skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm mostly wearing cargo pants (or whatever you call these things with pockets on your legs as well).

It fits in one of those easily enough. You don't that I carry it, it's about the same weight as my (too stuffed) purse on the other side and barely noticeable.
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Math and science are taught extremely poorly in our schools. It's mostly a matter of memorization (often of trivia rather than fundamentals), plug-and-chug, and rote busywork.
Facebook does analytics...they aren't some tiny startup...surely they track the quality of their traffic...so they know that 70-80% of their ad traffic comes from bots.

So Facebook is knowingly profiting from this, and they have the resources to fix this...but they don't since this is making so much money for them.
Because the HTTP 1.1 specification says it should behave differently, and developers expect clients to comply with the specification.
I think RFC covers this:

From http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

Section "9.1.2 Idempotent Methods". "However, it is possible that a sequence of several requests is non- idempotent, even if all of the methods executed in that sequence are idempotent."

As well section "9.7 DELETE". The last sentence: Responses to this method are not cacheable.

The same in human language: there is no guarantee that you are deleting the same object because its ID matches. E.g. MD5 collisions are rare but they sometimes happen.
Consultancy. His boss is selling his skills (and resume) to this customer (employer).
> "My points were made to hopefully paint a "rebuttal" image that scientists may come to conclusions different than a prevailing crusade"

Absolutely; we don't disagree on that point.

I was just taking the opportunity to illuminate a common misconception. (That we're still talking about whether it's-inherently-unsafe or not.)
c) we can solve the problems by spending more money (we keep trying and it keeps not working).
This was already possible years ago. I used a patched Psi (XMPP) client for VoIP calls to Google Talk clients in 2006 (IIRC).
On the other hand, they are huge oil and coal importers (http://www.iea.org/stats/balancetable.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=DE)
You can definitely be mad at them.

If they're stupid and sacrificing the quality of the actual art/software/website/thing, that's not good. It's easy to get mad at this.

And when there's so many of these types of people doing so much damage and causing so much waste, that's really not good. It's very easy to get mad at this.
They did http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120726121512518

Search in page for "the following designs Samsung was considering"
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In related news, German electricity is 30% more expensive than French, and 300% more expensive than American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Global_elec...
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But at the same time is very normal a change of name, because companies adquires other companies, products can change the name too[1], etc... The Facebook page is supposedly owned by the creator, not Facebook and if a change of the name is needed, IMO it does not make sense to try to charge money from it.

I'm with you that F must have some restrictions on name change, but it does not seem reasonable to charge money for it.

[1] Imagine a page called "Sun Microsystems - Java" before being buyed by Oracle with a fer thousands fans. I'm sure a hight percent of the fans would not care of have a name change to "Oracle - Java" for example.
Doesn't one press of the power button work? Even then, newer PCs are so power efficient that you can generally just put the PC to sleep and not bother turning it off.
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Works fine in the megalopolis that is Pittsburgh
If genuinely curious: I'm drawing a direct comparison of the potential inflation of ad costs in one playground (google) with another (facebook) through both common and unique means. Another common issue to both is click fraud and it's effects on the said cost of ads. My mistake for assuming this was obvious and known.

The relevance of such a comparison? It's not a one off, as uncommon as we think. Has nothing to do with pointing fingers.

Didn't mean to come across as off topic. To me, if someone upstream and in the past was doing this, chances are it might happen later in time downstream too, and there might be something to see in the forest instead of pointing at one tree or another.
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I suspect that less than 1% of the people who comment on Raspberry Pi threads posses one. I sure don't.

Please reply to my comment with your home country and when you received your device if you have one. I had trouble ordering and gave up.

Thank you!
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Yup, a true eye-opening short series!

However, the emphasis in Black Mirror is more on an "augmented sensing from birth" perspective and the many implications if yourself, authorities and others have access to this archive.

On the other hand, this excellent Sight video is covering the "gamification" of life.

Either way, both cover faily dystopic visions of the future not readily found in the mainstream.
The difference is this just appends the hash to the url, the builtin actually saves the static file with the hash in the file name.
We built a page logger. Any time a page was loaded, we'd keep track of it.

They reinvented the access log? By hand? Are people really that detached from how servers work?
FB just gave him the best advertising ever through this publicity.
Being in Patents Pools doesn't mean they dont need to pay licensing. It just means they are on both paying and receiving ends. Since there are thousands of patents on H.264, Apple are only recieiving a tiny amount compared to what they paid out.
I'll take this opportunity to kindly request that someone build an alternative to gTalk and Skype for video chatting. The forums for both are filled with complaints that do not ever get answered. Both products are huge resource hogs – gTalk will freeze my browser and Skype repeatedly disconnects and just slows down my entire machine. And it seems to happen to many, many people out there. On top of that, we all know Google offers little to no customer service, and it seems as if the Skype folks have just completely abandoned addressing any issues.

