skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a terrible interviewer, it has nothing to do with you. They know what they want, but they don't know how to find it properly.

Don't be afraid to use you're own notebook/laptop to Google a solution, or keep asking questions about the desired solution.

Be free in not having all the answers either, be confident you can find the answers. An interview shouldn't be about vague technical hurdles you have to jump through.

It's about proving competence & compatibility of character.

If your interviewer is willing to end the interview because of one dropped ball, call them on it.
I would have mentioned the Jquery-UI built in autocomplete function...

http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/
If the last 25 years or so have taught me anything, it's that politics is _never_ about rational, thinking people voting for their own best interest. It's pretty much just emotion and/or fear for the vast, vast majority (of the tiny minority of people who actually bother to vote).

Irrational emotion bred these laws, they will only go away via the same pathetic process. The ACLU is just playing the game with their appeal to emotion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_(2009_film) is a great film where the streets of London are almost like a central character.
Another vote for Synology NAS. I have the same device in the same configuration. I love it lots, and have ended up using it for far more than just backups.

My previous setup was two large USB drives, and doing everything manually (when I remembered and/or could be bothered to), but I almost lost data this way.
> No. Yahoo has laid off people because the business cannot support that number of employees. Stack ranking is just the tool used to make the decision.

If the problem is the number of employees, why do they have 300 job openings posted?
There are plenty of Google bots on this site. Do any of them care to comment?
International purchases to certain countries and remittances. Small online transactions ($0.10 -$0.50) are also more feasbile with bitcoin, which could potentially open up new business models.
It is also important to consider DDOS when evaluating protocols.

TCP has an advantage over UDP because data cannot be spoofed. There are many ddos protection services that will protect against spoofed TCP connections (SYN floods).

Applications must implement their own 3 way handshake in UDP in order to avoid these problems. Many applications did not do this which is why COD servers ended up being a source of attack traffic themselves.
Thank you! But I am thinking, could I be able to obtain easily the duration of each meeting using this setup? This is what I would ultimately need (to construct the empirical cdf, social network, etc.)
Can Google Predict the Stock Market?
On a point I agree but not everyone has a thick skin to deal with the constant abuse some YouTubers face and they shouldn't have to.

But ultimately I believe the whole policy of linking Google Plus account to YouTube was to clean it up so it looks good for advertisers. They do not want their brand associated with some of the homophobic, sexist and racist comments some were posting.
It's really not that complicated.

Piss off the right person, and you may find yourself getting pulled over on some deserted road where officer Clancy "discovers" a felonious amount of a controlled substance concealed in your car or on your person.
Not true. I bought VPN access with Bitcoin precisely because it would be difficult to trace me using my payment methods. I'm not doing anything illegal. I just like anonymity and would like to protect myself from those snitching on wifi networks.
When is it ever fair to cause someone personal damage? Doesn't there need to be some greater, overriding justification? If not then isn't this just internet mob justice (and as usual, if there's some collateral damage, so be it)?
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>Don't have anything to say about that? Then please stay out of the discussion rather than changing topics and blurring the issues. Thanks.

The topic of this thread is actually that we have a lot of people serving life in prison for non-violent crimes.

Your post is now 8ish levels deep and asking people to prove that the ACLU is a strong supporter of 2nd amendment rights.

This seems like a pretty big topic change and blurring of the issues.
Disclaimer: I'm a Backblaze employee. Backblaze tends to be extremely simple to use. After installation, you enter your email address and a password (on the client side) and you are now CORRECTLY configured. By default, Backblaze backs up any and all files on your computer. You don't have to pick and choose folders, write a script, setup a second computer at your Mom's house, nothing. There are only 3 billing options: $5/month (utterly unthrottled and no size limits), or if you pay for 1 year up front it is $50, pay for two years it is $95.

Simple and "just works" makes some customers happy, but Backblaze isn't perfect for everybody. If you like playing with your backups, scripting them, configuring machines, excluding folders - Backblaze will drive you crazy as you fight to control it. For example, if you add a new folder of images to your computer, Backblaze will push them to our datacenter unless you EXPLICITLY exclude that folder. Some customers would like an option that all new folders ARE NOT backed up until they "add" them to the backup. Backblaze must be thought of as a complete solution - if it doesn't fit your needs, we can highly recommend other more scriptable products to you.

There is no shame that we only fit the needs of a subset of customers, our biggest challenge is communicating what we do and do not do clearly so we don't waste your time.

