skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if, as we were working at our jobs, every time we hit on a challenging aspect, someone sat next to you and asked you what you were thinking every 30 seconds. How well do you think you would perform?

Now suppose there were a dozen other candidates all trying to grab control of the keyboard and the interviewers were constantly hollering about which key you should type next interspersed with hollering about which key you should have typed last.

That's your typical youth soccer match when the coaches are amateurs. And that's what you were dealing with, amateurs. That's how you wind up pair programming with three people at a laptop where only one of them types.

Next time answer the question honestly, "I am thinking that you should shut your pie holes and let me think." Well maybe not quite so honestly.

Good luck.
Any idea why tango.com redirects to Facebook.com/youvebeentangoed?
pre-IPO, I would make the best of your current situation, stay in your current team and play the game like a champ.

I would try to make the best of your current situation/team, you might look weak switching teams. Don't rock the boat pre-IPO, consider changing teams down the road.

Stick it out there so you can be around for the IPO (enjoy it/financial gain).

I would wait till you get a windfall from your IPO before you consider starting your own company.

A mentor is always a good idea to have someone in a similar position to bounce things off of, make sure it's someone you can trust.

Enjoy the ride.
I am not optimistic about the future of arm chips. Intel is working hard to take over the cheap tablet market. There are more and more intel android tablets coming out. I don't see arm having much success in the notebook market - even chromebooks are are using intel more and more. If apple wasn't designing their own custom arm chips I would think arm's days were numbered.
It really depends on what the license agreement between Intel and AMD is. We know they cross-license almost all their architectural stuff to each other; what are the exact conditions and consequences for acquisitions we can only guess.
I never got that sense at all from reading the reviews. It seemed to me that most felt that it was a good product with some serious deficiencies e.g. the loading time for apps.
http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/developers

If you’ve created HTML5 apps or mobile websites for
other platforms — there’s good news: the path
to Ubuntu
couldn’t
be quicker. We support both the Webkit/Blink and
Cordova development standards — and with a separate
API that enables
websites to be quickly converted to run independently
of a browser, with full access to phone notifications
and
settings, the same goes for your web applications.
HAHAHAH!!
very handy!
Bitcoin needs to rebrand as Megadonks;)
Ha, lol, yes mirroring rather than backup. Have made the same comments as you per dropbox. Mirroring, eg RAID 1, provides some hardware redundancy; it's an entirely incomplete backup that is easily made useless. It's more like having a spare-tyre when what you really need is a spare car.

Point entirely accepted but I can't help feel there is a deficiency in the language here - a hardware failover is a backup of a sort; it's not a sufficient backup to address even most potential failures.
Correct. Everyone conveniently forgets that there is NOT a 1:1 correlation between spending and results -- the variance is insane. Some districts spend very little and have great results, some districts spend ludicrous amounts of money and have very poor results.
Overview of (almost) all Solar System objects, to size scale
Hehe, I was actually wondering what kind of programs (need to be) run on this and how they're written.
Relying on willpower is a recipe for failure (and what you should try instead)
Citizens United was a great ruling, despite what you may have heard. People do not lose their rights just because they decide to act together. Remember what citizens united was about, it was about people releasing a film -- that's it; and the government saying that it was not ok to release X days before the election.
Ok, It's a great point to raise. But, why did not you asked for 10 minutes for inner thinking, added with a line that you will start talking after you put things together?

I believe no sane engineers would deny that request.
He'll probably not think PHP is the best language. But PHP is definitely the language he has the most efficiency on though.
Huh, I tried /en/. Generally people use ISO 639 over ISO 3166 for choosing the language to represent.
Sorry, yeah, I mean the e-reader, though the Ubuntu Phone seems awesome. :)
more like OEMs underestimated people's performance requirements.
Either something groundbreaking or a future rare collectible.
With the Pi 2, it's not as bad as you'd think; see: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-dramble/wiki/Dra... (Drupal 8 on a 6-server Pi 2 LEMP + Redis stack is about 80% as fast as running on Digital Ocean, in some benchmarks).

