skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually only as long as they are interested in selling the service. There's nothing to stop from discontinuing it at any time in the future.
you have obligatory helmets in ny?
Technology available to a few among many has always existed.

Only lack of political leadership, and in the modern world, lack of global political cooperation, is disenfranchising the middle class and re-investment back into society.

It is the age old tug of war between forms of oligarchy (plutocracy and corporatocracy are forms of oligarchy) and forms of democracy. Severe societal crises, including wars, ensure a return of power in every case.
Apple's rather tacky overuse of it in recent years has given the whole thing a bad name, but the current trend for totally flat design goes (in my view) far too far the other way.

Skeuomorphism isn't simply a binary thing. There's all manner of different ways represent the real world, and different degrees of doing it.

Using some general attribute of real-world objects (e.g a shadow) is quite different from simple switch toggle to represent an on-off option, which is again quite different from a photo-realistic lightswitch to represent the same thing.

The "almost" flat design that is mentioned at the bottom may be a step back in the right direction, but as it stands I find most totally flat design pretty poor from a usability point of view.
How the Internet is fast unravelling mysteries of the Mayan script
Boosting PHP Apps Performance with APC
I was fortunate enough to hear Dr. Tutte give a talk in one of my undergraduate classes. It was Fall 2001 and I was a lowly undergrad at UW taking Math 249, the "advanced" requisite combinatorics course. I believe Dr. Tutte was a professor emeritus at the time and came to campus about once a week. Since our class was small, our prof asked us if we'd like to have Dr. Tutte give a talk. To be honest, I'd never heard about him before that, but the idea of having a math prof who helped fight Nazis come in was kind of awesome.

I still remember that talk to this day. The actual content of the talk was very interesting (he talked about his work at Bletchley Park, coming to Canada, his research at UW), but what has stuck most in my mind all these years was what I can only call his aura. Even at 80+ years old, he was a captivating speaker and all ~ 20 of us kids in that class were slack-jawed, hanging off our seat, listening to every word, in awe of him and what he did, especially since he wasn't that much older than any of us were when he did it.

I later did work with mesh parameterization and was delighted to find out that his work was considered seminal (the planar embedding theorem and the so called "Tutte weights"). He made a lot of contributions and published a lot of material, so I guess I shouldn't be so surprised that my area of research intersected with his. It was a nice feeling to be able to reference him though.

To his memory.
There are some people who just don't seem to enjoy food, and who go for repetitive and bland meals. It's sort of like people who don't enjoy music, or books, or films, or ... you get the idea. Generally they're perceived as a little odd.

Even here in Norway, where food is advertised as "mild" (euphemism for "bland" if there ever was one) people have some concepts of tasty food. You probably know some people who don't enjoy spicy food? Now imagine someone who thought plain bell peppers were too hot (there's no capsaicin in bell peppers).

As for the origin of this culinary anhedonia, Idunno. Maybe poor people who were able to live off gruel without grumbling had better reproductive fitness in the past?
Yeah, a lot of them are mainline stations. I wanted to include Overground stations and thought I might as well include anything in an Oystercard zone. Just forgot to change the title...:)

I'm going to look into price vs zone, though!
Explicitly not support other desktops? That's wrong, systemd is supported by various desktops. In any case systemd is different level, a desktop should add support, not the other way around. Obviously best if a systemd developer helps out with that effort in a desktop, but suggesting systemd project needs to have knowledge/support for desktops is crazy. It doesn't support GNOME, GNOME has support for systemd!
Google cloud platform support packages
Thank you for that explanation and the example. I love that calculator. I see why skeumorphic free design is hard to find. :)
Employee.objects.filter(boss__salary__lte=F('salary')).values_list('names', flat=True)
Employee.objects.filter(boss__salary__lte=F('salary'))

Find me employee objects which have a boss salary less than or equal to the salary.
I took a similar test, on-line while being watched. 4 sets of 10 multiple choice questions: SQL, unix commands, vi, & HTML. Make your 10 choices, click submit, get your score. It was kinda silly, but what the heck...

