skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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As an Ontarian this is a little sad, although I'm sure there's places in the US where the same thing happens. Certainly though I think companies should think of setting up engineering locations in KW. You can get quality people for way less money than you would have to pay in the Valley.
I agree with 2, but 1 doesn't make much sense to me. Normally, trolls don't want to go to court. In fact, if they know you're taking it to court (and they believe you), they often drop the case. Just publicly saying that you're 100% committed to fighting any trolls will probably reduce the amount you attract.

Odds are, trolls would only coordinate as a last ditch effort. And if that happens, patent troll insurance would be so popular there would be other services that would offer this, making it harder for them to take it down.
Sure, go ahead and teach them.

Remember you will need to start from the ground up. "To start the computer -- that machine in front of you -- press the button that is right there"... then, in about a year, perhaps you could teach them to code.
Breaking News: The TSA has announced that, due to the recent incident with a firearm at a checkpoint at LAX, all passengers must be screened prior to entering the screening line.
Not directly, but I read online articles from newspapers when they are linked to from other things that I read regularly (HN, Reddit, FB, RSS Reader, etc.)
And why are they building a similar one in Maine of all places? http://www.businessinsider.com/google-has-reportedly-built-a...
I guess you may have a point. The recent spate of postings regarding the HealthCare.gov website, which contain numerous comments about the front-end website and proceed to conflate that with development of the entire system lead me to believe a solid percentage of HNers live in a "all development is web development" bubble.

Really until I moved to the Valley I had never really seen people I'd consider "hackers" or "programmers" writing code on anything other than a linux or unix terminal, or in Visual Studio, Eclipse, or some other IDE on Windows. I was actually shocked to see Apple products be so ubiquitous in programmer circles.

Outside of the "web development is all development" monoculture parts of the Valley there is a wide world of software development and developer communities who would basically laugh at the notion that Mac is an "ideal development platform" (some would guffaw at the notion that it's even an adequate one) for anything other than the Apple App Store ecosystem (where it isn't really ideal so much as mandatory, if one wishes to not break laws).

I'd make this conjecture: the vast majority of software development, in the Valley or otherwise, isn't done on Macs; it's really a very small subset of developers who prefer it, and that subset consists mainly of web app and iOS mobile app developers. If the majority of HNers develop software on Apple products, all that means is that HN's primary developer demographic is a tiny subset of the overall industry.
"Most years, we hire more students out of Waterloo than any university in the world" -Bill Gates

I think we topped Google one year too, but couldn't find a source.
Fair point, I think I focused more on the context than the statement.

I'd view it overall as less of an issue if there were numbers better than 2/3rds (I believe I saw posted elsewhere) proceeding to the offer phase. To me that represents a huge risk: a 33% chance that I'll have done this contract work, lost vacation time, and jeopardized my current employer relationship.

If the number is higher than that, then I'd have to ask if there is really as much benefit as it seems. If the purpose is ultimately to weed out those who just aren't compatible, it seems a 1 day project would suffice.
How about: entangled in brutal fighting with the Russians since even before the war.
Yeah, very well designed and with proper HTML video.
Both of these points are predicated on the patent insurance program becoming successful first. At which point, people will try to stop it or it will become seamingly unstoppable.

I would be okay with those problems compared to my current risks.
I'm still waiting for someone to realize the Tuxissa virus.
But why would one barge be in the Treasure Island, while the other one is in Portland ME? If you're targeting SF, Treasure Island makes sense. If you're targeting NYC, a million other places make sense besides Maine, like NJ.

Nobody in Maine is gonna buy a damn Google Glass! :)
This would not be hard to do. There are standard names for the auto complete form inputs. The browser (or plugin) could be configured to notify you if some/any of those fields are about to be posted and warn the user using a native code generated pop-up (not a web pop-up).
The same story was making the rounds yesterday from Quora.

http://www.quora.com/Programming-Interviews/Whats-the-hardes...
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As much as we would love to speak to that, we've unfortunately haven't done this same type of benchmarking/analysis on backbone.js. This was our first foray into a Javascript MVC-ish frameworks. After doing the paper research into AngularJS and its peers, we decided to give AngularJS a whirl by coding up this acid test and only going through the alternatives if AngularJS didn't work out.
Would someone please explain how the firmware dumps of the infected computer are being made?

