skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Some brains are better than others at certain things, simply because of the way they’re wired. And now, scientists are closer to being able to determine precisely which brains those are, and how they got that way ... Intelligence research is relatively young."

No, it's not. The Eugenic movement started the quest for the "better" brain nearly a century and a half ago, and we all know how that turned out...
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Well, going to Japan from Los Angeles involves flying over the Pacific Ocean for 12 hours or so. Nothing but water.
UCSD Pascal used the p-machine to be machine/architecture independent. All the way back in 1978. [edit: a quick google suggests the p-machine was based on original work circa. 1966]

While not the JVM, using a virtual processor setup as a target for portability was a really old concept by the time Java or the .NET CLR came along.

Newer approaches add new concepts or take advantage of new technologies, but it's never revolutionary.
"Anymore" is just a word used to mean "now" anymore.
(I kid, but seriously, I've searched for analysis on the use of the word 'anymore' in the positive (eg, as something other than part of a 'not...anymore' clause) and haven't been able to find anything. Any links would be appreciated, I am legitimately curious as to when and how this became a thing).
> What are advantages of Python over C#?

Well, a major one that comes to mind (and may change as things progress) is application portability. The open CLR project hasn't gotten far enough yet to truly be cross-platform capable.

It's also smaller in weight and baggage, some argue faster to prototype/develop-in, community driven (no decade of a single company's inner departments fighting over features and behaviors), it wasn't born out of NIH syndrome, etc...

In a lot of ways, it is a lot more attractive than C# will ever be.
Out of the blue? Or was the recruiter already a second or third relation to your contacts?

I'm just wondering because linkedin seems to have pockets of good people and then pockets of spam recruiters. Right now I'm in the spam trap and 90% of my traffic is boilerplate recruiter spam. I'm not sure how I'd get myself noticed by good recruiters like this.
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Yes, although I suspect some fraction (perhaps a large fraction) of that are trust fund kids who won't ever have to work to begin with. Nick D'Aloisio, who was 17 when Yahoo! paid him $30M for Summly is basically retired. So it does happen :-)
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You take the bad with the good, like Zanzithoph, elephant of bizarre and archaic instruments.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5950-horse-and-elephant-...
I think you could pull the other four sentences from this article too:

"The butterscotch lamps along the walls of the tight city square bled upward into the cobalt sky, which seemed as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap."

"Kid A sounds like a clouded brain trying to recall an alien abduction."

"It's cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like, spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike, infinite yet 48 minutes."

"A lazy disco light spilled artificial constellations inside the aluminum cove of the makeshift stage."
It's interesting to see how many of the critiques the author cited in 2013 no longer apply to the .NET ecosystem. To name a few:

* Git is now a first class VCS for use with Visual Studio

* .NET development no longer tied to Visual Studio thanks to things like VS Code or OmniSharp with Submline

* .NET development no longer tied to Windows, dev with a Mac or Linux using .NET core
Discussion from last time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180818
> The Dispatcher is usually a massive switch statement that takes a single argument, which will be a record field that corresponds with the event type.

Stores have the switch, and you're supposed to break those up along model lines. In most the apps I've written, they never get beyond 4 or 5 branches.
The only technology that has consistently grown at an exponential rate of doubling each year is IC/computing. It is utterly unreasonable to expect other sciences and technologies to exhibit similar growth. There doesn't exist a Facebook for nanotech because nanotech doesn't grow and scale like computational resources.

Now, if you consider nanotech as a new term for some or all of the traditional fields of materials science and pharmaceuticals, then it is bullshit to claim that the hype died out. The traditional materials science companies soldier on and continue to grow at very impressive rates (stocks returning an annual 10-30%): P&G, Dow, Du Pont, 3M, etc.

The barrier for entry for startups is too high. Forget about building a manufacturing line, running a manufacturing line for a couple of days can cost in the order of millions of dollars. It is hardly a thing that one can do in one's parents' basement or garage. That is how most materials science-y and pharma companies have all been in the business for 50-100 years or more. Naturally, the successful companies in this area will be rather few in number.
I dislike prepending data as a title, because it was already implicit to any scientific discipline.
From what everyone else in the thread has said and what Google states, about 10%.
This article describes a bunch of events where people obtain weapons, plan an attack, and carry out an attack with the intent to kill others, but end up shooting fewer than 4 people. These are not, but probably should be, counted as mass shootings.

There have been 294 mass shootings this year - where a mass shooting is 4 people shot in one incident.

> But compare him to a post-Columbine shooter like Darion Aguilar, the nineteen-year-old who last year killed two people in a skate shop in a Maryland shopping mall before killing himself.

