skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've been through, it's not about your answer, it's how you answer them.

- Being able to answer immediately means you have a good background on what the matteris.

- Being able to wait for the question to finish before answering means you are not a "hit-the-ground-running" kind of person, and you wait for full detail before resolving the issue.

- Knowing or not knowing the answer to the question is just half the story. The other half is how you deliver your response. A critical skill needed is to respond sensibly, especially on project estimates. It's normal to face unknown technology and learn as you go.

- General knowledge is preferable. Specialization is good, but you will be under the microscope if you aren't capable of being moved to say, another language or technology.

- Confidence. Seriously, I've seen friends pass interviews like it was a walk in the park - and they don't even know what they were talking about.

- Interview is just to know what you are on the surface. Companies will tend to take you in and test you out for a few months. That's where the real challenge is. Do your best there.

My advice to you: Do some light reading, and work on your communication skills (though knowledge is preferrable).
it sounds like Google is doubling down on search - a very natural thing for a BigCo to double down on what they already have success in - while missing on "discovery"/"guidance"/"curation".
> nobody has yet proposed a reason that so much of the universe would be so oddly invisible to us.

Whilst I don't claim to have an answer to this question, I still wouldn't call it "odd".

We know of four fundamental forces (strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational) and we know that some particles are unaffected by some of these; e.g. leptons don't feel the strong force and neutrinos don't feel the electromagnetic force.

I would say the odd part is our assumption that matter should be visible (AKA electromagnetically interacting).

(Note: I'm only talking about dark matter here; dark energy is odd ;) )
Version 1:

Hey mum!, what's this animal?

Oh, my fungus!, a human thing!, aren't they extinct? throw your scholar computer to it, and crawl as fast as you can, little blob!.

Alternative version:

1)-Chose the colour of your computer

2)-Press a button.

"Thanks Mr. Knuth, your new computer will be 3D-printed in computer modern and delivered in 20 minutes".
Seriously what text? the urls?
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If you want to set up a subprime loan shop (which it seems he did) just do it. Don't hide it as a community benefit
ie ,be well.edge,goodbye.
> A processor architecture is defined by its execution model (not it's external encoding).

Not quite... how these terms are actually used in computer engineering and computer architecture:

"microarchitecture": How the implementation of a given architecture looks like under the hood.

"instruction set architecture", the externally visible characteristics of the processor from software POV.

"Architecture" and "CPU architecture" usually mean ISA.

"Processor architecture" is not a widely used term, but the first several hits on google refer to the "instruction set architecture" meaning.
Well, thanks for your comment. Actually I don't know the difference between read-heavy and write-heavy cluster, could you be more explicit? By the way I have ELK so according to you it should be write-heavy cluster, can you suggest me any configuration or show me where to look?
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Why Android?
Calypso: Wordpress Rewritten in Node.js, React.js, Flux
Nim has much easier syntax than C#, why not that instead, has better type inference than C# too.
Pythonesque in its core.
Our front-end team welcomes this news, but I still think a non-trivial amount enterprises who do their own security work will still be using IE 8 into 2017.
If you use an actual pdf reader instead of the JS-based in-browser crap, it's quite instantaneous.
I'm not sure Sous Vide counts as bizarre, it's pretty common in very high end cooking because you can have totally predictable results and everything kept perfectly cooked in windows of hours rather than minutes.
Linux does approximately this.
This is great feedback. I will add some notes to the README and investigate some possible strategies for mitigating these information leaks. Thank you!
Amazon resets some customer passwords over security fear
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You can use Sketch app to create animated SVG https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/svg-metamorphosis-a9d6...
You can tell just from the capsule bio what the authors agenda is.
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From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10619578
>I think a good idea would be to host an innovation challenge.

>They are already bringing in outside consultants from McKinsey

i think these 2 things are incompatible to say the least. McKinsey indicate completely different stage in a company lifecycle.
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And the example some one who doesn't know how to work with mail its an asynchronous medium FFS.

The journalist needs some advice on time management and possibly a PIP Plan.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10619956
You can request Apple to do a "fast" review to release an urgent update :)
I don't think regulations are the most effective things on the Internet, but the knee-jerk rejections of the very concept miss one crucial thing: addictive services are not something you can make people resist by willpower. Why?

Because they're optimized to be as addictive as possible by malicious people who get paid boatloads of money for being good at it. If people can resist them, they'll be improved until they again can't be resisted.

Right now, in many conference rooms worldwide, there are professionals sitting and talking about how to make their websites more addictive and life-sucking. Of course they don't call it that way. They use euphemisms like "user engagement", "retention", "user satisfaction", "conversion funnels", and picture things in terms of company growth. The addictive Web didn't happen all by itself. It was engineered this way on purpose, by people who don't care about others.

