skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On this presentation [1], on my tiny little netbook (800x600 display), around half of the presentation is cut off at the top [2].

Windows 7, Chrome 22.0.1229.94

[1] http://www.rvl.io/hakim/theming
[2] http://i.imgur.com/UGFd5.png
The texbook counter-example on circumvention of fixed fortifications was done by Hitler's army, at the start of the war. Viz:

The Manstein Plan is often seen as either the result of, or the cause of a mid-twentieth century Revolution in military affairs. In the former hypothesis, expounded by Fuller and Basil Liddell Hart immediately after the events, the Manstein Plan is presented as a natural outcome of deliberate changes in the German military doctrine during the twenties and thirties by men as Guderian or Hans von Seeckt implementing Fuller's or Liddell Hart's ideas.[1]

Diesel-electric Submarines were ultimately also vulnerable to air power. But not before their use in warfare was pioneered by the Germans, to devastating effect. And france was germany's "aircraft carrier", don't forget its less than 100 miles from the UK, couldn't be sunk, and didn't need a fleet-escort. (etc).

Further innovations:

- Jet fighters

- Cruise Missles

- Ballistic Missles

- Submarine Warfare

- Armored Calvary

It was a war, and 'improvisation' would be expected as losses mount and access to resources were curtailed. The general thesis that the Nazis were fighting "ww1" style is not really a teneble notion. At all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manstein_Plan
also you are hotlinking some of your images from imgur, this is a big web design no-no. You dont control the host of those images and at some point they will expire leaving broken images on your page, this is best case scenario. The worse case is if the host you are hotlinking finds out what you are doing and changes all the images to some grouse pics to teach you a lesson. imgur is good image host so they would not do that but the problem still is if imgur goes down you can do nothing but twiddle your thumbs until they come back
I remember when it was not the case (and I remember a period when say 90% of the time you just got straight links, 10% you got redirect links with no Javascript trickery hiding them). But yes, it has been this way for years.
Those plasma screens are 16:9 and have non-rectangular pixels. Since all high-definition content is also 16:9, if you play it back on a 1024x768 4:3 display like the iPad Mini you're actually watching it in 576p with black bars at the top and bottom which is unquestionably standard-definition. In Europe and much of the rest of the world DVDs have always been 576p and there's really no way to dispute that those are standard definition.
Finally, they nailed it! Well done Google. Samsung displays are one of the best there ever is (apart from LG). For $299 I think its a killer deal!
Because it makes all sorts of assumptions that are outside the scope of what you really want to test.

First, it assumes familiarity with golf balls. I have friends who grew up in Manhattan who have never seen a golf ball. They may have seen one on TV, but that doesn't let you really gauge the size of something.

Second, it assumes familiarity with buses, and assumes the interviewer and the interviewee are talking about the same kind of bus. Are we talking about a school bus or a big-city reticulated bus?

Third, it tests skills you're not testing. I live in the city and take the bus all the time, and I don't know whether a bus is 20 feet long or 70 feet long. I'm not good at visually estimating measurements. That might be a skill relevant to a carpenter, but not so much to a programmer. Even if you assume you have the measurements, then you also have to visualize the packing structure of the golf balls. This also tests spatial skills, which are arguably not highly relevant to a programmer.

Brain teasers are generally stupid because they are under formalized. I agree with the poster above. If you want to test logical skills, give someone a section of the logical reasoning section of the LSAT. Those questions were carefully designed to test logical reasoning and to avoid testing other things.
Sure they are, they're just not as good at it as Google is. Apple has built Facebook and advertising into iOS. Besides their own advertising network, Apple made support for third party tracking using the IDFA (ID For Advertising, it was created after they decided using the UDID for ad tracking was not ideal).
>When there's faults with it, that's relevant to my interests, as I might want to avoid their mistakes at my own company.

Same here, except that is why I found the article to be a crappy, linkbait, waste of time. It wasn't about mistakes in google's hiring process, it was a personal rant about what the author dislikes about google.
I guess google is going after budget conscious. No LTE is ridiculous and their excuse that they don't want carrier interference is lame. Does Apple have to deal with carriers interfering with deploying LTE? Please, the real reason why they don't support LTE is the Nexus is not a big seller. So it makes little sense to create multiple sku's. Gotta love that Google spin.
Because it could lead to an algorithmic discussion of numerical integration by shells vs numerical integration by disks from integral calculus, a discussion about 1-3 sig fig engineering estimation and error estimation and error propagation, maybe a discussion about circle packing efficiency.

It's an analysis of four things: How an applicant socially responds to ridiculous requests outside their previous experience, and how they handle initiating and architecting a "large" engineering project from a vague request, how mathematically well educated an applicant is, and how wide the knowledge level of the applicant extends (basically a psuedo IQ test, with all the legal risks that implies).

