skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found that interesting as well, I thought with the high price tag that high price components would be in there.

I wonder if the design/acoustics of the ear pieces contribute to some of the "better sound". Or maybe it is just another example of consumers thinking it sounds better because they shelled out more money.
The Bitcoin Startup That Helps Muslims Get Loans Without Breaking Islamic Law
No, students not listening can often be the problem. You can be the greatest teacher in the world, and still there will be a few students who don't want to listen.
> Many of the best developers I've worked with underestimated their abilities, and many of the worst overestimated.

That would be the Dunning-Kruger effect in action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
What an oddly noisome comment.
So it may not be perfect but I like approaching interviews in a similar way to the article. The questions leading up to and including #7 will let you know whether they can code or not so I'm not sure your #8 is really necessary.
Jumping to Conclusions in Oklahoma City? (1995)
I've not heard of mortgage insurance. Don't lenders just give higher interest rates to riskier borrowers?
It might help to see my presentation entitled "Docker and the future of containers in production"[1][2]; it covers the fundamental building blocks here, and should answer your questions. (If that presentation leaves you looking for more depth on the LX branded zone technology on SmartOS, see my Surge illumos day presentation from last fall.[3])

[1] https://www.joyent.com/developers/videos/docker-and-the-futu...

[2] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/docker-and-the-future-of...

[3] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx
My open source parents are fighting
So if interviewing is about finding the good hires, what's a bad hire?
QEMU runs in the container, in this case. So you've got a whole "yo dawg, I heard you like VM's in your containers" thing going on.

I guess it's briefly described as a multi-tenant container system that isolates tenants by grouping them into parent containers? Maybe?
Rent will increase to reflect that change.
I've tried this in the past when hiring for a startup in two different ways: one with having the entire interview based around simply discussing past projects and gauging the level of interest; the other combining this type of discussion with a coding problems or two.

The result: the correlation between passion and competence is not 1.

Initially I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt and hire primarily on talk alone, however I found that some people are passionate and interested yet can't code very well. After having to fire folks because of it, I decided to actually make them write code during the interview. Sure enough, I discovered a few candidates who could talk the talk, but when faced with an actual problem* couldn't actually solve it.

* When I give interview problems I like to actually give problems that I have faced in my job.
Good thing it expired. Now I can market my laser pointer as a Cat Aerobic-Exercise Tool. Or "CAT" for short.
Why There's More to SDKs Than Meets the Eye
...he says, after Apple announces they are open-sourcing the language they're teaching.
Yep but you're getting a little hung up on definitions and missing the larger point. Ie by proving that it's not a freemium model you're not really negating the central point which is that the barrier to entry is substantially lower (non existent) than with any/other competing services thus drawing in exponentially more users than similar services resulting in a disproportionate strain on their customer support vs others.
This is all really interesting, thank you so much for sharing this with me! I just have a few questions:

Wouldn't the numbers for the current frame get really huge as the game progresses?

How would this method of sending the current frame (from the server) and matching it with the client work if there were a lot of people on the server? Would the server have to keep track of the current frame of each player?

Why does dx change? Are we not assuming in this example that the character is moving right at a consistent speed?

I am using TCP, I shouldn't have to worry too much about packets coming in incorrect orders right? But it's probably still good to implement your method of dealing with it just in case.
>GitHub has a paid business model, so I think they're less likely to be tempted by the dark side

So did Sourceforge. Github has competition in business space (Gitlab Enterprise, Stash) and if it falls out of favor with businesses, anything can happen.
There are also more advanced packages:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-noop
https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash.noop
The problem is that it cannot perfectly recognize "OK Google". There are going to be false positives, things that sound like "OK Google" to the plugin, but are not "OK Google". And it will send those recordings, plus what said after them, to Google servers.
This is interesting data to me, because it shows me that I made the right choice to buy instead of rent a few years ago. In the area I live (based on the limited looking I've done and talking to friends who do rent), it's not uncommon for rent to be higher than what I'm paying for my mortgage + insurance, for a smaller place.

I would like to see an similar interactive app for determining if I should lease or buy a car. :)
The syntax isn't new, and people haven't had issues with it in other languages.
https://www.metabunk.org/dr-kirkby-2009-cern-presentation.t5... whoa man, it's almost like you can use google! BTW, Harold Saive is a well known chemtrail conspiracy theorist who has outright lied on several occasions before. He surely doesn't have anything to gain from misrepresenting a scientists results, does he? https://www.metabunk.org/outrageously-fake-chemtrails-video....

