skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The closest thing to a repo that I can think of is ripping off the XCMDs/XFCNs from other people's stacks using ResCopy/ResEdit. :)
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You know, for kids.
In most of the schools I was considering the family annual income cutoff is around $65k a year. That's below the median for the country, and covers most of the lower and lower middle class. That's a pretty substantial part of this country.

As for being in the top 2-5%, that unfortunately is still a requirement.
"There is one site where users share opinions with greater transparency than Yelp or Google: Facebook. The world’s biggest social-networking site prohibits the use of fake names."

Uh, I don't really think Facebook's real name policy has any effect here (it's policy is actually a lot weaker than Google in practice afaik). I do think people share their real opinion on Facebook more often but I think that's because of Facebook's huge audience. People basically want to share their real opinions with their real friends (not necessarily their friends there under real name). And people don't really have that many opinions about just plain products. And when people do, they mostly feel kind of sleazy sharing those opinions with the world for commercial purposes. Facebook is always trying to get people to integrate their socializing with advertising/commercial-recommendations but it has been unsuccessful and would probably start to truly lose users if it really forced people's hands.

The problem is most people care so little about the products they buy that they'd rather not write a review. That's unlikely to change.
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"The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP) is a facetious communications protocol for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots. It is specified in RFC 2324, published on 1 April 1998 as an April Fools' Day RFC, as part of an April Fools prank."
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It doesn't sound like the OP tried very hard to contact them. He sent them an email, didn't hear back, and then decided to write a blog post about it. I mean, if he cared that much about github, he would send them an email back asking what was up. Or 5.
If foundation db released and is it open sourced?

I remember others (employees of company) hailing its wonderful qualities for quite a while now (years), then I go to the website and all I could find was a bunch of white papers and a registration form. And here it seems a bit of a "my vaporware's features are better than your shipped product's features".

Now matter how many white papers there are I would still put my data in Cassandra rather than this new thing (last I checked I couldn't even download it, I had to fill out a form of some sort).
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I don't see your point - in more ways than one.

I'm not sure why you feel it necessary to be a cynic. I don't see why there is a reason to etch the flaws out in everything. I could caveat everything I say but what would be the point of that? Especially in a section labelled: "What I liked about working at Google".

I also don't see the point in you playing fortune teller - so what if my blog has 1 post? Why does it matter to you what I do or do not do with my life after its been read?

I appreciate your criticism of my writing, and certainly welcome more of it, but if you're going to be passive aggressive about it I'm afraid I don't see the point in it either. From your reply it seems like your suggestion is to "add cynicism".

Lastly, your thinly veiled insults do not make your post more palatable to me.
I assume you're referring to the use of the different flags?

For the latter two, no disagreement there. For the former two, there is a difference between returning a verbose response within the context queried and expanding the inclusive parameters of the query. 'git remote -a' makes no sense as all remotes are equivalent (there is no such thing as a local remote).
His argument is: this process is annoying, difficult and takes actual effort.

As extra validation is. It is a pain in the ass. Get over it.

He was the one to make the commentary on the process showcasing his personality so it's open season on that dialogue.
An energy field that binds the galaxy together!
The LDS (Mormon) Church has a new program for members to get an online bachelor's degree from BYU-Idaho for a total tuition cost of $7,800 [1]. Judging from member/non-member tuition on campus, that's probably subsidized at a rate of 1:1, but even $15,600 isn't too bad.

[1] http://www.byui.edu/online/pathway/tuition
What are you doing, what you have done, is proved that you're just here to spew acid.
Hi, I work in astronomy.
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I think that poll is incredibly biased and wishful thinking. I have been through too many neighborhoods around the country where people had neither the means or interest to do anything whatsoever online. I know several public schools in my region where the only computers are in the offices. We who exist online with our bread and butter dependent online, want desperately to see it as the world, but in all honesty it is not even remotely pertinent of the majority.
The kernel developers will never stop breaking internal interfaces. Them being able to break internally is how they are able to move so fast and improve as fast as the kernel does. Programs written against Linux's external interfaces many moons ago will continue to work indefinitely, the issue is Video drivers need to work internally with the kernel are arguably even violate the GPL.
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So... now I've heard of someone who actually watched The Internship.
Yes. I use BitBucket because it allows free private repositories. No problems at all.
remote branches can also be achieved with one flag by using `-r` ( git branch -r ). Neat note about the reasoning behind stash.
If they're setting arbitrary caps on salary, then they're not playing by the rules of the free market, and they shouldn't be whining about a "shortage". (I can't find someone who is willing to sell me a new luxury car for $10,000. Is that a problem? Is there a shortage of BMWs?)
Africa's Obsession with Shopping Malls: The perfect symbol of Kenya's rise
It also supports about 0 "advanced" features that ddwrt/etc. support.
You mean companies sometimes promote features that still have bugs ? My god that is incredible. I can't believe that has never happened before. Oh wait it has. On nearly every single software project in the history of software projects.
Hi, I work in computational fluid dynamics.
...even if it means leaving their kids at daycare.
Probably one of The Cubes playsets:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Cubes-CUBES-Copy-Center/dp/B000BJF...

