skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hire by internship, not interview. This I agree with. But the model is not robust to many stages of career development. Crown jewel employees are not going to have the time or the supervisory freedom to do this (unless the rare case of them being uneployed or between jobs). True entry level jobs should be done with interns (paid, IMHO)...which are proper but short term assignments. That leaves what for ths use case here? Junior to mid-level peopel with time on their hands? I'm not sure that is either a real market or a segment that has the most problems. The biggest area of problems seems to be managing the funnel...and that takes throughput. Which means active auditions for multiple(s). Which takes alot of time and energy, and questions the coherence of applying this model to people where turnover is the issue. On the way-out...are these people going to slow down because of this? If not, what is the ROI on all of this additional time? Should you spend more time on a better funnel, better internship, or better "crown jewel" employees who can recruit previous colleagues? Its a tough question, because I like the notion and the approach, but the devil is in the (many) details.
What about nausea pills like the ones you take for sea sickness? Would that perhaps help, until you at least get used to the feeling.
> adwords is supersecret or some nonsense and non adwords Googlers can't see it

Most code including ads code is readable (and they can propose changes as well) by googlers.
I'm worried that the motion sickness was a side effect of the experience being so realistic and that the removal of it will make it less real. Please tell me I'm wrong!
On productivity: there's a difference between "I won't eat in X months from now if I don't find a job" (where X is sometimes very small), and "our income and payroll just decreased X%" (where X is often tiny). Let's be honest, beyond a couple dozen employees, the company hardly feels the impact of any particular layoff.

Your remark only applies where the job is one of a kind in the company (like the team of one or two who takes care of the 150 computers in the company). Most employees are not that critical, and their load is mostly shareable.
> otherwise why would they have approached the council in the first place?

I know nothing about Cambridge whatsoever, but the quote says council approached operators, not the other way around.
He's switching to a provider with well known security and reliability issues who are pro-censorship?

You get what you pay for.

Disclosure: I use linode as well as other providers. Completely happy with linode, not a second of downtime in close to a year, great performance (including disk) and even a far nicer management interface than the screenshot in the link (why do people like not being given choice? Is it some ADHD thing?...).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7020120
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If we're going to bring reality into this, I think we have to take into account the fact that only very weird people tell you that "at least one child is a boy born on a Tuesday" and we have to consider the possibility that they are lying in order to test your knowledge of probability.
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You realize you now reframing the argument to present simple evidence (which is often the most powerful one) as pointless?
Nonsense. ALL newspapers, TV channels, websites have an agenda. ALL of them. If you think that your pet one hasn't, then you are in an echo chamber without realizing it, time to take a step back and reevaluate the situation.

Best thing is to read two equal-but-opposite new sources. I like The Times for my right-wing slant and the New York Times for my left-wing, that way I get a balanced picture. You might prefer the Guardian and the Daily Mail. But read both and make up your own mind.
Yeah, clang's error messages are excellent, especially given how difficult C++ is to parse, let alone compile. However, they are still not as good as Go's. And try doing the kind of automated source transforms that Go can do with "go fix." IDEs for C++ are still fairly limited due to things like conditional compilation, unit-by-unit compilation, macros, etc. etc. You can make a pig fly, by shooting it out of a cannon, but ultimately it is still a pig.

I've been meaning to try the clang plugin for vim... context-sensitive autocomplete for C++ would be nice.
Your reasoning works if the person says "The older is a boy." You claim that this is correct.

Consider ...

Assuming the sex of a child is 50:50, then consider all couples with exactly two children. Of those, consider only those who can truthfully say "at least one of my children is a boy." Of those couples, 1/3 will have two boys.

Interpreting the initial problem in this manner, the answer of 1/3 is right. What I'd like to know is why you think the initial problem should be interpreted in any different way.
The scary thing is that if you break it down by income top earners are improving. Similar findings if you look at infant mortality rates.

