skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask your employers to tell you someone in his or her team that s/he enjoys working with and why. This will tell you if you will be fit well and valued in the team. Otherwise, you may feel isolated later, or you may join a team and realize that the popular ones are not doing anything but kissing managers' butt. It's a sad team!
> Android has become quite resource-intensive

Some Android apps that are part of the typical Google-logo Android user experience have become resource intensive. Dalvik, even with the addition of a JIT compiler, was initially targeted at a very low resource requirement, and, apart from the JIT compiler, which is highly tuned to working in small battery powered devices, there have been no fundamental changes to the Dalvik VM until the recent release of ART as a replacement runtime.
I am still trying to figure out what marketing people do besides throwing spaghetti at walls.
Was this initiative started before or after the MS acquisition was planned and announced? While technically MS might not own them yet, it seems they have already built their product offerings around this partnership (and for some time now). Which would make the comparison to the internal N9 project being killed in favor of a new platform not as relevant.

This seems to me as a plan hatched after Nokia got into bed with MS as a plan to diversify.
You can ask anything you want. On the other hand, you should realize that your questions convey your state of mind, and anything you say can and will be used against you. But that's not necessarily a bad thing: apparently you have a family. If you have a lot of lifestyle questions, and they are a 7 day/week operation, both sides may decide it's not a good fit.

A good company will be delighted to hire an engineer (assuming you are an engineer) who asks intelligent questions about the business - it shows that you can go above and beyond doing "your job," and that you are aware that your technical work has a business outcome. You do not want to work for an employer who is threatened by your questions, or refuses to answer (most of) them.
"PHP is not as pretty as Python or Ruby but it's a lot easier to read than Perl."

Good Perl is quite readable, and bad PHP, well, you are a fortunate man if you have never encountered any, and a top-notch reader if you have and have found it easy to follow.
It depends on the job you're trying to do.

But you can't honestly say that Word and LaTeX really have that big of a difference in intended jobs. It seems to me that they are both in the document production business.
Hey, Javelin product manager here. There's some discussion on Reddit that might prove interesting to readers here: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1ysg92/show_netsec_w...

It'd be great to get any feedback people are willing to give. I've never managed a product launch before!
Link for that? All I find is mentions of its weakness when used with very small amounts of memory (like Litecoin's silly decision to go with 128KB).
Thanks, am an Eclipse user so this might be just what the doctor ordered ;-)
OP made it clear: marketers still have to turn to IT guys today to shape new funnel analytics. And it takes DAYS to see new funnels implemented, while it should be a matter of minutes - if only they had the right tools. Also, thanks for saying that growth hacking / coding geniuses are a myth. They don't usually have the skills, but moreover nobody would dare to grant them write access to the app repo...
> will stand a hundred feet tall, and it will weigh twenty-three thousand tons—more than twice the weight of the Eiffel Tower.

This is a strange sentence.

(1) Notice Height of object-A;
(2) Notice Weight of object-A;
(3) Compare Weight of object-A to Weight of object-B
where object-B is known more for its property of
Height than of its Weight.

The sense here (I think) is that the Eiffel tower is significantly taller than than ITER, and therefore ought to be significantly heavier. But it's not! ITER is heavier, and heavier by a lot. Go figure!

But what a silly line of reasoning. Is it a common conclusion that taller things should also be heavier things?

Further, this seems to me to be of the same breed as "bigger than the state of Rhode Island"-type of arbitrary comparisons -- only in this instance more confusing!
Go is not a competitor to Rust. In fact Rust has effectively no competitor except for C and C++.
I know of one example where this kind of integration is actually in place and properly utilized. It's a pretty big newspaper. The integration is provided by a publishing system called K4.

Admittedly, very few publications would employ similar systems here. Because they're complex to set up, expensive, and not easy to pirate (I don't think many small publications paid for their copies of InDesign/PageMaker), because there's inertia and fear of losing their jobs among the staff (not many young forward-thinking professionals in print nowadays), etc. Not sure how things are US, though.
I have to admit, back in 2006-7 I was genuinely scared that this couldn't be done. Happy to be wrong!
Burners are an effective defense against single-phone-number taps.

But in an era of dragnet surveillance and meta-data analysis [1] they're not very useful.

Unless you're calling varying phones, at varying places, from varying places, at varying times, all with no discernible pattern or schedule -- it would be easy enough for them to identify a network of burners and determine which ones belong to which individuals on the network based on that meta-data. And if anyone in the network carried or used a 'real' phone alongside the burner, it would only get easier.

And you can Google search on the news wires to see how well people do at this game, even when they know their lives are literally on the line and thus devote a significant portion of their effort toward it.

