skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure I used to do something like this as a kid. And after the fake job, let's all meet up for a tea party in the back room. If you aren't into tea, then feel free to grab yourself a fake cold one from the fake fridge.

If you are going to fake something like this, at least you could be a fake lawyer (you can't handle the truth,) doctor (whoo, that might be scandalous!) or astronaut.

Personally, I could come up with a really long list of things to spend my time on that would be helpful to society and potentially land me a job (or make me money.) Just allowing people access to the basics of putting something together (internet connected terminals) might be more worthwhile. Too bad these places can't teach people how to think outside the system in creating roles in society.
This is the best job postings site I've seen in a long time.
Bravo.
Contact lenses are ruined by contact with ordinary water but the saline solution and water in our eyes doesn't ruin them.
Let's think about this like an engineer solving a problem.

What we have here is a population (interviewees) that we want to sample according to some metric. We want to apply some series of filters that limit the sample to only candidates that exceed some threshold of suitability for a task.

After forming a model for that filter, we apply it and begin to suspect that we're not extracting the optimal subset of interviewees.

In any other scenario, the answer to this lack of fit would be to change the sampling method/filters. But for some reason, unique to the interview process, interviewers decide the solution is for the population of interest to "study" at passing our filters. In other words, we find we have a bad measuring instrument and instead of designing a new instrument, the reaction is to insist that the samples work harder to fit the bad measurements.

I'd like to propose if qualified candidates have to study for your "test", you're test isn't very good at finding qualified candidates.

By the time a candidate makes it to an interview, initial screeners should have eliminated those that haven't proven their ability to study for a test when given the parameters of that test in advance. Try coming up with better questions to determine if they're a good fit for your company.

...

Now excuse me while I go re memorize all the big-O worst/best case performance for algorithms from my first year of undergraduate instead of just deriving it out or looking it up in a table like we all know we do in reality. (unless we use it every day)

edit

Oh, and the tool looks really fun and will probably help in said interviews. ;)
I don't really believe she was re-elected.

First elections in Brazil are mandatory, people tend to vote on the "least worst" candidate, or in the one they remember more from ads.

Second, elections in Brazil don't have vote re-counts, when you input a candidate in the electronic pooling stations, they just add a "+1" to some variable, or at least this is what they should do, the government don't allow third parties to examine the stations, so there is no way to know what they are really counting.

Finally, in lots of nearby countries there has been elections with similar results (members of Forum de São Paulo winning with around 51 or 52% of the votes) and the same company took care of the elections in all those countries.
Self-Driving cars will obsolete Univan Drivers
I never expect email to be secure; if it was necessary to transfer sensitive data via email, I'd just encrypt it with something like PGP.
Does Facebook Instant Articles Really Threaten The Web?
Agreed.

If I could buy an iPhone with a hardware keyboard I would be extremely happy.
Well, all the sensory overload you experienced as a novice driver has become background noise that is handled subconsciously now. That lets you focus on more strategic planning of your driving. That's one reason I like countries that mandate a learner sign in cars for new drivers. It lets others around them understand that they are still getting to grips with that sensory overload and allows them to act accordingly.
Dear Google, Your Cloud Is Great, But..Here Is a Little Feedback
No, it's worse. I'm talking about the part where you want to pull only parts off a compound:

ES6:

let [,,,,,,,,, tenth_item] = somearray;

Perl:

my (undef x 9, $tenth_item) = @somearray;

The ES language designers got that wrong. You carefully have to count the number of commas, and use an invisible nothing in between. Instead they should have made it so that you assign to undefined, or perhaps null, or make up a new special identifier named _ (like it is used in some other languages) and then the assignment operation is smart enough to discard the value.

This is not only better because now there is a visible thing to see and talk about, but also allows the comma operator to be much less restricted and frees the programmer to be more expressive. In Perl, multiple commas are collapsed similar like multiple whitespace collapses in HTML. The expression a,,,,,,b is identical to a,b – also it does not matter where in the expression the multiple commas are.

In ES5 and later multiple commas at the end are collapsed into one, but otherwise multiple commas are kept. This is lame because inconsistent.
> which from the looks of it is exactly what our "democratic" governments are trying to achieve, i.e. overwhelm and distract us.

Pretty much. After the Freud and later uncorked the psychology genie, the general political attitude has shifted from the masses as intelligent to the masses as a overly emotional mess that can't be reasoned with.

On top of that you have the whole shift from a needs to a wants economy, complete with mass manipulation of those wants via more and more subtle advertisement.

Politics has gotten to be very paternalistic.
"You're never going to see a power tool or a tractor or whatever designed in OpenSCAD."

