skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the issue is that programmers right out of college are strong on testable skills (like how to do X to a linked list) and weak on experience-based skills that are harder to test (like how to keep projects under budget or how to manage technical debt). Whereas veterans naturally tend to be the opposite. And hiring processes naturally tend towards what's easier to test.

As such, the best approach to these interviews might be to say, "Look, I could take a stab at that algo question, but I haven't touched that stuff since school, and if I needed it I'd google it. It might be more productive if we talked about what I've been doing day-to-day for the last ten years to ship successful products, because that's the main value I can bring to your company."
If you're in the UI box, can you enforce the apps that have a Hamburger menu to map the physical menu button on devices (like last year's Samsung that I use) to the menu please? The button does nothing - popping up the menu would be welcome and much appreciated in all of Google's apps.
The startup that's reinventing website localization
I really like Bitbucket. I never had issues and I love the fact that I have access to free private repositories. That alone is the killer feature. I like Github, but I am not that much of a social developer therefore all their social aspect to me is not that important and the fact that I need to keep my repositories open or pay is actually a downside when the competition does exactly the same thing without this problems.
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Sure, with the existing methods. But since Apple is in control of the browser, couldn't they come up with something undetectable?
I love the smell of that antitrust bacon in the morning.
You are absolutely correct. As is the case in other countries with a strong religious fundamentalist base, there are many who are willing to suffer in order to punish perceived sinfulness.

I guess you see the most extreme version of this with Islamic fundamentalism-- "I want to die so that you can die."

How people manage not to see this as a form of moral nihilism is beyond me-- it's basically selfless malice.

In the old days I suppose these creeds existed to enforce discipline in a hostile zero-sum world, but today they're pointless and achieve nothing but the perpetuation of suffering.
Url changed from http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/10/linkedin-open-sources-its-..., which points to this.
How Nike Controls the Resell Market
Said beacon pixel is what will be blocked by blocking the network domain.
I thought Chrome was the OS.....

Using the same name for two distinct products does not end well. I think we would have all learned from the .NET naming at Microsoft, where suddenly everything was .Net (Office .net etc etc etc)
> Oh shove off.

Perhaps not "rather normal" but normal enough that Police are rarely prosecuted when it happens and judging by comments here and in other places, people seem divided about whether they even should be.
At least he didn't get put off because his CV had the wrong font. It was actually a technical question. They probably have binary trees that needs to be reversed everywhere in Google :P
She isn't harassing anyone. When a woman suggests something horribly violent "set yourself on fire" its cute and funny and empowering. Its only threatening and harassment if the source is male.
In the short term there's probably some truth to this, but in the long term I'm talking more about the hyperdeflationary effect of a "software defined world" than about outsourcing of labor.
> The population is large enough that you're treating each potential hire as a random variable.

This is only true for new grads. The population of engineers with ten years of appropriate corporate experience (that match the technology survivor bias) and at the ~12 locations google can use is tiny.

When I look at my old corporation, only 3 people (of 500+ I would be aware of) were hired by google. One of them is genuinely great, but I doubt he passed the current process as a blind hire. The other two I wouldn't want to work with, but I bet they passed this process precisely because the right kind of focus. (I.e. everything people around them didn't know was their priority and since we normally focus on what's important to completing our project, none of that was so important..)

I was very interested in google when I was under the impression that (without experiencing menlo park on a daily basis,) I could either walk away with over $500k (gross) in 2- years, enjoy working there for 5 years, and/or work with the best >experienced< engineers in our field. When glassdoor and my own linkedin network revealed my best perspective into their setup, blind applying to them is now just a good filter to test my new age employability skills. So, now they've built themselves a new problem of true positive false positives who are just along for the ride.

The hiring market is already NP Hard for both sides when you are genuinely trying to get a good enough fit for yourself rather than the best deal on the market. If you try to misuse the other side they will see less ethical constraints in using the resources you'll have to put in.

How many developers genuinely want a job they can't do that they will have to be awkwardly fired from in six months and explain at every future interview?
I'd go deeper - a lot of social issues stem from advertising. Until that stops Adblock stays on.
How very disheartening :(
There (and elsewhere) certain parties on both sides do not want a solution. They owe their existence and power to the problem.
That last sentence is telling. Would you even consider working there if they had no idea what to do? I have worked at established companies where there is clearly nobody at the helm and it is frustrating.
Perhaps it is an ego trip for the interviewers?
Someone at work sends you a link to the WSJ asking for your comments on it (a thought piece on a competitor? who knows). The WSJ is now available only through an app. How do you deal with this?

A hypothetical, but your web experience could become collateral damage as well.
If Google didn't apply the equivalent of the Hogwarts Hat to placing its employees, I'd agree with you. But in doing so, they remove the ability of the potential Googler to meet their potential teammates and decide whether it's a good fit.

