jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Texas Instruments practically gives away their development boards. Here is their Stellaris Launchpad board with ARM Cortex-M4F-based MCU for just 8$! Much cheaper than even AVR arduinos! https://estore.ti.com/Stellaris-LaunchPad.aspx

What's more, these days you can even use the Arduino IDE for development on these boards. The Energia project has ported Wiring and Arduino IDE for TI boards. If I wasn't such a minimalist, I would get one (or two) in a heartbeat!

Edited: Forgot to paste the link.
> Predictive coding is the idea that BNNs generate a mental model of their environment and then transmit only the information that deviates from this model. Predictive coding considers error and surprise to be the same thing.

This reminds me of a Slate Star Codex article on Friston[1].

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-t...
> Also known as compatibility and interoperability.

Actually, not really. Both this ruling and the lower courts' rulings in the case operated under the strange assumption that Android was not interoperable with Oracle Java, leaving programmer familiarity as the only reason Google copied the APIs. For example, in the Federal Circuit ruling that the Supreme Court just overruled, they complain that Google "points to no Java apps that either pre-dated or post-dated Android that could run on the Android platform". True; but of course third-party libraries often can run on both Android and Oracle Java, and their importance seems to have been lost on everyone involved in the case... including Google's own lawyers.

Thankfully, Google won anyway, so any defendant in a future case who can make a better interoperability argument will be in an even stronger position.
This is a wild misunderstanding of how the world actually works. Welcome to Realpolitik.
I don't think the system would be abused that much, especially if Uber could offer a little extra financial reward to the driver for taking the service dog, to the extent necessary that people with service dogs get the same level of wait times and service.
I would use 'destructive' rather than 'elegant'
> Second, there weren't just field slaves, but also house slaves, eating quite well.

Where do you get house slaves eating well from? One of owner female duties was to guard keys from food storage - due to a lot of stealing.

> Third, their cooking is were a lot of "southern food" recipies originate from.

Slaves cooking also required a lot of supervision and instruction. Due to them not being allowed to eat that, due to them not being assumed competent. They did a lot of work there, but that does not imply them eating all that great stuff.

> It's about the opposite, that better fed/more wealth doesn't automatically equate to freedom/dignity etc.

Yes. But material conditions really were not all that great. And also beyond abstract freedom, there were things like child being sold away from parents young, your loved one, brother, etc being sold to never been seen again.
Transit hubs, and airports especially are often a location where critical transitions happen in peoples lives. I used to live in Portland, and I can think of several times where important events happened on that carpet. This includes the last time I saw people that I care about. I can recall a couple times where my flight was late and I spent anxious time trying to sleep in the terminal. I feel that its deeper than kitsch, even if people don't admit it. The article touches on this, but it doesn't go to far in.
I'm a big fan of this approach, and I've used it successfully when hiring at startups. But it hasn't seemed to fit in well with the hiring culture at large companies. We can't use someone's time for free, and initiating a contracting relationship is mired in red tape, so isn't really worthwhile for a small-scale project of the sort that's appropriate in this context. And asking someone to spend a couple days working on something that is going to be thrown away seems demoralizing and possibly counter-productive, since the fact that it's "just a toy" will doubtless impact the approach the interviewee takes to the problem.

Plus, in a large company, internal transfers are common. The social dynamic of asking for an employee who works elsewhere in the same company to do work for a different part of the company seems awkward.

Does anyone have any success (or failure) stories about trying to make this sort of approach work in a large company?
Granted, there are a lot of bad tech interviews out there (asking about algorithms that nobody ever uses) ... but I do not understand this.

Imagine someone's being hired for a front-end position, and we don't have months to get them up to speed.

I'm going to ask them to explain how a closure works. How they deal with AJAX. What they think about "!important". Things to be careful about with floats. How CSS precedence/specificity works. Give them an example webapp idea, and ask how they might architect it.

