skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Those functions should've been defined as

def fizz?(i)
i % 3 == 0
end

def buzz?(i)
i % 5 == 0
end

So that he'd just need to change them once.
Keep it Simple, Stupid
We all want simple and descriptive code. Code that is self documented. Code that makes sense, Code that tells us a story.
Could be skilled in an other field, or just an interesting conversation. If the interview's scheduled for a fixed time anyway, might as well make the best of it.
Eh, maybe. Those are fine interviewing techniques, but I am unconvinced that explaining something technical you've done in the past would really be that different (from a stress-induced difficulty standpoint) than FizzBuzz.
But there isn't a fixed amount of gold. More gold gets mined when the demand for currency rises relative to the price of energy. The price of oil roughly tracks the price of gold not because gold is a magical denominator, but because an ounce of gold represents a certain amount of sunk energy that mined it.
If you understand the Everett interpretation, those experiments stop being spooky-action-at-a-distance. Instead they become a prediction about a system at one locality will interact with a system at another locality when they rejoin.

The trade-off is that your picture of reality has to become much weirder.
I agree with that. I think from a titles point of view it's also worth noting that BD roles at start-ups is 99% about selling, whereas BD at big companies is often more about being a filter for things that a PM might want to 'buy', and shielding them from what they don't. That's part of the reason that the most badass start-up BD people don't come from big company biz dev teams.
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We were new to Hacker News and made a mistake and posted a comment with just our website name) our bootstrap e-commerce effort). We are very sorry about this and would like to know if there anything we can do to reverse this? Thank You in advance for any help/responses.
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His weakest password was on his Apple account, which was his 'backup' email for his Gmail account. That link effectively made his 19 character Gmail password a moot point.
Ask HN: Setting up company vs. Launching beta version, which should go first?
We are at a position like this now, we have three co-founders, our beta version is almost ready to launch, but we haven't legally set up our company and haven't settle any related documents yet. Should we settle all legal and related issues before we officially launch our beta? Or we can just launch at first, keep improving the product iteratively, and set up company legally later at some other appropriate time? Really appreciate for any suggestions and help!
There is a lecture about Triple Town's monetization model that is available online, where they discuss what they did wrong with Triple Town and what they learned from it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH0-9url3KY
Just a note- I believe YC specifically asks that you don't broadcast that you are in the running. As such, you probably won't see many affirmative comments from people who were asked to interview.
How far beforehand would you suggest? Would walking into the interview, handing them the problem, and then telling them that you'll come back in 10/15 minutes to "start" the interview be acceptable?
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i want this for OSX
Please look more closely. This is about the fact that their post about their mobile product took it for granted that web applications was some kind of conquered country for Common Lisp community when it's far from that. Also, their post had that triumphant tone + the Paul Graham name-dropping I referred to.
Yep. They're getting left behind when they should be on the cutting edge. It's sad, really.
It seems to me that, with the ubiquity of smartphones and how powerful they're becoming, it's only a matter of time before there's a constantly-evolving digital facsimile of the real world. We've started to see how, for example, many geo-tagged photos can be reconstructed into a pointcloud (see Microsoft's Photosynth amongst others), and how everyone is now carrying a location-aware camera-computer in their pockets... Projects like streetview would become obsolete.

The possibility for alternate reality games will be immense, but I suspect that's just scratching the surface. We've only had this smartphone technology for what? 5 years or so? And so far all ours uses for this technology have been fairly superficial and mundane (by which I mean, if you'd gone back a decade and asked people "what would you make if you had a smartphone that could do x?" you'd probably get decent predictions of the present day). But in 10, 20 years I imagine it'll have evolved to something far beyond what we can currently imagine.
The price of gold might have remained constant, but that's hardly the binding factor here. All inflation is measured with respect to a basket of goods and if you choose "an ounce of gold" as your basket of goods then under a gold standard you'll get 0 inflation by definition.

Exactly. If you define a new basket of goods to be "one bottle of coca-cola" (let's call it's a "Coka"), then there has been no inflation since coke was first sold! One bottle of coke still costs the same as 1 Coka!
Very elegant and powerful solution to a pretty common problem. Does anyone know if something like this exists for web apps?
Most frustrating thing in the world.

My AppleID password is pretty secure (~25 characters, upper/lower case, alphanumeric, bunch of symbols, etc.) and having to type it in on an iPhone/iPad every time I want to download an app (even a free app, or updating an app I've already purchased) makes me want to cry.
Release IE10 for WinXP, and don't check authentication.
He means that his gmail account was set up to mail a password reset link to a backup email account, which was in this case his apple mail account. After that, all his other accounts were reset by clicking on "forgot password" or the equivalent, which sent password resets to his apple or gmail account.
I've been saying it ever since the iTunes App Store launched and have been saying it again when Windows Phone launched - I'm not interested in platforms that won't allow me to run Firefox.