The original question was "with these flaws why use Backblaze?" The answer is, only customers who view these "flaws" as good things should use Backblaze. For example, your files are encrypted at Backblaze and we absolutely don't store your password. But by default, you can "recover" your password with access to your email address. You can enable a higher level of security on Backblaze where you can NEVER recover your password and if you forget your password, you are screwed. This is NOT the best option if your Mom is using Backblaze to backup her cat pictures. Friendly and easy is a BETTER solution for some people. But if you are really, really concerned about security, look into Backblaze's "private encryption key" option.
saturdays in Israel are quiet empty as well
GitHub+Chat was clearly meant to be
Currently, I'm learning Python and have been learning it for over a year now. I've been thinking about moving to C as my next language. Is this a good idea? I'm eventually going to want to learn C++, but I'm not going to learn Java until I have to. Also, what are some really good C learning resources? I know there's K&R and learncthehardway.org
> Team Chat That Doesn't Suck

IRC?

I use IRC for all sorts of purposes and audiences, there are tens ifnot hundreds of implementations that are being actively maintained, and it's been a standard for decades. How does that suck?

Edit: Oh they mention "Like IRC, but smarter", where smarter is a link. Let's see about that.

> Know who's seen any message.

Facebook does this. It more annoys me than anything else, but I can see the point. People could also simply acknowledge having read something, but again, ok I see the point.

> Edit messages after you've sent them.

Depends on the audience... On Skype (1 on 1 chat) it rocks, StackExchange's chat is generally not for 13-year-olds either so there it works as well, but in most team chats I wouldn't want this feature. Since it's aimed at Github users, I suppose this is a nice feature.

> Automatically embeds content like YouTube, pictures of cats and other stuff.

God no.

> Did we mention our smart notifications? @mentions. Batched notifications. Won't annoy you by making your phone beep on every message.

IRC, IRC and IRC.

> Awesome emotigifs.

You mean like MSN's Winks®? [1]

> Infinite chat history stored in the cloud.

trustworthiness--;

> Searchable too, naturally.

grep

> Oh, and a unified activity feed.

Hmm, what's that for? You mean like IRC clients' "last message" feature, or a way that stalks people even when your client is not running?

[1] http://img.uptodown.net/screen/windows/bigthumb/free-msn-win...
This is fascinating: is the internet not as male as we all thought? Is the default assumption that it's male and women have wrapped themselves in the safety of the net's ultimate default setting?
Maybe it is not about him being disqualified, maybe it is about the fact that the other people they interviewed were able to jump through their hoops and do all the tricks and were equally as qualified?
Tangent, but I've found it a bit odd to see Out of Service messages on billboards. Why not display a default ad (e.g. "Your Ad Here")?

Actually on that note I'm surprised I don't see more community/charitable notices in the mix for digital boards (these could serve as "defaults"). Having non-commercial and regularly changing ads in the mix would actually get me watching, and is potentially even tax-deductible.
Why does it request write permission to my private Github repos?
IRC doesn't have the same level of deep integration with GitHub and ease-of-use that Hub has.
> there would be more news about this even from the mainstream non-tech media by now.

"By now"? It's one day after release on a weekend.
"But I really felt like I was treated terribly as an applicant, and the facilitators came off as having a high regard for themselves and engineering arrogance rather than being interested in helping people and being constructive."

I attended Hacker School Winter 2013. No community is perfect, of course, and it sucks that you felt you were treated that way. But my experience in and out of hacker school is that it is about the least arrogant community of hackers ever. It explicitly discourages the sort of "dickwaving" you're complaining about, and the group does a good job of pushing aside arrogance by being nice, encouraging, and enthusiastic. All those good behaviors just come out more naturally when you're surrounded by other people exhibiting them, and in my experience the facilitators totally lead the way on that.

Which is not to say you didn't have a crappy experience, because everyone has bad days. And it's not to say there's zero arrogance at hacker school because, well... programmers. But in general, I think it is a super helpful and constructive place.
The premise may be valid, however the authors only examined a network trace for one game. At best, they've proven only that game's use of TCP is unwieldy and inappropriate.

A more appropriate methodology would have been to examine traces of the top 5 MMORPGs in terms of active players.
Don't worry - we don't touch your repos! Unfortunately the read permissions we need are classified as "write" (or at least we couldn't find a way to specify them as "read" in our very limited time).
Thanks, we think so too!
Errm. How do you get everyone to start using a different email address in 3 minutes?

This has been their brilliant (and awful - I don't use gmail, and _hate_ this) move - to get people to use an address@gmail.com, so there is no way you can ever take it anywhere else (because even if you want to forward, you have to keep the account active).
GitHub doesn't allow enough specificity in application permissions. They don't need write permission, but they need access to Github orgs (obviously) and GitHub lumps them together.
Sure, but neither does a silicon wafer make it easy to do arithmetic.

What does your app do that a GitHub-aware IRC bot cannot?
up/down systens are stupid since they are so binary. It only remotely works to give you an actual picture of what people think about it. Having a five scale score is very logical, since it's symetric (and therefore not biased like the 6 scores rating you suggest if you could rate without stars), and you give a degree of satisfaction and not just up or down. It's way superior to tell you if the product is exceptional or just "meh".

