skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely pointless, assuming you don't completely screw up FizzBuzz 2.0 or whatever you want to call it, the next question was probably going to be along the lines of "tell me about a problem using recursion other than boring old factorial" or "can you do much of anything with an array" or "show me a data structure more interesting than Int X, like, say, a linked list?" or "Tell me about your time in the 3-d graphics rendering world" or "tell me about memoization and/or caching strategies" or "tell me how to use a library and its API in language XYZ where it could be an arbitrary numerical base library".

(edited to add a hilarious one: Using a unit testing framework only permit proper fizzbuzz, then feed with with 10e3 monkeys on typewriters trying to generate Shakespeare technology and trust the testing framework...)

I suppose for a low level CRUD app job knowing what modular math is and how to run a loop, aka fizzbuzz, is probably massive skill overkill but there are higher level jobs out there...

I'm racking my brain right now trying to think of a "funny" way to do fizzbuzz for a high freq trading interview as in another story on HN today. So to test mod3 you'd submit a buy order followed by two half sized sell orders repetitively all in a couple milliseconds and let the market maker routine clear the market, and orders left over, if any, would tell you if you submitted a multiple of 3 orders so you could print "fizz"?
A scalaz monad instance for scala.concurrent.Future can be written in about two lines.
You can't have a blanket statement saying, fish is/isn't worth it, just as you can't say that with Dvorak or Plan 9. If you spend a majority amount of your time on one or a few machines, it can very well be worth it to customize your experience on those machines and face the drawbacks on the few times you are on a foreign machine.

On a side note:
This is my computer. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
How to start a new Haskell project
I think it is human nature to over-editorialize a stocks movement immediately after an earnings report. We see Apple drops 3 percent and we think "Wall street is hammering them". Meanwhile another one of HN's favorite stocks, Tesla, has a larger percentage drop today with seemingly no major news and no one bats an eye. Such is the randomness of the stock market.
Sure they may be getting some food, but just barely.
"...for 1 in 6 people in the United States, hunger is a reality"
"These are often hard-working adults, children and seniors who simply cannot make ends meet and are forced to go without food for several meals, or even days"
http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-facts.asp...
Same question here. I hit all kinds of keys and didn't see any difference.
Here's the website for the UK Health and Safety Executive.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/industry/index.htm

There are not so many people mining, and there are ridiculously strict regulations around mining. (I used to build, inspect, test 'chock interface units' which can be thought of as 'active walking pit props'. A cutting head removes a long stretch of coal, which falls onto a conveyor. That new section needs to be pit-propped, so this first line walks forward with the cutting head.)

Farming has many accidents - busy people, lots of opportunity for accident. Also a high rate of suicide. (Again, access to means and methods. Farmers are one of the small number of people allowed to own guns in the UK.)

It would be interesting to see the number of deaths per 1,000 workers for each sector, to try and get a better comparison.
Are you saying a meme can result in real-world creations cathedrals and other infrastructure? I think I see what you're getting at in that they are related as far as cultural virality goes. However my understanding of a meme is a flash-in-the-pan viral idea that gets '15 minutes of internet fame' and then people forget about it.
Animating DOM transitions
I'm from the UK, and while I wasn't particularly aware of SAD for many years, it's clear it affected me to varying extents each winter. Moving to San Francisco definitely lessened the impact, but it isn't completely gone; though it probably helps a little that due to the long, tiresome summers here I actually like the refreshing cold snap we're in right now.
Works fine on my MBP, on latest Safari/Mavericks.
I spent more time in other parts of the country, but the ones I came across were free but not "unprotected". Meaning you needed at least a password from the waitress or written on the wall, etc.

This is good enough to protect against the "wifi spam bot hidden inside of a household iron" attack.
Strictly speaking, neither can cancer. Both are limited by the capacity of the host.
I hope that you are not talking about social.technet.microsoft.com. No offense, but I always dread, when I search for a solution and the results contain this site at top positions. I've never found a solution for my problem there, just moderators following a script, without trying to really help.
Sure - except in this case the author was. By declaring women, minorities, and LGBT folks the target audience of this Clojure tutorial - it implied that they wouldn't be just as well served by a "regular" Clojure tutorial (even though, as far as I could tell - this actually was just a regular Clojure tutorial). I understand that the article was trying to be welcoming, but the attempt just fell flat on its face.
I think you're confusing the glitches a bit (or I am). Long-winded explanations of both, assuming I understand them correctly:

The TAS version does a trick in the Deku Tree that results in the one set of bars in the tower escape being up. There's a bitmask in memory that dungeons can use to store flags about whatever they want. One of those flags in the Deku Tree dungeon is whether the ladder in the slingshot room has been shot down. That same flag in the dungeon escape indicates that Zelda has already raised a particular set of bars at one of the tower entrances. Because you warp straight from the tree to the tower, it keeps the flags set, so if the ladder was shot down in the tree the one set of bars is already up in the tower and you don't need to wait for Zelda to open them. This saves some time because she's slow, but in theory you'd still need to run all the way to the door.

