skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@westcoastjustin- I did email at the beginning of this week. HR said I will def get offer my way soon/shortly.

@fsk I hear you

@vinit pretty big company. Top 10 tech companies globally right now

@dudul: I confirmed many times that this is good to go. They sent me the 'offer' (salary, start date, etc) in an email. They said they are fully confirmed when I officially accepted the offer (again via email). They got the background check going after that.
Given this is a new team they said paperwork would be delayed so I assumed that was normal. I spoke to someone else who accepted the offer and said their process was sketch too - he/she didn't see the full offer either (but got more paperwork than myself at least), though this person is starting before me.
>Also had to show ID (passport, in my case, as a visitor from the US) to board planes in Europe.

If this was a Schengen (inter-europe flight), the only reason you would need it would be on checkin if your airline checks this for revenue protection. By law there shouldn't be any passport checks (at least only randomly).

Anecdote: Travelled by airplane within Europe multiple times, never had to show my passport

>While traveling on trains in Germany, I was also required to show ID.

Which is only required if you get a non-transferrable online ticket. If you buy your ticket at the station, there is no need to show an ID on the train (in contrast to Amtrak)
Profiled this. Using first_value instead of the additional sub-select made this perform slower at a factor of about 2x for arrays of 1M events.

Interesting, and very surprising! I'm going to dig around and see if I can't figure out why this is the case.

I would have guessed there would be a minor performance improvement, because the first_value approach effectively allows PostgreSQL to discard the data sooner, instead of materializing it in an additional subquery.
In my country it's exactly the same way. You need an ID, but not an authorization. The location data is also treated the same way, for the second reason you stated.

The way people feel about needing valid ID is very different, though.
They already do. Search for "Los Angeles House Cleaning" (or many similar types of searches). There is a 'Google places' block of results pushing down people like Thumbtack and Homejoy. Having used both services, I can guarantee you Thumbtack or Homejoy is a much better result than the 'Google places' results linking to random house cleaners. For example, on my SERP this sparse, unhelpful page (https://plus.google.com/116731524137013411814/about?hl=en) ranks above both Thumbtack and Homejoy.

Once you are big enough you don't need to worry about Google anymore. When I want to buy a product, I don't search on Google and then go to Amazon; I go to Amazon directly. Whoever "wins" the local services space is likely to be similar. People will just go to that site and skip Google completely.
This. So much this.

This comic should be required reading: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1883#comic

The presence of trans people backs this up: MtFs are overrepresented in tech, and the ratio of MtFs to FtMs in tech is about the same as the ratio of cis men to cis women in tech (I am MtF myself, and it's a running "joke" in the trans community that trans girls are all programmers). If you have the tech skills and the drive to work in the industry, you'll do fine here regardless of whether you're male or female. It's just that if you spent your childhood and teenage years being perceived as a girl, then you're supremely unlikely to even be an applicant to a tech position. At that point, there's nothing the tech industry can do to change anything.

Also, one thing I've observed is that if you're a nerd, non-nerdy boys are more likely to say "whatever floats your boat", and non-nerdy girls are more likely to say "eww, gross!". Peer pressure is the worst kind of pressure.
Serious question:

Patrick was about as well known on the Business of Software message boards as you are on HN when his consulting career started. Those boards no longer exist and were always smaller than HN. Prior to consulting he held what is probably the lowest- status job in software development. What do you think the secret ???'s were for him?
This is exactly what I was hoping/looking for, thanks!
Although I tend to agree with this post, we had a good experience with the only conference we decided to attend.

We at Codacy decided to attend the Web Summit last year and invested the amount they asked us to put in (I can't recall how much but was the standard for the BETA category). They upgraded us to the BETA category even though we actually should have been put in the lower ALPHA one.

In any case we executed on a plan: to extract as much as we could from it and that we did:

* We abused the day with the stand to talk to Startups and give awareness of our product. We actually met a few of our best customers.

* We did a list of people we wanted to meet and took some effort to network and reach them. We got into very interesting discussions and follow on meetings after the conference. We met great engineers and people we ended up partnering with.

* We took part in the pitch competition (with some hesitation at first to be honest..), but took it seriously and we ended up winning the whole thing (techcrunch.com/2014/11/06/lisbons-codacy-wins-the-web-summit-pitch-competition/)

So while I cannot speak for these new conferences, for us the Web Summit was certainly a great investment.
>The United States was founded on the idea of "freedom"

I'd argue that the United States was founded on particular freedoms, not the general idea of it. Like the original settlers just wanted the freedom to practice their religion in peace. They certainly didn't believe in any freedoms beyond their own interests.
Right. Why don't we see Android forks? Because if you dare ever make one, you are kicked out of the OHA. And if you're kicked out of the OHA, you can't make phones with normal Android and its Play Store.

