skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also Levion - we don't have a documented API but we use Ruby on Rails that has JSON and XML out of the box. If there are interested users of our API, we would like to hear from you. Send me a shout at jason at levion c o m
Cloud providers have globally facing services, so you hear of the problems. Dedicated server hosts have issues, but unless it directly impacts you, you never hear of it. Additionally, there's so much that PaaS providers do. On a dedicated host, if say, Passenger is misconfigured, that's your issue, not there's, so long as the server is still up and you can SSH in.
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There are exceptions; can you argue that this is one of them or do you just enjoy disagreeing with people?
Newspaper audience aged severely since 2010
Goldman receives about 10,000 job applications per year (disproportionately for junior analysts). McKinsey receives about 100,000 per year.
Why not type your problems flat out. Trying to "abstract" the problem by transferring it to a completely different and reverse analogy just makes the whole post artificial.

I was actually wondering if this was written by a programmer or a man that hires programmers at first...
How are you recommending deployment of MajorApi for applications needing to read from Quickbooks? I've written a Quickbooks integration web service using the desktop SDK, not web connector, and ultimately we had to abandon any reads from Quickbooks in favor of essentially mirroring the data in a SQL database. Can the combination of MajorApi and web connector handle real-time QB reads under moderate load?
I predict it will be hours, not days when this hits the street and some joe in a bar realizes that he's 'on camera' that there will be a confrontation.

Google Glass is something that I highly doubt society is ready for in any way.
What is the fixed point of this function? Is there one? Quick, someone apply the y-combinator!
As a side note, the carrier APIs make international rating easy. But, easy is a relative term, quite often there are a number of exceptions that make this area tricky.
I couldn't even use it on my phone, I think the viewport meta set to device-width makes it load zoomed in and the interaction with the content makes it impossible to zoom out.
> We all like to be a bit like Batman aren't we?

No, in fact as I'm growing older I'm getting more and more to the point of taking more and more "technology vacations" where I ditch my phone and don't use a computer for a night/weekend.

It has overall improved my life in many ways. I already carry enough electronic gadgetry, at least with a phone it is in my hand or pocket. Having glasses with a battery pack on my belt? Yeah I'll wait until the tech improves.
I filter far less aggressively, somewhere around the top 50-100 school mark. We both filter on GPA about the same.

I can't see how either of those things is even slightly relevant, at least in isolation. The school someone chooses may reflect a great many factors, and it's entirely possible someone went to Midwest Tennessee State Agricultural and Technical College instead of Harvard, even if they could have been accepted by Harvard. Who knows, maybe they didn't bother applying to Harvard because they thought they couldn't afford it, or the wanted to stay close to home for family reasons, etc.

GPA? Feh... how do you discriminate between the guy with the 3.8 GPA who took Underwater Basket Weaving and other throwaway classes for all his non-major electives, and the guy who took String Theory, Quantum Electrodynamics and Abstract Algebra as electives?
I'm actually interested to know what kind of developer gets the job. And also, what was he/she thinking when accepting the job, was it out of necessity? because he/she liked the interview process? (I'm asking seriously)
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I tried Google Glass a little while ago. I think it's amazing but one thing I wasn't as aware of before was that it's not an augmented overlay at all. Think of it instead of a display in the corner of your field of vision. You can add information about what you're seing, but you can't effectively overlay things (i.e. highlight parts in an assembly etc)
Thanks. Your summary was eloquent, but I'll have to read the article as well to make sure I understand correctly. What strikes me is that Alfred Korzybski spoke about those same issues (and much more) in his 1933 book called "Science and Sanity" (well worth a read, although bare in mind it took me several years to finish it). So when Chomsky wrote his stuff, Korzybski had already addressed this very comprehensively.

Does Chomski at any point addresses these issues as well?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/41399205/Alfred-Korzybski-General-... (jump to p86).

that version of the book is incomplete, but page 86 seems alright.
To be fair to the parent, he does have a point. You are in no way entitled to the free use of such a service. It's great that it's provided and all, but in the end, there may be some, or no, reason, that they want to pull the plug, on you, on a subset, or the entire service.

"Entitled" blogs, rants and the like (and to be clear, this entry didn't strike me as particularly entitled, but disappointed) are more the act of petulant children.
It was totally not oversimplified. That is really exactly how it went when I wanted to backup an audio CD once.

And it is normally simpler, I mean, if you already know the name of the program you want, it's just:

pacman -S gimp

Which is of course just as simple as Ubuntu:

apt-get install gimp
My point is more that pervasive, individual, recorded surveillance is a different beast than random acquaintances seeing you around town.