As for the Harvard results, the results aren't as important - it was meant as the joke that "The government is doing it to control us". You know - the conspiracy theory, just like all the other ones, which if you wanted to counter my claim (which wasn't even the point for fucks sake), you would need evidence of. As opposed to some chemicals having unintended side effects, which is possible (and happens).

I like how you also conveniently ignored the rest of my post, and didn't actually explain your point about inflation. Instead, you just said "well, it's obvious bro". How explanatory!

I'll take that as an indication you don't know what you're talking about. Thanks for playing!
Sadly, usually tests are written after the fact to satisfy a code coverage requirement. Perhaps that's why people hate testing. That's why I did!

At my startup we're indirectly tackling difficulties associated with unit testing. Our tool Alive [0] is an interactive programming extension to Visual Studio that made me really enjoy writing tests first and then implementing the features - when with each keystroke I get to see what the code does.

[0] http://comealive.io/
standalone tool, which can be deployed on a remote host identical to any other database
I work at what can only be defined as a megacorporation. The interview process is a machine, and more often than not interviewers are not personally invested in the process as much as they could be - the candidate is destined to be on someone else's team.

This is of course a double edged sword - on the one hand you only have a generic sense of what you are looking for and on the other you have no vendetta for hiring someone who is sub-par to fill your urgent needs.
Fascinating insights.

Lots of music on the PSX used a system like that, because that's a very natural fit for the PSX SPU. Tracker "modules" combine the sample data and tabulated sequencing data, but what you found more often on the PSX was separate sample wavetables and sequencing data closer to (i.e. literally converted from, and convertible back to) a MIDI format: it's smaller, timing-based, without all those pesky 00s wasting space. (It sounds better with the PSX reverb unit/buffer on top, of course.) It's actually very similar to what Minoru Akao did for the AKAO sound engine for the PSX Final Fantasy games, for example.

What did you think of the multi-tasking kernel/DMA bit in the "main" binary? (Or did you just remove that?)

By the way, the VR missions mentioned above were released as a separate add-on disc in many regions (rather than the later release Integral which the PC port was). If you do happen to have an original and can't play it on a PS2/PS3 because it doesn't recognise that the 'lid' is open (because it's a tray/slot-loader)... try launching the other executable, it runs fine :)
Nice SAT word (I didn't learn that at the school that I attended).

You find being called a top flight attorney offensive?
I don't see why living in a home and investing in it are mutually exclusive. The way I see it, my monthly housing payment is an investment in addition to a cost of living. Sure it costs more in maintenance, but you also get more customizability. You can paint the walls whatever color you like. You can tear the carpet up and replace it with hardwood or vice versa.
Thank you for sharing this. This brings so many memories to me, as it was my first professional gig! I've put all my time into it, we were so fast back then, we've got the first level working on PC for two-three weeks. It took much more (7-8 months) to finish. At some point there was a deal whether we would allow load/save from any point in the game, but instead we proposed to include the VR Missions instead of it.

Early on due to my porting libraries I've introduced a severe bug, where the internal timer was 10x (or 100x?) faster, causing issues for loading/saving, this was resolved just weeks before shipping thanks to the other awesome Ukraine programmer. It was also a lesson for me to be less cocky, and take the blame sometimes.
Sure - read this gist from the bottom up: https://gist.github.com/javajosh/55339742aad2f1a1b881

Be sure also to check out Brian Goetz's excellent "Lambdas under the covers" talk, linked in the gist.
I don't understand what you mean. Paying off the mortgage is a big reason to buy vs rent. If you can afford the mortgage payment, then in 30 years, you own the house.

If this is impossible for ordinary mortals, how are ordinary mortals buying houses?

I ask as a small city homeowner, so forgive my ignorance of the metro area real estate world.
One thing you can do while still somewhat physically able, or perhaps with getting help from neighbors, is a large garden.

Right now I'm living with my father, and we have some neighbors who moved here after Hostess died. They have a big garden, which my father and I help with in various ways; they get a lower cost of living, we get wonderfully fresh veggies.
You are glossing over the fact that Dalvik is a multiprocess VM. There is no such JVM, even today.

This aspect and the Dalvik bytecode are the main reasons why Dalvik is so fast on mobile. No other VM (or JVM) can realistically compete, especially not HotSpot. Not now and certainly not back then.
These people are essentially on-call, on-site. There's a lot of money involved with the deals companies are trying to close and bankers are there to handhold clients throughout the entire process. They're not working the whole day but if a client or senior person wants a change to a Powerpoint deck, they're paid to turn that around quickly.
It's a complicated platform, but on the whole has a very good track record.

