skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is more interesting to me, is the fact that flowers are beautiful and bees and people seem to universally recognize this. There is a sophisticated information exchange going with respect to how flowers evolved to attract pollinators. Co-evolution with information exchange across species. See David Deutsch's 'The Beginning of Infinity' for a fascinating discussion on objective beauty...
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...if I think about it, the few companies that did rewrite their codebase and benefited from this were the ones that were their own customers of their code as JS and Twitter both fall in here. You're right, it's probably not worth it if you're selling "software as a product", but when you are basically an saas business or even better, you're doing in-house dev, and everything runs on your servers, you are free to even run simultaneously multiple version of your thing for different tasks.
yes, even the oooold intel graphics can do this.
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When I hear about the overinflated cost of medicine I can't help but think of ties to the overinflated cost of education. While I believe in paying specialized, skilled laborers a rate commensurate with the value they provide, pretty much every med school grad I've ever known (specialized or not) shrugs at the notion of graduating with upwards of $250k+ in debt like it's this inescapable force of nature. They know how the system works, and they'll make it up soon. But therein lies the problem, as the costs of that $250k loan are already baked into inflated salaries across the board.

If there's a financial disincentive (aside from just greed) to drive down costs of care because you're looking at so much debt right out of the gate, it doesn't set much of a precedent to look for cheaper alternatives.
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The whole system is messed up. This is due to a lot of factors - great information asymmetry, shady at times process of drug approval - with lots of missing and massaged data (Ben Goldcare - "Bad Pharma"), the urgency when you need help, the fact that politicians refuse to admit that healthcare is not a moral play and free and efficient market, the weak regulators, the lobbying, the revolving door between regulators, corporations and politics, the huge and complicated laws that you must comply with ... I don't think there are many entities that cannot be held responsible for a part of that mess.
Respect is earned. Treating another person with immediate decency is an honorable thing, but to give respect freely indicates a weakness that will be exploited. They were there to do a job, not have tea and chat about local charity.
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Only 50 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload? I guess it would be okay for rural areas, but it's awfully obsolete for cities, even today, let alone for 2023 - at least for an European country, especially one like France. And why such low upload speeds?
If you'd like to know more about why the U.S. lags insanely far behind in the broadband race, and why we pay ~ 4 times as much for our inferior service, check out David Cay Johnston's The Fine Print. I don't recommend it for anyone with blood pressure issues.
> Java was the first strongly-typed language

Is that supposed to be a joke? Java isn't remotely close to being the first strongly-typed or even the first statically-typed language.
Doesn't the gpl v3 license preclude this from use on most websites?
'But Google Inc's Android brand did even better, with a full 70 percent giving it the thumbs up.'

Always wondered how many of the Android users really knew that it's from Google. Any stats?

There was even a great discussion about how Google was planning to kill the Android brand. Maybe they have realized that people don't associate Google with Android.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256888

Edit: Added link
The problem is it's really hard to test a selection of real world sites without using a proxy.

Got any suggestions on a better way of testing real-world sites?
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What would really be cool…

Build the windows UI On top of Linux and open-source the whole thing.

And for mobile, put Windows apps on android.
Yes, I know what a thermal breaker is, and that the switch itself cannot be affected by firmware, so he is correct in that statement, but that is so obvious that doesn't really need mentioning. What I mean is that the protection that is intended by the thermal switch might be cleverly defeated. The thermal switch is usually mounted on the (metal frame) chassis, not always close to the parts that would catch fire. What I am suggesting is that one might find a way to cause a paper jam, and then get the paper to ignite before the chassis were heated enough to cause the thermal switch to open. It might even be dependent upon a specific model(s). I doubt it is possible to prevent without very careful placement of thermal switch(es). The kind of placement that would defy efficient manufacturing ideals, and possibly even user-safety-inspired design practices. TBH, I don't think it is likely to be a reliable ignition method. Besides, Randall Hyde has shown us the most satisfying way to get rid of printers (buckshot).
You're right. Who needs realistic expectations?
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Back and forths like are annoying and make this community look pedantic. You know damn well you sometimes deal with people who simply don't respond to your niceties. It's a fact of life, and the commenter was simply pointing that out.

You don't know the situation. Why does it have to be his fault? Some people out there really are assholes and really do just want to take advantage of people.
Good luck! You'll get there.
well, France has plenty (and still builds) plenty of high speed rail lines. So one does not necessarily prevent the other.
The vast majority of the people "responsible" were not doing anything wrong or illegal. Who is responsible? Anyone who:

-Sold a house at an inflated price

-Bought a house at an inflated price

-Sold a mortgage to someone who could not afford it

-Bought a mortgage that they could not afford

-Sold MBS

-Bought MBS

-Used or provided leverage to buy MBS

-Insured these transactions with derivatives or other instruments

Who, precisely, would you like to arrest, and for what? This was not the result of fraud (although I'm sure there was some of that) but the result of a systematic setup for failure. Even if you cleaned up all of the fraud, it still would have happened.
You probably need to use the other modifier keys. But it's weird... it's not even a PC-101! I guess Google has really gone back to the roots... PC/XT or PC/AT :P

PC/XT keyboard: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/IBM_5150_...