It's really the scale of the thing -- YouTube and Ustream and the like are going to have some serious privacy concerns when masses of people want to start lifestreaming.
Strictly true, but it's an issue of network effect. Let's say you get kicked off of HN. You're free to go start your discussion resource for hackers, right?
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Other than protest, what might get the attention of the powers that be that such prosecutorial overreaching is unacceptable?

They have no impetus to change until there's enough anger to make them afraid.
Right now when you create a new MajorApi QuickBooks Application, it reads in your items and sales reps so they can be references in invoices you create.

Then we have a database in the middle of the two because you can't have real time reads from QuickBooks with the WebConnector.

Edit: So to answer your question, there's no such thing as real time reads using the WebConnector. You have to send an XML query to QuickBooks which returns the data. We plan on integrating with QuickBooks online soon which will allow real time reads.
Terrible analogy...
Check out 'layar' for a real live demo of just this.
Then please make that clear in your blog post and home-page.
Being forcibly removed (as in not asked to resign as is usual in the government "circles") would probably have a disastrous effect on the rest of her career, or lack thereof.
This hoax originated on The Onion. It's now on BBC. Wow.
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The problem I perceive is that that question gets asked to people who will never need to know it. I too often see people interviewing for front end web or javascript positions asked questions about binary search trees or something that totally doesn't relate to front end development, instead of asking about closures or what they think about coffeescript. Honestly, I think at this point if you're asking about various search algorithm big o timings to find out if a programmer can build an iOS app or do Rails dev, you're doing it wrong.
Amazon didn't kill HMV
Debate raises awareness and challenges opinions. It's not related to the criteria, but it is related to why you would be inclined to discuss this on HN if you were inclined to discuss it outside of HN.

I don't need to know anything about your political involvement to draw conclusions about your involvement on this particular cause.

Edit for clarity:

When I mentioned the criteria, I wasn't referring to debate; I was referring to awareness.
Interesting but sounds like vaporware considering there is almost no technical specs given and a "too good to be true" price point. None the less, I hope Dell builds some cool products in the near future.
I am wondering if Google will implement an Ingress play mode especially suited for Glass. It would be really nice to walk around town, be notified when you are near a portal and be able to hack/link/whatever that portal without taking your phone out of the pocket.
Yeah, same here. Look at it as a blessing though... it means that their competitors can snag great people by not applying such arbitrary filters. Hell, that's probably one reason startups can attract awesome people who didn't get scooped up by Goldman Sachs or whoever.
It will definitely work in London... but probably not in Arkansas or Wyoming.
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No. The speech is a clear characterization of the fallacy because it's deliberately exaggerated and sarcastic.
Good luck. Dealing with any Google service - and in particular, YouTube - is like dealing with a robot, you don't manage to get in touch with any human being. Their general policy is to automate everything and give zero user support.
And what does it mean?
Ha!

To add:

Interviewer#3: We are looking for someone who knows how
operate the navigation screen on the 2010 Escort.
Applicant: My car does not have the navigation option
installed.
Interviewer: Then you do not qualify. Knowing how to
work the navigation system is a priority.
Applicant: I know how to work navigation systems in
general. My car before this one had a navigation system
and I learned it pretty quickly.
Interviewer#3: No. We need people with 10 years of
experience with the actual navigation system on the 2010
Escort.

Note: Ford no longer sells the Escort in the USA. They sell the Focus and the Fiesta. Both terrific little cars.
This seems a nice article on pricing strategies:
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/37737/Secrets-Of-Freemi...

Strangely, as a submission here (not by me), it got killed yesterday. I looked it over when it came up, and when I went to join my vote to the dozen or so it had gathered, it was dead ...
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It's cut off, but I thought it was a joke. It doesn't quite read as official.
If it turns out that it's actually possible to comfortable read information on these, which I find extremely hard to imagine, they would also be immensely helpful in the Emergency Room and the hospital, especially with facial recognition software. Being able to instantly see lab results/x-rays/patient data for any patient you're looking at, and being able to instantly look up things you don't know without having to lug around a stack of files or having to keep going back to the computer would save an incredible amount of time, and make it so much easier not to overlook critical information.

That said, the privacy implications are horrifying.
I apparently read his post as 1/100.000.
I'll share my personal response. I suspect I'm not alone in this.

Google is incurring and running up against some real trust issues.

I haven't always agreed with their decisions, but even when I became discouraged, I'd still glean information and news that showed or hinted at concerned, ethical people behind the closed doors.

