skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick question. How often do you solve Fibonacci in your production code? It doesn't seem like a problem a software business would encounter very often. And if it's not encountered on the job, I don't really see why it's asked during a job interview.

By the way, I failed my very first interview just like the guy you talked about. Complete brain freeze. Luckily, I got an internship and here I am with 7 years of software development under my belt. You probably might not care. But it really makes me wonder about all that wasted potential. Not everybody is as lucky as me.
The phone itself looks great, but the "game" [0] doesn't do a very good job showcasing the usability of the OS.

Also shipping comes around 25€ in Europe. Quite steep for a phone priced at 169€.

[0] http://www.bq.com/gb/game-ubuntu
When experimenting with standing (well, also walking) desks I found that the height of the table is less important than the height of the monitor, and that using a plain laptop, as shown in the pictures, isn't any good if you want to work for longer (>30 min) periods. Constantly looking down isn't a natural position, and it strains the neck.

The cheap option is to raise your laptop and use an external keyboard/mouse, or use an external monitor. Or both :)
I'd bet my money on ripple instead of stellar. RL is more professional and has much better personal resources. From Stellar Foundation I've seen only a chain of fails - initial distribution using facebook, modifying consensus and blaming RL for breaking it, STR auction, promised&undelivered STR distribution to BTC&XRP holders, community communication, mccalebs secret bitcoin projects revealed as just a ripple fork with no real innovation..
I'll be looking at pricing too soon for my business, which has to do with processing PDFs.
I'm thinking N cents per PDF, or N dollars per month unlimited.

I've set an HNWatcher [1] for anything pricing related (which is how I found this post), so I'm really just trying to learn as much as I can right now.

[1] https://www.hnwatcher.com/
For a long time I wondered why China was using censorship against outside information. I thought it was inefficient and probably useless, what they had to fear ?

Then I discovered that "color revolutions" were not happening by chance and that it was a CIA "technology" to remove an unwanted leader from a target country.

Now I understand why they use censorship. I still think they'd better educate their people (like the Russians seem to do) though. Whatever wall you build there will always be cracks.
Go is only eight years old.
I couldn't find any indication that there is any difference in terms of regulations between lithium polymer and lithium ion batteries. Are you sure?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_polymer_battery#Safety

http://www.airsafe.com/issues/baggage/batteries.htm
I'd like to see AMD try and differentiate by being the hardware vendor that supports zero binary firmware blobs anywhere in the stack and provides reference boards where Core Boot is king. Being the open choice for geeks and security paranoid governments, with open firmware and drivers for everything they build is probably the biggest thing AMD could do right now to carve out market share against Intel that doesn't involve tons of R&D.
Obviously, he means from the perspective of an economist, not a human being living in the midst of the drug hell that is being wrought upon the world by those in power.
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There is one reason to link to that discussion. Further down in the comments you'll find that someone modified my code and came up with a prettier picture.

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/11838765/7074316/...
(I don't know but...) I like the idea of an e-ink terminal, however I fear the slow refresh rate would make editing difficult. I guess someone somewhere has tried it though...

The specs of that particular one show no bluetooth (and no OTG usb), so can't connect a keyboard.

It also has no wireless apart from wifi; and only 512MB (though that's plenty for ssh!)
This doesn't look like a good-faith apples to apples comparison. Consistently, the Nim example just includes the core functions while the Go example includes that plus main() plus file-level boilerplate. Those aren't functionally the same. The funny thing is that (AFAICT) the point about Nim's greater expressivity would be even clearer without those misleading differences, and without all of that spurious vertical whitespace too.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/
Yes, after what we've seen in the last few years, I would be shocked if these kinds of things were not SOP, encouraged and rewarded.

Sure, there are many opportunities for law enforcement to act ethically. Yup, I really was speeding, and I deserved that ticket. Those sorts of acts are probably the norm. But that doesn't mean that law enforcement is therefore ethical. The stain of one lie doesn't wash out.

Lying to courts, suppressing stingrays, not spying "whittingly." As the post says, lying has been normalized.
>I really do not understand why people continue to act shocked or surprised about this.

Sheeple don't like to think about being fleeced, or turned into tomorrows lamb chop. The belief in the good of the world trumps the reality of dealing with evil.
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How to design websites that mirror how our eyes work
I'm always baffled by people who go to the trouble of making a standing desk, often at great expense, and then set a laptop on it and call it good. Aside from the ergonomic issues you describe, there's the issue of screen real estate. It's like trying to shoot competitive pool using a tree branch you found in the road.
I think the reason is that they want separate pages by countries, not by languages. For instance, they have three different pages in Spanish (Spain, Mexico, Uruguay).
He didn't say it was a "problem". He said it was a "fair amount of work". Time is money and sometimes there is no money to do it.
Even if it's possible with this device (which I don't know) that's still an ARM processor you have. It's a Cortex A7 a bit faster from what you get in a Raspberry Pi 2 but not much.

