skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I see you doing here is doubling down on your accusation that 'fridek is being deceptive. That's bizarre, given their actual comment. It's as if you read something you didn't like, and decided that the only way it could have appeared before you is dishonesty. No: some people just don't agree with you. You have no cause to call anyone a liar, and doing so is uncivil. Please stop!
Well, it actually exists so I'm pretty sure it (and everything else proven to exist) wins those comparisons.
Or, you know, it's being downvoted for blatant falsehoods like:

"Today's nuclear power plants are inherently unsafe. Most that are in operation depend on active cooling systems to prevent a meltdown."
Facebook Doesn’t Make as Much Money as It Could–On Purpose
Pose a game-fantasy question and you get gamed fantasy answers.

"Realistic self-view

The first thing I try to figure out is if this person's job description matches their skills. If a 22 year old tells me they want to be CEO of Google next week, for example, it looks like either their perspective on their skills is flawed or they didn't really grasp what I was asking. In that case, I say something like, "remember, you're starting this job on Monday. Are you ready to be CEO of Google on Monday?" If they say yes, then I'll probably entertain myself by asking how they'd run the company while mentally moving on to the next candidate."

This isn't telling you anything about what the candidate can actually do. It's telling you whether you as the interviewer think the candidate is capable of doing what they say-- and you probably have only minimal prior knowledge. It's also telling you that you didn't form the question with enough qualifications if you're receiving answers which you consider to be outside the realm of expected results. I'm also going to go ahead and say that there are 22 year olds who could be the CEO of Google next week, whether or not the author has faith in them.

I really hate interviewing for this very reason. Every question is a trick question. Every question must be gamed. Every question that you will ask (be forced to pose in order to game the situation of having a question for them) will be dodged and gamed similarly. In light of that, this question by the author isn't so bad. Interviewing is going to be a joke/crapshoot/have no real correlation to ability to do the job no matter what, so I guess this question isn't so bad. I'll admit, I had fun with thinking of my answer-- but I know the author wouldn't ever accept it if I answered genuinely in the fashion I wanted to in an interview with him. Showing too much ambition in a job interview is quite dangerous from my experience.
If it's that hard to figure out if it's good or bad, then it's probably neither.
Good points here. It complains a bit about the semicolons and as Standard (http://standardjs.com/) points out, you don't actually need most of the semicolons.
Can't wait to start learning this language. Are there any great resources like how the Laravel community has Laracasts, but for Meteor?
What a terrific idea! Now my girlfriend and I don't have to quibble about what movie to watch!
Kozmo also had no delivery fees as I recall. The services you mention have either delivery fees, substantially larger purchase lots, or some combination thereof.
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How does this set it aside from Amazon, aside from "generally a good product"? Massdrop marketing seems to be all about the pricing when in reality its just a curated list of (ostensibly) good products.
Ask HN: How to make quick help GIFs?
Hi, anyone know how I can easily create short little videos/GIFs that show me clicking around a website with zoom in and out?

I'm working on a help section and I would like to add more than just static screenshots.
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Kaspersky is aligned with Putin's FSB:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-19/cybersecur...

http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/

You'd be a little crazy to run this outside of Russia. I suspect there are more backdoors disguised as "vulnerabilities we knew nothing about, totally, its news to us!" This reads like a trivial overflow which would have been found with some basic testing. This is a common ploy with untrustworthy software.

Maybe Kaspersky was safe to run once, but with Russia's new brazen anti-West attitude, its a liability now.
> Which leads to a question whether this cheat by VW is intentional or a (possibly intelligently executed) side effect?

Volkswagen directly admitted it was intentional. Moot point, at least this time. :-)

http://jalopnik.com/volkswagen-u-s-ceo-we-screwed-up-and-wil...
I could see that. There are tons of different kinds of yeasts used in brewing which all create very different byproducts during/post fermentation. Pure alcohol would have very little, if any of those.
You failed to read the interviewer's mind. No job for you!

