skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that it matters, but I got the impression it is a "she."
Congratulations! You've had your horrific first interview. Mine was slightly kinder to me - kicked off with a friendly chat and then annotating code/explaining an algorithm. It took a nose dive - much like yours - when I was asked to write simple classes representing a retail store on one of the interviewer's Asus Transformer. An android device with a notepad app.

Its a learning experience. What I did immediately when getting home was write the damn task to completion to prove I could do it. Mainly what interviewers are wanting you to do in that kind of task is vocalise what you're thinking. It's useful to them since you're showing a logical approach to understanding and breaking down the problem. You show that you're a communicator. It's useful to you since you're talking it aloud and generally this allows you to avoid pitfalls before they happen.

I don't think you're going to completely avoid this kind of task in future interviews, so practice with a friend! Don't get too disheartened - this experience is one that a lot of grad coders will have and now reviewing it and improving is a task that will let you kick ass in future.
I always send my CV in PDF format.
well not even eNodeB's they also do all component of EPC core as well...
One joins SpaceX with a sense of mission and urgency. Their rate of progress comes with a price. That should be clear upfront.
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Thank you. You made my morning.
Their products are currently banned from being used in government contracts. And that is as in no Federal government data can transverse their devices. There are a lot of companies involved in these contracts (think, office supplies, vehicles, weapons, computers) and they would rather not be on the wrong side of a government investigation. Can't have an office if you won't have any customers.

They were cited for selling equipment to Iran, then destroying the evidence when called out on it.
The DMCA is bad. We US'ians have known that since its inception. What would be worse is if companies succeeded at implementing DRM without any help from the government.

What's wrong? Stop laughing! Too many things wrong in that sentence?
I second Xubuntu. Still the distro I use on my linux machine to this day. I actually tried Linux Mint Debian Edition. I think the two main things that turned me off were its inferior support for particular third-party programs (I think they were Skype or Wine), and its general feel (font and window management seemed rough).
This was about a year ago I think, so YMMV
Were you planning on using this site for anything other than spreading your racist, sexist, and xenophobic views? Because looking through your posts so far that about sums them up.

Throw in some homophobia and you can try for bigot of the year.
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Surprisingly convenient a commute, having done it yesterday. I'd definitely think about living there myself.
I used Cinnamon for a while, and occasionally the desktop would freeze and I'd have to restart X.
Last I looked, they had ~30% of users running on 64-bit incapable hardware, and they don't want to ask techincal hardware questions on the download page. For example
Intel Atom CPUs only got 64-bit relatively recently,
the earlier netbook generations were 32-bit only.

Edit: found the source. It was actually 25%, a year ago. And the other reason was that the error message when trying 64-bit on incapable hardware was very cryptic. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-April/03...
What would you use as input for the deep network?

I have only worked with text classification methods where I chose the features myself. As I understand it, a deep network still has (like a 'traditional'/non-deep ANN) a fixed number of inputs in its input layer, i.e. one would have to process each input text somehow before feeding it into the network (to make the input sizes equal). Is there a usual way to do this without doing feature-extraction?
Bruce Sterling: Startups - the brain and nervous system of the Financial Dragon
What if you put down "underrepresented minority" and you aren't one?

I mean, I could claim that there are "too few" (whatever that means) Estonians in a given medical school and claim minority status.
...thanks. :)
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It seems you're limiting your perspective to recent conflicts. Mines and
unexploded ordinance are a huge and long-standing problem across the
globe. For example, it is still common for explosives from the first
world war, a 100 years ago, to be found in Europe. Similar is true for
nearly every other conflict in history.

An interesting point the article did not mention is how some forms of
munitions tend to release more identifiable gases as they slowly decay
over time. This is one of the reasons why using trained dogs has been
effective to locate mines. If they can get this laser and radar tech
working effectively, it stands to reason this tech will be especially
useful for finding and clearing old mine fields.

Mines are a terrible problem, but tech like this has a chance of saving
a lot of innocent lives.
Adding support was pretty trivial in the past, install a package and edit a config file. Just google your device + ubuntu and you'll more than likely find instructions.
>>and hardly something to defend on any forum (especially, this forum)

It was not about defending, I genuinely was curious because it was a totally absurd observation and now as you have already stated it is(i.e. a personal statement of choice made in a generic way).

>>f they are popular elsewhere also, well, Go, Nokia

Another whatever or you really believe Nokia is not "go go go" because of the colour of phones it makes? Because it made similar diverse colour phones when it was popular as in ruled!

