skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have too many stories...I had dinner with Edward Teller and he described what really happened at Los Alamos (saying that he would be put in prison for such disclosure), I was fired and rehired multiple times by Steve Jobs, I did a stint as an Oracle Product Manager for the core database and saw how they cook the books, I wrote code in the ATT UNIX kernel, in the Oracle source tree, and in the Apple source tree. I've been doing big data now and teach NSA, CIA,... (so I've heard stories about a level of spying that I can't repeat. But I will say that the people trying to keep us safe don't care about the laws and don't report what they are doing up the chain of command.) I taught technical classes at the School of the Americas to people who don't exist and heard more stories that I can't repeat. And I've coded while sitting beside several well-known names in programming. All of these are interesting stories.
But one for this group... Steve Jobs made yearly trips to give talks at major universities. His real goal was to convince post-grads who had innovated to drop out and port their work to our platform. Steve would fund them personally - with just enough cash to eat beans and live on friend's couches. If he thought he could sell it, he would later make them employees - and burn them out to get them to produce more and faster. After he got their work, those engineers would typically leave. So Steve would make more billions to hide offshore, and the innovators would get a salary and be burned out. A true robber baron.
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> I agree. I think the demise of newspapers is largely from those buying advertising finally having hard and credible evidence that they were overpaying for a few centuries.

There is something else at work here though. It could be that people were overpaying for advertising, but it doesn't cost a lot more for a print ad than it would cost to have the ad printed and mailed to the same number of people who subscribe to the newspaper. The newspaper makes money because they put your ad in the newspaper they were already going to print and deliver and then they get to stick your ad money in their pocket. It's a nice deal for them.

But the internet equivalent of direct mail is spam. Or mailing lists to be more charitable. In ether case there is no printing and delivery cost. And the advertiser will now also have their own website which anyone can go to and view their products at trivial expense to the advertiser.

So sellers of advertising are no longer providing printing and delivery services or access to finite broadcast airtime. The equivalents of those things are no longer scarce or expensive.

The only thing they're selling is the ability to put your ad in front of customers who otherwise might not see it. Which might still be valuable if they had some kind of exclusivity in providing that, but they don't. Eyeballs aren't scarce either. Everybody visits many websites every day. The advertiser can get their ad in front of the customer by putting it on any subset of those websites, which then have to compete with each other for the advertiser's money.

So the price of advertising goes down. Somewhat fortunately for the likes of Google, then the Jevons paradox kicks in and people realize that if advertising becomes cheaper then it's profitable to buy more of it. So companies aren't spending less money on advertising.

But there are still many times more people selling it. And if companies spend twice as much on advertising but there are twenty times as many websites offering ad space, at the end of the day they each end up with ~10% of what they used to.
"To be clear: my experience is that the algorithm interviews, when done properly, work reasonably well to identify intelligence/problem solving and coding skills."

Given that there is no correlation between job performance and interview score, are you saying this based on your gut instinct, or do you have objective data somewhere?

My best estimation is that the Google interview process is just a glorified fizzbuzz presentation, and that the hiring decisions are more or less made by arbitrary factors, including the nebulous "culture fit".

While it may be amusing to work through the details of doing a merge sort on a linked list in 30 minutes, it's certainly not germaine to the quotidian experience of an SWE at Google.
From the article: "Last week, Hatch announced he was delaying a hearing on a fast-track bill because of Wyden's objections... several reports say one of the big sticking points is over the rules determining how the Senate could dump fast-track authority once it gets a look at a completed Trans-Pacific agreement. Wyden reportedly wants 60 senators to be able to pull out of fast track, while Hatch wants the threshold set at 67."

From an EFF article released yesterday, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/white-house-has-gone-f...:

"TPP's ISP liability provisions could create greater incentives for Internet and content providers to block and filter content, or even monitor their users in the name of copyright enforcement.

... TPP's copyright provisions could lead to policies where ISPs would be forced to implement costly systems to oversee all users' activities and process each takedown notice they receive.