There's a few "departments" that fall in the sub $10 range.
Yes they do. I believe for new-grads it was 50k if you were not an intern previously, and 100k if you were.

You have to stay a full year at the company otherwise you have to pay it back. But yes, it is all upfront; cash.
The copyright claim seems unsupportable in the first place. As far as I understand, a simple list of things that fit in a category does not meet the minimum originality requirement. See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural

It also seems like it would be trivially easy to compile a similar list from linkedin.
"It's not an in-apt analogy to compare this to lightsabers," said Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin in a news release.

Yeah, but let's just write the article that way anyway.

"Science trumps the Force to create a real-life lightsaber"
If that's the extra joke... What's the primary joke?
>I don't see why there is a reason to etch the flaws out in everything.

Then you will forever be a terrible engineer. We seek out flaws!

And I want you to consider that your internship has been a product as much as it is an opportunity for you.

Your employer is not your friend.
I don't know about that, but they would probably have to be silly to turn down an op-ed by someone with David Omand's resume, whatever their politics.
I don't think anyone else gives $100k signing bonus, so yes the numbers aren't representative of the whole but it hints at what an undergraduate can command out of college.

I'd say $100k salary is very typical, as are the RSUs (vesting over 4 years as you said).
It's probably being reported as the Earth getting warmer due to people. As that's what's happening.
Simple tricks and nonsense.
I like Unfuddle. I'd put more stuff there, but nobody would see it if I did. For many people it's like if code isn't on GitHub it doesn't exist.
Disagree. A git-uncommit command tells you by its name what it's going to do, even if you know nothing about git or even if you don't know what a commit is, you can assume that git-uncommit will undo it.

git reset --hard tells you absolutely nothing obvious about what it's going to do unless you understand git and its specific incantations. You have to learn git commands, rather than intuit them.
He doesn't even have to use bitbucket, it sounds like he can just create another github project. I think he's not asking for alternatives though, just explaining the situation and calling attention to it.

PS

I am also a bug fan of bitbucket, I got three groups on it, using it unlimited mode, since they are research/education related (emails).
The world is full of people who are quick to jump to conclusions and refuse to give you the benefit of doubt.

I used to use a self hosted blog aggregation software (Gregarius) and put it up at www.mypersonalsite.com/blogs that was unlisted and unlinked to. It got 3 uniques/month for about 12 months. Then one day a company owner (a regular from the Joel on Software's forums -- a technical person) wrote a blog post linking to my site, calling me a spam blog, and posted my personal information. He sent my host a C&D, and also blocked my work IP (most of the local IBM office) from reading his blog.

From what I gather, he looked at his refer logs and saw I clicked through to his blog 2-3 times, went to the link and freaked out that I was displaying his RSS feeds.

I emailed him to try and clear it up, and was quite polite, but he kept being an asshole, accusing me of stealing his content and breaking the law. He threatened me with further action, and was condescending because I was 17. ("You should password protect your 'blog reader' as a learning exercise, then blog about it so you'll have content of your own and you won't have steal my content").

He never reached out to contact me. He just sent the C&D, wrote a nasty blog about me, and didn't even try. Once he jumped to conclusions, it was too late.
HBO is perfectly aware of the potential value of a digital subscription model. They already have a very usable app in place for users to access their content. However, it would be incredibly foolish for them to head into that now. It would not put them in a powerful position. They would just lose millions.

The cable system is still entrenched. They gain tons of customers through cable providers. If they were to abandon that model... do you really believe all of those who were subscribing to HBO / premium channels would switch over to HBO as a digital subscriber? Of course not. Sure, many would switch but they would lose a lot of customers. Would they gain back customers whom didn't opt in to the cable provider method but would opt in for digital subscription? I'm sure this would happen. But it likely wouldn't overcome the loss of cable provider subscriptions.

HBO has consistently stayed ahead of the curve and been very innovative. They will switch when the time is right and not any sooner. They sure as hell will not need to be "dragged kicking and screaming."
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Not true. Many deprecated components were replaced with other components that are part of the DirectX package and are still used.

