skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have specified, after each interview segment, I received a, "I received positive feedback from your interviewers, let's now schedule...", email.

But still, I think your point is valid. Thank you for your kind response.
We are talking about the people who trade Ak-47 for blood diamonds in Africa despite a ban.
Thanks for the great tool.

First I thought "Damn, that's no news. I use it for ages ...", but some things are worth to be reminded of from time to time.
From Palchohol's FAQ, "5. How is it made? If we told you, we'd have to shoot you. We are in the process of patenting it and it is currently patent pending."

So, guess I'll just wait to read the patent then.

This product is way too "bro" for me. It's like Soylent for Jocks.
> But what really bothers me is that you got a reply from a no-reply address. What the actual fuck. You were there for an on-site interview, this is not the situation where you send people automated no-reply-click-this-link mails.

Yah. Three years ago, When I was fresh out of school, I interviewed at a very popular startup. The interview went reasonably well, with the team lead asking me questions like when I would be able to join and so on. I had a great rapport with their HR guy too. It was kind of harsh to casually get a reject from a automated no reply email.

Two years later. The same guy, the lead of the team randomly emails me telling me I have a "great profile" and if I would like to grab coffee with him. I was amused to find out when I met him in person that he had no idea that I had come there previously. And all the assorted bullshit that went through. To be frank, I never seriously considered the offer the second time around. (I have a policy of never trying the fish if there is a cockroach running around in the floor of the restaurant. )

It is not fucking hard to send a personal email to someone who came all the way for face time with your company. In fact, it says a lot about your company's culture and attention to the little things.
As someone who's married and somehow managed to avoid ever having to buy an engagement ring, to any fellow cheapskates I highly recommend the use of some more diplomatic version of the expression "what are you, some kind of prostitute?".

If somebody's love is conditional on the amount of money you spend on them then I'd argue that's not the kind of love that leads to a long, satisfying relationship.
I agree the no-reply@company.com was weird. Btw, I'm not sure if it was a cultural fit, because I interviewed with 8 people up until the meeting with the head of engineering, and all gave me the thumbs up.

Maybe I was just not prepared enough for my conversation with the head of engineering. Still though, I would love to know why.

Thank you for your advice, I feel that's really all I can do. Still, it's hard to not let this get to me.
Theres one thing that I do not understand - why not download the full revocation list?
And it would work better with integers. Or are we claiming now it was a good decision to force all numbers to be floats because look how awesome node is?
It has been part of my developer toolkit for a year and I absolutely love it! I hope we can see OAuth2 auth sometime soon :)
I'm familiar with the history of the Diamond Ring in the United States - but what sustains it is not De Beers marketing, but the fact that Diamonds actually serve a useful purpose, despite their apparent flawed (no pun intended) properties.
Also a Mac app when the original app works across platforms
In the CS department, they do teach a limited subset of MIPS with a Java simulator. But the Engineering labs switched from m68k to ARM about two years ago despite the latter having a much more complex instruction set because of a large hardware donation. :(
In 2012, Google cut their prices on November 26th, just before Amazon's re:Invent conference. Amazon cut their prices on the 28th, and then Google cut theirs again on the 29th. This year, Google announced their price cut right before Amazon's AWS Summit, which is where Amazon announced their price cut.

A lot of the reporting of this is Google driving the price cuts, with Amazon being forced to react to Google's lowered prices; however, Amazon's major price cuts have been part of coordinated events: you don't "suddenly react" by dropping a price during a planned keynote at a long-before scheduled event.

Instead, I find it much more likely that Google keeps getting rumors of these price cuts, and decides to beat out Amazon by announcing a day early to scoop the attention; I am not certain I agree with the morals of such action (without more public disclosure), but it definitely seems to be working for them :/.

