skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gives me an idea for an app to make for mobile phones.

Leave the phone off or turn it off before you get to the airport Security line then when you turn it on the app auto-starts which makes the phone slowly boot.

Then when the phone does finally boot it shows a fake screen showing "Installing update 1 of 44" and make it so it never ends.

My password is my index finger I should change it to my middle finger, my password is written down and really complex I'd never be able to remember it without seeing it.
Chewing gum.
That's a red flag on the company though, isn't it? Why would they be asking you to recount what's on your resume?
In the US, where I buy Japanese beers, all are either brewed in the US or Canada under license. If it's brewed in Canada, it's marked up as imported. I doubt it's any different in other countries or for other brands.
DST Starts in USA and Canada on Sunday, 2015-03-08; Recent Bills to Abolish DST
Details here:

http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/country/si...

Is it a modern country ? sure but westernized ? absolutely not.
Thanks for the hard work @divmain - this is significantly better than the existing git plugins available. Keep up the great work.
Ask HN: Calculating utility of a new member joining a network
Here is what I'm trying to understand.

Let's say I join a network. I gain some utility because of all existing nodes on the network.

At the same time, I add to the utility of a network by becoming a node.

Are there network characteristics which can make this utility asymmetric? e.g. are there circumstances where the marginal increase in the network's utility is greater than the utility gain for the new member?
Technically, he could have 5% - 1 share and not be listed. But otherwise I agree with your assessment. He's not missing any meals.
This this this, and this. A great lawyer advises you on how to resolve conflict and is an invaluable asset.
Without some difference between functions and blocks, patterns like

foo.each do |x|
return if x == 3
end

Don't "return" out of the enclosing function.
You end up having no way to evaluate candidates. You have no way to distinguish the following -

1. Those who had seen the question before, decided not to tell you they had, and faked figuring it out.

2. Those who had never seen the question before, but were able to figure it out.

You can, of course, distinguish them from the following, but you can't distinguish the following from each other.

3. Those who have never seen the problem before, could figure it out, but do poorly in the pressures of an interview.

4. Those who have never seen the problem before, and could never figure it out.

And it is -possible- you get the honest candidate -

5. They've seen the problem before, they -tell- you they've seen the problem before, and go on to solve it easily.

#1 looks the best, and you've learned nothing about them (and they have nothing in their favor other than having seen the problem before). #2 looks okay, but pales in comparison to #1, despite having actually demonstrated ability. #3 looks poor, but you have actually learned nothing about them, and they may in fact be absolutely amazing, except not good with interview pressures. #4 looks poor, and is indistinguishable from #3 (unless they do so badly that it's clear they have no idea what they're doing, rather than just being off in the weeds somewhere). #5 you now know is honest, and that they've boned up for your trivia challenge, but nothing else.

You haven't measured anything you set out to measure. You wanted coding ability and/or ability to reason out a problem; all you got was whether off the top of their head they were able to solve this particular problem. If that was what the job entailed, parroting back answers from Cracking the Coding Interview and the like, then you'd have a good test, but that's probably not what you need in a developer.
Uh, can we... not? Not sure how people think this will end up being anything but awful for the human race (Paperclip maximizer[0] and all that).

On the bright side, I think 10-20 years is hilariously over-optimistic, given that it's a problem -- that is, general, human-like AI -- that's been tackled by some extremely smart people for something like 60 years now, and no meaningful progress has been made. Sure, the hardware might be there, but that's not the hard part (I hope!).

[0] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
Even if the 'empire' falls, there are still very profitable pockets that will outlive your lifespan.

Look at the UK for example. London is still a major finance center. What is the total GDP of the 6 English native countries is another thing to keep in mind vs. the total GDP of the Slavic countries or the Chinese countries.

Don't learn a language until you actually have a requirement to actually use it professionally or personally. Otherwise your time is better spent on other things, like regular exercise, healthy eating and increasing your skill in your profession or working on starting your own business.
I've long thought that to come up with a good work-product test a company should continually save off their own bugs to put into a broken test app, after which candidates can fix the bugs and the company can see how candidates solve the problems compared to the people they've already hired. The actual production code is the baseline.
"Despite training them not to, they routinely factored “confidence” into their result. Biases like that are pernicious!"

pernicious - Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

New word for me. :)
Sorry, newbie at commenting, so my replies are actually in separate comments below. Summary: you can create a layout that orders nodes, and edges, to fit what you are trying to look at.
A billion at risk for hearing loss from exposure to loud music
A friend of mine hired someone to gather data on his cheating wife. A device that looked similar to this was used on her car. $400 for a month of real-time location data. Maybe this has nothing to do with conference this person was attending.
And make a good dent in your ability to browse websites.
Intel IOT Dev Kit Reaches V1.0
(specifically figuring out what algorithm would be best for different real world problems, especially in regards to various Google products, including those you've never really used before) and practicing writing code on a whiteboard before you go.

