skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Guys, feel free to make up your own dragons if you want, but your speculation is just that: speculation. We literally have not even discussed this yet, because we have a ton of work to do to respond to the huge volume of feedback we're getting, and have to get a huge number of things (e.g. access control!) done before the 1.0 release this fall. You can imagine that many of us want it to be open source and part of llvm, but the discussion hasn't happened yet, and won't for some time.

Sorry to leave you all hanging, but there is just far too much to deal with right now.

-Chris"

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-June/073698....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lattner
Sugars in the context of adequate minerals, vitamins, and proteins support growth. Foods like fruit juices and potatoes are nearly perfect in this sense. If you want short, dumb kids please starve them of highly usable metabolic energy and nutrients.

Obviously this is not an invitation to stuff a sedentary kid full of excess calories to the point of adiposity. Be sensible.

Cite the study is a game for retards in these venues.
A Package in a league of its own: Helm
Hey, as I mentioned in my response to klodolph, I used 128 CBR because I knew it would likely not be transparent and wanted to demonstrate false positives, hits, misses, correct recognitions, etc. I wasn't trying to make some authoritative critique of MP3 just because it's low settings are indeed low quality.
Here's the LWN story of this "incident": http://lwn.net/Articles/593676/ ; it has all the proper sources in links.
> I don't see how you can possibly take this "We haven't even talked about it and I can't say when we will" as a declaration that Swift will be open-sourced.

I never, ever said Swift was going to be open-sourced. My only point is that, despite whatever circumstantial evidence you've cited, Apple has not decided that they don't want Swift to be open sourced.

> Also, he said they have stuff to do before the release this fall. That happened, and still not a word about it.

The fall "release" was incomplete - it didn't ship with Swift support for OS X. Presumably they've been spending the time between the fall release of Xcode 6.0 and 6.1 (which came out yesterday) working on finishing the language. Even before 6.0 was officially released they were already releasing developer previews of 6.1.
I'm a fan of xiph but hadn't seen these two before, thanks for the heads up.
One alternative is dnsmasq.

No really. Systemd now includes a caching DNS server and DHCP. Another alternative is ntpd. No really. Systemd now includes a time daemon.

Being intellectually lazy I like to think of the alternatives as "choice" and "linux".
I don't know why she changed the founder's name, it's pretty easy to figure out when there are only two founders.[1] It looks like Umang Dua, HBS '13[2]. He's on Twitter as @umangdua if anyone would like to ask him about this incident.

[1] https://www.handy.com/about
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/umangdua
[3] https://twitter.com/umangdua
Yep, given the size, it's a bit insane.
In the specific privacy-list usecase, were very early users of Redis (2009 timeframe).

We used RDB persistence for a while but eventually our load got too high for the fork()-and-snapshot model to work for us.

When AOF was introduced we tried using it but the initial few releases were extremely buggy to the point that it lost data and confused us more than it provided persistence.

We eventually decided that since we were using Redis as a glorified cache anyway (not a source of truth), we might as well leave it to the in-memory only configuration and make our state-restoration system faster and more robust.

I've never used Redis as a source of truth / persistent data store because when I'm evaluating a database to use as a persistent source of truth, it needs to have a strong story around storage durability, replication, node failure recovery, and CAP tradeoffs / partition tolerance specifically.

NOTE:

I've used Redis since 2009, of course (still do!), and was just expounding on the anecdote from my parent post.

All that's changed in terms of persistence for my use cases is that AOF tends to be fairly workable and not very buggy anymore, and that using a snapshot-slave makes the RDB snapshot approach more workable. Because the replication/clustering story has never offered any good guarantees around node failure or partition tolerance, I haven't used Redis as a source of truth - I simply use the persistence features to prevent needing to repopulate/re-warm my cache and list+graph store in the event of an outage.
TL:DR - Microsoft Word is bad; Wordperfect is (still) nice.
No discussion of non-WYSIWYG word processing.
Where is the Core Data source?