So whatever regulation there is, I wish it would be something that would allow to strike back, and not just attempts to shield users. If you're adding heroin to food to make it addictive, you will find yourself in front of a judge who will send you to jail. And so should be if you're making media addictive on purpose, to the detriment of health of the consumers.

We can't forget in those discussions that we're fighting living, sentient opponents, who are going to try and counter every coping mechanism we develop - and who are better at this game than we are.
I'm not sure whether the "no reprocessing" plan would leave the fluorides and whatnot in the waste. It seems like it'd be relatively simple to separate that just to reduce the waste volume, after letting it cool for several years. I was referring to recycling the spent fuel into the reactor.

From Terrestrial Energy's page on waste:

- The IMSR burns its fuel far more efficiently than conventional reactors and leaves only one-sixth of the plutonium waste per unit of energy

- The IMSR creates power far more efficiently than conventional reactors and leaves one-third less fission product waste per kWh of electricity

- With the addition of IMSR waste fuel recycling, the IMSR can consume all its fuel and leave no plutonium waste

- Recycling liquid fuel waste is technically and economically far more viable than recycling of the solid fuel waste of conventional reactors.

http://terrestrialenergy.com/waste/
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Here, have a dislike.
Interesting! But... it's been 15 years since my last university level physics course, but those error bars in the plot doesn't exactly lend lot of confidence to the idea of a periodic pattern?
Just spend some months working in enterprise environments....
This story isn't about incompetent trigger happy US police. It's about UK police.

It's not one officer, it was a group of officers who lied to women, created lives with those women, had children by those women.
You lose the ability to monitor by introspection: all you know is "this VM is using X CPU and X RAM", you can't look into what it's doing inside the VM. It's the same as a VM without an agent, today.

This can be considered a security win and a usability loss.
Characteristics of multidimensional holographic associative memory (1997) [pdf]
1. I spent half an hour the other day helping someone get Websense running again. Some places do regulate internet use.

2. I remember from many years ago the sense of disgust at knowing that I had wasted hours of a perfect Colorado afternoon in watching an old mediocre movie on TV. That, I think would have been before even DARPANET.
I think you missed the issue. It's not about individuals - it's a systemic problem.
It says in the article that the "root" is twice as far as the moon, and the "tip" is twice as far away as that. So the dark matter passes through the Earth momentarily (which I thought was accepted and the whole point of those deep underground observation experiments), but the "hair" itself forms quite far away. Hence the mention of being able to pinpoint one or more and sending a probe to gather information.
I completely agree with the general idea. Bloat is too high and has far reaching consequences.

And it's actually even worse than that. 100ms is nowhere near enough to be sufficient for all applications.

For audio applications you need 10ms [http://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency] which incidentally is the reason why Android is unusable for any interactive audio applications.

Same applies to Virtual Reality. You need sub 20ms latency for head tracking to eyes latency or you will feel sick (effectively less than 10ms from the cpu side. Display scanning is summed on top).

The 100ms figure applies mostly to traditional UI workflow. Whenever you need a realtime interaction that's 10x too high.
It's full of simplifications that are so over-simplified that they are just plain false. "We’re always dealing with terror in retrospect". He talks about arresting Abdelhamid Abaaoud from a 'list of Terrorists', but of course Abaaoud wasn't on lists of Terrorists because until the Paris attacks he wasn't a Terrorist, and the French police had insufficient grounds to arrest him for anything. The author is basically ridiculing the French police because they obviously should have arrested him for having a foreign sounding name.
Phuc Dat Bich is a massive faker
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What I meant to say was: our observations with regards to expansion (or lack thereof). Thanks for the clarification (although you could have explained some of tho acronyms you used for the benefit of non-physicists).
For example 'Spin' by Robert Charles Wilson and some other SciFi titles (not many I checked)
Presumptions regarding 'performing as expected'. It can't fail!
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This seems like a terrible celebrity click bait title but I was pleasantly surprised.
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Actually, the most addictive content would under this example get banned too - as it should be (or rather, addictive content delivery methods should be). There are no regulations preventing stuff that tastes great, but there are regulations preventing companies from adding addictive substances to the food.
I sort of agree. A decade's worth of force-of-habit could be as difficult as an addiction to break, but I'd be hard pressed to call it an addiction.
>>addictive services are not something you can make people resist by willpower

Yes, you're right, but to your first point, drugs are addictive too and the War on Drugs (regulation) has widely been seen as a major failure.