It was ridiculously easy and I got all 40 right without much thinking, as many people here would also, I imagine.

Then I asked, "Why bother with this after reading my resume?"

They answered, "We have to do this. We've interviewed 52 programmers with resumes similar to yours and no one else got them all right. In fact, the highest score before you was 32."

Wow. Is this the state of our industry now?
Yep, I've done a lot of PL/SQL programming, and we've always used (+)= syntax and joins with all the tables after commas and all the joining conditions after WHERE.

Now I work on different project and we use join syntax, but I could easily imagine people that do joins all day, and not know JOIN .. ON .. syntax.
Drop the word blackhat from your SEO experience and mention of forum membership as well. You are starting off with a huge red flag.

Remove non-qualifying words as "familiar". You either know html5/css3 or you don't. Same goes for modifying PHP code files. You either know PHP or you don't. Talking about modifying is odd.

I'd consider leaving education section out altogether. It's not your strongest point so no reason to put it on display.
I don't see anything wrong with a single developer concentrating on a few projects? How many developers do you know that make significant contributions to many different projects?!

Do you have a source for you claim that lennarts explicitely not supports non-Gnome? I think it is pretty clear that he doesn't support non-Linux, but why is that wrong?

Looking into the git contributions he is not even the one who contributed most!
http://pastebin.com/bkUs3jXa

On the other hand: What i don't like about Canonical is their latest move to first pretend to support Wayland and then mysteriously presenting Mir all the while spreading bullshit about how Wayland is not good enough.
It started yesterday.
So the question is, do you represent yourself as a SQL developer? If not, no drama.
Paypal discontinues personal payments in Malaysia
There are some really good SQL libraries out there that make it easy to compose SQL and some of them also include an ORM built on top of the basic abstraction.

SQLAlchemy is a great example of this, I always get precisely the SQL query I would've written myself, except it's syntactically correct, easy to compose and has a chance of being portable.
As an external observer I have to say that this is what they would appear to be for. There does not seem to be a shortage of skilled developers in the USA - least of all around such companies as IBM (who are large "users" of such visas).
I use referrers extensively (see how sites are doing traffic wise, traffic trades etc) so I am definitely glad they exist, but i am always surprised it was ever added to the spec. think it was added in 1.1 (so 1999). Without it I guess a LOT of sites nowadays would link out with urls like ?from=mysite.com so people knew where traffic was coming from.

It is, like you said, basically a massive privacy hole. But a very handy one
You've heard of the FizzBuzz test, right?
> I find this quite interesting. We have a business that is supplying goods and paying it's employees. Let's chop it into one part that will survive and make me money and another part which will most likely die meaning all the employees are fired.

This is the american corporate/MBA logic. Japanese business culture is to keep it around and try to develop it. It springs from the same reasoning where Japanese business hire their engineers right out of college and people have their job/position in one company for life.
You raise a good point about interviewing via trivia questions but I think you'd have to agree that for someone to know a subject there is an inherent amount of information that a person needs to know.

What that line is can be fuzzy.

Consider C, what is the difference between the stack and the heap? yes you can look this up but if a candidate doesn't know this cold then they just can't write C code properly.

Simiarly for sql if a candidate can't write a simple join then it's pretty obvious that they haven't really used sql before.

The sql questions asked here are somewhere around the fizzbuzz level of skill. Any sql user should be able to answer them given a properly setup dev environment.
I don't think they are mandatory in nyc but it's dangerous for even experienced bikers, so good for them to be smart about it.

I mean you don't really survive even the first impact and sometimes when you think you do, an hour later you don't: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/18/brain.injury/ (aka "talk and die")
"I think that the fundamental problem is that we're used to a certain low-level dishonesty in job prospecting."

Exactly right. I think this guys is a little over the top, but good for him. We need a change to the system. There are excellent employees out there who do not interview well.
Bike helmets are not required for adults.

