skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cool thing for me was to get it working without any user interaction. Scan and forget. Sure you could make a close up but then you could also just type it into a form field, right?
It works surprisingly well without many tweaks. That's what I like about it.
No.

The author herself spent years working on the Linux kernel without being a 'rude, abusive and arrogant' person.

However, her exit also shows the requirement of being able to work with 'rude, abusive and arrogant' people.

PS. This is an unspoken requirement of many development positions!
Hey guys, I recently launched Pocketsquare and was hoping to get some feedback from the people who might be the target users.

Pocketsquare lets you create a simple portfolio to showcase your skills (language, frameworks, etc), code snippets, projects you've worked on and optionally your work and education background.

My questions are: Is this something you need/want? Would you use this? Why or why not?

I created Pocketsquare to give devs a better way to showcase their work. A front-end dev myself, I've maintained my own custom portfolio site for a few years and figured it made sense to abstract the layout and concept out to allow other devs to use it. For me, my public Github page isn't a great representation of the stuff I like to work on, and LinkedIn isn't really geared towards devs so it's not ideal either. So I made Pocketsquare to focus on the stuff that I thought devs would want to show: code snippets, projects and skills badges.

Thanks for checking it out and I appreciate any feedback you guys have.
Could end up like https://vimeo.com/19760997
Some country somewhere is going to legalize this. Their citizens will have IQs several standard deviations higher than ours. Dr. Steven Hsu seems to think IQs far higher than 180 (before renorming) are very possible. All countries will be forced to allow (or even subsidize) genetic intelligence augmentation. This is the nature of the incentives that will develop. We have very little choice in the matter. Any country with reservations will become a cognitive backwater, whose intellectuals will be routinely out-performed by grade-school children.

From my perspective, it is tragic that some children are born with brains that cannot understand basic arithmetic. It is equally tragic that most are born with brains that cannot understand advanced physics. This technology will allow us to remedy a good portion of our ignorance. It should be embraced. Iodizing salt increased average IQ in many regions by a standard deviation. Reducing lead pollution about 8 more on top of this. Were these great evils? Why is removing deleterious mutations?
If the argument we're going with is “well, microservices-first is relatively new so we won't know for another year or 3 if this is a mature route to take, but everyone's trying it anyway so let's do that", there is NO WAY I can or want to sell microservices-first to stakeholders.
Perhaps it is explained further in the book but what brings up questions more than anything is what prompted them to save AIG 2 days after Lehman's bankruptcy. A cynical person looks at the circumstances and says that AIG owed Goldman Sachs a ton of money on credit default swaps and since Hank Paulson, the Treasury secretary, was the former CEO of Goldman he was sympathetic to that situation.

The stated reason is often that AIG was so huge that it had to be saved to avoid disaster. Yet, this article seems to argue that the exact reason Lehman wasn't saved 2 days earlier was because it was just too large for the government to handle and that it didn't have the authority to do so until a month later when TARP was passed.

You have to wonder how candid memoirs by former officials are vs attempts to influence the historical record. Wikipedia says that Bernanke now advises Citadel which benefited to the tune of $200 million from the bailout of AIG.
It's a library I wrote.

The time breaker is actually quite complicated. It is a wrapper that sets up some global parameters on the thread for timeouts on async/await calls and handles the timeout conditions. It integrates with our own async wrappers for external http calls, message delivery, query execution etc. It only enforces that all aggregate async calls will complete or fail by the end of the timeout period. Realistically this is usually around the 500-800ms space as load spikes can break everything otherwise.
It can be compared. Both require to mentally navigate certain set of constraints and rules and build up a mental model of the domain problem, after which you produce a concrete result. In programming it's software, in law practice it's mostly a written consultation or a decision.

The point I'm making, is that both are mental endeavours. Programming isn't constantly typing at a desk, hitting TAB, and letting the IDE do the rest, but actually solving the problem in your head.

If I quit a programming job, that doesn't mean I stop thinking on programming problems. Same goes for law.

The problem that the author is describing, is that she has reached the limits of her profession to such an extent, that even thinking on (most) programming problems isn't interesting to her anymore. Which is a sad thing.
It's a bit confusing that the term "eugenics" is overloaded. The classic eugenics was about forced breeding or sterilization of individuals or races to produce a "better" society. It was involuntary and racist.

The "eugenics" of this article is about rewriting our own programming in a voluntary and targeted way.

It seems that a new term would be helpful in avoiding the negative connotations of the word "eugenics".
our military needs to be a lot more nimble

Move fast, blow up hospitals? But I'm glad you accepted that the US is not a police service (ie legally accountable to the policed, following due process) but a military (ie an occupying force that executes people at will).

