skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A) is true almost by definition. You could also object that criminals who plan on speeding away from the scene of a crime may forget to put enough gas in their tank and run out of gas before they get away. It's plausible, but crime is a cat and mouse game and if something poses a severe enough threat to criminals, those who do not defend against it will get caught. Those left will learn from their mistakes. Even if all criminals initially neglect to remove the receiver and get caught, you don't expect a world where future criminals are too stupid to learn from the mistakes of others, do you?

B) It might not have been entirely clear from how I worded it, but I was speaking only of crimes that are witnessed ocurring in public. The reasoning behind this exclusion is that the technology in the article is discussed in the context of being combined with police surveillance (either in person or via camera). I couldn't find reliable statistics on the percentage of crimes with cooperative witnesses that lead to charges being filed, but it's common knowledge among law enforcement that cooperative witnesses greatly improve the odds of charges being filed [1]. The point I was making here is that if the crime is witnessed by several people or captured on video the identity of the suspect can usually be determined.

C) Like (A), this is impossible to prove either way since we're talking about what might happen in the future, conditioned on a certain technology seeing widespread adoption. However, rather than speculate ad nauseum, I simply invite you to review the last decade of history in both the US, UK, and Australia (possibly other countries as well) in which the legal restrictions surrounding the use of police force (see: stop-and-frisk, police dogs as probable cause on a leash, etc) have decreased while the technology they have available has increased in power (surplus armored vehicles sold to police, increasingly common license plate readers, etc). The point here, regardless of what would happen if the remote stop technology were adopted, is that police have earned a degree of public distrust and skepticism that has no parallel in recent history, and starting from a position of distrust and moving to trust when the populace is convinced later is much safer than the opposite.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2012/11/13/163242604/in-chicago-violence-...
Mode: Drive ... right-side is all social networking icons, argh. As if inattentional blindness wasn't bad enough without field-of-vision social networking.

I also like how the concept field-of-view renderings conveniently have dark backgrounds on the edges for the overlay. Buildings in shadows, trees, etc.
you might enjoy doctorow's "eastern standard tribe", which, while not one of his better books, had some nice ideas. the premise was that the kind of people who spent large amounts of their time hanging out online would coalesce into tribes based around timezones, and that the timezone you were physically living in would not necessarily correspond to the tribe you belonged to and arranged your waking hours to match.
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Not at all rarely used. But it probably is somewhat rare to let users specify the strings which are supplied as, say, the ":units" argument to the formatting helper, which is where the vulnerability comes from. (If the user supplies a string which contains markup, and is passed as :units, :format, or :negative_format, it doesn't get escaped.)
Code in the examples look mangled (html entities)
Has anyone tried wemux? https://github.com/zolrath/wemux
Francois Truffaut's Day for Night is a movie about making a movie. In the end when the movie is ready, everybody is laid off and they're figuring out what to do next, where to go etc.
That doesn't mean they're going mobile, just that they don't want to answer to a publisher.
I think part of what tends to get missed is that while AAA game development certainly has software development as part of it, it's a relatively small part of the overall project from a person power and cost perspective. It's not uncommon for a ~200 person game development team to have only ~15 software engineers on board, with the rest being on the game development side (game designers, animators, artists, level builders, game logic creators, testers, community managers, marketing, etc).

It's also not uncommon for the internal tooling that gets created to allow the game development folks to build out the game to dwarf the actual game code is size/scope. There tends to be a large upfront effort from the software engineering side to get the engine ready and the supporting internal tooling ready for the game designers to go to town, after that it can be years in the game development process with only bugs, maintenance and smaller feature additions to the engine/tooling for the software dev side of the process.

With such a lopsided time investment schedule between disciplines you need to be either a massive company or only work on games with a small scope to achieve smooth employment for all involved.
Yes, I used to work in the security field and almost every project was an adventure, a challenge where you also need to learn at the speed of light.
Anecdotally, I know of an experienced and competent engineer who actively sought out a recruiter, hoping to find a job in Silicon Valley (which he did). Some people just can't be bothered with the interview grind, and if you know you're good, why not have a recruiter do a bit of the grunt work for you? But I suppose this could be an edge case, where a legitimately good candidate actually works with a recruiter.
> I'm not arguing that the things you describe never exist in academia, but they're the worst examples of when things go wrong. They're not the norm.

Unfortunately, they are the norm. There are places when this doesn't happen, or where you have the privilege of working with an extraordinary professor who manages to shield you from this.

That's rare, though. #3 isn't constant and #2 is not an entirely accurate description (or at least not that widespread), but by and large, the portrait is very accurate.