Sounds like a nightmare.
Rust, Travis, and GitHub Pages in Harmony
I'm a big believer in a (local/p2p) transport encryption mechanism /in addition to/ one for auth, and for it to be transparent to any UX... that's very much our goals for telehash v3 :)
Perhaps not call the app TextSecure then?

I think Moxie is a total dude but wasn't SMS encryption the Unique Selling Point of TextSecure? It was the reason I installed the app and go through the inconvenience of typing a very long string into the app every time the app restarts.

I undertsand the logic of what Moxie is saying, if that's the case then the conclusion should be, "We need to shut down the entire app", not "We got to switch off encryption"
If I am by myself I find it fairly simple to "turn off" my stress and focus on the task at hand, employing the same rationale that you mention: being stressed isn't helping anything so let's focus our energies on fixing this problem.

One of the biggest obstacles I find in a working environment, however, is other people's stress. If someone is relying on me to fix a problem and they are very clearly stressed out about it, I find that their stress can impact me greatly. There is also the aspect that if I am able to be calm and focused during the stressful situation, while they are clearly stressed, it can be perceived as me lacking concern or having a blasé attitude toward the problem at hand, in comparison.
"newline, indent one tab beyond the previous line."
One way of looking at the DJIA - If you place $1000 into each of the companies underlying it, the DJIA will reflect your gain/loss in investment. If you tried to weight the index based on the underlying market cap of each of the companies, you wouldn't get a correct assessment of the value of your investment.
That is totally false, as far as your career within a company goes. Your manager holds the reigns to your career trajectory 99% of the time. The other 1% of the time someone else with more power takes you on as their pet project. What this means practically is that you are limited by your manager's skills, reputation, and ambition.

Obviously other people can influence your (bigger, life-long) career, but as far as one company goes, this is the truth.

This concept is explored wonderfully in "Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know".

http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company...
That is common in all countries. Budweiser in the uk is brewed in the uk and tastes nothing like Budweiser in the us.

'Fosters' the Australian beer, is not really found at all in Australia. Where it is found, it is usually brewed locally.
React.js Typography
I don't know if the other responders have ever set foot in Singapore, but you're right that it's quite westernized in the sense that a Westerner's first trip to Singapore won't be overwhelming (certainly not negatively) the way it would be in many other places.

They have their laws, and you're better off not breaking them, but none require you to be consciously aware of what you're doing every second of the day.

As for the bumble gum thing, it's commercial import and sale that's prohibited. A tourist chewing gum won't get into any trouble. Is it a silly law? Maybe, but Singapore has a lot of people yet is very clean...and besides, it's not like western countries don't have silly bans.
The billions of dollars the government spent doing basic research, published in scientific journals, is available to companies worldwide. My work builds on the the work of hundreds of US, UK, German and other govt funded mathematicians, yet I live in India.

Some govt research is directly given to a particular valley company and no one else, but quite a lot of it is published and free for anyone in the world to use.

As for the tenure system, firing is hard and as a result getting hired is also extremely hard.
Dear Roku: Foku
So I bought my Roku device, and yes admittedly I bought it from the U.S. (Amazon).

And, unfortunately the Roku app is not available to Australian users. There's definitely a Roku app there and I get to read about all the juicy features. I just can't download it because...... well I can't imagine why because.

And there's no channel to communicate dissatisfaction back to Roku.

So here's a message to anyone developing a technology product: there are in fact users of your product outside the U.S., and preventing those user from using your product even when they have paid for it isn't a great way to do business.

So Foku Roku.
Adblock Plus has completely sold out due to their ''acceptable ads'' policy which whitelists 300+ ad feeds including most native ad networks (taboola, outbrain) and even some banner display ads now - basically, anybody who will pay them a little ransom. How can you claim to be an adblock client when you purposefully don't block the majority of ads?!

Adblock is a category of apps not a single company. There are plenty of alternatives to support. As mentioned, uBlock is excellent. I hope they don't pursue the same commercial path as they become more popular.
I do think they've tried to blur the lines-- their slogan for a while was "expertly crafted".
+1

This is a deal-breaker for me. I have limited SSD space on my MBP, so my Lightroom catalog is on an external hard drive. I can easily go 30 days between plugging it in.

That drive contains, by a very wide margin, my most important and least replaceable files.
>The hardest test in the selection process was a combined map course plotting task, where you had to accurately plot out a course of about 15-20 waypoints, but every 60 seconds the examiner would read out a logic problem "if Jane wears blue on Tuesdays and green on weekends, what would she wear on the day before Monday ?" - stuff like that

This reminded me of a typical open office environment for a programmer...
Well who cares. I like their winter Mountain Abbey ale.

It can still taste good without having been individually brewed by monks in a monastary some place.

