skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have an understanding of this whole credits system, it just never clicks properly with me but that's my fault, I couldn't find a proper source to analyze it.

While I totally agree with you, he does have a tiny point. If there are no actual battery swap faculties, then why should Tesla be getting the credits worth tens of million of dollars from the government or aka from our tax money?

I rather Tesla get an actual loan from the government to test the battery swap concept rather than trying to game the credits system if that is in fact that they're doing.
You have 1 vote. Make it count.
As I recall, losethos's situation is that he's already on disability, diagnosed, and part of a national health system (isn't he British or something?); it's just that his meds either aren't working or he isn't taking them. What can be done for him has been done.
> Vodafone has had something similar for mobile for years, no?

Virgin too, I had one of their PAYG SIMs for a while and you had to opt in to have the filter turned off (which was a faf IIRC).

The content that it blocked for me was the national lottery web site (presumably gambling was one of the filtering criteria), but the holding page presented when you visited a blocked site carried adverts which amusingly enough at the time were for what was essentially sex chat lines... I've still got a screen grab of it somewhere.
Ideally they should be having people in that area of expertise doing the interviewing of the candidate, since they have ready access to the domain specific information to ask relevant questions.
I learned Dart and TypeScript this year and both were fairly trivial to learn and use. The learning process improved my JavaScript skills because I had to think about JavaScript in new ways and got me ready for ES6 (For example, the discussions about iterators in Dart and ES6 was interesting.) Next up is ClojureScript, if I can get over the syntax.
Is Christmas efficient?
3 of the 7 links above the fold are about bitcoin...
I did read the article. I should articulate myself better: would it not have been easy for the us to use it's (nsa) powers to gather email and chatlogs?
For every chart you could ever want with a very easy-to-use API, highcharts (http://www.highcharts.com/) is your best friend. Free for personal use, inexpensive for commercial license. Highcharts will let you show as much or as little as you want. It's funny the author chose calorie per food portion for the example, I'm actually developing a web app that helps plan diets and I did exactly the same thing - remove labels, special effects, legends, etc. The result is magnificent, it really helps with both design and the usefulness of your data.
The download-link trickery was probably relatively ineffective, since most people only needed one download to figure out how it worked. There were a lot of people who paid for premium Megaupload accounts so they could download stuff faster and without limits. It was like the Amazon Prime of bootlegged content in some circles.
Why being a boss is like a hostage crisis
> "The entertainment industry has just never really been able to get their heads around how to best develop a new, sustainable business model"

It's because when a new technology emerge, it often means cheaper way to do things, which means less profits. That's the part they have a problem with: less profits.
You were interviewed by back-end engineers. That's what they knew.

My question is why didn't you leave the interview upon seeing it was a waste of time?
> I suspect that 'Jack' might be a non-native speaker of English.

If he is, he's done a hell of a job learning English. I think I'm a very good writer, but in some respects I don't match Jack, which is impressive for a native but astounding if he's ESL. Plus he makes references to US things like referring to MA as being 'east', which suggests he's physically located i the US, which is more likely if he's a native speaker.
Sure you can.

Most people in the UK are totally fine with some levels of censorship.

Ask them if they want a ban on people producing or distributing images of child sexual abuse and most people would say that they do want a ban.

Extend that to images of people having sex with animals and many people are happy with a ban, and some people saying that they agree it should be restricted to those over the ages of 18, and not accidentally available to anyone.

But when you ask someone in the UK if a TV show should receive a huge ($500,000) fine for an accidental < 1 second showing of a partially clothed nipple most people are going to laugh and say "no". (Unlike US FCC which imposed such a fine for Janet Jackson nipple slip. That fine was overturned 7 years later, but only because FCC had used new powers before taking action). Or if you ask whether it's okay for terrestrial broadcast TV shows to include nudity or swearing after 9pm most people are going to say it's okay. (Unlike US, where shows have to censor their language. See for example The Good Wife which parodied this situation with a street noise during a courtroom hearing. The noise was used to mask bad language.)
FreeNAS was suffering from technical debt because it was build on the code base of a firewall appliance for small CF cards. The project initiator gave up on it and it needed a rewrite. Most active contributors had a Linux background and wanted to use a Linux distro as starting point. At that point iX Systems moved in and offered to take over. They started the rewrite and leveraged the improvements made in FreeBSD. The new FreeNAS lacked some features home useres wanted e.g. a BitTorrent client and media streaming until the new plugin mechanism was ready.