Ergo they own the problem, not so much the Noogler. Also generalists == mediocre code in my experience because there's no passion for such work in a lot of people who are fantastic with other in-demand skills, but I digress.

And when I joined, Google wasn't so much bloating as it was metastasizing. Most of the people I knew who joined around the same time have long since left. In contrast, I've been at the same gig ever since I left Google. The Google experience was the outlier.
Tree is a graph without any cycles, hence the definition still holds. And yes, you can have multiple roots in a tree,
ex:

a --> c <---b
^
d-----|
Fed Policy May Have Widened America’s Wealth Inequality
His implication is that ad-supported sites will have to move their content into apps, and stop serving it as web pages. Considering that "ad-supported sites" is most of the web, if he's right it would be a little more than an annoyance.
Don't most languages have a symbol to denote a class definition. Search for that: class Namespace
Interactive 3D Model of the Project Ara Endoskeleton
Development teams – where do you write your documentation?
You could leave all the users behind and come visit http://skimfeed.com :)
I.. have a hard time believing this.

Unless you're talking about a very simplified case (N=1 or something, maybe even for a specific word)?

On the other hand: Maybe the Lucene guys and me are just bad. :/
I know this was supposed to be a joke, but he can't retroactively change the license for the current released version. Any license changes will only apply to future releases.
Unlike other localization solutions, Bablic lets you edit your site in real time through their editor.

Just enter your URL on the homepage, select the language you want to add and choose from machine or human translation.

You can then manually edit all of the elements a user sees on your site (text, images, css, forms, error msgs, etc) just by right-clicking on them in the user-friendly visual editor.
On the other hand, it might lead to users preferring web sites over apps, because only the later would have ads.
A few lucky UK students had a negative interest rate for a while.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/aug/31/student-loans-i...
50p at Victoria station!
Would you be able to speed it up a little? Scrolling through it on my desktop meant the animations would crawl along (not lagging, just very slowly animated).
Plus, these automatons are somewhat useless (because too expensive to build/too big) when you need N >= 3
That doesn't match my experience. Perhaps the cameras are very new because I can only remember encountering average speed cameras once or twice ever in the 15 years I've driven in Scotland.
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The Sourcegraph Code Search add-on will be available for private repositories soon. You can check it out on public code in the meantime; e.g., https://bitbucket.org/sourcegraph/atlassian-rest/addon/com.s... and https://bitbucket.org/sqs/go-aria/addon/com.sourcegraph.bitb....
Sorry but I don't think that the level of usury the financial system is placing on the middle class through central planned interest rates which creates records amount of new debts are doing the middle and lower classes any good at all.

Come get some new credit here, more credit, more debt!
I had done about 12 months of German with an actual German teacher before duolingo. The theory was enough the get me started, and I then continued learning a lot with duolingo. But as for getting started from zero, you milage will vary according to how many languages you know.

As for what you're asking, I guess it's really hard for english-speakers. I'm bilingual, and coming from spanish and being fluid in english, it's a lot easier. The main thing is: nouns have a gender, and the article ("the") do as well. Do "die" is feminine, "das" neutral, and "der" masculine.

Verbs also conjugate differently according to gender.
Ah yes but you were one of the three right? So you could brag about being best of the three :-)

I jest.
> The concept is that if you encourage remote working via online workplaces, you can solve the "big city" issue for a percentage of the population by allowing them to live further away from the densely populated areas "because of work".

But then again some of us really don't like to work all alone in our house, in the middle of nowhere. If I'm spending 8 hours per day working for my employer I might as well socialize while doing that, not living life like a hermit.
Weird, always assumed they weren't free. Seeing so many people "not seeking" for one late at night reinforced that idea.
Living space and roads are severely limited resources, but in most cases the proximity to resources is more important. That's why people move into cities, not just because of jobs. Think hospitals, shopping, culture, friends, child care, inspiration, work, face-to-face interaction, play, love.

Unless you find a cost-efficient way to decentralize all of this, people will be attracted to each other.
From the paper:

"It might be also true that the gain to society’s well-being from stabilizing the overall economy is greater than the loss coming from associated redistributive effects, in which case we could safely focus on the overall effects and ignore the redistributive effects."

"One could also argue that, in the long run, the redistributive consequences of monetary policy might average out. In other words, if the same type of households that tend to gain from monetary policy during economic expansions also tend to lose from monetary policy during recessions, then over time the average effect could be a wash."

So they suggest that while the rich "may" get richer during boom times, recessions equalize wealth inequality, so in a perfect world it might all even out.

It's actually quite noteworthy that just admitted that deflationary forces are wealth equalizers and inflationary forces benefit the rich.
It's not the sport, it's the loyalty and belonging.
If upvotes are what float your boat, and others are interested in the article, then why not?

