skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case I'd say it's a combination of a lot of different factors (some valid, some possibly bogus, whatever).

In no particular order:

→ Desire to have more control over my own fate / not have a "boss" in the conventional sense

→ Desire to build something bigger than myself

→ Desire to leave a legacy behind that would outlive me

→ Desire to change the world / improve people's lives by creating jobs, creating a place to work that reflects the values of the kind of place I'd want to work

→ Desire to be wealthy

→ Desire to prove doubters / critics wrong

→ Desire to build a great team and do fun things together

etc. It's hard to weight those and say which are most relevant compared to the others, but the "desire not to have a boss" is definitely up there, along with the fact that I just like building things (in this sense, I'm referring to "building" company).

And yes, before somebody says it, I know that "you always have a boss" in some regards. But a "boss" in a metaphorical sense, referring to "the board", "the market", "your customers", etc. is still qualitatively different than having one discrete individual, who has you under his/her thumb, and can yell "jump" while expecting you to say "how high" and who can fire you at will, and generally boss you around.
To expand on this, if the phone isn't particularly well-known, then you'll end up on your own if you want to replace the ROM/firmware with, say, CyanogenMod, since there won't nearly be as much development/porting momentum as there would be for a household-name device.
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The criminal bit was tongue in cheek. The "government control" bit right afterwards was the real point.

I disagree with your comparison. If a gun owner wanted the simplest thing that would work, then their guns would not be so fancy / complicated. There would not be a market for non-restrictive but non-essential gun enhancements.

Sorry my joke wasn't clear to you and that you missed the point that it's conservatives that fear government control over ownership/reselling who have issue here.
I think the site deserves more credit than just "Well, it just happened to be there". Internet forums and discussion boards have been around for quite awhile. Before Facebook groups, there was USENET and phpBBs, some of which still have scientific discussion. And of course, scientists have the ability to use Facebook and other massive social networks to have discussions.

But of all these, Reddit's structure and philosophy (how many other massive sites don't have a shitton of JavaScript applets and social buttons, besides HN) facilitates both the ability to easily participate and moderate...which seems to be integral for these communities to be as active as they are.
The second one would be a bit tough unless we knew previously what directories are associated with what.

We could definitely do the last one. How about sending an alert if someone who has hardly any experience in a particular language touches a file of that language. For example say I have little experience in js and I touched a js file, tenXer would send an alert saying that the lead or someone else on the team needs to review that commit more carefully? We could do the same with lines of code that are really old that have been changed or code that has been written by someone who is no longer at the company/ org.
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Something that is non-objective by nature is a matter of faith, not philosophy.

I do believe in objective morality. Morality is simply the study of what we should do. What should we do? That question is perfectly open to scientific enquiry.

If Hume was right---that the question cannot be answered scientifically---then that's the end of moral philosophy and the beginning, perhpas, of morality based in faith. but I do not agree with Hume.
Sure I do that. But not a dozen (actually mundane) things daily, like the teen's "I'm about to go to this cool party". Among my friends we might mention the highlight of the week by email.
The PDP-8 is such a beauty. I didn't know half of them, thanks for the submission.
But this potentially opens an endless debate against a candidate who is absolutely convinced that they know how to program, and that you're wrong.
Beyond just the legal, one reason is simply efficiency and time. If you have team members that are spending time explaining reasons someone wasn't hired, that is time that isn't productive.

For programming interviews, the tech interviewer has to tell the hiring manager, then the manager tells HR/recruiting, and then recruiting shares the reason with the candidate. I'm not trying to justify the morality of no feedback, as I personally think all interviewed candidates deserve an answer with a reasonable explanation, but when a client says "not a fit" I know it's because they either don't want to spend the time or they don't want to say the reason (usually would be something personal - how do you say "we don't like you" in a non-offensive way?).

Another reason for limited feedback is something you might not realize unless you have been in a position to deliver feedback thousands of times - when you give the reasons you didn't hire someone, they often disagree and may become argumentative. This takes up even more time and becomes a potential PR issue. One disgruntled applicant tells a friend that $COMPANY$ doesn't have a fair hiring process, and word starts to travel. Generic answers like "not a fit" are not helpful, but they are difficult to argue and aren't likely to turn an applicant into someone spreading negative info about your hiring practices.

