skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I'm overwhelm with the responses and feeling better with more plans for this year. Really appreciate all the resources.

I'm happy that you know about Reyes! here in Bolivia there is city named Reyes and there is also a big Religious Celebration. Really fun to watch.
I wonder how they determine if someone is an asshole. Sounds like a perfect opportunity to fire anyone. Because this line:

> We have no tolerance for dishonest, manipulative, belittling, or egocentric individuals

, made me think that this blog post was written by an asshole.
Whiteboard coding questions aren't as difficult as people often believe. IMO the hardest part is just getting used to programming without any outside resources on a whiteboard.

The problem is that people don't practice them because they believe that these questions test some sort of intrinsic, unchangeable quality of how smart you are, which is totally false.

But if people practiced them more, they would realized that there is only 10-20 questions that you can be asked, and everything else is just some minor variation of the most common questions, and you don't specialized training to do project Euler or glassdoor.com questions.
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Thanks. I might give phonegap one last try with Sencha.
Why do you say that? There are some significant differences between many single-malt scotches and a rum.
If you used `apt-get install filezilla` then no. Does anyone know if sourceforge include malware for their Linux binaries?
That's a very good point. The Hudson Yard office towers are similar in size and amenties, with a bit worse transit access than the WTC. They are also having a hard time filling the space.

In general NYC construction is mostly residential (especially luxury), it seems like there is more demand for that at the moment. Most of the tech companies and startups are housed in the space above downtown but below proper midtown, in interesting older buildings. I generally think of the "startup" zone as Madison Square Park down to Soho.
I haven't trusted anything from SourceForge since they were compromised 4 years ago, regardless of their 'data validation'.

https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-attack-full-report/
Don't diss 2004. SourceForge looked dated even back then.
The average user isn't going to know the difference.
1. You should not pay before talking to a lawyer. The $168 could be a trojan horse to open you up to more liability.

2. Possibly but unlikely.

3. Yes. "Removed as requested by $law_firm on behalf of CartoonStock.com"

4. No.

The best course of action would be to remove the cartoon, check for any other infringing content on your site, and ignore the request. Any other action should be preceded by talking to a lawyer.

Also keep in mind that there is a lot of ambiguity around linking - unless you were hosting the image, you didn't necessarily commit copyright infringement.

Finally, if you do reply to the request in any way, do so from your home address.
> However, I hate the fact that this change was brought about by the deaths of people.

Amen. I also hate that this was brought about by, it would seem, police officers pouting about the public and the mayor finally speaking out against biased policing.

Edit: I know policing is hard. And frankly, I sympathize with a police officer who finds himself more intimidated by a black man on the street than a white man. It is racist and wrong to respond that way, but none of us are perfect, and these biases can be hard to suppress. But in the face of ample evidence that these biases are needlessly getting people killed (or, even more prevalently, to be disproportionately imprisoned), a police department has a duty to do something about it. I suspect this "something" will be a combination of training, change of internal culture (easier said then done), and altered tactics.

I wish we could have a dialogue where we admit that biased policing is a problem, but simultaneously refrain from painting all cops as racist brutes. I see our present predicament, though, as a result of cops' failing to see past the names they've been called by the angriest voices out there (not by the mayor, I might add) to the fact that there really is a problem in their departments that is causing unconscionable harm to black communities.
I think that is a reasonable assumption given the data over the past century. I wouldn't view such a statement as a value judgement, but instead as a (possible) interpretation of the facts... The US has a disproportionate share of innovation relative to the rest of the world. Nassim Taleb (originally from Lebanon and educated in both the US and Europe) suggests that this is due to greater tolerance of failure in the US, as opposed to greater risk aversion on the part of other countries.

Note: I'm not passing judgement either way, but I wanted to point out that the idea that the US is more innovative/disruptive is not at all an extreme claim and is in fact one made by many others.
His posts to the IETF HTTP WG mailing list:

https://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/search?hdr-1-name=from...

Results : 889

He's not just some guy who stirs up a bunch of outrage (and zero useful contribution) every year, regardless of what you may think of his arguments.
This is correct. I actually contacted Filezilla's developer (Tim Kosse) regarding this several months ago, and he let me know that this bundling was intentional on the part of Filezilla.
What happened in July 2014?
You can take the Nexus 5 off that list. It's been end-of-life'd, though Google now says it will continue to be sold until end of 1st quarter 2015.
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobil...
Reality (pay)check
That's why when getting insurance for your personal items you always ask to have it without any excess. It costs slightly more(on mine the difference is so small it's negligible) and it avoids stupid situations like that. She would have just gotten the money back from the insurance and it would be it.
Oh, yes, definitely. Only because every one of us is someone's asshole.
Good points. And I’m quite sure that Google’s efforts in strong crypto/security has irritated lots of people in the US government.
Indeed true.