Of course, you'll see yet again opinions trying to rationalize it as being "in the name of user experience" and "safety".

But then, a couple of years from now, when those people finally realize what a big mistake this was, they won't blame it on themselves.
beat me to comment the same thing - the gold standard. I don't understand why he question marked "real money", i think he thinks the paper money he holds is money and not gold. Let's wait a couple of years
Definitely pretty cool, though it's hard to look at for more than 18 minutes with it on fast forward.

I think it's reprogramming my brain.
I linked Ningle and Caveman in my post and mentioned Clack too. What's your point?

They're relatively unmaintained and I still can't find a templating library for CL that isn't awful.
The line before that is output = "", there will never be any output to overwrite by line output = i. Note that this is output for just one line, not the entire output of the procedure.
For S12 it was emails at about 7pm EST.
Speeding algorithms by shrinking data - new approach to process Big Data
I use Firefox on my Android.
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Apache vs nginx
It is not correct. Quantum entanglement is easy to break, and once broken will not re-establish on its own.
Appears to be very similar to filepicker.io functionality-wise, but has a much cleaner design in my opinion. Good job guys.
Never mind. I just realized the pun, and I can say I feel stupid right now. Sorry to anyone who I may have accidentally offended.
Code reviews and distributed pair programming (for Eclipse we use Saros plugin).
"I find it very strange that people criticize Israel for assassinating terrorist, but say nothing about Obama's kill list or drone strikes."

You should try asking them how they feel about this instead of claiming hypocrisy.
Looks cool. I may want to use for my business. Can you email me - chris@clientbiller.com

Thanks!
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Programming on paper opposite an examiner with a stopwatch is indeed unrealistic. I don't disagree that FizzBuzz is crazy simple as a programming challenge.
None of the paid Rovio games are 99 cents.
He said "experiment", not "toy". Spin it however you want, but nobody's forcing you to be here.
Impact of US Visa and Immigration Policy on Economic Competitiveness
Maybe start a blog? Lots of sites use this to get traction.
so simple--great idea.

This + photoshop mock-ups ftw?
Followed by the observation, that for a 2 liter, the price per ounce is still remarkably close to the original price
Losing every photo of your daughter from her birth to 18 months old is traumatizing. Yes, of course he should have backed it up. Of course it's less traumatizing than surviving a violent crime. It's still traumatizing.
I tried playing Shadow Cities, and the interface was mostly confusing, so I stopped.
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How are you measuring growth on HN? Userbase? Pageviews?
Fracking Database: New Weapon Against 'Sinister Secrecy' of Industry
You don't actually need the modulus operator, although it makes things simpler. Just use (x/3)*3==x instead.
Given that IE 10 (and 9 before it) builds on core Windows APIs only introduced in Windows 7 I'd consider that unlikely. And they definitely won't invest the time and effort of backporting DirectWrite, Direct2D and whatnot to XP (this might even include DirectX 10 and/or 11 along with WARP) which is already out of mainstream support and only get security patches.
I think you missed my point. I'm saying that fizzbuzz is very, very unlikely to be something you should use for evaluating someone's experience.

What I'm pointing out is a fundamental problem with coding problems.

FizzBuzz is a relatively simple problem to solve, so if fizzbuzz fails as a test for coding ability, then it's fairly likely that all coding problems fail.

There's are probably better metrics (faster, more uniform, etc) that you could use to figure out how good a coder is.

For example, one thing I've noticed is that I'm fairly aware of the skill levels of everyone I've ever worked with. I think it might be interesting to see how peers rate each other (A players can tell A players, and so on)- maybe that would be the metric that's most useful. All I know is that FizzBuzz probably isn't it.

One last thing I need to add: the people who are dramatically more productive coders are not always dramatically more productive because they code faster or better. It's often because they enact/enable processes that amplify the other developers. (e.g. the developer who pushes the company to have a hackathon, or the dev who creates machine images preconfigured for deploying test and dev builds).
Pardon if I'm missing something obvious, but what is the significance of the colors?
I'm lucky. My university deleted my old inbox ages ago!
I think messaging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing) has always been an important aspect of OOP that was somehow "missed".

"OOP, defined in the purest sense, is implemented by sending messages to objects." - http://www.inf.ufsc.br/poo/smalltalk/ibm/tutorial/oop.html

For varying reasons, people focused on inheritance. In my opinion, inheritance is bad (at least the over-use of).
You are correct and I should have wrote that note differently. I moved some high traffic files to some endpoints I have where bandwidth isn't a concern to change the formula a bit (primary) and the rest are back to using basic S3 for now. The bandwidth is still being consumed, however now it's easier on the wallet.

