skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short-lived TV series Boss would tell you about the Chicago climate. Since I don't have first hand experience living in Chicago, I cannot compare Chicago to NYC, but from the sound of comments and the TV series, Chicago seems to be pretty notorious.
When you figure out how you can memorize your way through Google's interview process, please give me some advice. I study algorithms constantly out of interest, and still only managed to do well enough that they gave me another try a week later.

Do I think algorithm questions predict how well you do on a job? No. However I certainly don't think they are just memorization unless you mean memorizing run time of various data structure operations, but that's actually useful to know.
How is a system with at least the ability to validate the origin but without repudiation worse than a system with absolutely no security at all.
Google DoubleClick Ads Requesting Client SSL Certificates
>90% of AOL's ~$150mm annual revenue comes from their dialup customers.

They're not really getting new customers, but their average customer lifetime is 14 years. It's basically elderly people who have had autopay set up for ages.
There was a study last year that analysed diacetyl concentrations in common e-liquids. They found that 47% of 159 preparations examined were above the safety guidelines for daily consumption

>The median daily exposure levels were 56 μg/day ... They were slightly lower than the strict NIOSH-defined safety limits for occupational exposure ... however, 47.3% of DA and 41.5% of AP-containing samples exposed consumers to levels higher than the safety limits.

http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/09/23/ntr.n...

Compared to this recent study, this shows that addition of diacetyl and in what concentration is decreasing.
Except if you look at the successes they are as based on engineering and business talent as much as design. Spotify, p2p + licensing deals. Klarna, Erlang + credit checks. King, game development + gamification.
Has there been any discussion on how to solve these sorts of issues recently? Clearly, going after the people doing them won't always work, as there will always be another platform.

Does a site like amazon only allow people who purchased the product through then leave a review? How about other sites?
What's changed is that the subjects of satire have become far more worthy of it.
From the article:

> But in a way, its project and theirs are the same: to deal with tensions by prescribing more conversation, even if it’s uncomfortable, not less.

Are you kidding me? The show does the exact opposite if you've seen more than a handful of episodes. This comment summarizes the show much better than this article:

https://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/3tsd5o/south_p...

> Uncritical, detached acceptance of the status quo is the only morally upright posture, and those who draw a distinction between is and ought are all smug bullies, outlandish freaks, and/or closed-minded zealots.

> It's a show that teaches its audience to become lazy and self-satisfied, that praises them for being uncritically accepting of their own biases, and that provides them with an endless buffet of thought-terminating cliches suitable for shutting down all manner of challenges to their comfort zones.

Or in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TttI60-mjQ
Nice "Invalid security certificate" popup you have there?
Does anybody have access to Craig Steven Wright's papers? Google Scholar only turns up a single patent application (apparently a patent on a registration server -- vaguely related to bitcoin but without the decentralized aspect-- and very ideologically misaligned...)

I've seen people want to mysteriously associate themselves with something large before. This could be an example of it.
America’s Mood Map: An Interactive Guide to the United States of Attitude
Very Proud of Ya by AFI has a pregap hidden song. When I found it I called my friends up and told them about it, and we all went through all of our cds rewinding the first track. I'm not sure if we found any others.
That's actually amusing, but of course far off the mark.

Iraq has a current price tag of $2 trillion (including benefits owed over time that were caused by the war).

Both wars together are now at around $4 trillion, spanning the last 14 years.

Canada would cost at least 20 times the Iraq war if you count land, financial + household + business assets and natural resources. Canadian households, including real estate, have $5 to $7 trillion in assets (depending on when you calculate due to the currency).

They have ~170 billion barrels of proven oil reserves (it's likely far more than that). Let's go with something reasonable like 150b that is sanely recoverable, but only 100b is economical or environmentally tolerable before the end of the fossil fuel age (but you'd still have to pay for most of it to buy Canada today). That's $4 trillion just in that oil calculation at today's low price. Canada probably has $8 to $10 trillion just in natural resources. Granted, I know it's ridiculous that Iraq was so expensive you could buy maybe 5% of everything in Canada (or 1/3 of all their household assets).

The US certainly could have purchased Greenland for $2 trillion (if such a thing were politically possible today, which it's not). With global warming, not a bad purchase.
More evidence that poverty is a symptom, not the disease.
>It sounds like you don't live in the Valley.

Indeed, I don't. I even asked, in one of my replies, if this was a "Valley" thing.

I'm ok with being asked to code or write things out during interviews - that is, if it is pertinent to the job I'll be performing. If I'm expected to do complex DB queries, for example, it is reasonable to see if I can write one. If I've been doing it for years, I should be able to handle such a task.

