skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my last job, we decided to do a little recruitment test. My co-worker set up a php file (and a mirror python file to let the candidates choose), with a blank in a function and a bunch of unit tests for the function. We needed someone to try and debug the test, so I volunteered.
Seeing that the team manager was about to take a development literacy test, the whole development team got up and rounded around my screen. It was the most stressful 20 min of my career, I prefer having the website down, at least everybody is focused on work and rooting for success.
(I passed the test and I we ironed the last wrinkles doing so)
That's not what the linked article says. They won't commit themselves to a specific drive model in a given USB enclosure, that's the only reason for not specifying a speed.
Yet another example of gendered criticism of Mayer. How often do male CEOs get compared to inexperienced, hopeless Republican politicans? Just a coincidence I'm sure.
This is not "pay what you want" anymore.

Unlike their initial "pay what you want" culture, now they are basically giving away few free stuff to encourage you to buy their paid stuff.
I'm particularly interested in the idea of programming practice. Hickey specifically mentions Coltrane, who apparently was famous for marathon practice.

As a workaday hacker, my own practice has been more sporadic than I want. This talk reminded me that practice needs to be structured and purposeful. And regularly done.
"If someone wanted your keyboard their thought process - if conscious - probably follows the following: "If I take that and get caught then I'll likely be fired. So it's not worth me putting my monthly salary of $5000 at risk for a $50 keyboard" Well what if you do get caught?"

That is a depressing but thankfully unrealistic view of how people behave. In my office there are no specific rules about taking keyboards, monitors, or even computers off each other's desk. Once a year the department takes an inventory of the equipment to make sure it is still in the building, and once in the past five years an email was sent out to remind everyone not to take monitors home with them.

The reason nobody takes things from each other here is respect and courtesy. There are only about 100 of us in this building, making us a small enough group that we can trust each other. When things are truly stolen -- taken out of the building, rather than just moved between desks -- emails are sent out asking if anyone knows what happened. It is almost always the case that an outsider came in and grabbed something valuable, and that almost never happens.

Obviously this is not something that scales past a hundred or so people, but the point is that in small, trusting groups there is no real need for iron-clad rules or harsh punishments. People can and do behave respectfully and courteously.
IIRC there are some bare drive models where the RPM is not documented either.
It seems like the ideal case to me; generous on input, strict on output. In most cases, users won't even know that the insensitivity is there, in which case it will almost never affect them (since users very rarely want two files with the same name, differentiated by case). For users who do know about it, it's not confusing.

What corner cases does it lead to?
If it's fully tax deductible, then you simply don't pay tax on that amount (not reduce your payable tax by that). It saves you about a third of the money, but doesn't make it risk-free.
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Various Thoughts on Online Comments
I'm well aware that the periodic table has a lot of various information encoded into it as I'm pretty sure anyone who's gone through high school is as well. I am not sure why you think the tags table is trying to fool anyone... it was chosen symbolically and it looks visually better than any other similar attempt I've seen before.

Not everything needs to be pigeonholed into the "must make perfect sense" category.
If it is not possible to link X and Y, how do bitcoin network recognize Y as a valid address with bitcoins, if there is no history of bitcoins arriving to the address?
I have wrapped a brick in a reply paid envelope from a very annoying direct mail company.
MyCouch .NET client for CouchDB says hello to Cloudant
Thanks for taking the time to compile this. I had debated with myself whether or not to post my project to HN this week, expecting that either the comments would be very harsh on a v0.0.1 release, or that it would whiz by the "new" feed with no upvotes. Seeing my project, Fortune.js, on this list is very encouraging.
After reading so many tales of the device's slipperiness and fragility, a price drop does not surprise.
You are missing the point. Call them however you want, startups or businesses, makes no difference. The point is I didn't just seek out to "proof" Sam was wrong - that would miss the point too. Instead, I followed the same steps he did.

He made a list of "breakout companies" and noticed most of them were startups that bridged the digital world with the real world. In my case the distribution was uniformly.

Perhaps do the same experiment yourself? Debating what is or what isn't a startup is not as valuable.
I'm confident I would ace this test. All I'd have to do is pick the exact opposite of what my honest answer would be.
Guns are quick turnover and good cash value.
Boarding Pass Redesign
Yes, just to confirm I run loads of stuff on a 2010 MBP... not docker but similar and heavier workloads. With caching as advertised in the linked article, you should see no issues. Just be sure to fork over adequate memory to your VM to stop it swapping over a seriously slow, paravirtualized block device with parallel applications causing host OS contention.
You basically shift responsibility to HR people (who don't know shit about candidates) and they only hire mediocre bets to avoid blame.

That's because they're not sharing wins from stellar candidates but they take blame for bad ones.