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are wars of choice by the US, and the end result has been a total destabilisation and millions of people killed or made refugees.
I don't improve reddit, just make it easier for busy redditors
You can, but remember the sync engine doesn't provide any authentication layer by default, since people use it in so many different ways. You'll want to run it proxied behind some sort of authentication service. (With AWS, you can do this with different subnets via VPC.)
Develop as a monolith, deploy as services: engines.

http://tech.taskrabbit.com/blog/2014/02/11/rails-4-engines/
Retention is every app publisher's game to lose
Simple economics: If the taxes pulled from the purchase of cars is used to facility other sectors that generates growth and that growth is greater than the contraction due to the lower demand of EVs then the net effect is positive to the economy.

For instance: In the U.S. taxing luxury, high-wealth goods and returning the money as food stamps is the number one best stimulus the U.S. can choose [0].

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/29/news/economy/stimulus_analys...
A quote from a consultation I did this morning: "A QC capable of Shor's Algorithm is decades away, if at all possible." My reasoning was that you can do convoluted physics experiments simulating degree 1 qbits (2, 3 or 4) but raising the order of magnitude might be close to impossible given the physics we know. If we could manage to do 5-10 (2 degrees) in silicone, we should have engineering to do 6 degrees since we know a lot about the material. I was asked who was the largest stakeholder in QC. I said it probably was not the NSA since that's the obvious one. I've since had the thought that the NSA might be an anti-stakeholder, that they would be better off if QC isn't realized. They have pretty good leakage from current crypto systems. If the world is forced to move away from it, they have to break a whole new suite of cyphersystems.
correct in what respect? I'm not trying to be rude here but it is unclear what exactly I'm being called out on. Do you disagree with my use of the word "surface codes" or do you disagree with the way I've lumped a bunch of QEC's together under one name? Or is the disagreement something else entirely.

And yeah I'm aware of the advances in passive QEC. Exciting time to be alive!
Of course, both parties like status quo because both benefit from it. They just don't realize that the empire is soon dead, the question is, will the fall be bad or catastrophic.
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Ouch. There are at least two ways PDFs can be created, those with embedded text, and those with a picture of embedded text. This is the latter group.

Effectively what you have here is a bitmap in a PDF which happens to contain a scan of text. So in order to even begin to extract it, you'll have to extract the bitmap, then OCR it, but while you OCR it you'll have to try to keep the location of the different blocks somehow...

You'd need to look at several of these to see how consistent they are. If they're laid on a flatbed scanner manually, they won't be very consistent. However if they're scanned via a feeder then it should be extremely similar each time, and you could hard code in the coordinates of the data you want (which is extremely fragile, but is the least amount of work).

Then you just OCR the names only, while looking in other boxes for any content at all.
So she isn't retiring, is that what you are saying?
I started a company called locatable (www.locatable.com) with a couple of mates some years back. The search engine did the same thing in the UK. The site is now offline, but there's some screenshots here https://data.gov.uk/apps/locatable-0

By far the most time consuming aspect of running the algorithm was computing the polygons to plot on the gmap. The actual search is fairly straightforward, even when using roads instead of the relatively simple public transit graph to compute the isochrones.
> European privacy laws are very consumer-friendly and usually very reasonable.

Cookie notifications and censorship of the news under the guise of the "right to be forgotten" come to mind as obvious counterexamples.
I had a similar experience.

Turned out the offending co-worker just favored bluntness over politeness and was more than happy to discover I was able to discuss with him over concepts and not over how those concepts he expressed.

The two of us never had a problem since.
That's not really what I meant. There's a massive survivorship bias with monolithic architectures.
I thought "deed-ree" initially. Thank you.
I've looked at this before; I decided to implement it finally, calling it expand-right. (I use the "reduce" terminology rather than "fold", so the antonym has to be consistent).

With explicit lambdas, decrement from 5 to zero, not including it in list:

1> (expand-right (lambda (item) (if (zerop item) nil (cons item (pred item)))) 5)
(5 4 3 2 1)

Using functional combinators:

2> [expand-right [iff zerop false [callf cons identity pred]] 5]
(5 4 3 2 1)

Include zero; bit of a mouthful:

1> [expand-right [iff null nilf [callf cons identity [iff zerop nilf pred]]] 5]
(5 4 3 2 1 0)

Though it can do it, it doesn't look like a great interface when inclusion of the last element is required.

Comparison with the inclusive iterate (which I did implement and called "ginterate"--thanks for the nice name:

1> [ginterate [chain zerop not] pred 5]
(5 4 3 2 1 0)
I'm hoping Hack can liberate us.
ca. 1984
Twitter Unveils New Moments Feature for Tracking Big Events
This has been on the radar of the NAE (National Academy of Engineering) for quite a while.

