skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.

I'd actually hoped this was going to be more like Hire My Friend: http://www.hiremyfriend.io/

That's a job recruitment app based on the notion that someone in a job can't publicly announce that they are seeking a new job, and so their network advertises their availability anonymously.

That trick though, of getting people who know, to be the one to recommend someone... would work perfectly well with dating.
While I agree that immaculate attention to detail is important in documents you're creating for formal consumption (e.g. CVs/resumes), I don't see how the same extends to emails, websites and READMEs.

I'm a native English speaker and despite being well aware of homonym misuse, my brain doesn't always play the game and occasionally I find myself using the wrong word in my writing with no rational explanation.

Similarly, I often find myself leaving out words in my writing that I don't notice are missing even after re-reading a paragraph many times. (I fall for "PARIS IN THE THE SPRING" almost every time it comes up.)

Alternatively I'll change the wording in a sentence and not notice stray words are left over in the wrong order, again even after re-reading. Usually I have to do something else and look back at what I've written to read it with "fresh eyes". I imagine dyslexic people have similar problems.

Despite these issues I've been complimented many times on the quality of my technical writing and my code, so I don't consider my natural language issues as much of a disability when it comes to programming or technical work. That is, until I encounter somebody who holds your beliefs.

It seems obvious to me that there's a vast difference between somebody writing a CV using obviously incorrect spelling or random formatting, or inconsistent capitalisation, punctuation, tenses, etc., and somebody who makes one or two typos in a blog post on their personal home page.
On the one hand, I dislike the multiple layers of abstraction removing the programmer from the metal and killing performance. On the other hand, being able to hack the source code like this reminds me of my childhood Apple IIe, cracking and hacking days. Adding extra lives and other cheats was THE reason I learned how to program. If I grew up with today's binary apps and need for developer kits, I'd likely spend more time consuming and less time hacking.
Given that the guy himself has a track record of massive bad-actorness, it's not exactly a shame.

Assume that every single thing he does has the end goal of defrauding someone for his personal gain, and you won't be disappointed.
This is practically the reason why I turned off to show my FB friends: Acquaintances going through my friend list, and writing random messages to good-looking ones.
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It's pretty ridiculous that I'll probably move from using GA for my Google accounts to Authy, but here we are.
I'm with the group that thinks that this flash was probably made in the same factory that makes the real flashes. My question is why would the fake flash stop working? Why would a "fake" product, which in this case is more likely a product made in an extra factory shift, be more likely to fail than an official product?
If a company doesn't specify salary range in a job offer it's asking for trial runs to be honest. And most don't.
I have the impression that many games are way more expensive nowadays because of this special currency business model. I usually would buy a game in a range between 20-60$ but those pay-for-my-currency games have packages between 2-100$ and if you are really addicted the 100$ one won't last a month, at the end I don't buy anything, when sometimes the game is awesome, I buy a package to "support" the company.
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I'm a bit of a veteran of online dating, did it for 6 years, and after quite literally hundreds dates eventually found the mother of my son. So, with that in mind -

What you describe (Tinder), and what Eharmony, Match, Guardian Soulmates or any other site does, does NOTHING to speed up the process of finding Mr. or Ms. Right.

All that a site can do is to appeal to specific character types (like to use your phone? Shy, and prefer an introduction? ...).

Facebook integration will appeal to some (you, for example) but not to others (me, for example).

If you're just looking to get laid you can game chicks on any site. If you want to meet someone to love unconditionally, you just need to bite the bullet and settle in for a long haul.

NO web site can predict chemistry or love based on some funky new process and meta data. You need to spend time with someone to see if there's anything there. This means that dating sites are little more than databases of people that maybe, hopefully want what you want. Success is when they want it with you.

I learnt quickly that I had better odds by using as many dating sites as I had time for, because (apologies to the romantics) it's a numbers game.
Why no salary range on job offers then?
It's not "cutting corners". It does take more time to build an webapp that works without any JS.

If it takes more time, the final product costs more. The client should be aware of that and make the decision. Why should he/she always pay for something that will only be useful for a very small % of his/hers clients?
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Only Los Angeles can be seen in 70% of the movies playing in any cinema. And it's where those stars live.

What's the equivalent Birmingham has to make it famous? UB40? The Selfridges?

Even Ozzy Osbourne lives in Los Angeles nowadays (I pressume)
Technically, it should be "It's not as if language and written communication are unimportant."

If we were to nitpick style, we'd say that the double negative is unnecessary, and that "It's..." construction is flabby. So we'd reduce the sentence further to "Language and written communication are important." Debatably, even this statement is reducible to "Written communication is important." From there, we could even cut down to "Communication is important," assuming that "written" is redundant in context.

