skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same experience - but with Shopify.

I knew someone who was hired, given a letter of offer and attended his first few weeks of training. They walked up to him two weeks later and said we don't actually need your position right now but would you mind waiting until we call to set something up? On top of that, they bungled his pay.

An outlier I thought.

Then I went through the hiring process, nobody knew what anyone was going. I showed up to shadow for a day, nobody knew I was coming despite planning it all out and scheduling the day with a number of different people. I suddenly realized I was overqualified for the job, telling the guy I was shadowing what he needed to do, despite my limited familiarity with the interface.

A few weeks later, after another 3 interviews, they told me I wasn't what they were looking for because I told them I wanted to get out of my current job (one that had broken some promises to me)

Another person I went through the hiring process with was never actually onboarded. Like my other friend, she was given a letter of offer, and everything sort of fell apart at the end of the day.
Its 2014. People are still toting the "videogames lead to violence" crap? Sorry, but no.
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Tens of thousands of memory blocks that can't be freed daily, on an install base of several hundred million PC's sounds like an acceptable compromise, at least for non-critical applications.
Well we're a small shop, so I am Ops, QA and support ;)
Manning did a great services to mankind to expose actions of the US military in Iraq and related.

The US invasion in Iraq was based on lies and caused death, destruction, violence, torture, etc. for many humans.

Manning helped to expose some of these actions.

> That's not a principled stand against what the military is doing.

Yeah, she should have done it in some more orderly way. WTF?
An error rate of 1/1,000 or so, with almost all of them being recoverable errors? I'll take that. :)
Yes. If you want a more exact number, it's probable that the charges will be significantly less than typical miner tips. It may even be absorbed by miners in order to give the miner a better lead-time on entries in the mempool.
I think you are right and wrong. Many people are using "full machine" virtualization today, when what they wanted was just application isolation and resource control, but the only easy way to do this, was to use virtualization. As recipes & tutorials come out on how to migrate existing applications to containers from virtualization, I suspect people will review if they really need "full machine" virtualization, or just use a container.

ps. Just to be clear, I think there is still a need for virtualization.
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> Maybe if they hosted the Official Video Game Olympics or something

I think it's just like any physical sport - having knowledge about a game and watching someone skilled play is interesting. People watch to learn and get better at something they find interesting. That said, watching someone play Fallout definitely isn't what gamers think of when you mention "eSports" - generally eSports refers to some level of competition, which is why real time strategy games and first person shooters are so popular - both require a lot of skill and knowledge of the game to be good at.

Getting back to the "Official Video Game Olympics" - there are actually some pretty serious competitions out there. Certain game developers have been known to self-host their own tournaments for millions of dollars in prizes (League of Legends and Call of Duty being two examples). There's also plenty of companies making a profitable business out of running these tournaments: ESL in Europe and Major League Gaming in the US being two of the bigger names out there right now. So in fact, the competition and prizes are very real, so anyone interested in a game may be interested in seeing who's going to win $1,000,000.
it has different editions (one of them being open-source)
Good design will make a product understandable
Yes, still true. You can still edit/update the application all the way to the deadline even after you submit it. I'll make that more clear in the app and instructions.
Z-Quads, a spatial coordinate system
The 1/r2 one. Going even more esoteric, I guess, in an idealized world, one can measure the deformation of the bowling ball due to gravity, and check whether it changes across the hall.
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The reasons why people watch other people play video games are several:

1. People like to see someone of a very high level play a game that they too play.

2. You often get to see someone playing a game that you never heard about. For instance: The recent speed running marathon streams have showed a lot of obscure and old games.

3. And most important: People are entertained by the commentary from the streamer.

If you just run a game with no commentary you will be hard pressed to get any viewers. It is more that with the younger generation games have become a huge part of culture and to see someone playing games you play as well and chatting give the viewer a social experience. There is chat too and the streamers often address people in chat. If you look at the most popular personalities on YouTube many of them are gaming related. People spend a lot of time playing today's very immersive, social, and large scale games so it follows that they can be entertained by personalities involved with them.
Has anyone told the Enterprise that Docker doesn't support Windows?
Google no longer offers the highest salaries, stock, nor vacation packages in the industry.
This is a bold statement without knowing the entire process.

So what would you do to improve it, exactly?
Playing cops and robbers is generally going to copy the social perception of cops and robbers.

You can consider this game tasteless, but if it were wholly off the mark it wouldn't work as a cops and robbers game.

The game developers aren't the ones who gave the police military hardware in the first place.