Traditionally they've always been unreasonably expensive (relative to individual units) but in the last few years they have come down a lot and now they're only mildly more expensive than individual units.

I suspect once two units or a unified unit hit the same dollar price you'll see a lot of people switch over the unified systems just so laundry is more "set and forget." Plus some of them have smartphone notifications now when the laundry is done (so no listening for the alarm, etc).
It's 4 in the open source definition.

http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
What checks are there to ensure that those enforcing the rule are (1)doing it correctly, (2) not themselves a-holes?

And, assuming it's possible to implement this rule, how do you prevent exploitation, and hence, extinction?
Show me a quality implementation of SSL/TLS I can use ?

All the ones I've looked at are shitty source code.
http://jspm.io
There actually is no performance problem. The closest anyone has come to a substantiation of that claim is to say, in essence, “If there is a buggy resolver somewhere which completely ignores SRV queries, the client would have to wait for a timeout.”. But this is not the normal, or even commonly occurring, case! SRV does not have such problems, or at least not enough for people to avoid using it for other protocols such as autodiscovery or Minecraft.
Apple Pay works great at whole foods and walgreens. Takes about 2 seconds to pay. More retailers just need to support NFC payments and/or have staff trained in how to process them.
Well, if the explanation is done in a manner that people don't like, it's also likely to be ineffective. You can't improve things from a peer position while setting everyone against you. Believing that you're right is not a license to offend.
Eh... somewhat.

I do think that it's meaningful to describe a program as being imperative or declarative or object-oriented or functional or strongly-typed or whatever, and that determination can be separate from the language that the program was written in (up to a point). See also, "writing COBOL in any language."

But just because those descriptions apply to programs, that doesn't mean that they are inapplicable to languages. At the least, those languages can be described in terms what types of programs they allow and what types they encourage, and how strongly. What programs they allow is a question mostly of features, but what they encourage is more complicated question that often involves the culture and ecosystem as much as the syntax or standard library.

E.g., Haskell encourages functional, strongly-typed programs. It's possible to write an imperative, weakly-typed program by using a lot of monads and passing data between modules as serialized strings. But that program is massively cutting against the grain, so to speak, so it's still meaningful to describe Haskell as functional and strongly-typed. Common Lisp functions naturally fit together into a functional program, but it's nowhere near as difficult or counter-intuitive to write an imperative program, so Common Lisp can lay better claim to being multi-paradigm.

I do think that programs are the primary things that are described as imperative or whatever. Languages are better-described by the programs they encourage rather than the features they have. For example, JavaScript and Ruby have all the features common to (dynamically-typed) functional languages (closures, lambdas, functions-as-values, etc), but that's not the type of program that is easiest to write in either language. That's why most people don't describe JavaScript as a functional language, even though there are certainly functional programs written in it.
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They wash OK but the drying in washer/dryers sucks.
The author has taken a great care to communicate his ideas clearly in such a way that is a pleasure to read it. Very well done!
Architecture and Infrastructure for Mobile Game Testing
This is what they claim:

"There are two almost sure-fire ways to understand someone’s perspective. The first is to eat with them. How do they treat the wait staff? Are they demanding, or easily agitated? What happens when things aren’t perfect? The other test is to meet their significant other. What qualities did they choose in the person with whom has the most influence over them? We call these the asshole acid test."
It's also worth pointing to Tuckman's "forming, storming, norming and performing" stages of group development. The example you describe is an institutional level of norming.

During the performing stage, which many teams never actually reach, teams can exhibit arse like to outsiders. They have become a unit that fully understands each other, knows how to raise objections efficiently (often read as rude by outsiders), and doesn't want anything to break up the amazing experience that is being part of that team. Adding a new team member into the mix will upset the balance and push the team back to previous stages.
The large "pawn" shops that most normal people frequent are probably quite strict about the seller letting them copy their ID, and they make sure the deal does not look sketchy. But I am sure that for every large second hand shop there are dozens of smaller ones hidden out of sight which will buy anything for cash, no questions asked.
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Isn't it at least sort of true that one person's asshole could be another's best friend?

Plus, we all have bad days...of course you shouldn't interview on one of those but it could happen.

What if the person has no significant other at the time..does that automatically make them an asshole?
WinSCP is a nice alternative.

http://winscp.net/
Good article overall. Requiring to meet the "significant other" is illegal in the Untied States. Marital status is taboo. I find a person's driving tells the most about their personality.
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> It's onboard because you can't PXE boot it from Wi-Fi

That isn't a technical limitation of Wi-Fi or PXE. For it to work the Wi-Fi has to be setup as part of the pre-boot environment (BIOS/UEFI). For example as far as I can tell my Mac mini can do this.