This is vitally important for a handful of positions, but a complete waste of time for most positions, thus silly.
"Please Install Silverlight to view this content"

They'll never learn.
also the HP/Palm Pre3. Neither Nokia or Google/LG are first with inductive charging.
The Microsoft Shockwave: A Struggle to Survive
At least you can check the source code.
Thank you for rushing in and claiming it for them.
I agree with everything you said. I'm not entirely sure if it was offered as a counterpoint to what I said, but if so, please know that it's just because I didn't get too deeply into it.

The pragmatist in me says that because passing on the left is often legal, surely they have some way to identify that, or at least accept it as a deviation from the mean which they would discard.

The cynic in me though believes it exactly as you suggested, that every time you break the speed limit gets added as a 'point' against your record, and enough points eventually causes your premiums to go up.
Okay, there it is. That makes a little more sense. Thank you!
To add a little context, the feminist (who is an acquaintance of mine) has had her account blocked four times now, for posting screenshots of hateful or misogynistic online speech, including direct threats of violence, to her Facebook wall.

Facebook does not seem to care that all the content she posted was taken from public forums, usually the embedded Facebook comments on one of Iceland's largest online publications. This has led to the ironic situation that the people using Facebook to post threatening or violent messages are untouched, but the person drawing attention to their behavior is punished.

It seems Facebook's style of community policing has the unintended consequence of giving "the masses" a powerful tool to silence and punish people with unpopular opinions.

One wonders whether this is largely a function of the language barrier (the Facebook review staff probably don't read Icelandic), or whether this is a larger systemic problem?
There's a Flash (another why) stream as well at the bottom of the page: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/windowsphone/l...
That's the phone, not the Nexus 10 tablet which is $399.
I spend a lot of time at my desk but being a small office, my co-workers tend to use my desk if/when I'm not present. I simply don't have as much control over my office environment to put effort into keeping it clean and pristine. It is what it is and so I'd rather focus on the environment that is within my control. At least that's how I've come to rationalize it.
window.status all over again!
I agree with your Mac point.

But Linux still has driver issues. I'm not sure even my keyboard (Corsair K90) would work with Linux - a quick scan on the forums (http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=109501) suggests it needs various manual tweaking and most of its functionality would be missing.

I have various other bits of USB paraphernalia of Taiwanese / Chinese / etc. origin like scanners, printers, microscopes, etc., all of which only come with Windows drivers and maybe, if you're lucky, Mac. The problem with Linux is that you generally have to know the chipset etc. in order to know which driver is applicable, and it turns into a detective hunt. You must have seen this before; quite frequently, a single SKU may have multiple different chipsets behind the scenes, but the manufacturer's Windows drivers just cope - meanwhile, to get Linux to work, you need to know the details.

I have never installed Linux and had it work for all my hardware, except for distributions tailored specifically for the machine (Eeebuntu on my Asus Eee 701) - and even then they missed out on things like the keyboard shortcut to toggle the wifi radio so you could use it on a plane.

The pool of hardware out there is deep and gnarly.
Bah... My Nexus 7 came with preloaded content in French. I thought it was an error, until I checked out the store. Need a VPN just to buy any content in a language I understand :/
Oh I know! Thank you so much for that input. I was really hesitant about posting that link because I don't actually use that site. I'm re-designing it now for what I actually do consulting for (healthcare, hiring, and biz dev for companies that build software and have trouble with sales)

That was just quick and dirty
Try the alternate stream for Flash (bottom of the page).
You know, I have a feeling that this might come, in major (but non integral) part from the Android SDK. Objective C & Cocoa just have an extra layer of polish to them that I believe contributes highly to the resulting level of quality of the app
Can you afford a pay cut? The personal finances side of starting a company
And soon enters the paradox of choice. Do I bring my smartphone, mini-tablet, tablet and/or my laptop in my bag? Wait, why did I buy all of these again?
I believe that the 30/30/40 ratio comes from the zone diet. To my knowledge there hasn't been any scientific verification on why this is the desired ratio. I've seen lots of other people claiming different ratios work better (e.g. some people claiming that 60%+ fat is best). I'm of the opinion that the ratios don't matter nearly as much as food quality. Does anyone have studies/references that can prove me wrong?

Eating non-sick/happy animals and animal products just seems to make more sense to me. Garbage in garbage out.
Those points were addressed in this article: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/179420/
Thats why the have built-in facebook and twitter support.
They sell you as well dont believe in fairy tales.

