skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There definitely seem to be a mix of useful information and big brother paranoia. Instructions on how to kill a police dog sent to track you? Yeah, this is blurring from 'escape your shitty life' and into 'escape a dystopian enforcer squad'
Software suffers from fashion. If you look at the core java libraries they are a history of software engineering fashion.

I would argue that fashion drives most of our choices. We are not immune to it, if anything we are about the same level as teenagers IMO. Tech for whatever reason is very susceptible to fashion.
Some people will gladly take a hoarse voice. Ever see someone have to resort to using their nose?

http://www.looknohands.me
Come to think of it some of my luggage also has locks that secure the zippers in place. Similar to this photo:

http://www.airlineintl.com/files/15/products15988.jpg

This would also hinder this method of opening a bag.
A naive question here. (I'm in a bar and didn't fully read the docs): how can I leverage GraphQL (or sangria in specific) to existing graph databases / computation engines. Namely: is there a way to implement a GraphQL adapter for GraphX (Spark's graph library) or Titan / Neo4j?
From a first glance GraphQL looks better than Gremlin (no offense)

Can I treat GraphQL as going toward being a "better tinker pop"? If not than what are the use cases for GraphQL in the context of existing graph databases?
You probably got that into your muscle memory before 'ls' got smarter. I'm sure we all have some habits like that.
How about a "class" or some pre session on best practices of typing on the keyboard in the CS departments?

For year, I'm still struggling to type without looking at the keyboard and I make frequent typos which slow me down. Being able to type quickly and have a good habit of placing fingers on the keyboard seem to be an important exercise. A guideline to choose the right keyboard, setting up personal shortcut or customized keyboard layout for each developer might also be worth learning.
How To Prevent Scope Creep Without Alienating Your Boss Or Other Important People
Further more, without a third datapoint, it will always be linear. Unless you're including 0,0?
Usually those exist.
Sorry, CSCI 0123 is required for a passing grade. :)
I'm going to get so much hate emails from Haskell people.
Cognitive dissonance: This seems true to me, and so does the idea that adding people to a project late in the game makes it later (as per Fred Brooks).
Same here. We had to design and write a significant real-world application. You could suggest your own idea or take on a project that the profs had found through their connections with the business world. Either way, you had to convince the professors on the committee that it was worthy of receiving a full course's worth of credit (though most people wound up spending far more than that amount of time on it).
One fun thing is to download Wireshark and look at the packets being sent in detail when you do common things like browse the internet or use FTP.
We have surviving adobe walls from four hundred and fifty generations ago at Çatalhöyük, but it seems likely that they've been in use for much longer than that, and just haven't survived. So we've had several generations to experiment. :)
I don't like that word either
> Distribute a Clojure application without embedding Clojure itself in the capsule, and have Clojure downloaded the first time the capsule is launched. The Clojure runtime will be cached and shared among all Clojure capsules so it will only be downloaded once.

How would that be useful?
As if you could even get the proof-of-concept for something like this for $4 million. It cost Eclipse $1 BILLION to ship their first jet, which, for all its innovation, was a lot more conventional than this thing.
Hey, sometimes it's a recipe, and sometimes it's a telephone system. :-)
If your operation is the sort that capitalizes on machine learning on subtle signals, you capture the sorts of data that you know might be beneficial 6 months down the road. Although I suspect that you overstate the sort of "surprise questions" that might come up (and also the granularity necessary to answer them), that is a correct response to a business model that demands those insights at that granularity.

That doesn't mean that "collect everything at max granularity" is good advice, because as you said:

> The fact that most companies are stupid about investing in unnecessary big data infrastructure is real
I really enjoyed this article just because it reminds me so much of the early internet: wall-to-wall libertarian derangement. UCC 1-207. Sovereign Citizenship. And it got slashdotted by this link. Really takes me back.
Unlearning Object Programming might include discussion of the legitimate uses of global variables, and how Singletons are just obfuscated and inconvenient globals.
From the title, in the context of hacker news,
I thought it was going to be software developers not real estate / property developers. Phew, sorta.
If you get stuck with a tool lacking such an option, you can run it under "script" to trick it. I recall other programs to do similar using a pseudo-TTY but I can't recall their names now (and with a name like "script" it was a miracle I got that one).
Interesting Solar Rebate Email Scam – MailShark
You need organic material to date which in many cases might not exist with the find.

Other than that you can perform rough estimates based on the soil it was found in, but those in many cases might be off by quite a bit.
It is true that Einstein was wrong about his insistence that there must be hidden variables, but I'm not so sure I would call him on the wrong side of the debate, as the correct hypothesis wasn't available during his lifetime. I wonder what he would have done with it had he heard about it.

