skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This precludes Google Maps usage, though, which is frustrating to say the least.

You can use Google Maps and its GPS feature without a Google account. Then Google knows where your phone is, and you know where you are, but Google doesn't know who you are.
Comments like these are not only completely useless, but they make you look ignorant. I would downvote you a thousand times if I could, but alas...
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So another way of putting it, is you were working a "job" that was actually your hobby, and you just happened to be getting paid for it. I have the same problem -- often times, after 5:00 rolls around, I just start getting into a good flow and tend to take advantage of the lack of interruptions between 5 and 7 pm. Only problem is I get home, make some dinner, do a couple chores, got to bed, then wake up and do the same thing. Then I wonder why I can't get any personal projects done.
Thanks for bringing this up. Hate to see how unethical telecom companies across the world can be.
As I moved out of my teens (and after watching GoT) I learned that nothing often resembles to what is claimed and nothing can be painted in black and white.

Assange or Snowden are not really white knights. While Snowden did an heroic act without being biased towards any specific political ideology, Assange has made a good enough career by playing his cards with good political acumen as people have shown in the comments.

Honestly, I think Assange is just as bad as our politicians but in a way he brings some balance to an otherwise tightly controlled political narrative.
This New York Times article (from 1990) will add some more perspective to your comment:

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/20/business/east-germany-s-ec...
Praise the lord emscripten.
Is is actually tables? I haven't actually looked at the source, but I imagine that tearing out all the templates and styles, and redoing roughly the same design can't be more than a day or two's worth of work.

Maybe there's a fear that if it got too pretty, they might start to attract the wrong crowd?
To be fair, filling out a form for a sandwich is about 5% of the food service operation at Google.

Most are just like lunchrooms in school, with much better food. Sorry that someone didn't give you a better experience there, with regards to food and otherwise.
when you are outsourcing and going through 10s or 100s of applicants, every little thing to filter out bad candidates help.
I'd like you to try and get any security commits in the docker tree. Try your luck.. others have.
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And also that it was considered a diabolical device designed to steal from artists who deserved simply to make a living when it was introduced.
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Well if you have a PC setup to play videos, there's a system that'll interpolate any video to a higher frame rate : http://www.svp-team.com/

I watched ST TNG using that and it certainly made it feel a bit more realistic.
Every time I read an article on HN about Elm, I go through a moment of confusion. Elm wasn't just some random piece of rarely-used free software where it makes sense to re-use the name. It was an extremely popular mail program. If you're reading HN, you are the kind of person who 20 years ago would have used or at least tried Elm.

It's a bad idea to re-use a name for a product when the prior product targeted essentially the same users.
HN hasn't always had an API, so they didn't want to change the HTML because it would break the apps that rely on scraping the markup to get the content. You can read more at this blog post [1] announcing the HN API.

[1]: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api
That's obvious, but the more interesting discussion (which we're really here for) lies in the unstated part of the sentence: how were the actions stated in the second half intended to result in the goal stated in the first half?
Merry Xmas to you too.
There's several extensions folks have written to add layers of functionality to HN -- collapsible comments being a major one.

I use HN Enhancement Suite: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
One thing I am intrigued by is not why China or India or Germany didn't rival the US, those reasons are well known. But Brazil really could have come up as a competing power. It achieved independence early, had huge natural resources, roughly the same land area as the US, and generally adopted western culture.
Accelerando by Charles Stross is the book you're thinking of.
What, exactly, are you disagreeing with? The idea of a buffalo jump or my doubts that they used every part?
I wouldnt worry about getting passed up by the bigger companies. Everyone knows their interview processes are highly dysfunctional jokes. Then most startup companies copy them because they all think they are going to be the next google etc.

My last interview at amazon went like this:

Stupid trick coding question over the phone that I did not understand at all. Followed by 3 memorization questions. followed by one question I felt was valid and i know i got it right.

I was being interviewed for a specific product that was right up my ally. I could literally build what they had built easily, but they never once asked questions related to the product or my experience.

I looked at the product a year later and basically nothing has been done to it.
Happy Grav-Mass, folks!
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Turkish Telecom Agency has 150 Petabyte data warehouse for telephone recording
Turkish Presidency of Telecommunication and Communication has around 150 Petabyte (PB) (around 153 000 Terrabyte) data warehouse and since the start of operating they have collected 50 Petabyte data (51200 Terrabyte = 52.5 million Gigabyte. 1GB data can store 200 sound files)

Source NTV http://www.ntv.com.tr/galeri/turkiye/bu-bina-alanetli-gomun,0qChurD5_0C22dBCdFRYPQ/w2v5_zp1uU64WMZYmbhu3g
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many thanks to hn
Ask HN: Who has noticed the Christmas lights on hacker news?
Human first, journalist second.

