skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When has a company ever described the reasons for not hiring you in such detail? I've been rejected like 50 times and not once was a reason given other than "we're searching for a candidate of another profile". Which I guess is a great way to avoid discrimination lawsuits. If this article is true, OnShift has the dumbest recruiters ever and I hope they get what's coming for them.
This was my understanding (not to mention how the article reads). Thank you for clarifying.

Not to be pedantic, but do you have a source handy that indicates this? I would just like to have one for reference.
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The key point to me is: this information was already stolen and in the hands of god-knows what parties.

Certainly there's an argument to be made on the optimal outcome for the individuals concerned. Which is worse? Their stolen information being traded invisibly on a darknet, or publicly visible on Wikileaks?

However, as a separate argument, I'd hold very strongly to the idea that Wikileak's publication of information is good for society as a whole. (Aka the no-public-release vs full-disclosure security debate of the 90s)

As the Target and Home Depot breaches demonstrated, corporations don't give a damn about their customer's privacy - only the revenue that might be lost by losing goodwill.

And only by keeping these incidents in the news for long enough will it hurt severely enough to be taken seriously.
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He may well find girls icky he may want to marry a guy, a fictional character, or the toaster for all we know. Kids are weird like that.
I'm not being sarcastic, this is a serious question because the specifics of this are over my head

Are you saying that the "nested kernel" architecture technically increases the surface area for attack, or is the problem that it gives a false sense of security compared to what it actually provides?
Failure is the normal state of things. You should aim to be comfortable with failure. If you don't enjoy the process, then you probably shouldn't be doing it.

Most people don't succeed financially. You could make all the right moves and still not get there. It's something you have to accept. There is a lot of luck involved - Especially the first time.
You type so little and say so much.
Allowed? Become a sith.
Here efficiency is not only about costs but also about energy saving / protection or the environment.
Currently the majority of developers and organisations are using Git. This makes it more interesting for us to focus on Git, rather than support other DVCS's.
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Hello HN,

I hope you find my interesting. If there is anyone who needs any clarification or help, let me know and I will reply as soon as I see it.
Quite disappointing on an iPad as well. Just an empty page with some vague error message.
Interview in highly professional clothes. I'm a software engineer but I wear collar with matching pants and jacket (no tie) to interview. Work pants, hoodie+As hat once I demonstrate my value. One must bring A-game to the first meeting.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised when if Snowden had chosen to go to IG he'd wind up dead in some dumpster next week, and the only difference he would make to the US is a few thousand dollars in a black ops budget.
I can't tell if you agree with me or not. We're talking about the institutional systems built on top of the monetary system and our respective trust in each. You seem to say the same at the end of your comment.

But I'm not claiming that the collapse of Bear Stearns was a failure of the traditional monetary system. The fact that the fed can print money at will is the reason why essentially they had it in their power to extend an emergency loan to Bear Stearns. That they chose instead to wipe out shareholders was an institutional failure. It was an institutional failure on a colossal scale - and yet clearly water off a duck's back.
Hey, WolframAlpha; graph batman
beat out?

Discoverability is what the person is talking about, and it would indeed improve discoverability.
I have fun with low XP (the game I'm playing is still there to play). I don't have fun watching buildings build themselves.
TIL that all the frustration I've felt with philips screws over the years is the result of a design decision.
Making Plutonium-238 in large enough quantities is an ongoing challenge
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What kind of learning isn't self-taught anyway? I think the expression is hoakey, and perhaps appealing to young developers who might take selfies or do other things with themselves. Consider this comment a free gift.
Would you consider the NSA to be doing the world a favor as well then?
See sibling. The highlighted section would be equivalent (using my analogy from above), to eBay banning a seller who repeatedly offers items, but does not deliver them upon sale.

You don't defraud eBay/customers by saying you have a good when you don't actually have it, and you don't defraud Uber/customers by saying you are available to drive when you actually aren't.

You can choose when to offer an item for sale, and when you choose to be available to give rides for Uber.
Well, given some of the past actions of the MPAA[1][2], I suppose this attitude is altogether unsurprising. The sooner the MPAA fades away and is replaced with something less archaic, the better.

[1]: https://torrentfreak.com/google-mpaa-censorship-150303/

[2]: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-mpaas-att...
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* I consulted my accountant in .be (not connected to this project).
* I took advice from a trusted Latvian accountant. Trusted, as in doing the books for the company of a close friend since years.
* I attentively read the double taxation treaties myself.
* Close friends advised me on practical arrangements: where to get an office, ...
I have a lemonade stand.

You come up to buy some lemonade.

