skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one thing I fail to understand. I have seen the low end Android phones complaining about low space. This implementation makes apps to occupy more space that they normally would - making the above mentioned problem worse.

Thoughts?
Leaderbords : https://amazon.interviewstreet.com/challenges/dashboard/#lea...

India, India, India, India, India, India, India, Germany, India, India, India...

There is, without doubt a great pool of talents available in India, but this kind of result make me suspect that it's maybe just a result of India' schools focus on algorithms. Not on real problem solving, creation, design...
What about Jedi?
They're actually using InterviewStreet to do the testing, which supports a variety of languages (including a number of functional ones).
Bill Gates is an aggressive man. When turned to business, this aggression leads to the creation and abuse of monopoly powers, especially if there's an IBM to abuse in the early days. When turned to Public Good, it is just as fearsome in a more positive direction. It is, fundamentally, the same tool in both instances.

This reminds me of an old Orwell essay, "A Good Word For The Vicar Of Bray":

http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/vicar/english/e_vicar

> Thibaw, the last King of Burma, was also far from being a good man. He was a drunkard, he had five hundred wives — he seems to have kept them chiefly for show, however — and when he came to the throne his first act was to decapitate seventy or eighty of his brothers. Yet he did posterity a good turn by planting the dusty streets of Mandalay with tamarind trees which cast a pleasant shade until the Japanese incendiary bombs burned them down in 1942.

> The poet, James Shirley, seems to have generalised too freely when he said that “Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust”. Sometimes the actions of the unjust make quite a good showing after the appropriate lapse of time.
>>> You just quoted the WSJ editorial page.

Thank you for telling me. I was wondering what those letters WSJ in domain name and those "Wall Street Journal" headers on the site mean... and now I know!

>>> and was not in fact a new nationwide speech code for universities.

The letter itself is not. However, it is intended to be used as a template policy for other places, and it significantly reduces the bar that needs to be cleared before speech can be punished - in part by removing any objective component - and introduces possibility of students being punished before the investigation is even completed. How speech codes could do anything about assault - which, by any sane definition, must involve physical action beyond speech - is completely incomprehensible. Even if change of the rules were necessary to prevent assault - which is doubtful as assault is already illegal so old rules should work just fine - speech limits have nothing to do with assault.
No apology needed, your comment is relevant. =D

I should have mentioned: this is a naive implementation. Optimizations like this will come later. Thanks for the interest.
Or you know, timezone?
Ever since Google Reader was discontinued, I no longer log in under my real account on my primary browser any more (I don't use Gmail's web interface either).

Frankly I think that's the way to go. Ideally, we'd have better identity support in our browsers to control which set of cookies to hand out based on which top-level URL we're visiting.
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All of them. This is the back-end of Mechanical Turk.
Software is more malleable than concrete though.
Yeah, I'm working on updated instructions at the moment. You may get stuck at the step that's "Install a new kernel on the RPi." if your system is i386; Those instructions only work on x86_64, afaik.

I'm keeping a log of what I try to see if I can make things faster / better.
Or that the link is for Amazon India.

Techniques like this are only really used to sort through hiring pools with high signal:noise.
That's a plan for my next week-end!
Oh man, so many spelling/grammar/formatting issues on this site! For example:

- "A segment is said to be shorter than other if it contains less number of words."

- "Print first shortest sub-segment that contains given k words , ignore special characters, numbers."

Copy editing like this doesn't inspire confidence in the hiring process.
Got any recent evidence for this? Because I'm not sure if this is actually still the case.

I don't have the link anymore because this was already a couple of years ago, was someone taking this ages-old advice to the test. Clicking the "unsubscribe" link on all spam delivered to an old spam-infested email address, he found that it reduced the amount of spam received to that address by a significant amount.
This is on the india.amazon.com site. I can't immediately find it on non-Indian sites. It appears this is aimed at recruiting Indian programmers. It is not surprising most of the people on the leaderboard are Indian.

No idea how Herr Amtrix got on that leaderboard.
Yes and I don't think there are image repositories for other architectures, though perhaps the pi thing may mean an arm repository turns up.

It would be cool if IBM sponsored more powerpc ports of stuff. They do give free access to ppc machines, but they should have people who eg write go backends for ppc64.
>>Hardware is different. You never hear about a new team successfully making a high-performance microprocessor.

May be not a microprocessor. Building something like that requires moderately deep pockets.

