skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People when discussing this, make the mistake of thinking there's one best culture and if we all just moved towards that superior culture, everything would be better. Instead, I think there's such a thing as Product/Culture fit. Different cultures unavoidably product different products and some products fail in the market because the culture that produced it never achieve Product/Market fit.

Take Lyft and Uber for example. Both are ostensibly doing very similar things yet I know people at both and I can confidently say very few people could work happily in both places. If you work at Uber, you have to be OK with stripping an entire research lab to build up your self driving car department. If you work at Lyft, you have to be OK that Lyft hasn't expanded internationally yet as they're cautiously focusing on the US.

Even though Lyft and Uber are looking for the same skillset in their employees, the pools they're hiring from are almost completely distinct. People interpret "not a culture fit" as a negative thing, as if it's about that person not being good enough for the company's culture. Instead, when "not a culture fit" is said honestly, it simply means that, even though both of you want to accomplish the same things, you want to accomplish them in different ways and there's other, better places for your talents.

Similarly, companies should look long and hard at their Product/Culture fit and, if they do indeed find it lacking on some ways, actively recruit people who have the force of will to alter their culture. This is much harder, however and has to come from the top.
While Spark is not intended for ETL per se, when I need to copy data from s3 to HDFS, I just use sc.textFile and sc.saveAsTextFile, in most of my use cases it does it pretty fast.

But Spark is mostly a computation engine replacing MapReduce (plus a standalone cluster management option). not an ETL tool.

I would look into other tools, such as https://projects.apache.org/projects/sqoop.html but I'm sure you know it already.
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Anecdote: I've been described by a recruiter as "a culture fit" (definite article and all), and not in reference to any particular job or company. This dude knew roughly nothing about me except how I looked and my generic California accent.

If you think it's about excluding people who have kids or don't want to drink all night you're actually giving them too much credit.
I hate to sound hyperbolic, but I can't overstate how impressive this work is. For me, it evokes nothing so much as Tracy Kidder's The Soul of A New Machine [0] for opening up an obscure world (the one many HN posters live in, but obscure to most people). I am amazed both by the technical fidelity and by the quality of the story telling.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/03164...
Looks like a perfect list of shovel-ready infrastructure projects (TODO fixes to the interstate system).
There is indeed something tricky going on: Elm uses persistent data structures behind the scenes.

See this previous HN discussion about Elm's persistent data structures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686272
Google admits those brainteasers were completely useless for hiring (2013)
How Artificial Intelligence Will Make Technology Disappear
He does mention a "golden braid forever weaving", which is reminiscent of: "Gödel, Escher, Bach. An Eternal Golden Braid"
people who can code think they can do anything and everything

I referred to employees not programmers. Also that's uncalled for.
Yeah, it kind of slipped my mind, but Ada is another good choice.
Larry Niven hypothesized this in 1969 after the brain stimulation experiments of the 1950s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_%28science_fiction%29#...
That makes sense in view of their decision to bundle the Xbox controller instead.
There's a whole industry around driving controllers (steering wheels, seats, gearboxes, breaks and pedals).
Uber Created Its Own Smartphone Game to Recruit Drivers
>The line about 'no severance package' seems highly unusual and would lead me to assume that this was a forceful 'push' to step down.

It's rather normal for people to not get severance packages when they quit.

Costolo is remaining on the board, and got a ton of stock when he became CEO. Considering that he grew the company's valuation from $3 Billion to $23 Billion (7.6x for those doing the math), I can assure you he doesn't really need a severance package anyway.
Thanks! Was worried I was losing it.
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> Now your software can be run on some other dev's (Ubuntu, OSX) machine, or deployed to a production (RHEL) machine.

What about dependencies between user-space and the host kernel? Aren't all containers forced to use the same kernel as the host?

The packaging scenario thst you describe has existed for years with VMs, where the VM can have a kernel or even OS version that is different from the host.
I love that the Oculus Touch controllers are positioned to look like eyeballs.
Don't understand the UI. Is anything other than Django represented?
I've seen many Kickstarters that have limits on certain rewards. I've never created one so I can't say for sure... but perhaps if you can set all your rewards with limits you could at least keep it from being a runaway. That would at least give you a window and certainly an absolute top end (if all reward levels sell out).
There's another option: Openssl code is terrible. Even interacting with it is terrible. I had to deal with x509 code lately, and it's probably the worst and least documented code I've seen in a long time.

For the "many eyes" situation to work, you have to have code which "many eyes" can understand. Asn1-related functions in openssl are not in that situation.

Edit: If you've never looked at openssl code, check this out: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/063dccd027033401912d... - yup - that's part of public interface. It's got a mention on the man page, but no idea what encoding it actually outputs. Maybe ascii, maybe something else. Good luck finding out from source.

