skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as someone who apparently believes feigning incomprehension (also, immitation) is funny:

I don't get it.
Why would you name the cow?
It's not like it's a pet, or even a dairy cow. It's for eating.

Also why would you use a chainsaw?

Seems imprecise and messy.

I think it would be more efficient to have a specialized tool.
But that tool would require a significant ammount of capital...
Probably more than the cow!
(or buying the burgers).

Maybe someone could have as a paid service a system where you could pay to use or rent the relevant equipment?

Is anyone doing that? Might be profitable. Note to self or others: look into that.

Although, I don't really feel like making a business out of that? It doesn't seem particularly elegant.

Also, my cooking skills aren't very good, so I don't think it would turn out as well?

Maybe I could do the initial cutting apart though?

And then pay someone else to turn the meat into burgers?

That's yet another thing to pay for though, and I don't think anyone is in the business of making burgers out of customer provided meat at the individual scale yet though.

Note to self: investigate this business idea as well.

(combined with renting out the machine???)

All in all, it seems rather time consuming though.

Maybe once every other month as a novelty?

Could be entertaining.

I wonder if the same equipment works with chickens.

... Speaking of which, I'm having trouble imagining a chicken bleed. Does it look the same as other animal blood?

Is it different because it's a bird?

I can imagine a cow bleeding fine, but that might be because the fur is short?

I also have trouble imagining a fish bleed, but I think I kind of remember that, so it's a bit easier.

I guess chicken bleeding would look normal then?
That's a pretty reductionist argument.

Look at planes. Considering the number of planes in the air the fact that we have so few accidents is pretty astounding. We were able to build an entire manufacturing process that very strictly avoids cutting corners.

Then again, maybe we don't really think about planes as being safe.
> A look at major initiatives suggests that the philanthropists’ war on disease risks widening that gap, as a number of the campaigns, driven by personal adversity, target illnesses that predominantly afflict white people — like cystic fibrosis, melanoma and ovarian cancer.

The #1, #2 richest Americans have specifically targeted funding research for diseases that affect only the poor. I think this is a more valid criticism of the NIH rather than philanthropists.
If you were casting actors for a play, would you rather hit each candidate with a surprise audition five minutes after they got out of bed, or give them time to review the lines and stretch their vocal cords?
Thanks to games like this and 2048, more people will start seeing and memorising powers of 2. That's definitely not a bad thing...
No, this would be precisely the sort of optimization that they are seeking.

But... It's hard. To do this over large numbers of high-entropy bits with a small seed (varying) and some simple algorithm (varying) rapidly requires a search space of a scale implying more computation than might plausibly be made to exist in our observable universe. There has to be a minimum-message-length compression solution for any arbitrary message and decoder environment (whether their code or the uncompressed text), but good luck provably finding it for messages even as long as this post.

"You would have to be a god" is a reasonable response if it's talking about using computation capability outside of our observable universe and the physical rules we understand it by.
No, the problem is the it think it's over when you do a move and no numbers can merge. The board may be full, and you may have possibilities but you did a move where no numbers could merge.

Also; this version does not implement the random spawn (10% chance to spawn a 4 instead of a 2)

Still impressive for it's size though.
Aereo's Tiny Antennae
Are there more environmentally-friendly alternatives than polyurethane foam insulation? The insulation in my home include recycled jeans material.
This is addressed in the proposal:

Use a second type that defines __mul__ as matrix multiplication:

As discussed above (Background: What's wrong with the status quo?), this has been tried this for many years via the numpy.matrix type (and its predecessors in Numeric and numarray). The result is a strong consensus among both numpy developers and developers of downstream packages that numpy.matrix should essentially never be used, because of the problems caused by having conflicting duck types for arrays. (Of course one could then argue we should only define __mul__ to be matrix multiplication, but then we'd have the same problem with elementwise multiplication.) There have been several pushes to remove numpy.matrix entirely; the only counter-arguments have come from educators who find that its problems are outweighed by the need to provide a simple and clear mapping between mathematical notation and code for novices (see Transparent syntax is especially crucial for non-expert programmers). But, of course, starting out newbies with a dispreferred syntax and then expecting them to transition later causes its own problems. The two-type solution is worse than the disease.
Sounds cool, but say goodbye to your credit cards or your hard drives.
When hiring, I'm a lot less interested in whether a candidate still remembers, e.g., the details of a red-black tree, and a lot more interested in whether they can talk about them intelligently a few days after they've had a chance to re-skim the Wikipedia page.
Currently the world defaults on credential-ism, titles and socio-political connections which is definitely a system of class & privilege vs. directly evaluating people on their merits, which is what meritocracy focuses on.