Here's an article that was published in 2010 and talks about the risks of an attack on the power grid: https://www.nae.edu/Publications/Bridge/TheElectricityGrid/1...

Some interesting takeaways

Recent media reports, in April 2009, for example, highlighted penetrations of the U.S. electricity system by hackers. In November 2009, 60 Minutes aired a piece confirming rumors of break-ins to the Brazilian energy system in 2005 and 2007. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission confirmed that in January 2003, the Microsoft SQL Server worm known as “Slammer” infected a private computer network at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours. Fortunately the plant was off-line at the time. In January 2008, the Central Intelligence Agency reported knowledge of four disruptions, or threatened disruptions, by hackers of the power supplies for four cities.

Clearly, these attacks have been ongoing for a while. NAE also points out keeping software updated can lag far behind the threats:

Another problem today is that security patches are sometimes not supplied to end-users, or they are supplied but are not applied for fear of impacting system performance. Current practice is to apply an upgrade/patch only after SCADA vendors have thoroughly tested and validated it, which can sometimes take several months.
I don't expect that we'll have time to put this together officially very soon. If you'd like to help though, the best way would be to figure out how to get N1 building on arch from the open source repo!
This is the kind of thing that PostCSS should really be used for: responsible transforming of existing CSS without inventing new syntax or doing invisible "magical" transformations.

Or trying to emulate built-in features from other preprocessors.
1. I will consider for next update. Thank you

2. Reddit is good for comments but 9reddit is good for checking media contents

3. I don't think so.

4. This is a modern design not only 9gag
Goodbye John Doe – Peculiar placeholder names for designers and hackers
Don't forget RPC with protobufs.
Why should taxpayers bail them out? They bought into a monopoly and that's like paying the teacher a bribe so you can take other kids' lunch money. This is a perfect example of corporatism, and should not be rewarded with a soft landing when it fails.
I feel she was gloating more on what she did than why she quit, but I am in the same boat, I hate programming for others. I have a single client I work for that pays my bills and the rest of the time I build my own stuff. Sometimes the work for them is so mind numbingly boring and not interesting to me, that I could go a whole month only putting in 15 hours of work.
There is already an algorithmic version like this. Video here: https://vimeo.com/34949864
Yes. I don't improve reddit. Just easy to check media contents
How writing literature is like writing code
> Sooner or later someone's going to find themselves in a Kafkaesque situation where two global jurisdictions demand incompatible things.

That's exactly what we're already talking about here: companies are unable to obey both EU rules concerning privacy, and US laws concerning law enforcement access to data.

And that's basically why borders between internet jurisdictions are now being drawn up.
Criminal records are presumably based upon written laws, public evaluation of collected evidence, trial, and conviction. That process doesn't always arrive at the right outcome, but at least it strives to be correct. And later, you can find those records and make up your own mind about the person with the rap sheet, if needed.

That can't be the case with personal ratings, because there's no public evaluation or context or validation of each rating.

You talk about "dimming" as if it solves a problem, but what overall problem do personal ratings solve, really? "Dimming" is a solution patched on top of a non-problem. I don't get it.
Yeah, and it's never been easier to get a taxi in NYC. They artificially restricted the supply of medallions since at least the 70s, and that led to a severe undersupply of taxis (especially in the outer boroughs). Uber has largely fixed this.
Alfred is HUGE, allowed me to move into my apartment while out of town for 4 weekends. Sign up now.
People aren't being critical, they are being dismissive. Which is completely accurate with what the author is saying.

- "There a problem in software, no one is taking it seriously"
- "There's no problem in software that I know of, why do you even care?"
DevOpsDays India 2015
The he I meant was you, I'm not calling you out.
But they were always phones, first.

You turn it on / open it, and it's at the phone screen. You could just dial using the dedicated hardware numeric keypad, and it would place a call. To get to the web browser, calendar, and other functions you had to go into a sub-menu, because they were secondary, not-that-important functions of the device.

If it's a phone, this is a fine design. If it's a device who only happens to have a phone feature (and personally, I barely use the "phone" part of my phone anymore), then it's actually a very annoying design. It's about as useful as if someone decided that upon startup or pressing the "home" button, it should go to Angry Birds, and all other apps/features could be accessed via a menu button after that.

It's a subtle, but important, difference in the mindset that goes into designing both the hardware and software.
IMHO that looks really awful.
Startups vs. education
What a scummy business. A reminder of the fact that it's not just that you make bank, but how you earn your living. For the shame.
I was mentioning where the bar is set by commercial platforms creating content to appeal to their audience, not how far below that bar other things can get.

