skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant experience. Successful projects. Evidence of meaningful contributions. Indications of clear thought and expression. Any of those things might get you to a phone screen and/or programming test.

The details depend on your experience level and the job. Are you applying for an entry-level position fresh out of college? Then I'd love to know that you've used and understand source control. Do you have ten years under the belt? Then focus on your contributions.

Above all, be honest. My coworker phone screened a guy last week. Asked if he had a chance to look at our website. The applicant said "yes, a little", so the interviewer asked him what we do. Silence. We told him to call back in a couple of days. It's okay to say "no, I've been really busy". Trying to BS is such a red flag.
I don't think guy response rates are all that relevant. Let's face it, if a chick is the one reaching out to you, chances are she is of the lower caliber(a fatty). The good looking girls don't need to reach out, they get thousands of emails a month, they don't need to bother looking for guys.
Pretty sluggishly for now, they say http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Applications_for_iPhone...
Hence "brief post". I think no correlation deserves slightly more than to only be rolled into the more meaty articles as a control group.
What happens when they subpoena you for the logs? You're right there in your mom's basement in Tulsa.
Looks like all y'all're right and I was wrong. Ah well, I will turn my attention to another HN front page post, this one on Reading Incomprehension. Perhaps it might help me understand posts like this a little better :-)
I'm not the one who said it wasn't ok to discriminate based on race when you choose who you're going to date. Fuck or don't fuck whomever you want, it's none of my business (FWIW I am white and married to a white woman, but would not have automatically rejected someone for being of another race). I was just asking asking a question. Nobody here has attempted to prove that anything - that it's ok or not ok to discriminate based on race or gender. I'm just asking, what's the difference?

It seems to me that the same principle of equality that says it's not ok to have a preference in partners based on race should say that it's not ok to have a preference based on gender, assuming that discrimination based on gender in general is not ok.

This is the logical consequence of the position that discrimination is not acceptable. Your first attempt to show the difference, based on procreation, was a failure, so you're reduced to calling the next logical step "ridiculous," which is not really an argument. I don't think there is a good argument for your position. 20 years ago, people would have said that the idea that not dating people of a particular race makes you racist was ridiculous, but here we are.
Wait, what? Of course an admin wouldn't just turn it on out of the blue one day, and of course that would be really, really stupid, but admins on the edge are responsible for stuff like this all the time. Turning on compression, setting up firewall rules, configuring caches.

Companies serve old applications, companies serve applications built on different platforms, companies get caught without the resources to rewrite insecure applications that pay the bills. You really think this is something that an ops team wouldn't love to have in its toolbox, to use as needed and where appropriate?

The problem with this stuff is that it requires virtually top-to-bottom surgery on real world apps.

If you can't use it in your app or environment without a huge rewrite, then don't. If you can, then it's gravy.

It is another naive view of applications that says that the dangerous inputs all come from form arguments.

I never said or implied they did, and that's not the only threat this proposal addresses.
Don't... You will still see someone else's 'grep mysql' as well as yours 'man mysql' and any command that just happens to include that string :/
There are a zillion factors which haven't been corrected for. As well as class, they include message length, message quality, profile quality, number of messages received on average by each class of respondee, income, education, number of cats owned and whether or not the man's profile consists of a shirtless photo posing in front of his Honda Civic (and I don't know why that mental image came to mind).

I imagine you could, by using fake profiles and fake messages, do a controlled experiment which took all these factors out. My guess would be that you'd still see a vaguely similar effect but that it would be much less pronounced.
To boil it down to a sentence, "If the CodePlex Foundation wishes to be a real contributor to the free software community, it must not aim at free add-ons to non-free packages."
My Mac does not do hardware video decoding. I can run 8 (!) 720p h264 videos in QuickTime at the same time with less than half cpu usage. I can't run a single one in Flash at full speed.

Flash just sucks terribly, that's all.
Depends. Krugman's actual economics has been brilliant, for the most part. The problem is no one knows him for his economics. People know him for his New York Times column, and the two are only very tangentially related.
Many companies are "under-leveraged". The example you gave is just an extreme. If borrowing a ton of money means you can build new factories / expand product lines / take on new markets, then it might put you in the red for a little while to service the debt, but over time those capital expenditures will pay themselves off.

You don't take out one $500m loan, you leverage yourself in many different ways to maximize the cash you can get out of it (with the rates you pay on it increasing over time.)

Also note that large companies that lose some money are "worth more" than smaller companies that make a little.
If I misunderstood your point, I apologize. Care to correct?

Here's what I understood to be the debate:

Original comment you quoted:
> A lot of dating and who a person would consider for relationships is based on social, cultural and economic considerations, and it’s a simple and unfortunate fact that generally speaking whites are at the higher end of the social and economic spectrums.