Given that Lenovo like to pull authorization stunts with internal wifi cards (refusing to work with models that aren't blessed) they could make this work.
Every 5 minutes further from the office is about 40 hours of commuting over a year. When I look at a job that's further away from my house it helps me to weigh the cost/benefit of losing a week or more of vacation.
Is the fear of punishment the only thing that keeps people from doing criminal acts?

1. People speed and park wrongly despite both of these being illegal

2. A huge majority of people aren't assholes all the time, despite this not being illegal

3. Murders do get committed though it's illegal

4. Most stuff isn't stolen even though it is very difficult to catch someone breaking into houses

There's a book called Three Felonies A Day which posits that the average American commits three serious crimes every day despite the overwhelming majority of those folks not meaning to. https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=three+felonies+a+day The reason for this is that the laws are written broadly enough that entirely innocent acts could be construed to be strict-liability crimes that require absolute adherence; intent does not enter into the equation.

If society is not falling apart even if the average American is in fact committing three felonies a day, then it stands to reason that perhaps the law as a whole is over-written and could stand to be reduced. This new informal policing policy in New York might end up being further evidence of such problems.

Further people have found that in many cases persuasion is much more effective than compulsion. In the UK they've found that they can replace speed cameras (which issue tickets) with radar controlled signs that display smiley or frowny faces and that's much more effective at getting people to slow down. The theory goes that compulsion is a very ephemeral threat and that the police can't be everywhere at once ticketing everyone who's speeding all the time and people know it. But just asking them to slow down with no threat is more effective since it's polite.

https://www.google.com/webhp?q=speed+cameras+persuasion+comp...

A similar theory was used to great effect by King Frederick of Prussia to get people to eat potatoes. Decrees did nothing to make people plant them, but declaring the potato to be a royal food and nobody but the king could eat it caused people to plant it either out of spite or a desire to flout the rules. http://www.historynet.com/ask-mhq-king-frederick-ii-of-pruss...
Samsung CEO says all its products will be connected by 2020
This is important, the opposite of being an asshole is not being nice. Not that the text seemed to imply this, but this is forgotten all too often. I'll take a swearing, passionate Linus any day over some nice weasel.
There's quite a good book called "Assholes: A Theory"[1] that explores why some people are so hard to get along with, and more importantly why we need people like that. Assholes are quite often a catalyst to change, both in the sense mentioned in the article that they make you want to walk away from some things, and in the sense that working with them can force changes to the status quo in things that otherwise things will fail if they stayed as they were.

[1] http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Assholes.html?id=GCqXH...
A no asshole rule is bullshit. What you want is a no bully rule.

Being harsh is alright. The people are respect the most are those that have the balls to come up to me and say "your idea is rubbish, your point of view is stupid". Yes, this guy is an asshole. But he is a good one.

What you want to avoid is the bullies. The ones that will insult you for no reason. Belittle people to feel better. Those are the ones that are dangerous for a team.

Everybody is an asshole from the point of view of someone else.
NaN is passed to Array.prototype.join() as the separator to join strings with, so it gets coerced to String ("NaN"). It's deliberately working backward from the behaviour of Array.prototype.join() to create a contrived example for giggles, not a WTF.

It's no more a WTF than this, which follows the same principle: https://gist.github.com/insin/1183916
The Samsung Galaxy has a removable battery.
I am surprised the Police didn't take it away and give it back to her - she had all the proof the laptop was hers. It shouldn't be her problem that the pawnbroker paid anything for it, it wasn't theirs.
Or just download via ninite.com & auto installs w/o the crapware.
Saying someone's faked a benchmark is an extraordinarily serious accusation of professional malpractice. I think your little joke is a very misguided.
I have go go shopping and cook dinner, but if I'll be back in a couple of hours.

Poul-Henning
I've seen more interest in other whisk(e)y variants, in my experience. Rye and bourbon in particular have a lot to offer these days in terms of high quality, interesting bottles. Templeton Rye[0] in particular is a great sipping whiskey I turn to when I'm not in the mood for scotch.

