skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

Seems like 5 seconds is a good threshold to determine if someone is going to stay or move along - I assume they rigorously got to this number.

I suppose the next question would be can you correlate the enabling of sound to that 5 second metric, and if so, what is the difference in engagement?

I only wonder further because dialing in ad engagement, especially as it relates to seconds of interactions, is a really interesting way to determine value of these ad plays.
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Out of curiosity, am I supposed to take an entire week of PTO in order to undergo such an interview process while currently employed? Because I can't really think of a single company I'd be willing to do that for.
I guess I'm having trouble seeing the use-case for having large enough shell scripts to require splitting them up into modules.

What types of functions do you write in shell that you need to re-import?
That's great of you to offer as a candidate. However, from the interviewer's side, I can't ask candidates to do this. The people I want to hire are already busy. They don't have a whole week to devote to my interview process. Not even if I pay them for it.
It can be disabled and you should use is. Saves a ton of data and speeds up for device.
Wait, I don't get it.

The blog post explains what's happening but not the why. How could HTTPS possibly lower ad revenue? What is the mechanism?
Yes, because of it's superior networking stack
I got hooked on ZType for a while... then I went full crazy and discovered that there's just enough game state left accessible in the global scope in order to be able to make the game... um, play itself.

It looks absolutely ridiculous at level 60+. :D

EDIT: Doh, I completely forgot to ask - what litle side things are you working on? I'm curious.
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It's hard to get lost if you don't have anywhere you need to be.
doesn't reddit run on cassandra? it certainly used to.
>Instead of a coding interview, I'll make a counter offer. Why not hire me on a 1 week contract to come and do some real world work. Work that is small enough to be done in 1 week and big enough to deliver some value.

Except now I have to jump through hoops with HR (let's just assume they'd be OK with this, which they almost certainly won't), get the contract in place, work with IT to get your environment set up, and bring you up to speed (so really I may get one full day of actual work)... just to realize that I don't want to hire you. Oh, and did I find you through a recruiter? Now I have to pay them a cut. Do I now get to run this little bureaucratic maze for all N candidates I'm looking at? You have become a very expensive interview across at least three departments and you're probably not worth it.

Sorry, but no. I do ask for some whiteboard coding, but it can be done in any language (or pseudo code) and I'm really only trying to tease out your thought process. For a junior or mid level position, yes; I am also trying to figure out if you can write a line of code. I'm also not sure how you're going to be able to get away from your current job for an entire week (I have literally never interviewed a candidate who wasn't fresh out of college who was unemployed at the time).

I agree that it can be a pain, but there aren't always better ways to measure your ability to take a problem and turn the solution into an algorithm.
> Why are you choosing Cassandra every time?

Linear horizontal scaling (double capacity? double # of nodes), no SPOF, Active/Active/Active cross-WAN HA.

> And what's your refutation for his desire to use MySQL over some other database, from his point of view as presented in the article (e.g. availability of support via Google/SO)?

Hire people that can learn DB internals and be the expert you want to see in the world: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:4774369+[cassandra]
> We learnt that not all advertisers that place bids through the Google ads system support HTTPS, resulting in fewer ad impression bids and lower overall ad revenue.
> presumably until its copyright expires or copyright laws change.

Then what's the point? The whole point of Sci-hub is to distribute copyrighted papers, "archive" would be inaccessible until it is useless.
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Sure. It is a fallacy that one can provide me an objective definition of Christianity or any religion in that regard.
>>They exist because there are universal and fundamental structures...

This is what Is-Ought is negating. We can't observe a Fact ("Is") and conclude a Value/Moral Fact ("Ought"). Your observance of structures falls under "Is".
To add on to that: science is based on philosophy, and philosophy also tells us where the limits of science are (see: Problem of Induction).

By using the scientific method, scientists are taking a strong philosophical stance (and certainly not a universal one) whether they like it or not.
This is how Android and content permissions work. It's totally possible to take a picture without permission to access the camera, and to share a contact without granting access to all contacts.

Many apps choose not to use this functionality, because they want to own the UX for contact picking or taking a picture, and most users don't know about the privacy difference between sharing a Uri with a grant permission flag, and granting access to contacts.
I'm sorry I don't really understand what Andl could be used for, and wikipedia in English and German doesn't contain anything (ddg has as first hit "paraphilic infantilism"?!), so I will ask here.

Is Andl only for stored procedures?

If so why would it be better than say python?

If I were to choose, I'd prefer a lispier SQL with support for the basic things like map, filter, reduce, ... Is there something alike?