I'd thereby argue that Google just wants it to look like they are trying to fight a massive price war, but in fact they are constantly reacting to Amazon's price drops, and Amazon is actually the leader in determining what the price of this product should be; at best, Google is just opting to be "just slightly lower".
Thanks for the summary, but I didn't exactly see that he was saying JavaScript is shit so much as that it was imperfect (10 days, etc.) but that didn't even matter.
Salon is well known for intentional smear pieces (against Rand and others)

EDIT: Not that I want to draw attention to hackery, but here is another example: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/19/ayn_rand_is_for_children/
While I have issues with a lot of services Google provides I think Chrome is safe to use here. I don't think they're capturing your communication using Chrome (you could easily find out using Wireshark). They do in many other ways, though.
Fighting Tax Fraud, Slovakia institutes Lottery to Collect Receipts
"Many students struggle with the idea of recursion..."

I still remember one of the worst bugs I'd ever introduced (in terms of pain to me). I was maybe 2-3 years out of my bachelors, and I thought recursion was so nifty that I'd use it where ever I could. I was coding C++, at the time. And, I got the dreaded 2am call after all of the production servers went down hard. Like terminate and corrupt data hard.

Lesson learned: it's good to know recursion, but it's also good to know maximum stack sizes.
Scala is a hideous programming language designed in the egocentric world of academical masturbators.
Since there are already a bunch of open source "push" servers (Socket.io, Faye, Firehose, etc), I assumed the main draw of Poxa would be to use as a substitution for the official Pusher cloud service depending on deployment scenarios.

Of course, someone could certainly use Poxa without any intention of ever using Pusher.com. The protocol features & client libraries are very nice.
Without having zero (or close to zero) resale value, there is a risk that proposee is incented to leave the marriage with the ring and capture the value. If there is no value, then there is no incentive to leave. The incentive for the proposer is that they can't afford to keep purchasing rings.
Thanks for your effort; the tool is fantastic! We use it every day for working with API's.
I just got an insight upon reading this. Patents stand to incentivize the research and development, the failures that precede innovations. On the other hand, they hinder research and development that builds on existing technology.

A good middle-ground would be patents being applicable only on rights to create _products_ based on a technology. Rights for any products based on a derivative patent belong solely to that patent, with nothing going towards the 'parent' patent.

This encourages the incremental innovation, as well as pushing the original inventor to continue to improve on their own patent.

For example, let's imagine someone patented a glass bottle as a container for ketchup. Any glass ketchup bottle makers pay that person. A person examines that glass bottle, observes that breakage of glass is a problem, and patents a plastic ketchup bottle. All plastic bottle makers buy their rights from this person. Glass bottle makers (if any) continue to pay the original patent owner for their rights. The glass bottle person, improves upon the plastic bottle, and gets a patent for a squeezable plastic ketchup bottle...You get the idea.

Discuss.
>Calculus is actually important for Computer Science, it's actually important for everything

This.

If you take a look at the MIT course "Mathematics for Computer Science"[1] you'll see that the only prerequisite for learning the math for cs is ... calculus!

[1]http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
An alternative is to use some email server from a host/domain registrar/google apps/zoho/etc as secondary MX server. It saves you from having to maintain a second server, and you still get 99% of your messages through your primary server.

I had a similar setup for a while, and it was interesting to see that some messages (spam, mostly) picked the secondary MX by default. Spam servers also seemed to cache the (secondary) MX for much longer than the TTL.
To my knowledge, stock options are usually granted as ISO which have the 90 day cap. If they get converted to NSO, the cap can be longer but tax treatment is different.
Website is down - From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder
If you have to play some abstract signaling game rather than trusting your partner implicitly, you shouldn't be marrying the person.
They were Sony robots weren't they?
This is basically what I came here to write. With modern wet/dry shavers, you end up quite smooth, which I didn't think was possible with an electric razor. Sometimes I use a normal razor for variety (or the electric razor needs to be charged), and it doesn't do any better.
"But what really bothers me is that you got a reply from a no-reply address."