This is why it was so hard for Amazon to find a manufacturer for the Kindle Fire. Nobody wanted to be kicked out of the OHA.

Luckily, they did find someone who wasn't already making Android phones.
Given the heavy prevalence of BIOTRUTHS and gender normativity on this forum, I'm not at all surprised by the trans-erasure.

Disappointed, yeah, surprised, no.
It's a very complicated issue. You've provided a graph which describes a trend, a Gladwell-esque 'just so' story (yes that's a pejorative) and an anecdote by way of explanation. Actually interpreting the data and understanding why people do what they do on a large scale isn't a solved problem. We aren't Hari Seldon. Social science is called soft science for a reason. People are much, much more complicated than climate. And climate is still pretty complicated. I believe there's a huge gender problem in tech but if you want specifics? If you want to know why women aren't in this field, well you'd have to ask every woman. If you want to generalize all women and ask why most of them don't, the answer, if it even exists, is unbelievably complex with undoubtedly many factors. I don't think there's much evidence that discrimination and a gendered culture is the only reason or even the primary reason for the discrepancy, though I personally believe it plays a very significant role. But I'm open to having my mind changed. What would actual evidence even be?

What I'm convinced of is that a) more women and minorities in the industry would improve it a great deal in a variety of important ways b) Making the culture of the industry more open and welcoming to these groups is an important step we need to take in order to effect (a).

Finally, it really isn't appropriate or helpful to smear anyone who disagrees with you or even suggests an alternate explanation as a 'denier' and spew hate. This isn't climate change; nobody is disagreeing about the facts and trends. If you're so certain you're correct and uninterested in hearing disagreements, why even post? And it's very condescending to presuppose and pre-dismiss what someone you're having a discussion with will say in response to you. You're arguing in bad faith. If you want people to listen to you, you should tone down the vitriol and try to write with respect.
Being non-citizen is a different story. I think both US and Japan require non-citizens to carry their registration document (green card, visa, etc.) all the time, although it is rare that you actually asked to present it. Demanding ID for its own citizens sounds a lot worse.
> I don't know why am I still paying robbery-like roaming "costs"

The EU has brought down roaming every year, and it'll be soon abolished.

> why citizens has still to resort to individual country-to-country specific deals to avoid double taxation within EU

because we don't have a federal Europe
Really cool and the site looks great too! Was a css framework used for the styling or is it hand written? Can't tell from the minification.
I agree. I feel like if they had a larger area to land on they would be able to get it. That way, they could focus less on pinpointing the exact position, and more on keeping it upright and stable.
Also somewhat interesting that it appears to be the same angle as the official video posted to Vine [1], only in drastically higher quality.

[1] https://vine.co/v/euEpIVegiIx
I work with a lot of Indian and Chinese programmers and plenty of them are women. I've asked them about the whole "why are there so few women in programming?" thing and they look at me like I have three heads. To them, it's like saying "have you notice that accountants often have red hair?"

It's just a normal job that you get, no real stigma attached.
Posting a Position
I would like to get more information about how much does it cost to post a position on your website and how many days will the posting be active
So you're in Europe/Germany? I've used AWS, Softlayer, Firehost, etc - and my thoughts are:
- If you have a small team, and will use the services, AWS can be great. It can become expensive. But many people don't realize the cost actually defers the need for some DevOps team members. Performance of EC2 hosts can be middle of the road at times compared to Softlayer, or pure metal. I love their HighAvailability, and many of their offerings, and security that comes "for free".
- SoftLayer is fantastic. They don't have as many SaaS (eg: SQS, SNS, RDS) offerings - so you will build more of your own services and be responsible for uptime, etc. I love their performance.
- FireHost is what you want if you're taking care of a very financially at-risk product. It is expensive, but you won't be hacked unless it's on your own stupidity.
Ask friends or existing customers.

Failing that, I create a marketing page with screenshots, explanation of why it's cool, and a "register your interest for early access" form.

Then try and do some SEO so it appears in searches (Google Webmaster Tools help me see if that's working).
Netflix HTTPS performance experiments for large scale content distribution
Pretty cool. I was actually wondering the other day if, for a given manifold, there is a general algorithm to randomly choose a point on it such that each point has an equal probability of being chosen.
the default is that you are allowed to travel

I disagree with that interpretation. In fact, there is no default as such. You are required to demonstrate your identity in order to show that you're not one of those people. So you can't just fall into the default condition.

So 1.5 x10^-4 percent of Americans are limited by it.

Abridging the rights of a small number is still abridging rights. The philosophy of the USA, as demonstrated in the Bill of Rights, is supposed to be that minorities, even individuals, have their rights protected from the tyranny of the majority.
What happens once it lands successfully?

Won't one stray wave tip it right over into the ocean?

Those landing struts are only 1/10 the length of the rocket.

If this wasn't so tall, it wouldn't be nearly the problem that it is.

