skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Common knowledge as an indicator of business fit has been proven to be useless (and should be obvious on examination). Knowing which small town is in which country is simply irrelevant to whether a candidate apply for a management position can improve morale or productivity, or whether a candidate applying for a marketing position has any idea on how to convince customers to purchase a product.

Common knowledge simply has no relation to actual skill in a set field and neither does it have any relation to intelligence. This is doubly so true today with any of these questions being answerable within seconds on a smartphone, and the thoughts instead turned to actually using the information to accomplish something useful.
No, meteor defense can get in line behind heart disease, automobiles, suicide, gun violence, war, police, and all the other things astronomically (heh) more likely to kill people, therefore more deserving of our attention.
I don't believe anything is priced down due to this news. If I'm not mistaken the free shipping threshold was actually raised to $100 in the last week or two.

I think that inventory liquidation is typically done by a 3rd party in situations like this.
"In many respects asm.js is an admission of defeat"

Going with a worse-is-better solution for the purposes of backwards compatibility is always an admission of defeat. But it's a very practical one. It's an admission of defeat that has made Intel and Microsoft billions, for example.

"while still being able to claim that it is JavaScript."

But it is JavaScript. The ECMA-262 spec says how to interpret it.

"That could be achieved by generating JS from the bytecode, which would turn the problem into a temporary one that disappears as browsers are updated, instead of yet another time and resource draining wart on the web platform."

And then Web developers have to ship two binaries. Foisting the problem of backwards compatibility onto Web developers for the sake of making a nicer bytecode parser doesn't seem like a win to me.
He was already going 60-65. He just admitted to going 70-80 on the freeway; and, given the other cars, the speed limit is probably 60.

I love speed as much as the next guy; but this was a review that, as far as I could gather, was CNN's version of peer reviewing the Time's article... and finding it wanting. A normal person isn't taking their car to the track. TopGear already did that test on an even more suited car. If you were testing the range of a Bugatti Veyron to see if it was useful as a commuter car, would you go flat out the whole way? Or, more realistically, if you were testing a Subaru WRX STi, or an Evo X, for its "normal driving conditions" range, would you be keeping your revs at 4-5k the whole way?
Peter Cohen on the Tesla–NYT drama
The Pirate Bay: We will sue copycat site for copyright infringement
Word is they were going in different directions.
You're right. It looks like 65-75 is common throughout the country. Guess I haven't looked at a posted speed limit in a while.
Give SolarVPS a look. http://www.solarvps.com

It is easy to change resources, request additional IPs, and use the built-in DNS interface. $17.50/mo gets you a Linux with 2gb ram, 20gb disk, 1tb bandwidth and 1 CPU core.

The support team is 24/7, and VPSs come with a server monitoring service (SolarRay) that can alert you if one of your servers or services go down.

Also, a "One Click Application Install" feature just went into public beta. It might be helpful for what you are thinking about doing because it'd let you install, remove, backup, and
restore multiple WordPress instances (among 200+ other apps) on your VPS in a snap.

Full disclosure: I am a developer at SolarVPS. :)
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I like Heroku's easy git integration. "git push heroku master" is such a simple way to deploy your app.

I think your app has to use postgresql in order to deploy on Heroku, though.
An app I made to listen to my notes while doing chores. Helps with learning.
These... honestly aren't that bad. Not that I know all of them, but many of them, totally. And those that I don't are pretty context dependent, particularly those about sectors of the economy that have been de-emphasized or historical tidbits that have been de-emphasized.

Replace "what city produces the most laundry machines" with "which American city is known for producing cars" and "from where domestically do we get sardines" with "what part of the United States is known for producing wine"?

Note also that there are some ostensibly hard questions that seem blindingly obvious to people here now: "Where is Korea?"
If you want to see how awesome it is, here's what you do. Purchase some tickets for a sporting event, and schedule a reservation for a restaurant afterwards. Make sure you purchase the tickets online and get the reservation through something like OpenTable so the confirmations get to your email.

Enjoy!
Not sure if you can call it an app if it is deeply integrated with the system.
Perhaps, but they were all in college, it was a very different FB. This article was written my sophomore year of college, and I hadn't even had a FB account yet.
You may be right, it may be exactly what he wanted to happen.

The trouble I have thus far is the information is insufficient to make a fair determination of who is right and who is wrong. People are having knee-jerk reactions and harassing the gym without fully knowing the story, and yes, that is truly unfortunate.

If you are ready to close the case on this one simply by a developer claiming he wasn't paid, well, you may wish to rethink your logic with that one.