On the topic if beers PBR -- Pabst Blue Ribbon has an interesting story associated with it. It went from cheap beer considered barely good enough for cooking, to being the premier hipster drink. You couldn't image a flannel and tight jean wearing hipster with a PBR in their hand. It was a fantastic marketing effort, it involved product placement in show, sponsoring of various events and so on.
Do you mean time pressure in the way that conveys that the company has poor project management? If so, you should probably find some way to explain that up front (set expectations) and non-Rails people might self-select out.
I'm not sure of the point of this article. Are they criticising the strategy? Are they praising it?

It seems fair enough to me, as long as it's not just coors light with a different brand. To me this is no different than Toyota developing the Lexus brand because people wouldn't pay big money for Toyotas.

After 72 quarters of growth, I think it's fair to assume that people buy it because they like the taste, not because they hide the parent company.
Chocolate volcanoes
http://www.hotelclub.com/blog/singapore-weird-laws/
Clearly, it's a different product than watered down budweiser style beer. I am not sure I ever cared personally who brewes it. It's decent beer. If a big co makes a decent product, great.
The Pigeon King and the Ponzi Scheme That Shook Canada
Right, just a unit problem -- the pricing is still correct. I seem to make this mistake a lot lately, since everything is billed per-gig or per-meg, but you only really care about per-TB units. Oops.
Did anyone else catch what one of the Admins on the site said?
>Looks like the Epic Scale software is not uninstalling as it was intended to by design.

I literally cannot stand companies that write software like this.
If you have a complicated system, the best way to deal with the complexity is to organize it in some fashion. BioFabric provides a way to do that, since it allows the network to be arranged in a linear fashion. Kinda like the advantages of organized adjacency matrix views, but with the intuitive link-hopping model of node-link diagrams. I can't argue that if you put garbage data in, you get garbage out. But, over time, very large but high-quality biological networks will emerge.
Show HN: Free HTML Parser
Those footnotes are more like legnotes!
Now it's canny enough to both cheer good initiative and keep VM dashcam minders for the late crosser crowd. Or is that while fox-walking, cheering the people who brake through the widest kerb-permissible turns to shine through their double hip replacements, and nudging lattes back onto roofs (which browser analogies seem more thin.)
Mindfulness, my RasPi's HMC bus!
> As long as the Linux kernel exists, the GPL won't die.

So the GPL is alive in the same sense that COBOL is alive: because there's still some software out there that uses it.

Great.

That's a pretty useless definition with a ridiculously low bar, though.

The simple truth is that hardly any new project created in the past ten years has picked the GPL. And just for that reason, it's dying. It will never be technically dead, but it's certainly dead from a practical standpoint.
Well, I want to be really good at electrical and computer engineering, so I wanted to work on problems relevant to that. If I stayed at Soylent, I'd have devoted all of my time to becoming really knowledgeable about nutrition, a field I know very little about right now. I'm really excited for how successful Soylent has been and I'm super proud of my friends over there, I just wanted to work on a different kind of problem.
The main advantage megabrewers have over craft brewers is economy of scale. If Coors can crank out Blue Moon in volume and price it below a similar craft beer, then they've got a viable market. If they're pricing Blue Moon the same as similar craft beers, then their margins are much wider than the craft brewers.

If a mock-craft beer and a craft beer taste equally good and cost the same, it's a good idea to support diversity by buying the craft brew. The critics seem to agree Blue Moon is one of the best beers Coors makes, and craft brewers are to thank for pressuring Coors to produce decent beer.
Details on PBR? I get that hipsters like to look like lumberjacks, and that actual lumberjacks might drink PBR, but I don't know the origins of the hipster angle. It's dirt cheap, but it tastes awful enough that I rarely even drink it for free.
causation and correlation bias. classic freshman logic.
So you would prefer a language without sum types but with pattern matching and exhaustiveness checking for nil then?
Goose Island and (especially) Leffe were both extant brands before being acquired by InBev, which is a bit different from Coors creating the Blue Moon myth of whole cloth. InBev's most direct analogue is Shock Top, the packaging of which also avoids any mention of its parentage.

Regarding Blue Moon: in the US, at least, their marketing seems dedicated to working in the word "craft" as frequently as possible. I imagine it isn't actually legal for it to be marketed as a "craft beer," as that's a controlled term, but they certainly use both words in isolation.
As a candidate, I've soured on work-sample tests. Too many times, I've done the assignment, and not even gotten an interview (and I know I submitted a correct answer).

As someone who already has a job, committing a large number of hours for the chance of an interview seems like a waste of time.

If every employer demands a 5-10 hour work sample test before they even talk to you, that really isn't a scalable solution from the viewpoint of a candidate. I could easily put in 100 hours into works-sample tests without getting a single decent interview, so now I just refuse them.
Because money, obviously
Furthermore, there is little reason to suspect Vivaldi might become major. It brings nothing substantially new on the tech side - it's using Blink, like Chrome and Opera, and like Opera, it only differentiates itself from Chrome on the UI side.