Are they perhaps really trying to develop a Dragon landing system?

And using this extra tall rocket as a worst-case scenario?
What’s your definition of “proper”? You get a different flavor profile if you vary the water temperature. My favorite for single origin light roasts is very fine grind, not too much 170–180° water, and short steep time. It requires somewhat more beans to get strong coffee compared to a brew using more, hotter water and a long steep time, but the resulting cup of coffee is much tastier IMO.
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Your premise is invalid. It'd be the same as claiming that by existing and occupying physical space, combined with my not having a right to murder you, you're preventing me from accessing the physical space you're occupying and therefore denying me freedom.

The hole in your logic is the notion that your freedom is impeded, when in fact it is not: that freedom properly does not exist where you're claiming it should. The same logic hole is commonly seen when people claim censorship on private forums: freedom of speech does not apply there, just as physical right to pass/movement does not apply to private physical space.
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Let's not get started on having to buy dog licenses every year in most of the country.
> Even BP didn't get that big of a fine when they polluted half of the Atlantic Ocean.

So? The thing with corporations is, if they do something bad and you give them a small fine, they'll just consider it a write-off expense.

Corporations lack morality. They are not human, they cannot be reformed. If you want them to behave, you have to make their bad actions hurt. You can't just lock them up, either.

Thus, a big fine is the only way to force them to act.
I thought a hackathon was for people to do projects, and not always or necessarily to "beat" other people.
Scrum sprints deals with this. It helped us a lot in that regard.
At most companies sitting around and brainstorming etc is not really considered work. Nobody really minds when you are doing it late at night though.
For the train: Probably you booked an online ticket (think QR code)? Often that says "Only valid with a government ID". Why? Hell, who knows. Crappy company..

For the flight: Usually you either check in with your ID/passport in one way or another. That's true, I guess. As far as I'm aware at least, there's no way around it. They don't "check" you, but you prove that you booked your flight by presenting the ID. Bah.

For the hotels: That's the real issue. Ignore the rest. Most countries here seem to require that you give up your identity if you check into a hotel. The ID isn't always required - actually that's rare for me so far - but you're supposed to give up your name, private address and contact information. For .. random idiotic reasons I assume.

It's not the hotels that care here, though. Can't blame them.
> The amount of taxes being collected throughout the year are by design higher

This is not true at all. You decide how much money will be deducted from each paycheck by filling out form W-4 and similar state forms. You can make withholding adjustments after each paycheck.

IRS will penalize you if you "prepay" too little (for instance, if you owe them more than 10% of your total tax), but there nothing that prevents you from not giving them interest-free loan.
Angie's List and Craig's List not Google and Amazon
It's hard to appreciate the energy density of the fuel they're using, but this makes for a good example.
The inverted method essentially involves waiting for 45-90 seconds and then pressing. It's not going to leak or anything when you flip it unless you go absolutely wild. It's no harder than making a non-inverted aeropress or a pourover.

Or if you accidentally put the plunger in the wrong side and don't notice before you fill it up. I did that once :)
Space X would like to return Falcon to dry land, but given the high chance of failure, they're first trying to do it on the drone ship "Just Read the Instructions" at sea. That way when things go wrong, it's not such a big deal.
Wow, the mask really came off on that one.
Here's an extract from the German Wikipedia:

"Before the [law] came into force on 1 August 2013, Google Germany had written to the press publishers in June 2013. They should tell Google whether they waive all rights under the law on Google News and grant [it] free license. Otherwise, their content would no longer be listed from 1 August in Google News"

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leistungsschutzrecht_f%C3%BCr_...
Where there's a buck to be made on the gullible, the shameless flock it seems.

I wonder how these folks sleep at night and how much money they're really making. They could be doing something else with their time that is a win-win for everybody, not just them.

On the flipside - maybe we ought to be glad they're running around doing small-time scams, imagine these jerks infiltrating large organizations and spreading their ways around in ways that affect the masses.
> Google's competitors should spend more time improving their products and less time complaining to the EU.

If nobody uses their products because Google doesn't let people find them...
I don't know. Apparently the merchants provide the information to Google directly in spreadsheets.

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/160637?hl=en

As for your other question about being the #1 result but being ranked below paying advertisers, I'm not sure. Nobody deserves the #1 spot, it's not a natural right granted by your creator. In fact "the #1 search result" varies from query to query and from one user to the next based on their own Google account, if they have one.
No. You also don't need a ID for flying inside Schengen or going by bus.
Personally, I love keyless systems. I also habitually lock my car (happens automatically now, yay!) and never take the key out of my pocket, so leaving it in the car by accident isn't an issue. Old habits die hard, though.
The video appears to be a leak from inside Space X.
I spent a lot of time looking at JS libraries and frameworks. From jQuery, to Knockout, to Backbone, to Angular, to Batman, before finally settling on Ember. I am extremely skeptical about the need for more frameworks.

