skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. In the end, I'm glad the company just didn't get back to me. I found a much better position that I'm very happy with. the entire experience was strange in more ways than what I listed. Writing out everything just makes me feel like I'm taking it to an extreme. For example:

#1 There were other questions on top of that where the recruiter obviously didn't pay attention. Such as I'd mention that I use the MVC pattern to program and have been using it via a PHP framework. He would follow that up with "Do you have any experience with MVC?" and I'm like, are you serious? I just said that I've been programming this way for years. Right after that he'd ask "Have you used any PHP Frameworks?" and again, I'm bewildered because I've already answered this. He would also, LITERALLY, ask the same question again, five minutes later as if he wasn't paying attention. I'm all for curveballs. I've been interviewed for a front-end job and was asked about SQL but it was approached differently rather than "top 10 questions" from Google. Idk. You might be right though, it could have been a test.

#2 Indeed, the company doesn't. However it's discouraging after you're told, "You'll get a response within 48 hours" and nothing happens. Or when a recruiter ignores half your email by ignoring any questions you have and responding to the last sentence in your email. I don't write lengthy emails either. I like to keep it short and concise so you can quickly scan it on your phone if anything.

In the end, I'm happy to not be there and not deal with them. I might just contact them for the hell of it to see what's up.
Well, I loaded the Super Mario Bros Soundslice, set it to scrolling, hit play, then put on my ear defenders as the MBP tried to commit fan-suicide. Maybe it's just a Firefoxism but normally only Flash makes the fans go that hard...
Podcast #37 – 6 secrets to startup success with Matt from Vooza
If your papers are already on Academia.edu, and that is where you share your research output, it's useful to be able to share your data-sets and code too.

Of course that doesn't prevent you from uploading data to other places on the web, such as the site you mention...
Seems like guessing a password would be an example. Assuming that the length of a password is N, if the machine can somehow guess the password, it can verify in O[N]. On the other hand, if the password is not known, the number of possible combinations to try would be exponential.
> I. INTRODUCTION
> Plaintiffs1 have outmaneuvered the legal system. They’ve discovered the
> nexus of antiquated copyright laws, paralyzing social stigma, and unaffordable
> defense costs. And they exploit this anomaly by accusing individuals of illegally
> downloading a single pornographic video. Then they offer to settle—for a sum calculated to be > > just below the cost of a bare-bones defense. For these individuals,
> resistance is futile; most reluctantly pay rather than have their names associated with
> illegally downloading porn. So now, copyright laws originally designed to
> compensate starving artists allow, starving attorneys in this electronic-media era to
> plunder the citizenry.
> Plaintiffs do have a right to assert their intellectual-property rights, so long as
> they do it right. But Plaintiffs’ filing of cases using the same boilerplate complaint
> against dozens of defendants raised the Court’s alert. It was when the Court realized
> Plaintiffs engaged their cloak of shell companies and fraud that the Court went to
> battlestations.

Right at the top. Looks exactly like a writeup about patent trolling except for the porn part.
According to some comments above, GIMP does support PSD files, and I know for a fact that GIMP supports scripting, so you could just write a script to export the layers for you.
WTOP & FedNewsRadio Websites Hacked & Punting Fake AV
Simply providing the ability to upload data only solves a small part of the problem. We run the CRAWDAD wireless network data archive (http://crawdad.org/) and the hardest parts are: convincing people to share data; ensuring that the data can be shared (much of the time this is not possible due to consent, data protection, etc); sanitising the data; and finally (and most time-consumingly) creating appropriate metadata so that the data are meaningful to other researchers.

The Research Data Alliance (http://rd-alliance.org/) is trying to solve many of these problems.
Poll Everywhere (YC S08) Looking for a Growth Hacker
Do you have anything to back that up? I would imagine that most lower income people have already been hit and preserving status quo might be in the interest of anyone who has managed to stay. At least in the short run.
Worldwide Locations of Contributers to Linux on Github
Download the SDK from intel and you will get a f___ing exe ... basically you need Windows sh__ to do anything with it.
I got my last two jobs this way minus the white paper. For the last one I learned Rails and made an app using the technologies listed in the job description, threw it up on Github, spent a lot of time on the cover letter, and voila.

They also asked me lots of computer science oriented questions in the interview, and for most of them I just said, straight up, "I don't have a formal CS education, so I don't know, but here's how I think that works."

So many people try to stand out by doing some variation on the standard resume + cover letter routine, so it's relatively easy to stand out if you do literally anything else.
- Carrier-grade NAT forces users to share IPv4 addresses, making it difficult to ban offenders without collateral damage. This problem is only going to get worse.

