skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are questions I remember being asked. But they also asked what experience with servers I have and stuff..

* At which layer things are in the OSI model.

* How to reset AD user passwords.

* What different kinds of servers are for.

* Access port 25 in VLAN1 but not VLAN2 using port forwarding in the firewall

* What ways of securing a DMZ are available in emergencies.
If this is true, it's a shame those in charge didn't learn the lesson from J. Edgar Hoover.
But most people were comparing it to CVS or SVN, and it was much faster than those.
I think he has a point. My father, mother, and even my grandfather uses Facebook. Why are they using it? Because it enables them to keep in touch with their classmates and friends. Long lost friend especially. They are too long apart that email, IM, Skype, and text does not exist yet.

Additionally, for email, IM, Skype, and text, you need to know their email address, username, or number to contact them. In Facebook, there's a chance that you can find them by just searching their name.
Agreed. One more thing:

The product is valued at "a tweet for a free month". Does this support the pricing tier? There's something about the perception of price and brand value here.
A VC's office designed to put nervous entrepreneurs at ease
WebOS TV, by LG (screenshot)
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I found Mindset to be a good book. Here is my summary:

Two mindsets:

Fixed mindset - talents, abilities and intelligence are fixed, endowed

Growth mindset - talents, abilities and intelligence are learned and can be developed

These mindsets are learned, and have fundamentally different reactions to challenges.

The two-mindsets model is a simplification for the purposes of explanation.

Failure

The growth mindset embraces failure as a necessary part of learning. In fact failure is a indicator of an area for potential growth, if the opportunity is taken to overcome that failure.
The fixed mindset avoids and fears failure; it is taken as evidence of a hard limit of your endowed talent.

Motivation

The growth mindset sees effort as necessary to mastery. Almost any level of mastery may be attainable with the right regimen of practice. Obstacles are a normal part of mastery and must be overcome as a matter of course in order to grow. Criticism is not taken personally, but used to indicate areas for improvement and growth.

The fixed mindset sees effort as producing only small effects compared to their fixed ability. May be more prone to give up in the face of obstacles since it is thought that there is no new mastery to be gained. Criticism is more likely to be taken personally, as the individual identifies with the perceived limits of their ability and thinks that improvement is impossible beyond a certain point.

Perceiving others

The growth mindset is not threatened by others’ abilities. Others’ examples may serve to inspire.
The fixed mindset is more likely to be jealous of others’ abilities since they are perceived to be highly desirable gifts and the result of luck and circumstance.

Teaching Children

Praise children by emphasizing their work and persistence.
Do not use labels like “smart” or “gifted” that would reinforce a mindset of fixed abilities.

Relationships

Growth oriented mindset is more likely to be understanding and ready to learn from experience.
Fixed mindset sees problems as a result of unchangeable personal attributes and are pessimistic about change. More likely to have unrealistic expectations, like not having to work at a relationship that is “meant to be”.

Examples

Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth and Wilma Rudolph are given as examples of overcoming early setbacks with a growth mindset.

Last chapter is a “workshop” of situations and questions to help you develop a growth mindset.
I'd say the term got re-used. It felt like a different subculture to me at the time. The people involved in D&D/tabletop gaming were generally not the same people at lan parties as well. I don't think joining the current gaming culture to the D&D/tabletop culture is entirely correct...
Sages or Intergalactic Travellers
> For every imaginable problem there is at least one simple, clear and obvious solution that only makes the problem worse. If Greece hadn't defaulted, they wouldn't have cut 25% of the public workforce. Oh no. They wouldn't have been able to pay nearly any salaries.

That's your personal opinion, nothing more.
Fitness Method Converted Into An App
If 2013 Focused on IoT Hardware, 2014 Should Focus on IoT Apps
Googling "Snowden approval ratings" brings up headlines like

"NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Has a Higher Approval Rating Than Congress"

"CNN POLL: Snowden Has A Better Approval Rating Than President Obama"

"The Scorecard: Snowden Approval Rating 54%, Obama 46%, Congress 17%"

None of these are particularly recent (seems this was a meme around June), but suggestive that Snowden is one of the most popular national political figures in the U.S. right now, granted that is a low bar.
> - (When all else fails) Hacker girls get hit on quite frequently.

Amen! Brain power is indeed a beautiful thing.
I think the point is that it's a dumb concept.
Vertical acceleration refers to acceleration in the direction of the tracks, right?

Some other figures I could find:

Shinkansen: 2.6 km/h/s = 0.07g

ICE (German HSR): 0.5 m/s2 = 0.05g

S-Bahn (metro transport): 1 m/s2 = 0.1g

Makes sense that metro transport has higher acceleration, as high speed rail spends a lot of time "cruising" at certain speeds, while metro transport is basically always either accelerating or decelerating. I'd guess subways also feature relatively high g-forces.

