skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what, to some extent its a numbers game.

The reasons you didn't get this job could be many. They could have felt intimated by your level of competence, someone decided they don't like you, etc.

The main thing is to take what you can from each company and learn from it. There are some companies that doing 3 technical interviews and weeks of interviewing are worth it (I'm thinking of Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) If it is a start up or a small company and they make you jump through these hoops you got to decide if its worth it.

Build your pipeline. You should try to line up at least two interviews a week at different companies (at a minimum). When you do this, you will feel more confident and it will show in the interview. Never stop looking until you have an offer. So this means, focus on setting up interviews even if you have ones coming up.

Realistically speaking, if you get to your forth company and you don't get an offer, its likely there is something wrong with your approach, your interview skills, the jobs you are applying to, etc. My rule of thumb when I am looking is that if I don't have an offer by the third company I have interviewed with, I totally need to focus on what I am doing wrong. It could be just a streak of bad luck, but somethings off in my approach.

Lastly, like I said, its a numbers game, you win this by having a lot of companies to interview with.
I've never had a problem with carry both an accordion and a knapsack containing my laptops. The accordion I travel with fits handily in just about every aircraft's overhead compartment, which certain simplifies those rare moments when the flight crew gives me static about not checking or gate-checking it.

I agree with the author that getting on the plane early is important. Another good trick is to try and get seats near the rear of the plane, as many (but not all) airlines try to board the plane from the rear seats first. This gives you a better shot at getting space in one of the overhead compartments.
I found BitBargain quite pleasant to use. You buy directly from sellers via bank transfer (if your bank supports Faster Payments, which it almost certainly does).

https://bitbargain.co.uk/

edit: prices don't seem as good as they used to be though.
Even the best of people can become bitterly jealous about such things. Life is really hard, bills really suck, most jobs are short term, and for most people that never changes. If the money doesn't change you, some friends will perceive you're different anyway, even if it's only their projection.

You are definitely limited (in regards to talking about it), but it has to be that way. You'll find that in your group of good friends, there are a few that won't be affected by you having money, but for the vast majority it's a problem.
eventually != soon
A Disgusting Science Experiment Or A Terrifying Wake-Up Call
yes, please surrender yourself at the airport police, indicating that you are a wanted international terrorist by Chinese National Security, you will be promptly delivered to your reward.
Two things:

1. In a sea of people carrying iPhones and/or other various touchscreen smart phones, the minority of people using any kind of alternative seem to possess minscule flip phones with full-color displays. I haven't seen a candy bar phone in ages, unless it happens to be some venerable variety of nigh-defunct BlackBerry. I can't imagine this kit being resized down to a scale that would ever fit into what might be regarded as "common", especially since DIY kits need to be produced with parts big enough to man-handle, lest they risk total obscurity. No DIY kit will ever be successful if the parts involved are small enough to warrant a jewler's or watch maker's precision. Would you sell the kit with a loupe and tweezers?

2. Why should an unorthodox handset be suspicious? I guess it depends on the country one might live in? Also passing through customs and airport security, I guess?
This is really nice. It reminds me about a tradition here in Poland. On Xmas Eve Dinner we prepare additional place at the table for any unexpected guest. As a chid I was looking at it and wondering who could sit there and nobody ever did. I also don't know anyone who had a chance to use it and actually there were several journalists' provocations when celebrities and politicians rejected such "unexpected guests" at their homes. So it's great to hear that the idea works on the other hemisphere :)
I was wondering whether I'd see this again this year. Good on you, Matt.
Helvetica Neue at that font weight needs a larger size for legibility. See Parse using the same font in their docs at 16px[0].
[0] https://parse.com/docs/js_guide
I love how the Internet is facilitating this slow awakening to the degree to which the media is controlled and spun.
Is this quote from anyone in particular?

I don't mind Stallman, but to decry all boycotts and competition-of-personal-values is itself foolish. We should care about who gets our money and our attention.
This seems to be an interesting project.

It's interesting that the website seems better than the average GNU project, notably the look and community parts.

However, I don't really get what it brings to the table compared to other LilyPond frontends like Frescobaldi or Laborejo. I'd love to be enlightened on that part :)

On a personal technical side, I'm not really a fan of using GTK3 for crossplatform UIs (I've had my share of pain with it, like many people), and I don't really like the absenc of folders/hierarchy in the src folder (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/denemo.git/tree/src) or the fact that the NEWS file is outdated (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/denemo.git/tree/NEWS)
Like others have said, this seems to be a generalization of the problem of reinforcement learning. For a good introduction to the subject, check out Reinforcement Learning by Sutton & Barto [1]. After reading the first few chapters, you'll be able to understand most of that equation.

