skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can boil the point of the article down to this line:

no one is good at identifying talent ahead of time

It isn't that you don't want talent, or that talent isn't exactly what you want all of your employees to have, but it is difficult to identify. So, the theory in the article seems to go, instead of trying to measure talent, look for other things in your workers- things that have a non-causal relationship to talent.

I swear there is a word for this in statistics- factors which do not have a clear causal relationship, yet still tend to be found together...
Couldn't a non-US manufacturer implement it and not officially sell their laptops in the US? Though it's probably not economically viable.
True! I changed it manually in the production DB.
It's times like this that I forget how lucky I am to live downtown in a major city. Within 15 minutes walking distance from my house, I have at least 4 used book stores, 2 record stores 1 vintage/thrift store, and another 2 vintage clothing stores, all of which accept trade ins for cash or merchandise. If none of those places give me moneys for my useless crap, then I can just leave stuff on my sidewalk and it'll be gone in less than a day.

WHEREAS, if I lived in a suburban area, which I assume you probably do, finding anyplace this would be substantially harder to achieve, and ideas like the OPs/amazons, would actually be pretty awesome.
It's still on:
https://www.adeccowaytowork.com/en/around-the-world
I found it very unsettling that there is no way to know how many slides were left -- I know that's probably github limitation, but maybe worth inserting summary/progress slides?
Other side of an airtight hatchway? For this to be at all relevant, you're already got me running your binary with my user's permissions.
Starting from about 25:00 in the interview he gives examples why. Everybody can listen an make an opinion.
HN is supposed to be (partly) about the joy of building stuff, and yet this entire thread is all about people pointing out flaws, missing features and minor annoyances instead of saying, "Good job!".

Give the guy a break and a chance to get the project off the ground.
From the blog post:

There are no country restrictions, and only standard restrictions for things like guns, gold, and humans.

I'm curious why the restrictions on firearms? The USPS has no restrictions on shipping and insuring firearms that are mailed in compliance with federal law.
Exactly. It's not uncommon for design firms (interactive and motion) to conduct a probation period with potential employees by paying them a freelance rate for a few months prior to writing an offer.

That's also why I balk at companies that give take home tests to screen applicants.
How is this good for the employee? So I quit my job and make a contract for few months, what should I do if they don't decide to hire me full-time? There's lots of risk to me, as companies at GroupTalent probably choose to not hire the employees as often as companies doing 'normal' recruitment.

In addition, I'm not sure how contract-to-hire for 4 months is different from hiring someone for 'full time' and then firing after the few first months if they don't perform well.
This is awesome! The biggest threat to validity I see is that your process of filtering from 10 resumes to 1 interview could introduce a lot of bias; if people ignore other warning signs that would weed out the resume because an applicant went to a top school, then you're going to end up with more stinkers with that attribute in your interview pool and undervaluing it in your final analysis.

I would not suggest that you go through and rate all the unaccepted resumes on the same scale and then regress against both "got an interview" and "got an offer" since that seems like a ton of work, but I think it would be the best way to resolve the threat. :-)
Thanks, that's a good read. I'm interested to see how effective it will be. I'm certainly not saying we'll be able to break non-deterministic crypto, but there's a lot we should be able to do that's out of our reach right now.

We're so early in development that we don't know how quickly we'll be able to scale them, but if we solve a few physical problems, we're looking the ability to scale up resources for linear costs for exponential rewards. With on-demand cloud pricing models for computing becoming the norm, normal people could do some pretty amazing things. It's hard to predict how quickly this will come, but it will definitely come eventually.
Can you put up a license for it?
Good to see. This is the way to respond to these type of mistakes, be completely transparent. Now if only the NSA subscribed to the same plan...

And since it wasn't directed toward me, I guess we all can forget my little rant regarding the "trashing" comment.
I made a shirt for all you guys who think the rape, erm, PICK UP ARTISTE, book is totes cool and nbd http://www.cafepress.com/mf/79293678/i-am-rape-culture_tshir...
First trailer for 'Jobs'
But then why are there 60 of them? You don't need that much for corporate email.
the twitter feed on the ripoff homepage is priceless right now :)
If you find a law that's been on the books for a long time "bizarre" show some restraint. There is likely a very good set of reasons for its existence. Go and research those and see if you agree with them or not. But these "I'm totally bewildered how could this possibly be?!" comments add very little.
Maybe Tice reads newspapers. Use of the datacenter would be nearly impossible to conceal. One can look at the power feeds with an IR camera and arrive at a reasonable estimate of power consumption. Also, water vapor from cooling equipment.
This should be the only way to hire. I've never hired anybody at my startup that I haven't worked closely with for at least a few months, and it seems sheer insanity to do otherwise.
It is likely that internal user data within Facebook (and other websites) is not encrypted, and can be freely snooped between the backend servers and the frontend servers.
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Even though the PDF is available online (with some missing images though), it would be nice to own a paper version of it.
It's also expedient for cattle ranchers in Brazil to slash-and-burn the Amazon rainforest. Doesn't make it one bit less of a "mistake".
Also, the stuff about MS degrees totally tracks with my subjective experience as a hiring manager - it's not a red flag exactly but I don't think I've ever been wowed by a person with an MS on their resume.