I miss the intellectual challenge of academia. I'm in a pretty high-end job and it's nothing compared to what I used to do. But the working conditions and the colleagues? Not in a million years. I'd seriously consider selling hamburgers than returning there, and I have worked on minimum wage before, I'm not talking out of my ass on that.
I don't know how First Tier Phoenix is... it's mostly business process development here, a lot of banking, and quite a bit of other financial process development, and business management dev.

We've been really low on unemployment for a number of years... the cost of living compared to dev wages (usually >= 80% of NYC/SF wages) is really great, that I would be hard pressed to consider moving to SF, Seattle or NYC. That said, it's a bit hard to find talent, but then I don't do it for a living... Also, I don't think the business people doing HR really "get" the mindset of a software developer in terms of actually recruiting.
To be cynical but honest: the AAA game industry is fueled by crunch time. You can't convince an hourly freelancer to "buckle down" and work 60-80 hour weeks for months on end without paid overtime.
Very nice writeup. What was the reason for switching?
A preference for some economic texts over others seems more like a preference for some alchemical texts over others than a preference for chemistry texts over alchemical texts.
It's similar in the UK. Rules change from time to time and sometimes policies have varied between the different regional police forces, but the last time I talked to police friends it seemed like everything was going the same way: only specialist officers would be permitted to engage in high speed pursuit, and even then they would be subject to direction from a control room where someone not tied up in the situation around them could order everyone to abandon the pursuit on safety grounds. Basically, the risk of not bringing the vehicle being chased to a halt as fast as possible would have to outweigh the risk of the pursuit, which it almost never does once you get to crazy speeds.
Like there is not enough of this stuff here on HN.
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I've had to do a bit of sanitizing input and parsing HTML documents "for real" at my job. It's not a primary duty, of course, but it comes up now and then. It seems like a reasonable test for "can they actually write some code to a well-defined spec," although probably not a great test for "are they good at working on a team and architecting bigger projects."
I know nothing at all about how the install works for this, so excuse me if I am putting my foot in my mouth, but let me suggest you consider a stop-gap measure of supplying a screenshot based tutorial for the install. (example: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2013/12/jabiru.html -- I spent two days trying to get this working, with tech support and I have been told the tutorial I wrote works in 5 minutes or less)
This is really fishy (the whole situation and the studio closure).

First of all Irrational Games is (wholly) owned by Take Two. So only Take Two decides what happens with the studio. From the statement i guess they decided that is "less bad" if Levine steps up and says they "wind down" instead of Take 2 announcing they close the studio. Basically PR damage.

Regarding the reason....looking at their output it seems they had it coming. After the original Bioshock (2007) they took 6 (!!) years to release Infinite (and even that was codeveloped with 2K Australia). The financial losses must have been pretty big.
The point you are grazing is that this approach results in many false negatives, and few false positives. This is workable for companies that are consistently able to attract large numbers of candidates, such as the ones you listed. (And yes, there are false positives. I personally witnessed someone at a large company who was very adept at whiteboard coding, and a very lazy employee.)
The engine will only be run at max for 15-30 seconds until you pull off, it will be fine. Better that than a potentially fatal accident. Only hardware after all.
Thug life?
yup, not sure what Python does with your examples under the hood, but they're equivalent, and, I must say, nicely concise ;-)

In Scala I guess we could go zip-style and do:

List(1,2,3) zip List(4,5,6) map{case(x,y)=> x*y}

but I was trying to demo for comprehensions and their relation to map/flatMap for the OP.
I think that's because less people writing computer programs are calling themselves "programmers". There were one million "Software Developers" in 2012, according to the same source:

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...

I'm not sure if this refutes your larger point or not, since I can't find numbers for 1990 for this category with a cursory look.
Looks like CM have a https version of the download page now.
To have your own domain running on GAE is not free anymore... and it is a ridiculous process to set it up.
It's better... but I still think it's a bit fascist.
To each their own, though.
>In some sense this is all a moot point, because any difference in development speed between statically-typed and dynamically-typed languages is dwarfed by one's familiarity with the languages in question

I dunno, I have 11 years of python experience, and almost a year of haskell experience. I am more productive in python when doing small (<100 lines) scripting type tasks. But I am noticeably more productive in haskell when writing bigger things. Haskell has a relatively crappy web ecosystem, yet I'm still more productive with snap+postgresql-simple+digestive-functors then I have ever been with any python framework (from zope way back in the day to django and flask). Tasks that are more skewed to haskell's strengths like highly concurrent network servers make the difference even more pronounced.
>Academia has serious problems at its core, and in a lot of places, it's obvious that startups and industry is outpacing it.

