skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, you really read way more into that than I would have. I barely even looked at the first bullet in the "How to Prepare" section. I suspect it's was just there for completeness and I think it's basically a given that people should brush up on technical interview-type questions before going into a technical interview.

For me, the real meat of that section was in the 2nd and 3rd bullets!

The 2nd bullet is telling people to reflect on their experiences and come prepared to discuss. This may be a no-brainer for some, but for those who don't have a lot of interview experience, I suspect it's easy to get caught up with the "what should I know" mentality and forget to spend a little time reconstructing the interesting projects and situations that they've navigated in your career. For most of us, only the most recent stuff tends to be fresh in our minds.

The 3rd bullet emphasizes that you should come prepared to evaluate them. Again, perhaps a no-brainer for most experienced candidates, but it's nice to see the interviewers acknowledging that this is a two-way evaluation and encouraging candidates to be sure they're making the right choice.

While it's unusual for candidates to show up unprepared for technical questions, I've seen many candidates show up completely unprepared to discuss their experiences or ask questions that will help them evaluate the position/team/company/manager.
Much of the point of "first principles" is that there aren't very many of them. If you have any trouble at all remembering them, you can be fairly certain that you have not trimmed enough.
Awesome, will have a look. We run VPC per-environment, and support launching environments ad-hoc. So we would need to launch a Kubernetes cluster along with the environments. Anything to reduce the switching costs is very welcome :)
The Tcl Quadcode Compiler [pdf]
Focal Systems (YC W16) Is Hiring a Senior Android Developer
Focal Systems is bringing state-of-the-art computer vision and an Android sensor network to brick-and-mortar retail. We are looking for a Senior Android engineer to undergo the development of device monitoring infrastructure, controlling thousands of deployed Android devices from the Web. This position will be partially responsible for developing, managing and maintaining, Focal's Android stack, as well as, helping us optimize the Android camera controlling software. If interested, shoot me an email at adriano@focal.systems
As I read this, its not a hypothesis, nor is it a theory. Its just a long value statement about how to think about what's going on.

You can accept or ignore this, and it won't change the science at all.
FBI Drops iPhone Case Against Apple After Outside Hack Succeeds
The case is droppable because it lacks public support. That was clear a month ago. It's an impossible scenario - requiring an engineering effort from a consumer focused company. If Apple wanted to comply, it would have been extraordinarily costly.

What's good about the case is that it brought forth a discussion about privacy. This case coupled with the Clinton email scandal should move a few ideas forward developing solutions that wouldn't otherwise have been profitable ventures. Where Lavabit had a very niche market a few years ago, companies thinking along those lines will have success moving forward.
While this case might have ended, but the battle isn't over yet. Via Matthew Keys on Twitter:

"There are 6 other cases where Apple is still fighting the DOJ re: unlocking phones"

https://twitter.com/matthewkeyslive/status/71458323211775590...

^ Link includes an image with 7 other cases where Apple has either objected to warrants, 2 that are still in process.

The most interesting one is the last, which involves an iPhone 6+ running iOS 9.1. It's not yet clear whether the zero day that allowed the government to access the San Bernardino phone also works on the iPhone 6, which has a secure enclave (unlike the San Bernardino phone). There are some other iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S devices in the list too running older versions of iOS.
I'm a little worried now about how long it will be before they come back and claim that there was some critical piece of evidence on the phone and start saying how evil Apple is for not wanting to cooperate because what are they, freedom haters?
Does anyone know why this breaks the content wrapping? I have seen <pre> classes do this but this text is just normal HN comment class.

I really hope using strikeout unicode does not catch on around here. It is horrible.
Is your point that people who believe in angels have no capability to govern themselves, so they should be grateful to their corporate overlords?

Or is your point that people who believe in angels need to be surveilled without warrants and have their meager earnings confiscated to enrich the elite?
One thing a driver does is monitor the vehicle for trouble. Fights, vandalism, etc. I think particularly on a college campus you're still going to need some kind of authority figure on board who can at least call for help if something inappropriate or criminal is happening.
I think we may well see VR-specific rooms in upper-middle class homes in the future. Or maybe home theatre rooms that can double as VR rooms.
I have like less than 1% of my users go to my about us page(not a product company). I would say put up a bs about us page and if you start getting alot of people clicking on it optimize it. if you get a lot of people that go to bounce then fix it.
I share your personal opinion. I'm actually in the process of that, and I can attest from my experience that it would not be possible for me to benefit from CBT without first getting an SSRI therapy - I was stuck so deep in anxiety loops that even the keyboard interrupt handler was starved for resources. SSRIs reduced my problems to something I'm struggling with - before drugs I was unable to function as a productive member of society at all.

