skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This integration is NOT SECURE.

Mint asks for your API key, which Coinbase implements rather poorly. Your API key will grant any application FULL ACCESS to your Coinbase account, so if Mint gets compromised, the attacker can send your Bitcoin to another account. And Bitcoin transactions are irreversible.

Yes, you do give Mint your bank account credentials, but if someone steals your username/password and use it to send a transaction, you can get it reversed.

Mint can easily fix this by using Coinbase's OAuth API instead of using an API Key, which allows for selective permissions (read-only) to be set.
I am not agree with your opinion but overall that's nice effort
So what do I do if I want to seed them all? Also, are all the data sets (and other things) freely licensed, i.e. no “non-commercial use only” clauses or things of that nature? Can I count on this going forward?
Actually, they did - Droid 4 was last in line
> Whether it's Google Glass or something else, "invasive" wearable tech will be utterly pedestrian in a decade or two.

You can wear an iPhone. When's the last time you saw someone photographing their food in a restaurant, then tweeting while their friends checked their email?
Not necessarily. While I may agree that a good candidate can be put off if the line of questioning was only about quirky parts, I noticed that the questions actually help judge a candidate's js proficiency. A large part of this interview was based on testing the candidate on essential parts of the language like contexts, prototypes, etc.
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That's a recipe and cooking. There's only a few seconds of eating.
True. Feels like the 80s with the Japanese all over again, and American companies giving up and selling out before they've even gone a single round.
True, but thieves want to sell stolen property, not use it. If the current owner doesn't know it's stolen they wont wipe exif and then we can track it. Hopefully leading to the thief.
If we can reduce the motivation to steal the in the first place even better :)
Considering they never actually exchanged money a single Q

Seems like quite a failure for a business.
That's my reaction too, but it's hard to know if OP is actually overzealous or I'm just not good enough for them. This line stood out to me:

> it's important that anyone you hire has a comprehensive knowledge of apply and call

To other Javascript developers: is this really true? I do use call every now and then, but it's pretty rare. Maybe that kind of stuff is more important if you're trying to functionally isolate components with richer interfaces between them? I tend to keep a pretty polluted namespace, so maybe that's where I'm going wrong.

That said, I have a "I could learn that but I have stuff to ship" mindset about Javascript. That has its ups and downs. Maybe I should work on that a bit more.
Trying to Value Online Privacy
There is my day gone... Thanks for the great resource!
The Segway was more like a laptop than a phone. It's big. It's bulky. It's expensive.

Taking a PC to a pub, so you could tweet is dorky. Taking a phone or glass to a pub to tweet is dorky, but you can pretend it's just a spur of the moment thing.
I'm not sure where you got the idea they have a bigger database. I wrote stolencamerafinder and I don't know who has the biggest database!
I recommend you try both. You can do a free search on both and see which gives you better results ;)
What if we think about it in terms of augmentation of capabilities and something that is divorced from this implementation. People want to have the capabilities, without being seen to be entrapped by them. An example I suppose would be wearing headphones at a party or a concert ( anti-social) vs having easily accessible a vast array of music to be tapped at will during the many times when this is not considered to be anti-social. Can we receive more information without being anti-social? If there was no perceptible disengagement? Is it simply a function of developing a social context?
Excellent! If we haven't already spoken, I'd love to hear your story. matt@stolencamerafinder.com
Boom. We can build this.
>and the other with getting Google+ integrated everywhere he can

And what's more important - everywhere he cannot
I've been using S3 RRS for a few hundred thousand files, and have yet to lose one over the course of the year that I've stored them.

You don't run a daily job though, you simply set up an event on SNS to notify you if a file is lost[0].

[0]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/UG/SettingBucketN...
Thanks, you're right, I should really make that page look a bit better. ;)
At many tech companies in SV (not even startups - tech companies like Amazon, Google, etc), it would be a sartorial faux pas to wear a suit to an engineering interview.
Why 'Sexual Mind Control' Is Rare in Nature
Well clearly you wouldn't keep your keys in s3, if you were to keep them on an ec2 instance, for example, as long as you had proper SSH access configured even with AWS account access the servers would still be secure.

That then makes your local SSH key the last link in the chain (and OpenSSL of course, and that you trust AWS is actually encrypting the data).
If you're interviewing to find someone to build a new application, sure, big picture is more important. However, if you're interviewing at Twitter, chances are someone else is doing that. These questions are are for candidates who'll be building features defined by other people, and to that end, they are the sort of things you want to know about.
When it got to the variadic arguments one I had the same thought - it's important to know that it is possible, but less important to know the syntax for that in a particular language as you will I use it very rarely, and it can easily be looked up. There is a danger with this sort of questioning that it veers into esoteric corners of the language which are not a test of ability at the job, but a test of ability at language quizzes. The context questions I had more sympathy with, as it is a potential pitfall for js developers, but there are other ways to mitigate this, like not stripping object functions of their context in the first place (not sure why you would do that here?) - this kind of stuff is often handled by libraries, particularly the native shim.