Of course you have to look at the ratings distribution and not just the average. The average tells you almost nothing.
ARGH!
Is it just me or are the procedure described in the link actually not working : the buttons are not there with exact name, nor results or choices.
And if I try with the 2nd account directly, the one they created because of Youtube, it asks me to try an unlink (or delete!) it on Youtube, where the option is nowhere to be found...
Epic fail!
Give IPs, receive bacon.
The way I unlinked was:
1) Account Settings ->
2) Overview ->
3) Right next to your avatar there should be a link to disconnect G+ from your youtube profile.
So, first things first: Get yourself a domain name.

Second, why do you need Write access to anything? You're team chat, with some notification power. Giving you access to write on not just my repos, but the repos of my organizations, is a pretty big "Hell no" without there being a company there, some names, or(and no offense here, Ross), someone I can properly sue if the shit really hits the fan.

This isn't so much a question of trust as much as just me trying to cover my ass. Right now we're using Campfire, and personally, I'm not a huge fan- yeah it's been integrated with everything under the sun, but interacting with it from a phone is no fun, it's hard to notice anything being said on it without a window constantly open on it, and the styling makes reading Github notifications particularly awful.

This is a longwinded way of me saying I want to give you a shot, but you either need some extremely strong justification, or you need to pull back on those requests.

Edit: I'm seeing that apparently Github doesn't separate the permissions out very much? That's pretty worrying.
I don't think it has to be in-depth. I just made an implementation of Blackjack in Python. The rules are very easy to code up, and the AI (the dealer) is actually hard-coded by the rules, so no nasty trees or recursion.

It also allowed me to demonstrate my knowledge of object oriented programming, program design, etc.

I would probably recommend something other than a mostly HMTL/CSS website because that doesn't show off your programming chops very well.

Don't stress about it too much!
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Voted 2. Do I swap them often? Yes.

I actually think coin solves a real problem for me - I'd carry more if it wasn't annoying.
Try a columnar database solution for time series.
I agree with you about competition. As for Google, Reddit, etc. I have a handful of ids on each. The profile attached with my real name is quite public, and I disclose quite a bit of my life there. As for my comments that I don't want associated with my real name, well, no one is stopping me from creating ids for that. So, I don't see what all this hue and cry about Google+ is all about.
Waiting for a follow-up to http://xkcd.com/202/

Making this privacy mess funny seems quite the challenge though.
They're mostly things like Satoshi Dice, which will skew the results weirdly.

https://blockchain.info/popular-addresses
I just tried to sign up.

I granted permissions to the app via GitHub, then I get:

Internal Server Error

Now, however, if I click on the "Sign Up" button on your homepage (http://team-name-goes-here.2013.nodeknockout.com/), it sends me to:

http://team-name-goes-here.2013.nodeknockout.com/auth/github...

and the same page simply saying:

Internal Server Error

So it seems that Github obviously granted something to your app, but now it's broken for me? It would be nice to try this out.

On another note - some screenshots on your homepage would also be nice.
This. It's too bad Google conflated their technical goal of a unified login system with their policy goal of whatever-their-policy-goal-is — probably something to do with knowing more about their users and/or getting them to interact with social features more.
> The problem is that anonymity leading to great conversation is disproved by reality.

How ironic that you are posting this on Hacker News.

Or pick reddit for another flagrant counter example to your claim.

Uncivilized discussions don't happen because of anonymity but because of uncivilized people. Create forums where mature people are inclined to participate and you will get great discussions, whether these posts are authored by anonymous people or not.
"PS4 blue light of death" returns 101 results.

Quite a lot for one very particular phrasing, actually.

I didn't mean to imply that there were millions of postings about the PS4 problems, just that the problem signified by a blue flashing light is apparently now pretty well-known. It's not just the Amazon posters talking about it; the issue isn't the overheating indication, it's something else.
We definitely plan on getting a domain once the hackathon is over and we have some time to relax and really plan this out :)

As I mentioned earlier, you have nothing to worry about - we don't touch your repos! Unfortunately the read permissions we need are classified as "write" (or at least we couldn't find a way to specify them as "read" in our very limited time).

Once everything settles down we are going to think about ways to make it easier for people to use and trust the service so that they don't need to worry about permissions or anything like that.

Thanks so much for your input, we'll definitely take it into account!
> for any non violent offense relating solely to the possession, sales, distribution, manufacture, or purchase of an intoxicating substance.

I find it somewhat ridiculous as a species we even consider writing into the absolute law of the land anything to do with growing or selling plants that aren't fatally toxic. And even then, you don't need to say "don't sell toxic plants" you just need to say "don't hurt or kill other people with toxic plants". Or in general.