Luckily, there's a second glitch that involves falling off the edge of the tower. Normally the game detects when you fall too far and warps you back to the top. If you hit a boulder in mid-air, it resets the fall counter, and you can manage to fall off one bridge and land on the bridge below. The TAS does this twice to fall down to the bridge that has the open gate, so Link can then run right through the entrance without waiting for Zelda (she catches up when you enter a new area). This is the part that Cosmo was describing as impossible for a human, because the boulders are random so you can't really time it such that you hit one in mid-air at the right spot to reset the counter.

The void warp (the new trick used in the WW) is kind of related in that it involves falling off the tower, but that's about it. The entire setup is such that the game detects that you've fallen off the bridge at the exact moment that you hit the loading zone for the inside of the tower. The game tries to reset your position back to the bridge you fell off of, and tries to put you inside the tower, so you end up in the tower but outside the normal rooms, so you just fall all the way to ground level (which is where you wanted to be anyway) and walk to the next loading zone
Why you should never interrupt a programmer
Keep in mind that Apple doesn't make aircraft carriers or nuclear power plants.
I wonder what percentage of HN is invested in apple, compared to the rest of investing community. I wonder what sort of biases, deeper understanding of technology, and/or hype trains cause that difference to arise. And above all, I wonder if Apple can finally solve 5S supply problems and deliver a hit Christmas quarter.
This is really great piece of advice. Especially for first time founders. Even I am a first time founder and can understand how important all the emotional and other help is useful. Few days earlier we were on the HN's first page. and received really great feedback. All the community's love was really a moral booster for us. The community believed in us even before we did. The love we receive in the beginning is always indebted.
I didn't see any either.
I had to try the linked list idea

http://pastebin.com/3rUk6yS1
It won't be a bad thing for them, but that's not why I'm complaining.
It's not a growthist system, though, if previously accrued tax receipts are used to pay out the welfare you're describing.

What would make it growthist, is if the welfare is paid for by borrowing, which would require compounding interest to pay it off. That the payback requires interest (which compounds, i.e. grows) implies growth in the overall productivity of the system to continue functioning.

Moreover, if you consider these post-work humans to be "poor" something strange is going on in your head. It's easy to conflate "unemployed" with "poor" because that's generally the case in our society. But I wouldn't consider the humans in your "limit case" (with my growthist modification) to be the poor people being screwed over by the growthism. It's the robots.
This is why Google Music needs a visualizer.
I'd add that it's colloquial. When a stock drops it's "getting hammered". Also, after hours is deceiving. NFLX was up 50pts after hours with their last earnings announcement. It dropped 80pts the next day.
Cheney backs the NSA
Granted, the source is not known for reliability, but than everyone laughed their asses of when discussing fake stone used by British in Moscow spy scandal. Until British admitted something like 5 years later ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-spy-r... ).

So I'll file it under "curious, possible, but so far dubious".
Ask HN: Can a 15-inch Retina MBP substitute an external monitor?
I'm aware that the rMBP has a usable resolution of 1900x1200 at most, and that 2880x1800 is unfortunately unusable due to readability issues, so my question could be reformulated as "Can a developer comfortably code on a 1900*1200 resolution without external monitor"?
> Think about what happens to the stock price of a company once it stops growing. It falls through the floor.

I don't entirely agree. Companies which can earn stable profits and distribute those as dividends remain healthy stocks. Their stock prices might remain flat, but with dividend payments there's always a natural floor at which a stock will fall to, and no one's really holding them to make a profit on the sale of the stock (the stock price is more of a safeguard in case the companies cut dividends or you decide to liquidate to move your money). The key is finding companies which can sustain profits and those are often businesses with pricing power to keep up with inflation and competition. Here's a great blog:

http://www.dividendgrowthinvestor.com/

His posts go back for years, and he's very focused on researching companies which have paid strong dividends for years/decades. It's an enlightening blog, especially after being surrounded by tech companies which rarely pay dividends and have stock prices based on growth potential (but Oracle, Intel, MS, etc. have transitioned to dividend paying companies).
Obamacare site up after fix, crash, fix
Still, non-engineers won't get it.
I'm the same, though I have definitely adjusted to warmer temperatures over nearly 4 years of living in California, and the general elevation in mood from the sunlight exposure (and everyone else's elevated mood too) makes up for the heat in many ways.

Having said that, there's nothing quite like the smell of wet winter coats gently steaming over an Aga, is there?
How To Disable Any Plugin From a Particular Post or Page
"...for 1 in 6 people in the United States, hunger is a reality"

That's simply not true. It's a misreading of the USDA's food security survey results, wherein the standard for "food insecurity"[1] is

[R]eports of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet. Little or no indication of reduced food intake.

