skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, when you are able to detect and hire the best people you can put a heavy pressure on the competition by simultaneously depriving them of talent and attracting more talent yourself. E.g. if the company A that has 8 out of 10 top people in my field made me an offer then the B with 0 such people will have to make a much better offer for me to even consider them.

In such a situation the usual "false negative is okay, it cost more to hire a wrong person than to skip a right one" stops working. Skipping a right one will cost a lot in the long run.
I know EaselJS library has capability to cache the bitmap representation of SVG, so if you do not change stroke settings, paths, etc. it works really fast. When you change, you need to update the cache manually. This works for HTML5 Canvas, but they also have DOMElement class which is still experimental so YMMV. Or maybe there is some other lib. that does specifically for DOM.
I was hoping for a Q+A interview format, where the interviewer and the interviewee are the same person.

Glenn Gould, the prodigy pianist, famously interviewed himself: http://www.angelfire.com/in/eimaj/interviews/glenn.gould.htm...

Does anyone know other examples of this expository format?
But let's just take the migration away from CVS as an example. The current view on the topic is that no existing VCS can replace CVS and keep some of the properties that CVS has. Therefore, if we were to switch away from CVS, a bunch of developers attached to those old properties would possibly abandon the project.

A major open source project fighting about keeping CVS? Wow.
Here's roughly why:

PGP was invented. No-one used it. Cypherpunks warned everyone about intrusive government spying. Everyone ignored them We had things like ECHELON and key-escrow and clipper chip and etc etc. No-one cared. Various privacy and anonymity services and software were invented. No one used them.

The only people using these services were criminals or trolls, with a teeny tiny fraction of legitimate users.

To keep up with the arms-race these softwares got more complex. Because no-one uses them there's no-one to program them or to improve the gui, and so they've gained in complexity while keeping a lousy user experience.

No one wants to accept Tor or similar because it just opens up your service to a bunch of trolls, and without so many legitimate users there's no point.

tl:dr It's your own fault, sheeple. You walked into this.
Just to throw this in: my iOS project Ejecta[1] also does all the Vector drawing on the GPU using OpenGL ES2. It's not as advanced as NVidia's implementation (e.g. Ejecta computes all bezier points on the CPU and just draws on the GPU), but it's still much faster than what Apple is doing in CoreGraphics.

[1] http://impactjs.com/ejecta
The article doesn't specify _which_ business school they went to...doesn't necessarily mean they went to GSB haha.
It wont, because I'm not finished yet :) But I'll get it sending to you when I do.
I was too young to remember his presidency. But my understanding was that he started the war on drugs as a major component of his platform.

I could see his war on drugs falling under economic rescue, although my understanding is that this effort has had serious deleterious economic effects in the U.S.
Stop spying on the world.
Eradicate secret law.
Cease indefinite detention without trial.
Stop assassinating people.

One would think that those things were obvious democratic views and can't possible refer to anything other than some dark dictatorship in some back-hole country that no one has heard of. Yet this is not even denied by largest democratic country in existence. Is there any defense for how this got started and kept going?
Since his involvement in the initial act that thrust him into the spotlight I see nothimg that warrants the accolade of courageous.
You're probably correct, however starting off, if you start with say 10 people protesting on a local public street you may get 10 new people to notice you.

After a time you can double, triple, quadruple, etc. your numbers. Then go to DC with 70-100,000 and get attention.
I would appreciate it. My email is in my profile (I also signed up using that address).
in other words, a legal issue...liability
Illegal arms trafficking, which was somewhat more thoroughly proven than the CIA making a profit from its illegal drug trafficking. Its involvement, however, was pretty cut-and-dried, and goes far beyond being an "alleged scandal".
Fantastic - I mainly use YouTube for music and this is way, way better than the standard YT interface in almost every possible respect.

Cavils: I would like to sign in with my Google account (because it's important for me to know that the NSA understands my taste in music), and I can't find a way to search on the channels of YouTube users who have especially good music collections - ie I search by a channel name I know and like, but get nothing or the wrong stuff.

Edit: BTW, I'm also not sure about clicking in the video causing it to pause, but I can see how some people would like that.
As always, VentureHacks has great practical advice on the board:

http://venturehacks.com/articles/one-way-control

http://venturehacks.com/articles/board-structure
Looks interesting. The navigation links on the top left of your site don't work though.
Someone showed a similar service a few months back: youfm.org
But great job on the front end development. The UI is slick.
Well German schools push English pretty hard (American variety) so pretty much any <30 year old will speak passable English (plus its seen as cool). Pro travel tip that - always approach the young people.

>if this is a humble-brag...

Nah - unique circumstances. German background historically, but grew up in South Africa - where English and to a lesser extent Afrikaans is pretty much compulsory. Especially being white - people address me in either English or Afrikaans and expect that I reply in kind.

