skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first time I looked at this pdf there were blocks of printed text all over the place that floated over the handwritten text. By floating over I mean literally covering the written text. After I read your comment I looked at it again and it was simply the handwritten text.

I'm not sure if my pdf reader confused things or the nsa has a special redirect for me. But the complete handwritten text is perfectly readable to me now. I'm not sure what I saw before, but it was odd...
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>The Field - Looping State of Mind

Listening to it right now. :)
Ask HN: Amazon internship interview - what to study?
I have recently received an email stating that Amazon would like to interview me for an internship position. I know that this job is highly competitive but is an incredible opportunity! I want to know even if I don't get the position that I tried as best as I could to get the job.

I have about a week and a half to prepare. What should I study?

I have assumed doing some code challenge exercises online and reviewing sorting algorithms. If anyone has any suggestions or resources I would love to hear from you!
Because people find this attitude so western, and entitled, I would like to propose a slight change. Rather, I will propose some sound bytes, and hopefully somebody else will express the sentiment eloquently.

Learn to love the process, not the results.
Find your foe not in achieving success, but in destroying the obstacles.
You can't get anywhere if you cannot motivate yourself to go there.

Or something poetic like that. People should probably not assume that they have the right to do what they love. What they should learn is to love what they do.
HTTP is a stateless protocol. What would a stateful HTTP protocol look like?
They are leftover old blackberryesque hardware that Peek is giving away for free in the hopes that someone will be able to hack them into something useful.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3544237
You're also scaring web consumers to pick non-US businesses. Do I want to purchase a service that can be shut down by the US govt with no notice whatsoever? No.
TIL about calc()

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I wish I could get my affiliate links on the front page of HN twice in two weeks...
Then your assumption would be wrong. I consider myself to be more artistic in writing my code. But thats besides the point I was trying to make.

While I enjoy the feeling of creation and I like doing fancy stuff on my computer, I still recognize that all code boils down to those three things I listed. No matter how artsy you get about it. I argue that creativity and expressiveness would be enhanced by having a common language that we could all understand and share our own skills through it. I like to think that if we had this utopistic language, the teaching of programming would become easier and it would be started earlier for students. Also the quality of the teaching would improve significantly.

Language is but a tool to transfer ideas out of your head to others, the better you are at one the easier it becomes. QuickSort works like it does because thats the algorithm. A linked list is like that because thats the data structure. I don't think it matters how you learn these concepts and how you visualize them in your head. My native language is not english but still I can think in it, through practice. I think the same applies to programming languages, just as long as the language has that expressive power. If it doesn't confine itself to a singular style or paradigm but lets you choose, isn't that the most expressive of languages?
Can't forget Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto!
you are right I had this information wrong, apologize.
Congratulations on a great new product.
One thing that I would like to see is have a small context map (plot area and the window that you are looking at) so that it helps the users while dragging the plot.

I see that the product is not timeline friendly unlike your timeline product.

The use cases are not as evident as your other timeline product.

Good luck.
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Both chat icons really remind me of the golden ratio iCloud icon. Story is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3117017
I was just thinking it was good to see this trending up again. Didn't get to check it out last time due to the site issues.
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I'm not sure if you can, but that behavior was annoying enough to turn me off from buying the App Store version entirely.

A gentle reminder is good enough, and might induce me to pay for the new paid version. However, if you take an app which used to be free, and then nag me constantly because you decided to make a non-free version of it one fine day is annoying.
The Tron Soundtrack by Daft Punk is amazing for programming.
Disable new version checks in the preference pane (on the About tab).
Cool use of zero-fill right shift in prototypejs
I just received emails about NLP and PGM, and still haven't heard from other classes. Does anyone know any of the details around the issues they're facing?

Good on Scott Page for getting some Model Thinking videos up nonetheless. https://www.coursera.org/modelthinking/auth/welcome
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Skip to the code: https://github.com/franklovecchio/mqsh

Originally intended as an alternative for Java SSH clients used in applications on AWS.
What does it feel like to play grandmaster level chess?
I was wondering just that a few weeks ago. I found this perspective interesting to think about, even if it's impractical...
http://www.see.org/garcia/e02.htm
> Most folks don't actually want news to be too personalized because then it loses its social function.