[1] Done well-enough to be confident-enough to lob hellfire missiles at SIM cards in not-quite-friendly countries...
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Did someone actually say that? I know people said all sorts of things that are now considered daft about the future capabilities of the internet, I wasn't aware streaming video was one of them and a Google search yielded no results.
Firstly, IAAL. Secondly, I'm working on a crypto-currency that's designed for the automatic enforcement of contracts. Thirdly, I was (am) an engineer, and always saw writing contracts as akin to coding.

I see no way to automatically enforce contracts without a third party intermediary, which sort of goes against the spirit of the coin. Be that party a crowd-sourced wisdom, an impartial oracle, or whatever. Is there another way?
Apple's #gotofail bug: The Code Quality Perspective
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LHC didn't make me nervous and I laughed somewhat at the people who sued to keep it off for fear it might end the world.

This one however, I dunno. Sounds like things could go wrong with that much energy. When they made the first atomic bomb, they had theories about what might happen but not 100% sure and there were some surprises.

But I'll take death from this over death from fracking.
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Google acquired Spider.io
> Even small numbers of vaccinations can decrease the spread of an infectious disease.

Only of the vaccine is particularly effective in individuals (95%+).

Pertussis seems to be a good counterexample. You really do need the herd immunity to keep it under control since individual immunity seems to be below 70% or so.

In addition, non-vaccinated people tend to be clustered since anti-vaccination is a function of shared social situation (shared belief, religious affiliation, or low socioeconomic status). Consequently, you need MORE people vaccinated to control it, not fewer.
Empirical evidence or simply history? The web started as a platform on bigger devices which were stationary and a bit too far away to touch - of course it still works best on those platforms.

However, "The web" is simply a stack made up (at the client end) of HTML/CSS for layout and javascript for logic. Nothing more, nothing less. Both of those technologies are entirely screen resolution, power source and interaction method independent (with the exception maybe of the aspects of javascript which relate to mouse pointers).

There's no reason that websites can't be built from the ground up for mobile devices. The reason that "the web" (according to your empirical evidence) doesn't work for mobile devices is because the vast majority of the web wasn't designed for mobile devices. Mobile browsers are still mostly dealing with sites designed for 4x the screen size and designed with very little thought for client side execution time. Many popular "native" apps use web technologies (HTML/CSS and javascript) in a way which you wouldn't even know wasn't native - the reason it works is because the markup and JS are targeted towards mobile devices rather than desktop browsers.
http://www.google.com/settings/ads, click Opt Out,

or

http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/opt-out.html
Aurora on the pole of Saturn, captured by Hubble
A Gentle Intro to Go
I love this as a visualisation. It would be great to provide links to the algorithms (if they were there, I didn't find them).
errrr... yes. My iphone actually. (How could you tell? Or was that a lucky piece of sarcasm)

If the signatories to the US constitution owned slaves, I can use an iPhone while still wanting the Right to Root.
It's not a scheme. And I would advise anyone who asked to make up their own mind about where to store it. If they feel confident that they can 100% keep their wallets safe better than CoinBase can, then absolutely, yes, they should keep it on their home machine.

The promise of BitCoin is that it functions like cash, with all the advantages of electronic payments. If I can't bring my cash with me everywhere, then yes, it does fundamentally limit its utility to me.

BitCoin is just like any other money: the base system is based on distrust but for it to be mainstream an ecosystem of trust must be built around it. If we can't sort out the difference between competent BitCoin institutions and incompetent ones then we are in a world of trouble.
Which is why one should ask in ways that are more likely to generate good answers for the question you actually have.

So "Why do you think this product will succeed?" may be posed as "What are the key risk factors involved (that I can help you with)?" The former is a question about their value proposition against the competition, and they would have articulated it often enough already to be convincing to you as well. The latter would open them up somewhat about the risk factors in their path of success.
Any details on the value of this deal floating around? At one point it seemed like all new database startups were getting pretty stratospheric valuations. At least relative to their user base.

I'm sure congratulations are in order regardless. The Cloudant team certainly deserves it. They've delivered consistently impressive results with their own product offerings, and with Apache CouchDB.
This isn't necessarily Google services vs. AOSP. Since they aren't going through certification there's no guarantee they've gone through CTS tests (so they APIs may differ from stock Android, either in signature or functionality).
Um, I think you mean Orwell's world. Unless you're trying to compare us to people who are too busy getting high and going to senso-movies to care about anything important.

Or are you implying we make babies in factories?
tl:dr version:
* Solve a pain
* Start small
* Work in a confortable place
* Check your cash flow
“The Cloud Never Goes Down”, Azure SLAs and other availability trivia
Yes, but for reasons not mentioned in the article. They've had major advancements in robot technology and they're simply replacing ground troops with robots and drones.