Edit2: Just a few lines above you can spot: "/* memory leak, buit should not normally matter */"
I just signed up.

Is there a trial version to understand figure out what we are paying for? It says 50 free leads on the home page. But I couldn't figure out how to use it.
1) In my opinion it's privileging a male gaze position.

I'm surprised I see very little fuss from LGBT groups when people try to raise this "catering to male gaze" point as it pretends that homosexuals don't exist or aren't sexual.

2) Quetzacoalt (according to Wikipedia, it is an aztec god)
figure is used in several places without any concern about its
religious meaning

I don't think anyone from the 15th century is still around to care.
Everything about this study says it is not worth taking seriously. Why? Because...

1) The size of the effect is not reported. Without any indication of what the dose-response curve is other than it has a positive slope (at what significance level?) we know nothing about the relevance of this result to clinical practice.

For example, it is true that if you pay very careful attention to the sidewalk you will increase the amount of dropped money you find. It's not going to make anyone rich, though, any more than just any measurable effect is going to make one less anxious to a useful degree. There is zero indication of how big the effect is, other than it is measureable in a large population. The lack of indication of effect size suggests that it is really small.

2) Self-report via recollection is a lousy data collection technique. Was a food log app really too much trouble? So the raw data are incredibly noisy and may contain systematic errors that are related to the phenomenon under test.

3) They've subsetted the data by pulling out neuroticism, thereby dramatically reducing the significance of any result by an unknown amount (how many other characteristics did they investigate?)

This is the greatest sin. Any time you see a paper that says, "The effect was particularly large in sub-population X" the first question to ask it, "How many sub-populations did you look at?" The next question to ask is, "What is your calculated probability that any one of your sub-populations would have had such a large effect by chance?" These numbers should be reported in the abstract because people subset their data all the time and then analyze the subset that shows an effect as if it was the only one. This is either incompetence or dishonesty.

Statisical significance rolls off with astonishing speed as you subset the data, and if you don't have a formal discipline for subsetting as part of the experiment design that is fixed prior to analysis, any result on a subset is necessarily insignificant because you could have kept subsetting until you found a 'significant' result. If you don't have a formal discipline that says, "We will cut the data in these N ways and only these N ways" you are going fishing on an infinite ocean, where you will certainly catch the kind of fish you are looking for.
Very few will if you are fired, especially in the first month. In reality it is win/win situation for the employer to offer a decent severance.

Without it bad fits and bad developers stick around for years or you get the reputation as a "fire fast" company and a lot of good people don't want to work with you.
...and Portland, OR and Orlando, FL.

They're growing in popularity.
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How to create email meeting reminders as marketing tools
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That's if you're looking at the full screen. Imagine walking closer, and having the resolution "increase" as you get closer (because you have the same number of pixels, looking at less "stuff" per pixel).
I didn't mean to say they didn't exist, just that you had to put in effort to look for them. Some are better represented than others as you mention.

I don't expect complete diversity, but those photos are surprisingly homogeneous.
Meet the Islamic Fanatic Who Wants to Kill ISIS
I get what you're saying, but lifting the character limit doesn't in any way mean you need to write longer tweets. You could still just write off the cuff thoughts when you have them, as the platform currently allows for.
EPA to regulate airplane greenhouse gas emissions
The corner office in the earlier example depends on the software being written to make money. If the software is bad, they will make less money.

By and large, knowing the vice president's name will not cause any appreciable dip or rise in how much money a company makes.

So, in the context of 'why is it important for business people who's livelihoods partially depend on code to know what code is?' not knowing what programmers do is worse than not knowing the vice president's name
Your browser may have a bad ICC profile. See http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter and http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/png-colortest.html
On a side note, this kind of passive-aggressive comment is not very welcome here on HN. Let's please keep discussion civil.
The article claims "American aircraft are responsible for 3 percent of greenhouse gas emissions"

I find this hard to believe, what is the source for this?
> If you've never programmed in assembler I recommend it to anyone. Just try something simple. Until you do, you won't appreciate what we have today. Especially if you're running on CP/M or early DOS!

I found very pleasant write a clone of Wozniak's machine code for my toy CPU/Computer
1) Precheck still sends you through the metal detector / scanner and still X-rays all your stuff. It's probably 99% as effective in that that regard.

2) The background check they do probably makes it more secure than a normal screening. What the chances that a cornfed, midwestern woman who likes baseball, cherrypie, and is crazy 'bout Elvis tries to hijack a flight?

In fact that sort of scrutiny is how Israel does their airport security. The reason America doesn't is because giving the fifth degree to [muslims/political radicals/other ethnic groups] is illegal and unpopular.