They could also discourage investment in new innovative start-ups, even those that plan to "play by the rules", due to the risk that companies would have to sink significant resources into legal defenses against copyright holders, or face heavy deterrent penalties for infringement established by the TPP."
and of course label it "boss name personal"

On that note, using it as a pentesting device could be interesting. Perhaps just use the "beep" so the auditor can see how many people trust putting anything into their PC, then at the end cite USB killer.
but you can't yet build Windows binaries ON Windows
>water-intensive crops like pistachio nuts

Erm? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistachio#Habitat

>Pistachio is a desert plant, and is highly tolerant of saline soil. It has been reported to grow well when irrigated with water having 3,000–4,000 ppm of soluble salts.[7] Pistachio trees are fairly hardy in the right conditions, and can survive temperatures ranging between −10 °C (14 °F) in winter and 48 °C (118 °F) in summer. They need a sunny position and well-drained soil. Pistachio trees do poorly in conditions of high humidity, and are susceptible to root rot in winter if they get too much water and the soil is not sufficiently free-draining.
Even with AppleTV this is US only?
Any guesses if this will be usable via VPN like Netflix?
This is pure evil! (not in a good way)
You are right, I am an exception - and I think those other commenters would also agree that we are exceptions. At two companies everyone else in my group had PhDs. And I've rarely worked with people who don't have at least Masters degrees. So, while it is possible to do this without a degree, it takes an unusual person. (I love to read. I would sometimes spend weekends at the Stanford library reading published papers. And I built my first computer from components after reading about logic gates and getting sample parts from chip vendors.)
There are USB opto-isolators, rated for various large voltages/wattages, which basically accomplish this.
There are straight up isolators, like ADUM4160. For USB2, they're limited to 12mbit/sec though, because USB2 has a single bidirectional (terrible) data line.
Even small companies can have momentum and unanalyzed patterns that are hard to change.
Completely agree on the distributable binaries! You couldn't express it better. This is holding Ruby much behind of where it could be!
Monocultures are more productive. Someone finds a tree that produces much more fruit than normal, and so it gets cloned thousands of times. Or for crops that can only reproduce sexually, they carefully select the exact optimal combination of genes, and then use a hybridization process to create only seeds that have the combination they want.

Sexual reproduction mixes up the genes and so the rare combination of genes that gives a much higher yield, is unlikely to occur again. This isn't an insignificant effect either, sometimes the offspring only produce a fraction of the yield of the highly fit parents.

It has nothing to do with corporate actors. This has been going on for over a century by private farmers and government university breeding programs. And we can produce a lot more food a lot cheaper because of it.

Not all is lost though. As our genetic technology improves, we will be able to deal with these issues better.
So, this guy isn't doing much good, with 2.5-3 miles walking a day at 1.8 miles/hour (1h25m to 1h40m of walking)?

I expect that, in 10 years or so, we will SE more nuanced publications about the health effects of sitting less.

Looking at chimps in nature, I expect the optimum will be something where you don't sit in the same position for hours at an end, but hobble a few meters every half hour or so and grab some fruit or groom a colleague (the latter would require significant changes in workplace ethics and law)
Have used TotalFinder for a couple of years, just tried XtraFinder. Found that the side-by-side view and shortcuts for sliding in the pinnable Finder just didn't work, even after a couple of uninstall/reboot/install/reboot cycles. Has some nice features and seems like it should cover what I want from TotalFinder, but just isn't there yet.

I also don't understand your sentiment for preferring it over TotalFinder... they both feel and act like augmentations. I got the impression that XtraFinder would work alongside the normal finder, but that's not the case.
Desalination is a no-brainer for residential use. Less than $0.50/1000 liters to generate, and, on the coast, transport costs are low.
That's an interesting suggesting. There is no reason that the API can't be extended to accept posts of actual new poems. The reason this hasn't been done is largely practical, because I'd have to tackle the security and authentication side, and probably put in place some moderation too. A truly multi-tenanted social database, where people can share their content or keep it private as the case may be, sounds intriguing. However this would be a
much larger undertaking.
The current incarnation of PoetryDB had a somewhat simpler, less "social", aim.

*

Thanks again for drawing my attention to ELMCIP, it looks like a treasure trove of learning in Electronic Literature.
I tried to access the full text of Giovanna's thesis, but unfortunately the link seems to be broken.

PS: Wrt your earlier question, I don't mean to sound hung up about labels, and what to call such and such. This tends to be a futile exercise anyway, as to what will be taken up in popular usage. What I do think is worth reiterating is that poetry technology in particular tries to shift attention away from digital poetry as simply "poetry in
another medium", and moves "lower down the stack" to investigate and clarify the real material and symbolic
grounds that give rise to digital poetry / electronic literature. This material and symbolic ground is necessarily a combination of the new aspect, namely information technology at large, text processing technologies, program language techniques, data science,
and the specific methods that can be applied to language learning and pseudo language learning, etc.
; as well as the traditional and ongoing aspect, namely the body of poetry since the dawn of civilisation, the literary
criticisms and appraisals that took shape around it, formal understandings of poetics, etc. In other words poetry technology is about bringing together two considerable traditions in their own right (one new, one old). The danger, at least from the mainstream point of view, has been to see this as gimmicky, a recurring flirtation. Poetry technology is saying there's more to it, they're in a relationship now.
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So this site is about helping recruiters narrow down candidates more effectively by presenting real coding challenges.

