skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... I already worked myself half to death in my twenties for two startups, I'm not going to study for a test as a second job for a year just to get a job at Google, although I still think it'd be fun and clearly challenging. ..."

What's "good for google" right?

@cableshaft how would you rate @tptacek s observations on hiring with what you observed at google?
The US energy position is the strongest in the world, and most diversified. The US is the world's #2 solar energy producer / market behind Germany (who cares who makes the cells? that's a low value commodity business racing to the bottom), and the US is among the top four majors when it comes to solar in most every respect (with Japan, China, Germany); the US has a vast supply of coal; the US is soon to become the world's largest oil producer; the US is the world's largest nuclear energy producer; the US is the world's #2 wind energy producer (18% of all global wind energy, with about 22% of global GDP, not bad).

The US is also a leader in solar technology, including the world's fiscally strongest stand-alone solar company, First Solar. SunPower and First Solar are also among the five largest in sales.

The US is arguably still the leader in nuclear technology, certainly among the top three. It's very likely that over the coming decades the US will deploy increasing amounts of new nuclear reactors.

Oil production is still climbing, not declining, despite the drop in oil prices. That will continue until almost all foreign oil is pushed out of the US market. Oil prices will also not stay low permanently, and meanwhile fracking / shale technology will only get cheaper and more efficient. The US is sitting on a 100 year boom in oil production, $50 oil is not going to even remotely stop that. Consider the recently boosted Spraberry/Wolfcamp oil field, now considered to be the world's second largest oil field at 75 billion barrels (behind Ghawar) - and it has hardly been touched. Not to mention the vast reserves off the coast of the US, which haven't been updated in ~40 years, and are likely many times larger than anticipated. The US position when it comes to oil, is even better than presently estimated.

Now consider how most of Europe and China are heavily dependent on outside sources of energy (oil, coal, natural gas). Europe is at Russia's mercy when it comes to energy, not a good place to be. Japan also struggles with energy independence, for now due to the plant shutdowns their nuclear energy supply is a mere 1.7% of their energy, and they don't even make the list when it comes to wind energy.
I love that it has comments, which is something I greatly miss in JSON.
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Or more simply, just throw it in the back of a passing pickup truck (like in "Short Circuit", when Number 5 realizes he's being tracked by a beacon in his vehicle. Unfortunately I can't find the clip on youtube.)
Does anyone knows how is the warehousing/delivery done in that case? Is Amazon using the Alibaba capacity there or it has still to do it itself in China?
"cautioning you against antagonizing Marines, because we'll resort to telling jokes about the Army"

Something like that, just make sure you don't mention your Mum, sister or phobias - SemperFi @woodman
Pedantic alert: ATCs don't close the airport. They can take a runway out of service, but they can't close the airport, that's the airport authority's job.
Government surveillance equipment is low volume and high margin, so hand assembly makes sense. The tape also makes sense as a way of disguising the device. A shiny plastic box wouldn't look like it belongs on the car, but most cars have wiring harnesses covered with black tape.
whatsapp and fb messenger work perfectly without google play services installed. whatsapp even manages to update itself. i see no reason why TextSecure could not do it. It's an app that is focused on privacy, and as such should work without closed source software from the largest data collector in the world installed on the phone.
The * or Kleene star describes a sequence of values from a specific set. A nice function name would be "many", like in Haskell's Parsec. In comparison between *, "Kleene_Star" and "many" is the meaning of the function, when named "many", is easy to imply without consulting the docs.
I love your website landing
i guess all the downvotes mean gps transponders won't be built in then!

that's how it works isn't it?
The whole point of work-sample tests is to minimize time wasted on subjective interviews, and to collect objective facts instead. You definitely don't want to do thousands of in-person interviews! Interviews are terrible.
Your story is short and doesn't mention many potentially important facts, but it left me with the impression that you are rather vengeful. Selling marijuana may be illegal and unwise, but it's not very harmful.

> (Dude, if I am older than you, bigger than you, developed the tech, and put more money into the business than you - I am not your subordinate. I am your equal, and even that because I am magnanimous).

And so humble!
Very cool article and job well done by liveatc. Cool service that works well especially in these types of situations. Inspiring to be able to hear these professionals keep their cool under duress.
Thanks! Glad xfdesktop is in good hands!
Have you ever read The Checklist Manifesto[0]? I may be reading too much into this post, but the lessons you learned from this interview process have frighteningly close parallels to the lessons in the books. I doubt the book had any influence on your interview process, seeing as it was published after the interviews were formalized, but the book seems like it might have new lessons.