Anyway, choices - it's clear to know that it was your own very very personal opinion without any solid background or study.
I know there are various pointer type prefixes in Rust (@foo, ~foo, &foo, *foo), 'foo for lifetimes and $foo for macro arguments, but WTH is +foo?
https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/src/librustc/mid...

I haven't seen this in the documentation.
60W equivalent LED bulb uses 9.5W and costs $13
Here you go, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/raring/relea...

This is the closest to any release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseNotes#Ubuntu_G...
Any chance that huge application has to do with video processing or something similar?
It's not underhanded if everybody knows its coming.

I was shocked the first time I saw this, but I called around and discovered that it's one of the things VCs do because they can. Since our VC was no worse than anybody else, I put it in the "fine, whatever, fuck you, but fine" category of things. It didn't end up even being in my top 10 things I'd change about traditional venture capital operations.

If you object to every fucked up thing about the system you're in, it's very hard to get the power to reform the system. I'm perfectly happy to beat my head against a wall, but I try to pick the walls that are ready to break. As Confucius said: "The Historiographer Yu was truly of straight character. When the government was just, he was like an arrow. When the government was unjust, he was like an arrow. Chu Po Yu is definitely a Superior Man. When the government is just, he will have a position in it. When the government is unjust he can roll up his principles and keep them in his breast."

So bravo for Spark for being the leader on this. It's really nice to what entrepreneurs turned investors are doing. I'm glad Nabeel didn't turn down that VC money on principle back in the day, or he might not now be in the position to try to fix this.
Does the nonequivalence have something to do with ML's value restriction?
There are interesting things happening in the blue room
Live vote and comment for #tnw2013 using @up2five
Time is money. The company spends money having their employees testing candidates.
I fully agree. I just want a desktop that stays out of the way. I have ubuntu and I have replaced unity by cinnamon. It is not very polished, but in a couple of minute, you can configure it to be usable.
I played varsity lacrosse and track :)
I think the market in the UK for contracts is awful right now, so a combination of lack of experience and bad timing.
I know it is pretty irrational, but the idea that they were going to attack Royal Wootton Bassett really got to me.
Yes, it's verbose, but verbosity also adds information that may be useful (although + is probably not a good example for this). With 'easier to understand' I mean that when looking at a bit of code I can tell what it does without having to know much about the context (typing, overloading). I did not mean to say that the code is prettier. Haskell code tends to be very pretty.

It's probably difficult to strike the right balance between too little and too much overloading. Maybe OCaml does not allow enough overloading. For my taste typical Haskell code uses too much. But that's a matter of taste, I suppose.
It's even nicer in alphaProlog where you can express the scoping implied by lambda terms http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jcheney/programs/aprolog/
Also this enormous government investment not only failed to catch the two bombers, but the same government fails to invest much at all in industrial inspection, which resulted in 14 deaths and half a town blown up in West, where the industrial plant had a quarter kiloton of potential explosives. Seems like a misplaced ratio of investment.
Ubuntu technical board decided to shorten the support window for the 'between LTS' releases from 18 to 9 months starting from 13.04.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/24/ubuntu_reduces_suppo...

Number theory not required.
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"Easier beats better, cheaper beats better, sharper looking beats better and so on."

Beside the point. If your goal is to "beat" others (revealing choice of words) and either make more money or gain more recognition then sure, but not every piece of software is motivated by those goals. Somebody has to make the "better" even if they're not the ones to benefit, and many are fine with that. That's particularly true in open source.

Assuming a particular motivation for the OP, and then insulting them based on that assumption, is just wrong. In fact, I think some might even see it as hitting someone when they're down - i.e. bullying. People who've gained some prominence in the community should try to do better.
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"Idealalogical dogma" is a strange way to describe personal privacy.
I like Help Scout, but I hope they are getting more than ten deals! I also am not a fan of bending over for customers with features as that leads to bad code, badly implemented features, and isn't scalable. If customers aren't liking your roadmap, or vision, sure, think of something else, but don't get into the trap of building new features to get or keep individual customers. I don't think growth is a bad thing in the case you describe, the lack of it is just something to overcome.
Well, that's true and I agree with you on the numbers thing -

125 people died in England during the troubles, after which the UK government effectively threw the towel in, and people generally seem to believe that they have some sort of control over their risks in the case of driving. ~ 194 people a month die from car accidents in the UK - which you could be competitive with.

I'm not sure at the moment that they'd respond the same way to a continual and chaotic threat of a higher magnitude than the troubles though.

