skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reflux has that with the `.joinXX` functions. Perhaps there's something else there? I guess I can see some organizing factor but doesn't the dispatcher get really large in a complex application?
What? 99% of electronics from the 80s and 90s are utterly worthless. As far as the odds go, she was entirely correct to throw the thing out.
No one who studies the Atlantic slave trade (or the Indian Ocean slave trade for that matter) is going to deny that slavery existed in various forms in pre-colonial Africa. But there's an enormous difference between pre-colonial slavery and the system that began to emerge under the Portuguese, Spanish, and English in the 16th century - both in terms of sheer numbers, and (in many cases) in terms of the severity of conditions for slaves. It's analogous to constantly pointing out that Roman iron forges created air pollution in the 2nd century CE whenever people talk about 20th century environmental issues. I don't disagree that the general public should be educated about the multi-sited nature of slavery of course; as an historian of this period I just wanted to point out that the people who actually study and teach this stuff are not trying to portray it as a solely European phenomenon. However it is inarguably the case that the early modern European empires were responsible for upgrading both the scale and severity of a pre-existing slave system.

Anyway, to add something substantive here, I figured I'd link to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, which is (from my point of view at least) one of the most significant achievements in historical scholarship in the last few decades:

http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
I grew up in MN and always loved Honeycrisp, but after relocating I was surprised to hear people describe them as tasteless or mealy. It turns out they vary a lot depending on growing region. Cold hardy apples produce very different fruit in warmer climates. I have heard this is a big part of why the SweeTango brand has been limited to a small number of growers in select regions.

Minor correction for the title: "SweeTango" has just one 'T' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SweeTango)
A mediocre, haphazardly put together cheat sheet with often application-specific examples. Pick up The Web Application Hacker's Handbook instead, or read the OWASP Testing Guide.
Yeah the first person pronoun prevlaence could just as well be a sign of personal writing style or a very non-narcissistic sense of social responsibility in wanting to be absolutely clear about what one did.
I feel C is best summarized in these two slides:

http://charliethe.ninja/slideshow/introtoc.html#22
http://charliethe.ninja/slideshow/introtoc.html#25
Also briefly mentioned, Air Lubrication Systems for ships. Creating a blanket of air bubbles on the bottom of flat hulled ships for them to glide upon.
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We have to keep up with the game. There's a recent (maybe not lol) prevalence of narcisstic people who love to avoid using personal pronouns and turn up the false objectivity.
I don't even think that it's true in American culture, except perhaps in Silicon Valley, which is a toxic outlier, and in a small sliver of Wall Street that still has the excessive 1980s culture. (Most Wall Street jobs are in professional environments, these days.)

Try putting your shoes on the table in Europe at the same time claiming credit for someone's else work in Paris or Berlin.

Taking credit is a dick move anywhere, and if you get called on it, no one will respect you. The credit-takers who get away with it are the ones who do it in a way hat they won't get called out.

Feet on the desk or table would definitely make a person disliked in most companies. Again, Silicon Valley is an outlier, and the obnoxious Wall Street culture is pretty much extinct because most of the "alpha trader" jobs have been automated.

Also, never have seen so much politics and self-praise as in the US.

There is more tolerance (if not requirement, to some degree) for self-promotion in the US, and that's especially true of Silicon Valley. It's fairly regional, to tell the truth. The sort of person who gets funded in the Valley would be considered an overconfident tool in New York and be actively disliked in Chicago (as in, presumably, most of Europe).

That said, I know some people who've worked at Rocket Internet companies and the Samwers seem to take the stereotypically American boorishness to a whole new level.
Thank you for the links :-)
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"The number turns out to be surprisingly small"

Forgot to add in communication networks between the isolated I/O bound "supercomputers". Given one set of massively parallel computers of ID number 0 to somethingbig then changing the wiring such that the peristaltic array is reversed would result in a dramatically different output.

Its kind of like a hashing function, feeding in different data (by changing the "wiring") results in different outputs.

That also leads to some interesting caching delay type problems if processor 42 halts till it gets data from processor 7 but due to cosmic inflation they're out of each other's light cones, forever. So Chaitin's constant would vary based on how fast the universe expands and what fraction lives outside of any given part's light cone.

