skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OMAP is not a DSP. It's an ARM coupled to a DSP thingie. Linux runs on the ARM side.
When I hire, I'm not looking for a person or a resource. I'm looking for a solution to my problem. Sometimes that problem is big, sometimes it's urgent. But there's always a problem needing to be solved. The more a candidate looks like a solution to my problem, the closer to the front of the pile he/she gets.

AFAIC, the most important thing for any candidate to do is to identify my problem(s) and present themselves as the solution. The problem could be:

- We just got a bunch of new business and need someone to do <xyz> immediately to satisfy those customers.

- We just acquired another business and need to convert/integrate from technology <abc> to technology <xyz> and need someone who knows both technologies (or either one) and has done that before.

- We have a new business problem and one possible solution is to build/enhance/maintain an app. Can you do that? Have you done that?

- We plan to grow x% over the next 24 months and we need people to do more of what we already do which is <abc>. Can you do that? Have you done that?

- We have a problem and frankly, we're not sure what to do. What would you suggest? Can you do that? Have you done that before?

You kinda get the picture. The tricky part for any candidate is the research. How do you find out what my problems are? Ask! Ask me. Ask someone else in the company. Ask anyone. The simple act of research shows that you're a serious candidate. The follow up with a solution to my problem puts you at the top of my list.

If you're right out of school or don't have a lot of experience, you should still do this. You may not have as long a resume as others, but you have every bit as much to offer to solve my problems. Maybe a smart person who works hard and knows how to deliver is just what I need. You must find that out and present yourself as such. Remember, it's about my problem, not yours.

This was I great question to ask here at hn. I've never seen it before. The fact that you thought enough to ask is a huge first step. It shows that you're thinking about me, not just yourself. Keep thinking like that and there's no telling how far you'll get. Thank you and good luck.
I've heard somewhere (possibly from Joel himself, to be fair) that it typically costs a company around half a year's salary to hire an employee (between recruiting costs, etc.) $500/week is a drop in a very large bucket for most employers - at least the kind that are doing active recruiting. They're probably spending way more than that just in personnel time to review resumes - and in fact, being able to filter a bit better by quality will save them that much more in the screener's time.
I just spoken with a Zimbabwean (in South Africa). What happened in Zim is a fuckup. This guy's sister was raped (and eventually killed herself in South Africa).

There money is less than worthless. The only thing that saves the populace is subsistance farming and money from people working (illegally) in South Africa.
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There are two laws. They seem to conflict with each other. They both speak to acts that many, many normal people (as well as bootleggers) engage in and/or wish to engage in. Several people have tried to get clarification, but to no avail.

Thus, the only way to test the laws is to break one of them, and see what happens.

You may argue that it's not important, because only egregious violators are ever prosecuted. But that's the same as a government making a law which says "nobody is allowed to speak loudly" and then saying "but don't worry, we'll only arrest people who say dangerous things loudly".
The "triple talaq" is not as simple as just saying "talaq, talaq, talaq". First, it is generally condemned. Second, there must be a month between each "talaq", so the whole procedure takes up at least two months. For more info, see http://www.religioustolerance.org/mohd.htm
A simple way to do this would be to limit some of the advantages of a corporation, which is itself a state-created entity. I've no problem with government limiting the freedom of its own creation which enjoys unlimited life, limited liability, tax advantages. I do have a problem with government restricting the freedom of individuals and partnerships to contract freely in the marketplace.
represents the creation of inefficiency rather than the remedying of it.

I can't think of a situation where scalpers are not contributing to efficiency. I think you've focussed on intentions of particular parties in the scenarios rather than the net market and that this has taken you to an incorrect conclusion.

With scalpers, the venue venue has their risk removed (they lock in their sales early), and the scalpers increase liquidity by removing the venue's monopoly power over pricing the event. And price discover is better.

Now either the consumers are able to buy the tickets from the scalpers in a competitive market (and often with increased convenience), or the scalper can destroy the tickets and nobody can turn up the the event. They generally won't - that's irrational. Even if they did - it's not an ineficiency for the purpose of the original marketplace. In fact, it creates opportunity for extra production: the venue can arrange a late-entry-for-unfilled-spot policy which allows them to get people in and sell some tickets twice.

Or the venue can detect scalpers and create a dynamic price market of their own and maximise their volumes.

In the situation where multiple scalpers get the tickets and plan to sell them, there has been a massive gain in efficiency. The scalpers have removed the venue's monopoly power over ticket prices and created a second market place which will have more effective price discovery.

Either way, the event provider is focussing on what they're good at, and the scalpers at what they're good at.

Scalping is entreprenerial in spirit and good for the system in practice.
Even if 100-percent test coverage (see RE3) were possible, that criteria would be insufficient for testing.