I'm pretty sure it's sealed in a wooden box—right next to the Ark of the Covenant—in that warehouse you see at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

* Core Data uses exceptions for control flow: http://restkit.tumblr.com/post/40736602228/dealing-with-core...

* "iCloud with Core Data is a developer’s worst nightmare" http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4148628/why-doesnt-icloud-...

* Apple's documentation is a joke: http://thermal-core.com/2013/09/07/in-defense-of-core-data-p...

* The object graph model is a problematic abstraction for a lot of what we want to do with a persistence framework: http://inessential.com/2010/02/26/on_switching_away_from_cor... (NSBatchUpdateRequest doesn't do me much good since I can't drop support for iOS 7.x, or 6.x for that matter, yet)

I could go on, but you get the idea...
I don't know whether it was just unclear to me or unclear in this article but (after checking man stow), here is the relevant section of the man page that cleared up how it worked for me:

The stow directory is assumed to be the value of the "STOW_DIR" environment variable or if
unset the current directory, and the target directory is assumed to be the parent of the
current directory (so it is typical to execute stow from the directory /usr/local/stow). Each
package given on the command line is the name of a package in the stow directory (e.g., perl).
By default, they are installed into the target directory (but they can be deleted instead using
"-D").
You do understand that electricity is still needed to charge these cars, right, and that a lot of that energy comes from oil (or worse, coal).
They can also recognize their siblings.[1]

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070611/full/news070611-4.htm...
I think this highlights that when it comes to anyone that has anything of yours, you never know what's going on behind the scenes. This is why I don't use things like LastPass. I know they say they're secure, I figure I would have read a news article if they weren't, I figure some sort of audit will have happened by independent experts. But if I read an article in The Guardian tomorrow telling me that one rogue employee had been decrypting and using passwords of certain people I would not be surprised (I'd be up on my high horse in no time).
I should say I'm not picking on LastPass - I mean any service that has data that I wouldn't feel comfortable giving to a friend.
The problem is that systemd is taking a lot of work better spent in other parts of the project. Instead of testing systemd, it's better to user simpler components, systemd is evolving, introducing more bugs, and people like that packager have to make a Herculean effort instead of using other init system, even sysv! and improving other applications.
...and which seem to largely be collected in the book Cracking the Coding Interview [1]. If you can answer all of their sample questions, you should do fine at a Google interview -- once your brain is used to the task of solving small algorithmic problems, it should get easier, even if the precise question they ask isn't in that book.

Easy for me to say, since I find problems like those easy; I cranked through a few dozen of them with only having to really think about a couple.

If you can't answer them all yet...well, now you have something specific to study.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...
I want a Tesla. Based on me saying this, do you think that I'm definitely going to buy a Tesla? Well, I am not, because I haven't got the money.

A statement of personal desire on the part of one individual is different from a statement of intention or interest on the part of Apple. Lattner specifically says alongside his personal desire that they haven't even considered open-sourcing Swift.

So what am I looking for? A statement to the effect that Apple will open-source Swift.
Full work day interviews where you do actual work for the company are technically illegal. If you want to mess with them, you can file a suit in small claims court for whatever hourly rate you feel like, and it'll be a huge pain in the ass unless they settle and pay you quickly :)
I work in startups in NYC. None of the things described are even remotely close to shocking for me - I've seen all of the above first-hand either in offices or at startup events.

That said, I've never seen all those things under the same roof, much less in a single day. The perfect storm of insanity makes me doubt the author's story a little bit, but each of the things she's brought up I've seen.

Shit, I literally just read a racist internal email an hour ago about the new cleaning lady at the office.