Sheesh.
A very large percentage of the HN population has been using computers for less than 15 years. The creator of Elm is a very smart cookie. But, there's a good chance he has never heard of the Elm mail client. I've got bad news for ya: We're old.
Congratulations! It sounds like you've landed somewhere really good.

Thank you for reminding us not to give up. A lot of your story sounded familiar, although you were way more persistent than I was. I'm 33, and recently got rejected from two different bay area "dream job" companies after making it through several phone rounds in order to fly out for in-person interviews. The more recent of which, I got nervous the night before and only got three hours of sleep. The hardest part of that rejection was wondering "what if" I had been just a little bit sharper.

After the second rejection, I accepted a position with a small defense contractor near my home in Washington DC. The bureaucracy and mindless restriction are sources of endless frustration. The combination of billing by the hour and a long commute leave very little time and energy for keeping up the job search.

Reading your story reminds me I have very little to complain about. Thank you for posting. I'll use some of this time off to send out some more applications. Hope you have a great Christmas and good luck once the new job starts!
I missed it at first, too; I saw comments referencing it, and checked the article again.

I'm all for having secure, private means of communication; it is essential for our liberty and a healthy democracy. Inevitably, these will be used to create black markets. Freedom is expensive, and that is just another cost.
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> but I am someone who is a Java compiler writer

Have an ounce of empathy and look at things from the other side of the table. Anybody can write "I wrote a java compiler" on their resume. Anybody who is even modestly determined can fake a github repo of such a project.

People have done (much) crazier things to try to get a job at Google.

The only thing for interviewers to do is to try to assess your technical ability in the limited time that they have.

I did a fair number of interviews when I worked at Google. (For strong candidates,) I spent every minute of the 45 or whatever given to me in an interview trying to get more signal to make their interview summary packet stronger. If I stop to ask how you saved a village in Fiji from sharks, that's fewer glowing words I'm going to write about you in my feedback.

To echo what somebody else wrote upthread:

> If you get hired we can all chat about it at lunch.
yup indeed. the fact that they were able to use the donor cells, and expand them in-vitro is imho, a major deal.

here is the link to an excellent summary of this achievement from "bopplegurp" on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2qabhs/functional_a...
Merry Christmas!

How about having a little new year party this 31st ?
There's about a dozen extensions adding this feature -- it's an HN evergreen (because everyone loves it, and it's so easy to implement?):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706496

(I wrote one of the Firefox ones -- CollapsableThreads.user.js)
I have a couple ideas that haven't took off the ground bc of money. I've also been very reluctant of taking VC money. But if someone gave me 200K, no strings attached, I would bet on those things.
Rob Graham (@ErrataRob) gave a (joking) talk about the "fail-peen"; it is the measurement of how susceptible an organization is to compromise, and is calculated by taking the inverse of their epeen ("the ego of your online persona", for the initiated).

Edited to add:

The talk is linked below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnqyxjtm9RA
I am responding specifically to the part that says NK could not have sophisticated hackers, not whether those hackers did it or not.

> NK's way of keeping 24M people from protesting is by controlling INFORMATION. To have a hacker untraceable and talented enough to enter SONY, they must be read on the latest trends. This same hacker, if informed, would be smart enough to google his way out of the horrible living conditions in NK. The nuke scientists copied 1950's tech.

Can you explain people living outside DPRK ho align to DPRK?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongryon

> The other main organization is called Mindan, the Korean Residents Union In Japan, and consists of Zainichi Koreans who have adopted South Korean nationality. Currently, among 610,000 Korean residents in Japan who have not adopted Japanese nationality, 25 percent are members of Chongryon, and 65 percent are members of Mindan. Chongryon's strong links to North Korea, its allegiance to the North Korean ideology and its opposition to integration of Koreans into Japanese society have made it the more controversial of the two organisations in Japan.
Personally I'm suspicious of this so-called "internal tool i've built to increase transparency and communication".
Not according to their website, no. If they're looking to turn a profit, its probably by acting as sellers.
Has the hybrid group given up on Ruby (http://artoo.io/) and moved on to go?
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I agree it should be considered in an interview, but I don't think it should be the point or the focus of the interview. The idea is that even though you'd like to work with someone who has a nice personality, I'm sure you'd also like to work with someone who is competent and the company would much rather hire someone who is competent rather than only interesting.
keep rocking !
Processing rates are 2-4%. 20-30% is egregious and probably illegal. But even if not illegal it's such high order extortion by his boss that he shouldn't trust him. His boss must be a complete dickhole to do this to his driver.
What a creative person!
Very related.

http://loopit.dk/banding_in_games.pdf
I really enjoyed and liked the going down the rabbit hole aspect. And the confidence that at every step, even as they got more fractal, there would be a solution.