Picking on it for having vulnerabilities without providing something in the way of a comparison is not very meaningful.
One area where this might not apply is on VA loans; which applied to me. Currently in PhD program and was able to buy a house with a significantly lower mortgage (22% cheaper per month) than renting. Which eases the pain for wife and children during this time.
Just to jump on... houses require maintenance. About 1% of the house value per year (roof needs replacing, hvac needs fixing, etc etc). If you skimp on maintenance the value of the house declines, possibly a lot (a leaking roof or basement can cause serious damage over time).
> Apple explicitly stated though that such released software will not be copylefted. (Apple's pathological hatred of copyleft is reasonably well documented.)

Very few new compilers/runtimes are open-sourced; this seems like a bizarre objection, and one that would cover a hell of a lot of other languages.
I've had to code for interviews where I was given a project to complete in my own time, and then talk about it later if it was a good solution. I aced that process and got the job.

I bombed the whiteboard/paper tech interview when I was first invited to interview at my current job (lots of ex co-workers here), and was declined as a candidate.

Months later I was invited again, this time just to start, skipping the interview. I'm finishing up my last week here and have nothing but praise and recommendations from my higher-ups, yet I would have never had a shot if people I worked with in the past didn't work here and reach out to me.

Actually at one of the places I recently interviewed, I got past the phone screens, cultural interviews, and even a google hangouts/screen-share session where I coded live while talking about the solution -- but I still had a 'get on the whiteboard and write some twist on academic sort functions' and of course froze up more and more with each time I used the eraser. I'm confident I would have done better with a computer.

I don't code on paper and whiteboards. Most of us aren't trained to, and state-dependent learning is a real thing. You cannot expect most people to perform as well in a drastically different environment from how they typically do their job.
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Apple is supposedly paying ~1.5 points more than Spotify, so labels would presumably get _some_ benefit from consumers moving to Apple Music. If the consumers they convert come from any other service's free tier — which is admittedly unlikely to be a huge amount — the effect would be even more pronounced.
It's not a different architecture. SmartOS is x86 based, as are the Linux binaries.

What lx-brand zones do is present an alternate system call table to the binaries executed inside the zone. Those "lx" calls are compatible with the Linux system call table and get mapped and/or translated to illumos kernel system calls. Binaries don't know the difference.
Yep, I think the first step is really to get them interested in programming, once they're interested, they'll switch to whatever the platform of the moment is.
In addition to intelligence I think humor has to with rapport. A good comedian will change his jokes and delivery based on audience.
I agree. What I am saying is that don't buy a home just for the financial reasons. Of course, there is a value in building equity over time if you stay long enough in the house. But take that as an added bonus and not a must have requirement because this is exactly what burned a lot of people after the 2008 crash.
What's wrong with Red Delicious? I usually peel them (thick skin), but otherwise they are crispy and sweet (rather than tart), pretty much exactly how I expect my apples.
Your link goes to the same page as this post. Was it changed at some point?
It would be the worst possible implementation of the feature for a laundry list of reasons.
Targeted advertising is actually quite good at separating you the person from you your marketing footprint. Unfortunately, the ways it does this are hard to explain, but let me give an example.

A friend of mine was convinced that Google was data-mining his Gmail because it recommended a flight on a related search atop the dates he was considering visiting a friend (if I recall correctly, he looked up driving directions and Google suggested "You could get there faster if you took <FLIGHT> on <EXACT DATE HE AND HIS FRIEND HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT FLYING>").

I punched in the same directions as him in an incognito browser session and... Got the same flight suggestion. Then I looked at the nearby flights and found that the suggested one was really just the cheapest one that week. Turns out his friend and he were planning to meet on a day they happened to be free... Because it was near a holiday, so a lot of people were free, so airlines factored that into their pricing model, so Google recommended a flight because it was a popular flight that a lot of people wanted to take between those two destination points.

It's far, far more likely that targeted advertising is working because we are not the special snowflakes we believe ourselves to be. The correlation algorithms can guess a lot from a few data points when they have billions of correlations to sort through.
This. I think Apple is convinced that 3 months is enough time to get customers in the HABIT of using their service such that they'll look at the new $10 charge on their iTunes bill, shrug their shoulders, and go back to listening to music. The whole "no royalties" thing is just Apple playing hardball to try to minimize the cost of the free trial.

