skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some points:

* As far as graduating seniors, when you post a job offer, you get maybe 10% of the resumes from people with either a CS/CE major or minor. That's not to say they can't code (in my experience a resume from a non-CS major with good experience is a much better bet than a resume from a CS major with little or poor experience). But we literally get people whose experience totals up to "took a 'How to write HTML' class once freshman year as an elective" applying to jobs involving low-level C

* Actual on-site interviews are very expensive; unless you are really hurting for people, you need a cheaper (and potentially less precise) way of weeding things out.

* With the exception of graduating seniors, there really are relatively few good candidates actively seeking work; most of the good ones have jobs (and you can hire them, but that usually isn't counted in the X% of resumes get offers, which usually refers to responses to a job posting; hiring people away from their current jobs usually starts in a different manner).

* On the other hand huge numbers of people who are desperate for work send in resumes. The less harmful of these are the ones who obviously are unqualified and clearly just spammed every job offer listed regardless of the requirements. Since we aren't talking about graduating seniors (see above) the majority of the not-obviously-unqualified often even have relevant work experience, but that's just because it takes time for people to fire you.

I am talking about people with 2-5 years of experience working in language X who are barely able to (or sometimes even completely unable to) write FizzBuzz in language X.

Another example was someone with over 5 years of OS kernel development, who in the interview was unable to describe what exactly they did in those 5 years and they didn't seem to know a much about any of the various OS topics we tried asking them about: scheduling, interrupts, DMA, filesystems, memory paging, IPC.

These people are particularly harmful, since there are very few tells at all on their resumes (and no reliable ones), you would have to interview all of them, which gets expensive. The majority can't get past a phone-interview, but when you are talking about

This leads to a lot of companies not even bothering to interview people (again ignoring those graduating from school) without referrals from current employees, or some other way of weeding out the massive numbers of "good resume, but bad candidate" submission that also will, as a side effect, weed out some of the "good resume, good candidate". It also means that if you are looking for work, and can't find it, then either you are unqualified, or need to get referrals from friends who have jobs at companies that are hiring.
Artweaver is pretty nice too - there is a freeware edition for non-commercial and academic purposes.
Sure, I am aware of JIT vs AOT compilation, although .NET JIT has not been touched that much on the last years. Looking forward to RyuJIT improvements.

Just that a statement that writing something in C does not make it fast by itself.
To be perfectly honest, you should be sorry.
>> They don't know deeply at least one or two techniques and tools.

> I think we see people from so many different walks of life that for junior people the goal is to make sure that they know the shit that they have in their resume and drill them if they don't. As in, we don't hire for specific techniques or tools because the team has its own collection of tools/libraries (Spark/Hadoop/Python/Word2Vec/CF etc) which you will be able to pick up fast if you are good enough.

I think you misread what eshvk was saying; he isn't saying that they don't know one or two specific techniques or tools, but rather they don't have any tools/techniques at all that they know deeply. If you read what followed the part you quoted, it should become clear.
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I've probably written about it a few times in various comments, but the essence of it can be found here:

http://blogmaverick.com/2010/08/20/the-stock-market-is-still...

and here:

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/09/08/talking-stocks-and-money/

(I don't always agree with Mark Cuban, but most of what he says here seems pretty sensible).

As far as investing goes, I always seemed to be pretty "good" - or at least, lucky. It was not unusual for me to make a few thousand dollars in a week (and occasionally lose a little). I typically never invested in very risky prospects, always things that I knew would be around for quite a while like Google and Apple.

I made the foolish mistake of investing in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, companies that were once labeled "too big to fail" (and now trade OTC, if at all - have not checked since they became junk). Actually, my "mistake" appeared to be a brilliant move at first, as I made $30,000 in a few hours. But in a few more hours, that number was negative. However, I was not investing out of speculation, I invested because I thought that these companies were going to survive the recession - in fact, because of a statement from Hank Paulson (then Secretary of Treasury) who said that the government would not be taking over these entities (they were GSEs, but publicly traded). Hours later rumors turned against this, and within weeks it was trading at $0.25 or less (down from $7 to $11 a share where I originally was trading it at).

But it gets better - little did I know (at the time) that Paulson was a Goldman Sachs alum:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/business/19gold.html?pagew...

And that he gave advance word of their failure. Some people might call that insider trading, but, what do I know? :)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-29/how-henry-paulson-g...
Paint.NET is one of the best free graphic applications. It' amazing how easy and fast it is.