If not, why?

UPDATE: Nevermind, I just found the other links (quite small on top of the headline), so most things are explained.

However, the article suggests people use python or perl for queries instead of SQL. Did anyone see this in production (apart from Stored Procedures)?
I'd rather not over reddit. any other options?
Probably a trie, although tries are sometimes implemented with dictionaries.
That book has a wonderful point, it just doesn't express it very concisely. I don't blame the author for this though, since I don't think we actually have the language to express that kind of stuff concisely.
I think this is really great advice. This mindset was critical for me to finally start finishing up my side projects. For me, working by myself, 'Choose the tech I know best' is more applicable (although that generally happens to be the boring tech anyway.) But 'stick to the boring tech' is probably much better if you need to eventually start hiring employees. In my experience, technology stacks change drastically as a company gets bigger.

That said, as always, YMMV. Using cutting edge technology certainly has its place. There's just a learning and maintenance curve to account for that can often get in the way of releasing and running your MVP. But if you've taken that into account, it could be fine for your startup.
As a fresh grad, Norfair / Syd gets the worst treatment from employers and recruiters. For example, hardly anyone would get away with making a senior hire fill in a hundred fields in an applicant management system -- recruiters are expected to perform that function.

It's the nastiest job search you'll ever have. With some luck, it'll never be like this again.
I've used Filemaker Server to host it's web interface. I probably wouldn't use it again, but I didn't know of any simple self-hosted alternatives at the time.
> Since weather forecasts have predictable content and format (and are thus easier to decrypt),

You can't tell the format from the encrypted data though, right? Would you not have to know apriori what this message was in order to make use of this particular weakness?
Most programmers already know how to win the coding interview. You simply have to solve problems, at the same time trying to evaluate your next boss (or at least the kind of people who work there) by the level of insanity they generate during the interview. If the coding style in the company disagrees from yours too much, it's a good thing they won't hire you, so no problem there.

The tough thing is to pass the HR interview, with dozens of idiotic questions and no way to answer them correctly except having googled the answer to each particular question beforehand.
Doesn't Google use a large corpus of documents along with machine learning/statistical analysis to do spelling and grammar checking? The same way they do language translation.
"A question arises, should you be able to ask the car, "why did you just stop short?" and receive an answer?"

I can't get that answer from my horse, but he has the common sense to stop before getting into trouble. Mammals with 99% DNA commonality with humans can run their lives successfully but can't talk. If we can get to good mammal-level AI performance, we should understand how to get to human. Right now, we're still having trouble getting to lizard level. Even OpenWorm [1] isn't working yet.

[1] http://www.openworm.org/
Still got a way to go, but catching up with the CPython moving target fast.

I hope they can get there and, assuming the end result is better, navigate the technical and political challenges replacing CPython as standard. Adoption will remain low unless that happens because CPython is still excellent for most use cases.
If you use a bucket sort, your time complexity could be O(max(n,k)) and space O(k) where k is the size of the character set and n is the length of the string. Depending on the relationship between n and k, this could be faster than n log n. (But the pointers solution or even comparing against a reversed string seems better for both time and space.)

Also, your solution is poor since it only tells you that a string is _not_ a palindrome in certain cases but cannot tell with certainty that a string is a palindrome. For example, 'aabb' will pass your test but is not a palindrome.
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As pointed out, Ethereum is not infinite, thus not a Turing machine, and therefore does not exhibit a "halting problem".

There's a limit to the number of "cycles" spent on each program in proportion to how much funding they have. It's like a smaller version of the halting problem where you only have to say if a program will halt in five seconds or not.

Turing machines are a theoretical construct, be careful when trying to reason about the real world based on them.
I've been at a really bad interview where the interviewer wanted me to sit at a computer, for a limited time, and answer a bunch of mathematical questions with the help of writing a program.

I was pretty nervous before my interview since it was one of my first ever. I had studied a lot before hand since the company used languages I didn't really know. I could not sleep the night before (mostly for other reasons as well) so I was pretty exhausted when I got there. There was no internet connections on the machine and each question built on the one before so if you failed one you pretty much failed the entire thing.

The whole test was a big hit for my imposter plexus and I'm never going to repeat that mistake. I feel like I have the experience and references that I do not need to prove it on a whiteboard. I don't want to and if you require me to, I'm probably not going to work for you.

The funny thing is, years later the same interviewer tried to add me on LinkedIn and it felt awesome to ignore that.
Author here, thanks for the comment!

While this is an interesting read (and NTMs are great), it is not particularly relevant to the model I describe or this paper.