The school I went to alternated between English and German as the teaching medium - funded mainly by German though.

Edit: You should see some of the locals. They speak like 6+ languages. Sure they are closely related languages mostly but still...damn. Also...we've got more official languages than any other country.
IE10 has a smaller chrome at the top than both Chrome, and Firefox. I hear you on the plugins though.
> these teams are hired by technical interviews.
The "audition project" is a trend story with, from what I can see, very little empirical evidence to back it up.

The problem with the "audition project" is precisely that it has the same inconvenient economics as dating, finding an apartment, or job hunting/hiring in general, only more so. There is greatly increased "opportunity cost." This alone can explain the lack of data. It might be like a lot of "better" tests -- it might be a better way to gauge suitability on an instance-ti-instance basis, but the economics preclude it from being widely used.
If you're looking for a good reason why that wouldn't work I think you might want to look at the rise and fall of DMOZ which is known as The Open Directory Project. The problem with such an idea (which could be solved but is challenging) is that the web evolves quickly, and it takes funding to keep up with that. It also takes people to do that work, and while you can crowdsource some things with ease I think hardcore search engine really takes some specialization.

That said it's amazing to me how much of the web and internet is open. If you think about it something like Wikipedia is very useful and not owned by a corporation. If if you think about it that's sort of amazing when you look at the history of technology.
Well this for we knew would happen. It was just a matter of time. Now we enter the undefined territory where we don't really know what to expect from the various levels of the Hong Kong court system, as well as potential Beijing influence in one way or even the polar opposite.
Yep - English is really strong over there among the younger generation. Don't expect any Shakespeare - but any young person will make an effort to help (in English) if approached. Thats for the native looking Germans - I can't say regarding those with a Turkish background. I'd assume its the same though.

French is pretty strong too, but its seen as slightly more exotic whereas English is seen as a necessity/requirement for being "cool".
Has Google abandoned whiteboard coding interviews for developers? Unless the answer is yes, I think you might be misreading what Bock said.
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"They can only be controlled from a distance by having a data plan and being connected to a cell phone tower." - not really. You could control one using a good directional Wi-Fi antenna - I remember setting up a Wi-Fi link over a kilometer distance using a 30 quid antenna bought on ebay.
Brilliant. That's all. I just wanted to drop a little well-deserved praise.
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That is a really cool project, thanks for sharing!

> (e.g. Ejecta computes all bezier points on the CPU and just draws on the GPU)

I guess that's where the biggest gain comes from with NVIDIA: it's the only pure-GPU option right now, which probably eliminates quite a few bottlenecks. Freeing up the CPU is also never a bad thing.
Thanks :) ! If you search for a specific channel, you get nothing or wrong stuff ? Hum... It seems that it's a bug. I will inspect this. Thanks for the report.
I think bifrost's answer was better, "because its hard." It was not worth the effort for people to make tor friendly websites before, I am hoping that now that the cpunks have been vindicated more developers will take the time to make sites that are privacy friendly.
both result in 100% cpu use in ubuntu + chrome/firefox on 3570k processor.
Conclusion: don't use that many sprites.
Frankly it took me years to get there (English) - and that was with teachers that were well flawless. Languages isn't really my strong suit and I doubt I'll learn any more.

Regarding German...I'd glad I learned it while I was a kid...its a bitch of language to learn. My school subsidized some of the poor locals - on the condition that they take German as 3rd language. Man those people suffered. Then again they got an education 10x better than anything they could have hoped for otherwise so fair trade.
The US media is outstanding at blacking out protests with hundreds of thousands or even millions of participants if the protesters agenda run counter to that of the government or other large corporations. See for example the anti-war protests in the run up to, and after the invasion of Iraq.

A good thing to come out of all this might be that even right wingers realize how difficult it actually is to get heard in a supposedly democratic nation.
> Is there any defense for how this got started and kept going?

The defense is "in the name of national security".

Whether this defense actually holds any weight will probably depend on where we lie on the spectrum of privacy, liberty, and our supposed safety.
> He said none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be unlawful to "address US audiences" with such technology...

Huh? Because Americans do not speak Farsi or Arabic? What about Chinese? Or Spanish? Or French? Is the NSA going to provide a list of languages that Americans are not officially supposed to speak?
This SVG/Canvas thing reminds me of this visualization[1] I did last month or so which originally made heavy use of SVG, because it was just about good enough on Chromium (and it made sense for d3js and hexbons)... but when I tested it under Firefox, it was just unusable.

So I recoded it to use canvas instead (with a switch to allow using one or the other) and there is just comparison, it's much faster everywhere. I've had reports that the SVG version was working fine on IE10 though, but couldn't test it because there's no IE10 for Linux of course.

