skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, for example:

Boss: Fred, I want you to work on the Frobitz feature. FSK worked on the Frobitz feature a little, so coordinate with him.

For a daily meeting, I hear about a lot of stuff that usually has nothing to do with what I'm working on. Inevitably, two people get sidetracked and talk for 15-30 minutes on an issue that only affects them, making it a huge waste of time. (I know that isn't how daily meetings are supposed to work, but that's what happened at the place that did them.)
Exactly... ElasticSearch doesn't market itself as the best fault tolerant DB. If you're using ES as your main data persistence point, you're missing the point of it.
Harvard Business Publishing Goes All-In for the Cloud
The goal is to compete.

This is just version 0.1, so the release was mostly so people could get a taste for it.

But version 0.2 will come with all features (except type-inference and code-sharing between platforms). Those two will come in subsequent releases.

I'll also be working on finishing the prelude (i.e. lux.lux) and expanding the standard library.
Maybe drug tax income could be earmarked for educational funding in underfunded districts... Create a school to employment pipeline.
There is scholarpedia, which was initially crippled by the fact that each article (which was similar to a review) would often be limited to the (invited and authoritative) author's point of view. In fact they have iterated their policies . Still their contents are often adapted copies of review articles published in "real" journals.
How low is he worried about?

$200k+ (total comp) for an IC isn't rare. Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc. will all get an experienced senior engineer well into that range.
Don't forget a unilateral decision to increase the wages of their lowest-paid workers.

Ah, but that was just for the corporate owned stores. Franchisees, which are 4/5 of the operations, make their own salary decisions.
What's your criteria for telling that something was written by an evangelist and not just someone's actual positive experience with Meteor?
While more training is definitely necessary, it begs the question of what's being taught, because my guess is the "first rule of policing" (see link) is still a core part of the curriculum

http://blog.simplejustice.us/2011/06/19/the-first-rule-of-po...
Well, the thing they absolutely do not do is "that human touch". The more things get computerized, the more we miss real people. ("For a list of the ways that technology has failed to improve our lives, press 2.")

When will computers do that well? Never.
I think the main point is that Elasticsearch should not be used as a primary store. It seems obvious (or maybe not?), but some people do use it as such. Just like Redis should only be used as a cache.
Google still seems to love their whiteboard interviews, to the point where you have to write syntactically correct Java, under pressure, for a rather difficult problem in only 45 minutes. It's stressful as hell, and has almost certainly driven off lots of good programmers. My company does sit-down interviews with a computer (usually a Mac) and the interviewer's choice of IDE. We get much better results that way - coding under pressure is still hard, but at least the IDE can save you from making easy mistakes under pressure, and you get immediate feedback about how you're doing, rather than just going on the ambivalent nodding of an interviewer.
Related coverage

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mcdonalds-rolls-out-...
Some companies tell applicants to bring a computer with them to their interview, so they can use whatever they are most comfortable with.
Baby steps. Can we just ban using two-columns in PDFs?

That single change will speed the rate at which new results can be read and understood.
Riak search works well. The indexing is just Solr, but the cluster and data itself is managed differently.
There are a lot of bad interview questions. Like "Why do you want to work here?" ... I dunno, cause I thought you would pay me.
17M full albums to stream, but downloading songs is wrong
He is like the Bob Ross of fractals!
Used to enjoy simply listening to the soothing voice of this PBS paint show host...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MghiBW3r65M
I've never heard of any of these people, but I have a strange impulse to buy some iOS app called Frax.

...Wait! No. No, I don't.
On the other hand, for potentially significant security holes, answering those questions would make attacking the devices easy. I imagine more detail will come out in a postmortem once the affected devices are updated. I may be overly optimistic, though..
Sorry for the late reply.

I don't think you should stop posting photos from your trips just because you are 'afraid' you will be pissing off your friends. They can always unfollow you (or whatever FB allows you to do, I'm not big on social networks) if they find it 'offensive'. I just think it is a balancing act between sharing parts of your life, and sharing absolute numbers or boasting.

Anyone that knows me for more than 5 minutes, knows I'm doing well (I live in a nice place, in a very expensive area for example and I don't hide this), but at the same time, I avoid letting (outside of very close friends) people know how well exactly. I never talk about money or salaries or what not. That doesn't mean I won't invite them over for dinner/a swim in the pool just in case I 'piss them off'.
Work Hours, Work-Life Conflict, and Well-Being in Academics
At least Case is open sourcing their software.

I'll stick with my Tresor thank you. Cheaper, smaller.
They have elementary schools with higher test scores, a higher share of two-
parent families, greater levels of involvement in civic and religious groups
and more residential integration of affluent, middle-class and poor families.

