skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you available for hire this weekend?
Your target market is also probably familiar with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing
Excellent! Very well written and expressed.

There was an interviewee here today and I heard my boss tell someone to quiz him on big-o notation. I rolled my eyes.

Yesterday I had an interview that started off with "Tell me a bit about yourself." No direction as to what the interviewer wanted and, the worst part, as soon as I said I was done, he went right into asking me what the difference between "overloading" and "overriding" is.

How many years of experience do I need to have for them to stop asking me things like this? Most of my work lately is in JavaScript and Python. I had trouble answering "What's the difference between an abstract class and an interface?" That doesn't necessarily come up in those languages in a distinct way, so I'm out of practice in my vocabulary.

I have neat personal projects with source code on github. Do you really need to screen me with a phone interview?
"others want the person to explain their reasoning,"

I think far more people use whiteboard questions in that context than the article's author thinks.

" If the candidates guess incorrectly, they will fail the question, regardless of who they are or how good they know their trade."

I don't know about your experience, but in my experience candidates actually ask questions if you properly set up the problem and present an inviting atmosphere. And in my experience the best programmers are those that aren't afraid to ask good questions.
What am I supposed to do instead of the cookie-cutter technical interview? Right now I do "Ask any question that starts with the phrase “tell me about a time when”." for most of the interview.

I'm trying to give them an opportunity to describe technical things they've done so I can drill into details and suss out if they're exaggerating their skill-set and/or incapable of communication.

For perspective, I'm a schlub at my company they grab out of the hallway to give technical interviews, not the founder or a full-time HR guy.
Ok, I haven't read this. The title alone brings an immediate reaction.

I live in the U.S. I've observed, first hand and individually, more instances than I can count of deliberately unsafe work conditions.

Contractors having e.g. employees deal with lead paint without protection. Small businesses as well as large corporations having employees work regularly with unsafe chemicals.

Landlords renovating "under the radar", spreading toxic contaminants throughout their properties.

People take advantage of other people's ignorance. They "don't want to be hassled" and "hate the government" and want to "save money".

I'm one person. And I can hardly go through a day in life without running across this. In part, perhaps, because I am at least semi-informed, and because I pay attention to my surroundings.

It's no mystery to me that our population ends up with so many "unfit to work", disabled people.

In addition to the above, add the stress of job insecurity, health care insecurity, bully bosses.

A lot of people who have to live amidst this (and you, exhalted programmers and "high technology" wonks, are generally not -- in such roles -- among these; that is speaking generally, while I do recognize the individual experiences vary widely), eventually resign themselves that "this is the way the world works".

The smart ones try to save and earn a retirement before their body gives out. And/or to move into some sort of management position where knowledge and experience keep them valuable and employed.

In the U.S., at least, these circumstances continue to exist because we let them and because many people continue to take advantage of them. The next time you're looking for lower bids on your renovation project, keep this in mind.

There are the formal rules -- OSHA and all that. Then, there is an entire culture of "on the side" and "under the table" and loyalty and betrayal, that changes and morphs somewhat but that remains, on a day to day basis, apparently largely untouched by all this.

I'm sure it's worse, often far worse, in much of the rest of the world. But... the U.S. has more -- far more -- than a "few bad actors" that contribute to the problem, domestically. Lots of people make lots of money, in amounts both small and large, from taking advantage of this.

And... this is anecdote. One guy, just looking around as he goes through day-to-day living.

Another reason I am disgusted by the health care situation in this country (where the results of these problems ultimately end up). Another area where costs and benefits are not at all aligned and balanced, on an individual basis.
It would be helpful if some of you could share links to the production Ember apps you're working on.
I don't find it particularly surprising: You tell your kids to only cross the street when the light turns green (or at zebra crossings), and it becomes habit even for adults.

Of course jaywalking does happen (at least here in Frankfurt, and I'd guess it's the same for Berlin), but it's discouraged (Think of the Children[tm] [1]), and personally I see no harm in waiting the additional minute if I'm not in a hurry.

[1] http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kreisverwaltu...
Your mistake was choosing Berlin rather than any other part of Germany. I've lived here (Kreuzberg) for four years, and as far as I'm concerned all the stories about Germans yelling at you for jaywalking are pure urban legend.

I see people doing it constantly, and no one gives a fuck. Not as much as in New York, but it's hardly some profound cultural divide.
Hmm, 6 & 7 are the same. And I think you meant Thai, not Chinese.
Online retailers are venturing onto the high street
Sorry, it wasn't very obvious... I would suggest putting the pricing in bold text near the pay with credit card button...

perhaps an additional field:
Email: [_____________]
Confirm Email: [________________]
Subscription: $24.95/Month (after free 7-day trial)

I tend to be suspicious when the price isn't at least as conspicuous as the biggest/boldest text.