But hardware start ups happen all the time. They don't have any where near the kind of press coverage we do. I am working on a couple of embedded projects on the side. And I can tell you the barrier to entry there is pretty high. Web companies for all their scalability problems are still by and large low hanging fruits, compared to any hard ware start up. There is also little VC activity there, and you won't get slots for pitches at conferences.

One of things that I see while working with embedded developers(I am currently working with some very good ones). C is literally the bread and butter, so you have no language wars. The highest priority is Stability(Read, Quality in general), followed by efficient code, and then maintainable code. Your survival largely depends on your ability to RTFM properly, you have to internalize and thoroughly understand specs, the hardware interfaces you are trying to program and the way C lets you program them in a interplay with best practices there.

Internet isn't always of much help as the platforms you are trying to target aren't too famous. And there are no hipsters who crazy blog every little development in that area.

Of the many things that I've learned(and enjoyed doing it), is to go to great extents to workout things on paper. Mind maps, diagrams, graphs, doodles, checklist etc. To first prove a degree of correctness on paper and begin to program. It has greatly increased my ability to divide things and look at them with clarity. In turn I am able to write stable, and quality code.

According to me every one should work a embedded project. Even if its not a serious project. And please work with plain C without an OS.

Additionally, writing a python program on linux, running on something like rasberry pi is not hardware hacking, or low level programming.
Sigh. Not about the original article, but about the top comment in the original article.

It presumes that Picaso, Bansky, and Monet can't paint like each other.

Probably not true if you actually have Picaso, Bansky and Monet.

In any case, style guides are for hacks, not artists.
I tried dual boot and that was not the best experience also, with 16G RAM, Mac book ends ups with way more than $2000.
> No idea how Herr Amtrix got on that leaderboard.

Quite possibly from the HN link?
It is Amazon India, after all.
Are you there right now?
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Isn't "developmentally delayed" lumping everybody who didn't hit the certain set of milestones into one huge, overbroad groups? For one, some of them may be "delayed" - i.e. they may catch up with these milestones later, but some, unfortunately, would never reach them, in which case "delayed" is plainly misleading. Is is a wrong definition or feel-good term that is incorrect in fact?
Core team as in people physically in the one location within the same time zone who can solve problems in person. As someone who works for a company where people are moving about it does work most of the time and quite well, but the time zone differences can sometimes be frustrating when you need an answer on something important the other person is sleeping.

I understand some places might not have a core team, but a lot of places do. Sometimes it is required to have people you can physically talk to, Internet connections can be unreliable as can Skype and syncing files across the country or world can sometimes hinder progress if one or the other have slow Internet connections.
Prices for most things in Romania are the same as in London but the income is a lot less that's what puts most Romanians in a nasty situation.

Imagine you living on (average us income)/6 while everything else around you has the same price it has now. That will give you a good idea.

Most people have a monthly income of about £250 if you were to convert it. Now that should cover all the bills and food, most Romanians own their houses so they don't have to pay rent which is good but that is still a bad situation regardless.
It staggers me when basic things like this are so late in the IE support game. I mean, IE6 - fair enough. And complicated, new layout stuff (columns, flexbox) - fair enough too. But selectors based on the index of an item in a list?! Why the hell did MIcrosoft drag their feet for so long and screw us all over - I can just imagine having to wait another 5 years before I can actually use this stuff...
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This is exactly what I was looking for! I recently moved to Germany and I'm learning German and I'd love to do it through reading. I was about to sit down and patch together an epub reader to do this, but now I don't have to.

Here's some feedback if you'd like it :)

I just subscribed to the $9.99 per year version. However, I was mentally preparing myself to pay more, since it was very useful. I would have liked to try it out for longer though. The most useful part of it were the multi-word/phrase translations and I could only try out a very small number before it popped up the "subscribe" notification.

So to sum up, I signed up because it was just $10 a year, but would have paid more if I'd gotten to try it out for a short while longer.

All the best!
"as you earn it" is the key phrase here, the post office has to fund pension plans before you are even hired, it's a future pool of staggering size.

Pensions at the post office are probably the most secure retirement fund in the US right now, well other than what congress awards itself.
This study basically says that Ghrelin makes you smarter. It may well be that this is to counter the effect of lower blood sugar due to hunger.

Being hungry could still make you "dumber".
Do we agree then over the absolute measure of "elegance"?
With Priority Mail now offering $50 in free insurance to the flat rate packages, it's now the obvious choice for my online retail business.