For example, a good portion of doctors absolutely hated using checklists. Yet, when pressed, readily admitted that it prevents simple mistakes and that they would prefer to have them rather than not to. Another is that entries that address more human concerns, e.g. "Have everyone introduce themselves", have a place on good checklists.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...
I'm genuinely shocked by this. I'm all for free market mechanisms but come on ... a system without strong employee protection must be naturally prone to abuse.
The Best Startup Advice is to Trust Yourself
You're right, its not always possible to untangle the web of causality. But as a contrast, the American industries where firing is nigh-impossible for performance-related reasons (K-12 education, civil service) by and large perform terribly overall.
I think what is impressive is not just their ability to maintain their composure but how readily they enter "emergency mode" from what was most likely a boring, normal day. Their ability to context switch AND maintain a level-head through it and afterwards is commendable.
3-6 months of salary is not the measurement. You need an emergency fund of 3-6 months of expenses. That amount is easily achievable for someone who is a few years out of college which is generally someone who is young, no mortgage, and no dependents.

If someone wants to make the commitments of mortgages or dependents, then that's on them and they still need to have that 3-6 month emergency fund, except the amount will be higher because of the added responsibilities.
Read the Conservancy FAQ:

http://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-faq...

Contacts and attempts to resolve this amicably with VMware have been going on since 2012.
How then do you control for time pressure?
Because that's what consumers wanted.
Polygraph tests do work, but as a social engineering technique and nothing more. Test takers are manipulated into behaving in certain ways based on the belief that the machine functions as they are told. The key is in the way the administrator interacts with the test taker.

In short, the same techniques don't apply to this TSA tech and so I doubt it works.
In the case of the author licensing his work, he may license it in any way he wants, to as many entities as he wants and the licenses don't care and cannot disallow this.

Your comment reminds me of the people who complain that a software author released some code under GPL, then produced a second project based on their own GPL'd code without releasing the source of the second project.
I don't see how. There is no lapse in coverage at all. That's what retroactive means.
Being vengeful is sometimes necessary. It's not a virtue, but it's not a vice either. If the market for justice is inelastic or rigged, make your own. The hard part is to not go overboard - being fair to someone who hurt you, once you have them beaten, requires great self-discipline.

And yes, if someone just sort of declares themselves CEO in interviews just because they have a famous relative and have an easier time getting invited to talks, me insisting that we are equal partner is humble. This person contributed little else to the business.

I don't have a problem with marijuana (don't want any, but it should be legal), I have a problem with people who steal credit for my work.
Cool! Free SIM card with data!
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Sometimes, people think they want to be "Managers." I tell them to stop worrying about that. Start ACTING and PERFORMING like a Director or VP, and then you can skip the Manager step.

I don't think people "always must care about their careers." I am pretty sure Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg could not care less about their careers when they started as employee # < 25. They just wanted to build a company and a business.
I think this is happening already. See RSS sponsorships and tasteful The Deck ads on sites like http://daringfireball.net/ and http://shawnblanc.net/ . Also, it's hard to ignore http://projectwonderful.com/ if you've been to a webcomic lately.
Don't get discouraged if you can't learn Mandarin in one year. Unless you're taking daily classes and living in a Chinese speaking country, you are likely to take about five years to achieve a passable conversational ability, let alone be able to read or write effectively.

If you have some time and are serious about it, I highly recommend NTNU in Taipei. I spent this past summer in an intensive course there and I progressed a ton. It's also not too expensive.

I've been diligently learning Mandarin for the past year, and I can maybe converse with a first or second grader.
> Unless it's some unchangeable legacy system, I can't imagine how one would justify twisting data in this way.

It seems to be allow JSON data to be consumed and produced by an existing IBM toolchain designed for handling XML; which is probably useful for organizations that have invested heavily in the XML toolchain.
Cyber-heists: Organised crime's credit card theft rampage (2014)
Perhaps what I am thinking of is predetermined point-to-point networking.

Though creating a ring or a rigid mesh on top of that for such networks seems to create the whole segregated network problem again.

Perhaps I feel like point-to-point (rather than classification to any receiver) could be treated differently.
That actually depends on if the options were ISO's (where you'd only have to account for the spread in AMT calculations) or non-Quals where yes you'd have to pay regular tax on the spread at exercise time.

If he's really a founding engineer though he should have filed an IRS 83B election and basically paid close to zero tax on all this
Reading this, I am filled with both hope and dread.