Example: http://www.roadreadycertified.com/
If my assertion is false,

- Where is one single Ember example re-using an NPM module by one of the brilliant & profilic authors producing high quality libraries, such as substack, visionmedia etc. ?

- Where is one single Ember example that can be required by a CommonJS project?

- Where is one single Ember module in NPM registry?

Sorry for trolling.
I think my ideal way to land a job would be

1) contribute to some open source project.

2) get a beer with the company's dev team at a hackathon.

3) job offer.
Right, but the point of the second paragraph is that (in the aggregate) it's really not a dilemma at all. In conditions of very high employment (with the rising wages and physical mobility that entails) these people tend to go off disability (or not go on it at all) and enter the workforce for the simple reason that there is money available.

My point isn't that it's a perfect system, just that it scales the way you want it to and we should be wary of changing it just to stick it to some lazy good for nothings. Right now, like it or not, disability backfills a lot of what a "welfare" or "guaranteed income" program would be doing, and mucking with it risks severe poverty for its users and economic damage to the rest of us.
I would say it's far more difficult if you want to support the full range of capabilities that the Accept header supports. Accept can support more than a single mime-type, and can also include priorities on each mime-type accepted. If you combine that with multiple clients, I think caching based upon that header would be pretty difficult (or you'd have to make some simplifying assumptions).

Impossible? No, not really.

Worthwhile? My opinion is no. I haven't seen the practical benefits of the content-negotiation approach over the URL approach, but I have seen the practical difficulties, so I'm convinced.
If you evaluate whether or not those guys deserved the treatment they got on the basis of anyone's emotions, then it's all up for grabs. It's incorrect in the first place to support a claim of sexism on the basis of an individual's emotions.

Remember when we meet the Lion in the Wizard of Oz? Hyper-aggression and hyper-sensitivity go hand in hand. It doesn't make the hyper-sensitivity untrue in some way, but it also doesn't positively or negatively affect any arguments the Lion might have about the existence of abuse - they'll hold water on their own if they can.

I mean, the whole purpose of argument is objective reasoning, right? I thought this was primarily a discussion about whether or not there was sexism involved. All we can really say subjectively is that she got offended and apparently overreacted. Whatever she claims her emotions to be, they are valid claims.
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The premise of project C.A.I.N. ™ (Communication Advertisement Intelligence Network) is simple; when a subscriber makes a phone call through a service that utilizes VoIP, they will be presented with a patent pending logically targeted message from a sponsor. That sponsor could be the government or commercial entity, who will be covering the cost of that phone call for the subscriber. The key lies within a 10-15 second window known as the “ringback”. The “ringback” is the timeframe in which you hear the ringing sound after you dial a telephone number. The message heard by the subscriber will be delivered in conjunction with the normal ringing sound they are used to hearing when making a phone call, the ringing noise will be lowered and kept in the background as to keep the subscriber as comfortable as possible. All Telecommunication companies are looking for ways to subsidize infrastructure cost. All consumers are looking for ways to save money. Sponsors are always looking for a new medium. Our service will benefit all.
Let's start with the "must advocate" part. I work for Microsoft because I really like their web products. They don't tell me to comment on Hacker News, I don't get a HN comment bonus. The only possible impact commenting on HN could have on my job is negative. I'm just saying what I think.

I said that given a move away from .NET, Node would have been a better choice. I think Node is more open source friendly for a lot of reasons. For one thing, if cross platform friendliness is a primary driver, the Rails stack doesn't run easily on some of the most popular operating systems. The dev setup instructions are getting better, but they all began with "step 1. buy a mac". Is that really more enabling to the 2nd and 3rd world developers Jeff mentions? It's admittedly gotten better as they've added some Linux docs.

I also listed some reasons that C# is not really a non-starter for open source. Jeff's first two points don't really sell Ruby over .NET + Mono to me, and I explained that I don't think Jeff or StackOverflow really participated fully in the .NET open source ecosystem in a way that gave them a lot of value. There are a lot of self fulfilling prophecies in the .NET open source world.
Number 1 rule for hiring geeks.

- Do not ask for a .doc Microsoft Word document resume

Because we might be scrambling and downloading LibreOffice and converting our .latex resume to .doc, if you want to get our attention, ask for TXT, PDF or LaTeX format.
Sure. Or people who need to be managed closely to be productive.

Which, I remind you, is a significant portion--probably the majority--of humanity. To make a world that I'd want to live in, you're going to have to find a place for them besides the glue factory.
meant, we generate an account were the password is some random words...
I made something similar for recording HTML5 video tags which you can pipe getUserMedia to - https://github.com/wearefractal/recorder output is WebM though so transcoding is needed
I did use Ember with many NPM modules, and actually structured couple of Ember apps as CommonJS projects.