Would be interesting to make a UK version of this where almost none of the cops are armed and if anyone shows a gun in public, the police pull back and wait for the trained snipers to arrive and surround the area. To make it properly realistic you could even divide the takings between both sides at the end of each level.
So, use a password that doesn't compromise any of your accounts and try it.
Darn. I hope that's just a default that can be configured otherwise this is useless to me.
Learn Swift.

Figure out what your learning style is and go with it; do you need someone to teach you? Can you learn from reading? Maybe from video? Or is trial and error your de facto method?
The point is, simply by having both 1) lobbying by for-profit corrections and 2) the ability to influence sentencing guidelines with lobbying money create a significant moral hazard.

They don't even have to specifically lobby for tougher sentencing - they can just contribute to choice A of [A,B], where A is the candidate pushing for harsher sentences.
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It is possible to cross-compile Racket for Android. There's notes on how to do this in the src tree here: https://github.com/plt/racket/tree/master/racket/src

There's also Whalesong, which compiles Racket to JS, which could potentially be useful for either platform: http://www.hashcollision.org/whalesong/index.html
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I'm currently switching between IDEA 14 (preview edition) and Dart Editor but using IDEA more and more.

IDEA 14's Dart plugin is further along than the one from IDEA 13 :)
Is it possible the same people doing the hiring, are the ones doing the tech 'support'?
That's actually an arguably better way to think about code.

"The computer is a machine, but a codebase is an organism."

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/technical-debt-of-the-west/
Margarita Noriega of Fusion: 'Women in Tech'
Looks like VMWare is working on that too:

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/08/containers-v...
Why does this get voted down? This what a lot of people used JTV for and it was a great service!
It made me think what would happen if I were in a strength training week doing a 3-5 rep max. Even with a spotter things might turn out bad.
...Jimmy Hoffa?
It seems to me that unless they went out of their way to make it 'straight' local craftsmen are going to use a level any time they set something like a floor or wall, and therefore the building will follow the curvature of the earth. Above they speak of linear accelerators and how they have to make sure to keep things straight, rather than level. I doubt they'd go to that effort for an airplane terminal.
Nice application process! It's funny what a little bit of styling does.

Is this a small side web app you guys rolled yourself or are you using a decision-making product (like Submittable, etc) for the back-end?
Summary: About 15,000 years ago, sea-faring people made their way from what is now Japan along the North Pacific rim to what is now the First Nations region. It was only later that the Bering land bridge migration occurred, those peoples integrating with the first settlers. This article offers a fascinating look into the intersection of cutting-edge archeology and tribal/governmental politics.

If anybody has any insight into the Corps of Engineer's behavior that was discussed in the article, I'd love to hear it.
YouTube used illegal methods to succeed but there was no appreciable damage to anyone. The world was better for what YouTube did. Airbnb is causing actual pain in many people's lives and the problem is fundamental.

You simply can't invite dozens of strangers into apartment buildings without causing pain to the other inhabitants. Noise, damage, violence, and other issues are inevitable. Apartments are usually hellish enough with long-term tenants that are subject to real consequences.

No Airbnb employee or investor would put up with living in an apartment building full of Airbnb users. They'd go insane. But they do seem wiling to inflict this pain on others. That's evil.
"If you get hired you will end up working on boring maintenance/refactoring tasks, or some non-fancy infrastructure crap.
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So uh, you think everyone should be working on shiny stuff?

"Google is like a big frat house. The amount of unprofessional behavior got so out of control that Urs Hölzle himself had to write a 'No jerks' manifesto to teach Googlers how to behave in a work environment. Yes, it's that bad."

This was written about a particular situation where a large number of googlers were badmouthing their colleagues in one particular part of the company whose decisions they disagreed with voiciferously. Given what the vast majority of HN has written about those decisions, i'm not sure this was a solvable problem outside of someone up above saying "calm down".

"Engineers no longer make decisions, it's all done by PMs who only care about meeting their OKR's."

If you abdicated your authority to make decisions to product managers, in 99% of cases, you have no one to blame but yourself.

There is certainly an overgrown sense of entitlement. However, I strongly disagree with your conclusions.
The vast majority of Google's hires are not through acquisition.

Your unsubstantiated theory is wrong too.
Wow, what a fantastic idea. I'm gonna be ordering a few myself.
When I was in school I was always amazed at how lavishly Microsoft spent at my no-name tech school. A full time local Microsoft recruiting rep (don't remember if regional or assigned solely to that school), quarterly Microsoft events with giveaways, prominent booth at the career fair. Google probably didn't even know the place existed, but especially at the time they were such a sought-after company that they probably didn't need to expend any effort on recruiting.
Encrypted E-Mail is not the problem, there already are packages that install gpg without any hassle. What must be solved is the problem of which keys to trust. The web of trust just doesn't work. Are there any concepts how to solve this with Bitmask?
Use the dependency tool your language provides. Node for example lets you specify an exact commit, I'm sure most others do as well.
That's so dismissive, Bob Ross was the running ironic joke of the painting world.
I had this idea a couple of years ago. I'm so glad someone's making it happen, good luck!