I wonder why blame shifting seems so central to american way of thinking. You'll give talent away to avoid it.
OS containers can be very cool. Want to see 1000 instances started on a small machine? http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2009-10-20.the-night-of...
100 More Titles Greenlit on Steam Greenlight
One of my friends did this in London. Except he was a recruiter and was floating fake CVs to cause other recruiters to ring him. He eventually got chased down over fraud charges but nothing every ever eventuated in a legal sense (as far as Im aware).
This is a neat project (I used to use epydoc myself), but Sphinx just isn't that hard to set up with sphinx-quickstart, and sphinx-apidoc takes care of autogenerating docs without any extra files at all.

I do not mean to be discouraging. I like the output of pdoc, and any tool that increases the amount of documentation where there would otherwise be none is great in my book. I simply recommend that you try to understand Sphinx a little better before claiming superiority. In my opinion, pdoc's real advantage is that it requires essentially zero setup and is probably easier to understand. (You should recognize, though, that sphinx-apidoc also requires zero setup.)
Existence of new element confirmed
Yes, but people are reporting that the very expensive keyboards are not helping them. So, we are not solving a problem for $300 or whatever, we are taking a chance at solving a problem at $300. That's a different optimization problem, with a perhaps different solution.
[off-topic] The text on the page is all exceedingly large, is that intentional? It looks like I'm being served a mobile version on my desktop. I can read the title from 20' away, and the paragraph text from 8'. It only looks "normal" when I zoom to 67%.

Not a huge problem, but it's annoying to the point of distracting to require so much scrolling for so little actual text. Otherwise, I love the idea and the execution.
emacs the Operating system is both the idea of the LISP machine and the situation that since it is extremely extensible, you can use it as a shell, for irc or mail, read pdf and view images, listen to music and do anything that doesn't require a modern web browser, or video player.

For me that was the situation for a while, nothing but Firefox and emacs. I even used it for IM and Twitter. All I needed was for it to render the web and I could ditch anything but it.
I did the same thing, I started riding into work instead of taking the train from the suburbs to Central London. Door-to-door by train and underground was around 1 hr, but bike it was 1hr 10mins, approx 18 miles. Wasted time became exercise time and I felt much better for it. I remember my brother saying he would work with people who would work crazy hours (doctors mainly) and in order to train for marathons and triathlons you utilise every bit of time you can to exercise.
Well, I wrote "real stuff" as in I've heard you can get food on groupon in some places and "things" but all we have locally is overpriced services marked down to a realistic price.

Massage therapy isn't real stuff because you can mark the price to anything you want, then groupon it 75% off. So if a realistic charge for massage is $25/hr (I donno) then you mark up to $100/hr and groupon it for 75% off net $25/hr.

The bankruptcy stories all come from restaurants selling 100K steaks (hundred kilosteaks?) for $1 where the raw uncooked meat alone is $5. Whoops.

What is a fair price for the valuable service of astrological readings? Hard to say when its pure profit unless it involves sacrificing live chickens as part of the act or something like that. I suppose there's always a real estate cost at the bottom if nothing else.
I think what he is trying to say is that it could just emulate the terminal and read whatever is coming to it after it's executed. "Listening" for when the user types in sudo...
Like you said, simple!
Also at infoq:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/music-functional-language
Sure thing. I am working on something similar for a different LXC-based deployment layer. One of the biggest challenges is keeping the payload (ie. container) naieve of the actual hardware (ie. virtualized interface to the outside world), both in terms of kernel driver requirements and in terms of network topologies. Then, for any nontrivial deployment, you also have to hand over information about services to which it may wish to connect, which may not be appropriate to hardcode. If you would like to thrash this out with me I'd be keen.
Increase Call Center Productivity with ClearView
The detail that ClearView allowed Focus to see at the agent level influenced positive changes in KPI's. Chief among them was the dramatic improvement in AHT, which improved floor-wide by 9% in the first month. Over the first six months with ClearView, the average AHT dropped by 42%, averaging out to a 7% improvement per month. To go along with the decrease in AHT, overall sales numbers rose by 8% during the same six month period.
Have you considered reaching out to different design blogs and giving their users a free month? Have you reached out to influential twitter users who have a design audience? Let us know what you've already tried.
>Because he works from home, Mr Beaumont has been able to increase his revenue by keeping cold callers talking - asking for more details about their services.

For less than $7/hour? I mean, I guess it's really easy money, and it would be great for the unemployed, but to me, 9 minutes of my free time (or worse, since he works from home, his work time) is worth more than a dollar.
And I assume no trouble renewing at three years, then?
The difference legal and natural rights corresponds to the difference between laws and morals. That's all I mean. Natural rights are real things in as much as morals are real things.
Enforcement is necessary for a natural right to be a legal right.
NASA tests largest 3-D printed Rocket Part
At a previous job 6 years ago, it was only 4 miles away. I'd do the brisk ride into work, but take a big detour on the way home, riding 20 miles :)
Presumably as well as facilitating this transaction with you
A->X...Y->B
they are also facilitating this with someone else:
C->Y...X->D

(In reality they would probably have many addresses and not just orchestrate simple pairs like that, but the idea is that the transactions balance out.)