> Aaron Ybarra walked onto the campus of Seattle Pacific University and shot three people, one fatally.

294 mass shootings is fucking horrific. And the number of events where someone planned to kill other people but somehow didn't is much larger.
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Does it occur to you that when a man stands up for himself, it is not interpreted as combative, but when a woman does, she is clearly somehow to blame for everyone else's bad behavior? I have tried walking away. I have tried reaching out and attempting to build bridges. I have tried networkng. When I do the exact same thing men do, it gets interpreted differerntly and does not get me the results I am looking for that it clearly gets for men. Blaming me for the fact that women are fundamentally not as included here is just another form of sexism.

Upon further review, it was not detached at the point of one of my comments. So you are blaming me for something that may have nothing to do with my replies at all.
How did you discover music before Pitchfork?
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> Then Fukushima happens

Which was nowhere close to as bad as Chernobyl. There is a lot of fear-mongering going around that tries to imply they were somehow similar, but most of that relies on people not understanding the difference between a steam explosion in Chernobyl's reactor core (which had no containment building) blowing finely pulverized radioactive graphite and fission products across the landscape, and Fukushima's hydrogen explosions outside the containment chamber, which caused far less damage and left most of the fuel still contained in the reactor cores.

Nobody has died from radiation at Fukushima Daiichi, and there is a good chance any future cancer risk is extremely low. In fact, the way the reactor survived the worse earthquake and tsunami on record without causing a radiation hazard like some places around Chernobyl shows how safe nuclear power is, even in old designs. This was confirmed at the nearby Fukushima Daini reactor, which survived the earthquake and tsunami.

> perhaps we'll see a major nuclear accident every couple years instead of decades

Extrapolating from two incidents isn't useful. Since one of those data points wasn't significant nuclear accident, you're now trying to extrapolate form a single data point, which is not the kind of math we should base policy on.

The bigger problem with this kind of fear is that you're giving a pass to the coal industry (among other industries) which have far, far worse disasters regularly. Even if you count every single nuclear associated disaster (including Chernobyl), there number of people injured/killed and the land impact of those disasters is insignificant noise compared to what the coal (or chemical) industry has done.

> we haven't even started with waste disposal and non-proliferation considerations here

So you haven't looked at any of the advances in nuclear power that have been made over the last sever decades? Modern breeder designs don't have the waste problem. Most technologies advanced a lot over the last 40+ years - why would you assume that nuclear never advanced past the 60s?
Have a look at the Windows design some more? It's pretty extensively studied and documented. A "this is like that" article is a hint that if you wanted to learn more about this, you could also learn more about that.
> OCaml, Haskell and Lisp are spectacular. Erlang is spectacular. Tcl and Python are spectacular. C# is an OK-language at best.

I don't agree. In my view, Lisp is spectacular for its unified meta-programming capabilities, and C# is spectacular for its expressiveness (and rapid improvements, which really has more to do with the C# team than the language per se, I suppose). The rest are what they are, better than others at some things, but not spectacular.
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The "moments" feature will be a failure. They're essentially building an editorial model on top of Twitter - something they (as the platform creators) shouldn't be worried with.

The decentralized model of Twitter's content creation is an asset. If you group those into a more traditional top down model, you lose the uniqueness and power of the Twitter platform.
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It looks good, but where do you take that leads?
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Ask HN: Source of quote about early software engineering
I'm trying to find a specific quote about the beginning of software engineering and how the early computer scientists and mathematicians thought writing the code would be a trivial job of implementing algorithms. They discover that it's more complex, and someone says (maybe to Von Neumann) "because we are human, and sometimes we make mistakes"
Curious about how it will become yet another hotel network where there is a real competition out there. Is there an opportunity to grow outside India?
That's ok,

But the opposite should also be true. Don't scream 'disloyalty' when a employee wants to leave on a short notice.
Unfortunately, that's a misquote of Margaret Thatcher who said "The facts of life are conservative."
Yeah, he's comparing one of the best optimized ring buffers on the JVM to actual transactions, that's one of the worst comparisons I've ever seen. I've shipped large scale systems on .NET and on the JVM, the issues you run into with .NET are that windows isn't as easy to administer IMO as linux variants, and your ecosystem isn't as strong, that's about it.

.NET doesn't have a runtime profiler that will deoptimize / recompile etc., which can cause slowdowns in certain use cases, it does have a better unsafe story, and value types, and reified generics which can make things faster for you.
A large company with stable growth can afford to lose and retrain 10% of its workforce each year. It's also a lot more difficult to get fired from a very large company, so some forced fat-trimming is often necessary. Twitter is not that big, and it's growth is not very stable right now.

