skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Part of me is curious as to what led him to believe that's an acceptable thing to do to someone else's property

He doesn't think it's acceptable. The issue is he doesn't care. i.e. he doesn't pay attention. He doesn't think about it. He just does what "feels good", and wonders later why people won't loan things to him.

Yes, I've met people like this, too.
I am French, I drew the circle clockwise.

I then asked my wife and she asked "left hand OK?", and drew it counterclockwise. I then realized that I would draw it counterclockwise with my left hand as well.

When asked to draw with her right hand, she drew it clockwise.

We are both right handed.
> Where do you see yourself in five years:

You know, in my 20+ years of experience, there isn't a single moment I could go back to where I could even fathom what I was going to be doing five years after that.
I'm 100% with you. Been getting into Smalltalk over the past year. Bought all the books, played with Pharo/Squeak/Cuis, listened to a ton of Kay lectures. Let me know if you come across anything especially interesting.
I suspect they'll turn it into Trader Joe's with delivery, not Wal-Mart.

Lower prices, lack of brand names. Think AmazonBasics, but for food. I wouldn't buy anything important off AmazonBasics, but for cables, shower speakers, and other minor things it's Good Enough.

If you had to choose between perfect, high quality produce and staples you drive to a physical store for, or decent (but not perfect) produce you can have delivered at the same (or lower) cost, which would you pick?
Maker/hacker spaces are communities, not companies - a well-run space will try to identify and filter out people with such a mindset. Not that these problems don't happen - but the whole benefit of such spaces is that they remove inefficiency in sharing stuff by assuming (and hopefully ensuring) that people will play nice.
I'm late to this conversation: happy to see such a robust discussion on mutt, but sad to see so many hardcore techies preferring gmail instead. To each their own, of course, but mutt is one of the things I love most about *nix platforms. I've got a chromebox that requires I use webmail (the Fastmail web client is really, good actually) but elsewhere, mutt is the only way I can handle email.

To the comment about mutt's poor addressbook support, you can use it with a CLI/CUI app called addressbook that's quite good, and you can interface with with other addressbook scripts to access carddav servers as well. I'm intrigued by the links to carddav support.

For me, the HTML email and calendar invite issues are trivial, and grossly outweighed by the efficiency I get with mutt by being able to select and act on huge amounts of mail at once. The threaded view is essential. In a pinch, I use sylpheed/claws or even Thunderbird. But after using mutt at home, going to work where I'm forced to use Outlook makes me want to claw my eyes out: in my opinion, Outlook has gotten worse every year, and is barely useable at this point.

Meanwhile in mutt, I can do things like "delete every message between dates X and Y and sent by person Z." It makes dealing with huge amounts of mail effortless. I also tire of editors, and cycle repeatedly through emacs, vim, slrn, and joe/jstar/jmacs - I love the flexibility. I combine it with Fastmail/IMAP, and wouldn't dream of going anywhere else. Gmail isn't for me: if it works for a lot of you, congrats - I'm past the point where I care about converting others to what I consider "the one true way." Just wanted to add to the conversation my opinion that the day they I can't use mutt for email is the day I stop emailing, period.
These are all very theoretical claims.
You can sort of do this with Emscripten + webasm, though I don't think async is supported yet.
Basically, yes. While for a lot of software, you can use backports to get a more recent version, this doesn't apply to software being part of the toolchain (gcc, python, ...) because it would affect the rest of the archive. o

You are left with third-party repositories until we come with another solution, like Ubuntu PPA.
Debian wiki says that backronym is incorrect.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#Which_Toy_Story_chara...
But of course they can only offer these prices because the wholesale prices for roaming are capped across the EU (this has been the case for a while now, they have now just reduced those rates further). If the UK operators wouldn't be able to benefit from the wholesale prices anymore, I doubt they could sustain this. Just look at Switzerland, where "all in" contracts with roaming in the EU will set you back around 70-90 CHF...
c.f.: https://github.com/rongarret/scache
"Change inventory": it's not the same food.
gpg key management, especially hooking into gpg-agent, seems like a feature, really.
The reason is the text of the questions, which is what people type into the Google search bar. Documentation never has questions worded in the way people would commonly ask it.

For this reason, I wish they would allow redundant questions to be asked, if the phrasing is even slightly different. But the rule-mongering mods always remove it if they can.
See also: http://yacy.net, free distributed search engine.
They have been dipping their toes into house-brand food goods in the past few years with their Happy Belly brand of stuff. I've generally been happy with it.
Chromium has an exception to always keep it up-to-date with the latest version. In Jessie, it was updated in the same week as for unstable.
Oh yeah?!? I see your "beaches" and raise you DIRP for real work.