"The life of a single person is worth more than all the money of the richest man on earth." - Che Guevara
Wait, explain it to me like I'm 10 years old.

As I see it, there are three options - either it's a boy-boy pair, a girl-girl pair or a boy-girl pair. Now, since OP introduced the age variable, let's give the kids names to make things easier to understand. Let's say that the boys are named John and Jack, the girls Jill and Judy and if it's a boy-girl pair then they're named Jack and Jill.

Now if it's a boy-girl pair, we have exactly two options:
either Jack is older than Jill or Jill is older than Jack. This is shown in the first picture.

However, we also have two options for boy-boy and girl-girl pairs: Either Jack is older than John or John is older than Jack. Either Jill is older than Judy or Judy is older than Jill. This is not shown.

Since we know that one of them is a boy, we can dismiss both girl-girl pairs. Now we're left with four options. In 50% of these options the other child is a boy.

What am I missing?
> Failing on the first error for unittest is a feature. because you are not supposed to even commit it if it is failing, so no need to fancy graphics and reports.

A test suite may run for a long time and bailing out at first failure is a very stupid thing to do. It may be nice to have it as an option but not the only way of doing it.

Even a humble test suite might take 5 minutes to run, going to grab some coffee and coming back to see the first test fail would be a bad thing. A big test suite might take hours on a CI server, having it fail on the first test would be a major waste of time.

And with a modern distributed version control, there's no reason why you shouldn't commit code (not to the master branch!) that doesn't pass tests. To share it with your team mates or push the code to be tested on a CI server, for example.
> My comment up-thread discusses why television shifting to 16:10 is unlikely, and it mainly has to do with lenses.

It's not lenses as much as sensors. Most lenses have a circular image circle, which can cover a lot of aspect ratios. (The big exception is anamorphic, but I'm not too familiar with that.) Canon's new HD video lens system, for example, can be stuck on cameras with Super 35 sensors, or standard 3:2 photography 35mm film.
What is your definition of good desktop speakers and price? In the UK we can get this sort of thing:

http://www.richersounds.com/product/standmount-speakers/camb...

Which are great desktop speakers at £80GBP

Nothing like this in your neck of the woods?
You are an overconfident ignoramus. Thanks for demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect so impressively.

The reason for having BG and GB is the fact that it's twice as likely to occur than each of GG and BB.
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How much is time wrong around the world?
A good place to start is by reading through the Pro Git book, available for free at http://git-scm.com/book. Try out the commands as you read about them in a small sandbox environment you set up for yourself. Even if you don't learn everything at once, you will have a great reference to go back to when needed.
I did an experiment: I kept flipping two coins [1]. If it came up tails, tails I ignored it. If it came up heads, heads I noted it down in one column. If it came up heads, tails I noted it down in another column. After many flips the ratio was 1:3.

As far as I can tell this is an accurate simulation of the problem. We have two things, coins or children, which have a 50:50 chance of being one value or another. We are told one combination of values isn't the case, so we discount them from the simulation. We then use the frequency of the target combination to approximate its probability. We haven't added any artificial ordering into the problem.

I know it's not well argued logical reasoning, but it supports the articles approach. Can you point out where I tripped up in the simulation?

[1] Of course I didn't actually sit there flipping coins. I wrote a program to do it.
(let [sample-size 10000000] (/ (get (frequencies (take sample-size (filter #(not= % [:girl :girl]) (repeatedly #(vector (rand-nth [:boy :girl]) (rand-nth [:boy :girl])))))) [:boy :boy]) sample-size))
That's $1000 USD... Can't you just get the Dell version imported?
I guess you don't have sense of humour...
Is it power? What does it allow one to do?

If the average person in the population simply does not care if their private details are exposed, transferred, or looked at, then does the person who holds those details hold power over anyone?

Again, I generally think having some privacy is a good thing, and personally do not use my Facebook or other social accounts outside of a professional context. But sometimes I wonder whether most people care at all, and whether that is actually detrimental to society.