Any layoff is going to be a morale hit, and they're likely to lose some very talented people in the aftershocks. The last company I worked for laid off 25% of the employees, and within a few months another 10% had been poached or found other places to work (myself included).
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Some of this criticism was outdated already, or has gone out of date since.

WebForms (with their underlying concept of abstracting away how web really works) were already in decline two years ago, replaced by MVC.

As a former C# developer, turned Android developer, of course I have to admit there is some walled garden mentality among .NET devs, but I think they get stigmatized for that way more than average. If a Rubyist never sticks nose outside their beloved technology stack, noone makes such a big deal out of it.

Also it's nothing in compare to vitriolic anti-M$ hater mentality, often directed at developers themselves.

Or bizarre anti .NET-bias, case in point: http://blog.expensify.com/2011/03/25/ceo-friday-why-we-dont-... (I'm sure Jon Skeet was devastated).

And what's changed since 2013? Quite a lot: Roslyn... open-sourcing .NET...
> Next time I fly I'm going to check over which countries we fly

Can you really get that info before hand(well I guess one can access previous flight plans) ? If the passengers knew that, would have they cancelled their trip ? I certainly would have.

Never the less, the risk assessment was bad and too many people died that day.

Should a war be blamed for being a war?

Or should companies be blamed for being too greedy and put passengers at risk to save a few thousand dollars ? I think the latter makes more sense.
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Would love to see a post-apocalypse style series where hackers are heavily involved using old smart phones, wifi routers etc. to cobble together technological solutions for survival
Definitely, and I now realize I wasn't clear in my comment. LaDue doesn't fit smoothly into the particular series of dominoes envisioned by Gladwell. But he does fit in the much more general sense of "people who alter their actions based on what they've heard about school shootings in the past".
Off by default was the correct choice.
> I'm talking about rude comments about the intelligent people that work there.

There are intelligent people that work at many companies. You should avoid rude comments about people in general. Twitter is not special in this.

> Where do you work, lets compare products/people and the impact the product makes on the world shall we?

This is fairly egotistical. Twitter doesn't solve all problems for the world. It's a great service, but your comment is fairly negative and insulting. Especially for someone that only recently joined.
It makes the vice record reviews seem positively lucid, doesn't it? Picked at random from a google search for "vice music review":

Holy shit, dude. Sometimes you just want to punch God in the face. Every time these fucking krauts spew out another aural queef nugget I try to give it a chance, but the second I hear the singer’s thin monotone melodies backed up by lifeless, pointless beats, I remember how few shits anyone would give if these dickweeds were from Chicago. Yeah, yeah, Neon Golden. Sure. I’d sooner give Udo Kier a standing 69 under the Brandenburg Gate than hear this album again. Actually, that sounds fucking awesome, that guy’s a babe.
https://xkcd.com/1283/

I really find RNNs to be pretty cool. When they are combined with a natural human tendency to see patterns they are hilarious. So perhaps we need to update our million monkeys hypothesis to a million RNNs with typewriters coming up with all the works of Shakespeare.
37Signals had a blog post a few years on the related topic that 'meetings are toxic'. [1].

[1.] https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch07_Meetings_Are_Toxic.ph...
The writer really likes the word "idempotent".
While it is true that compilers pad for alignment it is pretty easy to avoid that, at least in my experience.

So an easier approach, but more fragile, is just to define the struct, count up how big you think it
should be and then do an

assert(sizeof(struct foo) == FOO_SIZE);

If that assert doesn't pop then you can just do

write(fd, &foo, FOO_SIZE);

I know that is a lot less elegant but it works and isn't doing the translation back and forth.

If you don't like that you might consider using Sun's RPC marshalling code that is (used to be?)
part of Linux.
2. They want you to start thinking about your safety, to start paying attention to what's happening around you, and to start thinking about making yourself harder to find. It's not an emergency, it's not a panic, but it's time to start thinking and seeing what you can do (without totally messing up your life). Do what you can now. Think about how you can be in a position to do more.

5. Drug growing or manufacturing supplies. It's fine if you don't get it.
Playboy produces well written articles now, but will their business model survive removing their original reason for existing?
Well, the stock's up 4.35% today.

That's roughly $2.7m per fired employee!
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I have looked at ArangoDB and really hope it takes off, it has some pretty nifty features I think just at this point the lack of integration with frameworks like Meteor.js is holding me back.
This bit is interesting, if the claimed causation is true:

In August of last year, its website dispensed with nudity. As a result, Playboy executives said, the average age of its reader dropped from 47 to just over 30, and its web traffic jumped to about 16 million from about four million unique users per month.
I'm perfectly happy to hear opposing views. And I don't think your post is worth less than mine. I just don't agree with it.
It's true that you do what you can to hold onto your top 1-5% of employees - but, I've been through two real layoffs - one at Netscape, and one at Loudcloud, very little differentiation occurs below that layer. At Netscape, when Microsoft effectively killed the browser-as-a-product space by giving theirs away for free, entire buildings were let go, and all the client side developers, and wan-dialer people, customer service, sales - 100% of the divisions were just gone, with pretty much zero concern as to how "good" they were.