Also interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28accelera...
Define "word". However, strings separated by space:

Print number of words:

wc -w <filename>

Print words with counts in decreasing order:

cat <filename> \
| gawk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) print $i}' \
| sort \
| uniq -c \
| sort -rn \
| less

There are optimizations to be made, but that would be my go to solution in the first instance.
Fixation on death is pathetic. This infatuation our society has on the inevitable end of life is ridiculous. It obviously makes for great artistic themes, but death does not concern me whatsoever.

I live here and now. Whenever I die, that will be the end of that. But I don't care for it. If you're so obsessive about marking and reminding people about the end of their days, then I advise that you be the first to go.
Justifying Higher Rates With Value-Based Pricing
Having grown up as a gay teenager in the 90s, I don't really remember having had my bones broken by any jokes people made about me. I did get my ass kicked pretty good a few times, but in those cases, it wasn't words doing the damage.

Conflating jokes with beatings, and assuming that incidence of one has an effect on incidence of the other, does no good for anyone subject to either -- I also don't remember, in any of the cases where people beat the shit out of me, wishing someone would step in to stop them making jokes about me.

I'm also curious: What about kids who get beat up, not because they're gay or trans or what-have-you, but just because they're nerds? I was one of those, too, as it happens, and that bought me more beatings than being gay ever did. Those beatings are of less concern, in the realm of social justice, than the ones I got for being gay. Why? Certainly the latter didn't hurt worse than the former, nor did it particularly matter to me which was which.

Based on that experience, it seems to me less reasonable to consider that the reasons behind any given beating are the problem, than that the beatings are the problem; worrying specifically about gay kids getting beaten, or trans kids getting beaten, or what-have-you, seems roughly as risible as worrying specifically about guns being used to kill people, rather than about people killing each other.
Ford reveals solar-powered car with sun-tracking technology
Of course, in the theory, there aren't price controls (because one of the fundamental lessons of economics is that price controls cause shortages).

And in reality, there are lots of price controls on generics. That's not a bug with the theory; drug production is only a partially free market at best.
find path -iname "*.mp3" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -fv
Think you might be interested in applying? :-)

We're hiring...
Yeah, the average applicant says something along those lines. The top applicants also mention the IE bug associated with named function expressions: http://kangax.github.io/nfe/
I'm not convinced Bram actually uses hg in his normal workflow, but provides the repo as a convenience.
I'm thinking this:
http://pastebin.com/GW1hTXwD
Dying to know if I made it through the math FizzBuzz :)
This is a really good idea - my last semester of college I tried to get a sorority to let me do this for them (bc of something PG mentioned once that seemed like a good idea), but none of them actually could identify a problem they had. It was weird - hanging around them they obviously had all sorts of social friction that technology could help with, but when asking them to identify a real problem they tried to be too smart about it, like coming up with the most interesting idea was what I wanted.

Anyway, businesses are a bit better at identifying their problems so hopefully you won't have any trouble here!
Speaking of which, is anyone working on allowing Homebrew itself to do binary package management? The lack of binary package management is one of the main reasons I give when people ask me why I mainly use Linux on my Macbook Air. I understand this will add the complication of needing to host the binaries somewhere, but it would be quite useful, since some packages take a long time to compile.
Cant you just post the index of all the demos instead of individually?
That seems like a recipe for holy-war between those who kind-of like xargs and those who think find | xargs is an abomination.
> Unicode domain names are no more dangerous than HTML emails, which can also be used to fool people into clicking links that look like one site but go to another.

Except in the case of a carefully selected unicode domain, the address bar will say 'www.paypal.com', not 'www.paypallolimstealingyourlogin.com'.
This is a fun question. Can I look at the coin's two sides? If not...I assume you now have to start applying statistical tests (given that a fair coin will only do this once out of 1024 times, what are the chances I've got one of those 999 coins vs the 1/1000 chance that I picked the double headed coin?) or is there some simplifying assumption I'm missing.

Anyway--assume I think all that aloud in an interview. What does that tell you about the candidate?
In my case and most of the people I knew, it was the same people. It depends on your generation, I suppose. But everyone I knew who was into D&D was also into computers and computer games. I'd challenge you to find someone who was into D&D and NOT into computers and computer games.
While I fix my cache:

TLDR: Don’t give a toddler a flamethrower.

In more detail: The letter makes an argument for allocating more funds towards solving less immediate causes of human suffering. In particular, one emerging problem is that we as a species may face a morality apocalypse: Our species’ level of moral responsibility may become laughably insufficient to manage increasingly powerful technologies. We may become like a toddler with a flamethrower, resulting in suffering on a massive scale.

