skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... but ultimately each candidate is weighed against the other candidates, so if it comes down to a recent college grad with good grasp of algorithms vs. another candidate with 5 years of work experience and a rusty working knowledge of algorithms as needed, usually the more experienced candidate will get the job. Algorithms are part of the screening process, but really the candidate with the most hands-on experience building using these same tools will be preferred. Each business has an immediate need to get work done, and so is only willing to invest so much in on-the-job training for new hires, which means the candidate needing the least training, and can also provide new insights based on experience, usually gets the job. Other factors weigh in too, such as college grads are cheaper and work harder then the salty old pros, so there's a trade off between experience vs. cost.
Exactly. Cities are always outliers. If you didn't tell someone they were in the south, they probably wouldn't know it if they stayed within downtown Atlanta. But my experiences between small towns in the south and Atlanta (I currently live in ATL and have lived in the south since 2001) are VASTLY different.
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Sure, send me an email (in profile).
It was at least changed to lie to avoid complaints from users.
I remember that running taskmgr.exe from an XP machine on Vista gave a more accurate info, ie. no lying to keep ignorant users happy.
Most likely not. Until evidence is presented that proves otherwise it would be smart to assume it isn't private either. Doing it yourself with a Seed Box is the secure(r) way. I echo the "cool" sentiment though.
I'm on the YUI team - we'll be doing a lot more work in the module space coming up in the future. We have a few goals coming up - mainly to make each YUI component interoperable with different module systems, so that developers can use each individual YUI module whether they're using AMD, CommonJS, just plain YUI modules, or even ES6 modules.

Our goal is to play better with other libraries, so that we don't have the idea of a "walled garden", and that people can use whatever other libraries they want together with YUI, which has been a bit more difficult in the past.

Eric Ferraiuolo gave a good talk on this last week at YUIConf. Unfortunately, the full videos for the talks aren't out yet, but his slides are right here:

https://speakerdeck.com/ericf/yui-and-the-future

Keep posted - we definitely think that smaller, more reusable modules are the better way to go for front-end development in the future, and we'll have some interesting projects soon that anyone - even if you're not using YUI - can use.
Exactly. My brother in law RE Snapchat to save all images it reads to his SD card. It took all of 10 minutes.

Even if they could lock down the phone and successfully implement a DRM I could just take a dang picture of the picture....
The two most remembered js books are Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja".

Most online schools like code.org, codecademy.com or codeschool.com have js courses.
I think this is along the same argument that a lock pick isn't illegal but picking a lock might be illegal.
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It seems to me that if an attacker can get access to your microphone and camera, you have way bigger problems and they don't need your PIN at all.
I don't think you will need to go the PCB level work right now. You can do a good deal of work on the bread board. And for things which are a little complicated, building reusable modules and learning how to solder a little quickly, works most of the times.
As some one who rights stats libraries, I can see it now.

"Bug: code does not work with an input of 1"

"1 is of approaching-zero-significance when you consider all of the other test cases we are meeting. 1 is not the responsibility of this lib. Feel free to fork. ======= issue closed."
This may be location dependent, but yes alternate rerouting is not in real time, but when you ask for initial directions they give you the options of 3 different routes that do change according to traffic.
Not fighting is more heroic than fighting for the nazis. With all the surrounding countries on the Axis side, I don't think they had any other options.
When programmers are working together, like most things in life, it isn't really about the finer details, it is about people trusting each other.

There are layers of trust.

At a fundamental level I trust that my compiler works. I trust that the the standard library is going to work as expected.

At a higher level, up in userland, I trust that libraries or modules that are used in a lot of places or that were written by respected members of the community. If I don't know them I can look at other things, like tests, demos, and documentation.

Only when there is no other information, when you don't know of the person or their work, when you see no tests and no documentation, will you need to actually go in and look at the code.

I take two things away from this.

One is that in organizations where this is happening there are fundamental problems with co-developer trust.

The other is that monolithic code bases where an organization owns the code rather than individual authors owning the code can lead to an atmosphere where no one and everyone feel that they have the say over specific implementation details.

We can design systems and workflows that can implement and support developers trusting one another. If a team is building a system, components could be authored and published under individual author ownership, and then stitched together by the team to build a product.

Of course this is fundamentally a transcendent problem. The issues aren't with the details of the system, the issues are outside of the system and with how the PEOPLE relate to one another.
tl;dr chaos ensues because weird code was not documented.
It's worse. No line of /proc/meminfo has that value, and since not all of the cache can be instantly discarded (I didn't know that), I don't see any combination of them that would help.