Security advocates can often sounds like doomsday prophets, suggesting that the downfall of society begins with private companies amassing personal information.
Do you use TDD for android development. POLL
I'm legitimately curious how you arrive at the conclusion that the "I don't do anything for free" crowd is less likely to put in effort and find a good long term fit.

It seems that somehow in the startup community, doing things for free (unpaid overtime, unpaid internships, unpaid working 'interviews') is considered a badge of honor. I don't understand how that became the expected and accepted situation.
Flexibility in my case. I can go from one server with 8GB of RAM to 8 copies of that server with 32GB of RAM each and back again at the press of a button as and when the need arises.
Multicolored fonts are supported by the text stack on Windows 8.1 ( and potentially by the opentype standard in the future?) http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130628/microsoft-adds-mul...
the classic problem of "you get 'promoted' to your level of incompetence".
Apple aren't the only ones that have been innovating in this space. For example, the terribly named Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus has a ~20% higher pixel density than MBPs.

It looks as though the HD4600 should be able to push UHD using DisplayPort
Eastern Europe, especially Bulgaria and Romania, would beg to differ about the "free market fails if left alone". Between 2000 and 2010 it was basically a free-for-all for ISPs and each city had almost dozens of them running wires on poles, on apartment building facades, on... trees.

And today you can get a 1 Gbps connection (in reality it works at 900 mbps in Europe and at around 300 mbps across the Atlantic) for less than $20 per month.

How could you call the banning of new infrastructure (through an insane ammount of regulation) by local authorities in the USA as Free Market?
And yet Email is the most failureprone thing out there. It was not meant to be relied upon in the degree it is today. And yes, many companies grinds to a stop as soon as email is down. There has been no big improvements to the reliability email the last 40 years. I mean, what is the date format in email? Any sort of current standard? What date-stamp are most email readers trusting? Ever had an email that says it arrived 1997? I still get those sometimes.
You have privacy concerns about making a fake Facebook account but you want to get onto an open wifi?

Modern day hypochondriacs, the lot of you...
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you don't understand how ads work, do you ? educate yourself about neuromarketing and read this 1920's book by Freud's nephew Edward Bernays.

Also you don't understand how profiling works, do you ?
A visible effect is ads, but it's not the only one and there are invisible effects. See NSA, crackers and http://online.wsj.com/public/page/what-they-know-digital-pri...
I just moved from AWS to OD last week. Very happy so far. AWS was slow and expensive, but has some handy features that DO should implement, the main one being RDS (dedicated database instances).

Also, I miss is backups and on-the-fly snapshots. I looked all over DO's site and eventually had to write a support ticket to find out how to activate the backup section in the dashboard. It turns out they had removed this option. Bring it back! I could consider moving to Linode just to get backups.

On AWS I could take a snapshot without rebooting. On Do it says it can take up to an hour, which seems a long time.
Well, a surface is explicitly designed for the lowest common denominator. Context-sensitive menu options that change what they do have always been a bad thing as they completely block development of muscle memory for actions; they would only ever logically be useful for people who are not fully able to remember multiple locations and associate them with different actions.

"Make a completely foolproof product and only a fool will use it".
Right?! God dammit Amazon, I just bought a crock pot! You know that! Why do you still serve me ads about crock pots!? The whole point of the surveillance state is to make use of all that info you have on me - frankly, it's insulting. I demand a better big brother!
Because Debian issues a version of Firefox that contains
unofficial patches, they cannot legally call their
distribution "Firefox", since Mozilla hasn't officially
blessed that exact codebase.

There's a lot of sense to this. Consider the hacked up configurations of vim that ship with redhat and debian. The maintainers code intrusive personal-favourite settings into /etc/vimrc (e.g. settings that reformat your code). People get annoyed by the behaviour and think "vim sucks" whereas the default vim distro is conservative about intrusive behaviour.

