skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be that the type of project one is one influences. I'm pretty sure if I tried to join the maps team, I'd be rejected, I have no experience in geo/gis.

But I have had the experience of co-workers transferring off my team to other teams and semi-regular turnover, so it may be a matter of finding the right place at the right time.
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I am, for one, happy to see that people with families bootstrap businesses. I imagine that it can be tough financially and time-wise. So, naturally, significant others should be in the loop.
It says a lot about Quora that the best way to discover content on Quora is for it to run on another site.
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What do you feel like the primary advantage is?
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No worries - i didn't notice the typo. It seems that comment editing expires after a short time, so you've gotta be fast. i tried it, too ;).
Brilliant. With an Office Space reference thrown in for good measure!
Site seems down - is it cached anywhere?
Bitmessage has serious problems. (Lets fix them.)
Christianity isn't the majority religion in the west, it's secularism. Countries like Norway, Sweden and England are only officially Christian, but in practice are pretty much non-religious.

If you're coming from an American perspective you've been taught that America is tolerant, inclusive, etc. but that's hard to argue in the face of facts. The level of racial separation is higher than in Apartheid South Africa, the income disparity is huger than in all but the most destitute banana republics, and non-Christian religions and non-believers are constantly persecuted by the Christian majority.

In the 1400s Islam was more liberal and open only because the countries in which it was practiced were relatively affluent. Christians at the time were waging bloody wars of conquest, especially the series of brutal Crusades to the Middle East.

If America had a demographic like Egypt, you would be seeing riots, blood in the streets, and major religious conflict. It's only because the people are too old to raise a fist in anger that there's peace. Baby Boomers are not going to riot no matter how riled up they are. Just look at how pathetic the Tea Party protests were compared to what happened in Tahir Square.

You can't look at religion through the lens of the last fifty years. Things shift dramatically and unexpectedly.

It's also easy to argue that a lot of Islamic extremism has been instigated by America and Britain because of the various coups they've thrown (Iran, Iraq) and oppressive regimes they've supported (Egypt, Saudia Arabia). Prior to that, things were a lot more orderly.

Look at how Lebanon went from a place of peace, tolerance and harmony, with a standard of living similar to Europe, to one of bloody civil war. This could happen anywhere when the conditions are right.
> We need a whistleblower law [...] that is embedded in the consitution that protects people from speaking out.

Already got one:
Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

What we lack, if anything, is a public willing to hold the government accountable to the existing rule "embedded in the Constitution".

Adding more words to the Constitution won't fix that.
> Lightning is overdesigned

Overdesigned? Really? I'm not sure; it accomplishes the same thing as MHL, Slimport et al (which also tend to be expensive) and will be able to support USB3 when the time comes. It's far more futureproof than the old 30 pin thing.
The blog seems to be down. Cache: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fsymbo1ics.com%...
I see why:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Countachg...
Same test with a Jeep Liberty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4T1BimfUf4

Lexus RX350:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAz6ZMeIC9s

Lexus ES350:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l0o9MTY0JA

BMW 5-Series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r20YfGYhvc

Mercedes C-Class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTkbG64V4tQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0ubBqhZjg
This is one of those areas where you can't really generalize over "Europe" at all since it varies so much between countries. In Scandinavia, the Netherlands and the UK, card usage is extremely high. In southern and eastern Europe, not so much.
a "software engineer" should have a strong understanding of networking and systems administration. perhaps the candidate shouldn't have disrespected the interviewers time and applied for a junior developer position.
That's just a different algorithm that produces different results than .erase() and has nothing to do with cache.
US gov’t: Snowden also took secret docs while working at Dell in April 2012
Wow, I've really got to look into Go. Sounds so easy.
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Hone your message & share your authority. Blogging makes you a better communicator.
Not to throw water on your thought process, but the abstraction you describe is hardly unique to Go. It's called a "semaphore", and has been pretty well described and implemented for several decades now.
My reading of the API is that getCountInLastSecond returns the count from the last billion nanoseconds, not the count from the previous second bucket (as the clock ticks).

So when he mentions he can't bound memory, it's because he can't easily discretize the counters.
I wouldn't be surprised if math * 1 beats math * 2 for reasonable levels of math. There is only so much math your brain can absorb in a day before you start losing focus, making mistakes and generally stops being able to think efficiently.
How does your no hiring without code samples work when it comes to IP encumbered industries? I for one haven't worked without a NDA that includes my code for over 10 years, and neither have any of the people on my current team.

Further, contributing to open source projects (outside of what I do for my employer) is also problematic, because nearly all the things I'm interested in/expert in are very related to what I do for my employer. Figuring out what is and is not work product and what I can and cannot release is a hassle I just don't want.

