skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea of asking the candidate to "teach me something, preferably something nontechnical."

It sounds like a great way to test for communication skills while also learning something about the person's interests. Plus it could make the process a lot more fun for the interviewer.

However I expect it would depend as much on the personality of the interviewer as on the interviewee. And at least in the US, it could have legal implications if you decide not to hire someone because they didn't have anything "interesting" to teach you.
I came into my current position as a CtH, but that was only because I was laid off at the time. So with CtH, you either get people who want to stay contractors, or people who are unemployed.
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The Mac OS X Internals book has a few pages on Mach-O and Fat Binaries. The most recent material will always be the xnu source code.
Apple and Google Create a Buzz at Frankfurt Motor Show
Well, that's a different argument. You could use hip chat to talk to your family and keep in touch, they just don't have it installed already.

Anyways, Facebook has more users than WhatsApp. Where do you live that people don't have Facebook? What is the advantage of having a WhatsApp account instead of or in addition to a Facebook account?
This is free money man, pick up your phone and call them instead of complaining about their website design :)
Why can't I get Amazon and Netflix in 4k on my more than capable laptop? Until that situation changes, investing in such boxes just supports the idea that customers cannot be trusted with high-definition streams or any content, an idea the MPAA (and RIAA etc.) has been pushing now for many decades despite it continuously being proven wrong. No, I don't want to support the MPAA by bowing down to their demands that I use a stupid, crippled box to view movies. Once again, they've failed to provide an alternative to things like Popcorn time and they deserve to suffer for it.
Composable Go Services Using Libchan
What you should learn from the man who lost $600,000 on Facebook ads
I still didn't try it because I'm at work right now, but I'd really like to read about the development, I'm using three.js right now on a project and would love to read about your current architecture, how do you manage 3D models, if you use modules and how, etc. As soon as I get home I'll try it, congratulations on the release!
Where does it say HDMI1? The only versioned thing I see in reference to the video stream is HDCP 2.2.
I'd be willing to bet a Washington that no one in real life uses the term Lincoln.
Theano is great! The learning curve can be a little difficult, but once it "clicks", it's nice to work with.
Uber: 'we'll ease the transition to self-driving cars'
> Nobody's business was ever ruined because of bad documentation, sadly.

Maybe not ruined, but certainly severely hampered. I worked for several months with an original author of a 1M LOC application, and he was let go because the company was too cheap to re-up his contract. The documentation in that time was barely passable and it took many months of tweaking and breaking things just to get back to the point of becoming productive again. No one had a well-documented procedure on how to even compile the code until I decided to set my tasks aside(to my own schedule's detriment) so I could document all the steps and dependencies along the way. Luckily for them the company was well established and could afford the wait, others may not have that luxury.
> Good on Amazon for continuing to improve! FireTV launched April 2014 New FireTV to ship October 2015
Sure, a year and a half later they release a more featureful, more expensive, variant on the product they initially released. Good for them, but...

> versus Google Chromecast which was amazing when launched in July 2013. But absolutely ZERO improvements in OVER 2 years. :(

Chromecast launched July 2013, true; it was (and is) a ~$35 media stick. And November 2014 -- a little under a year and a half later -- Google released a more featureful product that subsumed the basic functions of the Chromecast, had more onboard capability for apps, etc., and included a game controller, the $99 (now $79), Android TV based Nexus Player.

So, I don't think its really fair to say Google hasn't done anything here. Amazon's path isn't all that different from Google's.
I think Microsoft has tried to address this with 8/10, which have a "refresh" feature, which tries to clean out everything besides Modern apps and your personal data.
Show HN: A Slack community for (friendly) bot makers
Hi everyone!

I just created http://botmakers.org, a Slack community for people who make "useful, interesting, artistic and friendly online bots".

It's connected with another project of mine, https://botwiki.org/, which catalogs these bots and resources to make them.

I'd really love to see creative people who are into machine learning, NLP, IoT and non-malicious online bots in general, joining in and sharing their projects, tips, useful resources etc.

Thanks!
A key benefit to TypeScript over Flow is the very deep amount of IntelliSense and IDE support you get from it up front in your development process. It's very nice to have things like auto-completion and API documentation at your fingertips as you work.

Also, TypeScript has a fairly strong transpilation engine and can be a one-stop shop for most of your transpilation needs (contrasting to also needing something Babel or Traceur in your build and/or runtime stack, for instance, because you can just transpile ES6-like TypeScript directly to ES5).
That one doesn't diminish that other, and that only people who have experienced both are in a position to compare the too.

Furthermore, and with absolute respect, the majority of people who have expressed similar views to me were doing so because they were afraid of drugs, whether or not they professed of that, rather than due to having any specially inherent depth of experience.
> when I see one Congressmen one-upping another on how we need to be "tough" or have "no tolerance" for this or that, I'm little surprised that our police and intelligence agencies act the way they do.