>I interviewed for jobs recently, and I studied my ass off for 6+ weeks, every night doing different coding questions, and spending weekends learning new things and coding algorithms for 6-8 hrs a a day.

But this... this seems more appropriate in the context of a university exam than a job in real-world software development. As I said in elsewhere in this thread, I can understand asking such questions of a prospective junior developer, as they won't have much experience, and the CS 101 material may be fresher in their mind.
> I don't understand how people are able to put so much emotional energy into their views on South Park.

Isn't this just a classic example of selection bias? The people who will have views on South Park are exactly the people who put a lot of emotional energy into expressing them. I'm willing to bet that they're a tiny minority compared to the number of people who don't care enough either way to say anything.
That's provisionally very interesting. Can you give me an example of what you are talking about?
Unless you want any money beyond a basic standard of living to save up for travel, furniture, drinks, or whatever you want. If there's a job with a better boss, the basic income will help you transition, though.
Ah, I see the entire exchange was published here http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2642410-Email-Chain-H...

Seems quite different than how it was being portrayed. From what I'm seeing, they asked for a white paper, not a research paper and Happer said they could send money to his 501c3 charity which only pays part of his travel expense and would only write what he believed in. Even correcting them on peer review in an academic sense vs a white paper reviewed by his peers...

Am I missing something nefarious here? Because this seems much more like a 'hit piece' on a guy who is testifying before congress.
That is very observant, something I've written about elsewhere. Not quite sure what to do about it to be honest. It makes me sick.
> Rupert Scofield, who runs FINCA, one of the largest and most prominent microlenders, said randomized controlled trials work well in medicine but don’t make sense in evaluating development aid. He said that for years, his response to claims like Duflo’s was to say he didn’t need data when he could see the effect firsthand.

It sounds like he is suffering cognitive dissonance. He believes in RCTs and he believes in microlending. To resolve the conflict, he rationalizes first that RCTs "don't make sense" in the microlending world. Next he decides that researchers themselves aren't credible as good researchers would not reach a "false" conclusion.
If you're making $400k, but you don't really love your job, my suggestion would be to save as much money as you can, to the point that you can become financially independent. Then you can start your own startup if you want; or take a year off, half to relax and half to learn some new stuff, and get a different job, if that's what you want.
>IQ tests are not only politically incorrect they are illegal in the US. It is illegal discrimination to make hiring decisions based on IQ scores.

Oh come now. Every company in the valley emphasizes "cultural fit" and that's about as subtle a dog-whistle as an '88' neck tattoo.

It's pretty obvious that nobody here cares about even the most clear-cut discrimination against protected classes (and it's not at all clear to me that less intelligent people are a protected class.)
It's just talk. Google has parts of three small cities wired. Google has never done a big city, or an entire city. Sonic already has parts of San Francisco hooked up with gigabit fiber.[1]

[1] https://www.sonic.com/gigabit-fiber-internet
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You would just need to increase the tax rates to pay for it. The us economy is ~$18 trillion so even if you need to raise an extra $2.9 trillion it would be possible. Of course I think it has zero chance of ever being implemented because of politics.
There's some promising mesh projects. Stay strong!
Your last part is in the direct contrast to low tax countries.

Not only do you pay tax on both sides of your income. But we have moms on everything. Essentially you pay more than 50% tax.

In Singapore, restaurants will usually show prices excluding tax, forcing you to see the direct impact of tax added on the total sum.

Swedish receipts do contain the amount of tax, but it's never as apparent as they always include the sum into everything you buy - thus normalising the concept and make it easier to melt down and eventually accept.

Sure, it sucks to split bills with an explicit tax added on, but I rather do the math than having the government normalise taking tax.
Very few Swedes are aware of how much tax they actually pay when you go beyond your side of the income tax.

40% loan of GDP doesn't mean jack when the GDP includes a housing bubble about to burst.

EDIT: I am not arguing against taxes here, I am just pointing out the differences on how taxes are presented to you.
I don't either... assuming the author discloses the sources of funding. How can you rationalize away that part?
If you want generalists, you won't really be able to test them properly by asking questions at random: All you are hoping for is that they share the same background as you do. The moment it's you asking the question, and they can't really check sources, you have already lost.

As far as hardcore computer science abilities, a test still won't help, because what you are really testing is how far people are from college: Generalist cs is touched in college, but there are entire sections of computer science that someone with 10 years of experience might not have had to touch. I've had to do pretty specific CS stuff for work, but to get any of that done, I started with weeks of research, and then add my own spin to our specific situation top. You can't test the ability to do that by just checking if someone has memorized Raft, or black red trees, or any other random problem. I don't have a lot of CS algorithms memorized: that's why there's the internet, and why I have Knuth in my shelf.

