skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that Asana seems to have preconceived ideas of what answers are supposed to look like, but the questions are vague and open-ended enough that even very good candidates can give good answers that simply diverge from the manner of thinking that the Asana question designer had in mind.

If the question has a well-defined answer, then this is good. If you are asking questions that the candidate "doesn't know the answer to" merely as a parochial side effect of the question's vagueness and the vast space of possible good approaches, then you're really only screening for people who happen to think about things the same way you already do, and thus are good at guessing what you want to hear.

I'd argue that this is very bad in terms of diversity of thought.
"Virtualenv isn't supposed to handle non-Python dependencies."

Making it kinda useless for anything like numpy or scipy.

"Why use Nix instead of containers or VMs?"

Well, why use virtualenvs instead of containers or VMs?

Because it's lighter weight and more straightforward. And doesn't require you to swap out your whole working environment every time you want a slightly different package setup.

Containers and VMs are a bad excuse for "I don't have a hope of getting the dependencies of my setup under control so I'm just going to ball them all up into this great big binary image."

Nix packages are incredibly flexible and composable in comparison.
I'm not so sure the results are as you say.
Thanks for sharing, but that doesn't add much to the conversation.
> The water situation in Nepal is dire, take a heavy filter with you,

I spent over a month backpacking around the Annapurna region of Nepal without a filter drinking from both stream and well water without treatment the entire time I was there. Never had a problem. If you are referring to water in / around a village you could say water of every country is dire since that water is almost always contaminated somehow. The water coming straight off a mountain is almost always perfectly fine in my experience which is the case anywhere you go. I'll also add I spoke with several people who also went without a filter and drank from both village wells and streams without any issues. Matter of fact I know of no one who got sick in Nepal. I also ate tons of street food and dhal baht from some of the most hole in the wall places, no issues. As always your mileage may vary but I think calling the situation dire is a stretch.
A bank that doesn't loan out more than it has is not involved in FRB.

FRS is the act of central banks allowing banks to add money on accounts up to the ratio amount.

In other words. Banks can create money "out of the blue" since most money are just numbers and not actual cash.

Lending out money this way is not affecting any other accounts. No money is being taken from somewhere and put into the lendees account. Instead banks are allowed to create the loan which is debt, not to the bank but to the lendee. To the bank this is an asset to the lendee this is debt.

In other words the bank have more money after they give the loan not less.

It doesn't get much clearer hat than that IMO.
177 commits.
This was reviewed properly, you just have to click the actual commit: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194667
"Reviewed by Tim Horton."

The response time here might not be great, but the patch author and reviewer are both experts in this area. I wouldn't consider this patch evidence of declining software quality--it's just a simple bug.
Favorite so far: "Remove imgur dependency"
As to the possible lying, English isn't my native tongue, but I found the use of the phrase "without compromising any information on the phone" in this statement:

“Our decision to conclude the litigation was based solely on the fact that, with the recent assistance of a third party, we are now able to unlock that iPhone without compromising any information on the phone,” Eileen Decker, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, said in a statement.

at least curious. Googling "no data was compromised" gives me only links that use that in the meaning "third parties did not get access to the data".

So, if that really is what Eileen Decker said, what exactly did she mean?
>We could revoke the 13th and 14th Amendments and have slavery again--there is no legal impediment to that.

Actually, I think this is the genius of the amendment system.

You are correct that it could happen. But unlike laws that can be passed or revoked by Congress by political whim, the barrier to creating or overturning Constitutional amendments is much higher and more difficult to pass.
How do you measure the power of the human brain? In some instances on some problems computers out perform humans. For example, searching the Internet or multiply large numbers. How would you test a computer to determine if it had the "same power as a human brain"?
I am seeing some strange responsiveness issues with your site on a large display. For example:
https://goo.gl/photos/dShhYAEcm4xCkAVk6
I like how that article refers to the cops as "very sporting" for not enforcing these fake tickets.
As an interviewer at Asana, my favorite questions to ask are based on actual technical problems we have had to solve.
As an aside, I don't believe the Slack app is taking full advantage of ElectronJS. It's essentially still just a wrapped webapp. (They run the same version in the browser.)

Full ElectronJS apps can use something called ASAR which effectively creates a super efficient bundle for loading application code at launch. More here: https://github.com/atom/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/a...
I don't think this is a question particularly about Apple, but more so around the system. If it were another entity without the same financial backing how would they be able to handle it?
I disagree about the way this choice is painted. It's never "just changing circumstances" - people who have problems that directly caused by something in their lives will stumble upon the solution by sheer luck.

