skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of your big issues is going to be optimizing utilization. How can you get a single car to help as many people as possible? As notahacker mentioned, some people may need a car simply to get to and from a 8 - 9 hour shift. You don't want one person putting a car out of circulation for 10 hours. ZipCar works because it charges by the hour and keeps the cars idle in high-population, easy-to-reach areas.

Something to look into is how many people will have a smartphone. If not many (or for the ones who don't) I'd give them a cheap Android phone that does nothing but run your app. The phones can run on a group data plan (and like Republic Wireless' phones, WiFi whenever possible), and just be a more powerful kind of key fob that lets your members find, request, schedule, etc. cars. You could also use it as a key, requiring a password in the app to send a bluetooth signal that unlocks the car. I might also use these phones to connect to the cars' onboard computers whenever the car's in use, so that you can check fuel levels, engine status, etc. Some of that may be a bit further down the road -- you may want to go with more lowtech solutions while you get this up an running.

re: insurance and infrastructure, the best thing you can do is talk to people at ZipCar. You're not a threat to them, and they have the exact expertise you need.
You missed the part where the fingerprint is stored so it's not even accessible to the OS and are never stored online?

Oh, but I guess the NSA has a back door and will manage to collect them all without anyone noticing, right? Just like they record all the sound from your phone mic and upload it?

I'm all against unlawful spying by the NSA, but give me a break.
There is a tremendous amount of bias and selective memory involved in recruiting. The tracking system and notes help fight this a lot. General comments like "Math majors can't do recursion" or "We do best with employee referrals" can be systemically checked.

Perhaps the only thing I would add to the process is I like to keep feedback private until it's decision time. If there are 4 people interviewing, they should have assigned roles in advance, and submit feedback anonymously first. Otherwise everyone just agrees with the boss.
What have you used Ruby for in these 10 years?
The flow of a (possible) attack is something like this:

1. User configures browser to automatically start torrent downloads when a ".torrent" link is clicked

2. User clicks twitt button which leads to a torrent file

3. The file is downloaded and opened in a torrent client

At this point, one could imagine a specifically crafted torrent file which exploits some vulnerability of the torrent client to gain (say) arbitrary code execution and now the user is, to use a mild term, screwed.

This attack could be used by any malicious site, really, but it's easier to get people to click a twitt button rather than some link on some site and besides, by preforming the attack this way the attacker would infect a sizable chunk of all internet sites (any site that uses the twitt button).
...so I guess I'm the only person that saves every 5 seconds and wouldn't appreciate a git log 10 miles long?
shane is gay? You would know.
Why we moved away from AWS
Just happened to me on Businessinsider.
maybe it was down because it uses ASP.NET?
Is the University not allowed to terminate contracts of staff "in a bad place financially"? That makes no sense. The college clearly reached out and tried to help her. The pay their adjuncts better than most and why would a part time professor teaching a class or two per semester have benefits? She was also 83 and died of cancer. This was not a 30 year old professor working full time, who couldn't afford treatment for a cold and died. It's a sad story, but the outrage seemed misplaced.
FTA: Analysts had predicted between 5 and 8 million launch weekend sales across both devices

That is a link to another earlier article on Apple Insider discussing such predictions:

"In fact, Kuo said in a note to investors on Wednesday that Apple will likely ship 6 to 8 million new iPhones over the devices' first weekend of sales. By comparison, Apple racked up 5 million sales when the iPhone 5 debuted last year. Earlier in the day, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster forecast 5 to 6 million unit sales, a more conservative number based on the prior model's in-store launch sales."
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It's a good sign of how humane the process is if you left it with a good feeling about the company.
Should combine this with http://raining.fm/
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You should not need 4 interviews to hire some one and I have my doubts about cutesy algo based coding challenges.
The comment was made, "It's not for people who care about security, it's about people with no security."

But poor security just replaces no security with a fake sense of security. I'd argue that false security is worse than no security.
I don't know..build your product?

I feel like sometimes people get too caught up in the startup scene..and should be concentrating on building a product and making sales.
Yup, Apple is as doomed as ever. Also their customers are sheeple, they are marketing geniuses (even when I write a blog post painstakingly detailing why their ads are terrible), reality distortion field, disruption, etc etc.
Looks like it failed miserably. He didn't gain any muscle mass in almost two months of exercise and actually lost weight. Also, given the short time-frame the weight loss can be chalked up to typical fluctuations and/or time of the day.
That's awesome. I had no idea Toronto represented so well in the IGDF, but I probably should. :)
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Unless they've changed it, it splits it out by performing artist, then album. This is really bad for soundtracks, but even a lot of albums with fine-grained ID3 tag accuracy gets screwed by it - you'll see things like "X Feat. Y"/"Album 1", "X Feat. Z"/"Album 1", etc.
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"phone" is a weird word to use for these devices. It's a computer in your pocket with instant access to the Internet that just haphazardly has a GSM module for legacy reasons.
I'm curious how much this narrows down the field, and if the right folks drop out. That will help decide if you're on the right track. I assume that you're filling your needs, so it does work.

