skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no such issues in India. Companies that come for placement just give out a few papers for students to fill. Unfortunately, they don't seem to care the huge number of students who cheat in the tests and the results don't truly represent what you are!
> Yes, let's have the government mandate what license your code should have! Facepalm.

Hey -- even when people freely choose which license code should have, there are still better and worse choices. There's no essential role for government, and the OP didn't suggest that.

Also, according to my favorite theory of modern society, governments find out what people are going to do anyway, order them to do it, then try to take credit for the result. So (if this theory has any substance) governmental involvement is more illusory than real.
Going from Java to Ruby has been quite a ride
It seems like they could form a single standard customizable platform for "heads-up android" devices that emphasizes minimal/no touch, voice-control, compact display, slaved to a full-featured Android phone. Then you could apply it to all kinds of devices - glass, watches, a dash-mount, a bike-mount, etc.
When the band on my last Casio broke due to my taking it off and putting it back on so often, in order to type comfortably while either using a wrist rest or putting up with the increasingly large palm area on laptops... (Phfew! Time for a new sentence.) When that happened, I stopped wearing a watch.

Until the battery died, that Casio, sans wristband, served as a sort of pocket watch. Now, I just look at my phone -- when I don't already have a clock on-screen somewhere.

Aside: I'd prefer a URL that didn't necessitate dynamic content in order to get a basic idea of what the product is. Call me old-fashioned... or paranoid (exploits); take your pick.
I admittedly have a small sample set of two commercial pilots, but they're much like any other corporate workers.

Once they're home they crash-out and relax. Make a meal, have a shower. Check Facebook.

Their day job is pretty boring* and they're not particuarly interested in replicating it on a computer.

* where did you fly today? Oh, a runway in Portugal and another one in Malta.
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To give them the benefit of the doubt, when a plane's transponder shuts down over the ocean and isnt heard from again, it's very easy to leap to the obvious conclusion that it went down and focus on marshaling recovery resources, rather than thinking through how to test extremely low probability hypotheses like "the pilot turned off the electronics and flew in a completely different direction."
What happened in April 1997? Isn't that a long time post-IRC?
I think Marc Andreessen position is weak in this fight. I have absolutely no empathy for Carl Icahn, but on this issue, he's got a good point. It seems Marc Andreessen had a conflict of interest and instead of showing that wasn't the case, Andreessen decided to attack Icahn for stuff that aren't related to this issue, even if they were definitely questionable.
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>We need to move to a single global democracy.

China and Russia would balk. But it hardly matters, the EU can't even agree.
WATCH OUT Hacker targets Google Accounts with Phishing Page.
This xkcd came to mind: http://xkcd.com/993/
Watches are jewelry.
Because of the "social-classy" value of these products, I do not think that adding them some geeky features will find a real market.
The "haters" section leaves out one critical reason for not doing something like this that I think is quite relevant. For those of us who have never had to do a BST before (I do not have a degree in CS, though I've been coding professionally for 8 years), expecting us to solve a BST problem in the 10, 15 minutes alotted is not really great. Even if I've never seen it before, the idea that I can solve it in 15 minutes in a high pressure environment is unrealistic.

In a real world scenario, if I had to solve this kind of thing, I'd rely on existing works first. I'd google the problem, and I'd see what solutions are out there. For most problems, there's something that can point me in the right direction.

For solving a BST issue from scratch in 15 minutes, well.. let's just say the first guy to come up with BSTs probably didn't come up with his solution in 15 minutes.

So I would give it my best shot, but if I don't succeed, you shouldn't hold it against me. I disagree with the premise that if I can't solve this, I can't solve novel problems. That's just blatantly incorrect. I solve novel problems every day -- just not on a whiteboard and not in 15 minutes.

I would much much much rather see a real-world problem. Something you've actually run into. For instance, in my line of work, I deal a lot with addresses. One of the issues that I've had to solve in the past is parsing addresses. If I give you a string of "123 Main St, Boston, MA 02123", how do you break that up into street, city, state, zip?

That's something I've actually had to solve. It's something that anyone with critical thinking skills can take a decent shot at in 15 minutes. A binary search algorithm? I got a question like this one time, and I floundered because I got 90% of the way there, but I couldn't figure out how to solve one of those edge cases. The guy basically ended the interview right there, but I asked for the solution. When he gave it to me, it was something straight out of an academic textbook.

I said, "Oh, you guys must use binary trees a lot." And he laughed and said, "No, never. It's low-level stuff for databases."