- NATs are full of state, and state is messy. Making your site route around them may improve performance.

- This is one of the few areas where software people can directly make the world a better place, by preventing "our" Internet from regressing into something that more resembles the telco network.

- Lack of IPv6 support strains the credibility of companies that purport to be on the forefront of technology. Google, Facebook, and Wikipedia (and Bing?!) figured this out; why can't Hacker News?

- It gives your site a green 6 in IPvFoo, instead of a red 4. Six is 2 better than four, and green is 100THz better than red.
> low-cost housing areas near campus.

"relatively". relatively low-cost housing areas.

Also, it's not a comparable living experience at all. Mountain View is bikeable, sure, but it's not walkable.
Interviewing in Silicon Valley
I assume we're doing the land grab once we've sorted out all the other important things we've got to do first :)
Creative Coding with Processing.js
Agreed. There are many aspects to changing the scientific ecosystem in such a way that sharing data-sets is the default, not the exception.

My sense is that the most critical aspect here is the incentives aspect. I think if sharing data-sets can enhance a scientist's reputation, and make it easier for them to demonstrate to grant committees that they have had an impact on the field, scientists will put in the work to curate and share data-sets.
Microsoft Prepares U-Turn on Windows 8
To me, .io brings to mind just another junky spam site.
I have yet to see an input/output related .io site
As much sense as it seems to make, I would sooner see pig fly than something like that happen.
Not counting the probable usual issue with code licenses.
My first reaction was "daaaammmnnnn".

Second reaction was to call a lawyer friend to confirm my first reaction.
Rent control drives up rents for everyone who isn't in a rent controlled apartment. Those higher rents affect the young guy working at Starbucks, who is unlikely to have a rent controlled apartment, before it affects the young guy who works at Google, who is also unlikely to have a rent controlled apartment but can at least better afford the resulting rent increases.
Now for the patent trolls.
Dilbert takes a stab at Yahoo's WFH policy [comic]
What confuses me is that the only stuff they got smacked for was deficiency in how they operated, not anything fundamental to the business of copyright trolling. Another group of lawyers could easily do exactly this, while maintaining more arms-length relationships with the copyright owners, and not taking shortcuts on the cases, and be completely within the law.
I'm not sure what you're asking, but Prenda's lawsuits sound very RIAA-style to me (although it's not clear that any of the settlement money ever went back to the porn makers). I assume Prenda didn't just make up the IP addresses they were suing, although that doesn't mean their defendants actually torrented the porn in question either.
A judge is not a free agent; they can only rule on the cases they're assigned.

Moreover, what got this judge's goat was specifically "the illegal parts" of what Prenda was doing, most notably repeatedly lying in court. It wasn't the tangled ownership structure (a feature they share with some of the trolls in the news, like, say, Lodsys), but specific lies they told about it.

(The reason the ownership mattered in the Prenda case is that the lawyers and the owners were one and the same, which is against some court rules. Whoever owns Lodsys, it's pretty clearly not the attorneys representing them in court. And the lies about the ownership structure were not necessarily the most extravagant or significant --- Judge Wright also has a lot to say about misrepresentations of evidence, etc.)
Ask HN: What's the state of machine learning, and should new entrants pursue it?
What's the state of machine learning today, as a field? Have the "big problems" been solved (and only evolutionary tweaks remain), or are there major problems still to be solved?

The question is mainly related to whether it makes sense today for someone to go into this field, or is it too late for major contributions to be made?
You're way overstating the violence in the Mission. I think you're actually thinking about Oakland, where random people get shot all the time.
When I was 9 years old, I decided that I wanted to start saving my money up for an air rifle. When I told my mother, she said that I'd have to wait until I'm 16. That Christmas, my father bought me a .22 rifle. I guess there was a lack of communication somewhere. From my 9th Christmas to the time I was an adult, I was able to touch it about a dozen times. Whenever we weren't at a firing range, it was locked in a safe that only my father had access to.

The 2nd amendment protects our right to bear arms, and nothing should infringe upon that. However, when parents are so fucking stupid that they leave weapons and ammunition out for their unattended children to play with, they should be convicted of negligent homicide and sent to prison.
I had a great time building this -- Angular ended up being perfect here.

I'd be curious what an Ember version would look like -- anyone have any insight?
IMHO, little that you mention, the books, the open source projects, the magnitudes of complexity, the math, code-kata, the introspection, whatever, has much to do with what people need to develop software. What you need to be able to do is take crazy shit thought up by management, clients, contractors, government, and turn it into good enough software. The job is to appease those who are paying and attempt to squeeze as much good code into it as they can tolerate.

