skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the usual smear across the screen gesture can be "cracked" by looking at the screen at an angle. Secondly, there aren't many patterns you can conveniently enter with the thumb of your dominant hand.
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Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen is a great. It is set up as a sort of reference and isnt necessarily meant to be read cover to cover. However, you'll need to read/understand the first 4 or so chapters (on asymptotic complexity, recursion, log rules, master theorem, ect) to really be able to grasp anything else in the book. The proofs and explanations can be rather terse, as it assumes you have some working knowledge with algorithmic theory and math. I wouldn't recommend it for starting out _at all_ as it can be very intimidating at first.

I started out with Algorithms by Tardos (you can pretty easily find a copy of the book and solutions online somewhere). It is less terse and goes through all the basics in a much less formal format. In this book I would advise starting at chapter 1 and going straight through to 8 or 9, doing the exercises and programming up most of the algorithms on your way. At this point you'll have a really nice working knowledge and can dive into Cormen and tackle stuff that interests you.
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What I find most intriguing is that the whole banking intern hours thing is that it's not the result of a resource constraint - they have plenty of money and plenty of intern applicants.

It's also not about getting particularly difficult work done - intern-level spreadsheet and PowerPoint work isn't the sort of thing that only a select few can handle.

It's entirely about filtering for people who will submit to abuse.
I guess the most favorable spin would be "That was long ago, and Vinod hopefully has learned better by now."
1. You can compare PISA tests as stated in the infographic.

3. My mother has a master degree in math, she is a high school teacher. Her understanding of maths due to her degree sets her apart from the normal teachers with a educational math degree, or any other degree which was not math orientated. You can see in her yearly results she is a good math teacher. I understand this does not hold true for all people. But something that you missed in the infographic is that teachers is held in high regard, something that is lacking in my country of origin and I believe a lot of other countries.

4. I can not answer your question. But yes its proven over and over again smaller classes gives better results.

Something that happened at my High school was your were sorted into classes by your marks and that really helped the kids to compete in the higher mark classes, but it also demoralised the kids in the lower mark classes. I know my mothers high school tries to follow the same kind of strategy but for technical reasons its not that possible and thus not so obvious.
Modern urban poverty as in Brazil is really rarely a matter of lack of resources. The poor in Brazil suffer from a poor organization rather than material poverty; people in favelas suffer the daily violence and rampant drug trade, but they don't really go hungry often.
Come on, man.

drink($tequila) or die();
Wow, cool design (also, it was neat to zoom into a Thinkpad W520 on this W530 that I'm browsing on at the moment).
Exactly. So if you didn't install the Apple crap, you would just have to track down the IP of the RPi somehow and use that instead of the fancy "coder.local" hostname
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One issue I keep seeing in these kind of studies is the use of the "STEM" acronym itself.

I'm sorry, but with the current job market, this kind of grouping makes NO sense. The jobs and opportunities are mostly in the middle two letters - technology and engineering.

Science and mathematics are still tied to academia enough that only the real go-getters with the ability to self-educate and work out how to transfer their skills to other fields will easily find careers. Despite the flaws in most of the institutions offering engineering degrees, an education in engineering/technology is still the most straightforward path to a career, with the most applicable job skills being taught.
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I feel like the author of this article is missing the whole point of Fingerprint ID.

The feature is meant to make using an iPhone more secure for those of us who tend to leave our phones unlocked and PIN-free.

If you're storing anything of value on your phone, the existing password-based and PIN-based lock mechanisms aren't going away any time soon. If nothing else, it'd break too many organizations' Active Directory configurations.
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AMC's biggest shows are about to end and they can't seem to create another hit. Also, as others here have pointed out, AMC doesn't actually make those shows.
And now wired is added to my list of fear mongering link baited blogospam.
I'm getting tired of this "everyone should work as I do" mentality.

Does everyone work well past 8 hours? No. Do some people fucking love it, live for it, are great at it, and wouldn't do it any other way? Fuck yes.

Every single one of these pieces reads as a justification for why the writer doesn't work as many hours as the person he's writing about. He creates this gangly strawman who's overworking for all the wrong reasons, and inevitably burns out, but this just doesn't represent reality.

Sure, people burn out, sure people overwork, but that is not the inevitable conclusion everyone's trying to paint it as. Some people have more work endurance than others, period. Sure, you work hard for 8 hours and go home, but the guy you bash worked just as hard as you did for the same 8 hours, and then he stuck around for another 5 or 6 hours and kept working just as hard.