(Ironically, some of my present problems are indeed caused by life conditions - exactly the conditions I inflicted upon myself during the period before I started taking drugs.)
This doesn't really mean anything. The question is: Does Apple have the right to make an uncrackable phone? We have no resolution on that issue: Only the knowledge that the iPhone 5s is not such a phone.
The problem is that the Federal Government has effectively nullified the tenth amendment, because I can't think of anything reserved to the states anymore, except perhaps the police power, though I'm not sure the police power has any meaning left, as every specific action by Congress or the Executive seems to be justifiable. I have never Verrilli say that the government lacked any power it desired, though some of the members of the Supreme Court seem to think the Federal Government only gets those powers after a balancing test (which the Government wins if it is not being overtly capricious).

If you read the enumerated powers broadly enough, you are correct, but I find the 'generosity' of these interpretations to be quite disturbing. Commerce within the states is inter-state commerce, the Federal Government has a compelling governmental interest in your treatment of your neighbors, and whatever you produce or consume in your home affects the Federal Government's compelling interest in a regulatory scheme; everything not otherwise explicitly prohibited is fair game. Even the rights explicitly protected in the Constitution are subject to different levels of scrutiny, (i.e. rational, strict, etc. depending on how much the Judicial branch cares,) even when there was no provision for the Government ever violating them.
Life science was the promised boom 25 years ago when I started undergrad as a mol bio major. Very little progress. I check back in every decade or so and things proceed slowly.
I'd be interested to see what kind of malware it is. Is it just a EXE that does bad things to your computer but still requires executing and clicking the confirm button (since it is probably not signed). If so, what decicdes does it target? I always feel fairly save on my iPhone because there are currently no exploits we know about (and I think a hacker is smart enough not to let it loose on the wild. He would only use it for targeted attacks since such an exploit is worth a lot of money and would get detected eventually). On my phone I also can't excute Apps from outside the AppStore (I know there are profiles and enterprise certificate but that process is a little suspicious).

Also, if the hacker already conpromised one app, what could he possibly want to infect if the app is already effected.

What I think is that an ad company is too generous with their user data and somebody just bought an ad that only targets that geographical region . That would explain the territori.
The biggest issue I take with the article is a classic chicken and egg problem. The article takes the stance that your depression is there because of your life choices and some factors that aren't in your control. I'm of the very strong opinion that the exact opposite is true.
> it's suspected that the data is coming from an app with permission to track phone GPS data.

I'm not sure why the app stores even allow this feature to be enabled. It seems there should be some additional vetting of applications / fees if they want to enable this incredibly intrusive feature.

Every once in awhile I look the the privacy settings on my iPhone to make sure I didn't accidentally enable this feature.
Police Radio Chatter Is Open to All Ears. But Should It Be?
I guess this works if you separate the idea of "fit for a particular situation/environment" for "fit in general."

Suppose we did not separate these things. In that case, for an entire group to have A, that implies that some ancestor of that entire group had A. But this contradicts the premise that the gene makes people less likely to reproduce.

It works if you accept the idea that genes which are fit in some situations are less fit in others. In that case you could have a person who developed this mutation of feeling suicidal when they feel useless, but it doesn't "activate" because they aren't in a situation where they feel useless. But once a whole group has this gene, then your theory of propagation through siblings/cousins is more plausible.
The system is designed specifically to thwart the majority sometimes. Sometimes the majority is wrong. Now, the thwarting doesn't always happen when the majority is wrong, but we might be grateful for the electoral college for instance, this time around.

The breadth and complexity of the issues the government has to deal with are far beyond what any one citizen could keep track of, that's why we don't have a direct democracy.
I'm sure I'll see this on Internet Of Shit's twitter feed real soon.
Let me just take a moment to register monumentally huge agreement with your modification of the the metaphor at hand. The problem here is that huge numbers of other people are living in almost exactly the same circumstances - or ones that are objectively worse - and they register no depression.

And here, by objectively worse, we're talking, risk their lives daily on a shoestring lifestyle that barely keeps them from not having a roof over their heads and rice or beans enough not to starve to death. Do those who risk their lives have something the comparatively wealthy depression cases lack? Are the kinds of pressure the relatively wealthy depression cases experience particularly likely to create this kind of response? What's the difference? What's the root cause?!