I'll admit I didn't read the article, but I get a little annoyed when I see articles that reach thousands of people calling for regulation because one journalist/writer found some problem they deem a societal problem that can be best solved by regulation. For many, many of our problems, there are literally thousands of options to solve them before resorting to regulation. The problem with regulation is there is no guarantee that it is the best solution, but by it's very nature, it kills the possibility of better solutions being tried out later on.
facebook is a portal. People spend a lot of time on facebook you may have noticed
Unfortunately (as of right now), there are no large companies that are using the projects I contribute to (there are some great indie devs who are though!)
I think the reality is when he was caught, that Pastebin page didn't have anywhere near the PageRank it does today. Moreover, the detective that did the bulk of the legwork wasn't tremendously savvy in regards to how online communities (and all the activity) work, which makes it a bit impressive that he was able to get his perp. He had a real ramp up there in order to be able to make real progress.
I think what we'll end up with is languages that make it easier to be explicit about what you need. We're already seeing this happening with computer graphics, where the likes of Vulkan are in some sense lower level than OpenGL, but make it easier to understand when you're using the fast path or not. I see similar aspects to Rust, and even Haskell's recent introduction of a strict pragma.
I'm puzzled by the name too. How was the Credit Union funded? I'm assuming no archive.org money went into it--?
> Churches don't ring loud bells at 5am.

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Fed-Up-With-Sound-of-Churc...

> Fed up with visitors ringing the church bells in this picturesque western England town, she took an ax to the 500-year-old church door this weekend and chopped down the belfry ropes.

> Mather's family has lived in Compton Basset almost as long as St. Swithun's church _ 400 years _ and she said she felt remorse for what she did. But she also felt that, after repeated pleas to church elders over the years, she could no longer take the bells pealing 100 yards from her home.

> ``My health was suffering and it was a choice of prison or more suffering,'' she said Monday. ``I have done my utmost to sort it out but in the end I had no option.''

> Before dawn Sunday, she spent 2 1/2 hours hacking through the church door with an ax; she then cut through the belfry ropes.

> Church Warden Robert Henly told the British Broadcasting Corp. that the belfry ropes were cut too close to the bells to be repaired.

> ``They can't be spliced,'' he said. ``They have to be new.''

> The last straw for 64-year-old Mather was the two hours visitors from Oxford spent ringing the bells on Saturday.

> ``I don't mind the ringing for village services, funerals and weddings, but when it is outsiders just doing it for fun it becomes unbearable,'' she said.

Bell ringers are arseholes too, it's not just Muslims.
How does that work if everybody does it? I think Vine is a good position in this, since they're kinda "famous".
Presented by Montavista already in 2009: https://youtu.be/-l_DSZe8_F8

There is also some documentation from Montavista from that time.

EDIT: The presentation by Montavista from 2008: http://www.freescale.com/files/training_pdf/VFTF09_MONTAVIST...
There usually is an exception for foreign cards because otherwise visiting American tourists can't buy anything. Your local card may not even have a magstripe any more, but until the US upgrades most places will keep their magstripe readers.
So that's why I feel sick, when I see the Swarm Host in StarCraft – Trypophobia
But so is coffee, Coca-Cola and a lot of finer things in life.
Yay another thread where people argue over gun laws. 2 comments in and already one sarcastic response.
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I didn't downvote, but it being C-style syntax is not a recommendation in this context.

For familiarity, while the C family of languages favors "type name" declarations, the Pascal and ML family of languages use "name: type" instead. So, familiarity is entirely a function of what language you used before.

Second, C-style declarations have their problems, which is why they aren't used much outside of languages that derive from C. Generally, you look up declarations by searching for the name of the variable to determine the type; this generally has less cognitive overhead if the variable is at the start of the clause, not the end, ideally separated by punctuation (note how the "name: type" syntax mirrors Python dictionary "key: value" syntax) [1].

[1] Also, in C/C++ the "type name" syntax complicates the parser, as the parser has to be able to distinguish between type names and other identifiers; while this wouldn't be an issue for Python, there is still no reason to perpetuate this syntax choice.
Perhaps click-bait was too strong a word. Reading the article, I got the feeling the author crafted both the title and the content to stir up feelings on both ends of the opinion spectrum.
Phuc Dat Bich admits hoax in Facebook name battle
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> Yes and that sounds unfamiliar from Python cultural POV.

Addressing pain points is unfamiliar to the Python culture?

In practice, type intransparency is a serious problem – duck typing is only fun as long as everyone a) knows what a duck is and b) agrees on what it should do. Type hints make it a lot easier to work with opaque libraries and inside large codebases.
It will be interesting how to draw the line here. Clearly, some of the highly addictive Internet platforms actually contain useful information like the StackExchange network, some parts of Reddit, HN… So you would have to make exceptions for things that are likely a professional or personal net benefit for the user to get such a regulation right. I think this will be hard to quantify as opposed to identifying heroine in a product.