Plus the pointless credential-rundown you get every. single. goddamn. time. you meet a startup person in this city. Oh, you went to Harvard 10 years ago? That's so relevant considering we just met 2 minutes ago! You used to work at Goldman and now you're doing a consumer-tech startup? Yeah, that really needed to be in the first 3 sentences you've ever spoken to me.
What I do is just keep all of the dotfiles in ~/dotfiles and symlink them to the home directory, then I can keep track of them with git. Doesn't have to be any more work than that. Maybe it's not an issue for me because I only use one machine, and when I switch to another, I just pull down my dotfiles from github and symlink them again. I only do this every couple years.
Natural underground CO2 reservoir reveals clues about storage
I'd wager that in Michigan, a large part of the constituency works for non-Tesla car manufacturers. They might be just fine with it.
It may not be hate speech, but it is not very constructive and have a smell of conspiracy theory.
They say they do a "SCREENING AND BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR SAFETY" for the Shopper Girl. Will they do it for the shopper as well for her safety.
Developers are all the same, how could I expect to be the only one thinking of this? Anyway, I made it down to the 4th level in appetize.io-ception before the sessions started timing out.

http://i.imgur.com/wCIXQUB.png
It Looked Like a Stabbing, but Takata Air Bag Was the Killer
I sympathize, but I have to say I find it far less annoying than the constant implorings to "follow me on Twitter!" that have become obnoxiously ubiquitous in the last few years.
Life is not known intimately to man yet.
We're still in the metaphors phase as you can see.
I call it corruption as well. Any time the government violates its own laws, or violates human rights, that's corrupt.

I think americans believe their government is less corrupt in part because corruption is not identified as such.

Illegal domestic spying is corrupt, and a crime... yet no charges have been filed (for instance). This matter here, is possibly in an area where the law isn't as settled, so corruption is an opinion, rather than a fact, but an opinion I would agree with.
How about "Veloces" (Latin for 'swift")?
You can't be serious. So now the message is girls typically understand style, guys typically don't, and if you dislike that message then maybe you're just easily influenced by advertising. As a guy that loves fashion, the message is clearly "You're an exception to the rule" and the rule is a stereotype.
The article doesn't explain how stow 'knows' where to place the symlinks.

The answer is (of course) in the help output:

-d DIR, --dir=DIR Set stow dir to DIR (default is current dir)
-t DIR, --target=DIR Set target to DIR (default is parent of stow dir)
saying why you came up with the idea for your company

No, that's puffery. No-one cares except him. The interviewee wants to know what kind of work she will be doing, what the pay is, what the benefits are, and the expected working hours. Anything else is way down the list, especially for a low level employee.

Having to provide your own device is not really that insane for small teams

Yes, it is. Do they bring their own chairs and tables, too? It's a business with employees FFS. I might let this go if they were contractors, but you do business on company-owned equipment with specific exceptions as needed.

It's super easy to pay for a trial period

If they work for you, you pay them. End of story. My kid was supposed to work on a neighbor's farm, but got let go after 1/2 hour due to illness. He was still paid for that 1/2 hour. Again, it's a business

Not having any onboarding, given that the trial was for a day isn't too surprising

The only reason it's not surprising is because they have already shown how disorganized they are. Seriously, I've had temp jobs where I was supposed to work one day and the owner still took 10 minutes to explain what I was supposed to do for that day!

These aren't "growing pains." This is a purported business operating like a frat house. Yes, I seriously hope they improved over what it shown here but as it is, I'm still amazed somebody actually gave them money. I am really in the wrong business!
nice and handy app. can be used in many places/situations.
> Lyme is now the number one infectious disease in New England.

Do you have a source for that claim?

edit: asked an ER doc, they joked "that's ridiculous, it's the common cold". Also my research and the doc suggest that Lyme is second to Chlamydia.
Mark Zuckerberg Talks Unfiltered at Harvard (Circa 2005)
10 Reasons you have to quit your job in 2014
Obama signs “BuySecure” initiative to speed EMV adoption in the US
I drink (diet) soda because I need caffeine in the mornings. I am not a morning person and never have been. Without caffeine, I will not be mentally alert before 11am.