I'm a FreeBSD user and tend to avoid any automagic between me and the system but the FreeNAS 9.2.0 RC looked very promising.
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I think we are also seeing the rise of the frontend developer, where they spend most of their time on JS, with maybe some time in HTML and CSS - at least, that is what I do for work, although I am fully capable of excelling at CSS as well.
I use Computer Modern Typewriter Oblique (which is plain slanted) for my font in terminals and text editors. I really like how it looks. Unfortunately, some IDEs like IntelliJ ignore the oblique part and print the characters upright. However oblique is compatible with syntax highlighting that uses italics, because the true italic form of CM Typewriter resembles a script typewriter.

Anyway, I always consider adding CM Typewriter Oblique to lists of the best monospaced fonts, but consider that maybe it will come across as too "hipster".
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yep by his standards any plumber/electrician would be guilty as sin - funny how US bodies love to go after the foreigner - how very french of them.
For many of us, Perl never went away. Been using it since the early 90s. It's ugly, but I know it, it does the job well, and it's reliable.
Ah, I thought it would be the other way around. Before I send a mail, I click 'expect reply'. If I don't get a reply in x days, I get a notice. Is that a current option?
There is a calculational school of programming in which algorithms are derived from specifications in a presentation of first-order logic adapted to program derivation. It does not seem to be popular on HN. "Programming: the derivation of algorithms" by Anne Kaldewaij is a good source for this. A derivation of an efficient algorithm to compute Fibonacci numbers is given, as well as for me the most memorable implementation of binary search.

Miller should have used Kaldewaij's O(log(N)) algorithm to compute the n-th Fibonacci number, given below.

def fib(n):
"""Lifted from Kaldewaij."""
a,b,x,y = 0,1,0,1
while n != 0:
if n % 2 == 0:
a,b = a * a + b * b, 2 * a * b + b * b
n = n // 2
else:
x,y = a * x + b * y, b * x + a * y + b * y
n -= 1
return x

As Kaldewaij remarks, the algorithm is harder to understand without its derivation.

Of course there is TAOCP by Knuth, who added a supplement on probability to the mathematical preliminaries.

Miller's suggestion that programmers should know calculus, statistics and linear algebra is sound, though perhaps pedestrian. There is no end to the mathematics one might apply. The article omits logic and dependent type theory. The Curry-Haskell-Lambek isomorphism theorem on the equivalence between the category of cartesian closed categories and functors and the category of simply-typed lambda calculi and translations is basic in the study of functional programming languages. Ramsey's theorem has been applied to program termination. I myself am interested in applications of game theory--though I am not giving away my secrets.
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Practical Internet Privacy and Security
Here's a link to the paper on the author's university's site: http://www.drexel.edu/~/media/Files/now/pdfs/Institutionaliz...
What's outrageous to me is the government has to pass laws to make sure the banks police their customers. It's non-sense. You should have the right to deposit money with no questions asked.

Law enforcement shouldn't have to rely on the banks to disclose anything to them unless they come with a court order and ask specific questions.

The laws are put a strain on day-to-day business for everyone and it's tiring.
Because the NSA would rather use the data for more important things, like terrorism, war, and espionage of foreign governments. Even if just for public perception, I don't think anybody, NSA included, really wants the NSA to use its dragnet surveillance to prevent people from downloading DVD rips of Avatar.
This actually par for the course. Pretty much any time you start climbing the ladder and going after businesses connected to governments, it gets pretty dodgy.

If I remember correctly, the same thing happened when they busted Pablo Escobar. They infiltrated his banking operations and once the investigators found out there were high ranking officials both in Columbia and here taking kick backs, they shut the investigation down.
From the transcript on this video http://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/55;jsessionid=...

Well, I came up with 25 of the 26 letters in the middle of June and they weren't beautiful but they were pretty close to being okay to my eyes at the time, but then there was the letter S. And I couldn't figure out how to draw a blasted S. And it has a very peculiar shape where it changes over from curves left, then right a little bit, and then back and forth, and what's going on in this shape. None of my mathematical formulas would handle it. And I spent several days without sleep up at the lab, trying different things and every time it would just look very ugly. And finally, I had to come home and go to bed and I showed my results to Jill and she said to me, ‘Well Don, why don't you make it s-shaped?’
I swear that a good amount of the TeX love is cargo culting, including any appreciation of Computer Modern, which is a seriously ugly typeface. It's almost as if adopting it for the web is simply a grasp for mathematical credibility more than any real aesthetic consideration.

Note: I'm not criticising TeX, but changing fonts away from CM is about the first thing anyone concerned with quality output should be doing.
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> I said this in a comment to you on reddit, but this line was just fluff: "Hence by backward induction, there is a clear decision-theoretic verdict against paying you any sum."

My reply to this off-base criticism: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1thnq3/i_am_not_sat...