And to be honest im fine with google having my data they have a solid record for keeping things in line.
This is already a known fact. Their hardware margins are razor thin because they are using the hardware to drive movie, music, book and shopping sales.
Interviews should go both ways. If the interviewer asks you for a "pop quiz" algorithm question you studied in college and forgot about it ever since, you should throw a "pop quiz" question back at them. Not for spite, but if they expect you to know the answer to their question you should expect that they know the answers to your question.
I can believe it. More than a decade after the Depression, my grandma saved money by feeding my dad and his brothers watered-down reconstituted powdered milk. There was an entire category of foods my grandpa didn't allow in their house because he ate them as a child in the Depression, including turnips, rutabagas, millet, and certain kinds of beans, but they still felt like they couldn't afford to use the full ratio of milk powder.
It would certainly make reservations a lot more important.
Why 1280x768 rather than 720p? Is it for the software buttons? Otherwise it'd be odd to scale a pretty standard size for videos etc. or have black bars on the side.
Either there's some hardware security thing (equiv to ctrl-alt-del interrupt on windows) that is needed, or perhaps they are wary of rolling it out as a universal feature (could be confusing for phone users who update)?
Microsoft: Apple standardized the homescreen app grid, Android copied it
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What on earth provoked that random screed? Who said anything about left or right, or PC socialist or fascist? You scare me because you seem to be mentally unstable.
View the GitHub repo: http://github.com/periscopic/EaselFL
Stock markets closed Tuesday as well
> I hail from a place where the worth of 200$ or 300$ for a tablet cannot be justified, where we demand true value for money. So I guess I can look at these without any bias.

No, you just have a different bias.

If a $100 difference in price is a lot to you but it's not a lot to me, then your definition of value and mine are likely to be very different.

Value for money is tied into a whole load of things including how hard I had to work to get that money, what else that money might be spent on, what the improvement you get for that money is worth and so on.

These things are all relative - when it comes to matters of opinion, it's best not to claim no bias, it's easier just to state your positions and assumptions and let others factor them in.
Surprisingly Google Music "match" (similar to itunes and amazon) will first be available in Europe.
That is my point though, if you remove the expectation that the grades mean something, then there is no reason to cheat in the first place. The problem is that we uphold the establishment as having some kind of meaning, not that people are able to game the establishment.
I have the Nexus One, and it's really starting to show it's age!

I'll be getting the Nexus 4 once it's out, but like both of you, the screen size is the biggest drawback for me.

I really hope Google realizes that bigger is not always better!
Many data centers are hardened. For example, the Mahwah data center that houses NYSE and the Carteret data center that houses NASDAQ can sustain hurricane weather (although they are closed today/tomorrow)
From my limited anecdotes of the time, I believe Google actually did it. We're not talking about programming-related brain teasers here, we're talking about non-programming ones.

e.g., "3 light bulbs in a room" and "family crossing the bridge" being the classic examples.
What's the standard interview process at Google? Does it really take 3 months of interviewing to get a job?
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Is that how he teaches his students to write as well?

edit: Hi downvoters, I understand parallelism. When it's used the way this teacher has used it, he risks coming across as whiny and juvenile. His point would come across more powerfully if he reframed his grievances in a way that shows their impact on the real victims, the children, as opposed to himself.

"I have a dream" came from a place of hope and opportunity. King was laying out a roadmap for what progress would look like. Similarly, the Declaration of Independence was not a list of self-referential, logorrheic splatter. It contained specific, directed complaints combined with a plan of action.

This man merely said I hate the world in a selfishly-worded cry for attention, threw up his hands and gave up. We do not say the same of King or the Founding Fathers.
Don't they own/operate the iAds network?
SDK site still lists Android 4.1 as latest version. :(
Downvotes are for disagreements, too.
Isn't that exactly what they did?

e.g. X.Y.X where:

X = Major,
Y = Minor,
X = Bugfix/Patch/...
I'm surprised they didn't cancel to keep from competing with the hurricane.

On the other hand, there's not much other news than the hurricane, so it might be a smart move.
Pretty much my naivete and experience as well (minus the 20% project because the one I wanted to do would have tipped some sacred cows had it succeeded)...
My mother is a school board member in a rural school district in Northern California. What I can from conversations with her is that it is often not the district's fault when there are issues, but the state's.

The district is forced to come up with a budget months before the state approves their budget, so they don't even know if they are going to get the money they need.

When money is low, they have gone to the community several times trying to pass a property tax to raise funds to keep teachers and maintain their facilities. The community has refused to fund the school each time.

The district is constrained by their contract with the teachers which forces them to keep the most incompetent and highly paid teachers and get rid of the good but non-tenured new teachers (which are the ones that the students want to have).

The way schools are funded are a major source of the problem. For example, they are funded per student with no regard for facilities, transportation, or other fixed costs.

Lastly, there are too many crippling regulations that don't allow for flexibly to meet the various needs of students in varying districts. What works in the large LA County district is just not going to work in rural northern California.