I hate the taste of coffee, so soda it is.
>I can't believe someone, especially in tech...

Remember, the author of this article (who of course didn't continue working there) isn't in tech. She previously wrote about working at a non-profit theater company and about wanting to teach English.

If you mean the programmers at this startup, yes, that seems odd. But this may be the least worst of the options they have available, or the author may have taken some liberties with her description of the office environment...
Telling a candidate for a 35k/yr CSR position about your struggles finding paid apartment cleaning while at Harvard is in fact tone deaf. That's not a crime, but it's germane. It speaks to mismanagement.

Requiring employees to buy their own computers is past unprofessional; it implies among other things zero IT security. For a CSR position that depends on IT connectivity, it's economically abusive. But it's also penny-wise-pound-foolish. It speaks to mismanagement.

The constant "want to hear a joke" sexist/racist stuff is unlawful. An employee that leaves because they feel forced to make a decision between a hostile environment and no job has a claim against the company. It does not matter if it was supported by the people "working there at the time". It's an example of company mismanagement.
Snyder gets a lot of money from Ford, GM, et. al.

The United Auto Workers gave the DGA about $1 million, according to MCFN. The union was the largest donor from Michigan, followed by the Service Employees International Union, the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters, Ford Motor Company and Caidan Management.
http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/10/michigan...
Warfare, Software, and Industrial Design
I think you can narrow it down. Earning credit isn't bad necessarily, but if the primary way to earn credit is to sit in a class for an hour a day for 4.5 months, then we've probably disincentivized learning.

Credit can be a meaningful way to track an individual's learning, but earning credit should be more closely tied to what you've learned than how much time you've sat in a class.
This execline looks interesting. I use the fish shell, which also abandons POSIX compatibility for simpler parsing. Of course, the "this is not UNIXy" cries are plenty.
> There appear to be a lot of growing pains at Handy, which isn't a surprise, but hopefully they can move fast and get their support/service wing to be as tight and focused as the rest of their team.

Which part of their team is tight and focused?
I guess it matters because it might actually prove our bodies handle HFCS and Sugar differently. I have never seen that proven anywhere else.
Very nice. Is that some kind of US military standard issue cigarette? Because they so many varieties in content now.
Reducing Lyme infections by 80% would still be "making any headway" in my book.
When I was a kid, I saw the movie Logans Run (1970s). They made it to washington DC and found a car. They didn't know what it was, but they shined a light on it, and it started to activate and so they conclduded "maybe this thing is powered by the sun"... and it was.

Well, it's been 40 years since that movie was made. Alas, a solar powered car may still be many years off... but the elegance of it is certainly extremely appealing.

One problem: I love the Tesla's expansive sunroof. Would want solar collectors that are at least semi-transparent to light.
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This wouldn't be a violation of the commerce clause per se. The commerce clause just says that the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce. In other words, the US legislature could pass a law prohibiting these restrictions on Tesla sales, and that law would be constitutional.
> Vetting a place for a hostile work environment, esp. when the company is small and has had few employees, is really difficult.

From the anecdote, it doesn't sound like she interviewed with anyone from the support team, that is a big problem and something she could have asked about. You're right, it's easy to hide, but since she only worked there one day and ran into this, it seems likely it would have been a red flag in the interview process.

> His attitude isn't troubling except in hindsight after we learn that sexism and sexual harassment are A-OK

I agree, which is why I said "but clearly was supported by the people working there at the time" so I'm not sure why you said:

> Uh, the author clearly related that several people seemed uncomfortable by the sexual harassment in the office.

Being uncomfortable with it doesn't mean that it isn't pervasive and effectively sanctioned by the company. So I think we actually agree here, maybe I've phrased something poorly, sorry about that.

> For the low pay those customer service people received, it is abhorrent that they must also pay for supplies

I agree, they should provide equipment at this company, given the context, and the salary of the service employees. My reaction is that I've done this kind of work and this seems to be a common situation at many companies, again this is why I said engineers may not relate well to the story.

