skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is an implementation of "Flow Based Programming", right?

pretty much.... just without a GUI. My inspiration was method chaining [1] and the first implementation was this [2].

[1] http://martinfowler.com/articles/collection-pipeline/

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12172934/method-chaining-...
Yes it can be legitimate but it's my belief that true "Communication" issues are not that difficult to address.

Such as, the team is all over the place you need to do daily standups to get everyone on the same page.

Once the actual issue is defined if the person then does not take simple steps to improve "communication" then at that point they are more in the category of insubordinate, incompetent etc.
I believe the problem with Mark lies in the fact that to many of us he hasn’t build anything substantial. Sure, from a technical point of view Facebook is spectacular. Other than that it’s a boring place adding no value whatsoever to the Internet. There’s nothing innovative about it. He’s isn’t solving any kind of problem. Compared to other giants of our industry he seems dull and irrelevant. And so does his vision.
Why hasn't this guy donned all black and put this piece for sale in a swanky gallery for $1mil? It's the perfect blend of art and social commentary, and beautiful to boot!
> Few people would find this to be an unsatisfactory proof that the nth triangular number is equal to the total number of pairings of n+1 objects:

I accept it as a proof for the specific case, but it took me quite a while to understand what was going on. I definitely can't tell whether it generalizes to arbitrary sizes this way. Maybe if I had a look at all frames at once I could notice a pattern, but the constant movement is really distracting.
Which one, please elaborate.

I've seen Ford shorthand system which replaces alphabets with easier to write variants. It could also be used to write faster and provides some obscurity from the uninitiated.

http://www.fordshorthand.com/
If you're going to mount a defense you can't break procedure as though you committed a huge mistake. The cynic in me thinks that the officer was hoping the victim would die in a haze of his own confusion and self-preservation.
> “There’s this strange belief that you can’t build a mobile app if you don’t know the truth about what happened in Tiananmen Square,”

I think people want to find out what happened in the Tiananmen Square for other reasons than "wanting to build a mobile app".
Your user page claims you're an 'all around cheerful human being', but this comment has determined that to be a lie.
I like to ask things like, "If you could change one thing about the company engineering practices, what would it be?"

The answers can be telling. If they give an answer like, like, "I wish we would adopt $random_programming_language." That, to me, indicates a fairly healthy organization, because this is just one guy's technical preference.

If they give an answer like, "We need need to stop thrashing", that gives a different picture.

If they say, "Nothing at all", you need to run, because they can't think critically about themselves.

If they use pronouns like "them" and "they" instead of "us" and "we", then the interviewer doesn't feel like part of the team.
The odds of SpaceX ever getting that far were tiny. There's a standard saying in aerospace: if you want to make a small fortune in the business, start with a large fortune.
I'm interested in what that would be. From a northern European perspective, we have strong cultural ties to the US (given that we were part of the whole colonization thing). Yet there are politicians there that question women's rights to abortions quite seriously, argue from the basis of religious rather than scientific conviction, oppose music and art and vaccinations and climate science on the same grounds that I find to be culturally much closer to hard line Islamic clerics than the culture in my immediate vicinity. So I'm not really sure if you can define that cultural cluster in a way that a majority the people in it would accept it.
Very true, I'd wager that a significant portion (20-30%) of all of the existing C/C++ codebase fits this description.
please please do it!
I generally end up on upwork.com if I am looking for hire someone.
OK, we've moved your comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12137751) to the parent comment you were quoting from, and will detach this one so it doesn't distract from the discussion.
> The only drawback I see with triangle notation is there's no obvious way to type it on a single line.

Definitely a valid complaint, although nth-root and log-base-b are already poor for typing on a single line.
Maybe, maybe not. Plenty of VPN providers are in places within the reach of US law enforcement, and it only takes one slip up to expose yourself.
It's not a Facebook only service, includes Google, Wikipedia, etc. and is sponsored by a consortium of companies.

One bizarre consequence of zero rating limitations is that in Angola people started attaching pirated content to Wikipedia articles to create free filesharing.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-zero-facebook-fre...
If you come pick it up it can be yours for the low low price of a cool half mil. But seriously, I'm just dipping my toes into this whole artist thing, I definitely don't know how to navigate the gallery/sales world. Right now I just like making shit, maybe one day I'll try to make some money doing it.
I do appreciate the effort to protect everyone's constitutional right. I wish best of luck to the pursuit.

However, I feel like there is something very very wrong about method and intention of this type of actions/complains.

One thing always bugs me about Americans: despite the liberties that they enjoy, despite the very real capacity to impact change in their government and laws, they all hate "the Government." Who is "the Government"? Wait, ain't them the very candidates that you the people vote into offices?

