skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of those code tests are scam. It's a psychological tool used by companies to improve their bargaining position vis a vis employees. It's called the IKEA-effect -- people like IKEA furniture more because they had to assemble it themselves. Programmers become more attracted to job opportunities if they have to work for it.

I've been asked to write constraint solvers for hexagonal Graeco-Latin squares which I did complete. It took me days, I got an optimal solution and was the only candidate able to do so. Still didn't get the job.

My current strategy is to only agree to solve puzzles if the recruiter can tell me how many of my potential coworkers solved what puzzles when they were hired. If it turns out most of them solved very challenging ai or dynamic programming problems, then I could jump through almost any hoops to get the job. Because working with people smarter then you is just invaluable.

If they aren't able to divulge such information, or most of the employees didn't solve any puzzles at all, I would be weary.
I made my own wrapper as well: http://code.ivysaur.me/atticinst.html

Although upon reading yours, it looks they perform somewhat different tasks.
tl;dr Greatfire.org hosted content mirrors on edgecastcdn.net , China bans *.edgecastcdn.net altogether.
This is awesome, as someone going through the interview process this will be my go-to for reviewing.

Also, thanks for coming to HackSC! Your talk was great and I think it really inspired a lot of people who were new to the hackathon scene.
Probably to spread bandwidth requirements over time?

This is probably the worst first world problem I have ever heard, if you wanted it so badly you'd flash your ROM...
Beauty? I don't see any of that... unless these are sold at Claire's (yes, I do have daughters and I don't allow them in that junkyard).
Yeah, that can be one use case, that I haven't think about !

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Please just try it out, and give me feedback !
Thanks !
ALAC was pure NIH, since FLAC existed before it. And it wasn't even open until much later. Anyway, it's not any excuse for Apple not to support FLAC. It's irrelevant to this subject really.
Almost the entire team are Bitcoin core contributors.

They probably didn't need investment. Anyone who contributed to the core probably mined alot in the early days and therefore has a stash of bitcoins.

However being smart they decided to risk someone elses money.
> You can view something like 20 stories a month

10 stories a month. Also, even though you may only post one or two as you say from these sites, others do the same adding to that total E.G. wsj.com Which doesn't allow viewing at all unless you browse in from a search engine or subscribe.
Who would be crazy enough to want to work on release engineering?

:-)
Yes, and this article itself has been blocked too.
You are correct, we're screwed, but that doesn't mean the countries in the world that don't even have one doctor for every 1000 people (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS) can't benefit massively from this.
Users Do the Damnedest Things
Yes, Cormen thinks that Algorithms Unlocked is actually a much better book for the crowd that would likely use this content. I put more links in this article at the end, with recommendations from someone who runs an Algorithms study group for mostly self-taught programmers:
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/algor...

The crypto one has a lot of well done videos by Brit Cruise, I've been going through that one personally myself. The info theory is also done by Brit and likely just as cool. There is no programming in either of those, though you can see how they programmed a few visualizations.
Tesseract-ocr – An OCR Engine That Was Developed at HP Labs
Out of curiosity, how well would these model work on computer generated graphics (say Skyrim)?

My gut feeling says it will work but I am curious if the model need to be trained separately for those.
Oh, gigabit wifi at that. Damn,t his looks like a good deal.
Do you live in New York? The subway wifi's not that impossible, though it's a slight hassle.
Apparently Greatfire.org think this caused "significant economic loss as many businesses will be impacted".

I think this only cause problems for edgecast customers, and China doesn't give the slightest fuck.

And for those people who does want to see those "collateral freedom" mirrored content, they already have their own private circumventing methods.
How helpful of them. Maybe they can throw a mirror up on Akamai and CloudFlare next.
The Australian equivalent of Digital Ocean, Binary Lane[1] has "BYO ISO" support for FreeBSD VMs - it is not in the list of easy installs, but there is detailed documentation[2] in their support area on how to install it, and they host a local mirror of the FreeBSD install ISO.

Their features and prices are very competitive with Digital Ocean, which is a nice change for an Australian ISP.

[1] http://www.binarylane.com.au
[2] https://www.binarylane.com.au/support/solutions/articles/100...
>> "This marks the largest single donation to the Foundation since its inception almost 15 years ago"

Al though it is awesome that they have received this donation but it is such a shame it took 15 years to get a $1M donation for such a great work they are doing.. and on the other side silly small apps get millions of funding which go in total waste and those apps might be using FreeBSD for their production servers or development

Its nice to see FreeBSD getting appreciated
OpenWorm Building Life Cell by Cell
Oh man, this is gold. Seconded, I've gotta see a video.
> Then there's the ongoing maintenance burden, of dealing with upstream changes, local bugfixes, and just plain integration with the rest of the QuickTime stack.