We should actually be grateful that there are pills that for many people can insta-cure or significantly reduce the symptoms of depression. It means they get a shot at much better life in exchange of having to take some medication everyday. Contrast that not with "just changing circumstances" - contrast that with no other solution at all.

I'm happy every time we can find a pill for solving a problem - because the pill actually works. Social approaches to solving problems is often a tool for politicians to invent new ineffective methods at non-solving things, and for a lot of people to make money out of it. See e.g. various strategies for solving drug addiction.

Also note an interesting post on the topic: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolog....
You have 3 comments in this thread stating that this wasn't reviewed correctly. It was, you're just looking at the wrong link in their bugtracker: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194667 "Reviewed by Tim Horton."
You can avoid the split without garbage collection, e.g. Swift has a single String type which is a retain-counted copy-on-write type. But this does mean that working with strings in Swift can have hidden costs (e.g. copies where you might not expect them), plus the cost of atomic reference counting. So this solution isn't appropriate for a language like Rust.
This seems like a huge amount of effort to get malware onto a computer. While it seems technically plausible, the steps involved (getting a compromised app onto devices, harvesting contact and location data, waiting for a subset of the infected population to speed, then delivering more malware to them via email) makes me rather dubious.
6 Improvements I'll Make Before My Next Website Launch – Better by Thought
ESPN makes big bucks off football--in particular. FiveThirtyEight adds Dara-driven highbrow to their coverage. The rest is even more loss leader.
The malware could have some local vector, I highly doubt the police network would have that level of access *scared emoji.
375ml 'half bottles' have been around for a very long time. The claim from those with a discerning enough palate is that the wine develops differently inside the smaller container, and thus the 750ml is ideal.

I recently tried a few canned (12 oz) wines that were surprisingly nice.

Like wine, the breadth of beers sold in smaller packages is growing, but for the full variety you have to purchase larger 22oz bottles.
I apologize; I thought this was just generally accepted as fact so I appreciate you pointing out my own bias.

This article mentions how the US is more materialistic than other countries, although it's not the main point of the article. Still, I do find the other points equally interesting.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/01/consumerism.aspx
This was District Court, not SCOTUS.
Oil money has enabled their populations to increase dramatically, they need the oil money to import food among other things. They have hardly been selling their oil cheaply the arab oil belt has profited greatly.
I lost interest in a speeding ticket case.... guess what happened ?
I thought it would be using a library, and I thought to myself, "of course, 11 lines is easy."

But all it uses is numpy. Pretty cool.
The agony is so horrible that the depressed deludes himself into thinking that death is the only way out.
How to Reduce the Cognitive Load of Your Code
Sounds a lot like coffee pods, where you also pay considerably more for a bit more convenience (and a lot more waste).
Google already misgenders me and that's a good thing. I'm not trans. Google also doesn't bracket me in the correct age group.

I am cool with it because, I don't like being pigeonholed and advertised to. The more incorrect data points Google has, the better.
I occasionally see Spirit 2k's destined for the dump and wonder what would be entailed in running one. Since they were a little notorious for poor frame-to-frame registration I wonder if that will get worse as the mechanics age.

It's a strange time for telecines, with so many companies having disappeared but newer, much more compact designs appearing, for archival scanning presumably. If you haven't discovered it already the archives of the TiG mailing list are a great resource for TK stuff - e.g. this thread about the new Blackmagic/Digital Vision/MWA/Kinetta scanners... http://tig.colorist.org/pipermail/tig/2016-February/thread.h...
They exist but they're largely labors of love that probably depend on certain demographics. The chains with local stringers for smaller city papers are terrible.
And what's up with "$300B industry"? It's like someone opening a deli and saying they are disrupting $X00 billion food industry.
But drugs are awesome :D

Seriously though, compared to being depressed when you can't fix it because you don't have any idea that something is wrong, drugs are fucking amazing. The shitty part is people end up trapped now as the drugs can fuel the negativity which lead to the depression in the first place.
A sufficiently smart compiler/linker can always undo things.
If you do business with US dollars, you automatically have the thing you need to pay taxes. But what if you bartered instead? Does it count? Does the IRS know, since you won't have paper trail records of payment.
Scanning firewalls for differences in IPv4 and IPv6 rules
Becoming more proficient with TeX saves time and makes for more re-usable typesetting structures, which allow you to accurately do what you want faster and faster.