One criterion, two criteria. That one thing, those two things.

/pet grammar peeve
I'm not sure minimizing the score (at least, until you get to 0) is interesting, but anyway, I wrote a simple hill-climbing-with-random-perturbation routine and let it run over and over for the last couple of days. So far my best has a score of 10:

12032213310013002
21301001102213023
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03330220131122010
22313133001012230
03123321011233102
20313010123321102
03022111302120233
31232100023232131
03201103213001212
11000232021331223
20221213031300031
13130132102302302
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Startups from Cambridge Innovation Center Pass $1B in Venture Funding
If you think of transcoding video as video chat and photoshopping as automatic photo color correction and indexing when you import your photos, just about everybody does it.

I am very happy with my Atom-based netbook, but, you know, there is no such thing as a computer that's too fast.
I don't like the fact that the 24 year old guy is at the top of the Executive board member. If his ego is too big to realise that just swapping the position with the somewhat older guy would do much better for a business like that, then his ego will be too big to not want to force his way on all companies funded.
An indication that regular users are upgrading but many of those are choosing other browsers instead since IEs overall usage continues to fall and that's a good thing.
I don't usually mention where I work, but it's very relevant to this point about showing interest in the company. (I run IT for Vistaprint.)

I was interviewing someone for a mid-level systems engineering position, and the interview seemed to be going well-enough. I always wrap up with a few minutes for the candidate to ask questions about the company, and the only question this candidate had was "Have you guys ever considered building a website where people can design and order business cards?"

Blink; blink; WTF? Uh, yeah, we did about $250M in business that way last year, so I'd say we've given it some thought.

An employer is going into the interview with some need that they're hoping you can fill. That need is almost certainly not "I need to make sure the next person in the door can pay rent and buy food." so you shouldn't go into the interview focused on that either. By all means, you have your own set of needs that you need filled, but in the interview, focus on the employer's need, not your own.
Good advice.

You can also play the old mentalist trick.

The mentalist knows nothing of his audience, yet it appears he has amazing powers of telepathy.

How does he do it?

He throws out a lot of information, then closely watches for a response, keying off of positive responses from the subject. As he gets more and more subvocal, body-language, and affirmations from his subject, he closes in on information that only the subject knows.

You can do the same thing in an interview. When asked a question, tell a story about how you solved a problem (which is why you're there) While telling it, listen closely for clues that you have touched on something of value. If you hear them, next time you tell a story keep close to that sore spot. Usually over a period of six or seven questions you can hone in on what the problem is while reassuring the interviewer with stories that you know how to help them.
When it comes to national TLDs and how a company can have this level of access... I don't want to know...
> if asked to provide code in an archive, don't splatter files inside my pwd

I think that displays the typical pickiness of people that do hiring. I mean, you could just type 'unzip -l' to check the contents of an archive. Similarly, the resume format. Practically every hirer requires a different format nowadays - pdf/txt/doc/odt/html - that simply maintaining a CV becomes a massive time sink.
IPhone developer gets a kinder, gentler Apple experience
Looks like the article has been updated. Now they're saying 1000 per second, which is much more believable.
The tone of your post seems condescending - I really hope that the high number of upvotes is not simply a reflection of how popular is it to dislike Joel.

I think his post is straight forward - this is a neat way to do specific searches for programmers. Programmers who use SO might or might not be cool, but they are now searchable.
I don't think it is useful to bring attention to that. Hacker News readers familiar with AWS will recognize the name. A certain amount of pseudo-anonymity may encourage people like him to post more on HN.
Sustainable vs Explosive: Income, Revenue, & Growth
It's polite to add a short sleep between requests. Although, in perl it would be a short select!
Leave unless they pay you market rates.

They are not treating you as employee #1 of a startup. Therefore, you should treat them the same way you would treat Big Employer.
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I read resumes all the time, a few tips:

* At your level of experience, you should ABSOLUTELY have only one page. If your LinkedIn profile is a reflection of your current resume, there's a fair amount you can cut from that if you need to make room. Things like "Tool was eventually taken up by QA team" isn't terribly relevant, and the BCCampus Research Assistant unfortunately sounds a bit like fluff.

* Don't expect anyone to have given your resume more than a cursory overview. Instead, plan on that and make sure that your most important bullet points stand out on the page. You can do this by re-ordering your information or by varying your whitespace, verbs used, and sentence length.

* Think about implementing a template from http://www.oswd.org/ for your personal website. You may not have design skills (and even those majoring in design often lack them out of college), but at least show you can recognize good design and follow directions by implementing one of the free templates there

* I normally hate to flaunt my own stuff, but I wrote an article recently on some of my personal pet peeves on resumes - http://citizenparker.com/post/Spray-and-Pray-Developer-Resum...