You want to check for hard cs, ask the candidate to choose his favorite CS topic, and ask for am impromptu presentation on that. anything else is just going to fail at finding candidates that have different backgrounds than you, and that's PRECISELY the people you want to hire.
You're taking quite the issue with the comedy stylings of a tv show that has long taken shots at anything that takes itself seriously. I suspect you take your politics very seriously indeed, but that doesn't make them actually serious. If you learn the distinction, you'll have less agita over entertainment.
How to Get Better at Programming with Feedback
Toptal is now auto-spamming the web for “affiliates”
If the freelance world wasn't doomed enough already after oDesk merged with eLance into Upwork (https://collegetimes.co/upwork-sucks/) ... now Toptal, the "exclusive" freelance agency that claims to screen its freelancers and maintain high ethics is aggressively spamming the web to get more agencies to promote their services, promising an astounding $2000.00 per referral (with absolutely zero details given).

http://imgur.com/XeNpqP3

http://imgur.com/D0hB400

After working on a group project with a Toptal freelancer who spent the entire time trying to get everyone (freelancers and clients) in the group to join through "his links" and lied about his time logs and sabotaged (stole) work from others on the team, I can honestly say this company is annoying the shit out of the internet and probably shouldn't be trusted.
Better tell the rentiers this [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearned_income
So the headline is fairly misleading, Firefox OS is not cancelled and development will not be stopped. The strategy of trying to push distribution via carriers has not worked so we will no longer be doing that. The "Firefox OS" team was renamed to "Connected Devices" to reflect the fact we are not only building a smartphone, TV's are already being sold and other factors (iot / wearables etc) are being looked into.
First Ever EU Rules on Cybersecurity
A very good idea. It would even be easy to implement at profit :)
When things first started, a root server might have actually been something sitting under Jon Postel's desk, or in the back room of a University.

But these days, root "servers" are geographically load balanced clusters of machines. Think of something like the Akamai CDN, but instead of http(s), this CDN serves up mostly UDP/53 and TCP/53 traffic. The IP for a root server is AnyCast, and the root server operators will balance traffic between sites by adjusting BGP.

Most have built their own custom UDP load balancers at each site and behind those load balancers are several hundred physical servers to respond to the incoming queries. Zone updates are pushed to each site from the back office, so each physical server should have a complete copy of the the "." zone.

A root server operator, operating 1 of the world's 13 largest public udp system, is often under attack, either directly or (as mentioned above), used as part of a reflector attack against someone else. Generally speaking, these systems are over provisioned enough so that a direct attack has minimal impact. But reflector attacks are the main concern. Either way, when an attack starts, the operator has to find something unique in the query itself (as eliminating source addresses in a dddos is nigh impossible), create a filtering rule, and push that to all of their load balancers.

Disclaimer: I used to work for a root server org.
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A libertarian must necessarily believe, I think, that markets work to enable technological progress, and that technological progress "lifts all boats" (with a much stronger effect-size than that of direct economic stimulus.)

Being a libertarian and not believing these things sounds like a very sociopathic mindset, I agree. If you think "turning the economic crank as fast as possible" won't eventually invent us all flying cars and diseaseless super-bodies and free food-dispensers (and a pony!), then it's pretty obvious that redistributing wealth is the "right thing to do."

But if you do believe that, then you have to measure the ROI of each dollar spent investing in the economy (and thus in turning the technological crank) vs. direct redistributive charity, as a means of helping the people on the bottom. Personally, I don't think it's clear which direction has higher ROI.
Google stealing content without attribution?
Neither is Lisp a pure functional language, though it might have been taught that way in your class.
You're off by a factor of 8, bandwidth is typically measured in bits per second while data is typically measured in bytes. Also, saying that they only have DATA_CAP / BANDWIDTH amount of time to use the internet is disingenuous at best, the only time that you're using 100% of the available bandwidth for any sustained amount of time is when downloading a large file. 21 GBs isn't a ton of data but that can easily last someone a month if they're just using it for web browsing for business purposes only. Online backup is out of the question but for just email and web browsing that data cap isn't too big of a deal.
We are right in the center of Midtown NYC and TWC business class is $350 for 100/10. Other option is Verizon DSL at $90!
Anecdata: my not-quite 6 year old daughter has watched Cosmos repeatedly in the past few months. She likes it a lot.
Not sure which part you're referring to, that doesn't work.

Average 10% spend by an engineer towards hiring is quite normal, from my experience. Obviously, it's average, so there are some who spend way more than 10%, and there are some who don't spend any. 4 out of 40 hours a week including phone-screens, on-sites and deliberations is easy to get to.