Is it true that if you control the firmware, then you control what the dumps of that firmware will look like? The only way I can imagine getting a clean dump of that machine is by desoldering the chips and imaging them via some specialized tool. If the machine's firmware is rooted, how can you trust any signal the machine sends, especially firmware dumps? The virus could trivially hide itself by detecting a firmware dump is in progress and sending a decoy (clean) image.
If you are a tech/software company you should definitely consider taking on Waterloo co-ops. There is a lot of competition between the students to get the best jobs. This results in students that go above and beyond in their work to distinguish themselves for the next round of interviews for their next co-op job. On top of that, having this kind of ambition on your team can rub off on the rest of the team boost the teams productivity.
No mention of Chamath Palihapitiya or Eric Migicovsky. I think the title and intent of this article are spot on, but like so many things Business Week, the reporting doesn't hit the important datapoints. Why focus on BlackBerry, which certainly deserves mention, but totally ignore two huge successes that support the thesis of the article.
More screening at the security line as a response to people getting shot outside the sterile area!
She continues to support the NSA while at the same time proving she doesn't know exactly what they are doing. Not really two things that should be combined.
Every time a child is forced to give up a bottle of water to a TSA agent to protect the country against terrorists - the parent feels a need to take matters in his own hands....
Worked fine for me (Firefox 25 on Linux).
Yes, I often read the free local daily - it's short, usually has local+provincial news, and kills time on transit or waiting in restaurants.
Excellent! I'm excited about mixed media articles getting better and better!

One small tweak I would make is to have the video start playing not when it's in the middle but closer to the top of the page.

Reason is, I find myself distracted by listening to the guys speak before I finish reading the text.
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We're looking for engineers to join our team to help take our product out of beta. Our backend is completely written in django, run with nginx and uwsgi, and deployed on AWS. Our front-end is lots of jQuery, bootstrap, and knockout.js.

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Due to fear that passengers in the prescreen line may still have a firearm, the TSA is proposing another screening line before the prescreening line.
Thank god it wasn't another school but these people are ruining gun control for the rest of us.

I don't own a gun yet but its looking like I might never be able to unless I hurry up.

TSA is going to be worse now too.

Shootings = people die, stricter rules, less rights for everyone. Its bad for everyone in the US.
It's not. What he means is that he's not a hardware guy, and this problem was caused something even beyond the problems what software people normally call 'hardware issues'.
Ask HN: I'm a Computational Engineer, how do I get a normal programming job?
I'm a Computational Engineer and I write (research) software used for computational fluid dynamics. This is software who's sole purpose is to solve extremely large systems of math equations in an accurate and time-efficient manner. My work uses C and Fortran, though I've "learned" and "used" a bit of C++ and OOP, and I know quite a bit of parallel programing in general and low-level memory management.

This is a nice field, but it's not something I want to do anymore. To be honest, I want to use my programming knowhow to get my first "regular" programming job, and then use that to pick up the CS/E concepts I never learned in school and use that as a jumping point to bigger and better programming jobs. So I've applied to a few positions where they basically just needed people with C, C++, and Linux experience. I've gotten a few responses and scheduled some phone interviews already.

I Googled for things like "common programmer interview questions" and some of the questions are absolutely ridiculous and I honestly have no idea what it even means. Something simple like: "create a linked list that does…" is difficult for me, because I only work with arrays, vectors, etc. On the other hand, fizzbuzz is comically easy.

So what are some websites, MIT courses, etc, that I should definitely review before any of these interviews? I'm sure I'm not the only scientific programmer/computational engineer to jump ship and ask this question.
Yeah things were really rocky for me for a couple of days. Down completely yesterday and periodic "bad gateway" messages earlier today. Seems to be working better now. Was refreshing like a crack addict :/
ITA recast airfare search and pricing as a parsing problem (video at 23:20)
> Riot has less boilerplate than Angular on the Todo MVC implementation.

why are you lying and thinking you can get away with that ?
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What's special about UW students/grads, and what do you attribute it to?
Healthcare company digital sandbagging sank HealthCare.gov, not developers
See, the thing about barges is you can move them.
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Our team(Qwiki) at Yahoo is looking for engineers interested in working with news, video and consumer content.

We work in Nodejs, Java, iOS, Android.

Reach out via tchheng@yahoo-inc.com

SF, NYC and Sunnyvale locations
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strate...
rtm, spaf and pg profiled
I'm trying to hire an engineer right now and job hopping is almost an instant reject. But my guess is that it really depends on the stage of the company and size of the team.

If you come from a recruiter that I have to pay $25k (or more), then there's no way it's worth it for me to only have you for 4-8 months.

If you are one of the first few engineers on the team then there is no way I can justify building a team of people who I suspect are going to jump ship in 4-8 months.

But, if you have a more established team, the candidate doesn't come from a recruiter, and I have projects that I know are scoped in the 4-8 month time period then I may consider it.