I only miss a dark theme.
I'm not a heavy graphics user, but Pinta on Linux (and Windows) does the trick for me.
I would think that, if you have a big fraud-detection engine like Paypal's in place, 2FA isn't so much an enforced requirement for login, as it is a big fraud-signal when the user chooses to circumnavigate it.

Like any other fraud-signal, though, it can be countered with enough evidence that you are who you say you are--with security questions at a weak level (maybe enough to counter a 2FA token that was only set up a few days ago), or with demands for scanned photo ID at a higher level (if you use 2FA all the time.)
I am so glad I didn't get one.
You can use https://pixlr.com/editor/ for such trivial uses.
I personally avoid any where it's the only option, although sites with other options that still ask you to link accounts are still massively annoying.
This kind of visualisation screams for a "small multiples" display not spread over 5+ pages. How are you supposed to get a full picture with a layout like this?!

Is the data available? What's the source?
Very nice! I missed the currency symbol ($) in the labels, I felt that I wasn't sure sometimes if I was seeing a "count" of something, or a measure of currency.

Perhaps it's all currency so it's redundant, but I still think proper units are a good thing to have when presenting data. Better one too many than one too few, imo.
And not so ironically, Behdad Esfahbod, one of the original developers of HarfBuzz, works for Google now, according to his blurb on Github.

https://github.com/behdad

I actually emailed him a few times before I discovered mlterm to read Arabic and other RTL fonts in a terminal (you might ask why: file names and I use mutt for email). Very nice guy, and I am very appreciative of this library.
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Actually I'm optimistic for this drug's use in regular MPB. It has been observed in the past that those on immunosupressant drugs or otherwise severely immuno-compromised do not get MPB. Another article I read mentioned that a doctor who dissected dormant hair follicles from MPB noted that it looked exactly like transplanted tissue that is being rejected in its new host.

So yes, there are many good reasons to be cautiously optimistic. Of course the side effects of an untargetted immunosuppresant drug is likely too great for general MPB, but it may lead to further research. As it stands most companies do not do research directly for drugs targetting MPB because past drugs have been market failures.
Didn't expect to see this pop up again! I'm Adam, the guy that wrote that. Happy to answer any questions anyone has.

Since writing that I've gone full time making games and I'm just finishing up the follow-up game, 'Pumped BMX 2'. You can see some clips on my instagram account: http://instagram.com/pumpedbmx
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Although English is seen as the lingua franca of the 21st century, it wasn't always like that.

In the several millions we are able to speak and write, there have been lots of languages taking that role.

And even English is not as common as many people think, just traveling around the world will teach people that there are many places where knowing English will be of no help.

Besides languages represent culture, not all concepts are expressible across all languages and they are also a door to our past as mankind, sure they are worth preserving.
Preview is a pretty simple image editing tool that ships with OSX
Do you know if an editorial/discussion on solutions is posted somewhere?
But the gloves don't fully reflect the positions of each of the fingers. It only senses when the touch points on the glove are being contacted. I couldn't flip the bird at someone in VR, for example.
Please do! I've wanted to learn FPGAs for years now, never really got around to it because it's really so niche there's not that much quality tutorials.
I thought his piece on the role of the UK "independent" deterrent was particularly good:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/on-the-u...

Having been a child in the 70s and 18 in 1983, the year of Able Archer, I still have the same lurking existential horror (not helped, as Charlie also mentions, by having seen Threads more often than is wise from a peace of mind perspective).
While acengiano here is being downvoted, this is really one of my biggest gripes with Gimp. I'm having a terrible user experience.

It also doesn't help that I'm already well used to the paint.net/photoshop keyboard shortcuts. Besides Gimp having its own, different keyboard shortcuts, it also has some unique (and again different) conventions for how to use the mouse to select regions and stuff like that.

It may be equally productive once you're used to it, but I never liked Gimp enough to get into how the different ways it has chosen to do things actually works.
Will you be allowing marketplaces to transfer money to sellers' Alipay accounts?
> Sindhi, for example, is a naskh based language. Punjabi, which my parents spoke, on the other hand, prefers nastaliq, and regionally the two places are adjacet.

Saying that Sindhi is Naskh based language while Punjabi is Nastaleeq based language is like saying English is Arial based language while French is Times New Roman based.
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> Almost everything that is popular has evolved over time, and making these changes once you have established users results in compromises that can be sort of ugly. C++ has patina.

