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Hack the Software Interview
Created a resource that explains "cheat codes" to beating the software interview like you're going up against the bosses in mega man.

The resource comes with a downloadable form but unless you specify so, you'll never be emailed or annoyed in the future.

Hope you'll take a look!
Wtf? An example of latency arbitrage is say, two identical fungible securities listed on different exchanges. An order arrives causing the price on one exchange (A) to spike up (the event), you react after that event and buy the security on the other exchange (B). You reacted fastest to public knowledge.

Front running would be if you were say sitting on a broker desk and one of your clients rang up and said to buy lots of A. Then you put in your own buy order before the clients one hits the market. That is front-running. You got in before that knowledge become public. Do you see the difference?
Can we rename the meme "war on whistleblowers" ?

When it is phrased like that, there's some ambiguity about the whistleblower ... since there could be good ones and bad ones. Further, a lot of folks may have been swayed by propaganda and believe that "whistleblower" is a negative term in all contexts.

I would like to suggest:

"war on transparency"

Cheers!
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Decent amount of snark there, but could you back it up and have a women's studies class without discussing some form of male oppression or domination at least once?
I'm pretty sure that for many people even such cold email can be intimidating. On rational level they know it's the necessary thing to do, but the fear of rejection drags them toward "I'm not ready yet. I'll mail them a week later when I build/write/learn more".
Kevin Spacey Urges TV Channels to Give Control to Viewers [video]
It really depends on the product and the article content. When Lollipuff (women's fashion) was at the top of HN for "Our YC Application", we had very few real signups -- but lots of pageviews and time on site.

Having read the Groove blog post... I still have no clue what it is they do. Just putting a simple one-liner in the blog post may have improved conversions significantly.

EDIT: If the author of the article is listening... What Groove does is at least as important as your bio at the end of the article. Put something in the post. Or in the sidebar. Or somewhere!
What do you mean by 'lazy window focus'?
The "painful" bit is key. There's a difference between constantly self-correcting and massively self-correcting, in a sudden, irregular way (known as "punctured equilibrium") only occasionally.
It would be interesting to know if this will entail re-buying Tweetbot for iPhone (and, eventually Tweetbot for iPad).

The focus on how much time it took to do a total rewrite is usually a setup for that type of news, but on the other hand, Tweetbot 2 for iPhone was a free upgrade[1].

[1]: http://tapbots.com/blog/tweetbot/tweetbot-2-0-for-iphone
Congress Forgets How To Pass A Law
I argue the best primer is Feynman's "The meaning of it all: Thoughts of a citizen-scientist" and "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out". I'm not just linkbaiting HN's love for Feynman: Feynman was an active, practicing scientist and besides being introspective, he had a great knack for explaining things in a perspective accessible to non-scientists. Kuhn is worth reading, though if you are a scientist and want to get a more-in-depth analysis of philosophy of science that is laid out formally.
Testing REST APIs with API Blueprint and Dredd
Since Creationism is an interpretive framework rather than a hypothesis with falsifiable predictions, it cannot be excluded. Any observation can be rationalized within Creationism.
How a comment which starts with "This is so Seattle" can recieve a single up vote is beyond me.

You also fail to point out the real unique aspect of Seattle culture in your loop.

"Mayer stepped down, and others took the lectern to recite their prepared remarks, which failed to acknowledge that the threat had effectively just been neutralized. Eventually, Mike Racine stood to speak, representing the Washington Scuba Alliance, whose director of conservation, Scott Lundy, first posted Mayer’s photo online. “I did want to recognize that Dylan Mayer is here today. He and his family took a lot of heat over the last week for this legal taking of an octopus. Much of that heat is vitriolic in nature and inappropriate, and Dylan, just so you know, the Scuba Alliance regrets that, and we applaud you for being here,” Racine said. The room stood and clapped. Mayer, once a nemesis of the giant Pacific octopus, had suddenly become its most visible supporter."

I don't know a single city filled with people which, when presented with new information responds so positively. Seattle reacts quickly, information spreads quickly here, but people are also very open minded. More-so than anywhere else I've lived.
Don't you see the difference between changing a comment that doesn't break a build and breaking code that breaks the build because a test fails?
Well for me linkedin was pointless and annoying so I deleted my account. No regrets. Happy. And still alive.
Making contact with people isn't the hard part, I don't think. Motivating them to help you is the hard part.
This is exactly what is wrong with society. You're actively looking for reasons to discredit Sandberg, attributing her success to her parents', to her education, and to her finances. So because she is successful, women won't be able to relate to her, and thus should not take her advice, is that correct?

Does anyone know what Jack Welsh's parents did? Does it matter? Do any articles about Larry Page emphasize his parents' support as the reason for his success? I didn't think so. So how come people are actively looking to credit Sandberg's success to anything but her actual work? Because she's a woman.