I still genuinely believe that being as honest as possible is the best way to handle it, and my clients that give actionable feedback often see rejected applicants applying again once they gain more experience.
Homophobic, racist, etc speech should be just as allowed as speech claiming the world is flat and 100 yrs old. The goal should be to have a society reasonable enough that flawed reasoning doesn't take hold, and instead just elicits an eye roll.
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Well in the description he says that it is the result of 2 years of work so I don't think that if there is any automation that it wasn't a significant amount.
"Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." -- Alan Kay
Because unlike the color purple, the Islamic community of France is an oppressed underclass. If this was a bunch of racist stereotypes of blacks, would our answer be to continue to publish racist trash?

These things can offend more than just extremists. Obviously this massacre is absolutely terrible, but the content of Charlie Hebdo regarding Islam was extremely offensive, and served mainly to increase the isolation of the French Muslim community
If those first 30 seconds don't involve the candidate saying "I can't believe you bought those lies on my resume", or "Do I smell ok? I made sure to shower this month", your hiring process isn't actually good if you can prejudge it in 30 seconds.
So unless I'm reading the cached text wrongly 38 people read the given manual and answered programming questions based on it. They then met informally.
Lets say they burnt a day on this.

27 of those people then suggested being taught how to program in APL (after building a classroom). I'm assuming anyone who didnt want to attend got cut.
3 additional days spent.

They were then given 3 weeks to solve some difficult problems.
Estimating they spent 4 days solving those problems.

They then re-met and were interviewed.
Another day spent.

So to get to the end a candidate had to spend best part of two work weeks doing nothing but learning and programming an obscure language. No time for interviewing elsewhere, earning a wage, or attending college classes.

I would really hope he cared about the majority of the candidates who spent so much of their own time and money to be rejected with nothing to show for it. Most companies would have interviewed a couple of times, given a few hours of programming/aptitude testing and made a decision as to whether to hire the person (and teach them the job while paying them a fair wage).

Feel free to vote down if I'm getting this all wrong or an being overly cynical.
Isn't that what Tinder is? ;)
>One incentive was the availability of federal funds >earmarked for sex predator stings. Another factor:
>asset forfeiture, which allows police to seize
>the property of people who are arrested even if they aren't convicted.

Whenever arresting people becomes a big earning opportunity, problems are sure to follow. Profit-oriented policing (mainly from traffic enforcement) was one of the grievances that fueled the Ferguson protests/riots.
As a CS student who's still not very confident in his skills and without enough experience to recognize his own weak spots, I would say that "you understand X's language well, but you need to improve your knowledge of algorithms and data structures" or "you have a good theoretical understanding X and Y Computer Science concepts but you need to work on side projects to gain programming experience" or "you have shallow understanding of a lot of languages/technologies but I advice you to concentrate on X or Y until you become good at them instead of jumping between L/T".

I know that very few employers would take the risk to be so frank but I personally wish they were. It would be helpful to the candidates who actually care about improving their knowledge and skills while potentially offending those who are trying to fake it.
Most people find this kind of thing unbelievable, which is why they call it a paradox (the "birthday paradox"). Assuming a perfect 64-bit hash, and "tens of thousands of files" meaning 20,000 files, the chance of collision is one in 46 billion.

However, if they reuse filenames, then the chance of collision is much higher. For example, assuming 1000 distinct filenames chosen at random, the chance of collision rises to about 1 in 10,000.
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Do we have a good estimate of how high the risk of death from cancer is from this therapy? Still, it'll be hard to beat a 91% chance of curing your MS. Advanced MS is a horrible disease.
Isn't that kind of suspicious? What are you really detecting in 30 seconds? I would suspect unconscious bias.
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The 8GB ram limit on the X1 and X250 is still pretty crazy.

I have virtually no reason to upgrade from my X220 (i5 2410, 8GB/SSD+HD) unless it breaks. Sad.
impressed. are votes due to https://twitter.com/cyphunk/status/553116587071635457 ?
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That is hard to avoid, because people are called in to interviews based on how they look on paper. Some blatantly incompetent people write themselves up to look good on paper. They have relevant education, skills, plausible-looking experience and so on.

Following up on some references before calling people in for an interview isn't a bad idea.

Man, I have seen some blatantly incompetent ones. You'd give them a white board and ask them to show a linked list with boxes and arrows. They just couldn't do it.

One case I remember couldn't demonstrate pseudo code for a circular buffer operation based on an array with a head and tail index.
Oh. Yes, low limit full ring games are quite different. If every hand comes to showdown you are all playing loose, and the correct strategy is indeed tight aggressive.

