skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course we will, just saying that it was not intentional. In most places it is mentioned (there is a signup button on the pricing page and at the bottom of each page which says 15-day trial) but we didn't notice that in some other places the button text can be misinterpreted.
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Seriously, if you apply concepts like eventual consistency, load
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This can be done really easily. I've done a lot of work with the Office COM API and Python, despite it being a bit weird at times its pretty nice to work with. The best bit (IMO) is you can record a macro within an Office application then translate that very very very easily to Python code, and it just works.
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how would one optimize this for color blindness? Say, for red/green color blind individuals as an example...
That's a false dichotomy. Why can't all three be factors?
Well, if it works for nuclear?!

Bonkers.
I'm guessing that he wanted to show how to write your own modifiable filter with a simple example
When has research ever been a sure-fire thing?
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The market should decide if the person can or can not handle his business, not some artificial barriers. What do they achieve exactly? This filtering is pointless and prove nothing. It's like giving a crossword when hiring a factory worker - if you are unable to solve the crossword, you might be unable to handle minor annoyances in the factory.
The numpy example becomes fast when you use numpy arrays. Try %timeit numpy.array(arr); numpy.reshape(arr, (-1, 3));

and then just %timeit numpy.array(arr), you'll see that the reshape takes no time at all. Type conversion from python list to numpy array is what kills the performance.
In the United States it is perfectly legal to give a truthful reference, good or bad. If the truth appears to be debatable, just stick to the facts. If the person inquiring asks for a "deep reference," (someone else who knows the applicant besides you), it is also perfectly legal in the United States to provide that information. (This surprises a lot of job-seekers in the United States, who would like to believe that the law is otherwise, but this is the law. In general, you can say truthful things about current or former employees, including identifying other people who know about them.)

I have been looking up information about employment law (mainly in the United States, but also around the world) as part of a promised update to my FAQ on company hiring procedures

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923

that I will post to my personal website.
>Whether an innovation will be a success is uncertain, and it can take longer than traditional banks or venture capitalists are willing to wait. In countries such as the United States, China, Singapore, and Denmark, the state has provided the kind of patient and long-term finance new technologies need to get off the ground.

This is the crux of the problem and why the OP makes a compelling argument.

We live in a world of "innovation" where the driving force behind it is a conglomerate of VC's whose primary concerns are their multiples and the next fund. They are people without long-term vision.

We also live in a world where political are small men and women proposing small ideas because their primary concern is the next election cycle.

What ever happen to greatness?

"We're putting a man on the moon in 10 years."
"We're building a national highway system."
"We're building a weapon that will end wars."

Where did the will go? Where are the cries of:

"We'll be free of fossil fuels in 10 years."
"We're sending a person to Mars by 2020."

Or if you like wars on abstract combatants that never end:

"The war on ignorance"

Someone needs some vision. And right now, nobody has it.
Democracy is.not a solution for Syria. Mind you, about 60% of the population there belong to a group that hate the other 40% and would happily vote to kill them all. This is why Assad has so many people in Syria on his side.
Recently I was downvoted 2-3 times on S.O. for an answer that was claimed to be non-idiomatic. So, I cleaned it up, but it really irked me. What I had written was totally fine. It shouldn't have hurt anyone's eyes. It was direct. It was in-your-face. It was not magic.

Reading this post brought back that feeling.

If people don't understand a completely valid and terse way of coding something, sometimes instead of bothering to understand it, they will bash it. Sometimes, this is a totally valid way to vent frustration, and then they learn something new, and all is good. But sometimes, it just gets left as "this is wrong" and then someone else thinks it is wrong, and so on. That is wrong, and tech leads or architects that enforce such crap will bug the living shit out of good developers and lose them.

I appreciate clarity. But, terse one-liners can be just as clear if not clearer than code that unnecessarily adds more methods/functions/names/local vars and claims to be "more testable", etc.

You shouldn't have to sacrifice the ability to be terse and clear at the same time. Testing is no excuse for code bloat. You can likely write a test that executes the behavior without having to atomize it. Assess the amount of production and test code you are writing. How much more code are you actually having to write in order to test, both in the tests themselves and in the code which you are having to test?

It happened here with Python and it happens in many languages. It even happens with laws and regulations in government. If someone gets the same thing done just as ethically but without the bureaucracy, just appreciate it as another perhaps better way of doing something. Don't bash it publically because you don't understand it.
His argument is really against using exceptions as part of normal operation, which I agree with. I've noticed when writing plugins to big monolithic programs like 3DS Max and game engines that these tend to throw and catch exceptions as a matter of course, which is a pain when you're trying to debug your own plugin code.

An exception should mean "normal operation cannot continue", and should signify a bug in your code. As such, it is an exceptionally good software development tool.
This sort of stuff is why I still do my 1040 by hand on paper and mail it in. It's just easier.
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I specialize in Android development (although I sometimes also work with Clojure & Python/Django). I work fast and write modular, well-documented code. I've used a large portion of the Android SDK, including writing totally custom views & controls, mapping, syncing to a local db, integrating with JSON / XML APIs, image manipulation, and resolving memory & performance problems.