DirectSound -> XAudio/XACT

DirectInput -> XInput

Etc.
Who gives a shit as long as Stripe is still around.
FoundationDB isn't open source software, but it is a 1.0 product that's freely available to download right now[1]. (You are right in recalling that during our alpha and beta programs there was a simple registration form, and there's still an account signup for our community site and of course for Enterprise licensing and support).

[1] https://foundationdb.com/get
I am extremely proud of how low the barrier to entry is for our field, this guy is living a philanthropic wet dream of mine
What can one say about these things? It's the 21st century and still we find police officers, of all people, behaving like middle school children.

Word of advice to all Mississippians, watch "Enemy Mine" and keep watching it until you get it.
Applied.at - job listing organizing made simple.
Just because you applied for a job, doesn't mean it will lend you a job. It’s a lengthy process in most cases. Yes, the resume and cover letter gets you on the eye of the hiring manager, but that’s not the end. The crucial process is the interview(s). Knowing the job description will help you a lot in preparing yourself to answer the interviewer or to ask your questions to interviewer.

Applied.at is here to solve these problems and make it easy for you to manage job listings. It’s a tool to solve the gap after you apply for a job to when you’re interviewed, and to the end when you should follow up with the employer.

It's an organizer web-app for job seekers like you, to help you easily capture and save job listings that you apply to or want to apply to, right from your web browser using Applied.at Chrome/Firefox/Safari extension. It helps you to easily trace back to the actual job listing (even if the listing gets deleted or expired) anytime, or once you are called for an interview. Applied.at emails and reminds you when to follow-up with a prospective employer (based on your reminder selection). You can also add a list (offline), view your saved listings, and manage follow-up reminders from your iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or Windows Phone using our app or by going to appliedat.com

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Even though he's an intern, it's a fairly accurate impression, although there are gray areas.

The two biggest points I think are fairly true:

1) Google engineers are very passionate about transparency, and collaboration.

There are way way less engineering prima-donna hot-heads at Google than other companies. The kind of Linus Torvald-style rants and flame wars are extremely rare internally, and many people are happy to help and mentor. I've worked at IBM and Oracle and there were plenty of shouting matches between alpha-male hackers battling egos.

Secondly, secrecy pisses people off. To give you an example, there was a high-profile flop that started life as a secret project until it was almost ready for release, and it drove a lot of internal disharmony. In fact, one of the reasons listed in the post-mortem for the product flopping was the fact that it was developed in secret. Googlers don't like secrecy.

2) The engineers are world class, period. Jeff Dean. Rob Pike. Etc. 'Nuff Said. It's possible in a smaller company to be a big fish in a small pond. It's part of what drives the big, hot-headed egos of engineering prima donnas. They're the shit, because they might have 10 other junior engineers around them who are far less knowledgeable. You can't really get away with those kinds of attitudes at Google, and that may be part of the reason for the more relaxed, cooperative humility ('googliness'), because many of your peers are just as good, if not better, than you.

The grey areas are this. As Google becomes larger, the probability of a shitty employee being immature and leaking to the press goes up. As a result, Google is not as wide-open internally as it used to be. Some of the bad employees have spoiled it for the majority. Moreover, to my dismay, many of Google's attempts at federated, open protocols have failed in the marketplace. Open doesn't always win, or, takes a long time, and the success of closed silos of competitors I think has taught some Google product teams the wrong lesson, and forced it to compete on the same grounds of its competitors. Hopefully, eventually when things reach saturation and commodification, they'll be a return to setting standards, but I'm cynical. Apple has the whole industry thinking open specifications are bad because you can't make arbitrary changes to them to vertically integrate and suit your needs. And Google's years of supporting XMPP federation did nothing to get AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, et al on board. You can't say Google didn't try, they ran GTalk for years, but none of the big players with 10s or 100s of millions of users played along.
What is really B.S. in this is that you can make changes to history then force push changes to git to remove anything. Sure it sucks and Linus would hang you publicly if you did it, but you can do it. The biggest problem is in the forking part. I guess you'd have to contact everyone that had a fork.

If something is really offensive or stolen, it is tough as hell to remove all traces of it- anyone could have a copy. The lesson learned here is if you are that pissed off that someone shared it, the problem is that someone shared it, not the person who took it. Unless it is crack being given to a crack dealer, but that's different. Git repos aren't crack houses. Not usually. Ok, maybe some of them. But not many. Just one? Ok just one.
I fully agree. Whatever craps on iPhone, that's Apple's problem (if exist...). Exactly like that, whatever craps on Galaxy, that's Samsung's problem. (also if exist).
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Anybody know when there will be a regex library?
No it won't. There's a reason patent trolls all use shell companies and it's because they can be totally financially independent. Declaring insolvency of one such company is nothing to the patent troll.
I don't know about other fields, but in physics, the "small extra fee" is $1700 - $2700.[1] Many researchers prefer to spend this money on actual research. Fortunately, most physics journals also allow the author to retain publishing rights (just not on the final typeset version). So, sites like arxiv.org provide a better alternative. Free-to-reasearcher publishing in a prestigious journal plus free-to-researcher-and-public publishing elsewhere.