Seems like your rule and your reliance on GitHub is a very narrow filter and you are likely getting a very narrow subset of potential applicants.
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D-Wave's Geordie Rose Says Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think
Already a term for that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)
"If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place"
> Not only is Android popular and universally using Micro-USB

And in a year or so, the transition to USB3, requiring a new port, will start; Lightning will handle USB3 with a different cable.

Also, of course, most modern Android devices don't have a microUSB port; they have microUSB+MHL or +SlimPort.
Yes, but how does Go do it.

Google is probably more interested in hiring people who can answer that rather than your answer.

"There's a library for that" is a great answer for 99.9% of businesses out there, but google's problems aren't that of the 99.9%. (Nor in fact are they in the 99.9% of the remaining 0.1%)
This seems drastically overpriced. $4k/month for a year just to develop a webmail CLIENT?

Crowdfunding really is the modern pyramid scheme.
> Take an AA battery. Now go back in time 30 years and look at an AA battery. Identical. Why has battery technology not improved one bit in the last 30 years?

That's completely false. I might have said, "Look at a basic mousetrap 30 years ago. Now look at one today. Identical." What's missing is any examination of the alternatives. 30 years ago, there weren't any NiMH batteries, or commercial lithium-ion batteries (the latter were under active development), but they're now the primary power sources for portable devices, and lithium-ion batteries power the Tesla Model S.

> I don't think conventional batteries can improve all that much more.

And I don't think conventional thinking can improve all that much more. But I have high hopes for unconventional thinking.

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." -- Arthur C. Clarke
And that solution is isomorphic to the one the interviewer was looking for, where you put the requests in a priority queue keyed by their finish time and pull out the next one that'll be done. The only difference is that the priority queue in question is hidden in Go's scheduler.

The reason interviewers ask these questions is so they get a sense of whether you'd be able to implement Go, starting from first principles. (Or actually, it's because before Go many servers and load-balancers were written in C++ using async callbacks, and so this is a very pragmatic question that comes up a lot in real-world usage.)
Of BMW's 12 models, the Model S is maybe less expensive than 2 of them (6 and 7). And it is twice as expensive as BMW & Audi's best-selling models.
> Things change when you're talking about journalists and political opposition.

Sure, but I haven't yet found either American journalists or political opponents who were scared to tear into the U.S. government at any opportunity, or even any pretext for an opportunity.

It's one of the ways by which Americans have maintained freedom of expression in that regard, is to make complaining about the government so commonplace as to be utterly and completely ordinary.
My experience has been that making better content is great for getting more readers, but not for SEO, which in the long term is fine because it removes the risk of having to chase algorithm changes.

When I switched from writing to fill holes in search results to writing for specific communities (including g+ groups) my readership shot up, but the SEO part has stayed pretty flat. It's possible I have something set up incorrectly, or that what I'm writing isn't something people are searching for, I'm not really sure. I put some charts up here that show this-
http://garysieling.com/blog/google-1s-and-search-rankings
Have you seen the "warning" lately? It's a pretty dire message. The only button visible is "Go Back." You have to click a tiny "advanced" text link to even see that there's an option to go to the site anyway. Try for yourself in Chrome:

malware.testing.google.test/testing/malware/
> Tesla is a battery company

Wait, what?
It's down right now. See Google Cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:symbo1i...
Won't mailbox rotation enables attacking it by comparing users in different mailboxes - the users who stayed over some time in shared mailboxes , probably want to communicate with each other ?

And few hundreds is a pretty small group if you want anonymity.

And according to the presentation in the link you gave(very interesting work on the subject of anonymity) - if messages are posted correctly, using the right tools(mix networks, nymservers) and those tools are developed to high enough quality(which is not the case today) , and enough people are using the service , the anonymity achieved can be very high using standard mailboxes.
I really wish, as a culture, we celebrated honesty as much as bravery. Good on Feld and Inc for starting.
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PDMI certainly seems to be a copy of the Apple 30 pin connector, but it was introduced long after it. It wasn't electrically compatible, of course. To add confusion, certain Samsung tablets used a physical PDMI interface which was not electrically compatible with either PDMI or the Apple thing.
Important point - back in 2007, China mandated that all cell phones be able to charge from a standardized connector [1]. The connector they chose was Micro USB. Thus regulatory concerns played no small part in the mini vs micro wars.

[1] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-news/micro-usb-to-be-a...
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"Why don't more people walk out of interviews?"