There's unnecessary glorification in getting no sleep and eating like shit - that's a signaling problem, and has nothing to do with the acts themselves.

I just don't get why people refuse to accept the fact that there are others out there who can do more than they can. It's true for literally everyone (except one guy. In the world.).
So what you're saying is that it's all the university's fault setting standards too low and graduating too many students.
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This is fantastic. I like seeing YC's investing in a lot of tools that will make prototyping and building easier, lowering barriers to creation for all types of makers.

Lots of potential scalability here, too. Rock on.
wikipedia has pages for all the popular sorting algorithms, most with pseudo-code and graphics too.

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort
No! That what you describe is that what I would fight against the most. Because it gives a bad name to capitalism. My philosophy is rather that capitalism without democracy is as great utopia as communism is.

I think that the problem is that the political elites in many Western countries, especially in the USA, watch China and falsely conclude that capitalism is much more effective in conjunction with authoritarian type of government. Like in China. Or Singapore. Or many other South-East Asian emerging economies. The strength of capitalism derives from democracy and freedom. Because capitalism thrives on innovation and "dangerous" ideas. Slaves or scared people aren't innovative. Yep, you can produce stuff in China, but the innovation part needs to happen in place where people haven't been afraid to think freely and express themselves.

I hope that I made myself more clear. If people vote for social-democracy, let it be.

Also, I'll give you a few example of why I don't think that the current system is capitalistic. First of all, the zombie banks in capitalism would be allowed to fail. Go bankrupt. The moment we decided to take from the regular folk via taxes to support zombie banks is the very moment in which I'd say we're not capitalists any more.
Former Netflix employee here--left in August (not super-relevant; but, disclosure, etc.)

Thanks for posting the details here. It's pretty clear that the OP doesn't really have a strong understanding of the mechanics of the TV business. There's simply no value to owning AMC. They could spend billions for AMC or millions for future shows themselves; Netflix is smart enough to see the real value is in the latter.

Moreover, Netflix has absolutely no interest in getting into the "linear TV" business. It doesn't fit well at all with where they are going.

EDIT: The partnership, as it exists today, is hugely beneficial for both companies. AMC gets promotion for new seasons and Netflix gets a huge rush of people watching previous seasons as they become available. There's zero value to either of them in one owning the other.
I have an idea, instead of a 2-year data plan, buy food...

Ooops, forgot the topic -- that is indeed a truly idiotic idea.
I recall reading that you will get hit by the passcode lock if your fingerprint doesn't scan after X attempts.
Right. But in terms of delivering in a favorable way on those promises, CEOs I know speak less well of Khosla than of the other high-profile new-breed VCs -- Andreesen-Horowitz, Google Ventures, etc.

Also, the second-worst story I've heard of "WTF???" VC negotiations over the past couple of years was with Khosla. (That said, it wasn't nearly as bad as the worst one.)
There's that, yes, but I think there's a point to be made for workload. I remember back in college all the courses would inevitably pile the workload on at the same time.

Around the same 2 weeks during a semester the profs will load up on all the projects, labs, and other must-dos, across all your courses. Taken separately these workload increases are modest, but as a whole you literally start running out of time.

My coping mechanism back then was to strategically not do some of these things, but then again my only intention going to school was to get a piece of paper that would unlock the Magical HR Gates at companies. My GPA isn't exactly great.
I'll still be coming back, but I agree with OP. I think Frank Darabont leaving has led to a dip in quality. Many people complained the pace was too slow in season 2, but it what that "slow pace" that really helped deepened the character development, and emotional impact of certain scenes.
Buy the production companies not the networks.
I personally don't see Netflix growth as anything good. They are the ones who push for DRM in HTML. We don't need more of that.
Yup, it's massively unsafe, find a bug in LibreOffice, write exploit, gain control of the doc thumbnail servers, read everyone's newly submitted docs.
that may be the case to an extent, but i think the most influential aspect of teaching is something that comes naturally to some and not at all to others. so you end up with vast differences between teaching skill, completely independent of education.
Ok great, that's good to hear. I know how to find my RPi's IP address (I bought one last week and itching to get stuck into it)

Half the point of the RPi is for it to be a cheap, accessible Linux box for learning, and was pretty appalled when I thought that that this tool completely locked out Linux users.
Would you criticize Breaking Bad because you don't see as much crack being made in more recent episodes? How fucking stupid.