Yes, and Apple perfectly did all that when it came to their own ALAC, as you already mentioned. Not FLAC though. NIH I guess. Or just "screw your customer". Such serious company like Apple being unable to support FLAC with QA and upstream updates? I don't believe that. They just don't want to. And not because it's costly (it's nothing for them), and not because they are scared of legal threats (there are none - it's used in tons of places just fine). It's just Apple being Apple the way I see it.
Disappointing he wouldn't even offer a simple apology when talking on the phone. Perhaps afraid of getting sued, but really?
I've always worn hearing aids, with ear moulds. They're worn all the time, except for sleep. Other deaf people I know, wear them while sleeping for some odd reason. I couldn't fathom to wear anything while sleeping!

They've never made my ears bleed, nor anyone else I know.

Maybe troops should wear properly fitted moulds :)
In this case, you're wrong. This team is easily the highest IQ concentration in Bitcoin history.

No other group comes close; in fact, I would have said their only possible weakness was that they might have been too nerdy to raise a round. Luckily, I don't know shit about their fundraising skills. This is easily the most bullish news Bitcoin has had in years, in my opinion. Great team, fantastic tech and theoretical track record, and a technology that will build Bitcoin value and usefulness. What's not to like?
Not all insider information, just insider information about large pending trades.
Yes. But I think it could be way sooner than most of Chinese can be aware of. Consensus among average people in China seems in favor of Xi now. Someone is just picking up the organization's old-fashion tricks and copying them and hoping all of them work as expected since those are all that they know. When the energy begins to loose, everything could turn up-side-down shortly. It has not started yet. Everybody needs a huge stable market now. Perhaps leader can get what he wants in the end.
Normally I don't like jumping on bandwagons without due diligence, but there are just so many competitors that aren't being accused of being huge douches. I think I'll give Lyft a shot.
I don't think Google has poor motives at all. This is the way the wind is blowing. Google is almost certainly right to move to LLVM and you'd be far better situated to comment than I am.

Personally, I see something as big as Chrome moving to LLVM as a late-stage indicator of the mass adoption of the platform. I'm young, as you've pointed out, and I've never worked for Google, but I'd bet that this decision wasn't made lightly, and it certainly wasn't made early in the lifetime of clang/LLVM.

The people truly at fault for the things I fear, should they come to pass at all, are not the late adopters like Google, but the innovators who decided to put their energy into LLVM, knowing full well how dangerous it could be.

I don't and didn't mean to imply that Google is going to stop contributing, or that Google never has.

I do think that Google's decisions to contribute upstream are based on business sense, as opposed to morality, and I think that should the day come that it makes business sense for Google to not contribute back, or to release a non-free fork, it'll do that. As others in this subthread have pointed out, Apple has already distributed non-free LLVM modules.

The concern I have is that this is possible with LLVM, and it was not possible with GCC. When Apple wrote a non-free Objective-C frontend for GCC, they liberated it because the Free Software Foundation successfully enforced the GPL. There is no legal mechanism to force corporations to contribute back to LLVM, so they do it of their own goodwill, if they do it at all.

I think this is dangerous because it can lead to a world where there are no good free compilers. The people who wrote LLVM, the people who championed it early on and contributed to it, they could have realized this too, and they did nothing to stop it. I truly hope they acted the way they did because I am egregiously wrong, and that nothing I'm afraid of will ever happen.

To put things in perspective, GCC had one fork in its history already. I think that if it was forked again, redesigned extensively to make it easier to get parse trees and add modules and so on, with the legal requirement that all such modules be free in any distributed compiler, the FSF would eventually, hopefully, accept that as the canonical GCC. It would have been harder to do that than to make LLVM, maybe it would have cost the world a few years of compilers research, but it would have been possible, and it would have made for a more secure outcome.
A great deal.
GPS devices may have detected dark matter
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys3137.html
How regularly is the Stupid Hackathon held? Fall and spring? Georgia Tech student here, I would seriously fly up to participate.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Then why not include the Chromecast, Google Drive, or Gmail?
They already did. See their wiki https://github.com/greatfire/wiki

They are hosting mirrors on Akamai, Azure, Cloudfront.

They previously hosted on Amazon S3 and Cloudflare, they were blocked in China already
> But if you are going to say something like "just by doing this our code becomes 200% better", with a straight face

I think this is something a lot of people here are having a hard time with: The article is not being said with a straight face. The unsolved problem of elegant I'm-holding-back-a-funny-face font technology has confounded the Internet for forty five years and still counting.
Great feedback!

I think it helps to have both the sorts there, because it gives the students another opportunity to solidify their understanding of algorithms and because they are indeed expected in things like AP CS. Personally, I find them different enough that I need to spend time on each of them to grasp them- I always have to draw algorithms out when I'm learning them, so it helped me that we had the different diagrams and visualizations for each one.