I'm not saying that I think they wouldn't get over it, mind. I'm just not sure that there's enough data to choose one way or the other. It seems to me, if you could get a bunch of people to copy you - (and the first order of business if you just wanted to cause as much damage as possible would probably be anonymously mass mailing a guide that let other people do it too) - that a closer analogue would be somewhere like Mexico. But even there the killings aren't precisely random.
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I tried doing this with reddit links. I downloaded a dataset of 100K submissions and their vote rank. I split them in two, those with less than 5 votes and those with more. It would seem that falls right in the median value.

Then I collected the HTML from those pages and turned it into a feature vector, then tried to learn if a page would have less or more than 5 votes. My prediction rate was as good as random. Fail.

Google does this since Panda. They machine-predict if a page would have success or not with the people and use that as a ranking factor. It makes SEO into a holistic art - you need to think of everything.
Some more (confusingly liveblogged) notes from his talk are here: http://nextberlin.eu/2013/04/bruce-sterling-design-fictions-...

Did anyone see a proper write-up of this in English?

His provoking statements were directed clearly at the Berlin-type startup audience and his criticism was that start-ups are entering willing alliances with investors who have in the past and will again screw them over and who will try to disrupt and destroy everything purely for financial gain.
When founders themselves get rich, they are often more interested in 'toy rocket-ships' than in building a new all-encompassing society (guess he was refering to X PRIZE) and they become part of that elite.
At the end of the talk he became reconciliatory and it became clear that he would like to see investment networks separated into good ones - that strive for a greater good and bad ones - that are only out for enrichment.
I'm using Chromium from the Ubuntu repository, which is good enough for me until they get it sorted out.
So other people have to do a bit of work (copypasting the license into the source) to exercise the permission you've granted to them (because that's what these licenses are). That doesn't invalidate your giving of said permission.
>Microsoft-backed lobby group Initiative for a Competitive [Online] Marketplace

I hadn't heard of that before. It is… amusing, to say the least.
You're absolutely right. If being an entrepreneur is creating a product for a need, being a good open source contributor isn't any different (only you're working strictly for the notoriety).

I would suggest to OP to try to find a job where he is encouraged to release things he builds for that product FOSS, so that even if he doesn't find success in the popularity of it, hell, at least it means a lot at his day job and he has some skrill to show for it.
Why switching to linux mint when you can replace unity by cinnamon while remaining on ubuntu ? Except the desktop, what are the compelling advantages ?
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Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share
But is it really that good today when we have Ruby, Scala, Go, Clojure and stuff? What are selling points today? Or is it a purely historic thing?
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Ask HN: Video on landing page
Over the past couple of years I've noticed more and more web apps have a short intro video right there on their landing page.

Does anyone know if this generally leads to higher engagement? Also, are there any guides out there on creating such videos? There's plenty of information on setting out content on a landing page to encourage click-through. Are there known practices for creating the best type of intro video for an app?
My favourite thing about this, that they used a colour called #BADA55
You should double-check what kind of projects are being worked on before saying that it isn't being used for non-toy projects :) I can list at least two off the top of my head:

Q^3, which can render Quake 3 maps and will eventually be its own game: https://github.com/Jeaye/q3

Servo, an experimental web browser being written by Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/servo
Alway keep a backup. Of everything.
Vim and Emacs are timeless
The problem they're describing is a little different.

Your lawyer always works for you. You pay them with the company's money. Which is also generally investor money. But that's ok; your lawyer will be very clear that they work for the company. (Which, it important to note, is different than working for the founders.)

Here, VCs require you to pay their legal expenses for doing the deal. So when the deal closes, they send you a bill for their lawyer. The VC's lawyer definitely knows who they are working for: the VC.

One of the problems with this, besides the you-must-be-fucking-kidding-me factor, is that the VC's lawyer has no incentive to keep things quick. The VC has a very slight incentive to speed things along. But if it's coming directly out of the VC's books, then hopefully they'll keep a tighter reign on all the last-minute stuff that somehow hasn't been made standard and turns what you'd think would be an easy thing into a $25k bill.
Do your research regarding the pensions. They can deny you in terms like the country being piss poor.
England has done it, Hungary just did it recently, England is planning on doing it again.
Can they actually hold off collective might of media houses and billionaires who actually call the shots and make politicians dance to their tunes, mostly because of they have taken the dirty money? What if the bullies resort to proxy arm twisting?

One must remember Iceland was invaded[1] by the British during WW2!

PS. An invasion is an invasion even if it was said that the invasion was to pre-empt another invasion.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland

[update: invasion in a sense as to coerce a country to achieve desired result by hook or by crook]
Regarding VAT, what you write is misleading in that VAT is also reclaimed at every step (or more usually, offset against VAT due).