I would be happy to give your resume a more in-depth review and follow-up with you personally. Get in touch on my website if you're interested. Either way, good luck and don't give up.
Have they just broken every single url regex out there?
I smell irony.
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach: It's a Dream (and Then You Wake Up)
"do not expect companies to call you back, or be overly timely on most contacts."

So because thechnology gives us the excuse to be rude? Just opinion here, but if a business takes the time to bring a candidate in for a day of interviewing they are obligated to fnish the process which incldes delivering the bad news i they are not selected. I feel that anything less is bad manners and unprofessional, even if that has bcome the norm.
Here [0] is an algorithm for bipartite matching not listed there. Too bad it is not a wiki.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopcroft–Karp_algorithm
No matter how many times you say it doesn't make it right. Charging to look for average crappy jobs? Sure, that's ridiculous. Charging to essentially filter the jobs down to a subset with a high likelihood of being above average and excellent jobs? Well worth $100.

I can get a crappy job off Dice anytime and spending money to do it would be a waste. Spending $100 to have a chance at a great job where I'm actually happy? That's an investment likely to have pretty good returns.
care to share who that was?
Twitter creator to Square up to online transactions with new venture
Limits sought on citizen journalism
I enjoyed the drag strip stories more than any of it...
Each time I reread/edit a post like this, I end up thinking "what the hell do I know?" Sometimes I'm fortunate to learn something from folks that live and breathe value creation.
if the money supply were relatively constant as it would be under a gold standard, prices should naturally fall as productivity increases, while wages should be constant

...which would be a bad thing, because if the purchasing power of your money grows even when it's parked under your mattress, it's a lot harder for entrepreneurs to attract investment.

I would agree that the Fed has been too loose with the money supply over the past twenty years or so, and that this appears to be a structural problem with the central banks; George Cooper makes a good case in The Origin of Financial Crises. But I don't think the solution lies in a return to the gold standard.
From my experience as a science blogger, they failed miserably because they weren't telling a story. The way it read is that they are constantly delaying getting to the point.

They need to tell a story. Maybe something like "Many many years ago, Mars was covered with steam vents <insert image of a steam vent on the red plant>. How do we know? Ah, we had to get stuck to find out." That is an interesting story. Delaying is not.
Does this mean we should expect http://com./ http://net./ etc?
true enough in general, but it is clearly the origin of stick people talking about hacker stuff.
A more accurate title would be "Helsinki server room may eventually heat houses."

Perhaps it's a small point, but anyone can plan to heat houses with waste heat. Actually doing it is what counts.
How to build a coverflow on Android in just 5 minutes
Player clocks WOW achievements
The tax liability thing could be real. Has the company received a valuation in the time since you started working? Let's say that you took a series A with a 5M post-money valuation. Then, your 1% would show up on your tax returns as $50,000 of income. What I would do is ask the company to take the tax hit on my behalf. IANAA, so YMMV.
I was against shorteners for a long while, but you can't argue against the fact that it lets you fit more in your message when you have a character limit to deal with, such as with Twitter, identica, FriendFeed, etc. I try to restrict my use of shorteners to microblogging. When following shortened links, I just use common sense and take into account how much I trust the source of the shortened URL. In practice, this has worked very well for me.
Interesting overview of attention disorders, but a misleading title. I though it'd be more about distractions affecting healthy people and how to overcome them, not about disorders.
Some people are plenty mentally stimulated at work and don't feel the need to work on their own projects in their spare time. And sometimes your professional accomplishments are significant enough that a side project is not likely to make you a much more attractive candidate. The people who "do both" often don't fall in these categories.

Also a lot of companies don't want their employees to write code for anyone else and will actually see open source contributions as a major red flag.
If you're willing to work with telecommuters, I'm still looking for a job, with no luck, in the Cincinnati area...
Works fine for me in Opera (10.10), whether clicking or typing.
Facebook's Capital Structure Changes
Didn't CNet used to use http://com./?
If you define inflation as the increase of the money supply, then obviously a hike in interest rate, or equivalently, a reduction in the production of new money solves the problem of inflation.

That’s not how I define inflation, and I don’t think it’s how most people (even economists) define it. I define inflation as stuff getting more expensive.

If you define “inflation” as “increase in the money supply” and “value” as “value denominated in the mass of shiny rocks”, then yes, a gold standard prevents inflation and stabilizes the value of money. But this is a tautology, not an argument.
Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?
Eric Schmidt: How Google Can Help Sell Newspapers
I would rather see raw data released, too. However, mechanical_fish certainly has a valid point.

For example, there's currently a bit of a tiff among some climate scientists over whether the statistical methods used to produce the "hockey stick" graphs are mathematically valid. These other scientists use different statistical methods which produce a different graph, and they argue that there's no intrinsic reason why the "hockey stick" method is better.

