skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I guess I'll end up with a standing/treadmill workstation because sitting is unatural, and now also twitching/slightly evasive windows because staring at a fixed spot is unnatural. I guess the next thing after that is an input device which you have to bounce on and off the screen, in order to mimic those primal hunter-gatherer spear throwing techniques.
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I agree with the other commentors that the samples must be non-random in some way. Italy and China being in the same bucket ought to give it away.

I'm certain this is just the proficiency of people who happened to take their test and therefore is completely meaningless.
What do the top 1% of software engineers do?
These are amazing and super nostalgia inducing. I wonder how long each one takes.
I suppose Singlish doesn't count as English then?
I can't think of any reason why its "best" for Apple to keep LEO happy. LEO don't pay them anything and actively increase the difficulty they face running their business as well as reduce the trust the people who do pay them (ie their customers) have for their products, actively hurting their business.

The big fear is that pissing off LEO will result in harmful regulation, and, while that is certainly possible, history has shown the technology moves forward regardless. Consider the US trying to prevent the spread of cryptography. They lost that battle[1], and any government who picks a new battle will eventually lose it, too.

1. The only injuries in that battle were US companies trying to sell software overseas because they were forced to include sub-par crypto.
I personally actually prefer your testv0 method. The way I understood it is a full stack testing that requires putting data into the DB and query them back.

What's wrong with that? It might be just a bit slower but for me that kind test is a lot of comprehensive. I have in the past has to slightly change the DB schema. Because of full stack test coverage were in place, full functional tests make all the bugs caused by schema change visible immediately.

For me, schema changes in DB cause some other operations to the DB failure is much difficult to detected and fixed if the issue is not visible to the developer immediately.

It might be slower (~a few minutes for ~300 full funtional test scripts run directly from the web-browser side) instead of seconds in your case, but I think the time is well spend for how quickly complex issues can be discovered and fixed.

BTW, I keep track of all DB operations (sql query) time as part of the json response. If they are > 1 milliseconds (SSD HD), I will flags them as potential issue in bugs DB for future investigation for SQL optimization.

It should be easy to add the SQL query response time to a performance DB to track and change over time/sw version.
I am really missing the copy link feature for my results and poll. When I was on the poll voting page I was just looking for this button to copy it and was suprised there wasn't any, you just get to used to that type of thing. But that's just small detail. I like how simple the ui is. Good work!
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True. But I am a college dropout with no experience in formal Computer Science and my professional developer skills are quite lacking. I am good at hacking data and statistics research. Not really what they are looking for, from what I can tell.
I hope this isn't too dumb of a question but what's the best way to start collecting location history? Will it run down my iphone battery.
If I had to guess, I'd put it down to whereabouts in France you live. If you're in the south, it is probably more advantageous to learn Spanish or Italian as your first foreign language. Likewise German in the east/southeast.

Whereas Japan is really only focusing on English with something like 8 years of mandatory education now.

I'd also call into question the methodology used in determining competence in this study. I've found that French people will tend to have much better conversational English as the languages are quite similiar, whereas Japanese people can be quite shy and hesitant. If this study is conducted as a written test however, you could easily find the Japanese taking the lead.
Most languages focus on productivity, because that is where the market it is. Safety critical systems are not dominated at all by productivity concerns, and a lot of resources are thrown at them to make sure they are perfect. In this case, the abstractions provided by any HLL just get in the way! Its like putting a cattle guard on front of a tank.

Anyways, you might want to read the stack overflow article on this subject:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/243387/which-languages-ar...
Yes you are right with regards to encryption. However, law enforcement agencies nowadays make sure to freeze devices like telephones in order to prevent them from locking/logging out. In case of (desktop) computers that are turned on, they make sure to splice the cables and hook them onto batteries in order to preserve their on state. I assume they are also aware of things like this self-destructing drive, but I am not sure what their attack vectors are. Most likely they just beat you until you tell them the code.