That sentence:

> There are no downsides, except for confusing newbies.

Just isn't true. There is the downside that we can't know how much memory is available.
> If it weren't for iOS's minuscule market share, this would be justification for a major DoJ crackdown

I wouldn't call a 40% market share (and growing) in the US, the area in which the DOJ has jurisdiction, minuscule.

(1) http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/05/apple-samsung-leng...
Based on the title listing, no. At least some of these are licensed in the US, moving it out of even the grey area that might exist otherwise.
>I'd expect this sort of thing from an app where people are sending private images, against the initial intent/design. But Snapchat?

The thing about Snapchat is that it's basically held together with sticky tape and string. It's not totally dissimilar to where Facebook was a year or so from launch (2006 or so): code that was pretty much thrown together, and hasn't had much time for improvement.

I haven't seen the codebase itself, but I'm coming to this conclusion based upon pulling apart both the client apps and the god-awful API that's used. Perhaps in the last few months it has improved somewhat, but it was still pretty dodgy back in May or so.
Now plug it into hummingbird.me's API for episode tracking.

I don't see anywhere in the screenshots about it allowing you to pick the subbing group, though?
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A startup misrepresenting their capabilities and not really caring about user privacy or security?

Shocking.
I think that was Maptia, one of the founders wrote a bit about it here:

http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-the-coolest-startup-c...
Good writeup, thanks. As someone recently shifting focus from backend to frontend this was a good overview of the state of things.

If you're hankering for future blog articles, I'd love to see your take on the tradeoffs b/t using require.js vs Browserify. Or more generally a followup article on your whole FUD section would be useful.

PS - amusing typo, it's CPAN, not CSPAN :)
Would the battery use be much worse than playing video?
Author here, thank you! It's tiring meeting all the resistance I do when trying to investigate these issues. As cheesy as it sounds any thanks I do get really does motivate me.
I have a hard time understanding how WhatsApp could take any market from Line where they dominate, and this is not only because of the stickers, but mostly because the application itself offers an objectively superior experience.

Line feels like an universally available, polished, and wannabe cute version of iMessage, while WhatsApp feels like a clunky and poorly designed app that you're supposed to pay. Moreover, Line has a desktop client, which, even if not as well done as their mobile app, does not have the bloat of Skype.

Where I live, in Japan, people use Line so much that even without a Facebook account, I do not feel disconnected anymore. I know what is going to happen, and my friends have no overhead to reach me.

This said, I would totally understand if it can not reach the US or some European countries, where people would not be attracted by the very Asian cuteness that comes with it.
I never assumed the purpose of snapchat was provide bullet-proof self-destructing images, in the same way that I wouldn't assume the purpose of a lock on a diary or medicine cabinet was to provide bullet-proof physical security.

I assumed the purpose was to shift the expectation of reasonable behavior from "keep for as long as your like" to "let the image expire".

If you send someone an image via email or some other platform, it's perfectly reasonable for them to keep the image in their archives forever.

If you send someone a snapchat, the expectation of reasonable behavior is to let the image expire and disappear. If one discovered that someone was using clandestine means to keep snapchats sent to them, that person will suffer social repercussions.

In other words, snapchat have created a system where it's creepy to keep snaps forever, against the will of the sender. Yes, it's possible, perhaps even trivial. But it's also trivial to rummage through a friend's underwear drawer when visiting their home. The "security" of the underwear drawer is established by trust and social convention. That's how I feel about snapchat. It's an easy way of saying "please don't keep my messages".
Ehm. But sometimes stupid linux kernel prefers moving something usefull to swap and caching some shit instead of keeping stuff in ram and not doing caching.

So linux sometimes eats your RAM (but in different way).
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Personally, I reckon you could do it; what's the going rate for a free lancer? Given the size and complexity of coding snippets, do they really have any value in and of themselves?
They're somehow available to Snapchat since they'll send you a notification if someone takes a screenshot of a snap.

Edit: I have personally confirmed this on iOS. According to a commenter below, this is also true on Android.
I do not believe you could miss the connection.
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If you're looking for examples of "an incredibly militaristic society", you might want to start with, say, Prussia under Frederick the Great, or Imperial Japan circa 1942. Once you've familiarized yourself with at least those two, you'll be better equipped than you are now to recognize the risibility of using that phrase to describe the United States in 2013.
There are already many tools that convert any image to pure CSS if you are interested in doing this. As well as using base64 in the img source, and javascript+canvas.