PS - I would pay for a small card and/or keychain.
Say Not “Complexity” (2007)
Control PageUp/PageDown!
Bitmask actually uses OpenVPN, just makes easy to use it securely. One summer of code has implemented support for obfsproxy (https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en), that hopefully will solve the problem in places like China.

Bitmask doesn't want to provide a proper VPN service, for the moment there is a demo service to try it. But the idea is to provide all the software easy to set up for providers, and the providers will charge you for it to sustain themselves. The nice thing of this model is that the provider only provides the service but your client comes from an independent organization, your provider can not put back doors on it.

The trust is a hard problem, we are moving the trust from the ISP to your provider (https://leap.se/en/doc/platform). Your ISP is something that you can not choose much, but on the provider you can choose or set up your own (https://leap.se/en/doc/platform).
I agree it would be difficult. They could make assumptions based on founders' degree, but difficult to tell as some technical people don't have a degree in EE or CS. Also, people with a EE/CS degree are not necessarily filling a technical role.
I admit I let my new-desktop-linux* evangelism get the better of me there, since I definitely knew that target was outdated. I should really put my money where my mouth is and try and help with the port.

* There should really be a term for the new emerging desktop linux platform based around systemd and wayland.
For less than the price of one year of Netflix, you get video streaming and free two-day shipping from the largest Internet retailer.

Which is to say, it offers all the stuff you use Prime for.
It's the reality if a person allows it to be. I suppose if one prioritizes his own personal life lower, or identifies himself by his commitments to his professional life or by the company he works for, then the negative connotation of "squeezed" doesn't really apply.

The reality, however, for the vast majority of programmers, is that like in every other industry there is a huge imbalance of power and more often than not employers (e.g., Google) are all too happy to exploit that imbalance, along with individual programmers' enthusiasm, to their own benefit.

Personal opinion, likely to be unpopular here: one of the reasons wages in our industry aren't higher is because of people who merely accept the "cage" as the status quo--but people who proudly enter the "gilded cage" of certain employers are the worst offenders. One need but look to the video game industry for a prime example of the above mentioned exploitation and depression of wages as an extreme example.
Thanks for the info! I appreciate it, that does give a clearer view of the process.
gotta love the WSJ subscription services :-/
Could you contact me at jordigh@octave.org for some follow-up questions?
Oh thank you! I've been looking for something like this. I know about Market Samauri, but that was slow and doesn't work in Linux. It was also very spammy. Your tool is a much nicer experience.
The dropout rate in higher education is a big problem because the marginal cost is high for each student (e.g classroom space, heating, cooling, electricity, parking, etc). The marginal cost for each additional MOOC student is almost zero so it doesn't really matter if there's a high dropout rate.
Teach them to have a hunger for knowledge, and to find joy in learning. Of all the things my dad taught me, this is what i am the most grateful for.
Links to http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/08/news-feed-fyi-click-bait... I can't read the submitted article because of the paywall, but does it add anything to the announcement?
Okay since there appear to be people here who know what they are talking about may I ask a question about what happened to me?

At the end of my Microsoft Internship I got an offer, this triggered a Google recruiter to contact me and do a phone screener. I'm not sure how well I did on the interview but when I mentioned I had decided not to take the Microsoft offer the recruiter said they wanted to push any next stage stuff back a couple months (4-5 months), they mentioned December.

That was fine by me. In fact I was still fine in November / December because I was trying to interview at Mozilla and was working on making a contribution in support of that.

Mozilla hit their hiring cap just after I got the patch accepted. So now I'm curious what happened to the recruiter? Was the sudden change in tone when I said I wasn't accepting the offer the recruiter worrying I had lied on my blog? Was she serious about moving any later interviews until closer to graduation, and maybe just left the company?
Many female founders appear to be in non-technical roles. Need more women in STEM fields moving into entrepreneurship roles as the technical lead.
Over TypeScript? I imagine for JS based languages the main draw is portability.
I think that's fairly common. When I was young and single, when it was my first real job after university, I worked a lot too. I didn't have a lot of obligations, didn't know a lot of people in the bay area, the room for career growth was tremendous, and there was always that imposter syndrome in the back of my mind where I wasn't 100% sure if I would end up meeting expectations. But after a year with good performance reviews and maybe even getting promoted, all that tends to subside. Some people are really driven to climb the ladder or love their jobs and work more, but that's hardly unique to Google or even tech.