I usually wear one when biking in Manhattan, but I rode Citibike today and went helmetless.

This is probably statistically whack, but I "feel" safer riding Citibike without the helmet, mostly because I can go a lot faster on my road bike.
Ah I missed the date.

Sadly it seems a bike was stolen in the first hour it was live too.
You said he mostly works alone. That's something different than amount of code. "Work alone" implies amount of people, not amount of code.

Obviously he started systemd and works full time on it. Then loads of other people work on it as well, but not nearly the same amount as he does.

Kind of sad to start name calling when you're not clear about this yourself.
I think you'd be surprised the percentage of people who would fail to answer these (remembering how many can't answer fizzbuzz). I wouldn't read the answers to them as any measure of real expertise, just you're talking to someone who knows their way round a database and can apply the basics - you'd be shocked how many people who "know" SQL can't use GROUP BY (even when prompted). For a lot of people SELECT, FROM, WHERE is SQL.

In terms of "what would you do if" type questions - they're often no less prone to book answers. What you really want is "give me a specific example of when this happened to you and how did you behave" as they're more likely to test real experience. Sure people can lie but when you start digging into it few people are good enough to continually make up exact details on the spot without getting suspiciously vague (or having behaved in a suspiciously perfect manner).
3rd paragraph of article:

"Some people might say it is too basic, but that's not the point. The test's job is not to tell genius and rockstars from "normal" devs. The purpose is to save you time and quickly filter out DB-experienced guys from the ones that just claim to be."
Pretty clean. I can't help but think that Yahoo! is just trying to roll their own Twitter Bootstrap.
That's just not true, you are talking bullshit here.
You can look into the git repository yourself and see who contributed most lines. And it was Kay Sievers, not even Lennart Poettering.

edit: @nknight followup:

Did you even look into git for yourself?
Even with excluding udev the top contributors are:

613 Fabiano Fidêncio
812 Lukas Nykryn
929 Auke Kok
1138 Simon McVittie
1149 Marc-Antoine Perennou
2125 Dan Horák
2215 Thomas Bächler
3619 Harald Hoyer
7924 Michael Biebl
18850 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
30226 Tomasz Torcz
168803 Kay Sievers
170196 Lennart Poettering

On what planet is that "all by Lennart"?!
Not a big fan of on-the-job training, then?

Instead of paying a nominal price for people relearning some primitives for a specialized area of IT/software dev, nowadays most companies want the new kids to go to $80,000 worth of college for the same. That way, the employer gets to skip training, and the student is less likely to leave because he or she has too much damned debt to be mobile.

Maybe I'm projecting.
No. I saw three people riding these this morning on my 4 block walk to work and none of them were wearing a helmet. I have a personal rule though to always wear a helmet when riding a bike. On my monitor with the browser maximized, the bottom line of this page: http://citibikenyc.com/riding-tips says "Citi Bike encourages you to wear a helmet and never ever text while riding!" They also sent me a coupon for $10 off a helmet at local bike shops.
"List employees (names) who have a bigger salary than their boss"

SELECT e1.Name FROM Employees e1 LEFT OUTER JOIN Employees e2
ON (e1.BossID = e2.EmployeeID)
WHERE e1.Salary > e2.Salary

"List departments that have less than 3 people in it"

SELECT d.Name, COUNT(e.EmployeeID) FROM Department d LEFT OUTER JOIN Employees e
ON (d.DepartmentID = e.DepartmentID)
GROUP BY d.Name HAVING COUNT(e.EmployeeID) < 3

"List all departments along with the total salary there"

SELECT d.Name, SUM(e.Salary) FROM Department d INNER JOIN Employees e
ON (d.DepartmentID = e.DepartmentID)
GROUP BY d.Name

"List employees that don't have a boss in the same department"

SELECT e1.Name FROM Employees e1 LEFT OUTER JOIN Employees e2
ON (e1.BossID = e2.EmployeeID)
WHERE e1.DepartmentID <> e2.DepartmentID

"List all departments along with the number of people there"

SELECT d.Name, COUNT(e.EmployeeID) FROM Department d
LEFT OUTER JOIN Employees e
ON (d.DepartmentID = e.DepartmentID)
GROUP BY d.Name
Show HN: M# Programming Language
Helmets aren't mandatory. Bike bells are.
Out of interest, what stack are you running on? The Spring apps I've worked with in the past (plain Tomcat+Spring) never took more than a few seconds to boot (and most changes could be hot deployed without a restart).
A little theory goes a long way in SQL.

