skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution here is obvious to me.

The specific problem with this scenario is that they give the audition too early in the process: they want to have a set of fully fleshed out apps to compared candidates from and use that as an initial/mid level filter. This is disrespectful on the part of the company precisely because in the best case only one will be hired (more likely none will be hired). It utterly devalues the time of prospective employees for the benefit of the company. This is wrong.

The solution here is to give the "audition" after the candidate has passed all of your other filters, and commit in writing to hiring the candidate if they do a decent job on the audition. And no wishy-washy bullshit: have an objective criteria to measure against and judge it fairly. This is the kicker here, which of course will be the tough swallow for most companies. Paying for their time is nice, but its really missing the pain point here. If you want someone to commit a disproportionate amount of time in the process of auditioning for your company, you need to put yourself on the hook in a similar manner.
Sigh... why does everything needs to be focused on the "Enterprise", the "suits with the checks"? I want to get to this post-scarcity world everyone keeps talking about, but we will never get there if we treat every product as something that must extract "consumer surplus" and be "defensible from competition".

I feel like we should strive to destroy the enterprise, not enable it. I am sure that Patrick's approach would be more profitable, but how many people would be put off by this "professional-oriented" position? Yeah, I'm the guy who would rather go through the trouble of installing/maintaining my own GitLab server than paying a dime to Github/Bitbucket. It doesn't make sense economically? I don't give a shit. I feel like there must be something in this life that I should be able to do by myself. I will give as much time needed to someone who needs help to install/setup Ubuntu on their laptops, but to hell with them if they ask for help to setup their printer on Windows or Mac.

Also, I know that Colin gave the go-ahead to write this piece, but reading the thing it amazed me how it works only as a way to push Patrick's agenda, but none of Colin's. The template that it took only 20 minutes to put together? Put it on a git repo and make it public domain, let other people build upon it. Tell people that those who are genuinely focused on tarsnap success that they can contribute, and even educate other users. This piece works only to show that Patrick can tell people what they should do, but there is nothing Patrick has done to actively improve things.
It's funny how domain dependent this is. In controls/filters/vision/applied-math no one don't takes anything other than MATLAB seriously.

There are of course the C/C++/FORTRAN gurus that write LAPACK/BLAS/OpenCV etc. , but they're kinda in their own world. MATLAB is the de-facto wrapper for these libraries, and all prototyping is done in it.
Using your iPad to learn about Android?
I wouldn't call a JIT compiler an emulator.

However, it's certainly unnecessary (why not just generate the machine code already?), and it generates slower code because JIT compiling is a more difficult task due to the fact that the time limits on the optimizer itself are pretty harsh.
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Mozilla Chief Steps Down After 1 Week
That depends entirely on the expressed views of the person they're running against. I accept anyone I vote for is going to do things I don't like. Maybe most things. Avoiding the vote because there's no candidate that's "perfect" leads to people getting in that will do EVEN MORE things I don't like, so while winning isn't everything, it's a lot.
Black student gets into every Ivy League school, Reddit gets racist
After 50 we should just go fishing for the next 20 or 30 years until we croak. The world doesn't need us any more.
It's not a decimal number.

It's just two numbers separated by a dot (major version number DOT minor version number).

Perhaps if we switched to using something like 0-10 or 0:10, people wouldn't expect any reference to . to mean a decimal number.
Well done the progressive community of bullies. The awful gay hater stepped down. We can all rejoice now.

The witch-hunt that unfolded was unfortunate to witness. People overheard "against gay marriage" and this lit up the fire. Few cared to actually look into the story. One donation was enough to paint him as an ardent homophobic. Despite the impeccable track record of 15 years in Mozilla (including 8 years as CTO).

I respect this person, despite his non-respectable belief in gay marriage.
You should realize that market makers are actually providing a service that they get paid for and be happy that due to automation & competition the price for that service has dropped by an enormous amount.
At first I read it as cowtipping.com. I am not sure what I was expecting.
Yes, seriously. So by your logic we should be listing the browsers, the operating systems, the compilers, the linkers.

No. The title is misleading, I clicked on it expecting a good breakdown of the current can't-do-without javascript libraries for web application programming.

MongoDB? PostgreSQL? Why don't we mention Python too since not every Javascript programmer is using NodeJS, oh wait - maybe we should start mentioning Haskell to JS compilers too, yes, because those are Javascript tools and libraries.

All of those things are interesting but the title mislead me and I made note of it.