Einstein's objection to spooky action at a distance and clinging to determinism is exactly the kind of thing to point to when trying to explain his amazingly good intuition for the character of physical law. He was 100% right about the action at a distance not being real and physics being deterministic. To be clear, entanglement is real, but there's no effect that happens at faster than lightspeed; the resolution to this is, of course, MWI.

As for what use there is - the primary use is that we can all stop being confused about this. And stop thinking that just because quantum physics is mysterious, it must necessarily be connected to other concepts that are mysterious too, like consciousness. And when else would we question the justification for learning the truth of what we all and the universe are made of?

(P.S. In what sense do you believe that MWI is very-weak determinism? It's deterministic through and through.)
Data obsession and the politics of facts
think I did "unlearning object oriented programming" in university - it was called "programming in matlab with other applied mathematicians"
If you're a person for whom efficiency is highly motivating:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/juc/optimal_exercise/
If only we had some technology that could help...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/software-helps-iden...
Interesting video. I'm somewhat surprised no one has been hurt trying it out at his lectures, though. In some of the clips, the challengers seemed close enough to the edge of the raised stage that with a little bad luck it looked like they could have rolled off the stage or fallen sideways off it.

There are a couple followups that would be interesting.

1. Try this on a tricycle. On a tricycle you steer in the turn direction and do not need to lean, as opposed to a bike where your counter-steer and lean. It would be interesting to see if that less complicated steering interaction would make it easier or quicker to adapt.

2. Try on a bicycle with training wheels, adjusted so you can still lean but aren't going to actually fall over. (This is important because if you can't lean the training wheels have essentially made the bike into a trike and so the experiment has been reduced to #1).

The idea here is that in most of his videos people were failing very fast. They might not be getting a long enough ride each time to provide enough examples of control actions and responses for their brain to learn much.

Perhaps the training wheels would provide longer trials, giving the brain a lot more to work with.
The employee would need commercial insurance, which is a lot more expensive.

At that point, the employee has the disadvantages of being an employee, and the disadvantages of being a contractor, but the advantages of neither.
there are so many online typing tutors that can help you with this : https://www.google.co.in/search?q=typing%20tutor
The concept of overdrafting is a combination of modern business rule and ancient technological limitation (dating back to before-computers when accounting was manual and checks and checkbooks were also big deal, which his hella-eventually consistent). It can still serve as a useful metaphor, regardless.

But if you care about operating the EXCHANGE ITSELF then your allusion to the audit trail is a bit of a red herring, isn't it? In fact, the data store itself becomes pretty irrelevant for the live trade-matching - presumably you shard just the hell out of your data, keep the working set in RAM, keep most of your stuff colocated in the same place and just solve for availability by doing something crazy and hardware-intensive like having hot spares for everything.
The last two paragraphs make me really question this guy's perception and judgement. DTLA has been significantly revitalized, business has improved considerably, and no one in their right mind would call an investment made there 10 years ago a bad one.

Skid Row still exists, but it's shrinking every year, and Downtown is a completely different place now.
> you can work whenever you want including never.

A lot of regular employments have this, too. Even employees in some government agencies in Germany can just decide to go to work 3 hours later, or not at all that day.

This is not something that is specific to contractual work.
>discussion of the legitimate uses of global variables

Short course, that one.
> Scent trails and tracks decay quickly

This is generally only an issue when it's a case of a missing-endangered subject; most missing persons reports are of a routine[1] nature (spouse is delayed in travel and can't be reached; child has run away for the third time that month). Having a blanket policy that requires timely entry of all reports will cover every scenario, especially since an otherwise routine missing person report can turn into an emergency situation after the initial report is made.

> incidents likely to resolve themselves

That's true, and the vast majority of missing persons reports I entered over a 14 year span were canceled within hours or at most, days, when the missing person returned of their own volition. But the ones who are found safe only as a result of the timely report stand in defense of the policy.

[1] Just as there is no such thing as a "routine" traffic stop and therefore officers should always be alert, there is actually no such thing as a "routine" missing person report either; but for the sake of this discussion, by "routine" in this case I mean "not urgent or endangered".
An airliner certainly is an asset (at least in the hand of a well run airline), but the lighter the frame the better: a lighter frame needs less fuel to fly, hence more money remains in the bank at the end. But without frame there's no plane, so you need some of it, just as little as feasible.

It's the same for code: a running program can certainly be a huge asset, but the less code you have the lower the maintenance cost. The concept is just harder to grasp than paying a kerosene bill each time a plane takes off...
> Why do you think so? Russians are charging a steep price because of their monopoly, but it doesn't mean they have similarly high costs. As soon as a competitor surfaces, they can reduce the price. Do you think SpaceX will be able to compete on price? Why?

They built their platform from scratch. The Russians are using 1960s tech still.

