skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a joke. I think what doomed her more than anything was a lack of comprehension skills from the first interviewer, and a lack of humor from the second.
I'd assume, although I'd have to admit I don't know for sure, that opportunities for pay are similar in New York/Chicago/San Francisco as they are here in London, UK. By which I mean that if I could find a job here in London paying me £150k then there'd be some equivalent job paying $250k (i.e. simply FX'd) in the USA. From what I've seen on the internet and of friends in the last five years, salaries for similar work at similar levels do seem roughly equivalent (maybe slightly better in the US).

If you wanted to earn £150k in the UK at age 29/30 (leaving university at 21/22 with 3 + 5 years of work as I suggested) one way would be to work in financial IT. A salary of £70-100k wouldn't be unreasonable if you were very good and a bonus of 50-100% would be possible, again if you're very good. I'm not in this situation myself so don't speak form direct experience but I know people in the industry who almost certainly are (it'd be rude to ask...).

If this all sounds far fetched, I work at a fund which is on track to make a profit per employee of around $500k this year (and as everyone knows, this is a bad year). Even given that bonuses are skewed towards the researchers that means they can still afford to reward the best IT people handsomely. And they're sensible enough with money to know that there are people in IT who they really couldn't afford to lose so they will pay accordingly.
I think it was more about how they treated her. or at least her perception of how they were treating her.
I highly recommend everyone watch Penn and Teller's "Bullshit" series.
Sorry sown, I deleted my comment because it was a bit harsh, before realizing that you had already replied to it.
Ruby Rescue will be there...
"o hai, sup?"

also 11
This is sort of like a Youtube Snob for the rest of the internet.
http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/youtube-comment-snob/
Has darcs just disappeared off the radar? I'm using it for all my projects, though I'm not sharing wih anyone else, so I've never come under pressure to switch.
I commented on that here: http://dustin.github.com/2009/11/12/gomemcached.html#comment...

Basically, it's about allowing me to express my sequence of writes without wrapping each one in an if block.

I could have also done something like

return write(x) && write(y) [...]

or

return write(x, y, ...)

but all I really want is to stop writing when a write fails and have the goroutine exit.

I've seen a couple people suggest using a channel for this. Containing the write within an object of sorts to contain that boolean would do roughly the same thing. I'd still need to somehow unwind the stack quickly to even know that that channel has something waiting on it.
The most important part is to stop doing the thing that isn't working.

If I communicate this to the channel and the channel is read by the current goroutine, then the channel's buffer must be large enough to handle the total number of errors that may occur in a single invocation or the goroutine will deadlock on itself.
I think this is barfing on a lack of punctuation.

"this is the most shittest game online﻿ ever full of little nooby kids" (taken from a youtube comment) is "not likely stupid". Add a period at the end, though, and it works.

Maybe the parsing system isn't designed to handle incomplete sentences or sentence fragments? That could be difficult but key; many of the bottom of the barrel posts on the internet have no punctuation at all.

Update: Starting to really take an interest in this. While there are false negatives, I can't seem to find any false positives.
I agree, and am not trying to make fun of the original author. The hiring company is going to look at the most relevant experience you have- and in some cases it is going to be GPA.
I was just referencing the OP wrt conversation. However, I still consider it wasteful and impolite, since it's not merely a polite-sound attached to another message. It's a complete attention-getting, conversation-interrupting message in and of itself, with, apparently, no content.
Ah, just have a go at the whole late 19th century equivalent industrial infrastructure. It'll be fun!
If you do shop, bear in mind that you can get great results inexpensively with a modified popcorn maker; there's DIY guides and instructables all over the place for all different brands.
Not a bad point. People tend to solve problems in the way that they tend to build problems (tautologically.)