[1] http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/CC-launch-press-release
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I highly doubt that. Even BBY during their glory days are willing to pay 64k for fresh grad with co-ops experience.

Microsoft paid 80k for ugrad back in 2008 in Redmond.

I would love to know which companies in the Vancouver that are willing to pay that much for mostly raw talent.

PS: I dealt with mostly UBC co-op and I know UBC CS curriculum rather well and 85k is too much.
Ballmer bids tearful farewell to Microsoft
Twitter and FB specifically advertise new-grad only just fyi.
I wrote that part of my profile as a way to say that I love coming up with ideas and putting a small team together in order to build them so we can test their merits. At the time, we had a lot of products and I couldn't lead them all (from a development standpoint).

That's changed as we have shifted focus to fewer ideas and better execution. We maintain a list of things we want to build, and vet every idea that comes our way, be it from a founder, an employee, or a customer.

That said, someone has to be the guy to draw the line in the sand.

Also, FWIW, I spend the majority of my working day writing code.
inapt - not apt

Not an in-apt analogy == an apt analogy

So the article didn't misconstrue the professor's quote.
You formed an opinion about my post and my experience in around 5 minutes.

Does this mean your opinion about my opinion is almost certainly wrong as well?

Snide comments aside, thanks for reading!
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Hitler's Furies: The Nazi women who were every bit as evil as the men
The CTO was likely saying "this sloppy developer isn't responding, I've got to escalate this somehow".

To me, this really emphasizes the importance of communications, followup (the human timeout and retry factor, especially when the Github people are hinting that they replied and it was somehow missed), and patience instead of kneejerk reactions.
Here's the way I see it: solving interesting problems is what motivates you to wake up and drive into the office every day. Being a part of a cause is what keeps you driving into that same office every day for five years.

Solving interesting problems will only get you so far. In fact, it will get you as far as the next company that comes along and dangles a nice raise in your LinkedIn inbox with the promise of solving interesting problems.

The cause is what creates long-term loyalty. For employers, maintaining this cause is the challenge. Causes are expensive. All too often, causes are set aside in the interest of profitability. To use Todd's example, this is when the food company realizes that people freaking love mac n' cheese and that they'll sell a lot more food if they stray from the cause and start serving the garbage that so many people love. Remember the early days of Google and "do no evil"? Yeah.
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Aah. You don't pay to come here, and it's not your property. It's a public forum, which by definition has comments from people which you might or might not like :). Here, only the comments which public on the whole like should be there - and that is already the case - if majority doesn't like it, it'll automatically get suppressed. A phone is a different thing - it's a personal property. Only the things you like should be there on your phone. If that's not the case, it's bad - now favoring one more intrusive crapware and cursing a less intrusive one because of a bias, is bad.

Anyway, you completely missed the point of my comment :).
Why doesn't GitHub make it easier to research or attach an open source license to code?
Two years back I interviewed for a start up. After the technical rounds the founder came around to talk to me. The offer was so ridiculously low ball, I even had a tough time believing in what was given to me. The salary was way way below market standards, and equity was next to nothing, no health insurance, and the office was so far away there was no transport allowance, no food.. I mean this was nearly him asking me to work for him for free.

After negotiating a bit and listening to what he had to say.He seem to consider his high lofty goals as ambition. And my high lofty goals as greed.

He was almost saying, people were not sacrificing their lives to make him rich and how selfish and greedy they were in doing that.
We're talking about fresh-grads who know nothing about TDD, best practices, or trade-offs, or had read pragmatic programmer or code complete.

Some of them might be smart, as in raw talent, but giving 80k up-front and expect them to get up to speed in 1 year is like instant noodle.

Would love to know which companies, and how many are they, that are willing to pay at least 70k for UBC grad with co-op experience.

I mean, if we're talking just one or two companies, they are anomaly.
It's nice that these points seem obvious to you, but until you have data and a sound statistical analysis, people won't have any reason to believe them. Lots of "obvious things" turn out to be true, but lots turn out to be false too.
For the record I thought it was a terrible movie and ripe with inconsistency compared to the real thing, but I can only assume the director and writers took to creative license in an attempt to appeal to a larger audience.
Correction:

I didn't delete out of embarrassment. I deleted because there was no point in leaving them there to be downvoted to hell.
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