable and easy to use. It requires so little care and feeding we haven't had a full time DBA on our application for several months. We've done consolidations from a sharded MySQL environment to clustrix using nothing more complex than MySQL replication. We also been able to make online schema changes without locking the DB on very large tables in excess of 400 million rows. Support is quite proactive as well both for regular release upgrades as well as features additions and minor bug fixes. We've been in production for more than 2 years and other than minor issues Clustrix has been trouble free.
I wouldn't say it's a great cover letter - it's pretty generic and could easily be tweaked slightly for any job/industry.

Also it's sort of sad that he has to debase his university and himself for the lords of finance to consider him.
Is it just me or the top navbar is really hard to read with the color combinations?
Dude, fiber in Vietnam is a huge misnomer. You think you're going to get > 20mbps on that new fangled fiber? Good luck getting top shelf DSL speeds.

I had fiber in HCMC. It was a joke.
My experience with Amazon was similar but at the end I was led to ask: "if the 1hr filter process isn't efficient at finding the best candidates, why do they do it?"

I think in the end its a balance of basic filtering vs. HR requirements. The process has to be objective and quantifiable so they're covered in the event of anyone calling foul play. Everyone gets the same treatment and there is a paper trail of reasons for why they turned you down.
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Do take it with a grain of salt. I develop for Android, but mostly as a contractor for other people. I can tell you what would worry me as a user, but it's the guys up the thread who have had success selling their own apps that you really want to listen to.
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After reading the responses, I'm really glad I'm not in finance. "Hilarious but bold"? "Best cover letter I've ever received"? It's good, but it's not exactly groundbreaking.

For tech startups, I feel like this kind of thing is almost required if you want to get anywhere. If I'm reading cover letters, I want to see some personality, and yes, I want you to be honest. Have some fun with it, even. Is that really such a novel concept? Or is my perspective just skewed by the startup world?
awesome post! always tricky to define your pricing strategy--this is super helpful.
This is cute, but in reality it highlights everything that is wrong with the system and the financial sector.
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How do you know what you were building was something people wanted before you started building?

What steps did you take to find this out before starting?
Well I'm adding this to my current PonyDebugger, Charles Proxy & OHHTTPStubs debugging stack. Great job!
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I had plans to release some of my code under the name of libzero, but with a change of plans domains remained unused. They are both on Gandi and they are expiring tomorrow. Ping me if you want either or both. Email is ap at swapped dot cc.

¹ I also had libzero.org, but I gave it away earlier.