It's not stupid at all. The meth on Breaking Bad is not the plot, the plot is cancer-stricken man is pulled into the seedy world of illegal drugs and how he participates. The plot of Walking Dead is survival in a zombie world. If you aren't going to focus on conflicts with zombies then they should've just set it in a post-apocalyptic world sans zombies.
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I find analysis like this thoroughly fascinating. I wonder if the handful of Intel engineers who presumably crafted this would ever stumble into this post. Would they be impressed, or alarmed that someone is probing such a crucial mechanism?
> it does blind one or more of your senses

Wow, you really don't know what a double-blind study is. It is NOT about the senses.

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_experiment)

> The terms blind (adjective) or to blind (transitive verb) when used in this sense are figurative extensions of the literal idea of blindfolding someone.

Note the word "figurative". Senses are not actually being blinded.
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Bricking your $3000 CPU?
Wouldn't citing a case where somebody was forced to unlock their laptop using a fingerprint provide a more compelling example of precedent?
Are you able to talk a bit about what it was like to work at netflix or why you left? I've always wondered what it's like over there.
I wonder how we, as a society, have managed to lower our values this much.

We decided to let capitalism tell us what to do instead of our telling it what to do. It is proceeding in the only institutionalized imperative it has: convert the entire planet into money.
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If you hate the new gmail compose help this HN ASK get noticed.
The author doesn't seem to understand how the television industry works, which is okay because it's kind of a cesspool but as a result the article loses a lot of its force (and this is as someone who's a hopeless AMC devotee and Netflix addict!)

AMC is perhaps most critically recognized for Breaking Bad and Mad Men, but they picked up those shows the same way anyone else can (including Netflix) -- by outbidding everyone else for them.

Netflix doesn't need help getting critically/publically lauded programming -- Orange is the New Black was a critical hit, and House of Cards was also well received. Their opportunities for growth lie in the people who don't really care about 'critical TV': the vast majority of consumers who have basic cable, are satisfied by basic cable, and don't pay attention to streaming services because the value proposition isn't attractive enough.

Put another way -- what if Netflix got into sports broadcasting?
Wouldn't you be able to CHOOSE what you apply a fingerprint lock to? Ideally you would only allow it for payments and not other things.
Why would comparing those two scores make any sense? The US has a good education system if you compare it to the world average. It's no surprise that people in that system would do better than wherever their ancestors are from because the US is virtually guaranteed to outperform a randomly chosen place in the world.
More than enough for where in Manhattan is the real question. $60K a year isn't a great deal of money in NYC. It's very livable - but not if your criteria is "within 20 min of FiDi". You can probably get a decent room on the Upper West Side or Upper East Side, but then you're nowhere close to being within 20 min from work, especially in the middle of the night.
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A couple of friends of mine decided to 'walk a mile in their shoes' and became hiring managers. Craigslist is a wonderful thing, especially since it is very cheap to post a job listing. My buddies put out a very generic job posting for the types of jobs they were looking for. It was a way to gauge the heat of the job market, to see the competition, and mostly to see what it was like. Their hypothesis was at least 100 resumes. And being good scientists, they posted in a lot of big metro areas.

14 total resumes came in, 7 from India. In 10 major US metro areas, and this posting lasting a cumulative 3 months among the areas they got 14 resumes in. 5 Cover letters. 3 of the guys were ok, and hirable.

It was a shock. They thought they were in a really hot market and the competition was fierce. That must be the reason they get no calls back. Nope, not at all. At least in the Craigslist sphere, there were no job hunters to speak of. Personally, I don't know what to make of the data either. Lots of jobs were posted, but no-one was there and answering. The only thing that came to mind was that MOST of the craigslist postings were fradulent, just like my friend's.

The job market is stranger every-day.
Really? Tell that to AdBlock.
No, PleaseAPI is converting Natural Language to Database like structures/commands with no need to have a human come up with every way you could say something because the vocabulary is built in.

Unlike Wit it also offers the option to use the API's that are already integrated or Bring Your Own Backend so that you can have a mix of info/responses from your own system, or leverage what is already there.
Allowing that there may be exceptions such as your own case (assuming you are properly assessing your situation), would you still agree that the generalization holds for the vast majority of cases?
A little offtopic, but I wanted to clarify to people not familiar with Qt, that the term "Qt trolls" is because the company behind Qt was called Trolltech, before Nokia purchased it.
Docker would probably be better as you don't have the huge VM overhead and is naturally reverts to it's original state.
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Second, how many times did you pull a few all-nighters in a row during college? I can't even count. I certainly didn't die.