A terrorist wouldn't apply to precheck.
Regarding you and your acquaintances' knowledge of who the vice president of the US is, I think that's probably contextual knowledge. For example, I wouldn't be surprised if many of them doesn't know who the premier of China is, the second in power of a country arguably on the same power and influence scale as the US.
Launching OpenTraffic
Kind of hard to discuss culture fit without discussing the stage of the company (context is key).

Early stage companies need a homogeneous culture. Their advantage is moving quickly. Hiring similar people is good.

Later stage companies need diversity. Hiring similar people is bad.

Hence why scaling is so difficult and why so many early stage employees wash out in later stages.
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/8250_UART_Pr...
Had to look it up, my brain was coming up with Logical Shift Right.
and he's also getting a nice return on his angel investment in tellapart . . . which twitter acquired a month ago for $.5 Billion.
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Selecting the best essay seems silly. Unless you're submitting a hard luck case or some other sentimental diatribe there's little point competing. Plus it is very hard to believe bias wouldn't be a factor.

Also this:
> By putting our home on the market for a dollar, we have made home ownership in an expensive and competitive market more affordable to a greater portion of the population.

Feels completely disingenuous. So they're taking $150 from 2000+ people who they feel bad for because they're poor. That makes absolutely no sense. That's like selling poor people a lottery ticket but proclaiming "but they could will ten million dollars!"
> neo-reactionaryism is growing especially in tech circles

This will be great news to the neoreactionaries. How do you figure?

> because it communicates a lack of concern with the threat "neo-reactionaryism" or fascism represents.

And what is the threat, if not that they will seize power?
Violating the order in a previous case can be a separate offense with its own punishment, so a court order that prohibits conduct that is already prohibited by law does have a purpose.

That said, "misrepresentations about crowdfunding campaings" and "failing to honor refund policies" might often be either fraud (in the former case) or breach of contract (in the latter case), but things might fall into either of the first two categories without necessarily meeting the legal standard of either of the last two.
Indeed, it is frustrating. It may give the impression that you are defective in some way (to improve yourself), but doesn't necessarily mean that. As the job candidate, I have declined offers because of culture fit. I have also left some companies due to culture fit. It's really a two-way street.

In a lot of cases, I think it's better to get rejected up front than to get hired on only to realize later on that you've landed in a bad situation. To me if a company wants to reject you based on culture fit, many times it's a blessing in disguise.
Make the firehose available for anyone at an affordable price and the earnings will jump.

Talk is cheap but in a way this is what Google did with AdWords. In the past you should have a budget of thousands dollars to advertise on popular sites like Yahoo. Google found a way to keep the required budget at a minimum.

I think Twitter haven't done that because it is always more comfortable to talk to a few customers who can pay a lot of money instead of having an horde using your service, but it is currently unacceptable to think this way if you are Twitter.
Oh you missed out so much by stopping at "But why stop there?"

> ...can also represent infinite sets

This is the highlight.
Yes, ought-to, but reality is different. Most people are still learning social graces far past their twenties.
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Why is executing Java code in comments allowed?
> When that happens it will profoundly affect our society as people "get high" without any of the ancillary ecosystem of manufacturers, distributors, and money management firms.

Why do you think these industries will evaporate? Who will make, distribute, and manage the demand for these devices?
The vagus nerve is fascinating. After a fight with a girlfriend once, I ended up tearing / straining my esophagus (we were yelling at each other). As far as the vagus nerve was concerned, it felt like I was having a heart attack.

Over the next year, it continued to plague me. I randomly would feel like I was about to have a heart attack, with all the symptoms including my arm going numb, sharp pain in or across the chest, etc. Doctors were all mixed on what it was (they were all certain it wasn't cardiovascular, but that didn't make me feel any better, because it sure seemed like it was; and my father died in his 50s of a heart attack). During that time I couldn't work out, or even go for a jog without feeling like a heart attack was imminent.

I gradually narrowed it down myself, and fixed it myself. It was of course esophageal spasms. Hot liquids, things with caffeine, and physical activity would agitate or stimulate the esophagus and vagus nerve. After some experimentation, I found that the damage wasn't healing, because routine things continued to agitate it; what would otherwise be normal amounts of acid were contributing to the problem. What ended up fixing it? Maximum strength Pepcid AC; took about four months, of reducing the acid levels way down, giving the esophagus time to heal. Since then, everything has been fine.
Do you need a job before you become an entrepreneur
Mordin Solus?
I never understood 'tweet storms', especially since the feed is in reverse chronological order, possibly interspersed with tweets from other sources. No easy way to read it in order.
Twitter is a complicated case.

On one hand it has incredible political clout as free speech tool, is used by most celebrities, etc.