Pick books focusing to SQL, not on databases overall.

Most database textbooks (Date, Ramakrishnan & Gehrke) cover a lot of ground, rather than just the language.
Attracted to Hard Problems
> Then I asked, "Why bother with this after reading my resume?"

You're aware that not everyone tells the truth on their resume right?

> Is this the state of our industry now?

Now? It's always been this bad... Happens when demand for talent out strips supply - the bar keeps falling.
True story, but such questions are just senseless.

If someone knows about set-theory and the ideas behind query-languages, knowing SQL isn't a deal breaker, it's just a nice to have.
Samsung also have terrible software, but they're doing great. I agree their software is a huge weakness, but having great software clearly isn't instrumental for success.

Sony just don't have the profit margins they need in stuff like TV, audio, etc. They also have really weak marketing in the phone space (their phones are on par with Samsung in hardware, and have a less-molested version of Android, but nobody knows they exist).

Their complete loss in the music player space though can be largely attributed to owning a music publishing arm. DRM killed all their (pretty decent) digital music players.
Highly critical remote command execution vulnerability in Struts 2
I had the same idea, but in an SQL Fiddle

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!1/778bb/5
> people often do an "inner join" leaving out empty departments

Empty departments have less than 3 people
Rockstar questions would start with window functions.

(Not it!)
Someone stole a bike before it was initially locked into the rack, which is pretty much a one-time event.

Not to mention the bikes have GPS and can be tracked down.

http://www.businessinsider.com/first-citi-bike-has-been-stol...
Looks nice, although as someone who has a dark desktop (inverted colors), people need to remember to set input backgrounds to white if they are styling the border, box-shadow, etc for a white input box. The form input elements look hideous for me.
I posted this story to HN. I just wish there was a little more honesty in the world, mostly because there is no real dialogue going on in most interviews. I know his ideas are new (and some say creepy), but we need to swing the pendulum the other way.

Honestly would increase the speed of productivity for everybody.
Game-Breaking Bug is Why Donkey Kong 64 required the Expansion Pak
Did you read the link?

Kay Sievers wrote udev, which Lennart swallowed into systemd and proceeded to make unusable outside his own pet configurations. Exclude the pre-existing udev, which was and should have remained a separate project, and it's all Lennart.
An interview is a conversation, which is a very high bandwidth medium of information exchange. But in order to get to the level of conversation, both parties need to be speaking the same language. What this test establishes is the baseline level of common language that makes it even possible to have a conversation about SQL databases. Someone who can't handle these sorts of questions is not someone I can usefully have a conversation about SQL with. I can teach them, and sometimes it's useful to have a pedagogical sort of interview; but for a standard, "can you do this job" interview, no, I need to be able to establish a baseline level of common understanding.
[Shameless spam plug, hope it's relevant here]

Just today I have added New York's Citibike to my bike sharing project [1]. Feel free to give it a spin!