Has anyone vouched for the credibility of this developer? Have more details surfaced as to the extent of the invoice dispute? Without those answers it's unfounded to hold anything against this gym solely based on the developers claims that he wasn't paid.
Regardless of the context, it's still a fact that that information is readily available in books.
Post author here. I wrote up this simple tutorial because I was legitimately surprised how easy the basics are with Mailgun and wanted to show my appreciation.

I'm curious to hear how other people have tackled this problem and what gotchas they found along the way. The devil is in the details with this sort of thing.
Because it is inevitable that an exec will be in a position where it is expected that (s)he knows something but does not.

There are many execs who will then react with a "willingness to stand up for themselves", and god knows that culture exists at some companies. Screening for people who have a different emotional response results in (imho) a higher-functioning team.
Nuke Map allows you to enter the yield of your choice.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
>If you've ever played Civilization, agriculture is a prerequisite to doing any sort of technological development.

What on earth do you think this proves?
Many of these have ambiguous answers, like the country that makes the best optical lenses, who invented photography, axe handle wood etc. There are different answers because they are either subjective (Leica, I presume he meant, but Zeiss would be a solid choice too), Photography was possible the french guy Niépce, or Fox Talbot in the UK and there were many US contenders for the title also. Axe handles are made out of many types of wood...

These questions seem rather pointless, it's a case of I know this, so you should too. If Edison had been born on the west coast he would have likely asked a different set of questions.
For me it's the exact opposite. I come in at 9.30am and leave at 6.30pm. Most of my coworkers leave around 4pm, which leaves me 2-2.5 hours at the end of the day to really get shit done.

I'm not a morning person. Understanding and accepting this has helped me manage my time much more effectively.
Great! I'll be in touch soon with the details!
recently learned in another thread that Google+ has exactly this feature although it seems no one really knows about it. Kind of odd thinking they have those kind of great features integrated in a pretty solid social network and aren't really advertising them to leverage their current position.
Completely.

And I would say the secondary failure is in the advice given to Broder over the phone.

Had the people on the phone just told him to charge longer, anything Broder said about the extra time charging would have come across as a simple, forgettable nitpick. It's extraordinary events like getting stranded that readers remember.
Always love how people throw out "gun violence" as if "gun violence"(as if there is such a thing) is so distinguishable that it should be focused on above "violence".
That's natural gas seeping out of the ground.
It's somewhat of a trick question, as the speed of sound can vary greatly depending on the material it's propagated through. In air, it varies according to temperature and altitude.
That perspective varies by the individual. I know people who have taken money and consider themselves to owe their investors a return. The depression experienced from a lack of ability to deliver that return can be extreme.

There are also lots of funding deals that are loans as well.
Final design, factory prototype, 900+ lumens
I'll give it some thought. Thanks!
Hummm another app that will know where I go, what I eat, dress, with whom I speak, meet, have sex, what I read, what music I like, and where I am all the time, sweeet and free. A real killer app. I hope one day It can make choices for me, ow wait, It is already happening.
It's both. I believe Apple used the iPhone name and then had a spat with Cisco about it, which was settled. When they wanted to introduce the term iOS, they worked out a deal with Cisco beforehand (I was an intern at Cisco at the time and remember hearing about it).
Looking at the Tesla Model S website[0] both 19" and 21" wheels (not tires) are available. The 19" wheels have 245/45R19 tires and the 21" wheels have 245/35R21. Punching that in to a tire size calculator[1] shows the following:

Tire Size Comparison

Specification Sidewall Radius Diameter Circumference Revs/Mile Difference

245/45-19 4.3in 13.8in 27.7in 87.0in 729 0.0%

245/35-21 3.4in 13.9in 27.8in 87.2in 727 0.3%

Which is a 0.3% difference in total circumference. Which is not a significant source of discrepency.

[0] - http://www.teslamotors.com/models/specs
[1] - http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html (I used the non-java form at the bottom of the page)
OK, I'll explain why I submitted this. I read the blogpost (but not all of the HN discussion). The mention of Chocolate Duke3D was prominent in the blogpost but was something I wouldn't have looked into had I not had the time to read to the bottom of the post, which is often the case.

That said, I figured other people are in that same boat. But more importantly than that, I think the quality of the project deserves the extra (if redundant) spotlight. The blog post in its own is a great read, but the author went way beyond a normal open-source contribution by improving and making convenient a large section of archaic, clunky code. This is an incredibly cool, well-intentioned project...someone devoted his time to doing the kind of work that programmers hate to do for their own in-production code, with the goal of educating...and the code repo and the good-willed spirit behind it deserves the attention.
They're significantly less discriminatory than you would think.