Even before then it was the clear winner. Flat rate standardized (free) packaging is such an awesome perk. USPS loses way too many of my parcels, but it's just not worth going to UPS/FedEx and paying 2x the rate plus way more hassle for a slightly reduced lost package rate.
No, networks are dumb. They do not detect duplicates that would require vast storage! Unless you have a tcp (eg http) proxy on the route you will be the one filtering the duplicates.
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I hate it when apps don't feel 'native' for the sake of cross-platform consistency. It's stupid.
The problem I see is that your kids are in school the week... And you should have at least one day with your kids (society benefits a lot of this, and it makes day care cheaper) . Maybe have either Saturday or Sunday of mandated free time, and then Amazon could hire people either Sunday or Saturday...

Maybe that's why I live in France :-).
You can live in India. Best cities would be Bangalore, Delhi or Mumbai.

Pros of living in India:

1. Cost of living is way too less compared to Bay area. You can rent a very decent house for INR 20000 per month (~$333) or ~$4000 per year.

2. Bangalore was ranked the 19th best city in the world for startup environment by Startup Genome report.

3. Tons of startup groups and meetups, people are really helpful and supportive.

4. You can find smart people to hire at a fraction of a cost.

5. Good internet connectivity.

6. Getting VISA for extended stay would be very easy considering you're a US citizen.

7. Language would not be a big barrier because most of the educated population understands and speaks English.

If you want to know more or have any questions, my email is in my profile.
Wow, it's not that cool to just be a hater and see yourself as a 'sick' engineer that doesn't have time for PM's bull... This is actually a pretty cool exercise, and for someone like me, coming out of school and practicing algorithm interview questions (which are questionable, but hey), this is helpful and fun.
Anyways, if all you want to do is say that you are cool because you're learning a functional language and are completely above java, do it in your head.
If they're willing to go via engineers from these companies, then they're willing to go via everybody.

The MO seems to be "go via anything important to get data on everyone to find the terrorists". Where "terrorists" means anything that you want it to.
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Indeed, it's for India people... My bad.

Though, that's not the first time I see that kind of result on contests (but I wasn't so surprised because of the demographic numbers.)
I am always surprised to see that the stance toward Monsanto is so different in US than in France. In France, we have quite often TV documentaries about ecology and monsanto. Almost everybody in France associates Monsanto with devil.
It is generally legal, and welcomed for seasonal work in particular. Which makes it easy to avoid scrutiny for those who wants to exploit someone, as the visible part of their activity is entirely legal.
His research is definitely fascinating. Funny to see my CS professor pop up in here though. :)
I think Scratch[1] is the name of the programming language that you're referring to, that comes with the Raspberry Pi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28programming_languag...
This is great news. The USPS is hands down the best shipping provider. Priority Mail, especially the Flat Rate boxes, are often the cheapest and fastest way to ship packages.
Indeed. I have absolutely no idea why this is on HN. The man's rant gives absolutely no impression that he understands the criticism of Monsanto - it's just 2655 words of absolute meaninglessness.

I particularly liked the bit where he said "but people called Google evil!". Yeah. Yeah, they did, dude. Still do.
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IOS app giving trouble after update to OS mavericks
Our application uses G+ feature that was working fine before I upgraded my system to OS mavericks

Now we are getting following error
"ld: library not found for -lGooglePlusUniversal clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)"

Can anyone help me resolve this. We have tried many things but somehow struggling to fix this, I am sure it is some silly mistake that we are over looking

Any help is appreciated
Hardware is fun (when you get it working), and intelectually challenging. I'm even younger than the "FPGA guy" - I guess I fall in the mentioned Arduino camp (although I have long moved on to bare microcontrollers).

I'd wager that it's quite easy to get into hardware- there are tons of material on building easy and fun projects in no time. By combining practical exercises with "The art of electronics" or freely available "Lessons in electric circuits", one can gain enough knowledge to experiment on it's own in relatively short time.
I would actually take the "blue period" example as Picaso's own styleguide. By forcing constraints on himself (like a much reduce palette), he got much more creativity out.

"When Picasso purged color from his work, he did so to emphasize the formal autonomy of the picture plane and focus on problems of form." [1]

Styleguides don't hinder creativity. They help it shine. It simply a set of constraints that help guide you through the creative process. Same as convention-over-configuration. Yes, you are forced to put certain files in a certain folders, but that just saves you time, it does nothing to stop you from being creative.