Not trying to be cute; just illustrating a point. You could argue that I'm reducing too far and slicing away some nuance. Nevertheless, a primary goal in writing is to make a point as succinctly as possible. This is doubly true in short-form writing, such as in resumes and cover letters.
I don't see the errors there. "If you can't be assed to do X" seems standard English to me, if informal. What would you say is wrong with that?

"Language and written communication is unimportant" seems arguably OK to me. Both are mass nouns / uncountable, so the "is" there seems quite defensible to me (v.s. "are", which I assume is your contention?).
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rm -rf sparkey

apt-get install lmdb
Wow. Just because someone is a college student doesn't mean they are incompetent! Plenty of people do business critical work as college students, haven't you ever heard of co-op before? A degree doesn't make you competent either, I've worked with enough people who have degrees who are completely incompetent. College students might need some extra supervision to make sure they are doing the right thing, but so do jr engineers.

Anyways, those are the things that a code review would catch.
Did you actually read the blog post? It's rife with blatant grammatical errors.

Awful use of conjuctions and a bizarre obsession with commas plus errors that a spellchecker will miss (eg. "roughly out 9 out of 10 applicants" under the method section.)

Apparently you wouldn't hire the author, and she wouldn't hire herself.
'eh; keep trying, you'll catch on someday.
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Yeah it seems quite nice, but as soon as I started putting down buildings and it was like "Hey this is how you unwait, by paying us!" and I still hadnt gotten to the actual gameplay I knew this top down toucher was gonna be a problem.
There are lots of strange conclusions on the article. My favorite one is that degrees don't matter, because they pre-screen better the candidates that don't have one. But maybe, my favorite should be that a study about 5 job offers had any significance.

Anyway, it's very good to look at data for a change.
> I would really like to know the combination and quantities of drugs consumed that resulted in this code. Do you know? Can you hook me up?

Meth. Two week binge. SilkRoad.

I can't imagine opiates did that.

And the only thing you'd do on coke is more coke in combination with hating yourself; not coding shit like this up.
I think by now everybody's already convinced that any javascript-based crypto is a joke.
Chances are if you want your browser to run fast you won't have one built in javascript :)

Javascript is nowhere near the performance of C++, asm.js is getting there, but this obviously isn't built in that.
Github repo's also use the sam (github.com) format, so it's very reasonable that one would think this was going to be a git repo on github for two-factor auth, not that github as a website has two-factor auth as a login feature.
If his math is correct then 8k, which is 4x the pixels of 4k, would need 4x that bandwidth, and even Intel's Thunderbolt 2.0 is "barely" at 20 gibabit/s, which means we can't go much further yet. It will be a while until we reach 80 gigabit/s.
Maybe after a good nights sleep...
> I ran this analysis on people whom we decided to interview rather than on every applicant; roughly out 9 out of 10 applicants were screened out before the first round.

Although the author acknowledges this will taint the results, it seems like a major filter especially when you are crafting rules for screening by non-engineers. For example, the results for "Offer Likelihood as a Function of Highest Degree Earned" could shift quite a bit if those with higher degrees were basically passed through the first cut.

Why not run a subset of the analysis using the full set of applicants?
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They used to -- e.g., Georgetown -- but they long ago merged into Washington.
If there was a way to lay a wager on this, I would bet you a thousand Euros that less than 10% of a randomly-selected sample of Europeans would be able to correctly identify that 1. Zaire changed its name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2. where the DRC is, 3. that it is distinct from the RoC, 4. that there has been a civil war and 5. how many people have died in it.
Dating with friends of friends, looks like http://acquaintable.com/
> Well, pair is an anti-pattern anyway

So cons is an "anti-pattern" as well, then?

Your comment is the most original dis of Lisp I've ever read. Bravo!
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IIRC nokia used to do this with their batteries.
They replied to that. Basically: "this was already in our FAQ, use the chrome plugin" https://mega.co.nz/#blog_21
I'm suspicious that this is constructed, and is precisely the idea. American TV is one long stream of things to be afraid of-- other than the things you should be afraid of. It's distraction.
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Ambisonics requires a lot of actual speakers to have a large (say, couch-sized) "sweet spot" where the directional audio sounds any good.
No: if you use (for example) Google Authenticator, your phone need never connect to network. The QR code you scan contains all that is needed to generate the code given the current time. Older versions of the Authenticator app didn't even have network access permissions; newer ones do because Google added the ability to automagically set up a Google account for 2FA.
Professional proof reading costs money. If you are modifying your resume for each job you are applying, it will cost you a fortune. And asking your friends who speak English natively(very few immigrants have those) is not so good since most native speakers have grammar problems( unless you have a friend with a Phd in English lit).
Certainly one of those "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." situations.
This crashes the browser on Windows Phone 7.5.
Am I not allowed to have a kitkat?
Panels are not irreversibly diluted or consumed. They just "fall apart" at the molecular level and have to be recycled.
Reduce it to "tonomo" or "notomo" then.