The hope that as more companies figure this out, there will be more and more companies with interesting, challenging and rewarding work as opposed to companies that are only a paycheck, and as soul-sucking one at that.

The dread is that I would never make the grade at the former kind of company.
On the other hand, the reason that Firefox got a reputation for being slow, bloated, and leaky was because 90% of the features were written by third-party developers with varying levels of competency, no quality controls, and little incentive to bring their stuff up to date.

I used Opera pre-12, and the reason I did so was because all of the features that I wanted were baked-in to the browser, which meant that they went through the same quality controls and integration testing as the rest of the browser. There was no separate step of updating add-ons, or even worse having outdated add-ons with no compatible version. Everything Just Worked.

Granted, some of the features were not as feature-complete as comparable Firefox add-ons. E.g., tab-stacking is strictly inferior to tree-style tabs because there is only one level of collapse. But everything I wanted was already included, at an acceptable-enough level that for me, it outweighed the cost of having to comparison-shop for mouse gestures or custom CSS solutions or whatever.

FWIW, Opera never felt "bloated" to me. It had crop-tons of features, but for whatever reason that didn't translate to a feeling of bloat. The browser was fast and responsive, and the pile of features never really got in my way. Every once in a while, I would read about an interesting Firefox add-on, dig into the Options menu, and find out Opera had the feature all along, whereupon I would drag it onto the UI.

Personally I like having the email built-in to the browser because it means I don't have to context-switch to see the status of my inbox. But that's a personal quirk.
> In the case of the author licensing his work, he may license it in any way he wants, to as many entities as he wants and the licenses don't care and cannot disallow this.

Actually, its quite possible for licenses (though probably not gratuitous licenses) to disallow this; a license can, for instance, by its terms be either completely exclusive or include some exclusionary provisions. In fact, such licenses are very important in quite a wide range of business scenarios.
This example is flawed. What is the max take home pay of someone on unemployment benefits in Belgium? In Canada under EI (employment insurance) it's about $500 per week (~$2000 CAD per month).
Most well-behaved servers will only send chunked-encoding if the client claimed to be HTTP/1.1. If the client is HTTP/1.0 it will fall back to doing "Connection: close"

The only big thing chunked-encoding gives you is the ability to do a keep-alive connection when the server doesn't know the Content-Length in advance. (Technically it also added "trailers" for sending headers after the reply body, but that's little-used)
This is what I run. I prefer that companies I've never heard of do not collect data about me and give it to whomever wants it for just a few cents.

Adblock Edge: Blocks all ads including "acceptable ads" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

Better Privacy: Manage "super cookies" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/betterprivacy...

Cookie Monster: Control who can set cookies. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/cookie-monste...

NoScript: Blocks all scripts except for whitelisted domains https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/noscript/

RefControl: Modifies HTTP Referer on a per-site basis. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

RequestPolicy: Blocks all cross-site requests except whitelisted requests. https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/

UAControl: Modifies User Agent on a per-site basis. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/uacontrol/

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These are just to make my Internet experience more enjoyable/productive.

Classic Theme Restorer: Brings back navigation buttons, makes tabs square, and more. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/classicthemer...

Firebug: Inspect and change HTML, CSS, and more. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/firebug/

HN Utility Suite: collapse discussions. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...

Image Block: If tethering on a limited connection. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/image-block/

New Tab Tools: Makes new tab page nicer. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools...

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Thats only true for non-qualified options.

ISO's were specifically designed to get around this issue (but you may still get hit w/AMT on the spread)
Ask HN: Will ThinkPad still be your “go to” after superfish?
The hardware has proven itself. Is it important to not support companies that do such destructive things as superfish? Where does the logical decisions and emotions stand on this topic?
This is just untrue. Plenty of high performance products are Python based, just look at Instagram, Dropbox etc.
I guess that's the other side of labour laws, firing someone who's been employeed more than six months in Sweden requires talking to the union (if you have one), given a valid reason, if it's "lack of work" they have to offer the position back to you if it changes.

The amount of months's notice you get changes with your age and years of employement as well. Sometimes you have to sack entire departments just to defeat the LIFO policy.

Now I think Sweden's laws can be a bit too strict, companies are deathly afraid to hire the wrong people (after the six month trial period) since they can't get rid of them, and companies should be able to get rid of underperformers, but living in a country where your boss can go Donald Trump on your ass on a whim isn't exactly ideal either...
Copyright infringement is a civil tort, not necessarily illegal. The law defines infringement but does not prohibit it, but merely provides mechanisms of civil remedy.