Your response (paraphrased, I hope fairly): Vietnamese entrepreneurs and Jewish scientists did quite well, and that's not unfortunate at all. Inequality isn't inherently bad, and we should focus on bringing people up rather than down (or for people to bring themselves up, etc.)

Either your response is a bit of a non-sequitur, or the logical inference is that the fact "whites are at the higher end of the socio-economic spectrum" isn't 'unfortunate' (which is sort of a squishy word, but that's just the OP's language). I understood that to be the point you were responding to - if that's wrong, then I apologize and please do set me straight.

My point was that the OP calling better socio-economic 'outcomes' for whites "unfortunate" is pretty reasonable, as there's a good deal of evidence to suggest that it's not just the result of benign factors (see: history of slavery and segregation; evidence of present-day racism, as in the article I linked).

Likewise (and I sort of hate to use this example), a monopolist's market dominance may be the result of a superior product, or an unfair/illegal abuse of [whatever]. In the latter case, calling that monopolist's position "unfortunate" doesn't seem out of bounds - even if the best remedy is to bring the other market actors up, or even do nothing.

You called the OP out on calling white advantages "unfortunate" - I'm saying, it is.
>>> A lot of dating and who a person would consider for relationships is based on social, cultural and economic considerations, and it’s a simple and unfortunate fact that generally speaking whites are at the higher end of the social and economic spectrums.

That's not altogether true. Asians earn more on average than whites. The ethnic group with the highest income is Indians. It would be interesting to see the stats for Asianas broken down by - "American-ness" - do American-born, accentless Harold and Kumar do much better than FOBs?
Cool as behavioural economics (and santa fey school economics, while we're at is) are, they're not really up to predicting macro economic change yet.

Although, it's easy to argue that neither is macroeconomics.
>A Chicago school economist decides that the cause of the crash was regulation

I don't think that's the point he was making with that quote. What he was getting at was that extensive regulation and oversight did not stop the problem from occurring in that sector. Ergo, extensive government regulation and oversight and intervention throughout the economy is also unlikely to prevent major problems.

If our choices as a society are: 1) major government intervention and problems, or 2) little government intervention and problems, I think I'd prefer the latter.
Wait just a minute - that is a very Republican mindset, sir. I don't think that is very appreciated here.

Oh wait - this isn't digg or reddit so maybe it is...
A weird side effect of visiting this site was that Facebook started serving me the Romanian version of Facebook and wouldn't let go until I set it back to English(US).
This little guy only rolled over because he is constitutionally incapable of looking before leaping.
Yes, I use a contract. Depending on the work, yes, I will consult a lawyer. I had a client that, for $1000 advice-based contract, had a never-ending clause that said something to the effect of, "You are liable for all of our attorney costs and damages in the event something goes wrong." You need to watch out for stuff like that and that's often where the attorneys come in handy.
That explains how they deal with your code, but what are they doing for the Flash Player bits? All of that wasn't written in ActionScript, right?

For example, if your app needs to play a video, where is the video player coming from? If it's Adobe's own, doesn't that mean Flash-equivalent bits are going to be in every compiled app? In that case, and this would be consistent with what they're saying, the main reason for this AOT compilation instead of JIT is apparently to comply with Apple's legal terms.
Point taken, bad choice of words.
This article had a lot of potential, but misses the key points.

What this article should say is:

1. Git needs a shared-library interface, so that interfaces to git can be built without quoting and parsing (the two most error-prone operations in computing).

2. Git's default scripts are a mix of shell, perl, and C that all parse command-line options in their own unique way. Eventually you find what works, but it's by random experimentation rather than by noticing patterns.

3. Git's default scripts are bloated. Quick, how many different ways are there to rebase ("git rebase", "git pull --rebase", ...) or fetch ("git fetch", "git remote update", ...)? Since the code is not necessarily shared, these operations may not even be exactly the same... just mostly the same.

Basically, git is the best version control system available -- but that doesn't mean it's not a software engineering nightmare. It is.

("So why don't you fix this?", you ask? Easy: git works so well that this theoretical annoyance is very low on my list of things to fix. In a perfect world, all software would be beautiful snowflakes. In the real world, there's always something that needs even more fixing.)
ZOMG shut down pastebin now! People are using them copy/paste things that are not actualy code. Tsk-tsk.
If the company management runs a more efficient company, than they get more profits.. it just so happens that the rest of the "shareholders" are also the workers. I don't think it is right to look at the profit-sharing is not a "wage expenditure."