In case of traveling with sensitive data however this system is pretty good. Normally you'd be forced to give up the encryption passphrase, but when the data is destroyed there is nothing to give up.
My thoughts on the admission system is that there are not incredible incentives to improve it besides public outcry (which is powerful in it's own way, but not enough so to warrant a change overnight, perhaps not even over the course of 5-10 years). If a college overlooks a well-qualified student due to poor assessment, the two possible outcomes are that the student will go to another a school of similar caliber, or that they will end up going somewhere down a few levels of caliber. Although unfortunate, neither of these are too bad, and the hypothetical losses to the school and society are purely that, hypothetical. I believe that introducing an alternative to college that can offer a similar level of education without an application system (or with a more lenient application system) will help drive the incentives to where they need to be. For example, imagine Eileen is applying to Harvard and Harvard has the top program for her interest. We've measured that Harvard is the top program for her interest purely on the content that she would learn and the projects that she would complete. Unfortunately, Eileen gets rejected from Harvard, but now instead of going to UPenn, she signs up for online courses over the next four years that cover the exact same content and projects. Eileen goes on to invent the flexible solar-powered iPhone that reads minds and solves world hunger. She becomes Time person of the year. She donates a lot of money back to her online program. Future incredibly qualified applicants will want to follow in Eileen's footsteps and may sign up for online courses without considered Harvard at all.
So if a group of people wants to change the fundamental focus of this site from technology to animal evolution we're not allowed to say anything about it? Flagging doesn't do anything because too many people take your approach of just ignoring it (or worse down voting any concern as complaining).

There definitely seems to be a growing group of users who are looking to greatly expand the scope of this site and to me that dilutes the quality of the site.
There is discussion of this here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/instead-qe-fed-could-given-094...
How is the app overly intrusive?

I doubt average the average facebook user feels that way
Story of how I met Mark Cuban and got business advice
HN is for stories of intellectual interest. The community tends to be focused on programming and startups—with many exceptions, of course—but that doesn't mean the topics are. PG explained this when he changed the site name back in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html, and it has been at the top of HN's guidelines for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

> because what can one really say about a story about giraffe evolution?

One can always say nothing.
If you are Mike the Megavillain, then the protection this sort of set-up buys you is from Fred the FBI officer who raids your volcano lair for some other purpose, and bags your laptop as part of a general sweep for evidence without really knowing much about technology. By the time Charlie the CSI gets to it, there's nothing left to recover to reveal your even-more-nefarious plots.
It's interesting to me that Google is doing this. I was at Microsoft when they decided receptionists weren't a core competency they wanted. They kept tightening up when was - as an STE at the time, you could see that role was not going to make the cut. I was at MSN as an SDET when the last STEs were laid off and rehired as contractors. I was back at Microsoft when they decided SDETs weren't core; we were all converted to SDEs or hired back as STE contractors.
I'd say putting mobile devices behind carrier-grade NAT goes a long way.

> end to end connectivity is the internet.

It was definitely the original idea of the internet, but I'd say it no longer is the reality.
People want to access Google and Facebook. The vast majority of users don't need or want their device to be directly reachable from the internet but communicate through cloud services.
You're right that being well qualified for the job still matters. The goal of diversity initiatives isn't to change that.

Even when a company tries to do a good job (and there's lots of room for improvement at most places), hiring is still fairly random. You can lose good people because they happened to have a bad day or be matched up with an unfortunate interviewer, through cultural misunderstandings, and so on.

We can't know what top management really thinks in their heart of hearts, but it doesn't necessarily matter for most hires since they're not doing the interviews or making the hiring decisions. They built a system for that. It's the people who actually are making the decisions that you might have to worry about. The point of diversity training is to reach them and avoid losing good people through bias, screwups, and bad judgement.
They switched from angular to essentially a static site for SEO reasons. I wonder if they're batch generating the static pages or making them dynamically on request.
I was hoping the article would mention something about their neuroscience, too. From a control systems perspective, it's rather remarkable that they're able to stand upright. They have similar nerve conduction velocities as we do… but have much longer latencies[1]! It'd be interesting to do further studies and simulations of the control system requirements with such a long delay.

1. http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/6/1003.full
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"cultural bias minefield"

Most of the techniques discussed in the article's assessments are aimed at reducing the number of Asian-Americans and nerdy introverts. The promoters always have a load of code words, but the college leadership and fundraisers know what they're doing.

Since the equal opportunity lawsuits were ended -- at request of elite college insiders -- by Bush 41 in the 1990s, the rates of Asian admissions in elite colleges went down and hit a ceiling at 15%. The University of California is looking constantly for ways to duplicate the success of ethnic cleansing at elite private schools.
It's interesting to confront the data with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-sp...

European ranking according to EF EPI vs. percent of English speakers according to Wiki

(No particular reason for filtering it down to just the European table - I simply happened to start like so and only realized it after a while)

VERY HIGH PROFICIENCY
1. Sweden (86%)
2. Norway (nd)
3. Netherlands (90%)
4. Estonia (50%)
5. Denmark (86%)
6. Austria (73%)
7. Finland (70%)

HIGH PROFICIENCY
8. Poland (33%)
9. Hungary (20%)
10. Slovenia (59%)
11. Belgium (59%)
14. Germany (64%)
15. Latvia (46%)
16. Switzerland (61%)
17. Portugal (27%)

MODERATE PROFICIENCY
18. Slovakia (26%)
20. Czech Republic (27%)
[...]

