skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recruiters can give you a pipeline of candidates, pretty much immediately. As head of your team you can then spend your time sifting through resumes and interviewing instead of trying to do everything yourself. This works best when you can write a good description, and discuss your needs with the recruiter. Most companies will use a few different agencies as they find which ones bring in better candidates.

Recruiting companies vary in competency. There are senior-level recruiters that are former engineers. If you get one, keep him or her. There are experienced recruiters that can roughly gauge whether you would be a good fit. Then there are pure sales types where you're just a product. All can be successful. All will have different types of networks and work with different companies.
You could add nixie (flynixie.com) to that list.
I don't understand why the producers thought it was such a horrible thing (according to the article) -- surely they are making several magnitudes of the cost per episode, this kind of thing should provide promotional value more than anything else.
> Above all of that real-world performance comes from proper system-level design

There are situations where "proper system-level design" just doesn't cut it, and even traditional "rewrite this module in C" doesn't work, because there is no single module to optimize, but rather system is being slowed down by many little overheads all over the place. JITs help with this, but they are not always available. It really pays off to switch to the language with less overall overhead and a focus on performance if you find yourself in such a situation.

> and using a low-level language (be it C, C++ or assembly)

C++ is not a low-level language.
4 Cancer Charities Accused in F.T.C. Fraud Case
It's amazing how many people in the world are looking for "easy" money that is actually much harder to obtain than legitimate money. For example, the odds of winning more than $1 million in any lottery in the US are nearly always less than 1 in 10 million. By contrast, the odds of a US adult becoming a newly minted millionaire in a given year are about 1 in 420 [1]. While the idea of living by your wits alone seems to appeal to many people, the reality is that for most people "easy" money comes from work, entrepreneurship (in many cases), and investing wisely.

[1] According to http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/14/news/economy/us-millionaires... more than 600,000 new millionaires were minted in the US in 2013, out of an adult population (age 18+) of roughly 250 million. Thus 1 in 417 US adults became a new millionaire in 2013. The odds are actually much better than this among people actively trying to become millionaires, because most US adults are not engaging in activities that could possibly position them to achieve this.
Well, you're correct but the armies of Keynesian economic graduates that roam the streets will have trouble absorbing what you write.

Eventually the stark failure of borrow and spend 'stimulus' policies will get through. Maybe after another few decades of wasted economic opportunity and stagnation.
>but still bad for the "free market".

Yet another case whereby a natural consequence of a free market is "bad" for the free market.

In reality it's only bad for the consumer, and certainly not the businesses.
The middle one is not adding "very little value". It's adding the amount of value that you are paid for. Likewise, the first one isn't adding "lots of value", but undervaluing the value that you bring, meaning you're not getting paid enough.
I agree with what you're saying, but a lot of people make it look like Meteor allows XSS and SQL Injection by default. You really only need to remove autopublish from the get go right after meteor create foobar and you begin with a secure app.
Software Quality Award, $4096 for your open source project
Awesome job and congrats on the massive traction on launch day. Thanks for sharing!
It already gets C like performance reasonably predictably. Its not a tracing JIT, like pypy...it restricts the dynamism of python to be able to do type inference.

The thing is, we still don't have the beautiful julia type system, multiple dispatch, macros, better syntax for technical computing easy distribution etc
I once heard a great quote to the effect that there are no 10x coders, just 10x codebases.
They are doing the show to make money not to make ordinary people rich. If people start getting rich, the situation would be exactly like those math nerds winning at Las Vegas Casino's.

According to them this is about fun and entertainment, a little winning here and there is ok. But winning big is a problem here.
I have no idea what the interviewer's attitude toward casual swearing is. Once I'm hired, I'll cuss like a sailor, cause by then it's really too late for them to do anything but ask me to keep the profanity down.
> I've got to ask. If a builder of websites was looking for something that wasn't horrible and built by smart people, which one would that be?

Looking for one CMS or platform that can fit every kind of website seems strange to me. It'd be sort of like recommending a TV-DVD-DVR combo unit to both your mother who just wants to watch some TV, and to your developer friend who wants a high-performance gaming display.

I've worked primarily with Drupal for the past 8 years. But the clients tend to have very complex needs, including multiple roles and workflows applied to varying content types.

If a client were to come to me and want a blog or a simple brochure site that will be edited by no more than a couple marketing staff, I will tell them Wordpress might be a better option.
I love how layer shape-shifts up and down like this.

Maybe I'm off but it reminds me of 'the unix programming environment', it was a programming system, binary processes as functional primitives, PATH and environment for late binding, files as memory and communication mean.

"The language of the system" to quote clojure author.
Tangent is an understatement, I would call that orthogonal!