Thankfully he does move on to problem solving later on, which strikes me as far more useful - an open-ended question will reveal lots about the candidate.
Yes. There's a ton of room for innovation and I don't have a lot of faith in Intuit to do any of it. I feel like I'm constantly thinking of things I'd improve about Mint.
Does OpenAFS not solve your problem in some way? A little more context would be helpful.
Nintendo is on sale?

Last time I checked they declined $25 bln Microsoft offer
> The point is that whatever system enables the math to work is irrelevant to what ever uses theories will have for this math.

Additional explanation from someone who (also?) used to do research, with papers and all: we actually used objects we knew did not exist to do actual science. By "do not exist" I mean "they are make-believe theoretical objects that do not exist per se, but they are good models for things that do exist".

Science and engineering is full of these things. Holes in transistors: they don't exist, they're actually a certain type of electron shifting their positions in a particular way, but the math would get a lot hairier (at no gain!) if you treated them as electrons. Electrical charges in classic electromagnetism aren't electrons at all -- they're small dots with charge on them, but the math would get a lot hairier (at no gain -- again!) if you didn't treat them like this.

Being able to model a phenomenon is very important, and being able to model it simply is, for lack of a better word, God-given. Phenomenological models (i.e. models that model only the behaviour, not the inner working of a certain phenomenon) are as good as any other model, as long as you bear in mind that they are phenomenological: you can use them to reason about certain effects, but not necessarily about what causes them.

Before anyone jumps in to point out this is bullshit and that there's really more to life, I just want to remind everyone that we've been building buildings and bridges and shit based on a phenomenological model. Classical mechanics knows absolutely shit about how gravity works -- it just tells you useful stuff about what it does -- and I'll personally grab all the beer in the world for someone who finds an actual material point.
She easily polishes off four large pizzas or three kilograms (6 lb) of beef in one sitting

What on earth , that is like 9000 calories or over 4x the recommended daily calories for an average woman. That is more than a professional athlete or bodybuilder would eat.

Even with a fast metabolism, it seems impossible that somebody could eat that much without getting very fat , very fast.

Even if she ran for 8 hours a day every day she would only use about half of that.

There must be something else going on here.
Reddit AMA with Rand Fishkin (SEO Expert  Moz)
It's interesting that the new definition of a front-end developer is increasingly JS first, HTML/CSS second.
You should know that they exist and what they do.

You can do a lot of things with higher-order functions just by making closures, but `apply` and `call` will give you flexibility and power there's no other way to get. For one thing, they're your ticket to manipulating `this`.

The worst part is keeping them straight. My mnemonic is that `call` is just a function call, so arguments go in as normal. `apply` is the other one, so arguments go in as an array. (Maybe "A" for array, or something.)
It's not so unlikely to see new Lenovo's Motorola phone designed/assembled in the U.S.
Based on MTK chipset.
Ever heard of mergepay.com, not public yet but is basically a Mint.com-type service for business.
Interesting, this is a weakness of significance testing, in particular, its parametric model. Using Bayesian inference you would be able to look early withou messing your results up.
I actually liked the questions because if you spend enough time writing web apps, I feel you will run into all of these situations, e.g. manipulating arguments, losing the "this" context, catching the wrong click event, etc. (You will however not run into puzzles, fibonacci heaps, or whatever else is unfortunately asked far too often IMO in front-end dev interviews.)

As a parallel, when I interview developers for a Java position, I ask them to list some methods in java.lang.Object off the top of their head. A few have objected to this, calling the question arcane, something they could look up in 5 mins, etc, which are all true, but the thing is if you've written enough Java, you would definitely have run into at least equals(), hashCode(), and toString(), and likely wait() and notify() as well. This one simple question has been a surprisingly good proxy to the developer's general level of proficiency and experience with Java.
"Watching a bearded man and friends obsess over fat. Bacon fat."
I tend to use a similar style of interviewing, but I'm not doing it to get right or wrong answers. I'm doing it to get a dialog going, to figure out if I can actually talk about programming with the candidate.

If that works out, I really don't care if they don't know or forgot some detail. As long as their level of knowledge roughly matches their claimed experience, that is.

People tend to be stressed in interviews, especially when faced with unfamiliar (if simple) problems, so I prefer to look through code they wrote on their own to get an idea of their skill, then verify in the interview that they understand their own code.