I'm sure you know, that a lot of hiring at that scale is systematized and (hence) heavy-lifting is done by non-technical recruiting people.
Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police
> So let’s recap: in September 2015, Wright was annoyed that people didn’t know who the real Nakamoto was.

Is Kashmir unable to read? Wright never said that. He was clearly angry about the national stereotyping and the 'assumption' and how thinking is 'limited'. This is exactly like those cases where women authors publish books under names like 'J.K. Rowling' and readers assume they are men; of course they are going to be upset.
Actually, the article made me think Elmo is Nermal, The World's Cutest Kittycat from Garfield.

We just need Oscar the Grouch to start mailing Elmo to Abu Dhabi all the time. Problem solved.
And don't forget Java's type erasure. Still wondering how they could actually call that a FEATURE.
Here is a download key for a game that I had developed
Beta program for custom ROM's:
http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/flash-tool

But it's a Windows .exe. How about other OS?

PS3 is FreeBSD, isn't it?

Hey Sony, how about a BSD "phone"? Even a pocket-sized WiFi device with no baseband could be very useful.
It's a platforming game but I also included elements from other game genres as well

I was inspired by games like Deadly Premonition and Steamboat Chronicles. By that I mean I want it to have a janky feel and "this looks bad, but I like it somehow" kind of feeling

I also try to touch on mental health issues when developing the game.

The visual and design is bare, This is in a way a purposeful response to the overblown productions of today(also to cut cost).

It's a bit off beat, that's what I wanted it to feel like.

If you see something in the game or like it, please buy it and share it.

Thanks

@IstanaAngin
Also

password policy not strict -> IT manager gets blamed in case of issue

password written down -> sucker who wrote it down gets blamed in case of issue

Person who decides policy is IT manager... Cover your ass politics.
Aaaaand the Australian police just raided his house: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-fo...
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Dude breathe some fresh air, checkout a psychiatrist or something.

> algebra exists since babylonian or egyptian era

Precisely. I hope you realize it counterpoints your demand that I be grateful to Christian tech to the point of exclusion of others. In any case enough of this, this is way off topic.
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Isn't it kind of weird that startup culture is supposed to be all about failing fast, MVP, and pivoting, but when it comes to hiring, it has to be perfect from the start?
-> The cool thing in millenial culture is to not care about anything.

It seems to be quite the opposite. Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about.

-> I would even say that South Park isn't sarcastic or satirical and is instead flatly advocating utter nihilism.

It would seem, if anything, South Park just tries to round things out to free speech. You can call that nihilism, I guess, in a sort of perfunctory way.
I've often thought about traffic flow when stuck in traffic. I'm in favor of a bit of a gap. I'll try to describe it. I'll start with what lead me to my conclusion.

At a stop light that has turned green all the cars do not go at once. They all proceed sequentially from first to last. If the line is long enough, and the light short enough, the last car cannot make it through. If all cars were to accelerate at the same time simultaneously like a train then many more cars would make it through the light. Of course this will never happen with human drivers.

I believe keeping a reasonable buffer in traffic helps prevent the above situation that I see occur at lights. The delay of this affect is repeated for each and every stop.

I think an excessive gap would make the flow worse in the way described in the article. I'm thinking there's a happy medium somewhere. Somewhere between the excessive gap of the one that wants to teach everyone the 'wisdom' of the gap and the hot-heads that want to drive over the person in front.
There are two big issues with basic income:

1) Even if you spent the entire $2T annual federal budget on a basic income, it would come to about $500 per person per month. The cost is simply gargantuan.

2) It would not replace welfare, it would come on top of it. This is because welfare isn't about helping the poor, it's about giving political power to the lawmakers. This power comes in the form of large administrative bodies, where political allies can be given cushy jobs, and in the form of an electoral clientele. Basic income doesn't have these two features, so from a public choice theory, it will not replace the welfare state. Case in point, when the Reagan administration tried to apply Milton Friedman's negative income tax, he distanced himself from it as they wanted to do it on top of other welfare programs. This is exactly what public choice theory dictates.
I wonder what SEO keywords they're targeting with that Welcome copy?
I get mine shipped from Mt. Baker in 8 oz bottles (about $30.. no I don't work for them) and decant those into 30 ml bottles for use. You can even specify what PG/VG ratio you like.
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Maybe it is, but on the other hand I've never heard anyone which couldn't easily get funding, i.e. the majority of people, not complain about it. I would even expect that the factors of ones specific situation quickly overtake the importance of the general funding situation anyway.

What I do know is that if you play your cards right you can make your own seed funding in a year, even if the housing market is making this slightly harder these days.