Not necessarily, there's an opportunity cost to all the time you spend become proficient with TeX. If there are other products that offer sufficient control over typesetting with less time and effort, and you don't anticipate needing the advanced features that are unavailable in competing products, then becoming a TeX expert is a complete waste of time. I'm happy to concede that it's probably the best tool and certainly the best value for money, but if someone's needs are quite limited then an adequate-but-easy-to-use tool may be preferable to the superior-but-user-unfriendly one.
For those wondering what is being used for load generation in the demo: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
You're right, I meant "with Rust's memory management story," which excludes universal reference counting.

People differ on whether or not universal reference counting is a form of garbage collection with weak guarantees or a form of manual memory manage with flexible semantics.
I think they meant compromising as in potentially triggering deletion or corruption of the data.
How libraries can save the Internet of Things from the Web's centralized fate
I was always curious how much use that Spirit support saw - it must have been a ton of work, but it seemed like it was added just at the precise moment when everyone switched from running the film in real time during a session to scanning to DPXs beforehand!
It's the nature of JavaScript. And there will be a brand new wheel 3 month later
Hardly, the people at the top have profited greatly, the rest still live in poverty. Countries which try and share the wealth of the oil i.e keep it a state owned affair are quickly labelled extremist and a threat to 'democracy' and 'world peace', then are bombed to oblivion. Afterwards a new puppet government is installed which allows foreign companies to come and use its oil.
If by content you mean specifically news and product reviews, that's certainly possible. If by content you mean "long-form writing on a specific subject", then you're quite wrong and the parent is right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/

High quality content comes from two sources, similar to high quality software. It either comes from an organization which makes and sells high quality content to make money (the new York times::Microsoft) or it comes from individual contributors who create it out of passion for the subject (wikipedia::FSF)
> Well, welcome to life in a democracy.

The problem is not that things change in a democracy. The problem is that the change we get does not represent the will of the people.

A majority of Americans is dissatisfied with the Patriot Act [1] yet it keeps getting renewed.

A majority of Americans thinks political spending is corrupt [2] and that the political system is rigged, yet we get Citizens United to pour even more corporate cash into the machine.

A majority of Americans voted for the Democrat in 2000, but the Republican was installed instead [3].

People overwhelmingly disapprove using public funds to bail out reckless bankers [4], but somehow it happens anyway.

There was a global uproar over SOPA and PIPA which shut down this draconian legislation. But you can't kill the zombie, and it keeps coming back, now in secret trade agreements like TPP and TTIP that citizens aren't even allowed to read.

The Total Information Awareness program was suspended in 2003 [5] after a public outcry over warrantless mass surveillance. Naturally it was all reincarnated into secret NSA programs.

We'll see the same thing with devices and personal encryption. This is only a temporary setback for the powers that be, they'll be back with another sensational, emotional case soon enough.

The current system does not represent the will of the people. It's an oligarchy supported by a security apparatus run amok.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/5263/civil-liberties.aspx

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-09-28/bloomb...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

[4] http://www.gallup.com/poll/106114/six-oppose-wall-street-bai...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness
First let me preface this by saying that I have no training in psychology or related fields, so this comment may be complete bunk.

I think that suicide could have some evolutionary advantage in a group. Say there is a member of a group who has become sick, injured, or otherwise incapacitated and is unable to contribute to the group. The group must spend more work to take care of the member than they receive back from the individuals paltry, or nonexistent contributions to the group. If the member's ailment is temporary, then it would be advantageous for the group to bear the burden of taking care of the member, as they would benefit more in the long run.

However, if the member's condition is more permanent, then they represent a net loss to the group's well-being. It would then benefit the group as a whole if that member were to commit suicide, eliminating their burden from the group.

I think this is something that many individuals with suicidal ideation feel on some level. They think that they cannot contribute to their group (family, friends, job, community, country, etc), and that their lack of contribution will be indefinite. For example, a person with anxiety so bad that they are unable to leave the house or get a job might feel like a burden to their family, and unable to contribute. Or, a person with depression might have such a low opinion of themselves that they are unable to see the contributions they are making, or think that their contributions are meaningless and so feel like they are not contributing anything at all worthwhile.

Even though suicide could have had evolutionary advantages in the earlier days of human existence, in modern times I don't think this is the case any longer. With modern medicines and technologies, medical conditions are not as crippling as in the past, and there are more ways to contribute to a group than ever, even without being able to walk or leave the home. The difficulty would then seem to be either helping the suicidal individual to find a group and method of worthwhile contribution, or helping the individual to understand the ways they are already contributing to a group and why that contribution is worthwhile.