It quickly becomes frustrating to make complex visualizations when SVG makes a lot of things much easier, but you constantly hit the limits of SVG performance on the common browsers.

[1] http://ssz.fr/places/?frukie#^saint/^ll/ton$
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I doubt there is anything harder than to extradite Assange from an embassy which has granted Assange asylum.

Since that’s the actually reality, if an extradition is made, UK isn't as much in the picture expect that the embassy is technically located inside the UK.
maybe he could sell it to websites that wants to show their youtube channel in a cool way, vevo has somehting similar www.vevo.com
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In my experience, even though data science is touted as a hot field, the reality is that it's kind of boring and doesn't pay more than other types of programming. It's hard to give specific advice because I think you're operating on incorrect assumptions.
So I read the article, but pretty sure the author doesn't get that rapid growth on a small-footprint search engine IS big news. So what that it doesn't have the reach of Google/Bing/etc, it has proportionately a LOT more now...
Show HN: My weekend project - open source support tool for products and teams
> the Go designers made this pattern a bit harder to express

GP can just do an old-school `for` loop without a `range` clause (generally everyone learns about `for` before learning about `range`) and this immediately becomes incredibly easy to express.
I wish I interviewed where you do. It is more like 90% for me.
Great point. The real choice is between liberty and statism. And the difference between republicans and democrats on this point is truly minuscule.
Oh, also you might want to cross-reference search results with Youtube. For example, I like a technoa rtist called Orion, so I search for a favorite track using 'orion cynabs'. But I also get a lot of results to do with Orion rockets and some pop music kid who uses the same stage name. YouTube is better at presenting recommendations from the same artist rather than just going by name.
I'm not sure a font will have much to do with the NSA reading your email...
U.S. Seemingly Unaware of Irony In Accusing Snowden of Spying
While the "war" long precedes him, it was Nixon in 1971 who coined it as such. From Wikipedia, which I wouldn't expect to be overly friendly to Nixon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs):

"Although Nixon declared the War on Drugs in 1971, the policies that his administration implemented as part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 were a continuation of drug prohibition policies in the U.S., which started in 1914. Less well-known today is that the Nixon Administration also repealed the federal 2–10-year mandatory minimum sentences for possession of marijuana and started federal demand reduction programs and drug-treatment programs. Robert DuPont, the "Drug czar" in the Nixon Administration, stated it would be more accurate to say that Nixon ended, rather than launched, the "war on drugs". DuPont also argued that it was the proponents of drug legalization that popularized the term "war on drugs"."

I can remember creating in 3rd grade in 1969-70 in class (along with everyone else) a workbook detailing all the common illegal drugs of the time, names, effects, and why they were bad for you, etc.

And as you probably know it continues to this day, the Obama Administration has been a terrible disappointment to those seeking decreased restrictions on marijuana (harsher than Bush? I forget). This has long been a Progressive cause (remember Prohibition?), and most don't know or remember that Nixon was a Progressive domestically, a long Republican tradition. EPA, OHSA, there's a whole list of things like that that Nixon signing into law and supported.
I have no idea how many times I said I was 13 when I actually wasn't; the easiest way as a kid was just to lie. It's not like anybody cares, it's just something they have to do to cover themselves. I would argue that now it's even more unnecessary.

When I was 12 I found a hack in eBay's system that allowed me to sign up using my mom's information then switch all the account information over to mine. Technology can be a democratizing force for kids, and "that ambitious kid" can rub shoulders with grownups without being patronized to.

On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog... or a 12-year-old.
> I don't know what planet you live on. That's like saying stack overflow is in charge of making sure every excellent question/post is seen, or reddit, or hacker news...

Well, they do. Reddit and HN has their ranking system, Stack Overflow has single-handedly made Google useful for fixing tech problems. Not really sure what planet you're living on if you don't think curation is important. Your site is too small for there to be a critical mass of votes to make it useful, and it will never get big enough for it to be useful if people don't have a compelling reason to visit.
Source? What I have read, the only statement that the lawyer has stipulated is that Assange had sex. Not that it was forced.
Here here. Though now that they've taken backscatter out of the majority of major airports and have scaled back to the millimeter wave, I find it harder to object to on principle. I mean, I do still object to it on principle, specifically in that it violates my fourth amendment rights, but even as somebody who definitely knows better, it's hard to get up in arms over that alone.

At least with the backscatter machines I could be upset that the TSA was taking nude photos of my daughter that I could be realistically pissed about.

I still find it morally reprehensible, but that alone is harder to argue when so many other Americans just don't care.
Why not Satellites? Sounds like everything these balloons do.
Mainly because that's an incredibly stupid thing to do: the courts would show no mercy.
What's your skill? Machine learning? Big Data?
I would say not. It seems the military/surveillance arm of the Executive has become a truly autonomous entity, with no one who takes the big seat willing to come down on it or do anything other than to listen to its [from our uninformed perspective] FUD, and follow its whims. I might guess, for example, that for the same reason Obama expanded surveillance, Bush went to war. There is no representative democracy here, at least where "national security" is concerned.
> Most contracted languages in existence are ridiculous.