Every single time I have done that, in college or grad school, it has fucked me over far worse than if I had just planned ahead, scheduled my work well, and gotten plenty of sleep like a sensible person.
Some of my colleagues at Microsoft have worked in Denmark and they all complain about the taxation there and consider it unacceptable. I honestly can't understand that. I'd rather give half my salary in taxes to the government and get free education, healthcare and whatnot. My wife and I definitely don't aspire to be rich, as long as we're comfortable we're ok, so maybe that's our difference.

What I don't get is how people in the US pay 25% income tax and don't get outraged for getting almost nothing back. Heck, we just put our daughter in public school, and even though it's a public school we have to pay $360 a month for full Kindergarten, otherwise she can only attend 2 hours a day. Besides that, the school has to promote fundraisers to cover their costs, because apparently the only thing the state pays for is teachers' salaries. At least 911 is free.

To me it feels like all taxes I pay in the US are mostly just for funding wars :( Even in a shitty country like Brazil you get free education (up to grad school - and state universities are the best in the country), free healthcare and a state pension when you retire. Sure, it all sucks one way or another [1], not because there's not enough money but because politicians down there are extremely corrupt - fix the corruption and you get a tremendous quality of life with a 27,5% income tax.

[1] Public healthcare varies from place to place - where I lived (Porto Alegre, RS) it was ok, but in poorer places they don't have a lot of necessary equipment and are understaffed. Although state universities have a lot of research funding and the best professors, the facilities are quite poor. And the state pension is very low, but that could be fixed by fixing the high level of corruption we have first.
Coder is a node.js application, so it also work on Mac. Here's how I got it to work (assuming you have Homebrew installed):

brew install redis node
git clone https://github.com/googlecreativelab/coder.git
cd coder/coder-base
npm install
npm start

Now login to https://localhost:8081/ (All communication happens over SSL).
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Install EncFS and use it on your Dropbox. No account, no binary blobs needed. You can compile all the bits for EncFS yourself, if you want.
Wait, what's SRS?
I agree the university process is part of the problem, but you need to be conscious of where the numbers come from. As the full Spectrum article mentions, different groups have different definitions of "STEM worker" and "STEM degree" that can vary the numbers significantly, so you may be comparing apples to oranges and not realize it.
The ToS is irrelevant. They can kick you off FB for no reason at all, if they want.
The shortage is in jobs that are willing to take graduates/applicants that know that basics, or even has experience, and then TRAIN them on what they want. Those that can pass STEM are usually smart enough to be trainable. Companies are expecting schools to teach current skills (not just theory) or students to be 100% self motivated in learning those skills on their own.
This is all completely anecdotal but the general consensus of the many people I know who watch it is that season 3 was mostly terrible, and allowing the Governor to survive the finale was a huge mistake (because the dragging out of that story, which has long ago worn out its welcome in the tv version of it, is a bad idea).

Having said all of that, of the people I know who really follow the show on the creative/biz side are happy that the former show-runner was canned and replaced with Scott Gimple who wrote a lot of the best episodes.

Personally I'm taking a wait and see approach with the next season. If things aren't solidly turned around by the middle of the next season, I'm going to quit watching. I don't want to make the same mistake I did with Lost where I was so convinced they would fix the problems that presented themselves in later seasons that I stuck with it to the bitter end.
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Fetching via a proxy really doesn't do much, all you lose is the originating IP of the machine, the rest of the vulnerability still works.

If you're thinking of egress filtering except for the proxy, you can just HTTP tunnel right through it.
Re 1. Standardized tests reminds me of software dev managers who want to track bug counts to measure productivity.

There are so many factors to education that the result of any standardized test is questionable. Everyone thinks and problem solves differently and what the tests do is encourage teachers to teach students to all think in the same way in order to get the best result on the test. They teach to the test in order to make their own statistics look good so they won't be punished.
No, you're missing his point.

You're in court. You refuse to admit/verify the accusation that you were in the vicinity of the deceased's home. Cell phone records, dutifully recorded and reported under warrant from NSA...er...ATT, show your phone - which you are known to carry pretty much everywhere - was in that vicinity at the crime's time. You contend that does not constitute evidence. The phone is acquired, bailiff places your finger on your Fingerprint-ID-secured phone, phone unlocks, evidence thereon shows activity during that period. So much for your 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination.