skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Rumney's second conclusion is that it is impossible to "discern with any degree of certainty the actual rate of false allegations" due to the fact that many of the studies of false allegations have adopted unreliable or untested research methodologies."
True, but I didn't expect someone post it on Hacker News. It's supposed to be a secret weapon. Not so secret anymore.
Not bad :) Author should post "How likely is someone to be the son of God based on number of disciples?" and we can see where 12 fits in.
The original one was like "Most engineering interview questions of hot companies". My point was, very few companies are innovative for recruiting. Interview questions can be practiced, which only test a small subset of skills for software engineer position.
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It's been upstreamed, hasn't it?

Announcement http://www.passmark.com/forum/showthread.php?4836-MemTest86-...

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713411
I know where you're coming from there. It depends on the company. I think hiring is the most important thing a company does, so it's really critical to get everyone wanting to participate. I'd suggest that most push back folks get is because people generally dislike having to interview - they are tired of meeting lots of B grade candidates and even a few hours a week feels like a drag.

Having said that, there are ways to offload. There's a biotech startup (I'd have to dig for their name, I remember they did all their coding in mathematica) that described their hiring process to me. Hopefully I'm not messing up the details too badly.

I recall one guy who went through it said it was way more stressful than his final year university exams. They tested candidates, all candidates, on physics, math, chemistry, biology, computer science, and more. Candidates were given projects in each area, and a week to complete all of them.

It was deliberately structured so that there was no possible way that anyone could humanly complete the entire set of tests, much less while also working a full time job. This was deliberate, so that they could observe how candidates chose to prioritize. They also wanted to give people more than they could do to stimulate a "by any means necessary" approach they knew would be required in the actual job.

Finally, it also caused a lot of people to say "erm, no thanks. That's a ridiculous amount of work", which they rationalized as being a good test for candidates who saw a mountain of work and then baulked.

Not sure if I'd use a technique like this myself, but I found the idea interesting!
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There are plenty of apps for which geographic vicinity is crucial to the service they provide: meetup, yelp, uber... apps for which the end goal is for the user to interact with, or obtaining information about, something/someone close to him/her.

To be fair, the description of this app it's so vague that it's hard to see how distance would affect its users.
Then what is the reason to integrate it with twitter only? I can't even use it (and I wish I could) unless I sign in.
Exactly. Which is why I'm hesitant to adopt it right away. Why develop a feature that only a tiny fraction of users?

Even so developer adoption can be encouraged. By doing most of the work for the developer: a rails gem that integrates with Devise; a Symphony component; a WordPress plugin, etc.
hi all,

I've been working on a similar concept called Ripple, and launched 2 days ago. I heard of Plague days after submitting my app to the iOS store, and found it to be a bit different from what I want to focus on.

I do think it's possible to create a community with this type of concept without all the clutter, and have it simultaneously focus on local (city or neighborhood wide) events and news.

Ripple allows users to only submit text-based content for now, and presents all content in table form instead of individual cards. We've found that this combination really focuses the type of content shared as well as allows users to browse content and spread "ripples" they truly find engaging. There is also a bit of a difference with how ripples are spread versus how plague infects people. Ripples are received by users only once.

Though we are at the beginning of our user base building and want many users on Ripple, we are also promoting this in specific cities and communities to have people share local news that matters amongst each other.

Check it out here: http://getkefi.com/ripple
I'd love to hear all your feedback and thoughts.
You have to have an account for "creating" content. Not for infecting.
I wholeheartedly agree. I wish every language had a Leiningen equivalent, despite the speed issues.
Wow that's expensive, I raise chickens for eggs that are 100% organic. My costs are about $.66 a dozen (90% of their feed is free range around my house). That CSA is literally printing money. Talk about perceived value!
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> But think what it says about you if you are downvoting facts.

You posted something from 40 years ago.
> I've cut down on my calcium supplement usage by drying and crushing the eggshells and giving those to the birds.

Seems like there's potential to get prion diseases there. Are chickens susceptible to prion diseases?

Maybe compost the shells, then grow collards, kale and turnips in the soil and feed the less-appetising greens to the chickens?
Something like this that didn't use the Internet would be cool. Like if it used some kind of Bluetooth and would "sync" certain topics. Kind of like Bitcoin meets Usenet but using a mesh network.
Code mirror or ace editor or even atom if there is a standalone version.
And only for search engines the information remains on newspaper sites.
It's perfect for something like a protest, especially if you're worried about a (non-local) adversary flooding the network with irrelevant information.