The net effect is pretty much the same as a sales tax, except the tax revenue becomes due proportionally at the step in the chain where the value is added rather than all at once at the retail level.
I've been using 13.04 on a new MacBook Pro for 2 months now. Everything is great except that I cannot seem to get sound working no matter what I try. It looks like it recognizes the hdmi sound output, but it can't seem to see the normal sound output. I am a sad man.
You might consider Limbo or Go as alternative system languages. Limbo is bundled with the Inferno VM OS, which provides Acme, which is roughly a text-only take on the Oberon UI. Go isn't the main systems language of any OS (yet), but is more recent than Limbo.
I used to do this, until about the third time I was asked to just send a .doc

Some automated HR systems can parse out a Word document but can't do anything with a PDF.
What I wonder about, is they should be the "creators" and steering committee for the worlds own PnP DNS servers... I would gladly host a small portion of DNS spaces on my machines running at home...
This article boils down to: use bcrypt. If you're reading this article on hacker news you're probably using bcrypt. So I say skip it...
When it comes to being popular in our community, it's a race to the bottom, where the bottom is living alone with nothing depending on you for its survival.

Once I realized that, I stopped worrying and just decided to build stuff for me. And if anyone else wanted it, neat.
D'oh. Of course you're right, but simply substitute 1 for 0 and my base questions still stands.
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Ask HN: Buying unused domains from big corporations
There's a couple of domain names that would be great with the startup name we're working with, that are registered by big corporations (in this case two, one belonging to IBM, and one to AOL).

The domains in questions aren't being used, they are leftovers from past projects or acquisitions, and just redirect to the mother corp index.

Anyone here have any experience whether or not it'd be possible to get them somehow, if so who to talk to etc, or should we just move on with our lives as if the domains never existed?
For me, a non-toy project is a project that runs in production, where I can build my business on.
Are you talking just salary? Where?

I've been working for 25 years and haven't crested the $100K mark (upstate NY & midwest) in gross salary. But that goes a long way here.

However I get several weeks of paid vacation, health insurance, 401K match, profit sharing. Any other position I have looked at lately is a step backwards from that.
My solution to this has been to work a project in two phases. This is for 6-9 month projects. The first phase is billed hourly, to develop the project requirements and milestones. In this phase, I'd break things down as much as possible into the number of days I thought tasks would take and develop a very detailed plan. The client never saw this plan; it was for me to develop the schedule. I'd also keep notes of any potential "gotchas" that came to mind. Ideally, this detailed plan has things broken down into 1-3 day-sized bites. If I think something will be easy, I use 1 day. If I think probably 1 day, I'd put 2. If I think I might run into trouble, I'd put 3 days.

Now go back and look at the gotcha list. What can be done to eliminate these contingencies? Maybe you need to do some investigating or experimenting right now, before doing the schedule, to eliminate the uncertainty (and get paid for this under the hourly contract). If you can't eliminate the uncertainty, you have to keep it as part of the schedule, as an assumption: "Assumes the X library will be available by <date>". This assumption list is crucial, because if someone else doesn't meet their deadline, it lets you off the hook and you can make a schedule adjustment.

When you present the project schedule, have milestones with deliverables at reasonable intervals, like 4-8 weeks, and take payment for each one. This has lots of advantages:

- if the client scraps the project (often happens in big companies), you've been paid for your work.

- if you miss a deliverable, you will know early that there is a problem with your schedule. It's better to tell a client early that there is a problem and make adjustments rather than try to make it up and act like everything's fine

- if you _really_ miss deliverables, the client has time to can your ass and get someone else to do the work

- when you know you have to actually turn something over to a client to prove that you have met a milestone, it's a powerful motivation to stick to the schedule and not get distracted too much.

So, hourly consulting part first, then fixed part. If a client wouldn't agree to the hourly part to develop the schedule, I probably would pass on the project.
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Given mcintyre1994's comment, I think this still explains the same situation. People with single-digit friends are simply people who have friends blocked to apps but have multiple friends who've donated data.
So do I, but a lot of agencies insist on Word format, because it's easier for them to hide your contact details when they send the CV to their clients.
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The truth is that lawyers are being paid, whether it comes out of your pocket or mine. It's very generous but as a person who has never received a term sheet at all, one way or another I see it as turning another part of the process more opaque.

What if I never have to pay another lawyer?
Sounds like you could also use the dev channel Chrome.
There's been a lot of success in using trained rats to detect landmines -- they're cheaper to care for / transport, quicker to train (IIRC), and too light to set off the mines.

I've also read of more unusual / interesting detection techniques researched, like bees, and my personal favorite, the seeding by air of bioluminescent bacteria that feed off of said gases.