Of course, this is just a baseless theory of mine, and I would be very curious to see if there is any actual evidence to back this up.
And by studying how they work we learn about how pain works. Compare to alternative, "keep smiling and find better friends". Fuck that. Even if it was relevant (it probably isn't), I can't smile or talk to people, because I'm constantly in agony because of my arm. I'll stick to opiates because they let me live.
From 25 minutes to 3 minutes; speeding up the builds for our Haskell projects
That's a good point, and in fact I may look into Google Charts once more. Thanks for the perspective.
Maybe you could hire someone that will design you a mobile website?

I'm not installing your app on my phone...
You aren't going to se inflation/deflation in a non-fiat currency. Everyone understands mining reward and it's already been calculated in the price. Yes, if the USD tanks then comparably BTC will rise, but that's not deflation, it's regular inter-currency fluctuation.

By simple deflationist logic a share of a dividend-producing stock shouldn't be sold because its future value is unbounded but obviously this isn't how the market functions.
U.S. Says It Has Unlocked iPhone Without Apple, Ending Lawsuit
The US isn't based on majority rule. No one wants that.
> there is a huge amount of underutilized talent out there

It's like leaving money on the table. Someone needs to moneyball the crap out of this.
Caustic Graphics had an FPGA board for raytracing doing something similar I think about 7-8 years ago, before they got bought over by PowerVR (http://www.anandtech.com/show/2752 for old news about this)
Collection of AOP/AspectJ Java Aspects, 0.22.4 Released
Well you're onto something there. I liked typography for its own sake long before it became affordable to do it on personal computers, so I suppose I take my competence in that area for granted.
Justice Department drops lawsuit against Apple as FBI has now unlocked iPhone
One of the problems that many people have with what the federal government has done in the course of the 20th and 21st centuries is how they have completely ignored the 10th Amendment. I am not sure that the Constitution is an effective protection for civil liberties (or other rights), and I do not know what recourse the citizenry has when the government does ot abide by its own rules.
What does Project Update #83 say?

And based on https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/comment/34760..., you're out of luck. :(
> Far from it. They are not deposit constrained, no matter how much mainstream economics likes to think so.

But there are important constraints - from the overview in the article you linked to:

"Although commercial banks create money through lending,
they cannot do so freely without limit. Banks are limited in how much they can lend if they are to remain profitable in a competitive banking system. Prudential regulation also acts as a constraint on banks’ activities in order to maintain the resilience of the financial system. "

The main constraint is called Capital Adequacy, and is based on the requirement for a bank to hold some of its own money in reserve compared to the amount of loans it issues. And importantly this money held in reserve must be money that is not pledged to anyone or anything else - i.e. cannot be money from depositors or from issued loans. The banks cannot easily increase this amount of unpledged money (which is called Tier 1 Capital) and hence it acts as a real limit on the amount they can lend.
Justice Department Officially Drops Lawsuit Against Apple
Also, big companies won't necessarily be your ally in this case either. Instead of being sued, large companies may be able to come to an agreement with the plaintiff where they pay some fee to continue doing what they are doing. The size of this fee or the risk of a lawsuit may be enough to discourage small startups from entering a market while just being another cost of business for the established large players. This could hurt competition in the long run as well as allowing the status quo, which perhaps should be challenged, to persist.
I have to say, I prefer when someone responds to my comments vs. an influx of downvotes which don't allow me to learn anything. I come here to learn, not to feel like I can't and shouldn't contribute. I originally got really discouraged from posting anything when all I ever got was downvoted and didn't know why, or how the rules worked here. Also as was mentioned above, the fact that I would make statements that others didn't agree with would get me downvoted to oblivion would stop me from commenting most of the time. I usually ctrl + f to see if anyone else is posting from the same viewpoint as me, and if nobody has I don't bother, some people who probably call themselves open-minded are not as such, everyone has their own prejudices.
> let's provide a study guide so that they -can- cram before the test

Did you look at the guide? I don't see anything you would be motivated to cram after reading through that other than to brush up on the "usual suspects" of data structures, but you should be doing that before any technical interview anyways IMO.

Seems like the guide is mostly intended to give candidates an idea of what to expect during their interview.
I actually agree drugs are useful for treating mental issues, I just disagree that people need a daily drip-drip-drip of e.g. serotonin or dopamine to function. Drugs can be extremely helpful in treating acute mental issues and helping people "break through" or inoculate themselves against episodes of illness, see e.g. psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine for treatments of e.g. anxiety/depression/PTSD/psychological health in the terminally ill, cluster headaches, etc.

The common thread though is that a single dose of the drug offers long-lasting protection, weeks or months or years. It's not about chemically changing the brain day after day, it's about using neurochemicals to jolt the brain out of a rut. It's about occasionally kickstarting the brain back into normal self-regulation, not using externally supplied chemicals to permanently supplement dysregulation.