After looking more closely at the differences for pricing between S3/CloudFront I realize it's appears cheaper to be on CloudFront. I assumed wrong that CloudFront data-out was billed in addition to S3 because of the way it's notated on the usage page ("AWS Data Transfer (excluding Amazon CloudFront)"). To prove it I ran two reports on CF (left) and S3 (right): http://cl.ly/image/0q0y3u2X0g1a and you can tell where I made the change, as well data is only counted on the service in question and not on both.

Can anyone else confirm the above?
Personal background: I work in a company with ~80 employees owned by a company that totals around 300 employees that was just bought by a company that is... big.

While there are some good points, many of the points seem lacking in experience and understanding of how business works.

* Don't be a manager/supervisor

These are a necessary evil when you reach certain sizes. Not everybody can manage. Somebody has to handle the politics of clients/investors/whoever. Not everyone can code/draw/test/sell/whatever.

* Provide interest free loans...

Maybe this is a country/cultural specific issue, but this is a bad idea because it changes the relationship between the employer and the employee as well as can create favorites among employees. It's one thing to ask for an advance on your paycheck, but a loan is a really bad idea. Banks offer loans and lines of credit for a reason.

* Each employee must run his/her own open source project regardless of company work

It is generally bad form to tell employees what they should do in their free time. We have a lives outside of work and whether it's an open source project, community work, or raising our families. Ever heard of burnout? Everyone needs a creative break.

* Don't hire anyone who just supervises team members

Sometimes this is a necessary evil. See comment about managers above.

* Make sure work is fun.

It's a job, we're paid to work. Employers shouldn't make it unenjoyable, but it's not their job to entertain.

* Don't peek into employee desktop/laptop & spies their actives.

Why not? Do you have something to hide?

* When employee quits ,don't disable his/her email account ASAP :P

This is a common practice and a very important security issue, especially if you signed an employment agreement as well as an NDA regarding the terms of access to company property. When you quit, you forfeit all access to company property. "Your" email address is actually on loan to you from the company.

Edit: formatting
naw, trust is fine. trust is pretty specific in this context
For monopoly type things it's not your power in the new market that counts, it's your power in the old market. People are often confused about this because the last time Microsoft was so succesful in extending its monopoly from desktop to browser that it nearly wiped out every alternative browser and peaked at something ridiculous like 90% market share, so there's longstanding confusion about which monopoly they were punished for abusing.

(Just checked Wikipedia, apparently several sources pegged them at about 95% share around 2002-2004).
It sounds like you're screening out people who question the status quo and always try to be working on something meaningful. Is that what you want?

In a good programming job, when given a task, it's an excellent response to say, "Why on earth would I want to do that?" (Though maybe not worded quite like that.) That way you get context, refine the requirements, and eliminate unnecessary work. If that behavior is required by the job, then you should expect it in the interview.

It's an important point. If the job involves writing FizzBuzz type code, give them that in the interview. If the job is writing kernels and databases and distributed whatevers, go ahead and hand out some hardcore computer science questions. If the job is fiddling with CSS and filling out TPS reports, be honest with yourself about that, and go ahead and hire some mediocre programmers, because anyone else is just going to get bored anyway.

It's kind of a sore point because when I interviewed for my current job, they grilled me on robust algorithms for keeping data stores synchronized. Cool, I like this stuff. I got hired. Guess what? We don't even use database transactions here. I'm serious, people consider them too complicated. I spend my time in meetings, in the bug tracker, doing code reviews, occasionally coding something less complicated than what I cut my programming teeth on 20 years ago. That's the actual job. FizzBuzz misses the point for jobs like this.
Global Surveillance in an Age of Total Data Proliferation
Note that this is "teleportation" of quantum information and not teleportation of matter. To the layman, referring to this sort of thing as teleportation seems a bit misleading to me.
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What proprietary software does those things? It sounds like you're throwing out absurd imaginary examples to support a position.
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I was going to write exactly the same thing. +1

With Pimsleur you will get vocab, simple grammar and canned phrases. With that you can build other simple phrases, at least that was my story.
How would you do that? Quantum teleportation requires the transmission of 2 classical bits for every qubit, by the only method I know about.
invision?
What Lives in Your Belly Button? Study Finds "Rain Forest" of Species
Calendar Events and Permissions in iOS 6
Have a look at ROS.org, its the same system you jsut reinvented (even with kinect intergration!). You write typed messages and it generates c++, python and lisp interfaces. It is also a build system, logging and data playback.
This was covered by the story. They didn't do that. In fact, they made efforts to discourage individual shops from doing it.
> I wonder if schoolchildren in 100 years from now will find quantum mechanics and instantaneous transportation similarly rudimentary and easy to understand.