As for the "it's been done before" bit - hacking is often about applying an idea from one area into another area.
There is never an end to defend against security attacks. Even the most well-known security company cannot get away with them, how about the general people?
"spend a penny" is an old British expression, I think toilet charging goes back a long way.
Physicists Demonstrate How Time Can Seem To Run Backward
Telegram and trello.
>Your AV company's infrastructure is probably a lot more secure than the infrastructure of browser plugins you use and games you play.

Well I'm not a security expert and I'm using Linux, so I don't use a Windows antivirus obviously. A quick test trying to download free or trial Windows antivirus software (I'm not willing to pay for this simple experiment):

Kaspersky:
- google Kaspersky
- google result leads to http site, all the way to the download of the trial version it's http (I'm sure at least 80% of users don't notice this)
- try to type in manually https://www.kaspersky.com
- it redirects to http://www.kaspersky.com !!!!

Ok let's try Avast, it's popular, isn't it?

- ok it's all https, http redirects to https, it could even have HSTS, didn't check.
- download links to http CNET site ...
- I have to allow half the World's third party js to get to the download.
- It's of course http,
- Manually rewrite it to https (not straightforward, it's behind a redirection), invalid certificate (issued to a248.e.akamai.net instead of software-files-a.cnet.com
- Its installer is probably loaded with CNET crapware anyway

Downloading Avira worked fine though, I only tried these three. These companies are supposed to be security vendors, this is freaking ridiculous.
> People move into a few big cities because companies companies like Google congregate there

Actually in big cities like New York, Google's office doesn't make a dent - most Googlers can just take the subway. The Mountain View office is only 4 times bigger, but because Mountain View wants to be a suburb and not a city, it now enjoys gridlocked roads every day.
U.S. Legislation Aims to Ban Plastic Guns Metal Detectors Can’t Detect
...unless you forget to commit that mistake to memory and rollback instead...?
I wonder what an interview process at Google with Linus Torvalds or Theo de Raadt would be. I take for granted that the interviewer would not had a clue about their accomplishments.

Would they manage to pass the process?
Did you check if you are not targeted by some one, having RAT in your pc maybe ?
That's really good to hear. And it's a shame that such a company "only" raises $45M where Wunderlist gets 100-200 (i like Wunderlist but i think there is so much more value and potential in Duolingo!). I tried several Android apps for learning new languages and duolingo was by far the best, imo.

Now, can i have German->Japanese in Duolingo, please? :)
Yup that's the blog post I was referring to, I thought it had been on some official Lucene blog. Thanks for linking it.
I totally agree with you. Even if a binary tree is considered a fundamental data structure I think CS is a large ass domain and you can go for years programming, designing data structures and working with algorithms without the need to reimplement basic operations on binary trees.
I wouldn't use iOS for anything to be honest.
Indeed. Really if people insist on financialising education it should be seen as an equity investment rather than a loan.
The best world yet.
There are other alternatives to "ads alongside my content" that don't involve "more obnoxious ads".

I make a webcomic. Historically, that's very much an ad-supported medium. I also block ads aggressively; it's one of the reasons I hassle with jailbreaking my iThings.

I put my adblocking mouth where my money is: as long as I'm getting enough money per new page of comics on Patreon, I don't have any ads on my current project. It's been great to not have anything trying to distract people from reading my content. Sometime next year, as the Patreon income rises, I'll turn off ads on all my comics, new or old. There's no paywall; anyone who wants to read my comic can do this for free, with no ads thanks to the generosity of my supporters.

Obviously it's easier for one person to make enough money via the donation box than it is for a large company; this does not necessarily scale. But it's an option worth considering. And hell, it can work on a larger scale - if you're old enough to remember a time before cable, or if you listen to the radio in the car, you may be familiar with the yearly donation drives on your local public tv/radio station; you may even be a supporter. Or hell: last year when an algorithm change at Google resulted in a lot less drive-by traffic to Metafilter, they started taking donations from their regular userbase. It has ended up being a significant portion of their income; https://metatalk.metafilter.com/23721/State-of-Metafilter-an...

(Yes, I am also aware that I am arguably stealing from all the people whose ads I block without supporting them. I've made my peace with that moral quandary. I fast-forwarded over the commercials when I used to watch stuff on TV, too.)
I don't even bother responding to any of the Big 4 when the reach out every few weeks. They all ask these ridiculous questions.
Sometimes you use a macro which creates a lot of things and allows more descriptive programming. The user only needs to understand the descriptive part.

Without it, you'll see lots of machinery and maybe meta-machinery. That can be a much higher semantic burden for code readers.
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And as Fed policy creates endless artificial booms, and limits recessions, they reduce the possibility of equalization and creates a continuous money transfer mechanism from poor to rich, as they note:

"There is a good chance that the redistributive effects do not average out because business cycles are known to be asymmetric —expansions tend to be long and moderate, while recessions tend to be short and sharp."