Like this idea of "suing the US government." Who are you suing? The executive branch? Why are you suing them? This is over a law. It's a piece of legislation. The executive branch merely, you know, execute the laws. Why not sue Congress? Oh wait, why sue Congress when you can simply vote them out of office? Oh wait, why "stop enforcing" the laws when you can, you know, CHANGE the laws?

This kinda reminds me of the libertarians' ideas of obstruction of legislation so that "the government does not spend more." If not spending is the right thing to do, why not educate people that. Even if one believes that 47% of the population is "takers," 53% is still a majority. So teach, advocate, change minds. But no, they prefer to obstruct their country, risk the centuries of their national reputation, put t heir fellow citizens to starvation. You know, if this happens in schoolyards, we probably call it "bullying." But if a bunch of libertarians do it, it's "principles."

Obviously, I agree with the plaintiff here. However, the method is still wrong. And different from above, there are very few "takers" here. Mostly, it's faceless businesses that (let's be frank here) few people like. So why not take the high road? Why not educate your fellow citizens on the danger of the laws? Why not change minds? Why not raise money for candidates who will change the laws appropriately?

In short: why not be a citizen rather than a rebel? Why not change the system for the better rather than obstruct it? Why not make your society/country a better place rather than simply fight it?
Why do you think that? I'm trying hard to think of something that would make it go the way of Friendster.
Simple != easy
Watch Exit Through the Gift Shop and be inspired, or disgusted, then wealthy!

This is awesome work, really cool concept and fantastic execution.
That makes little sense. There's no vendor lock-in and SpaceX has no inherent advantage over its competitors, just a greater willingness to push ahead, try new things, and relentlessly streamline. The moment one of the incumbents decides to start imitating them, or some other billionaire with an interest in space (<cough>Bezos</cough>) starts their own version, they'll have competition again, if competition even went away in the first place.
then store your phone in a Faraday cage like you have in your kitchen (probably)
No, that's just not true. The best estimates of all illegal immigration are that it is close to net zero. (http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/aug/28/jeb...).
So get there a little early, and ask to use the restroom. Or ask to use it on your way out.
Interestingly in the paper they address this somewhat for alternatives they discarded. Since they are proposing an introspection engine it should also drown-out the mic and cover the cameras. But then you still have the shock sensor that could record steps. I'm really inclined that a true power switch with introspection engine to verify things are really off is a better approach.
This flips your question on its head a bit, but are you going into this offer excited to try and get the teams to work better together, or because you want a role leading teams that are already working really well?

If you expect to inherit fully functional teams I think you're probably not going to enjoy the gig. If, however, you're excited about the chance to get a group of developers firing on all cylinders again then perhaps this is the right job for you.

If you want to ask a question, I'd ask what challenge they have experienced to date linking these teams together to get them working well. What specific things do they expect you to try and fix and improve, etc. I'd also ask how, as leaders at the company, they stay aware of how things are going, touchpoints, etc.

Key symptom for a lot of issues at a company tends to be a lack of transparency (at least this has been my experience). Asking questions that get to employee engagement, involvement, and feedback processes can be good signals of transparency or potential issues.
Got me thinking: As an argument, 1201 is an ecological threat and single point of failure. Most copyright media is a petroleum byproduct...
Yes, the amazing thing about that incident isn't that it happened, it's the number of simultaneous failures required for it to happen.

And even in the face of so many failures, there was only a very close call, rather than a full incident. That seems like a pretty good outcome to me.

The system could still use improvement, sure, but it is still pretty darn good.
Worry less about "organizational health" and more about "organizational fit".

"Healthy" can mean different things to different people. Some employees care primarily about work/life balance, and being able to sneak out early on Fridays to hit the slopes. (I'm looking at you, entire state of Colorado.) Others want a high-pressure, high-reward environment, where their colleagues live up to the same high standards they expect of themselves. (cough Amazon cough)

So rather than trying to find a place which is healthy, find somewhere which is healthy for you; with a culture which reflects your values, benefits which support your lifestyle and leaders who help you grow.

No company is a perfect employer and no person a perfect employee, but that doesn't mean there doesn't exist perfect relationships.
I am living on savings while I figure out the next step.

I have coffee and a croissant while reading a book everyday at roughly 10am, then meals at 1pm, 4pm, and 9pm, and sleep from roughly 1am to 9am. Funny question :)
... or a homeowner, or a rent controlled tenant, etc.

Politicians are NIMBY only because they know voters are.
Still, that would light up your data usage like a christmas tree.
I doubt very much that you could do it with a 3d print at all. Even direct casts from fingerprints have proved difficult to use to defeat the scanner. I don't think a 3d print would have the necessary resolution.
Chinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial
> Touchwood. Back in early 2000s, a lot of people laughed at the idea of Mandarin being taught in schools.