But I'm pretty dissatisfied. Which makes me a troll.
I think u missed the partvwhere thevlaw is for special people
Which is why its not violence against people
It says its ok to do this.....
Unequal before the law
Hec u should see my office after my own affirmative action andrea
Passed over for promo despite 30 yrs experience n longest working for company
Lies n punishment for aspergers
Office is 47 inches x 57 inches
Very hot interfering with frtility so wife n i cant have baby
Completely isolated from human contact for more than tw years
Tia stroke at 48 sitting so cramped
Trainee females git desks credenzas raises etc
Cant go to court, i have no rights ( as yhe judge told me when an ex took my son) which is another insane story ( faked murder n a bank robbery, but since it was a she i had no rights)
I still work here in reasearch computing in one of the worlds top med schools
No degree, self taught.... indonesian wife being punished

Its systemic and you cant complain OR ELSE
So i am justvwaiting to die and hanging on for my wife to be ok
( and a son whou graduated with honors in genetics
But he quit as they took his money away so he is accepting a commission in the navy
I went to bronx sci... but ya cant prove women are better unless u remove competition and bury it
But what can ya do???
My famiky already fled communism n the rest died who didnt
We were refugee and poor and i was to succed

Dont feel bad... u got off lucky
Sue if u can find a place
Go on w ur life, dont resent it
It will allow her to rot u from inside

There is an army of people who care

Now i return to a literally dark tiny isolated hole
i hope thectime passes fast n god can give my wife what comes
Nothing i can do
I am told i am priveledged despite being homeless to take classes
N homeless in ny is not a picnic... but i did attend barnard baruch
(Sis has lots of degrees n still in school..)

Good luck sir
Be happy
God bless
Forgive the format i am not used to using phone for this

I think u missed the partvwhere thevlaw is for special people
Which is why its not violence against people
It says its ok to do this.....
Unequal before the law
Hec u should see my office after my own affirmative action andrea
Passed over for promo despite 30 yrs experience n longest working for company
Lies n punishment for aspergers
Office is 47 inches x 57 inches
Very hot interfering with frtility so wife n i cant have baby
Completely isolated from human contact for more than tw years
Tia stroke at 48 sitting so cramped
Trainee females git desks credenzas raises etc
Cant go to court, i have no rights ( as yhe judge told me when an ex took my son) which is another insane story ( faked murder n a bank robbery, but since it was a she i had no rights)
I still work here in reasearch computing in one of the worlds top med schools
No degree, self taught.... indonesian wife being punished

Its systemic and you cant complain OR ELSE
So i am justvwaiting to die and hanging on for my wife to be ok
( and a son whou graduated with honors in genetics
But he quit as they took his money away so he is accepting a commission in the navy
I went to bronx sci... but ya cant prove women are better unless u remove competition and bury it
But what can ya do???
My famiky already fled communism n the rest died who didnt
We were refugee and poor and i was to succed

Dont feel bad... u got off lucky
Sue if u can find a place
Go on w ur life, dont resent it
It will allow her to rot u from inside

There is an army of people who care

Now i return to a literally dark tiny isolated hole
i hope thectime passes fast n god can give my wife what comes
Nothing i can do
I am told i am priveledged despite being homeless to take classes
N homeless in ny is not a picnic... but i did attend barnard baruch
(Sis has lots of degrees n still in school..)

Good luck sir
Be happy
God bless
Ask HN: Share a link to your Ember.js app?
There's been much discussion lately about the pro's and con's of Ember.js. I'd love to see some of the Ember.js applications other HN'ers have been working on.
Indeed, "unemployment" is notoriously hard to quanitfy. My point was simply that it's currently "high" relative to the two decades before 2008.
The Haskell unordered-containers package also uses HAMTs.

This technique of increasing the node size in order to speed up traversals on conventional architectures is actually quite general. You could do the same thing to finger-trees for example. One disadvantage is that lots of different versions of the same structure take up more space than they would otherwise.

An advantage of applying tree-broadening to a finger-tree rather than a generic balanced tree structure, is that, depending on the ordering, it may make in order traversal faster, because elements that are near each other in the structure are also (in some sense) close together in memory.
If interest email info@skepsia.com
“Node.js V8 Korean-language backend optimization engineer”

Thats hilarious. I recently was job hunting and I ignored prob 20% of position due to that fact alone.
full disclosure: (I work for New Relic now)

I've also used New Relic developer mode to identify requests that have too many queries, and optimize them. At my last job I cut the queries on the homepage by 75% this way.
I also used it to look at GC, tuned that, and cut the total response time by about 80%
I would love to see prepay/caps implemented in a similar way. I give you $50 for the equivalent number of users, you stop serving me after that is exhausted. I can then chose to replenish today, tomorrow, next week or never.
Yeah Berliners are the far outs.
"It's the purest test of Language facility"