Get off my back.
Yes it is. Lets not make useless differences here, it is. To think there isn't is somehow thinking someone having fewer rights than you do is still legally equal to you.
It probably did, but what if the boisterous guy said "WTF is this?" I do know a number of persons who don't read the comics or otherwise quite out of touch with popular culture.
The second half of your statement does not follow in any way, shape, or form. Both actions are essentially bullying, and the problem is that it's not truth or justice that has won today, but simply the currently-stronger bully.
In the even more distant past, you would sometimes encounter this problem when using your vocal cords in a noisy environment.
Update: Automatically got an email from twitter saying:

> Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We've reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account.

The spam tweet posted on my behalf was automatically deleted.

(Edit: For reference, the spammy link pointed to a domain called apaloreto dot info, but led to a 404 in my case)
can you kindly provide at a high level the differences between the two?
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I use rsync, tar thrashes the disk when the majority of the files in the backup set don't change.
I have certainly considered that, but I'm at a point in my life where I want my money to work for me - not the other way around. I'd be interested in providing capital for a startup but I have less interest in being involved in their day-to-day business.
Brendan Eich Resigns As Mozilla CEO Following Criticism
PlanOut has been used both for evaluating the effects of new product rollouts / encouragements and for more scientific experiments that look at the effects of existing features. You may want to check out Section 4 of the PlanOut paper at:
http://facebook.com/publications/563103330455476/
Google reportedly planning major overhaul of its Android and web apps
"He held a belief that wasn't in line with what the Mozilla organization believes is in their best interests."

The problem now will be what is starting to happen on certain social media sites[1] with other employees of Mozilla. It looks like quite a few people are looking at what they have donated. So far, it looks like someone actually donated to Lyndon Larouche who has been accused of being an anti-semite. I would imagine if any employee of Mozilla has donated to questionable groups, its going to be all over the place now.

I wish Mozilla had worked all this out in advance and thought of the consequences. It is no fun having everything you've ever donated to put under a microscope. I wonder if it is just rumblings or will we see the typical "second wave mob" that generally happens in these situations.

You can say none of these people are CEO, but that really won't stop anything.

1) search for yourself, I'm not spreading these links and I'm not very fond of the behavior, and I could write an article on how it is taught on both sides of the political spectrum. Tit-for-tat is scary at a personal level.
This post was killed because a great many users flagged it.

Moderators don't, as a rule, kill any stories that have an active thread. That way those who are interested in the discussion can keep it going. The most we would do is demote an item in rank. There are exceptions to this, but they're so rare I can't remember any.

I'm unkilling the post, because I want to reply to some of the moderation questions downthread, and I figure if I'm allowed to keep commenting here then everybody should be.
Amusing. If you can find a copy of Guiness's A Positively Final Appearance, there is an entertaining "Star Wars" story in there.
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And he can speak about it if he does? It's okay to change your mind. He's had all week to talk about it, if he has already. But he hasn't.

If you're worried about his future career, I understand. But if he changes his mind he can equally talk about it with potential employers/partners. If he doesn't, then he gets to live with the consequences of his choices the same way someone who is out about their sexuality does.
cperciva's competitive advantage is almost entirely reputational; if Bob the Fast-Follower made a tarsnap v2 clone it'd be too dodgy to do anything but compete with the tons of existing friendly backup and online drive services.
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You do realize this kind of thing actually happens, right? The right wing of american politics is an avid user of and believer in boycotts.

Let me introduce you to my neighbor down the street, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. His entire power structure is based upon leveraging boycotts as a means to an end. Each side is more than willing to play the victim game.
I love real work. I hate doing basic stuff on whiteboards; puzzles and toy problems suck. But I firmly believe that doing what amounts to an internship is filtering out people that you would be ecstatic to have at your company.

Most of the really good engineers I've worked with can go anywhere. When they're available it's by their own choice, and they're gone damned quick. (One fellow recently got fed up with things over a couple of months, made a call, and the email he got back said in part, "Apparently you aced your interview. When should we tell HR you can start?". Seriously, how do you compete with that?)

The people are not on the street. These people will not suffer the gauntlet you have decided is necessary. They're going to think to themselves "That's cute," and look elsewhere. I won't do a weeks-long project. I know very few people who would.

You CAN assess someone well in eight hours; if you can't get a good handle on someone's skills in that amount of time then you seriously need to improve your own interviewing skills. The message you are sending right now is, "We mistrust our interviewing expertise to the point that we want YOU to take a multi-week risk, really a very high risk, just so that we can be sure."

Now, there are undoubtedly people who want to work at your company, and they are willing to go to any measure to do so. If you are all happy with each other, then I see no reason why our paths should cross.

I guess this is the point where you can publically rationalize your strategy by bucketing me as a jerk, "sour grapes," someone you wouldn't want to work with anyway because of red flags and such. I won't steer you away from this, since I can't offer any proof that I'm not.