I beg to differ on this, I've been using OpenSCAD for a couple of years now, and the two most complicated designs I have done were for a dual drive robot base and a simple 3-axis CNC machine. Many of the parts were COTS (which I built modules for) and the rest were designed for these projects, including some parts which were sent directly to my 3D printer. In doing this, I've been developing various functions and modules that simplify common operations such as attaching two separate parts and using difference to form a free fit hole for a specific type of screw. I find this to be much easier than clicking on dimensions in a sketch, but this is because I have all of the mental habits developed by learning to build complex software.
Yes we built in a feature so if you are a female you can ONLY be seen by other females. If you are a male you can change your settings to only be seen by males too. You can also specify age ranges and proximity as well as notifications for the exact activities you want to do with someone else nearby.

:)
For old games like that, it can be interesting financially. I'm not sure it matters a lot in the sales of the 3DS and the Wii U.
This looks like a very promising product and fulfills a long inherent need
Hard to say. From what I've read and heard anecdotally from friends that speak 5+ languages, the get easier as you learn new ones. You begin to think about them structurally and pick them up in groups of closely related languages. At some point its just a matter of learning the idioms and building you word catalog, as you've learned the grammar in a similar/related language.
Baby steps. A fully terrain aware robot will be very complicated. Breaking it down into discrete goals only makes sense.
> Does mail-in-a-box then provide the scripts to perform regular software updates and any configuration migrations between versions?

Yes it does.
Nintendo Console in CSS
The HN self-driving car fetish has apparently metastasized out of its usual Uber and Google threads and has started infecting and spawning here in totally unrelated topics apparently.
I agree that this would be the best recourse if we could manage to muster some sort of coordinated exodus of mirrors. Mirror providers have at least some sort of power over SF due the service they are providing, something that project authors do not have. Many of the mirrors I think are academic and I don't think they too happy about SF being such leech that they are.
Low quality comments are consistently downvoted without remorse. Your response added nothing substantive or interesting for people to read on the comment page. You didn't even bother to use proper syntax. By contrast, you will note that your original comment, disagreeable as it may be to the other commentator and to the other friends of Mr. Khosa, has not been downvoted.
Stuart Russel of AI a Modern Approach fame ( with Norvig ) asks us to consider the ethics of AI research - killer robotics, & hunter drones.

http://www.nature.com/news/robotics-ethics-of-artificial-int...

He calls for a moritorium until we can get a neural net to learn Asimov's 1st Law.

Should the self driving car swerve into you to avoid greater moral hazard ?

Humour aside as researchers and robotocists do we have a moral obligation to obey the 1st Law ?
To be fair, being helpful to a company you have an investment in is just a good business move... it doesn't implicitly make you a "better person".
>> "There should be a gentler ramp-up from unemployment benefits to sustainable business"

There is. In the UK you can work up to 16 hours per week while on unemployment benefits. If self-employed you also don't have to pay national insurance until your profit exceeds a certain level.
"The success rate of the training centers is high. About 60 to 70 percent of those who go through France’s practice firms find jobs, often administrative positions, Mr. Troton said.
But in a reflection of the shifting nature of the European workplace, most are low-paying and last for short stints, sometimes just three to six months."

Doesn't seem that high a success to me. I'm sure it helps, but we don't know how much it cost, and it doesn't seem really scalable. It would be interesting to know how it compares to other training methods.
I hope by "mobile" you don't mean "mobile phones". Ugh.

I know Nintendo has partnered with DeNA [1] to build mobile apps, but I hope they remain mostly disconnected, and that Nintendo remains focused on continuing to build games for handheld and home consoles.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/17/nintendo-s-long-awaited-ste...
Saxon has a free version and an "enterprise" version, and the developer also operates a consulting business around it, so it's not a likely candidate for an Apache project.
Great app !
Maybe you can add on the top of the list the number of results like in every search query ... so the user can estimate how much time he is going to scroll down...
Why is DevOps so hard?
AutoCAD also allows for .NET and C++ extensions now IIRC. I have a vague memory of JavaScript support coming soon too, perhaps it's already available.
This I can certainly relate to.
In India wherever you go in the IT industry you are expected to forget about your life,family and just focus on minting money for your employer and for Shitty pay.

I have 10 years experience in the industry and I have worked for bodyshops,niche hip companies and for awesome startup(s). In all of them,shamelessly expecting you to work extra hours, sometime 15+ is a norm. And when it comes to paying you for it, you are handed a nice package of politics and bullshit.
I kind of admire people who somehow manage to use politics or whatever to actually chill and not work at all. At least they are less stressed.
Not good programmers in India. yeah right. Pay them well. care about their life and create a reputation for your company to do that and see how they come to you.

Its not just the employer's fault really. I am now in a different country and nobody expects anyone to work after 6. because nobody will do that. We Indians accept it ourselves. A lot of them actually take pride in having no life and spending all the time in office. I hate them from the bottom of my heart.
I do the same. http://thosefuckingpopups.tumblr.com/ collects screenshots of people who join the cause.