I really despair every time I read these interview threads. The number of hoops you have to jump through, the questions that require "just so" answers (I'm a 8 out of 10 will get you a fail for being too overconfident by some, and a fail for not being high enough for others), measurements based on everything BUT the one thing that matters - on the job performance, interviews where all information is hidden to the applicant.Take this article: you dragged me in, forcing me to take a day off with pay, and only then tell me the actual requirements of the job? Thanks. Why didn't you put that in the job description, an email, or tell me in a pre interview phone call? What a waste of time.
Well, in relational SQL you would just do an ALTER on the column name.
I think this is the 'backend' for courses, but there has to be a better frontend for authoring of assignments, viewing those assignments, and viewing and optionally grading the completed assignment.
Alcohol's primary mechanism of screwing up your body is inhibiting methylation[1][2]. There was a study of Harvard graduates that tracked how a few hundred did into their 90s. To quote the study:

"In fact, alcoholism is the single strongest cause of divorce between the Grant Study men and their wives. Alcoholism was also found to be strongly coupled with neurosis and depression (which most often follows alcohol abuse, rather than preceding it).
Together with cigarette smoking, alcoholism proves to be the #1 greatest cause of morbidity and death. And above a certain level, intelligence doesn’t prevent the damage.
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1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20868231

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24313162

3. http://www.recoverystories.info/75-years-in-the-making-harva...
> but my dream job would be philanthropic roboticist who designs swarms of robots to build affordable housing...

Unless you have been curating a very specific set of skills during your spare time, I believe this line of reasoning would be cut off with the "And you are ready to start doing that Monday?" followup.

That said, I'm curious because that's a very specific off the cuff answer - is it entirely pie in the sky? Do you have a background in robotics? Are you playing around with it in your spare time?
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It's a question designed to get you to either to lie or to show bad faith.

Someone who asks it is not someone you want to work for, whichever group you feel you do or don't belong to.

And you are doing what you are (without evidence or reason) accusing the OP of doing. So which particular group dynamics do you have in mind?
One of the things still holding me back from using Meteor with React is the lack of support for a module loading system.

It seems like if I want to define a component in a separate file, I'll have to assign it to a global variable if I'm going to compose it in another file.
If you don't mind spinning up your own server instances, our open source mobile JSON stack handles application level concerns like access control and data routing. Might be worth taking a look, as it gives you access to a whole open source ecosystem with support from multiple vendors and for most platforms. http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile

[edit] Here's a little hello world tutorial I wrote a few months ago with Couchbase Lite and React Native. https://gist.github.com/jchris/3c32524577deff3d69aa
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If I could flag/report/down-vote I would because this teaser video conveys zero actual information.

Also, based on your comment history it looks like you work for minbox and this is self-promotion?
Haha, that's really cool. I meant something a little more literal though - being able to run several "applications" within individual cells. In bacteria you can often do that with plasmids, though if you don't modulate their promoters they'll easily exhaust the resources of the cell... kind of like setting bad ulimits on shared hosting.

That said, I would like to see some remote heroku like science platform. It seems like anything that's just pure DNA is a bit easier to do that with. Dealing with proteins sounds pretty hard though, there's so much variation in what they do and their physical properties.
You hit on something interesting there. If Groupon delivered great long-term value, they'd have repeat customers. But that wasn't the case. One might then think "that's fine, I'll just use it once to launch my business" and that could be fine for some time as there's always new businesses being started. However once word got around that it wasn't worth it and didn't drive repeat business, that was the other shoe dropping.
But rudeness in wait staff is a self-fulfilling prophecy. They treat you poorly so how can they expect a generous tip?
Maybe this? https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to...
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The canonical $$$ (relatively) way to do this is rsync.net: http://rsync.net/pricing.html

Saved me from losing quite a bit of data when a tornado trashed my apartment.
I completely agree. The "wiseguy" in me would say: "That's a trick question, my ideal job takes Mondays off."

But I wouldn't answer with a "wiseguy" response. Why? Because it could also be construed as laziness. More realistically, I'd have to gauge the interviewer....and I'd reckon most interviewers would be the type of person who wouldn't find the answer amusing.
This was my worst case and I did get it down to around 5-6 seconds by removing some Meteor packages (Meteor Toys in particular added a lot to build times but I also removed Velocity testing).

I believe they were incremental builds. Whatever happens by default when you make a change to a file.
With incremental builds. I have forked this project: https://github.com/wekan/wekan (~ medium size). On a 2014 macbook pro, reloading after a change in a template takes 10s. Not a dealbreaker, but this is frustrating. And this is with meteor 1.2. The slow build times may be due to the wierd frontend preprocessors (jade and stylus), but still.
This is sweet! Going to save lots of time fighting over Lord of the Rings vs. Step Up III!
And yet another incentive to game the question and lie.
Often studies like this break down alcohol consumption by type. Here is a review of several studies that concludes that "a substantial portion of the benefit is from alcohol rather than other components of each type of drink"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8605457
Except that excerpt is ridiculous, looking for an emotional hook where one doesn't exist. Humans were not responsible, a major earthquake and tsunami were responsible. Few structures of any kind would stand up to that.
> Would love to hear ... what you might do with B2.

B2 finally creates an option for Linux users to use BackBlaze for back-up (at minimum) at work and at home. I look forward to that.
Except that in every other database a migration like that changes a column, that's it.