* Debian

* Iron ( https://github.com/iron/iron )

* Rust

* Postgres

(Clojure, Redhat, Apache, Postgres is good too)
Perspectives on new work [pdf]
But health care although not free is heavily regulated and mandatory. Switzerland does have social help. And there is much less poverty. And most of the people living in poverty are not poor homeless poor. They just dont qualify because the avrage income is so big.

You cant compare it.
Same, I started at the pre-school math lessons and worked forward from there.

Progress is sporadic, due to having a newborn in the house, but patching all the holes in my math knowledge feels good.
Exactly.

It's not due to some Google-fu though. People ask questions (on SO) in the terms they think about problems. But documentation is written according to the structure of the thing being documented.

So SO ends up being a more direct mapping from problem to solution. Google simply captures what's there (in both cases). It's certainly good to consult the authoritative docs in many cases.
The way I understood it, the prices will be what they would be if you called from your home country. So calling another EU country from abroad would cost you the same as calling that other country from your home country.
A Real hipster programmer would use Fortran (and use arithmetic if statements) or PL1/G if they are lazy and want to handle text better.
Ha! That's interesting. As stated in an other comment, I drew the circle clockwise (I am French).

After reading your comment and imagining the circle as a big letter O, I draw it counterclockwise...

And then again, a neutral circle - again clockwise.
I'm sure he was more referring to the complete destruction of everything that was cool about Sun Microsystems when Oracle gobbled them up.
From [1], it sounds like it was issued at a time when today's near-real-time info on the value of the investments was unthinkable, not to mention the amount of time it would take to send and process requests for changes.

[1] http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/insurance/625262...
Never heard of it before this thread. Google tells me it's a Washington State thing. Is it available outside of Washington?
Those who don't understand why "Amazon is buying Whole Foods to compete with Wal-Mart" should read this:
http://loupventures.com/amazon-is-building-the-future-of-ret...

Amazon are not competing with just Wal-Mart. They want to redefine and compete in all categories of retail.
Also nativescript: https://www.nativescript.org/blog/a-new-vue-for-nativescript
Personally, I suspect it is because Amazon's most loyal online shopping demographic also has a very favorable opinion of Whole Foods. That and a confluence of business circumstances.
> That's a problematic attitude, in my view. It reads to me that you think you have all the answers already, or at the very least that you view yourself as being superior to people you interview. That lack of humility is troublesome for a number of reasons.

I would correct that (if I could still edit) to "direct immediate feedback". What I meant was, if someone I just turned down for a job says "it's stupid", I don't consider that useful data; similarly, if someone I just hired says "This is the best interview question ever", I don't consider that useful data either.

I do ask for, and usually get, direct and raw feedback from people I work with (both those who report to me and those I report to).

> As far as your interview question, do you normally not interview candidates to develop software? Your question is appropriate for a grunt who's entire responsibility is to thoughtlessly code up somebody else's design. It's not appropriate for someone expected to contribute thoughtfully to the engineering of a software product.

Can you elaborate on what you consider "contributing to the engineering of a software product"? and more generally what "software engineering" entails?

I mentioned as explicitly as I can that I do not expect anyone to reverse linked lists. However, it is an abstract question that is not unlike the kind of things that arise in practice, e.g. figure out inverse relationships in data. And gives a good ground for discussion about things like requirements (time, space, correctness, verifiability, boundary conditions, erroneous inputs, etc) -- inside a well defined and (supposedly) familiar context; The same problem in a business setting would require a lot more definitions and would be frighteningly foreign for some people (to digest within an interview).

How do you interview?
To be fair, bad naming choice
Why are you disturbed? It feels to me like a legitimate question.

Elephants are large herbivores, we are adept at raising large herbivores for meat and other products. Adding elephants to the list that contains cattle and horses is a logical step.
Bored Panda appear to have ripped off the original source wholesale .. wonder what is up with that.
> change inventory to lower prices

This strongly suggests it won't be the same food.
What about things that aren't owned by anyone in your social group, and are too expensive/rarely used to justify buying yourself? Say the chocolate fountain: no one really needs it bad enough to buy one, but if you can sell access to one for some small fraction of that cost it could become a reasonable expense. A similar logic can be applied to a table saw, or to a dremel, or to a soldering iron. This service removes circumstance and adds reliability to borrowing.

And maybe it does reflect something sad about socialization today, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful or good.
>'I’m an Uber and Lyft driver, I make less than minimum wage. My option is to sleep in my backseat, or to sleep on the street. Which would you prefer?”'

I'm not a fan of Uber but these people are doing it to themselves, no-ones holding a gun to their head. They need to stop blaming Uber, take responsibility for their own lives and do something else!

If you're working a job and you know it's going to make you homeless why would you continue? I really have a hard time understanding why people would intentionally do that to themselves.
I would be fine with whatever policy they like, if they stayed in their own walled garden. But building what amounts to a commercial intelligence/surveillance firm that is very difficult to avoid is, yes, evil.