I think you are misunderstanding my generality of my paper: I am not discussing a particular method of deep learning. I am using the idea of gradient descent as an metaphor for the field of AI, itself.

As described in the second paragraph of the "Gradient Descent" section, this analogy is not high dimensional. In fact, it is only three dimensional: distance the field is from General AI, time, and a hypothetical "method of attack".
You don't want to pay 10 people for a week. You want to pay one person at a time over a 10 week stretch. That way, you can evaluate each candidate independently and hire the best one. This is undoubtedly a better approach than doing a bunch of coding interviews, so you should have a strong incentive to make sure you have the resources for it. After all, you want to minimize the risk of hiring mediocre people and maximize the chances of hiring really good people, right? The latter will pay for themselves tenfold.
I always keep the sound off, mainly because I read facebook in bed next to my significant other when I can't sleep. I don't want to wake her up blaring some cat video.
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Not at all. Let's examine this point by point (I'm taking great care here because personally I want to help Snowden supporters make a compelling case)

- You should use the most effective word, not the most satisfying word.

- You won't push anybody away by telling the truth, you push people away by being too emotional and appearing unreliable (e.g. exhibiting all-or-nothing thinking, and using emotionally-charged language that impedes logic)

- Lots of people trust the media (~40%) [1].

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/185927/americans-trust-media-rema...
To start conversation in OCaml,

let is_palindrome str = str = String.rev str ;;

(function is_palindrome will return true or false for input str )
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HN does, because pg and rtm liked it from way back, we inherited it, and it works well.
This article was about what stack to use for a startup and reddit is certainly no longer a startup. Tech stacks definitely change to adapt to its needs, at some point a company should be trying out cutting edge stuff. But the stack a 100 person company is capable of maintaining is very different than what a 3 person company can handle.
I'm sorry, but can you walk me there? I know very little about how Google ads work.

If I buy an ad from Google, I supply my own URL, which can be http or https, and if my site is https it can't display the http ad?
I heard that Google had to rename some CSS names on their ad management portal (that understandably had names that began with "ad") to unbreak it when Google customers using adblockers were trying to manage their own ad accounts.
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What if I want to be the product? I could pay for Visual Studio Enterprise/Ultimate or whatever, or just accept that my usage is being tracked by MS. As long as they aren't being so egregious as to send the contents of my files, or sending over an unencrypted connection, I don't see why the makers of the product, offering it for free, can't track basic data.
Are there any papers, descriptions, or examples you could point to that exemplify the architecture that you think makes the most sense for SSDs?

Also, I was sad to see that SpaceCurve appears to be gone! I was about to recommend it to a friend as a potential solution to her spatial database needs. Can we hope that you are trying to continue the concept under different structure?
Looking at the text of the law, it always uses "remove, or disable access to" or similar language: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512
If I'm working in my ideal work environment, the problem we are trying to solve is too complex to understand fully within a week.
The law is not valid a basis of ethics.
Most wall calendars I have seen follows this "Möbius double-sided" pattern.
Good to see Haxe in here. You can do way more sophisticated things in Haxe (and target js, cpp, java, etc.), but it looks like the author intentionally keeps things simple:
https://github.com/abagames/mgl
Can you explain a bit more? I'd like to know what the serious drawbacks are of the "turn every column into an index" model, how the random access properties of SSDs change the situation, and what you mean by "vector-structured storage".
I agree. Run Charles Proxy on their free trial for 15 minutes with the OS X proxy turned on and find out what your Mac is really sending out and taking in. Then buy it because it's an incredible tool that proves extremely useful when debugging your own work!
Dr Evelyn Forget? She should be an archivist or a librarian.
same with pornhub I guess ;)
This is awesome. Its like an amputee au pair.
Yes because it has lower response latency and performs about 12-15% better than Ubuntu on top of much lower CPU and RAM usage on AWS for hosting the same nodejs apps.
Ultimately I believe my position is as knowable as many things. But as you notice, the wider point is that anytime we believe that humans have objective value or that it is objectively wrong to, say, murder a human, we have departed from strict Empiricism (and like Sagan and Hitchens said "that which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence"). Regardless, humans of all beliefs and backgrounds, including Atheist Secular Humanists, ignore this and make the departure whether they will admit to doing so or not. Believing and declaring that humans have value when we have no scientifically-accepted empirical evidence that humans actually do is part of the beauty of humanity.
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Yes, because it is a great platform to learn system administration. First, it's so simple that eg. it takes only few lines to automate installation or create a customised internal repository. Second, the documentation.

edit. And oh yes, the memory usage of the default installation is so low, that you can virtualize dozens of them on your laptop. This helps when you want to locally reproduce the stack you run in cloud.
++n; // don't touch this unless you know what you are doing
What is disturbing about this is that Hume or any other philosopher is popular because people today agree with him. There were other philosophers who lived during Hume's lifetime, but they are not popular. Why? Because people today don't agree with them. So, what is popular from the past are things or philosophers that have similar views of people today.