Let's be realistic here. How many startups actually do any sort of research at all? By my estimates, the number is very close to zero.

How many places in industry? You can cite the big labs, but the majority of science is still done by universities. While academia has serious problems, lets not fool ourselves into thinking that industry is any kind of substitute.
"The U.S. central banking system ranks among the finest of its kind."
I'll take it as a fine example of satire. The Fed officials' conflict of interest, the financial crisis, using it as a tool to achieve political goals internationally, you name it.
> I expect that a fair portion of "We can't find qualified people!" is actually "We can't find qualified people for what we're willing to pay."

Sure, but isn't that implied, since all companies have financial constraints? If you can somehow pay 10 million dollars a year for a software engineer, I'm sure you'll have a lot less trouble finding a great engineer.
I would like to have seen some mention of risk in the Mattermark or the Funder's Club post. It's great that so many of their portfolio companies have gone on to do follow on rounds, but what percentage of companies that do a follow on round have a liquidity event at or above that level? What percentage end up at zero? Risk is something we have a pretty good idea about for public equity indexes (S&P 500, Russel 2K, etc), but not necessarily for VC funded startups where most of the data is private. It seems like the kind of analysis that should be right in Mattermark's wheelhouse.
Is the fact that facts aren't copyrightable the basis for how you're planning to allow APIs to be created from most sites?
Deflation is terrible. Who would buy a computer today when one twice as good can be had for the same price in less than two years?
Well, if they already have most of that data (ip/connection metadata from backbone isps) -- and the provider/target site is small enough that traffic analysis is enough to defeat the vpn -- all bets are off anyway. This is a basic problem with VPNs -- you need to assume all data going in and out is logged -- if you're the only one visiting omghowcanimakebombsforeal.com at any given hundreds of a second -- then you're pretty much done for.
you sound like the comic book guy.

back here in reality, moving sites that generate many millions of dollars is always a big deal, and when it goes correctly, acknowledgement is due.
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The question as I read it is, is there evidence that conventional hiring practices are ineffective?

I didn't provide evidence, but did point out what I see as a smoking gun, which is the trend of temp-to-perm hiring.

Temp-to-perm is not conventional hiring; if you do it, you are not hiring the way AmaGooBookSoft hires. That you would do it at all suggests that the conventional hiring process isn't effective.

At the same time, temp-to-perm makes it harder to find people; it (almost) has to, since asking a candidate to accept a monthlong (or even weeklong) contract is onerous. People forget that candidates often interview at multiple companies; a week off work seems reasonable when you don't consider that it's a process that might repeat 2, 3, or 4 times for a given candidate.
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The later says nothing about the former, IMHO. Even if there's a crunch, a bad hire is a bad hire.
My wife went the academic route, I went the industry route. For the first several years or so our salaries pretty much kept pace. Now while I admittedly earn a bit more than she does now, she earns plenty enough to to pay her own bills and have money left over.
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Correct, but how do you know your app never spawns anything that may daemonize? If you wrote your app yourself and know all your dependencies and how everything behave, then fine. But what if you're simply packaging someone elses app? What if you're building a database server container? Have you read every single source line to be sure that it will never behave that way and leave behind zombie processes?

That is what baseimage-docker is about. It's about providing a sane, safe default that behaves correctly. There are also other ways to make your system behave correctly of course.

As for "giving the impression that everything else is wrong": that is not the intent of the article. The title is only to catch the reader's attention and to encourage the reader to continue reading and to understand the edge cases. The title says other things MIGHT be wrong, it does not say that they ARE wrong. So let me make it clear: any solution which solves the edge cases and issues described in the article, is correctly. Baseimage-docker is one solution, the one provided by us. It is not the only possible solution.
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"Rich get richer" is literally institutionalized in the United States through the SEC and tax law. Certain people are fighting to raise the limit to $2 million cash liquidity because there are too many millionaires now.

People who aren't rich partake in all kind of risky investments, from gambling to personal lines of credit. But when it comes to the ability to investment in new companies before they are sold to the public, the investment is deemed "too risky" for those with under a million dollars in cash liquidity. That is, the only investment opportunities that are deemed too risky for those who aren't rich are the investment opportunities that have a high expected value.
GPS receivers will allow the same thing...
I'm probably looking at the issue too simply, but shouldn't all that be abstracted away into the library, with maybe some notes on particularly weird cases?