I suppose the value in doing this is that maybe an image could go right into an email to someone, or if you are hosting a page on the web somewhere that doesn't have the ability to upload images - but you still want to display one - just use CSS.

Otherwise - I'm not sure what this post is telling us. Did he do them by hand? Did he just convert some images using freely available tools? I'm not sure the value here other than to show people that there are other ways to display images in browsers than loading and showing the images themselves.
How does my post detail that bitcoin owes people free money? I'm just trying to push for a more level playing field.
In April 2012, LINE used Thrift API talking to Redis caching HBase backing up to MySQL. http://tech.naver.jp/blog/?p=1420
I'm sure a png would do nicely on these mostly flat images.
> You're only accounting for the RAM power. Accessing the SSD costs power, too.

A typical modern SSD reads at 500 MiB/s, consumes 3 watts when reading, and 0.3 watts when idle.

A stick of DDR3 RAM consumes about 3 watts, just sitting idle.

The power consumption from prefetching is minor compared to that of the RAM.
I have been a happy subscriber to The Previous Magazine for a while now; I'd like to see a little more for profession software engineers, but otherwise always on the ball.
The Large Company version is way too small. It should have at least 20 code files and is provided to other departments as a hosted service that no one has access to due to security restrictions, and the only documentation for how to use it is a powerpoint that is 3 years out of date.
I understand this is a complaint about Google. It won't help you find pages that cite a problem when a diffrent, but similar problem is too popular.

I've seen that happening several times, but I'm not the GP, so I may still be missunderstanding him.
Why don't Windows users have confusion over this issue?

Because windows users don't care about how much memory a particular application is using. New Windows developers get confused by it all the time. There are plenty of questions on stack overflow where someone is using task manager to try and measure their application's working set.
The section on arms shipments to Nigeria reminded me strongly of the film "Lord of War," where Nic Cage's character notes that his favorite cover for his arms is the combination of tropical heat and old potatoes.
The poverty issue might very well mean that these meals might be beneficial primarily by counteracting chronic under/malnourishment and that this is a more important effect than any benefits of short-term fasting / hunger.

But there are other potential effects as well: It is one thing to be hungry if you are able to decide yourself what to do. Another when dealing with authority. We can tell when my four year old son is getting hungry before he notices it himself because he starts getting cranky when we try to interfere with what he is doing.

Purely guessing based on that anecdote, it might also well be these kids would perform better at what they want to do when hungry, but that they are more docile and find it easier to sit still and pay attention to the teacher when well fed.

For my part, I used to prefer to go to school without breakfast for many years, but then again I was usually allowed to sit and work on whatever I wanted most of the time in many classes, as I was usually ahead.

Of course this is all speculation.
This is by choice, because single thread performance matters more, and you can use fork or MPI to scale across NUMA nodes and clusters much more scalably and safely.
Couldn't agree more.
Apple "won" because 20+M people were to lazy to find a better application or didn't know how and just kept what they were given. For the majority of iOS users that's how it works. You use what you are given and deal with it.
Even if that were true -- does it mean that Nintendo will avoid creating the next game because of less profits?

I think the answer is obviously not. Therefore, depriving society of this value in order to incentivize Nintendo with higher profits is a bad deal.
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Easy to configure, simple functionality, niche-use.

I think it's a pretty cool idea, and definitely might come to use it if I ever get a machine in-house infected with something interesting and I want to just toy with it (/ keep an eye on what it's doing). I'm sure this would be useful for security professionals dealing with all kinds of network-required infections (or not, as all the "BadBIOS" talk suggests).

Pretty cool stuff, I'm wondering if one could simply set this up with a set of iptables rules (on a Linux router, i.e. DD-WRT). Just drop all packets that aren't destined to the open internet, and even control which ports the isolated machine has access to (i.e. cut off port 80 and see if the infection/process tries to reach out on port xyz or something else).
This is gently baffling. Very few people leave their home country with the intent of becoming a sex slave. They pay some money to leave their country and enter another. When they arrive they're told they still owe $X, and need to pay it off. One way to pay is to become a sex worker. Their legal documents are taken from them. They are told that the police will lock them in prison or deport them if they try to get help.

Domestic sex workers rarely turn to sex work out of free choice. They've made bad decisions, and now they're addicted to drugs, or in deep debt, and sex work is the only way they can get money.