For test purposes, a local Pi cloud (or something similarly-priced) is a decent deal.
Hostname-based encryption only covers a small subset of use cases. If it's a web browser then sure, hostnames have become the way of doing that (although even then, browsers are starting to display the organization name in the top left alongside the URL). But for any kind of peer-to-peer program e.g. instant messaging or file sharing, hostnames are irrelevant; you care about the identity of the person on the other end, who's probably using a home connection that may not even have a public hostname (and will in any case change rapidly). Even for something as basic as email, you'd rather encrypt to a specific person than encrypt to gmail.com.

So in short hostname-based authentication is mostly useful for web browsers - which is why it's in the web browser, not the OS.

(Also, pragmatically, existing OS-based key management is terrible - just try and use the Windows dialogues to set up an SSL client certificate. For many users the very idea that you manage your keys separately from the programs you use them in is confusing. So browsers would rather provide their own cross-platform UI for key management, even if the OS offers a "managed SSL keystore" as most OSes do)
Does anyone else cringe when someone suggestions using XYZ in production?
I can't be the only one that has been woken up at 2am because of an XYZ outage.

XYZ could be NFS, SCSI, MySQL, Rails, KVM, ..., you get the idea. Any technology that has seen wide use has caused someone to be woken up at 2am because of an outage. NFS has been very widely used for a very long time. As a distributed file system developer who once helped design a precursor of pNFS I think NFS has some pretty fundamental problems, but the fact that NFS servers sometimes go down is not one of them. Often that's more to do with the implementation and/or deployment than the protocol, and no functionally similar protocol would do much better under similar circumstances. People get woken up at 2am because of SMB failures too. My brother used to get woken up at 2am because of RFS failures. Nobody gets woken up at 2am because of 9p failures, but if 9p ever grew up enough to be deployed in environments with people on call I'm sure they'd lose sleep too. EBS failures have bitten more than a few people.

Citing the existence of failures, other than proportionally to usage, isn't very convincing. I'd actually be more concerned about the technology on the back end of EFS, not the protocol used on the front.
I get the impression that it's indeed not a solved problem, and even implementations that do not have to follow standards like C++ get it wrong. I recently submitted this to Hackernews, which is a nice treatment of the problems:

http://mumble.net/~campbell/2014/04/28/uniform-random-float?
So Nim is more expressive and concise than Go. OK.
Looking at per-student is hard, though, since it requires adjusting a number of factors. There are the obvious things - cost of infrastructure, needing to pay more in salaries – but also some less obvious differences like the way the U.S. usually has the school system to pay for services which aren't directly related to education.

One major example is special-needs: a single kid who needs an aid or therapist drives up the average massively but that spending doesn't benefit their classmates at all, and urban districts tend to have more of them for various reasons. (This is also an interesting factor in the charter school debate: few of the accusations about cherry-picking students note that some cities don't give the charters the same extra funding for support services, creating a massive penalty for admitting each student)
E-cigs and vaping: Laying out the basics
What made you choose JFS over ext4?
I too was looking for what was available for IM and hadn't heard about Telegram until I saw it works on Ubuntu phone. Terrific system and now I kind of feel bad for not using it all along!
I agree, it struck me as breathless and fact-free. I gave up reading when I could not find any review, just description and praise, praise, praise.
Obviously not heaven, but pretty close. The DEA helped the Sinaloa cartel own 80% of the drug market in Chicago by partnering with it to eliminate its competitors:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sin...
whois tango.com will tell you that it is owned by Britvic.

http://www.britvic.co.uk/

Britvic is a company that makes a drink called Tango.

http://www.britvic.co.uk/en/Our-brands/Tango/Tango-Orange.as...