Keep in mind that he's not interviewing every single person in the country, he's interviewing college graduates.

Not only was having a college education not as prevalent as it is now, the sole fact that the people who are taking this test have graduated from college eliminates every single one of the "discriminatory" accusations you are making. If anything, the college admissions process (an obvious prerequisite of the test) is discriminatory, not the test itself.
While we're on the topic -- there's also http://mailchimp.com/ if you want to outsource the job of sending subscription e-mail.
What is the point that you are trying to make? If somebody did not know how to read or write, they were not a suitable candidate anyway, and that's not discriminatory against illiterate people, like looking for someone with a maths degree is not discriminatory towards people without one.
I would prefer to never see "expired or unknown link" again.
Where you work your company spies on you with RescueTime? That sounds terrible.
They don't need to communicate immediately, but when I ask a question to a developer I need them to get back to me on that same day. For most of my projects I cannot afford to wait until the next day for an answer. I emphasize this in every email I send. It usually goes something like, "I understand if you're busy working on something else at this very moment. However, this is for a project due tomorrow morning so I would appreciate a response before lunch/end-of-the-day."
Only if we assume that our mitigation efforts against those other problems would be lacking for resources, if we sent some resources to work on space object detection/defense.

If we're putting as much money and effort into automobile safety as society wants/will allow, there's no 'loss' in taking additional funds to tackle the next problem down the line. And so on.
You can, but some people have a big conscience and want to deliver on the expectations people have of them, so some people can't just "walk away."

It's those people who are suicidal in failed startup scenarios.
+1 for use of ampersand ligature in "&c", i.e., "et cetera"
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I'm not sure what the difference is between a GNU/Linux user and a person who is using GNU/Linux because they don't want to use Windows.

If you look at places like /r/linux on reddit the Linux fanboys there are practically wetting themselves over steam.

I agree that more open source games would be a good thing, but I don't see it as necessarily more important than having access to the unedited recordings of a piece of music.
I wouldn’t say you were boasting, I’d say you were lying. You happen to know off the top of your head that:
African black wood is the heaviest lumber. That’s the first thing you thought of? Really?
What wood kerosene barrel would have been made of in the 20’s.
What the voltage of a street car was in the 20’s.
Where Spitsbergen is (unless you have been there or in the area).
What war material Chile exported to the USA in WW1.
What the highest rise of tide is in North America .
What state has the largest amethyst mine.
Who invented the modern paper making machine (modern in the 20’s).
What ingredients are in the best white paint.
What the populations of Germany, Japan, England, Australia, and Russia are.
What part of Germany you get toys from.

Uh-huh. You should go on Jeopardy, you would make Ken Jennings look like a clown.
Yea I find this curious as well, what are the odds of that happening? How many other chunks of rock could be heading our way right now that are too small to be spotted?
Github does a metric f%ckton more than hosting git repositories.
It's the users that pay the cost, instead of the developers. Mobile is winning the app war for a reason.
Sure, you can walk away from a professionally managed fund, hopefully with your name intact, but I bet it's not so easy to walk away from friends, family, and small angel investors who believed in you. The mental burden of failure, of disappointing those closest to you, must weigh heavy.
Title should be "on a map" really.
How would you defend against it? I don't think we have anything that could do that.

Meteor defense relies on early detection, but we are unable to spot these until after they already hit (and by then it's too late).
Why are any of these good interview questions?
Gazelle does at least 5.5km/s.
While context also has some part to play, in general I am with you in what you are trying to say.

BTW, are fictional characters counted as references? ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes#Knowledge_and_s...

From that article, In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes claims he does not know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, as such information is irrelevant to his work. Directly after having heard that fact from Watson, he says he will immediately try to forget it. He says he believes that the mind has a finite capacity for information storage, and so learning useless things would merely reduce his ability to learn useful things.

EDIT: Somewhat relevant (and OT) comic... http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
You are a bit outdated, tooling is a bit better nowadays.

Java integrates everything you need to parse and generate XML. Most API are XSD driven (either through annotation in the code, or with the mapping code generated from the XSD), so you get plenty of types like data, int, ... You also get streaming parser (pull or push) and DOM.

Obviously, that is no longer plain XML, that is XML + XSD + Namespaces.

The J2SE (not JEE) also has built-in support to expose and consume webservices, without requiring to worrying about WSDL and the rest.