It also helps SpaceX that Russia is always threatening to embargo exports of their rocket motors. Better to have a homegrown supplier versus being dependent on Vlad.
If you want to disappear, maybe you should do it in a place other than America, so that you will not need to so thoroughly marginalize yourself (panning for gold?!).
Frequentist? http://www.austincc.edu/mparker/stat/nov04/talk_nov04.pdf
Disney Animator animating in 3D with Virtual Reality [video]
The Psychology of Southern California Car Chases
Yes I'm a 'ps -ef' guy and my coworker uses 'ps aux' forget vim vs emacs this causes the most arguments.
This is completely inaccurate. They are highly selective and flooded with ex military from 3rd world countries. So a pudgy middle class westerner would have problems. There's a reddit AMA and a Vice article about it if you google. Also,it takes years before you get the citizenship.
Is finding people really so easy that you can let a great generalist go so you can afford an specialist?

I ask because it's come up before in other contexts that money isn't enough. If someone says here's $26 million, start 4 projects that should supposedly take 2 years each and have them done on time! Assume each of those projects takes 25 people. Somehow you need to find 100 people all on day 1 to meet your deadline. Few companies can find 100 good people quickly. Can you find 1 a day? Well then 5 months until you're fully staffed. 1 a week? It will be 4 years until you have the people.

Maybe it works for Netflix but most companies struggle to find people to hire.
'Brilliant' is overselling it—it's just an update of the old joke "this chuck is 50% rabbit meat; I make it with one rabbit and one horse"—but thanks!
It depends, technically a compiler output should be deterministic, but apparently there are a few that aren't, one example is any compiler built on Roslyn[1].

Although I think he might have been pointing out the problem of reproducible builds[2].

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/372

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About
I’ve only seen this for students of universities and all kinds of schools here in Europe.

Although school students only get a ticket for their way from school to home, and university students get a ticket that allows them to get anywhere in their region for free.
I wonder if Europeans see the vicious circle they are in.

Step 1: More job regulations.

Step 2: Employees cost more and are harder to get rid of; Businesses less inclined to hire.

Step 3: Jobs are hard to get, so employees ask for more security from the government.

Repeat.
I'm a fan of lecture notes. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~traynor/cs3251/f13/slides/
Oh Ellen, you're such a disgrace to the industry and companies you've come to work for.
I definitely got what you are saying, and as I read the article I was fighting the urge to proofread it and email the corrections to the author. Given the rambling nature and random paranoia, I get the feeling such corrections wouldn't be warmly received.
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Bill Burr is such a prick but I have to say he really nailed that one.
Yes, this is what this law case was about: Only the first and last appointment on a day.
No. They're basically totally unrelated despite the name. GraphQL is a way to build and query a typed API that exposes nested resources. It's an alternative to REST. There is no graph computation happening. I'd view it as a more flexible version of REST with types.
Great example of catastrophic interference [0] in the brain! And I like Destin's stuff, but disregard the pop-neuroscience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_interference
I think this is a really good idea, but I'd add one alternate possibility is well. Doing this on a typical user's computer today will present a mind blowing amount of data--so much that it is easy to give up trying to figure out what's going on if you've never done it before. Instead, perhaps spin up a Linux VM, maybe even no GUI to start. Then run Wireshark on its interface. Much less noise. Should be much easier to begin dissecting.
It works really well if you only type on the right side of the keyboard?
wow thats a pretty well made website
Neural Network Papers
USDCAD Consolidates Below Key Resistance Zone
"Unix" as we know it is a merger of two traditions - the spartan purism of Research Unix and the rich user experience of PDP-10 OSes (Tenex, ITS, WAITS, etc.). When DEC killed the PDP-10 a lot of the PDP-10 culture jumped to BSD, bringing a few big programs (TeX and Emacs) and a few popular features (command completion) which the Bell folks either wouldn't have thought to add or didn't want.

This is one of many times when Rob Pike has complained about non-Research Unix being "impure" (and also VT100s suck and the Blit is the pinnacle of GUI design). He's right to a point, but an OS that enforced purity wouldn't have had nearly the success Unix has had. Most people don't want pure, they want useful, and purity can help usefulness or get in the way.
I have been told I live too far way when applying for a job in Tokyo. I don't think that had anything to do with the cost of transportation (which would probably have been under $100 a month). I can think of plenty of other reasons. I can imagine assuming the long commute will affect job perf. I can imagine assuming someone with a long commute more likely to seek other employment. I can imagine someone with a long commute needing to leave the office earlier. I'm not saying those are true only guessing at reasons it came up.

