skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To those who are unaware, in a country like India, there's real a lack of opportunities to work for top firms. What InterviewBit does is not just solve a problem of matching candidates with prospective employers, but solve the problem of preparing the candidate for the interviews. The success of interview books like one by Gayle Lakmann McDowell is an indicator enough that there's a huge market for this sort of stuff.

Courses like one offered by InterviewBit provides a lot of candidates with a clear curriculum to getting a job at a mega-corp like Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Microsoft, or Facebook. Think of it as a highly specialized course in Interviewing. Of course, the right approach would be to what Recurse Center and the Insights Foundation are doing... focusing on the means (gaining expertise), rather the end itself (getting a job, making an earning); but that's not a priority in a country like India where STEM graduates by the millions graduate every year and only a smaller percentage of them land jobs at a "dream company" as it were.

I personally think InterviewBit is an excellent product/market fit for a country like India. They're also good acquisition targets for companies like HackerRank, and LinkedIn.

InterviewBit's co-founder on the product: https://www.quora.com/What-are-Anshuman-Singh-and-Abhimanyu-...
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I think your comment explains the problem clearly and should be at the top. To add more bluntness, Oracle's problem is that their typical enterprise customers who may be interested in, or require, in-memory databases have no practical option but to abandon Oracle. And if they move away from Oracle for analytics, what's stopping them from considering moving away for transactional work as the next step?
In Vancouver, of all places, that's impressive. How are you housing costs so low?!
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Only four years ago, it was a 'fate worse than death' rather than a mere challenge:

https://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate...
> Add sunlight and clouds and you could end up with something fairly artistic.

It does do clouds and sunlight: https://youtu.be/Euw6ebwXlMI?t=39s

The whole point is exactly that it "mimics the outside weather".
I'm taking a couple of Udacity courses and I'm trying to learn a little Chinese on Coursera. I'm not looking for points or a certificate. I try to have goals. China, for instance, is on my short list of places to visit, and I'm taking classes to refresh what I can hopefully use for my projects. I learned Go and wrote websites in it:

http://thespanishsite.com

http://www.h4labs.com

There's a lot that I'd like to learn but unless you can incorporate it into something where you'll use it, the payoff will be small. There's so little time and so much to learn.
I think the main reason is that the booster circuit hardware was too bulky for certain devices?
previous discussion @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9592601
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You can now mount SMB/CIFS on ChromeOS
technically it is possible.
That kind of consideration is synonymous with "give us more money" in my book. For developers who are willing to develop for iOS but don't use Macs, why not give them a bone and let them develop on a VM? Apple still makes money if the app sells.
I think they were referring specifically to 'tech wealth', which often comes with the baggage of all Silicon Valley's excess and personality defects and abusive/sociopathic behavior.
Here's a solution: Copyright the code, put the copyright on all of the source files. Bury in there an API that returns your copyright if called in just the right way (But don't tell anyone about this.) Write up a license to give the company you wrote the code for a limited license to use the code. Specify that they cannot sublicense the code to anyone else without prior permission but they can use it for their product/site you built it for. The license should explicitly say you reserve all rights.

Then you can hand over the source. If this agency then takes that source and uses it elsewhere then they are violating the license.

There's not much you can do to prevent this, but you can access the API described earlier to get your copyright notice from the code, so if they don't catch and remove it you can prove they are using your code.

Getting a lawyer to write up such a contract would be convenient, but in absent of one you can write a license in plain terms setting out the agreement. Get the company you give the license to to sign it as part of turning over the source code.

Lawyers are best for covering everything that could go wrong, but if you can't afford one, a written agreement will cost you nothing and offer at least some protection later.

Of course, the best advice is always to get a lawyer. I'm not one, I could be missing something here.
> 3) Apple is now the first to use USB 3 Type C

Didn't the Chromebook Pixel 2 come out slightly before the MacBook?
I don't think that exists (except communists), but they may well not like the personality that helped the rich guy earn that money. That's not hard to do when we're talking about, for example, bankers or brogrammers.
Is the super casual dress culture turning people away from tech or towards it?
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This reads much like "The Minority Report" which was written in 1956. While this author has a modern spin and is attaching it directly to a company we all know - how is it any different? Has science fiction given us these ideas and led us to this point, or has it been a neon warning we've been ignoring all this time? Maybe this path was inevitable?
It is. Mozmill is a testing framework. What we're looking at there is a file containing automated tests (which I think should be fairly obvious to someone looking at that file...)
Me too, but I'm more than a little sceptical about the claims they make.