At the end of the day, that does not mean that dealing with XML is a great experience. Most real life XML is awful.
And well although the basic tooling is there, that is in the usual java fashion with factories of factory of creator of generator and very little "high level" utility.
Russian state TV claims that the meteor was intercepted by an anti-ballistic missile system, which (if true) means the meteor was struck by a 10kt nuclear warhead.
I'm very intrigued by this too. The consensus though seems to be that they came from completely different directions... here's a diagram that's making the rounds in Reddit[1]. It looks like this meteor landed in Russia hours before 2012DA14 even came close to being inside the moon's orbit, which makes it hard to imagine how one could have affected the other.

[1] http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/html/Years/2013/February/i...
"The idea is to provide wordpress hosting, support and security, theme development, for a specific market which is under saturated."

I guess python/java wouldn't work
I love researching things. I spend way too much time on Wikipedia and watching documentaries. That doesn't mean I remember small details about everything.

For example: I remembered reading about the topics relating to some of the test questions, but was unable to answer most of them.

Remembering a bunch of relatively useless facts does not make you a capable professional.
Your ideas about Java and XML are very dated. JAXB makes it essentially transparent to convert an object to XML and back, and with JAX-RS I can give you a REST API that returns XML or JSON, your pick, for basically no effort on my part. These are part of the Java EE 6 web profile, so basically everybody gets them for free. Most of us don't "install libraries" anymore so much as add four lines to our Maven POMs.

Point #2 isn't very strong. Every language has good support for both technologies these days.

Point #3 is absurd. If you know JS and you know HTML, you're not far from the basics of XML. If you're contemplating JSON as a replacement, you're either assuming our poor web developer is really stupid or you're comparing apples to oranges.

In general, your argument here is that JSON is shorter and more popular. Sure. But unless your top concern is bandwidth (hey, maybe it is) there might exist other technical reasons to make the choice which are less childish.
There's work underway to make Unity faster. I expect Raring Ringtail 13.04 to have a lot of improvements in that area.
I love the analytics that Mailgun is able to provide. We integrated the analytics into Mixpanel where we track all kinds of funnel metrics. Adding email boxes to apps is a necessity and Mailgun turned out to be a great solution for us. founder, kanban2go
All of those are what I would call common knowledge that an average human being should know.

I don't mean this in a rude way, but if you honestly believe an average human being will/should know all these, prepare yourself for a life of abject disappointment.
I was googling Zawinski's law because I was admittedly unsure of its exact origin and found this pretty good discussion http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/150254/what-d...
Look at the top 5 sites in your niche and copy their back link profile.
Don't forget "passenger trains". Neatly dressed up to look like the express service, but chock full o' nuclear goodness. The roof peels back, and you can launch straight from the rails.
Downvoted for using the term "entitlement generation." Seriously, get over yourself.
Balanced adds events and webhooks
Absolutely sublime video. So many things about our world mixing in. I suggest complimenting it with the full tune, that plays in the background: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN87dn1ZPhw
Airframe - Portable Smartphone Car + Travel Mount
Well, my three month old android phone says: Your device is not compatible with this version. I guess I'll check it out in one year and nine months when I get my next phone.
I don't work for Google. However, I have never heard of their interview process involving trivia factoids. There are several other companies in the valley that are guilty of this crap but Google at least focuses on algorithm questions, scaling etc.

To give you an example of what I am talking about:

1. Figure out if a binary tree is a mirror image of another binary tree.

vs

2. Describe X where X is a language specific feature. More amusingly, in machine learning interviews, pick one out of millions of algorithms that are out there that the interviewer knows very well, demand that the candidate answer and derive every single part of that algorithm.

There is a distinct difference between demanding that people rely on memory to solve a problem vs problem solving abilities to solve a problem. While both are certainly useful for a job, I am honestly not sure how exclusively devoting yourself to the former is better than the latter.
Patrick is likely sleeping (it's 3am in Japan), and modesty may prevent him from saying so, but he (patio11) is the most readable, and thus most useful, person writing about SEO here.

That he hasn't already been mentioned may reflect the fact that he hasn't been spending as much time writing about SEO lately than about conversion optimization, Rails security, and running email drip campaigns.

You can learn a lot from him just by reading the top few comments sorted by date, relevancy, and points:
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Ap...

As an added bonus add a few keywords such as seomoz or seobook.

As a second bonus, this post contains a meta-lesson.
I was wondering why there was so much video footage of people riding in their vehicles' when the meteorite smacked Russia. Everyone had dash-cams in their cars because they were afraid of falling victim to a street brawl.

It makes so much sense now!
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