At least in my own experience, engineers tend to solve problems by building things to solve the problems. Sometimes the answer is to remove parts until those problems don't exist.
On Verizon's website, you can change your account settings to block data entirely. I've done that for my girlfriend's phone, she doesn't need it, doesn't want it, and just blocking it was the easiest way to prevent accidents like that.
Well, it at least puts on-line advertising on the same footing as print advertising, analytics wise. No more highly targeted advertising, no more avoiding showing the same ad to the same user multiple times, no more being able to tell who looked at your ad or why or where they came from, no more being able to determine how qualified ad traffic is. So really, it's a significant step backward.
Cross reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=940299

That item points directly to NASA rather than to a news report about NASA.
Wait, it looks like half the content is embedded in Flash on that page.
Cross reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=940314
Please define on-topic?

Also, if anyone disagrees with your definition, your point is invalid :)
This is only one step removed from the story of the Tennessee legislature passing a law declaring that pi = 3. On the other hand, that never happened.
darcs is a fine revision control system. I used to use it quite a bit. The biggest problem I ever had with darcs, in practice, was not having ghc available when I'd do an OS upgrade and thus having no ability to access my repositories.

I am a pretty huge fan of git, though (obviously) so all of my new projects and many of my older ones show up on github.

Otherwise, perhaps I'd be posting this source to http://patch-tag.com/ instead. :)
That applies to elected officials, for that matter.
I'll be there too :)
Your laptop lacks a GPU?

While it is quite true that some applications will be configured as thin-client, that approach requires mostly-ubiquitous communications and with sufficient bandwidth. Whether multi-core or GPU-based or otherwise, there's simply no panacea here.

And if for no reason beyond ego allowing sales of products at higher margins, yes, there will be eight-core laptops. And folks will then find uses for more cores ubiquitous, just like folks now need much more than 640K of memory in their computer.
"How is babby formed?" -> Text is not likely to be stupid.

Incorrect.
Unrelatedly, one of the challenges in analyzing modern text with traditional NLP tools is that the tools usually expect standard English, whereas the text is rather colloquial, and the punctuation is for timing purposes, when present at all.
The World's Most Intriguing Startups: Innovation in a Downturn
The Aeropress is pretty good. It's cheap, easy to use, and surprisingly easy to clean. I used to use it to make mochas and faux-cappuccinos (pseudo-espresso from the Aeropress plus milk frothified using a whirly-agitator thing instead of steam) but these days I just make Americano-style coffee, which I like because it comes out rich and smooth. I'm not really a coffee snob, though, so YMMV.
That wasn't a nightmare interview; she is clearly unqualified for an analytical role. She should get a job in advertising instead.
If you know well enough to think "Hey, I should title this as Offtopic: whatever", then it probably doesn't belong here.

HN has been around long enough that people should be able to have a decent feel for what's on-topic and what's not; and if they're mistaken the flag button is there.

What I think is on-topic may not be what the next guy thinks is on-topic. The definition of what is on-topic is defined by the community (by way of voting and flagging).

My personal litmus test is whether I think a link is relevant to a hacker / entrepreneur. To be fair, not all of my submissions meet my own criteria, so clearly there's gray area there. I just don't want to encourage people to increase the noise when it's already tough enough to deal with it and maintain the health of the community.
In engineering school, we got pretty familiar with BOEC (back of the envelope calculations), in some part to give a double check on calculations, and in other part (ahem) to double-check on slide rule calculations and exponent correction.

But that is a useful skill, particularly in conjunction with a problem-solving attitude which they repeatedly emphasized us to do.

And the book Innumeracy by Paulos gives examples of good problems to check with: "Is there a cubic mile of human blood in the world" and "How long would it take to move Mount Fuji" as a couple of examples.

It doesn't sound like a good sign if your latest math was as a freshman if you are looking for a software career.
A large portion of them could be sped up by simply configuring them properly, using nothing but the facilities that are available today.

Probably true, but not relevant to SPDY: you can't assume that every website in the world is going to be configured "properly." SPDY's improvements are orthogonal to other improvements that might be made to site configurations.
Your comment indicates a lack of reading skills. She said that she wished the number of graduating seniors who had jobs were higher.
"Where it is technically possible and effective, in accordance with the relevant provisions of Directive 95/46/EC, the user's consent to processing may be expressed by using the appropriate settings of a browser or other application."