I've said this before: we are long, long overdue for a gTalk/Skype killer for video chat. At this point, I'm willing to pay for something better.
Webpulp TV recently did an interview with Jeremy Edburg from Netflix in which they discussed Chaos Monkey, albeit shortly.

http://webpulp.tv/episodes/how-netflix-one-of-the-largest-ec...
Up until at last something like one year ago Google Chat didn't even support the full Jingle spec, but only Google's Jingle-like variant.
"Umm, another possibility is that he learned Castilian, and the people in your office grew up speaking some Latin American version."

Someone fluent in conversational Spanish would still be able to speak the basics with a sympathetic, if skeptical interviewer.
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Actually you have it exactly backwards.

The average person with a degree will outperform an average person without one. But the average person applying for a particular job who can get in is about equivalent to other people doing the same. But people prefer people with degrees. Therefore, if all else is equal, the average person you hire with a degree is worse than the average person without one.

But if you want people to perform at the very top level for computer science stuff, then you both want a top intellect and a degree. (However you, as a company don't realistically have the option of top people.)
> As for the voting system that was always at the heart of Digg, the new owners say that users will continue to be able to vote on stories but that the algorithm will also take Facebook shares and tweets into accounts (that’s actually a feature Digg planned for its v4 release before it scrapped it before the launch). Votes on the site, the new team says, will get priority but it sees shares on other social media sites as “important signals” that will be “closely monitored” by a team of moderators.

Awesome, now you won't even have to sign up for Digg in order to game the system!
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One thing about Facebook ads, instead of buying clicks to webpages, you could buy likes to your Facebook page. This way you can at least look at the FID of the Like to get some confirmation that the Like you bought was from a real person.
What's really unfortuante is that this guy may not be the guy with the linked name, facebook account, etc.

It may be some schmuck trying to ruin some other guy's online reputation.
lol... are you using debian? check your package manager ;)
In the Jobs biography it's mentioned that mere months before the iPhone was released they realized they needed more focus on the screen, so they completely redesigned it.

I wonder which design was "almost" it.
In related news: American electricity is artificially cheap.
It was a few months ago and we've already deleted the db table, we are soon relaunching with a new campaign, so once I get the data again I'll post it here.
Here's the MD5 of your ascii version of the screenshot of the blog post just in case: 14e34998a7bc46174bccd981ad5f41f6
This is besides the point.
I'm sure I'll burn karma, but let me say it again: there are companies out there generating real, long term value, but the HN news stream ignores most of them.

A perfect example is Guidewire, the company I worked for previously, which is up nearly double its IPO price and is rocking the earnings, which has been voted the best place to work in Silicon Valley for two straight years, and which has contributed a JVM language back to the community, but which is in an unsexy industry (insurance, enterprise software.)
You really need to delete this thread. Not paying a debt you agreed to pay is stupid. Announcing your plan to not pay it on HN is much worse. You know this is the internet, right?

Don't pay it. What do I care? You'll find out that it was a bad choice and you'll be forced to correct it. Just do yourself a favor and don't tell all your future employers how you handle responsibility you no long care to deal with.
Glad to hear you find it useful! I used Twitter bootstrap, which helped out a lot for making the site since I am not all that great at making a site look 'good'.

I have plans to add some other pizza sites to it, and started working on adding Dominoes to the site yesterday.

I put some adsense ads on the site that cover hosting, and a little bit on top of that, but I'm definitely not getting rich off the site. I wish there were affiliate links for pizza places, but I haven't found any yet.
How does Google prevent this? Is it simply inherently not-problematic, due to their spread of advertising?
I got mine about 5 days ago (July 25th) in the USA. I ordered two of them, one to setup as a print server for my reprap, and other bizarre things like that, and another to actually play with.
Energy can be extracted from forestry waste, thus creating more value from logging activities.
This could be a businessperson's interpretation of what happened.

Or they might have indeed reinvented it. Kids these days and their Heroku! Back in my day we'd process each HTTP request by hand. And we'd do it uphill both ways in the snow.
Hmm, what would be a typical experienced, successful programmer's response to this kind of a question if it were asked in, you know, a real-life setting?