You should check with your less prestigious teams and make sure they are getting the same care and attention that your engineers are, you may be surprised at how poorly non technical people are treated even at your own companies.
Thanks, I would like to see your thesis! Enjoy! :DDD
Who said anything about organizing or packaging? Just put the code up on Github with a reasonable license and walk away. Running and maintaining is of course still a problem, but you can hardly expect a company that is out of business to do that.
Thanks, that's a very valid point!
If anyone is looking to build a support/service team, here's a few simple steps to make part of your interview process:

1. Before a phone screen, send several real problems you've encountered and have the candidate write what they would respond, these can be happy and unhappy customers, and they should be answerable without any special knowledge of the company, or with resources available to them (a FAQ page etc...)

Answers should be empathetic, recognize the emotion/state of the person on the other end and attempt to be responsive and human, and apologetic if necessary. Ideally, provide at least one actual response so the candidate can get an idea of what your company's tone is. Some favor long, descriptive answers, others go for short, direct answers. It highly depends on your customers.

2. On the phone, do a live writing exercise (like live coding) see how they respond to a question and how they write while being observed. If your service/support is primarily over the phone, replace writing with a simulated phone call from a customer.

This is mainly to see if they can write ad-hoc, this doesn't even need to be a specific support/service question, it could be something like, write in as much detail as possible about the last amazing meal you had. A lot of support/service is being able to respond quickly and descriptively, and having good communication skills.

3. Onsite, you guessed it, more writing. If you have a technical product, you can add some more technical things here that may involve interacting with your product/internal tools. Have them debug something that actually has happened in the past, or a common issue that your customers run into.

This can be guided, you should help them along if they need it, similar to a complex programming problem, course correct and see how they respond to guidance.
Thanks! Let me know if you've got any questions about it.
Frans - if my memory serves right, I vaguely remember seeing this on someone's blog roughly 1-2 weeks ago. Did you guys independently find this or got the idea from that blog?
It seems to be down at the moment.

edit After thinking about it, I realized that it is possible that this is a joke. Could it be saying that without programming all you will ever get is an error page? I don't seriously think that is what this means, but I found the thought mildly amusing.

edit 2 Nevermind, it is back up. There goes my theory ;)
> India sent a satellite to orbit mars for $74 million, these guys have people answering phones to book odd jobs for $45 million?

And the phones aren't even provided by the $45,000,000! Lunch is though, so maybe that's what the big bucks get you.
Paul Dirac: The Quiet Genius Died 30 Years Ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gun+graph#!/story/forever/0/gun%20...
I thought so too but if you look at the ingredients they both use aspartame.
Massachusetts's tech sector feels its growing weight in politics
Up-voted and seconding. I have worked at startups that have done the same thing. I think this is not an uncommon practice.
There are so many of these useless, poorly executed disastrous "service startups," especially in NYC. Look up Fly Cleaners and their Yelp reviews. Total disaster.

Doesn't matter. They still get millions in funding.

Do people think this is acceptable? Building shitty businesses and just subsisting off VC dollars, businesses that would otherwise never have a chance but get subsidized because they use an app or website to interact with their customers.

I can't wait for all of these people to get wiped out.
I agree so much and I'm going to adopt your terminology :)
It crashed chromium on ubuntu 14.04.1...
Weather apps and the illusion of control in your pocket
You can do the all time bit - there's a leaderboard built with the PH API: http://www.yvoschaap.com/producthunt/
Protect Your Immutable Object Invariants in More Complex Java Objects
Woah really? Sounds interesting, care to share the story?
Just to confirm why I posted this. Due to receiving a down vote. Phoenix is a component of http://ind.ie and the movement they are trying to create. User experience driven design/technology, which empowers individuals to remain connected, while protecting their privacy and freedoms.