Looks like there won't be much of a change for HTTP cookies, as browsers already do this.
Rather than downloading the multi-megabyte video, which requires much more consumption of stuff, I found the PDF version here and read that instead

http://www.storyofstuff.com/pdfs/annie_leonard_footnoted_scr...

I would have preferred an HTML version because PDF is a newer, more complex, format that forces us to use newer, heavier applications to read. PDF is incompatible with old and lightweight computers so it forces us to buy powerful new computers and throw away our old ones. Given an HTML version I could have consumed even less stuff.
If we could just drop the whole 'www' convention then this wouldn't be a problem anymore.
I think the title is misleading, it sounds like users are now required to accept all cookies.
I think you just discovered its training dataset
Having big eyes is a common threat trigger for animals. Putting big eye stickers on an inert object will scare away birds.
Cool website startup idea: "How Famous Are You?"
Full text of an idea exposed on the RSS feed for "The Volokh Conspiracy" by David Post, and evidently soon after withdrawn (URL currently is 404, but may reappear later):

http://volokh.com/2009/11/13/and-speaking-of/

And Speaking Of ideas for cool websites that I’ll never actually go and implement and so therefore I’m happy to give away: I would bet that you could pretty easily work up a "How Famous Are You?" site that lots of people would find pretty irresistible. The idea -- an offshoot of the incredibly popular (among authors) Amazon book rankings, which many authors consult regularly and regarding which any number of websites allowing tracking, comparing, etc. have sprung up -- is this: a comparative ranking of the number of Google "hits" associated with your name, ranked against others famous and not-so-famous. The query

"David Post" Law Professor

[including the quotation marks] returns 18,700 hits on Google. (Just David Post without the quotation marks returns 4.1 million hits -- but of course lots and lots of those have absolutely nothing to do with me (there are lots of davids out there, and lots of uses of the word "post" . . . the use of the name in quotes, and an identifying label (law professor) is just a quick-and-dirty way to try to be sure that the hits are "true"; I suspect there are better ways to do this, but that’s the kind of implementation question I happily leave to others . . . ).

Not bad, I suppose -- here, for comparison, are a few searches I just ran:

"Frankie Lymon" singer 87,900
"Eugene Volokh" Law professor 33,700
"Joey Buttafuoco" 77,600
"Elio Chacon" baseball player 1,910
"Richard Wagner" composer 584,000
"Yuri Gagarin" astronaut 91,000

The site could be "seeded" with a couple hundred searches like that. Then, each visitor would put enter his name and identifier, and the results displayed against all the other results and added to the list -- one of the conditions of using the site would have to be that visitors allow the site to display their results in the overall tabulation, so that the list would be growing (and especially at the low end) all the time. Provisions for updating searches, etc. could all be added.

I have a feeling it could work, and could become a pretty interesting site -- and nobody ever lost money betting on peoples’ vanity . . .
Java Garbage Collection, Monitoring, and Tuning
I've seen and hired alot of $100-$125 an hour Flash Engineers in NYC who were in their mid to late 20's (Advertising) and I've also seen and know quite a few J2EE (Especially Tibco?) Engineers earning similar hourly amounts in Finance.

Most of these are permalance arrangements, those numbers will get you up in >200k range.
Introducing the 70-hour Work Week
They lived and hunted in dark forests, so black would have been good camouflage. Cold doesn't have anything to do with it as long as the creature can get enough vitamin D through its diet.
At any large company HR will have designated a minimum GPA merely as a mechanism to manage the volume of incoming CVs.
To make the Neanderthal look more simian and threatening.