The kid in the slum who can scrap together enough money for a cheap computer and internet connection can become a software engineer that is paid 6 figures. A college education will be something they can never approach unless the state makes it free for them. This is what we strive for.
Why Not to raise money from non-accredited angels
Having heard numerous accounts of the Google hiring process, both successful and unsuccessful, I'm convinced that it serves a dual role. In addition to brining in qualified employees, I believe it's intent is to reject qualified candidates. Those qualified candidates will end up being engineering leaders in companies that Google interacts with and the more that they can maintain the impression that Google engineers are the best of the best, the easier those interactions will be and the better received Google products will be. It also means that when Google calls and invites someone to interview, they almost never get turned down.
You're right, Buffett does include dollars, euros, yen and gold as not having intrinsic value. In addition to the link above where Buffett warns against gold as an investment, he also frequently warns against the hidden danger (compounded inflation) when holding cash.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/09/warren-buffett-ber...
Whoops, gonna need to get a new rug again.
... owned by a heavily-regulated monopoly, which was banned from commercializing the research produced at Bell Labs.
A bit outdated, but still excellent: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...

P.S. It worked for me. :)

Good luck!
Out of curiosity, why are ligatures considered good? I commonly notice them in print because it catches my eye and hinders my scanning. Is it just because I am adjusted to digital media that commonly lacks it and the surprise factor is outweighing some other benefit?
What sentence in that picture's caption is wrong, or what doesn't follow from its premises? Asking for extraordinary evidence isn't a scientific thing. Valid logic is all the evidence needed.

Yes it's my argument in that way. I'll challenge a refutation or accept it, but that's difficult when the counter argument is a vague wall of text. If I were to try to summarize what you think is wrong I couldn't do it. I can't decipher your points to see how they attempt to refute any particular sentence in the blog. Please be way more clear and short and to the point, and I'll agree, or disagree with my reasoning. (For example check out Millstone's reasoning above. He/she disagrees that an inertial frame can cross the horizon. One short sentence is enough to summarize!)

> the blog post's claims about what the theory of relativity actually says are not correct

Anyone can say that; be more specific. What the blog says in that way sources from experts in relativity. Its statement of the equivalence principle, for example, is Kip Thorne's.

> Agree with what?

They agree that frame X in the blog post is validly defined and validly used in the thought experiment. Their quote in the blog makes that clear.
It is a pretty simple game. I don't think it really needs an "AI" to play. A few people have already posted a few javascript solutions.
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Dec-31.html - "Open Source Contribution Etiquette"
You seem to think a Google SRE is something like a sysadmin. This is not true.
One tweet pushed charity goal over the top
They look identical in chrome on Linux, the "fi" looks better with google fonts but the brick version make the fonts look a tiny bit more plump and darker.
Ask HN: Cons of open sourcing MH370 investigation data?
I'm curious to discover your opinions on why the Malaysian authorities haven't open sourced the investigation data for missing flight MH370.

I'm certain that many benefits from OS development would carry through to equivalent investigations, especially through harnessing the collective problem solving abilities of communities like HN.

What do you think the opposing factors are?
This is a bad strategy. One thing that actually helps you tremendously is evidence of growth. The easiest way for the hiring committee to see this is for you to show improvement from a previous interview.

I guess it'd be possible to game this signal, but that's a lot of effort and still just one signal.

My real point is that it absolutely does not count against you.
Sounds fair enough, I hadn't considered trade associations and existing claws in the pot. Still, you could try approaching the infinite number of local wine competitions with freebies for their winners in order to garner discount promotional coverage.

I live just south of Kunming on Fuxian lake. Kumming aint what it used to be, but it's still clean and relatively natural down here!
There is no feedback expected from those lunches.

But you're right, they are tests... for the candidate to test Google.
I've often wondered why big corporations, as marketing, don't finance something like launching another Hubble space telescope.

It's because flagship spacecraft and things like the LHC are projects that require a budget of several billions and a 25-year commitment. This kind of budget is within reach only of a wealthy nation with stable finances and a stable political system.

I think the budget explanation also explains the pharmco crisis. It takes about a billion and a decade to bring a drug to market, and that's why you see statins, antidepressants and antidiabetics in the pipeline. Meanwhile, antibiotic resistances are going to be a public health crisis, and Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and malaria are major killers in the developing world. A new model is needed here; we don't need to try coroprate sponsorship in space when it's already failing on Earth.
By "death sentence", are you suggesting that the candidate will never again be considered for a role at Google, or are you just saying that they're not going to space today?
That username one was pretty ridiculous. For all we know it was an auto-assigned username to someone named something like Faggo T., and no slur was meant. These same bristling SJW's would be flaming anyone who pointed out a non-Anglo-Saxon name for having an unfortunate abbreviation. (Of course this is a hypothetical of a hypothetical.)