But... the continuing lack of a public, human interface to their endeavors, and the increasing... unreliability of their products. (Well, their products to us end users of their ostensible services, as opposed to us as products delivered via their marketing and advertising mechanisms.)

I increasingly don't trust them.

And this is going to be a serious problem for Google, in the long run. Once you lose reliability and accountability, people start looking elsewhere.

Ok, this is a bit of a long reach, but look at Apple. Jobs was, ultimately if somewhat capriciously, a primary source of Apple's accountability. And now he's gone.

Even if people couldn't explain it and articulate it fully, they felt concern that his passing potentially represented a significant shift.

The more and longer Google continues to refuse to acknowledge -- and address -- the gaming of the IP/content/distribution systems, the more distrust builds.

Even still, this "silence" is not consistent and company-wide. For example, Google Fiber -- at least in its incarnation; I'm less certain about it's continuing and evolving existence -- is a fairly strong statement (even if and as also somewhat self-serving; this is a business, after all) about the current state and needed direction of development and growth of connectivity.

But I don't know that this "under the radar" approach suffices. Back to the original point of this thread: I don't trust that anything on YouTube is going to be there, tomorrow.

The Web is failing as archive. More and more, the public is learning that it is indeed transient.

If you want people to "live" there and to trust to your online services, this may be a bad thing.

(Yes, I'm one isolated opinion, and I may be blowing smoke. But I'm disgusted at the increasing constriction back towards an entrenched status quo -- or the attempts at same.)
So are you using XMonad without a DE? How is the experience?

BTW, how do you manage wireless networks and stuff?
Yes, sorry about that. It's fixed so both work now
We use it on a large Rails e-commerce site and it works well. All features work as advertised and it is a drop in replacement for mysql. Their support team is also great and is like having your own dba team.

I can also say that I've been participating in the private beta of this AWS version for a week now and it is both stable and performant. Although we use their appliance in production, I'm very excited about this AWS version as it allows us to run clustrix in our testing and staging environments (where we previously had to run mysql).

I think it's a really great thing that more people/companies will be able to use their awesome database without having to purchase an appliance.
Now THAT (international and H1B {though I will soon qualify for the much easier to get E-3 ;) }) would be useful :)
I am not the OP, but IME YouTube is by far the easiest to make ad money from.

Google giveth and Google taketh away (often without you really knowing why).
Excuse me for, maybe, stupid question, but:
we have few (250+) InnoDB tables and triggers - if we will try to move all data to Clustrix, will our application continue to work? I've read about "drop-in replacement" but maybe somebody here already have experience in same issue.
This would make my life much easier, glad your tackling it.

Any idea where Vendors and Bills are on the priority list to add to the API? Our business model is similar to a consignment transaction so every time I generate an Invoice to a customer I also need to generate one or more bills to vendors.
Thanks for making this. Is there a pricing structure or the like? If not how do you plan on making money?
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haha, my Mom did when I was young ;-). I know this is a less than optimal method, I'm just trying to hack myself into budgeting time for this. It's more justifiable in my brain if I'm committed to it by some outside force. Is that being "weak"? Maybe, but it doesn't really matter to me, I saw that trying to get myself to do it wasn't working, so I'm trying a different approach.

btw, nice blog. It's fun to see someone doing something with his hands rather than strictly programming!

Best,
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I don't see myself using it. Anyone willing to buy these? Any particular user group which might be interested.
One can buy Android devices (like the MK802) which cost $50 and are similarly sized with similar functionality. Doesn't seem like a big stretch to build an image for one which just connects to a remote desktop.
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Does anyone else think that lack of accountability from content hosting providers makes this game so unfair to people who use these services. For example, if YouTube were legally accountable to provide a service would this situation have occurred? I understand YouTube is free (itself a topic of contention) but just because you are free, it doesn't give you a guilt free pass to do anything you want.
Pricing it at $50 makes perfect sense if they intend to charge a monthly fee for access to the "Dell Cloud OS" service. It's a worthless little stick without a subscription.
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The article's point is that you have to download it from the web via the repos to do this. Which seems like an incredibly silly and inconsequential thing to write an entire article about.
I have yet to see a company ask for specific experience with VB.net 2012 edition and exclude candidates like myself who are only familiar with C/Python/Java

