skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the other positive about this resume other than it being fantastic is that you know for certain you don't want to work anywhere that passes on you because of your beautifully designed, creative resume.
You can always post a comment on the article submitted which indicates the reasoning you had for submitting it. When you submit it you end up on the 'new' page with your submission on top, if its a duplicate you end up on the comment page for the original submission.
> That doesn't answer my question.

Maybe not, but you significantly edited your post after I answered. I was just replying to, "Why would I use this over a nullable column?" (paraphrasing)
Stiri, Ziare, Revista presei, Reviste, Stiri locale
Stiri, Ziare, Revista presei, Reviste, Stiri locale
I asked the recruiter multiple times if what Fox (the movie studio) was offering was legit. They offered me $20,000 more than Microsoft.
> a horrible half way house

Horrible might be a little strong. "Mildly confusing," or, "suboptimal in certain respects" are more accurate.
as opposed to 80 dollars a month for cable. What point are you trying to make?
Err, any nuclear attack be it "mini" or regular is provocation to nuclear war. The US won't sit back and watch the Chinese blast our navy to bits with airburst nuclear weapons causing EMP. More than likely the US would strike back with nukes.

You don't get to avoid the whole balance of power/MAD card because your nukes were used for EMP only.
same. i've been able to find almost any live sports stream I wanted for the last 4 years.
Yes. Because throwing advertisements on something always results in a Google level of profit.

Source: Facebook's stock today.

Edit: Also the cable companies only own a small number of the channels they broadcast therefore the ad revenue from those may be zero.
Angular and Mobile
Source: http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/15-tech-companies-software-eng...
That isn't evil at all, and I saw someone was actually working on doing that. For web apps that just need to expose a json api, we already just generate boilerplate code from the database anyways, we literally don't write any code for the webapp.

Postgresql continues to be better in real practical ways for us every release. I haven't see any features cause problems or interfere with other features. I am not concerned that it is going to happen.
Freelancing and Saying “No”
Perhaps so, but there is nothing people working in the field can do about that. If women are a minority because they are unwilling to join a field where they are a minority, then nothing that men do to change their behavior, attitude, or whatever else will solve the problem.

I also have some doubts about this being the sole issue. As an undergrad, I watched my school work hard to try to play up the fact that there were female students, female professors, and famous women in engineering. This was done whenever potential students were visiting. This was done in pamphlets sent out to high schools. The effect was not even measurable. I see the same pattern in my graduate program, and the same pattern in other engineering schools, and even among recruiters for corporations. I am not sure what else people in the field can do to try to dispel the notion; if indeed this is a cause, I suspect that girls are learning to dislike engineering from somewhere else, but I think that something happens earlier in life, at least if we believe the research on when girls lose interest in technical fields (somewhere around middle school or early high school).
For those not keeping track, it really started with Larry Page's ascent to the throne. Panda, Penguin and god knows what made it extremely hard for small sites (read non-advertisers) to rank. Google's PR people kept saying this and that but their ad clicks were increasing by 20-30% a quarter. How stupid do they think we are? Ads are much more relevant in most cases (anecdotal but try it) of high value CPC words.

Now for most commercial searches you see dozens of ads and a few organic results, almost always from sites that also advertise on Google (Amazon, eBay, HP, Dell and the likes.) So the credibility of Google search results for those looking carefully is zero. Search is a blackbox and we're suppose t trust them, but if the trust goes, they're toast. Historically it takes a while for the truth to trickle down to the masses, but it does.
The article says the this data is self-reported: "Web site Glassdoor compiled self-reported salary data of more than 33,000 software engineers over the past year"
Walmart has a division called Walmart Labs that is based in Silicon Valley. They are working on many complex projects, especially around Big Data.

Not sure how big that engineering group is compared to the rest of Walmart IT, but I would assume that group is nicely paid and working on interesting problems.
The continuing problems with buffering on youtube have caused me to resort to youtube-dl/mplayer.
I'm not sure if it's just my group of people or not but, since most of us are "cord cutters", we tend to discuss things that recently came available or had new seasons on Netflix/Hulu so it's new at that point in time to us. There's a few we miss out on (Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones) but the rest we're perfectly fine waiting for.
Which licenses exactly? I've never seen such a clause, and I'm pretty sure it would be against the FSF's definition of Free Software, and definitely against the OSI's definition of Open Source.
lhnz, I agree with you, completely. A designer should be judged on how they present everything. ALL resumes should be considered an example of how they design, and thus part of their "portfolio." I have been a art director and seen many resumes in my tenure. If an applicant comes at the problem from a fresh angle, it is welcomed with open arms. A good art director or creative director can work with this to fix the issue of contact info being buried and whatnot, as others have pointed out. This is a great place to start!
I have one of those 128G MacBook Airs, and the SSD failed on me literally a few days after the warranty expired. I took it to the Apple store to see if they would repair it under warranty (Apple used to be lax about warranty dates), but they told me no. I ended up ordering 256G SSD from OWC and repairing it myself (which was cheaper and faster then what Apple store clerk quoted me for a new 128G SSD).