None of these are gotchas. All of them are directly applicable to the work they'll be doing. If you can't explain how closures work, then either you don't understand them (so you shouldn't be hired except for a very junior position), or you're bad at communicating/explaining (which, on teams, can be equally bad).

The author says "Other times I just froze on topics that I know very well." Maybe somebody can explain this better to me -- but if you freeze up in interviews, are you also going to freeze up in developer meetings? During code reviews? When you're in the room with clients?

If you freeze up in interviews, then it doesn't seem like the problem is with interviews -- the problem is with you freezing up, isn't it? I mean, if you can't answer basic questions about your knowledge in a one-on-one conversation, then that's a real problem, and not just in interviewing. (Obviously, some overly aggressive or unfriendly interviewers can be off-putting, but I'm just talking about "normal" friendly interviewers.)
Ah, yes. The law. If someone breaks the law, they are punished. Justice is that simple.

Oh, wait, unless the laws happen to constrain the interrogation techniques used against detainees. Or if they prevent access to the private lives of American citizens. Or if they protect whistleblowers. Or if they get in the way of fighting terrorism in any other way.

But aside from that minor footnote of an afterthought, the law is the law, so we all need to just shut up and accept it.
I think the 'brand' problem people have with Medium is less "my post looks like the same as all of these other posts!" and more "when people want to read more of my posts, they're more inclined to go to medium.com instead of my personal site!".

I agree that there should be a customizable design, though. That's not a particularly difficult thing to implement.
Cheap, especially if you know people.
I went on the spreadsheet out of curiosity, only to discover my email was there as well!

I didn't know Gawker == LifeHacker, on which I have commented in the past.
I think Patrick's post was decidedly tongue-in-cheek.
Before Big Bang there was no movement

How was the Big Bang triggered then?
Although this was first, comments are here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998827
This was first, but comments (well, one so far) are over there:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999593
I think this is more related to inadvertent vs. intentional recording. For example, you can inadvertently record someone who is shouting at you if you were on the phone, leaving a voicemail message.
Ah - true - we're talking about different things though (which is my fault to start with, but I see confusion in others too).

MD5 is what's used in the linked spreadsheet's email address fields, which is what I thought we were talking about. SHA-256 is used in jedsmith's lists.
> Is there an ETA?

I think their goal was a year for everything under .Net to get ported but I don't know off hand. You can already use it via Mono if you wanted to play with it today.

> Will the ports be kept in sync with the Windows versions so we don't need to wait years for updates?

It's all being opened sourced. Every week Microsoft open sources more of their .Net platform and language tools. It will be compilable on all platforms. So yes.
I would argue that if the police require any equipment in addition to the normal range of human senses to detect evidence, the use of such equipment should be considered a search.

What if the equipment is extremely common? Anyone can stand outside your home and see your WiFi networks. Should the cops need a warrant to say "from the street, I turned on my iPhone and saw a wireless network?"

What if 75% of smart phones had FLIR and people regularly used them?

NB: I'm not necessarily convinced of this. It might turn out the best way is to start at "normal range of human senses" and explicitly add to that, say by legislation.
Chinese forums, if you know where to look. But you have to learn to read Chinese, or find some one/way to translate.
Sobering but not unexpected. Remember real estate is still a local market. CS data is also available on an individual city level.
Lawyers aren't a protected group. Just like men, white people, and rich people.

Having said that, don't be surprised if a lawyer massages his way into your building and trips on a wet floor and sues you for $50,000. That is their special talent.
I have this problem only if I haven't exercised and/or eaten that day. I would suggest regular meals (every 3-4 hours you are awake) and exercise in combination with using space heaters to warm the air within your area.
Also look at the Freenet project. It's basically designed to make censor-proof sites.
Actually yes, you can convert BerkShares back to USD. http://www.berkshares.org/whatareberkshares.htm
I've heard of Terra, but I didn't know it had predated Zig by a couple of years; thought they were introduced at about the same time. And yes, there are certainly similarities, although Terra thinks of itself as two interoperating languages, while in Zig there is just one (although there are things you can only do in comptime so perhaps it's more of a difference in perspective).
This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval.

