skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>even if Warren were to be the president (a far off prospect, even though she is what the US needs)

There's little evidence that Warren wouldn't just continue the current policies of the Obama administration, perhaps with a few extra low-benefit bureaucratic programs on top.

She talks a good game, but so did Obama.

I think you've hit the nail on the head, though. The problem here is the entire political system. It's nothing an individual can effectively change (because the system selects for individuals who won't change the system).
This is universal and there are studies supporting it. Most of the interview is spent just affirming the initial impression. If the initial impression is good then they will spend the hour trying to find your good points and vice versa.

Shouldn't technical interviews be different? No, not really. In general the interviewer will give more hints to people he likes and more follow up questions to people he dislikes. After enough hints even the worst candidate will find the solution and get extra points for good collaborative skills. Similarly even the best candidate will stumble sooner or later and gets a mark for being argumentative if pressured enough.

Also notice how everyone says "We care about the thought process and not if the solution actually works!". This allows for their subjectivity to reign supreme. Things like "Your solution is wrong but I love your thought process!" or "Your solution is better than mine but you didn't think things through enough before implementing it" can be said about everything.

It is of course not that hard to do technical interviews correctly, you just need to have hard rules on what to accept and what to reject, what hints to give and when to give them etc. Any leeway for subjectivity will be abused by your subconscious.
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806910
What gave you that idea? The overwhelming majority of India is vegetarian
4 days after we shared rentasquad.com on Hacker News
Haha! The "awesome" here is tongue-in-cheek and is in reference to the rising fashion of curated lists being prefixed with "awesome" on Github.

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=awesome
http://coursebuffet.com/sub/computer-science

Gives basic idea of computer science courses and level they might be at a US university
One Direction gigs force angry coders to cancel conference
>the idea of "voting" here can be extrapolated into striking

I don't think that's true in the slightest.
Ken Thompson wrote it. He's pretty good at C.

Indeed he is. All the more reason for code reviews. [;]

[;] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
The political system and Senate reflect the division in the country. There is no easy fix. The problem is people do not trust their government, which is reflective of the current political environment and is the primary reason these problems are not addressed.
Yes, the problem with music is that log_2(3) is irrational...
KPT Bryce?
I don't think you should use Hacker News for these "one answer" questions.
Any electronics device can die at any moment without a chance to tell you anything.

That's why you have to make backups and run your disks in a RAID.
Of course it adversarial. The average VC is in a intellectually weak position whenever they speak to a founder for the first time. The founder has thought about their problem for months, maybe even years, while the average VC might never have thought about it. Suddenly they are faced with responding to the founder and in a manner that allows them to control future negotiations. If they are average they will try to control the situation with aggressive questions that attempt to throw the founder off guard. In this sort of tactic they have far more experience than most founders.
Yes, I'm up-to-date but in my experience Firefox has a worse WebGL implementation than Chrome. Didn't try with Chrome. I also have a not-so-great CPU (but a high end GPU) so that affects too. In any case, my computer is able to run quite high end games, it should easily be able to run a simple terrain demo if it weren't for the overhead.

There's certainly different performance characteristics in different OpenGL implementations (ie. GPUs) but WebGL overhead comes on top of that. So in addition to the performance characteristics of the GPU itself, you have to think about the browser's software implementation too.

WebGL is definitely a welcome addition to the facilities available in the browser, but getting more up-to-date features would be nice. And using the security features (especially bounds checking) of the hardware if available to avoid unnecessary overhead would make it a lot more appealing.
A Recent Impact in Elysium Planitia, Mars
Interesting! I didn't follow the Tiny Doo story too closely but read more after you posted.

Except I am not sure what you mean. Are you saying that people SHOULD be mad that we're prosecuting Brandon Duncan because of his published work? I'm assuming that's what you mean, and if so, I suppose I agree.
Thank you very much. That was a really interesting read! I don't think anyone would be encouraged to live your life, least of all me (my best friend died from an overdose). So I find it really tragic but I hope and believe you will find a turning point. When you've passed all this maybe you can reflect back and write a book or something. I would definitely read it.
I remember that on the Amiga, it was fun to watch it rendering the landscape
UK MP calls for email disclaimer ban
It is butter smooth @ 60Hz on my laptop with poor Intel graphics
Less educated? Perhaps. Less intelligent? Now you're sounding like a bigot. Poor people in rough neighborhoods have survival skills and street smarts that the rest of us don't.
Many orchestras have found a fairly simple solution to the problem - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22blind+auditions%22+hiring+music...

I'd hope to have a similar 'audition' approach that included not only basic programming skills but also –and as a junior level programmer, more importantly– learning skills. For example, commenting or debugging internal framework code (something that all interviewees are experiencing for the first time).

In regard to the linked article's approach - I couldn't afford to take three weeks off of my current job, to learn a new language, even if the training gave me a slim chance of a new job (I still have bills to pay). That said, I do think wish there were more apprenticeship type approaches for junior devs.
Govt bans StackOverflow.com-Developer takes 6 hours to swap 2 variables [Satire]
Confessions of a failed african start-up
The 1TB disk in those is PCI-E.
cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4-YCKBV...
Are they ignoring the FCC's EIRP maxima (and beamforming penalty) on the 2.4GHz ISM band?

If they aren't, they can still get 1W theoretically, which is actually useful: it can kind of charge your phone in 8 hours. Assuming 100% of the power is captured by the antenna, that is. (Note that I say theoretically: the real world is very bad for theoretical models.)

Also something to worry about: the FCC's maximum permissible radiation exposure. For 6 minute controlled application (people near the transmitter know it's on), you're allowed an energy density of 5mW per square centimeter. An iPhone 4 is about 55 cm^2, so that would mean a maximum of 275mW. That would charge the phone in 24 hours. (These are guidelines for amateur radio operators, not Part 15 devices; I don't know what the regs around Part 15 say about power density. The regs also cover far-field effects, not near-field effects, so perhaps they can get around these.)

Finally, if you want to play with beamforming and figure out how to get 100% of the power to a 55 cm^2 area, try: http://apenwarr.ca/beamlab/
Really? You do realise that due to Bitcoin's popularity the software itself is extremely well tested and built, whilst being maintained by some very talented people.
Bitcoin is growing even in africa
Wireless power has worked fine for a hundred years. Ever use a crystal radio?

Your health effects are very clearly in the [citation needed] area. The only negative effect from long-wave radiation (not gamma or UV) is that it heats things. If you heat a human too much, they die.
No kidding; even my 2010 X61s had 8GB and my 2 year old X230 has 16GiB.
That doesn't make any sense. You seem to be assuming that it's impossible to bail out the bank's clients and let the bank itself fail, but that is not, in fact, impossible. That would insulate all those families from that collateral damage while still allowing the scumbags at the top to feel the effects.
Do someone know how to run a command for every line emitted in a unix pipe? I tried the oneliner in the linked story using Mac OS X’s `say`, but it doesn’t work with pipes.
So much knowledge.. so little time in the day.
Also how are these guys a public company? They're acting like some hotshot new startup, but they're a public company with nothing to their name but a patent and the fuzzy goal of licensing this pipe dream to other companies. The executives seem to have impressive bios, but the only ones that are taking a salary are the CEO and CTO. They supposedly have 9 employees as of 2014 (there are 6 non-independent board members, so three engineers?).

It just keeps getting weirder... this is starting to look more like fraud than your average startup-peddling-snake-oil.
Hollywood accounting -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting .
I also would like to note it happens not only in the music/movie industry.
This is an awesome link!
Ok, do I really need to spell everything out?
You can make yourself, for yourself, literally anything. You can make a pair of shoes that look like Adidas shoes, and you can stick an Adidas logo on them and absolutely no one will object. The same principle applies to everything else. BUT - if you start selling your product pretending it's original, then you are absolutely breaking a number of laws. How is that not obvious?
A bit of sensationalist journalism going on here. The conference is not being cancelled - http://2015.djangocon.eu/news/boy-band-disrupts-djangocon-eu...
will bitcoin be accepted in africa as it has the word over?
Can someone here give a quick explanation on how this would work?

Assuming that everything is stored as qubits and that their internal state is used as a way to increase storage (and they found a way to make the internal state not change over time), wouldn't reading from disk destroy this internal state (not to mention give a random output)?

Have they found a way to measure a qubit in some way without possible loss of information?
Any idea whether this will run on 5V or 12V or something else?
but the converse isn't necessarily true ie, i can pass a test with memorised factoids without any understanding. i suspect that the mass delusion regarding 'tests' is conflating this assumption with the alternative which is far far more likely to actually happen. seriously, would the world fall apart if we let people take tests when they want/feel they have mastered the material and only accept a 90% pass? who's still terrified of the 9 times tables after they're 8 years old...?
> The political system and Senate reflect the division in the country.

I'd argue that, with voter turnout barely hitting 55% for the most important election in the land, the political system does not reflect much except a view of politics as media-driven spectator sport.
They use the same tracking system Google uses to create unique keys, except
they built their own. That means the microtime of installation is sent to
the mothership every single time someone pulls down the anti-phishing and
anti-malware lists (from 10.76.1.11) in the browser. This microtime is
easily enough information to decloak people, which is presumably the same
reason Google built it into the browser.