I ask you "Do you like lemonade?"

You reply yes.

I take a cup of lemonade and put a handful of dirt in it. I offer it to you. You refuse it, because you don't like the taste of dirt.

Is it fair for me to challenge your original claim of liking lemonade? Likewise, if you maintain that you do in fact enjoy lemonade, are we just quibbling over semantics? Or is there a substantive reason why you refused to drink it?

That's what the GP is claiming. When dealing with "feminists", he senses toxic and anti-intellectual attitudes. That's a substantive claim, not a semantic one.
Right, exactly. But in the face of annihilation, open-sourcing the driver may provide enormous opportunity for developers generally, such that people may choose it over nVidia. It could be an angle worth looking at.
4 human male, I believe you forgot the Emperor.
Also the Leah being force sensitive was eluded to.
Idunno, after running a MBP for almost five years, IMO Windows software is better. Most of it's not very pretty, but in terms of pound-for-pound productivity shortcuts and features-in-general, Windows designers/programmers seem to favor productivity over cheesy gimmicks (or, this contemptible trend of data sparsity)
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>If Sony broke the law, they could have selectively published those emails.

I think the point is to not be selective. Release the info, and let people do with it as they may.
Great question. GitLab is free, open source and you can host it on your own server. If you don't want to host it yourself, use GitLab.com for free, incl unlimited public, private repos, collaborators.

On top of that, we have some awesome features that put us ahead of GH:
https://about.gitlab.com/better-than-github/
um, yes it is. self determination is the root of equality. others can apply labels willy nilly. how one views themselves is the most important factor in embodying an identity.
I only just noticed this now, but `dit` and `cit` only works in html (and other web derived modes) in spacemacs. I guess some of the stuff only gets set up on the major modes.
GitHub is great for open source projects, but it sucks for private repositories:

* No private repo in the free plan

* Pricing per repo in the paid plan - probably fine for a startup with just a couple products, unusable for a service company that starts a new project every month

So if you care about private repos, BitBucket vs GitLab is interesting.
I found Cockos' Reaper to be pretty good. Worth checking out, at least.
forgot this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4P8orKjadI
Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne

I have a degree in Computer Science, but my weak spot is without a shadow of doubt Data Structures and Algorithms.

I'd consider myself a good developer, but I've been interested in programming problem exercises for a while now, and I'd love to give myself the grounding to be able to jump onto a site like TopCoder and be able to implement these problems without significant research and time. Within the year, I'm hoping to be finish this book and read through CSLR, and (finally) put this weak spot to rest.
And that's the thing about these, you try some, find out what works for you. I don't see anything ethically wrong with taking a brain booster if it improves your performance at work. If you can do that instead of burning out and you really love your job, why not?
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It's a lovely video. Thanks for posting. It seems as though what unites these two isn't that they both work in the gastronomic arts, but rather, that they are both driven to achieve perfection, and that they both share a certain sadness and also mania knowing that they want to achieve something that is impossible, and yet are so close. I also think it is what makes it so prescient for this forum -- many of us are the same way. We seek out new challenges. Refine old art forms. Think about things slightly askew. For me, seeing this conversation was almost like seeing three men discussing a topic across time. Jiro-san relays to Rene what his experience has been like as someone pursuing perfection, and says something along the lines of "When you are my age, you won't think about quitting... I know you... because you are me... and we can never quit. We just keep striving for the next thing." And Rene has (and this may be my American interpretation of his Nordic facial reaction) a sort of moment where he realizes that Jiro-san is correct. That he is both blessed and trapped with this relentless drive. Jiro-san then says something along the lines of "I won't live this long... but if I lived until you were the age I am now, I would want to be there to say 'I told you so' because I know you will never stop. You will always look for the next thing." And you can see his son, the third participant in the conversation, observing, and contemplating his father's mortality, his father's legacy, and his father's drive.

I thought it was quite beautiful.
I think the diagram must be slightly incorrect, else there are some odd bits.

* 20 is copied into 22 unchanged
* 20 = min(min(14, 15), 14) - min(14, 15), which all simplifies to 0
> Almost nothing you'll encounter as an employee of an established business will come close to the stress of your startup failing.

This may be true. But in my own experience I find myself continually pushed towards startups because established companies that I've worked at have had unpleasant HR policies and hierarchical weirdnesses. (It's a little depressing when a startup sets out to mimic that stuff.)
That's weird. I'm in the US and have never been asked for this kind of detail when buying servers from OVH. Maybe it has something to do with payment method and country of origin?
I doubt it. As with patents, sometimes they burn the people wielding them, but those wielding them as a weapon still see more value in excluding smaller players and those who don't cross-license than in stopping damage to themselves.
I wasn't talking about long term health risks like cellphones give you brain cancer and WiFi makes you blind.