Throwing more regulations, tests, money, etc. at the system is not going to fix it. I really wish that a large group of educators (K-12, post-secondary), administrators, parents, etc. could get together and work out something different, perhaps even radically different.
You might want to be careful with this. I have heard that if you fully eliminate dairy from your diet for prolonged periods you will actually become lactose intolerant. That said, don't take my word, but I advise doing a little research before giving it up completely. It would suck to confirm that after the fact.
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> Considering that most of the comments here are in response to him, his comment clearly added to the discussion.

By your criterion, how would one distinguish between someone "adding to the discussion" and a troll? Or is it your position that trolls add to the discussion, because they elicit responses?
> we continually add features in the name of "flexibility" until we have an unwieldy mess requiring HTML, CSS, Javascript, a framework, and various middleware pieces to make a site. We make a new library to abstract away the complexity, but the cycle repeats and that library is too complex, so a new library is created on top of it to simplify.

Well put.

That cycle of layering (abstraction, addition, complexity and then another layer of abstraction) has been going on since we invented the programmable computer. Machine language got us started but it was a bit on the hard side to put it mildly, so we came up with assembly language. That was fine on simple chips with little instruction sets, but then features were added and platforms multiplied, so we abstracted away the complexity with C. Then we started to solve problems for end users, so we added text- and graphics-mode libraries and the whole thing grew again. Then graphical OS's came along and suddenly object orientation and event handling made a lot of sense and we evolved various languages to do that, including C++. All built on the layer below and the layer below and so on; underneath it all we're directing electrons with little gates made from transistors.

The point is, everyone at any stage of the evolution of computer programming has wished for what you want: a simpler, more expressive language with less 'busy work' (for want of a better term.) Someone creates it, we're happy for a bit and we make amazing things with our new toys, then the pain starts again as the more visionary people among us (like your good self) start to think about what problems they could solve if only they didn't have so much dreadful housekeeping to do and all this stuff to wrangle.

Think about what your world - the web - is built on!
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People aren't homogeneous. This won't be enough to make Linux a better option for the majority of people, but it does mitigate a really severe pain point. I've kept my desktop a Windows machine for years because of gaming, but use Linux on my laptop. Now, it looks like the two crucial publishers for me (Valve and Paradox) are going to support Linux, and honestly that's good enough given I sort of wanted to switch anyways. I'll probably keep my other partition around, but I expect I'll be doing most of my gaming on Linux once this is ready.

And the more people who switch to gaming on Linux for reasons like mine, the more companies will tend to support it.
Downvoted because I disagree with you.
And Window 8 is just confusing.
I live in the US.

The chargers look like they'll work together. For example, the Kindle charger will make my pocket camera light up its charging light, but after a minute or so, it goes out, as if the charge has completed. In fact, though, the battery is still dead. The other combinations of cell phone / camera / Kindle chargers are similar.
Android 4.2 supports Miracast wireless display (similar to airplay mirroring)
The question is not whether attacking the ball is preferred--it is.

The question is whether the forum should censor topics that raise strong feelings about that ball.

Pg said that flat insults without intellectual content (e.g. "you're gay") are not an issue because they quickly get downvoted.

I believe in a curated forum, I just think meta-drama brought up by attention whores is the worst sort of drama--NOT the "uncivil" arguments about various platforms.
Is there a confirmation for this somewhere?
The Pricing on the Phone for the Given specs is very impressive.
Howvwer I would wait for the reviews for the Nexus 4 to come in and wait for a few months. This phone is made by LG and every person I know who has bought any LG telecom product (Phone/Tablet) has had Quality issues with...
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Could be worse. Could be the "Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch".

Although that said, it seems to be worse in the US. Your carriers take the manufacturer name and replace it with their own (Desire HD -> Inspire 4G) or tack it on at the end (Galaxy S2 -> Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch)
I've been waiting for a smaller nexus to hit the stands before I buy my first Android phone but it looks like that won't happen so I may just get the Nexus 4, once it becomes available in New Zealand. I just wonder for how much.
I am curious about responses to skud's call for seeking social justice, it doesn't seem to be addressed here. Personally, I don't have a formed opinion on it...
Windows Phone SDK 8.0: still not available.
The UI is on the lock screen, so plenty of room. More likely (1) Honeycomb style rush job and (2) "everyone should have their oen phone"
$359 here in Canada. Unbelievable price. That's how much I paid for my Galaxy Nexus USED!
I was wondering if there's an option to disable it somewhere.
they seem very much to have the attitude that it doesn't matter if they weed out tons of great candidates as long as they weed out the bozos too

Yes, this is their explicitly stated intention, as I recall.
It seemed to me that he was doing this on purpose as a stylistic choice to convey his frustrations with the system.

Also, it sounds like he teaches math.