And recessions are short and sharp precisely because the whole modus operandi of the Fed is to shorten recessions and lengthen expansions. So it's admitting its (inherently inflationary) core policy thesis makes the rich richer and the middle-class poorer.
Don't we have Universities for this?

I mean - what's the point of spending 3-4 years in an Academic environment that proceeds to then test and grade students on exactly how good they are, at the time - then only to perform the whole process over again some number of years down the road, with fuzzier results?

Seems dumb to me.

I've worked with people who could likely do very well on algorithmic tasks - (of which most software projects require precisely zero) - but actually deliver something of use... not so much.
One time I had to jump a barrier because I was bursting to go and had no change. I understand that there's a need to offset the upkeep and maintenance but had I not been able to get in, I'd have had to piss on something - preferably something other than my pants.
Some Dutch student loans are currently on 0.12%
> The alternative to ads alongside my content is ads inside my content.

You are assuming an invariable quantity of ads, which it is false.

This banning makes advertisement more difficult; and more difficult, or less effective, advertising would push towards giving less valuable "for free* (*advertised)". So it pushes towards having to pay for more things, which is good for Apple.

It's also valuable for us, in the sense that our customers are accustomed to get huge amounts of value for free. That's good for us creators.

The issue is that we are also consumers, and that's bad for us - we will need to pay more.

All in all, I believe too many people in this forum are risking their professional lifes a lot, and having a somewhat safer environment can end up being good for the economy. If there is less risk in entrepreneurship, more people will jump into putting effort into creating something good, as it is easier to sell.

It also works against productizing users information, which might be good for our privacy, too.
Hmm. People are bringing up the nondischargeability in bankruptcy of the government loans. But if someone took out a refi from a private lender, would that new loan still be nondischargeable, or has it been "laundered"?

Charging people 6.55% when the federal funds rate is 0.12% is a vig that's verging on usury.
The Indictment of Sepp Blatter
> The protestant work ethic is heavily espoused for minorities

What do you mean here? Just looking for an explanation...
New Startup Helps with Airbnb Occupancy Analytics
PolyConf 2015 – A multi-disciplinary conference for polyglot programmers
That sounds great. Can I have your 70% instead? I'll put it to good use.
It's not a serious question, it's cheap rhetoric.

Just because I'm against the pollution caused by chemical plants dumping unprocessed waste into rivers, doesn't mean I have to come up with solutions that allows the chemical industry to retain the same profit margins.

Personally, if I want to get paid for something I create, I ask for something in return, usually money. I could be wrong, but afaik that's the way we have done things for a very long time.

"If you want this, you also have to swallow this pile of shit, hell, if you even so much as glance in the general direction we'll start throwing shit at you" is a relatively recent business model, and I have a problem with it.

The onus is not on me to come up with alternatives for people who don't like the effort and/or profit margins involved in the way we've traded and bartered goods and services for millennia and prefer to throw shit at people.
Auctions for limited capacity at this ridiculously early stage in bitcoin's growth will shake confidence in the network to the point of abandonment.

A currency you can't easily transact in is one nobody wants to use. An auction process like this means you can't easily use bitcoin.
I too enjoyed Richard Marx's cover of Bryan Adam's song.
I wrote a blog post about mirroring your repos from github on bitbucket:
https://deanclatworthy.com/2013/01/how-to-avoid-relying-on-g...
So according to this article, we have the unintended consequences of ultra accommodative monetary policy (i.e. private lenders offering rock bottom refi rates) conspiring with both the VC world's enthusiasm for anything that even looks like P2P lending and billionaires' penchant for getting involved anywhere there's money to be made, to siphon off the best loans from the Department of Education's portfolio, leaving taxpayers with a book full of IBR enrollees and severely delinquent borrowers who aren't even thinking about making payments...

The government will be left with a greater share of borrowers like Jennifer Rejon. A 29-year-old single mother of a 10-year-old daughter, she has $17,000 in federal loans.

Under a federal program to help low-income borrowers, Rejon, who lives in Chicago and has struggled to find a job, isn’t making payments. “I’m trying to at least get my life on track and be able to pay my bills,” she said. “The loans are the last thing I’m thinking about.”

Take the above and throw in a few more $4 billion for-profit debt discharge fiascos and taxpayers could be in the red on the government's student loan portfolio before the mass debt cancellations even begin.
Except that it's not an assault on all mobile ads, no matter what the article says - it's an attack on as platforms that compete with their own iAd mobile advertising service. If I remember correctly, it's also now the only one allowed to use GPS data to target ads on iOS. This is all just an attack on Google to position Apple as the one selling or their users for a cut of the ad revenue.