Fun stuff to do with the constant, assuming it actually exists (as opposed to a mere concept) and can be calculated:

Given a NSA level of network spying as a resource, if you know 5% of raw (presumably non-executable) data should halt when executed and 100% or 0% of virus payloads halts (uh, yeah whatever) then periodic random sampling of supposed non-executable highly compressed video data halts at a 5% rate its probably legit and if it halts at a 100% rate then you can set off the alarm bell that something funky is happening right now online, a worm is trying to spread using buffer overflows in video codec data or something like that. Virus writers could defend against this, if they knew the constant, by making sure their virus payload halted exactly 5% of the time to mimic real raw compressed data. Cool as this hollywood movie plot sounds it would probably get simplified into CSI style "lets just enhance the pixels, ok?"

Also the SETI people could probably do something interesting with it, although I'm not clear exactly what. IF it were calculated to be exactly 7/22 (LOL) then an alien civilization repeatedly squirting 7/22 out to the world would imply that civilization has aged beyond the "must be this tall to enter" bar on the first contact ride, or they're just really big fans of the reciprocal of pi. The analogy is if you really want to impress a pre-computer civilization, give them the result of some ridiculous factoring problem that would take Andorian-centuries or whatever to calculate by hand but can be verified in minutes if you know what you're doing.
This is in my opinion one of the important things that modern software engineering is missing. Often, the most difficult part of writing software is to keep everything in a consistent state. With self-adjusting computation, it becomes possible to write a program as if the input-data is static, and all changes in the input are propagated by the framework/compiler for free.
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You know you've always wanted your portrait in Lego, right?
To do a lot of the EE work I've done in the past, you really need to know what you're doing, and a lot of the equipment, like a good vector network analyzer, is both incredibly cost prohibitive (new ones can reach a quarter of a million

I have less than $10K in my HP8510C, thanks to eBay, but I'm also lucky that I'm not into organic chemistry or something else that would get me added to the no-fly list as soon as I tried to equip my lab.

In some states like Texas, the brave, patriotic drug warriors have successfully outlawed common glassware. After all, why would you want an Erlenmeyer flask or a reflux condenser if you're not cooking meth? Eventually, I'm sure it will occur to them that I could use my VNA to optimize the radar cross-section of a homebrew drone to evade the air defenses at the White House, and that'll be the end of that hobby.
I thought the feat was of a huge amount of fallout permanently changing the climate and putting tons of radioactive dust into the upper atmosphere where it would eventually fall down in everything. Fallout would be less of a problem with a smaller nuclear war.

Remember, more than half the earth's population is concentrated in urban centers. It would be possible to kill that many people covering relatively little land area.
I'm European and once put my feet on the table when talking to a collegue on the phone. I did it because I was curious of people's reaction. Another colleague saw it and she was stunned to say that least. I quickly apologized, but that's a heck of a cultural difference spanning across the pond.
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Transcript:

https://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_crump_the_small_and_surp...

TL;DR: Local cops have Automatic License Plate Readers that run all the time tracking every car that drives by, also that data is kept forever because why not.
I agree. At one of my previous employers, managers loved to casually mention the CEO's name in conversation and in emails in order to not only sound more authoritative and in-the-know, but also nip any disagreements in the bud. The CEO wasn't a narcissist at all, but if this study was conducted there they would inevitably be labeled as such.
A one-page proof of Chaitin's theorem
I don't know how good that assumption is. I recently visited my local dump in Fairfax County, VA to drop off a used fire extinguisher and nobody recorded anything.
I would hope that it would at least be archived if Yahoo don't want to continue to run it.
The practice of beheading put a damper on bad public behavior several centuries ago, but the jerks are still alive and well in Europe.
Well, I think nothing beats a good book, written just for the exact purpose, something like Cracking the coding interview is worthy enough to get the right kind of info for preparing for any kind of an interview. It also gets revised every year. Plus moving from one chapter to another, just take flipping a few pages : UI is simple and efficient. I can just read what i need to read, I can workout the problems on my own, or if I am stuck I can see hints of the complete solution. I mean there is no stopping to my learning, and the pace, flow and direction is set my me. Shouldn't some problems be deemed solved in the offline world, and not be bloated to online proportions?!
No, I think the author was on to something. They were close to hitting gold, but they stopped short. They presented a lot of what doesn't work, but little of what does.

And certainly being sociopathic, or "slightly evil" are hardly actionable things, and are short sighted solutions.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I don't think we changed anything about that.
It's more like the games are playing the adults. It's "Core Wars" on a cloud based scale. The goal is to write a program that can virally consume timeshare amongst the 'cores' (people) that comprise our world wide mainframe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next...
As much as I love python, when it comes to low boilerplate 2d game engines for programming newbies, Love2d (https://love2d.org/) is still unmatched in my experience. This certainly does close the gap.
Oh I assumed the piece of data was IMSI. Which IMO is far worse as you're not always in public.