Get passable at that and someone will give you a job.
Blue Box did a big performance experiemtn / white paper with Clustrix last year. The results were impressive. The details can be found here: http://bit.ly/SzFnnA
> - when I type in a URL in my browser's address bar, press Enter, and then the page appears, tell me what happened technically in as low level as possible.

Hey, that's one of my favorite questions as well! Great way to gauge depth of knowledge, and you can take it so many places afterwards (HTTPS / SSL, REST, etc).

The best answer I heard started with "well, the enter key press triggers an interrupt...., followed by discussion of browser / OS differences with respect to caching DNS info."
They won't be able to do this, for the same reason they couldn't open source Flash - too much proprietary code and licenced stuff.
There's forcing users to add complexity.

And there's recognizing that a known password, or knowable password, is a poor password.

There are existing lists of millions of known passwords recovered from various hack attacks and break-ins. Weakness follows a Poisson distribution, with the weakest 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, ... etc, catching progressively more user accounts.

Instituting systems to check against know passwords, or even subsets of the list, when generating an account, on login, or even with regular attempts against known accounts to reject poor passwords, force password changes, or identify poorly-secured accounts is within the realm of technical feasibility. It's functionality which should (in the "would be a good thing to", not "it does" sense) exist in common development toolkits.

Better would be obsoleting password-based authentication in favor of key-based challenge-response, but support of this within browsers (yay! centralized implementation point), apps (oh crap....), and other tools (more oh crap) is still years off (despite being called for for years).

There's still the matter of master security over a device or authentication system, but we can get away from the present problem of users sharing weak passwords across large numbers of sites.
Meanwhile, I hang out there on Thursday nights and I've never had a problem. Love it, in fact.
Good memories! I learned to program making silly games on a crappy computer in QBasic :)
Easy golf tips
easy golf tips
Satoshi Square, NY: First open-air marketplace for Bitcoin
That was the only thing they could be smacked for, so the judge smacked hard. It is possible to conduct this extortion within the law and that is a problem, but judges can't change law. Notice has now been sent however that if you're going to flaunt the law's deficiencies for personal gain at the expense of the legal commons, you damn well better bring your A game.
The quote about context is interesting, so he is predicting Ive might read Bret Victor's Magic Ink paper? :)
Aegisub - Free, Cross-platform Open Source Subtitle Editor
Yeah, look, given the organizers, I am shocked there weren't a bunch of fires in the streets last night. So from a distance the police presence looks like overkill, and I am no fan of the police in general, but they had every reason to believe the event yesterday was going to turn violent.
I had to read that three times, but the payoff was worth it. Thanks.
Do you mean East Palo Alto, or the whole valley? There is almost no housing supply in the valley. I have the feeling that engineers are now priced out of the market in the valley. Houses sell to bidders that offer no contingencies, cash, and a price that exceeds a lender's appraisal.
Well, I tried. Good luck!
popehat is great, and in spite this being one of their smaller articles, I fail to follow what it boils down to. Can someone please summarize what Prenda has to now do -- Do they serve time? Do they pay millions? Are they not allowed to practice again?
Yup. Freaking google voice does this and it can takes minutes to load the text message if you have poor signal.
Two questions, if you don't mind.

Do you program at work?

When you say it took a month to get started, were you creating anything more complex than a simple command line program that does basic math or prints strings?

The reason I ask is because I haven't had much of a problem understanding the syntax of any language or figuring out fizz buzz or other simple tutorials, but I still struggle to create things that someone might actually want to use.

My greatest work thus far is a website that: looks nice, has no content, and has a sign-up form validated with jQuery and PHP. I've been learning off and on for over a year now.
A lot of this angst can be resolved by just buckling down and working through a good algorithms/datastructures book, chapter exercises and all. Yes algorithm puzzles are over used in interviews, but if the game is played that way, learn to play it.

My 2 cents.
Wow, glad I've never been interviewed by you.
Torquebox or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the JVM
Are Google/Facebook/Apple employees living in that neighborhood because the company shuttle buses make it convenient, or did the companies start sending shuttles there because so many employees live there?
What's a fair way to describe Wakefield? "A viable choice for the second time-machine intervention, after Hitler?"
Gimp absolutely does not support 100% correct conversion from psd. Layer effects are particularly broken. I have not seen any third party tool that properly handles psd files containing non-rasterized layers.
OT: Grr, paywall... Is there some kind of HN policy about this?
Must've been bad karma from leaving Tesla.
I am in the situation of having a product that doesn't sell. It may very well be that my product is no good and would not sell under any circumstances. However, I have observed the following behavior on the part of some potential buyers:

1) When I have barely explained what problem my product solves, people interrupt me with, "But I already have <crappy thing>." After that, they refuse to even consider the possibility that my solution may be better. It is almost comical how oftentimes, I am unable to finish a single sentence for the rest of the conversation. Everything I start saying gets interrupted with claims that <crappy thing> has all these awesome features, which I know it does not. That would be Principle 3, "The Endowment Effect."

