skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So flag it. Oh, that's right, you can't -- because you created a throw-away account to post a bunch of comments on this thread, telling other people what they should or shouldn't post.
Right. It's a good idea for a single company that does it. It fucking sucks if everyone starts doing it and if hire rates drop to the level (~20%) typical of in-office interviews.

Anyway, the fact that it burns a week of vacation means it's going to exclude the passive job seekers, in practice. It's probably a good mechanism for filtering the unlucky/good unemployed from the generally undesirable, but the people who have jobs and might passively look around after ~3 years aren't going to bite.
Just limit access to the api to key services or applications.
implying there is any difference between republicans and democrats on important issues.
That is not how node / npm works, it specifically solves this problem, each module gets its own version of its dependancies
Around 97, I think, I installed MkLinux on a PowerMac that sat unused in a closet at the ISP I worked for. Then I left. One year after that, I returned as a consultant and found all retired PowerMacs running MkLinux on developer and sysadmin desks. It felt good.
all UPSs i had were plastic cases.

ah, sorry... i wrote PSU... my bad. not a PSU, but one of those UPS, or no-break. more specifically the APC ones that are cheap and have USB data port and Ethernet/modem filtering.
Neustar has one of the more robust DDoS mitigation solutions. It is a bit more expensive, but worth considering once you grow a bit bigger.
The information you could gain from this tool could be used for good or bad purposes. Personally I think it would give me an insight into what my team is working on, rather than being a negative 'big brother' tool. If you use this to track if your employees are working or not you already have the wrong attitude.
I had a co-worker (about a decade ago) who took two weeks of vacation, and started his own "reverse trial" at a new job without quitting the old job.

He liked the new job, came back from "vacation", and gave his notice. I don't remember how much notice he gave.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, I guess.
Yeah I'm very conflicted by this.

I am personally willing to do a trial week at a company that I would really like to work for, because I don't like the traditional 1-hour stress-filled interview, and also because it'd let me evaluate the company and co-workers over a period of time. (Many companies are uglier on the inside that they would seem if you go by their web presence, and a few hour interview.)

But I can think of many awesome people I've hired over the hires who have other life commitments and would have passed if we'd used a trial-week policy for hiring.

So it's tricky, but I think you can pull this off if you're an "in demand" company with a good funnel of candidates; you would simply have to live with many excellent candidates passing on your company.
A much easier form of age discrimination would be to simply not hire older people. Why bother with the hassle of setting up a trial program?
Hmm. I was thinking it might be useful here: http://www.ruby-doc.org/gems/
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I want my company to use this just so I can write scripts to game the metrics.

For bonus points, can it integrate with WooBoard (http://www.wooboard.com/) so we can do ridiculous tracking and ridiculous recognition in the same place?
Highly agree - vacation time is extremely valuable to me as a Marine reservist since I often have to spend it for my two weeks of annual training, so if a prospective company asked me to do that, I'd thank them for their time, and part ways unless they were willing to forego that requirement in their decision making. I believe it's unreasonable to ask that time and money of people unless they were willing to compensate me for the time missed at my job.
I agree about npm. Having the individual node_modules fixes a lot of dependency management issues. That said, I'm not a fan of Nodd but if I could steal two things from them it would npm and Isaac.
> "I think data scientist is a sexed-up term for a statistician."

As a statistician-and-engineer who is currently on the job market (my graduate program finishes this spring), I feel this pain.

I've been referred to as a "data scientist" multiple times (that's even been my official title at work before), though I do still cringe sometimes when I hear the word, for this exact reason.

That said, I don't usually present myself as a statistician, even though my degree is a statistics degree. Most people who hold statistics degrees are fairly lousy engineers[0], and I don't know of any other term that (concisely) expresses that I'm equally competent as a statistician and a (backend) engineer[1].

Of course, this is because many of these programs haven't yet caught up to the fact that computers exist and are still teaching statistics as if we're in a pre-computation era. The perfect solution is to fix this, and thereby fix the connotation of the word "statistician".

It's the same reason I dislike the term "growth hacker" - really, that's just the way marketing should be done (ie, based on numbers and verifiable statistics). In a perfect world, all (competent) marketers would be "growth hackers". But many marketers aren't, and so we have to make up another cringe-worthy term for it.

Unfortunately, that's a problem that's beyond my means to solve. So I bite my tongue and add the word "data scientist" to my resume anyway.