Possibly, but I doubt they'll ever find it intuitive. The fact is, we build up our intuition on the "macroscopic" scale, and that just doesn't apply at the quantum scale. So there'll always be a level of weirdness when you learn about it for the first time regardless of how much further our theories advance beyond what we know now.
Dalek ballet.

At least, that's how my brain feels now.
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It wasn't just an important aspect, it was the aspect. I'm glad the author included the link to Alan Key's email message because it really brings home that fact.
I probably spent $500+ moving that beast across the country and back!
Stewart did Flickr, so yeah.

Remember the power of the usability study people!
credibility?
Have you used OpenMP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP)? It has the flavor of parfor -- you identify the embarrassingly parallel loops in your C or Fortran, put in something like

#pragma openmp parallel for

in front of them, and your code transfers through pretty much intact -- it handles the thread wrappers. You can add other pragmas for the times when you need locking.

This is a much less intrusive setup than CUDA; you don't have to worry about loading data, or double/float conflicts.

The OpenMP extensions could be a very good fit for scientific programming on this coprocessor.
Is Cord-Cutting Feasible Yet?
I'm surprised more people haven't done this as it would seem an obvious way to solve the problem.

I've recently been in several large corporations and they won't support anything below IE8 now. Most are dropping support for IE8 after IE10 becomes more widely available.
By using the term 'cloud' I think they're pitching it against traditional sat-nav style apps that require a large up-front map-pack download.
This article makes me nauseous. How on earth is this "hacker news"? And who the hell is voting this garbage up? Please tell me I'm not surrounded by SEO guys.
or http://crossbrowsertesting.com

I am a founder so I am biased. :)
Also reminded me of Vinge's Rainbow's Edge.
To look pretty.
Before I quit The Daily WTF, the joke answer to your question would be "because it's resilient against someone changing the value of 3."
Facebook's datacenter in hot and humid NC
This is exactly what Object-Oriented programming was supposed to be. Passing messages to objects that know how to respond to them, without you needing to know how they do it or them needing to know why you asked.
But it is not default. Does a normal user have an urge to change the default browser even it performs worse than non-default browser http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/12o9oy/why_is_chrom... ?
In my view there is a difference between maintaining/allowing existing settlements and constructing new ones. I agree that the issue of existing settlements has some more difficult questions, because it is, as you say, a serious thing to talk about evicting people from where they currently live.

That said, the construction of new settlements seems like a totally unnecessary provocation that undermines the prospect of a future Palestinian state. It very much gives me the impression that Israel is not serious about a two-state solution (in contrast with the withdrawal from Gaza, which very strongly had given me the opposite impression). I don't think it's appropriate to say what Palestinians should or should not "mind" having around; a major element of (future) sovereignty is a people being able to make their own decisions about immigration, as Israel does now. And while Israeli settlers may not be violent "as a whole," there is certainly a noticeable incidence of Israeli settler violence that targets Palestinians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settler_violence

I agree that empirically, a lot of violence is waged on Israelis by Palestinians. However I think it's wrong to frame them as an inherently violent people. You might have said the same thing about Jordanians in 1967, but now Israel and Jordan are allies. Likewise the PLO, which called for the destruction of Israel in its founding charter, has since recognized Israel's right to exist and rejected violence and terrorism. I'm not denying current Palestinian violence, which is awful.
Basing dollars on gold is most definitely the reason why the price stayed the same, and why it started rapidly rising afterwards.
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Yea, but it can get pricey pretty quickly
Do you work at Valve? :-)
This is very reminiscent of EA's Majestic game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_(video_game)

It was like X-Files conspiracy theories meets The Game (the Michael Douglas movie). Sadly, it didn't last very long. I'm hoping this will do better.
Hi!

Thank you, this was our goal (not to be similar with filepicker.io, but to have a clean, straightforward way to handle files). :-)
Data Vulnerability Platform Risk I/O Raises $5.25M Series A
Risk I/O, a vulnerability intelligence platform, has raised $5.25 million in Series A funding, with the round lead by U.S. Venture Partners. Risk I/O plans to use the money to expand their product development, sales and marketing.
Hmmm, maybe that is it then. I'd be surprised if I was getting that data rate on my 3G connection (iphone 4s, at&t).

I'm still shocked it happened so quickly though. I guess 5 GB isn't what it used to be! ;)
I don't think it's useless. As I understand, quantum teleportation would allow for a massive increase in bandwidth. That's a pretty good result, and who knows, maybe they'll get rid of the interconnecting cables in the future, as well.
I too am tired of the general ninja/rockstar terminology. To me though, this is different. It's referring to the aesthetic of their self-contained competition. To me, it's like playing a video game in which you are a space marine, which is already a thoroughly explored concept. It's just a framework on which to apply the particular mechanics of this site. For instance, they are saying things like "code wars ninja", not "Rails ninja". To me, that's different. To you, maybe not.