And I just sat there, dumbstruck. Why would you give me a problem that you've never had to solve yourself?

I dunno. I just disagree with the premise of the article. I think there are far better questions to ask. Problem solving in general is required -- solving academic exercises much less so.
The last INMARSAT ping was at 8:11am, the plane lost contact around 1:19am, so it's possible.

http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/16/satcom-acars-explained/

Note the comments in the above link, the authorities have only released the INMARSAT ARC corresponding to a single ping. They have not released the ARCs for all the pings which would indicate if the plane was flying West or not.

It may be that authorities are already investigating the Maldives and possible follow-on destinations, but do not want to publicly alert the pilot/hijackers that they are on their trail, so in public the focus has been on the northern corridor and Kazakhstan.
How on earth does your watch scratch your laptop?
> I feel [...] at that time.

Wow ... 313 words without a single line feed.
Definitely a turn off with anything that has a steep learning curve or high switching costs. I.e. pretty much everything in productivity and communication.
I'm sad that no one is going e-ink here. That solves the battery and screen visibility problems so nicely, plus the screen is always on. If Pebble is going to be it going forward, I hope they continue to innovate.
Why ? There is room for both imo. As far as Enduser Tools go, most times the stuff from companies that make money from their product is superior to open source alternatives. Like the Adobe Suite, Autodesk Stuff, various Game engines etc. Of course there are good open source alternatives and it's good that they exist, but it's not the best choice for everyone.
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Is there a HN thread where we can discuss this service and ask questions/debate the merits? I'd do it here but it feels inappropriate as the thread is more about Kickstarter and not the core product/service.
Stuff like this is why I continue to use Firefox.
If they price this to compete with typical mid-high watches, then you're looking at about $4000

...which will render the product DOA.
The End of Agile: Death by Over-Simplification
"If you do not consider consoles or embedded systems major
platforms that is. Most of the world is not POSIX."

Would you even use a package manager on an embedded system? I would imagine that a package manager is far more appropriate for development systems and systems capable of being used for development. An embedded system would probably use a much simpler install system like what is used in TinyCore linux, if not even simpler than that. In fact, I would expect the package management on an embedded system to be driven by another system, which may be POSIX compliant. That software that puts code on that embedded system or console could be an extension to an existing package manager.

The biggest issue with most package managers AFAICT is that most aren't designed first as a platform with a programmatic interface. At the end of the day, the CLI for a package manager should be just one of the clients driving the package manager.
It depends what country you're in and there's also the credit card processing % fee.
There are essentially two simulators that the majority of pilots use. Microsoft FSX and Xplane. They both have pretty much all of the airports in the world installed by default. The extras you install are the actual scenery, but the airports are there without any manual installation.
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It's inflationary, coins will never stop being created and they're mined extremely quickly

https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues/23#issuecomment-...
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Again, the actual valuation of the compensation (whatever the form and whenever it is realized) is an empirical question.

I actually agree with all of your points here, including the one about retroactively altering compensation. I'm just saying it's fair to take value-over-replacement into consideration when negotiating compensation. And that I can see giving different compensation based on that measure of market rates for labor.

Maybe the compensation was fair. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe it's important to clarify what counts as being paid. All of those things are really beside my point.
I promised some follow up writing on the last thing of mine someone posted to HN, so here is a first installment on that promise.
I'm curious if they'll also add features such as In-app Purchases given that's a recurring issue in threads about HTML5 games.
Personally, my reason for preferring them separate is that I use the address bar to search my browsing history, which doesn't work if it's cluttered up with search results and prior search history.
<input type=number> didn't make it in?
I am sorry if that offended you but I take issue with the idea that adding more restrictions improves freedom. If you want to download possible malware that is your choice.
[sarcasm]Please continue to use this question. It’s a wonderful marker for candidates (like me) who don’t want to work with folks who think questions like that are useful.[/sarcasm]

That's a two way street. Asking this question to ward off people who are offended to be asked it sounds like a net win to me.
Canvas Debugger in Firefox Developer Tools
I use notebooks, notepads, blanks sheets of paper, Japanese A5 and A5 notepads, and Pilot Frixion erasable pens.

I do mostly writing, and also diagramming (I'm a software developer) with the odd doodle and 3-d house.

I'm very picky about pens, very picky about paper.

I also definitely want to keep my notebooks.

I do not want all this stuff digitized. At all.

What I do digitize, I convert carefully, taking care to craft it as well for pixels as I did for paper.
>Stop with the frameworks.

>Things like jQuery, underscore, etc...