Puritanism dies hard. I'd say the constitution is working perfectly: the government we have is the one we deserve and one that really does reflect what this country, on the whole, wants. People in this country are still overall prudes who want harsh punishments, and that's what we've got. We don't need to fix the constitution, because that won't fix the root cause which is that our society needs fixing.
I typically give smaller challenges and review with candidate in real time via google docs. There's no type ahead but the challenges are more about understanding the approach to solving rather than if it compiles. One can argue the value of arbitrary tasks, but I've found that it certainly gives me good feedback to how someone writes software from self refactoring, following a perceived coding standard, and if they attempt to test there code. Just my take
Actually matlab i had great experience learning NN in matlab. It is very fast with matrix multiplication and have comprehensive toolbox set. If you need prototype anything, matlab is your choice.
“What is important for us is that the brain of the car, the operating system, is not iOS or Android or someone else but it’s our brain,” Dieter Zetsche, the chief executive of Daimler

Looks like I won't be buying a car from the Daimler family of manufactures anytime soon.
Ah yes, it does. Thanks!
> $50 bucks cheaper...

OTOH, on the value side, Nexus Player is another $60 cheaper than this.
Perfect on Nexus 7 (2012) + Opera
I would actually prefer 1080p@24Hz over 2160p@60Hz. 4K (2160p) is beyond human visual acuity at regular viewing distances, and 60Hz requires 3:2 pullup on the video signal that I find distracting at times.
I used to follow various things on Facebook. It's pretty normal and a good piece of functionality for many people. However, I did recently unfollow all friends and groups leaving me with fewer ways to get distracted by FB.
Im partial to spin selling.
You comment is actually pretty interesting.

I see a lot of French people convinced that France is worse than anywhere else in the world. Everything that is done in France is seen as "not good enough" by many French. It's an attitude problem and might be the reason why so many of us move away, convinced that "things are better out there".

Maybe the biggest problem with having the state do so much for us is that it makes many people act like spoiled kids: they see things as not-perfect-enough and are easily discouraged.
Web seems to be doing OK. If a few of the sort of websites that rely on ads go out of business, it may even get better.
Amazon release new Fire TV with 4K support
The Glacier API is a miserable piece of crap. A couple months ago, something regressed on Amazon's end causing uploads to fail for no good reason. We could have worked around it client-side with some changes to Boto, but that would have been painful enough that it literally would have been less work to start from scratch on Google Nearline Storage.

For better or for worse, Amazon fixed it, so we're still using Glacier.
I agree, more people should be talking about that, but... (a) MI5's budget isn't based on how well it supervises the police, because it doesn't, and (b) MI5 is based in a country where that "8 times more likely" statistic is completely reversed.

"According to data collected by the UK advocacy group Inquest, there have been 55 fatal police shootings – total – in England and Wales from 1990 to 2014."
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-p...

And this list broadly supports that figure (adding deaths from Scotland and Northern Ireland):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
So you must have the built-in pop-up blockers built into almost all browsers turned off too, right? Since that's the only non-hypocritical way to make the argument you're making.
I felt the author made a good point related to this, that the current system, and the current belief in its self-corrections, may be a serious problem during deadlock:

"When politicians today praise America’s system of checks and balances, they seem to understand it as a self-correcting mechanism: When one branch pushes too hard, the other branches must push back, preserving equilibrium. That understanding actually encourages politicians to overreact, in the belief that they are playing a vital constitutional role. It also encourages complacency, because a system that rights itself requires no painful compromises to preserve."

The problem the author points out with the American constitution is not that we have deadlock, and then we must compromise to get around that deadlock. The problem the author points out is that we can get deadlock, and the system itself has no recovery mechanism for bad actors; deadlock makes it possible for the entire system to collapse. Parliamentary systems have new elections when the existing government cannot reach a deal. That is, the system itself has a failsafe for true deadlock.
I was looking forward to it actually, but very disappointed that it's not supported on my iPhone or iPad. Update: just installed BlockParty on both via XCode and very pleased.

https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty
1.7^10 is 1683.77826559.

You're thinking of 1.7*10^14, or 1.7e+14, which is indeed 170 trillion.
Unsurprising, but disappointed, that the article opens by typing one woman losing a gender discrimination to the claims of another. The Microsoft CEO told women to shut up and accept what they are given. Not really surprised at the suit.

Meanwhile, the Business Insider author appears to be semi-literate and they do not seem to employ an editor.

>The new Ellen Pao his here

>She also says she lost out on a promotion opportunity in 2012 while she on maternity leave.