I don't think that's actually true. In fact, I remember in the early 2000s a lot of people were telling students that they should learn Mandarin because it would be easy for them to find a good paying job if they did. For the most part, this seems to have been very poor advice.
And yet in the US look at any prescription drug ad, where there's this ugly extended component of the ad that details dozens of possible issues, which to your logic would be the job of the physician (and I agree), not the advertising.
You have to admit there's a huge difference between one or two people on a plot of land doing something, vs getting a plot of land and trying to bring 20,000 people onto it.
I don't know, VC is all about high-risk/high-reward, but there are differences of degree. A rocket company is rather higher risk and lower reward than the typical VC fodder.

Even if it was VC worthy, throwing all your money into two companies like that, when you're already rich, is not the sort of thing you'd see from someone motivated by money. The whole point of VC investing is to invest a little money in a lot of them to even out the risk.
While we’re in the topic of books about worldwide connectivity may I suggest Mitchel’s” e-topia” [1]. Oldie but goodie. It describes connectivity from an architectural point of view promoting a vision about connected cities that shares a lot of commonalities with IoT, only it was written 15 years before the term became mainstream.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/e-topia-Urban-Life-Jim-Know-ebook/dp/...
GP is not saying mixins solve that problem, they are saying that it further obfuscates where the method is being delegated to. You have to search all the mixins to see who defines the method you are looking for.
Or a homeowner.
Still learning about this, but couldn't you:
1. Sign a cookie.
2. Store revocations in a database (remove after session expiry time).
3. Use a distributed bloom filter to avoid db hits for every request.
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That is answered in their about page. [0]

[0] - https://lobste.rs/about
>Is Zuckerberg really all that influential?

Yes.
Isn't that device a Faraday cage?

And if you are in war zone - using a phone with removable battery is absolutely mandatory IMO.
Okay, let's run with your counter argument.

In 2015, BMW sold 463000 cars in China, and 346000 cars in the USA. This was not the first year that China was BMW's largest market.

Last year was the first year that China was the largest market for Mercedes and Porsche. America was the second largest market for both companies.

http://www.best-selling-cars.com/china/2015-full-year-german...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bmw-group-us-reports...
> Should a chemist be able to manufacture patented pharmaceuticals in his garage simply because he/she knows the procedure?

Yes, he should. As long as he doesn't sell the patented chemicals it should not be a violation.
Facebook adds "no value whatsoever"? One billion people every day would disagree with you.

Facebook is the primary method that billions of people across the world use to stay in touch with family and friends. It's one of the most important pieces of my life and something I come back to almost every single day.

And no, I've never worked there nor will I ever. I don't own a single share of FB stock. I'm just a user who appreciates the value of what he uses, or at the very least, can appreciate the value that other people get out of a product that I myself may never use.
> Talk to as many people as you can at the company, especially people who aren't in leadership positions.

Solid advice, do try to connect with the junior & overseas staff. Listen to the substance of their answers. Is it an "Us" and "Them" corporate culture?

Areas to explore: Ask, What are things that the group does well and should keep doing? What are some things you'd like to change? What is it you're afraid a new leader might do? Anything else they'd like to discuss?
What? The advertisements or the play itself? If you are attributing the play itself to the presidential race, I think you are mistaken, because the play was in development long before the Romney was a candidate, and is by the creators of South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone), which have often featured the Mormon religion in their works[1].

1: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124819/

2: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705893/
>In order for you to be a 'True Believing Mormon' you would not be able to embark on a project as large as creating Zion/New Jerusalem without the express permission/mandate from the first presidency. Anything outside of this would make you an apostate in their eyes. I don't necessarily subscribe to all of that but the rules are clear within the church proper.

I don't think this is correct. Everyone is a participant in creating the New Jerusalem insofar as they working to make themselves and those around them more heavenly.

The physical buildings and structure are practically an afterthought. They'll come into being once the people who can live there exist. I don't believe that there will be a call out or a "project" embarked upon per se; I know a lot of Mormons expect the prophet to say "We're going to Missouri" out of the blue one day, but I don't think it will happen that way. Even in Joseph Smith's day, when proclamations along those lines did occur, the process was long and gradual, and ultimately used to facilitate the journey out to the Saints' settling place in Utah. Saints who expected immediate redemption were quickly and repeatedly disappointed. It will be the same way with the New Jerusalem. It will be built gradually, almost without being noticed.

I believe the people will continue improving, begin by happenstance to converge in the appointed place, and the city will spring up around it (this is especially plausible if you believe other End Times revelation that indicates people will be forced to flee most populated places). Temples will be built to accommodate the population. Eventually the Church will move HQ there. Around this time there may be a formal call or encouragement for people to come out to the center place in a reasonable, orderly manner, as they're able.