But I'm darned sure you're missing good people, even if you're convinced I'm not one.
My impression is that this is a result of the changing of the guard (Ballmer's exit). The underlying people (scottgu, etc) have been pushing for open source for many, many years now. And Satya seems to trust these people and thus announcements like today.
How much use are these sites though for generating actual user traffic, and in particular conversions?
If we 're all defacto equal vs marriage, then i could marry my 6-year old cousin.

Just so you know, the official slippery-slope argument is "I could marry my horse".
Tarsnap is trustworthy partly because of Colin's reputation, and you can't clone that.

Colin's an unfathomably smart, pretty reasonable dude. It feels wrong to assume that he's in this for the religion of it, or that no argument exists that's convincing enough to change his mind.

For the same reason, "fixing" seems like the wrong verb here.
It's a bit arrogant of Cuban to think that he's starting this conversation.
Socrates did work for a living, as I recall--I believe he was a mason. He certainly was not destitute.
Have been trying to google what this was ALL week after finding out about it here on HN a while ago! Thanks for the mention so I can properly bookmark it this time <3
I highly doubt most of that stuff will be publicly accessible. A friend told she had a very hard time finding the documents she needed for her thesis at the Vatical Library. She had the definite impression, after a lengthy process to get clearance, that the inventory was kept patchy on purpose to make it hard for external visitors to find stuff in the allotted time.
Perhaps looks for "Small Cap" funds focused on tech or do your own research on the tech sector and buy stocks. Otherwise you are talking angel investing and I think, for a little while longer at least, you need to be an Accredited investor with all the income and net worth rules that go along with that.
There's also that 1000 years of lost progress in science due to their persecution of scientists...
Like Android these days...
I guess they are about done promoting C#, then
I suspect most modern Catholics would agree with you. I don't think its vet productive going round blaming each other for what our predecessors did hundreds of years ago.
That seems to be intrinsic after a while. I moved to the UK almost a year ago and I still can't get used to miles. (Or rather, get a feel for them). I've become very good at *1.6 and /1.6 though.. Also the confusion between pounds of mass and pounds of currency. 8 pounds (a little under 4kg) sounds like an awful lot of curry.. Of course, we don't use either in NZ, but when both are unfamiliar you don't always make the right choice on the first parse.
>there are people who simply have hangups about the word "marriage" vs "civil unions."

And this 'hangup' is simply idiotic. Christians that speak of 'civil unions' are trying to hold homosexuals' rights hostage so they can pretend that they have carved out a small victory. Christianity invented neither the concept nor the terminology for marriage. Most of us at HN rave all day long about how stupid it is when a company tries to patent a generic English word, so why would it be OK for a religion to do the same thing?

That being said, I'm not entirely sure that he should have been forced out of his job. I mean, while we're at it, why not harass everyone that voted for Romney or Bush? Anyone that votes for either of them was basically voting to oppress homosexuals and atheists. What's the difference?
Not directly related to this issue, but I'm skeptical about the Nest Protect in general. It includes a CO detector, but CO is a denser-than-air gas, so stays near the floor while the Protect is mounted on the ceiling to detect smoke. Also, most CO detectors need to be replaced every few years because it wears out. Does this mean you have to buy a new $300 Nest Protect every 5 years?

I have a Nest Thermostat that I love, but the Nest Protect doesn't seem nearly as cool or useful...
Awesome - congratulations!

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Managing people: pick up Tom Peters, Little Big Things.
Managing Projects: Getting Things Done & The Lazy Project Manager
Managing Team Software: at your size you are small enough that can just talk and communicate. So something simple like BaseCamp & Weekly WIPS (work in progress meeting and bullet point list) will suffice. Then you want to evolve to something like ProWorkFlow / WorkFlowMax which provide the visibility, project management and time tracking.

Any questions email me ben@bwagy.com happy to help.
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>Really? Is there a rash of this sort of thing going on that I don't know about?

Yes. How about the guy who lost his job for making a dongle joke, personally to his friend at a conference that was overheard? (And, then the woman who outed him on the internet lost her job too, again for reasons of public reaction). And tons of other examples besides -- people calling for others to get fired etc, because of their personal, not work related, opinions.

>Or is it pretty much just Brendan Eich right now, reaping the consequences of expressing bigotry publicly?

He never expressed "bigotry publicly". He privately backed a cause he believed in (right or wrong) with a donation.

As for "reaping the consequences", for me this amounts to a lynching mentallity that I'm uncofortable with.