[1] http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html
Christmas Day is the exact best day to go around all of the sightseeing locations in SF without having to worry about parking or crowds. I've done this 3 times now, whenever guests come, and it's great.

You can hit all of the places in SF like the Golden Gate Bridge, Chrissy Field, Coit Tower, Pier 39, etc.
I'd say that it's a forth of 1080p.
Countdown just started up for a 6:44 launch time.
Countdown clock reset! T minus 25min!
I think the problem is not the overpopulation but immigrants approach to religion which Europe haven't seen pretty much since the dark ages.
Is learning french as a first language a mistake?
Exactly what seems to be happening.

The fluff takes your mind off the twisting of laws and violations of human rights...
If it's not the fluff that does the distracting, it's the threat of some looming enemy like Al Quaeda or Iran or Syria...
That's why I can't understand this. Using the Raspberry Pi to control some external device, sure. Hooking it up to your own LEDs or systems or whatever, amazing. But, using it as a NAS/HTPC/whatever? It's pretty much the least imaginative thing you can do with a computer, and the Pi isn't even that well suited to it.

But, eh, if you had fun doing it, power to you. I'm not going to tell you what you should and shouldn't do. It's just that I'd like to see some more imaginative hacks.
seattle and the east side are 'okay' but nowhere near what you'd find in the sunset/richmond, san gabriel valley, or manhattan + queens

for example in a single neighborhood you can find halal chinese, dim sum, szechuan, hot pot, proper roast duck, chinese bakeries, shanghai style dumplings, fresh noodles ...

the bar for comparison should be beijing, shanghai, singapore, hong kong, taipei, etc.
Regarding BTC-e and it being a shady site: no matter what they say it is the only exchange able to really properly trade into other currencies. Quick. I made a few thousand minute-trading between btc-ltc-ftc-nc et cetera. Got to love the bubble.
I've done a lot of travel with bulky items (mostly bicycles) in the past, and seen a range of issues.

My first musical instrument experience was earlier this week when my wife and I checked in our sitar[1] for a flight from Bangkok to Sydney. The carrier, Qantas, wasn't able to tell us if we'd have a problem before arriving but we were pleasantly surprised that the airport checkin staff sorted it for free.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitar
How Our Startup Came Together: A Journey Through Python, Cloud, And NLP
"I'm a loser and I need someone to talk about why I'm not allowed to use Lisp"
Matt, you're a class act. Email me if you'd like to share a beer with me sometime (first one is on me).
World's Greatest Golf Trick Shot
If she said she was going to buy firearms to bring back to canada, she would have had better chances of crossing, foolish tourist!
Ironically, I've heard the Chinese food in Chinatown in SF is pretty lousy.
No, I just made it up.

I can see your point about vendor discretion, but that's not really the same thing. I try to avoid companies whose values do not align with my own wherever possible. In many cases, I even consider my opinions to be well founded, or even informed.

That said, I still understand them to be value judgements, and while I'm happy to discuss those values to whomever, it isn't my place to push my values onto another, and it would be silly of me to ignore the good aspects of somebody because they also possess aspects I consider to be negative.

Moreover though, it is foolish to discount good advice because you don't like the source. It is, I believe, the height of pettiness, and should be avoided at all costs by pragmatists.
Finding the prime factors of large numbers is hard. Cryptography is almost exclusively about picking two Large Primes, Multiplying them, and then using that very large, very hard to factor number as a key.

This is overly simple, but it is the very core of every modern crypto. So understanding it is the best place to start.
I guess airlines fear orchestras.
The GNU GPL is perfectly compatible with their BSD license... :]

It's just that the end result is then restricted by the GPL, and they don't want that.
What about trying to buy Bitcoins from a country that isn't the US? I shouldn't have to send you the left arm of my first-borne to verify I'm a human being and then be limited to performing any transaction in dollars.
Damn you, Big Musical-Instrument-Owners!
Hope they release their sources soon, so I can compile and try it out on my Nexus...

Hopefully being the most open mobile OS means easy compiling...
Plenty of Fish Hacked - Chris Russo explains how he did it

25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do market research
A very good thing to do. I've got a place to be, but the gods know I've spent many holidays alone in some city.

Thanks for being so kind.
I wondered what had happened to him - was looking forward to seeing him play, would have been an incredible result I reckon. Any chance of that actually happening?
I've made a Twitter bot out of it, it will post on average every 5 hours.

https://twitter.com/HNTitles

Code at https://github.com/FiloSottile/HNTitles
Let's not exaggerate. It's impressive that their self-test could abort successfully, yes. Though it's not certain yet whether there was anything wrong and it should have aborted.
if you're not from LA, SF, NY there's a strong chance you've never actually had chinese food.