Those Cessna planes flying all over American cities can collect far more in a single day than all police cars on patrol can: http://www.startribune.com/nighttime-flight-circles-low-over...
Right, American culture (or the lack of it) definitely represents a tradeoff. Strong culture has an effect of reducing anxieties; you know your place by participating. You probably won't do too well, but not too bad either. In contrast, American culture almost prides itself on not participating, and "forging your own path", non-conformity is the new conformity, etc.

The results are that it will be easier to do thing like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, but at the same time easier to miss the mark even more and shoot up schools (Not saying that is an exclusively American phenomenon though).

I personally think the tradeoff is worth it. It's like being given a piano versus a "make music automatically!" iPad app. I will take the piano despite the much greater possibility of making mistakes, for the chance to make something that sounds much better.

Although this weak culture leads to some other problems, like the not complaining when they see injustice. It's that it is more difficult to develop your instincts for dealing with injustive when you don't know the expectations and rituals of the group(s) in which you are participating.
> in particular the former only has to be done one time

It may have to be done with less frequency, but you probably still want to evaluate them periodically to make sure standards haven't slipped.

Otherwise I agree with you on all points.
Yes it does. I'm not convinced multithreading is something that should be encouraged within javascript personally.
> "Triggered" has become something of an Internet meme these days (via tumblr).

Yes, mocking trauma and abuse suffers has become an Internet meme. That doesn't make it considerate behaviour.

> That's what he is referring to.

I know.
Hi we do plan on generating revenue but that's a long tall play. Traction, growth then revenue.
It is still a huge win since copying is both O(N) and cache coherent, while sorting is of course O(N log(N))
I learn a lot from https://css-tricks.com/
Thank you Matthew! As someone who found a job through who is hiring as well as created a side-project built on it to learn new things and study trends, I appreciate the idea and the work to keep it going.

@dang Will it be published by the "whoishiring" or "_whoishiring" account going forward?
@vezycash thanks. We're back up and running since Friday and getting hundreds of SMS.

Good idea.
I'd bet using setTimeout with a 0ms delay every loop wouldn't slow the example down significantly, and would have the desired effect of making the UI responsive.
Reminds me of my in-laws who get this puzzled look on their face when I (rarely) mention my music.
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You have the causal chain incorrect. It isn't mocking trauma and abuse sufferers, it's mocking people who equate minor inconveniences with trauma and abuse.
I think it should be more clear that it's using bubble sort to purposely take a longer time than necessary.

I'd expect sorting an array of 50k elements to be instantaneous on a modern machine, even in Javascript.

My first thought was, "WTF? Sorting 50k elements is a big deal?"
Its interesting that a cousin of something used in warships to keep them quite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie-Masker could really improve shipping overall.

I submitted another article that basically talked about which shipping is in a big downturn and any efficiencies might help.
My partner found his first job through Who Is Hiring working at an American firm (we're based in the UK). He's on considerably more money than he would be if he were working locally. I'm envious that his first job was so good - mine was working for a pretty awful web dev firm, highly underpaid. Things have gotten better since then (I run my own company now, for one), but I can't thank Matthew enough for enabling him to not have to go through a bunch of poor quality, poorly paid jobs before he found something he really enjoys.

Thanks Matthew.
Always seen them, never used them. Due to recent events, I've been patiently awaiting tomorrow for the last two weeks.

Thank you Matthew, and HN for continuing it on his behalf.
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Reminds me of that recent article that the best way to identify a narcissist is to just ask them (true narcissists will readily admit it). That line in Patton (probably my favorite movie) where he says "Hell, I know I'm a prima donna. I admit it."

Still does not pay to be an asshole though. If you want to call them assholes - I believe Jobs and Patton would have been just as successful if they had not been. But their legacies are (maybe forever) tarnished because of it.

Patton could have just as easily not gotten the chance to stage his magnificent campaign across Europe - just because of an "asshole" move. It wasn't worth it. Proves that people do still care about how others are treated.
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> there being almost no people on the line

That's no longer the case: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-06/humans-rep...
I'm not sure if I understand this. The number of particles in the universe is of the order of 2^250. Let's assume that every particle can encode a single bit. Then that's 2^250 bits of information (not just 250 bits!), for a single point in time.

Am I missing something?
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> How many Oxford graduates actually remember everything they were taught?

Nobody remembers absolutely everything from any course of study. However, graduating with good marks from a university like Oxford shows that an individual is capable of succeeding in a rigorous environment.