I want to point out trueability.com that does same thing with Linux. I find it a very good and fair source for judging Linux admin candidates.
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> you might want to get that $500 ready

She said the cameras weren't rolling.

And I said I wanted recorded evidence, so my $500 is safe. The reason it's safe is not because the cameras weren't rolling but because 24 men never chanted "show us your tits". Who knows, maybe one idiot in the crowd did... but 24 didn't.

I just watched some of her talk on youtube, and she has the crowd in her hand. She owns the topic and gets laughs and respect. Even the youtube comments are all positive.

If you ask me, she seems like a bit of a wild child. She's cheeky, she doesn't give a f--- about anything. She's smart. And the crowd is into her stuff.

If the "show us your tits" incident actually happened, it may well have been a failed attempt at extreme irony or bad-taste humour because of her obvious talent at the subject matter rather than any literal "sexist remark at a woman because she's a woman". I'm not defending such behaviour, but with everything like this, intent and context needs to be closely examined.

She's come out and used it as example of "sexism in tech" when it might well be an example of "robotics geeks showing respect by way of a clumsy and deliberate disregard of civilised discourse.". Perhaps it was an attempt at nodding to the Las Vegas themed "bad behaviour" after dark, combined with a nerdy attempt at being funny, all in an attempt to get the attention of this girl they actually admire.

Context and intent is everything. And her article doesn't take that into account. This is the reason she writes below in caps "it's all okay we worked it out"... meaning the incident at DEFCON.
”My preferred hiring approach would just be contractor-for-a-day arrangements.”

I’m not sure that method would be suitable for people who already are employed. At least in Sweden, where I live, you can (AFAICT) get fired for working for your employer’s competitors. So if you don’t get the new job, you might lose your current job as well.
First of all I applaud all attempts to find alternative ways of CS education (or I guess applied CS/software engineering). I'm still convinced that programming is essentially a selflearning and experimentation kind of discipline that benefits from a hands on approach (and collaboration with others that are on a similar path).

That being said if they position themselves as "for startup minded people" they should focus a lot more on the "get out of the building" aspect. In fact I think there'd be huge value in a program where you essentially learn this. Talk to a lot of potential customers simulate it find creative ways of going about it. I think this is what a lot of us need more than (not meant as an insult) "yet another bootcampish thingy".

I think they need to clearly pick one focus and go allin on it. Either "you'll be excellent founder material" or "you'll be a great hire". I think they try to spotlight the former but the latter creeps in.
I think the biggest potential is taking the "university like we wished it was" line and the "no debt" line and mix it with "hands on/projects/good hire" and focus less on the startup angle.

If you want to focus on the startup angle...way more non-technical hands on talk to people things. I think there's a nice gap there. It's easier for a sufficiently curious person to teach themselves technical things than to have access to potential customers and interview them (imo)

Either way, good luck :)
The "overlooking" problem comes inherently with most heuristics. There should just be an option to forgo this system of measurement and use another one.
http://www.reddit.com/user/bluehrair <- that's her reddit account
Sorry about the notebook format change. Did you loose work? Conversion should be handled for you, if not it is a bug, we can fix it on 3.1.

We would be happy to get more feedback on your writing process and your need, feel free to directly contact the team (IPython-dev at scipy.org, or issue on main IPython repo is fine).

As for concept of "book" or collection of notebook, we are working on that (integration with sphinx)
I have a feeling we'll find out that the cable companies need HBO more than HBO needs the cable companies.

The cord-cutting trend has barely just begun. Television five years from now will be a completely different landscape than it is today, and the change from now to then will make what has happened over the past five years look like barely a movement.
My computer seems to be doing that on a random basis. I think I should worry.
Nothing is more amusing than a former employee of TechCrunch subtly swiping at the relevance of Dr. Dobb's Journal. Without a doubt, that's the funniest thing I've ever read in this line of work and says everything one would ever need to say about certain elements of the Silicon Valley culture.