That would have bothered me too. But it could have been even worse. I've read plenty of accounts of how job candidates didn't get any reply at all after having interviewed for a position. Being busy doesn't exempt a company from the obligation to exercise common decency.
There have been many significant wars in the last few decades, including many proxy battles between nuclear powers. So I'd say your thesis is disproven right now without waiting.
As an investor and/or equity holder, wouldn't you rather see a startup reinvest their profits into their business? Retained earnings are not meant to be paid out as dividends if they can significantly increase shareholder value. This is even more true for startups where you are seeking a "hockey stick growth" model. Especially when you consider what is more important at a given time: profit, revenue, users, market share, uniques, etc. I would argue that it's important for a startup to be transparent around all these issues and help investors understand where you are at. It's unfortunate that startups can only rely on financing rounds to get updated valuations of their business. Coming up with internal valuations based on arbitrary multiples that are not validated by investors could be a slippery slope and thus are not worth considering.
Online dating website Zoosk files for IPO of up to $100 million
Also I'm not sure how you can mention information theory in the context of programming and not mention PCM or the Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem...
They were doing something similar in Taiwan when I lived there 13 years ago. Each receipt had a lottery number on it, and every month or two there'd be a drawing of prizes. There was no need for a citizen to "register" their receipts... the onus was on the business owner. Making the receipt a lottery ticket caused ordinary citizens to expect and demand a legitimate receipt from each business, so the business couldn't skirt the taxes.
I was a TA for that course last semester. I think the actual reason calculus is a prerequisite is just so that students will have some mathematical maturity beforehand. We didn't really teach any concepts that actually used calculus (that I remember).

That said, I totally agree that calculus is good to know for a CS student.
I've wondered if a similar process could produce "dehydrated water". Powdered water that could be liberated by adding a small amount of some catalyst could be better for transportation since it wouldn't slosh around in a storage tank.
Religious people, even if not strict, have this reaction always. I don't see this clashing with religion, but 'they' do. Then again, i'm not religious although I was raised with the bible at home and in school and know it by heart.
Reference: http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-b...
Well, if you look at them from very far and keep your ears closed they kind of resemble birds. And they do resemble birds more than other stuff in the air. I think that analogy probably will hold up; the eventual strong AI will resemble a brain a complexity and will have a lot of things in common, but it will not be the same.
Under atmospheric pressure, ethanol melts at -114C. One way to "powderize" it is to make it into an ester, which in this case would be an ethyl ester[1,2]. Hydrolysis of the ester will occur under acidic conditions which would be brought about by dissolution of carbonic acid. The latter decomposes in acidic conditions to form CO2 and 2 protons. Ester hydrolysis in acidic conditions is reversible. This would explain why they claim their product to contain ~50% ethanol by weight: they need a lot so that the equilibrium concentration is at around 5%.

Assuming my guessing is correct, the innovation here is in the ester. They must have used a "safe, food grade" carboxylic acid to pass certifications. All the powder contains is probably:

- Food dye

- Flavor

- Carbonic acid

- Some ethyl ester

EDIT: A human stomach is also acidic. Ester hydrolysis in alkaline conditions isn't reversible (saponification). If our stomach were alkaline, drinking Palcohol would be very dangerous. The alcohol content in the stomach would skyrocket even if it were low in the drink.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester
[2]: http://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/esters/hydrolysis.ht...
Exactly. I'd like to see 'new' email protocol built built on non-optional foundations. When we use http over SSL/TLS, browser either shows padlock icon or does not show padlock icon. While implementation has its occasional flaws and bugs, specification does have defined on/off state, not many optional layers in between.

We can make any communication channel secure, by adding layers of encryption, no problem with that. But unless it is defined deep down as a part of the standard, it all ends with no security at all and no means to be sure what happened with the message along the way.

