skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite get it. Normally, both the applicant and the employer take a risk when the latter decides to hire. You could argue that an employer takes the biggest risk.

In this system al the burden and risk is shifted solely on the applicant. So what does he or she gets in return? It's not clear from the article. I would expect that in order to attract applicants they must

- either be desperate,

- or have a salary offer in sight more than 2.5 times the market's average.
+1 re: phone nerds. I had an HTC Apache (AKA Verizon XV6700) at the time, and I wouldn't give up on the idea of a physical keyboard. I was running my customized ppc kitchen BuildOS image (Win Mobile 6.1 stripped down iirc) before upgrading to the original Droid because of the much-higher-res screen. I ran Bugless Beast on the Droid and painstakingly updated it usually within 24 hours of a new release. Before the Apache, I had a Nokia 6600 with Symbian S60, and even as a kid I wrote VB5 for my 3Com Palm Pilot Professional.

I'm typing this on an iPhone 5, and I'll be pre-ordering the 6+ as soon as I can. This is my second iPhone; I started with a 4S. Fighting with Android became less and less appealing over time, and I currently only jailbreak iOS to get bluetooth / wifi tethering and because my physical mute switch is broken after a swim in the sink which I've worked around using Activator to toggle silent with a long-press on the status bar.
It varies. In the UK we have the charge "Causing death by dangerous driving". Simply defined "A person who causes the death of another person by driving a mechanically propelled vehicle dangerously on a road or other public place is guilty of an offence."

Note there's no nod to accidents there. If you're speeding, if you're making lane changes without looking. If you're entering spaces designated for cyclists, or pedestrians; then it's not an honest accident. An accident, yes, but a criminal one, not an honest one.
How-to: Translate from MapReduce to Apache Spark
The iPod Nano actually launched in black and white, briefly dropping the color options from the earlier HD based iPod mini. That was toward the beginning of Apple's black/white phase.

Thru went back to colors pretty quickly, probably for a mix of fashion and scratch resistance. There was a class action about the plastic nanos getting damaged too easily.
Or you can benefit from confused consumers' perceived value by identifying with the established product.

ie: Outlook, Pentium, Godzilla
Everybody said it was stupid and nobody would buy it, and now the sales figures speak for themselves.

The reception to the iPad was overwhelmingly positive (if we really need to go to archived press and reviews, we can do that, but this revisionist nonsense about the iPad's reception needs to stop). And I don't remember anyone doubting that it would sell, just as I have no doubt that Apple will sell tens of millions of this watch regardless of any defects.

What people criticized was the notion that the iPad killed laptops -- that it was the new vehicle of productivity. And the terrible name which, while it stuck, remains terrible.

And those critics were by and large right. I know people can point to the fringe "productivity" use of an iPad, but overwhelming we use it for casual browsing, watching videos, and playing casual games. Exactly the same sort of stuff that we did on PMPs before. Because the iPad is a biggie-sized PMP, and it was hardly the first to idealize the notion that PMPs were cool, but would be cooler bigger (the "CrunchPad", for instance, was proposed two years before the iPad. The concept was obvious, albeit within a narrow band).
What the fuck
http://i.imgur.com/Zf2CJzS.jpg
The same would have been said about vacuum tubes...
Yup, this seems very directly like a transfer of risk from the employer to potential employees.

But remember -- there's an engineering shortage! We can't hire good people! We need ten times as many h1b visas! (Pay more? Take a slight risk? Hire someone without five years of experience (in a four year old tech) doing exactly what we think we want them to do? Now why would we do something like that?)

Edit: and nonsense like this is going around. I recently talked to a very early stage startup that just raised either a very large angel round or a smallish round A. The phone screen went well, and my experience and skills were a great match. But then the ceo wanted to do a reference check to proceed not to an offer but to an in-office meeting with the other founders! I said that, well, my references are ceos and chief scientists and they're very busy; I can't impose on them just to see if maybe there's a fit. But again, I'll bet good money he's complaining to his peers about how hard it is to hire.

edit2: I'm gonna channel michaelochurch: this is beyond fucking amazing.

