skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually really enjoyed the lunch interview for Amazon in Seattle. The 2 interviews before and the 3 interviews after were strictly technical, and although each technical interviewer offered to answer any questions I had, it was clear that the time was up and I was scheduled to be moving on. The lunch interview was a good opportunity to find out more about the hiring team and the company, and was the only conversation I had that didn't start with "please write code to solve this problem" or "how would you design this". Although you're right, trying to eat while answering questions about yourself was challenging, but since I knew that going in, I didn't order very much food. But the cafeteria was pretty awesome!

And I'm surprised at the poster's experience, I received a polite rejection email just a few days later. I hate when companies just cease communication after an interview...at least let me know, regardless of the outcome; I'd rather receive a rejection notice than wait and wait. But I guess it's a big company, experiences probably vary rather wildly.
> What should FFmpeg have been written in?

There'll be a HN topic A FFmpeg reimplementation in JavaScript soon enough ...
How about making the downvote arrow invisible by giving it the same colour as the background of HN, and taking away the cursor via CSS.

That way you technically always have the same HTML though the user can't see the arrow or use it.
Ad networks impose their restrictions, but if you can guarantee an amount of impressions, you can start selling ads by yourself.
It makes sense now, thank you.
Era of News Streams With Breakthrough Mobile Products
After Everpix shutdown I looked around and found both Loom and Trovebox but I also found PictureLife. I tried both Loom and Picture life for a little over a month and settled on PictureLife. Check it out, I am very happy with it.
Is BlackGirlsCode, not OnlyBlackGirlsCode. Is a message that something is possible, not that the skill is exclusive.

I suspect you are fully aware of this anyway and are just disrailing the argument for fun.
I am not sure if H1's are paid any lesser than locals...Do you have data points to prove otherwise?
Can you expand on why you thought your experience was so bad? I'm just curious.
Wealthier patrons are good for business. Most are happy up selling.
If the housing prices are increasing, it would mean that demand is increasing. But if so many people are leaving, demand should be decreasing and prices should be soft.

So I'd be curious to know how the survey was conducted, and whether it included families immigrating to the US.

In my county, Alameda, Ca., 30% of residents were born outside the US. That's a very strong immigration level and bound to affect the housing prices and keep demand and prices strong.
You make a great point aboit the use of English for documentation, and the need for translation to other languages to promote computing in different nations.

See how I didn't mention race or sex or sexuality? That's because you don't need to mention that other stuff when you have a tight focus.

"Help girls code" does not mean "stop translating documentation to Portuguese".

"Help translate all these documentations and apis to many languages" doesn't mean "don't bother spending time teaching girls to code".
Wayne,
Thanks a ton for sharing these documents. If you could also tell us which sources you used for market research, that would be great!
There is, in principle, nothing preventing us from applying "if you are distributing software, the source must be made available to your customers" to all software directly in law rather than through hacking copyright.
There are other things besides tech out there. I think too many people get caught up in the bubble.

I'd love to be able to make hip hop beats, or learn music production, or travel, or learn how to play the guitar. Those are all things that I think are more beautiful than programming or tech startups.
> Let's work on helping the more disadvantaged party first, yeah?

You're right, we should pay garbagemen and janitors more. Maybe that will encourage more women to go into those fields.
A comment in a previous thread states that amberExpress uses OnDemand VPN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6890266). I assume that they use a transparent proxy to insert code the banner code into the store's own web site.

Assuming that's the case, (how) does it work if the store uses HTTPS for normal product pages?
Path Closes $25 Million Funding, Led by Indonesia’s Bakrie Global Group
I am sure the original has a #ThroughGlass hash tag ;)
im in 30 and gonna lunch own accounting software middle or end of the year.got also few friend accountant in their 40 expert in excel macro and function.ain't to late
"Tech companies don’t require their engineers to be coding wunderkinds" - really? What tech companies advertise for mediocre, non rock star devs who can muddle through some tutorials?
looks nothing like a ferrari
There is a creeping way from S/W engineering to being a staff engineer to being the software architect... Along that way you get dragged into meetings where you end up not having much competitive pressure - since the others are business people, but you end up shining and you get on the fast track. I enjoyed it very much, since I love doing tech-strategy and big picture planning. That said being a project manager - if this is what you mean - is not creative and unsatisfying.
You can prepend g! to your DDG searches if the native results are insufficient.

I don't want "personalized" search results. I don't want Google's algorithms second-guessing what I searched for. If I want current news, I'll read the BBC. If I want a stack overflow result, I'll do a search on SO.
It's popular to hate on being a manager!