Do half the people decline the coding assignment? A quarter? How many people pass the assignment?

My instinct is it's no different than interviewing for 2 hours. If it's for a coding job, it's probably more efficient for everyone involved.
Really? For a startup ?

Yes, you need good people, but you need good people that work in a good team.

Only after some time you can check if somebody is a good programmer or not and if he/she fit to the team or not.

All you write reminds me on big companies, they test the people, because when they hire them, they hire for many years (if you are in, you are in).

But on a small agile startup, is that really necessary?
You see within some days if somebody perform or not.
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I'd love to hear more about the decision making with a consensus culture. I'm very much a consensus-style manager, but occasionally I am overridden from the top and I feel like it bums my team out.

Are there cases or profiles of people talking about it?
I'd be much more interested in an overweight person's results. They'd likely lose weight and look better. A skinny guy working out for 7 minutes a day isn't going to develop any muscle mass. Hell, a skinny guy weight-training everyday won't look that different 50 days later.
Tough - running a startup is not all kittens and unicorns there is this thing called hard work - this attitude is just like the car dealers in Texas who dont like Tesla selling direct.
This might not be the forum for you...
Is it possible for software to even read the fingerprint from the sensor, as opposed to only asking the sensor if this fingerprint matches a previous fingerprint????
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This is what TorrentFreak had to say about it:

http://torrentfreak.com/twitter-bug-requires-users-to-torren...

TL;DR is Twitter uses bittorrent internally, this is probably just an error in letting an internal configuration leak to the outside world.
Bill, I have the utmost respect for Braintree. But if this rumor is true, all I can say is "famous last words." PayPal have demonstrated an inability to operate competently.

And we just notified our entire customer base that they can kiss their Paypal problems goodbye because we've switched to Braintree. How does that look now?

I have my fingers crossed that this sale does not go through.
It wouldn't be sexist if he wrote "how I taught my girlfriend to program".

Imagine if it said "how to teach your black friend to program". Why only black friends? Why only girlfriends?
This post captures very accurately the engineering education scene in India. I would add that many students today are actually aware of what they are getting into (Most of the times, they don’t need engineers but mere “coders”). Unless they are living under a rock, their predecessors have already told them that by now.

Going further the students who were pressurized to take up engineering are now using these jobs as stepping stones to reach a point where they can pursue their real interest. The good engineers are seen as capable to lead bigger teams and pressurized to enter project management (which is, in reality, resource management).

At least on the open source front, there seems to be a real community of interest in India, who seem to involved due to their love in the area. The way I see it, getting into engineering was an 'arbitrage opportunity'. That window has closed and people will slowly move on.
I suppose he refers to this...

* IO

* extended methods:

* IO#seek supports SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE as whence.

* IO#seek accepts symbols (:CUR, :END, :SET, :DATA, :HOLE) for 2nd argument.

* IO#read_nonblock accepts optional `exception: false` to return symbols

* IO#write_nonblock accepts optional `exception: false` to return symbols

see https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_1_0_preview1/NEWS
Was the reason to try and find the most challenging installations and do them first? Availability of local contractors to do the actual work of digging holes, stringing fiber and connecting it the the equipment? I'm honestly curious because after seeing my suburb wasn't on any list for the first few years I didn't look too much further. My ADSL connects at 18Mb so I'm not complaining in any case!
The 5S is my first cell phone. I love being able to make calls from outside of my house and quickly and easily write "text" messages to my friends. I use to have to wait until I was at work or at home to make a phone call, but now I can do it from anywhere! I also love these app things, there is one for everything.

I also can't believe I can just connect to the internet from anywhere, and there are not even any tubes connected to my phone. How is that possible?
I struggle to take anybody seriously when they refer to companies by their stock market codes. Also, it's AAPL.
One of my colleagues was taking an interview of a potential candidate who listed "Python" as a core programming language. This is similar to most interviews I've been part of. Here's how it went -

Interviewer : Name some data structures in Python
Interviewee : Same as C, C++

Interviewer : Can you name some specific data structures? For example, have you heard about lists?
Interviewee : I haven't heard about lists in Python

Interviewer : What is the key difference between Python and C?
Interviewee : Python requires indentation, C doesn't.