Called them today about a refund - they told me I might not be eligible because I did the repair myself and not through an authorized repair center, but they will try to get it approved. We'll see how it works :)
Because it's a very strange and harsh instrument to put a hard limit on the amount of debt. Why is taking on $X of debt okay, but $X+1 is illegal?

In every other country, public debt is kept in control the same way everything else is: by the opposition parties raising hell when it gets out of control. For this to work, of course, you need to have more than two viable parties.
Exactly! Alibaba is killing it and Yahoo! needs cash. This would definitely go a long way in reestablishing Yahoo!, especially with all those recent acquisitions.
The thing is that even if the original title is what "the author intended" on a blog where (a) it will usually be accompanied by some or all of the text and (b) context about who the author is is evident from the rest of the site, in my opinion many of them are essentially meaningless out of context - anecdotally, especially for more personal posts where a descriptive title or anything that seems like SEO might seem too formal. When posts are modified to these titles on the HN front page, readers are left to click either due to domain recognition (which isn't always there) or mere curiosity, without a clue what they'll find at the link. This is unfair, since the post may be highly interesting yet has to compete with many other posts with better titles. Not that big a deal, but when you're actively going out reverting titles of popular posts, IMHO, it would be better to add some basic context if easily available.
The semantics of using a title kind of dictate that.
I remember an interview with Tom Lehrer in which he said that writing lyrics is like solving a puzzle - I can see the similarity.
This is article and data from last year, published: October 18, 2012
While some software has such strange licenses, most ‘free’ software is truly free and e.g. Debian even makes it a strict requirement for inclusion that there are no restrictions on how software can be used.

So I’d say the question whether the USG will honour such licenses is somewhat moot, as there is plenty of software around without such restrictions.
Devops needs feminism like a fish needs a bicycle.
For anyone wondering why this might be, you may benefit from looking up the term "compensating differential" on Wikipedia. The general idea is that if a job has less appeal (because it is less pleasant or prestigious, which it's reasonable to believe SWE for Walmart is), you have to pay more to get the same talent.
For firefox: http://maf.mozdev.org/ ...saves sites into a single 'MAFF' file, adds MHT Support to the browser

...and it's open source ('hg clone http://hg.mozdev.org/maf/' )
That is awesome, somewhere I've got a pretty printer I developed for TurboPASCAL. I tried to sell all the rights to Borland in exchange for a enough cash to buy a decent oscilloscope (I have a history of 'consulting for toys' :-)and they weren't going for it. In hindsight (much later) I realized I should have set the price really high, let them try a demo with a non-refundable deposit of 10% of the price, and then feigning sadness when they decided not to proceed :-)
It's a much more down-to-earth story about some good Texas boys kicking ass than you'll find with the people scrambling over themselves on the coasts to catch as much as they can from VCs making it rain.
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They go to three letters, such as Annoyingly Angry Antelope...
I have cable and since I still can't watch all my teams, I resort to the illegal stream sites (almost every day once NBA season starts) and quality is just godawful. I'm sure we've all had that experience opening multiple tabs just to find the stream with the best quality only for it to go down a minute later.

I use my chromecast to put it on my TV but even then, I don't regret paying for cable whatsoever.
A Significant Difference Between Open Source and Commercial Software
Good catch. I couldn't find the original post on Digg, so I used Google to find other people discussing it. It looks like the publisher I copied was too scared to publish the key verbatim.
Google results for "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa", "bbbbbbbbbbbbbb", "cccccccccccccc" ...
When you google for 14 times the same character, you always get a Youtube Result at the top. Why is that?
I 'Hired' A Virtual Personal Assistant To Do My Job
> The implication in all of this is that there is inequality in our field that is due to our behavior i.e. the behavior of adults in the workforce. It is simply assumed that if we promote equality in our profession, and make it a team effort, then we will get equality.

I feel like you're getting something else out of this article than I did. The previous section, heading: Wanting equality isn’t enough, seems entirely contrary to the conclusion that you're drawn. The author is indicating that promoting/wanting isn't enough. We have to develop an understanding of why the situation is what it is, and actively work on shifting our culture to rectify it (assuming you think it's a problem in the first place, many around me don't).
Entry level (i.e., junior dev) salaries at Walmart Labs are $100k. This is based off of multiple data points.
Nice! That's probably the easiest way. I guess you could scatter the spans a bit more randomly, but I couldn't find a way around JS completely.
Why not a commercial bank or an investment fund?
I expect you to be shadow banned without reason in 3..2..1...