[0] Usually self-proclaimed, too
[1] ie, "I could work as a backend engineer if I wanted to/needed to, but I'm looking for work involving both skillsets"
Shoplifting isn't typically a felony — at least at a grocery store.
I used to, yeah.
It's an everything competitor. It's the tablet/ultrabook answer to the way smartphones merged PDAs and cellphones.

And like those early smartphones, it's got some growing to do. But the market it's trying to carve out strikes me as a real one with real demand. I'm surprised we're not seeing more doctors and other specialists-on-the-go wielding them.
This shouldn't be an issue at all. Your app would get libxy 1.4, and your dependency would get libxy 1.2. It shouldn't matter which is loaded first, and unless those modules somehow store something globally, they shouldn't conflict in any way.

npm does solve the "multiple versions of a library are used by different packages", unless that libxy you were using did something fishy. Can you give more details?
I'd love to see how the detection works; is it just based on a fuzzy match on between the referred users' email addresses?
Thanks dude. We're working on a custom soundcloud player widget thats fully customizable. I'm thinking about using your visualizer.

https://github.com/tim-thimmaiah/tonedenplayer
My mind immediately flashed back to "Being John Malkovich."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Fuxkinhug

I'd bet the same kind of scene would work really well with "Zuckerberg."
Making it similar to the hecs (or fee-help as they now brand it) fees would be really cool of your first 100$ we will take nothing but of the next 100$ we will take 20c per dollar.
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I did a little investigating to see how long this has been going on:

My project has been in the wayback machine since March 2012, incidentally the same time I posted to CodeCanyon:
https://web.archive.org/web/20121025090123*/http://joshpurvi...

His page project first appeared March 2013:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130310135658*/http://www.class...

My project predates the creation (Nov 2012) of his domain name even: http://whois.domaintools.com/class.pm

Also his site isn't down -- he intentionally put that message there, I assume to lessen the heat. His wife's subdomain (http://tina.class.pm/) is still active and lives on the same IP address: 137.135.220.37

Good luck Coder937! I hope you can get your project back on CC.
I tell people that the worst case scenario is that they use a week of vacation, but because of the extra pay they can take a nicer vacation later on.

Maybe I'm a paranoid pessimist, but it seems to me that the worst case is that their employer finds out about this and then fires them because of breach of contract, specifically the non-compete clause. Granted, not everyone is under a non-compete clause, but it's still a risk people should think about. And it's still something Weebly should think about, too, unless they actually completely throw away the work their candidates produced during the trial week.
I did say it wasn't a "great" way to spend time. Lots of shades between that and "soul sucking".
Imagine how lost you would be if it showed the 22 régions of Metropolitan France! :)
probably based off activity of the referred accounts.
Don't assume everybody is from the US.
So they only hire college students?

I couldn't see anyone with a current job willing to do this. Not only does it cost a week of vacation (difficult to justify to a spouse), but how much advance notice can you give your current management?

Edit: Honestly, I wouldn't have agreed to this in college either. A week is long time to dedicate to one potential job offer when other companies have more reasonable expectations. Weebly would have to be offering something really special.
Ah. I thought I recognized your handle. I'm Pseudoprogrammer on there. I was pretty active back in middle school many years ago. Mainly lurk, now.
Yeah, you are right. Google's participation is not "secret", but it's unclear (to me) how much access Google gets to Niantic Labs' user data.

Also, Ingress is "invitation only" in the sense that they will email you an invitation code if you register on their website. <:)
They'd have to know about the canary before they could force you to maintain it. :) You're right though -- it's likely that it wouldn't hold up in court -- they'd just call it "a clear example of communication by omission" or something. If they want to get you, they'll find a way.
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I thought that this would be a time-trend display, like the one shared a while ago by another HN participant from Scientific American:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

We've made significant progress against most causes of death, at all ages, since I was born.
I would love to do some overlays to put it in the context of other data. Something more granular would of course be nice too.

Hopefully I'll find more data sets that I can plug in.
I'm curious how you define "bogus" referrals.

New accounts with no activity?

A non-activated account?

Accounts created from temporary email providers (ie: Mailinaotr)?
Please note that in most environments Passenger now comes as a binary distribution so there is no need to recompile anymore.