I usually don't give a new JS framework more than a couple of minutes to introduce itself. If it does not look like it will revolutionize how apps are built, I quickly write it off as a slightly different way to slice the pie.
Yes.

It's still on track to becoming a second kernel.
I've been using it full time since their windows release, and I'm very happy with it.

Takes a while to start-up, but otherwise I find it's very snappy.
Thanks for this example

I see 1 5-star, 4 2-stars, 3 1-star, the rest is closed

Now, if you see the hidden reviews, there are a lot of "5-star" ones (which are really 3 or 4 star) but a lot of 1-star ones as well

A lot of them are from people with a few friends (however, a lot of them seem to come from "high-quality" posters)

Well, Yelp better watch out if Google can give a better result
I had a website about this for several years called beatpaths.com . Some of the graphs for it are still up, and another person took the idea and continued auto generating similar graphs over at beatgraphs.com.

It was fun, but not really revolutionary. You'd often end up with cycles, and I had a system to discard the "beat loops" (smallest loops first) until you'd end up with a DAG.

You could make predictions by saying Team A would probably beat Team B if it had a path to team B in the graph (the basic transitive property), but still, the performance wasn't better than Vegas.

I went as far as coming up with some custom tsort algorithms; various tiebreakers, to come up with a full power ranking that fully respected the implied orderings in the graph.

In pro football, there's a dummy algorithm you can use to test your homemade custom snazzy algorithm. The dummy algorithm is: pick the team with the better record, and if they tie, pick the home team. If your algorithm doesn't match it, then your algorithm isn't worth a whole lot. My tsort algorithms didn't regularly beat it. If I had altered the dummy algorithm to just say: 1. Pick the team with the better record, 2. pick the team that has a beatpath to the other, 3. pick the home team - then I probably would have beat the dummy algorithm by a very little bit. But still, not close to Vegas performance.

In college football, trumpeting 88% is dumb because college football regularly has crap matchups. I had some full beatgraphs to college football, too - they were huge and loosely connected, and its performance wasn't surprisingly good or anything.
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How rampant is nootropic use in Silicon Valley?
you only need to go through the array one time - here you are doing it multiple times....

also, you can define a order independent hashing function, that just maybe assigns prime numbers to each letter and adds them up....

instead...

hashed_words = {}

anagrams = []

for word in words:

h = compute_hash(word)

w = hashed_words.get(h)

if w == True
// we've already encountered another anagram, just add it

anagrams.append(word)

elsif w

//case where both w and word are anagrams, so append both to list

// and set the value to True, so we can shortcircuit this operation in the future

anagrams.append(w); anagrams.append(word);

hashed_words[h] = True //flag indicating weve seen this word before

else

// first time we are seeing this, so lets just set it

hashed_words[h] = word

return anagrams
The "trade this ticket X that ticket Y" is a good approach. I've done that too with _some_ success.

One problem is that we have multiple clients, so each doesn't care about the others tickets.
This is a broader question... is racism and other discrimination a rational act, or not? We need to be sure to not conflate individual behavior and group behavior here.

Now, as a group behavior, discrimination is rational. If my side is strong, oppressing the other side keeps my side strong and makes it stronger, and then weakens the other side. The moral dilemmas can then be rationalized away with fancy words.

As an individual member of a group that practices discrimination, it's also rational. I can go along with my peers, accept the fancy words even though I realize they're probably nonsense, and benefit from the superior strength of my side. Or, I can call out the immorality and nonsense, and get shunned and locked out of the benefits of my position.

Once you take morality out of it, discrimination is rational behavior. Making up ridiculous lies to justify discrimination is rational behavior. It's one thing to not believe it, another thing to act against it.
I see Bing here, not Google Search: http://internet.org/press/internet-dot-org-app-now-available...
It's also happened in 2013 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2013/11/26...) and 2012 (http://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/131qfn/parity_2012_the_...) and 2011 (http://www.sportsgrid.com/nfl/nfl-parity-chart-2011/) and 2010 (http://www.sportsgrid.com/nfl/nfl-parity-photo/) and 2009 (http://mathfridge.blogspot.com/2010/11/nfl-2009-parity-wheel...). In 2007 the Patriots were undefeated, and in 2008 the Lions were winless; I can't find any instances of this concept in 2006 or before. But I suspect that this perfect cycle has a very good chance of happening if there is no undefeated or winless team.
I won't ever argue that women aren't as good at programming as men (and it doesn't make any sense to suppose they've gotten worse since the 1980s...)

If it's gotten worse since the 1980s solely due to cultural bias, you can't explain that by a cultural bias remaining the same throughout that period, you have to assume that the cultural bias changed. Out of curiosity, what's the accepted explanation for that?
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