Perhaps nudges are a viable alternative approach to this problem. Perhaps simple banners like "Procrastination can kill." on such websites are sufficient. There is a great book on this topic by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein.
The point I always make when this comes up is: epicycles, negative-mass phlogiston, æther and all the rest were good physics at the time. People who used them made more accurate predictions than any alternatives.

So yes, dark matter and dark energy are probably not the full story. But they are the best model we currently have, and it's very easy to criticize and much harder to offer a positive counterproposal.
Perhaps we don't have the capacity to understand how the universe works?

I can't remember where I read it but someone made the point that no matter how hard you try you can never teach a mouse to understand French.
Addiction is generally defined as not being able to stop an activity that rewards you in someway despite the consequences. With drugs like heroin it's important to note the difference between chemical dependance and addiction. Chemical dependance can certainly cause addiction, but plenty of heroin addicts are (citation needed but I'm pretty sure) staying addicts because they want the high - which is the same principle as how people get addicted to gambling, or to weed (a drug that doesn't cause any physical dependance) - not because they are trying to keep withdrawal symptoms away. Of course, plenty of addicts do at some point want to quit and at that point the dependance can keep them addicted.

Arguably the line between "addiction" and "lack of discipline" is subjective and arbitrary. It's possible to be a heroin addict, decide to never do it again, and... just do it. I've no personal experience but know it must be hell to try and do that, but it's absolutely possible. And former addicts, who no longer have any traces of the drug in their body, who have got past all the withdrawal... often relapse, for what you could call "lack of discipline". Equally, many people are addicted to gambling in ways that leave them losing all their savings, or addicted to weed in a way that they get nothing done in life because they're getting stoned all the time, or...

For me, the line would be drawn based on how hard it would be to give it up, and how much damage is being done. If you're just annoyed that you spend too much time browsing the web, it probably shouldn't be called addiction. If you spend 95% of your time in the office browsing the web, and are concious that this is causing major problems for you, but still can't bring yourself to stop... addiction seems fitting.
I think it is the middle of Spider & Web that is the trickiest and where I had to go find a walkthrough. Once you work out "the twist" the end is pretty logical but the setup you have to do before getting there was, for me, not intuitive in the slightest.
What are you talking about? QM is the most elegant, beautiful, and empirically verified theory ever. What does your "classical logical model" say about the Bell inequalities?
>Python used to be the language that didn't try to please everyone

On the contrary. I use Python professionally since 1997, and it has had all kinds of features added on for different needs, from decorators and generators to async and virtual environments, context managers, list comprehensions, dict comprehensions and what have you.

Of the languages I know of, only C# has had a similar pace of adding new stuff in to the core language (not just libraries).

When did Python shy away from adding new features?

It seems that Python didn't try to please only 2 categories of people: those who dislike significant whitespace, and those who want proper closures.

>and kept a coherent design philosophy that resulted in a clean and simple language

At this point I'd say that Python, with its full feature set, is as complex as a scripting language gets. Maybe Perl 6 trumps it, not sure -- but what you describe is closer to a language like Lua, or tcl or even Go than Python.
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I have a talking SETI.

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The irony of this comment posted and upvoted on HN will be lost on many.
> drugs are addictive too and the War on Drugs (regulation) has widely been seen as a major failure.

That's why I'm not jumping on the regulations bandwagon. We had enough such examples around banning addictive substances to prove that regulations can hurt people much more than they're helping.

You're right that regulation isn't the best default solution. They have a lot of momentum; once enacted, they get very hard to remove.

This actually reminds me of pg's insight from his very relevant essay[0]. He argues that society develops antibodies against addictive things, and that the law actually follows - not precedes - social customs that change to protect us. But he also points out that technology seems to be outpacing the rate at which society can adapt itself.

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
> which I thought was accepted and the whole point of those deep underground observation experiments

Those are mostly neutrino detectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_detector
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Along these lines, here's an interesting quote about Steve Jobs' focus from a documentary photographer who had access to NeXT:

"...it seems to me that, in general terms for Steve, he was so passionate about the goal and trying to invent something impossible that everyone had to be on this mission to Mars, and if you weren’t on the mission you didn’t need to be here. It was really a focused approach, so it wasn’t about me or you or hard feelings or anyone. It was about the thing and making the thing better."

Read more at: http://nextshark.com/doug-menuez-who-spent-3-years-with-stev...
Is it just Apple using out-of-the-ordinary screw-heads or are there more electronic brands following this practice?