They freak out. I got blacklisted at a cellphone company for doing that a couple decades ago. I found that out via a friend on the inside. Basically I was looking for, and applied to get a lab bench job (basically a spectrum analyzer / communication analyzer jockey, beneath my ability, but it was an exciting growing company etc) and they wanted me to be a junior roving field tech, basically I'd help the real field techs carry heavy stuff into the building and then (literally) mow the lawn while the real tech worked. And I went to school for X years to run a lawnmower... uh huh...

If you think its mortifying for the candidate, imagine how the HR rep looks when you walk out, thus making a fool out of them. Note that I wasn't sarcastic or caustic or anything when I left, after all, I had lots of friends / acquaintances on the inside and telecom is a very small world. Lots of hand shaking and "you have a nice facility here but I'm not interested in the position" and so on. I got word from my inside contacts that the HR girl was fuming with rage and swore after I made a fool of her by walking out, that my resume would never pass her desk again in any capacity, etc.

Companies are always doing stupid stuff, just hopefully not too often, and they're at least partially interested in how you'll respond. So imagine you work there and someone in upper management makes the worlds dumbest presentation to the division, they're terrified you're going to laugh at them and walk out.

When I was younger and (even more) stupider, stuck at an interview I decided I didn't really want, I started flirting with the attractive HR staffer, which didn't work out, but it was fun at the time. Times were different back then, now a days politely asking a woman out at work would probably get you fired or arrested.
Have you heard of bitmessage? It basically does what you suggest.
To counter some of the negative sentiment here, I had a great interview experience at Google. The only big negative was that the whole process took 5 months. But every step involved was very organized and the people were professional and thoughtful. The in-person interviews were also great and the questions were all appropriate. I did not take the offer for personal reasons at the time, but the process was great (except for those 5 months). As with all big companies though, there is a bit of luck of the draw involved, as the other stories in this thread show.
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One could easily argue that Catholic extremism led to WWII fascism. It's not so far away in the past as you think. There's plenty of rampaging christians in Nigeria up to their necks in sectarian bloodshed as well. Same with Lebanon.

No religion has left their violence in the past, they have a book, hadtih/scrolls and vickers/mullahs which tells them they have a divine right to certain things like violent retribution for blasphemy or "blood atonement" and land titles, so violence will continue forever. Even buddhists are rampaging in Myanmar with machetes butchering up a sectarian storm.
Yet another weapon in Logitech's arsenal of ways to create a small amount of annoyance at every opportunity.

Annoying wireless and iffy non-Windows support join the pack.
In ZeroMQ it was in user-space memory.

Now it's in kernel-space (TCP rx/tx buffers). That actually makes it a little more reliable as tx buffers are not necessarily dropped when the application fails.
A car could certainly flip up into the air quite a few feet while rotating and then land on the roof.
Now, those electrical engines, electrical though they may be, still don't have 100% efficiency. I don't know how many kW the Tesla engine is putting out, but even at 90% efficiency you still have 10% of all that power wasted as heat. That's a lot of heat. Maybe it could be used for heating?
No way for now, still not clear how they gonna assign monetary value to BTC, what exchange rate they will use?
See also the notes on various implementation mechanisms of libcoro ( http://cvs.schmorp.de/libcoro/coro.h )
I hate this so much. The interviewer must realize how strange this is when he/she has to brush up on questions they're about to ask a candidate for a similar position to their own.
> It's overdesigned if the cost doesn't provide sufficient benefit - and it clearly didn't.

Really? The cost for a lightning to HDMI cable tends to fall in between that of an MHL to HDMI and a Slimport to HDMI adaptor.
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It's amazing how this is all coming about.

Lots of people are thinking about the problems we have right now.

I have been thinking of the following and want to get some feedback on the idea:

ComBoxen! Comm box is a VM image that, when run, launches with a set of services that allow fully encrypted communications between other ComBoxes.

Basically a secure linux distro on full lockdown that will register with a central directory only to state it is online. Messages are directly passed between comboxes when both are online. Messages are stored locally on the Combox until a secure direct connection can be made to the recipient.

The whole VM could be a stripped down truecrypted message store that only talks to others on a trust list.
Hy - dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
Based on my equally limited sample size (based largely on looking around while working on my Masters in math) I disagree with you findings. Lots of people in the math departments where physically active, certainly more so than where musical (although a there was a fair bit of overlap).
I don't see why paying him would necessarily have legal consequence: Facebook could make a discretionary payment while making it clear it's outside the scope of the bug bounty terms (indeed, by stating that he was doing something else).
So 22% of European people still have relative privacy. I am a bit jealous.
Okay, so we're crowd-funding an email client now?