None of your alternatives "algorithms? Concurrency? Databases? Testing?" really test language facility. Those are important, and they have their place in the interview process, but so does language awareness.
Missing the point is that you try to think of an explanation but missing most obvious reasons (like preventing kids to run in front of cars). Beginning the sentence with "The Germans" when you have only been in one city feels kind of offensive to me. Especially since you draw conclusions very quick out of no real substance, imo.
Completely agree. Everyone in Germany seems to hate jaywalkers. Once I was in Worms, in southern Germany. I was coming out of a small rail station. There was what appeared to be a one lane road with a zebra crossing and traffic lights. There were no cars visible on that street --and as a brash youth (back then) I crossed the road against the light. What a faux pas! I got the stink eye from everyone within eyesight. Some people do bat eyes.
The Lindy Effect is on the side of e-mail.
> as long as people are being paid, why not pay them for "unprofitable" work?

What you're describing is very similar to the "full employment" of Soviet bloc countries.
That's the point. IE8 is old, and not 'perfectly fine' if you're creating a web-based product and not just looking for rounded corners. It was great after living with IE6, but we moved on. Even Google has dropped support for IE8 in most apps.
Here's how I'm using Gmail and rss2email to replace Google Reader
If you give me a few seconds of your time to say thanks, I probably won't mind spending a few minutes staying late to get a task completed.
Yapp is built on Ember and it has been a joy. Terrific community and a lovely layered design that lets you work at the level of abstraction appropriate to the interaction you are building. We have ember-data in production in selective places, and it definitely has a ways to go to deliver on its full promise. That said, you can't really build an ambitious app without some model/persistence concepts, or without an identity map, so it is a big win for that already.

The common refrain that I hear talking to people in NYC and the wider internet world is that people want Ember what Ember promises and has begun to deliver. More and more of those folks (including my team) are rolling up their sleeves to help make it fulfill its promise.
what sort of stuff would you like to see built on top of email? that could be very interesting
Limit them how? What is it that you think the Germans are suffering from that requires them to be more like the residents of Silicon Valley?
Heyzap (YC W09) releases Ads SDK allowing its 4,200 developers to monetize
Bitcoin gets regulated in the US
That "purpose" is generally to help service providers understand you better so that they can provide a product that better serves your wants and needs, as their customer.
> It was a mistake to "release" Ember itself as a 1.0 before Ember.Data was ready.

Ember 1.0 was released? Looks like only an rc-1 so far to me.

Also, Ember-data is a distinct project from Ember itself, no? It's in a different repo (https://github.com/emberjs/data) and states "This is definitely alpha-quality. The basics work, but there are for sure edge cases that are not yet handled."
"How do I raise a boy not to be a rapist?"
But it should affect how you treat people.

Saying the same thing to everyone would only work in a society where everyone was actually equal. In our existing societies, men dominate and male voices dominate. Unless you take that into account, saying the same thing to everyone might well mean saying something defacto-white-male-whatever-biased to everyone. Which isn't equalitarian at all.

Which is how you get a conference with 80% men and 20% women, and making a dick joke made someone else uncomfortable - she didn't choose, apropos of nothing, to be upset at that comment - saying "I'd make the same dick joke with/to my female friends" is not an equalitarian way out.
He who is getting hired is at the mercy of the person doing the hiring. That's just how it plays out. If I'm getting hired, I have no say on how a company should conduct their interview process. Their interview process is a window into how they operate, and if it's terrible, I won't want to work for them. i would hate to have a great interview process only to find out that the company is terrible. There is a need for terrible interview processes, so long as it matches the company. The last time I had a bunch of interviews, there was a company I interviewed at, they were so terrible I knew I didn't want to work for them. At the new company, I ran into people who interviewed at same company and refused to work for them, and into two more who use to work for that company and were glad to leave.

With that said, the biggest motivation for me is compensation. I don't care what problems they are trying to solve, I don't have to love it. Want me to write in COBOL? Fine, I'll learn it. Want me to work 10hrs a day? Fine, compensate me accordingly. Everything has a price.
Pricing your product from scratch
Yuri's Night
Google smartwatch may be next wearable computer (after Glass)
A good Chinese buffet. If you can't tell, or don't want to pay for, the difference, well...

P.S. (The secret is that good and cost are not in direct correspondence across the population of Chinese buffets.)
There will always be other currencies, and currencies that are not exchangeable are less desirable and therefore less valuable.

Do you care if you are paid in Chinese Yuan or USD? The currencies are interchangeable, but Yuan is very hard to convert it USD and you'll lose a lot when you do.

Regardless of how big bitcoin gets, everything will not be transacted in bitcoin. People try to accumulate capital to buy big things, like cars and houses. If you can't buy a beach house in Costa Rica - and any beach house, not just from a few sellers - then the currency is less valuable and people will prefer fiat currencies.

Bitcoin must be easily exchangeable to be widely adopted.