skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kik (the company) are some shady ass m/f'ers. Yet the open source programmer is getting all of the lashes for telling them off? "He could of used a more grown up tone...???"

Also - NPM really dropped the ball. Shows how little they care about the developers that make them relevant in the first place.

Lastly - at the end of the day Azer's holding a big bag of jack....And has had his work effectively stolen (I'm referring to left-pad). How does this incentivize anyone to put their work in this resource going forward?

Azer is the hero of this story - make no mistake. He refused to make way for a big corporation, his only mistake was trusting that his choice of software host would have his back. Shame on npm and shame on kik.
My current company has a very similar interview style, and I later learned that I was pretty close to not being hired because I didn't do quite as well as one interviewer wanted on a coding challenge: I ran out of time. But what I also learned is that the interviewer had never solved the problem in the language I used!

I had one of our most senior engineers, who has worked in this language's compiler, to try to solve the exercise. Instead of 40 minutes, it took him three hours!

If a candidate is going to interview in a language, for the love of god, have as a prereq that the interviewer is actually capable of doing the exercise in that language.
The redacted email also says it contains a picture of the license plate. How could that come from a cracked phone?

It sounds more likely that some photo based speed trap has been compromised.
Really ... a down vote for humor ? ... y'all need to get the stick out of your ass
I think you miss understand what I am saying, By them I am referring to the country, for example Food is heavily subsidized by the government in Saudi Arabia. This subsidy is funded by the huge wealth the government has earned via taxes on the exports of oil. I cant find the source but I believe the Saudi government still has trillions of USD in surplus.
There were rumblings about a company that could do this weeks ago. Snowden brought up it was possible, and likely even hit upon the method.

I think the "mysterious third party" absolutely exists. I just think that the plan all along was to compel apple to do this, and then fall back on this if Apple pushed.
From a purely mathematical perspective, how would evolution ever select for a trait that causes someone to destroy themselves for the benefit of others?

It seems like any characteristic that prevents the individual from reproducing is by definition not selected for. But I could be misunderstanding something.

Maybe it could work in the case of people who are already parents. Favoring the group could increase the likeliness of their children surviving perhaps?
Thank goodness they have a Code of Conduct for contributors. The people behind this project wouldn't want to put other people down.
This link should be outside the paywall: http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/CVE-a-key-cybers...
Lying to an indifferent, disagreeable, and dysfunctional legislature is one thing. Lying directly to a federal judge with contempt power is how one ends up in jail before packing up your suitcase and walking out the courtroom.
No, but I think Americans want a semblance of representation. When The People have close to 0% sway in Congress' opinions on bills, and corporations have like 70%, I'd say that's a pretty big freaking deal, no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

Every time there's an argument about wanting more democracy in the US, it seems someone always appears to say "but that's mob rule!". No, nobody wants mob rule. But there's a canyon between what exists now and what a more representative government could look like.
The way I understand you (which might be off quite a bit), the natural candidates for that kind of service would not be Amazon or Ebay, it would be insurance companies. "Sorry, I can't do business with you, seems like my conflict resolution provider does not have a peering point with yours" might be part of a perfectly reasonable conversation some day.

But are we still looking at problems solved by a blockchain or are we already looking at problems caused by it? Honestly, I think I've lost track at some point.
Coincidence. But not very interesting. I think.
Attacks on cars over CAN protocol
I'm not Nepalese, but I visit India quite a bit, and I have met Nepalese there. Many security guards in Delhi and Bangalore come from Nepal.

There's also a Nepalese waitress at chaat cafe in SOMA who is very chatty.

The Nepalese seem to be deeply ambivalent towards mountain climbers. The Google exec who died climbing Everest last year was a vocal supporter of the Sherpas, but even he didn't seem to be a bit blind to the nature of his hobby.

Americans want to believe there is something courageous about flying across the world to some exotic locale, and then creating an economy there around some terribly dangerous activity, which encourages the locals to risk life and limb to support.

Climbing is a hobby for a rich guy from Google. Maybe it's even spiritual. But for Sherpas it's like plumbing or driving a taxi. They do it because it provides resources they can use to support their families.

Are the Sherpas better off with the climbers? Perhaps. It's hard to say, because while climbing brings a lot of money, the Sherpas might have moved to cities, to India, or even to America if that opportunity hadn't materialized. Maybe they would have developed some marketable crafts or products? Who knows. Everest is their resource curse.