(I'm sure they do exist, don't hate me people with them!)
> The tension in feminism between sexual liberation, on the one hand, and repression of male sexuality on the other is remarkable.

Male sexuality isn't the domination of women and feminism makes no attempt to quash people's sexuality. This is pretty close to attributing social strata and gender roles to biological determinism, which is totally false.

> And make no doubt, feminism is now included in the official religion of our day.

Feminism has not been and is not a religion. Further, given the existing statistical data about social inequality, we can most certainly say that feminism is NOT a mainstream point of view for must people in the United States.

> How long before "misogynist" tweets are banned on twitter? Before "misogynists" are kicked off of facebook?

Given how much misogynistic stuff is on both facebook and twitter, never. But rest assured people will call you out for misogynistic crap and they are right to do so.

> And don't worry gentlemen, it is not violating your freedom of speech because these are private companies controlling every means of communication you have...

The nature of capitalism and corporatism w.r.t. the internet is another discussion to have.

> We are slouching towards a soft tyranny of the mind, driven by the marxist ideology that each member of an "inferior" group has the right to not be offended.

Feminism is not Marxism, except maybe that women as a class have a right to control the output of their labor (like all laboring classes), but that's another kind of discussion. If you believe that people challenging misogyny and kickstarter projects like this that promote rape and sexual assault is some kind of encroachment of your life, then you are part of the problem.
Labor laws make these sorts of arrangements difficult in other jobs. If the job requires that you go to the office and utilize the employer's equipment, you generally can't work as a consultant. Also, there are issues with workers compensation insurance. Most people also prefer full time work as it has benefits such as health insurance.
The latest research I've read (I'll edit with a link once I get back to my desk) and my own personal experience suggests that: A calorie is a calorie is a calorie.

All the fad diets that cut out a certain type of food all really just work because of calorie restriction. Look at the "cookie diet" for an example.

For me, I'm 6'2, I went from 210 to 175 over 10 months (while adding significant muscle mass, suggesting fat loss of 40+ lbs). I did this by changing my diet:
I eat nothing for breakfast. One cup of coffee with cream.
For lunch, I eat only fruit. Seasonal. Always an apple, sometimes two, berries and grapes, that sort of thing. Sure they're good for you in a non-processed-foods sense but they also are very high in sugar.

I eat a very large dinner.

I always, always eat dessert. Always.

I work out 3 mornings a week, those days I eat half my "lunch" right after my work-out.

Obviously I'm sharing an anecdote but I mention it just because it echo's the research I mentioned and as a testimonial that it works for me. I eat an absurd amount of sugars and carbs but my total calories are restricted and I'm in fantastic shape.
Soylent raises $750k on Crowdhoster – what’s next for open source crowdfunding?
I suggest you read this blog post by David Simon, creator of the Wire, which was posted on HN a few days ago:

http://davidsimon.com/the-nigger-wake-up-call/
Sure, this would be more clear if I had the audio to go along with it (which I should probably post too).

Basically, many (not all) successful venture-backed startups are creating new markets for themselves. Google wasn't successful because it was the best web portal - Google was successful because it rendered hierarchical web portals irrelevant. They created a new market that obsoleted an existing one.

In other words, if you're creating a market, you have a huge potential for upside. If you're entering an existing market with a superior product, that's possible, but more difficult.

These are all rough rules of thumb, of course, not hard-and-fast criteria.
His tweet makes the claim that 'auto dealers' specifically are the ones trying to get the bill passed. I was even so quick as to use the wrong terminology 'automaker', which is a different thing entirely.

Auto dealers are basically the guys trying to screw you over on the price of a new car. In other words, NOT Ford, or Toyota, or Volvo. But the guys selling the cars.

This is equivalent to, for example, mistaking the guy who runs a BP gas station with BP the company. Boycotting the gas station does jack shit to the bottom line of BP, though it does make for nasty public relations.

On top of that, he does so with no evidence that 'auto dealers' are even behind this bill being pushed through. Maybe it is the auto makers and not the dealers. Maybe it's a different source entirely, like the oil industry. Who the fuck knows?