You've been tangoed was part of a British TV campaign for the drink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_%28drink%29
Wow.. that is impressive... Obviously running libreoffice as is on the nexus 4 is not really usable, but overall.. wow!
The general point is quite good. The only thing is that PHP should be considered as a particularly bad outlier and people still should avoid it at all costs. It's just way too old. It's not "boring", it's antiquated. With Rails/Django being around for almost a decade, they're much more sensible choices than PHP. Sure if your whole massive codebase started out in PHP that's one thing, but if you are spinning up a new project I see definitely no reason for using PHP... Even if it means you'll have to spend a little bit more extra time getting up to speed in the beginning, you'll benefit a whole lot in the end. The same goes for MySQL vs. Postgres, to a lesser extent of course.
Nope, happens every time. ubuntu chrome `net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED`.
Improving the quality and performance of your code, guided by the tooling in Go
I don't know why parent is getting downvoted: he is correct, we need to https all the things to improve https for everyone.
Ask HN: I've let my product dev skills fall behind.  What would you use?
I've let my product dev skills fall behind. I've got the itch again. What would you use?
Exp:C#.Net,ASP.NET,JAVA,C++,Javascript

http://bootswap.github.io
http://connectwithcontractors.github.io
I guess it depends if you read "make" as "create" vs "play". The latter is more likely (but I'd still dispute it.)
never heard of it before, which project was it a fork of?
That makes you a great artist.
> very likely wrong to boot

Well the answer to that is when someone says something you call for proof. You don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. That's what I do with David Pouge and Walt Mossberg. But I usually get my news from Tech Press that has been black balled by Apple.
Bugatti Veyron in Paris – First Person Ride
Honest question here: what does anyone need 4g for?

On HSPA+ (H+) my connection is fast enough for any purpose besides downloading movies, and it's not like I've got unlimited data. Even 3g's theoretical speed is great if they could get that to work for a change.

I have 4g on a company laptop and the speed is better than many places' WiFi, but I have yet to find an excuse to use it (someone has to pay that data bill). It's not like I don't know how fast it really is, I just don't see the point of it right now. In 5 years 3g really will be too slow for many applications, but as it stands...
For under $500, a better solution would be the new IKea Bekant motorized standing desk. We just got them for all our developers and they are great. And given that it's an Ikea product, you still get a similar DIY experience when assembling it.
Y Combinator – Where Unicorns Are Born
The day before yesterday, I held an interview much like this one. I presented a candidate with a problem of easy-to-intermediate difficulty (Fibonacci) and asked him to explain his thought process while coding. I did interrupt his thought process two times to ask what he was thinking, both times when it felt obvious that he was stuck (extended staring followed by a couple of heavy sighs). But my principle was to only provide him with advise when he asked for it. I told him beforehand that his performance was not evaluated or affected by getting stuck or asking for guidance, but that we would not leave the room until we had come up with at least one solution together. I stayed in the room but was drinking coffee and reading e-mails. I told him that the excercise is expected to take up to an hour, and that he didn't need to hurry. When I tested this problem on two of my colleagues it never took more than 15-20 minutes.

This excercise in particular took a little more than an hour, because even though I explained a few solutions in various ways he had a hard time actually completing any code. I wrote a whiteboard solution and explained it using arrows and walk-through examples, but he couldn't translate the solution into actual code (using a language of his choice). In order not to break the hour limit we ended up with me writing and explaining code one line at a time for him. I reassured him that it's okay that he can't come up with the code right now, we're not evaluating the result etc.

I turned this candidate down. I feel that while my methodology (close to OP's) has flaws, it does help me with filtering out the worst candidates. I simply can't hire someone that doesn't manage to, with an unlimited amount of help and a generous timeframe, code a Fibonacci sequence in his/her favourite language.
this makes me a little wet
Nah, while an adjustable desk is nice for most people a standing desk is just a really high table like shown.

For this example I'd suggest putting the screen at eye-level if one is really concerned about ergonomics. This necessitates another level to hold an external screen.
I was just looking at a recent paper, you're right the foundation paper is pretty good in that sense:

http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-43651F-QP-NOV13.PDF

There is still some geometry which I think is a bit futile (questions 12 and 13, particularly memorizing the terminology about 'alternating angles' and so on), and perhaps a bit too much emphasis on specific ways of representing data (the pictogram and the stem and leaf chart).