> How many cheated their way through the hard parts?

Most likely more than zero, and this is something you have to take into account when addressing the reputability of an institution. Oxford in particular does have issues with cheating, but most of the discovered cases seem to come from their business school, so even different programs from the same university might have different reputability.

> The only solution is to evaluate a candidate directly

That's obviously false. That is one solution, and clearly the one you prefer, but it is not always (or even often) practical.
@pcpolice are you saying that from a black or non-black perspective. What would you like to see changed?
Clustering is a form of unsupervised machine learning. Many people are surprised to learn this.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsupervised_learning
By that standards you really ought to be proposing that Israel join the EU next. After all, neither geographic nor human-rights criteria are being applied anymore if you're letting Turkey in!

(To make the sardony clear, I support neither Israel nor Turkey joining the EU.)
> Any thoughts

1. If it's not done yet, can you disable pagination for these posts to always show all comments?

2. Order top-level comments by submission time rather than with the regular HN weighing algorithm. This would make it much easier to see what new was posted since the last refresh.
I don't doubt that, and I vastly prefer the scandinavian prison system over the US one. I simply meant to illustrate that there are cases where it might backfire.
It's virtually impossible to not hit your forearm assuming you are doing everything correctly. If you look at all the high level recurve comps, everyone has an an arm gaurd. The same is true for chest protectors.

Google videos of the World Champs or Oylmpics and you'll see what I mean.

Even if this were not the case, why risk it? You don't want to get hit by a bow string on a 44lb bow in the middle of a comp.
you need to personally be part of the hiring company — not a recruiter or third party.

What about recruiters who are full-time employees of the hiring company?

I think a stronger restriction, namely "you should only post about positions which you will be personally involved with" would make this more even useful -- we don't need to be told every month that Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple are hiring, but if tptacek (to take a local celebrity as a convenient hypothetical) posted that Starfighter was looking to hire a sysadmin then potential candidates would be able to ask questions and anticipate getting useful answers.
The way I see it, slashdot is like hacker news, but with humor :)
the comment thread is excellent, and a lot more insightful than the article (which was interesting, but seemed a bit simplified and superficial to me). note especially the comments from actual baining people.
Not sure where you get your info from, but yes, thank you Neo4j is doing just fine :)

We have sound investment and revenue, growing list of large and small customers and a super active community, which I'm really proud of. All of that while driving a lot of cool development in the product. Could't be a better time.

I'd be happy if more graph databases show up that actually drive the graph database space forward than having petty fights between each other.

Disclaimer, I work for Neo as you can tell but happy to discuss concrete details any time.
Where do you start with React/Flux?

I keep wanting to dip my toes in and I get the gist of why you'd use React (less so Flux), but there's so many frameworks to choose from that I get nervous about picking the wrong horse and find myself waiting until the dust settles.
> "Any thoughts..."

Existing HN hiring threads start with:

> "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome."

Searching for "intern" matches postings with "internet", "international", etc. I've seen comments suggesting that a search for "remote" matches "no remote".

Here's a quick fix that uses a prefix, for consideration:

> "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords +INTERN, +REMOTE, or +VISA if..."
Re 7354815, what we did was reopen the thread past the editing window so a concerned user could post relevant new information—that a controversy involving his company had been settled. That was only fair, and we'd do the same for anyone. I've done similar things a couple times for other HN users who wrote in to ask, and will continue to, because I'd feel bad not to. It has nothing to do with YC.

That was a unique case in my memory. "Often rank a pro-YC comment to the top of a thread" is pure fabrication. As I've explained many times, we intervene less, not more, when stories are anti-YC, precisely because of the conflict of interest. It's literally the first thing PG emphasized to me when explaining how to moderate HN.

A recent example is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622711. That class of outrage thread is something we routinely penalize, but we penalized this one less because it was about Airbnb. There's no way it would have stayed on the front page for hours otherwise.
It's not, in fact, growing rapidly.
I wonder who hosts the data for them? Cops aren't usually this "advanced" in surveillance unless I'm wrong?
Oh good. Clickbait title and TED. Wonder what would make the trifecta complete.
I'd rather be nice than successful
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License plates have seen such an enormous mission creep, starting out by enforcing safety inspections and liability for car accidents and finding stolen cars, and continuing down to letting the public and private sectors routinely track motorists' whereabouts.

When license plates were introduced, the technology to make them more privacy-protective didn't exist. Today, it might, but it would be expensive to switch and challenging to get police to give up monitoring powers they've become accustomed to.