The art looks like very old pictures of gorillas, before people had a decent idea of what they looked like.
Don't mistake the journalist's writeup with the actual law, and perhaps think about restraining your knee-jerk 'EU is awful' and 'bureaucrats are clueless'. Privacy laws in the EU are much stricter than in the US, and a good thing too. I've been reading the same kind of comments about the Microsoft anti-trust decision, and when I looked into it I got a good appreciation for the thinking behind it. But it took some more effort than just jumping to conclusions about stupid officials in their ivory towers.
I had dialin access in '93, and my first browser was Mosaic on Win3.1 under Trumpet Winsock, and I ran the tech side of an ISP from 95-97, and under no circumstances would I ever trade the web of '97 for the one I have today, where I can watch TV, browse Cooks Illustrated, learn Calculus, and read entire books. I wouldn't even trade Hacker News for Usenet.

The signal to noise ratio in '97 was high because there was very little signal, and not as many people cared.
Am I the only person here that plans on booting Chrome as my primary OS?
I believe it was confirmed that it will be based on Debian.
Ask HN: Re-review my startup - ProspectVista.com
Hello HN,

About a month ago, I asked for reviews of my startup - ProspectVista.com. I got some good feedback, but didn't get much exposure because it wasn't upvoted much.

I've done a tremendous amount of work to it in that month, and I'm asking again for more suggestions.

The idea behind Prospect Vista is that businesses can create a public profile, upload video commercials, connect with other businesses, and advertise for free. Businesses can create marketplace ads to describe specials they are having or to advertise their products or services.

Consumers, after creating a profile, can create Requests for Proposal's for businesses to find. For example, if a consumer needed a plumber or a home inspector, they would create a request for all plumbers in the system. Businesses that have associated with the plumbing industry will be able to respond to the request, and from there, the consumer will select the plumber that matches their request the best.

All functions to use the site effectively are free to use.

Businesses can optionally pay $10 a month/$100 a year to upgrade their account. The upgrade:

* Gives them 10 videos of 50mb each rather than 2 videos of 20mb (videos can be swapped out at any time).
* Detailed demogrpahic statistics on their account (what other industries are viewing their account, genders, total views, and we're adding more).
* Requests for Proposal delivered directly to their email, rather than having to manually search for them.
* A public forum to promote themselves and talk with their customers.
* Are allowed to create an unlimited number of Marketplace Ads, whereas free accounts can create 1 per week..

Because I'm interested in getting good feed back, I've created two dummy accounts for HN readers. If you want to sign in as a business:

username: hn_business@prospectvista.com
password: hnbusiness

If you want to sign in as a consumer:

username: hn_consumer@prospectvista.com
password: hnconsumer

Here's an example of my simple profile - http://www.prospectvista.com/profile/view/4
And a profile with a much better video - http://www.prospectvista.com/profile/view/87

http://www.prospectvista.com

Thanks!
Anonymous Funcions in C/C++?
I intend to build my own.

http://www.shelter-kit.com/kits.php?kit=barnhouse
hagiographic
Clickable links:

http://www.prospectvista.com

http://www.prospectvista.com/profile/view/4

http://www.prospectvista.com/profile/view/87
down modded for the short urls. Please use the full urls here. HN shortens them automatically.
Impressive 11 year old singer girl Great talent
Born on 18 May 1997, at the age of 5 years, her exposure to music was formalized through her school and by piano lessons. Later, she started formal dance and singing lessons...
Creativity Belongs To Folder Printing
I think the intent is to multiplex the goroutines on some smaller set of threads.

From the language FAQ (http://golang.org/doc/go_lang_faq.html): "The idea, which has been around for a while, is to multiplex independently executing functions - coroutines, really - onto a set of threads."
I think it can certainly help if you have a good one - I certainly would have pointed it out had it been true in my case - but if it had been the decisive factor I would not have gotten the jobs I did. Just my anecdotal experience.
Blame BT (British Telecom)

They introduced an ad service called phorm (without asking anyones permission) it tracked all your online activity and then removed the regular ads from pages its ISP served and replaced them with ads that would be interesting to you based on your browsing history.
It got into trouble when it removed ads for charities and placed porn ads in childrens sites.

Because it worked at the ISP level, clearing your history or cookies had no effect. They then introduced a cookie to allow you to opt out and claimed that by deleting this cookie you had volunteered to opt in!