But in general the emphasis on calculating costs, amounts, sizes, areas, percentages etc is, as you say, about functional numeracy.
HN has an odd fascination for this surgeon's claim, with over 30 posts to it over the last two years, when the surgeon's claims first made the news. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=head%20transplant&sort=byPopul... .

This proposal is unethical. To show why, consider Christiaan Barnard, who did the first heart transplant.

His first operation failed. So did his next. But his first 50+ attempts were on dogs, and were eventually successful. Only then did he do a heart transplant on a person. (Yes, I find it easier to kill dogs to save the lives of humans than to kill humans for the same reason. Don't mistake that for thinking I find it easy to kill dogs.) That operation was a success, though the patient died 18 days later due to pneumonia as he was taking immunosuppressive drugs.

Where are the dogs with a successful head transplant? Or rats or monkeys or other mammal?

One of the links a couple of years ago was to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5972171 :

> Jerry Silver, a colleague of White’s [who did monkey head/body transplant experiments in the 1970s] and the neurosurgeon behind the rat spinal cord experiment [where a rat's severed head was reconnected with its own body], objects to the entire notion of a human head/body transplant. “It’s complete fantasy,” he said in an interview with CBS News. Reminiscing about the psychic torture that he believes White’s original monkey patient suffered, he added, “I remember that the head would wake up, the facial expressions looked like terrible pain and confusion and anxiety.” He dismissed Canavero’s theory as “bad science.” Given how controversial the monkey experiment itself was, it’s highly likely that Silver is one of many.

I like jessriedel's comment in the HN discussion from 647 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5972171 :

> There are plenty of crazy doctors out there who make nutzo claims not backed up by evidence in their field. One neuroscientist chosen at random is probably reasonable and competent, but a neuroscientist chosen conditional on publishing an astounding claim that isn't shared by any of his colleagues is almost certain to be cray.
went to the specs page, and this is what it said:

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth® 4.0, Bluetooth® 4.0 hardware compatibility (software not currently integrated).
2G GSM (850/900/1800/1900)
3G HSPA+ (900/2100)
GPS and A-GPS
Destination divorces are turning heartbreaks into holidays
That still sounds far nicer than Android...

Shame that this phone has such a low res screen or I'd be tempted.
How is it open source? Where can I find the source? How can I build software for it, and how can I load the software onto the device?

I found this[0] but it is in Spanish, and many of the links to source don't go anywhere. It seems like they us Debian and Qt, which would be very neat.

[0]: http://www.mibqyyo.com/actualidad/2013/07/10/programa-de-des...
It always astonishes me what you can make with a few keeklamps and some pipe. I've seen entire offices built out of these materials.

http://keesafety.com/products/kee_klamp
The $20,000 gold Apple Watch Edition sold out in China in less than an hour
Etherpad.
To save others the search: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/campaigns/home-office/standing-des...
Ask HN: What is the granularity on Force Touch?
Maybe this is too soon, hopefully we get some Apple people on this, is it 1-10 in integers? Or can it be finer?

Infinite blessings
Why? They're not the highest end, but then again the price and other specs makes it clear that this is not intended as a high end phone. For a mid range phone MediaTek CPU's are easily powerful enough. Unless you have other objections?
Yeah, and ordinarily I'd happily agree with you and not take a militant "raaaaaahh that's not a backup" stance, 'cause you're right, it is a backup of sorts.

Unfortunately, for a lot of people, especially computer novices, "backup" is confused with "absolute guarantee against data loss", which forces me to occasionally say things that aren't 100% true in an engineering sense. If I say, "Well, RAID is kind of a backup, but...", people seem to stop listening just before "but".
"Only available in the European Union"
US government refuses Intel's China supercomputer update
Comparison: The Difference Between the Galaxy S6, S5, iPhone 6 and HTC One M9
Working on an overiew of (female) developers in tech
Show the certificate chain of a local X509 file
The Secret Life of Yo-Yos
Sad to see how hot the quant subject has become on here. Weakens nyc tech. This always happens when the bull market approaches peak.Suddenly every fund feels special because every fund is a winner.
That's why you want a drafting stool you can move off to the side when you're not using it.
uncomfortable, angular, fragile, cold, expensive, inhuman

And therefore hugely popular with businesses that embody those qualities.