So I'd say if you are a job hopper it's fine, but don't get upset with me when I refuse to talk to you even if you have the best skills I've ever seen.
Drones are not as cheap as you would think (, and I used to believe). Global hawks cost as much as U2s to operate, and much more to acquire;[1] predators and reapers are not cheap either, once you include the whole control system.[2]

[1] http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130624/C4ISR01/30701001...
[2] http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2012/the-us-and-its-...
I'm a noob at concurrent programming, but from what I can tell, the only concurrent mutation is when setting the pixels, in image.go:

94	p.Pix[i+0] = c1.R
95	p.Pix[i+1] = c1.G
96	p.Pix[i+2] = c1.B
97	p.Pix[i+3] = c1.A

IIRC, copying a single byte is safe, so what could happen is that you could end up with weird pixels, if two nodes were setting the same pixel at the same time.
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From the bottom of the article:

Video: Bob Sacha

Production: Kenan Davis, Nadja Popovich, Kenton Powell, Ewen MacAskill, Ruth Spencer, Lisa van Gelder

Additional Production: Spencer Ackerman, Kayla Epstein, Paul Lewis, Amanda Michel, Katie Rogers, Dominic Rushe

Also:

By EWEN MACASKILL and GABRIEL DANCE

Produced by FEILDING CAGE and GREG CHEN
iCEO(Interim CEO a.k.a Steve Jobs) started that "i" series of products. I guess this was the inheritance chain.
Electromagnetism and quantum physics have quite a bit to do with one another. Einstein won his Nobel on that one ;)
Gosh darnit, when I was young we had to climb a mountain in the snow barefoot to go to school, uphill BOTH ways, and we liked it!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a generation of people will always view the next generation as lazier and stupider; when in fact, they are just bitter from getting old.

I for one put myself through a good school in CS with great ACT scores also; but tuition back then was only $900/quarter, and the CS department only rejected 50%, not 80% of its applicants as today. Kids these days have it much harder than me.
I wonder if anyone has ever tried collection college textbooks as an investment? Apostol's two volume "Calculus" was $20 per volume when I bought them at Caltech in 1977. Each was in its second edition then (and had been for about 10 years).

The second edition is still the current edition, and still in use at Caltech and a few other top schools...and is around $220 for volume I and around $170 for volume II. (Apparently, Apostol never got the word that calculus books need to be revised every year to keep up with the rapid pace of research in freshman mathematics...)

That's 6.8% growth per year for volume I, which is not bad.
Yup. Getting those at launch would be the rare collector's item in the future.

My guess for today's "rare nostalgia collector's item" of the far future?

Those Skylanders/Disney Infinity statues, if they don't need an auth server to run. Especially the original "Spyro's Adventure" ones.

Alternately, BeyBlades and the like, since those take terrible wear when the kids play with them. Then again, I can't think of many other brutalized collectible children's toy fads of my youth that are popular with collectors today - it's not like Pogs are a big item.
Tried it previously (I used a Linux machine as a daily driver for years). Doesn't look any different to me on Ubuntu.
I have not read any of those three, so definitely thank you for sharing. FWIW, my individualist anarchist tendencies have largely been influenced by people like Lysander Spooner and Murray Rothbard.
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Those are both worth something TODAY, but within the next 5-10 years, paper Magic cards are going to be less and less valuable - the game is moving to mostly online play, and so you're going to only have interest from collectors.

My advice would be to sell them now. They aren't going to be worth much more than they are now in 10 years.
This reminds me of newspapers in Harry Potter.
When I started in 2000, it was around $3000 per term all in (tuition, co-op fee, and all the other misc. fees). When I graduated in 2005, it was $4200 per term. That's an increase of 7% per year on average.

From 2005 to now (@ $6300), it's gone up 8.5% per year on average.

Good to see that the university is keeping tuition affordable by keeping up with inflation. Not.
This is a cautionary tale. It's unwise to burn bridges after a conflict, because you never know what the future may hold. Justified or not, leaving a stink bomb in your wake is a bad resume builder. It makes people more wary, not more confident.

The pain from interpersonal conflicts is real and powerful. But how we handle ourselves during conflict says more about us than any amount of code we'll ever write.
Vienna has the best quality of life — and Baghdad the worst
This is awesome. Chatted with you on IRC a couple of times before Swombat - thanks for the thoughtful advice and a willingness to help always.
So the model is hoping people end up with leftover credits? Isn't this similar to a stored-value model, with state laws mandating that any leftover credit has to be returned? I must have misunderstood.