If we had actual, good root causes, then we'd be golden, but the problem, the HUGE PROBLEM that the paradigm espoused in the article faces, is that we DON'T have a kind of 'smoking gun' need that is not being fulfilled for people with depression. MANY, MANY people with deep depression really do have fantastic lives compared to those who suffer no depression- and moreover, admonishing people with depression to 'figure out what need is being unfulfilled in your life, and fill it' is highly toxic advice, at least in its way- based on my experience with depressed individuals, if you effectually tell depressed people to figure out what's wrong in their life and fix it- well, it's one way to obliquely encourage suicide.
Unless it's hidden by obfuscation, judging by the source code I think that test actually fails, and hilariously only lowercase 'b' works.
How to Go Faster Than Python's Numpy (still on CPU)
That addresses my question exactly, thanks!
If he's going to troll like this, shouldn't it have 13 obscure dependencies as well?
Wouldn't you be performing this work because you believe it will facilitate the transfer of traffic to your site? Aren't you comitting to make changes as and when ifttt change their API so that you can continue to receive their calls? Sites/services can just walk away if they don't want the traffic. No one's obliged to pay or do anything they don't want to.
So I have depressive symptoms for quite some time. I've talked to my doctor like 2 years ago about it. He told me that the only way to get a therapy is to seek out a therapist on my own. This is fine, I can understand that. Just like an alcoholic must accept that he has problems and seeks out for help. I am not going to lie, it is a tough thing to do.
But as an general scepticist I have the huge problem to find someone to trust. I find it absurd that I have to check the phone book or the internet to find some nice looking person that maybe can help with my mental health. Eventually, a therapy is something that both therapist and patient have to agree about. But I can't really see myself to visit mutliple therapists just to find someone that can work with me.

So if someone lives in germany and can give me a hint to find someone, or anyone else in any way I'd appreciate it.
> ...much better than a world in which government decisions are truly final. Beware that level of power IMO.

That is certainly a valid point in the case of laws that expand a state's authority, but I don't think that is true where explicit restrictions on the state's authority are put in place (ex: bill of rights). I doubt anybody (outside of the Brady Campaign) will ever look over the bill of rights and think that we would have been better off without the explicit restrictions made clear.
Zero-js: The smallest JavaScript 'framework' you'll ever use
Oh, you mean in 1789, 227 years ago?
It seems like after the initial program this type of scam doesn't require that much effort.. just let the programs run.

Also.. "waiting for a subset of the infected population to speed" I'm gonna go ahead and say that subset is about 99% of the population. Even if you don't speed, like most people do, there's plenty of areas for this malware to "catch" you, like when the speed limit drops unexpectedly or you are not sure of it when pulling on to a road.
Couldn't IFTTT just use the public APIs already offered by the sites?
I predict a lot more "augmented reality" VR headsets in the future.

All they would have to do to enable this would be to put two low-latency cameras on the front of the VR headset and underlay their outputs to each of your eyes, while "projecting" a virtual 80 inch screen on the wall in front of you.

My Gear VR has something like this, because the Note 4 has a camera. I am able to watch the camera in "passthrough" mode, and I can actually walk around the house with my headset on. It's pretty laggy, though, and isn't 3D, because there's only one camera. There's a lot of room for improvement, but I can see the potential.
Ask HN: What is LLVM (from the perspective of a middling Rails developer)?
I generally understand that a compiler takes code (written in a language that needs to be compiled like C) and generates machine/assembly(?) code from it -- but I don't really understand why that makes LLVM the big deal it currently is. I don't have a CS degree, but I understand some of the concepts (like notation, sets, etc).

Can someone ELIaRailsDeveloper what the LLVM and why that is a big deal?
Does removing the app Booking.com from the iphone 5S will solve the problems with Safari, mail, links and crashing?
I have just installed the new fix of the IOS 9.3 on my 5S and had got no improvements.
Prooblem wasn't solved by disactivating Java script.
Details, please?

Really, we'd love to hear.
Maybe depression hurts worse than pain?
Not every trait that exists has to be selected for. It just has to not be selected against enough for it to be completely wiped out. Some people procreate before they commit suicide, even those that don't would have relatives who might have been spared by different circumstances, or a slightly different mix of genes.
Uber recruiting engineers by randomly sending a coding game to play during rides
I'm just a lowly Google engineer, but my stock grant is already way over 50% of my base salary. In other words, the stock is somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of my total compensation, based on today's price.
I agree that this is dumb of IFTTT.

But I am all in favor of a 'recipe' that consists of "startup does dumb stuff=>Maciej writes a hilarious takedown=>I LOL so hard people ask me what's going on from two rooms away". Can someone implement the API for that, please?
Certainly not! It's much better to be ruled by sociopaths and megalomaniacs.
No. I was responding to a question about how they make money. They probably don't really but serve as a loss leader for ESPN. That's not a comment on how things should've but how they are. I do think that data journalism in general is a positive trend but am not sure it makes a big impact in the news business model.
Careful! You might discourage some young woman from learning about the number 13 with this sexual joke.
I don't think the aurora is a good example for reason you cited. The idea that we only see the aurora in shades of gray is false. I've sometimes been surprised by some extra color that the camera picks up but at least at upper latitudes the aurora's colors are bight enough to be easily distinguishable by the eye.