Speaking of which, monads are like burritos :-) http://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html
The photo aspect of Google+ was always the strongest and most useful part in my opinion. So as long as this new photo service takes all of the good parts of Google+ photos feature and perhaps strengthens them, I think Google could have a useful service on their hands.

As much as I love Flickr, the whole premise of Flickr is to keep you locked into their ecosystem, not really fostering the sharing of your photos with other services.
This makes prefect sense. The worst thing you can do to punish a person in prison (which is a pretty bad punishment to begin with) is solitary confinement.
> You don't need to evaluate all permutations, at least not in detail as long as you know the main selling point of each.

I need to know how the software works in order to evaluate it effectively. Selling points don't tell me that; they are conjured up by marketers to influence managers, not engineers.
Ray Kurzweil – How the World Will Change
With Gas Prices Less of a Worry, Buyers Pass Hybrid Cars By
Do you actually think it'd be hard to put GIF and XBM support in a commercial engine? I really wish you would stop commenting, and I also really wish I could ignore you, but given your last of experience, I'd appreciate it if you stopped talking out of your depth.

I'm not sure your last point makes sense to me. I can't run Ruby, Python, or Erlang in a web browser either.
The key to cutting through this incredibly difficult question is to remember : at that point, you're out of the picture and whatever hopes and dreams you had for the kids now come a distant second place to finding the best way forward for them in a horrific situation. Your kids are going to be messed up if your gone, no question. At that point the focus should be on 'loving family' first and everything else distant second. If that means another city, state or country,so be it. If that means them living in a family with less money, so be it. If you vote for the purple party and they vote for the yellow part, so be it. Your kids will end up voting yellow but at least they will be loved and supported.

Find a loving family, they are the answer. And make sure the life insurance is sorted out.
Didn't mean to imply you did. That comment was about how it's being reported in the media in general, should have made it more clear.

Edit: I think I was more reinforcing your point than challenging it, basically "the main issue is different standards of IP protection laws; without (an unusual level of) malice involved.", but it's being reported as a movie plot heist...
I wasn't born at the time. But yes. Perhaps more controversially I was opposed to the handling of Balkan during the 90s.
This kind of thing is less about easy money and more about outsmarting people. This guy wasn't trying to make an easy buck, he was trying to make a buck by outwitting other people, beating them, winning. It's antisocial (in a clinical rather than pop culture sense) behavior. The guy seems to have the symptoms of antisocial personality disorder. [1]

I'm just an internet commenter though, not a psychologist, so take it for what it's worth.

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
> but information is one of the only things that is free to transport over planets

The marginal cost in terms of power may be very small (compared to a rocket), but the infrastructure costs are enormous, and as a result you're severely capacity-constrained.

Current link to Mars Odyssey from DSS 35 in Canberra is 14.22 kbps (roughly equivalent to a modem from 1991).
the real Del Boy
There is a couchbase plugin for Drill: https://github.com/jacques-n/drill-couchbase-plugin
But couldn't you say that about, say, 1,000 other articles/posts that were also posted on the internet today? My point is that this is not "special" in any way - it's a topic about crime which is, according to the guidelines, off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a later "chapter." The man writes essays, and he tried to string them into a book. The attempt is laughable, but the essays stand on their own.
I'm pretty sure developers in silicon valley don't want greater security.
The Youtube video just says "Please stand by.".
software will be updated and fixed remotely, and repairs will be performed following strict instructions or advice from Earth

Sounds like a major flaw to me. What if communication back to Earth is disrupted? Having the entire mission rely on a communication link is not a good idea. The people on Mars should be totally capable of conducting all manual repairs and bugfixes on their own. All of the software they use to run the entire base should be open source, available in a local Martian repository, and at least two of the people on the planet should be intimately familiar with the codebase and how all of the equipment works.

Ideally, they should also have physical books documenting all of the mission-critical stuff.
Well, a lot of those new millionaires are simply people moving from a ~$950k worth...
“Multi-state cascade” of false emergency alerts nets $1M fine
I hope it adds easier and better integration with Typescript, in fact I would love that for Ember 1 as well.
> call it "C" for convenience

As distinct from C, I take it.
No offense, but I'm glad coders without CS degrees are a minority.

I've worked on two large C++ projects where non-CS, non-SE people were dominant and originally wrote most of the code, and they were a mess compared to the projects written by people with CS or software engineering degrees.

I'm not saying it's impossible for people to code without a CS degree or anything like that (hell, even CS/SE grads screw it up all the time), but I'd be extremely hesitant to work on another project started by or even mostly written by non-traditional software engineers.
I'm hard pressed to pull the names of all top 5% programmers in the world out of a hat -- as an example. I was trying to illustrate how I might pick some candidates, and try to bucket some into "A-level".
BTW, this is where I show my powerlevel and burn the account. Nice knowing you, HN. I learned a lot.
True. I had a relative pass a few years back from cancer. It wasn't sudden at all.