But you're right that there is a whole, wide world of high quality drinks to explore. High-end rum, tequila, even gin have a lot to offer in terms of slow, thoughtful consumption.
[0] http://www.templetonrye.com/home/
Looks like an interesting workflow, but I think I still prefer using a compile-to-js language like CoffeeScript over the use of shims. I know it's a silly thought, but to me, shims sort of violate the separation of responsibilities between the user and the developer. If I, as the developer, want to write more concise, scalable, and convenient code, it should be my responsibility to spend my development resources to convert that code to something the user's browser can understand.
What's the connection to libertarianism?
Sweet! Thanks for the detailed run down. As a DJ myself, at my residency we have a random splattering of strange movie clips that we just play and they are never beat matched but mentally something "always" hits a beat when you are watching it. I guess he's going for stuff actually changing in musical time.
Every single microusb cable I ever had ended up like that... what am I doing wrong?
Yes. Also CDNs and having your servers in the Cloud™ for automatic failover would be no longer necessary. So of course every company providing these services are against it. These companies are also, of course, the “stakeholders” interested in development of HTTP/2.
Bower is great if you need to install jQuery or one of its plugins, or another very popular JS framework.

When you get into smaller modules, persistence, recursive or deep dependency trees, versioning, automated bundling (i.e. no manual "config" files), etc. then bower is not a strong choice.

A good writeup here: https://github.com/bionode/bionode/issues/9#issuecomment-495...
Let's not get facts in the way of a good story though..
> made me think that this blog post was written by an asshole

No, no; marketing people are excluded from this rule, obviously. The rule is only applicable to these disgusting engineers who have opinions and technical insight.
Also consider the amount of malware as uninformed Android users download god knows what. If they use the Play Store they are safer and Google tries to stress that fact but everybody loves free stuff.
In my experience, that kind of employee is dependent on good management.

If they can be coached into providing help only where other team members appreciate it, then they can become a highly valuable member of the team.

Or, if they are told simply to stop it by an authority figure, a person with noble intentions will normally respect that. An acceptable but perhaps tense solution.

On the other hand, if they are allowed to annoy and frustrate other team members, then they're probably going to cause increasing amounts of trouble within the team.
I lived in Columbia, MO for nearly 10 years. It is absolutely full of assholes. I wonder how they're still in business. :)
Looks pretty useful. Seems to have more vehicles available than Cars.com or Autotrader. For instance, when searching for new Ford Focuses within 50 miles of 90210, Cars.com found 739, AutoTrader found 682, and MotoMiner found 848. So if you guys are just starting out, that's impressive. The site is also really simple, which is nice. No bloat, no ads...just give me the vehicles I want to see. Would be nice to be able to save my searches across devices. Anyway, nice job!
Yeah, no self respecting IT person uses explorer to connect to an FTP.
http://leftoversalad.tumblr.com/post/103503118002?utm_source...
A large part of the Crystal Blue's USP is on looks. It is functionally very high end but they're putting a lot of emphasis on how it will look in your home.

So maybe they're targeting a specific demographic who have a lot of money and want something which will look very attractive for whatever reason.

Plus the MRP is nonsense anyway. It will likely sell just over the 2K price point before too long, washer/dryers are on continuous "sales."

You also have to consider that companies produce products to showcase rather than to actually sell. This may be one of those. Looks great at CES but won't actually ship in very high volume.
Busloads of tourists rolled into Talisker (Diageo) on the August day we visited. We sat in the Talisker 'experience' while waiting for our time slot.

After an hour we were ready and got taken around by a suited guide with gilded lapel badge. She took us through the usual history, distillation process and then to the tasting: a nice range of their ages and brands.

A slick, well-packaged distillery.

A few days later we arrived on Mull and toured the Tobermory Distillery. Small and cute just like the town. The tweeded master distiller had so many stories, transporting us back through its varied history.

That history sure made the dram taste great.

Looking forward to making it onto Islay next time.

Slàinte!
I don't think this is a valid criticism. Most of the VC funded startups I'm aware of are founded by graduates of top US schools (Ivy or similar), where almost no one graduates with debt.

An alternative hypothesis that fits the data equally well is this:

As startups become more popular, the low hanging fruit is quickly picked over (social networks, mobile apps that require very little initial capital, etc.). Concurrently, startups have become more mainstream and seen as less risky (whether justified or not). As such, many "older" (by which I mean not in their 20s) people with narrow domain expertise have begun to start companies with the goal of addressing some narrow need that isn't addressable by the typical smart, CS-grad, startup founder with little to no real world experience outside of tech internships.
If they aren't now, they will be soon.

Look at where LG, Hyundai, and Kia were just 15 years ago. LG had to change names from GoldStar to shed the perception of the brand as the king of cheap Sony knock-offs. Hyundai and Kia were releasing unbelievably generic cars with their attempts at "styling" ending up like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Opirus#mediaviewer/File:Kia...

Samsung wasn't much better, they had little presence in the consumer market and weren't regarded any higher than Foxconn is today in terms of electronics/engineering prowess.

I don't see the best Chinese companies being that far off from the best Korea had to offer back then. Look how quickly the Korean companies caught up and then remember how fast everything moves in China.