While income inequality may appear influenced by race, it's empirically shown to be cultural, predicated on whether individuals believe they have control over their lives and are responsible for their actions. Culture often masquerades as race, but is easy to distinguish: Are members of the same race who grew up with a different set of values as successful as members of other races with those same values?

The acts of those in Baltimore may feel justified, but they are only feeding the culture that contributes to their lack of upward mobility.
This site has some useful articles: http://hpdz.net/TechInfo.htm
I dont understand, it's like reddit then ?
When McDonald's first launched nationwide, the typical meal was a single cheeseburger, a small packet of fries, and a small coke. And I don't even think that small cup is around anymore, even for the kids' size.
Mocha Monday – Part II: Famous Design Quotes
SpaceX’s Pad Abort Test
SF co-working space under attack in Chinatown
You shall not own the files, but only ask for them to a higher entity.
I don't like the fact that they are holding on to two of your three keys for you. What if their servers go away? What if their cold storage gets compromised? Air gap isn't fool proof.
I would much rather have many competing local standards than one centrally imposed standard written by lobbyists and bureaucrats.

The changes that the article talks about would take decades to push through such a system
I am always highly skeptical of Science Daily articles - this one sounds like it was written by someone without further background knowledge than what was given in a press release. Or, worse, this person far overstated what the cited researchers claim

I think the 'layperson' summary of this article should be that the authors may have found an unappreciated mechanism for gene expression [1-3; 3 articles were published simultaneously].

As you may have heard, your genome comprises four 'letters', called the DNA bases. Collections of these bases called genes encode proteins, molecular structures that perform myriad functions. Indeed, everything that you can see on a living organism is either protein or was created by a protein.

Genes have specific functions that are often limited in both time and space - the protein encoded by a gene may only be needed in the embryonic pancreas, for example. In the field of epigenetics, researchers try to understand the causes of this tight control of gene activity, among other things.

The addition of methyl groups to DNA bases is a long appreciated way to control gene activity - see ref. 4, which is an excellent, freely available cell biology text. The DNA base cytosine is often modified to yield methyl-cytosine, a methylated base with a well established role in the regulation of gene expression; methyl-cytosine tends to mark genome areas with lower probabilities of gene expression.

The authors find that methyl-adenine seems to play a role opposite to methyl-cytosine, surprisingly. While the existence of methyl-adenine was known in bacteria, its function in gene expression in more complicated organisms was not known. Refs 1-3 don't show a causative role for methyl-adenine in increasing gene expression but the correlations the authors report are likely to be followed up.

In summary, the story behind this article is pretty exciting and could indeed expand our understanding of epigenetics, cell biology and perhaps more.

One should remain extremely skeptical of anything in Science Daily - always go to the source.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867415...

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867415...

[3] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867415...

[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26854/
9AM L train is pretty bad nowadays.
Google embeds engineers as professors
Cute line. Though the reality is that the service needs of modern autos during the first 5 years or so are likely to be pretty modest. Maybe a tire issue (which an EV could have also). Probably brake work which an EV may not require at that point. Various fluids--though oil changes are about 10K miles with synthetics.

One of my vehicles is about 17 years old with 170K miles. I wouldn't expect to get that out of an EV. Don't get me wrong. I'd be interested in an EV someday. But maintenance isn't a big deal within the window where I'd expect to have to replace an EV's battery pack at this point.
I just watched a local news story (FL) about a vacationing couple that got caught having sex on the beach. They're looking at serious prison time, possibly 15 years (they had just been convicted and were getting ready for the sentencing phase of the trial). And of course, they'll both have to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives.

WTF? I would have expected a fine and maybe some community service. The prosecutor was practically gloating: "We want people to know we take this sort of behavior seriously."
You know what isn't setup the way my normal editor is?

A fucking whiteboard.
What's the feasibility of getting this variety of Firefox OS / B2G running directly on real hardware either now or in the near future? Ubuntu for TVs ended up being miscarried because Canonical didn't provide anything prospective hardware developers could easily download, build, and deploy to prototype hardware (and end users / software developers couldn't do the same with COTS hardware), and it would be a shame if the same happened to this for the same exact reasons. It looks like there's already the ability to run it in an emulator (with some custom make flags for Gaia), which is a start, but the ability to, say, pack this into an ISO or USB image and boot it on an ordinary HTPC would make for a really compelling home media platform and probably drive implementation rather significantly (rather unlike what happened to the TV variant of Ubuntu).
The article discusses Software Engineering interviews, not all engineering interviews and the title should reflect that.
FAA Warns 787s Can Lose All Electrical Power in Certain Circumstances
Day 17: Physics Stuff
Ask HN: What must-listen podcasts do you subscribe to?
We just did this for newsletters (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476097) and the topic of podcasts arose.