Also advancements in efficiency and automation allow smaller crews to do the same tasks and operate the same vehicles.

Lasers, railguns, drones, and robots will dominate the battlefields very, very soon. Humans will just be there to talk to people and tell the robots to go capture / kill / defend / build things.
30 minutes in and there's already an ignorant comment about PHP. HN never fails to disappoint.
I like it a lot, too. It's a concept I've toyed with, with JavaScript and tutorials. The particular example I used was a tutorial on Genetic Algorithms, and the form was a playground for being able to quickly edit fitness functions on the fly. Having tutorials that can execute their own code is awesome.
Which is the line they use when advising you to establish a good data-retention-policy. Because any one-time 'reduction' effort is trivially connectable to intent by just about any court. Even when it's innocent.
You are easily confused.
That table can be found in the paper "Stronger Key Derivation via Sequential Memory-Hard Functions"[0] by Colin Percival[1]. This is the paper that introduces explains and introduced scrypt.

The costs are based on what was considered 'modern hardware' in 2009.

[0]: https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva
I'll admit to being scared much more recently than that, ha.
Mathematical Equations That Changed The World
I disagree, iMessage is much slower on poor network connections (and fast ones) for me than WhatsApp, and it is certainly much less reliable. It will fail consistently unless I have 3G coverage, where WhatsApp works fine on a GPRS signal. The only advantage it has for me is the ability to send larger size pictures.
Reminder that your infant getting whooping cough (now endemic in the US again) is a good way for it to wind up DEAD.
Hmm, I wonder if smartphones could "easily" switch to IPv6?
Google's Project Tango DEV Kit – Smartphone embracing physical world
It's actually a lot less energy than it sounds like. The temperatures will hit 10-100 times the temperature of the sun, but the density inside will be very very low. This thing couldn't vaporize a car.

Remember, this is only a 500 megawatt device, and the reaction is so unstable that if it somehow escapes the containment of the device it dies instantly. It can't "run away" like some fission reactions can.

edit: Not actually sure how much energy it takes to "vaporize a car in seconds." In terms of energy this thing is roughly equivalent to any other fairly large power plant.
Opera Mini made a lightweight mobile browser by offloading some of the rendering and javascript to a proxy server.
Which was obviously a horrific thing to say.
You can ask any questions you want. If your interviewers are offended by questions, that's a bad sign, because smart questions are one of the few valuable social signals you can pick up in a conventional interview; teams that get pissy about questions are probably rejecting lots of good candidates.

The runways questions should get reasonably specific answers. You should be able to discuss runway in terms of headcount/months.

You can ask if they think their product will be successful, but that's kind of silly.

You can ask about endgame, but you're not going to get a straight answer. Your incentives are wildly out of alignment with management's, and almost always will remain so. You can ask leading questions about potential acquirers if you like. Note that bizdev discussions are virtually never transparent, reasonably so, so don't get upset if important details are omitted from the discussion.
a cryogenics plant, which will produce liquid helium

Wait, they are manufacturing helium? Thought that wasn't possible?

Or just converting gas to liquid?
Thanks :)

Full source code is available at https://github.com/lorenzo-stoakes/Rainbow-Sort, no guarantees as to quality... all (4 :P) algorithms are there.
Running Node.js + DTrace on FreeBSD
Are you a kid? Cause the article implies that only children are affected.
You could try engaging accounts on twitter that post content similar to yours. Accounts that basically post content around a theme like History in Pictures or Modern Day Stoic. No guarantees these accounts would buy anything, but there might be twitter account managers out there looking for a way to easily maintain a site alongside their twitter account.

Definitely announce this service to your existing userbase. I'm sure people there have ideas for similar sites, but lack the ability to execute on them currently. You could show them how easy it can be. Referrals could be good if its not too much of a hassle to setup, but there are probably more valuable ways to get signups.
Those are all reasonable questions, IMO. When I think of the people I've worked with who successfully passed a company's interview process but turned out to be a short-lived employees or a poor fit for the organization, the situation could have been avoided if the employee had interviewed the employer more and understood what they were getting into better. Both parties need to do the research and ensure they want to work with the other party.
Ask HN: What companies in the bay area are dog-friendly?
Either let you bring your dog or have some sort of daycare on site.

Thanks!
Yes, it is a fusion plant. Helium is a product of hydrogen fusion.

edit: but they appear to be talking about support infrastructure, not a product of the fusion.
One benefit of working with agency recruiters is that you can find out at least parts of the comp plan (vaca, 401k, bennies) without having to ask directly. If you walk in and start asking 'what's in it for me?' questions before asking the 'good questions' (that poster listed) founders may judge that you are only interested in comp.