That was the final straw in my colleague's patience.
The URL that is required to load the script is 503ing. The issue is not with any of your browsers...?
Sure, sudoku would be a good textbook example for the technique. The scheduling problem is just less artificial and one I know gets real world usage.
The ViewState should be encrypted with the MachineKey[1] of the server and shouldn't allow you to decrypt it if they store sensitive data in it, but at least one control needs to request for the encryption or have the encryption set to always [2]

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w8h3skw9(v=vs.85).as...

[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479501.aspx
I'll see if I can find some pictures of last winter, when I weighted 73kg, and felt like a sloth.
"Everyone's a UI critic."

As it should be... everyone uses the UI for mass market products. Very few people admin the app or have the ability to access and analyze the source.
Doctors, lawyers and priests have legal, financial & spiritual repercussions for not keeping these details private.

Giving your details to Facebook is the pre-Facebook equivalent of putting an ad in the paper with your details. You're not just giving your details to Facebook, you're giving them to everyone who has access to your page.
My business nearly went under because of SHITPAL

how is that for an insight?
People are different and have different tastes. Details at 11!

These are superbly useful devices. They're actually pretty good cameras. Not quite as good as a dedicated one, but quite close, and they have the extreme advantage that you always have it with you.

Calling, texting, GPS navigation, instant weather reports, photos and videos, Facebook, and on and on.

It doesn't have to be your thing. Nothing wrong with that. But I'm a bit surprised you can't see why other people think they're a big deal.
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If you're living paycheck to paycheck, planning for retirement isn't on your list of high priorities. Paying your rent, and buying food is, and those little unexpected expenses like new tires hit hard.

It's great that you're fortunate enough to have enough income to be able to plan for retirement at 25.
what do you think of the 7min workout so far?
It doesn't matter how much money/projected money they made/are going to make. Money talks.
As a person who started one of chennai's first product development org. in the mid 90's, let me add my two cents here:

1) Hire people for their interest in programming, their core problem solving ability and the fun they have with the process.

There are lots of such people, just learn to look beyond what everyone else does. For instance, i once hired a person who could not speak much english, and who did a BA or something like that. He, later on, turned out to be one of the stars of the organization writing a core part of a VoIP solution.

2) Invest in long-term training. By that, i mean don't hire some crappy institute to come and train your people. Here from experienced folks in other organizations to come in over the weeke-end or other timings to help your team.

I remember having to train almost every member of my team in assembly, c, win16 and later on win32 among others. Some of my team members then went on to train professors in IIT, chennai. :-)

3) Mentor your team members. Show interest in them beyond what they can deliver today. Build good relationships with them and help them, both technically and otherwise. When they see you sincerely reaching out to them, they will do the same.

4) Be patient with people. If they know zilch, be frank with them and let them know that they are currently not contributing anything to the organization. However also lay out a plan for them, along with HR, to bring them up to speed in core areas; viz problem-solving, algorithm design, data structures etc Don't allow them to waste time on fancy courses from idiotic institutes. Make your senior programmers take classes some of the time. That's also part of their job.
Now you just need browser support for downloading HTTP bodies via BitTorrent. Not actually a bad idea for sufficiently large ones :)
I noticed that Google Flights ad box only pops up when your query is served by Google Flights (eg it starts in north america).

So "flights to LON" will not bring up a schedule, while "flights from LON" will. And for most of my purposes, I only care about the destinations, not exact times, so this works fine.
Unfortunately because I'm cheap and I am using the smallest Linode plan available. Don't normally get this kind of traffic...
> Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend, Topping 5M For iPhone 5 Last Year

Not a fair comparison, given that 5S + 5C is two models.

It would be fairer to compare it to the sales of the 5 + 4S last year - which were probably not 9 million, but certainly more than 5 million.
I think we can exclude PR.

The iPhone 5 sold about two million units on its opening weekend in China, so adding that to its original opening weekend (which didn't include China) and you get about seven million "opening weekend" sales including China's.

So that's seven versus nine million, still a substantial increase.
I thought Twitter was all private DC, did platform previously point to S3?
"...calculate row n of Pascal’s triangle or implement a basic sorting algorithm, for example"...

I assume you let your candidate use google to search for solutions to these problems if they ask ?

Personally speaking, I think if you are going to put an engineer on the spot about some stuff they may or may not be familiar with, you have to allow them the appropriate toolset to solve these problems...you see for me, asking a dev to implement a sort algorithm or solution pascal's triangle doesn't really tell me a whole lot on its own, especially if the person has no entries in his "memory" for these problems, I think it is unfair and probably irrelevant to what they may do in a normal situation.
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They should call them communicators, like on Star Trek. Unfortunately that ship has sailed.
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Steve Jobs knew that both iOS 7 and the iPhone 5C were coming, and most likely a lot more.

http://www.ibtimes.com/steve-jobs-dies-leaves-plans-4-years-...
"Rubygems now has a dependency resolution mechanism similar to Bundler."