When making KA content, we have to think both about the student that's going through the content from top to bottom and the student that's "snacking" on the content, like finding it via Google search. So if you knew that a student was going to do the whole thing, you could do more just-in-time teaching - but if you didn't know, then it'd be doing a disservice to the snacker to leave out something like Big O notation, because it'd sure be strange if someone learned Theta and Omega and came away not knowing that last one existed. We did spend a while restructuring asymptotic notation in particular, that was one of the topics we debated different approaches to.

We also debated the use cases for recursion, and if we should include the classic factorial challenge. We went for it in the end, as you saw. I think recursive art is my favorite, and works well in our ProcessingJS environment, but one could argue if that's real world :-) I believe that Devin is working on another tutorial with recursion and specifically on how students can come up with their own recursive algorithm. I'll suggest the looking through directory example to him.

Yep, we are working on a quick sort visualization. I am also quite a visual learner.

The neat thing about online curriculum is that we can get feedback from all the students that use it and improve it over time. We'll probably look at all the feedback in a few months, once it's been out there for a bit, see where the dropoff points are, see what the common questions are, and use that to decide what needs changing.
I'm working on a benchmarking suite https://gist.github.com/binux/67b276c51e988f8e2c31 and meet some problem...

pyspider comes from a vertical search engine project. we have two issues:

- 100+ websites, they may change the template or down sometime.
We need a dashboard to monitor the changes and the fails.

- update in 5 minutes, when the website updated, we need follow that in 5 minutes.
We are using a update time from index(list) page to tell the changed pages.
And pages should been updated after about 30 days in case of we missed something.
A powerful scheduler is needed.

obviously, I hadn't got the right way to do so with scrapy. I'm not very familiar with scrapy. So I can't say something pyspider can do but scrapy not.
It is not the governments role to replace the stuff that was stolen from you. That is what insurance is for.
Antz: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openantz/
As far as I'm concerned, the nigh-ceaseless stream of reprehensible behavior coming from Uber and its management team more than serves as due diligence.
3 Perfect marketing strategy to get your first 100 ebook customers
Your rsync.net account has ZFS snapshots enabled - at the very least, the smallest default is 7 daily snapshots.

The ZFS snapshots are immutable. Completely. Even root can't write or delete in a snapshot. The snapshot has to be deliberately destroyed with ZFS commands run by root - which of course, the attacker would not have access to.

Also, thanks for your business :)
Pulse (https://ind.ie/pulse/) is the main one I'm aware of.
I downvoted you for excessive cynicism but then I saw that this company is providing the Wi-Fi: http://www.transitwireless.com/what-we-do/wifi-advertising/
yeah probably
Assuming I am from a non-technical background, would you still ask me to do the same.
And you are telling me that one of the richest company on earth has issues managing bandwidth.
How does apple manages its update. I don't see them ROLLOUT ios updates like google does with android.
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How does that compare to this:

https://raymii.org/s/articles/Set_up_your_own_truly_secure_e...
I am aware of this.
But whats up with "ROLLOUT".
Why can't they make the updates available for all the google devices at once.
I really wish they weren't the ones doing the most aggressive expansion. Soon I will finally have the choice between my city's awful cabs and uber, but I really want lyft. :/
I would do the same thing. Journalists, especially ones on sites like the verge.com, need to have a taste of their own medicine.

In this day in age, there is almost no consequence for starting social media mobs against people for the sole purpose of silencing opposing viewpoints.

#vergegate
WebKit, llvm, are pretty important in that they altered the fundamental of present day by being so openly used. It's apples ehm to oranges at that level, but what has Google contributes of the likes?
The very first VPS provider, JohnCompanies[1][2], was based exclusively on FreeBSD and jail.

[1] Fall of 2001.

[2] Yes, Verio had those weird virtuals running on e10ks, but JC was the first to offer the VPS as we all came to know it.
Unfortunately, there is no physical way that we can be significantly more comfortable than soft foam earplugs as we have to house electronics and a battery inside :/

Have you tried good quality soft earplugs? Maybe some Hearos Ultimate Softness? There are some really bad earplugs that are uncomfortable that we will be more comfortable than. But if you've used good earplugs and found them uncomfortable, I'm sorry to say, but there's no way we'll be able to make it anymore comfortable than that :(
I know parents do these things with hope of raising well-rounded children, but I do wonder about their value when all parents are doing the same thing.

There used to be more leeway to do other things before, but now many upper-middle class families are basically prepping their young kids for college admission, some without even realizing it.
Even if they could (it’s unlikely) … would they? Philea was a pretty risky and relatively small add-on to the main Rosetta mission. Rosetta does important stuff all on its own, it’s not just a vehicle to get Philae there and relay data.