Basically, we like Hume, because he confirms what we already believe.

If Christianity was very dominant, then Hume would not be as popular.

What this shows you is that idols are not chosen by looking whether they have anything insightful or true to say, but how well they conform to current dogmas.
Yes, because pf is how a firewall should work.
It should be disabled by default. Absolutely the most obnoxious thing about FB.
They're not offering it for free then, they're offering it in exchange for your data, and that should be made clear when you make that transaction. You can't have a fair economic exchange when one party is deceived about what the costs are to them.
My FB videos don't auto-play. There is a play button displayed in a still. I'm glad it doesn't auto-play, but am curious why I don't observe this.
There is so much beyond AAA these days, probably more people associate playing games with candy crush or minecraft than the latest generic military FPS or racing game.
You can create whatever structure you want. There's no reason (other than that it doesn't make good financial sense) that you couldn't sell special preferred tokens, etc.
And you'll notice that the law was very clear that truth was not a defense to libel. Evidence of truth wasn't even admissible in court, because it wasn't relevant to whether libel had been committed.

Zenger's lawyer explicitly asked in court for jury nullification. That he got it didn't change the law.
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Link for the lazy: http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/d...

It's really useful in fighting against all these distractions (I should probably re-read it every few months though :(
Great list but I'm surprized about the De Bono books. Edward De Bono is a great story-teller, but there's little science in his work and while he describes many instances of creative thought, he never shows the underlying mechanisms with any rigor.
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Is this the mechanism responible?

http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences...
Browsers do not allow content that is delivered over HTTP to be loaded in sites that use HTTPS. If your site wants to display an ad, Google figures out who is willing to pay the most for the spot and includes content from that ad buyer in your site. If your site uses HTTPS, Google can only choose between ad buyers that provide their ads over HTTPS, since those using HTTP wouldn't be displayed.
Yes and I've upvoted all the posts with opinions I agree with as well.
The last straw for me were the huge conflicts with science and Jehovah's Witnesses literal interpretation of the Bible:

- Adam & Eve vs DNA & archeology: JW's believe Adam was created about 6000 years ago, 4026 BC to be exact [1] and he was the root of humankind.
- The Genesis flood narrative: JW's believe that all known kinds of animals survived a worldwide flood in 2370 BC [2], in a boat made from wood.
- Destruction of Jerusalem (607BC vs 587BC): JW's use the wrong date 607BC [3] as a base of a dooms day prophecy, which is supposed to point to 1914 but streched and streched over time. Still waiting.

During the research of these things, I noticed quite some manipulative writings in their literature, presenting only the facts they agree with and misrepresenting the others. They also misquote and twist the words of scientists A LOT! [4]

Another thing was there their involvement with the UN. For an outsider this might look as a none issue, so let me clarify. This is what JW's are teached about the UN:

"No, the UN is not a blessing, even though the religious clergy
of Christendom and the rabbis of Jewry pray heaven’s blessing
upon that organization. It is really “the image of the wild beast,”
the visible political, commercial organization of “the god of
this system of things,” Satan the Devil. So the UN will soon be
destroyed along with that beastly organization."
Watchtower 1984 Sep 15 p.15

"The United Nations is actually a worldly confederacy against
Jehovah God and his dedicated Witnesses on earth."
Watchtower 1987 Sep 1 p.20

But the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (this is how the JW organisation is officially called) joined the UN as an NGO and signed their charter, telling them they agreed with their ideas. [5]
That's being dishonest and hypocrite about what they teach and what they do.

I could continue for a while, but you get the idea :)

[1] http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000089#h=7

[2] http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200001150#h=2

[3] http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011736 and http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011810

[4] http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/misquotes-deception-lies.p...

[5] http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/united-nations-association...
You have been able to split strings in t-sql forever. The link you are referring to splits a string by a delimiter and returns the result as a table.

I've also used CLRs in production since SQL Server 2005. Not sure which circles you run in, but it's quite different than what I've seen. I also use Service Broker, so maybe I'm just an odd duck?!