Yet, its very design makes monetization difficult, and in my opinion, unlikely to ever be of great success.
"The system is geared towards making sure everyone hired is good. Not that everyone good is hired."

About the failure of a famous programmer at these kind of tests.

https://twitter.com/baxissimo/status/608748069035741184
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Why modern feminism is pointless and illogical
I have uBlock and Ghostery enabled in Safari, and this site didn't pick up either.
I've seen the idea of multi-resolution rendering floating around, which I think has some promise when combined with eye tracking, would help with the GPU side of things.

Not so much on the "raw display hardware" side of things though. I could still see it being a decade+ out on that alone.
If you're analyzing procedures independently, why is it interprocedural? Interprocedural just means that you use some information about another procedure. This is expensive because if the information about one procedure changes during the analysis, you have to go and reanalyze all the dependent procedures. There are cheap but less accurate pointer analyses, is that why it's fast?
Destroyed my back button.
The interview is very short as is the paperwork. They run you through a back ground check as well which isn't something that you would actually see.
Actually the abundance of water was detected in some young sun-like stars:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/herschel-sp...
Of course, but I think the psychological benefits to the imposed scarcity are enormous.

I think there are ways to allow tweetstorms without lifting the limit, and I love the concept of things like oneshot that allow you to reference something without making it part of your tweet, but still imposing the limit. My guess would be Twitter builds in some features like that.
You are far more likely to be killed by your children then by terrorists. You are more likely to die tripping over your couch in your living room then to be injured by terrorists.
Another problem that Twitter has, aside from the financial issues, is the "eternal september" phenomen.

Seriously, the influx of kids who spam around anyone they see with "OMG CUT 4 BIEBER" or other pubertic crap sucks. It's even worse than the followback and other kinds of spambots.
> What I'd dread is writing the garbage collector in assembly. Maybe you could rely on reference counting, but that could still be a mess.

You don't have to write the final Lisp in assembly; you write the first Lisp in assembly, and the final Lisp in Lisp.
So, an average of approximately $65 per taxpayer per year. I'm personally ok with that.
I don't know about that, but look what the company is charging for their hosting: https://www.notiondesigngroup.com/notioncare.html
Nice work, if you can get it. I would bet they are on the "Deluxe" package with the way Sarasota throws money around. FWIW, it's just a Joomla website using a RocketTheme template. Custom Website Design, right.
whoa, interesting.

On one hand, I have ceased to see twitter evolve much at all over the last N years, much like I used to say of Flickr. I eventually left Flickr because I wasn't seeing improvements for photo sharing and browsing that I really wanted as a photographer.

It's a legitimate problem that he needs to solve. I don't think twitter needs to be much different than what it is, because i'm addicted to it, but it not evolving and just investing in scale I think does need to be addressed.

Ways to find more interesting people and content, and to allow people to have more room to link to other pages/sites/things about themselves might be a start. (Without getting to be too myspacey?).

I definitely like that it's a lot more open than Facebook and can read things without always friending everything, but I also want more controls about what type of content I see and get. Lists are ok-ish, but so many things are so marketey from companies versus just being news feeds, I kind of end up not following companies.

Marketers on twitter are I think it's curse, and it's starting to become that kind of platform.
Kevin Rose irked me when he was appearing on and hosting The Screen Savers. Maybe he just wasn't coming through accurately on TV but he always struck me as kind of a dick. I've never really changed my opinion of him since then.
"Run a food startup? I expect the people there to be at least much more interested in the space than average, even if they're working on a purely technical role."

Actually, it could be an advantage to have people around who have only an average interest in your product - they can provide valuable insight into how the average consumer might react to your product. If your food startup is unconsciously geared toward the top 1% of picky eaters because everyone in your company belongs to that group, you're not going to have a very big market. If everyone in your car company drives a Ferrari, you're going to be at a disadvantage selling minivans to suburban parents.
I thought I could do anything & everything before I learnt to code. :)
What does being white or a gamer have to do with this?
Yeah, Christianity isn't that bad.
> but may be (much) smaller.

The suffix array is already very small. It doesn't store the full suffixes, just the numbers. It's basically a list of pointers with one pointer for each character in the input data. The characters aren't duplicated, unlike a suffix tree. In fact, the suffix array is just the leaf nodes of a suffix tree in depth-first order. The internal nodes are omitted. Further, you can store it as an array instead of a linked list, meaning you halve the number of pointers to store.
I am not sure it would work because I don't believe plain ol' tweets work as an advertising mechanism.

Hence Twitter getting more and more creative with formats: app installs, cards, videos, and have you seen the new "send me spam" ads? http://i.imgur.com/h4H7RQw.png
Stock value certainly means something to the people that own the stock.