More detail yet: Technology allows us to impact the world more drastically, and can as easily be used for good as it can for evil. Technology is growing at an accelerating rate, while moral progress is plodding. Already our technological power outstrips our ability to use it responsibly (e.g. are we morally developed enough as a species to be entrusted with nuclear weapons?). A mistake would be to view morality as a fixed part of the human condition — there may be technological ways to enhance empathy or decrease our species’ tendency towards greed, revenge, and moral flexibility under duress. Without intervention to remedy our morality (perhaps through technological means), humanity may be at significant risk for horrific outcomes as our technical abilities more drastically eclipse our moral ones.
1) I don't think there's really a movie watching culture in the same way there is a gaming culture. The author wishes to disassociate with a cultural movement he disagrees with.

and

2) There is also a movement to point out that many movies (as well as other works of fiction) are written/directed by men in the male perspective for a male audience and don't portray women in the same way they portray men. Ever heard of The Bechdel test? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test only 56% of the movies listed on http://bechdeltest.com/ pass.

There's really nothing wrong with simply pointing any of this out.
I don't see what your first sentence has to do with the essay. The author is uncomfortable with the treatment that transgender people get in the gaming community. How does the existence of those in a different community who also treat transgender people poorly relevant?
Tracking urban migration trends?

The temptation that none of the big data hoover companies (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.) will be able to resist is something else:

When you have so much data on everybody, you have created yourself a situation that allows you to "hack the system" to your advantage and the disadvantage of those who don't have all that data. You can analyze the trends that the data shows and link them to the movements of the stock exchange, and you're all set for infinite passive income and domination - now you know before everybody else what to buy and what to sell and when (you can call it "insider trading based on data").

Now, if you, as the user want to supply all that data, that's up to you. If so, you'll not only be appreciated by those companies but by certain government agencies as well.
I don't think you understand what "investment" does in the economy.

If a currency is deflationary, there's no point to investment - investment is risky, whereas simply holding it gives it more value (this presumes a stable store of value and no alternative currencies).

This tanks economic growth, because beyond a certain quantity of wealth your savings appreciate in value faster then you need to spend them to stay alive. Whereas below a certain value of wealth, no matter how hard you work or how much you save, you will never reach that point - because you have to reduce your savings to buy the necessities of life.

Of course, its not a stable situation because the economy that goes into a deflationary spiral soon collapses, the rich get murdered, and everyone moves back into a currency which supports a proper debt-system and doesn't doom people to servitude for an actual idle rich.
Isn't the semitic language a gotcha because of how arabic and hebrew have changed to SVO (while remainder are largely vso?) Or is that the point of asking?
No thanks; I'm happy with the job I've got right now. But I appreciate you asking!

More seriously, shouldn't it be possible to post a version thoroughly enough sanitized to avoid giving the game away to your potential applicants, without losing the sense of the original? You don't identify your organization in your HN profile, so it doesn't seem terribly likely anyone who's looking for hints on your hiring process will find it. And, hey, it's entirely possible you'll get feedback which helps improve the question you're actually using in your interviews!
Explain what you mean by ideal? I'm not sure I get where you are going with that. Domain pricing is determined by economic forces.

"Why is a squatter adding any value?"

Value? What is the value of gambling at the casino or horse racing? Is value the demarcation point of economic activity that is acceptable?

What value does anyone provide who has enough knowledge (and or capital) to be able to buy something in advance anticipating that someone else might find it of value at a later date? We aren't talking about cornering the market on insulin here are we? Am I allowed to buy high volume scanners on craigslist and then sell them on ebay and make money? Am I providing "value"?

"Should all domains be bought by one person who uses none for his one purposes, and sells each for 1k?"

Well what prevents you from doing this to make money? Is it that you a) don't have the capital or b) don't have the knowledge to determine what would sell at a later date or c) you just find it objectionable and desire to not be in that business. (Like porn for example..)

If "c" then can you understand that it's a valid business model, is not illegal and in a sense is about as "fair" as someone buying real estate years ago in a hot area and now expecting to make a profit off that real estate? After all there is a risk in using your capital "a" to take this chance, right? You certainly don't believe that buying a bunch of domains that you think might go up in value is guaranteed do you?
This really is idiotic to me. It seems increasingly popular for someone to take a minority position and then complain about how they are oppressed by the media, or game companies or whatever. The entire argument is pointless. It assumes that 'gamer culture' is somehow imposed by the industry, which is just utter bullshit. The video game industry, like virtually any other, exists to serve it's customers. The industry will do whatever it thinks it needs to do to appeal to it's customers. That's it.
Do you mind posting a simple walkthrough for the answer
One that is nonetheless relatively popular. For all intents and purposes, they aren't any different from the other postmodern feminists which pervade contemporary feminist discourse on the web, in all other aspects.
So its fine if facebook is data mining everything but ahhhh freakout when some third party app has a smidge? Lol...
Culture? You're way more kind than I am.