Fair use is not infringement.

You may be thinking of criminal copyright infringement. That is a different matter entirely and would fall under what people consider as "illegal."
You can place these devices without a warrant. Likely not true of the cell phone.
Who kept propping up SCO to draw out that legal battle for so long?
Manitoba Pharmacare exists for prescription plans and is income adjusted. Similar story in Ontario with the Trillium drug plan. I'm certain other provinces are similar.

People with true emergent cases are seen quickly. You may not, but it's probably because it's not an emergency.
Sorry to hear that hang in there
Not sure what input I provided wrong, or if its just the services Google is partnering with, but all the quotes provided are 2-3 times more than what I pay now.
so ive been toying around and i managed to enable bookmarks search and added also fuzzy search. When a user hits <space> like in alfred then a symbol '|' will be attached in the beginning and he will be able to only search in urls. However, in my current implementation the performance is really bad since i do hide/show to filter out these elements. The logic has to be changed to accommodate then of thousands of bookmarks like in my case for example. If you are interested in contributing or checking the code i will push those changes into other branches in the repo.
I am currently trying to visualize the network of a moderately big forum: Users who post to threads. In Gephi I only managed to created blobby hairballs, any suggestions for other free tools? It's a couple of thousand users and a couple of thousand threads but pretty dense.
If, like me, you were wondering how contracts.ruby works, the comments in here are quite instructive: https://github.com/egonSchiele/contracts.ruby/blob/master/li...
I wish I had time to cite a reference, but my memory is that an ANY query is not guaranteed to return all RRs, anyway. Running a quick experiment against bind 9.8.4 (as packaged in Debian stable), I can confirm that:

* When no entry already exists in the cache, bind will forward the ANY query to an authoritative server and return the result.

* When some information is already present in the cache, bind will return only the information already cached, without querying more information from an authoritative server

Thus, if you need to know if a specific RR exists, you must query for that specific RR.

Still, to aid humans in debugging DNS problems, a nice compromise might be to allow ANY queries only over TCP. That would alleviate the spoofing problem.
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Firebug: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/

Lastpass: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/lastpass-pass...

Pushbullet: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pushbullet/

TooManyTabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toomanytabs-s...

Pocket: https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-us/firefox/addon/read-it-later...

uBlock: https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-us/firefox/addon/ublock/?src=s...

Cryptocat: https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-us/firefox/addon/cryptocat/

Blur(DoNotTrackMe): https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-us/firefox/addon/donottrackplu...

Disconnect: https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-us/firefox/addon/disconnect/

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Greasemonkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-us/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/

Privacy Badger: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badge...
heh we just made a day labor site for devs, in part cuz we are trying to circumvent bogus contracting and hiring practices. very beta. http://daylabor.modulha.us
That's cumulative with B or C.
Cinco de Buyo monthly event sale feedback request
We're looking to do this with different (more relevant) product categories. Sales start on the 5th of the month, last for 5 days, feature 5 price tiers, prices drop as more people buy. Lay it on us, what are your thoughts?

https://www.cincodebuyo.com/bobbi-brown-long-wear-gel-eyeliner-3-piece-set-black-sepia-mini-ultra-fine-brush
That makes no sense because SMS-compatibility is the trojan horse to get adoption. Without SMS it's just another messaging app with huge network-effect adoption challenges.
How can one verify that a vendor has been licensed to sell a work if they don't include their license with the author?

Maybe a street vendor has been licensed to sell the just-appeared-in-theater movie that they are selling?

It seems someone who acquires a work has no responsibility (or most of the time, ability) to verify a proper license.
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That $600/month was what the company was paying for your health insurance, not some number they made up. Think of it like you were earning more than $9/hour but some of that money went to pay for your health insurance.
Shouldn't it be possible to open that thing up and see where/who it's reporting the data to?
I'm not an expert on patents. If nobody noticed it and it was successfully granted, can it be revoked in the future due to "not originally invented"?
The app will still be capable of plaintext sms. encrypted messages just won't use sms as a transport layer
> Guaranteed bandwidth shared lines are a violation of net neutrality.

Perhaps of an poorly written net neutrality law. But can you predict what will be a violation of net neutrality before the laws are written and the courts interpret them?

It's certainly a complex issue, requiring deep understanding of the Internet. I support it in principle, but have little faith that any government will handle it well.
Why design your own storage pods when services like Amazon S3 offer similar prices, even with bandwidth?
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