You will note that C++ made that sort of ugly compromises from the start. Keeping a C-like syntax really wasn't necessary. (Keeping a C-like semantics, that's a different story.)
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I don't think "Google doesn't care about your privacy" is histrionics. Let me remind you of a few examples:

1) http://gizmodo.com/what-the-google-street-view-wi-fi-decisio...
"Google did this to enhance the accuracy and precision of its location based services. But it also captured "payload data," or the actual data transmitted through the Wi-Fi networks, including emails, usernames, passwords and more."

2) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/google-wifi-passwor...

Google might have access to WiFi passwords used by every single Android user, a new report suggests. That is a whole lot of WiFi passwords -- maybe most of them in the world.

“If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password,” Computer World's Michael Horowitz wrote last week. “Considering how many Android devices there are, it is likely that Google can access most Wi-Fi passwords worldwide.”

3) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...
Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt's dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users' privacy. When asked during an interview for CNBC's recent "Inside the Mind of Google" special about whether users should be sharing information with Google as if it were a "trusted friend," Schmidt responded, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

4) http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/06/google-gla...
Google doesn't want to discuss these issues. "We are not making any comment," says a company spokesperson. But other sources suggest that Google's chiefs know that this is a live issue, and they're watching it develop. That's part of the plan behind the "Glass Explorer" scheme, which aims to get the devices into the hands – or rather, on to the faces – of ordinary people (and which enabled one member of the trial to putatively auction their Glass).

5)http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/12/google-buzz-privacy/
"Merging something designed for public broadcasting (Buzz) with something inherently private (Gmail) was just looking for trouble."

This is a long term pattern - I've got to the point where I just expect Google to not worry about my privacy as a default position, until such times as they get significant pushback, which may be too late for some users. Call that histrionic if you like, I call that learning from experience...
+1 for Pixelmator, but there is also Acorn, quite popular.
Until/unless we get to a local maxima where in certain industries, it'd be hard to change and still be profitable. We already see unpredictable pricing in most medium- and long-distance public travel systems, for example.
Or it may simply be that 'owning' Krebs has the effect of boosting some stupid kids' standing.
I find it interesting that many variations of Kufic script, which as far as I know is the 'original' Arabic script, seem to be almost ideally suited for print/digital reproduction.

With the square normalized forms it almost looks like QR codes: https://www.google.com/search?q=kufic+script&tbm=isch

This is in contrast to modern Arabic writing which seems to be geared to handwriting, with its flowing and connected shapes, kind of like old Latin cursive scripts.
dc.js as always made a good job.
Looks nice.

I like that you thought at the RSS feed. However, the question feed is throwing a syntax error (in FF, and digg reader can't subscribe to it as well):

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: https://qabounty.com/questions/feed/
Line Number 25, Column 1:
> Its a shame you have to play 'guess the download link' - that has really stopped me from recommending it to people recently.

It's one of the tools available on Ninite. Point them there instead: https://ninite.com/.
Bingo, the information was out there but the execs running the show didn't listen. A mentor with gravitas and a track record would likely have talked sense into them. This was 8 years ago though, so many more stories are accessible these days.
Great resources - thanks for the links.
Preview is a markup tool, not an image editing tool.

On OS X it is either Acorn (my preferred tool, because you can cut/paste excel spreadsheets into it elegantly), or Pixelmator (which I also use occasionally)
I don't know if it is true that it all hinges on tree rings. So your claim is that everything global warming scientists have been saying is wrong because they ignored vital evidence?

I must admit to me it sounds a bit like the typical creationist argument: "but you can't explain how bone X came into existence". So never mind that evolution theory doesn't even claim to be able to provide a causal evolutionary path for every animal, and that it has been validated in countless examples (more than any other theory afaik), they find a single example that is not even relevant and use it as an excuse to dismiss the whole theory.

I don't call you a creationist, I just want to warn that you might be victim to the same kind of fallacy.
Rita is quite nice, perhaps a bit too simplistic and is vector based. Doesn't support text input either.

http://www.frykholm.se/rita.html
Ah, interesting. Our team came from using more traditional tracking systems and Pivotal Tracker got us re-thinking our strategy. We're not big enough to do full-blown SCRUM but Tracker been a huge help with managing our release cycle. It's a great product!
Apparently they want you to pay $85 a year for a real license, which is a complete shame, but rational given that there is at present a total of one reasonably modern open-source email client (Roundcube) and it's still pretty dreadful to work with, and in some cases hard to use. Rainloop don't have much in the way of open-source competitors to drive the market price near 0.
> Although English is seen as the lingua franca of the 21st century, it wasn't always like that.