One of the comments[1] even seems to indicate an earlier version of the article included occurrences of "fag" that were benign words in another language. If you literally search for offense on the Internet, you'll find it, but without context you might be getting offended over nothing.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/hey-norwegian-here-mine-fag-and-finn-fag-...
Yes, that'll certainly happen, but what's the use of memorizing powers of two for people not in CS?
You can't stop the progress though. The only good outcome I see is that as technology eliminates more and more jobs, the tax burden goes up higher for the disrupters to pay the retirement for the disrupted.
Have you used a Steam Controller?
It would look pretty much like it did in the mid 80s: fragmented, proprietary and designed to be monetized. Microsoft would have an internet, Google would have an internet, Amazon would have an internet, and they wouldn't directly interoperate. Both sides would gleefully charge subscribers to access another internet, and the interoperability wouldn't be complete. The technical and market forces that allowed TCP/IP become the de facto starting in the late 80s/early 90s would be fought tooth and nail, should they even recur. DRM would be built into the lowest level of the protocol stacks.
Could you expand on what you mean by availability of cheap land? It seems to me that despite the problems with suburban sprawl, it did exploit cheap availability of land that is generally available at the edges of cities. Especillay consiering the vast quanties of land that is rural in the US. More stats about land usage can be found at http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/major-land-uses.aspx#....
Lower-level management is drawn from the same pool as the engineers.

For upper-level, Google does not have the luxury of getting one thousand credible and serious applicants every week, so the process necessarily differs.
Maybe on paper, but in reality the old Bell system was a monopoly, profited more than a non-monopoly would, and on top of that got vast subsidies from the government. I wouldn't be surprised if the money spent for Apolo project was in the same ballpark as the Ma Bell subsidies.
It's my impression that quoted phrases dont work?
It's also in general less explicit than the previous one, 'looser' quering.

I personally hate that, is the same road google has taken the last months.
As a Google interviewer, I can tell you with certainty: The lunches are absolutely not a test.

However, "culture fit" can play a role in a different way: the actual interviewers (the ones who aren't taking you to lunch) will be given the opportunity to chime in on whether they think a candidate seems Googley, and this is often factored into the hire / no-hire decision.
So, it seems likely that culture fit was not a problem.

In general if you get one interview that results in a weak no-hire, you need a couple strong-hires to balance it out. If you get one with a confident no-hire, that's it.
I still see a lot of redundancy there (e.g. "class", "Math", "font"). Maybe a real LZ packer could shrink it even more...
Waste of my time. Little insight. Hyperbole.
Multiplayer Roulette in HTML5
That makes a lot of sense. I read that article too quickly and the quote sounded weird when I read it. But it would make perfect sense if he were talking about what he thinks other people think of physics.
I have been a lunch "interviewer" at Google. I was never asked to provide any feedback.
What are you referring to by "pop quizzes"?
Go right ahead....
Puzzles simply aren't in fashion for those industries.
great but i ended up sliding underneath the fire rings and the game never ended.
> For the structure and insulation of a PopUp-House building (floor, walls and ceiling) it costs about 200 €/m² including labour. To this cost must be added all the finishes: waterproofing, exterior finishes, interior finishes, electricity, plumbing, heating, etc.

What would be the total total cost then?
This. It allows for the general meaning to be conveyed (it's numeric, kind of multiplicative, uses @ symbol) without restricting it to a particular use case.
This allows other users to define their own meanings for @ in a variety of contexts.

We could even have a reverse mnemonic: AlTernate Multiplication
US risks national blackout from small-scale attack
"Merge tiles to flap."
Basically, this is genius. Thank you all for an interesting read... The #BB1000 is a big time KS reward for sure. To be fair, anyone who backed me on this reward can have what ever they like.... This is the start of my new world and you made it happen. #Cryptohub #BurgerHack #DiscoJoint

See you there!
Good, but it's not the same game. Any move places a two. The original places a two or a four, and only if you can make a combo during that move.

Good code though! :)
Google's hiring process seems very intense and extensive. Are there other tech companies that go to these lengths to find the right people? I completely understand their reasoning, but I have never applied at a company that had four interviews.
BTW if you're not a subscriber, then you can circumvent the paywall by searching for the article title on Google and visiting it from there.
From the article: “They target polio and go after it until it’s done — no one else can do that,” he said, referring to the global drive to eradicate the disease. “In effect, they have the power to lead where the market and the political will are insufficient.”

This is actively not true. The eradication of small pox was an international, government-led effort. That we have since abdicated that ability doesn't mean we "can't", just that we have chosen not to.
Beyond the stuff that is harder to substantiate, putting stuff in your comments that isn't related to the code you've written is incredibly unprofessional. I wouldn't do that at any of the jobs I've been in.