Anyway, those phones or tablets that turn into supposed regular computers are cool, but at the end of the day when I have access to a screen and keyboard there is usually a computer not far. Since my data is in the cloud anyway, I'd rather use that separate computer than my phone.
I had an even easier way:
1. go to local office supply store
2. exchange money for product
3. wait for delivery and installation
Sadly my browser times out at "Waiting for cdnjs.cloudflare.com", so I only see a rather busted version of the page (or is the odd whitespace preceding the Nim-examples intentional?).

But the little I can see looks very promising, thanks for compiling this! Will definitely check back when Cloudflare has their act together again.
"Only available in the European Union"

...and GB = Great Britain.
Paying an extortionist only makes it easier for the extortionist to continue. The same with kidnapping. In some countries it is in fact illegal to pay a ransom.
i really believed in Symbian, but they fucked it up didnt they
Read this type of threads or reddit's /r/programming. The number of interviewers claiming "it's a simple 5 minutes problem" is disheartening. People get bored easily. Especially when they already know the solution.
Won't alternative hostnames field help you out with that?
I do remember seeing the Woolworths logo in the background of the keynote and checking that it really was the Woolworths Australia logo. Seems Wesfarmers missed a trick - congrats on landing that gig! :)

If you're not still under NDA, are you able to say if that means the app was developed without access to Watch hardware? (I assume that's the case from the first impressions of Apple Watch post.)
> - JOANNA STERN’S GALAXY S6 REVIEW
> If your information source was Gruber's take on the review, you'd think the S6 was a cheap unusable knock-off

The software is the only point he cares to comment on. But his introduction to the quote is:

>> A rave review for everything but...

I had no trouble parsing this.

And for more context, this item preceded the link to Joanna Stern's review by a few posts:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/04/03/bohn-galaxy-s6
This has to be the worse performing webpage I ever visited. It looks like hljs has so much code highlighting to do it blocks the UI thread or something.
Random other example: lab I worked in had a CNC milling machine that accepted FAT32 usb drives to load g-code from.
I only see three possibilities.

1. Financial coercion for sex isn't like financial coercion for labor (which needs to be accompanied by a reasonable argument as to why).

2. Financial coercion for sex is like financial coercion for labor, and they are both done without consent (admitting that most labor is a form of slavery, albeit it not as bad as what people generally think of).

3. Financial coercion for sex is like financial coercion for labor, and as such financial coercion for sex still allows consent, which then leads to the conclusion that coercion (of at least some forms) is not sufficient for stating consent cannot be given.

2 can outright ignored because almost anyone making that argument will never actually live by it and are merely using it as an escape. So either an argument for 1 or to admit the conclusion of 3.
I've had the complete opposite experience with Android phones which is why I probably plan to stick with an iPhone when I upgrade my 4S within the next few weeks. I know people who have Android phones who are waiting to upgrade to Lollipop.

What carrier/phone do you have?
I actually got the link to his code yesterday and it's eerily close to what I wrote a few months ago, but I rejected that approach because I didn't like that any of the numbers in [0.5,1.0) were so much more likely to be returned than 0.0. This gives the highest possible entropy and all numbers representable by floating points in that range can be returned, but the trade-off is that certain values will be returned vastly much more often than others. It's this discussion of trade-offs that I'm actually missing.

I don't feel competent enough to write that paper/article/rant about the trade-offs myself, I barely understand math and randomness, but I'm getting tired of all the libraries out there that say "uniform[1] random[2] floating points[3] [1] - not actually uniform [2] - not actually random [3] - terms and conditions apply, YMMV, not valid where invalid".
I've started noticing this since having kids. Not got a concrete answer but try some of the following:

* Drink as much water as you can and try and eat a mixture of freshly prepared food when you can.

* Work out and pick something you enjoy - currently I go kayaking, go to the gym and do yoga during the week and try to get out at the weekend into the countryside.

* Walk when you can, get outside and breathe fresh air

* Try to sleep (or at least be in bed) for around 8 hours a day

* Try to relax doing something not involving computers or tv each day

I was starting to wonder that my parents in their 70s seemed to have more energy than me but sleep deprivation can get you down after a while. Be positive and do what you can - it can be a downward spiral otherwise!
Visualizing Potential Brain cancer treatment in real time with Nanotechnology
These guys started selling branded USB pen drives back in 2007. Their history is quite interesting. Here is a google translated Spanish article [1]

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Can I run docker on this?
#2 is extremely easy, isn't it? Use a uniform random generator to generate a bit pattern of the size of a float, reinterpret_cast to float, and repeat until you have something that is in the target range (that gets rid of NaN's as they aren't ever in any range; filter denormalized numbers, if required)

You can speed that up by forcing bits that you know have to be zero or one to those values. If you do that, I think your expected number of iterations can be proven to be fairly small.
We've just bought two of them, and we've found one minor disadvantage compared to much more expensive motorized desks: there are no presets, so one has to mark ones ideal sitting and standing heights somehow.