Not all positions lend themselves to candidate auditions. At Entelo, Joor
and Weebly, candidates for senior executive positions rarely go through a
trial process.

So yeah, all that shit about how execs are treated better? That's it right fucking there. At Entelo, Joor, and Weebly, if you're a regular asshole and dumb enough to want to work there, you gotta suck it up and audition. But an executive? Come on -- we're all equal, but some of us are more equal than others. All that writing Michael does about high-status and low-status jobs, this is how execs want to treat the low status employees. You should all read this [1]

[1] https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-othe...
So, there are 3% of roads within 10 miles of you that predate automobiles and which you can absolutely guarantee were never built for horse and carriage.

What were they for exactly?
Where is Uber Growing / Hiring? Maps+Analysis of Posted Uber Jobs
This is an quick analysis of the 400+ Uber jobs posted broken down by category and location. KimonoLabs (YC W14) was used to do the scrape
Uber has an API, but I looked into Uber's TOU a week a two ago and they explicitly disallowed this sort of thing (comparison shopping). Maybe it's just an estimate?
i still consider it bad form. i don't do it. i think it's an especially petty way of expressing yourself.
Your presumption is that money needs to be spent. Some people try to limit flagrant indulgence in consumerism regardless of income level.
> If I juggle chainsaws in a crowded plaza

That's a terrible analogy. The correct one is if I choose to juggle chainsaws in the chainsaw juggling room. And some people think it would be a good idea to come in there with me and start doing cartwheels. Then when one of them gets hit with a saw complains about all the chain saw jugglers.

All the chainsaw jugglers have accepted the risk of their activities and are even doing it in a purpose built room just for them. While the cart wheelers just want to coopt and use somebody else's space without accepting the dangers of it and despite it being purpose built for somebody else.
Regardless of whether or not it's a better watch, unless it has an Apple logo on it somewhere and they hide the Motorola logo, then I doubt very much that that would ever happen.
Yeah, that is a big difference. Dropping $600-ish on a watch (figure pulled from thin air) is one thing, but usually when people do that, it's gonna be their watch for many years.
I think calling it an OS might be a stretch. "Linux distribution" is perhaps a little more accurate.
Russia didn't invade Crimea out of the blue. From Russia's perspective the start this whole thing is closer to when the US helped overthrow Ukraine's government and was actually caught on tape micro-managing some of the government transition[1].

Imagine what the US would do if, for instance, Russia were to help overthrow Mexico's elected government and install parties friendly to its own interests in their place.

1. http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/...
So the police and state must suddenly take on this effort? At what cost? Where do the police resources come from? Even then, what if the cyclist still can't afford it? They have to walk? Do they need insurance if they are late and have to run, maybe jay-walk a couple times?

A working bicycle can be found for under $50 in even the most expensive cities, have $0 in operating costs, and will last for decades. There are likely no other personal transportation options which offer that.

Get out of our bubble. Some people have $0 and literally can't afford anything in their budget or to plan more than a few weeks ahead... They can't account for unknown events, and frankly don't need to worry about going bankrupt because of an accident.

Poverty is fucked up.
Which locations does this website have actual data for? Just tried two places in San Francisco and it said it had no data.

Is this an actual site or just a one pager looking for interest?
Sadly, a significant proportion of the human population is sociopathic. So far the best answer we've found as a society is to try to avoid allowing such people to be in situations where they will do real harm to others.

Fortunately, most people aren't like that, so attempting to establish conventions so everyone can interact safely on the road (or in the park, for that matter) is still worthwhile.
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You keep making the same mistake - you keep saying that roads are only for motorised vehicles.