Be aware that simply disabling Javascript by default and only whitelisting it when you need it gets rid of obnoxious brain stressers like these.
Thank you, also reported the site now.
Forget valuations, perhaps the best sign of a bubble is when satire begins to resemble reality.....

"The CEO will prod creativity with a designated creativity prod."
The problem is no one wants to hire them, despite their obvious desire to work. That might be hard for some techies to understand, but it does happen.
5 Myths and 1 Really Big Truth About Being an Entrepreneur
It also strongly reminds me of DRM and planned obolescence.
Games designed for a gamepad don't work well on a phone/tablet. There have been attempts at normalizing a standard input, and it simply hasn't emerged. I think nVidia Shield is probably the most successful, but I don't even have a controller for mine (it was simply the closests to a sucessor the the Nexus 7 when google went the "premium" route).

I would truly love to see Nintendo move towards a more open (in terms of platform) space... I don't know how much they make on hardware, but if they released a bluetooth controller that combined with software for iOS/Android could be a boon to their back catalog sales... though sharing 30% with Apple/Google is probably what keeps them away more than anything... not sure how open Google would be to a reduced sales rate given their size, I know Apple would be unlikely.
In the SE US it's also common to find a lot of (non-Catholic [0]) Christian schools where this is prominent as well. I haven't, in recent years, spent enough time in any other US regions to know if they're similarly common elsewhere. It seems like a new one pops up every year or two in this county.

[0] I make this distinction because, IME, Catholic schools are generally better about separating science and religion courses. There are still more fundamentalist Catholics, but the Church (and thus most of the schools) has pulled away from that over the years.
So it's like POV-Ray[1], with a visual coding paradigm rather than purely text-based source, optimised for CAD rather than raytracing?

[1] http://povray.org/
I'm still wondering if they'll ever turn on that mythical infinite-money-firehose, the pokemon iphone MMO.

In practice it wouldnt really work, the rock-paper-scissors battle system couldnt be rebalanced for online PvP, but it sure is fun to think about the chaos that would ensue if they tried it.
No worky on android mobile
Managing engineering teams
Overcaffeinated Squirrels – Multitasking Fails You
That's how they run flat out. Do they alter their gait like horses, I wonder?
ooops, totally forgot about that! Thanks..
Extended File Attributes Rock (2011)
Thanks... I ran my own mail server for a number of years, but with only a handful of accounts, it finally became far easier to just outsource... I've been thinking of doing something like mail-in-a-box on a cloud/vps host, but the time/frustration in maintaining such a thing has kept me away.
Show HN: ZoomLee – Organize and track your documents
This is interesting. I would have thought this was one of the factors dragging down math and science test scores in many western countries. The latest OECD rankings of 15 year olds in math and science put the UK at 20th and US at 28th. Seems pretty poor considering a country like Vietnam which was ravaged by war only a generation ago ranks 12th.

FYI Top 10 [1]:
1.Singapore
2.Hong Kong
3.South Korea
4.Japan (joint)
5.Taiwan (joint)
6.Finland
7.Estonia
8.Switzerland
9.Netherlands
10.Canada

[1]http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-tops...
Grub1 was not so bad to configure either, but Grub2 looks like a real stinker.

The biggest gotcha with LILO is that thing about writing the config to the boot sector. But then i have not used it in some years...
Yeah! And whilst we're at it, wings on aeroplanes don't flap either. RUBBISH.

/sarcasm
I'm really surprised at how many people in this thread are Windows users frankly. I just presumed that most YC commenters were OS X/Linux people with a few FreeBSD, etc.. OSes floating around.
Why firewalls won’t matter in a few years
I love data visualization! It's so cool to see things like the isolated My Little Pony island, or the Porn Peninsula.
> Those who knew three languages, however, were diagnosed 6.4 years later than monolinguals, while for those fluent in four or more languages, enjoyed an extra nine years of healthy cognition...

Glad to read this...

I speak ~4, english being the 3rd (far from native but good enough to do biz) and the forth being basic/intermediate level. I've met people fluent in 5 languages... but they start to struggle with the 6th onwards.

That being said, I think 30+ is a lot. I've never known anyone who speaks fluently more than 6, but hey, if they can... great!

This people must have lived in a lot of countries since their early years, or their parents were polyglots themselves. I think the key is early exposure to different languages. You can easily teach kids 5 languages before they're 12...
The option called "mountain" should be named "pinwheel".
Yes, exactly.

I don't understand the obsession people have with Nintendo releasing their games inside Apple's walled garden.

Nintendo already releases really great games, on good hardware specifically designed for playing those games. It's widely available, designed well for it's intended purpose and priced very competitively (32gb iPod Touch is $250, 32gb Wii U is $300 but also usually includes a ~$50 game).