Other than that, they're an ideal way to try out standing. Even if it's not for you, you still have a motorized regular desk (which encourages people to find he ergonomically ideal sitting height, something often neglected) and the price is about the same as most bog standard manually adjustable office supply desks.
The one having to buy drugs is the victim while the ones selling it is the criminal, but the one having to sell sex is the victim while the one buying it is the criminal? As long as we are talking about consensual prostitution, this makes no sense.
The CPU's in the Air haven't really gotten that much faster since Sandy Bridge. The 2013's were actually a slight step down from the 2012's in many benchmarks.
There are viruses for both. Keep your computer behind a NAT firewall, don't open dodgy looking emails, pirate software, or go on dodgy websites and you can be fairly confident.

The best security model on a common operating system is probably Android, especially the newer security enhanced versions. Keep your work, banking, and home stuff separate? Check. Fine grained control of what apps can do? Check. Prevent programs from interfering with other programs or the OS? Check.

The 3 problems for android are - we don't know much about most software publishers (why should we trust them), lack of opensource apps for important stuff, and users are used to giving apps permissions they don't need.
I'm a freelancer, been 100% remote for the last 3 years. I rent desk space at a coworking space that is a mile and a half from my house. My car is broken, I'm lazy about fixing it (actually, I'm just going to get rid of it) and I hate buses, so it forces me to walk.
spacefight is right. Offering HTTP along with HTTPS is an antipattern. As an example, I give you Reddit, where HTTP and HTTPS services are identical. That means you can log in on the HTTPS site, and I can have your session cookie or even your password.

The only sane solution is to set up HTTP to redirect to HTTPS, and add an HSTS cookie.
Ah, I didn't realize the Micro-USB port wouldn't accept a keyboard. There are Android e-ink tablets with Bluetooth; I'll probably end up trying that.

Also, difficult schmifficult! I bet ed, the standard editor, will work just fine. Shouldn't be much worse than, say, a 300 baud terminal!
Thanks Gaxty!
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"If you can build an engine that can constantly accelerate... Of course I haven't taken into account the amount of energy that needs to be involved..."

Yes, once you throw away all the hard problems, space travel is easy.

Once you take them back into account, and seriously consider the problem as an engineering problem and not a science fiction problem, which, alas, many people have been sort of accidentally been trained to do because of the prevalence of science fiction, it starts looking really, really hard again, like, "The most plausible answer to the Fermi paradox is that star travel is impossible"-level hard.

(Which, again, isn't my opinion... I think it just means it takes a "bit" longer (you know, two or three orders of magnitude, just a trifling detail) but assuming that all possible societies in all the universe are as impatient as modern-day humans is a very strong assumption. But it isn't such a crazy argument that it can simply be dismissed... real space travel is hard.)
What's the current state of the art for realtime + internet? I would have thought that once you get to the first other network device, whatever realtime guarantees your device offered would be toast. And stuff like packet loss or a TCP retransmission would be disasterous. They seem like entirely incompatible domains.
Are you saying that too big to succeed will solve too big to fail?

"A state government wants to borrow $800 million in bonds for a new arena" ... Arenas are a curse on the population. ( http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/if-you-b... )

"A major pension plan serving 100,000 retirees needs their 100 billion dollars in assets to be managed responsibly, can a 24 year old Stanford grad manage that?"

If the tech start ups change the game, do you think the pensioners are going to trust their money with a kid? no... Do you think the Wall Street talent is going to disappear just because the reviled industry they worked in changed? I don't think so.

I for one welcome the change. The industry is a bit of a mess right now.
Back when the web looked (to me) like it was going to move to XHTML2 rather than HTML5 data encoding using Microformats looked promising, http://microformats.org/wiki/job-listing. One doesn't hear "semantic web" much nowadays though.
The Great Cannon is basically a proprietary WebLOIC, which of course means Web-based Low Orbit Ion Cannon. You may have heard of LOIC; a DDoS tool being used by script kiddies and activists for the past 4 or so years.

"Powerful New Weapon"? Pure clickbait.

Playing catch-up with Anonymous is neither new nor powerful.
The Metallurgy book sounds very interesting, definitely going to check it out. Along those lines, but I think much more simplistic, is a book I just read called "Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World" -- one chapter each devoted to a common everyday material. You may like that one based on why you liked the Metallurgy book.
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Well, they sometimes block HTTPS traffic; e.g. for Wikipedia (even just wikimedia right now).
>This whole thread has simply consisted of you talking in circles in an attempt to obfuscate the topic at hand. Instead of refuting points with a counterpoint of your own, you modify the premise of the question and answer that instead.