I'd be less wary if they had gone through FDA testing and could make proper, analytical statements. With $13M to spend, I'd expect them to be able to afford the process.
Todo lists are a subset of Checklists. I use them whenever im on risk of forgetting some parts, shopping, packing for travel etc. And i use pen & paper because its faster for use and available in most households or offices.
I think the issue is, that if you have a thunderbolt over USB-C display, and plug it into a normal USB-C port on your laptop (say the latest macbook), it won't work, since the laptop doesn't support the thunderbolt signaling. So it's a new point of confusion - USB devices which are physically compatible but not electrically.

It's something that could possibly be solved through the markings on the devices etc and I still think doing thunderbolt over the USB-C port is great. Perhaps the display example could fall back to supporting a display-over-usb standard, it won't work as well but could help.
What a great idea. What areas will be covered?
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Displayport daisy-chaining for screens above 1980x1080p requires 1.3. (Using two daisy-chained dell screen's on my 2011 macbook air does not work because it requires 1.3 and mba only supports 1.2.
The article is really good, but this title is extremely vague.
Why would I use this over the official package manager coming with Win10 (OneGet)?
https://github.com/OneGet/oneget

Which also integrates with Chocolatery.
Mac vulnerability that survives OS X reinstallation and drive format
How do you know this wasn't requested by their customers?
This is one of those things that Android got right early on, URLs can have 'open handlers' no matter whether they appear - in an email, on the web or a link to google maps that opens the Maps app from another app.

Not only can an Android app register that it handles links for a given domain or scheme, but multiple apps can be available, if say, you've written a better imgur or flickr viewer. But the UX to say "always open this type of link in this app" is simple and unobtrusive as well.

Shame iOS hasn't yet followed along with this, but I suspect it might be one of those things that would substantially affect legacy iOS apps.
Thanks for these insights. I used the Fay project to compile Haskell to JS for some time. But in the next overhaul I probably switch to GHCJS, as for my project interop with server-side Haskell code it a requirement.

If I did not need that interop I go for PureScript in a heartbeat. CoffeeScript/TypeScript/ES6/Opal, they all don't come close to what PureScript delivers.
I am guessing it's a miniaturised charge pump boost (uses a few capacitors and an electronic switch) converter, similar to ones produced by Maxim. http://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/725
Nowhere in the article I see an alkaline battery discharge curve.
http://www.powerstream.com/AA-tests.htm

Battery discharge curves are never linear. Most capacity is lost between 1.5V and 1.3V. I am afraid this device might be snake oil.
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So now you can't even put glue in the thunderbolt port anymore to prevent DMA attacks?

I don't think DMA attacks have been fully solved yet via software, or am I not up to date here? I guess you could blacklist the driver.
Apple has considered that question, and the answer is "because they won't truly buy into our larger ecosystem."
Some officials are already acknowledging that one child has gone on too long, and most couples are allowed to have two now (most minorities have always been allowed more, most country-side dwellers are allowed two if the first is a boy). But many couples aren't taking advantage of the new two child policy, since raising a kid in a Chinese city is expensive (especially schooling, which isn't really free).

Korea went through the same cycle: too many kids in the 70s, got everyone cut back, and then they went over a demographic cliff and now have to beg couples to have more kids today.
I'm well aware of what it is. Like I said, I had to deal with it recently - I didn't just pull it out of thin air.

What you're looking at is a horror beyond comprehension. There's much better, more maintainable ways to write automated tests.
"As devil's advocate, why not just run this for me (e.g. on every commit/every push)?"

In my real-life experience with a multiple-team environment, which is where the question came from, my running the tests doesn't do any good if you're going to consider it "my" server and simply ignore the results.

The key point here isn't a technical one. The key point here was, as an professional engineer, how can you justify not taking such a great bang/buck quality option that will far, far more than pay for itself? Explaining how I can be a professional engineer on your behalf more than misses the point.
Isn't the fact that Facebook still manages to make MySQL work an indication that unless you doing something special, current SQL server will support most users for a very long time?

Sure Facebook might have preferred a better solution, but most of us aren't Facebook, and the solutions that would work for Facebook might not be ideal for small companies.
> There's a ton of research demonstrating that once you've formed an opinion, you'll actively defend this opinion in the face of contrary evidence. Everyone does this to some extend, and the best prevention is to not form a premature opinion.