"Look at bit-shift operators, and how they work on unsigned integers. Then think & and ^ and how they relate to addition (adders, after all, have to be implemented in terms of elementary operations like those). It's all pretty straightforward from there. Go the whiteboard and walk you through it? Huh? Look, it's an interesting problem, but I've got some regression tests to get straightened out by the end of the day that are like, totally messed up. They were written by some guy we hired on the basis of his ability to solve puzzle problems, but just ended up totally slacking and never tying the ends off of anything he did."

Really now, why should one's response in an interview be any different?
As someone else said here a while back "The current alternative energies are linear solutions to an exponential problem."

I have another lesson.

15 years ago before anyone knew it existed. Denmark invested heavily in wind. It created one of the biggest windmill companies in the world.

It did all the right things. Took it to the stock market allowed normal people to invest in it, created lots of new jobs and the stock surged in the early zeros.

Today stock is struggling and most of the jobs have been outsourced to other countries much less expensive to produce in.

The windmill technology in itself is not hi-tech but "low-tech" so there isn't even som IP that the Danes benefit from.

The only customers worth talking about is countries and there is no revolution in efficiency happening.

My guess is that wind will be surpassed by other more beneficial technologies.

So the lesson: Alternative energy as we know it right now is far from being a solution to the problems we have. The politicians should not pick the winners but instead set goals that can be won.
I'm beginning to suspect this.
I agree that some users might close the page or hit the "back" button before the $(document).ready() happens, but I can't believe that 70% of the people did that(taking into account that our ad was really targeted and highly relevant to the landing page).
Fitts's Law says that elements along the edges are easier to hit with a mouse, and elements in the corners are easiest to hit with a mouse.

There's nothing in Fitts's law that says that invisible UI elements are preferable to visible ones.
The transit info works well here in Louisville (except for TARC being incredibly incompetent and/or unfunded, but Google can only do so much)
Is it though? It seems they spent a lot of time throwing more and more javascript at the problem until they realized they couldn't figure out what was happening. If they had real logging from the beginning, it would have unconfused them much sooner.
While I doubt malicious intent on FB's part there's certainly a financial incentive to ignore this problem. How would their earnings reports change if they stopped charging at least some advertisers for 80% of clicks?
Good catch! That is left from the original system that required entering a store id to search, but since then I have added the ability to search by address or zip code. I'll fix this when I get in front of a computer later.
When you build an advertisement network, you end up spending a bunch of time figuring out how to isolate these fake clicks and verify that they are not real. As an example, the IP addresses running the bots are going to be clicking "way too many ads to be a human".
Which is presumably why this is a policy in the first place...
I prefer to just call this Digg v5.
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I've been using Python 2.x off and on for a number of years. However, I've just recently started playing with Python 3.2 for some project Euler problems to get familiar with the changes.

If you were starting to build new web apps in Python today, would you go with Python 2.7 or Python 3.x at this point?
I would love to see how they patched it. Seems folks like these might implement a check like 'cmd.Contains("uplay.exe")' and let you do "C:\whatever\uplay.exe\..\..\bad.exe".
> All distros are also volunteer projects who are happy to accept packaging submissions from the community.

You, sir, greatly underestimate the efforts that distro package maintainers do.

> I have base 4.3, apparently gitit won't run without 4.4. Are you seriously saying that's a version bump comparable to Python 3?

No, that version bump is not as significant. But it may introduce incompatibilities nevertheless. These may or may not be applicable to gitit, but that is determined what gitit defines in their cabal build files.

Sometimes these minor changes can be worked around by modifying the cabal build files of the project you're building with relaxed version numbers, but it works only in the simplest of cases.
I had a very similar experience when I was much younger, fooling myself that by not specifying how fluent I was, I wasn't lying when claiming knowledge of language X. Then I had an interview much like the one you described and learned that "misleading statement" and "lying" are close relatives.

No job, but life lesson learned.
Well why not? It is really more expensive to run such a bot at 80% rather than say 5%.
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Very impressive! It's not an easy thing to do (http://metafizzy.co/blog/mythical-drag-drop-multi-column-gri...).

I've been trying to fake it on a recent project for Stanford's recent HCI online class (see http://btubbs.github.com/slapdash/), but Gridster looks much nicer. Will be switching.
If terrorism is unsuccessful explain Mao and Lenin.
Does anyone seriously think that Trotsky followed
Lenin because he just "wanted the chicks man" and
didn't really want revolution?

Oh I see what the author's done, he's defined away the problem: the successful aren't terrorists, they're guerrillas.

