skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds more like a feature for AngelList/Gust/Crunchbase/CBInsights than a viable business by itself

Hundreds of small one-off sales to make $150k with an information product that needs updating all the time, can easily develop a [possibly undeserved] reputation for being "wrong", and a realistic prospect of competent bigger names developing a similar service to give away for free sounds like the absolute worst business case for a B2B play.

It's a more attractive opportunity for someone wanting to establish a name for themselves in the startup/VC ecosystem for other reasons though.
I haven't made friends with org-mode, but I've grown to like Taskwarrior for desktop, and recently started to use Mirakel for mobile. Mirakel has a decent UI and also syncs with your CalDAV data source.
While a lot of the names have humorous origins, I don't see the humor in this particular entry at all? Can you explain?
Is there actually any evidence that this would improve performance significantly? Removing the translation layer means that every OS and their file systems have to do good wear leveling because otherwise you'll destroy blocks quickly.
It's hard to gauge te quality of advice in general in this article. These are the things that he thinks are important but in the end it's his intuition that probably drives most of his decision making process. Thus things that within his context might feed his subconsciousness with valid data end up being worthless to anyone else. You can't teach hard skills piecemeal. I'm sure getting mentored by this guy would improve ones skill in hiring but an arbitrary collection of probing questions are quite worthless. Unless one is being interviewed by him, of course :)

Taken out of context most of the advice sound questionable as rules of thumb -Especially "The right candidate owns the content of their job. If they're talking about a current project, you should be able to ask them any question related to it and get an answer. If their response is, “Oh someone else works on that part,”
... that's a huge red flag, Ciancutti says. You want to hire people who are so passionate about their work that they know and understand everything about it"

I could interpret that you only want to hire people whos current job is technically so undemanding that they have the time to figure out everything else in the system - or, even worse, who think they understand the whole system and gloss over the important details - these sort of guys can cause real damage in long term profitability as they gloss over important technical details.
Was slightly disappointed it wasn't about a Tesla bus :) I have been secretly hoping they produce a VW-style camper van.
http://www.reddit.com/r/newretrowave/
More of that sort of thing: http://www.texasmonthly.com/daily-post/grand-jury-system-tex...
Don't take it as an attack, it's always better to have more choices and approaches to learn from, nobody is trying to diminish your work.
Nothing is the overall "best". It all depends on what you need to build, and what you enjoy working with.
A contest winner may be either very naturally talented implying great creativity but not saying anything about work ethic or dedication. Or the person can be not that naturally talented, but had to work a lot (work ethic and dedication) to get good at it and win the competitions. At the highest levels though, i would think you would need all 3 to win an international contest.
I happen to be from eastern Poland. I know people that lost family members to Russians in Katyn, to Ukrainians in Wolyn, and to Germans in whole Poland. That is history. I see no connection between W2 and Majdan. But I see connections between 1938 and Crimea.

BTW Bandera had nothing on Stalin when it comes to murdering civilians, and there are 1000s monuments of Stalin in Russia, and your president called the fall of USSR the greatest tragedy of XXth century...

Anyway - this doesn't matter. You lie regarding the nationalist forces (look up the percentage won by right wing parties in elections after Majdan - less than 5% IIRC).

And the threat to ethnic Russians in Ukraine is pure bullshit Russian propaganda. There is not even clear way to tell who is Ukrainian speaking Russian (significant amounts of these live even in Kiev), and who is "persecuted Russian". And telling by the fact that Russian minority in Estonia, Latvia etc complain about persecution too (and EU laws regarding minorities are very strict about such things). I'd take such complains with big grain of salt.

In conclusion - it was invasion and annexion of democratic state by authoritarian neighbor. The excuses are poor. That's why most of civilized world put sanctions on Russia.
if this is a comment on the site stylings, I think BOTB's CSS/layout is part of its general aesthetic, one that is very charming to me!
If you ignore the GP's tone, it's actually a useful search link. Along with accumulating insight and conclusions, to referencing previous articles and discussions helps to avoid specific redundancies.
I see what you're saying. The programming contest winner will do better on the algorithm brainteaser questions, so is more likely to get hired, even if he's lacking the ability to do better after he's hired.

A 30 minute interview question is more like a programming contest question than a serious project.

It sounds his conclusion is measuring a defect in their hiring process more than "programming contest winners tend to make worse employees".
hit ctrl+plus a couple of times, and 5+5 became 55.
In most cases, it's not cryptic or strange at all and makes perfect sense.

Just because it made sense and was entirely justified right then, does not mean that it is not cryptic or strange today. That's kind of the point of the explanations: to explain why the names are so cryptic and strange.

Long ago, when I heard of awk and sed, the first thing I did was ask what they stood for. I would think any seriously interested computer person would do the same thing.