It's similar to how you'll hear people in academia refer to "industry." It's a popular thing to put down.
Sghodas- I think you are missing the point. By your math and 'rational' it seems there shouldn't be an issue. This spill was not some homogeneous mixture you can easily calculate in PPM. This chemical has travelled wholly through the water plant into the water supply- solubility doesn't matter. Two to seven days have elapsed between intake from river, through filtration/ozone treatment, to holding water tower, then into public use. How many PPM do you think are in the green ice cubes someone found in their freezer? And at what PPM does ingestion cause long-term health effects?
Not sure what the point would be… Besides the offender's unwarranted sense of entitlement (by keeping you around against your will), the main issue is that it breaks the back button. 15 years later, it's still an unwarranted sense of entitlement, and it's still breaking the back button. End of story, no?

If anything, we can an extra issue and suggest it's even worse nowadays. Per parent, it gobbles RAM on mobile devices, and this leads other tabs to close prematurely. It also turns older devices into helicopters when the fan kicks in.

But if you really need one, here's a study:

Date: just now.
Author: yours truly.
Methodology: browse random news websites every now and then on an old laptop and on an old mobile device.
Sample: yours truly.
Results: far too much cursing to publish as a HN comment, and frequent rage against the punk designers who ship huge JS payloads.
Conclusion: it still sucks. :-)
Is the implication that >30 year olds are old?
You'd be fine. The most important thing is whether you have a portfolio to demonstrate that you can get stuff done. You do.
I'd imagine the fun parts of driving a ferrari aren't really legal on public roads in the first place
Aren't we discussing Ford privately collecting information and disseminating it to some company to send out violations? That is what this entire thread is about isn't?
That damn extra carbon.

Any idea why the Wiki article gets the oxygen / hydrogen counts wrong?

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-methylcyclohexanemethanol]
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I waited for 3 weeks before I received an offer from my current employer. Actually, I emailed my recruiter/HR contact and explain I had an offer from a different company who were pressuring me for a decision, but I would prefer to work there..I guess sometimes things either fall through the cracks or there is a lot of dominoes that have to go.
Economically increased supply will decrease the price. Supply & demand. Another way to increase supply and thus save money is to hire remotely, and not restrict yourself to a small geographic area. If you can hire a guy in upstate new york where a house costs $40k all in, that $1000-$2000/month saved in after-tax rent costs (~$17-34k/yr pre tax) alone will significantly decrease their required wage.
For mobile phones: http://www.iab.net/guidelines/508676/508767/mobileguidelines
> "Right. Because letting the majority population define which terms an aggrieved minority can use to describe its own situation is completely sensible. What a surprise, the discriminated minority has a different view of the majority's behaviors than do those in the majority!"

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Perfectly stated. Seems like the people at BCG are trying to help girls learn to code, with an emphasis on those who are black--because of a range of obstacles that might otherwise prevent these girls from learning.

And let's be honest here: if BCG didn't do this work to encourage black women and girls to code, who would? I see nothing wrong with their desire to encourage black girls to learn more about coding.
The answer is certainly yes. There are many people working in the tech industry who are older than 35, 45, or even 55.

Tech is not any different from other professional fields like law, medicine, engineering, etc., other than being a much younger industry.

Being a much younger industry, it is easy for the young people in tech to believe that one must be young to succeed in tech. But in reality it's a sort of "anthropic principle"--obviously a young industry will be filled with young people in its early days.

But, those days are over, and the industry it maturing. With each passing year it gets easier and easier for older folks to break into tech.

Can they become dynamic founders of aggressive, entrepreneurial, successful companies? The answer is still yes, to the extent that anyone can do that. That type of talent is very rare generally, so it will also be very rare in older workers. But certainly there are examples of older workers who start hot tech companies. Marc Benioff was 35 when he started Salesforce. Martin Eberhard was 43 when he started Tesla.
I can do whatever the fuck I want and nobody is going to stop me. Seriously.
For TLS? I can think of at least two sites that have been posted on HN recently that do just that.
Wanting and requiring are quite different. Very few companies actually have many of the kind of people you describe.
Then why didn't you say that?
I'm currently someplace where we are treating AWS as a VM provider and it's freaking nuts how much it costs. (We might be looking at the problem wrong or failing to appreciate the fact that we can always scale with enough money.)
I think it has more to do with initial fixed cost.

Personally I used my cofounder's existing array, but that's not an option for most companies, particularly starting out, and cutting out server purchasing costs pays in the short term. However, if you have the initial funding, as in this instance, it pays to buy the servers you need.

Plus, it's an asset that, should your company fail in 6 months, can be sold to at least salvage some of the initial investment.