Clear anomalies are the post-communist countries such as Poland and Hungary. Personally I was surprised seeing my home country (Poland) rank that high. Good command of English is relatively rare, especially among older generations who typically did not learn English at school, and up to this day it is taught badly (in my opinion).
It's probably just me, but when I have one page website I like to see the product immediately. Have you thought about showing one of the shirts above the fold -- no need to scroll or click call to action?
Seems to make sense to separate the life science side from "normal" agilent side of biz. Life science have completely different set of customers, market need, etc. Also the time for life science, diagnostic type ROI is probably different than the normal scope/logic analyzer type ROI.
You missed the outrage when Facebook forced users to switch to Messager: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/08/facebook-messenger-pr...
True but it puts paid to this ridiculous idea that transferring money via Bitcoin is somehow more convenient than regular banking.
Most of the touch-screen demos I've seen seem to have all discovered inertial scrolling. I think it's almost inevitable that, once you have a tactile interface, the expectations of real-world behaviors when interacting come out. Most of the pre-iphone interfaces all focused on being menu-driven with buttons or scrolling with mice, so that natural discovery couldn't occur.
Yes, totally agree. Most of the Singaporeans I know speak English as their first language. Their standard of written English is arguably higher than that of Britain due to their strict education system.
Beg to differ, but I couldn't get through "Mindfulness ...". To me, it was going on and on without getting anywhere.
Part of the strategy is to emphasize the comparison to on demand movie rentals which get you 2 hours for $4.99.
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So, you're saying that a bank can leverage a $100 deposit to make a $9900 loan, so long as it can borrow the $9900 from another bank in the event that the person it has made the loan to wants to actually withdraw the $9900.
I went to CMU (2007), and I found campus life incredibly rich. I spent some time at GT previous to that, and I would say it was much more diverse than anything GT could have provided to me. What do you find is lacking?
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That is surely why they have a $5 option, but why 4 hours of gameplay vs 1 day? To make the 7-day rental look like a great deal.
VR is a medium where I could see voice commands and visual programming actually having an impact. I would love to see a 3D version of UE4 Blueprints or Scratch.
"Major internal refactoring to begin to make part of OpenSSH usable as a library. So far the wire parsing, key handling and KRL code has been refactored. Please note that we do not consider the API stable yet, nor do we offer the library in separable form."

This is intriguing. I would certainly like to know more about what is happening with this.
There's a problem with all of this-- Verizon's entire Fiber-to-the-home networks are classified as Title II, Common Carriage, telecommunications service. -- Already.

Verizon did this to get the state-based utility rights of way as well as charge the construction budgets to phone customers -- especially those using the copper wires and who may never get upgraded.

We filed comments at the FCC about this.

http://newnetworks.com/fcctitleiiletter/

Shame they never told the FCC or the courts or the public this fact-- and continues to claim Title II harms investment when it's a cash machine for Verizon today-- at the customers' expense.

From the Verizon New Jersey's FiOS cable TV franchise agreement, renewed this year, 2014. -- All of the hundreds of franchises uses similar if not identical language.

"Verizon NJ has been upgrading its telecommunications facilities in large portions of its telecommunications service territory so that cable television services may be provided over these facilities. This upgrade consists of deploying fiber optic facilities directly to the subscriber premises. The construction of Verizon NJ's fiber-to-the-premises FTTP network (the FTTP network) is being performed under the authority of Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 and under the appropriate state telecommunications authority granted to Verizon NJ by the Board and under chapters 3 and 17 of the Department of Public Utilities Act of 1948. The FTTP network uses fiber optic cable and optical electronics to directly link homes to the Verizon NJ networks.

"Pursuant to the NJSA 45:5A-15, telecommunication service providers currently authorized to provide service in New Jersey do not require approval to upgrade their facilities for the provision of cable television service.

"As such any construction being performed in the public rights of way is being undertaken pursuant to Verizon NJ authority as a telecommunication service provider."
The article isn't that clear, but mocking out the backend to test the frontend faster is a fairly common move. It lets you do more frontend tests in less time. Of course, you still have to do testing with a real database.
Why I decided to finally give up on Google
Timelapse video of a sunspot
Do you have any suggestions or DIY ways to get the nutritional values? I'd be glad to take them to a lab or ship them as long as it wasn't crazy expensive. I noted what nutrients I used ( Maxigrow veg ) but I have no idea how to get the nutritional values (such as vitamins).
Yeah that's a fair way of looking at it.
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Great example of the cynical HN echo chamber.