Interesting expectation. I think why I always wondered, I did not really ask that often. Firstly because when I started, there were not many places to ask for (hardly any non-students even had Internet access), second because it would get tedious after a short time.

It's entirely justified for even very serious "computer persons" to have used these commands all the time and only now learning the meaning of some of them.
What percentage is this relative to say, football coaches?
On many motorcycle brands the CAN bus solved the age old problem of buyers having to find same spots to splice into for accessory and lighting power. Now the CAN bus that controls runs separate from power making power take offs much easier and safer
Willpower is Not a Finite Resource

http://lifehacker.com/5967249/your-willpower-is-only-a-finit...
Anonymous Exposes Pro-ISIS Sites and Hosting Companies Protecting Them
You can rent out your bricked car on airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/4182729
I think people have a completely idealized idea of the past. Yes, by 18 you had a career: you were a farmer or you'd been an apprentice for some time. Your formal education had probably been over for quite a few years. That was 100 years ago, 60 years you would've gone to a trade school.

Youd also probably be living with your parents until you got a job, often longer, depending on how well off you were.
Sure, if your career is subsistence farmer.
Defence pilloried by Senate test pilot
Yes this article, and many others, employ the "sticker price fallacy" to advance their claims.

As David Leonhardt put it, tuition is like sticker prices at Joseph A. Bank "If you take Joseph A. Bank’s sticker prices literally, you don’t understand its business."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/upshot/how-the-government-...
This website shuts down on Sundays
If the universe is purely mental, then it seems to follow a set of rules so precisely, because beyond the universe is reality which the mental process isn't conscious about (yet), i.e. it's unconscious about the rules, which answers your second question as well.
Don't get me wrong, by now I more or less versatile inside angular's guts. But the way stuff 'magically' appears in the html template might serve not so well to newcomers. The way it hurt - is when you stuck with some issue due design choices (dirty-checking loop) and have no clue how to proceed, nor there any really good sources to get answers, while reading angular code is plain painful.

Compare this to small scope of Backbone.js, whose source code can be read easily, and you might see why i am against angular's magic for newcomers.
I want to hear a Tesla bus when it makes this sound: https://youtu.be/LqFWvAplIKc?t=2m9s
While technically correct (the best kind of correct!) your final sentence seems to be a fairly ludicrous position to me -- in general scientists spend (quite a lot) more time learning about biases and other flaws in rigorous thinking and how to avoid them, studying and discussing all of that existing knowledge, learning how to perform experiments, performing them, interpreting the results, etc. all of which lead directly to them having a much more qualified opinion than "any other person" does.
You do good in competitions when you 'know' the question range. It certainly helps but that alone doesn't make one a good engineer.
The United States may be the most prosperous depending on how you define that, but it's not any of the other three. To call it those is to blatantly ignore other countries doing certain things better than the United States. Furthermore, I'd argue that since the prosperity is concentrated to a greater extent in the United States than in other countries, that that prosperity is mostly illusory for the majority of the population.

Not the freest (press, 46th):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index#Rankings_a...

Not the healthiest (5th):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2014_r...

Not the safest:
(108th lowest intentional homicide rate, 2nd most incarcerated nation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
So I actually wrote this article (strange to see it again!)

We don't run the code any more and I would have to go back to the source to check, but I think that it handles renames OK, but it doesn't have any handling for splitting two files up that way.

It's a somewhat by-the-by issue, as my intuition are that the files that actually can be broken up and successfully refactored are not the same ones that are going to get flagged. The flagged files are the ones that are churning because no-one really knows how to write them any better.
This has actually been studied with, for example, people who were born blind but somehow through some medical intervention regained their eyesight later.

Apparently, people who are born blind do not imagine objects getting smaller as they move further away. That is something that is taught to us. (I think I actually found the link for that here, so maybe someone else remembers the website)

Similarly, when regaining eyesight it takes a while before the brain can visually understand concepts such as being in front/behind something takes time to learn, or the ability to distinguish overlapping shapes (the whole gestalt thing).

See also this TED Talk by Michael Merzig, where he talks about how important it is that a baby has a fully functioning set of senses in the first year of its life, as that is the time that the brain learns to make sense (hah) of the senses.
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_merzenich_on_the_elastic_br...

Finally, you may be interested in this TED talk by Hod Lipson, about how they somehow got a robot to create a "mental" model of itself from scratch:
http://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots...
The hard part of really building something is keeping to it over long periods of time, though. That seems quite different from being up for a competition.
You are wrong. Just learn to deal with it. :-)

> Not only are all your points about Rust incorrect

That's cute, because other Rust proponents agreed on various things in this very thread. Are they part of this "campaign of indefatigable misinformation"?