For example - my wife likes "shorts" to be in one drawer and "t-shirts" in another. I like for one drawer to be "workout clothes" and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels "obviously" right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly "open drawer" IOs?

Similarly, she is very organized with her paper files, I just throw mine into a box. In the rare event I need something (eg when doing taxes) I don't mind scanning through the whole mess. Seems like a better strategy than making each "write" costly (neatly organizing) since writes are frequent and reads are rare.

Anyone else like that?
Who said anything about this type of aircraft being unsafe? This particular airplane is nearly 29 years old and all in all has been incident-free until this point.

https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-757-200-g-dhkz...
The GMO debate is one of the great "we lost the message" moments. I feel like there was a time, probably right after WWII or so, when we tended to feel like science was actually moving us forward as a species, and in the last few decades, it's slipped away to the point where we can't even maintain trust in strong scientific consensus (see: anti-vax)

The opportunities for genetic modification are boundless: more nutrition! Higher yields! Reduced allergens! Not to mention complete green-field things like bacteria designed to clean up industrial waste. These are things that could make ordinary people say "we're moving forward as a species."

So what's the face of this brilliant new industry? A mediocre tomato whose primary selling point was a few days longer shelf life in the store, and some staple crops sold with the explicit feature of "you can pour MORE herbicides on them!" GMO didn't hit the market as a way to make good things better, it was a way to make lousy things viable. We blew the launch, and the entire product category has to spend decades building the goodwill it should already have.

Yes, it's oversimplifying to the level of malpractice to put it that way, but marketing and presentation matters.
Yes, exactly.

My reply was to a post highlighting when we’ve been lied to. I was just piling wood on the fire.
As I always like commenting when I see these kinds of comments: many thanks for (in a general sense) providing consulting/freelancing/general small business work well into my future.
I didn't believe the anti-fat propaganda, but I had precious few tools to convince others. Now we have an embarrassment of useful information, and most people pay attention to shoddy analysis to support anti-science ad-hoc statutes, instead. But at least I can satisfy myself on the facts.

Nothing has changed at all, really.
I kind of find it the opposite? They run concentration camps and acknowledge mass rape but the western media mostly shrugged. I find it hard to find anything the media take seriously these days. We are all so easily distracted, myself included.
Poor guy; I take his statement at
face value.

But, he's misled: In simplest terms,
"War is hell.", and this is not news.
Germany bombed London and killed
mostly civilians. Japan bombed
Pearl Harbor, and civilians were a
large fraction of the deaths.
The US fire bombed Japan
and killed maybe 80,000 civilians
in one night and did that on many
nights. The two atom bombs killed
many more civilians. The US
and England bombed German cities
and created horrific conditions
for mostly civilians (although
often war production workers) maybe
best addressed just by hoping that
the deaths came quickly, which no
doubt often they didn't. Germany
attacked to the East all the way
to Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad
and likely killed many more civilians
than soldiers. Did I mention that
"Was is hell"? It is.

In Iraq, a civil war was going on,
and the US, to its credit, eventually stopped it,
but while it was going on no doubt
many Iraqis did all they could to
kill other Iraqis, and civilians
got caught in the crossfire.

Gitmo? Of course there is "due process",
as defined and executed by the US
DoD but, right, not as in the US
criminal justice system. We treated
them as prisoners of war out of
uniform or some such. That's the
form of "due process" they get
from the US DoD fighting a war.
Did we follow some statements of the
UN? Maybe not, but the UN wasn't
fighting the war, either.
As prisoners of war, in many
ways they are very well treated.
If the US were to let them go,
then a significant fraction of them
would attack the US again. Last
I read, it's costing the US $1
million per prisoner per year --
we are being very generous.