You repeat this mistake despite being shown an example US law that explicitly states that roads are not just for motorised vehicles.
Actually if you want to take that article literally it means that in almost every case a cyclist is killed it's their fault. Demonstrating once again that cyclists presume everybody else's area, even to the point of danger to themselves.
What happens if another object holds a reference to p? Bad things?
I thought Apple would say: the market ain't ready for a smartwatch. Nobody wants to pay for a watch that has to charge every 24 hours (or less).

That's immediatly the biggest mistake from the Moto360, the watch looks awesome... But the battery life is too short :(
Literally everyone I have seen remarking on the typography has said the exact opposite. And I concur with them, I think the type and the new typeface is one of the best parts.
We grow one of these strains in our back yard here in southern Florida. You can't peel them and eat them like a "regular" banana, but you can slice the fruit from around the seeds (in the middle) and make some awesome banana bread the taste of which is quite simply impossible to achieve with store bought bananas. My kids say they taste "way more banana-y" than the ones from the store.
Provided that the "solid consulting rate" isn't pure bullshit, then I don't see the problem here.

In a traditional hiring process, you'd be hired, not work out in the first month, and then get fired. No unemployment or ongoing insurance for the employee, and a lot of paperwork and the possibility of a wrongful termination lawsuit for the employer.

By starting things off on a contract, both the employer and the employee have a chance to evaluate one another. It's really exactly the same as the traditional hire-fire process, but with less paperwork, and clear expectations on both sides.
Yeah this seems really anti-worker to me. Sadly, the direction things seem to be predominantly going lately.
openldap, pam_ldap, etc?
An at fault minor accident, sure. An at fault accident that causes the death of another person - a very small percentage of the population. Penalty is at least acknowledgement to the victim's family that a fault of another caused their death, and action has been taken in an effort to prevent this from occurring again.

I really couldn't give a damn if those drivers who have killed another human being due to their driving were not allowed behind the wheel again.

The severity of the penalty is another matter. But your words advocate no penalty, and this idea that "hey, we all screw up sometimes, don't sweat it".

You talk of percentages. Look at the percentage of cyclists killed by vehicles in the US. If all we cared about was percentages, there would never be a drive for cycle lanes, there would never be a movement towards cycle oriented cities. You are telling a small percentage of pioneering citizens to suck it up, because "you knew the risks". Some scream of entitlement. I think cyclists are entitled to their lives. Don't you?
Humans driving at the legal speed limit are dangerous by their nature. We arent perfect and dont see everything - the likelihood of an accident is simply a matter of probability.

If you can't drive safely at a given speed, slow down. It's really as simple as that.

(Yes, of course there are exceptions. If you're driving an emergency response vehicle then the likely damage caused by arriving later may be genuinely greater than the likely damage caused by going faster. But obviously we're not talking about that sort of situation here and for normal driving it really is that simple.)
What two places did you try? It works for me.
I don't really think I'd accept this unless I had no other job prospects or I really wanted to work at the place I was interviewing/'testing' at.
> We're now within 2x on 10-year-old hardware and beating it on newer.

Is it an apples-to-apples comparison though? If you use the same programming approaches in C++ as you're using in Roslyn (immutable structures, etc.), do you expect you would still keep beating it?
West LA and vacinations
Do you take your watch off at night.. leave it on a bedstand?

How much harder with it be to tap the magnetic power thingie on? Not at all.

When Apple Watch 2.0 comes out, will battery life be longer? Quite probably.

This is just the beginning. If people can get used to charging their phone 1-3x a/day, they can plug their Watch in at night. Not perfect, but I don't think this is a deal breaker.
I sure do remember that being a lot more awesome at the time.
It's NPR, you should demand a refund.
Sure, I'd raise my hand. But this is a very strange point for the OP to raise. Driverless cars are not at option at this time (calm down, I know they exist, I cycle amongst them daily). In the future, sure.
I know many people who will happily spend $350 on an iWatch who wouldn't even consider a mechanical watch at any price. I think this watch is for them.