Having headers exposed is one of the reasons why I raised initial concern. It is part of the specification and unlikely to go away by building on top of the standard.
But in cloud 3.0 we will may get customer support.
Ooo. Thanks for the link.
Can't the replay attack mentioned in the article be mitigated by using nonces? Why doesn't anyone do this? I'm genuinely confused by this.
Well... That definition keeps changing. For passed definitions we passed human-level a few times. And for some tasks we did or will pass it soon. So what is your definition of 'human-level' intelligence? Don't copy wikipedia; make one up in strict language (don't say consciousness please). For what a lot people make/made up we passed.
Our team's been using this for about 6 months as a regular part of our workflow. I now lean on it heavily while developing JSON APIs
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April 20, 2014
Google's API console is lightyears behind the AWS console. Similarly for features, documentation,support forums and stability. Example re stability: The cloud storage browser fails to display stuff stored in it regularly with backend errors.

So the only way they can compete right now is on price.
Not unlike the VCs who reject applicants, you may have been great, but others may have been more great.

Further, there might have been non-technical issues at play which are harder to understand/reason about, such as communication issues, confidence issues (both over and under confident), or issues with a perception about how much you cared about their particular product.

All of the latter elements are fuzzy and not worth thinking too deeply about, if you get rejected for those, then you are lucky you didn't end up working there, as it would not have been a good fit for either of you.

I have heard people come out of interviews with negatives as fickle as "they didn't make eye contact."

This doesn't mean that the person was rejected for that reason, but if you are adding up all the reasons not to hire someone, and the sentiment was decidedly negative, then it's going to mean the company will not make the investment in hiring that person.
"Building Paper" by Facebook Developers
Great tool we use during development of our REST APIs. Liking the collections for testing regressions too.
Customer support is expensive, as a proportion of fees. That said, I'd be happy to pay per support ticket (not prompted by a fault).
"It needs to have little to no resale value."

I don't think that is true. It is a common misconception among the general population that diamond rings are "valuable" and in times of hardship they could perhaps be sold to recoup their original value.
Hey, not at all. It's a true pleasure to meet someone who understands the appeal of loose gemstones (far and away the most common reaction I get when showing them off is "but what good are those?"... the second most common is "they look fake").
Most new circuits are rated 15A and up. Older residential installations still have tons of 10As. I just had a new service put in, before that everything was 10A except for the a couple in my basement workshop.
Hard to say. Some places need 3 x 1 hr to figure out if a person has the chops. Other places can just figure it out. IMHO, it does seem unnecessary and could point to the area of difficulty, but some places are just goofy that way. For sure the bottom line is: Use the experience to improve yourself, shake off the negativity and move on.
Why is the symbol '|' used for or in pattern matching, not '||'? If '|' is used for bitwise or elsewhere in the language then this might lead to confusion.
Not free, but high quality and much cheaper than shutterstock etc: http://yaymicro.com/view.action
Perhaps the worst software I have ever used.
app engine is too complicated.let's take Heroku.Heroku is easy,i build my app in whatever language,then push it through git. No sdk to download or anthing else to do,and it basically supports any language I want.

Now let's take app engine:I have to download a sdk,write my app the way google wants me to,use this or that ide...and what if I want to use language X that is not supported? i cant.

Heroku is pragmatic because it relies on simple concepts like bash scripts and git.that's all,I dont have to download python or java just to push something in the cloud.

AppEngine has interesting addons though,but i just dont want to host my code on appengine just to use them. And then there is the lockin stuff.Unless the saas product is extremely complicated and impossible to "self" host, I would not rely on any technology i cant migrate to my own servers or another cloud, especially when it comes to data,I'd never ever use a appengine only database.

Google got it 100% wrong.
In my experience, I've seen a lot of students entering CS not comfortable with even basic arithmetic and algebra, despite it not being mentioned in any of the linked responses.