Like boxers and football players from ghettos in America, the Sherpas sacrifice their bodies for American entertainment, not because they want to, but because they have to.
I have no idea. However, I suspect that HN is not a good place to look for insight, given the presumably small portion of the readership that ever had problems with algebra and the presumably large portion that regularly uses math beyond arithmetic.
There was quite a lot of initial consumer resistance when first introduced, but over time we all got used to it. Even very expensive wines uses screw caps these days - not getting wine that is “corked” (i.e. tastes like wet newspaper) anymore is fantastic. Screwcaps really are a superior way to seal wine.
They are very proud of their Code of Conduct and Kindness (COCK).
> Taking a vial of blood prior to a finger prick blood test could dramatically alter results.

Interesting. What mechanism or phenomenon are you proposing would be happening? Why do you think sampling order has more influence than the sample method (venipuncture v. finger prick)?

> Further, when the baseline (i.e. other labs) also have varying results, its fair to call into question the whole study.

Why? That's an expected outcome when dealing with multiple testing labs.
The belt one was funny.
Offtopic: given that the life sciences are the promised new hi-tech boom, I'm wondering why there are so few posts about it on HN (?)
There is a company in the current YCombinator batch doing intro deliveries of wine-by-the-glass. The vessel looks like a test tube crossed with a wine bottle:

http://getvinebox.com/
It is one of our biggest hiring priorities and we are actively working on this.
Indeed. In fact, basically all Muslim country north or west of Saudi Arabia were Christian for centuries before being conquered by Muslim invasions. Syria, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Balkans, Turkey - all Christian before the armies of Islam came in 632-1683.

It's an interesting piece of history that not a lot of people realize.

That's why all these places have/had Christian communities. They're the leftover conquered people who were too stubborn to convert of leave under the abuse of their Muslim rulers. It's not like a bunch of Christians have ever immigrated into any Muslim country - lol!
> There is no such thing as intrinsic value.

Would you say that the price to save a life equally matches the value of a life? Doesn't this show a disparity between the "market value" of something and its actual value?
The US is behind in dock automation, but that seems to be because US ports are typically many little operators instead of one big one. The Port of Rotterdam operates a highly automated port. The Port of Los Angeles is a landlord; the port operators are private companies.

The real question is where you do the container sorting. There are several approaches. One is to unload containers and move them to container stacks, from which they are later unstacked as requested and moved to trucks or trains. Rotterdam and most of the highly automated ports are set up that way. Another is to unload containers from ships directly onto railroad cars or trucks. The Port of Los Angeles does a lot of this. They have a good rail connection, built a few years ago, that bypasses LA traffic.

Unloading ships to railcars implies sorting somewhere else. For LA, "somewhere else" is often Fontana, CA, which is about 30 miles east of LA and beyond the traffic, but has access to four major Interstates and major rail lines. Railcar sorting takes place in railroad hump yards, which have been automated since the 1950s.

Europe doesn't do as much railcar sorting because they still have crappy manual freight car couplers. The US uses standard automatic couplers on all freight cars (Congress mandated this in 1893), but the UK and Western Europe still have mostly manual couplers of a 1830 design on freight trains. (Yes, there's an EU standard automatic coupler, but it's not used much.) As a result, hump yards are rare in Europe. The freight rolling stock is also lighter because the couplers are weaker. That's why you still see dinky freight cars in Europe. Also, the US has a bigger loading gauge, and most US mainline track will now accommodate double-stacked container cars. The US is way ahead of the EU in freight rail.
Yep this does not surprise me. Reading the guide it's clear to me that when you say:

> Our goal is not to simulate day-to-day software development

You don't mean at all, you mean in its entirety (so you are leaving out the aspects you are less interested in, like reading stack overflow, and emphasizing the aspects you are more interested in, like reasoning about data structures). I think a lot of people on HN are getting hung up on that sentence, honestly. Thanks for the guide, though, considering something similar for Justworks.
IANAL, but it wasn't a "case" in a conventional sense of plaintiff and defendant.

At issue was an order, issued by a court at the government's request, that Apple was contesting.

If the order is moot or withdrawn, Apple no longer has anything to contest.
>I don't trust auto update to not leave my apps in a half downloaded state

Huh? That's never happened to me, for one, and I update as soon as there's an update, ever seens iOS app updates were a thing...
Was I the only one who assumed the DOJ could unlock the phone for a while now, but instead chose to legally force Apple to do it to set a precedence? This news almost seems like a win for Apple; if there was a good chance that the DOJ would have won the case, they probably would have pursued it till the end.
> This is why in any downturn, the central bank response to deflation is to increase the money supply. By making money cheaper, they're encouraging people to take advantage of cheaper asset prices. This in turn, spurs demand.