But there are guidelines for certifying consumer electronics compatibility with medical devices is on that list.
This is a different one actually than the one in the article!
This is a sad state of affairs. I feel for you, but i cannot condone hiding. obviously, this is my opinion and i am not telling you what to do. i just hate that A) you feel the need to hide and B) you are probably right to do so.
Woah, that hashtag is really interesting. I wonder if the concentration of HN, and the tendancy to be identifiable led to something like that. Though Slashdot was around for much longer, Reddit too, and their communities dwarf HN there isn't something similar.

Feels a bit like political news, just waiting for a gaffe to report on, or something to take out of context.
I created a similar visualization of part of HookTheory's data:

http://briancort.com/songviz/

At the time they didn't have an API, so I emailed them and they sent me a sample to work with. Would be interesting to see how it handles such a large amount of data.

If you're interested in this sort of harmonic analysis, you might also like a little visualization I created of the harmonies within a chord:

http://briancort.com/chordviz/

Great minds... ;)
I agree but, for the moment, it's worth a bit of happiness.
I've been using spacemacs off and on for a few months, (although never as my primary editor). I really like their out-of-the-box config, and it's much easier and better than my previous copypasted amalgamation of an init.el file. I have a few qualms with it though.

- It completely takes over emacs. Your modifications now go in ~/.spacemacs. Don't touch ~/.emacs.d/ Want to install something from melpa? Make a spacemacs configuration layer. That aspect feels like a strong step away from the emacs ethos where you're on the same footing as the editor authors. I don't like the inversion of control.

- It's unstable. Fairly often I'll update and something will fail, leaving me helplessly with emacs keybindings. Thankfully, a revert is easy.

- The last one is a problem with evil in general, you'll still occasionally find yourself in emacs mode, where hjlk and more importantly ":q" don't work
Princess Bride
> Go is sufficiently mature enough that those questions need not be asked any longer. Docker is built on it

So... just so I can get the chain of thought, here:

* the language has growing for a while

* people have used it to ship something

Therefore, no more need to ask questions -- just switch to it!

> I haven't seen any other language get as much hate as Go does on this site.

Given the amount of criticism PHP and JavaScript get on this site, this statement is simply indefensible.

And a lot of the criticism Go gets is concrete and a direct result of choices the language designers consciously made.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is great for elites. Is it good for anyone else?
Is there a way to remove the distinction between employee and contractor? It feels artificial to me, like everyone should be one or the other. Removing the link between health care and employment seems like a good start.

Does the distinction serve a useful purpose? It seems like they are both "people you hire to do work".
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What about ç or å or other stuff like ° or ¡ and ¿?

Apple's consistent use of the "optional" characters is a lot like the old C-64 with the graphical extras available at the push of two buttons.
For Lucasfilm, the Way of Its Force Lies in Its ‘Star Wars’ Fans
That's understandable - from business point of view. I bet you would just use SVN instead of innovating with a new DVCS ~7 years ago. Safe choice is a safe choice.
I'd understood this subthread to be spawned from someone saying they love "Java-style generics". Focus on Java therefore seems appropriate, although I think we're still waiting for G*P to let us know what aspects they were actuallly referring to...
Appearance of 'concern' throughout the email:

1st paragraph: 1 time

2nd paragraph: 1 time

3rd paragraph: 2 times

4th paragraph: 3 times

Total: 7 times
Princeton Adopts Sweeping Policy on Freedom of Expression
Good luck:

www.iq-tests-for-the-high-range.com
But don't you find yourself hitting C-a to go to the beginning of a line and then insert a line break, then inadvertently deleting everything on the page. As an Emacs user, I do this all the time.
Does the US not have regulations about UAVs automatically firing of weaponry?

Even if we do have such regulations, I doubt they'll last long. We'll have to respond in kind once China, Russia, Iran, etc start developing fully automated weapons systems. When Russia can send 1,000 aircraft into a theater because they only require 10% the personnel and we can only send 100 aircraft because we require human operators, the pressure is going to be pretty intense be fully automated. And, even if automation doesn't increase capacity, automation will reduce reaction times, thereby providing other benefits.

Allowing robots to automatically fire ordnance seems something congress would
legislate against -- or at least I hope so.