Anyone know what mechanism this refers to?
EN link also available: http://joachimesque.com/globe/index.html.en
its happening more than we think....
Hi All, I'm the author of this list. My main motivation with this was to list down a few university courses that make their material available online for free. In contrast to MOOCs, I've found these university courses to be quite valuable especially if you're looking to dive deeper (lecture notes & readings) and/or like working at your own pace. Most of these courses have really interesting assignments which you can work on when you are between side-projects.

Thanks to the contributors, the list has become quite huge and I'm open to any ideas that might help users navigate this better. There was a recommendation[0] made to add emojis and I'm looking for feedback on how it could be done better. If any of you have suggestions, I'm all ears! Thanks!

[0] - https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/issues/29
#Hackernews on Slack to connect users and nerds
The key to GPUs is sufficient volume to make their specialized designs worth the NRE costs; I don't know of another example like them.
Why? When you have built version 1.5 once using version 1.4, you can build 1.5 (or any future version that is source compatible) with 1.5.
One extra second in 2015 could break the internet
In fact, insect byproducts are already used in food production. Carmine is a red food dye made from the scales of a particular bug:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine
reddit.com/r/videos it has 6,785,199 viewers and at least 5000 online at every hour. and you can also post it on android or ios/apple related subreddits : r/Android , r/iphone/ , r/ipad/ , r/ios/ , etc ... ask this question here also r/iOSProgramming/ maybe you will have more answers
http://bash.org/?5273

Surely most people reading this will know the quote linked without having to even click it.
If something is zero (bitcoin usage on africa a few years ago) it's certainly more likely to grow than diminish.
How to nap like a pro
You submitted the bookmarklet as URL "https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html"
You can! https://partner.jet.com/
Ever sat in a microwave while it was running? That is exactly what is happening to your body if you are between this charging router and a device that draws a lot of energy. Ever put a lightbulb in a microwave? That is exactly what will happen in your apartment between this charging router and the charging device. It's a safety and health hazard and it provides little to no benefits.
And please, that high powered electromagnetic waves are a health hazard does not need a citation.
I were surprised first time I heard that they even got an computer network for their people. I would love to see the inside of a North Koreans developers mind, do they know about the outside world?
Androids UDID? Not based on microtime though.
This is a good one too, although not strictly ping related.

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
One advantage is that nearly any system has a C compiler.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=2b15d2ba7eb3a25...
also post on r/funny 7,595,980 viewers and 12-15k online at least. WOrd of advice, don-t spam to much or you will be kiked from reddit. You can also try advertising on reddit (it's cheap starting from 5 $) or facebook ads, or iAds or admob from google (www.google.com/admob/ ) or Vungle for video ads www.vungle.com/
How about presenting all these in a web interface? Would make it easier to search and spot interesting courses. Could start an actual platform for this purpose.
The quoting is quite misguiding, the article and its title say:

> we have reason to believe that libsecp256k1 is better tested and more thoroughly reviewed than the implementation in OpenSSL

which is something very different from generically being "better" (which has 0 information value, BTW).
For clarity the original title was wrong and apparently updated by The Telegraph.
Give it a try to Meteor.js platform. It's the easiest way to prototype client and server side code with minimum lines of code.
Book recommendation to learn basics of Comp Sci?
I'm a mid 30s web dev (LAMP stack), self taught, made a decent career from it for the last 10 years but now I'm keen to actually learn programming properly, with the aim to actually learning a 'real' language later.

What's the best books to read to give an introduction to computer science? Assuming zero background, no college/uni education, etc. Sure I don't exactly have zero experience but I'd like to approach it like I did, and learn it all from scratch.
I taught middle school science in Houston for five years. I decided to leave the traditional public school system for many of the same reasons the author makes about his experience. This was over a decade ago so it's sad to hear the same problems persist.

Alternatives like charter schools have not always fared well, but some, like YES College Prep (http://www.yesprep.org/), are serving low income areas and achieving profound success. They've been able to replicate a model where teachers, students and parents all buy into the same mission: that all students must gain acceptance into a four year college or university to graduate. YES began with the hard work a few enterprising teachers who became tired of a broken system - not much different from a tech startup in a way.

I've often felt if the teaching profession was prestigious as, say, law or medicine, we could eventually solve the problems in education. That's not to say we don't have problems with our legal system or healthcare - but it'd be hard to argue there is a shortage of good lawyers or doctors. Imagine if we had no shortage of good teachers... But we don't pay teachers well, there are stigmas ("Those who can't...) and a lack of long term benefits outside of the daily joy of interacting with young people and helping them grow - we'd all be crazy to leave tech to go teach, right?
The Top Tech Tweeters
The only plausible way to reach 47% is for "building energy consumption". So excluding things like industry and transport.
The first hackers probably made fire and flint hand-axes.
So they basically took PokerStars and IPOed it for them, since the owners didn't want to, as that would mean they would get stuck in the business.
The bureaucracy has expanded to meet the expanding needs of the bureaucracy.