The article and my comment are referring to a two player limit holdem game vs an opponent who does not make mistakes. So I presume this is equivalent to a high stakes match with two professionals.
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They shared the filename, but the story says "even though they were completely different", IE, not the same content. It was a hash collision; certainly rare, but enough project with enough files around the world and it's bound to have happened to somebody.
That's actually what the original post was saying, albeit I had to reread it a couple times to figure that out.
There are maybe opportunities to build a monopoly in the retail space but barriers to entry seem low in most situations.
> Yep, even Ballmer made fun of the new OS

Well Ballmer also made fun of the iPhone when it first came out. Best not attach too much weight to his opinions.
Never heard of this, do you have a link to a source?
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Harborside has been running the most sophisticated operation in the world and they have pretty much been giving away their knowledge base.
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Our HR tells us who to interview. We'd like that to change, and asked for change, begged even, but thats the way it is. Not everyone works in startups.

(These werr people who couldn't program FizzBuzz)

Plus anyone can just make shit up on their resume.
Believe it or not, I was actually asked if I liked to drink. And I don't really drink.
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Oh yeah.... Make it a circle!
I feel this 100%.

You know from the resume whether the person can do the job. It's whether you want to sit next to them for 8 hours a day while they do it.

30 seconds? Yep.
Providing a diatribe from another professor does little to support your argument that professors have any idea as to the amount of administrative work required to make a university function. Indeed, the quote actually supports my argument that most professors are blissfully or even deliberately ignorant of the time and effort necessary to prepare grant proposals for research funding, student grants for student projects and job applications, setting up conferences and workshops for the faculty and students, managing the curriculum, and other tasks necessary for the university to function so that the professors can do their jobs (lecturing and/or research).

None of these burdens was created by the administrative staff--they are external burdens that the administrative staff were hired to address so that the academic faculty didn't have to waste their time on it.
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Loser pays sounds like a good system, and I'll admit your suggestion for amount makes a lot of sense, but what if the lawyer is working entirely on contingency, as many of these cases are?
To build something that could have lasting impact while solving a real problem in the world.
My subjective and anecdotal contrbution : I agree. Reddit has a surprisingly nice balance of liveness and control.
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I sigh at your lazy millenial attitude. A 1950's programmer would have rooted the device and rewritten the baseband software by now.

But even a lazy programmer can load Javascript into Safari on the iPhone to program it. You can even embed the Javascript into a link and save it as a bookmark the home screen.
Combine this with the rise of adjuncts over professors and you find that most of the teaching staff is making much less than their administrative support. I find it insane that as an adjunct you would be lucky to break $25k while seeing job postings at the school for a Benefits and Insurance Coordinator that can make up to $66k.
I get nothing except the menu on the top on Chrome 39 on OS X 10.8.5.

I get this in the console:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'fn' of undefined (spinner.min.js:22)

GIBBER > Object (VN71:53521)

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot redefine property: a (VM71:32699)
Right, but nobody plays a single 9-ball game. For one thing, you can win on the break! But over many games the relative skill of two players will be revealed, just as in straight pool. However, in 9-ball the maximum risk from failing to play a safety is much less--one rack instead of many.
It's great. A year ago we was doing similar project but didn't run it :(

Sad lesson. "Shipping is the feature."
Not really. Research is painfully slow. It takes decades. We really need to find other ways to innovate.
Cool, nice documentation.
I had to make something like this for my last app because I didn't like what was out there.
I enjoyed that. no noise on my chromebook will try on big monitor in the morning.
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Anyone who downvoted this care to explain why? It's extensively sourced and entirely on topic. As its content will find its way into future posts, if there are honest and well reasoned misgivings I would be interested in hearing them so that it may be improved.
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Can't you just write code generation for platform Y while on platform X? I guess you would have to do a bit of copying files around while debugging, but that shouldn't be the main issue when porting a system like this..
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A debate can only happen if you continue to entertain their followups with responses. If someone is silly enough to claim they know how to program (or some other critical skill) when their interview demonstrated that they could not, you can simply stop answering their email. It's sufficient to have given them one explanation for why they're not getting the job; that's more than most potential employers offer.
I would not be at all surprised if a gunsmith somewhere in the USA was currently making replica Cristóbal Carbines for that very market.
How bad can it get? Several years ago I had a Russian team lead at a software company who ate code for breakfast (clearly the top guy amongst over 100 coders) and had excellent leadership qualities.