The poor guy just is not looking
at reality.
So, the only reasonable interpretation of my position is to carry it to the ridiculous extreme?

Or do you acknowledge that there's clearly a balance of benefit and pain, and Google is merely slightly to the wrong side of where you'd want them to be?
Granted, I did not mean to say Britain is not using the full set of tool to reduce road fatalities (Road Design, Signage, Licensing, Enforcement, etc.). Just that discouraging driving especially around London significantly reduces their fatalities, but it’s not really scalable.
I'll try,

imagine a road like this: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_gt_enTZIj1g/TMq0zFITxUI/AAAAAAAADo8/Rb...

(not sweden but Netherlands but it works for the example.)

Overtaking is not allowed (except for farm traffic), in a 2+1 situation there would be three lanes all the time, alternating between directions. This means that there will always be a legal spot to overtake within a few minutes. (usually the climbing direction would be two lanes so you can overtake slow trucks e.d.) Therefore you don't have to overtake a slow driver by using the oncoming lane.

By a 'standard 3-lane highway', I assume you mean three lanes each way, these roads have nowhere near enough traffic on them to explain all that extra tarmac.
It is possible that Delicious was going to be shut down until backlash surfaced and now Y! changing its mind.
I was actually building something very similar to this, though I stopped about six months ago due to time constraints. The goal was to be able to check which of a set of regular expressions matches a given string, and then invoke PCRE or similar to get the subexpression capture. The end result: Django-style regex URL routing against an arbitrary number of expressions, in the same amount of time as routing against a single expression.

Of course, I generally never use any of those features except the capture. (And greedy/nongreedy matching, but that is irrelevant if you're not doing a subexpression capture)
If the property sold in an arms length transaction, then I would agree, it would be very easy to determine its fair market value: the mutually acceptable price at which the sale occurred. However, if the parties were able to come up with a mutually acceptable number, then one party wouldn't have had to call in a favor and have the state seize the property for them.

"A house kinda like your house just sold for $500k, so here is $500k, now give me your keys" is just as unfair as "A business kinda like your business just sold for $50k, so here is $50k, now give me your passwords."
You guessed correctly about my college.

What I found fascinating was the difference in aggression level of the same species at different times of the year. The speed of their strike also blew me away. But they can cover very short distances with that, so the trained handlers would pick them up like nothing.

But back to fear and reflexes. I had the opportunity to study one of the aggressive ones very closely in a protective enclosure. How much ever I resolved not to flinch when it lunged at me, I would invariably jump back a pace. The override is just way too strong to control consciously even when you can anticipate it and want to counter it. Even when you know you are not in any danger.

What I find interesting is that I dont think we are hardwired to fear snakes, it is learned. The hardwired bit might relate to sudden motion though.
The Bobby Tables of literature
Probably building up page-rank for the Launch.is domain. This is a pretty useful compilation so as far as SEO tactics go it could be a lot worse.
I blame techcrunch
If you are talking about ActiveRecord methods, `find_by_id(123)` or
`find_by("id", 123)` are a little bit wrong both, you should use a simple `find(123)`
It's Ridgewick, not Ridgewood, and it's Quooklyn, not Queens.
That's not the current version of Safari. The current version 8.x.y does not show favicons.
C++? No way, Blekko's done in Perl. See the YAPC slides: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/blekko-yapc-na-2013-2.pdf
> [Not using Java -> ] Mesos has zero utility. Is this accurate?

Not at all. My company has a cluster with a few hundred Slaves and we're mostly a Python shop, with some C++ for machine vision.

Mesos certainly has its issues (as does everything), but its awfully nice for micro-services: if you can package your service into a Docker container, then you can launch it into the cluster and Chronos/Marathon/Mesos will take care of making sure that it's run/running.

I missed the deadline for the Mesos conference (I was unaware of the deadline), but I'm trying to squeak in a talk about "Using Mesos at [small] Scale" because we're a small company and Mesos has allowed us to do a bunch of big company stuff.