That's a shame, because bundler is a fail. Ok, anger aside, if I had a $ for every time json has been a dep resolution blocker on bundle install, or chef, or net-ssh, Id be rich.
It seems understandable - they have limited resources and have a lot of work to do on their new WinPhone and WinStore platforms.

So, not a flurry of cutting-edge development, but very much not deprecated either.
What extensions are you using with Visual Studio? Found vanilla to be really stable, but certain extensions result in some random crashes. But not terribly often.
There hasn't been a significant upgrade to WPF in years. Microsoft's stance seems to be that "desktop apps" should not be a thing any more - there weren't any WPF sessions at Build, for example.
It's not just a 4th Amendment search issue, it's also a 1st Amendment freedom of assembly issue. "We know who you're talking to" is a chilling effect on freedom of assembly.
It always seems Apple has a problem with color production. Don't quote me on it, but wasn't the white iPhone 4 that was different in color and had a weird yellowish tint to some of the early models? It seems that they have quality down, as of now. It's just a matter of quantity by the looks of it.
We've seen this for a couple of weeks now... The NSA can collect your finger print from the airport among other places already with technology specifically for this purpose.

How do they benefit from collecting your fingerprint from a phone?

What is it you think they can do with it that they cannot already do?

Tracking cookies from Facebook and Google can do far more to invade on your privacy.
That won't be necessary, I think the lesson here is that we should invest at least an hour a day working out to see substantial results. Maybe, as it's been said up here this kind of program is more useful for overweight people where a longer training session could actually be dangerous.
Could Some one tell me how these people game the stock market by releasing news that are um, false or unrealistic.

I mean Analyst and Media, wanting to trash Apple for headlines has become insane.
Given the fact that we've seen no evidence of such updates previously, and rather we've seen Apple take many steps to protect privacy and even seen NSA leaked slides detailing how they need access to PCs to read iPhone backups, I think it's extremely unlikely that they would ever take the risk of pushing an customer-wide software update.

If you are worried about being specifically targeted, you shouldn't use an off the shelf cellphone at all, and this discussion is moot.
It is. But when you make that observation, you should be aware that the weirdness dates back into the 1800's (at least); metadata surveillance was litigated in the dawn of the telegram era.
MVC4 with AngularJS

Why combine a server-side MVC with a client-side MVC?

Honestly the ASP.NET MVC advocacy doesn't make sense to me. It is a solution that half brings .NET developers into the modern era. Using it purely as a service layer is that project essentially trying to maintain relevance in the face of irrelevance.
75% of college instructors are adjunct professors? REALLY? That's the most surprising statistic I've read in a long time. We only had a couple in my school, and they were pretty temporary positions.
No, Obama actually sounded like he wanted to confuse the public about what they were doing. I didn't get the impression that he was discussing the legality of it in his speeches at all, when saying "metadata".
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Why would your colleague waste time on further questions when the interviewee answered that he hasn't heard of lists in python?

btw Python's indentation requirement is a difference with C though whether it's a key difference or not is debatable.
I just started a similar thing, and I'd say he did gain a "lot", the fat loss is not enough to show the small muscle gain but he probably feels having a lot more strength and overall energy.
Indeed he was for his time.
Ditto on Razor. It's like 2002 php. Except you can't really create reusable partials because of static typing. Sure, you can just make everything dynamic, but then the top of your view turns into:

@{
/* A bunch of repetitive object creation and casting */
}

Which has happened in every razor project I've seen anyways.
compare them to equivalent private schools

Which ones do you consider "equivalent"? Private schools that are the default choice of school for their area and aren't allowed to be selective about what students they admit/retain?
It's hardly realistic to expect employers to act with their employees' best interests at heart.

This is a little harsh. Many companies do put their employees first, so that they can keep the best ones. They just have to be in a position to capture some of the value from the added talent. Universities aren't always in a position to do that.

Unions can come with other problems such as reduced flexibility of the work force, which in today's high-change environment for schools could be crippling.

One should ask the deeper question - why are there so many underpaid adjuncts? The oversimplified answer is that we're subsidizing the production of too many Phds with non-transferable skills.
I've genuinely never had a single person refuse to take part in our technical test or request compensation in return either.

If someone refused or demanded compensation, I would no longer pursue said candidate.
Perhaps, then, one move in the right direction would be to start adopting similar legal policies for online services?

Of course, this won't prevent the NSA from doing what it has always done: "We're snooping. No, you can't tell the user. No, you can't do anything about it." but that is another issue, one that we can hopefully resolve with a bit of legislature and oversight.
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