And the true names policy is a big part of that.
One statistic I've seen is that a drill has on average about 10 minutes of use. So for a lot of people who own one it makes no sense at all. I for one simply borrow the hammer drill at work when I need it; at home I have a cordless screwdriver which takes care of screws and most holes that don't go into concrete or bricks.
A problem would be the security updates. You can't really spend even 'more' people on security updates for a rolling release. The frequency of updates would be too high for this to work.

This is also the reason for only stable (and olstable?) getting security updates. The thing is that if you want to support something, you'll need to scope it. You can't support just any random thing, you'd need an army of maintainers just to do that. So you make a 'release' where that specific version has people watching over it and making sure things are safe and working. Even that process is hard enough as-is.

While it would certainly be nice to have a rolling release, or 'really fast' release, it can only be done if more hours/people/donations are available to fuel it.
difficult to extract visual features from a flat plane. Gradients give the visual cortex something to process, aiding localization.

Probably the same reason that visual contrast is so important in design.
I help run a local hackerspace and I can tell from experience, that people underestimate just how much social stuff there is in keeping a community like this together. Because a healthy hackerspace is a community first, and a workshop second.

Related, I don't think I know of any hackerspace that solved the problem of keeping the workshop clean. We've been struggling with this for our entire 5 years of existence now. Nothing helps. Not asking, not pressuring, not shaming, not even cameras everywhere. People don't clean up the workplace after themselves, and the core members always end up doing that. If we had bigger budget, we'd consider hiring a cleaning contractor...
I have quite a few adult readers using my book to refresh and re-learn basic calculus and mechanics. You might consider checking it out[1]. It's not free, but very affordable.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0992001005/noBSguide
preview: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_previ...
True. At work we use React for the practical reasons explained by others in the comments.

My point was that Vue doesn't need to be huge. It's fine the way it is and its current size has some benefits.
This plan did not go well for Fresh and Easy.
This is pretty common as a PR move actually. Any backlash on stock price or public opinion and they get to rejigger the strategy for free and call the claims "unfounded".
You are incorrect. According to systems theory, the current state of a system holds the information you need to go forward, not necessarily backwards. Imagine a bouncing basketball: if you can only see its current state, you don't necessarily know when the ball started bouncing. It could be that it started years ago, bouncing all the way from the stratosphere. You can't know the initial conditions of a system just from it's current state. After the ball stops bouncing it can rest on the floor for a million years and you will never know if it stopped bouncing a million years ago or five seconds ago, that is because a real bouncing ball is a non-linear system. So no, the history of a system is not encoded on its current state. On the other hand, you can always predict the future state of a bouncing ball system if you know its current state.
even if Guido denounces 2 completely, I'm ready to bet some $$ that 2 will be alive and well long after that date
(I understand the sentiment, and I deserve it for the wording that I cannot edit now -- but, copying myself from other posts:

I would correct that (if I could still edit) to "direct immediate feedback". What I meant was, if someone I just turned down for a job says "it's stupid", I don't consider that useful data; similarly, if someone I just hired says "This is the best interview question ever", I don't consider that useful data either.

because I've just hired them, or just didn't hire them; either way, I think it is irresponsible to trust the statement of a person I don't actually know and who may either hold a grudge or want to please me right now. I meant to say "direct immediate feedback", which is perhaps better wording.

After I know a person, I ask them (and usually get) the most direct and raw feedback I can get.
What about things that aren't worth the cost to own them outright? Take a chocolate fountain: No one needs one, but it might become worth it to buy access to one at some small fraction of it's cost.
Since Trader Joe's is owned by the family that owns Aldi, it's unlikely Amazon would be able to buy them out cheap.
You really can't get away with that with laptops or desktops because the need for fans causes a lot of component wear and environments are so divergent you can't trust used sellers to not have a lot of the internals damaged.

I've had luck buying laptops (specifically Thinkpads) previously owned by companies and being replaced by lot. Probably due to a mix of better environment, better treatment by workers and more likely to get fixed if broken.
Home Depot also does rentals of more expensive items.
> So what happens in another country?

You will get a network that has a contract with your operator. The roaming regulations basically require the foreign networks to meet all reasonable requests for roaming: http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/...

> I wonder if it would make sense to get a contract in another country, so that I can use all networks in Germany for free?

There are fair use clauses that allow the operators to charge for permanent roaming: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A3... (section 3)
You can replace the actual ev3 brick with a raspberryPi based BrickPi or PiStorms. Then a motor or sensor is about 30 bucks and you might have some lego technic already lying around.
Sometimes legitimate accounts trip a spam filter and get shadow banned, if you go directly to the comment's page (click the time link) there's a `vouch` link you can click to vouch for that person and restore their account.
What should I do to get hired by Facebook/Google?
I am an average PHP and front end developer with 3 years of experience. I want to take a year to dedicate myself to learn skills required to land a job at Google/Facebook. How should I proceed?
Sadly, it seems that Professor Cain (the editor of this page) passed away in 2015[1]. The page had disappeared from the gatech.edu servers at one point, and I was afraid that without Professor Cain's presence, it might not ever be restored. Happy to see that it's online again.