So they only need to seed each address with a bit of initial capital, then balance out the transactions.
How to Organize an Epic Startup Weekend
ayfkm.
keep this on your twitter or the like if you have something to share, don't try to get 'popular' or to get more views by posting to HN
Back in the day when 0898 numbers existed in the UK you could make £1.50 per minute.

I knew a guy who made a LOT of cash by hooking one up to a fax machine and then calling window companies and telling them "I'm about to go into a meeting where we are going to decide which windows to buy for a skyscraper we are building, please can you fax me your brochure immediately". He then gave them the 0898 number to fax the 200 page brochure to...
I believe people have talked about something similar, namely requiring cryptographic operations which are relatively cheap (time, electricity cost) to do for one email at a time, but which would make it infeasible for bulk mailing spam.
Yes and no. Surprised maybe, but not perplexed. This is just a lower cost version of the 3DS. All they did was remove all the most expensive parts to manufacture.

By removing the hinge they simplify the design of the case, the PCB, the screens (or as some have speculated in this one, screen), and removed a point of failure. By switching to mono-audio they can get away with a single speaker, and no doubt a cheaper audio chip as well. By removing the 3D they eliminate some complicated and likely costly hardware from the screen, as well as the control slider from the side of the case. It may even be able to get away with a cheaper and less capable GPU now that it no longer needs to worry about 3D. Since there's no hinge, they can mount the whole thing one one giant PCB, and since the screens are smaller than the 3DS and 3DS XL they can use either two smaller screens, or else one giant screen that's masked by the case.

So they knock ~$30 off the price tag of the 3DS (which you know they're at least breaking even on if not making a profit), and based on all the stuff they eliminated on this thing, I'm sure they're making crazy profits off it. Yeah, Nintendo is laughing all the way to the bank on this one.
What it's like working with Elon Musk
Are you entertaining visitors? If so that's something that I just might do. Long term move is right now out of the question due to other commitments.
Good. Now with Freedreno getting ready, this will be very useful.
Fascinating project, I used to love reading about those machines and the follow on Crays as a child in the 80's, the idea of having 128 or even 256Mb of RAM seemed absolutely absurd and that I could one day own a machine with computational performance measured in Teraflops would have seemed absurd.
Upvoted, but please consider that those breeds most associated with protective tendencies are high-maintenance.

I am an experienced dog owner and currently have a super-intelligent and high-drive dog. But she's not a pet. Can't be allowed loose with the kids unsupervised. Has strong fear-bite drive. Is a "one-person" dog (although she has bonded with 3 or 4 adults).

If anybody is interested, I can probably provide more info or pointers, but in general, I think a good rule is to equate protective dog breeds with firearms. It's that big of a deal.
What do customers do in your back/development office?
Would it be possible to deploy an email server inside a docker container?
This is an interesting follow on to previous NASA experiments in this area. This is a pretty significant part (the injector) to build using a 3D process. It is a rare case where 3D printing the part is both cheaper and faster than making it the traditional way (machining it). I would not say there are a lot of parts that fall into that category but there are some.
Any other HN people going? There's a lot of really cool stuff in the AMP stack. I've trialed Spark a bit, and its promise of unifying batch and streaming computations under the same code base is very powerful. I'm also pretty excited about Mesos, especially as wider adoption smooths out the operational difficulties. And then there's the really far-out stuff like BlinkDB [0].

AMPlab's close interaction with industry seems like a rare model for a truly impactful research lab. It's become host to many of the most exciting developments in large scale computing in the past few years.

[0] http://blinkdb.org/
If only there was a way to do something similar with email. My "premium" @yahoo.com account would make a killing off everyone's newsletters and drip campaigns.
Not under X11. See `xev -id $WINDOW_ID` for a demonstration.

There's the XACE (X11 Access Control Extension) that tries to make it harder to snoop, but I don't believe that it's enabled by default in most distributions.
White House Copyright Czar Jumps to Industry Anti-Piracy Group
I believe that creative expression should be valued by society, i.e. I believe that people have a natural / human right to rewarded for this kind of work.

But sure, I don't believe in absolute natural rights, much as I don't believe in absolute morals.

Put more simply, I believe that authorship is a natural right, just like ownership. You might ask, why should the idea be mine just because I got to first? And I would answer, why should the tree be yours just because you got to it first?
When we used to have MelbourneIT they sent us an email with our login password in it in a promotional email. When I inquired how they could possibly be properly securing my account when if they where storing my password in some recoverable fashion I got a form letter back stating they followed all the industry security practices. Needless to say I started the transfer of all our domains that same day.