Yes, the Priesthood has to be involved to a certain extent, but that part will occur automatically as the people qualify. We already see that with temple building; the First Presidency designates places for new temples if they believe the Saints are qualified to care for one. The same pattern will be followed here. As the people in this place improve, the Law of Consecration will begin to be practiced, the people's hearts will be prepared, and the Church will facilitate it within its existing structure by expanding the relevant bishopric's responsibilities to the full breadth of their scriptural mandate.

So yes, the Priesthood has to be there to provide some of the edifices and oversee some of the practices. But it will be there once the people are ready, and it's not going to happen all at once.

The only way that anyone can actually work to build Zion is to make themselves, and work to influence those around them to be, worthy to live there.

I'm as TBM as they come, so if you have contradictory evidence, I'd be interested in reviewing it.
I need to find a gif from this scene in Flash Gordon 1980:

http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/fla...

Perhaps more apt:

http://api.ning.com/files/bFPh39OVQGutOnwuJRXsBubBr1Jq6O1mbb...
>Is this purely a lack of training, or is it idiocy?

Both. Why would someone even have their weapon pointed at a non-hostile person instead of in a safe direction in case of a negligent discharge? That shows a staggering lack of training and forethought.
Poor phrasing on my part. What I meant is to have an OS section and then discuss Linux and OS X as the two main options or mention OS X as an alternative, if Linux is the OS he intends to promote in the section. He could also mention non-Darwin BSD.
This is an awesome question. What sort of responses have you seen from this? Do most folks have a quick answer or do you get some thought? As an interviewer, I'm not sure I would ever expect a question like this.
Korea did it, Taiwan did it, Thailand is doing it. The USA did it in the 1800s (see previous comment from me).
That assumes people are speaking all the time -- the onboard processor can in fact translate most of the speech into text you know.
You want us to render advice that covers several legal specialties which converge between state, federal, tax, business, and immigration law, which if wrong, could result in a denial of a visa and untold aggrivation to your business partners? In addition, you want us to tell you the secret on how to found a company that will become a unicorn?

You are an F-1, so you are forbidden from working as statatory employee (immigration law + employement law), except as OPT. You are forbidden from forming a single-member Sub S corporation (tax law). However, there isn't any reason why you can't act as a sole proprietor or single member LLC (depending on state law regarding LLCs). While this violates the spirit of the law, as long as you declare your income on a Schedule C the IRS (tax law) won't care. You will not be able be an employee of the company, but you should be able to take a draw or distribution. If you go this route, should should reserve 30% of everything you make to pay taxes and be prepared to pay estimated quarterly taxes.

If you plan on holding accounts overseas, you need to find a CPA that understands the requirements for reporting foreign holdings. You really need to be asking a good attorney along with an even better accountant, and be prepared to pay for their advice.
That maybe true, and Gates seems to be doing some good stuff. But these mega-capitalists are generally destroying the world with their right hands and trying to clean it up with the left.
It's trivial to get a job and a work visa. If you just wanna go work there for a bit and go back home - go for it.

But if want to get legit stock options, start a startup or generally settle down then forget about it. You will be legally discriminated against. Not worth it.
> karma ain't gonna pay the rent

My StackOverflow profile helped me get a new job with a good payrise. It's also helped me a better developer.

I'm absolutely ok with them making a profit, and they're a hell of a lot more ethical and useful than what went before them.
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The parent argument is that the magic words we should stop using are "what if". So let's stop the qualitative pontification and have a quantitative discussion of cost vs. benefit for various parties.
Because more things will make then happier!
Just to clarify, I am not saying Google wasn't better at that time. It's just that subjectively they weren't better for the queries I tried. They might have been a little bit better, but kept improving until a point where other search engines can't keep up anymore.
That's because the character now called "Mark Zuckerberg" is completely different from the human man named Mark Zuckerberg.

The fact that they apparently share the same edifice and orifice is a reasonable source of confusion, but nobody should be under the illusion that "Mark Zuckerberg" and Mark Zuckerberg are the same thing.
It's like that for other skills too, like how to write a proof. I guess it is assumed that you will simply assimilate it with time, but I have met students in their third year who still struggled with e.g. properly introducing variables.
It's overkill by a whole dimension; fingerprints are 2D.
I knew that would be response, but a tiny handful of token free sites don't help. It's either the internet or it isn't. And guess what: it's not.

It's impossible to overstate just how bad it would be to allow Facebook to define what is and isn't "the internet" for billions of people. I'm continuously stunned that anyone would defend their efforts in this area.
The guy in the cube next to you in the USA is probably making twice your salary now. Does that bother you?
Also, CPU tasks like authenticating a message are cheap to scale horizontally. A cache is a centralized bottleneck.