They also sell a reasonable back-catalog of their older games. Their Wii U hardware is backwards compatible with nearly everything they've ever released (hardware-native compatible with Wii and GameCube, software-emulates N64, SNES, NES, GBA, DS, etc).

Nintendo isn't perfect by any means. But their setup right now is pretty competitive, and their hardware has been intelligently selected and priced.

Nintendo might gain a little bit of sales by jumping into iOS, but they'd loose a lot too -- way more than most people might realize.
This reminds me of Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731022
> There are agencies that will make you come in like a 9-5 job, help you write your CV, help you communicate with recruitment agencies and give you interview training, will effectively teach you about the recruitment industry and the sales industry since you will be selling yourself.

This is an extension - teaches you what to do once you actually get the job. As far as training for skills required in modern office goes, it sounds pretty good actually. We don't need superheroes to answer email.
Someone made a near perfect JS port of SMB https://github.com/FullScreenShenanigans/FullScreenMario
Wow, that is one of the cleanest things I've ever seen done in CSS.

As much as I might think I'm pretty good on the backend every time I have to deal with css I feel like a moron--pretty cool to see skill like this.
Both async/await and generators are on the roadmap[0] for the next version.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Roadmap
We'll call it "University!"
I confess I didn't bother to search for the real name, so I typed from heart.

As side note, here is a very interesting post about the system:

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...
You should email corporate and let them know. They take their quality and reputation very seriously. Worst case you'll probably get some free stuff.
Dude, it's on-topic. The conversation is about people losing jobs because of automation. The comment was that even the fake jobs will probably get automated away.
I find it funny and sad that in 21st century we still have to explicitly prohibit such thing. Up next -- "Tooth faery theory banned from dental schools".
I'm ashamed I'm french... How can one think "let's start a fake company" instead of asking real companies to train these people for real? and for free...

How is it OK to work for a fake company, but it's bad to work for free for a real company and gain some real experience... How come?
Nintendo should buy out iPega.
On a completely different note. Could you share your TripleByte experience here? Thanks
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The "contact" link in the footer gives 404.
It might not be the most effective way but it also gives people a reason to get up in the morning and some structure and social interaction in their lives. I think that's a very important benefit that's often overlooked.

This is as much about making unemployment bearable than it is about training people.
No. I think that is because most Indians are too low on resources to experiment with their life. This hence has evolved into a culture, where safe (prestigious) jobs (and now safe startups) are the only ones considered good.

I recently started a startup building a product which does not cater to the "hot" sectors like e-commerce and convincing people (we're B2B) to take a risk (for anything, even a free trial) is really hard. Also a innovative solution is generally looked with suspicion (I dont blame people for this, most shiny things here are frauds). I hope we can change this in the long run.

I wrote more on this (just yesterday) here:
https://medium.com/@muktabh/why-is-a-pure-technology-startup...
I'm divided on these sorts of things (I didn't used to be). Sure science classes shouldn't be teaching religion, but having governments decide what's an approved view for its population is bothersome. People should be allowed to make mistakes and when the parents realise that their kids are at a disadvantage then the parents should learn to gather together and fix it themselves. Encourage people to be active in their community rather than sitting back and expecting someone from the top to take the initiative.
Good catch - I just assumed it was related to Boston Dynamics because the tech looks so similar. Rookie error.
I don't know Vinod Khosla personally but all people have many faces.
The guess the download crap appeared in the past 8-10 years. Before that the site was fairly trustworthy even though there was always ads and the like.
We do alright with http://fetching.io. The extension itself is free but it's a critical part of our paid for product.
Great tool!! By some really awesome people. A boon for people who aspire to work for top companies :)
Thanks for the feedback! This is a planned feature.
I think it is the same with programming. Once you understand the basic programming paradigms the rest becomes easy. I think in terms of language is Object, Verb, Subject order.
It's still better than pulling down the entire weight and redundancy of GRUB. I guess you could make the argument that the bootloader is sort of a vestigial necessity from historical shortcomings in PC firmwares that have now been, if not necessarily improved per se, at least juiced up.

But yes, we're heading into the direction of booting kernels as EFI executables from stub loaders, at least in the contemporary GNU/Linux world. Further, you can just hardcode a cpio archive of an initramfs inside a kernel configured for building with EFI stub support.

Downsides are your CONFIG_CMDLINE (boot params) becomes hardcoded into the kernel configuration, unless you use something like efibootmgr to keep regenerating kernels with different boot parameters. But given the trend of lowering and hiding customizability, I expect it to be par for the course. systemd merging in Gummiboot into their source tree should give you an idea of what's to come in the future.
What happens to the kids whose parents won't provide any leadership or input?
Why Our Startup Built an Audience Before Our Product
The text in the article could use its own open floor plan, so it isn't smothered by blank walls.