So he's right by definition. Cheap trick, pathetic.
The reason why this is critical for Netflix is that all the infrastructure is provided as a service and this completely out of their control.

By creating faults in the Netflix service which they can build around to stay optimally available, they completely or nearly completely eliminate the risk of being affected by faults in AWS services.

Now, clearly this has not been 100% true yet because some major outages have effected Netflix - though that's when the entire service fails, as opposed to single point of failure types of faults, which chaos monkey is really designed to accomodate.

(disclaimer: this is my outside perception based on purely interest in how Netflix has built themselves. I could be incorrect)
Overall it's hard to say whether google wins or loses overall by this. In absence of a real competitor in the search ad space, people generally will swallow google's fee hikes ...
I'm really skeptical of the "honesty is the best policy" lesson being taught here. The reality is that being dishonest (on a resume or otherwise) can be very advantageous. Why else would people lie?

Be honest because you believe it's the moral thing to do, not because you expect to be rewarded for it.
i actually thought this design closely resembles the 4S:
http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uplo...

I saw a few other designs that reminded me of other versions. It made me wonder whether this 4S design, for example, was the original intent, but engineering restrictions at the time did not allow for this execution. Will we be seeing future iPhone designs resembling one of these?
I seriously doubt this question would be asked during an interview for any position that didn't involve a good deal of low-level knowledge. If you're hiring a hardware engineer or a systems engineer, why wouldn't you hire the one that understands what actually happens inside of a computer at a very basic level?

The people that are questioning the validity of this question are not in the target audience. This definitely falls more towards the Electrical and Computer Engineering end of the spectrum than CS.
Mainly because those websites run like trash even on my desktop.
In what language does batman program?
BATMAN SPOILER ALERT!!!!!

Batman patched the software on the Wayne Enterprises Bat in order to enable auto pilot. What language does batman know and what version control was he using?
Having been involved in both industry funded and government funded medical research I don't think this is a big deal. To me the most important thing is to make sure that it is disclosed. Many researchers that are great at what they do are highly sought after experts and they should be. The real question is one of integrity. If a researcher has integrity then they will be objective. If they lack integrity then they may be more willing to twist their findings, even if they don't outright manipulate them. It does no good for a company to fund a researcher who is ultimately proved to have faked data.

One note on public funding, I believe that there is just as much if not more pressure to shape conclusions from public funding sources. After all these organizations are composed of people as well who are often pursuing an agenda of some sort whether its overt or not. If a researcher is dependent on funding from an agency or a group inside an agency it is often in their best interest to ensure that their conclusions align with that agencies view. If not there is significant risk to future funding.
If not, it sounds like a great place to use ML/classification algorithms.
I'm sorry that happened to you, I've dealt with the same kinds of things. It sucks when bad interviewers block good candidates.

In my case I assure you that's not what happened though. When the candidate realized he was faltering on too many questions about skill #2 (really basic questions) he started talking about how he was currently reading an introductory book on it and how he was excited to work somewhere where he can apply it. Oh yeah, and he claimed on his resume that he had been applying it at his current job.
I find it odd that you've decided to equate communism with poor education. The Soviets put the first man in space, I'd say they must have been doing something right (edit: I should add they were still doing plenty wrong elsewhere but we're only talking education here). Having the resources to apply that education is a whole other matter of course.

Having said that, Poland is hardly a typical example of an ex-communist country here, they always tended to have fairly high education standards. Of the former communist states in the OECD stats linked by parent, they lead the pack with only Estonia slightly ahead.
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A newspaper or blog post is probably the wrong medium for this question. It's one I explored in detail when I was evaluating an opportunity in the education space between September and January. There are a variety of big problems in the education space, most of which centre around the problems of bureaucracy. Here the fundamental issue is that it's extremely difficult for school boards that are offering the same salary scale to everyone regardless of skills/subjects (which is the norm in Canada and much of the U.S.) to get similar levels of teaching talent for subjects that are highly in demand. This tends to lead to a notion of progress that involves reducing the math curriculum to the point where the "math" teachers you have can actually teach it well. This is often spun as giving everyone more opportunity for success or presented as innovation to curriculum, and many buy into that spin. The answer of teaching better is the best solution when it's actually possible, but the combination of convincing government to spend it, and convincing the unions to allow it to be spent well is nearly impossible. The net result is something similar to the system we have. Perhaps worst of all, entrepreneurs get scared away from the space because there isn't anything worse than dealing with enterprise style sales processes for sales numbers that simply are not.