skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Again, this sounds like a scaling issue. If you're investing in fewer companies, you can spend more time hand holding with the teams of each one. HUman attention is the thing that doesn't scale, so it makes sense that it is the thing in short supply.

Isn't human coaching the primary asset that YComb offers though? It's certainly not money, HN seed rounds are not exceptionally large, and they aren't unusually early.
I can't select from the dropdowns or see the embedded slideshow on Chrome or Safari on ipad.
As a heuristic, if you have to ask whether or not it is legit, the answer is probably no.
Wouldn't a deity be insulted by a pseudo random number generator?
The US system is also more fair, since you can't bribe your way to what you want. Transparency does wonders for creating a healthy business environment.
How so? From reading around a bit, I found several sources that indicate fog is present in the desert.
Then does not saying racist things automatically make you not-racist? Or is there other criteria we need to apply before hanging the label? For example, do they believe the words coming out of their own mouth? What about someone with Tourette's? I'm not trying to fall in a philosophical hole, but I believe that racism is a conscious choice at some level and mental illness is not.
Men and women poised to take over Microsoft
no indians in the list? my guess is that it will be a prominent indian ceo like the mckinnsey ex-ceo or vik gundotra.
▶ ALIENS ON MOON GOODBYE EARTH, i,m off to moon
> The US problem is that there are not enough people to process the enormous number of applications the country receives. The India problem is that the workers aren't paid well enough, resulting in a culture of bribery.

I don't exactly see the validity of this argument. There are a lot of people without jobs in the USA right now. Last I checked the unemployment rate was pretty high. So if I understand correctly, what you are saying is that the Government in the States does not have enough money, or for some reason, is not willing to pay people to process these applications.

Neither does the Indian Government. It's pretty cash-strapped as well. You are right that this does lead to bribery in the Indian scenario, and just plain slowness of processing in the US one. The end result for legal immigrants, as I have already said, is pretty similar.

> For some reason you seem to think that bribery is common in the US immigration system.

Not exactly. Look below for why I do think this is true, indirectly.

>The US has an ample amount of institutionalized corruption in the form of lobbying.

In the US, "political lobbying" involving donations of millions of dollars routed through channels too diffuse for the common person to understand can result in laws being changed, leading to "legal" routes to whatever you want. In India, you pay a Government official a wad of notes, and your job is done. I fail to see how one system is inherently better than the other.
Art Installation featuring Christmas Elves in London. Magic Elves up for grabs
The wireless network with a mile-wide range
Perhaps, given such a deity, no such thing as true randomness would even exist.
Every now and then, these posts come up on HN people mention how bad the interview process at certain companies is and how it should be changed.

I also work for a company that does these types of interviews. While I wholeheartedly agree that asking these algorithms/data structures or other CS fundamental questions is not perfect, precisely because it may induce quite a bit of false negatives, the engineers who does end up successfully completing the process at my company are very competent ones. So from an anecdotal perspective, the process works fairly well in the fact that it does not produce too many false positives.
No the post advocates generators plus a competent channel abstraction. It's going to be hard to compare generator libraries to core.async, far as I can tell none employ the comprehensive set of optimizations that we do for time and memory. Perhaps when someone ports our ideas to JavaScript a real comparison can be made.
I clicked on the link from my iPhone. I'm offered to download the Maps app even though I already have it. When I click "no thanks" I'm taken to the homepage.

Fuck you to the PMs and devs at google for such big screw ups all across google priorities.
Interesting! Though in reviewing the second link I find very little that was definite. It recounts things second- and third-hand. Some claim a single tree could provide water for 8,000 people and their animals, another said for 80 families. Some say it was a single tree, others from multiple trees.

You say "otherwise uninhabitable land", but Brown's 1910 guide book points out that people lived there, grew grains, and pastured animals. As there are "practically no springs", people needed to build cisterns to catch rainwater. The translated Spanish document (from the last 1500s?) says there are three streams on the island, and that the tree (which was not seen by the Spaniard) is a third type of water source.

Since the 1910 inhabitants didn't use this tree as a water source, I presume that cisterns and those small springs were enough for them, and so would have been enough for the Bimbache.

For that matter, how did the first Bimbache live there if it was otherwise uninhabitable. Did they need to find the tree(s) before they could settle?

You write "which directed water straight to their dwellings" but Duret (1605) writes that the tanks of water were at the foot of the tree, and that the remnants from the 1612 storm were still there in 1753. But I don't see anything in those accounts about channels or pipes leading the water to people's homes. (The Wikipedia page says "The Bimbaches later filled water chaffs and water was transported to towns to all parts of the island", but as part of a legend, and without a citation.)