The relative worked in the financial services industry and had provided me advice about estate planning.

When it came to the estate things were not prepared at all. If fact it was a bit of a mess.

I guess it's the case of builders living in unfinished houses and that.
Reminds me of some of the scenes from the movie Fury.

I see the same thing for ISIS-members. Read some of the refugee stories from Christian, Shia and Yezidis. The Yezidis got to suffer the brunt of it.

Sweden decided to give immunity and apartments/jobs for returning ISIS member. The Sunni-lobby has done a tremendous job for themselves in Sweden under the shrouds of "feminism" and "anti-racism".

Last meeting with the Swedish government, had NOT A SINGLE Shia-muslim representation.

In my eyes, any single person who was even partially part of ISIS deserves lead surgically placed between their eyes.
http://tomthepainter.github.io/PopcornTimeMovies/

for a clear list ;)
I doubt Zach himself agrees with his article's title.

Because the title isn't his point.

His point is, and I quote: "What I think is bad is that there’s so much pride and focus on The Best of the Best of the Best, With Honors."

Which doesn't conflict with 10x. If 95% of the world's best software is written by the top 5% of programmers, the programmer who isn't in the top 1% and barely made the cut at the top 5% is still exceptional.

It's true companies seek pain avoidance rather than pleasure seeking behavior. But pain avoidance also gets you Windows instead of Linux or Mac.

If the question Zach is asking is: "is there such a thing as a 10x engineer?" the answer is yes.

The story from philosophy class was educational though.
CCK has been part of Drupal core since version 7 (2011). Now simply known as "fields". Fields+views is simply fantastic compared to what WordPress - including its plugins - gives you. (Views will by the way be in Drupal 8 core.)
TED, I think, serves as a modern version of high-brow oration as the middle letter suggests: Entertainment. It's a double-ended marketplace platform of content providers (speakers) and content consumers (paid attendees and non-paid viewers). Since the cost is high to paid attendees, the content must be as good and fresh as humanly possible. From what I've seen as a non-paid viewer, I think TED accomplishes this reasonably well. It seems hard to have perfect criterion to choose whom to select and whom to not, when there is an abundance of interesting of voices, but unselected folks can always speak and publish on other platforms.

(Forward thinking can be controversial, but in order to not offend audiences and prevent attracting the wrong elements, it seems customary that such topics are passed on because the forum (e.g., intended audience/speaker experience) is inappropriate, although the topic may be vital, insightful and have a legitimate fora elsewhere. (Blasphemy, politics, etc.))
Great Experiment.

But they missed a crucial and very big stressor if they want to compare it to a real space stay... that of being out of reach of ANY possible help.

Imagine one of them gets an aliment of somekind that gets life-threatening. Ethics would dictate that here, the person would be evacuated. On Mars? Not so much.

Just that knowledge alone could be a remarkably stabilizing influence on someone's Psyche.
the couple spent months counting and cataloging the serial number of their money for a radio contents, and when the money was stolen police was unable to find it?
First thing I remove from D7.
I haven't but this line of thought recently had me thinking good questions to ask an employer are:

- How long have you been trying to hire someone for this role?

- What's the turnover rate on your team?

- Why did the last employee leave?

- Why did the last candidate reject your offer (if applicable)?

- What's the average pay rate for people on the team?

You could probably ask some of these questions without raising eyebrows, at least with rewording them to be more tactful. Reference checking past employees is brilliant and we do it anyway with review sites. Asking them for a reference at least gives the employer a chance to select someone they prefer.

I do try to ask questions of each interviewer about how they like the company, as a sort of reference check, and I think that's basically understood as being appropriate.
You forgot ThemeForest, the other big player in selling Wordpress Themes.
Giving users everything they want is a surefire way to build a disaster of a codebase. I have no knowledge of WordPress, that's just a general principle. Users are a bit too silly to trust.
Tried encoding it as an PBSAT problem. (It's actually relatively simple to encode as one. Just have a fixed upper number of digits, a constraint saying the boolean must be >=2, and n-1 constraints saying the other n bases must equal the binary one. Double the number of digits each time until you get satisfiability, then binary search from there.)

For instance, this is the {2,3} case, with 2 digits:

* #variable= 4 #constraint= 2
1 x1 +2 x2 -1 x3 -3 x4 = 0;
1 x1 +2 x2 >= 2;

Unless I've done something wrong (which I probably have), the 2,3,4,5,6 case is unsatisfiable at least up to 8092 binary bits, or roughly 10^2435. Not surprising, but still, interesting. Can't go higher or sat4j runs out of memory on my machine.

And yes, it successfully recovers all of the other cases mentioned.

The wonders of punting everything to external solvers. Even considering that there's (massive) problems with this encoding.