As for calculus, I think its importance is overrated - unless you are specifically doing some numerical computation that requires it.
Privacy and Security on the Internet circa 2014
Why don't more intelligent people realize that the whole expensive engagement ring tradition stupid and ostentatious? I understand the value in signaling to others that you're married, but no need to spend more than 20$ to do that.

My parents went with simple silver (colored?) bands. I'll do the same or just nothing at all. My girlfriend couldn't care less about a ring and doesn't want a formal wedding either... I'd have a hard time being with anyone who felt the need to constantly show off their status with a shiny rock on their hand.
Rapidly analyzing us healthcare data
I think your average age for HN is off by 5-6 years. Atleast that is my impression from the comment quality and the recent poll:

Age Votes
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0-10 65
11-15 42
16-20 552
21-25 2030
26-30 2400
31-35 1532
36-40 735
41-45 359
46-50 148
51-55 84
56-60 44
61+ 52

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058598
California for 16 years - I've been in a lot of houses, old and new, but I've never seen an electric kettle. Lots of stove top kettles though, some with whistles, some without. Also, In Canada (British Columbia) I've seen a few in hotel rooms, but never seen them in houses. Stove Top kettles are very popular there though, particularly with older homes.
I use the inverted method, which is pictured in the first photo. It helps you get all the oils, which float to the top.
Opensource Backend as a Servicce: BaaSBox
I've always heard the opposite of what this article is saying; that being, it is Amazon who is driving the prices low so that they can get the biggest market share while at the same time making the profit margins look unattractive to new entrants.
The OpenStack Icehouse release: activity and organizations (stats)
I'd assume that when the sizes grow even further then the CVD diamonds will start be be intentionally colored in different colors.
> I have heard people come out of interviews with negatives as fickle as "they didn't make eye contact."

Lack of eye contact is often considered to be a trait of poor communication. Do you mean to suggest that poor communication is not a valid reason for choosing not to hire someone?
It was probably inherited from ML.
Hacker News is turning out to be the RSS feed for Wired's stupid articles and their link bait titles. I've even seen mods change the titles they're so "Upworthy" like. There hasn't been a day there haven't been one or two Wired articles on the front page and I think if they're not gaming it, something I wouldn't put past someone writing obnoxious titles like this, well then maybe we just need a weight against these "Astounding!" Wired articles.

Please just go to http://www.wired.com/ and see one gross and manipulative title after another:

"The Coolest Spaceships Ever Built, Compared by Size" Well I'll only read it if they're the coolest EVER!

"Americans Aren't Ready for the Future Google and Amazon Want to Build" I'm sure they used a scientific poll.

"Why the Console Wars Won't Be Anything Like You Expect" Right, you knew just what I was expecting.

"The Craziest, Coolest Mustangs That Never Were" So crazy, so cool, who would have known?

"Free iPhone 5s Deal Proves Apple Isn't So Special" See there you go, proof Apple isn't special.

Seriously, Wired is shit content. It's a cesspool. Yet every day it's on the HN home page. One obnoxious article after another. Usually HN is a bellwether for what will end up on techmeme or the general tech press the next day, but you think you're going to see these shit articles from Wired on techmeme or the tech page of the New York Times? How often is tptacek leaving amazing comments on these stupid Wired posts. Like never.
Here's a library in Haskell if you are inclined to do this with an embedded domain-specific language instead:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/http-test
Right, that makes sense. I'm totally okay with strongly-worded debate over Rand's philosophy; she was (intentionally) inflammatory in a lot of cases. But Salon's piece was ... well ... so much of a strawman that I really didn't understand how the author could characterise Rand's work in that way.
It could even be someone accidentally tapping the down arrow while scrolling on a phone.
Nothing really fancy like other people here. I'm making an admin template based on bootstrap. It's my first attempt at it and I plan to sell it on wrapbootstrap/themeforest (if they find it good enough for their marketplace).

http://i.imgur.com/Q12ACJu.png

http://i.imgur.com/7gqyQiN.png

http://i.imgur.com/sEVu6lG.png