This is not me rejecting the idea that fog collection was done before the 1980s. Indeed, the Wikipedia page for 'Fog collection' lists several "natural or assisted" collection methods. Nor am I rejecting the idea that the Bimbache used trees as a fog collector.

What I'm commenting on is that the information I've read is suggestive, but not definitive, and that what I've read doesn't fully match with what you wrote here.

What I would like to see might include measurements of water run-off from one of those trees, growing in the same area and archeological evidence of an irrigation system, rather than carrying water from cisterns.

BTW, I really like one of the accounts in that second link about that sense of astonishment by the British scientists at Cape Town who, 110 years ago or so, found out that the fog around Table mountain provides a huge amount of water.
Will people here show some fucking respect? Using terms like "bat shit crazy" and "inane" are extremely selfish and only serve to make yourself feel better at the expense of someone who is disabled. You don't need to qualify statements. You can appreciate this for what it is and not comment on the author's disability and the negative effects of it. The sad truth is that what was done here is too far advanced for most of us so people can't comment on the actual content and instead decide to publicly humiliate a disabled person.
It worked because the rendering engines picked up the slack - Gecko, Trident, and Webkit are all magnitudes more complex for having to reinterpret pages for the nebulous correctness.
Mr Motivation
Isn't that what a real troll would do?
I mean , how do we know that the guy posting the weird comments is the same person who wrote the OS?
We've come a very long way since the days of the story maker I had for my Atari 130XE as a kid that would manipulate on-screen characters based on English text.
Here's my proof that we will never prove the existence of true randomness.

* To demonstrate the randomness of the members of a set, we must examine the entire set.

* A candidate set cannot be finite in size, because a finite set is by definition not random.

* Therefore the only legitimate test of randomness is against an infinite set.

* To examine all the members of an infinite set would require infinite time.

This doesn't mean randomness doesn't exist, it only addresses the issue of proof.
Why does including the EncFS XML file make things much easier to crack?
No, but it's known for being commonly used in PGP. I could be wrong, but that's what I understand when someone says, "PGP-style encryption."
Compared to what he's spending his time on now, I'd imagine the idea of seizing a few (or even a bunch of) percentage points of marketshare away from Google / Oracle / Sony / etc. seems rather trivial.
In another thread, you mentioned bup. Quickly skimming bup's readme on github, I seem to only find references to the backup use case - not sync. Am I mistaken and bup also supports syncing, or did you bring up bup for another reason?
You're disappointed that a cool project is #1 on hacker news?
Reconstructing the mind’s eye as a video output
but she's turning it around.

Source? She's trying to turn it around for sure but it is way too early to say that she's been successful. Her wins have largely been pr-wins which I wouldn't discount but there is only so many times you can cite your awesome weather app as evidence of a turnaround before people begin asking what more she's got besides the weather app.
Fair enough. I won't get in to a long drawn out battle about it. I should say she's getting people talking about Yahoo again.

Relevance is at least a start. You also can't say she's run it in to the ground as of yet either.
Even if only customers should have the right to make that decision, customers should, in a free market, have access to information that would help them make an informed decision. I think the question in that scenario should be, what information should the customer have access to, who should vet that information and how long should the vetting process take? No, you don't want physicians falsely accused and you don't want information misunderstood, but this doctor should not have been so protected by the system.

I'm not in favor of higher malpractice maximums, but some mechanism needs to be in place to "encourage" hospitals and doctors to blow the whistle more loudly and forcefully.
So I guess a large majority of comedians are racist. That may hurt ticket sales.
Is it possible to do any better from mobile Safari? I know the Google native apps can launch each other directly, but is that possible from Safari?
I have kept half an eye on ReactOS for a number of years. I think it has potential when it gets to the point where it starts having Distros like Linux. I have installed Windows often enough to know how much work it is to turn a Stock windows machine into something tolerable. Things like Ninight try to serve that need as best as possible but being able to spin it into an actual distro would mean you could potentially make a Windows that was truly targeted to what users wanted intead of pushing Microsoft's technology du jour.
I'm a Microsoft Certified Master myself (of SQL Server) so I'll explain a little about what's got everybody up in arms.

When you do enterprise admin work, you often can't share that work publicly. It's not like someone can look at my DBA.StackExchange profile and see the deployments I've done for StackExchange, AllRecipes, Discovery, etc. The MCM was Microsoft's highest technical certification that gauged your sysadmin skills, so that work you've done for high end enterprise systems pays off here. When other high end companies came to call, I could say, "I'm an MCM. There's only a couple hundred of us worldwide, and most of them work for Microsoft as consultants - I'm one of the few independents." Combine that with references, and it's just easier to get doors opened.