I imagine there are over a billion people in China and Taiwan who would beg to differ ;-)
pretty accurate...
While Google is a larger issue regading privacy, facebook is a larger issue regarding lock-in. Anyone who do not have an facebook account know how often information is locked into facebook, never reaching anyone who chooses not to participating in giving facebook more information.
When did you agree to let the police protect you if they encounter you being mugged?

That's a particularly poor example.

Supreme Court Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html

In case you can't get past the paywall (try googling the title and going from there), the summary is that a woman got a protective court order and then she called police and told them her husband had violated the court order. They did not act, and he killed her three kids.

If a court order with explicit instructions to arrest should it be violated isn't enough to move the police into action, simply encountering you isn't worth a hill of beans.
Reading this I had to repeatedly scroll up to make absolutely sure I wasn't just reading a Jolla press release... I'd love for this to be as great as it's described here, but I'll be waiting for an actual impartial review.
Why do you chase a perfect idea
It's all about the context. Your parents or best-friend who will love you no matter what and does not care about your money but personality? Sure, tell them. But your cousin who shows off their Rolex every chance they get or the coworker who is over-competitive? No need to share anything beyond "I'm working on some tech stuff".

There are many reasons to keep mum about:

1) You will suddenly have a lot more family/friends who want a piece of it - This is the reason everyone gives and it is true depending on your social circle. This includes everyone who wants you to invest in their business, give them a loan, pay for their meals etc. However it is not the only reason.

2) People will assume you no longer have any problems in life. Your depression? Family problems? Social anxiety? Alcoholism? Fewer people will empathize with you and most will attribute your problems to "the money went into your head!" syndrome.

3) You will have a harder time getting people to spend their own money with you - This is definitely something my wife and I have experienced multiple times with different groups of friends. Five years ago, we could easily encourage our friends to spend $50 to go to a theme park with us or take a small vacation. Now, we look inconsiderate when we ask anyone to do that because it is so cheap for us but a significant amount of cash for them. Recently, I went on a bachelor's party trip with a few friends. I paid $10 to park my car for the day in front of our destination and the people in the other car parked 2 miles away because it was $3 to park there. They thought I was a complete jerk when I called them to say "Oh just park here, it's only $7 more." For me, it was a rounding amount in my hourly invoices. For them, it was an entire hours worth of work hauling pallets in Walmart's freezer section at 3am. This was just a minor incident but there will be many more if everyone knows you have $X m in the bank.
Someones database is exhausted I think.
I could have benefited from an unhurried, contemplative learning about science in elementary school. The primary concern approach with example and counter example even seems fun. The "heavy boots" problem of focusing on what is not the primary concern is a problem in understanding other issues like in politics. In politics though people have a self interested agenda and will warp reality to make it fit like having the earth the center of the galaxy. People should strive in political learning to use the first principle approach of the article, like eliminate oppression, and unbiasedly apply it universally.
Maybe a knowledgeable person can answer this question: What is the white stuff fluttering down from the rocket?
Pretty good blog, i like the other posts on CDbaby vs reverbNation et al and getting your stuff stolen, which has happened to almost every pro musician friend of mine except for pianists.

Unfortunately, a guitar in a gig bag is probably not going to survive long on commercial flights, the way people jam stuff into every last mm-cubed of the overhead bins. So flight case, or at the very least a softshell case like a Roadrunner (basically, zippered nylon fabric over lots of stryofoam)
stream repeatedly stops for me :(
The Coolest Thing Ever: How a Robotic Arm Changed Four Lives
A comprehensive guide to testing your Web app
if you like eco, check out 'Q' by luther blissett, which is given away for free on his website[1] along with all of his other works.

1: http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/biography.html
For those who've been involved in this for some time: Do you think it's too late to get into mining Bitcoin (or other cryptocurrencies) to make any significant payoff? I've been looking to get into Litecoin and others because I think I may have missed out on Bitcoin (and buying them at the current value just isn't feasible), and I'm trying to assess whether this bubble/trend/fad/craze will extend to other cryptocurrencies and if going in early now on them will be worth it. I know I'm asking you to look into a crystal ball, but anyone who's been in this game from early on knows much more than I do.
Your blog breaks the back button with a redirect.
>This feels like a breach of information ethics.

Oh, please...
Mobile News Round-up – November 28, 2013
Very kind gesture, Matt. I'm sure you will meet some great people this way and have some interesting stories to share down the road!