More seriously, this stuff comes in cycles. In a few years it'll be Shaker chairs or chrome-and-leather or extravagantly coloured or something. Although the cycle is anchored slighly by IKEA, who produce modernish stuff that's cheap, reliable and ubiquitous.
>* And, uh, I've rarely met people who are really into the Modernist art look who are outside of art circles...*

Have you met many people into ANY particular art look who are outside of art circles?
Agreed on both recommendations. It's a pity that further standardisation stalled; the MOP would make a good addition.
The nerdy tinfoilhat who can't even be bothered to setup his browser to use https when possible..
... As I alluded to with the "(or guardians)". Genes have no major correlation. I'm sure there are obvious exceptions with learning disabilities etc. If a higher class family adopted a lower class child, the childs academic achievement would improve.

Conversely if you have super intelligent biological parents... but are raised in a low-socio and low-education level family... your academic results are poor.

In summary: Genes have nothing to do with it.

If you are actually interested in good education policy you should read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_R._House
The hope for AMD is to have enough resources to endure the gap until catch 14nm. Lithography's future beyond 14nm seems bleak at this moment. Like the GHz wall this could be the nm wall. Suposing Intel and AMD working at the same lithography scale, could be interesting to see that.
Sorry, but fungus, poor air quality and poor quality food are objectively measurable and solvable by money.

And fixing them will fix rashes and fungus induced problem, will fix CO2-induced drowsyness, will fix excessive bloodsugar variability.

It may not bring world peace, and fix global warming, but why invent excuses to not fix fixable things?
Stock market prediction using Neuroph neural networks
Anyone know whether there's an easy way to get root?

Is there a Terminal app with a local shell?

I'm in the US, so I can't get this one, but these are what I'm hoping for when it gets here.
How Spring achieves compatibility with Java 6, 7 and 8
Well, some websites I use are annoying and log me out fairly frequently, or maybe I'm just not checking the "keep me logged in" or something. But doing that every day is a huge pain.
Here's their repo: https://github.com/bq/cervantes

That links to an English version of the page you found: http://www.mibqyyo.com/actualidad/2014/01/08/bq-ereaders-dev...

Note that I don't have the device so I don't know if this works, but if there are problems with the instructions I assume BQ would help (since the open sourceness is a selling point).
Top 5 Bitcoin Wallets on Android
The article says 0.20% fees. This here says 0.02%.

The article is based entirely on an assumption 10x higher than Vanguard's institutional fees. He declares it cheap relative to mutual funds, which is an absurd comparison.

The lower bound of his fee comparison is 8 basis points, which is 4x higher.
Personally I would love me an nice ARM based notebook

Then you can install RiscOS on it. Finally, someone will have caught up to 20 years ago.
>it's an admission that we didn't reach the sought after future of robots and space travel.

Sought after by whom?

It's not something people particularly want (heck, most people don't even care for sci-fi enough to have a couple TV channels and quality Hollywood genre movies made)...
"Out of your mind" audio lectures by Alan Watts completely changed my perception of world and myself.
It took more time for Visual Studio to launch a new project than for me to solve the problem.

However I whine a lot ... but it could be that the situation is really bad at my job.

Am I hired ? :-)
Here's another one that will make your life easier: https://github.com/adamcaudill/libsodium-net

Now you have no excuses for rolling your own broken crypto.
Actually quite interesting to see what organizations that are cranking out phones are like from age and size. Thanks for the insight.
Love it. Only one missing feature prevents me from buying it: Ubuntu Phone doesn't seem to have easy, painless, over-the-air syncing of calendars and contacts with third-party applications/services like Google Apps and Microsoft Exchange, for snappy access to that data whether I'm online or offline.