Discussion briefly mentions PgUp: https://plus.google.com/+JeffJarvis/posts/g9gcXLPuVVQ
Some things never change, ever since the public Internet the Ziff-Davis brand has become the kiss of death for everything that touches it... only a matter of time now...
Google pagerank:

http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-pagerank
The credit crisis was not caused by fraud.
Bit of a non-issue really, surely?

As for Microsoft being perceived as "cooler", maybe it's because their parents are all using Apple products (mine, well into their 50s, are MacBook and iPhone users, and my 62 year old aunt is the same). Maybe it's something to do with how they get hand-me-down devices and so associate Apple with two/three-year-old tech.

Interesting though that they count 18 - 29 as "young adult". I'm 29 and consider myself well over the technological hill compared to the whippersnappers working in tech now. It also seems kind of pointless to ask 18 - 29 year olds what they consider "cool"; I'd have thought an age group like 13 - 18 would be more informative.
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thanks for sharing... it is always to dream the happy path, this was a real good heads up...
I always that thought that the only language that made logical sense for philosophers to use was prolog.
> OO can be seen as a 'special case' of FP

That's quite a claim you're making here. I, on the other hand, pretend that object-orientedness and functionalness are orthogonal concepts.
Eight minutes, 21 points, zero specifics.

I don't understand the 37signals love sometimes.
I think in addition to the measures he says, if you're hiring for a web position, it's good to make sure they understand how the stuff they're using functions. If they don't have a good grasp of how http works / url parameters / that kind of thing, then they can have some nice looking code which seems to work, but has faulty assumptions that can be security and bug nightmares down the road.

Of course, you could always take smart people and train them - but seriously, who does that anymore?
The Intel version of the Surface is an ultrabook-class i5 CPU. It is dozens of times faster than the ARM one. They're just not comparable at all. True, it has much less battery life, but also significantly more processing power... enough to run full scale Photoshop.

Intel has much to fear from ARM, but not from NVidia... especially big.little. Outside of NVidia-specific project Shield, it doesn't sound like Tegra 4 has any design wins. In fact, NVidia's big.little architecture is arguably a failure. Surface RT == NVidia Tegra 3 with big.little (btw: Surface RT doesn't use big.little features at all. Perhaps Microsoft is trying to keep SurfaceRT code portable across different ARM chips). In comparison, the iPad4 is an Apple custom ARM chip, and the Nexus 4 is Qualcomm Snapdragon. Current Nexus 7 is Tegra3, but the next one is rumored to be Qualcomm Snapdragon as well.

Basically, NVidia is weakening in the mobile sector. ARM overall is strong, but big.little is arguably a failure at this point.
I'd love to check it out, but I had too much coffee.
Pun intended.
How to Deploy phpBB to the Cloud
Ok... I was under the impression that 37Signals hired mainly remote workers. Could this account for the lack of a white board?

Personally, I use a whiteboard when hiring. It's not the deciding factor... but it's a part of the bigger picture. As part of a small start up I need to know right then and there if they know what I need them to know.
Believe in Yourself
I use to hold that attitude as did a lot of the people I worked with. Just said 'tell me what you want the thing to do and I'll make it happen', didn't really care about the business side of things.

That changed a few years ago (can't remember the exact reason why) when I started learning about the industry I was working in (because it was something I wanted to know about) and saw my work getting better and coming back with fewer and fewer change requests and a couple of Oh, that was a great way of doing X. You get it!

Made a world of difference.
At ITA Software, we found in-person quizzing to be a lot less useful an indicator than looking at puzzle (or other) code someone had written "offline".

We also found puzzles to be a useful talent magnet. If you're Google (or perhaps 37Signals) you don't need a talent magnet. If you're a small company nobody's heard of, one can be quite helpful.
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> Plants are usually charged negatively and emit weak electric fields. On their side, bees acquire a positive charge as they fly through the air. ...

> How then do bees detect electric fields?

Why is the answer not as simple as: The bees feel an attractive force when they are near the flower?
Because no one will hire a writer based on his knowledge of long words.)