Please keep talking, it's very entertaining!

Are there any other secret conspiracies you would like to talk about? Any news about the twin towers?
It renders fine if you disable Adblock.
Having owned a house built (ca. 1930s) with Chicago common brick, I say definitely say it looks great but it needs a ton of care. The brick is so porous that any hard set of freeze/thaw cycles (like we've had here in Chicago the last couple of years) will start some serious damage and spalling.

Use it to make your interior look trendy, but get something more durable for the exterior if you plan to build with it.
Interesting things you can find with the GitHub Search API
Supposedly, to draw a correlation you should try to hold everything else constant, otherwise you don't know what's actually correlating.
No, you shouldn't. European nation states bear little resemblance to federal states, neither historically, culturally or economically.

The point was not that comparisons between states and cities are somehow more valid, but to illustrate that the differences in higher education are most likely due to the vast population difference.
It's true that learning the contents of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming or Concrete Mathematics is easier in a class environment, but that's not the whole story. I'm a self taught software engineer. I actually find it fairly easy to compete against CS grads. A shocking number of them don't seem to pick up much CS during their 4 to 6 years in school. I've talked to countless grads who can't describe the differences between a process and a thread. They can't explain how they might implement even a naïve hashmap. I've had to spend an hour explaining to a colleague (a cs degree holder who was also the son of a cs professor) how amortized constant time append works in dynamic arrays.

For reasons I don't fully understand a cs degree does not imply cs knowledge. Grade inflation? Maybe they weren't given enough story problems?

When someone asks me about a concept I'm unfamiliar with, I don't have the excuse of that not being part of the curriculum.
I remember switching from my Commodore 64 to the Amiga thinking computers would always keep improving in the same rate as the vast improvement between the Commodore 64 and the Amiga in just a few years.

But they didn't :(
This, I hope is the end result of indie gaming. When your target market mostly consists of 16 year old boys, or people who have the same level of taste, it puts hard limits on what you can build. Add in risk-averse nature of high-budget AAA gaming, and the result could only be stale.

Oblivion sold much better than Morrowind, for example, despite Oblivion being one of the blandest gaming experiences I can remember. Many of the worlds developed for D&D Second edition were never renewed.

Right now, indie gaming seems to be oriented around recreating gaming experiences from their childhood. But, some games are showing the seeds of true creativity.
They also have crackmes here:
http://tigress.cs.arizona.edu/challenges.html
>"That means that bitcoin is a .. system that, if it came into any widespread adoption, would play a role in suggesting or controlling people's behavior, just like any currency."

It would absolutely not "control" people's behavior. Control is a very charged term, that implies coercion. Unless there is coercion, there is absolutely no justification for banning Bitcoin so that people are only left with the "democratic" alternative you favor.

By all means, promote your democratic currency, but don't try to give it a competitive advantage by prohibiting people from using alternatives that don't meet your ideals.
It's also available on Steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/32340/
Well, two thoughts:

One.) At a set, low speed we all walk pretty much the same - at least when it comes to the movements the ratchet was picking up.

Two.) Might be interesting to note that they had a pretty small sample size (n=9), and some people were getting more a benefit than others. I think one participant was up to like 10%.
Thanks very much - I think you are nailing it exactly. My physics instructor just blatantly said, "Centrifugal force - it's fiction. Doesn't exist. Centripetal acceleration does exist." He pretty much left it at that, so I tended to ignore everything else he said for the next couple years that didn't make sense to me, thought he didn't know what he was talking about.

I've probably learned more about the topic from this HN thread than I ever did in grade 11 physics.
Found myself reminded of a Chaos Computer Congress presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8F8BqSa-XY
Oh, for sure. It's a fascinating project!
It's just one post on the Internet so I don't want to make too big a deal about it, but FWIW the name-calling really stops the discussion. It signals to me that what follows will have the same tone and thoughtfulness, and it's also just an unpleasant way to spend my time.
Yes this amorphous group of "administrators". Wonder why no article ever mentions the actual job titles/functions of these administrators? I suspect they are largely athletics-related, and by not providing details the authors can rely on readers to assume that these "administrators" are instead useless bureaucrats.
Massachusetts is larger and fares better that those countries. Europe would be a better comparison size wise but does not fare so well against the US.
Hi! Just curious, why did you stop running the code? Seems like a useful thing.
Great post. You are exactly right - all this study uncovers is that Google put too much bias in favour of programming competition wins in their hiring process in the past. What would be nice to know is exactly how important this factor was.
Right - I had no problem with the introduction of centripetal acceleration, in fact, after newton's laws, that made intuitive sense. It was the statement that "Centrifugal force does not exist" which upset me. Your explanation does a better job in a throwaway HN comment than he did in a formal physics class.
How do people make these things? Hand coding it seems crazy. I'm wondering if there are any GUI tools out there.
> Sushi chefs need to be highly trained to make good Sushi, ~5 years.