Note the second sentence. Hunger is not a "reality" for your family just because the USDA judges you to have "low food security".

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/foo...
What sort of job allows you to survive financially working 2-3 days/week?
First of all it's a joke

But 100 pesos at time T (bus) is worth more than 100 pesos at time T + interval (taxi)
I think you do not understand how stocks work. A stock in a stable, cash-generating company would never "fall to the floor" when it stops growing. Its stock would simply fall to its present day value. That inflated stock price you saw fall was based on future earnings. We then classify that stock as a "value stock" which means it has limited growth but maintains a stable price and perhaps yields a nice cash dividend that is paid from the operating profits. The company should still seek to enhance efficiency and productivity as well as keep its products/services fresh and relevant but growth would be modest at best. These companies are plentiful in the stock market and very important to any stock investors portfolio.

Granted your world view of stocks is probably limited to top tier tech stocks which have huge growth potentials (apple, amazon, google) and have huge price swings based on the latest tech conference or article.
People are rejecting Umair's piece, in part, by what he's said elsewhere informally and casually. Somehow people continue using FB, and defending it, despite Zuck having said fairly nefarious things. To be clear, my question wasn't charged against you specifically.

> However I did find two others in which he claims that white people having beards is racist, or something: https://twitter.com/umairh/status/393721183197483008 https://twitter.com/umairh/status/393722734918004737

I did not find these tweets to be racist or strange at all. Maybe you're missing the context of what he's like as a person -- maybe that crucial information of tone is lost in pure text. I read it as more casual teasing. Considering he's a Pakistani-American, and probably associates big beards to religious Muslims in his mind, he's drawing some parallel between the two, maybe making note of the dissonant juxtaposition. But I do think he should be more careful with his wording, and make some due effort in not sounding offensive.
"So now the fashion establishment calls designers with real vision, like Westwood, "eccentric". Ah, capitalism. Fuck you so much."

While the ambivalent relationship between fashion and commerce isn't new, it does seems like valid criticism.
you guys are poisoned with a lot of thrash that make no sense. and here is your receipt:

1. Go to Bulgaria.
2. Get a bike.
3. Bike to Barcelona by following the Danube River.

And see what the fuck capitalism is.

It's the root of evil that turns villagers to slaves of companies that makes profit by filling everywhere with corn fields.
Cloud Cannon’s CMS for Web designers goes freemium
Changing Employee Benefit Enrollment Norms - 2013 & Beyond
Neither does Samsung Electronics.
Basic engineering questions that filters the 8 week bootcamp people are usually what I'd consider a good minimum for your normal wide responsibility engineering positions.

I liked one question I had a few months ago. Not verbatim: What do your computer processor and a turing machine have in common?

I think it's highly dependent on the position though.
Another one I had was the all permutations of a string using dynamic programming.

Your list of basics that shows something beyond reciting how to do something in a framework will filter out most of your candidates who need a bit more polish.
I'm talking about answers.microsoft.com.
Also, a significant share of Apple's revenue (and profit) is in the Q4 holiday season. Far more so on a percentage basis than Samsung. So I'm not really sure what the OP was getting at? A more important comparison I think is margin.
Google Introduces Interactive Google+ Posts
Nice clean, simple overviews on the different git workflows.
4 mins that would blow our mind: running FirefoxOS in other platforms
Obviously...what's your point? Of course they're concerned with the growth of their own company. They don't care if other markets are shrinking though. That's why I specified macro level.
> This may be a relatively modern development, but a simple google search of "capitalism is not free markets" will demonstrate swaths of people who make a clear (if subtle) distinction between the two.

There's a clear distinction between capitalism and free markets -- largely, IME, drawn by people, often socialists, who are pointing out the inaccuracy of the "free market" rhetorical defense of capitalism -- but I don't see as much evidence that free marketism is a significant ideological viewpoint outside of its use as a rhetorical defense of capitalism, and certainly not a precursor to capitalism.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625714
>This is so bad it makes my brain hurt

If it's that bad I wonder what its doing sitting on the very top of HN right now.
I think what he says cuts through the bullcrap and feels viscerally true. Imagine if, instead of him making these points, it was Obama or RMS or whoever you ideal is, making these exact points. You'd react very differently.

That said, I'm not really sure what the alternative is.