When Techmeme first started I had a conversation about this with Gabe Rivera - the founder of the site. He realized early on that he had to steer away from personalization because a large part of the attraction to Techmeme was the readers all referring to stories featured on it -for eg. 'did you see this on Techmeme'.

It facilitates conversations within the group of people that read the site as they are all literally reading off the same page. Apparently The Druge Report realized this early on as well which is why they go with one major story per day (or did).

When you are part of an industry or group you want to, or need to, know what everybody else is reading so you can 'keep up' and be 'in the loop'. In silicon valley tech is it Techememe (and HN) and in politics it is Druge, etc.
Mashable now link all companies and products to their seo spam pages too. These sites are just getting ridiculous.

I posted a lengthy complaint about the ridiculous state of news blogs the other day but it didn't quite make it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3564257
Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things [1] and Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles [2] are must-read classics about human interfaces in both physical and "computer" realms.

[1] http://www.jnd.org/books.html#33
[2] http://www.jnd.org/books.html#34
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Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance is a movie which known as Ghost Rider 2 as well. It is directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Ghost Rider 2 is a sequel movie of Ghost Rider. The movie has lots of animated things which you can see in 3D as well. This is Action, Fantasy, Thriller Movie.
MQdb - Distributing databases with MQtt (Redis example)
Attempting not to spam HN with MQtt posts, but I wrote this one a couple months ago and never got around to adding RedMon or a more advanced clustering system that doesn't involve sharding, so figured I'd post now :)
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Wow, you are the type of person that put down new mediums. This attitude is more dangerous as it will inhibit the new art form's potential by putting it down in favor of an old but more importantly different medium. Books and games are not exclusive to each other. Stop pulling down games when it wants to aspire to a great storytelling format. Stop imposing your cynicism when glimpses of ambition shows in games. Stop this shit.
Soon they'll be paying us for our DNA! (for targeted advertisement etc.)
The media narrative of how the world is supposed to work just doesn't match the reality. This is why most news is useless. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a great example of this.
I bet that in 20 years, a lab-on-a-chip with integrated DNA sequencer & AI doctor will be as common & cheap as thermometers today.
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When I saw the title I first thought they saw this forum thread about how a Canadian business has switched away from using JotForm and how they are considering to stop purchasing from all US based online companies:
http://www.jotform.com/answers/77171-Recent-Domain-Suspensio...

By the way, Techdirt's Mike is such a great guy. He has been very supportive and he even introduced us to some lawyers.
All I have to say after looking at your site is:

1) thanks for msbetatesting hackernews,
2) did you even test your site for BS errors, you noobs,
3) not a bad idea, but srsly, what's wrong with github (that everyone and their mother uses)?

This website is like the movie, 'Hackers'. I would appreciate an explanation.
Yes having platform specific code in its own header source and just #ifdef the includes provides much cleaner and nicer code
apple products are overhyped shit. most of the world's bullshit patent problems go away if they do. don't buy their slave-labored garbage. why do they have so much money in the bank? same reason robber barons did. cost of production doesn't factor in externalities and market price is kept artificially high by trumped up demand.
The difference is, a trafic cop doesn't want to arrest you. They don't want to book anyone, but their boss told them to go balance the books by fleecing drivers. If you make their job easier, they might let you off with a warning.

A cop who's investigating a real crime wants to get a conviction. And they aren't in a position to do plea bargaining (like a traffic cop), that's the DA's job (then the judge's, if it gets that far). It's not a terrible idea to negotiate with the DA and judge, but you need a lawyer to help you do it.
I think I do have a better picture of the situation now, thanks. (And thanks to the others above who elaborated on the state of binary packaging in Macports and Fink.) I can certainly understand finite time and resources, and I'm grateful to those of you who assemble these packages.
As I told you inside the comments in the blog itself, what is x in the definition of COUNT(...) ?

Also it seems that you did not read the topic correctly because even if you tried to apply such a method it would fail for the no arguments case, which is a big part of the bulk of the first method.

If I don't get something please feel free to explain
That does happen. Recruiters that cultivate relationships in both directions are known as "full desk" recruiters.
http://videos.edufire.com/2009/entrepreneurship/how-to-rock-...