I'm also not sure I understand the distinction between the two durations, if I set a startDate object up on the Islamic Tabular Fatimid calendar and say it's year 14 and endDate is some pre-reformation Julian calendar and say it's year 231, shouldn't the Duration class be able to figure out a fixed span of time from that? I really could care less how it does it, just that the right number of years, months and days fall out of it. Or if I just want to create the object with some defined span, they're the same thing.
That's exactly the direction some folks have gone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_indium_gallium_selenide_...

One of the startups, nanosolar, seems to have failed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanosolar

You can actually pick up some nanosolar stuff on ebay right now.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/151190922913?lpid=82

I am not sure if there are any other companies still trying to make a go of this but last I checked -- a couple of years ago -- there were two or three others.
You can download Wikipedia data; with only articles, it's around 20gb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonverbal_communication
Loan kiting is a type of bank fraud. It's "an intent to deceive" for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized use of bank funds.
I tried it out, and appreciated the category "Just Testing." I don't know how many things I've signed up for just to test.

The only events I organize are get-togethers with friends. What I was hoping for was an Evite 2.0, but I suppose there's no money in organizing potlucks. Good work and good luck!
The sochi2014.ru terms of use does not prohibit the use of robots/crawlers/scrapers.

http://www.sochi2014.com/en/terms-of-use
Don't think of it it as a % amount but a $ amount - this better matches the reality equity (as dollars) grows as the company grows, and thus isn't finite. Obviously i'm not saying equity is cash, but it IS a high risk investment worth a quantifiable amount of cash.
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Try http://academictorrents.com/
See also the comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149006
He writes:

> There’s no great way to lay people off, and our first concern is to make sure that the people who are leaving have as much support as we can give them during this transition.

I've been through that recently (individually, though: specific skill-set, not right for the stage of development of the game) and recommendations go a very long way. Gaming, especially AAA, is actually a lot like the film industry on the HR point of view, except they don't really admit it: one-to-two-year-long projects, with a release date; little need for the same workers after that; many very specific, creative, expertise; a lot of rule of thumb, best practice to master through apprenticeship; recommendation being the tell-all; producers with far too often a horrible reputation; etc. Having a structure that handles that (union, special temporary worker status) would help facing the reality, which is frequently changing employers. Studios, movies and games alike, like to work with the same people for the next projects if things went well -- but half the time, no re-employment in the film industry is not a bad review, just a different creative direction. I'm not saying Hollywood Unions are the best example (or that French’ high direct subsidies and Status d'intermittent are cheap) but thinking about the differences between the two industry would help.
Some ideas are worthless. Not all of them, and the hard task is to distinguish. And an idea is not simply "hey' let's have this". An idea includes specifics :)
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> Is hiring so risky that companies working in the middle of a "talent crunch" are demanding that candidates take temporary contracting roles so they can evaluate performance

Heh. Somebody had to say this. I don't know what the difficulty is all about. In the SV I have been more to more than 1 interview where I solved all the questions(in a day long interview) and didn't get the job.

Not sure what the high bar is all about.
I agree with this strongly. What I usually say is I'll believe there's a shortage of great engineers the day that in-house recruiters begin contacting me. My accomplishments are right there on LinkedIn, if you can assume I didn't lie, for one phone call. Until that happens, I have to conclude companies that allegedly can't hire are barely trying.
Being legal tender means a group of thugs who regularly rob me accept this currency but not others. If we must tolerate being regularly robbed by thugs, this is a desirable feature in a currency, but it would be better to not be robbed by thugs at all.
And the second wisdom to take from this is make your control system boot up fast, just a few hundred ms. Maybe you have time to load a few necessary parameters from flash memory but after that everything should be good to go. You don't want to wait 1 minute for windows to boot up.
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A boss that kills of incompetent middle management and leaves the rank and file alone would be an improvement to some places I've worked. ;-)

Demolishing entire planets... not so much an improvement.
Depends on the situation. If you're a single founder and you've only been working on the company for a couple months and the person you're hiring is as competent and dedicated as you are, 50% could be reasonable.
Do you mind to disclose your country or continent where Viber (or video chat) is popular.

I can only speak of myself, in central Europe Skype (voice, video) and WhatsApp (group chat) are popular. Facebook is increasingly used by elder population and shunt by younger generations.

As I avoid WhatsApps (it sucks IMHO ..no Web and Tablet support, shady company), I would welcome any competitor.
Or, you can work in an area where you can strike a balance, where the market/salaries for your field are good/higher compared to the cost of living. While I generally agree with your sentiment, I don't regret enjoying my life as I live it.
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