I've absolutely seen it, but I've stopped looking at it as an injustice that must be mocked, but rather a useful indicator of an organization that isn't a good fit for what I have to bring. If the economy were worse, I may have a different perspective.
AOL’s Patch to go from local news network to community message board network
Thanks for this orionblastar. I will definitely check it out and do some of these tutorials. Now if can find a way to set up accountability to make sure I stay on course!
Seeing all those services which do sth per git push let me think that github might create dev app marketplace...
The literal translation is pretty clear, actually. If [something ridiculous/impossible] then [something else ridiculous/impossible]. In other words the comparison is a bit of a stretch.
I haven't updated that blog in ages. I keep waiting for Posterous to shut off the servers and that will force me to start over with something else at the same URL.
Sure thing! We don't have one yet, and we're hoping to use this initial beta launch to determine best how to launch it.
We are at that weird point in the industry where computation gets commoditized and rented like it happened with electricity, but reliability is not improving.
Haha..funny yet true..well all the guy needed was his manager's permission..without official approval..this was a security breach!
Wait, do you think that everybody is going to be uploading everything they see to YouTube? Different people have different comfort levels about what they put online which means that being tagged in Facebook photos can often be embarrassing, but very few people have zero desire for privacy and I don't see share-by-default taking off for lifeloggers.
Sorry I am not familiar enough with the legal teams in Seattle outside of this one point of reference. However if there is a conflict, you could ask Orrick for their advice on who they recommend
They are very good about making sure there's always more work for you to do.

I work as a coder in a business unit at Bank of America. What you say is true, to some extent.

If I need to take off for the day at 1 pm I just tell my boss I've got to go take care of some personal stuff and he's completely ok with that, since he knows I get my work done.
I don't disagree with your decision to leave, but it is possible that your interviewer was just a crappy interviewer and might not be a crappy colleague.
Indeed it is! And there's no usage limits
I really got to wonder how many new media pundits believe this quote from the article:

> What’s more: The audience is solidly rooted in Middle America,
> not the coasts as it was before.
>
> What does that demographic sound like? Oh yeah, people who don’t
> realize they don’t have to pay for dial up and still go to AOL’s
> home page everyday.
5-10 who write means hundreds more who feel the same but didn't write
I think you should have a form where users can try out your address checks. This is just so devs can quickly make sure if you know the difference between good and a bad address before they try out the api.
I don't know yet. There's so many different working parts of QuickBooks it's tough to determine where to prioritize. Some of our initial customers use vendors extensively, so they're a bit higher on the list.
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And while we're at it, please don't make game #2 an Angry Birds game.
blogger complains about linkbait apple stories in a linkbait apple story :)
It validates that the address itself is valid and you can mail items to it
DBaaS - but what about latency between apps and db servers? If we use own cluster, servers can be placed in local network, but how it's possible with DBaaS model?

About CAP theorem - which line is Clustrix for?
Awesome, thanks so much! I should be giving it a go in the next week or so once we start our next project.
Possibly. They appear to be events that truly saturate the sensor, as all of the spikes have the exact same concentration and air quality index readings (995 and 827 respectively).
Can we get government out of the copyright enforcement business?
The Onion: Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity
Prosecutorial over-reach is a byproduct of the particular structure of our adversarial system and current views on the role of our legal system. This was not one rogue individual, it was the execution of an institutional mindset that has given us the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Pinning all that on one person allows something to be done without causing change.
Noam Chomsky: The responsibility of privilege
As for the bisection interval, I am not sure the basic c=(a+b)/2 is not enough. Can you provide an example where it fails?

Sure. I've experienced this myself, for example, when doing the research cited here:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es202359j
Unfortunately, my Lab doesn't have our report version of the work up on the web yet (I believe it should be freely available at some point, but they're re-doing the library).

In addition, I knew about this particular effect before I started that work, so I must have run into it earlier.

In most cases, naive bisection works fine. That's especially true if you use pretty loose tolerances-- for example, you if only want to identify the zero to a relative tolerance of 1e-6 or something coarse like that. But this work demanded very tight tolerances (because the output gets used in a time-marching numerical simulation that may iterate on time steps, and hence has to be very repeatable no matter what the initial condition). In this work, the relative tolerance was about 2e-15, and the absolute tolerance about 1e-18 (on a machine with double-precision epsilon about 2e-16).

By the way, if you're testing for convergence according to a bracket on the value, then you want to know (b-a) anyhow. So there's no reason not to go ahead and use it to bisect the interval as well.

Another interesting implementation detail-- at very tight relative tolerances, you also need to calculate the terminating bracket width based on the larger of |b| and |a|-- due to floating point effects, if you find the terminating bracket width by applying the relative tolerance to the smaller value, you can occasionally run into a problem where adding that width to one of a or b fails to change the estimated value.
I mostly agree with you, but I'm not sure if there is data to prove. I would be interested in running such an A/B test myself.
This sort of already exists through the service hooks they have, there are 122 services atm.