Look at search as well as sorting algorithms. Know basic data structures and associated algorithms. Practice at a whiteboard. Don't worry about getting it right the first time: just keep trying things if you get stuck. Good luck.
I am terrified of this possibility. I wasn't out there to experience the 2002 version, but I am deeply aware of it.
The funny thing is that they've basically admitted that they didn't want to take the time to build a community system capable of dealing with anonymous users or users identified only by some number. The problem with these featureless micro-apps is that you have 20 different tools which cost you little to nothing but are garbage. Either abandon the idea of one-feature apps and incorporate your functionality in a not-quite-as-slick general platform, or double down and make your app work with anonymity.
You can choose not to grant Open Graph permissions to Spotify or revoke them at any point. Publish permissions are completely separate from authentication. Publishing can also be disabled from Spotify and there is also a private session mode that you can enable if you want to not publish one or two songs.

Disclaimer: FB engineer who uses Spotify all day every day.
Cracking the Coding Interview is great, though you have to pay for it: http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...

MIT's IAP course resources are pretty good too: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/materials.php
Seconded! I love me some Piano Glitch, for real
I have been working at it with http://hubski.com. In short, you choose people to filter content for you based on what they post, and what they share. You in turn choose what to pass on to those who follow you. It's been working pretty well.

I'm still working on recommendations. There are suggestions once you follow someone. It's a good way to get started, but the best way to get good content is to hand pick folk based on what they have shared.
At Mixergy I feel there are 3 categories of interviews: 1) 4 hr work week - book selling hucksters, 2) valley insiders built then sold for undisclosed bank and now have new site to promote, 3) regular shmo built a business online, doing well, and has lots to share. Andrew works very hard to cover a broad spectrum of tastes. I prefer learning from group #3, but that's me.
Maybe they changed this so we get used to using the top navigation bar. Clicking on Gmail on the G+ bar refreshes mail, or sends you to inbox.

Also, in Gmail, one solution to going back is to use the left arrow button to go to inbox.
I'm upvoting just for your edit, as I think disagreement via downvotes is a bit childish and all too common.

Having said that, I doubt Microsoft is moving in a direction an Arch Linux user would call "minimalist".
I don't have a ton of data on this, but recently I tested using register with Facebook for my site. It chopped our conversion rates by over half. My audience is very non-tech savy. Personally, I see that as a good sign.
Authentication would only be done once. Likewise, User-Agent and Accept headers would only be sent during the handshake. Cookies would probably be handled differently. The current page URL could be treated like a cursor and the client could send relative URLs. Maybe WebSocket could be built in instead of being a separate protocol. These are all pretty minor things; in some sense HTTP wouldn't be HTTP if it had been designed stateful from the beginning.
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DroidCloud for better Android Ecosystem.
DroidCloud has recently launched its private beta, to the early ones who showed their interest in testing this product. The beta comes with a lot of interesting features for Android developers and marketers.
You can delete Flash cookies and in fact all data that a site could use to track you in Safari, including plugin-related data, cache, etc.

Just go to the Privacy pref pane and click on Details under Cookies and other Web Site Data. For example, for kongregate.com, I see that I have Cache, Cookies, Plug-ins and Local Storage holding potential tracking data, and I can delete it all with one click.
Consider turning on keyboard shortcuts in Gmail. (The default for Go to Inbox is <g> then <i>.) Once you know them, you'll rarely need to click anything.
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Is it just me, or have a fair number of HN comments or references thereof been showing up in stories lately?

This is what, the third one or something in about a week?
Yet another example of the confusion in popular science reporting between the probability of A given B with the probability of B given A. How is this acceptable?

the Tevatron would be able to identify the Higgs with 'three-sigma' certainty. This is a statistical term that indicates the finding only has a tenth of a percent chance of being due to a random statistical fluctuation.

No no no! It actually means that random statistical fluctuation has a tenth of a percent chance of producing the finding!
Hmmm, some of the ideas to get rid of noise could be:
1. to have some good, fun books that you can pick and read (not a laptop book) when you need a break.
2. to have some real sport / game thing going - could be as simple as a table tennis game or a brisk walk.
3. to have a musical instrument around (of course you should know how to use it).