Sincerely,
A female tech worker with divorced, middle-class parents.
PHP was picked on because it is too popular?
I dare to say that after some considerations my project is using PHP.
I use python daily, but that does not mean I need hate other languages. All has its places and different projects can have different choices.
http://www.rubymotion.com/ is an increasingly big deal for iOS (and now Mac) development.
Interesting, an old friend, whom I, and a couple of established Zen teachers (Rinzai and Soto) view as hugely awakened, sat a single weekend retreat, which he left due to aforementioned pain in the knees.

Apparently he tooks loads of LSD in his late teens, enough to drop out of college, literally grab a blanket and head into the woods for 6 months (verified by mutual friends).

That's a pretty "old" school approach ;-)

In the couple of years that I knew him he routinely blew my mind with in-the-moment koans.

FWIW, a brilliant mathematician and programmer who gave up silicon valley money for a non-thinking form of employment so he could more fully contemplate the magnitude of death.

OK, sure.
The business model of Netflix is entirely different from broadcast TV. Netflix makes 0 additional marginal dollars from an existing subscriber watching an extra hour of video. What they care about is producing something "must see" for a particular niche that would convert a non-member into a paying member.

That means a rabid fan base and buzz is far more important than broad popularity. That's why shows like Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black have been so good for them, because they have an in built audience they can bring reliably.

I'd argue the opposite from you which is that Netflix is worse than traditional TV at developing audiences. For someone to adopt a new show on Netflix, they have to be interested in the show AND a subscriber of Netflix or so interested in the show it would compel them to subscribe to Netflix vs just switching over to the right channel at the right time to check it out.

Instead, Netflix's strength is in supporting a pre-existing audience.
That link has some solid advice. I had to learn a lot of that the hard way.
I watched documentary about Egyptian monuments. It was very good, it even included village where workers lived. But for some reason authors added Mount Sinai.
Aye, PyQt has recently also introduced some pretty interesting new Python integration bits with the new pyqt5qmlplugin that allow you to write QML extensions in pure Python without C++ boilerplate.
Newly Designed Quickbooks Dashboard/UI
Here are some images of the newly designed Quickbooks Dashboard. They have really improved on their UI.

Is this the end of Indinero?

Here are some images:

http://cdn0.boxfreeit.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Home-Page.png

http://cdn0.boxfreeit.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Global-Create.png

http://cdn0.boxfreeit.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Customers.png
Welcome to my every day life:

One can try to visit tech websites, or even tech offices. I am a woman, and I'm often left with a feeling of being 'the other', sometimes unfavourably so. The most obvious cause is that it is often a community of mostly men discussing both male and female characteristics. A more subtle clue is that it seems that they refer to women as "females", but men as simply "men". Some communities are even hostile to the idea of feminists - in turn some feminists forego speaking up about their feelings, and pretending to be "just another bro".
Netflix might have the consumer data to better figure out what people like and dislike, but there's nothing really stopping the networks (and even cable) from doing similar things.

Teaser trailer on YouTube, watch what buzz gets generated, pilot if it's enough. Netflix's edge is more in knowing what people already like than in being able to reach a viewing population.
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The utility of the windows 8 full screen apps has improved quite a bit now that you can partition a large screen pretty freely with three or four of them. Even before then, I quite enjoyed using a few W8 apps because they could be laid out independently of the desktop, allowing Aero-snap to work more efficiently on the more transient windows.

(These would usually be chat apps that I'd keep open in a panel).
Discussing some form of male oppression or domination is not the same as discussing men.
It's not just the subsidies, but how they are awarded - right on with the "structure of the academic enterprise".

Consider: To get promoted to professorship, you have to selected by slighly hoarier professors; to be selected, you have to have published works, which are (anonymously) reviewed by other professors, and be awarded grants with (anonymous) review committees of other professors. You probably went to grad school under the tutelage of professors in the same circle... And at least in the past scientists were sufficiently generalist that you had a wide pool of fellows who were reviewing your work at all stages; now we have siloed subdisciplines (like "chemical biology" - which, mind you is not the same as "biological chemistry" or "biochemistry"), and the emergence of "interdisciplinary research" which somehow instead of encouraging generalism, instead promoted dilettantes who couldn't hack it in either of their parent fields...

Is there any wonder why research is increasingly unreliable?
Here are some images of the newly designed Quickbooks Dashboard. They have really improved on their UI.

Is this the end of Indinero?

Here are some images:

http://cdn0.boxfreeit.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Home...

http://cdn0.boxfreeit.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Glob...

http://cdn0.boxfreeit.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Cust...
Another problem: It seems like developers in the "clean code needs no comments" crowd are also the ones least likely to write clean code in the first place.
This is a good comment. Just worth adding a footnote, for those interested in the richness of context:

[1] On the ERISA revisions of the late 1970's:

Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) – With the passage of ERISA in 1974, corporate pension funds were prohibited from holding certain risky investments including many investments in privately held companies. In 1975, fundraising for private equity investments cratered, according to the Venture Capital Institute, totaling only $10 million during the course of the year. <In 1978, the US Labor Department relaxed certain parts of the ERISA restrictions>, under the "prudent man rule,"[21] thus allowing corporate pension funds to invest in private equity resulting in a major source of capital available to invest in venture capital and other private equity. Time reported in 1978 that fund raising had increased from $39 million in 1977 to $570 million just one year later.[22] Additionally, many of these same corporate pension investors would become active buyers of the high yield bonds (or junk bonds) that were necessary to complete leveraged buyout transactions.
I just use the native support in OS X. What do you mean? I plug it in and it works!
A dark room is what turned me on to the idea, actually. Awesome gameplay and such a subtle conception.
> What you expect is that every bigger function must be split into dozends of smaller functions, only to have a cleaner parameter part. But this make the code flow unreadable.

That's exactly what every good, experienced developer tries to do: Splitting complex stuff into more simpler functions that are easier to understand. Obviously the end result is not unreadable, on the contrary!
In my experience at the university performing graduate research -

* Newness is prized

* Replicating old science is not prized

* Funding and papers happens for breakthroughs

In software engineering -

* many bugs in code creep through exacting peer reviews.

Recapping the short list: new things make you money, reviewing things is error prone, replicating old things doesn't make you money until someone wants to rely on them. Hmmmm. The disincentives to replicate unapplied research speak for themselves.

What then is to be done beyond hand-wringing and moaning?

Several things have to happen: First, grants need to be given for replication of research- replication needs to be an thing that is frequently done. Second, papers (dis)proving prior results (or disproving, period) need to be a recognized category in journals. I do not mean that disproving someone else's pet theory in favor of yours; I mean disproving the result, period; regardless of whether it helps advance your particular line of work.

From someone who's currently in industry (and is looking towards going back for the PhD), I encourage the academics to open up and/or push the area of "negative results" as a recognized category of paper. If you have graduate students that can't reproduce prior work - please have them publish that!

There have been occasional comments about Journals of Negative Results; maybe those could come to fruition sometime. :-)
> If you define it as "the probability that a large order can complete", then liquidity has NOT gone up.

People seem to have this idea that back in the days of floor-based trading you could just call up the NYSE and say, "sell 1 million shares of Citigroup!" and the market makers would just kindly oblige you, without widening their spreads or trying to eke out a bigger gain from a transaction which inherently carries significant risk for them.

It's possible that the situation for executing giant orders in one fell swoop hasn't gotten any better under HFT, but it hardly seems to have made it worse. And as the large flow traders become more sophisticated and start to implement algos of their own, they'll get better at moving volume at a fairer average price.

> With HFT, it's the same 100 shares/futures changing hands thousands of times per day, and they disappear often in times of uncertainty.

I don't know about "often," unless you're talking about trading individual issues where news events introduce a high degree of uncertainty. There's really only been one case of a market-wide drying up of liquidity, which lasted for about 15 minutes during the flash crash.

There's also nothing new about market-maker liquidity drying up in times of uncertainty or severe volatility. Plenty of stocks went "no bid" during the 1929 crash. Floor-based market makers are no more interested in standing in front of freight trains than algos are. If you're looking for someone/something to blame when markets crash and there are no bids to be found, focus on the Fed and its attempts to manipulate the credit cycle, which periodically fail in spectacular fashion.
That's the first thing I've ever shared on LinkedIn.
Women are defined relative to men, just as men are defined relative to women. If there were no men, women would just be "people". In discussing one, you implicitly discuss the other. Whatever makes women into women, men are not that. Except, "woman" and "man" can also be seen as archetypes, and it's possible to integrate both, at least to some degree.
Thanks a ton for the comment on this and reading the article!

But see, I don't think motivating someone to help you is really that hard. As I mentioned in there, there are so many places where there's oodles of people who'd love to help. Want to ask Alexis Ohanian something? Pay attention to when he hosts another AMA on Reddit. Or use Clarity or Public Beta. Or really just email them. I answer a ton of questions I get over email.

There are a couple reasons though sometimes I don't reply to an email "looking for help":

1. The email is thousands of words long. I don't have time to read that. Very few people do. Keep these intros and notes and questions to 5 sentences or 500 characters, or try your hardest to get close.

2. Ask something. I get too many emails looking for help, but when you read the email, there's isn't actually a question inside. What do you need help with? Be specific. "Feedback" is way too open. You want Feedback on design, or features or marketing or what? It's best to focus me on something so I can save time figuring out how I can actually help you.