Happy thanksgiving to everyone.
AFAIK the dust trail was expected to continue along the original path - it would brighten too as it caught the light, but I understand there is no nucleus visible.
Shouldn't airlines be familiar with air travel related laws? In this particular case I feel no sympathy for companies that don't stay on top of changes in their own industry.
Ice, frozen from water vapor in the air. The rocket is very cold, since it has a bunch of liquid oxygen in it.
"Oh, please..." it's just ethics. Might as well print out other laws they don't have to comply with, to convince them to let you carry on your X.
Facebook testing new bookmarks/favorites feature to save great content
It is unfair, because an engineer can't do the same with his expensive desktop computer that he needs for work on the other side of the continent.
Isn't this something that type inference should catch though?
Just love to see things like this. Makes me wonder what it was like to look at those huge rockets for the apollo missions...
How to land an airplane if you are logged into Gmail

Tim O'Reilly: Really, Google is making a comeback due to harassment

Ask HN: Does anyone actually code at a parole
AngularJS: Puesta en producción continua
Hardware-accelerated CRC-32 library
Ice that had formed on the oxygen tanks?
Do I recall correctly that some people were prosecuted for some kind of theft involving World of Warcraft items? This was maybe 7 or 8 years ago and I'm not sure I am even remembering it correctly. Perhaps they were only charged with some kind of computer misuse crime. Perhaps it was only a civil case. I don't remember.

If you want to see what might have happened when digital object is truly stolen, try looking up what happened in this vague case.
Is grep part of the BSD base system?
An interesting case is Mercury-Redstone 1 which aborted right after takeoff. This wasn't on purpose of course.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O4V7JfeTSU

The wiki page is a pretty interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_1#Test_backgro...
"they don't like your sunglasses" is one of the important triggers?
been done https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9533
If you watch some of the video footage from Saturn V launches you see some fairly large sheets of ice. Quite impressive scale compared to this!
Since most fonts are loaded from Typekit and such, you can use something like Ghostery or Adblock to blacklist those domains (Ghostery actually blocks Typekit by default).
This is exactly what likes should have been.
How is nobody come live with an effortless solution yet? I mean, credit card and go... ??
> Increasing helium spin start pressure. Probably <50% chance of passing all aborts, but worth a try. Countdown resuming ...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/406205240040771584
Well said, C is not a good model of modern hardware!
Memory models, vectorization, and all those fun things aren't easily exposed/understood via C (at least not without lots of compiler intrinsics ).
It’s practically impossible to buy Bitcoin (if you don’t try hard)
A typical cello weights about 8 pounds. A hard case (not a 'flight case' that would be suitable for the cargo hold, but a hard carrying case) weighs no more than 15 lbs or so, and good ones weigh under 8 lbs. An electric cello might even fit in the overhead compartment, depending exactly how it's built! (Though you will likely have to check your amplifiers.)
I stay away from Facebook, Twitter, and Google for many of the reasons that Stallman lists. I treat email like a postcard and I do nothing on the Internet under my real name.

That said, I know many people don't care about this stuff, and I applaud their lack of concern.
Depends on what you do. If all you do is programming, mail and web surfing, maybe.

For anything that's not 1998 level technology though, you'll want something new after 3-4 years.

Stuff such as: video editing, digital audio, photography, multimedia etc (oh, and games). Even casually editing 24 megapixel RAW images as a hobbyist is not that comfortable, even with a state of the art machine.
You start at 50/50 But you don't give out all the shares.

You create a company with 1M shares. You give him 10k and you 5k for the work you've done, and 5k over the course of how much time you negotiate it should take to get going. Then you say, "I would earn $50k a year" (or what ever number) so I get 25 shares an hour. If he puts in Dollars he gets shares at $1 a piece.

Tweak the math, but you should get the idea. You invest sweat, he invests money. You have pre-negotiated each, and left room for other investors to buy in.
I wouldn't do it, for the simple reason that it is, for all practical purposes, a vendor-specific language. There is plenty to be said for the idea that the concepts of programming translate into all languages. But that's an academic perspective. From the perspective of having employment flexibility, I'd be looking for a language that didn't lock you in to one specific platform, as big as that platform may be.
Ask HN: Europe work VISA without undergraduate degree?
I've been working remotely for a Berlin-based company lately, while trying to get a work VISA and finally live there. Unfortunately, i don't have an undergraduate (or similar) degree and i've been turned down twice by the german authorities. Do you guys know any countries which are friendlier to software engineers with vast experience and certifications, but no degree?
I'm going to go against the grain here and argue that yes, it's a mistake.

An awful lot of novice programmers take years to progress from their "mother tongue" to their 2nd and 3rd languages, if they even progress at all.

I think marrying yourself to a proprietary language like C# is a mistake, not because of any particular C# language feature, but because it's yet another product of Microsoft's extreme case of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (see for example netbios, active directory, etc etc etc). They have a compulsion to create proprietary, non-compatible versions of things that already exist, and you'll be handicapped if you only know C# and ever need to work on Not-Windows.

C# is basically Java with some minor differences (differences that will be immaterial to the novice) and Java has a far better degree of platform-agnosticism and would be a far better choice for a first language than C#, IMHO.