Your analysis is just plain wrong, by the way. Dr. Dobb's was punished for delivering content. Turns out, advertising doesn't work as advertisers hope on people who actually enjoy content. When you deliver actual content at some point in your career, you will discover this to be true as well.
But that requires opening each subfolder in its own window, right? I can say ever since Win95 I've been setting that stupid Folder Options > 'Open each folder in the same window' setting because I could never stand having the next level down appear someone random on the screen and just clutter up the entire desktop.
Have to take issue with you on Pages, I have always thought it to be far easier to use than Word. Many a time I have started out with a Word doc and after half an hour just scrapped it and used Pages or, more recently, LibreOffice instead.
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Yes, turns out I was mistaken!
But you're not giving your candidates problems, are you? You're giving them specific scenarios with strict algorithmic constraints. In any engineering job the boss asks us to build a system or a tool. He never says solve this very specific task using these very specific rules. You have a lot of freedom when it comes to the actual implementation.

Why aren't you replicating this in your interviews? Why do you insist on code tests? Why aren't you insisting on the result? That's what your boss wants. I'm pretty sure he doesn't care about your ability to solve stupid trivia and academic tests.

This is why I'm saying you're a bureaucrat. You read somewhere about fizzbuzz and code tests and you stopped there. Didn't think for yourself. Just gobbled up what some other guys decided was good.

Want great conversations and to be amazed by experts? Give them real life problems to solve. You will look incompetent too if I start interviewing you with stupid "How do you do X?" questions.
Of course. No revolving-door politician has ever lied, and all patents will be fine and dandy now.
Does having more than two jobs in the past count as extensive testing? If two other companies like yours decided I'm skilled and paid me for it, why do you assume I'm not? Who must perform these tests to determine competency?
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VW's interior on its SUVs and Passats are fine. On the non GTI Golfs and the Jettas (perhaps excluding the Sportwagen, YMMV), they are remarkable cheap. Just feel about the panels on the interior of the door and the handles.
One idea for a business would be being a subscription service. Partner with some big names, which already offer/consider offering subscriptions. Users select a monthly payment, and tick boxes for the websites they want to support. Much less hassle than subscribing to each and every website which wants/needs your money. Maybe with an RSS feed aggregating content from your selection.
I think growth hack videos will be very good and will be searched
It's meant for smaller numbers of large files, and high speed connections, but Aspera Direct-To-S3 advertises 10 GB/24 hours: http://cloud.asperasoft.com/news-events/aspera-direct-to-s3/
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None of this violates the laws of thermodynamics. These are all quantities that one could measure/estimate/calculate. Once you know the rough quantities then you'll have a more accurate estimate. Perhaps "net calories" of food could become a thing - how much is left after the initial input of energy. Absorption will be a different deal altogether - a factor that you'd need to get measured.
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How were your monthly expenses like for this setup?
Reminds me of a story I heard many years ago. UK power plugs have three prongs to include earth. If you rewire earth, live and neutral AND alter the plug wall socket to match, then all is well, but if someone steals your PC then plugs it in using a standard wall socket then ouch.
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Sad to see it officially shutdown. I have been using their API for years on my crusty personal page. It has been rock solid.
A better index for the equity market
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For most people sure they will stop watering their lawn pat themselves on the back and be done with it. You won't ever get action from those people though so we can ignore them. There is a smaller group that will be annoyed that they are having to make sacrifices when industry/agriculture isn't and those people will be pushed to be more active.

Does it guarantee improvements? Nope, but it does get more people on the side of conservation.

Any way to improve it would require increasing levels of government interference. Clearly people(industry included) aren't willing to self regulate their water usage or they would already be doing so.
I bought an Amazon Fire Phone when they were on sale for $199 (and it included a year of Amazon Prime, which I already have paid for for nearly as long as the service has existed). It is basically a shitphone, though a quite high quality one (from a hardware perspective, the software is soundly in the "shitware" category). It has a weird/broken/old version of Android, has the Amazon store instead of Google Play (though Play can be side-loaded), and has some weird and ridiculous features that nobody wants and everybody laughs at when I explain it to them (the 3D stuff and the four cameras on the face to provide the 3D stuff).

But, for effectively $100 I got a quite high end phone. And, it was fun to tinker with it, getting it whipped into proper shape. I may eventually root it and pop Cyanogen or some other ROM onto it, for now, it's a pretty solid phone.

If I hadn't gotten the Fire, I probably would have gotten one of the cheap Chinese imports like the author of this post. I refuse to do a subsidized phone, and $650 for a high end phone seems absurd.
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