Victory in [symmetric] warfare is already largely dependent on economic advantage, but future war will be entirely determined by economic strength: assuming similar levels of technology, my coalition wins, for example, if we can field 10,000 automated aircraft and your coalition can only field 8,000. I would expect Congress to legislate against this; when China develops fully automated systems and starts deploying them, I would expect Congress to gut those regulations or to let the DoD proceed quietly with developing a to-be-held-in-reserve software update for full automation.

I agree this is not a good outcome, but I'm not sure how the world can avoid it.
maybe this is just me, but semantics are what define the issue as a whole. We all know to stay away from generalities when attempting to make a cogent argument, but it would appear that the moment one wants to get into the deep details, there are people ready to say that "semantics" are somehow misleading. Strange.
It'd be nice if there was a demo on the site to play with. Or, at least some screenshots to see what it looks like.

Maybe there is something after signing in, but I didn't want to sign in with Github or Google, and so I moved on.

Edit: Oh, there is, but I didn't notice them. Those light gray caption bubbles on the homepage.
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If you have the luxury take a couple weeks off before you decide for sure on where you want to start working again.

After the startup I was working at failed I thought I wanted to work at a big corp that was stable because I felt disillusioned by the failure of the startup. But after a couple weeks of talking to different companies and interviewing I realized that I wouldn't be happy working for a big corp even if it was risk free.

I ended up turning down a nice offer from a big corp and jumping on board another startup (a much more successful one though).
Nice! Hello Kitty works too.
I like PellesC for playing around on my own projects, but have wondered if there's anyone using it for serious development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelles_C

http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/
But isn't that kind of the whole point? The Jedi are at a disadvantage, they impose all sorts of rules on themselves that put them at a disadvantage. The goal of the rules, though, is to eliminate temptation and lust for power, because those things are incredibly destructive when they manifest in someone as personally powerful as a Jedi.

Not to mix franchises or anything, but it's a little bit like how Gandalf won't touch the one ring or allow it to be offered to him. He could have taken it and killed all the Orcs by himself. But at what cost?

I personally think the idea of the Jedi as celibate defenders of justice makes far more sense, and is far more satisfying. But of course directors can't help but add lame love stories to otherwise exciting adventure stories, and the vast majority of people are hung up on the whole "family" thing, so I guess I'll just have to live with it :)
Since MS Visual Studio 2013, VS supports C99. It looks like MS wanted to "deprecate" the C language. They seem to acknowledge their mistake in an implicit way, in my opinion.
The issue was probably something like a broadcast storm because of defective fault detection on some redundant network kit. That won't stop people blaming it on the fact that the stack isn't built on the latest hipster frameworks.
Having a Reuters and Bloomberg terminal on the desk next to each other is commonplace, I did have, plus a Datastream.

As for a few seconds delay, that's probably how they're interacting with them, not how they could use them. Both have both very different UIs and very different Excel plugins (assuming someone has both on their desk, from experience, they probably use the Excel plugins a lot/mission critical functionality).
Probably true. I spent hours at a time on my C64, so I don't see my progeny being any different.
Can you link me to any data about the HNista that lost their job? Not questioning veracity, just very interested... and saddened.
>Microsoft seems to be heading in a good direction, Apple less so. Things like living in a web browser and a platform neutral IDE (I use IntelliJ for Clojure, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby) make OS platform less impactful on using a computer. I am looking at Surface 3 Pros and Surface 3s, price and feature wise, vs. Apple products and I find Apple losing ground.

To keep this on the rails, I have to wonder exactly how much Apple has paid out to developers on the iOS platform vs Microsoft on their mobile platform. The very first reason the author of the linked article cited for his decision to pull out was competition, which combined with having the largest payouts by a large margin speaks to the health of the platform imho.
Native vs. web apps has been debated endlessly, but the doomsday scenario for Apple's approach has which has been trumpeted for many years now has conclusively not come to pass.
I suppose if you extend the time horizon out to some Nth degree that may change, but what has Apple been doing in the meantime? Making a ton of money and paying a ton of money to developers.
Then what is the first chord? The beginning is labelled "Start" What does this mean? Either less than 25% of songs start on the 1 (no way this is possible) or the second chord is mislabeled as a chord change when it stays the same or those with a 1 in the second column started on a chord other than the root and instead of listing that chord, the data is thrown away. Something is messed up here.
Flynn effect is more an indication of improving performance on IQ tests, not an indication of increasing intelligence. That's why the Flynn effect is often referred to as "hollow" gains.
> What about ç or å or other stuff like ° or ¡ and ¿?

Those are all covered:

http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/
I think they actually developed it to support their blog and as a chance to prototype a Haskell workflow. Spinning it up to a product is an interesting choice.
A black suit jacket and black T-shirt. Not exactly standard male business attire.