I just remembered an excellent book I read about an American sushi school, called "The Story of Sushi", where each student was made to learn to filet dozens of different kinds of fish with precision. So I can see why training to be the best of the best would take a long time. But how much of this experience is really necessary to make a standard, delicious nigiri platter? Most people don't go for the exotic options; they go for tuna, salmon, eel, etc. Do most sushi chefs even filet their own fish?

> Remember, it's not just plain rice, it's rice cooked with traditional methods to exactly the right point, mixed with vinaigre with an assistant venting by hand to give it a drier surface.

True, but how much of this detail is really necessary for the flavor, as opposed to fussiness and pride in the craft? In other words, in a blind test, would most people be able to tell the difference between quickly-made sushi rice and sushi rice made "exactly right"?

> Nothing remarkable really, it's the same for most other high quality foods in large cities.

I have to disagree! What other gourmet "fast-ish" food, suitable for lunch, costs $25 in a major city? In all the cities I've been to, most of the famous local fare is in the $10-$15 range at most. I've eaten some of the best food in the world for $10 a pop, easy. (Franklin's BBQ is a good example: hours of grueling work, $10 for half a pound of the best brisket in the world.)

GRANTED: I am speaking from a Californian perspective, so none of this may even apply. I am sure you can get some great $10 sushi in Tokyo and that $25 is reasonable for a more gourmet option, but here, you really have to go $25 and higher for sushi to taste good.
Truly an epic game. This is an interesting story to me because so many projects go this way - small scope at first, then a platform shift and eventually it takes 4x longer than planned. Especially with a game, this can be a lot of risky effort to release something that you don't know people will love. This is what led to the MVP movement, but sometimes products just need to be polished and full featured before they can be successful. Alto's Adventure is like that and their hard work certainly paid off. Props for the determination!
Do you even know what these administrative positions are? I would love to see a breakdown of these, if you have a source.
This article fascinated me and I was prepared to dig in for the 90s and postnineleven era, but it ended abruptly. I can forgive that because its point was to reveal the origin of "skyjacking," and it succeeded.

I also would like to learn more about the financial impact of increasing airport security, and see a quantification of its success (or failure).
> When you use a templating engine, you can change the backend entirely without messing with the template. You can also compile/optimize the display of data in the template more easily.

To be fair, all that you can do with a templating engine you can do "natively" as well. You can for example have code-less templates in PHP if you are disciplined enough to keep it that way. The only thing template engines do is enforce not being able to shoot yourself in the feet, but it's not an absolute must if you know what you are doing.
The author's numbers represent a lower bound on the amount of lithium required -- in reality, the amount of lithium required to produce all of those cars is much greater than just what's in the car. Each processing step from lithium-bearing ore to advanced lithium electrode materials has some yield less than 1, which quickly compounds. E.g., if there were only 10 steps between ore and electrode material (optimistic) and each step had an average yield of 90% (again, optimistic), then only 34% of the material in the ore would actually make it into the electrode.
I ended up ignoring him for the next two years, thinking he was just a doofus who didn't know anything, as did many of my classmates. Probably missed out on a good physics education as a result.
Here's a good review with lots of pics and benchmarks: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-SSD-750-Series-12...
Wow. That response was... Childish.

I might agree Rust might need improvement in some areas but I don't agree with your sentiment or tone.

Not to mention you are quite puzzlingly wrong on many accounts.
my machine learning algorithm for predicting whether there are bugs in any of my team's code: (C code)

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
return 1;
}
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To do this in full production mode, I would think you would probably make it user tunable.

As the article says, most of it is fairly simple. Just a spring for a cable and a ratchet that moves with the motion of your foot (kind of auto tuned), and grabs the spring.

If the spring was remotely tensible, you could probably just walk and adjust it until it felt best.

You could probably also do that at various speeds and then create a smooth mapping of ensuing parameters for various gaits.
Yes, at one point Edward Teller ("father of the H-Bomb") thought that thermonuclear weapons might set off a self-sustaining fusion reaction in the atmospheric nitrogen.

I only know about this because as a kid I read a lot of pre-space-age sci-fi, and there was a story either by Heinlein or Asimov where the solution to this "danger" was to put nuclear fusion plants in orbit.
Curious why this isn't used anymore? Seems like it would have been a useful thing to flag certain files as being worth extended review. Did it not provide the expected benefit(s)? I'm interpreting 'we' as 'google'...
Spinning emotions out of numbers
The Virtues of Riding Fixed (2005) [pdf]