The few people who enjoy sex work are not enough to satiate demand for sex workers, especially if it's legal.

It's nice to think that a bit of sex work is one way that people could chose to put themselves through college and then move on to much better work, but unfortunately that's nothing like the truth of sex work.
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As a British citizen I admire his interest to operate the business domestically within the UK (and thus create UK tax nexus), but given the nature of the business and the run-around he's unsurprisingly receiving, I'm surprised he doesn't/didn't incorporate the business off-shore in the Caymens/Luxembourg/etc.

You can still operate it from within the UK, especially if you have the proof from HMRC (UK IRS) that it's not illegal practice, etc.
Node only came about b/c Google wrote V8 for high-performance browser JS. Node has certainly expanded JS's reach in a big way, but wouldn't have existed in the first place if, say, Lua were the lingua franca of all web browsers (or maybe V8 and Node would still exist but target Lua instead).
That's a very large blanket statement right there. I code in five main languages Objective-C, Java, Python, Ruby, and a bit of Javascript. I do back-end web system type of dev work (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java) and front end UI (iOS, Android, and JavaScript (Backbone, Angular, Ember). I use Intellij and sublime as my ide/code editor. The most productive, easiest to use, and for me most fun to develop in environments are Django, Rails, Node, and front-end JavaScript. That is almost completely because of the application aware REPL. Django's manage.py shell command, Rails rails console command, and Chrome's dev tools are three of the most important developer tools I've ever discovered. I'd LOVE to find an iOS tool with the same power.
Dude, despite not owning any bitcoins myself, it's a depressing picture that you've painted of our institutions' reluctance to accept what could be a revolutionary currency. I hope you keep us posted.
The second season of The Wire is also an interesting look at dock workers in the modern world.
I'd say it depends on your legislation and on the question if you are talking about the program itself or about the process of using it to download material for which you do not have any rights.

I guess in austria, for example, it should be legal, because it's not explicitly forbidden to download copyrighted material, just to share it with others.

But: I am no laywer :)
Nathan is always an inspiration.

One could think he is lucky, or uses some sneaky tricks.
The truth is, and you can see it by yourself if you read his posts, Nathan is very good at:

- teaching things

- analyzing data

- deliver
Using seedboxes is also part of being a good torrent neighbor -- most private trackers have upload ratio requirements. These requirements are infinitely easier to meet when using a seedbox.
No organization fully funds a pension 75 years out.
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even more interestingly, since alaskamiller linked it with the https protocol, it just redirects to http since reddit doesn't use ssl except for login, but if you try visiting https://reddit.com/r/flask you (at least in chrome) get a browser warning.
ComScore's data is great for advertisers, it gives user counts and time spent in the app.

It's pretty much worthless for determining how effective the app is at finding locations. My hyperbolic statement can't be justified by the data provided. Perhaps apple users spend their time looking up hundreds of locations and google users are only able to find one.

There's an obvious selection bias, and i don't know what the effect is. I'd claim smartphone users aren't all that different, they just want to look stuff up, and they'd look it up at comparable rates. If that's true, it takes apple maps users longer to find stuff.
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Or for same price can get a month of crunchyroll and legally support the studios while enjoying 1080p videos on demand. I have some guest passes backed up if anyone is interested
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Print is dead. Most publications have migrated to digital only. Why waste money on physical magazines, when digital versions are inexpensive and very easy to distribute?
It's not. Multiplication can't in general be done in constant time (and the exponentiation algorithm is inefficient as well). You might argue that we're working with ints here, so yes it can, but in that case all of these are constant time.
As an established currency we can only assume it'll become as largely uninteresting as the others (major economic events aside). Of course, we need the infrastructure and diversification of exchanges etc. etc.

I for one will be pretty disappointed if in a few years people can still make money shorting BTC and DDoS'ing exchange front-ends.
I'll start using Apple Maps when it can do transit directions. I live in the city; I don't need a car. Or know how to drive for that matter.
It would be nice to see some details beyond just a couple screenshots and a "Download Trial Here!" link. Charging for this kind of thing also seems a bit dishonest.

Are you hosting all the content yourself? If so, there may be legal issues as well as scaling issues. Otherwise, just making this a frontend for existing ddl/xdcc/torrents seems again rather dishonest. I'd personally prefer to go track a download down myself at the quality and sub group that I prefer.

Might be good for people who just want to click and be able to watch a show without the hassle, though.
Well then, that makes OPEC terrorists. What are they going to say about that?