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I fully agree with your comment on the level of cronyism in oz, and the issues created by it in terms of stalling and stifling otherwise progressive business culture.. through the lure of grants or the entrenched power of the status quo.

However australia is not an especially high taxing country by any means. And though a lot of government spending all over the country reeks of cronyism (mining infrastructure, road projects, desal plants etc etc), fed grants and research spending have been incredibly useful over the years. The main issue here is funding after the fact.

Lest you fall into the same fallacy you rightly pointed out, gov can and has picked winners, and has been responsible for much innovation, through funding or research, or just by raising living standards. Big business comes with the same issues of cronyism and bureaucracy.
Why can't the public access this information freely? http://www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov/footer/publicInformation.jsp
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Github pages seem to be down. Go to my profile and get my email address from there.
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Interested? Email us at work@easypost dot com with what you'd like to add/change about our API. If we're a fit for you, we'll let you build it!
And to top that, German government probably paid millions for anyone who created the system, and since the system crashes so much they now need to pay all the time to keep it running. In my country such projects appear when there is massive corruption at that field.
> Both IBM and Xerox had developed their own internal protocols for network communications.

Yeah in the 1970s, after the 1960s government-created ARPANET had already been developed. Way to not dipshit innovate.

/sarcasm

> History is replete with examples of non-governmental entities making ground-breaking advancements in technology

All your examples were government funded. Even the damn assembly line:

> The Terracotta Army commissioned by the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi is a collection of about 8000 life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses buried with the emperor, who died in 210 BCE. The figures had their separate body-parts manufactured by different workshops that were later assembled to completion. Notably, each workshop inscribed its name on the part they manufactured to add traceability for quality construction.

> At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16,000 people who could apparently produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_line

Way to prove my point. Lack of knowledge tends to do that.
EasyPost Adding First Hires
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We're quickly growing our team and looking for early hires. We recently received top 8 at Demo Day, have a host of new investors and funding, and are ready to get back to building.

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We're looking for senior developers who want to get in early, take over an area of the API, and make it great.

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I'm Expecting A Lecture From My Doctor
A. Because there is a war going on right now in Syria, People don't really know how much time is left for them as the bombing is occurring everywhere.

B. Because Syrians never had equal access to knowledge as other nations (they were punished by US and other countries)

http://www.sanctionswiki.org/Syria

this means No hosting is allowed, no paypal, no ecommerce, no Google services, No Source forge , I remember we couldn't even download java ..

C. Because it is okay to help others.
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1998. What has been the follow-up on this story?

AFTER EDIT: Okay, I found some follow-up to this old story myself:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/02/building-a-bette...
CLI is only a pro and not an absolute requirement for a unix based dev?
Gihub Pages Down "Error 503 Backend is unhealthy"
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/2e0c3V052m2K

i.e.: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

*edited for formating
The email on the website didn't work.
Paper Versus Pixel
Emailing helpout@ failed permanently. Via your mail to link, just a heads up
This is great, but I've been trying my very best to get hired in a decent web company in the US for the past year or so, and all my attempts have failed many times because of visa issues or that the company wasn't interested in candidates from outside the US.
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Well, sounds like too much too soon. You'll most likely fail new-year-resolution style. Don't try forming so many habits at once; I once tried this, and it is not the best approach. 'Just do it'. Don't write about it, don't make lists of changes every day, just do it. There is no such thing as burnout if you have a goal and 'just so it'.
In FreeBSD I use the following to change to an arbitrary directory when I'm unsure of the correct path:

`whereis -sq <dirname>`

No extra software necessary.
Oh well, I have no chance to test this, since ReactOS magically began to start. Thanks for the conversation, anyway.
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Yes, but you'd have to install Windows onto that, and it's not.
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C) after having been actively attacked by some State special forces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

edit: I keep thinking about that, and I don't know how you don't become crazy when you discover that the four or fifth biggest economy (at the time) actively attacked you. A "sane" level of paranoia doesn't exists anymore, you are actually framed by the secret services, you are in the novel, in the movie. They have allies all over the world, the rest is USSR friends you don't trust either or non-aligned third world countries.
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No experience or specific knowledge of finance is required. However, you do need to be at least interested in financial markets and to be able to implement your strategies carefully in C++.

An example of an infrastructure project is designing and building a system for logging to non-volatile memory. We generate large logs that cover everything from prices to transaction data. NVDIMMs are a form of RAM that survives power loss. Hardware like this has been on the horizon for a while, but it is just now becoming available to early adopters. Writes to NVDIMMs will be nearly instantaneous and immediately durable. This project will be to develop an NVDIMM-based system that simultaneously functions as a log, an IPC mechanism, and a searchable database for analysis. Making this work will involve a number of pieces: kernel drivers, CPU cache control, lock-free synchronization, a daemon to write everything back to long-term (i.e. less expensive) storage, and more. If this works well, we plan to open-source all the pieces.

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Haha, I would be surprised if anyone intentionally plans this to happen this way, but I would guess that in many cases it plays out more or less like that.