List of juicy features:
- Android version
- Push notifications for stations of interest
- Distraction free map!
- HTML version [2]
- Hacky goodie: realtime world map [3]

[1]: CityBikes - http://citybik.es

[2]: http://api.citybik.es/citibikenyc.html

[3]: http://citybik.es/realtime/#citibikenyc
for the city bike helmets are snake oil, especially on those town bikes where you don't flip. it's almost like wearing a helmet to walk your dog. unless you wear a downhill one, then grab the full armor too and pick up a fight with drivers.

in other words: the kinds of injuries an average helmet from the market would protect in some low margin of cases - probably won't happen. in the ones you fear the most - won't help you anyway.
Bet you have one happy bunch of motivated developers working for you... that's an 'interesting' management style.
Folk generally don't study relational algebra, on its own, for fun.
Google Translate actually doesn't do a terrible job on the article text (it's not perfect, but it's understandable). It does kind of mess-up the English in the email though.
correct. Edited.
Chargaff's 2nd Parity Rule is Broadly Violated
There are no other significant contributors. I consider that "working mostly alone".
Didn't even know that there was such a thing as SQL Fiddle. That's going to come in handy, beyond this quiz, thanks.
Very nice! Love this! Using the TV to learn another language actually works really well. (I learned English as a kid watching British Fun Factory cartoons in the '80s). Downside is you also learn a lot of 'inside' things. just the other day my collegues looked at me like I was crazy, because I said "they were drinking (our clients) Kool-Aid". Nobody here knew what I was trying to say. Also, when I was with friends in France they told me I talk French like an American. Too much American TV I suppose.
Why 0..10? I think it would be instructional to mention how you chose these domains. Is minizinc smart enough to only go as high as necessary? If you had put 0..1000 would it have tested all 10001000100010001000*1000 combinations, or is it smart enough to ignore fruit > 7 and salad > 2?
Yeah, it sounds like that's the one to use. Unfortunately, it's around 10 times more expensive than Google Drive, so hardly worth it for non-critical data...
We need to design a phone that is cheap enough and runs on distributed wireless power + massive P2P Internet.
Their stuff generally looks good, but the likes of Samsung managed to make product every bit as good (or better) and at better prices, generally.

Also some of us still have a bitter taste in our mouths from the various rootkits and hacker lawsuits, so wouldn't touch them with a bargepole. I'm under no illusion we're a serious market force though.
Both. They did get a foothold from the acquisition of NAVTEQ but a lot of missing features such as real-time traffic, street view and satellite imagery needed to be integrated. This was completed with the help from Bing.

The offline maps is truly a blessing. Running low on battery but still en route? Switch off 4G and Wifi, the biggest battery suckers, and the navigation still works without any hiccup. The last time I was visiting a foreign country and had no data service, it came in handy too.
I enjoyed SQL Antipatterns by Bill Karwin. Very easy to read and offers some practical approaches to common issues.
The terrible writing about this trend is a complete embarrassment to the whole discipline of design.

You can tell few of these "writers" have had a proper design education and just learnt everything they know from tutorials.
Sony is into electronics, movie/music production, and insurance?

Reminds me of the Onion story: "Yamaha CEO Pleased With Current Production Of Jet Skis, Alto Saxophones, Snowmobiles, Power Generators, Scooters, Golf Carts"

Quote: "At the Yamaha Corporation we're focused on one thing and one thing alone—quality sound chips, ceiling brackets, editing software, race-kart engines, sport boats, flugelhorns, ATVs, sequencers, outboard motors, conference systems, golf clubs, projectors, MIDI controllers, lamp cartridges, portable recorders, subwoofers, component systems, and motorcycles."

http://www.theonion.com/articles/yamaha-ceo-pleased-with-cur...
Who wouldn't want to work for this guy?
On the other hand, keeping the bleeding part alive with money from another part of the company means that the prices in the electronics market will be artificially low, which makes it harder for all other makers of electronics. Maybe it's better that some electronics makers disappear from the market and let the remaining ones make a little bit more money, freeing some more resources for developing new innovative gadgets (or, admittedly, just making the owners wallets fatter), and maybe hire back some good engineers.

tl;dr: Keeping operations that can't live by themselves alive with external funding distorts the market, whether it is the government or the corporations that do it.
> systemd is supported by various desktops

Various desktops were forced to adapt to systemd's insanities. This is different from systemd attempting to be a good citizen and support existing mechanisms.