Yes, everyone does this at least a little bit because that's how human brains work. But you can be aware of it and compensate for it, if you make the truth (and, by extension, actually being right) your highest goal. Just throwing your hands in the air and giving up, seems to me equivalent to saying "everyone has biases, the best way to avoid them is to not think".

That said, obviously I am not suggesting that you just form opinions before you know anything. The example given was a chess position. The OP knew enough about chess that he could have picked a side had he taken time to examine the position well. If he had initially chosen black, but white was the stronger, he could have perhaps reached this conclusion after evaluating black's position a little more carefully. Then he could update his opinion to prefer white. But he did none of that, because he didn't care enough to form any opinion at all, even though he had enough information to do so.

> That's a false dichotomy.

Ugh, yes okay if taken absolutely literally, yes it is a false dichotomy. I mean, I guess I took it as a given that readers would understand that there are degrees of apathy, and that you might be in a mental state where sometimes you notice reality kicking you in the ass, and then sometimes you don't, and so I didn't have to explain that part, and that they would give me just enough benefit of the doubt to suppose that I also understand this, but yes it's true that apathy is not a binary thing, nor is self-awareness. Conceded. Congratulations and I award you one Internet argument point.

So just to be clear, my position is that the more apathetic you are about a thing, the less likely you are to notice your wrong opinions about that thing. Is that better?

> It is very well possible to not form an opinion and still be interested in a topic.

About as possible as it is to change your opinion on new evidence? Of course it's possible, although if I had to guess between two people which of them is interested in a topic, I'd go with the person who has the opinion, and I'd be right more often than I'd be wrong.
> An 18650 has several times the energy of an AA while being not much bigger

They're much bigger.

http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/threadid.457734
An intro would've been nice for people like me who know nothing about functional programming.
Interesting how a lot of comments here attribute some inherent evilness to the manufacturer, when more likely it's customer-driven feature that they've been asking for or their sales staff saw the need for. If customers don't want or need it, it won't be profitable. So you have nothing to worry about.
I've written some C extensions for Ruby, and its internal APIs seem decent. What makes Ruby a bad example of software quality?
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You're far better off dual-booting or running Linux in a VM.

You're going to miss out on firmware updates and have bad battery life.
readbility (and more importantly, understandability) is critical in these systems, this is one of the things that higher level languages can learn.

Higher level s/w has piled on the abstraction layers and that hides what is really happening on the h/w level.

Web s/w has gone in direction of simplicity-by-increasing-abstraction.
Embedded s/w gains simplicity by removing it.

Of course, some knowledge of the h/w is necessary for this, but thats a prerequisite to performant systems anyway.
As a founder I can tell you that my LEAST favorite part of the job is the financial stuff - granting how necessary it is - which takes most of my time. It's a means to an end...that end being making absolutely mind blowing breakthroughs in Augmented Reality technologies for consumers.
It is not just a philosophical thought experiment.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847
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And there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for the sudden death of 10.000 herbivorous mammals that nobody seems to see: Chernobyl fire forests in 30-april-2015 releasing clouds of radioactive dust only 10 days before this event. Dust travelling by air normally settle down after a raining episode.

Animals died in few hours with synthoms totally compatible with radioactive poisoning in the chain food. Strange inmunosupresion, diarrhoea, pain in the mouths and guts and problems with breathing. Saigas are animals with a interesting nose that filters dust and those tissues are connect with a net of blood capillaires so poisoning by dust could be quicker in this species.

If someone here have friends or know some scientists working in Kazakhstan, please warn them that have extra care with saiga corpses and also with goats and cattle and try to protect native people. Somebody should start looking for radioactivity as soon as possible to discard or confirm this hypothese. I think is the most logical solution to this mystery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a96nEk-f6Y
> they addressed the issue of over-population, something that a country like India has failed to do

India took the path to education and propaganda to voluntarily reduce the fertility rate. I don't think India has failed in its initiatives. Instead, I think they are going extremely well given that there is no legal limit on how many kids you can have. India is on track to reach peak-population by 2060. [1]

Most educated middle class couples would not think of having more than 2 kids (this has been true for the last 15/20+ years) and now we are entering a phase where a small minority is choosing to go without kids, completely.[2]

The total fertility rate in India has gone from 6 to 2.5 in the last 50 years. (Google for "total fertility rate india")

Edit: One more thing - there are 11 states in India that are at or below a TFR of 2.1 [3].