See some of the coverage on the use of FireChat in Hong Kong (http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/tech/mobile/tomorrow-transform...).

Along a similar vein, I could see localized information being very useful during an emergency or natural disaster. "Downed power lines on Main Street" means different things depending on the poster's geography.
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> has been and will forever be a crap shoot

This is too strong a statement. It's an imperfect heuristic, and it's painful for all involved (which makes negative reactions to it be over-represented in online discussions), but it's better than shuffling the deck of resumes and randomly choosing one. You ask candidates what they know about tech, and it quickly becomes obvious who's in the know and who's able to think outside the box, and who isn't. It's more of a crap shoot in terms of gauging work ethic and personality. Week-long trials are simply not feasible for most companies (or candidates, for that matter).
The rate of accusations police are confident are false, many of which don't make it to trial, is low. The rate of accusations proven, beyond reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, is similarly low.

The actual figures are an unknown proportion of the vast majority of the middle (further complicated by the large, and variable, proportion of sexual assaults that go unreported) and any study requires a lot of guesswork. The decision to report an assault, accurately or otherwise, is also evidently not an event independent of other reports of similar assaults, especially since many come after the allegations and name of the accused are revealed.
Agree with Aloisius about the yolk color. My parents raise sheep and chickens on a farm. During the spring and summer the chickens eat almost all worms, bugs, grasshoppers. The yolks have this color to them. During the winter, the chickens eat feed and table scraps, and the yolks are not as brightly colored nor as flavorful.

About them breaking down over time, that hasn't been my experience. Eggs keep a long time, and at certain times of the year my parents have far more than they can eat. Even after 6-8 weeks in the fridge, the yolks have the same texture and color.
Hence the quotes
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i want to share via twitter only after i've found a good combination of beats. Am I missing something here, can this page do anything without being integrated with twitter?
OK, the administrator could have been a little more precise then. Unfortunately the LeetCode page also does not contain a clear title for the page, which make the administrator's job harder. Changing the title on HN is probably done after a quick one-time impression at the site.

(I don't think that we can see the original title as posted to HN?)
Or don't use auto-route feature of many electronic design programs have...
Propaganda works both ways, and Sourcewatch has a massive blind spot when it comes to anti-corporate propaganda. Their page on Monsanto is full of uncritically repeated propaganda from the likes of Vandana Shiva.
We get a deep, rich golden color from simply giving them cracked corn. That holds all winter as well, as we supplement heavily with cracked corn to help them stay warm.
Generally quality of feed correlates to quality of life. Factory farmers aren't going to take the time to make sure a chicken gets greens and reds and yellows in their diet.

Generally. Of course.
It is a mistake to believe that theistic Satanists or witches (ie, people who genuinely believed that they had "communed with the devil" or possessed some form of supernatural powers) did not exist. Of course there is absolutely no evidence of ritualistic satanic abuse specifically, but there is little reason to conclude that "witches" in Salem are not plausible.

That is one of the reasons why the long-established comparison between McCarthyism and the Salem Witch Trials is so apt. It is not beyond reason that there were people in Hollywood who were genuinely communists; there are communists in just about any profession today that you can think of, just as there were in the early 20th century. Hell, some of them may have even been Soviet agents; we know that Soviet agents operating in the US is something that happened.

The fact that communists did in fact exist does absolutely nothing to excuse the flawed methodology that was used to track down and label communists.
I tried in the Halton area (West of Toronto) and had about 40 things from a single individual in Hamilton who continually posted far right conspiracy type things. I suppose this is the issue with the network effect -- right now it looks pretty pathetic in this area.

But the idea is solid. The Internet went global, but really a lot of the activity now is making it local again.
Chinese characters aren't what speakers of Western languages would consider "words". Like English words, they are symbols combining both meaning and pronunciation (one or slightly more of each), so sometimes they are like English words, but more often they are used in fixed combinations with each other making them more like roots and affixes (prefixes, infixes, suffixes).

Chinese characters are more like the four components of the word "nonbiological" (non, bio, logos, al) than like the word "nonbiological" itself but, unlike English, there are more cases where the components can also stand alone.

Ten thousand is on the high side for the number of characters an educated, native Chinese speaker would usually know (much less use), but the number of what Westerners might consider "words" known by such a Chinese speaker would typically be much higher than 10,000, with most of them being composites of multiple characters.
Oh, in retrospect, I'm very happy.
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Can you point out which law(s) you mean? It's a little hard to establish a criminal charge otherwise. Everything in your comment so far indicates cause for civil damages, which are already being pursued as pointed out.
BuzzSumo isn't a mess :)
As an indie game developer I open sourced all of my published mobile games after I realized they wouldn't make a profit.
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I started using openntpd after reading a mailing list posting[1] and not needing most of the features of ntpd. Only thing I miss is a way to query the ntpd daemon about peers and state.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/40107
Hi Everyone and thank you all for your thoughts, it is nice to hear different perspective from fellow hackers.

I'll try to summarize all the answers to your questions in one post. First of all, I'll begin by defining failure in this particular context. It will be the loss of your capital and incomes that are all based on your startup. The fear behind it is not to be able to provide for itself or its own family and loved ones.

To pursue in the idea itself, it's a financial service based on a business model inspired from the shared economy concept. It is going to be an additional service that an incubator can offer but definitely not replace it, and unfortunately I can't disclose more information for now as I'm still waiting to close the legal part of this model.

The image davismwfl described made me really laugh, because he's right, it is awfully too good to be true :) but please bear with me, and allow me to earn your trust, at least in this topic :)

Thank you all again.
Many authors do make their works public domain, especially for technical books published in the '80s and '90s that retain value as theoretical and conceptual works (despite referring to obsolete technology). Other authors won't go so far as to relinquish copyright, but will distribute electronic copies of their work freely.
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You aren't going to find that term used by the people to whom it's typically applied. They will probably use a more specific term like "Critical Race Theory", or "radical feminism", or "social justice".

But there's a continuum of thought between these otherwise distinct concepts, which is where the "cultural Marxism" name comes in, as a unifying tag.
Blockchains make a decentralized service do authentication. Anything that is centralized is easier to MITM. SQRL may very well have a better user experience but it doesn't appear to be solving the same problem.
Your question may be honest, but you may not be aware how strongly you loaded it with your use of the word "bigoted." In looking through definitions, I came across words like "extreme," "unwilling to change," "prejudiced," "unfair," and "intolerant." You seem to be trying to propose that being opposed to one religion (or all) is an extreme position - which I think is debatable in view of just how many people fit this bill. Is this position prejudiced if it's based on thorough examination and reasoning? If people come by this position based on evidence and reason, do you have a reason to believe they could never be convinced they're mistaken? Finally, is there something wrong with being intolerant of intolerance, oppression and violence?

People compare social institutions, technologies and ideas all the time. And people develop opinions on them; some are viewed as better than others. This is the social learning process which has taken us (more or less) from cave dwelling, widespread violence, ignorance, slavery and "an eye for an eye" to the foundations modern societies rest on, more or less to everyone's approval. You wouldn't be trying to use a knee-jerk negative word to discourage, for religions, the kind of discussion which has stood us in good stead in many other areas of social discourse?

I hope you won't be too offended by this literally shitty analogy that was the first to come to my mind: Imagine a modern society just like ours, but in which people choose to do without toilets. Nobody talks about it much, it's just what they've always done, and they're unwilling to break with tradition in this respect. It's common practice to do your "business" in the street gutter, next to the curb. There's a daily removal service, and a 3x daily deodorizing service, and they reduce the associated problems. Still, this society has an unusual rate of some infectious diseases, and especially in the summer, deodorizing just doesn't seem to keep up. Here's a different society with a different choice on how to do things.

Would you be bigoted if you criticized this society for the pursuit of this practice? If you feel it's important to accept the choices of other groups, would you be willing to live in such a society? Would you think it wrong to at least try to talk to those folks about improving their lives by re-thinking their stance on indoor plumbing?