>...many women supported Pao and was happy that she brought public attention to the situation.
I just wanted to point out that plenty of people watch shows and movies that focus on characters they dislike. Personally I only saw snippets of The Sopranos and had no interest in the stories or characters, however I do love the 1st 2 Godfather movies even though I find the characters to be largely horrific.

In Breaking Bad, the motivation actually changes quite a bit over the course of the series.

My meandering point is just to say that millions of people watching a show or movie does not automatically mean they condone the actions of the main characters or admire them in any way.
I don't understand how Effective Altruism says that you can't treat systemic causes. I think that given the large increase in utility that systemic changes would cause they would be precisely in favor of these changes most of all.

I am not aware of any research that says that charity has net negative expected utility. No charity to my knowledge forces any recipients to take the charity. So you would expect any individual who would receive negative utility from charity would choose to turn it down.
The author of this piece, though, does mean deadlock. Not delay, but true deadlock.
I am actually with Apple on this one, and really think Apple is doing the right thing. No, we have started on wrong footing about content should be free* thanks to Napsterization of web, we discriminate digital goods and physical goods. Now, with ads, we get junk websites or good content websites turn into junk as soon as monetization starts. We have to some how find a way to make people pay for the content they consume, advertising can stay for those who can tolerate and those of us, who cannot - I am tired of Car Ads on my kids youtube channel, I will pay.

The web will be OK, the real hell is the media like The Verge, serving mega-pages with marginal content and click-baity.. ratty tatty articles.
Just block iOS for everything, Apple didn't see that one coming.
Awful to hear about this, Katie (@k8em0) has been a hugely positive force for Microsoft's security team. Definitely the most visible champion of their bug bounty programs and responsible disclosure practices.
If you want a TV-connected console for testing in-development Android games, Google's Nexus Player is already available, cheaper, and probably a more typical Android experience.
you didn't read the article? The ads by iAd (= Apple) are unblockable ( like facebook ads). They just do the "ad blocker" to piss of Google and third parties... ( as usual)
> I would have much preferred something like "were _wrongly_ indicted of", to avoid the misunderstanding.

I understand that you would like me to have a political opinion that resembles your own, but I prefer to remain impartial and describe the facts.
The ellipses scattered through that quote hint that it's been sliced together from a larger statement to make the guy look more tone deaf.
Some companies are loath to exposing themselves to any kind of litigation. And to some extent, it's understandable. Some people can feel deserving and that someone turned them down because something about them personally rather than their direct abilities. And there is truth to both sides. Some employers discriminate on irrelevant things, and some employees have bad attitudes (personalities) or are simply incompetent.

Still, as an individual, I am resistant to the current tend where employers look for "someone we'd like to hang out with". I have a life, I don't share the same interests of a recent grad. When I was a recent grad I didn't like the collegiate attitude anyway. So, it's off-putting, but it's a big filter nowadays. It's let's have lunch with the team so you can get to know them....
The constitution was built to create compromises and shared power. It was not built to create deadlock.

The question this essay asks is, how effective is it at those goals? Are there situations where it could all collapse? If yes, are there other systems which are less likely to collapse?
A typed assembly would be in order.
I'm curious as to what are some alternate theories of how to do the most good besides a summing-like equation across individuals?
KCI attacks against TLS [pdf]
That was my situation. After spending a the better part of a decade in other positions, I was trying to get back into a full-time dev position.
But do you agree that for some white collar jobs, if done efficiently, 6 hours per day is enough?
I would prefer to have 6 hours day and be paid less.
Benchmark: Amazon's RDS Aurora vs. MySQL
Thanks, I'll definitely read those.
Adopting DevOps: Overcoming ‘Cultural Inertia’
While that's true at the most abstract level, that doesn't mean that there isn't a whole lot one can learn beyond that, for example on recognizing customer archetypes, how to talk to each archetype to gain pathos with them, how to approach new clients, how to handle objections, how (and when) to close, ... So I would definitely say that there is something like sales, and yes it revolves around 'providing solutions', but that doesn't mean that anyone who can provide solutions to problems can bring in revenue.

Carnegie is a useful book for life in general, don't get me wrong - it's just that it's only the 'foundation' of sales and there is a big distance between that foundation and the actual practice of doing sales. Much like algebra is a 'foundation' of programming, yet nobody gets hired to program based on their ability to multiple two numbers.
I'm reasonably sure that would hurt the websites more than it would hurt Apple.
I'd argue that being an effective altruist actually makes you less rational. As part of your genetic fitness, your brain is optimized for survival, reproduction, and keeping your children alive. If you're in the middle class and you give your money away then it goes against those objectives.
I'm the author of this article, happy to answer questions. I also wrote about Docker network plugins in the article a bit. Happy to chat about it.
BitPay Claims Hack Amounting to 5000 Bitcoins
The original article this is based on, if you want more info:
http://www.businessinsider.com/mans-600000-facebook-ad-disas...
>If you "need a developer to port the Java code to Go", you need a contractor. Once the Java code is ported to Go, they're done, and there will be no more Java code to port to Go, so... why would you hire a permanent employee on the basis of their ability to port Java code to Go?