You can call Esperanto ridiculous, but it's used in all aspects of life. It has a good poetry. I find its internet terms actually better then in some non-English languages. There are several native Esperanto speakers. For instance, George Soros.

> Esperanto is especially bad: it's just a jumble of Germanic and Romance languages

Well, English is a jumble of Germanic, Latin, and French. Doesn't make it bad though (I do love English very much, it's beautiful).

>... that is just as difficult for a native speaker of a non-Indo-European language to learn as the languages it steals from.

You are very wrong. See below.

> In actual fact, English as a lingua franca isn't all that bad. It's a creole (of sorts) and therefore has a relatively simple grammar. The drawback to English is the fact that it's a Germanic creole and that Germanic languages have a comparatively large number of phonemes to work with. It would probably be more useful to most people in the world if a choice were made to go for a creole with a more reasonable number of phonemes, such as Swahili, Indonesian/Malay or Tok Pisin. Until that happens, however, using English is quite a reasonable thing to do.

English is pretty hard language. It's harder to see this fact if you are a native speaker. But here are some benefits in learning of Esperanto vs English:

1) Much simple grammar with no exceptions. For instance, no irregular verbs.
2) Phonetic spelling. https://www.google.com/search?q=english+fish&safe=off&client...
3) Consistent word forming. For instance, compare: tree/forest/gamekeep vs arbo/arbaro/arbaristo, where 'aro' means collection, 'isto' means professional.
4) Tons of other goodies, I won't write it here.
I am shocked people are down-voting a matter of fact statement. Sorry about that.
the land of "outsourced work" - India.
Even worse is the unpaid audition project. I've had a prospective employer try to pitch me on that and they were shocked when I balked.
How would you handle disk encryption?
Thank you very interesting!
That it shouldn't matter (with which I agree) doesn't change the fact that it does matter to people. Taking the teeth out of a threat that's largely posed by public opinion is vastly easier when you can convince said public that the source of the threat is of impeachable character or distract them with some flaw or misdeed; people will happily fill in "well, he's kind of a sleazeball, so to hell with him" from there.
what according to you are the incorrect assumptions which I am operating on. My goal is to make somewhere around 60 - 70 USD/hr. and am willing to invest 2-3 months of learning.

And I already have 2 years of professional programming experience in Python.
There is some truth to that, but Google is a bitch in every country it operates. For example Canada, UK, Russia and China. In HK (nation that Snowden praised) you actually get censored Google.
> well, he was just acting in his own interest

That's a perfectly good justification, though: if you're feeling disgusted by people acting in their own interest, then you've designed the system of incentives (the thing that gives them interests to act in) wrong. To think otherwise is to be disgusted by the very concept of economics.
Yes, it may be cool but it's not designed to be easy (for humans).
Thus it's a very bad candidate for lingva franca.
What a sycophant. Not that I'd expect anything less from a site titled "Cult of Mac"

How is the reader expected to take this as even remotely objective commentary, as opposed to the quasi-orgasmic fanboy text-spasm that it surely is?
You are right, of course. Some simple research would have enlightened me. Appreciate the detailed response.

I think my memory is being influenced by what I remember vs. what I read in history class. Reagan did say "We’re taking down the surrender flag that has flown over so many drug efforts; we’re running up a battle flag", and he did increase funding (including a big jump in the late 80s). Still, it's clearly not accurate to state he started the war (although I think he helped/supported/funding the militarization of that issue).

Please consider my incorrect view of history to be amended.
Jon Bentley did this in the epilog of Programming Pearls (the first edition, at least).
Ask HN: Do you think this is where things are headed?
I was talking to a friend on Google Hangout the other day and it came to my mind the idea that if our conversation was being recorded, it could be used in the future for multiple purposes.

1st purpose could be entertainment. Imagine some kind of reality TV show in the future where "interesting" footage from private online video conferences would be broadcast on TV/internet to entertain people, laugh at others. I'm talking in the future when may be we'll all be dead or old or when people would sign non-disclosure agreements we haven't signed today.

2nd purpose: It could also be used for sociological and psychological research. Imagine all the data gathered from people's most private and personal conversations!

Do you think this is where things are going?

Are we the guinea pigs of the future of our species?

I thought you'd be the right crowd to brainstorm about this.
This was a nice touch. Caught me off guard at first but I understood immediately. Good work.
I'm at a DevOps conference, which technically counts as work.
The UK has some degree of independence and many people who would support him if it came down to a legal battle.

Sweden on the other hand is more of a US client state. The law probably wouldn't even be a factor.
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