(At least you got the quote right here.)
Russian Assault Rifle Designer Mikhail Kalashnikov Dead At 94
Painful. I suppose online statements are too easy to counterfeit? It's a shame the bank couldn't provide authenticated documents to you as a automated service.
In that case, care of the various customer accounts should be sold off to another bank.
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AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94
Just shows how flawed the laws are with respect to copyright holders. I doubt he is the only one setting up international businesses, to skirt the law for profit, and then claim the US doesn't have jurisdiction.

The laws in Europe are very loose as well. Not only do you have people setting up businesses to profit off piracy, but you also have secondary businesses forming to monetize and indirectly profit.

Browse over to thePiratebay and go look at the ads, what the products are, and who is serving those ads. These players know exactly what's going on, and how that traffic is derived and they will do anything for a "buck" - from install toolbars and hijack browsing experiences down. But technically, its all "legal", specifically if you aren't in the US.

That shouldn't be the case imo and the book should get thrown at all these people, because when the copyright laws change eventually and people say the new ones stifle innovation, these are the guys that will be the reason for it, and rightfully so.
I'm sure they're not happy about 'less profits', but it seems fair that what little money there is at least goes to the people who did the work to create the content, which was not happening in this case.
Legit sites try to trick visitors like that too.
Santa vs Jesus rap battle (explicit)
Santa and Jesus engage in a sweary rap battle. Lols aplenty.
I can understand the fears of the Justice Department on this one. Any financial instability gets us closer to a depression. Something this government does not want. Any dip in our economy and the government immediately starts bailing out banks and big business. Why? Well, last time their was a depression, there was great change in the government. Every day one could look forward to another episode in the battle between the President and the Supreme Court. Prohibition was repealed, as was inhibition, and bank holidays last all year. They have worked too hard and too long to get the public under such great control as it is today, and we would do the depression so much better than the 30's did. 'TALKIN' BOUT A REVOLUTION' my friends.
To me, it looks like this happens when you can't easily build new things by reusing old ones (in this case annotations). If a developer was able to combine multiple annotations into one easily, they would be better able to express themselves in the typical cases

sketchy example:

@SerializableTo(name='orders', exclude='json');
@BelongsTo('customer')
private List orders;

then @BelongsTo is implemented using @ManyToMany, @Fetch, @JoinTable.

Can you do that with annotations in Java without rewriting them from scratch?
Somebody always posts this comment re: Computer Modern, but I've never seen anybody offer up some of these strictly superior printing fonts (of which there are apparently many). Would you care to link some examples?
In any business, if you can leverage technology to steal something and sell it for less, you will do well.

It's not just movies or music. It's anything. If I can steal laptops with no repercussions and sell it for 90% off, and its just as good as the original, I am going to do really well.
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A bit off topic,but is there a website that gather common computer science interview questions with solutions ? thanks.
Swedish too!
The same way there are leaks of who subscribes to the adult cable channels?

Regardless, if there is to be a filter service I guess it's good that it covers a lot more than just porn. So what if the list is leaked? People probably just want unfiltered access to news sources.

(Which sounds like a modern day version of the "I just buy it for the articles" Playboy defence.)
Unfortunately calling conventions are hideously complex; some arguments go in registers, some go on the stack, some change depending on whether they're structs or floats or not…it's a giant mess :(
I enjoyed a brief experience with FreeNAS but ended up wishing I had a full FreeBSD system -- it's easy to miss things like ports and the like. I was able to upgrade in-place to FreeBSD 9-STABLE however, which was a great experience.

I probably should have better documented by upgrade-in-place procedure but at the time I didn't know whether it would work. It was fairly straightforward, using documentation for root on ZFS.
> I swear that a good amount of the TeX love is cargo culting, including any appreciation of Computer Modern, which is a seriously ugly typeface.

Aesthetics can't be "cargo culting" -- to assert that it is requires misunderstanding aesthetics, cargo culting, or both.

> It's almost as if adopting it for the web is simply a grasp for mathematical credibility more than any real aesthetic consideration.

Familiarity in context is a real aesthetic consideration.
Whatever happened to the cool looking "Hand of god" theme (terrible name) ?

I remember using this in the late 90s, it had the window controls on the side..
Holiday No Rush cartoon
In all likelihood, that's exactly what happened: The FBI, or some other US agency illegally obtained information from the MU servers without a warrant. They ordered the raid to seize information that could be used to prove the crime after the fact.
That makes sense.

I think perhaps it's from the opposite perspective that I'm approaching this. Specifically, creating things that require customers/users to give up privacy. The model itself stands in place of a different exchange, and while it's not clean, it does create a trade of some value.

I suppose we could argue that none of us know the value of a dollar, either, but I agree more with you than I do the devils advocate in my head.
Math alert:

... BTC China has facilitated approximately 340K XBT / ¥1.25B in trades. At the officially-stated 0.3% fee for buyers and sellers, that’s approximately ¥3.75M ($615K)...