Also, the desire to maximize short-term profits, as a traditional corporation with liquid equity is incentivized to do so, often leads to a lack of research, maintenance and other negligence that eventually adds up. The profit-sharing employees arguably have the long-term health of their source of income in mind and so they don't suffer the same tendency.
Depends. Krugman's actual economics has been brilliant, for the most part. The problem is no one knows him for his economics. People know him for his New York Times column, and the two are only very tangentially related.

(For some reason, I had no reply button on lil_cain's comment).

Cochrane even notes that Krugman's actual econ work was brilliant. I'm old enough to remember when Krugman was young, working out the interactions of game theory and increasing returns in international trade for which he won the Nobel Prize...He once wrote eloquently about how only math keeps your ideas straight in economics." I would agree with lil_cain -- Krugman's econ work was brilliant -- while point out that Cochrane's critique was largely that Krugman is no longer practicing economics.
Interesting info. What is your opinion of the prospects for browsers with canvas, O3D, etc. as a gaming platform?
I like consumer cooperatives like REI and credit unions. The incentive should be to serve people! The profit motive is just one way of trying to achieve that...
You say, "they never claimed causality," but they say, "Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back" and "racism is alive and well".
and then found a rubber band amid the rubble and seized it as an unregistered exotic firearm.
This is what made me laugh:

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts reported that the PACER system was being inundated with requests. One request was being made every three seconds.

Inundated by one request every three seconds? That's pretty pathetic if you ask me. They must not have planned for the PACER system to be used very much by very many people.
A bit unrelated, but how do I find a Lua developer? I have a Lua project I need done soon.
except that the authors were talking about relative response rates among men of different races.
From the reports I've read it certainly isn't clear all the cases are phishing, I know a couple of people who had their accounts compromised and I cannot see them entering their passwords stupidly.
Perhaps there are dictionary attacks. Passport, the precursor "live id" was known to be flawed. It does make me wonder whether microsoft has added new features that need "hotfixing" to make their design secure.
And best way, that will set your mind at ease even if you’re worried that “mysql is running but not responding; it is stuck”: connect to MySQL and issue SELECT 1, SELECT NOW(), SELECT something.

Fortunately this is easy:

$ echo "select now();" | mysql
now()
2009-10-05 19:24:22
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Yes, I can see your reading of it now. But I think it would be disingenuous of him to make that claim, given the repeal of Glass-Steagall and the large reductions in regulation that allowed the problems in banking to be exacerbated (though this claim is itself questioned by other economists).

A position that regulation either failed or was absent from banking adds a third choice, which isn't far from Krugman's: 3) better government intervention and fewer problems.
Since it was all about the economy crashing, I figure when it died the other day, it was art imitating life.
Awesome. We need a video game with the MASTER COMPUTER's voice done with that.
Cochrane was trying to set the context of the crisis. He even notes that the credit crises was an effective run on the banks. For more, see Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1401882
Articles about economics are ok. This is political squabbling. If I saw the Krugman column where he called Cochrane a barbarian posted here on hacker news I would flag that also. This is full on reddit territory.

Here's a link for you: http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2009...
I mean, I took an international trade theory class that was dedicated to Krugman's work... I know he is only popular because of his NYT blog, which, for the most part, seems to only exist to bolster liberal political initiatives, and, to clarify, that is why I think he is overrated.
"What I’m really interested in is developing the community and service, and – on a bigger scale – the open web. I’m not interested in pouring my time and resources into an open-ended legal confrontation."

Your legal opinions aside, his choice is quite reasonable. Not everyone wants to fight the good fight. Or when you were cutting them some slack last week and emailing free advice, did you also have your wallet open for his legal fund?
For example, here's an alternative explanation consistent with their data:

Perhaps black females are generally more solicitous, and send out lots of communications, being generally non-discriminatory about who they communicate with. This would explain both their own high reply rates and their recipients' low reply rates.
First try using Google translate with language autodetect yielded: "Translation from English to English not supported."

After a few more tries I landed on Romanian to English:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&...
What you are describing is just normal financing. IE using debt or equity to fund additional business activities. My understanding of a leveraged buyout is that it usually means:

Buying a company using its own balance sheet. Borrowing at a high rate. Paying back the loan using the companies own cash flow. Selling the debt-ridden company off.

I feel like I am missing something. If it can service these massive loans, why isn't it worth more? How does it become worth more after taking on this (expensive) debt? If the company is so under financed that junk bond rate debt is going to be well worth it, any form of financing should do. Why would you need a private equity fund to do that? I never hear private equity funds described as "experts at finding under financed companies and growing them to full potential."
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Thanks for the feedback. Now that I'm home, I'm going to install.
The website itself is definitely an application of the "Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work" principal. It's pretty much just plain text.