Excellence in the grammar is also irrelevant.
I think people are up voting this one based off just the message, rather than the content. The message is important, I guess. Plus a lot of 37signals staffer's and friends use HN - they will likely be up voting this based off a Facebook post or similar. ~10 of the 21 points being users affiliated with 37signals is very likely.
Single Letter Variables
The article I read claimed it was an equity round with some strange preferred stock that had punitive warrants and other guarantees which effectively nixed the value of the existing common stock without technically repricing it. So two of the points are irrelevant (#2 and #4). I can easily imagine a source saying "over three" or "over three if you add up all of the guarantees" and having that become four (#3) while there is no denial of the general claim of punitive liquidation terms. Which leaves #1 as partially wrong and #5 as a he-said-she-said.

PrivCo is contextualizing an apparent leak with what it thinks it knows about the company finances and making a judgment call about the reliability of their sources. That isn't horrible journalism and if they are right this piece is miles above most of what passes for tech journalism online. And if it is wrong they have just tanked their reputation Judith Miller style and posters like the one above will be able to support their claims in the future.

In the meantime, dealing with this sort of thing is part-and-parcel of running a very public business that has taken nearly a billion dollars in outside investment. You are going to have aggrieved investors and employees when things go sour. They seem to be handling it professionally.
It works if you use http instead of https. I don't know why RyanMcGreal linked it that way. jQuery isn't getting loaded over https so that's why it's not working.

Here's the correct link: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=aaronsw
Do you know which one is?
Scribing was easy from the onset. But programming as it is today is not easy. Unless it evolved into plug-and-play-the-building-blocks, the profession of programming is going to stay.
I was confused about that as well
> Of course, you could always take smart people and train them - but seriously, who does that anymore?

Great, now I am depressed...
Today in France, most people in cities can have access to 100Mbps/5Mbps. Low upload speeds have been a constant around here since the first broadband offering, with upload speeds capping at roughly one tenth or on twentielth of download speeds.

I guess this is because the concept of Internet as an entirely decentralized network didn't make sense to France Telecom, the national operator which made the first investments. Why ? Because before Internet, France had the minitel, and entirely centralized network. And so as a pure client, you don't really need that much upload speed.

Also, some argued that low upload speeds were maintained to harm illegal P2P file sharing.

Nonetheless, we are seeing some symmetrical offers appear. Most notably, Orange (former France Telecom and France leading operator) is offering a 100/100Mbps connection for 45€/mo, whereas the 100/5 one costs 35€/mo.
Do we really want to give traffic to such a fringe site? (It's mainly about the E-Cat scam
http://psiram.com/en/index.php/Focardi-Rossi_Energy-Catalyze... )
When I went ahead and had a look at one of the examples of hexagonal.js, Misko Hevery's answer in quora http://www.quora.com/Ember-js/Which-one-of-angular-js-and-em... immediately came to my mind. He notes that there are 3 ways to bind data to view. 1 ) in the code - jquery way
2 ) In html bindings - angular way
3 ) in a metadata file.. which is the glue that is professed in this library.
The best questions to ask are the ones that pertain to actual work.

Think of a problem you had before and solved or are attempting to solve. Ask the person being interviewed how they'd handle the problem. Do they have good process, intuition, and problem solving skills? Are they clear about communicating their intentions and explaining their decisions?

This isn't a trick - it's what the person is going to be doing there, in and out, every day.
The trillion dollar coin wasn't supposed to deal with US debt, it was a trick to get around the debt cap rule that Congress imposed on the government.

If they actually spent the trillion dollar coin, that would likely cause devaluation of the dollar; as long as the coin remains locked up in the treasury it's just an accounting trick to get around their own arbitrary rule and wouldn't cause devaluation, because everyone buying dollars knows it's just a stupid accounting trick and not actual money.
I'll be interested to see if this generates any discussion - previous submissions have failed to do so.
Basically, most of the questions I see asked in interviews are contained in Levitin's algorithms book. The greatest potential for someone to excel at those trick interviews is to be fresh out of college.

I walked out of my first interviews, because 'I do not like programming games.' The first was a 4d matrix puzzle with more mathematical/theory roots than programming/logic.

My third interview started with the above quote and I was hired on the spot -- I believe they took it as a rebellion of every fresh out of college kid wanting to program video games.
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I've heard of some startups that offer night classes that fellow employees can learn or expand on. I would love to know if any are offering to teach employees in other positions who are interested in learning to code as well. Self taught can be extremely daunting. If anyone knows of anything like this, please let me know. Thank you.
Well, ancient South India is indeed full of riddles (some of which will probably never be solved), but there is good research going on about it. e.g. a recent very interesting study: http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/SouthernRec.pdf (PDF) and a lot of work on the Sangam age by the Institut Francais De Pondichery(http://www.ifpindia.org/-Indology-.html).
The guy you mention likely is a solitary worker (I'm one as well).