On the opposite side I once hired someone in So Cal that had a long commute. Alhambra to Newport Beach. He lasted 2 weeks before he put in his notice because the commute was too long.
I suppose it's a philosophical argument more than anything, but I don't think it belongs universities. I don't think universities should be career schools, although I can see why others might think it should be since most people do go to school as a prerequisite to get a job nowadays.
'Ugly' Jack Ma Is Jealous of Every Handsome Man Except One. Tom Cruise
It's a trope with a basis in fact - that used to be the standard until relatively recently. I have had occasion to file 2 missing person reports and both times I was told on my first call that the person hadn't been gone long enough to justify a report. Both incidents were >10 years ago and obviously things have changed since then.
Fantastic info. Thanks for sharing that.
There is some good advice buried in this nauseatingly sycophantic puff piece.
Every couple of rounds of PHD dissertations that notion changes.

The biggest support is a skeleton of a child which is believed to be a hybrid of Neanderthals and Homo Sapience but the morphological bone evidence isn't that conclusive.

http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/neanderthal-skelet...

What i really don't like about that article is about how they phrased it the mDNA wasn't "Neanderthal", it just had markers which are rare in modern humans, some of those marker also appear mapped mDNA of "Neanderthals".

mDNA aside general genetic markers is a much weaker theory mostly because we cannot estimate well enough how much of the DNA in question actually came through inter-breeding and how much of it might actually survived from a previous common ancestor, or how many of them are just random mutations that survived through natural selection or cultural selective breeding.
Because there have been claims before about that like that the gene for readheads came from Neanderthals but then was discovered that that specific mutation is just naturally occurring for humans and the redhead gene of modern humans isn't the same for Neanderthals or other primates.

The 1-4% neanderthal DNA is also a bit well iffy, comparing genomes is very tricky and those comparisons often strip away all the large differences e.g. like humans and chimpanzees only share 99% of the genes when you strip about 2/3rd of the genome.

So while there might have been interbreeding there's very little of actual evidence to point to the extent and the cause of it, could've been social interbreeding, could've been pillage and rape, could've been small isolated cases, could've been widespread, but PC gen-Y notions aside the science isn't really clear on on side or the other and it's hard to know if it ever will be able to be.
The software engineering degrees here in Australia (not CS) have you do that a number of times. I wish I had studied it, but B.Sci in Maths/Chemistry and half a law degree was still quite enjoyable.
Uber 'gifts' $5.5M to CMU
Impressive work. Should be a megahit. That 50 hours was very well spent.
I was just thinking that while reading this and enjoyed it for much the same reason. Everything about this page - the loose writing style, the borderline paranoia (although, given the subject, perhaps not without reason) and the antiquated - but perfectly readable - layout. It just screams early Internet. You can even pull up the source code and tell that, more than likely, it's hand edited.

It's like stepping back into the mid-90s, one of those random pages you might land on one morning at 3am - and you waited for it to slowly load on your 9600 baud modem.

Add an "under construction" sign and it would have been complete. :)
I think you just gave Light a heart attack.
I'm having trouble finding the reference right now, but if I remember correctly, an experiment similar to yours has actually already been tried. From my faulty memory, here's the experimental setup. I hope someone else who reads this can find the exact reference.

- There's a huge sphere of a dense metal (something like 20 feet in diameter).

- The sphere can be moved closer to or farther away from an incredibly precise accelerometer.

- When the sphere is close to the accelerometer, the accelerometer's reading change very slightly due to the gravitational attraction of the massive sphere. (The change in acceleration was just barely detectable given the technology.)

- A radioactive isotope has a 50-50 chance of decaying or not in a particular time period. Under the Many Worlds Interpretation, the experimenter is in a superposition of having seen the decay and not.

- If the isotope decays, the experimenter pushes the sphere close to the accelerometer. Otherwise the experimenter pushes the sphere away. Now the sphere is in a superposition of affecting the accelerometer and not.

- The experimenter reads the accelerometer.

The point of the experiment was to see if the accelerometer would detect the deformation in spacetime caused by the superposition of the massive ball in parallel universes. The result of the experiment is that no acceleration was ever detected by other worlds' balls.
How about
1. Version control systems and how to use them always
2. Practical introduction to sql and nosql databases
3. Database schema design along with practical projects
4. Introduction to HTTP
5. Introduction to Web frameworks
6. Introduction to mobile development
7. Mobile app design basics
8. How to clear job interviews

?
I know a few good developers that don't even know how a computer works. Everything is so abstracted you never really have to know.
Open - probably not. Open and reseal and you are none the wiser - probably.
How to program by listening to your intuitions, not logically.
Wow, maybe there is some truth to what the author claims and surely there are concerns with regard to the homeless, but credibility gets thin after the deluge of hyperbole and inflammatory language. In some circles this language soul be classified as "triggers".

If they have a point to make, it's easier to understand when the other side isn't so violently vilified.

I think it's also worth remembering that the opposite of gentrification is what you get in places like Detroit --and I don't see people clamoring to go to Detroit, physically or as a state of mind.

So we need a balance. We need policies which offer help to the homeless but also allow for progress which can sustain programs which help the homeless.