Nonetheless I think it has a fairly good argument, though it could lead to woefully inane mistakes because of not thinking things through sufficiently.
You are assuming that economists operate like weather prediction.

This is not the case. Your assumption is invalid.

Look at it this way: if economists could predict the markets, economists would all be filthy rich.

Markets are inherently chaotic. That's why they work.
I don't buy this article. I'm sitting on my tablet writing this. Handwriting recognition in Windows, in my experience, is anything /but/ mediocre: in fact it's really quite fantastic in Win7. It's the only reason I don't run Linux exclusively on this machine, the tablet support is just phenomenal.

The killer app is definitely OneNote. I /yearn/ for something in Linux that does everything OneNote does, but as of yet I'm disappointed. Full text searching of handwritten notes and handwriting to text conversion both work beautifully.

Why have tablets flopped? The concept just doesn't fit the way some people work. My school did a study (that I was a participant in) on tablet use, and gave a group of 20 students a tablet (Lenovo X60t, at the time) to use for an academic year. Probably half the group just stopped using the tablet aspect of the device, saying they just prefer working on paper. Some people just like organizing their work in notebooks and paper.

Also, the Lenovo X61t (what I have now) is built great. Lots of thought put into this device, and it's solid.
Taekwondo.
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Of course not, it's all a point of view. It's just a critical point to know in the context of fellow economists that the Chicago school is under attack, whether rightly or wrongly, for the current state of the economy.
As a lefty, I always hated that the scrollbars were on the right when I was using a tablet.
The main reason tablets never took off is that tablets are supposed to be a lot more convenient for on-the-go use than notebook computers, but in practice, they aren't. Their size and the fact that they can't be used one-handed means that you give up a lot of the functionality of a notebook for not much more convenience. Shrinking technology and improved touch-screen interfaces have alleviated that problem but actually narrowed the niche even further, because now tablets have to find a space between notebooks and iPhones.

Also, his "3. Input systems" should just say "3. Pens." Microsoft's opinion, which I would normally respect because they have done a lot of work to support tablets, be damned. Stylus-based input seems really awesome until you try it. Even as pointing-and-dragging devices, they're inconvenient. Take them out (with your other free hand), use them, put them back, and make sure you don't drop them down a grate. What a hassle.

I'm expecting, and kind of dreading, Apple proving me wrong and persuading me to part with $600.
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When it comes to sex, it's ok to discriminate on the basis of sex, because when it comes to sex the different sexes are very different. Their sexual characteristics are different, they produce different sex hormones, and they even participate in the act of sex in completely different ways.

Were there to be some activity where your melanin levels were critical (hard to think of a realistic one, but say you were going to be sent on a space journey where extra melanin would be a grave disadvantage nutritionally) then race (or really, skin color - I can't even think of a ridiculous example for race) would be extremely relevant. In that instance, discrimination based on skin color would make perfect sense whereas discrimination based on sex would not have any such obvious connection.

Does it make sense now?
Average number of messages sent (and received) by race/gender would be a good control for this study, I agree. That's a good point.
I worked on VMware's virtual machine monitor from 2000 to earlier this year. I overlapped with Michael Mullany, and his article is a fair recollection of our efforts. The more technical crowd here might appreciate a few additional thoughts.

1. Everywhere he talks about "memory", he really means "privileged virtual memory operations." Flushing the TLB, altering the virtual to physical mappings, changing address spaces, etc. Ordinary loads and stores have always been directly executed at native speed. He also merges "apache" (lots of context switches) and "compile" (lots of process creation and page faults) into the odd-sounding "apache compile").

2. In my opinion, paravirtualization was first a hack, and only retrospectively framed as a performance optimization. By hacking up Linux, the Xen folks were able to get a viable system working much more easily than would have been possible for unmodified kernels. The notional perf advantages of this approach have, IMHO, not been convincingly shown, and RVI/EPT hardware impressively raise the bar for ever demonstrating it.

3. Although I worked on it, I would be very shy about claiming "hypervisor" as a VMware invention. First, it is not an entirely accurate description of ESX, which keeps a much more rigid separation of the "monitor" (responsible for providing virtual CPUs, memory management hardware, and devices) from the "vmkernel" (responsible for driving IO and keeping VMs out of one another's way) than most people imagine when they hear the term "hypervisor". But most importantly, I first remember hearing the term applied to kernels from the first virtualization golden age, in the 1970's. We have stood on these giants' shoulders enough without claiming their inventions for ourselves.
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The difference between CSP and compression, firewall rules, and caching are that CSP alters the way the application works, and the others don't. I've seen drama just in getting modsecurity deployed, and modsecurity is much less intrusive than CSP.