[edit]In the last boom, though, people bought millions of dollars worth of servers and equipment that are now less than worthless; in many cases you have to pay to get rid of them. So, I guess there can be a significant downside.
I'vr been 'stalking' Rust for quite some time, but never got around to diving in. I'm essentially a web programer who's been building fairly large web based systems. I'm sick of dealing with programming languages that consume shitloads of resources (CPU, memory, whatever) for doing essentially trivial stuff (compared to the amount of resources they use).

Will Rust be able to help me write super-efficient web programs, than run blazingly fast and dont gobble-up RAM?

Besides, how painful/easy is string manipulation in Rust?
I recently interviewed for a Sr Dev position at a large 200+ Los Angeles based consulting firm. Before the Interview I decided to check out the people who work there on LinkedIn. Of the 30 or so developers I found only 5 had a CS/CIS/EE/CE/Math degree. The rest where 30 somethings with degrees in English, Music, and other under utilized fields. Most of them had attended one of those 1 year coding school programs. Some where holding Senior positions with less than 3 years of development experience and no formal degree.

Obviously a top tier company’s roster doesn’t look like this. But it was interesting to see how much the job market for developers has changed. This is my first time looking for a new job in 7 years. Clearly the demand for tech has changed the landscape and made lots of opportunities for middle aged people with little to no experience.
Help I think I'm getting screwed over
Ive only got 4% non-delut.

I signed a contract stating that with 4% vesting over a month once we have $100,000 in rev.

then - I show everyone how to built this great hugely money making idea, thinking they will get that there are more on the way.

THEN - I bring up that we should patent our ideas together- so that we can all get credit for the invention.

Partner one gets really pissed. Calls me immature. Tells me I didnt work hard on it. Tells me patents are wasteful. Ends with anger from him, he hangs up.
Text partner 2 that partner 1 is pissed, about what we talked about last time; more equal equity now that VCs are gonna get involved. He was sympathetic at the time - now realizing he was just taking my temperature. That was a lie.

Brought up friends lawyer - seeing if they think its a good idea for me to pursue his advice on the behalf of us. Partner 2 (and first boss - EVER) "Ive always liked you Anon, you know that." - What are you saying Partner 2?
Dodged around a bit. End of conversation.

VALUE OF BUSINESS:
Trgt Mrkt: 6B
3rd yr ann rev. trgt of $21M TAKE HOME MONEY.
Yes its scalable. THAT'S JUST IN THE LOCAL MARKET.

I HAVE:
the contract.
tons of notes about how the whole business works and a complete knowledge of its business processes.
societal connections to lawyers - but little money.

What should I do??
You're trying to change the topic. I'm not talking about unreliable hardware. The two main things I contend WILL happen to production haskell programs are :

1) OOM (both kinds : stack and heap).
2) functions taking longer than the time they effectively have (ie. to prevent DOS conditions).

Both of these are guaranteed by the Haskell type system to never happen, and you will hit them in practice. (guaranteed may be the wrong word, maybe required would be better).

The C, or C++ type system does not guarantee allocation will succeed on the heap, and has deterministic results if it does fail, meaning you can react to that in a clean manner (and make sure it doesn't interfere with transactions, for example). With extra work you can guarantee the availability of stack space for critical methods too. Java guarantees both stack and heap allocation failures will result in deterministic progress through your program.

These are not serious enough to merit being called "catastrophic system failure". They are not. Don't tell me you haven't hit both these conditions in the last month.

That's all I'm saying.
You don't send everyone to college.
Yes. In a few years, it will be seen as a silly question as affordable healthcare options allow creative folks to leave their corporate drone jobs.
I'm sorry, but this is a ridiculous continuation of a ridiculous drama that came out of a ridiculous out of context treatment.

We've become overly sensitive and prone to offense over trivial matters. Accusation of sexism or racism or what else is almost on par with being a terrorist now and all it takes is an unfortunately put word or two. The accused party is commonly terrified, as if he committed the worst possible crime, and tries hard to defend what's left of his honor and reputation.

This is nuts. This is the article that shouldn't have been.
A million dollars is a lot, but I have no reason to think it's crazy. Without very important context, hearing "a million dollars on salary" isn't useful.

What was the salary per person, for example?
Another important point is that for older techies, there is a different mental mindset when it comes to making code public. Of the best S/W engineers that I know, no one has a Github account. They give talks in small groups, give lots of personal advice, some are champions of pair programming, but they don't put their code in public. It makes it harder to network and gain attention.
According to Amazon: "Even a product with negative reviews sells better than a product with no reviews at all." (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/29/241372607/top-revi...)
"Nice house for 250K"

No way is this SV.
Googlers, by far more left than most of the country, cannot fathom that they are part of "the rich" most of them rail against. Some of these people are getting kicked out of their apartment, can't find a new place that's anywhere near their job, so they're getting kicked out, forced to move away, forced to quit their job and sent packing to nowhere with no job, no roof over their heads and no money. Plenty of these will be homeless for a while to come.