This ignores the astronomical losses from our fractional banking system. Pretty much every 40 years we get a crash and print our way out of it, giving ever more money to the core of the system. (Trickle-down, or too-big-to-fail, both were rewards simply for being the entrenched players.) The USD has lost 95% of its value. Perhaps for the "economy" (... of bankers who defraud us) inflation is good, but for the common man fraud is worse and fiat is the enabler, not the solution.

Sure, there's a problem having a fiat system is good for but there's a huge gulf between "Fixes problem X" and "Performs better across all scenarios".
The law in question was passed the same week that congress submitted the fourth amendment.

Please stop parroting "200 year old law".
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Medicine and an advertising agency, I'm not sure if they are such a great combination anyway.
You are the one who is mistaken, not me. I never said the revert wasn't reviewed, and neither did Simon Fraser. What he said was the commit that caused the viewport bug that made its way into iOS 9.2 wasn't reviewed.

That clear enough for you now?
The point in the analogy though is, the pain is a symptom. Understanding how pain is transmitted through nerves and how to block it is certainly useful in the treatment of broken bones, but far more important is understanding that the pain is caused by the broken bone. The pain itself is not the problem, even if makes sense to ameliorate; focusing on the pain instead of the break can lead you to masking and failing to treat the underlying problem, allowing it to worsen.
Exactly -- because the US isn't a democracy (majority rule), it's a democratic republic.
I'm not sure if Android is any better. My Samsung phone would have an update popup several times a day it seemed like. One day I was in Chrome, about to click on a link and the update poppped up right under my finger causing the phone to update.
My first reaction was, "Haha. That's fun code-as-parody."

Then I looked at the unit tests. [1] Now my reaction is more like, "Your commitment to this bit is both admirable and slightly disturbing."

[1] https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen/blob/master/test.js
I'm confused, are you saying that more journalists should not try to emulate this model of using data and science to determine what's really going on?
We have reached peak npm.
Don't know where you see that fantasy? In the chain that kik published (probably the one that they thought made them look the best - mind you), I saw a load of passive aggressive/weasel words. Where's the offer?

If I call you up and bug you to do something for me (a stranger mind you); then it is up to me to come right out and explain the value proposition. Not hem and haw, dancing here and there - hoping that you will just drop to your knees, just because. And then when you don't - I can then get mad and threaten you? What world do you want to live in? That one sounds insane to me.
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you are not a Haskell developer, are you?
You seem a bit confused. I'm not saying the revert of the patch wasn't reviewed. I'm saying the commit that caused the issue wasn't reviewed.

Hope this helps.
It's easy to make evolutionary just-so stories and they're usually worthless anyway, but here's my attempt at one: as an animal, if you reach a certain age and are not already a parent, it means you're deficient. It's better for the gene pool if you die without reproducing. If you're a parent and you did all that was needed for the offspring to survive the early development period, you're no longer needed and probably better off dying instead of consuming resources your children need.
And for the Java/Enterprise equivalent:

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
First, we're actively working on improving page load times.

Second, having discovered issues with algorithmic complexity makes me question claims that they are not important for day to day work. What do you think?
> Article says one of reasons for Microsoft's interest is to preserve search and ad deals with Yahoo

Note that preservation of the search deal might not be in Yahoo's best interest, so depending on where you stand, Microsoft doesn't "need" to be involved in this.
Everyone has heard of interviews that pointlessly refuse candidates the opportunity to consult Internet references, like every working programmer does every time they code anything ever. But your process goes a step further: you won't even allow candidates to compile their code. How can this possibly be helpful to your process?

Here's how.

Some problems - particularly those involving concurrency - don't lend themselves well to the standard compile/test/run/printf mode of programming. The more difficult problems you'll run into require some semiformal reasoning about the underlying problem. When I sit down to solve these problems I'm doing more or less exactly what Asana is asking for. I'm not making my code compile. I'm not running tests - with high probability they'll pass even if my code is wrong.

Eventually I'll need to actually write code which compiles and runs. But if I skip the "think hard and make sure it's right" step (what Asana is asking for) I'll wind up with wrong code in production with errors that are nearly impossible to debug.

It sounds like Asana wants to determine if people can do this kind of thing.
I found it very interesting too.