So, which podcasts do you follow religiously?
> But Minnesota is one of the top agriculture states and being up north, they have more severe winters.

It also has a very different crop mix than California.
This is by-and-large a community of entrepreneurs. We are trained to look for commercial value, and certainly see no benefit of training ourselves to the contrary.

Despite this, we can still appreciate this as art in and of itself. That doesn't mean it cannot be monetized.
..and from top 10 results YT gave me, only 1 have a click-to-buy monetization; all the others have no ContentId nor anything .. just music with a plain image

How we ended in such state? We have people streaming 24/7
I generally agree with the article in regards to social pressure/anxiety being very high for a whiteboard style interview.

However I disagree with its sentiment that coding resources are free and have no cost. I think this attitude leads to poor quality code. My reasoning is that if you don't have to spend any effort to write code than you will write the laziest code possible. This code might work but it will only work because it evolved from the wrong solution to a barely working solution. If compute time was more of a scare resource developers would spend more time writing correct code instead of iterating until something works.

I don't mean that all developers code poorly because of the decrease in the time of the iteration loop but I feel that it does lead to poor code in the general case.
Patch (computing)
This kind of stuff is so common.

For example closing <br /> with HTML, or using HTML comment marks with Javascript in SCRIPT tags.

People just copy what other people have done, without trying to understand each part of it, so you have stuff that is just blindly copied from person to person to person until someone finally stops and says "What does this actually do?"
How the Microtransit Movement Is Changing Urban Mobility
Short interview with an Apple Watch developer
That's a fair question and gives insight into the person's objectives/aspirations.

"I need a paycheck" is a great answer for some positions, but a person in demand would have choices, so it's valid to ask "why us?".
> Because methylcysteine and methyladenine aren't really fundamentally different from their unmethylated counterparts...

You mean methyl-cytosine; methyl-cysteine would be a derivative of the amino acid cysteine.
"I wonder, though: How many of the violent crimes are drug-related? "

Here is a quote about Baltimore:

"Nearly 60 percent of all killings happened in or near a street drug market. Despite the superheated street drug scene, only about 20 percent of killings had to do with drug business; the usual beefs, vendettas, and respect killings were the order of the day."

Kennedy, David M. (2011-10-04). Don't Shoot (p. 108). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Kindle Edition.
I'll start:

This Week in Startups

Startups for the Rest of Us

The Rocketship Podcast

Serial (one off)

Joe Rogan Experience

Bulletproof Executive

Tim Ferriss Show

A16z

Product Hunt

Kalzumeus

Product People
worse? (in term of effects)
It's both, really.

I personally use a wireless mouse with a trackball on the PC running my living room TV (Slackware, XBMC); previously some generic Chinese handheld, but now I use a Logitech M570 (which is what I also use on most of my desktops). Works much better than having to mash directional buttons all the time.
Military weapons are designed for maximum lethality, police weapons are designed for minimum lethality. Military weapons are about killing opponents, police weapons are about controlling citizens.

There's not much call for a soldier to be sent into battle with a taser, or for a police officer to be on duty with a SAW.
Why learning Arabic is so hard
Money is fungible, so this is in fact what basic economics would predict. The root problem is that assets can be seized sans conviction.
I'd hire a fast-enough Chinese room.
export to thingiverse.com
Ingress filtering is totally viable. A telco should strip any caller ID information that is not coming from a trusted source. If a customer operating a call center wants to spoof caller ID they have to prove to their provider that they own the one number they're spoofing. Caller ID from shady telcos should be removed and customers given the option of not receiving such calls. None of those rules are at all difficult to implement.
The 'Recap' section has good advice to address the issue of data loss:

My recommendations for Elasticsearch users are unchanged: store your data in a database with better safety guarantees, and continuously upsert every document from that database into Elasticsearch. If your search engine is missing a few documents for a day, it’s not a big deal; they’ll be reinserted on the next run and appear in subsequent searches. Not using Elasticsearch as a system of record also insulates you from having to worry about ES downtime during elections.
Lenovo's 13-inch LaVie Z laptop is lighter than a MacBook, has multiple ports
> Military weapons are designed for maximum lethality, police weapons are designed for minimum lethality.

That's actually not true in either case. Military weapons are designed (or at least, selected) for cost-effective lethality -- even the heavy-spending US weighs logistical concerns heavily.

And police weapons are, for the most part, not designed for minimal lethality (TASERs are designed intentionally as less-lethal weapons, but they aren't cops main weapons.)
Prime Minister of Singapore shares his C++ code for Sudoku solver
it it technically accurate though.

they use your local data several times throughout the article.