Personally, I think they should subsidize some of the smaller/indie labels that can't afford the 3-month drop, but that's plan F or even M for Apple.
Depending on the role, the financial modeling skills learned as a junior banker are pretty much unparalleled vs any other opportunity straight out of undergrad.
Yeah! They'd use PHP! Or Java! Those never have any problems and their code-bases are always flawless.

I'll take a bad Rails app any day over what people churn out in other platforms. I've seen Java apps so impenetrably opaque it's not even clear what it does. Rails is Rails. It's boring. It works. It's pretty hard to mangle the project so badly that you can't make sense of it.

Unless, of course, you've got no idea what Rails is or how it works.
App Store Search Is More Depressing Than the Game of Thrones Finale
>All content I get on HackerNews should be free to read without an implication of paying to join the discussion.

And why exactly?
I don't think that begin to learn programming on a proprietary language is a good practice. Not only it will limit your professional career as it is more difficult to change to other platforms. Also it is more easy to pick bad habits as you can easily mistake what is platform specific behavior for standard code practices.

Once you are good at designing and coding standard languages you can easily move to whatever platform/language you desire.
Hmm. Apple prominently features FKA Twigs in Apple Music promotional material (and in the keynote), but she is under Young Turks which is part of Beggars. Wonder how that will play out..
There's no app because:

- Cars vary widely in how they hold value (for example: http://www.autotrader.com/research/article/car-news/209232/2...)

- Cars will always depreciate, houses will often _appreciate_

- Leasing is almost always the poorer choice, barring basically the one case where you know you will need a car for the lease term only (and will not be getting another car afterward)
... can't do this in your incredibly artificial, unrealistic context

Oh, then you're a non-hire (rightfully so). If you can't adjust to such a simple context, there's no way I can be sure you can handle an occasional tight deadline, urgent and critical failure in production, rewrite of stinky and hairy piece of code left by a less competent colleague, external system that mystically fails for no reason and writes no logs whatsoever, etc, ad infinium.

Programming profession is hard and full of rough edges, unfortunately.
Strava will stop supporting the Garmin Communicator plug-in
I just received this in an email:

Over the past year, Garmin has stopped supporting their Communicator plug-in. Many popular browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox) have taken steps to disable and eliminate the plug-in framework that the Communicator uses. As a result, the Communicator plug-in has become unreliable and problematic for thousands of Strava athletes.

For this reason, Strava will stop supporting the Garmin Communicator plug-in as an upload method on June 30, 2015. We encourage all Garmin users to link their Garmin Connect and Strava accounts and use Garmin Express for uploading their activities. Learn more.
Alternatively, users of some USB-compatible Garmin devices may still upload their activity files (.fit, .gpx, .tcx) directly.
God yes - it amazes me that anyone who has ever spent time with or dated a child of divorce doesn't instantly comprehend how important dads are, and how much their absence can fuck a kid up.
Yeah, that one shocked me too. I can only imagine that social networking could be used to reduce recidivism rates at the end of someone's sentence by giving them a way to connect with people on the outside (friends, family, etc.) that will be their support network as they reintegrate into society.

I can understand a parole officer or prison official wanting access to something like messages and friends lists to make sure that they are reconnecting with unsavory characters, but that's about it. Banning Facebook pages outright for inmates seems excessive and counter-productive.
Zymergen Is Buying Up Robots to Mass Produce Materials from Microbes
Wasn't ogle supposed to be the official debugger?

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/debug/ogle/program
You could sneak it through on a client update, if compelled.
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Industrial psychology has been over this ground many times.

Prove they are generally smart, do a work sample test representing the work they'd actually be doing, for a kicker test their integrity. You'll have > 50% wins.

http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...
> Imagine Swift becomes a wild success; everyone's writing everything in Swift. What will your reaction be when Apple again makes a "legitimate business decision" and leverages the success to the benefit of their company and implicitly disadvantages other platforms? Maybe they double up on Swift support on Mac and start shipping additional features first for LLVM/Clang on OSX.

This seems implausible, given the extremely long lead-time on wide adoption of new language features that is customary. It would also be _easier_ if they went with a GPL-with-retention-of-copyright model; with a non-copyleft license anyone sufficiently motivated could just fork in this hypothetical scenario.
But in the same situation the code might not trigger an exception and continue just the same. You've gained or lost nothing.

You have to assume that code cleans itself up as the stack unwinds. That should be normal operation whether or not you are using exceptions or not. If the exception is in the middle of modifying a data structure then the cleanup should ensure that data structure is either back into a stable state or destroyed completely.