However, the "hockey stick" graphs correlate much more closely with CO2 measurements. If this other method is valid, then there needs to be an explanation of the divergence between temperature and CO2, which otherwise has been assumed to be closely related.

Given this disagreement among actual scientists, I can imagine the raucous noise produced when a whole bunch of armchair scientists get ahold of "raw" data and say, "Aha! Your data doesn't match your graphs! We're yanking your funding!"
Eric Schmidt: How Google Can Help Newspapers
Countries can, and frequently do, sell the rights to their ccTLDs to third parties. For example, Verisign leases the rights to the .tv domain off the Tuvalu government for $50m/year.
How Goal Funnelling in Google Analytics can improve your Websites ROI
I always felt drained when I had to be in the office 4 or 5 days a week. I enjoyed the 1-2, maybe 3 days in the office and the other time at home.

At the moment I'm working for myself again and decided to go the co-working route and I'm loving it. Home, coffee shop or office depending on the day. I also like to work weird hours, so having 24 hr access to an office comes in handy when I want to work from 10pm to 7am on a Tuesday.
EBS costs $0.10 per GB and $0.10 per million I/O requests. Any ideas how much it would cost per month to replace a "normal" AMI (which is free) with an EBS-backed one like this?
For whatever reason they actually used com.com.
to show the rate of change.
no, they had com.com (e.g. http://news.com.com/). I believe that domain is now for sale. Probably gets a TON of typo traffic.
I disagree with that statement. Even before the rise of microblogging, URL shorteners were helpful in certain situations.

Which URL would you rather paste in an email for readability's sake:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Oak...

or

http://tr.im/Gw8B

In context, the recipient should have no problem anticipating the URL's end point (i.e., you probably just wrote something like, "here are some directions to my house:"), but using the shortened URL makes the email much more readable and prevents any potential screwy scrolling issues that might be caused by an ultra unwieldy URL borking their email software.

That's just one non-microblogging use case for one site that spits out very long dynamic URLs -- there are many use cases for many sites.

TinyURL, et. al. certainly did (and continue to) solve a problem, imho. And they've become even more useful for microblogging sites like Twitter, on which character limit constraints (which essentially defines that type of service) require that URLs be shortened.

[EDIT: I know HN auto truncated that Google Maps URL, but it is a 355 characters long -- and most email software (my use case) wouldn't auto truncate the URL in the same way. So readability would be negatively affected for the recipient by using the long URL instead of the short one.]
This might be true. However, getting a 409a valuation done costs only a few hundred these days. Just Google for it and you'll see a bunch of ads.
From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn
On my server this would get your IP blocked at the firewall in a few minutes.
Not much, if any (in my experience). I have a background in network programming though - which lends itself very well to high speed trading.
From the context he seems to just be talking about code coverage as a metric, not TDD (though maybe he goes into more detail in the book?).

TDD claims to lead to higher coverage but I guess they'd claim to help you avoid missing logic paths too. Since you start with tests and then write code so that you've always got high coverage. If you've not written a test for it then you can assume that it doesn't work. The alternative is to
write a bunch of code, then add just enough tests to keep a coverage metric happy.
I've known people who did a MS in comp sci, followed by a 1 year MS program in financial math. The one guy I'm thinking of in particular was a pretty brilliant math/cs double undergrad who used the 1 year financial math program as a springboard into the NYC quant scene.

I've sadly lost touch with him, but there are a number of financial math grad programs out there. If you're really passionate about this technology, try one out and do some internships. Oh - and don't do it because you think you'll make millions.
So, an OK replacement that comes with the monopolist OS installation and use that to beat the market leader. It worked with Internet Explorer.

No reason to worry, then?

I mean, it is not like Microsoft would do something immoral like e.g. cripple the state of art for years, to protect some other business area, right? :-(
The steering wheel is enigmatic.
Any investment strategy becomes less useful when large numbers of people pile into it.

Not every investment strategy:
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/12/gold-an...
Great article, I'd love to see more data about advertising/sales - especially conversions. How close of a correlation can you make with the banner placements and increase in sales. It seems like once you're in the top 100 listing, there is some natural momentum as well. Also do you know if the geared banners were direct click through to iTunes or if they used landing pages?
Code coverage is never the goal when doing TDD. It is a positive side effect. The goal is well designed code with some measure of unit tests.
Interesting. Though I don't care about gold. Just that they don't inflate their currency too much.
Regulatory capture is a consequence of regulation. Folks who demand regulation are in little position to complain about regulatory capture.

As to extortion, the "everything is failing" stuff came from regulators who are still in place. By contrast, the admiral and general in charge of Pearl Harbor on Dec 6, 1941 were replaced almost immediately....