The Eu investigation ruled that it broke wiretap laws but the UK refused to prosecute (BT is privatized but is almost a monopoly and has strong links to government)
Out of interest I downloaded the page with curl, then stripped out the JS and other stuff, leaving mostly just formatting and text.

Before: 178845 bytes
After : 33604 bytes

That's just the page, and doesn't include images or ads, but it does include the text of the comments.

Just an observation.
I'll try to attend
How much entrepreneurial stamina do you have?
Why Go Matters
News Corp Wants To “Lead” The Media Industry To Its Own Demise
I would tend to agree, and for those interested in this type of skill I think its worth checking out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
Why Do We Need Limits and Infinitesimals?
Reminder: Pittsburgh Hacker News Meetup, Saturday 11/14 8PM, Church Brew Works
Car finding apps is obviously not a HUGE market that you would want to start a business around, but there clearly are people out there looking for these kinds of apps. I occasionally get emails from users telling me that they've been using it for different purposes, like Geocaching games.

With more phones coming out, on thing Android developers are starting to have to worry about is making sure the app works on a variety of different screen sizes. I guess it's a necessary evil to have to deal with.
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Ask HN: Introduction to NoSQL?
I have trouble wrapping my head around NoSQL. Maybe because relational databases seem so natural to me?

Anyone have a good introduction to NoSQL style databases? When it's appropriate to use them, (dis)advantages of using them, how to query? Ideally a tutorial of how to build a simple app?
Previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=921896
Definitely - The pitch for the Nike/iPod ad was very good
The wars over source code formatting must be epic!
This was for a marketing position though, not an engineering position. I wouldn't expect someone trained in marketing to be good at BOEC or be as analytical as an engineer.
sounds good, I'm on for it,
Cheers
Simon
Clojure Datatypes and Protocols - early experience
I'll try to make it too.
Actually in my experience she painted government as evil as well. She clearly points out how governments give corporations the power to do what they do.

In addition, I see no reason why painting government or corporations as evil is a bad thing because when it comes down to it, what they are doing to third world countries is evil.

We execute murderers for killing people. Yet corporations are killing people overseas by poisoning and maiming them in dangerous factories.

I see no reason why calling a corporation evil is not accurate or not meaningful.
"Google AdWords has a policy" ... but the problem is policies which are loosely enforced may as well not exist.

Google was quick to point out their policies to the FTC on the scammy government grant ads, and yet months later Google was running the very same scam ads
http://www.seobook.com/buying-links-vs-buying-rankings

some more background on Google's ads
http://www.benedelman.org/ppc-scams/
http://www.seobook.com/how-make-easy-money-google
> The signal to noise ratio in '97 was high because there was very little signal

I don't agree with that at all, there was plenty of signal, it just wasn't in 'rich media' format. Pages were static and simple instead of having a multi-media circus to put across a simple point.

RiderOfGiraffes has a neat little page up elsewhere right now that could have existed in exactly the same form in '96.

The web changed dramatically when 'big money' moved in and started turning the whole thing into a shopping mall / advertising space and I really think that that is degrading the medium.

The internet has certainly improved in many ways since then as you rightfully illustrate but there was lots of good in those early days (of the web) as well, and plenty of it got destroyed.

Usenet is a good example, there are those who argue that usenet had had it's run and that the web killed it, but it is my opinion that the spam is what killed it, not the competition from the web.

Probably I prefer to have less signal but of a higher quality rather than an absolute overload where you have to sift for the bits that are worth your time.
Compressing http content also means extra processing on both the client and the server side. While this might not be as noticeable on a PC, for mobile phones it sure can be a concern. It will be interesting to see some data on it.
Charity? You mean like the TSA itself? They just need to make a tube into the box of "prohibited" items, where there's no accounting or auditing anyway.

I would call it the LOOT CHUTE.
That question could be about the stages of fetus development, which is not an stupid thing to ponder.
Sorry about that. Links (search and google video) were, as anyone knows, long.