And the point is the general - don't be specific to intoxicating substance. Better yet, ask why the fuck someone is in jail without committing some violence. Implicit to a crime being nonviolent means all parties engaged (including those unknowingly, because committing fraud can still be a felony because you are harming the unknowing parties you actively lie to and deceive to benefit from).

If all parties are privy to something, you really need to sit back and ask why the hell you are throwing people in jail for participating it. If there are no losers without bringing police and prison sentencing into the picture, you are probably doing it wrong.

But I really hope something like this isn't worthy of a constitutional amendment. If anything, you should seek out and fix the direct empowerment in said document that enables rampant abuses of the legal system like this in the first place. Or you need to ask how the hell enough of a majority of your citizenry support it that may call into question the functioning of democracy, because if there is nothing wrong with the system then the people are to blame.
With respect, I will never accept cameras everywhere. The thugs may force them on me, but I will never call them a good thing. We don't need to live in a goddamn police state.
We've been getting lots of traffic so this is caused by the GitHub rate limit being exceeded. Try again soon!

Hopefully we can negotiate a way to be whitelisted by GitHub so these issues do not occur.
I think we're talking sneakernet here...
If speaking my mind gets me thrown in prison, I'd rather stand by my beliefs and be proud of them then to lie and live a hollow life of subservience.
Looks interesting, if only I used GitHub more....
We have a quick video demoing it here: http://nodeknockout.com/teams/team-name-goes-here
The transcript implies he was disqualified because of this question. Of course he may have bombed other questions and this was just the last chance saloon.
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Umm? I think I'm missing something? The wiring goes lamp post to house, box on side of house, cable comes out, goes to router (sometimes with several bit and prices coming off for other jack points). I replaced all the wiring between the box on the side of the house and the router. Connecting directly to the router is what I was doing the whole time.
I have heard of him before, knowing a few people who had gone to him hoping to be cured from cancer. Obviously, they did not get the results they were hoping for (many thousands of dollars later).

Thank G-d he is being taken care of.
"If you don’t have a Google+ account you can start or join a limited hangout, which only includes the option to hang out with 1 other person. If you’d like access to all Hangouts’ features including the ability to hang out with up to 9 people, share your screen, and use cool Hangouts’ apps, you can upgrade to a free Google+ account at plus.google.com"

from https://support.google.com/chat/answer/161986?hl=en
Really? I don't think there was anything wrong with the interviewer at all, he just wasn't at the level of experience they were looking for. There is no point in extending the interview beyond that point if you know it's not going anywhere.
Similar to hurl.it - seems like if you do something around executing shell scripts via curl... Would be interesting
Shit that sucks. Despite its bugs Hangouts is a great product I use multiple times a week, sometimes daily. Now I'm going to have to create a fake account just to use Hangouts.
You can build, for the price of a ps4, a more powerful x86 computer than a ps4, today.

It isn't about two years, it is now. This console generation isn't selling at a loss, so all that is really happening is that MS and Sony have developed two entirely proprietary OSes with proprietary APIs and locked down distribution and usage, when under the hood they are just normal x86 based systems.

I think it really shows the absurdity of modern consoles in general. The industry made sense from the 70s to 90s when you needed heavily specialized hardware with finely tuned pipelines and exact design specs to be able to do real time video in 2 and eventually 3 dimensions, but today any computer can do that for fairly cheap, and console technologies are not entirely novel hardware concepts, but just cpus and gpus bundled on a board just like every other modern computer system.

If you want an argument for SteamOS, it is that coupling physical parts with a proprietary gaming platform is unnecessary and ridiculous today. So SteamOS doesn't do that. It is a console OS for any computer, in the same way the PS4 and Xbone operate, except you can just build your own rather than being shackled to hardware.

So you are still shackled to a proprietary software platform (Steam) but can console said platform anywhere it supports without being bound to silicon and copper.
Confusing name reuse, for me metaphone[1] is a better soundex

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metaphone
I am tired of making crap, who's with me?
The McRib: enjoy your symptom
If you recently joined, you can't. I just went through this yet again, and they now have a "14 day period" where you can unlink. After that, as far as I can tell, it's permanent.
Oh man... when I opened the business rules dll in .NET, I got quite a shock!!! Worst code I've ever seen.
I believe you got this from gitter.im - that is a very similar idea (likely a ripoff of ours) which is nothing more than a concept and design. We build a rough working prototype.
i don't know what your thing does. its blocked by a login or leave forever page set.

other guys show what they have.
check your stats - how many unique come to the front page, click around aimlessly hoping to get somewhere, then never come back.
I stand corrected! Thanks for the info.
Yeah he's in the leagues of Thomas Jefferson and the signers of the Declaration of Independence who used social engineering exploits in their jobs as legislators to undermine the authority of the crown.

Yes, I'm seriously suggesting that following orders contrary to good conscience is immoral and illegal, but luckily the better part of the world agrees with me in the precedent set at Nuremberg.