skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you have to build it and store, so the footprint of this data structure has now increased.

If the array of numbers is mutable, the index also needs to be a modifiable structure (like a tree).
open offices do not exist to make people more productive in performing a single task.

open offices exist to foster communication and collaboration between members of a team.
Most people wont even risk ego, let alone capital, to achieve that kind of success.
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I often see this kind of attitude expressed on internet forums as if it is the right answer in every situation.

All of the options expressed here will usually be built in to the language, there is no extra implementation cost at all. Pick a vector, sorted vector, set, map or hash-map.

Knowing and picking what is usually correct will not take more than a few seconds of extra thought.

Your attitude leads to "generally slow" programs that are the hardest to make faster.
I think referring to people by their last name w/o a title like you describe is the "proper/formal" way to do things. It's certainly how I see people referred to in traditional/conservative forms of publishing (for instance, non fiction business books unless the author really knew them on a personal basis)
>There is a bias in much of the mainstream press and commentariat that people from outside of NY-BOS-WAS-CHI-SEA-SF-LA are less intelligent, or at least well educated. Many public commenters harbor an anti-Texas (and anti-Southern, and anti-Midwestern) intellectual bias. They mistakenly treat John Kerry as smarter than George Bush because John Kerry talks like an Ivy League professor while George Bush talks like a Texan.

As a southerner living in New York City, this rang especially true. I grew up around brilliant people who the "intelligent elite" discounted simply because they weren't born in the proper region. It's such an arrogant and sad stance to take.
I understand that even a "dumb" president is probably smarter than the average person but on the other hand starting the Iraq war and ignoring the housing bubble are pretty convincing evidence that he was an idiot in all the ways that count.

Also impressive how fast these guys appear from under their rocks when they're called upon.
Actually, you can look up what George Bush's IQ is. Depending on the specific test mentioned, he comes in at about 120. So he may or may not be smarter than you...
I'm 90% certain that it can, but I haven't worked with it in a while. I remember a setting in the display options that simply combined all the dots of one color into one large group.
That does not match with my experience, especially considering that the majority of scholarships are need based. Especially at top universities, where merit scholarships are vanishingly rare (except at top LACs - liberal arts colleges).

edit: changed colloquial use of word.
A pile of ballast stones maybe.
Anecdotal evidence in the opposite direction: only half of my computer engineering peers in my graduating class of 2011 had jobs in the industry within 3 months of graduating.

While I think some devs are in high demand, I think many have little horizontal or upward mobility if they can get a job at all. I don't have a lot of evidence to back this up, and that WP study seems to talk a lot more about IT than software development, but I think it's probably something to think about. I think there's a crisis in training and mentorship in our industry, rather than one of willing bodies.
My dog is still smarter, though.
* cardinality of the array. Maybe there are a million entires, but only 3 distinct values. keeping an unsorted set of distinct values might, in this case, be a much better solution that a sorted index. No mention was made of data cardinality.
What you call xenophobic, others call noticing what is right in front of their noses.
7ft tall hacker? I imagine that should be in the GBWR.
It's true that NAT reduces the risk of portscans but that's not much of a benefit any more. For at least a decade the accepted best practice has been host rather than perimeter level security and that's only become more important over time. It took awhile but the average device sold today doesn't have anything listening by default; at this point you're just subsidizing a few market-trailing manufacturers.
George W Bush did abuse alcohol for most of his adult life. That can impact you cognitively. Not saying he "drank himself stupid" or anything like that, but It wouldn't surprise me if his drinking accelerated his cognitive decline as he aged.
Did you know you can create the periodic table in LaTeX?
School should teach critical thinking skills and I guess the concept of profit/loss...
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Where are you getting your information from? You're just simply wrong on many counts.

>During the 65 years of its independence, Federal government in India has remained under the control of one single family (the Gandhi family). Being the "biggest democracy" is just a farce. Similarly, most of the state governments are under the control of a select few families.

>Not really. They are not allowed to protest.

There's no good way to say it, that is simply factually wrong and unadulterated bullshit.

You must have been reading propaganda or have an axe to grind if you think the federal government has been under the control of the Gandhis 65 years since independence.
I resent (and reject the need for) the growth of the "security" apparatus as much as (almost) anybody else, but it's worth pointing out that what works for catching the "pros" is quite different from what works for catching amateurs. Pros are capable of inflicting greater damage, and are therefore a greater threat in that respect, but tend to organize in order to get access to larger resources. That means there's a larger target to "hit" when probing for information, and it makes picking up on plots much easier. An amateur can't inflict as much damage, but can do so practically undetected, and there's really not much that can be done about it AFAIK.