Having information on the bennies and perks before talking about cash comp is pretty important. If the company pays 100% of healthcare premiums and another pays 50%, that could be a 5-10K adjustment alone. 1 week vacation accounts for 2% of comp. All the little things start to add up, and if you throw out a number early on without knowing these things you may need to backpedal.
I found this to make some sense to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Reactor_overview

I had fears that fusion could become fission but seems like that is not possible.
Expect this number to rise in the near future as Comcast Netflix traffic moves to IPv6: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29057080-
I've been thinking about something similar but it's more one of those "it'd be cool if I built this..." with no such plan to actually do it.

Ping me if you do end up making one!
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I think you're mostly right and energy storage advances are much more exciting. However, they can substitute for each other to an extent.

For example, moving transportation off of messy and expensive fossil fuels is almost all about storage. If there was a $5, 2kg battery that could hold enough charge for a car to go 3000 miles, the world would switch to electric cars almost instantaneously.

We are also using fossil fuels to generate energy for lots of fixed usage where transmission is already in place. Take all of the coal power plants in the country and replace them with magical clean energy generation plants and you've made a vast improvement without any change in storage technology.

If storage was magically solved, then you could use wind and solar and whatever much more easily, and replace fossil fuels that way. But storage seems to be a much tougher game.
Can I sideload it on a Nokia X?
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.6.0.1/docs/Debug-T... is what you want to use for emitting debug text or debug data dumps.
This is a real headache. You can either send all the messages (and info/queries) to all logged-in devices, or you select just the most recently used. In the first case, the user gets messages repeated. In the latter, there's the risk that information is lost when a user switches device.
What kind of problems are Rust trying to address?
Batsh – A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
> Well, you specifically said that if someone had gone beyond the 80 character limit, its probably because

Yes. The operative word here is "probably". Meaning not always.

> If you've never had a problem with it, dare I ask, how are you qualified to make that call, given you've never had to face that challenge?

And here we can see an other important word of the original comment: "much" as in "much of an issue". As in, I've faced it, I've never found it very difficult a challenge to go against. Now of course if you pile on additional constraints for personal reasons…

> I personally think strict adherence to line length limits reduces code quality; you've got to use common sense for it.

I have no issue with that, but common sense being a super-power[0][1] and thus generally uncommon. Thus in my experience erring on the side of respecting line length limits and having to defend an exception to the rule produces significantly better results, and avoids 200+ characters lines because "well it fits in my widescreen 24" display so I don't see what the problem is"

[0] http://walls4joy.com/walls/people/deadpool-wade-wilson-commo...

[1] and was likely named by people who had none
Sorry for the delay, I must have missed this one. If you go to Events and select the event you are interested in, there will be a Pie Chart icon that allows you to click through to the properties data.
I'm pretty sure if this failed, the Earth would catastrophically jettison its atmosphere.
It's a little bit over the cost of a single aircraft carrier.
It's Crazy How Much Money a Startup Can Waste on Bad Hires
The issue really isn't me tracking my own changes. In that case, version control does great. The problem is adoption by collaborators, particularly for PIs that don't want to take the time to sit down and learn something new.

The problem with Word's track / review features isn't necessarily that they're good, it's that they're so entrenched in academic writing (even in the sciences), that attempting to do anything else gets zero traction from most PIs and collaborators. Even PIs that use LaTeX themselves are hesitant to collaborate using it because of the extra friction it introduces as compared to Word's track/review tools.

As much as I hate to admit it, I think the only way to migrate some collaborators away from Word and to LaTeX in a collaborative setting is to basically duplicate Word's track/review/comment features and incorporate them into a LaTeX-based system.
Transmutation from one or more elements to one or more new elements is indeed possible, if difficult.
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The elements involved are some of the lightest that exist. It's nearly impossible to get them to fission in the best of cases.
You didn't do your research. Your domain had a spam history.

Also, a simple backlink analysis from any SEO would have turned up these issues and then you could have promptly disavowed them and be done with it.

It's not Google's fault that you didn't dot you i's and cross your t's as a webmaster.
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As long as it's only used and distributed internally, I don't believe the GPL has a problem with them modifying it without disclosing their changes. That's my understanding.
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I believe he's referring to assertions made by Robert Bussard in this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6z1vP4Eo8. Bussards comments on the DOE and funding tokomaks is toward the end iirc. Bussard is by no means a crank, he IS from a different era for sure.

Edit; for those just discovering polywell fusion; Bremelstrung radiation is the primary reason why it may or may not be practicable.
Al the nokia x series look fantastics. I m waiting for nokia xl.
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