Later, when the financial crisis hit he was out of work and I found out that he was really bad at interviews. Ever since I've wondered if I was hiring would I be able the spot the diamond in the rough where evidently, very few companies/people can. I'm still not sure.
I just used Freesound today! Funny to see it mentioned here out of the blue.
For me, I just felt that brought on a sense of monotony. The entire sequence could take a good couple of hours. Good game design drives you onwards because you're excited about what's coming next (the same rule applies with good novel writing). I would instead groan to myself and think "ugh, again?".

The story was the redeeming feature throughout this sequence however.
You only become creative when faced with limitations.
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Branding is probably the key factor in whether this industry is able to generate wide-spread user adoption. It is interesting that Privateer decided to choose the Marley brand to associate with. However, that still targets a specific demographic that is currently exposed to cannabis, but it won't help draw new users into the segment as recreational marijuana becomes legalized nationwide.
>extracting many thousands of dollars of free work from unemployed job seekers
I didn't get the impression that they provided any value to the person hiring them. To me it just seems like they got some interesting, hopefully fun training in APL over a couple weeks. If I was unemployed and had the spare time (Like I was a couple months ago) that sounds like something I would have loved to do.
I would have to guess that the risk is primarily concentrated to the span of a week or two, prior to the immune system getting back up to a minimally required level to suppress cancer.

I wonder if the chemotherapy doesn't act to kill or suppress some of the cancer risk until the immune system reboots.
A "loser pays" system sounds great on the surface, but is fraught with unintended consequences:

- A complainant who loses on a technicality or procedural failure, and is now on the hook for hundreds of thousands in legal fees.

- A big company that bullies the complainant with legal shenanegans until the complainant is worn out, drops the case, and is now on the hook for hundreds of thousands in legal fees.

Just the fact that, after your own expensive legal fees, you'll be saddled with the big company's (much bigger) fees as well, would be enough to deter most people from suing, even if they're in the right. It would become a new tool for bullying the poor.
Imagine where we'd be today if this had taken off instead of x86...
I'm not talking about that...I'm talking about people who are confused about things learned in CS101. I am assuming you can program FizzBuzz.
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And we all agree that, almost without exception, we can tell within about thirty seconds of meeting them whether someone is likely to be hired.

So you just admitted that you make your hiring decisions based on a snap judgment. OK. But that doesn't mean you can tell in 30 seconds is whether someone is actually going to be good at the job.
Amazon will kick their ass on logistics. Amazon already does most of the bundling, dynamic pricing, discounts for slower shipping and other tricks that jet.com mentions. Amazon will also kick their ass in pricing (that's what they did to diapers.com).

They only real viable option is to have products that Amazon doesn't have, but citing Sears as a key early partner doesn't really bode much hope in that dept.

They'll also need to burn insane amounts of cash on marketing and customer acquisition to get people to pay for subscriptions (which they say is their only source of revenue). This at a time when VCs appetite for startups burning cash like crazy is starting to come back to reality...

If there are investors are willing to set piles of cash on fire poke Amazon in the side then I'm happy to watch such a blood sport, but the business plan and concept at this point seems rather weak.
The interesting thing about contingency is a lawyer isn't going to take on a frivolous lawsuit on contingency. A lawyer will only take one on that he knows he can win, otherwise it's a giant waste of the lawyer's time and money, which he won't do.

So I don't think it would be a problem.
The first instance is the only real case of that phenomenon, the others Apple openly framed them as temporary compromises.
Yes, but having signed an agreement in advance won't really help: Person 1 may still feel they were treated improperly and sue. Except now they might be suing for breach of contract on the basis that the company lied to them about the reason for their rejection. Or Person 1 will simply argue that signing away their rights was not legal in the first place (which is true in many places).
That is hard to avoid, because people are called in to interviews based on how they look on paper.

And (hopefully) how well they did in the phone screen...?
> Obviously by connecting simple logic circuits together, you can create complex logic circuits. Minecraft's block grid places interesting constraints on how redstone circuits can be constructed (areas need to be separated to prevent their state leaking, messages take time to travel long distances).

The exact same thing happens in the real world, hence isolation and things like the speed of light.
I think Second Life had something similar early on, way before I started playing. It let users build stuff out of basic shapes called prims, and the number of prims in each region was limited for performance reasons. So users started to set up "prim banks" of unnecessary prims they could delete when they wanted to build something. The developers had to add quotas in the end.