:D
I just see it like all applications and libraries that adhere to some standard. Some adhere strictly to the standard whatever that is. Some do that but also add more features to push the industry forward. NVIDIA does that for graphics. Mozilla does that for browsers. Looks like PostgreSQL is starting to take that role with relational databases.

I generally view it as a good thing unless you care about cross-platform. If you do, then don't use the non-standard features.
> No, since the first could be in the context of me releasing personal information, and the second could be the quarterly earnings before they're released publicly. Or someones wages, or someones password, or the location of a witness in hiding, or the binary representation of a libellous claim, or harassment (but I only sent 0s and 1s in a message on facebook your honour!), or a million other things that we all agree are illegal.

I'll disagree. I think that things like publishing passwords, quarterly earnings, wages, locations of people, etc. should only be "illegal" in the civil sense: if people have contractually agreed to not release such information, then they should be liable for damages if they violate the contract. I don't think libel should be illegal, and surprisingly, the UN Human Rights Committee seems to agree: http://www.mediadefence.org/news-story/un-rules-against-crim.... I'll concede that harassment is a tricky one, because it's a rather vague term that can range from "frequently annoying someone" to "threatening someone with violence."
When you google for a string of 14 times the same character, you always get a Youtube result in the top spot. Any ideas, why?
First I just want to point out that you're not allocating on the heap just by using references. This:

let x = &1;

...is just sugar for:

let x1 = 1; // allocated on the stack
let x = &x1; // reference to a stack allocation

Currently you only allocate on the heap when you use either ~ or @ pointers. And if you're writing an API for widespread consumption, then writing functions that take arguments by reference is actually encouraged since it gives the caller the maximum amount of flexibility.

As for the pain of refactoring your code to move from heap-allocations to stack-allocations, this is exactly why we're so fervent to encourage people to use stack-allocated values from the get-go. :) We're fans of Python's philosophy of making things explicit, which explains why we're different from C++ in this particular detail (i.e. we make you explicitly acknowledge when you're passing a reference to a function that expects a reference).
We don't even collect statistics about that for ranking changes.

Who's "we"? Are you Larry Page to speak with such confidence?
Nope, just a lowly engineer being observed by hundreds of Stanford and ivy League MBAs as your changes impact Ad Clicks, the golden eggs.
You get it when you buy one, I’d presume.
Why not just mention that on the submit page? I had no idea this was a rule. The submit page doesn't say anything about using the original title.
slow clap
Daniel, I think you are absolutely right. Having a real conversation is the point. KNowing what touches people is part of that too.
But tools like leanpub didn't exist until a year ago. They enable a conversation while something is being done (like kickstarter a bit).
"Where there's muck there's brass"
Imagine a science fiction story where someone introduces a backdoor in the Linux kernel or in some known command...
Searching for Celebrities on the Internet Can Be Dangerous
More and more hackers and cybercriminals are developing clever strategies to prey on people who search for popular or trending topics on the web. Did you know that searching for certain celebrities can get your computer infected with malware?
Another option would be to treat different titles as different entries, and let the better-titled links get voted to the top. But the current system seems to already work pretty well. If it means more effort is expended in moderation, I submit that that effort is probably not a waste. Better editing makes better reading.
I was about to say the exact same thing before I read your comment. It doesn't matter if you get more money, you will still be a software engineer at Walmart!
There is a distinction between class and income. In all these examples, people are still responding to their economic situation.
Stumbled implies some sort of accident. If I trip on the sidewalk, break my arm, and go into debt with the medical bills, that is a stumble (figuratively, and literally ;). If I blow all my cash and go into debt paying for cool tats to increase my street cred, that isn't a stumble (figuratively, or literally).
Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't consider the cost of tickets for multiple people or renting the movie.
This won't apply to everyone, but before applying to Walmart/Walmart Labs, do remember that Walmart will ask you to pass a drug test.
This has just really been because a small group of extreme wingnuts, who were dealt a severe loss in public polling this week and also by the president not giving in to ransom. It hopefully won't continue to be a recurring theme in the upcoming years, mainly due to the extreme public backlash.
it is built on top of a sax parser.
Yeah, my main problem with the current policy is that it lowers the overall quality of content by encouraging content from places that are optimizing their titles. Some places even write titles deliberately targeted at HN. Stuff not intended to "go viral" or be marketed, but rather just to provide useful information in a non-HN context, often ends up with completely unintelligible, out-of-context titles, like "Update". But that material is often actually better.