There is a buyer and a seller for each trade so it should be 0.3% * 2 * ¥1.25B which is ¥7.5M. So they made twice as much as the article claims which is good for them but the 1st derivative of revenue curve is pretty steadily decreasing which is bad for them.

edit: Just thought about this a little bit more. This means there is a 60bps fee to go from an actual currency to bitcoin and vice versa. When you use bitcoin as a payment mechanism the buyer converts his currency to bitcoin, payment happens, then the seller converts bitcoins back to actual currency. So the exchange pockets 120 bps on every transaction where bitcoin is used exclusively as a payment technology. That's approaching Visa / Mastercard levels of transaction fees... not a bad business.
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Agreed, Gods of Management is an excellent book. Using that kind of analogy, Holocracy seems like it would be atheism.
Junicode is a far better classic serif, for example.
> complete with a misuse of "we"

'Misuse'? That's a fascinating claim. How could you know that to be a 'misuse'? I've collaborated with at least 4 people on various points; does that not justify a 'we'?

> and claims of secretive methodologies.

No, the methodology is not very impressive, it's just that if I explain the method, the result is easily figured out.
"you visit a page and have a credit card checked"

This sounds like an obvious social engineering hack waiting to happen, merely register "nude-hacker-news-pics.com" and put up a page promising to merely test a credit cards number, and to be certain you're an adult, maybe your mom's maiden name and social security number and DOB and a dr license # and ...

Well, maybe you need a better domain name, but the overall hack idea is good.
Your Snowden prediction could be interpreted a number of ways. Which one do you mean?
What's flawed is the whole concept of copyright holder.
That's just because Google had local branches there.
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The 'you don't need a bank account' method in the parent was the money order (there is also usually a way to pay in person, lots utilities do this in concert with convenience and grocery stores).

The wireless thing is because the phone companies treat the account as a credit account. The easy way around it is some prepaid plan (which is possible to fund in cash...). 5 years ago it wasn't such a good option. These days a $50 prepaid plan is at least reasonable, even if it isn't the best option.
And most impressive of all is that the Apple computer came about by chance over millions of years. Both hardware and software evolved at the same time and in perfect step with one another to create the CPU, RAM, I/O etc to make this beep function. Evolution is amazing.
Translated: "HSBC wanted to avoid the cost and hassle of complying with the law."
To be honest, I was actually having a good time. I'm one of the crazy people who likes interviewing. I think it's kind of thrilling.

Also, they flew me up there, so what was I gonna do?
There are billions of impressions being sold daily for advertising from hijacked users. Big $$$.

Advertising revenue was secondary to premium memberships, but now paypal, visa/mc are shutting down file lockers payment processing and they are more reliant on ad revenue.
* > but I kept in mind that the success rate of hostage negotiators is as high as 95% *

You would want to retire after your 19th successful operation.
You are aware that it's not the company that pays the wage compensation during the maternity leave?

At least here in Germany, you get 60% of your salary (up to an upper limit) for 12 months (14 if both parents take part of the leave) _from the state_.

These schemes are usually designed in such a way that they are either cost-neutral or beneficial to companies that employ women.
Pretty close to a perfectly correct comment, but in the last line you misspelled "after" as "resulting from".
is there an email equivalent service?
Another one for the University of Venice (Ca' Foscari) that we proposed to students/ex-students last week.
IMO, the real solution is to let the government compete with the private sector on 'government' contracts. Basically, do an analysis on how much it would cost to do in house and then put the same contract up for bid. (aka a Sanity check) However, you need to add a companies reputation to their bid so if they say it costs X and they tend to be 30% over budget or have quality issues then you don't just accept X. With that said and done if someone can really deliver high quality and still make a 20% profit then let them.
I have friends who have politely refused to answer or indulge the interviewer in the algorithm questions labyrinth. As someone being interviewed, you should atleast try to divert the interview toward your strengths.
On the flip-side, if a company is interviewing you for a front-end position and not asking enough DOM, CSS questions, they're doing it wrong.
"All this nonsense costs lots of time and money for me and ultimately for my clients."

Perhaps you could clarify how it costs both your clients money and you money as well?

I'm assuming you are billing your clients for the work that is necessarily in one way or another for having to do this. Or it's part of your overhead and you base your rates in part on your overhead.

For sure it's a pain but there are many things that need to be done in order to be in business. They are necessary evils like filing tax returns or collecting social security numbers and making employees fill out various government required employment forms. It's called "the cost of doing business". Little minor bs that isn't anywhere close to going away.
Or sold to the daily mail and other hypocritical smut pedlars
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Related, I just found out that Darcy Clarke put this list together of good front-end interview questions. I would have included it in the article if I'd known about it ahead of time.

https://github.com/darcyclarke/Front-end-Developer-Interview...
Yeah, Coinbase does this.