Also beware of extreme reduction, as "tonto" means "stupid" in Spanish.

("notomo" means "Idon'tdrink" in Spanish, but that's less obvious)
So were unauthorized users able to modify grades? Or just view them?
Yeah, My thinking is that hook-up apps will disrupt the dating site market by slotting in below and rising up, innovator's dilemma style. Grouper, Tinder, Grindr, et al. are the model I believe will actually bring online dating forward.

The problem I have with most dating apps is that they try to change, rather than facilitate, normal dating patterns. When you meet someone in bar or at a party, generally all you have to go on is some brief conversation, and physical appearance (which, by the way, I'm getting sick of people saying is terrible. Physical appearance communicates far more than simple in-born beautify: from fashion to mannerisms to posture, there's a massive amount of communication that's non-verbal.) Tinder emulates that process pretty well.

I just don't know the value in custom-written interest profiles that are at best inaccurate and at worst deliberately deceptive.

What I want is a Tinder that emulates the flow of a date, all as part of the app's design:

Matching algorithm->Picture (Vine or something would be better)->(yes/no)->Text conversation->(yes/no)->Audio Conversation->(yes/no)->drink/dinner
I came to know about this few weeks back and I've also registered. May I also suggest a track (Block) on the basics of Database.
Unless there's a correlation between those with a GPA below 3.8 and those who made mistakes on their resume...
i did not realized how back button is important for me until i see me clicking madly ten times to get back to HN
Honest question, does 4K and up really make sense for private use ? I am pretty sure from the distance that you usually watch 1080p content, you wont see a difference to 4K content at all.

Of course for big presentations and conference setups i see the usecase, just not for the consumer mainstream. 4K would also set back game console performance by a huge margin, if they will ever adopt it.

So i am not really convinced that the mainstream will go up to 4K, 8K etc, as it also means that all production costs increase and the benefit for the consumer is marginal.
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As an American in a relatively small Midwestern city, I think that's pretty much it.

I'm interested in what happens elsewhere in the world, but it feels impossibly far away, and ultimately it doesn't affect me here (at least not directly). Whenever I've checked, a roundtrip ticket anywhere out of the country has cost about $2000 and it takes a full day to get there. Then you're jet lagged. So, short vacations are out of the question. But it also takes me a full year of work to earn just 2 weeks vacation time, assuming I don't use any for special occasions. I didn't even bother getting a passport until two years ago, and I still haven't used it.

So yeah, even if an American desperately wants to travel somewhere out of the country, it's expensive and vacation time is scarce. So most never will. And at that point, knowing a list of English cities is purely trivia.
I know of solid devs in some of the areas I work that typically can take it. Otherwise, much of it is very niche both in domain and technology so it is up to the companies to find another route (sadly).
Well, you gotta love Mozzer. Is the rules.
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Tangent: I lived in Boston for a while. I'm glad to read stuff like this as it reminds me that it wasn't me.

PSA: Boston is not liberal, except a little bit in the abstract NPR "latte sipping" academic sense. Culturally it is unbelievably, stiflingly conservative, far more so than "red states" for example.
I enjoyed it. It appears I'm in the minority.
We should send the dev team a hungry Leopard in a box :).
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I'd say good materials and QA. Naturally some batches of parts (like LCD screens) might have a higher chance of failure than other batches, which is usually known at manufacture time. Then QA, where "bad" products don't make it to consumers hands.

Counterfeits would probably use more of these defective materials and go through less QA.
> Unfortunately I don't know what to do about it other than move to a different, more emotionally stable country. Culture is hard to change and takes a generation.

That seems extreme. The situation you describe seems directly under control of the parents. Eg you can solve this for your child by simply not subscribing to that culture.
How does Apple know if I'm using a fake usb cable
I'm not a Apple Dev, but I pay just to have the right to use the beta iOS before the others. I like it.. I have 1 original iPhone lightning and 2 fake cables..

When I use the fake cables appear a message on my iPhone.