I am very familiar with this classic movie. Nearly everyone in this film went on to have a substantial career. Your method gives the essence of the story, but robs us of the beauty of this movie. You've removed Sidney Lumet's direction and most of Reginald Rose's dialog.

Please tell me a practical application for this.

By the way -- I don't want to diminish what you seem to have accomplished from a technology standpoint. That's impressive. But what is the itch being scratched?
> Interact with friends and family also watching at the same time

A virtual cinema will let you do this with them, wherever they are. Once Netflix launches a VR app, they'll take care of the movie delivery and syncing, so you'll just pop on a headset and be sitting next to your Dad who's on the opposite coast. Hell, I can see that being a killer app for ESPN.
This library is just what I need for my side project. Hopefully it will be taken up as a standard for other numeric comparisons.
Absolutely and thanks for the advice. I think we should change that sentence. Looking forward to the one from Justworks!
As with any new technology, the adult entertainment industry has already embraced VR. [1][2]

Links obviously VERY NSFW.
[1] http://naughtyamericavr.com/
[2] https://virtualrealporn.com/
It's just a link that claims to be a picture of the license plate. The link's actual target delivers malware to the device.
The individual would still have other relatives who would pass on the genes, like sisters, brothers, other family members. If the individual's sacrifice helps the group survive, their genes would be passed on in those relatives. Also note that the gene would only be activated under a certain set of circumstances, so individuals could have the "self-sacrifice" gene and pass it to their children, even if they never encountered the set of circumstances that would induce suicidal ideation themselves.

I believe there is similar thinking for genetic passing of traits like homosexuality.
I would imagine that Command & Conquer-like games could be a good fit for VR as it requires overview where you'll usually have to scroll in cases where you'd otherwise just lift and eyebrow.

I could also imagine a Window Manager where every window is placed in a large (huge) sphere that surrounds you and your chair (you are stationary in the middle). You could turn you head to see and interact with windows that are nearby or you could zoom out and rotate the whole sphere by using some shortcut or other device (maybe an ergonomic mouse with a ball on top of it [1], such that the sphere around you rotates in the same direction as the ball of the mouse). You could still map virtual desktops to a zone on the sphere (or perhaps just create virtual spheres). With some handy keyboard shortcuts I could imagine this to became quite awesome. Especially for programmers that use many windows at the same time.

1: http://www.ergodirect.com/images/Logitech/16728/large/Logite...
So glad this is available with PlaceSpotter shutting down soon. Working pretty well for us!
Yeah, I get the point of the analogy, but I think in reality, the "social" approaches to solving depression are closer to curing broken bones by telling patients to change friends / sleep more / find God. And I say this as a person who had depression and anxiety issues for a long time. Yes, some parts of it are affected by my life conditions, but sadly I can't wish my way out of sudden, random anxiety attacks.
Do people really not pay their nannies and housecleaners if they cancel on them? Paying so they dont miss out on the income they expect just seems like the decent thing to do.
My nanny actually has a contract and this is stipulated in it.
I don't think you understand the arguments people are making.

Your inner ear does not experience any acceleration in your example, which is what is required to avoid sickness. What's happening relative to the surface of the treadmill doesn't matter, the acceleration of your inner ear does, and that's not changing.
> Everyone could see what it's like having "front row" seats at a basketball game.

More realistically, you'll get nosebleed seats on a basic subscription, and courtside if you pay a premium. I don't see why businesses wouldn't apply typical pricing arrangements to VR, even if there's no scarcity involved.
Seems like a spin off of five.js

https://github.com/jackdcrawford/five
Cool article, absolutely annoying CSS theme - as I tend to scroll back a little the title bar is jiggling in and out all the time. A number of sites uses this and this is SOOO distracting.
I think that's the point the parody is making. A simple "piece" of code can have thousands of edge cases that a normal developer doesn't think about. That's the advantage of the UNIX-style "everything does one thing and does it well" philosophy that Node mirrors.
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Perhaps you misunderstood the Chief; CBT is the gold standard for treating anxiety-related disorders. See this meta-analysis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263389/
From the team at TrueVault, a GitHub repo with a developer's guide to HIPAA compliance. Similar to Aptible, they pitch themselves within the guide but still a good resource:

https://github.com/truevault/hipaa-compliance-developers-gui...
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There's a HUGE difference between depression/anxiety the symptom, and major depressive disorder.

For those with an hour to kill, Robert Sapolsky has a wonderful, accessible lecture on the topic[1].

1.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
Something is wrong with your cert
:) The question was how to get out of bed.
As expected. The FBi just wanted some media attention as far as I believe it to be