I also think mechanical watch makers are going to wake up one day and realize their market is getting old and dead.
They make you do 3 weeks of work in the span of 1 week. Getting the work done is a hard criteria, so even if you only end up getting 2.5 weeks of work done, the company is still WAY ahead, and you've just spent your vacation time and the company spent a tiny amount of money. It would be one thing if they were testing you with work they've already done (build a module from scratch similar to what we did), but I have a feeling they're taking mostly completed stuff from the failures and using it in production. This is pretty much zero risk to the employer because at worse, they're just spending cash as if they were hiring a (more expensive) contractor

I think they're interested in actually hiring people, but it's a nice side effect that they get some low-cost work done (the article doesn't mention the pay, but I doubt they are compensating you what you make at your current position + intangibles for taking your vacation to work there). Another metric to look at would be whether this company is actually investing in their employees (paid training, conferences, new productivity tools, etc.). The trial period, supposed workload, and the hard criteria that you MUST complete the work is a huge red flag.

I guess it's a bit of cash in pocket for the unemployed though.
This common misconception below requires specific addressing.

>This is an incoherent analogy brought about by anthropomorphizing non-human creatures,

No. It is the other way around. The same level of sentience should be treated the same irrespective of the specific set/pile of cells the sentience resides in.
One of the features Apple has mentioned for its watch is its ability to use its little force feedback mechanism to make different pulses depending on whether you're supposed to turn left or right, so you don't actually have to look at the directions. It actually sounds like kind of a neat idea.
Aussie Personal Finance Startup PocketBook Hits 100,000 Users
This one? http://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/34204707#Kdb5k...
Assume an intern would get $10 an hour or $400 a week. If you think a typical competent intern would generate $2,000 a week in revenue, then you'd want to set commission at 20%, or ideally 25% to compensate the intern for the risk they're taking.

The thing is, though, that your losing your time and focus is a big opportunity cost of hiring an intern, so you shouldn't hire someone you doubt can do what you want. Hire carefully, pay a normal salary and you'll be happier and also attract better candidates.
>By starting things off on a contract, both the employer and the employee have a chance to evaluate one another. It's really exactly the same as the traditional hire-fire process, but with less paperwork, and clear expectations on both sides.

That's got to be compensation for New York not being a right-to-work state
"That’s up dramatically from 1984, when kids got shots to ward off seven classics such as polio and the flu. Now, a child could get up to 19 shots in the first six months of life."

Assume 2 hours per visit per shot. That's 38 hours, basically a full work week. Also, having lived on the West Side, you also have a lot of traffic to contend with. As a parent there you could potentially spend ~60 hours getting shots for your child in 6 months. I'm not saying AT ALL that you should not be vaccinated, but honestly, it does take a lot of clock hours.
> For instance, I'd guess based on my general impressions of Scandanavia and other civilized places that Norway has publicly-funded universal healthcare. Good on you for that.

Thanks! The first time I really understood the North American model where people have to pay to send their kids to college or go to the doctor, that was an eye opener for me. I now happily pay my taxes.

> Now, doesn't it make sense for some of the taxes on owning and using an automobile to go toward public health?

Absolutely. I think I mentioned it in the post. The part I don't like is where they call it road tax or environmental tax only to go ahead and use it for something completely different.
I also don't get it. Don't most companies already apply a 3-month period where if you don't cut it you're fired? Every company I've worked for has, and only one failed to fire people (because no one wanted to work there and they'd rather have bad workers than no workers)
Have set these up a number of times, but ran into some... fun problems:

1. It's a central point of control. If I use a cloud-hosted LDAP service and that gets 0wned by l33t haxx0rz, then I am in the soup.

2. LDAP can't add/remove users to PostgreSQL et al.

3. Even with NSCD, network connection hiccups can and will lock you out of your machines, usually exactly at the time when you really need to be on them.