Thought experiment: suppose you wanted to kill as many people and cause as much chaos as you could. How would you go about it? And how easy would it be for the security apparatus to catch you? Would you be able to, evading capture, perform another attack a week later? How long could you go on?

It's really quite fortunate that the sort of people who want to do large amounts of violence, are exactly the sort of people who tend not be very good at it.
False positive by the flamewar detector.
some neat tools described in this article, any open source (self-hosting) alternatives available? ... openTSDB looks neat for instance.
In that case we can finally settle the question after all - it was always malice, not stupidity.
Ha! That is interesting! I didn't know about that... will tell Stephen.
No it isn't. It's a business plan problem. Stop blaming the developers for everything :)
Nothing unethical about putting your best foot forward.
This is the problem with anecdotes: your experience seriously does not mirror my experiences with top colleges and UC Berkeley. I took several math classes at Stanford and had to repeat them at UC Berkeley, and they were significantly easier (coursework and testing) than the equivalents at UC Berkeley, even considering the fact that when I took the classes at Berkeley I had already covered the basic foundation of the material at Stanford.
I never thought he was dumb. I just thought he was wrong.
The narrative that Bush was/is dumb because he stumbled on his words occasionally was always ridiculous and it amazed me how many people piled in on it - people who would normally never call someone dumb for that. (And who knew plenty of extremely smart people with public speaking skills far worse than Bush's).
Having done this, and, um, other things: legal fees for an unremarkable deal go to high five figures easy; sometimes they go much, much higher.
My opinion is that George W. Bush intentionally cultivated a slow, bumbling Texan everyman image when he ran for political office on the national stage. Compare his debate performance as gubernatorial challenger in 1994 versus the presidential incumbent in 2004:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvknGT8W5jA
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You know that number is pulled out of thin air, right?
I don't think that case applies at all to what I'm saying. What I was told was that the applicant pool that gets looked at is comprised of the top 5% of every ethnic category. There was no implicit or explicit mention of seats allotted for minorities, which seems to be the subject of the lawsuit you mentioned.
It's the same old, same old: It's an
old story that somehow too many powerful
people in the US Federal Government want
to do 'US national technical manpower
management'.

E.g., when Sputnik went up, the Feds via
the NSF flooded US high school and college
education with money, scholarships,
summer programs, etc. to get more US
citizens into STEM fields.

During the Cold War and the Space Race,
STEM students were paid nearly well
enough to buy a house; then the powers
that be got really scared.

But, with the stimulus, soon
the supply exceeded the demand; US
citizens who walked into a college STEM
course saw the TA and half of the students
from Asia or India, turned, and walked out.

So, right: Joe and Mary paid taxes to
support public education K-college and
graduate school. For their children
they struggled to meet college expenses.
And when their children went to college,
somehow they found lots of students
there from India and Asia. How come?
These students were from families with
annual incomes less than $10,000 yet
somehow got their children into the
college supported by the taxes of Joe and
Mary when Joe and Mary had to struggle
to pay for their children in that college?
Bummer. Sure: The students from India
and China were there on various scholarships,
indirectly paid for by Joe and Mary. Bummer.
Ripoff.

During the Viet Nam war, the head of the
Selective Service system was old General
Louis B. Hershey with the remark that
"The US Selective Service System has
national manpower management responsibilities
far exceeding staffing the armed forces."
by which he meant that US young men had
two, just two, options, (1) do well in
college or graduate school in STEM fields
or (2) go to Viet Nam. Of course, that
'responsibility' was only
in his egotistical imagination; still
he executed on his delusion.

Later much of the US 'military industrial
complex' concluded that there was a
US STEM shortage. So, the powers that be
got the NSF to set up a team of economists
to calculate, with essentially supply
and demand curves, how much 'stimulus'
would be needed to increase the labor
supply.

The stimulus didn't work well for US
citizens, so the plan was to write into
research grants in US research universities
that with the grant money so many students
had to be supported and that, hint, hint,
there were plenty of willing students from
India and Asia, hint, hint.

Then there got to be the H1B scam, mostly
just a new version of 'indentured servitude'
or 'slave labor'.

Basically, anytime STEM worker bees get
paid well enough to buy a house, big
forces in the US move to flood the
market with STEM graduates.

It's dirt simple: It's capital versus
labor. Capital has power and wants
cheap labor.

These US powers that be are just seeking
more money and power and, net, are seriously
hurting the basic strength of the US.

The solution is for US voters to become
informed and come together and vote
for the US for the US as a whole and
not just for the 1% richest capitalists.