As someone who has taken a woodworking class or two, I love the ethos of how sometimes experienced wood workers tell the beginners to just throw in a shim [1]. I know that some wood workers would blanch at that - but art is about compromises.

I wonder out loud how we can start getting underserved kids to learn how to make more physical stuff with digital help (CAD drawings).

Reminded me of Tim's Vermeer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim's_Vermeer

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim
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Good luck and all the best in the new year!
Thanks! Ping me on github if you need anything.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this because it's true.

In addition, to your points, after the civil war, the U.S. had the largest number of guns in civilian hands of any country by far. The populace was so well armed that an invasion would have been ridiculous.

The U.S. also had the largest economy in the world at the time, a population about the same size as Germany, and had the Atlantic Ocean situated between itself and an invading army.

By the 1870s the U.S. had a large iron and steel industry and in less than 20 years later (by 1889) the U.S. was producing more steel than Great Britain.

Furthermore, the U.S. had the second largest navy in the world at the end of the Civil War--a navy that was very modern since it was largely composed of new ships built during the war. The U.S. Navy was also the most experienced by far with modern naval combat since they were the first country to use ironclads in battle. Granted the Navy rapidly declined in size after this time period, but given that the buildup happened in only 4 years in the first place, new ships could have been rapidly brought online if a war broke out.

The U.S. was also covered in railroads and telegraph lines by this time that they could use to coordinate movements and rapidly deploy troops--this was a huge advantage not available to an invading army.

The idea of a European power invading the U.S. after the civil war is definitely laughable.
Yes, it's nice, but I only tried it on the Co-Co ver 1 which I thought was pretty terrible hardware.
Most modern TVs tend to have motion smoothing available as an option as well (that page says higher-end TVs but I've seen it on plenty of cheaper TVs as well, though I don't know when that was written). But it's nowhere near as good as HFR, especially in scenes with a lot of motion it tends to make things blurrier.
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is it downloadable yet?
Anyone doing R comparisons should use data.table instead of data.frame. More so for benchmarks. data.table is the best data structure/query language I have found in my career. It's leading the way in The R world, and in my way, in all the data-focused languages.
The link to the pdf on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/8BBSArchiveP1V1

But I like the narrative in the original link.
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Smart companies look for professionalism, not "culture fit." True professionals can work very effectively with different kinds of people...

-- This is an excellent comment
WHere can I download it? I'm in the UK..
I mean, most reasonably well-off people go abroad during or after college studies and this experience doesn't really sound that remarkable other than the fallout zone. Did you develop any interesting biological mutations?
Well fancy that-- Everything I knew was a lie!

Would you happen to know anything about the usage of konglish in North Korea then, as in words besides 아이스크림 or 에스키모? Is it more frequent near the border or just as spread through as it is in SK?
Oops, yes. I've been considering an lpc812 16-pin device for a project but it would need a bunch of '595s for extra output bits. Instead I'm using a 64-pin stm32f030.. the overall price is the same, but the stm32f030 has more flash and RAM. Even so, NXPs development system seems more coherent (even though I'm not an eclipse fan).
Hotels provide light, water, toilets, and often electricity for personal devices for free. I hope it's just a matter of time until free Internet access belongs to this group of naturally provided services that you don't even have to talk about.
"but if that individual is quiet, has difficulty working in a pair (assuming pairing is part of the culture), and is adamant about working in a silo and going hero mode, having that candidate on your team might just be disruptive."