Pay Post-Docs like shit, but hire another Vice-Provost with a 100K+ package! Welcome to modern higher education and research where people doing the research get paid worse than the those BS'ing in 'administration'.

How do I know? First-hand experience being at the wrong end of the table.
Check these guys at www.forestshipping.com - they can ship direct to FBA from your factory and do labeling services if needed.
“The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck”
You misspelled "matches".
> In POSIX if your buffer is not flushed there is no guarantee that you will get the latest version neither.

That's not true. If it's not flushed there's no guarantee that it will be durable (i.e. on stable storage, will survive a crash of the entire system). However, there is a guarantee that it will be consistent.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/wri...

> After a write() to a regular file has successfully returned:

> Any successful read() from each byte position in the file that was modified by that write shall return the data specified by the write()

Even more specifically, and relevantly to the current point...

> If a read() of file data can be proven (by any means) to occur after a write() of the data, it must reflect that write(), even if the calls are made by different processes.

Many POSIX requirements related to what the database folks would call ACID are hard to meet in a distributed file system, but they are nonetheless requirements. This particular requirement implies that if a node fails but the system as a whole remains up, then the last write must be immediately available. It could be met, for example, by doing your own synchronous in-memory replication. However, if you rely on pinging the data through a backing store that only provides eventual consistency, then the requirement is not met.
Is boredom a limitation?
If this were true then we wouldn't have thousands of books and courses on how to trick interviewers.
How MSSPs Are Becoming the New CSOs in Smaller Organizations
ping goodhost | sed -l 's/.*/ping/' | while read line; do echo $line | say; done
> Atheism was only really formed about 300 years ago

This denies the existence of Ancient Greek atheists, and people who were skeptical of religion in general before the modern era.
“Person of Interest” used ShellShock vulnerability
Linux Voice Issue 2 Released Under Creative Commons
Check out Cirqoid, I got two of those, they are very reliable, with paste dispensing and pick&place functions. It's generally a cnc, here is a link to an image of a board I created using it http://40.media.tumblr.com/b13263cd969cb266e1856c5bf7c27eda/...

And here is a site of Cirqoid
http://cirqoid.com
cat input |while read a; do do_something_with $a; done
>> 'there are a lot of independent musicians who have achieved massive success outside of the traditional recording studio model in the internet age, largely through selling their own work and through touring.'

Please cite some sources. The parent says there aren't and you say there are. I'm leaning towards believing the parent as I haven't seen many and I've seen some large indie bands post figures and they are barely making the average wage.
No. I'm atheist, and that is my worldview. Saying I'm wrong about my own philosophy is nonsensical.

I'm also not alone: My definition of the word seems to be the most common one among the current atheist movement.
That actually did happen to me sometimes. I don't think you can convince me that there's anything religious about it.
"'deserves to be in prison' does not imply 'deserves terrible living conditions'" - It might not, but that is what this article is about. His comments are entirely appropriate.

"makes sense" has nothing to do with morality. It's to do with likely outcomes and cost. Also, if your "morality" is based on revenge, it's not moral.
The nickname exposes the trolling.
Advice for those who don't have any real word experience
Just to clarify, atheism isn't a faith claim, it's a skepticism of faith claims.
I don't know why people would downvote this.
Pro-Russian Hackers Take Down German Govt. Websites
On the other side of the spectrum there is also a whole bunch of heavily specialised architectures on a mass market - microcontrollers, DSP (think Hexagon and alike).

OTOH, GPUs are interesting in a sense that they're not confined in any backward compatibility considerations, and therefore this is an area where most of the architectural innovation is going to happen.
Is it opened to non-american courses? It would be nice.
> Declining attention spans.

Yes, the generation that brought us "Three's Company" had much higher attention spans than the generation that brought us "The Wire".
Useful Sublime Text 3 Packages for a Rubyist
It's probably contractors from China who developed the software.
I spent much more time with my Palm than I do now with my iPhone. Or at least it seems that way.

My Palm felt much more like an extension of my brain than the iPhone does. Maybe because I didn't have internet connectivity with the Palm device and could only use stuff I synced onto it.

Whereas with the iPhone, everything is just a fingertip (and a network lag) away.

Considering the need of many apps to use the network, I also often feel the apps to be much slower than the ones I used on the Palm.

Probably because
You might want to use "--unbuffered" flag in sed execution.
> People notice that they get attacked when they criticize Israel online, and eventually they keep quiet.

Or maybe it's that the people who claim they're just attacking Israel are really attacking Jews in general, and most people don't respond well to having anti-Semitic turds dumped in their conversational punchbowl.
My point was that, as functions are treated as objects in Scala, you actually have a hidden one method interface behind each function implementation.