I suppose big tech companies don't have time for that.
Do Root Cause Analysis to stop problems that are bugging your team for too long
I think it's better to use the laptop because that is the "language" I should be mostly comfortable with to be a good candidate, unfortunately I am not half as good with expressing what I would do. I would be also pretty nervous which obviously won't help. Instead typing could make feel more secure.
A few TB of FOIA information related to the September 11th attacks is available via BT.

Direct link: http://911datasets.org/images/911datasets.org_all_torrents_J...
Actually, other stuff came up, but after a first trip in 2003 I almost did. Got friends who went there to study and another friend who was exiled there as a political refugee.
A lot of that stuff sounds like "my favorite list of code smells and anti-patterns". Yes, it's cool you know these things about JavaScript, and now please never use them.
Thank you for going into detail describing these things. It is all very fascinating :)
> "When you succeed, it's the team. When you fail, it's you."

Many bosses do the exact opposite.
hehe, yeah, they've copied the link in some strange way. It goes direct to my servers (not through facebook) but appends a bunch of url parameters that mean nothing to me!
Matt (creator of http://www.stolencamerafinder.com)
Ideally the candidate has a really full GitHub 'resume', and we can just go back through their open source projects together.

Note not everyone is a Github user. Some brilliant Python projects that I use are still hosting on Bitbucket and/or Google code (and of course some on sourcegeforge) so we should be careful with that. I will assume OP is making an alias rather than excluding other service providers, though it is important to keep that in mind (in particular, if you are implementing a form with a field "github profile", please provide either a drop-down menu or a general field with multiple textboxes)

Combining the rest, I can consider this almost a Javascript tutorial for experienced programmer. Bravo on the neat, concise writing.
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Most important tool missing - Xamarin.
You could probably skip most of these questions by asking "Did you read and understand 'Javascript the good parts'?"
Why is Programming Puzzles and Code Golf page on SE still in beta?
http://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/
Misleading title: it's actually just about interviewing JavaScript developers.
Because pseudonymous data is really hard to turn back into real data, right? 


Just ask the victims of the AOL leak.
There is very little electricity in aluminium too.

That's not the point, really.
The greatest thing about this article is actually the link at the bottom: http://bonsaiden.github.io/JavaScript-Garden/ Great resource.
> if it can be shown statistically that the individual cannot be re-identified.

A full UK postcode is very specific - not just which street, but which side and end of the street. "date of birth plus postcode" will in almost all cases identify one and only one person. This data is not actually anonymous at all.
It's about interviewing Frontend _Web_ Developers. I don't think someone who cannot write JavaScript can call himself a Frontend Web Developer.
Great reply, thanks, that makes a lot of sense. Very impressive work too on the book.
Always a fun read, but it's been around a while. Should put (2009) on post title.
Can someone from the area try this and report back?
Also, 1/243 = 0.00411522633..

Source: Richard Feynman, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"
All JPY transactions in my paypal are reported 100x too large in USD ($525 per month recurring bills instead of $5.25).

I did report it once and got back a message saying "sorry, we can't fix your existing records", but they clearly made no attempt to fix it for new ones either.
In addition to what everyone has said, CCTV are also low-resolution most of time, without sound and a such an angle and a distance that most of your actions are "invisible" to the camera (like knowing what kind book you are reading for example, or even you are reading a book at all).
I find the drive home is the time to unwind for that. It isn't a long drive but I try and force myself to forget it.
Of course, I might end up tinkering with stuff in the evening but I try and make it my own code, not works, to keep that separation. But mostly I will attempt to avoid computer "work".

I think if it gets too much I will become a gardener for the council and mow lawns. All that green is quite therapeutic, and you can see where you've been and where you've got to go on a lawn, so it is good.
Your stomach is not a combustion engine nor a magic bag of holding. If you eat more than you can digest, you will poop out incompletely-digested food.

Please resume your regularly scheduled insane internet calorie conversation.
Sorry, I didn't mean to single you guys out individually, it was more of a meta comment. Resources that make it easier for people to learn and do things are always helpful :)
I'd say you hit the nail right on the head, but I find myself imagining this statement more like a compressed air nail gun shooting the nail so far into the wood that it splits; resulting in the entire house falling down.
My favourite quote:

Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them.
I went into the article assuming it was going to be the usual "Here's a strange thing done by a few people that we're going to call a trend".