Of course there's more at Prof. Norm
Matloff's

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html
Caricaturization is a defense mechanism, we much rather assume someone is stupid or don't understand than having malicious intent. Also intelligence doesn't necessarily imply rationality.
The more relevant question, especially in the context of startup success, is whether George W. Bush is wiser, more forward-thinking, or oriented toward better goals than you. Intelligence is only useful when you're directing it toward the right tasks and your end goals are genuinely beneficial.
and if you didn't know this going into an interview, you probably had no business going in the first place.

It's not a trick question, it's as much a part of quality software development to ask the right questions as it is to start hacking on the keyboard. The right answer to any interview question starts with "it depends, ..."
* Are the contents going to change?
"President Bush intentionally aimed his public image at average Americans rather than at Cambridge or Upper East Side elites."

I suspect the experiences, and attendant political lessons, of George Bush Sr. had a direct influence on the way George Bush Jr. presented himself.

Bush I was often criticized as intellectual, elitist, nerdy, aloof, and "Ivy League." He was trounced in his reelection campaign by Bill Clinton, the ultimate charismatic -- a brilliant guy who was adept at hiding his formidable intellect behind a folksy manner and a slow, Southern drawl.

Bush II took great pains to present himself as a man of the people, a Texan (he was born in Connecticut), and a guy's guy. Whether this was a reflection of his true character, or a political affectation, doesn't really matter; the distinction has been lost to the sands of time. It's probably some combination of the two. (Affectations, carried out over the long haul, have a tendency to shape actual character).
It's unlikely that Braff would "bolt" with the money, but I could imagine the movie getting canceled after the money has been spent, leaving backers with no movie and no refunds.
There are 180 open positions in Mountain View and 100,000 applications to Google every year. If you're telling me that out of 100,000 applications, there aren't 180 who could do a competent job, you have a problem totally unrelated to workforce supply.
1) The words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" appear nowhere in the Constitution.

2) In any event, the above phrase has nothing to do with immigration.

3) Even though Bluto asks in "Animal House" if it was over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, the Germans actually did not bomb Pearl Harbor.
Yea, I was off by a pesky decimal place.
First, I'm not talking about this case specifically, but rather responding to the top level poster's general comment about peoples' rights being protected.

Second, even in the absence of wiggle words, there is the issue of how broadly to interpret the protection. Read literally, the text only prohibits "compelling" a person "to be a witness against himself" (i.e. a compelled confession admissible into evidence). Extending the protection more broadly than that is an act of judicial balancing.
Pretty much by definition, though. They don't have an objective quality standard, but a relative one.
Exactly. It's been my experience that programming job offers in certain areas are plentiful, but the vast majority require relocation if you aren't local.

A very small percentage might be open to remote workers, but unless you live in or around these "hot spots" you're going to have a more difficult time finding work, not to mention a comparatively lower compensation.
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I am pretty sure clerks are seeing only a fraction of the people who were arrested or convicted, and that that fraction is strongly biased towards people who have money to spend on lawyers. The overwhelming majority of the millions of prisoners we have in America never had a trial.

I do not know where you got the idea that our criminal justice system is serving its purpose. It may be great at putting criminals in prison, but it is meant to protect innocent.
what is a "better" goal. The whole point of the article is that things are not black or white - and what you consider right and beneficial may not be the same for someone else :)
A little of topic but...

Having read the comments here and many blog posts on HN on this subject it seems that many recent graduates are not up to scratch with what the industry expects.

Yet a degree is required to obtain a H1-B visa or 12 years (IIRC) work experience, could the removal of this requirement ever possibly be lobbied for with judgement left up to the potential employer?

I realise that a degree is used as a general quality standard in immigration processes but this seems like a situation in which it could actually be detrimental.

Note: I'm from the UK, I see the same problems here and I'm curious about the U.S situation.
I was thinking maybe gp was referring to (at least) elisp.
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On the contrary, I think randall, commenting previously, highlighted perfectly well how it relates to startup commentary. HN is very much about accelerated startups and investor attraction I think, but there are those who also want to work differently.

I've had debates with friends and associates on exactly that topic in the past, about whether or not it's smarter to inject money, or just run your business.

There was definitely the intellectual argument that came up. Equating a difference of values to a difference of intelligence or wisdom is a hallmark of the inexperienced. In my opinion, those who do so invite themselves to peril.

Edit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5605014) for context
This piece fails due to a logical fallacy: the fallacy of composition. What is good for each scientist or engineer is a higher salary, but this is not necessarily good for all of them, or the rest of a country.