The tricky part with photographing auroras is getting the white balance right, as the unusual light source often confuses automatic color correction.
You can run the OS but you can't run anything that a business would use on it (at least not without winning the lottery). Any software package you'll find in the real world is going to be $100k
JS/SVG Bentley-Ottmann Intersection Algorithm
Ask HN: Who works in (mobile) robotics on HN?
-What do you do, where (if you can say)
-How's your experience been
-What journals do you read (if any)

I lead research on humanoid robotics, specifically on novel exoskeletons for SCI patients. I mostly work in chassis/actuator design, and recently have been getting into some more nuanced fields of machine learning... I can't really say what i'm doing/where publicly .

I have been extremely frustrated with my field (humanoid robotics) so far. I just feel like research is trying to brute-force realistic kinematics from the entirely wrong approach/direction... My research is opposite theirs in most regards, so I have a bias. But I also believed the same assumptions and theories when I started.

I suppose to summarize my feelings concisely, I'm disappointed/upset that the field is so stagnant.
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I'm curious to see who on HN actually works with robotics in hardware/software side, and if anyone would be interested in starting like an email group to talk about new papers or such. I think we're a pretty underrepresented group, and I'd love to see if its actually a group or just me.

If you want to dm, email: robert.b.marcus@gmail.com
Pretty sure people will agree that the Vive (which includes touch controllers and room scale tracking) is "Real VR" -- if the Vive fails to deliver amazing experiences, then yes 2016 VR is a dud.

The Oculus CV1 by not including hand controllers, and secondarily by having a limited tracking range, while amazing visually, is a very stunted experience when it comes to really being able to deliver good made for VR content. The Oculus Touch controllers are amazing, and can't arrive fast enough.
Nah, they do case insensitive matching: https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen/blob/master/index.js#L1...
New Web Features in Safari
I haven't played with it in years... I forget how seductive Factor is to think about.
That's like saying Tesla should buy a couple small auto makers - you know, because they both make cars and it'd be a perfect fit.
> the Sherpas might have moved to cities, to India, or even to America if that opportunity hadn't materialized.

They still can move to cities, to India, to America. At least, the availability of rich tourists does not stop them from doing those things. They are certainly no worse off because rich people need labor on Everest.
We really do need some standard unicode glyphs for 'mic drop' and 'awed silence'.
Exactly. I'm paying them to be available to clean or watch my kids. If they cancel, they lose out on the money. If I cancel, they get paid, as they were available.
It is correct in the sense that they're not forcing anyone to use IFTTT, but they make it sound like the website owner is responsible for the degradation of service, while in reality it's IFTTT's decision.
I think the subtlety that's not evident from these comments is that Maciej didn't solicit IFTTT integration to begin with. In fact, as I recall it, IFTTT did a hacky integration that misused Pinboard's authentication, and Maciej had to help them correct that.

Later, after putting a bizarre legal agreement in front of him to sign, IFTTT announced that Pinboard would stop working on their service in a manner that made it sound an awful lot like Maciej had just decided to stop supporting IFTTT. In reality, all the agency in this relationship belonged to IFTTT.
Now the website is focused on the needs of the vast majority who only make one or two comparisons -- the choices they never used are no longer in their way.

If you're one of the minuscule number who desperately need some arbitrary comparison then:

- click the desired language implementations on the home page

- if those do not show the comparison you need, mouse-over some of the program links and you'll see the required URL parameters

- plug the required URL parameters into the address-bar

For example: lang=typescript&lang2=swift

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
Harry Potter + Word2vec
It seems like when he passes deriv=True in line 36 the first argument is the output of a previous nonlin, so it actually is the correct derivative.
I second this. I've been playing around with Meteor for testing side project ideas. Super simple to get up and running.
Thanks Maciej.
OCaml starterkit – create your dev environment quickly
> And we can't extrapolate that to "just change the things in your life that are making you unhappy", because?

Oh we can and we do. If you go to the doctor and say, "I'm unhappy because I am doing X", he'll say you should stop doing X. But those clear-cut issues are the type people tend to solve themselves. You don't go to psychiatrist to ask if maybe you need a divorce. You just get a divorce.

Going back to depression - sometimes it's very hard to tell whether something is a healthy response to negative circumstances. The mental pain tends to interfere with your ability to perceive its cause. So it may be a healthy response, or an amplified response, or it may be a good response to wrong signals, or your brain may just be broken. There are special treatments for the last case, but for the former cases getting an entry-level antidepressant is often enough to help you figure out what's going on (with or without guidance of psychologists).

And even in the cases where you have a healthy response to negative circumstances, people who end up taking pills don't take them because they're too lazy to change the circumstances, but because changing circumstances is an impractical option. If it weren't, they'd have already changed them.
Does the downgrade to 9.2.1 will fix the problem?
I have just upgraded to todays repair of the 9.3, and no improvement!
If inremove Booking app would itvsolve the problem?
Even diactivating Javascript had not fixed the problem.
It is frustrating. Why Apple sent a new update to 9.3 if they haven't fixed a thing?