Of course, it only makes sense if the certification is actually hard - and hoowee, was it hard. Originally, it involved spending 6 weeks onsite at Microsoft undergoing a series of tests, culminating in a monster 6-hour hands-on lab test. It was the toughest 6 hours of my life, and I've gone through some pretty tough outages. There were no braindumps that could get you past the MCM (unlike the near-worthless MCITP exams.)

Unfortunately, the MCM was too hard to achieve for most folks, and they couldn't get the market adoption they wanted. It's really expensive to write and administer these kinds of high-end tests, and Microsoft was faced with updating the tests faster and faster due to the faster release cycles coming out on the software side. Worse, they wanted the Master certification to cover not just on-premise software, but cloud services as well, so you had to test Master-level skills across both - but the cloud services changed constantly. (Heck, the MCITP-level tests for Windows Azure SQL Database still has the wrong marketing brand name on it even today.)

Just ended up being too expensive for them to manage in the face of limited adoption.

The current MCMs are bummed because it cost us a ton of money and time to get certified, and we never saw significant benefits from the program. The best resource was the mailing list. (I'm not bummed because the cert has paid off the initial investment for me, even though I put out something like $25k total out of pocket.)

People who are currently working on their MCMs are bummed out because they've invested a lot of money and time (in some cases, international flights & hotels) and they won't finish in time.
It can still help you if you are actually guilty and know you can pass it.
That is more akin to the wine project, which they share code with. ReactOS is not UNIX/linux/*nix in any meaningful way.
No, I will not pity someone who you, and or society may determine to be 'disabled' for one thing or another. I will appreciate TempleOS as much as the author's other works including the rants for they are one and the same, expressions of self. So guess what, this is an interesting piece of work, you know what else? I don't like being called racial slurs. I'm not going to show any respect for anyone who thinks they can call me or my brethren a racial slur, disabled or not. To tell me to respect someone like that IS insanity. So no, no respect given.
Binary analysis: Concolic execution with Pin and z3
Compliance Vs. Complicity
Occasionally you get a slow path. If this happens and you're in a hurry, just press the "New Identity" button to get a new random path. It usually works.
Why is a finite set not random? What if it's a random selection from the set of all sets?
The fun thing about this is that it is allowing diving directly into an approximate implementation of the API, without having to locate the specific Old New Thing post or other such article on an obscure function.

I've seen some great write-ups were people have done just this when investigating bugs and strange behaviours, it's rather cool!
>Having had plenty of self-destructive behaviors, I only ask that you go easy on people who are on this path

An important point not to be underestimated IMO. It's not a lack of initiative, it's not being able to recognize opportunities when they present themselves due to skewed perceptions based on deep self-esteem issues, depression, anxiety, etc.
> Then does not saying racist things automatically make you not-racist?

No, that doesn't work. A person not saying racist things might be a racist on his day off. The absence of racist speech cannot be used to declare a person not racist, because:

1. The person might harbor racist but unspoken thoughts.

2. We're all racists.

Number (2) pretty much settles the issue. I emphasize that the fact that we're all racists doesn't mean we're all bigots, or that we're not ashamed of our racism and sincerely wish to be free of racism.

> I believe that racism is a conscious choice at some level and mental illness is not.

I've met people raised in the south before modern times, and for many of them, racism was not a conscious choice. I've often disagreed with federal intervention in local politics, but as to civil rights, I have to say that was one case where federal intervention was absolutely necessary and just:

http://media.northjersey.com/images/0825t_shuttle2_50p.jpg

Also, mental illness can sometimes be a conscious choice as well. We can talk ourselves into a very unhealthy mental state -- or out of one. I'm talking only about the many kinds of mental illness that aren't biological in origin -- the kinds of mental illness that were voted into existence, and that make the DSM* noticeably bigger with each new revision.

* More about the DSM controversy: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/the-s...

EDIT: I cannot believe someone downvoted this terrific reply. If I say so myself, it's first-rate, and it represents the height of irony that it was downvoted.
Imposible.
Anything would be better than what they are doing at present. What keeps them from just showing the desktop version of maps? Or the mobile web version?
I bet if you dig in Silk Road you can find someone selling it.
Ha, woops.
I have mixed feelings about algorithmic interview questions. There is the camp that says that you shouldn't memorize something you can look up, but I am of the opinion that having something memorized fundamentally changes the flow of thought.

If you just know the lookup times of various datastructures, your thought process is much less jumbled than someone who must look them up while problem solving.