Is there any reason to not just put up all of my random project ideas on indiegogo and see if they get funded? If I'm having trouble financing the development new features for my SaaS application, should I just create a funding project for it?

Because I'm really not seeing the difference between that and this...I wish someone could explain this phenomenon to me.
Exactly. So why bother at all right? Root password? "root" will do. Encrypted partitions on the server? Useless. SSH keys? Silly overengineered junk.

Following the same logic, why bother setting strong passwords on Gmail? Or even bother at all with 2FA, I mean, after all, somebody can just read your unencrypted email in transit anyway, right?

This comment is not helpful at all. The original article did not mention with a single word the NSA or anything like it[1], but he is worried about things being stolen or hacked.

> So what does this get me? If somebody steals my laptop or phone, they can't access my email from my IMAP clients local store because it's all encrypted and my private PGP key is password protected. If somebody guesses my IMAP password, or uses an exploit to gain access to my account, they can't read my email because what they retrieve is encrypted.

And for both scenarios, the proposed tools are very much helpful.

[1]: Partially because the article says "Published @Thu, 13th Jan 2011"
Car explosions have been thoroughly busted by Mythbusters. They are as busted as "Enhance!"

Car fires are very real and nasty, though.
It is heartening to read that a small percentage of the technical community is now willing to admit that the majority of the developed world's problems are political. Specifically, the metastasising bureaucracy which is emboldened with each successful power grab is becoming increasingly difficult to dislodge since they've built up so much momentum.

This is an excellent start, but a mere tip of the iceberg. The political malady is more malignant than most imagine [1].

1. http://www.salon.com/2013/08/17/chomsky_the_u_s_behaves_noth...
> You may as well claim duty solicitors are in the palm of the Police.

While there is still a potential agency problem, duty solicitors (or, in American parlance, public defenders) aren't an alternative to counsel of choice, they exist to provide the choice to have some counsel to people who otherwise would have none, without denying them the choice of securing any of their own to the extent they can.

Providing the option of a duty solicitor is not, then, at all the same as denying someone access to willing counsel of their choice.
Google and other major SV companies are known for heavily theoretical interview processes. IMO, your recruiter should have made this clear and suggested you brush up.
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Even with the softest suspension, you usually have to spin out and catch a wheel rim on a curb to get a car to roll over, unless you have really high center of mass (like some non-crossover SUV's, like the 1990s Jeep Grand Cherokee).
At first, I thought similar things. But then when you really look at Groklaw, an important reason for its success is its coverage of matters that probably did require a lot of anonymous sources.
getcontext and setcontext also keep track of signal state, which involves a syscall.
I have found enormously high correlations - as high as 99% in some industries - between links and brand-name searches in Google. I've also found enormously high correlations for non-commercial phrase rankings and social shares. I have used Google finance for public companies in the same industries and found correlations between sales and links to a site. I suspect you can compare almost any popularity metric and find huge correlations with other popularity metrics.

Equating correlation with cause is one of the main problems I see in the modern SEO industry. Many SEOs are so obsessed with links, for example, that they have lost sight of the importance of building content, awareness, and products that real people will care about. I can't wait to see SEOs wasting their time spamming links on G+ and buying +1s after skimming this post.
Nice video, deserves my upvote, but I am going to call it just anecdata ;-), so that I can add some partial counterarguments.

The video is a commercial, so they will have chosen an impact angle and speed that makes the newer car look best). For example, you can see that the newer car is heavier than the old one from the video; its front wheels still move forward when the wheels of the old one already go back. Because of that, the new car has a much longer braking distance than the old one. Things would have looked relatively better for the old car if they had chosen a collision with a concrete wall.

Also, Reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone, the crumple zone was patented in 1952; chances are this 1959 car doesn't have a good one.

If its crumple zone is bad or absent, chances are that the older car would have survived way better in a frontal collision, where the beam carrying the engine would be elastically compressed without deforming permanently.

That would be just the car, though; those old cars could be lethal at incredibly low speeds, for example by impaling them on their non-collapsible steering column.
What exchange rate do they use for forex transactions?
This is ridiculous, are people still claiming that no illegality was revealed by Snowden? If nothing else, we have Clapper's admitted lie to Congress.
I was mistaken. Two people were killed in the other car, and the Tesla driver was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. Still, amazing aftermath to a terrible accident.
> wanting any roof accessories

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/168014307009892354
I don't have side projects, instead I spend that free time training for and running triathlons. I can't show as impressive a GitHub as my peers, but I'm sure as hell a lot more healthier and physically active. Whether that means anything to recruiters, who knows.