Frankly, I never found Google much different at all in that respect from other places that don't have the same perks. If anything, all the amenities make it more common and acceptable to spend time away from your desk, so I felt less pressure to be at my desk N hours per day to keep up the appearance of being hard-working than at other companies.

For all those people with anecdotes about their friends working insane hours at Google: How many of them had worked at other large companies previously? How many of them had families?
A female CEO can hire as many women as she wants? A female founder in any role probably influences hiring tremendously.
The key distribution is the actual problem that bitmask try to address (https://leap.se/en/docs/tech/hard-problems), it tries to make transparent the key discovery but keeping it as secure as possible. But this is still a work in progress.
If two files are opened and named the same (ex: index.html), you should show the directory they are in as well in the tab.
Python at least doesn't provide any reasonable dependency tool for third-party test suite data. I can't really package a third-party test suite as a Python program.
Bring baby wipes and wipe down when you change from bike clothes to work clothes. (If you bike to work in work clothes a shower certainly won't help that)

But to your first point: if all you're doing is reducing a part of a third of their caloric intake (one of three meals per day), you probably are not making a significant change in the person's health. It would be more practical to invest in company sports programs or fund things like bicycle purchases. The food is a psychological trick as well as keeping people planted at their desk throughout the day.
Python Templating Performance Showdown: Django vs. Jinja
Whatever. Normal people do their own laundry, like they brush their own teeth.
Yeah exactly. YC is very good at picking out teams without knowing too much of your background. They go off of what you tell them and don't look much deeper than your prior projects built, degree, and how well the team work with each other.
I'm watching now and it doesn't seem that bad, sure he switches tabs with the mouse but it seems like he is using quite a lot of keyboard shortcuts otherwise. I'd almost wager he has a plugin to emulate vim or emacs keybinds, seeing as he's moving the cursor forward by words and jumping around the code a lot without using the mouse at all.
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I like the concept and would use this. The only issue is that the factors for competition are either low in the SEO ratio or the site's factors don't include very important facets of SEO therefore the tool isn't complete so you would be stuck with ok suggestions that require the same manual vetting afterwards.
> as opposed to being comparatively ineffective but personally involved with charity, for the purpose of impressing people in cocktail conversation

I imagine there is also an element of personal fulfillment, satisfaction, and enjoyment that philanthropists get from being personally involved with charity--if that encourages them to donate more than a person who chooses not to be personally involved, it might be of net benefit. When you factor in the PR value, personal network, and unique expertise/insight that enormously successful captains of industry may provide, their involvement may be more effective than you're implying. (Especially since I'm not sure personal involvement with charity really replaces "wealth generation" very often... it seems more likely to replace retirement or a golf hobby.) Of course, I have no concrete data to back that idea in any direction--if you do, I'd be very curious to see it.
> Facebook says its algorithm will now consider how long users spend reading an article as a way of judging the importance.

A result of Facebook monitoring your browsing habits on other web sites.

Thank goodness for Ghostery [1]

[1] https://www.ghostery.com/en/
It's a me, Mario.
Doctor Who. That's the only reason I use Amazon Prime Instant Video. I like Prime for the shipping and the no-extra-cost Kindle books, but with the Instant Video, I just use it to watch the back catalog of Doctor Who.

Although the HBO content is tempting, and we do use it to watch Under the Dome as well.
I certainly am getting a lot more push back on chomsky vs skinner that i ever imagined.

Could we generally agree that language is instinctual and follows formal or formalalizable rules? If so, then i'd say my point still stands.
Are the networks you talk about tamper-proof? I vaguely remeber that any attempts at making ad-hoc mesh network temper-proof didn’t succeed.
Doesn't this create a new incentive for people to steal your stuff?
When you add your partners email/name it automatically sends them an email to fill out their portion of the application. It used to be a pain to gather everyone's info individually and paste it into the one application, so this brings collaboration to the application so your team can contribute their share.
Official LinkedIn + Crunchbase Analysis of Tech Investment
The LinkedIn Data team combined LinkedIn data assets with funding records from Crunchbase to produce this look at the demographics and relationships of more than 1200 entrepreneurs who raised venture capital funding in 2013.
Agreed - very uninviting flow.

It would be better to ask for the email in the same page as the first search, or the infinitely better "enter email to save your search".
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My flow has always been a mixture of keyboard and mouse. Even as far back as RHIDE with DJGPP. I basically program with 90% thought, 10% code. So a faster interface doesn't change much for me.