I'm not suggesting that it's necessary for someone be able to whiteboard an implementation of a red-black tree, but knowing what it is, and its advantages and disadvantages compared to an AVL tree or something is very useful.

As an aside, in a graduate CS class I took (about search engines), the prof asked "What is the lookup time of a balanced binary tree" to various students, two of whom gave wrong answers before she got to me. One said "n lg n" and the other said "n". It was evident that they were basically guessing.

My point is that if you actually understand what a binary tree is, the lookup time of it should be obvious. Same for most other basic datastructures, linked list, hash table, etc. I think asked basic, high-level questions about these are totally fair game.
Just like Jesus?
Yes, Microsoft could have invented the iPhone. Here's how.
really though, it's not that hard to write a simple regex or few line replace command to make the form dead simple to use. creditCardString.replace(" ", "").replace("-","").replace(etc...)

or, if you can use a regex in a sane language replace("[^0-9]", "") then check for the length of the credit cards that you are using. shouldn't take a dev more than 5 min to code and test. Your argument is not really all that valid.
Ask for pre-orders. In my experience I've found a substantial difference between "yeah, that sounds great I'd probably buy it" and... "here is my credit card". You'll find that even if you collect a large list of emails from people that said they would buy your product, when it is time to ask them to make the purchase the majority of them will come up with objections and reasons why now is not the right time.

With pre-orders you have people that have given the ultimate commitment and you can offer them a discount and/or the ability to help shape the product through it's development.

A simple billing page with something like Stripe checkout (https://stripe.com/docs/checkout) will help you filter out the tire kickers and attract people with a burning need for your product/service.
"My experience gave me the feeling that this was more of an interview assembly line than someone really interested in my relevant skills"

That's exactly what it is...

Effective interviewing is hard, and like most things hard you won't be very good at it without some practice and study.

Asking an algorithm question is relatively easy.
As someone who's about to make my first short film with a friend soon, I'm going to throw the script into this and see if it's absolutely horrid or not. Might be useful in spotting really obvious mistakes.
I'm quite fond of private offices per engineer, with sets of four offices with doors pointing inward into a hallway. This allows each engineer to easily do a quick chat with the two across the hall, and a tiny walk brings you into your neighbor's office.

As the article points out, private offices are considered more expensive. The question is, how expensive are they? Is it the increased floor space they take up? The cost of the materials for walls and doors? More complex heating and cooling?

It's a sad trend indeed; here in Tokyo private offices are almost unheard of, and even back home in the SF Bay Area private offices are quickly going out of fashion.

The fact is that, for some engineers, auditory and visual distractions can ruin the focus needed to achieve goals. Open plan and cubicle offices are hell for these engineers.
Remote working isn't for everyone.

The hardest part is motivation, not necessarily because the temptation to goof off is higher at home (sometimes it can be the opposite, if you are in an office where goofing off is common).

You don't get the human reactions to your work. For example you can't build some feature and just grab the nearest person to show and see their subtle reactions to it.
You don't get to walk past another part of the building and see a room full of people using your software to get their work done or whatever the effect of what you are doing is.

Instead you end up sending an email at 7PM saying "I have completed item #232" and you get one back the following morning saying "ok, proceed with item #233".
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You value what you can judge. (Similarly, you value what you can measure.)

Being able to test the ability of somebody in algorithms to a high ability level is a useful late-stage signal.

I always thought it would be interesting to just ask "What do you want to be interviewed on?" and to tease out their strengths from this. You'd then be able to question away to whatever depth necessary without worrying that they were being forced to dance in another man's frame.

I guess the problem with that would be that the interviewer needs to know the area he is testing an interviewee on in order that he may judge it accurately. The communal ground which is intellectually testing is often the academic experience they (possibly) shared.
There's no basis for the idea that there is never fog in the desert, as long as there's sufficient water vapor. But a very dry desert climate cannot fog up for lack of water vapor.

Remember that fog forms when temperature and dew point collide. But without water vapor, there's no meaningful dew point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point

Quote: "The dew point is the temperature below which the water vapor in a volume of humid air at a given constant barometric pressure will condense into liquid water at the same rate at which it evaporates."
One of the big differences between HTML4 and HTML5 is that implicit closing tags are defined in the spec, and not just a consequence of browser implementations. So "error handling" in HTML4 has essentially become a feature in HTML5

For XHTML, one of the big ideas was that you could use an XML parser, and embed custom XML. Since an XML parser errors on invalid input, it can be smaller and faster. Having an XML parser also means embedded XML is easy to deal with. However, all this falls down when you consider that nearly all XHTML was sent as HTML, so the XML parser never kicked in. All this meant you required properly formatted files.