Net net - far from a failure, India is making good progress.

[1]: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indias-population-w...

[2]: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/relationships/...

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_ranking_by_fertil...
USB Type C actually includes a special mode allowing analog audio output specifically to allow "USB C" headphones (and adaptors).[0] Whether anyone will actually implement it is another question.

[0] See pages 24-26, 29, 34 of this PDF: https://intel.activeevents.com/sf14/connect/fileDownload/ses...
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As people have already discussed, voltage boosters for things like LED flashlights are already in wide use (usually called a "voltage regulator"). The tradeoff appears to be something like:

-- longer life at full rated voltage

-- when the battery dies, it dies suddenly and completely, no tapering down - one second it's on, the next second it is dead as a doornail

-- parasitic current drain drains batteries even when they're not in use

-- more expensive

They most definitely do NOT increase usable battery life by 8x.
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Yes, the MacBook was released April 10, but the Chromebook Pixel was already shipping USB type-C in March. Someone in the other Thunderbolt type-C thread also mistakenly claimed that Apple was the first company to use type-C.
2014 model. Here's a video showing the procedure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgEBPlz4QB8

5:10 is particularly comical, by the way :)
Thanks for the notice
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Anyone tried it yet? How's the performance? Is it usable for fullHD movie streaming?
"Different" stage - maybe, but... "not even considering" something that then happens on a huge scale is not a sign of being at a sufficiently advanced stage of "civilization"/whatever you call it. Certainly not sufficiently advanced to be governing those people whose behavior one fails to predict.

Also... if you're saying that "getting rid of the girls" is dumb ("indicative of lack of civilization"), as opposed to "bad" in some other way (say, immoral) - then, well, it might be much dumber for society than it is for individuals, depending on the specifics. (It depends on the various costs of raising a single child who's a boy vs raising a single child who is a girl. If you count on your child to be supporting the family with physical labor from a young age, for instance, a girl would be more costly to raise.) Pushing people to do something which makes sense for them individually but is a disaster for society as a whole is very common for rulers who're out to inflict as much good as possible upon their less-civilized subjects.
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I wouldn't bother with ads. One of my apps [1] has about 13,000 active users and I make ~£20 a month with it. Ads just don't make you any money. Although this is just my experience, obviously, and there may be reasons why the ads in my app aren't as successful as yours could be.

Still, I think it's probably not worth annoying your users for the paltry amount of cash you'll raise.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplyappe...
Is there a way to make sure hola uninstalling the hola extension removed everything hola related from my pc? I can imagine with the level of access this extension had(I didn't even know Chrome extensions could have this level of access) just removing the extension isn't enough.
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I agree. Drop the requirements that were easy to stiff arm in after WWII but that luster has worn off. We might have to compromise.

I don't understand why we can't just say the real reason for the TPP publicly, China is winning world trade, then discuss the trade agreements more in the open. Let people know how it will affect them, give groups time to setup alternate paths for work/options. Secrecy is a short term thought path, we need long term planning and we need to give people a heads up.

The general populace can't really vote on it anyways and our opinion doesn't impact decisions like this unless it is a corporate or wealth influence [1]

Congress is acting like a manager that 'protects' you from problems that ends up causing more problems. Then one day, protected you so good the company shut down the division or similar. Informed people always fair better, they can plan better, they can survive better.

[1] https://represent.us/action/theproblem-4/ (video describes the study that only money has an effect on what is passed)
My housing costs are low in Vancouver because I bought several years ago before prices were too crazy. So my starting mortgage was much lower than it would be for a first time home buyer today. I also made accelerated payments on my mortgage.

So timing and a bit of luck. I could not afford to enter the Vancouver housing market today.

When they speak about the percent income required to own a house in Vancouver, they only speak about first time home buyers entering the market today. The housing costs for current owners who have been in the market for some time (like me) or current owners selling and buying are not as high because their starting mortgages were much lower and they have lots of equity for a down payment.

But I do sometimes feel the pain of people trying to enter the market or renters. For example, I’ve had a couple great job offers in the SF bay area in the last few years, but I turned them down because the cost of renting would have eaten away more than the salary increase. I was not willing to sell my house in Vancouver to remedy this (i.e. have a big down payment for a house there).
I like also your geography quizz (not original but it's a nice implementation):

http://david-peter.de/quizzity/