[1]http://galleristny.com/2012/10/from-brush-and-palette-to-pri...
Perhaps people with kids are best off if they look for jobs where they can spend the weekend with their kids. But not everyone has kids - some people are busy during the week with, say, university, and might welcome the chance to make a bit of money on the weekend.

Fortunately, here in Italy, Mario Monti got rid of some of the rules about working on Sunday.
those are just the vessels travelling through the panama canal, definitely not "the entire output of global shipping's carbon costs".
Fair enough.

I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu and ARCH VMs running in Vagrant/VirtualBox under MacOS X - but I'm mostly doing webdev, embedded Linux (ARM/RaspberryPi/Olimex), and Arduino/ATMEL microcontroller stuff – so I'm not exactly taxing my older Apple hardware...
"That they are the most carbon efficient doesnt mean it couldnt be improved/replaced in the future however."

The fact that transporting things by sea is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more efficient means that it is the last thing to improve-replace.

"I just find it funny how politicians in my country try to save carbon emissions by enforcing a speed limit on highways or only let newer cars into the city areas...it just doesnt make no difference at all on a global scale."

Politicians use to be ignorant of science. Having said that, cars and trucks are the biggest polluter in the world.

I couldn't care less about "carbon emissions", but combustion particles, specially diesel from big truck, are really nasty for the environment.
Wait. Does the "code ninjas" idiom actually appeal to programmers in India?
Thats just plain wrong and revisionism. The creation of "open source" is well documented by Eric S. Raymond - its creator.

We do live in the age of perfectly kept records. The emails are there. The 1998 announcement of a source code release for Navigator, the described need for a more business friendly term for free software, and the creation of the open source initiative.

To be precise, Open Source rest on the creation made by Raymond, which in turn rest on the foundation of Free software, which in turn rest on Stallman, which in turn rest on the hacker culture of the MIT lab, which in turn rest on ... and so on and so on. Somewhere down there, IBM SHARE could be mentioned, and further down, Robert Boyle, and even further down, the medieval guilds, and before that, the library of Alexandria.

So instead of arguing the absurd argument that
the Industrial Revolution somehow created "open source", use the perfectly kept record that its inventor made. Everything else will just sound as advocacy for your faith and revisionism.
Normally, if I see a car analogy applied to programming languages (which hackers seem to do a lot), I instantly brace myself for petty debate on the semantics of the analogy itself (which hackers seem to do a lot).

This one is perfect however, and really explains my feelings towards Go (and recently, C, oddly enough).
And here I was thinking that Vox meant the guitar amplifier manufacturer, like the one I have at home (doing nothing)! Can anyone update the title at all?
The letter makes the same mistake it points out in Monsanto critics: lack of sources. Basically, his argument amounts to: "I'm a good and smart person. Trust me." But his misrepresentation of the Galileo situation doesn't instill much trust in me.

It is true that a lot of companies get called "evil" when the reality is a lot more complex and nuanced, but that observation by itself doesn't automatically make Monsanto one of the good guys.

It is interesting that Monsanto apparently got rid of their chemical arm. Does that mean they don't rely on the sale of Roundup anymore?

The claim that we've been using genetic engineering for centuries is one I see a lot, and it's false. As he points out immediately after, we have not been introducing totally new genes that never existed before. We've been breeding existing organisms and selecting for existing traits. It is the fact that it's a much slower process that also makes it safer; we get to see the effects of this breeding on a small scale before they get introduced on a wide scale. Monsanto's GMOs on the other hand often have a lot of unintended and unexpected side effects once released into existing ecosystems. (Like pests developing resistance to pesticides because those pesticides are not permanently available.)

I understands he wants to continue to believe he's a good person while still taking that billion dollars, but I need a bit more evidence before I'm willing to accept Monsanto as a positive influence.
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No, I usually have 3 batteries. Plug-in is not always possible (airplane, train) or convenient (client office, restaurant). Sometimes I do not carry an adapter.
I'd be much obliged if you provided any proof that one Western European country has been spying on a member of the US government. Because if you don't, this is all hand waving and smearing.
No, I found the term systems programming to be brilliant to describe the kind of things exactly between applications and operating systems, and I think the Go team did a good job communicating this from day 1. It just seems it was misunderstood (maybe even intentionally so) by detractors that focussed too much on their very own interpretation of the term.
Depends on the language and the programmer. I find a properly configured REPL amazingly productive at nearly any point in a development life cycle.
Bemusing to see this after my friend (who is an engineer at LINE) bemoaned the seeming lack of recognition of the company in the States.