I think this is one of the best examples of a news article written in 2015.
A government-issued rifle kept in the home, with sealed ammunition that is checked and can only be used in peacetime at a training event. A bit different from handguns that can be easily concealed while walking around the streets.

Two-thirds of the US's annual homicides (about 12k total at the moment) are committed with handguns. Homicides with longarms aren't trivial (total firearm is around three quarters, from memory), but they're a much smaller proportion than handgun murders.
Thank you for responding. I found this to be a very helpful comment.
Is this a new thing? I helped setup a Samsung Smart TV for my grandparents a couple years back and there wasn't any such adware/crapware installed. To my knowledge, this remains the case even after I did a firmware update a couple weeks ago (though the "Smart Hub" has been a bit buggier lately).
Been waiting for a Tuneful Android app for months.

Guess I'll never get one. It'll be months I'm sure before some half-assed incomplete features make their way into Google calendar :/
The whiteboard is actually not the main problem, it's the other things that often come with whiteboard coding. The main problem is that these type of interviews expect you to master the skill of talking, thinking, and coding simultaneously. The reason given is to "see how you think" but there's no reason this must be in real-time, questions could be asked after allowing the candidate some quiet privacy to work on a solution. To illustrate the main issue, replace the whiteboard with a computer connected to a projector instead. The main issue is still there. A group of engineers silently sitting there, judging, watching every move, and expecting you to keep talking while thinking and coding. This is NOT how programmers work. Most programmers sit down, think about a problem silently, then try out a few quick code snippets to explore the problem, then create a design, and then begin coding.

It would be a huge improvement if companies just gave the candidate a problem, left the room, and came back an hour later. Then they can discuss the solution, ask questions about the code, etc. The key thing is, let them do some quiet alone thinking instead of having to worry about someone watching every move and expecting constant talking.
> If you are told there's 4 bases that seem to deliver 99.9% of the action and another 20 or so which hardly get a look in

How many blood types are there? Most people will say 4 (or 3, or 2 depending on how you define it). But there are actually far more of them, but the rest are rare or less important.
> Funny thing is, they weren't that way a long time ago.

> A freshly-made plain double cheeseburger, right off the grill, was an incredible thing. It was damned good.

You're right, they were great. Now they're a disappointment at best.

> I worked the grill back in the late 1980s ...

And I ate what you cooked in the late 80s. And the late 70s. And the late 60s. Really great.

Harumph.
Really wish people using Oryx sprites would credit Oryx. And the ultimately irony is when people claim that the sprites are ripping off Realm Of The Mad God, which of course, itself, was initially based on... Oryx sprites.
but... who needs science when you can have free markets?
I don't see why the whiteboard is so unpopular here. Isn't it a good way to see how people are able to discuss solutions and share ideas with their colleagues?

The way I see it, one could start to find a solution on the whiteboard, possibly with some help from the interviewer. And next stage is writing the actual code, which can be done easily on the whiteboard if it's a short program.
> As long as the instructions are clear and expectations are real, I see no problem in me getting the work done.

The reason they want a portfolio is because they'll be investing time and resources into you and while you may be confident in your ability to deliver, they're probably not.

If you end up failing to deliver, it would be wasted time and resources on their part. The point of a portfolio is to show that you have the skills to do what they're looking for.
Great presentation. Explaining the value proposition of bitcoin in simple terms is definitely not an easy thing to do.. and I think she nailed it right there.
Tech executive Goldberg died after hotel gym accident: official
See, this is where 'different strokes' thing comes in handy. I HATE HATE HATE pair programming. If you tell me I have to do 1 hour of pair programming on a job interview, I won't go. Not because I'll get nervous or anything, I just don't like a few things about it, a couple:

a) I hate having people in my personal space I don't know well. It may seem I'm being an asshole, but I'm very very very very sensitive to smells to the point that I can't concentrate. Your cologne or just body smell will probably be my number one focus throughout that hour.

b) while I don't have OCD/am a germaphobe, again I HATE HATE HATE using a keyboard that isn't new or mine. The stickiness of the keys, the dirt around them... makes me go crazy.

I always carry my laptop to interviews with me nowadays to at least avoid B.

So, for me, a whiteboard is great (for some reason, I don't care much about a dirty board/pens) and I do amazingly well on them. I also do very well in public speaking situations so maybe I'm just comfortable at that kind of interaction/distance.

I think the best is to truly ask the person what they prefer. If they want a laptop, great, if a whiteboard, cool as well, I've done both both as an interviewer and interviewee, and noticed that as well, some people prefer a whiteboard, others a laptop. Give them what they are more comfortable with.