Mozilla are happy for distros to put out their code - just not hacked up versions of it with the same name. Good for them.
Soundsticks? http://www.amazon.com/Harman-Kardon-Soundsticks-III-Multimed...
> As I see it, there are three options - either it's a boy-boy pair, a girl-girl pair or a boy-girl pair.

Yes, but those three options are not equally likely.

Let's say the parents decide that their firstborn will be named Jack if male and Jill if female, and the second child will be John if male and Judy if female. Now you see that there are four possibilities: Jack+John, Jack+Judy, Jill+John, Jill+Judy. The last one is eliminated when you know that there is one boy, which gives 1/3 chance that it's the first.
It already made it to laptops: http://www.slashgear.com/toshiba-tecra-w50-and-satellite-p50... Toshiba Tecra W50 and Satellite P50t get 4K display updates
Does this approach not isolate Google from the open source community? Most companies nowadays run on open source tools built from open source libraries written in open source languages. Version numbers and stable APIs are crucial.
Here's another notable one: http://html5doctor.com/element-index/
So they have to give you free WiFi with no strings, stipulations, or benefit to them?

You're free to not get on the WiFi if you don't want to, and frankly if you're hopping on any public WiFi, you've more or less lost any practical claim to privacy in the first place.
You can set those configurations, certainly, but it's up to the package maintainer to actually respect them. At my previous company, I occasionally ran into packages that insisted on trying to read from the terminal, even when installed noninteractively, with all configuration flags set to noninteractive. I can understand the potential appeal for a lone individual working with a small number of hand-maintained systems, but when working with a large cluster, interaction during package operations is just a horrible misfeature.
The reason age was introduced was simply was a way of differentiating the two children (giving them identity). You introduced names to differentiate the two children, which is another perfectly good way to do it.

But then you _also_ introduced age. Because you now have two different ways of labelling the children, you've introduced a new variable, and that changes the probability.

A better way to look at it is with two unisex names: Drew and Sam. This completely replaces the age thing as a way of identifying them, so forget all about age.

Our possibilities are:

Drew: boy, Sam: boy
Drew: boy, Sam: girl
Drew: girl, Sam: boy
Drew: girl, Sam: girl

We know Drew and Sam can't both be girls, because at least one is a boy, so that leaves:

Drew: boy, Sam: boy
Drew: boy, Sam: girl
Drew: girl, Sam: boy

There's a 1/3 chance that both Drew and Sam are boys.
Looks like I'll be finally buying dedicated graphics card for my Hackintosh.
Now, how long until they close down?

Yahoo has repeatedly proven it is not a safe location for any service; it is even worse than google in that respect.
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If you are interested in a rather in-depth examination of this line of thinking, I highly recommend Adam Curtis's 2002 documentary "The Century of the Self"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
Please read again. Those are not "pros&cons", but mere list of differences between the two distro families.
No it's not. It's the same as answering your business phone by saying "go fuck yourself" and hanging up 1 out of 10 times.

Besides it doesn't solve the identification problem at all, as in lent credentials, fake accounts, hacked accounts and things of this ilk. It turns facebook acounts in commodities to be traded to access the internet.

An the worst part is that it's an attack on the very foundations of the Internet.
Instead of actually programming, I flipped 2 coins this morning and left them on my desk. They are still sitting there. Either HT, TH, HH or TT

I just remembered one of them is tails, so is there is a 1/2 chance that they are both tails now? Nope it's 1/3 chance they are both tails. Either HT, TH, or TT.
During the digital transition, we had to buy new bodies and new lenses. My understanding is that the transition to 4K will allow the same exact lenses to be used whether on a new body or the same body with a swapped-out sensor train. Going to 16:10, as I understand, would require new lenses, which is part of the reason NHK's demonstration of 4K equipment as a straight multiple of 1080p was desirable.