My opinion is : stop fighting this discussion. You can't win. There are no words anywhere that will make people accept being forced into homelessness without fighting. Just shut up, go to church sunday and pay a few hundred bucks on collection, because that will actually help them for a while. Lots of churches help people relocate because they've got lots of locations, and this is (part of) what they do.

TLDR: These protesters are right. Google, or googlers, techies in general, are forcing the lower rungs on the social ladder into homelessness.

Sorry to say, but you're lucky you're in America. In Europe, I cannot imagine these protests would have remained peaceful. A few tires and one window does not count as violence. Visit the poor parts of Brussels once with what a techie normally walks around with in San Francisco and you'll know what violence is.

Of course the reason this doesn't happen in Sanfran is that this is just the n-th time the poorest are being forced out.
"Yeah yeah, this is where you go off about "in practice". Still wrong. In practice it doesn't prevent anything, in fact is is the practices used by companies (and people) that prevent them from using GPL, not the other way around."

You just said that the GPL doesn't prevent people from doing anything that is allowed by the GPL, therefore the GPL doesn't prevent anything. Like, that is literally the argument you just used. Just sayin'.
It might just be me, mainly because I drive an "old" car that doesn't dim/adjust my rear view mirror based on others drivers lights, but I find the uber brightness of other drivers lights to be a real pain these days. Often on the motorway I struggle to see ANYTHING as i'm being constantly blinded by other drivers high power lights behind me and when oncoming. I get its meant to be a safety feature, but for a lot of other road users it's a real nuisance to be blinded on a daily basis.

A good solution would be for modern cars to detect ambient light and adjust accordingly. On a well lit highway with lots of other road users, there's no reason to have these things turned up to 11 all the time. They could safely dial back to 3 or 4.
You haven't been reading all the Rust release announcement threads, have you?
When I eat at my desk, it is because eating at my desk means eating in a relaxed quiet environment without lots of people around.

You're making a huge assumption that people eating at their desks are doing work while eating.
In my case I don't work at a desk many days... I am walking around most of the day with my phone in a hip holster. During these days I am getting client emails and system alerts and Pebble saves me from pulling my phone out about 40 times a day to see why it just chimed at me.

When I am home I can also walk around the house and get alerts without having my phone on me which was also a surprise use case I hadn't expected.
It is quite clear that nobody that's paid staff for Wikimedia Foundation should be doing paid editing.

But I'm not liking the sound of:

> She did that even though it is widely known that paid editing is frowned upon by many in the editing communit

Yeah, it's "frowned upon" for _anyone_ to do paid editing, clearly. But "frowned upon" is not usually a good reason to fire someone.

If it's not already clearly against clearly stated policies for WMF employees to do paid editing, WMF is hopefully making it so pretty quickly. Next time (which is definitely a 'when' rather than an 'if', I'm afriad), it should say "They did that even though paid editing is a clear violation of WMF conflict of interest policies," not "it is frowned upon." Time to get real.
I'm curious how this compares to the amount of searches on Google's platform. 1 billion searches in 2013 sounds like a huge number, but placing that into context might be a better way to announce this.
Pay millions for people to find bugs, argue security researchers
I'm just gonna say that by far the best features, for me, are the "Goodies" (had to look that up[1]) which let you query other services through the same interface.

For example, `!wa ...` will query Wolfram Alpha, `!m {location}` will give me a map, `!w ...` will search Wikipedia, and `!g ...` will redirect me to a google search if DDG's results aren't comprehensive enough.

For 90% of my queries, DuckDuckGo gives me exactly what I need, or enough data to drill down and make a more effective query. And, more importantly, it provides a single interface to all other major search engines, making it a hell of a start page to have[2].

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies
[2]: https://duckduckgo.com/
As of this revision it matches what I see elsewhere:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4-Methylcyclohexan...

Presumably whoever created the page copied the info box and forgot to edit it.
Experiences like that are very weird...it makes you wonder if they're actually interested in making an offer, and just completely change their minds, or whether they have no intention of making an offer but for some reason think it's less awkward to just give extremely positive feedback, and then fall off the face of the earth. The worst is when they apologize and give the excuse that they have been very busy...because it takes so long to send an email that says "Thanks for coming in but we decided not to move forward".
Nonsense. It is not racism at all, especially considering the group is open to girls of all racial backgrounds.
Yea, this was a really key aspect during my interviews, including the initial phone interview.

All the code I wrote was expected to work in the browser (if copy/pasted) and behave as intended. I didn't have much trouble with it as I've been doing this kind of work day in, day out and at night too. I'd imagine it would be pretty difficult and frustrating for new grads though.