> our society has managed to put in our pockets supercomputers connected wirelessly to the world's knowledge

As a grad student, I remember when the university got access to a supercomputer. Our professors were quite ecstatic & said we could now solve massive problems....as if it was the lack of supercomputers that was holding them back. That was 15 years ago & the university is in the same place in the rankings. All that happened was a bunch of students wrote some parallel processing code & got a thesis & graduated & moved on.
Things are no different today. If you datamine the vast majority of queries run by the general public on wolframalpha, they wouldn't be far off from "2+3 = ?" It isn't like the common man is jumping up and down because he can finally crack Goldbach's conjecture. He could care less.
Finally, the Internet of Things is becoming a reality
Thanks for the tip. I think this is what you're talking about

http://lifehacker.com/5802885/connection-checker-disconnects...

I'm going to try it out.
Drawing turtles? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics
Companies who send you email but don't want you to reply
Best Practices for Standardizing Customer Experience
Why There's No Financial Advice for Most Americans
How hackers compromised links in Obama’s Twitter account: Through email
Scaling Users, Not Data: SiSense New Take on Machine Learning and Crowdsourcing
So you're saying you don't offer .io's because you're looking out for people who might want to buy the .com equivalent (even though you "could make money selling them")?

You sound like a hellava businessman...
It's in all the "wooshing", the swirls of energy as they collide: http://www.anneahira.com/images/avatar-the-last-airbender.jp... Google around for clips, it's obviously not 100% accurate, but it said "style" so we can give a bit of leeway.
If Microsoft was smart, they'd put this guy on TV to talk about the Surface instead of showing that incredibly awkward dance video.
I think Vine is a pretty good example of this. I'm pretty sure every hacker in the world who heard of Instagram being sold to Facebook thought to himself, "If it works for photo, why don't we just make a video version?" Vine went and did it--and did it well.
Is because liveweave cancel key mapping by dfault , you need to click on "Tools" then download and open the "source.html" file manualy.
There is nice summary of other interesting probabilistic data structures here: http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/probabilistic...
Hacking and Philosophy: An Introduction
The thing that helped Dropbox take off (at least in my circles) was that it is on the cloud. I don't have to have a computer somewhere running all the time. In fact, I don't. Almost nobody I chat with regularly does.
See the StakOverflow question for more details but the basics of it is that in order to optimize uploads the DB client calculates the hash of a file before uploading it and if the hash along with other attributes about the file like size etc... match then they assume it is the same. So you used to be able to trick the service into letting you download a file you never actually had if you knew the hash and other attributes.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4767505/exploit-dropbox-f...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropship_(software)
In your mind, how would that be a limiting factor?

Your partner becomes your working companion; this is a mutual relationship at it's very essence.

Your children learn practical skills, grow stronger, and aren't shaped entirely by a failing education system.
It feels like this isn't actually solving the dependency injection problem - we've moved all our dependencies into this global (ish) Config object, but that object is effectively acting as a service registry. Constructing the Config is still going to require a DI strategy (as the end of the post acknowledges), so what do we actually gain from this reader pattern? I don't think it makes testing any easier (if anything it makes it harder, since we have to build up a whole dummy Config, rather than building a small test cake that only includes the dependencies a specific test needs).
Again, Tucker made his argument from first principles, in a non-hindsight fashion (he was writing when Lenin was a teen). So it would be hard to argue that it's not inevitable, because it was empirically shown and in a prior fashion mechanistically predicted (this is the minimum bar for creating a law in the physical sciences), unless you can point out exactly what needs to happen differently from how Tucker envisioned it.
And the house will still cost $1 million.
Now write that in Malbolge =D
Irregardless of your political ideologies there are two roots to this issue which the author of this blog post seems unaware of:

1 - Government policy
2 - Central bank policy

Your 401k, pension fund, home, are all dependent on prices increasing in order for you to retire or be financial secure. It just happens that if you did really well with your investments someone who has more investments than you did even better.

If leverage is involved, not only do you fail to get a positive return on your investment you not only lose that asset but potentially everything else you have.

Some of this policy extends beyond government subsidized lending toward things that are very looked down upon by modern Western society such as colonialism and genocide.

As a civilized individual imagine yourself playing a computer game like Civilization. What strategies are you going to implement to grow bigger, get a better score, and continue playing the game?
No way to hide this:

2013: Revenue $37.5B, Profit $7.5B (20%)
2012: Revenue $36.0B, Profit $8.2B (22%)

Loss of 2% net profit year over year. Just under a 5% drop per share on a diluted basis. So its becoming less profitable to be Apple which speaks to the margin pressure they are under from credible Android phones and tablets. I don't think the market expected that (or maybe they did, GOOG is trading over $1000 these days)
Is -3% really a "hammering"

Doesn't sound like it when looking at the percentage. Apple had a market capitalization of $481,390,000,000 at the market close today. So 3% of that is $14,441,700,000. Seems more significant in whole numbers.

The real thing to consider is that every stock is much more thinly traded in after markets than it is during regular hours. For that reason, the few people trading during that time are typically not representative of the entire investment community.
Deriving the Y Combinator (Expanding on The Little Schemer)