And if you really want to use some extra encouragement to get people to help you, flattery gets you everywhere. Mention what you've been reading of theirs. Quote their stuff on Twitter.
Alternative algorithmic redistricting optimizes for compactness: http://bdistricting.com/2010/
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Sorry. I mistyped. I did mean "first elected".

A better (also less inflammatory) case would exclude condemning the tea party for their political views and tactics and include mentioning politicians like Tom Delay, Duke Cunningham, William Jefferson, Jesse Jackson Jr., and Charlie Rangel who were all convicted or censured for corrupt behavior. Many of them subsequently won primary or general election races!

I actually agree that incumbency is probably too big of an advantage, especially in primary races, but I think the recent primary success of tea party republicans undermines that argument if anything.

EDIT: Regarding popularity, since the 9/11 fervor wore off, congressional approval has been maybe 25% at best. The tea party didn't exactly break anything that wasn't broken already.
Other crows might - apparently they can remember faces and summon other crows to mob offenders on sight...

http://www.sefs.washington.edu/research.acl/Crows_and_Other_...
This is an excellent overview article on an important topic. It mentions many of the most influential authors on the topic of accuracy of scientific publications.

Hacker News readers may enjoy "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"[1] by Peter Norvig, a LISP hacker who is now director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research. Norvig's essay is my all-time favorite link to share in a Hacker News comment. That's because we see submissions here every day of preliminary studies that can be analyzed by Norvig's checklist on research issues to look for when reading about a scientific finding.

I discuss psychology research weekly with a group of psychologists who study human behavior genetics in a "journal club" (graduate seminar course). Those researchers have told me about other researchers who are trying to clean up the published literature in psychology, for example Jelte Wicherts, whose article "Letting the daylight in: reviewing the reviewers and other ways to maximize transparency in science"[2] in an open-access journal suggests general procedures to improve scientific publishing, for example by changing the incentive structure around reviewing papers submitted for publication. Another helpful researcher on statistical tests to verify results is Uri Simonsohn. The papers he and his colleagues produce[3] are thought-provoking, pointed, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

[1] http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

[2] Jelte M. Wicherts, Rogier A. Kievit, Marjan Bakker and Denny Borsboom. Letting the daylight in: reviewing the reviewers and other ways to maximize transparency in science. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 03 April 2012 doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00020

http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10.338...

[3] http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/
I think some information is missing here.

Suppose I want to look at a CSS file (zzz.css, say). But that file does not exist, since I'm using LESS to make my CSS. The LESS source exists; the CSS output does not -- yet. I'm using sword.

I have a Unix command prompt in front of me. What do I type?
Perhaps Google, etc should take this ruling seriously and simply blacklist search results containing words that refer to MPAA "property". After all, wouldn't want to "induce" anybody to break the law...
Can someone explain to me what's different about the Mac and PC versions of 64 bit Ubuntu? I've seen these Mac versions show up lately but what's in them? I can't find the data clearly on the website. Is it just different drivers and defaults?
What about Google+ and Facebook? Although I would argue Google+ is the worse one since it automatically add you to every notification possible when you only want to sign up for a Mail Account.
Apache Hadoop creator Doug Cutting on why Hadoop is still #1
@jcromartie Why did you delete your comment? I thought it was insightful. I don't live in a world where we worry about such things. Just knowing that you do is interesting.
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I hear you. And you are definitely right. It can be intimidating. Those cold calls, I still can't get the nerves out when I've done those. But emails, you don't actually have to feel any rejection :)

I have never gotten someone to reply negatively to an email I've sent them. The worst ever, and it's rare, is someone simply saying "Thanks, but no." Of course there's lots of ignores. But even ignores, I've followed up on and gotten replies like "Thank you so much for reminding me about this! I meant to reply but got busy when I received your note."
Great work! Lots of little improvements to be made but its a great start. I am glad its in AngularJS and open source, looking forward to see it under the hood.
Your argument applies even more to something like Breaking Bad or even the venerable Babylon 5. The strength of those offerings was the build-up over many seasons.

Ugh, and please let's not judge Star Trek TNG on its first season. Yikes!
As I noted in another comment already, kitchen playset was one of my favorite toys, and I kept bothering my parents to get more of those :)
No, I'm not a woman. They are just fun for a lot of kids!
Sorry about my Microsoft remark. It was kind of inflammatory. I didn't originally have it in my comment but was inspired to add it in for some reason. I try to keep my inflammatory rhetoric out of HN.

TypeScript's best feature (imo) is its (optional) static-typing so if you don't like static-typing to begin with, then yeah, it doesn't have much else to offer you.

To each his own.