And that's my point - this is an ambiguous incendiary tweet alleging something we don't know and can't prove. The only thing that's a real fact is there's a bill in New York and Elon Musk wants you to get mad about it.
FWIW: the practice of having prospective employees do a probation period as a contractor is (take your pick) unreasonable and/or counterproductive.
Node.JS: A Skeptic's View
The real problem is not in Singapore, but in Indonesia, and with the companies that are responsible for starting the fires.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/06/20/ri-dodges-haze...
> I wonder how much of a performance increase that yielded

It yielded 100Mbps+ SCP's with zero system CPU usage, very very handy. I've used a few older SSL accelerators and they were good for about 1Gbps or so. IMHO AES-NI makes these things obsolete, and with that going into the new Intel Atom cores, I think thats likely going to drop a lot of the competition out.
Even using one of the most ridiculous straw-man arguments I have ever seen, you still fail to make your point. Surely the benefits of being able to participate in the immense amount of activities that exist outside your house is worth the risk. In other words, the benefits outweigh the costs. Asking consent comes at negligible cost. Correct me if I am wrong, but I tend to think rape and assault is worse than opening my mouth.

Furthermore, the risk of being struck by lightning is one you accept when you exit the house. The same is not true in the actual object of the discussion because the victim of your actions will primarily be your would-be partner.

Finally, I find it extremely offense that you assert that the amount of sexual assaults that can be attributed to failure to obtain adequate consent to the chances of being struck by lightning upon exiting your house.

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Assuming that you do not present the best arguments for your side (at this point, I feel very safe in this assumption), I will acknowledge that, in a committed and well established relationship, it is possible to have sex without first asking for consent. Still, I am reluctant to encourage people to do so, and many sexual assaults occur in committed relationships. It is so easy to ask; I cannot see why someone would refrain from doing so.

EDIT: On further thought, I feel comfortable saying that after having asked consent each time a relationship progresses, that, in a committed relationship,it is safe to rely on non-verbal cues.
I think this calls for a meme.

http://qkme.me/3uxsx0
Nothing of the sort was written. The text in question:

“Even when a girl rejects your advances, she KNOWS that you desire her. That's hot. It arouses her physically and psychologically.”

Which may or may not be true, but nowhere did the author suggest to the reader that he should carry on after the girl objects. He strongly advises against it.
I applaud Tesla for trying super hard to disrupt the current selling model that's existed for decades. I understand why existing participants in the market wonder why this new competitor can play by a different set of rules. The irony is that once (if) Tesla starts selling cars in significant volume their purely direct/internet/word of mouth model will break down and they'll probably find themselves....... establishing dealerships!
A word counting problem – D and Haskell compared
somebody changed the link name. the trailers are nice but I wanted to point to the commenter who onus a bug/feature and pointed it out in the comments.

the link name should be "Dear Webmaster"
I'm not sure how the Google Maps integration works per iOS6 to be honest. All I know is that Google Maps opens whe I click on "view in maps app" in a variety of third party apps I've installed (real estate apps for example). I suspect that should I upgrade to iOS6, those apps would start opening Apple's maps, and I would severely miss the street view. That concern is currently putting me off, and I see no easy way to downgrade back to iOS5 should I'm forced to use Apple's maps app.
What do you mean "the kind of private property"? Private property is private property. MIT is a private university and its campus buildings and its campus network is private property.

The fact that it's an educational institution doesn't make its property any less private. IIRC, the fact that MIT is engaged in interstate commerce with the public brings it within the domain of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, but those laws carry only very specific limitations: MIT can't refuse someone access solely based on their: race, color, religion, or national origin, and must make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. Those regulations on the use of MIT's private property don't make the property any less private than any other such regulations, nor do they in any way prejudice MIT's rights to control access to their property for any other reason.
How Careers 2.0 (& not brainteasers) Helped My Hiring Process
I recently read Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses. RM built most major highways and parks in NY state, and effectively became an absolute ruler in his domain. For 40 years he exercised near total control. It made me understand the political process completely different way.

For RM, the 'broken' differencing format was a feature, not a bug. It allowed him to slip though all kinds of law changes without people understanding what he was up to. The book has many, many examples of exactly this differencing format being put to use to gain power.

The point about the differencing format is more broadly true - prior to reading the book, I thought politics was about having the right ideas, and explaining them clearly. But the book compellingly argues that politics is really about obtaining and wielding power. The people who thrive in politics are more interested in power than ideas.

It is a book that is well worth reading, especially if you are an idealistic programmer (like I was) who cannot understand why we can't just 'clean politics up.' (Also, Caro's LBJ biography is awesome, with similar themes.)
I hate to be a downer, but this is why Trademark law was invented. If you don't or can't get a trademark on your brand, it doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time, money, and energy promoting it.

There are a lot of slimy people in the world, and if you aren't protected eventually one of them will take advantage. Even a trademark might not stop it, but it gives you some ammo to fight back.
I like the concept of this; we've had a similar problem in the past and tried to build an in-house solution which kind of worked; but we ended up wasting a bunch of time on it.