I'm not an expert on the mechanics of how a lens works; I merely know enough to operate the camera and shoot a decent scene, and part of that is lens selection. If you can operate a 16:10 sensor behind, say, a HA18x7.6BERD with square pixels and no distortion or image loss, I stand corrected, but I don't think that's the case from my experience. Again, though, I just pushed buttons (in a single industry application of "transmit picture through lens and apply to persistent storage", television ENG/production), and I didn't take gear apart.

I know there are lenses today that can operate at 4:3 and 16:9. Maybe the same concept?
he once vetoed a candidate for a programming job
because the candidate didn't know much about a
specific programming language

and then

You want someone who can adapt to new roles in
the company, not just someone who can fill the
role that's vacant

Uh-hu
Filtering what you put on facebook will not protect you and not using it will not prevent facebook from profiling you but will prevent you from accessing "free" internet from this places.
> ALL newspapers, TV channels, websites have an agenda. ALL of them.

How does that preclude a particular agenda from being to seek and tell the truth? Not commenting on the Guardian as much as on basic logic.
Interestingly, finding a minimal-size regexp satisfying a set of positive and negative examples (words that should match, and should not match) is NP-hard. Here is a nice discussion: http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/on-learning-regular...
From my perspective for DO which I host email, web and my SVN on. I'd be happy to roll out production apps on it as well (in fact I'm doing that today).

* No verification required for me. Perhaps this is a step when paying by paypal? I've been asked many times for more info when using that. If they pulled this on me, my backup MX will handle email until I get to sort it.

* AMS1 was unfortunate. I signed up when it wasn't available and I'm in Europe. I moved my machine to AMS2 when that came up (after their first day of scary high load). I had my host in NYC2 to start with and it was perfectly usable from London, UK over SSH. I couldn't tell the difference between it and my server in the house.

* Custom kernels. This is one of two gripes for me. I really want FreeBSD but failing that I want the latest Debian kernel. Keeping an eye on this one. I've got ufw/iptables up front which I have my fingers crossed will protect from any network level issues, logwatch, fail2ban etc to monitor casual attempts and patches are tracked.

* SSH key generation: I always regen my SSH keys anyway if I didn't see it happen so this would have been a non issue for me. This is crypto paranoia on my part (and well justified).

* Wiping data: when I saw the "securely destroy my data" checkbox I ticked it. Why would you not tick it?

To be fair, for $5/month it's not bad. Having played with shared hosting for 17 years, managed massive colo custom deployments and paid through the nose for other hosting, it's the best compromise so far.

I looked at Linode but the bottom end was slightly too expensive and I'd rather have SSDs behind it as IO contention on VPSs is usually rather high so that got ruled out.

I tried an Amazon EC2 micro instance and it was horribly slow so they didn't get my cash.
I don't see how does that exonerate Linode of anything.
Check out Git tutorials from Atlassian, the company behind BitBucket:

https://www.atlassian.com/git/

I suggest reading it from cover-to-cover as they go from basic stuff to more advanced topics.
In our team we relay on Unity for our unit tests. We do embedded C and try to practice TDD as much as possible. The author claims it depends on Ruby and such to work. I wanted to point out this is not the case, and that actually we are using it 'clean' with no trouble.
Wow, this is just amazingly helpful. Thanks a ton! SWF format would also be helpful for me personally at least.

A couple of questions:

* I assume you'd be fine with me putting these up on Github, pointing to your project and the license document?

* At this point I only see one "ally" folder, is that because the other ally sprites (magician etc.) were made later when you had the vector format?

Again - massive props to you all for just giving away your hours and hours of hard work! Not every day you see professional-grade artwork like this. Deeply appreciated.
Wow, that sounds incredibly bad. Back to the dark ages instead of looking to the future!
There's no business case where telling a portion of customers or would be customers to go fuck themselves and kicking them out.

Having a facebook only "free" internet is doing just that.
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