I guess I could try to adopt a personal policy of only reading submissions that have vague, out-of-context titles, and see if it works as a kind of reverse heuristic.
Seriously cool. But I can't imagine ever using it ;-) Half the fun of TP was all the libraries, like to interface Souldblaster, modems, etc. All that stuff is long gone.
TBH "if it works" is more dependent upon whether I can manage to make a set of clear instructions that students can follow, and students aren't disruptive. Is there any reason that this wouldn't work with multiple connections?
Well, doesn't the domain affix (php.net) provide the context?
Ruster here, and this is also something that concerns me (I too have run afoul of the map vs filter issue that you mention). We'll need to carefully consider our composable higher-order-function APIs before 1.0.
I plan on spending the next year working solely on RVM2, the fundraiser is updated with milestones => https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/489-rvm-2-0
Sure wish I'd bought some when it first came out at $180.
>it's cute you think so.

Oy.. So much smug over choice of entertainment packages. If you're into 3d movies and sports, cable sounds like a good fit for you. Others, like myself, aren't into sports (unless ESPN were to start broadcasting eSports), and I have no desire for 3d movies nor 100s of channels. For me, Netflix, twitch, and amazon gives me a better experience than cable.

It's almost as if, and this may be crazy, something being a "good experience" is subjective.
Please stop posting articles about this.
Thank you for your posts! It's great to see alumni trying to help the next wave of people with their applications.
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The demographic bubble is just starting to hit though. The cost of boomers retiring will be felt from 2010-2030. If it is already unsustainable, or getting there, it can only get worse if left in its current state.
Hmm, that said, this could easily just be a reflection of biases and preconceptions software engineers have about Walmart. For all you or I know, those guys over at Walmart Labs/Walmart Ecommerce are having a blast and getting paid a bunch to do it.
Exactly! Writing something that is both meaningful and interesting is like solving a puzzle.
For those of you interested in drones, article and lots of video
We posted our article on drones with links to lots of cool videos. Where is the tacocopter when you need one. Living in NYC I wonder when my windows will have addresses?
Lotus 1-2-3, the cause of the bug/feature, was released in 1983 [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3
Nice, no Compile option though? Is it an interpreter? I tried a Hello, World, and the (Input,Output) after the program name choked it. Nice job!
I know HuffPo A/B tests their titles to see which one gets better metrics and changes/sensationalizes their titles that way.

I do realize we don't see many articles from HuffPo on here, just putting this info out there. http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/10/how-the-huffington-post-use...
This makes plenty of sense.

Either stick with this strategy or do what Digg.com is doing these days; a main title and the little subtext thing that they almost always use for a one-liner joke, but sometimes for serious commentary/secondary-title.
> Perhaps so, but there is nothing people working in the field can do about that. If women are a minority because they are unwilling to join a field where they are a minority, then nothing that men do to change their behavior, attitude, or whatever else will solve the problem.

Sure they can. They can simply hire more women. Once the gender ratio is sorted out, the new equilibrium will be self-sustaining.
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Hahahaha the part time site admins running this place for free will totally just shadow ban you for saying something they disagree about, funny joke.
Python-kyototycoon-binary: A fast Kyoto Tycoon Python client
I have an idea: there are YouTube videos that have the same name or the title contains the same characters as your search string.
Great post. I wish we could measure Word of mouth more effectively.
The US doesn't really even have to worry about another country becoming more attractive to park its cash; its financial obligations are still all denominated in dollars and the Federal Reserve can still continue to print them. The only real concern is that if there are deep structural problems the economy it might have to raise taxes to combat inflation (simultaneously cutting the deficit) even in an environment where there's no economic growth. As you point out, the US economy is plenty big enough to pay down debts with tax takings instead, but the government might have to hurt the economy to do so.
Why do you do things like:

assert(doSomethingThatChangesState() == 0);

throughout your code? I thought the point of assert was for debugging purposes and you should never change program state inside the assertion.
Not surprised really. Wal-Mart (labs I'm guessing) knows they need to put up significantly more cash to attract talent given the negative/boring/un-prestigious way most people perceive the brand.
If automatic fetching of titles is good enough to do a few minutes after submission, why isn't it good enough to do at the moment of submission?
You can always post a comment on the article submitted which indicates the reasoning you had for submitting it.

Then every bland default post title requires a visit to the post page to read the extra detail.

Not completely unreasonable, but not an good UX pattern either.

Gives me an idea for a Greasemonkey script I'll never actually write: fetch the first comment for a post and make it visible when mousing over the title on the list of posted stories.