Your site could really do with some code samples though - I get that you're trying to make the API look simple, but unless you know curl, it's not particularly clear how you actually hook this up into a real world unit tests in different languages?
But why would you? There's no purpose to having a company store all of your letters.

Using GMail gives me a free email account with lots of storage, search, and spam filters.
If the US media is inhibited from running stories about sensational overreaches by NSA, how did James Risen and Eric Lichtblau manage to get the SOLARWIND story published?
Why this 14-year-old Apple fanboy switched to Android
The Guardian is, by their own admission, a center-left paper. That's in Britain, which means they are somewhere between "radical" and "terrorist mooslim communisocialifascist" here in the US. The person who broke the stuff for them is very strongly political. [2]

US corporate media, on the other hand, subscribes to the "view from nowhere" style [3], which they mistake for objectivity. It makes them easily manipulated; when you create a controversy, they are obliged to move away from it. That gets you the classic, "Opinions on Shape of Earth Differ: Round or Flat?" journalism. [4]

This is compounded by the way newspaper journalism has been in decline for years, and was even before the Internet drank their milkshake. [5] Now, major newspapers feel very vulnerable, and one of their few remaining assets is that people in power will talk to them. That makes them basically stenographers to power. [6]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Political_stance_a...
[2] http://pressthink.org/2013/06/politics-some-politics-none-tw...
[3] http://pressthink.org/2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-question...
[4] http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/08/opinions_on_sha.html
[5] http://davidsimon.com/do-you-know-who-i-am/#comment-6754
[6] http://billayers.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/our-media-stenogra...
Would LOVE to know why people moded you down. Maybe because you're saying "it's up to an individual" and many individuals who have struggled with weight take umbrage to that? I don't know. But if so, I wish they'd mention that instead of just modding you down.
They found your e-mail without you giving it to them? Sounds like NSA.
Oh man, I'm sorry for OP because of all the negativity in this thread.

I think his service is kinda cool in a twisted way and I can totally see me building a little 'old school' homepage on it.

/edit: I did build a homepage: http://kybernetyk.neocities.org
I feel better now ;)
The link was for the mobile slate site. This is the non-mobile version:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/family/2013...
Does sound great, and reminds me alot about the predictions in Popular Mechanics.

Unfortunately, the greatest hindrance when it comes to great innovation and progress (that even Tesla is facing in other states) is politics.

However, I'm long on Tesla and I don't doubt Elon Musk for a second. He has electrical engineers (Tesla), computer technicians (Paypal...evident in Tesla's software), ..... and something that I can't believe is in his network.... rocket scientist (Space X...remember the saying "it's not rocket science," implies difficulty). To be as successful as he is, I'm sure he has political backing, it's just unfortunate that in politics, the basis is big bank takes little bank.
This is pretty awesome. Wish this had been around a few years ago. I've pretty much "reverse engineered" these concepts by following HN discussions...
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only a few kilometers? That's something like 67 thousand times the length of a honeybee, which would be equivalent to a human ranging around 133km for food/work every day. That's a hell of a commute, especially for a creature that has to violate physics to fly :)
the fix is simple. pay them. I'm pretty sure keeping development instance up is agains the tos.
Installation is no problem but what people usually complain about are conflicts among packages, which are easy to run into and hard to diagnose.

Recently I used LaTeX to make a bunch of nametags. I used the labels package and a package that extends the capabilities of tables. Each package is awesome on its own, but using them together caused some weird bugs to expose themselves, that I had to find ad-hoc workarounds for.
Fair comment. We're working on Java code samples. What programming language do you use?
Yes. I've been to many places where people were amazed with a US passport. They told me they have never seen one before in their lives.
Just make sure you're not chasing a fallacy. Most people find that creating "your own thing" isn't the path to freedom, but a prison far worse than any cubicle. Trust me, I've experienced it.

If you want real freedom, then find a job that provides that. You probably won't make the money you want. Or live the lifestyle you think you need. In the end, however, you'll be much more free to pursue life the way you want.

For instance, my wife dedicated herself to a PhD. She makes FAR less as a professor than she otherwise would, but she takes her summers off and gets to spend time out in the world. It's not a life of glamour, but it's a life of freedom.

There are jobs that offer equal levels of freedom. You just have to often be willing to compromise some things to find them.
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"We’re sorry for some recent negative comments." What a poorly written reaction.
Hey, I'll try to hunt this down for you but just to give you a heads up, the server gives me a 500 internal server error when I use characters like "ğ" or "ü".
I don't have the physical one, but I can't imagine what I could be missing out. If anything, you can keep reading it on your phone if you don't have your e-book with you etc.
About 50% of the human race is middlemen, and they don't take kindly to being eliminated
Good luck with that: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-...
Readingly
Yeah, it's a neat hack I suppose but in reality it's abusing it, whether it's against the TOS or not in my opinion.
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