It's a shame there's a lack of professionalism in the industry.
...and this is bad because...?
No, you're absolutely wrong.
I will hardly have empathy for someone who does not pay whatever debts he/she explicity acquired for his own benefit.

Sorry, but your grandma is right. I understand that you probably were young and naive and made a choice that you had to regret later, I also understand the problems that you could've encountered during your carrer, but still a debt is a debt and you have to pay.

And, by the way, I'm 27.
When we finally come home late in the evening an realize we promised to have that new feature ready for the next day... There goes that evening...
Google recruiters give famously nonsensical feedback, sadly.

By comparison, Facebook recruiters give very specific feedback tired to reach specific interview hour.
> This kind of budget is within reach only of a wealthy nation with stable finances and a stable political system.

The LHC, yes, various probes, no. I read that the beachball Mars lander was $250m. Another Hubble could be built for far less than the original, because it is a known design.

These are well within the abilities of many billionaires and their corporations.
Great read, it is very interesting reading about the process you followed designing and building a hardware project from scratch.

Hopefully this encourages more people to have a shot at building something interesting, and write about it.

Thanks a lot.
From experience, I get really excited receiving small refactoring changes from newcomers, usually with the message "Hey this is my first time contributing to an open source project!"

I guess "small" is key. I agree a large refactoring would be troublesome to verify.
That's begging the question. The eng interview process is an artifact of how they choose candidates. So is the VP interview process.
I like the part where I don't have to wait 10-20 seconds for the page to load and render.
> We're engineers, we shouldn't accept a rotten status quo and "move on", we should fix it. We should strive for a better society

Why should we fight a battle against an entrenched enemy? Leaving and making a better company elsewhere is FAR more effective. This isn't like fighting a government where we are stuck because of geographic place.

One of the many reasons why people form startups is to get out from under business culture that they perceive as oppressive.

She would be better off founding a company that shares her values where she can push them from the top rather than fighting from underneath inside one that does not.
Matlab is a horror but one thing they do do well is .* and * for the two multiplies.
Netflix can already play on a non HDCP monitor so if someone wants to rip streams via hardware they already can, AND nearly everything you would watch on netflix has already been ripped or gasp is available at the library <-- worst offender, burn them.
How a 1980s gadget presaged a 21st-century investigation into Vermeer's art.
Hey, this Centarra sounds cool! [Click on "Colocation" link at top of web page.] 404 Not Found.
Because "do it once, never improve again" is a bizarre philosophy?
Could you explain more what you mean? I'm tempted to dismiss it, but I don't actually understand your point so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt until I do.
(I do not think open source means what you think it means.)

Some of the data may be products of military signal gathering, capabilities of which those agencies would be loathe to disclose.
In other words, these are NOT technology companies. They are regular product / service companies whose founders use their technology know-how to disrupt the marketplace.
With 1M pre-orders in China, the Nokia X could be a hit after all
Or even better, keep it to yourself?
Russia Seizes Gas Plant Near Crimea Border, Ukraine Says
The tough thing for us is that it seems we are not only against Google who quite possibly removed it with out proper cause. Or due diligence. But more than Google, we are having to work with another company who made the allegations. Google says they have to sign off on an agreement before we will be put back on the store.

And they haven't made themselves available to speak with us after our initial attempts.
> This picture shows the event horizon as having constant position in a free-falling frame. But the event horizon accelerates in all nearby inertial frames

The line represents the horizon at a single moment in the life of frame X, during which it has a specific position relative to X and is not accelerating relative to X.

> If you have a test particle moving with constant acceleration, ...

The test particles are defined as freely falling. The frame X is defined as inertial. No free particle can accelerate in an inertial frame (at least not measurably), including in relativity. Check out Taylor and Wheeler's quote at the bottom of the blog post: "Keys, coins, and coffee cups continue to move in straight lines with constant speed in such a local free-float frame." According to you, those things would not move at constant speed; rather they'd be "moving with constant acceleration".

> Well duh. There are no inertial frames that cross the horizon.

This again disagrees with Taylor and Wheeler's quote. They are clear that not only can an inertial frame cross a horizon, but also that frame is "a free-float frame like any other".

I didn't respond to everything you said because it hinges on the same disagreement. Before we could get further in the discussion you would need to accept Taylor and Wheeler there, or show how I'm misunderstanding the conflict between what you said and their quote that seems to explicitly disagree with you.
> For her personally, yes. As for the rest of society, there is a lot of up-side longer term.

Is there up-side? What's a realistic victory condition? Firing all the executive staff? Making her CEO?

She just spent a lot of political capital on a fight that has no real victory condition. At best, one person gets fired and some "sensitivity training" get instituted. Was that worth the political capital she just expended?

If she is really that dynamic an individual, I would rather she expend the energy making a company that shares her values rather than fighting one that does not. That's a real victory and real up-side.