Re-read the part about being a professional. Then you will see why this is a straw-man construction.
Another great graphical way to play with data in Python is using Spyder. It has an Rstudio/matlab sort of interface

https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyder_(software)
I think you are quite unfairly placing blame for a systemic issue on the people least responsible.
(she, but thanks for playing)
India's largest telecom provider to charge separately for VoIP data
Russia has its own expansion story, moving eastward to get Siberia, but unlike the US west, there wasn't much there except for the Japanese.
It's called HFT and is done by bots:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
I'm working on my first open source project: a Python library to make debugging with print statements easier and more efficient.
http://www.github.com/alixander/pyscribe
Dear future pressfriendly engineer
dear future pressfriendly engineer,

so it's xmas eve and i'm lying on the couch, got my feet up and am on my third finger of scotch. my wife and i put the kids to sleep a few hours ago and wrapped some presents. i'm excited about the air hockey table, but i bet it will be broken within a few hours of opening it.

personally i'm checking out a spy show called the game on bbc america. i hope it's good. paul, my cofounder and cto (even though he hates that title) is back east visiting with family and in a few hours will be playing with the toys that he says he bought for his son. our head of pr operations jeremy is finally grabbing some downtime after a crazy couple months. our growth has impacted him the most and he's keeping it chill and having a quiet holiday with the wife. nisa, our staff millenial, has gone off to Tahoe to play in the snow for the next couple of days.

right now i’m eating cookies that my son left out for santa. i wonder — how am i so fortunate to be the ceo of a startup where people understand work/life balance? don't get me wrong, i was on calls all morning and I pinged Paul because we needed to chat for five minutes about something.

i can't be 100% sure but i think people choose to work here because, even though they love pressfriendly. they understand that they are better employees and team members if they pull back once and awhile and recharge. a mission and a passion only take you so far. we're not working on the manhattan project or fighting ebola, that feature change can wait until next monday.

given the holidays, my calendar is pretty tight. family events, old college friends to see and catching up on a few shows on netflix. if you want to be an engineer at pressfriendly and help startups with their PR, shoot me an email (joel@pressfreidnly.com). we could setup a google hangout for mid-january and i can tell you more.

talk whenever, joel
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I don't suffer from anxiety.

In the last 8 months, I have submitted 270+ job applications, received 3 interviews, got rejected by all three, none of which were high reputation companies.

Great to hear you had a success! :)
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While wages for the middle class have been somewhat stagnant for a while, I think your use of "exceedingly poor" is completely without merit.

There are only 3 countries in the world (Luxemburg, Switzerland, and Norway) with a higher median household disposable income than the U.S. (using PPP) [1].

Obviously this doesn't tell the whole situation since most of Europe provides more government services, but the U.S. also has a lower tax burden (which isn't fully taken into account in disposable income because of VAT).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income
Good write up. However, this is just another example of a startup focusing on raising VC rather than building a profitable business from the start.

The illusion is that all successful startup companies require VC. However, the reality is the vast majority of businesses will not be funded and require a profitable business model.

As a community, we need more reinforcement that profit is the life blood of any company. Profit isn't a bad word people.
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Just like that old joke -

There are two ways to wash dishes -
after a meal or before it.

Same with data containers, there are two mindsets. Either data is primary and can be optionally organized into containers or containers are primary and they essentially own the data that's put in them. STL model is of latter and "intrusive" lists are of former. I leave it up to you to decide which one is an ass-backward approach in the name of type safety :)
3 years are impressive?
It's not just employees, Google and other large enterprises treat their customers in the same way.
Hi,

We are having problems finding local devs so we could consider remote hands on deck. Drop me en email on jobs (at) nopio.com if that sounds interesting.

Merry Christmas!
As long as the successor language isn't called pine. Frankly, its not a big deal.
Check out http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities if you want to maximize the impact of your donations regardless of the target domain.

For something specifically of interest to hackers and entrepreneurs take a look at CFAR (http://rationality.org/). They are a non-profit that teaches decision making skills.
Artoo is listed at the bottom of the Gobot page as a "sister project". It doesn't look like they're giving up; just expanding.

There's also a Javascript version: http://cylonjs.com/
$200 just for an aluminum case? The price of aluminum is under $1 per pound. Where do you get that amount?
Whether you hire the person or not they are going to go away with an impression of the organisation. In this case it wasn't a very good one.
ActionScript compiled to JS is not the performance bottleneck. In many cases it is faster than ActionScript ever was simply because of the huge investment most browser vendors have put into their JS engines. Flash-like vector graphics is what's hard to emulate on the web today. If you only care about moving spites around, then Flash, Shumway and C++/OpenGL will be mostly GPU bound.

Flash got a lot of things right, both the SWF file format and the authoring tools are pretty good. There's not much sense in re-inventing it (we could do without ActionScript though).