In MongoDB you have to manually walk all your objects and migrate them.
> The author is hellbanned

Comments by some (not all) new accounts are killed by default when they look like possible spam or troll activity. It's not a great solution because it leads to false positives like this one. On the other hand, doing nothing is worse. It's a hard problem, and it certainly doesn't mean that the user is banned.

We're about to release software to let the community unkill these, which we hope will be a much better solution.
You should definitely post some info about your project to tex4ht mailing list, I hope some interesting and more informed discussion might happen there.

you may also take a look at make4ht (https://github.com/michal-h21/make4ht), it is a build tool for tex4ht, included in TeX distributions and it also solve some of the problems as your script (ligatures, spurious span elements, image conversion, unicode, etc.). It can execute custom commands on all output files, so your script could be used with it as well
Don't create sockpuppets to comment/upvote.
I think the entire premise of hiring for fit in terms of leader vs. follower, etc. is flawed. Has anybody ever actually worked with an engineer that was a) good at their job, b) not a total jackass, c) their employer would have been better off had they not hired them?

[meta] Also, I'm pretty sure that here on HN, an article about hiring is going to get more upvotes and discussion if, like this one, its advice is _bad_.
I nearly did something similar. Ended up accepting that job. Probably should have walked out.
I really like phabricator (http://phabricator.org/) with differential (https://phacility.com/phabricator/differential/)
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Gmail has a loading bar because it has a massive storage backend, not because it's sending markup to your browser. Comparable products like HN favorite FastMail also have loading progress bars.
I am open to the possibility that moderate drinking is good for healthy people (I am a moderate drinker), but the article discusses evidence that we can measure harm from moderate drinking - there's quite a bit of it in the second half.

When we control the other studies properly (eliminate people who were former drinkers, or are abstaining for health reasons), the benefits seem to go away. I also admit that it would take a large amount of evidence to convince me that moderate drinking is beneficial as a counter to my own fear of motivated reasoning: I would like to believe moderate drinking is beneficial, since I do it. Given that fear, and the evidence we have, I find it much more likely that moderate drinking is mildly harmful, and at best, not beneficial.
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I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... should be amended with "... unless the question contains word actually. Then it can be answered with word yes."
Don't let Bloomberg Magazine find this - they'll use it for all their covers!

Seriously though, this is a ton of fun!
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I think everyone agrees that alcoholism or chronic alcohol abuse is bad for you. The interesting question is if moderate or light use is correlated with longevity.
for video I've been using private http://www.blab.im

for text mainly just Facebook messenger (sorry)
Wow I didn't know that.
Bitbucket now has a Server deployment model
perfect storage system clearly far superior to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10256649
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Yeah, for sure. I don't really want to stop and dwell, I like moving through things quickly.
> Consider the fact that regular power plants are regularly built by mostly private investment, while nuclear power plants are only built by the state. This suggests that nuclear power is not profitable in a strictly economic sense.

That's quite possible, but if true, it just brings up the question of why it is not profitable. One might answer that it is not profitable because widespread public and media ignorance of the subject matter leads to NIMBY-ism that in turn makes construction too much of a hassle for private industry to bother with.
From your link:

"To solve latency, Amazon built Availability Zones on groups of tightly coupled data centres. Each data centre in a Zone is less than 25 microseconds away from its sibling and packs 102Tbps of networking."

25 microseconds at the speed of light (best case, through a vacuum; through fiber is significantly slower) is ~4.7 miles, and based on the quote, that is the furthest they are apart. If your buildings are within 1-2 miles of each other, they're essentially the same facility.

That is not geographically redundant.
It really depends what you're up for. I would take the train again in a heartbeat if it lined up logistically. But I'm not currently looking to invest in another road trip.

A plane makes a single day into a complete waste, plus the stress of having to deal with blue shirted fondlers and their enabling hordes who worship that "terrorism" tripe. But it gets you there the quickest.

Driving interstates/secondary highways direct wastes several days, but perhaps you have a bunch of stuff to transport. If you did this and enjoyed "seeing the country", you owe it to yourself to plan another trip with more time.

Taking the train uses several days, but they're relaxing and you can appreciate the scenery transitions without having to worry about logistics. It's probably the easiest way to "see things" while your goal is still the destination.

A proper road trip will let you see what you can see from the train, plus a whole lot more, plus actually stopping and checking things out rather than just passing by. But the journey itself has to be your goal. I wouldn't recommend it for any less than 8 days (one way), otherwise you're just doing a slower canonball run.
Is it strange I find 2 new accounts created and praising just this platform? Never mind, just my suspicious mind at work I suppose.. :)
> I don't want to get into a discussion about titles because they are mostly meaningless; ...