>is there anything competing with Mesos that isn't wedded to Javaland?

Yes, I can look at the source code and see that it uses te JVM (Chronos uses Scala), but, AFAICT, Mesos isn't "wedded" to anything. All of the components are API-driven. I apt-get install it, I run it, I send jobs to it, it works and it behaves well. Better I can poke at the APIs of any of the services to find out what is happening. So we use Marathon for service-discovery and run Chronos, a framework, under Marathon. Makes finding Chronos, which could be on one of 200 machines, quick and easy.
History is just what happened. Counterfactual questions are more tricky.
That's older than me
He's been quite explicit about it in his talks for years. He sees monopolies as necessary to concentrate enough capital under one person's control to enable them to be an innovator.

To be rather blunt about it, much of his rhetoric is ultimately just about saying indirect forms of "let John Galt do whatever he wants and be grateful peasant."

This is why he's financially supported Yarvin, who quite literally wants to turn the world into a technocratic monarchy, with some very nasty "scientific racism" style stuff mixed in. It's a drop in the bucket compared to Thiel's wealth, but he clearly has no problem providing millions of dollars in support of this kind of thinking.

Also pay attention to how Palantir does business. They behave very similarly to Lockhead Martin when it comes to over promising their technology and under delivering in order to pull as much money off the table as possible, including from governments.
It's not too bad for them. Turns out the average consumer really doesn't give much of a hoot about the decentralization aspect.
Many of my documents are accessed electronically through various web services. Many of them function poorly or not at all with Firefox. I'm sure I could make a phone call and get them mailed to me, but "don't use the internet" is not an acceptable workaround to a website failing to load in Firefox.

The "they" I refer to is Mozilla's engineers. They have consistently broken or failed to implement their platform as developers expect, and since their market share is tiny, developers do not care and bug reports.

I accept that by using Firefox my experience on the web is degraded. That's a tradeoff I make. What I'm reacting to is that it seems you've put on the blinders from the high horse you're sitting on. In the real world, Firefox is technically limited by the many decisions to ignore what developers are doing.

Instead of blaming the users for following the path of least resistance, blame Mozilla for failing to make the "right thing" the path of least resistance for developers. If Firefox were easier to target than Chrome, supported more APIs and had better developer tools, then we wouldn't have this reality.
Oh wow, Eclipse.. That reminds me, I was using Netbeans eons ago (2010 more precisely xD). For this reason, I'm using the Netbeans key mappings in all my editors. I kinda feel bad for those editors, and I hope they still have an active user base, but oh well, it's survival of the fittest I guess.
That's not entirely true. Bright DS objects you'll see just fine if you step away the tiniest bit from super-bright lights, you don't need a "dark site".

My place is right next to a brightly lit pool (which I hate with a passion ;), and M42 is visible just fine. Even with the naked eye. Same goes for photography - I've got a few pictures of M42 that are pretty darn cool, with a single exposure and a Canon DSLR. I've collected excellent single-exposure shots of Jupiter & Saturn during the conjunction.

No, it's not as spectacular as the stuff you see when you look at images you find online, but it's still a "holy shit" moment the first time you manage to.

You should just be aware that you'll quickly learn the limitations, and getting a taste for DSOs/star photography means you'll likely develop a desire to do more. ("I wish I could see X"/"I wish I could take better pictures") And that starts getting expensive. (But that's true for any hobby that requires you to buy things, there are always more toys ;)
Well, someone would have invented it sooner or later, because after the discovery of nuclear physics it doesn't take that much brainpower to figure out the basic concept of "if we smash a bunch of neutrons in these unstable isotopes, then we're going to get a big kaboom!" The actual technological legwork is a bit more effort (and the Germans famously failed at it, although they probably would have gotten there eventually), but not insurmountably hard either.

This is the curse with a lot of these technologies.