If you don't like someone's opinions on civil rights, fight them in the court of public opinion and/or voting.
Trello isn't bad for managing projects - it's free as well. In terms of managing people, that's a significantly more difficult topic.
He wasn't saying "I hate gay people." He was saying "the institution of marriage shouldn't include gay people." That isn't cool, fine, but it's NOT the blanket 'hatred' and 'intolerance' everyone here is so adamant about.

Those terms are being tossed around too freely here.
That's not how unemployment works, at least not in Texas. You wouldn't go off the unemployment until you were actually hired. You would simply report the income during that period (2 week periods in TX) and they deduct the amount from your benefits for that period.
You would have an excellent point if the conversation were productive, but it's the opposite of productive. Nor has it been "squashed".

Such conversations predictably and egregiously violate all of Hacker News' values, especially those of intellectual substance and personal civility. Pinpoint interventions, like I've been making in less inflamed threads, have no hope of working on these, so we have to do something else. Doing nothing is not an option; neither is killing discussions outright on subjects that are, after all, on topic for HN.

If the community were capable of discussing this kind of subject maturely, we wouldn't think of intervening. But it's been so painfully clear for so long that that isn't so, that in my view the thing we can perhaps be faulted for is taking so long to deal with it. That's a measure of how reluctant we are to intervene.
That's the joke. Unlimited in all cases I experienced means "limited in a fashion you do not know and cannot control". For anything serious, stay away from unlimited plans (think Backblaze's unlimited storage), else suffer the wrath of the acceptable use policy.
And it was an agreement, and no it was not unjust. Yes, it is a monopoly, and no it doesn't rest on force, but does that matter?

It does rest on force. People who refuse to accept the imposed rules can go to jail. And that does matter to me.

You don't have to have every song or movie that's ever been made. You are not entitled to them unless you strike an agreement with the owner of the property.

Of course not. If I thought that I'd be suing or somehow forcing the copyright holders to give me copies of their work. I'm not entitled to anything, I'm merely accepting what is being shared with me. It's the other copyright (and patent) holders who think they are entitled to have special protections paid for by the rest of society.

By the way, they might call it property, but that concept only makes sense as a system for dealing with scarce, rivalrous goods. In this case, it's nothing but a marketing term.
Yep, it's the baseline. It looks even worse in IE11

http://i.imgur.com/jWcyrz6.jpg

Normally comments like mine can be a bit pedantic, but in this case it's the front page of something that 'builds beautiful programming books', so I think relevant.
It's another one of those "worse is better" situations, I guess.
This is ridiculous. Eich did something many of us - including myself - disagree with wholeheartedly. But he has a right to his opinion. He shouldn't have been fired.

OKCupid's response to this was extreme - "We wish him nothing but failure." Really? Because you disagree with him? I disagree with him too, and believe his view on this single issue is bigoted and crude, but I also recognize that he's made enormous contributions to technology. That's why he was made the CEO of an organization that he helped start, not because of his political beliefs.

If you can't believe something unpopular for fear of losing your job then that's a form of coercion, and it should be as abhorrent to all of us as restricting the right of same-sex individuals to marry.
Because the only reason it was posted on HN in the first place is that the company is a tech company. In that way the story is only tangentially related to hacking and startups, so it doesn't need to be on the front page.
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"surprising" is one thing.

but it's downright _scary_ how people get so _zealous_
once they firmly believe they are "objectively right".

i don't know if i'm happy or sad this tendency has been
adopted by the leftwingers. of course it will help them
to battle the rightwingers (who always felt "righteous"),
and let me be crystal clear i want the rightwing crushed,
but i can't help but think that something has been lost.

i'm unsure you can _beat_ intolerance _with_ intolerance.

-bowerbird

p.s. go ahead and downvote this; it will prove my point.
An attempt to stay relevant and continue to paralyse certain communities with superstitious bullshit from the iron age, for the foreseeable future!
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But what you described is a total pain in the buttocks. I think it's unfair to pin that on Colin's "unwillingness to adjust".
>Yeah, those people in the 50s who fought against desegregation just had a different personal opinion on what was okay. Nothing wrong with that!

Hundrends of millions of people had similar opinions in the 50s -- they didn't know better. Do you propose they all got fired?

Even if you do. I don't recall that being the case historically, anyway. Instead, black and pro-civil rights people fought for their rights, with marches, public speeches, voting, and such. Not with campaigns targeted at individual people. The KKK used to do that.
I more or less agree with your specific points, but in the larger scheme of things I'm more concerned that these hypothetical people don't understand the stats than that the tool won't scale or is badly implemented.

That said, it sure is a bitch of a language to try to develop for (since the consensus seems to be: write everything in C) and cran is a ghetto.
Yes I'm speculating on the motivation. Whatever the reason, he wants something stupid, harmful, unfair and illiberal in my opinion so his judgement is in doubt.