2) People scan everything that I say for a potential loss or cost that my product may incur (and yes, there is a cost). After that, again, the conversation becomes almost comical, reminiscent of a Monty Python sketch: every sentence that I start will be interrupted with some remark on how devastating the cost would be. It is impossible for me to direct the other person's attention to any gains that they would get. That would be Principle 1, "Losses Loom Larger than Gains."
I think I went through 50-75+ different applications, 25+ phone/skype screens, and 5 on-sites for my most recent job hunt. I stopped keeping track after a while.

I targeted companies that I thought I'd fit with a person and agreed with the products they made. It's very disenheartening to find out that you didn't make the cut time and again.

I guess I'd advise you to ensure (1) you're going to open houses and tech meetups in your area and (2) be sending out several targeted applications per day for companies that you genuinely want to work for.

Note, I would advise you or any other techie to move to a tech city for work. I've lived in the boonies for a few years now, there's almost no work here, no point in living here unless you have a cushy remote job.
Of course, but he's writing an article about the underdogs; naturally he'd rather identify with them :)
New Printable Handgun Raises Concerns for Undetectability, Universal Access
While an up vote is generally considered to suffice, I cannot thank you enough for this! I get a picture or both P=NP and Peano's axioms from this.
well has been there for a while now..but as a web developer i tried to use it but never able to use it..
...scary how accurate this quiz is.
I'm looking for work and this is kind of driving me up the wall too. Not so much the algorithm stuff (generally I can crush that, even if I see the point the author is making). It's the take-home stuff.

After you pass that their algorithm trivia test (subset sums? REALLY?), then they ask you to do a take-home test. The latest one is literally "here's some data, code up an interface. Be creative." No direction, no use cases. They barely explain what the product even is.

This isn't going to be easy. I've already spent four hours on it - getting a sense of their product and what their customers even want - and a few more hours thinking about it and then one hour just massaging the data. I can see six more hours ahead of me. I'm doing it mostly because it's a way to motivate myself to learn more about mobile interfaces, but it's really irritating. Perhaps I could use more boilerplate code (and I'm trying to use as much off the shelf stuff as possible), but what do they learn then?

One of my old employers was guilty of something even worse - their take home exam was "code up a bug tracker". I felt so embarrassed about that. Either they whipped up a basic thing in something that creates most of the forms for you (which tells us relatively little), or they spun their wheels for two or three days (trying to do it from scratch, likely not producing anything that good).
You do realize that you can get a 2D and a 3D context from a canvas element, right?
I actually don't even know what that amendment is good for. I haven't seen a gun in my life(except on cops) and I've managed to survive, feel safe. How many pistols per citizen are required for US citizens to feel safe, how many 10's of thousands bio/chem,nuclear weapons is required for US to feel safe?

Let's see the question in reverse at what point does weapons become more dangerous than protective for the society?
1. They have to pay for the attorney fees with a punitive multiplier, basically double. So instead of paying 40k they have to pay 80k for this case. Other cases will likely follow suite.

2. Judge Wright says he is referring Steele, Duffy, Hansmeier, and Gibbs to their respective state bars and federal bars. They can very well be debarred from practicing law, there will be a very thorough bar investigation. This is what lawyer's nightmare are made of.

3. He is referring the case to the U.S. Attorney's Office for RICO (Racketeer act) and the IRS. This is what Hells Angels/Mafia nightmares are made of.

4. All judges that have pending cases with these lawyers will be notified of the above (and most likely more).

Worse case scenario: More attorney fee x2 (how many cases did they prosecute?) , debarred, send to jail for racketeering.

tl;dr the Judge fined them 2x and then set 3 organizations you don't want to mess with on their asses, and told everyone about it.
Flash is also a runtime for code and supports video decoding. Fireworks on the other hand is a utility application built around the PNG graphics format (which is not patented, but Adobe/Macromedia has extended it for Fireworks metadata).

But even if it is a more suitable candidate to open-source, I just don't think there's much in it for Adobe. It'll just cost a lot of money with the lawyers involved and the whole code-base will need to be reviewed.