Unless ofcourse you are using it together with other nginx modules, that's an unfortunate effect of nginx's module architecture I'm afraid.
This sounds strange, I know plenty of people with old iPhones on iOS7 that haven't got issues with wifi.
In my experience, that can be comfortable on a part-time basis, but less so -- perhaps significantly less so -- on a full-time basis. I find myself overwhelmingly more productive with an external display. When I'm onsite, I typically use my rmbp lid-down with a 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display (2560x1440).
Cool idea, but I can't help but wonder if it'd be better to have a "pick your price" option versus just giving it outright for free. Noble, sure, but it would be interesting to see the trends associated with what users picked. Maybe they were only willing to spend $5? Who knows.
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We need a new term for statistician and data scientist is as good as any. For many years, the terms "statistics" and "statistician" have had negative undertones within the general public and renaming is a great way to overcome that.
Great comment, interesting perspective I've not heard before. Thanks for writing.
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Once I get that data I'll be all over. I definitely think this data (and something more granular) is particularly fascinating when considered over time.
Availability of means to take one's life surely matters too in those states with higher suicide rates. The intermountain west is a place where everyone has access to firearms. In fact, I remember from a few months ago that there was a National Public Radio report about just that issue in connection with youth suicide in Wyoming.

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/19/174761612/a-turning-point-for-...

Most of the intermountain west is very arid, so rather than "farming" as that is usually understood, the occupation tends to be ranching (keeping cattle).

About the leading causes of death, they tend to correlate strongly with poverty, and it's not surprising to find high rates in poorer rather than richer states.
Because being too obvious is illegal?
It's just meant as a joke. If I saw this in an interview, I would find it hilarious and impressive, but I would probably cut it off pretty early.
Probably subsequent signups from the same IP address.

You could also put a cookie on the users computer, so you know if that cookie is present for 5 subsequent signups that have little/no activity, it's probably a cheater.
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Just updated my account. Should be in my "about" field.
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I understand weak resumes, but what is your reference problem? Lack thereof, or bad ones?

You can get more references by doing freelance projects, but if you have a bad reference, then you need to fix it. Contact me offline (michael.o.church at Google's email service) and I'll explain the decision-tree for that game.
Thanks! Change made.
The shortest jump to a more popular language/platform for the type coding your doing is probably to vb.net and exchange programming. From there you could learn c# then go back to learn more java. then go after sql. Then you have the basics for app server development.
I get why this tracking system is ridiculous, but I think that this wooboard thing can work in some context. Dont you think so?
Maybe it can be done beyond the niche. My current guess would be no but I’m not super sure about that. Admittedly, do not expect any great insights from me in this regard, all I’m going on is that drawing (with a stylus) has been a (pretty big) niche application in computing for a very long time now and always nothing more. It’s useful for some people, but very far from everyone. Maybe that can change. Actually, I don’t really doubt that (look at all the previously niche-tech that’s in current smartphones because it became cheap enough and that had to find its mass-market applications first, stuff like gyroscopes) but I’m not sure whether it’s the Surface Pro that will do it.

But it has, admittedly, a better shot at doing it than anything else that came before it.
> To compare it to an ipad or android tablet does a huge disservice to the device.

Microsoft deserves the blame. Why they saddled such a powerful device with the same brand as the failed SurfaceRT and undesirable Windows8/Metro is a mystery to me.

Actually it's not a mystery. It's pure hubris. They thought they could brute-force the market by sheer will.
Baby Jesus as a marketing testimonial. Seriously.
Agreed. Same would go for any stand-ups you held with your team, and whiteboard design sessions, and more. It's like you're out the lunch if you're not emailing or updating things on project trackers.
I was a full time Python developer for years and can attest that virtualenv + ... easy_install? pip? wat?! scared off a lot of marginal developers.

It's a good cautionary tale for any language/platform that wants to claim Ease of Use and Low Barrier to Entry (as it seems both Python and Ruby do).

Hopefully Python 3.4 bundling virtualenv and pip will ease the pain, but it's still a shame these otherwise easy to use scripting languages ended up with such complex sandboxing mechanisms for even trivial use cases (e.g.: my simple script has 1 third party dependency).
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In the United States, this is totally illegal.
We've talked to openBmap and their data is interesting, but we're still figuring out data license compatibility.
First settle on an objective that actually accomplishes what you want, I'm pretty sure your objective is not to get Diane Feinstein off the senate whatever committee but to stop mass surveillance.

Second, find other candidates for which this issue trumps all other issues, example, image you could foresee the future, if there was someone running against Feinstein who if elected would result in Roe v. Wade being overturned would you still vote for them instead of Feinstein?

What about if they would cause a permanent government shutdown over the issue resulting in the US defaulting on its debt?

If the answer is no, then just give up now.

Now that you know what you want, and are willing to do anything to achieve it, go start fundraising for people who oppose mass surveillance and will do ridiculous things like shutdown the government to get it.
Are you asking that they pay you both for working for them and also for missed time at your job? According to the post they pay you for working for them for a week.
I haven't previously heard about any wifi problems on iOS 7, but deleting comments of this sort has been Apple's typical MO for a long time. See: yellowing macbooks, cracked Cubes, Antenna-gate, nVidia GPU failures, etc.