Sounds great until you have a team of 5 developers maintaining at least a semi-huge code base over the course of some years. Some people leave, new join the team.

Then you really start appreciating frameworks if only for their conventions to structure the code. Top coders can write web apps with jQuery and underscore alone, but everyone else is better off following some conventions.
The browser console. (in chrome) View -> Developer -> Javascript Console. You can enter commands there, run functions, access variables (in the page's global scope), etc..
You're not wrong. It's definitely one way to solve it. I just find it harder to jump into a project with heavy reliance on global events and be able to quickly understand what's going on. It gets even harder if you have events firing other events.
>Can you explain how his financial company employs 60,000 people?

Do you think that large, multi-billion dollar financial conglomerates run themselves?

>Or did you mean he has ownership stakes in industrial firms that employ 60,000 people?

Both. Through wholly-owned subsidiaries and the financial holding company. What does it matter?

My point is, painting him like he's some inexperienced financier is utterly disingenuous. I know it's en vogue to hate on "banksters", but his business experience (and, in my opinion, economic value-added) is of a magnitude greater than Mr. Andreesen's.
In terms of direct personal interest, it's hard to get someone less interested than a federal COA judge. They have life tenure and a Constitutionally guaranteed six figure salary. They typically serve for life and it is exceedingly rare for them to ever return to private practice. They also have a direct incentive to make patentability more difficult: it means more work for them at no additional pay.

Do they have an indirect interest in making themselves more relevant? Possibly, but so does any court. Yet the overwhelming trend over the last few decades has been for the courts to cede territory. Strongly favoring arbitration, giving broad interpretation to bars like standing, etc. Most people worry about the opposite problem: courts declining to exercise jurisdiction in the face of the other two branches.

Calling this "corruption" stretches the word to the point it loses any meaning, and also deeply confuses the causation. The Federal Circuit doesn't skew towards aggrandizing patent law because they somehow want to benefit their former colleagues in practice (and some of the strongest advocates like Judge Reader never even practiced!) Rather, people who strongly believe in patent protections self-select into becoming Federal Circuit judges.
If a new hire can not set up their own machine in 1-2 days of time then the new hire should not have been hired.

I like to customize my text editor to fit my work flow, a text editor on the web gives me no control. I like having control over my environment and it is usually a "set it, forget it" mentality.
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Getting Started with Node.js for Windows
How do you deal with dependencies in Windows-land? Do they wind up all getting embedded in the Visual Studio project? How do you deal with projects with different build systems? Or are Visual studio projects basically the package management in the ecosystem?

On linux I've basically wound up depending on the distribution packages, but this varies from distro to distro. The other option is embedding a build of all dependencies into the project, but this is slow, painful, and prone to error. Having a neutral package manager for C and C++ would be amazingly useful for this (though it would have actually be used. We use some python packages but some of them don't work when installed via pip so it's back to depending on the distro package).
>Cool, a male only product.

Well you got to test the waters somehow. Its better to test it in one segment and if it doesn't flop, expand it further. Else, complaints can also include why they din't target children or the elderly.

Also gender specific products are established by society. You don't have necessarily follow them. If a female wears a men's watch, it won't automagically stop working.
Reminds me of when Icahn went head to head with Bill Ackman on CNBC.
I don't get it, what is?
You think, if Noam Chomsky would receive the Turing award, they'll talk about his other achievements?
Unless you wore your watch with the face inwards, a leather strap ought to fix this.
I rest my wrists on my MBP as well.

I've been typing this way since like '94 and I've yet to have any carpal tunnel issues.

Attempting to type this line with elevated wrists feels very strange and something that I couldn't do for long periods of time.
I don't think I'm begrudging anyone, and I'm not going to dispute the math behind expected value. Without passing judgment, objectively, he deserves his payout as much as a lotto winner deserves theirs, as much as any net-positive-EV speculator deserves theirs, since the act of picking a startup is similar to that of picking lotto numbers.

Once we agree on that, we can debate whether lotteries are a great way for our economic system to allocate wealth.
> Disclaimer: I have no idea what I am talking about, but thought my off the cuff theory would have more weight if I wrote like I did.

Ha. I like the cut of your jib.
Any YC alums care to give my application a once over?
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We're working on cloud automation using NLP, so anyone with cloud infrastructure would benefit from it. But I see your point. Thanks for the advise.
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In other words, you can tell by some of the pixels?
Who doesn't rest their wrists on the palm rest of the laptop when they type?
Exactly.