[1]: http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.a...
"Naive, dangerous and evil" is a good description of most things involving Fb and its founder (maybe not Naive in the latter case)
I was already really unhappy with their real name policy (to the point of deleting my account and not going back), but recent incidents - like the policy resulting in moderators' profiles & names getting exposed to terrorists) - just blow my mind. Such a broad impact from a policy that may have no real upsides.

I hope recent events lead them to reconsider this policy but at this point it seems like they never will.
> You'd be hard-pressed to find a country that as at-will employment besides the US.

Where does that statement mention healthcare or any of the other things you talk about?
A command runner for JavaScript developers
FB seems like an example of how a team can go from accidentally naive to intentionally naive because it has advantages for engineering or revenue. :(
Keep a diary, whenever you see people complaining note it down. One day you will come across a problem which only you will be uniquely qualified to solve.
This is the case of many software. Usually, distribution support is longer than upstream. Therefore, distributors have to be backport the patches. That's what it is done for Debian.

They are few exceptions: any Oracle product (Oracle doesn't provide security patches and discourage people from making them) and Chromium (patches are too big) and Firefox (idem). For Chromium, the exception is to use the latest version. For Firefox, the exception is to switch to the next ESR once the current one becomes unmaintained.
I would hazard that this is also serious news for small, local brands that are trying to establish themselves, since Wholefoods has been the best spot for them to start scaling out to.
I understand the concept of a click bait headline, but "inherently evil" is a bit strong for a service that is completely optional.
> it was a one-off, and the difference would have been between 1hr of runtime and 1day of runtime).

What's wrong with 1h vs 1d for a one-off thing? Your effective delivery time would be close enough to equivalent after all the administrative BS and customer expectations, and a naive approach piss simple to verify.

If it was going to mean the difference between 1h and multiple days, here's what I'd do:

- Fire up my trusty browser.

- Navigate to google.com

- Type in "reverse a linked list"

- Evaluate all of the solutions I find and pick the best efficiency / verifiability match to solve the problem in a reasonable amount of time.

Are you going to test that in an interview question? No, you're going to effectively "whiteboard" me, asking me to reinvent the wheel on the spot. And I'm going to resent you for it.

> but I'll say that I'm soon entering my 4th decade in the industry, I'm well respected, I've hired (and fired) tens of people through the years (and interviewed hundreds if not thousands); and I'm well respected among my peers for having very accurate evaluations of people's abilities. I do not aim to be politically correct.

And I'm in my third decade in the industry, all the respect, blah, blah, half a million lines of open source in the wild. So what? You can make the same mistakes over and over in any industry and never think to question if you're doing it wrong. This is ESPECIALLY problematic when it comes to people skills.

> No, because I've just hired them, or just didn't hire them; either way, I think it is irresponsible to trust the statement of a person I don't actually know and who may either hold a grudge or want to please me right now.

It's the PERFECT time to ask them, because it's fresh in their mind. A skilled interrogator can get information despite the subject's frame of mind. I'm actually surprised that you assume everyone you accept or reject is either going to be a sycophant or hold a grudge.

You WANT them to talk while the frustrations they encountered are still fresh in their minds. That's the most raw feedback you'll ever get.

You really do need to start treating them like human beings.

Wanna know how I evaluated potential game devs in person? I asked them what dev environment they were most comfortable in, gave them a computer hooked up to the internet and a picture of a tweetie bird, and said "Make the bird jump. Use google to look shit up." Worked amazingly well.
> Elephants are large herbivores,

An elephant can be like 8x bigger than either of those.

> we are adept at raising large herbivores for meat and other products.

You realize that cows contribute more to global warming than cars right? We should be scaling these productions down.

> Adding elephants to the list that contains cattle and horses is a logical step.

Do you know how the domestication process works?
I'm not sure what you mean, could you give some examples?
FWIW, the https link works fine for me, using Chrome 58.0.3029.81 on Linux.
The question is whether it's possible to make it cheaper without compromising quality noticeably. You cannot ship fresh heirloom tomatoes from China on a huge slow boat.
Maybe Amazon's competitive edge is that its investors don't demand current profits, like the shareholders do of every other company. They can price to break even or lose money.

I think I recall other retailers complaining about competing with a company that doesn't need to make a profit. It does sound difficult, and it is at least a bit quizzical that Amazon gets away with it. Then again, their strategy does seem to have worked.