I'm aware of that.

> And even English is not as common as many people think, just traveling around the world will teach people that there are many places where knowing English will be of no help.

I guess it's not just about sheer numbers but also about what sort of stuff is produced in the language. E.g. the expert books are mostly written in English. You don't even have to go that far, e.g. there aren't all that many say compiler books that were not translated from English, that are up to date and not terrible. This is for me more important than being able to have a discussion with Bhutani farmer.

> Besides languages represent culture, not all concepts are expressible across all languages and they are also a door to our past as mankind, sure they are worth preserving.

Well it's a tradeoff. And I think that at some point the cost of preserving them outweighs the benefits.
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This looks really promising, particularly the ability to switch styles on the fly. It could perhaps work as an onramp to get an app out there before switching to something custom-built as traffic builds. I'm tempted.

(Declaration of interest: I invented MapCSS, the styling language which this uses.)
he forgot the "if your hardware is supported at all" part.
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Good work Sundar Pichai.
I disagree in part. Tougher tests have to be combined with mandatory retests to renew a license every 5-10 years, it's not just the young who drive badly.
Hey there, OP here.

These are good questions, though I disagree with the characterization here. Like: I don't think anybody's circumventing the DMCA, so much as tacking on additional measures not required by law. Anybody who's doing algorithmic enforcement, including YouTube and newly Vimeo, is in the same boat; in large part it's the result of negotiations with media partners who demand it in exchange for access to content. So, they're doing something separate from what the law requires (in addition to what the law requires) in order to satisfy partners... not really circumvention.

BUT it sucks. And it especially sucks when it's done in a way that doesn't respect users. And I've written about that lots, though not so much in this particular piece.

Sites have all kinds of "guidelines", and some of them are offensive and others aren't as much. Vimeo used to prohibit video gameplay uploads, for example; that's probably not something I'd campaign on.

I probably should have put an extra sentence at the end to explain what I mean by the line you quoted, but I guess I didn't think people would read it as "bootlicking horseshit." In fact, I'm sorry to say I think you've read it exactly backwards.

I meant to emphasize: the issue is not my particular upload of Apollo 13 audio, which is obviously also available from a million other places. If you read the thing and think it's about my complaining that this particular audio is taken down, that gives SoundCloud WAY too easy an out: they just comply with their own policies, maybe expedite the process for a (1) former employee who (2) works in copyright policy and (3) got the dispute to the top of Hacker News, and then they can wipe their hands of it.

No, making this issue about any one piece of content, my own included, misses the forest for the trees. I am mad, and I will stay mad even once SoundCloud's reasonable employees doing their job flick a switch and reinstate my upload. I don't want other people to feel like they can relax once my upload is back in place. It will be back in place, but what we need is systemic improvements to eradicate the creeping permissions culture.
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Could have been, but it isn't :) I call it the "Houston, we have a problem" clip just because that's how everybody knows it. (There's a comment on the original article to that effect, but Medium doesn't really show those prominently.)
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I'm not claiming it is a good idea to do so, I am just questioning the claim that companies shouldn't be allowed to do so.

I think most commentators here immediately think of a big, powerful corporation and poor, desperate employees jumping through hoops to get any job. But that certainly isn't the normal case. If somebody is motivated to fund a company to be able to run things in a way they enjoy, they should be allowed to do so (of course there are limits, but liking to hang out with colleagues is not the limit).

Imagine you are hiring your first employee, ever. Is it really outrageous to want to hire somebody you get along with well (more than just "being professional")? That person will be the only other human being you will be exposed to for a majority of your time. Maybe in a big open plan office with hundreds of employees those concerns are less important (among hundreds, you will find some likeminded souls). But not every company is that big.
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Let me repeat, you don't need this to load/reload tasks. There is 'pool_restart' broadcast command[1].

[1]: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/workers.ht...
So, the bank will report these currency exchanges (including overseas ATM withdrawals from an RMB account) to some central authority like PBOC, who will then combine it with info from other banks, and thereby know if I've breached the annual limit?
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