Why would anyone... whatever follows exemplifies how out of touch HN readers are with normal people. No wonder pg stopped posting.
Remember that a lot of 'standard' movements aren't fully controlled from the brain. Instead, the brain generators modulating signals to structures/systems lower in the spinal - ie increasing or decreasing your rate of walking. There's lots of evidence of these 'Central Pattern Generators' being located below the brain - which would reduce signal lag.

For a somewhat disturbing example of this, here's a 'decerberated' cat on a treadmill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPiLLplofYw

That said, the fact that any vertebrae (even our selves) are able to move and react so well is pretty amazing, given that our own neural lag is in the ~100ms range. It's really a testament to the robustment of the multi-tier control that we (animals in general.. but especially large animals) have evolved.
it's a hack because web-font support still sucks in many browsers. Sadly it makes things much worse in firefox..

It shall smooth out the edges which sometimes are aliased
>This is not how banking works

This is precisely how banking works, at least in countries that have fractional reserve requirements.

>If that were true, the amount of money in circulation would be infinite, because loans also end up as deposits.

Nope. It would only be infinite if the reserve requirement were 0%. Look at the chart I linked to. This goes on all day, every day at banks around the world. New money is created through credit, subject to the limitations imposed by each country's reserve requirements.
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Exactly. Practitioners of Zen Buddhism believe that enlightenment is transmitted from one who is enlightened to one who is not. With only very rare exceptions, it requires an authority to transmit. People who think they're practicing Zen without a trained instructor are just deluding themselves.
The (thought) experiment in quantum mechanics that demonstrates that light is neither a (classical) particle or a wave is the double slit experiment, careful analysis of the experiment demonstrates that the observation is neither consistent with the behavior of a classical particle or classical (say water) wave. Instead the state of the system (in the Copenhagen interpretation) is described by a probability amplitude ψ (if it is a "pure" state) or more generally by a "density matrix" ρ and there is a semi-rigorous prescription of how to translate classical notions like position, momentum and energy into "observables" of the system. Then the expectation value for an observable A of the system in a particular state ρ, is given by Trace(ρA). If you have taken a course in linear algebra then this is the same trace you have met there and there are simple quantum mechanical systems that can be described by two by two matrices (spin of electron going through a sequence of inhomogenous magnetic fields). Once you have introduced probability amplitudes you can reason about them as if they were classical particles within certain limits you find such reasoning in the wikipedia article on the double slit experiment for example.

The crucial idea behind all of this is "quantization", physicists have worked out a way of obtaining quantum systems from classical system and in particular a mapping of familiar observables to quantum mechanical observables.

One insight of Feynman was that this can be done via the so Lagrangian formulation of classical physics. It postulates that the future state of a system can be predicted from the current state of the system by assigning to each possible state a so called Lagrange density. Given two possible states of the system and a path in state space between them, integrating the Lagrange density along that path gives an "action" for that possibility, the theory postulates that the path with the minimal action is chosen. With appropriate choices of Lagrange density this correctly predicts the behavior of all classical mechanical systems, and also Maxwells equations. Feynman instead postulated that to obtain the probability amplitude for a system to transition between two states one had to sum over all possible paths in the classical state space weighted with exp(iS/2πh) where the action S is the result of integrating the Lagrangian density along that path and h is Planck's constant. Then by analogy with a result of 19th century analysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_steepest_descent) the sum will be dominated by contributions close to the critical (classical) path, so that for S much larger than h (which is true for classical mechanics) we recover the original Lagrangian formulation.

So to summarize Physicists use the intuition gained from classical physical systems to study quantum mechanical systems, but not in the naive way of "light is both a particle and wave", which at best is misleading. What constitutes a quantum system is largely a question of length or energy scales. The method of path integral quantization suggests a very concrete way of how to quantize a classical physical system.
Also when the machines can do everything we can do, one of the few things which will have value is art.
Brazil uses an obsolete, inauditable, and closed-source voting machine. The government keep civil society away from the machine for testing, and we don't know if our vote is real or just a phony.
It applies to P2P loans in the macro sense. The proceeds from the p2p loan will be deposited in a bank somewhere, and then X% of that deposit can be lent out by the bank, and the cycle continues.
> GSM Starvation Period – You can specify a period of time in hours that if the Drive cannot access a GSM service within this time period then the Drive will self-destruct. This protects against the removal of the GSM service in an attempt to circumvent the security features of the Drive.

you forgot one, and it makes jamming more difficult.