Code: https://gist.github.com/TheLoneWolfling/da51e3da0045f53ecf85
you are assuming the lack of a digit is a digit. didn't you just made a way to add zero on base 1?

from the "base" definition on wikipedia: "In mathematical numeral systems, the radix or base is the number of unique digits, including zero."
This comes from developer and client feedback in poll after poll of WordPress users and developers.

If you've never experienced anything else, of course what you have is always the best.
Cool concept, with perhaps the most utterly pointless "demo video" I've ever seen!
For most people, easy money comes from being born to rich parents.
Nothing has changed. In both cases, you should be able to continue using that customer data to provide a service they've asked you to provide (not what is being proposed here). You should not, in either case, be allowed to sell that data to marketers who will turn around and use it to either build profiles on people, or to spam/harass them with unwanted advertising(what IS being proposed here).

There is no gray area here.
This sounds a lot like you're suggesting downloading copyrighted works is acceptable, and that only the uploaders have done anything wrong. Regardless how you and I feel about that sentiment, I assure you Hollywood feels and sues differently...
Where have you found decent dim sum? I'm asking for a friend.
"The inert masses today are defined simply and purely by the energy that they channel into consuming things. The critical TV or internet consumer is an addict like everyone else, but his criticism shields him from accepting that reality. What’s needed instead of the constant study of mass culture is a sort of barbaric asceticism. Distaste must have its day."

Brilliant.
I can relate to this. I once worked with two very smart people, extremely brilliant and could do amazing things. The only problem is they fought, were ill mannered and chased away every single person who every worked in the team. The manager was powerless because both of them had connections in the higher management and got anything they wanted.

The net result was there was never a stable team to get anything significant done. The project never did release anything. Needless to say they blamed everybody else apart from themselves. The last I heard, they did two more projects and met the same fate.
Don't love the application, but the tech is interesting.

I work in the space - would be fun to talk further.
Just seemed to me like you're going around dismissing continents, redefining the product category when faced with opposing evidence. Perhaps in 2010 iPad was the only game in town but Android tablets have shot up since then. I've seen it with my own eyes and ears, but yes, when I googled for data I saw that I am not wrong.
Certainly there are configuration options that are appropriate to store in the database, but I'm trying to understand why domain is one of them. The site knows what domain it is on by virtue of being hosted on that domain.

Storing the domain in the DB may be reasonable if it's done once, but WP does it multiple times: WP_SITEURL ("the address where your WordPress core files reside"), WP_HOME ("the address you want people to type in their browser to reach your WordPress blog") and of course GUIDs for every post have the domain hardcoded into their values (that can mess up links in a weird way, where you're on your local environment, click a link, and now you're silently on prod).

I could definitely be missing something, but I can't for the life of me figure out why this is a good idea.
I wonder what caused submitting word definitions on Google suddenly become popular in mid-May of 2015.
Satellites are very cheap compared to manned missions. Speed will not be a problem then.
No offense, but IMO that devalues an awful lot of work that comes both from independent individuals and other companies that use and invest back into the broader WordPress ecosystem.
I don't see any clickable 'Translations, word origin, and more definitions'. Can you post a screen grab?

I think this is what you are talking about though:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=effusive&case_...
> what's the name of your startup?

Why do you assume that every HN user is involved with some startup?
Check this out: https://github.com/cjmatta/drill_ipython_notebook

Uses the Drill ODBC driver via pyodbc and includes some visualization through Pandas and matplotlib.
Reminds me of the first episode of the Twilight Zone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Is_Everybody%3F
But, it's stored all over the place, not just a single table or file. All of the URLs on the site get put into the DB as fully qualified. Just today, I had to do a search-and-replace with wp-cli on 26k instances of the domain name in the db.

Not as easy as you make it sound.
When using something like LXD I can barely tell the difference.
Well, my answer would be "Not particularly. In particular, PHP is a security nightmare; there are far better options than C++ nowadays; NoSQL stuff tends to be overhyped relative to real databases like PostgreSQL unless we have a zillion customers (and you don't or you would be giving talks at scalability conferences); and Clojure/Scala/whatever is probably better than straight Java although Java isn't actively bad. However, I'm also not going to rewrite a working stack if that's what you guys wrote it in. Revenue rules."

So, you wouldn't hire me, and that's probably a good thing.
> Running their code on their data and seeing the same result just shows that they didn't make a clerical error when preparing their publication, and that the code is portable to your hardware.

Or fraud, or any larger mistake. You can run it with other data to make sure the claims hold up. You can verify what they're saying is accurate, and not just a fluke in their data.
Opposite experience here. Some users like to use gmail to compose their posts (long event listings that they also email) and wp wrecked the html every time. I switched them to Drupal and set-up wysiwyg with ckeditor showed them the paste icon and they couldn't be happier. They thought it was easier to use since they didn't have to go to a separate admin screen to add content, it was all right their for them.