It's all no-thought, meme-chanting-so-I-feel-like-I-fit-in middle-school behavior. It's the same groupthink of pop Internet culture (reddit/4chan).
GCC stage1 is deliberately written in K&R C so that you can do this kind of bootstrapping. You need a few unix tools (e.g. make - but again, a version from 1990 should work, find yourself a solaris machine or something); I don't remember exactly what emacs depends on, but it should be fine. Getting a modern environment on old unix boxes (or under windows SUA, whose unix stuff is old enough that it comes with X11R5) is fun and usually requires a bit of fiddling but nothing too serious.
I'd give half marks for this, because it optimizes (meaninglessly) for processes, at the risk of ending up with "rm: Too many arguments" in a directory tree containing a sufficiently large number of MP3 files.
I wonder how effective of a test this would be. Are the algorithmic & implementation details of the Fourier transform that important to imaging science? I would imagine that explaining the properties of the FT, it's connection to imaging modalities, etc would be far more relevant than actually coding a DFT.

How would you weight a naive implementation of the DFT vs the FFT?
This is awesome! I wonder if anyone's done something similar with beers?

Anyway a few "next thing to try" suggestions from a machine learning perspective:

The model selection process used here is by its own admission quite ad-hoc, based on a gut feel about diminishing returns. There are various more principled methods you can use to find the sweet spot between over- and under-fitting with these kind of models, a lot of them based on held-out validation data.

One way to do this would be leave-one-out cross validation (LOO-CV): hold out one whisky, fit the model, and see how 'surprised' the model is by the held-out whisky, repeat for the next whisky and average over all the folds. Because the dataset is tiny this should be quite feasible.

To measure 'surprisal' you could e.g. look at the distance from the held-out data point to the nearest cluster, although something better motivated would be if you switched to a probabilistic model and used likelihood of the held-out data. Probably the simplest next thing you could try in that direction would be a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) trained using EM. K-means is actually a degenerate limiting case of this.

A probabilistic model would also allow you to use Bayesian model selection criteria, which can get quite interesting (and might lead you eventually to things like Dirichlet process mixture models).

It would make it easier to compare the model's explanatory power with other unsupervised probabilistic models. For example some kind of latent factor model like Factor analysis or pPCA would be quite interesting to investigate too, whether taken alone or in combination with clustering as a dimensionality reduction step as tlarkworthy is suggesting.

Also concur that doing multiple runs with different randomised initialization is generally a good idea for k-means or EM, since they can get stuck in poor local minima. Perhaps more common practise to pick the best of multiple runs than to average them though.
Something I've wanted to see for a while is a fossil-like wrapper system for git. The idea of keeping bug tracking and wiki as part of the repo makes a lot of sense.
ah this idea... Stein's gate anyone?
I understand that everyone fights a tough battle (and I do sympathize), but I see humor as a way of bridging that gap, not widening it. Humor is very different from hatred (although a joke can be hateful, in which case its not a good joke to make) - in this case the joke was lame, but I wouldn't say it was hateful. Look at Nick Vujicic who makes jokes about his missing limbs. He has it harder than anyone, but that does not stop him from finding happiness and humor in life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOzsjEmjjHs

Change starts with acceptance, not censorship. If we all hush-hush when it comes to make a joke about a group, they are not comfortably integrated. In order to be an equal, they must be treated as equals, in every respect. I do think things are actually getting better overall for other orientations (I mean, look at what they did to Turing back in the day).
Alternatively, you can just use

find /path/to/wherever -name "*.mp3" -delete
How is "no, unless" clearer than a statement like "yes, if?"

I think the entire point is that they say the same thing while projecting a completely different attitude.

The way that someone responds to the question of "can we do this" is very important.
Wow. How much do you know about business and how long have you been around business?

Do you think that crowdfunding has replaced needing to raise capital through the legacy process of initial public offerings and also that companies that use investment bankers to not seek out a merger or acquisition of another company don't serve a purpose?

What do you think you just need millions to expand and walk into the bank or go to kickstarter?
I have never wanted to re-live high school myself.

If someone (family or not) does not have my email address and/or phone number there is a reason for it so certainly won't want them contacting me on Facebook...
The Tuesday boy problem is a little less known: http://mikeschiraldi.blogspot.com/2011/11/tuesday-boy-proble...
The paper also included a map that showed the route running between Hayward and Burbank, not city centers. That may be how Musk proposes to solve the curve radius problem.
Starting with the very next comic, which was dedicated to mocking anyone who didn't like the first comic, and continuing from there. Several people have posted links in this thread already; I'm sure you can find them as well as I can.
OK, I understand the problem being proposed, but what is the solution here? what solution is being suggested by the author? I understand that we are gaining more and more power without as good of understudying and self control to use it, but what can the Gates do to help?