Pretty much any time a problem like this comes up with their devices they suppress and deny for as long as possible until the complaints reach a crescendo and then finally they might do something about it without really ever addressing the period in which they were trying to delete the problem away.

Obviously this behavior hasn't hurt their ability to keep selling systems and devices to many, many people, so I guess they might as well keep going with what works for them.
Same here, myself, 4 housemates and 1 of their partners.
You need to fulfill some requirements to subscribe as a "publisher" [1]:

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- A valid iTunes Store account, with a credit card on file
- Apple does not pay partners until they meet payment requirements and earning thresholds in each territory. You should consider this before applying to work directly with Apple as you may receive payments faster by working with an Apple-approved aggregator.

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The pessimist in me says that they are doing this deliberately.

Its much harder to get a worker with family commitments to work long hours/weekends etc
This is the most awesome thing ever. Thank you.

EDIT: Though for real this is beautiful and exactly what I want to see because it is what our users are capable of.
The paper with some explanation about the proof is here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.4526v4.pdf
I tested the Surface Pro 2 with an Apple mini displayport VGA adapter and it works without any issues.
What's the percentage of candidates that decline a job after trialling for a week?
Lets blame the user.
I'm not sure that this is an issue, especially if the conversion rate is in the 70% range quoted in the article. You're getting double-paid for the trial week (from old job and new job), so just take a week of 'vacation' after you quit and before you start the new job.

The only issue is for those who don't get an offer or don't accept the offer, which is why this is (or should be) reserved for very late in the interview process.
I guess this is cool if your into ugly concrete construction, check out rammed earth to see something beautiful.
http://www.rammedearthconstructions.com.au/gallery.php?mp_id...
I don't deny that people aren't spending their money wisely, but no one forces people into debt. It isn't hard to practice financial responsibility.

Also, wait: you can ensure better living quarters than a tent, presumably with a stove, and be able to purchase food while working 20-30 hours a week? Or are you not guaranteed to be able to have shelter, food, and water working 40 hours a week? Your two statements seem contradictory, unless I'm missing something.

I'm actually somewhat envious of your lifestyle. I'm just bothered by the elitist attitude I often hear from people who live it (not you in particular! many others though). While you may be a perfectly fine hunter, happy to live off the land, etc., many people aren't and would prefer the comfort of a desk job and steady paycheck. It's all preference, I don't think one way is superior to the other, morally or otherwise.
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I think this is a wonderful strategy for both the company and the potential employee. When I have interviewed for jobs in the past, as much as they were interviewing me, I was interviewing them to understand if I would like to work there. So I would be pretty happy with the opportunity to get a better feel for whether this is the right place for me.
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if you read his review of the first Surface, he loved that too, minus the wining and dining
If "we let them get away with it" how is it "stealing"?
I've found, especially in dealing with certain crowds which can often be known as adversarial to put it kindly, a lot of times you avoid conflict by coming across more defensively. Perhaps I've just had to deal with very abrasive people in my day to day work environment, but I phrase things in such a way consciously, aside from any judgement on the argument itself.
That's a great story, and a great bit of humanness behind it, but my personal experience is that people will defraud you out of business if you let them. They will take whatever you give them, and then some.

Most people are actually honest, but you just need "enough" who aren't and who are also greedy (i.e. the typical fraudster) to lose your shirt. It depends on the model though: If the author's model is such that his costs are bounded and are otherwise absorb-able, given the revenue driven by honest customers, then he may be OK.

But, our model is such that not busting the user can literally lead to unbounded losses and these guys show no compunction whatsoever about driving you into the dirt if they can make a buck.
> Tragic that this is what we are reduced to as a society.

Yeah, it sure is tragic that there are technologies that exist that allow us to bypass things like this.
Don't worry about it. In 3 years there will be a republican president and she will magically be against domestic spying. ;)
Ah, fun stuff. I still work on TI stuff [1], but I don't really participate in the community anymore.

[1] https://github.com/KnightSoft/KnightOS
I thought this might be like iDoneThis, but nope, it's full on spying. That can fuck right off. iDoneThis on the other hand is great, highly recommend (no, I have nothing to do with the company, just used it on my last startup).
Technology is a progression of ideas. GPS and the internet were very low-hanging fruit on the tree. The government was just the entity which was the first to reach up and grab it. If they had not, someone else almost surely would have invented GPS and the ideas that underlie the internet.