4. LDAP flailover is a black art. I ended up having my entire authentication infrastructure wedge itself shut during a "chaos monkey" testing run, where the master went down and came back up, and then locked itself into eternal war with its replacement.
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> the indexed result pages are http:// not https:// - but to my knowledge google forces https:// everywhere.

Google only forces HTTPS for certain User-Agent strings. I just tried fetching http://www.google.com with the Googlebot User-Agent string and Google did not redirect to HTTPS.
Slightly offtopic: If you can abuse the working populace with this (due to economic conditions), its time for a basic income.
Of course, but this thing costs something like the median after-tax annual household income in the US. Who else buys this stuff?
> I can assure you as a commute cyclist in Berlin that it's not [safer to bike on the sidewalk than in the street]. The less car drivers see you as traffic the more dangerous it gets.

I don't get this. Are they going to drive up on the sidewalk and hit you because they don't see you as traffic? How do the pedestrians survive?
Slight confusion here - A bicycle lane that's sharing the same surface as the sidewalk isn't a sidewalk, it's a bicycle lane.

How you cross the road follows the rules of the road - ours have stop/yield markings at signalled junctions, and the lane carries on across the road on an unsignalled junction.

In the later case, I have right of way crossing the road you're waiting to turn into - because I'm not leaving my lane, and you are.

A bicycle in a bike lane is not a pedestrian. It's not on a footpath. It's a vehicle on a surface designated for vehicles. We're still traffic.
I love products like these. Slices right through all the promotional noise like "fun drivers," "fast pick-up times," "clean cars," etc and gets right to chase -- price.

At the end of the day, they are all taxi services in my book. Whichever gets me from point A to point B the cheapest wins my dollars. Fast pick-up times, a sexy functional app, and other common sense differentiators are expectations now, not selling points.
I tried to tell them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1727208

Nokia had systemic problems that were clear to anyone working with them.
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Ah, commie blocks
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=477
I think this is a key point that's further backed up by Apple's recent hiring of people from the high-end fashion space.

It certainly seems to me that Apple aren't even trying to directly compete for the audience that Android Wear attracts.

Ben Thompson[1] has been talking for months about Apple moving properly into the luxury goods sector. The Watch seems like their first real push in that direction.

[1]: http://stratechery.com
There is no magic formula that says Apple is successful because it waits.

Apple builds what they believe is a meaningful product, and often this involves assembling many more components than their competitors, so it takes them longer.
You'll want to adjust yellow taxi fares from Manhattan to JFK and reverse. This is done on a flat fee.
Yup. Because a project that's never done can't beat a project that will be.
I myself, and many of my friends, fall into that category. I realize for some that a mechanical watch may be a fashion icon or status symbol but for most, it's utterly useless. It tells time and my phone already does that.
Article is a good summary, quora thread is www.quora.com/Which-Googler-holds-the-record-for-living-at-Google-HQ
Which was precisely my point :)
Is a probationary period really meaningful in the context of at-will employment?
Are you setting references to null in Scala? :(
A marketing/sales retail machine, with the best product design and engineering on the planet to supply it.
> This is how people imagined the future of telephones a mere 30 years ago!

There's a part in this terrible move "Time Cop" (1994, set in 2004) where one of the characters uses this communications device that's a rectangular slab with a 2" or 3" bezel and is two or three inches deep, but has a touch screen. I thought, wow, this is what they thought an iPad would be, but what we have is actually better.
> noting that candidates are generally eager to test the waters before committing to a job and that they are treated legally as employees even during the trial period

I'm not seeing any upside for candidates here ? What does it even mean to "commit" to a job in this context ?
Watches are fashion accessories first, and time pieces second. So no. And I wear a fossil watch 24/7 not sure if I want a apple watch, but it does look sexy.
> It wasn't like we grabbed a can of "Live" spraypaint and hit everything we could see.

To me, it sure seemed that way. Went from a perfectly usable, lightweight "MSN Messenger 4.0" client to some slow-as-molasses abomination "Live Messenger".