Perhaps having more scientists and engineers would depress their salaries, (though this is not necessarily true,) while increasing the country's total productivity, and making the average citizen richer.

So this article proves nothing, and fails to clearly define what they mean by shortage.
I think a lot of people said "he isn't very smart" when what they meant was "he isn't very stately". And his public persona wasn't.

His verbal gaffes are well known, even if they are overblown by the press. He sometimes spoke with a drawl. He was prone to making facial expressions that looked like confusion, even when that probably wasn't the cause. He embraced the whole Texas cattle rancher/farmer image with the cowboy hats. I think his sense of humor seemed a little pedestrian to some.

None of things really have much to do with intelligence other than it's not typically how we envision intelligent people.
You have plausible deniability for any single disk (assuming their is no info leak through other channels, (and possibly technicalities with TrueCrypt). However, you will have a difficult time claiming that they are all random, especially because you would be set up to run TrueCrypt.

The best approach I have heard is to have 2 TrueCrypt volumes, but claim you only have 1. You still have to be careful about data leaks, and making your 'one' look convincing.

Also, yes, you cannot be forced to give them your decryption keys.
When George W. Bush was governor, he spoke at my sister's high school graduation (http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/president-bush). His public persona changed significantly from Governor to President, and he definitely played up the everyman persona during his presidency.

While this may have polled well, these type of false personas should have no place in politics. The President is not an actor playing a role -- we should demand candidates whom are genuine and present their true self so we know who we're voting for.
I agree. As a high-school student, I notice that the top few percent of the class is comprised primarily of individuals who either 1) are innately intelligent (to the extent that innate ability exists at all. Obviously, there are many confounding factors in most of the criteria used to determine intelligence, and in many cases people misinterpret privilege with actual tallent. The people who are "innately smart" are those that can perform well with minimum effort, for whatever reason) or 2) work hard but are intrinsically motivated.

Few people manage to get ahead solely through being compelled to work hard. It's very difficult to force someone to sacrifice four years of their life to attain a goal that they themselves are ambivalent about.
Out of curiosity, did you derive this list from anywhere, or is it just from off the top of your head?
If it is not clear whether it's a violation of the agreement, then it is dishonest to accuse them of being in violation of the agreement.
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Could you please give 2-3 examples of marketing moves that helped you directly in getting more?
what a dangerous precedent you are setting, PD friends acting as judge and jury.

Laws change, and there are often subtleties to a law that make rash statements made by some PD friend with likely no more than a GED about "clear guilt" absurd. Even the simplest of laws aren't clear when looked at in detail.

This is why we have advocates with specific knowledge in these areas, and why judges hear briefs explaining the nuances of law, as it applies to a case. There just is no such thing as "clearly guilty"
Bush was born and raised in CT an hour outside of NYC. The image of him being a Texan was cultivated in the same way as much of his persona.
If you do not know what your birthright is, then it is unlikely that you will manage to keep it for very long.
Even if this were true, pretending to be stupid with the goal of getting elected is far worse than actually being stupid.
Were you allowed to move freely and choose what places to visit without restrictions? I've not heard of anyone being able to do that, and without that, you can't trust what you saw to be in any way representative.
Could it be confirmation bias?
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The issue with that idea is that you have to be 100% confident that Trucrypt does not leave behind artifacts that point to the non-dummy partitions, including things like "recently accessed documents" or indices created by the OS to speed up document/file searching.
"Bad things don't happen to good people, and good people don't do bad things or associate with bad people."

I really can't believe people can actually go through life and think this is a remotely reasonable statement. I'm not sure there are many statements in existence that I could disagree with more strongly...
please cite a source for "The male gender is used for the gender neutral case". as far as i can tell, this is an issue with no clean solution in modern English.

'he or she' is the most reasonable option in my opinion. it is cumbersome, but that is better than sexist or grammatically incorrect.

'we are looking for a technical lead. he or she will have three years experience as a lead developer or similar role.'
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We'll probably stop asking it, but I think what's been addictive about it is how quickly people give an answer.
Bad question. What is better when searching in an unsorted array - linear search or sorting and binary search? Assuming better implies faster only the size of the array and the (expected) number of searches matters.

If you want me to figure out if searching an array is the best option in the first place, then ask me that question. It is an important skill to ask questions - especially when you have to figure out what customers really need versus what they have requested - but expecting that a simple interview question with extremely narrow scope like this makes me question if an array is the correct choice is ridiculous.

It's a bit like when your math test asks you to calculate some annual interests for you savings account and you start to question if bringing money to a bank is the best option in the first place.
They take the computer and mirror the drive. This doesn't help