Except it doesn't, so stop making statements to try to sideline the actual argument.

>What is the argument you are attempting to make?

That people who say they do not support prohibition because it doesn't work are being dishonest about their reasoning because in reality they do support prohibition of some materials/goods/services/items/ect. even when such prohibition doesn't work.

My second and lesser point is that people determine their support of prohibiting something based on both an effectiveness and their subjective moral feelings about the subject being prohibited.
Not totally true. Intel obviously builds its chips to fit its markets, and while the consumer chips have been improving mostly in power consumption (because of the shift to laptops and the miniaturisation of those laptops) their server chips have been improving in performance also, where there are no such constraints.

For example, Intel will happily sell you an 18 core 2.3GHz Haswell Xeon with a design power of 145W, or a 10 core 3.1Ghz processor that puts out 160W.
Thanks, you took the right approach!
Never underestimate the ability of manufacturers to screw up a perfectly good label...
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Are you sure the Russian education is not propaganda lies?
I know this is probably not the best place to put this answer but I hope it finds its way to you and help you in your search.

I was born christian and 10+ years ago lost my faith and became a "non believer". I had a few scares during my wife's pregnancy a few months ago and I remember waiting outside the emergency room and wandering what to do. I didn't believe in God or anything, I had nothing to comfort me or give me hope. Then I realized "I am not strong enough to be an atheist". Don't get me wrong, I didn't overnight turn into a devout christian but I started doubting my doubts and my lack of faith and re-examining a few things.

Fast forward a couple of months and my twins were born and I wanted to baptize them. A good friend of mine told me why bother if you don't believe. When we baptize in our church we have to raise our right hand, face the alter and accept the trinity. I didn't want to be a hypocrite and do that knowingly that I didn't believe. So I went and talked to the priest and told him how I felt. I asked him to recommend books to help me "convert back", help me believe. Surprisingly, he told me "what's the point? anything you read, you will question, doubt and read with the intention to find holes" so his only recommendation is to pray once a day and read one chapter from the new testament every day. He told me I don't have to understand or believe what I am reading but he told me to do it for a month and see what happens. I am 2 weeks into it. It's hard. I still don't 100% believe. But there is something changing. I don't know what it is but I will continue with this journey and see where it leads me.

On a side note, I read a fantastic book that answered a ton of my questions - it is called The Reason For God by Timothy Keller. Very easy read and targets people like us - educated and secular with tons of doubt.

I know these are not solutions to your problems but maybe you will find comfort and hope in christianity.

PS: Please keep the "religion hate" speech to a minimum - I have heard it all - actually I have said it all :)
Great Britain ended slavery in its colonies well before 1860, but the British slaveholding interest was much smaller than in the US. France ended it later, and again, the vested interest we much smaller. I can't tell you much about Brazil.

> Trends towards desegregation and equality for blacks started at least 10 years before the Civil Rights Act.

Yes, and those trends were met with resistance that in some cases rose to lethal violence.
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Looks like weird sudoku.
My own wife's school work suffered because she had to spend her evenings raising her younger siblings while her parents were at work. Same with my niece, whose has one disabled parent and one in the software development field. She gets to act as part nurse, part nanny, and part student. Guess which one suffers.

Money doesn't help nearly as much as time, until you have enough money to hire someone else (or not work).
MaidSafe goes from 76k total lines of code to 7k using Rust
Eh, somewhere there is code executing on hardware, so it would still fall under the legal jurisdiction of where it runs (and where it is stored).
For those who are confused - this website is just a rendering of Rosetta Code snippets. You can change the URL to display any two language e.g.

http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/rust/c/

So it is not and is not meant to be 'fair', just a nice way to compare language idioms.
Free shipping to Austria with 0,99€ for express. Looks like they have vastly different shipping rates.
OP here. Sorry for the URL, but I caught it in my twitter feed on my mobile phone and posted it.

Maybe HN's mods can fix that. I tried to editing it but while you can edit the title and/or add text, you can't edit the URL (which makes sense, actually).

Sorry guys.
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You have any holes in your computing devices right?

Here's a sure fire way to make sure the malware is removed.

Get some tinfoil roll up lots of tiny balls of tinfoil and poke them in the so called air vents until they fill up. This is how the malware gets in.

Don't be tempted to do a half job and cover up the holes, it has to be small balls of tinfoil. It's the surface area to size ratio that's important - so smaller the better!

If you see any smoke that's the malware being forced out by the electromagnetic fields of the tinfoil balls. This is expected behaviour.