More ideas?
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Where would you rather work: 37signals or Zappos?
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Phish is perfect for programming. If you like rock, jazz, classical, etc give it a try.
Relevant good reddit discussion.[1]

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pu75n/til_the...
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They seem to have created what they call "profiles" which allow for less battery usage based on what data needs to be gathered.

You might also go and reach out to some of the fitness apps like RunKeeper and MapMyRun to see how they are handling their real-time geo pushes without killing the battery. Good luck.
Could you talk about that last sentence a little more? Is there a reason that HTTP was designed to be stateless rather than stateful?
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Edit: err... DNA verus genome nevermind I see what you meant.
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The fact that this comment has been downvoted is as hilarious as it is depressing. Are we not even going to pretend any more that on HN downvotes are for bad comments, not comments we don't entirely agree with?
So what you're saying is that we all need to make time to find out what we really enjoy? tongue in cheek

I agree and I can mention many examples of my own in this regard where I didn't enjoy something until I tried for a while.

What a luxury to have the time and resources to "find what you really enjoy." It seems to be a first world problem kinda thing and coming from 1st/3rd (South Africa) it's a little paradigm shift (whilst reading) to appreciate where everyone is coming from.
What would be awesome is if Growl adopts the following strategy:

(1) Seamlessly integrate growl into iOS notification center, function more as a transport layer and delegate UI to Notification center if present. Use it's own UI if not.
(2) Allow growl to be paid for by the end user as a standalone app
(3) Allow a limited version of growl to be bundled with apps with a discounted rate for app developers. This version would be limited to notifications for that app only, but would only cost that developer something like $0.10 per license.

Basically adopt a strategy that doesn't require users to have to buy and install Growl to get notifications in non AppStore apps. Let the developers who want notification support choose to handle distribution of growl inside their app and pay the license cost. Notifications are such an important part of engagement, that I'm sure there is a market opportunity in charging the app developers instead of end users.
The full voiceover (including player lines) was one of the big things that really sold it for me -- it's really hard to go back to other RPGs and play a silent nobody after playing mass effect (which was one of the reasons I never go into Dragon Age (aside from it being bad)).
What makes the new Windows logo appear so weirdly revolting to me is the fact that it is minimalist, but not distinctive. Contrast this to the simplified Apple logo that one sees upon booting OS X-- minimalist, but entirely distinctive.

The new Windows logo is a weirdly parallaxed set of rectangles. Nothing specifically diacritical at all.

EDIT: I think this is why the monochrome Win7 logo that has been posted here is better. It is distinctly Windows, building on decades of brand identity, and a truly unique and iconic. It is almost as if the "flag" shape that Microsoft seems so eager to drop is perhaps their greatest asset.

They've missed the point: minimalism for the sake of minimalism isn't "better". Simple is simple. Beautiful is beautiful.
Just think it is a great idea, kudos to him.
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Thank you Mozilla.
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> Guess which one converts better?

How do you define "convert"? Clicking one of the buttons? Signing up for the service? Paying money?

If converting is just clicking one of the buttons, I wonder if you get a lot of low quality converts -- i.e. ones that don't end up paying you money.
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This.
When thinking about stateless protocols, I like to use the metaphor of a server-side session variable which can hold state for you to instantly access. Because the connection never closes, you can always access "my_last_command" or an array of previously set variables.

I make use of these notions in the actionHero api framework (as it is a framework for both HTTP and Raw TCP clients). I put down an example of a TCP session which may be of some use.

http://actionherojs.com/
Why do you think being remembered is such a big deal? After all, you won't be around to appreciate it.
well, it's well crafted, elegant, and minimalistic. however, deep down I just feel microsoft is far too sophisticated a company to be monochrome.
Microsoft's main failure for the past decade or so is that they have repeatedly enacted a flurry of short-term strategies in reaction to whichever direction the industry winds happened to blowing, and did so for just about every consumer tech industry.

Xbox to Playstation, Bing to Google, Zune to iPod. In the process they did very little leading along the way and hemorrhaged money from all of these businesses.

I still like and respect Microsoft as a company and think they can still produce great things, and I hope that the next decade sees them develop some leadership and return to innovation.