Assuming that viewership at Afreeca TV is split among rooms equally, they're talking about 150,000 people watching these eating rooms daily on that site alone. Impressive.
...yet they didn't even put a list of requested permissions with rationale for each one like some developers do.
I would say HTML is too unintuitive.
nah. the phone is actually easier to hold/use.

the ONLY reason i use the tablets more is battery life. Given equivalent processing power/battery life, nobody would choose a tablet. the screen real state simply does not compensate for the lack of public use, uncomfortable long session use, etc.

give me a phone with decent battery life, and i won't even mind the occasional magnifying glass attached to it.
Not only that, how do you know those codes are meaningful?
No, it's everyone.

http://medconfidential.org/whats-the-story/
Google glass will become acceptable because it will be miniaturized and mostly invisible, not because the currently obscene format will become 'a Walkman for your eyes'.

Until then the only socially acceptable way to use them will be in work situations, such as first responders and military.

Note, I currently own a google glass (amongst other wearable tech) and develop for it.
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Interesting point of view, but remember a car purpose is to transport humans, otherwise it's not a car and you might as well build missiles or rockets. So saying "removing humans lets you gain some weight" is a bit wrong i think. If you want to compare you'll need to add a dummy body with an equivalent weight.
The split on empty thing seems silly to me. It's a hack. If you weren't familiar with the specific javascript implementation, you might expect split to return ['hello world']. It's a nice hack, but it's a hack. It's something you can do if you offhand know about that quirk of split.
Is any cash / tax benefits being passed over with the business as it's sold?

The other question I suspect is how many, and which, of the patents are being passed over.
Google are strict about letting people have access. You need to make sure that your access to gmail is safe.

"Make back ups" is easy to say, but keeping the passwords and access credentials safe is tricky.
But your stomach should be able to stretch to the point where it can digest far more calories than is required to maintain yourself, either that or repture.
Since I live in Beijing. Yes.
I was only thinking about this yesterday evening. My wife used to spit feathers and froth at the mouth when I mentioned Apple devices, and thought that the iPad was stupid. She also thought that the iPhone made a rubbish business phone, particularly in comparison to the Blackberry and Nokia (no ability to sync contacts properly at the time etc.)

BUT! now she has an iPad. She has had it for about a year and she loves it. She spends all evening shopping/browsing.
I too have a tablet and struggled to think of how I would use one before I bought it, but now I read more than ever, and browse.

Very interesting how life-changing (or more like habit-changing) tablets have been, particularly the ease of use to look something up and read without having to turn a computer on. (I still use my laptop if I want to CREATE anything, but consuming is mostly done on a tablet, as attempting to create something on a tablet is an exercise in frustration). Perhaps Apple cleverly realised that most people consume instead of create.

Very clever. We would not have thought this 5 years ago.
Why wouldn't they have used their strongest applicable patents? They may have more similar ones and maybe one or two will hold up but do you really think if they had some powerful non-FRAND ones they wouldn't have used them on Apple or Mircrosoft by now?
Alternatively: "Iterating through the string, take each character and dump it plus a space to a temp string. Return the temp string trimmed."

I wouldn't say that's any worse, especially in this scenario. But they should get it just as quickly.

Edit: trim the string. :)
Power is a measure of... power, not energy. MW/year is a silly unit. In the US energy production on an annual basis is given in BTUs, or Joules (usually quadrillions of BTUs, depending on the scale). Perhaps the article meant 10.7 GW of installed production capacity. Regardless, that's about 0.3 quadrillion BTUs per year, which is a blip compared to the world's energy consumption.
Haha I think I'll do that if I ever meet someone. That's really funny, it'll keep me chuckling all day. Thanks!
Everyone has had that idea. :). Problem is that it doesn't really improve discourse, it just turns trolls into zealots who spend all their time arguing about the exact interpretation of the bet itself.

Note, I am a 7 year user of Intrade(which is undergoing a reboot) with over 100k USD total traded.
I think that is incorrect. Patent holders win almost 60% of patent cases in East Texas, as opposed to the national average of just over 30%. Delaware is almost as bad.

Patent trolls or NPEs win at a much higher there as well - 45% versus 20%.

( http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/19... )
Only so long as the neutrinos don't mutate.
If you need someone who is experienced with Javascript, then I think those are reasonable questions to ask.
Koding is giving away 100TB this week
In most cases, the PIN is not directly related to the card: the link only exists in the bank database. So it should be technically possible to change it. Some banks allow it in some countries, and may even recommend you regularly change your PIN for security reasons.

However, such policy may introduce a security breach. Some banks allow you to change PINs at an ATM (after you already entered the original PIN), but with some other banks you can change PINs by phone and without giving the original PIN. Maybe your bank just chose the easy way to avoid all those questions.
I guess HTML/CSS is something that can be done by a non programming designer, so if your team is large enough to have separate back-end devs , front-end devs and designers it's more important for the developer to be able to manipulate CSS than design it from scratch.
For me they seem very duplicate happy. I have to mark about 5 items per month (out of 20) as dupes.