We tend to prefer not working in teams, other people slow us down and cause confusion in our work.

But America's insistence on a "team" based work culture really hampers those like me. We can get 10x the amount of work done individually as we can as part of a team if left to our devices - but this is frowned upon, indeed looked at as a social "problem".

I * sincerely* blame MBA culture for this detrimental attitude.
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The swastika symbol in Japan is the sign for a temple. It was used in Japan and many other cultures well before the Nazis adopted it. /end off topic reply
How does Linear Algebra feature in game development? Can you provide a reference? My Google-fu must be lacking today ...

Thanks.
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Shameless plug: I've been working on this : http://initialround.com to allow applicants to complete an interview at home and in a browser, to eliminate the pressure of the "quizzing cage". I'd be interested to hear people's take on this approach.
Damn right. Even worse than whiteboarding random algorithms are logic puzzles.

I can sort of see how implementing my own hash table fits into a dev job, but I why manhole covers are round, or light bulbs in a room has absolutely nothing to do with anything relevant in our field.

People who use logic puzzles as proxies for anything in an interview have my everlasting scorn.
Nuclear fusion is always only 10 years away from working.
Is there anyone else out there that thinks the investment may not be smart long term?

I enjoy the luxury of highspeed wired internet in Boston and LTE internet on my phone. In the short term, I am considering switching to an LTE hub for my home to get rid of Comcast completely. I could be wrong, but I feel like we will see rapid development of wireless technology which could make the entire 20bn investment somewhat foolish.
"the bad ones might make it seem like it..."

Or the ones with highly uncreative managers who lack sufficient domain knowledge themselves.
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I remember when I was prepping for my Microsoft interview. There was so much lore online as to the types of questions they'd ask and how to prepare. I even found 'How Would You Move Mount Fuji?' in the library and started reading through it. It was an absolute waste of time as I, fortunately, learned weeks before the interview. As an example, one of the questions I was asked was 'how would you write the C function strcmp() without using any libraries?'

My gripe these days is that places I've interviewed with now that I have a few years of experience are still concerned about big-O notation and a lot of the more academic questions. I feel like I shouldn't have to go back to my college notes to prep for an interview for a job that I'd really be using my current experience for. I think it comes down to other developers not spending time really thinking about the quality of their interview questions. They just do a search for 'programming interview questions' and call it a day.

My most recent interview was with Amazon. I was asked the dumb big-O runtime stuff as well as how I'd count all of the stars in the universe. It pissed me off, but I did like the question I was asked about how I'd design an elevator system and then asked how my solution would scale. That's not too far off from what I'd be doing, albeit in an abstract form.
Best one yet by far... http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=sferik
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Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of this discussion.

Yes, it seems that hexagonal.js uses the third approach - a metadata file.
It's even worse than that. Jon Rogers has an excellent summary of the problem space:

Movie executives do not lead happy lives. If you are an executive, this is your day: a scruffy man in a Hawaiian shirt walks into your office and says, "I need you to be personally responsible for giving me one hundred million dollars so I can go to Ireland and have people who pretend for a living act like they're fighting imaginary dragons."

"Will I get to see the dragons first?" you ask hopefully.

"Oh, no the dragons won't exist until after we're done shooting. The professional pretending people will be yelling at sticks. Occasionally, they will flee from a mop."

And your job, as the exec, is to write him the check.

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.co.uk/2005/02/writing-adaptation-pt...
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Fun fact: John MacFarlane, the developer of Haskell's fantastic PanDoc package is a professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley!

http://johnmacfarlane.net/
I was expecting someone saying lisp instead of prolog.
Germany and UK were not even able to get in the ranking of the FTTH Council Europe… They do both not have 1% of all and at least 200.000 households connected to fiber… what a shame
Logic puzzles are definitely useful ... how else can the interviewer feel superior (after all, he/she already knows the answer and has probably forgotten how they came by that answer).
I decided to stick my head into the "firehose" of Facebook's public graph API last night and ended up finding some strange spambots creating pages and posting thousands of Amazon links. I followed the trail, trying to figure out what they were doing and what the point was. No one had liked the pages, so it didn't seem to make sense that they were building links to Amazon and not their own site (which I could understand for SEO). Anyway, I ended up going to the furthest reaches of the internet, never really finding an answer, but I got that same feeling: holy hell, this is amazing!

It's like being an explorer, going where only a few people have gone before. The internet can still be this, if you want it to be. You can still dig around the trenches, take the back-roads, see what you find, see what's going on behind the surface of the social networks and media.

God damn, I love it.
I think the library and the books survived because the Kochi-Thiruvithankur area was never under foreign rule.