But it's also worth considering that there is softer forms of equity, especially in knowledge work, that likely accrues faster working at a successful company. In other words, when "investing in your career", picking good investments is important, regardless of how many shares you may walk away with.

In that way, even given two job offers with no equity, there are probably benefits to taking the job at the company most likely to succeed.
Glad to see this! Anyone know if group calls are still planned? I thought so, but no mention of it in this post.
For our use case, it just wasn't the right fit. In particular: 1) we needed more features/performance than Mongo's aggregation framework provided, 2) the mongod global lock was prohibitive for our write throughout (turning off fsync wasn't suitable), 3) schema migrations were difficult/impossible without transactional guarantees.

It seems like Mongo's addressed some of these concerns since we started building Heap.
> just replace the value of "ns.someService" worldwide with a mock.

Having a window-wide namespace might make sense in the test, but it is pretty risky/limiting if you are writing a component that should be reused in contexts you don't fully control. There are other ways around that besides DI, but they will probably have similar trade-offs in safety EOU, etc.
Leather straps have buckles.
Good point, so any bookmarked runways could be a complete red herring...
What, Icahn can fling random accusations but Andreessen can't? It's all just mud-slinging.

As for Andreessen's motive, I suppose he probably thinks Icahn is making a power play and is more interested in fending off Icahn than in defending himself in this particular instance. Icahn clearly wants Andreessen on the defensive, so it kind of makes sense, though it all feels a bit embarrassing.
Not really input related, but is it remotely plausible that winding could charge the battery?
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I rest my wrists on the MPB when I type also, and I've been typing the same way since the late 80's.
It depends. I was talking about storing files in user-land not browser-land, like c:\program files (x86)\company\our cool game\art\texture.png

That can handled currently in HTML5. Even written too if you give it permission on load. This would side step warnings of IndexDB going over 50MB would be easier with large textures/models. Also side steps that webworkers can't really do asynch indexDB stuff.

I'm not a web developer at all. I'm just researching this as I type it.
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How I strip formatting from copied text
CMD + T
CMD + V
CMD + A
CMD + C
CMD + W

:) Best tool ever
I thought this disclaimer was needed only for TV ads.
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I justify work on side-projects when they can both serve my personal goals and the lessons (not necessarily the actual code) can be used to make work easier. So I guess in some ways it feels like doing work at home, but I guess I count it as offsetting stress/tedium at work.
This isn't a perfect rule, see below about Newton and Liebniz, but I think this is the closest it comes to a good rule of thumb for patent. Independent invention should create a strong presumption of obviousness.
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OSX notifications are going to be great for our internal web apps!
This!

I hate being treated as a code monkey.
I'm not sure how you make a good advertisement for a giant watch that provides some incremental convenience in a bunch of situations where it isn't very important.
I think Unity can distribute their runtime library via CDN (just like three.min.js or something). It will able to cut down the initial some megabytes.

Progressive downloading technique (like AssetBundle) is a must for both loading time and server costs. Every developer should use it because if many games have massive long loading time (like Epic Citadel or BananaBread or Monster Madness. Whatever Mozilla says, these demos are not commercial ready), end-users will hesitate to click game links. I feel many gamers already stopped considering the web as a game platform these days. Kids know how to download games from App Store, but they don't know how to use Mobile Safari. All App Store, Google Play and Steam are growing. Many users will continue to prefer download apps for a long time.

Ultimately, time may solve the problem. The internet bandwidth is growing 50% per year. Many PC browser games will start instantly 5 or 10 years later, Mobile will have more trouble.
I had the date wrong.
Big +1 to Facebook breaking down React into smaller parts that are reusable. Makes it hard to point out where there are weaknesses in the library with the "all or nothing" system of dependencies.
Because we haven't figured out a better way to organize society, let alone get people to adopt it. I hate all these "look at the human race doing irrational things, why can't they just do X instead?" Because the human race isn't a single intelligent agent. It's a bunch of individuals with different ideas, goals, and cultures. Everyone is trying to get to their own local optima. It's amazing our species manages to organize and coordinate effectively at all at such a large scale.

If you got rid of borders tomorrow, then what? What government should right the laws? Should we have one world government? No government? What type of government? Etc.
I don't think it was premeditated either, but after reading the article it seems it worked out great for them being able to get Mashable and Verge articles, collect 2,000 emails from Kickstarter backers, and then not have to pay Kickstarter a dime.

I'm sure the PR company wasn't too thrilled at losing their 7% cut of the proceeds either.

But on the whole, it seems they have a really cool product and will do well. Good luck guys!