But since you mention it, trendy clickable blogs can and do sell hate, sex and gratuitousness all the time, it is all in how they package it. NSFW is by definition the sorts of images and words that can't be repackaged in a way cubical dwellers can have on-screen while slacking, but site like The Chive still run right up to the NSFA (Not Safe For Advertiser) line with it.
Perforce introduces GitSwarm
Could be that the McDonalds employee doesn't have the $1,500 to get qualified. For a great many people, that's an amount that seems impossible to save.
<3 to you because an upvote alone is not enough.
HoloLens development edition shipping in Q1 2016
In fact someone needs to write an article on "levels" of "microserviceness", (which certainly has multiple dimensions and branches) and point out the benefits and drawbacks of each level.

I think I might literally have a "SOA Maturity Model" slide laying around somewhere from my mid-2000's consulting career.

Let me know if you need it, ironically or not.
Microsoft taking applications for $3,000 HoloLens dev kits for shipping Q1 2016
noted ;)
This is good for everyone's privacy. By making it difficult for businesses to centralize the storage of US and European data, the European court has incentivized businesses to pressure the US government toward laws that respect our privacy better.
Depending on what there books looked like they might have gotten similar returns winding down the company, it's not like there going to spend 20 million this year.
Does your company know how much open source it uses?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis has some guesses.
In this case, "back in my day" far precedes websites, so it's entirely possible for both the OP and you to be correct.
To be honest when it comes to critical infrastructure, you cannot be conservative enough.

Which is to say: These networks should be closed-loop, and air gapped from the internet. The best security is simply not letting an attacker connect to the equipment at all.

Same way cars are meant to work. One network for the vehicle control systems, another network for the fun stuff (in car entertainment, OnStar, etc). With well defined interconnections between them (that assumes the "fun stuff" side can misbehave).

If there is any interconnection between the critical infrastructure network and the internet, then it needs to be very well regulated, down to the packet lengths.
I worked on SNO for my masters, helping to build the water purification systems. The goal was one atom of impurity per cubic metre of water. It made distilled water look filthy. :)

Everyone knew that if we got it to work, Arthur would win the Nobel Prize. He worked very hard on it, and was a good leader.

Congratulations to him.
100M games played
We don't have too. We could just say "you must have a medallion to operate a cab". They secondary market drove up the prices so I guess it doesn't make sense to have the gov reimburse them. If there was no secondary market then it might.
> a Docker container for each line of code

Yes, this is the surest way for developers to guarantee the code itself is always bug-free. Everything becomes "just an ops problem".

2017 predictions: buzzy job title: Ops-Dev. Labview-style graphical programming http://www.ni.com/newsletter/app/largeimage?lang=en&imageurl... becomes the new hotness. Amazon and Google introduce new graphical programming workflow coordination services for lambda. Nothing ever gets finished.

(2018 predictions: google discontinues this service)

(2019 predictions: every machine instruction now belongs to its own docker package; the successor to Kubernates is marketed as a distributed asynchronous virtual CPU. Data centers begin requiring small nuclear stations to generate the electricity to power them. Still nothing gets finished).

(2020 predictions: someone rediscovers this "heroku" thing; things start getting done again. Hot new industry: nuclear waste disposal)

(2119 prediction: nuclear stations powering 2019's data centers are still running at full power but servers are all dormant; nobody wants to turn off a server "just in case").
it's as if could actually avoid going down that road, the fruit is too juicy...

who can stop army from creating/amending super soldiers? military is well known for disregard on basic human rights in the name of greater good or whatever. same goes for private military contractors. boundaries are anyway extremely blurry, what I consider ridiculous and unethical would other couple consider as giving extra hand to their incoming baby in a very competitive world.

one country bans it, but it doesn't prevent its neighbour to have more permissive laws for certain cases. just look at the private banking, or assisted suicide travelling.

Gattaca showed this future rather nicely. the thing is, from perspective of the generation when change happens, things might look harsh & horrible in more than one instance. from perspective of augmented civilization looking back 500 years ago on the "age of big leap forward", we will look like a bunch of incompetent, useless and fragile primitives. not so sure what to think about that...
The problem isn't that they borrow ideas from others; it's that they do it in such volume and with such little creativity of their own. Zynga faced similar criticism:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/08/08/a-photo-re...

Both companies do of course make money. But that doesn't entitle them to respect, just money.
Yeah I figured. Is it published/OSS?
The demo link goes to a secure https url, but the frzr JS is pointing to the non-secure http url and therefore not loading.

Suggest changing JS src url to just //frzr.js.org/dist/frzr.min.js (to load either, based on current scheme) or https.