Quite untrue, except at the fringes of corporate hierarchy. It's hard to take the rest of the article seriously after that.
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Wow nice release, it's come miles since I used it years ago, very cool! The only thing I'm missing at this point to make it perfect is a more advanced issue tracker (coming from Phabricator)
Distributed system plugin: http://linux.die.net/man/8/nfsd
> Furthermore it is possible to choose between a single-port and a dual-port register file implementation. The former provides better performance while the latter results in a smaller core.

Surely this is backwards? A dual-port register file should be faster and bigger than a single-port one.
"Reasonable amounts of alcohol" are in fact responsible for the establishment of civilization, right up until the age of civil sanitation. Of course now that we have sanitation we don't need the alcohol any more.
Yes, you can bitbang your way out of that, but its not great for all applications (like when you want to do DMA to/from the I2C in the background while the processor sleeps or does something else; can't do that with GPIO bitbang).

I was really surprised by that when I first encountered it; I2C is something rudimentary.
Depends on what you consider good.

A lot of western societies have been conditioned by the food industry to only think sugary/salt-soaked/greasy BS as good -- to the degree that they'd prefer a ketchup-soaked burger and fries to a home-cooked diner.
So does GitHub hire C engineers? Git is implemented in C.
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Sorry for coming across condescending. This was not my intention. I was just trying to guide you in the right direction as you came across someone who is just getting started with data analysis.

Once again, I will stress, you need to reconsider your methodology if you want to learn.
The whole point of Gatekeeper is that you can download your software from anywhere and it'll integrity-check it for you. "The downloads were too slow" has no bearing on "and then I saved three minutes by skipping the security check on the software I got from an untrusted site."

:-(
They've been gunning for Kaspersky ever since Kaspersky released information about state-sponsored malware.
Well obviously anti-Russia type arguments make sense, as it is a Russian product. But most of these "popular anti-virus" programs are riddled with issues. This is not just a Kaspersky thing, Norton has it's own set of issues, and so does McAFee. And I'm sure the others are not bullet proof.
Right now your only option would be to "buffer" packets of say 1 MByte in RAM, calculate the SHA-1, then store them as separate files in Backblaze B2.

We do plan to add file offset access and larger file support very soon, so you would be able to append a 1 MByte chunk to an existing file in Backblaze with a SHA-1 of only the 1 MByte chunk. That should allow you to stream?

All great feedback, by the way. We really want to hear about these shortcomings in our API right away.
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The structure stood up fine, we know how to build for that, it was the placement of the air fed diesel generators in a floodable basement that screwed Fukashima.
I also find it interesting how there's a seemingly erroneous association of bagels as a Jewish food item even though the earliest depictions of bread with holes in the center appear in Egyptian hieroglyphs as far as I know.
ReiserFS (v3) is a great small filesystem that's fantastic at lots of small files (and also copes great with power outage events, like on my laptop for the last 15 years). I've had tons of issues with ext3/4 (running out of extents, slow performance on lots of small files), btrfs (running out of metadata space when I still have hundreds of GB left?!), xfs (great on everything except lots of tiny files or power loss). It even supported reliable shrinking and growing on LVM.

It's too bad no one is supporting it anymore, since the founder is in prison and the only other people who seem to be able to support it seem to be focused on a Reiser4 pipe dream instead of supporting great, reliable technology that had most of the bugs worked out a long time ago.
>> Are you ready to be CEO of Google on Monday?" If they say yes, then I'll probably entertain myself by asking how they'd run the company while mentally moving on to the next candidate.

> This question...it just seems so loaded and I have to disagree. I can get a 'no' vote (which is enough to end the interview process) because I give a silly answer to an uncertainly question.

It's a silly question, and the commentary about moving on to the next candidate shows ugly dismissiveness. What if the person sitting across from you COULD be the next CEO of Google, and you're blowing off a great find? It's not like there's only one person on Earth who is qualified to be the CEO of Google. Plenty of people could do it. I'd argue that the higher you go up the chain of command at any company, the less specific a skill set the position needs, to the point where many more people out there could be CEO of Google than could be Principal Compiler Technologies Engineer.

As others have mentioned, mostly the question is silly because, like most behavioral questions, the correct answer is: take some time to figure out what the interviewer wants to hear and feed it back to them.
That sounds nasty. I've had my share of problem with Atmel parts though when operating at high rates - on their Cortex-M3 and SAM9 there were problems of AHB overruns and data loss when doing fast Ethernet or SPI transfers. No hard lockups though.