My examples are being interpreted too literally. They are not tasks that must literally go into the job description. Instead, they are bullet points of internal thinking as to what the additional programmer will do. He/she will convert the Java code; and can also refactor the batch data load, and add 2-factor to customer logins, etc. A laundry list of "things to do" gets built up and it justifies another full-time employee. However, sometimes one item such as "make website scale to 1000x users" can be so large in scope that it will require many FTEs just to work on that one objective.

I've just not seen a situation where a team would hire a new developer and he/she just sit there for days and weeks twiddling their thumbs because the company doesn't know what to do with them. Yes, the new programmer may do nothing because of bureaucracy (IT hasn't created userids yet, repository access not granted, etc). Other than that, the hiring manager usually has a an idea of how the new programmer is supposed to add value.
My take on what the Verge is saying:

Web sites that rely on advertising will die or move to Facebook and native apps.

What percentage of Hacker News links rely on advertising? 90%?
The problem with drugs as a means to enlightenment is the resulting confusion. People often start thinking all kinds of things that just aren't so and believing they have it all figured out. Not to mention the method starts getting more attention than the results. That's not to say you can't get some insight from drugs... you can, but the danger and the cost very often comes to outweigh the benefits.

I'm not discouraging psychedelics a few times in life... they do quickly break through habitual patterns of thinking exposing a deeper reality, but I wouldn't encourage their use either. I don't think they are the answer.

What I would recommend is a couple of hours in a sensory deprivation tank from time to time. I personally have gotten a lot out of these sessions and believe it to be a much more "truthful" method of self exploration. Do at least two hours in a session. At the end of hour one the mind is still letting go... at least in my experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank
You're arguing for the possibility of desensitization occurring which I agree would make sense for any stimulus.

I cannot truly discuss the difference between awe-inspiring man-made objects and nature-made objects, but perhaps there is an implicit understanding of vastness with regard to nature that includes something intangible related to true complexity of nature: when viewing the Grand Canyon with more context you can try to experience the vastness in many variables: how long the canyon has existed, how long it took be carved out of the earth, how much water there once was flowing through it, etc. For a man-made object perhaps the context is more shallow.
Yes, it is a curious and rather blinkered statement.

Imagine if the author had written 'no one wants to give away money from their own pockets to sustain their [photography|aircraft modelling|horse riding] hobby'. We'd all look askance. But somehow he thinks the web is different?

Plenty of hobbyists and societies run websites entirely without external funding. They will continue to do so, just like they did in the 1990s before advertising exploded onto the Web.
Love this!

I uploaded a recording of Level 13 here, not sure what the max level is. This is from my first play through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF2TaK3s4fc

I think it's fun and has a lot of potential. There's some fun combos I started to be able to pull off in the video the more I played. I think this could lead to some really interesting multiplayer combat. If you look at what people have added on to Minecraft as PvP game modes, I think a lot would carry over well to this engine.

I would really like to remap the keys! I can dodge strafe left but not right because of muscle memory. In the video, you can see this makes me attempt to fire the bow when I should be strafing right.

A few suggestions, if you want to develop it further:

) Have an experience point system that grants you access to other skills (could be as simple as faster walking, more hps, regen, etc)

) By level 13, I had no more need for gold because I purchased everything in the shop already. Maybe add on extra purchases like increased inventory space for arrows, etc...

) Add a shield to help block some of the ranged attacks (the physical non-magic attacks)

) Harder AI as you level up would be nice, you can see in the video that creatures don't attack me even though I'm near and they should be able to hear me attacking their friends.

I'm sure I could come up with more suggestions if you want to focus on the game mode more.

Thanks for sharing this with us!
Pipefy – Six Rules for an Effective Kanban System
By extension of that logic, the brain is not geared for reason, which I think is probably true.
Friendly correction that Benjamin Franklin was not a president, your point stands though.
3+Leading+Questions+To+Major+Life+Changes
iOS Game built in 3 days at coding bootcamp
Very fun game, actually surprisingly so. But one niggle, when you are turning left or right, it always seems to turn you one beat too far than you would think it would turn you. It's probably just a feel thing, but it took me out of the flow a bit. But other than that, it's as smooth as better and really nice.
Yep. This is like two parents. One is scolding a child for doing something wrong. The other parent goes to the child and says, "come on, lets go to Chuck E Cheese". It's undermining the authority figure. How much do you think this kid will respect the administration/teachers at this schools after his visit to the White House where Obama reinforced how they were all horribly wrong?

All I'm really saying is he could have easily cooled the situation.