Their exact response:
"Our systems follow strict security measures and only enables us to send the password out to the main email contact in case of password recovery being requested. So rest assured your account password is safely stored with us. "
Good old WordPress. HN and Lifehacker bombs are what made me leave it behind.
Crazy Aussie Hackers create real Star Wars-like 3D Hologram
Scott Hassan on Willow Garage and the Future of Suitable Technologies
It might be useful to look at the history of this bits vs atoms idea. During internet 1.0 era, about 20 years back, the prevailing idea was the everything was becoming bits and the winners will be those who will manage the bits instead of being stuck on the atoms side of things. If I remember correctly, the MIT guys (negroponte) and Marc andressen (ironically, who is quoted by Sam) and others were huge into this idea. So, looks like we are coming to the idea that it is bits and atoms. I would say take it further and it will be atoms only. The bits side of get absorbed into the atoms side of things and will no longer be a differentiator.

I'm sure the first pizza place that installed a phone or fax machine was killing it with customers. But that didn't make them a communications company. Soon, every pizza place got a phone and a fax machine and then it back to who made the best pizza. I believe we are in the installing 'phone/fax' machine phase of smartphones. After 10 years it will be not a differentiating factor and the people who control the atoms side will win.

EDIT: There are companies that are digital by nature (information, music, publishing etc.) so obviously this absorption of bits into atoms idea extends to companies that have a large atoms side to them.
By the way, in hiring you typically are ok with a reasonable number of false negatives, but you really want to eliminate false positives - so a strict filter is actually appropriate.

For example, if you're interviewing candidates with "true objective fit optimalities" of 31%, 52%, 84%, 91%, 94%, 96% - then your process must ensure that there is no way that the bad candidates get hired because they got lucky, even if it means that sometimes the top one gets thrown out by the filter. The delta between best and second best candidates is likely to be narrow (certainly much smaller than any margin of error of your interviewing/'measurement' process), and insignificant compared to the delta between a good candidate and a shiny-looking bad apple - except if your job market is starving and almost noone good applies.
Here's the TedX link explaining how they developed it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdta2YhEwZA
Translated to commonese:

Bitcoin cashing out is simple. Use different zorblaxes to receive, use zirbasses program, use a yrblogging service or just buy a bank to launder. Could also change into urine and cash them out
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Thanks for posting this, happy to see this on the front page

Also relevant: http://showinghn.com/
https://twitter.com/JustShowHN
The real role of HR people is tax forms and health insurance, and little else.

Well said. And their role definitely should not include administering bullshit voodoo science "psychometric evaluations" and making any decisions based on them.
I have always been a huge proponent of the concept of teaching the art of learning, as opposed to teaching a specific skill. My concern is that, as Rich discusses, truly learning to program is a slower process, at the outset, than learning how to piece together a handful of frameworks and code snippets from Stackoverflow.

A proper education lasts longer than the duration of the actual instruction, so I trust that some of these "short term" programs can still make programmers (and anecdotally, I've heard good things about Dev Bootcamp).
I judge my Internet community on the size of the reply dialog. This piques my interest because I don't know exactly how big HN has grown. Certainly the content has experienced a drastic shift from pure CS to general interest technology.
Wow, how do I fix?
I guess the resynchronisation time is taken up mostly by Dropbox reading and hashing all 5 GB to detect changes? Just that it considers each file as a series of contiguous chunks and should only transfer those chunks that have changed. A bit like how BitTorrent works.
Ask HN: Where can I get a default license to include with a product download?
Just something which says that you can't resell or rebrand the product etc. and has liability disclaimer.

The product is a paid download of html/css/js files.

Is there boilerplate out there for this?
Indeed, the person who posted it runs G+.
People have also proposed it with money; I believe the overhead has consistently been too high.
In fairness, I could vaguely mumble at the phone without being overly distracted from my work
That just requires a realization that few people can provide the necessary resources and goods to maintain the rest. We avoid that realization, hence elsewhere in this comment thread discussions of 50%+ office jobs and only working 10 hours of your 40 hour shift come into play. I guess it plays counter to the rugged individualism model of thinking (that, let us be honest, wealthy business owners love because it creates surplus labor supply on a cultural basis rather than a fiscal need) even though we have had 1% of the population working as farmers for 30 years providing all the crops we eat, even when our crops are grossly inefficient like beef.
I don't disagree with Rayiner here, I'm just sharing how I've seen this sort of stuff get put into place. When you ask "How the hell did HR get to have veto power over hires?", I have found more often than not there is a story of "that guy" or "that gal" who got through the "old process" which is now some legendary part of the company history.
I agree with you about patent and copyrights, but I think it's important that people view essential rights like property rights and freedom of speech as being truly inalienable -- that individuals have them as long as right and wrong exist.