How does Apple knows if it's a fake or original lightning cable? Btw, it charges my iPhone and I can use iTunes with the fake cable.

http://imgur.com/SEehjSK
Is it just me or is the point of this article "you can't"? Professionals who deal with real Canons all day every day were fooled for an absurdly long time, the silver bullet relies on extremely niche domain knowledge (the structure of serial numbers) which the counterfeiters don't have to get wrong, and the author was only able to spot minute differences in shades of colors, etc, while staring at a real and fake flash side by side. If I don't have a real flash already, how can I know if the shade of the glass is slightly too blue?
>I think we've seen lot of instances of major vendors changing something, and everyone complaining, and then the new design becomes the new normal.

Sure, because what else are the users supposed to do? Return to MapQuest?

Meanwhile their hatred increases...
Interesting. From a Spanish point of view, it could also mean "tomo / no tomo" (take, don't take), which is borderline sensible
I agree with the sentiment, but in this particular case, do you really think an MBA'd IT manager was in charge of a project that paid $20 per hour? (As opposed to Accenture rates.)
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Well, FileNotFound is a popular addition from what I hear.
Cool project, not what I expected from "Next Generation Web Browser".

I was hoping for a project to build an HTML/CSS/JS suite using OpenCL and OpenGL directly, in a functional style which can be parallelized and make use of immutable data structures in a sensible way. Backed by a built-in object store database.

I do a lot of OpenCL, so if anyone wants to write this browser, let me know. I will join your mailing list.
This looks very similar to the "easter egg" that the F# team put into visual studio.

When you create a new F# project you can select F# Tutorial and it generates a working project with a source code file that is an introduction to the language and its features.

I wish more IDEs did this.
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0. Peroni, thank you for reading this. I've been a fan of your writing for years, and your take on hiring was one of the things that ultimately helped me make the decision to switch from coding to recruiting.

1. Yeah, over the course of a year, we got several thousand applications/resumes for this position. The interview rate was roughly 1 in 10.

2. We interviewed 300 people and made offers to 6, i.e. the hit rate was 1 in 50, or 2%. Moreover (and fortunately!), each individual filtering round and subsequent interview took much less than an hour.
>A new generation of users are coming online whose experience is predominately a mobile one, and on touch, sparse, touchable, explorable interfaces are the norm. If Google simply kept maps the way it has been for a decade, sooner or later, they'd find themselves criticized because it doesn't work like "Apple Maps".

Or, you know, they could have changed them into something better, either incrementally or in one step, instead of the new broken design.
Again, I don't really see using "he" as sexist. It's just the English language.

From Merriam-Webster:

1: prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women

2: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex

I can understand an argument that the author of the comment said "he" because of some assumption that anyone doing stats must be a man. However I'm making the counterargument that using "he" is a standard default in English and that such usage is not sexist, but rather as a result of how the English language is used.
They are forced to do that by law.
I'm facing the collapse of my homeland and intervening. Are you in denial, or part of the solution?
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It's only a joke if you don't trust the js script. Just like any encryption or software is a joke if it is untrustworthy. Unless you have the source code, it is verified and you compiled yourself, then there is always a point of weakness there. You could say the same about SSL certs and HTTPS on any website, you are blindly trusting VeriSign (or cert authority).
Suggestion: Write as if your audience isn't full of English majors. Several reasons for this:

* There are lots of really, really smart people who aren't so good with English but still make good decisions and can help you. Don't alienate them.

* There are lots of really, really smart people who speak another language first and English second or third. Don't alienate them.

* Some people might find long words or complex language to be annoying. You might not like people like that, but again, sometimes those people are the very ones making important decisions, and it might be best not to alienate them.

You can still be correct and interesting without being complicated (look at this comment for example), and I'm sure your grasp of our language is good enough that you can be straightforward and simple without dumbing down your message.

In short, make people feel good about themselves when you're around, and they'll feel good about you.
It's interesting that people are moving beyond e-commerce in India. With the sports fanaticism present and the increasing social media/online presence, this could be the next big thing among teens!
That's my worry :-) _just_ fine, or fine by a wide margin? If this thing dissipates 5W as is (without powering USB devices), I would think it gets fairly warm. 2 inch = 5 cm, so area will be 150 cm^2, or 0.015 m^2, or about 300W/m^2 = one third of summer sunshine, radiating out of what looks like a plastic enclosure.
Perhaps these counterfeits were built using components that failed QA tests?
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I think the idea is that you risk the fake one over the real one. (IE: You are willing to break the fake one.)
You know, for all the ridiculousness of this code, at least it actually performed its function correctly, i.e. it would correctly identify all McGill email addresses. From the title I was expecting another multi-page regexp.
Have you seen it in person yet? To me there is most definitely a difference and I personally would enjoy 4K content.