Rosetta will stay with the comet as it gets closer to the sun and observe it.
Adding a important note:

I am aware that I can get android L via the many other methods, but you would not expect that from a individual from non-technical grounds like a doctor or a lawyer. you would not expect them to spend lots of time surfing the web trying to update Android L.

I am talking about the traditional way Google provides android updates, directly into the phone.
What is up with ROLLOUT ? Why doesn't all the google device get the update at the same time.
Why did all of these papers come out today? Did some sort of deadline/embargo lifting pass today?
Out of curiosity, which small rubber wired earbuds do you use?

Also, you may have not had trouble with either method but others have. Wires are pretty dang inconvenient in sleep to not only myself, but a lot of the people I've interviewed
Can someone do this in the Bay Area? I'll help.
I don't know if someone has submitted the original BuzzFeed report and it's just been buried/flagged...but let's give credit where credit is due:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-dig...

BuzzFeed's editor attended this dinner that was apparently "off-the-record", but such terms were not made clear to BuzzFeed, which is why we're even hearing this story. A few prominent journalists/publishers were in attendance, including Arianna Huffington, and I'm interested in what they have to say now that the horse is out of the barn.

But what really fascinates me is that even if Uber made clear that everything was off-the-record...what kind of batshitty, drunken affair was it such that an Uber executive could even think it'd be worthwhile to loudly muse about such a plan, as if no one present would ever leak such an abhorrent discussion. Either everyone was giving off a similar elitist vibe of hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil, or the Uber exec was saying these things jokingly while doing his impression of Richard Nixon. Or this exec is just incredibly stupid.

Edit: Also, Uber investors should take note of how wasteful this exec is. The Church of Scientology did the exact same thing in 2010...but they were able to hire a Pulitzer Prize winner, a former 60 Minutes producer, and the former executive editor of the top investigative news organization...all for less than $10,000 apiece (or at least the editor was, I'm assuming the other reporters received roughly the same rate)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02...
There is another recent HN article. It links to a Pando post by Sarah Lacy, the journalist being threatened. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8622187
I think you need to recalibrate the point at which you measure something as "obnoxious", your usage is a tad hyperbolic.
Really minor nitpick - I think Matz claimed that about 30% of his prior RubyConf predictions were false, so about 70% of his prior RubyConf ideas eventually did make it to production.
If Gamergate has done anything positive, it's to finally drive home the point that anyone nonironically using "gate" as a scandal suffix should be taken about as seriously as someone who starts a disagreeing sentence with "Sir,".

Regarding Uber, I've switched over to Flywheel in SF & Seattle and am quite happy with it so far. Price is a little higher (except when Uber's surging), but it's a worthwhile tradeoff for me at least (and the drivers, at least so far, always know where they're going when I give an address or crossstreet and don't drive with a GPS in front of their face).
I wonder how much money a million dollar for this guy would be for me.. I'm thinking it should probably be in the neighborhood of $.10

Either way, brilliant business plan from this whatsapp co-founder :P
I guess it depends on your security model. With one single pull backup,

- if your backup box is on another network then it can be coerced into malicious reads (leaking private information, trade secrets, your competitive advantage etc).

- if it's on the same network then it's subject to your same failure patterns.

Push backup has some disadvantages, but there's a lot of peace-of-mind in never (intentionally) granting additional users access to the unencrypted data.

Two-tier is one approach. There's another comment in this thread about snapshotting filesystems (ZFS, or i suppose LVM snapshots might be easier) which would be another method of addressing concerns about the client tampering with the backed up data.
I think you have to put "journalists" in quotes.
Is there any way I can buy a Chinese VPS to see the impacts of the blocks myself?
Google has free speech right in search results, court confirms
While I can't condone or condemn Uber's actions without more info, I also don't condone the actions of many journalists. To make it perfectly clear, I am in no way defending Uber's VP here. But what is said "off the record" could perhaps be taken out of context - maybe the VP was half joking? Thinking out loud? Far from an official statement or policy. Tasteless, yes, but not necessarily representative of other people at the company.

There are many journalists who simply do not do adequate research. In the age of one billion blogs, there simply is not the time or money to bring all slander, defamation, and libel cases to the courtroom. Many "journalists" or bloggers simply do not know who they are hurting or what damage they are doing (doing legitimate damage is fine, propagating false info is not).

Edit: if you disagree with me - totally fine, just let me know what you think - I like to hear alternative viewpoints! :)
Caring for Our Raw Materials
So the "Google Grid"[1] is finally complete?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014
Even as a vim user, this post has lifted my sides into the orbit.
I'm not so surprised and I'm getting sick of all the fake apologies. Uber should be proud to be ruthless and change their motto to "fuck being nice" because it's worked well so far for them. Digging up dirt on your enemies is just part of the standard MO if you've come from a background in Washington.