I think I still owe you the answer to your question. So: Yes, I think it's OK to critically examine all ideas, and choices, including religious ones, and to raise those objections we feel are in order. Why on Earth not?
It bugs me that there is never any accounting for the "loss" to the public. When a work that would otherwise enter the public domain is instead kept copyrighted, that is essentially privatisation of public property. If congress decided to sell national parks to private owners there would be a massive outcry. The idea that they would just give them to private owners for free would be considered utterly absurd. Yet this is exactly what extension of copyrights is. At very least, people would insist a proper valuation be put on them and the benefactors asked to pay a commensurate amount to the public to compensate the loss of public property. Yet none of this happens, these extensions are made as donations to private benefactors as if it means nothing to society.
Well, I can see the reasons for a title change then; the page does not really explain the claim in the original title. It is an interesting collection of problems applicable for a coding interview -- which is not the same as "most interview questions" -- and it doesn't mention the companies (hot or not) that asked them. Nevertheless, it's a good find and a relevant submission to HN.
I would guess that to have the scale to sell eggs to a chain store you need the more industrial conditions that scorecard doesn't like. All that special treatment means less chickens and higher prices.
> Interesting to see they're also applying Daala to still images. It's a very different set of constraints and optimizations than video.

Video codecs have to encode keyframes, which is roughly the same problem as still images. Many still image codecs are modified intraprediction modes from video codecs. So it's really a subset[0] of the constraints and optimizations, not a totally different set.

It's also the case we've recently spent a lot of time working on intraprediction issues (and related topics). One reason for that is that the lapping filters make intraprediction very difficult compared to traditional codec designs.

Demo2[1] explains much of this difficulty in the context of a solution that we tried and had to abandon. The paint demo[2] explains another solution we tried, which also failed, but which is now the basis of a post-filtering technique.

[0] Modulo things like color format support, metadata, etc.

[1] http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo2.shtml

[2] https://people.xiph.org/~jm/daala/paint_demo/
Has bitrate peeling been used in production by anybody? I got the impression that the bitrate peeling in Vorbis is never used, and that streaming providers will just encode multiple rates for a video and switch between them. It does sound like a cool concept, though.
An information dissemination tool created by a company called "Deep Sea Marketing"? Colour me cynical, but nope.
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That was not the intention at all. In fact, the comment is quite sarcastic and if I'm to rephrase it, it will be: We're asking animals to be humans to grant them their freedom which is quite absurd.
Not sure what you mean? Leiningen is its own build tool, it isn't using Maven. I believe it uses the aether library for dependency management, but as far as I know that's all they have in common.
> Let's hope they'll soon add that different separate type for arrays (or "fully packed hashtables" if they prefer :)).

Could be good as long as it can be inferred whether compiler should use it or not, without additional clutter in the code.
You would think logical people are here. If 80% of crimes is done by Blacks in a neighborhood isn't it more efficient to look for criminals in this group even if it is just 15% minority?

Why males don't complain about being targeted by the Police compared to women?
Professional Advice for shykes: Do some background research + internal prep before answering/commenting here on HN. You represent the Docker brand and over time such hastiness will erode Docker's credibility. Best to be silent than defend every incredulous comment about Docker on HN.
I usually just use https://github.com/jugyo/tunnels.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/how-an-ebay-books...

"Sometimes all it takes to alter the course of history is one pissed-off person. Supap Kirtsaeng wasn’t a crusader or lone nut; he was just an eBay trader who got backed into a legal corner and refused to give up.

To help pay for grad school at USC, he sold textbooks online—legitimate copies that he’d purchased overseas. But academic publishing behemoth John Wiley & Sons sued Supap, claiming that his trade in Wiley’s foreign-market textbooks constituted copyright infringement.

... Once Supap’s struggle hit the spotlight, powerful supporters such as eBay, Public Knowledge, Costco, and Goodwill Industries joined the fray. But the forces pitted against Supap were arguably more powerful: the movie and music industries, publishers of books and software, and even the US Solicitor General."
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Wake me up when these idiot hackers finally destroy the last bits of freedom still available on the Internet.
That was my first thought on reading the title: a million accusations is no better than one unless you can prove they are independent.
Ah, good to know. SpiderMonkey is in the process of adding that right now.
When was the last time you heard of a signal in a PC trace degrading and then getting much better?!?!!??!!!! So much better that when previously tested that trace wasn't deemed suspicious?
The first thing I thought of was something I saw at a weekend hack event: in a disaster or when no network can be found, it looks for nearby phones over blutooth and propogates messages until the original message eventually finds a phone to send out a communication over data or wifi.