Many browsers have differentiated only on the UI side; none have really succeeded. As another example, Flock.

The 4 actually major browsers have all brought major new innovations: Firefox was a different rendering engine than IE (and much better in pretty much every aspect, except legacy website support); Safari launched with WebKit (a new major fork of KHTML with many improvements); Chrome in turn launched using a major fork of WebKit (bringing process isolation and a completely new JS engine, v8).

Vivaldi brings nothing like that to the table. It's interesting to see new UI ideas, of course. But for the article to call it "the first new major browser in many years" makes me immediately wonder if the author doesn't own Vivaldi stock (which of course is not the case; but the point is that it seems unjustifiably positive on the product).
It's a modern, clean and gleaming metropolis --it's quite exciting and clean, but there are some things westerners may not like so much. Censorship[1], criminalization of some male behavior[2] and capital punishment[3],[4] for drug "trafficking"

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Singapore

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377A_of_the_Penal_Code_...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_%28Singapor...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
Damn, I didn't know that either. Been a customer for years and wish I had seen that earlier. I've also had many lapses in time. As long as I'm paying why would you ever delete my data?
You re-enable JS on the sites that you visit often and I've never had an issue.
As detailed in William Gibson's '93 article "Disneyland with the Death Penalty":

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson.html

Revisited in '12:

http://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-jeyaretnam-disneyland-d...
Harrison Ford used experience to land unpowered plane
http://imgur.com/a/Z1hyd has a few parts labeled

theres a main processor which is way overpowered (the big TQFP part) which is covered by a plug-in 2G GSM/GPRS modem. You can 'sniff' the modem control pins, its almost certainly the standard plain 'AT' command set used for these modems, at 9600 or 57600 baud, 3.3V logic

The plug in module looks a lot like a SIM300 or Spreadtrum 5100b. It probably had an IMEI sticker that was pulled off. Theres probably a dozen makers of nearly identical modems during that time period. This one looks fairly old since its a plug-in type. I'd guess the GSM module is at least 5 yrs old

On the other side is a standard 32-pin NAND flash, you could desolder and then use a NAND-reader kit (google etc) to suck the data off. its probably just the GPS coordinates stored between modem data uploads.

SIM holder, some crystals, power circuitry, and a (95% sure) uBlox GPS - the uBlox have that funny shape and pinout. uBlox have high sensitivity so a good choice! unclear which generation this us, they're up to Neo-8. You could decap it to find out.

probably the most fun could be had by first figuring out the RX/TX pins from the microcontroller to the GSM/GPRS module, then soldering thin wires to that and listening with a UART TTL cable. Put in a new SIM, wait a few seconds for the GSM module to get onto the cell network, then quickly faraday it up and see what website, IP address or phone number the micro is trying to connect to. ymmv tho, might just be a random drop point.

(theres a bunch of chips with no clear markings, could be motion/accel/gyro or other sensors - @ioerror if you post up the #s on each chip it'll be easier to tell! :)

edit: i thought about the huge coin cell battery backup. its a bit odd, quite large sized! if its well designed, the microcontroller will detect that the battery has been disconnected, and while on backup coin cell power quickly erase the NAND flash and microcontroller memory :(
I second this website. It has everything that you will need. Also OP if you need practice questions I have all of my past exams from my Low Level Programming class that has tons of Bit wise operator questions.
To be fair to Vivaldi, Chrome isn't open source either, and lots of people use it.

Chrome is of course mostly open source, except for some proprietary bits. The same is basically true of Vivaldi (and Opera), they all add a relatively small amount of proprietary code on top of the massive open source Chromium codebase.
I got this prompt when I opened HN in Vivaldi: http://i.imgur.com/HKMLXQD.png

When I click the ?, nothing happens. Any idea what this is?
Doesn't that mean that the certificate is using the outdated RC4 cipher, and should be updated?
Interesting, I always thought that google using it for TrueTime was a strange use-case, but I guess it was the original use-case!
I put together Luminus http://www.luminusweb.net/ as a beginner resource for common web apps. There's also another recent book on building apps using Luminus https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/clojure-web...
I submitted this 11 hours ago and it got zero votes during the first several hours. I thought it was lost to the depths of HN, how did people find it so many hours later?
I'm not really sure what the problem is here: if I can book tickets for people without accounts, then those people won't get spam from you, as you don't have their email address... On the other hand, right now, I can sign up all my friends with their email address through your form (or from my account) -- and by so doing send them an email (even if it is a registration email) -- so you're already allowing me to "spam" my friends/every email address I can think of?
Things cannot be evil in and of themselves. It takes sentient intention that you judge to be so for it to be (to you).