Same thing at Loudcloud, 1/3 of the company that had revenue bearing jobs went to EDS, 1/3 of the back-end developers went to Opsware, and then the other 1/3 (including everyone in the field, all the service delivery/sales teams/support) - were just let go, with very little attention to how good they were.

The difference between these types of these "real" layoffs, and "faux" layoffs, is that in "real layoffs" - companies will try and fight to hold onto the top 5%, but the bottom 95% are let go. In the "faux" layoffs, the bottom 5-10% are let go, but the top 90% are basically okay.

Of course, the reality is that it's never totally black and white, and any real world reductions-in-force are is likely to be some combination of these two, which is why I like the term "Reduction in Force" rather than "Layoffs" - though there are probably some legal reasons why companies use the exact word "layoffs"
There was an excellent (paywalled) article on N+1 about pitchfork. It really is separate from other sites (Lack of comments, 100 different possible ratings [0.0 to 10.0)], extreme "hipster" snottiness).

The website really has, and continues to shape "alternative/indie" music tastes. It is probably the biggest indicator, and perhaps driver, of an alternative album's commercial success. Sites like these regardless of their merit (which is really low IMO), are indispensable in the saturated music market.
Interesting that he didn't mention the core idea of this piece that got a fair amount of attention: http://www.aaronstannard.com/the-profound-weakness-of-the-ne...

Namely, hat .NET developers don't really solve any hard problems
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I have seen this happen many times in big companies. Even people who clearly should have been fired long ago are kept around until the next round of layoffs. I think it is because it is simply easier on management as well as the fired employee's themselves: "it's not you, it's the recession/company/etc." Also seems to be the way to get rid to bad employees when they were worried about getting sued for descrimination because of sex/race/age/etc.
Flights from places like Amsterdam or Frankfurt to Portland or Seattle go about halfway up Greenland. Same sensation of "it would really suck to have a problem here", but there's nothing to do other than grip the armrests even harder than normal to keep the plane in the air.
This is about more than nudity becoming ubiquitous. Playboy's brand now relies much more on branded goods than pornography.

Quartz has a decent overview here: http://qz.com/522672/china-not-online-porn-is-why-playboy-is...
> they get stigmatized for that way more than average. If a Rubyist never sticks nose outside their beloved technology stack, noone makes such a big deal out of it.

Yes, exactly right.

> to vitriolic anti-M$ hater mentality

Right on - this isn't what OP was demonstrating, I think, but general reactions to Microsoft technologies are pretty bizarre. Use it or don't, but I don't get all the hate.
I am not sure how much I would give credit to the idea that the neural network 'gets' anything as it is written in the article.

> Yet, the network knows that the Romney Camp criticizing the president is a plausible headline.

I am pretty certain that the network does not know any of this and instead just happens to be understood by us as making sense.
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I'm not sure what you're getting at. If you're implying that I casually leaped to the conclusion that it's a bad thing, I didn't; I was giving guidelines to someone who seemed to be implying (s)he wanted out. If you don't want out, more power to you; I'm not really a big "you have to be passionate about your job" sort myself. (It's nice, but it's a bonus in most cases rather than a necessity.)
See, I don't think the warning is at that level. If he needed to go on vacation for a few weeks, the FBI would say so. They (the FBI) don't think the treat is at that level at this time.
It can be a bit tricky if it isn't integrated with the build process.
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The latter won't matter if they do as my pack did, where each race had three heats and each car raced in all three lanes.

But yeah, get your wheels right and polish the heck out of your axles.
Yet another cloud giant. The competition is over that direction. However, this is more to the Capex side. IBM moves to the services, Google and MS, as well. We will see how it will become.
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> Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to give it to you straight.

[...]

> we plan to part ways with up to 336 people from across the company

Nothing says "give it to you straight" like using "part ways" to mean "you no longer have a job".
When 80% of the promotional mail in my inbox is from Twitter trying to drive engagement, something is going badly.
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I have a 12 bit CPU at home that is implemented out of standard 74xxx TTL chips, its called a PDP-8/e :-). Not to take away from the Nibbler design, its great, but using TTL logic to build CPUs was a thing for a pretty long period of time (computer wise), probably 10 years from 1971 - 1981. 1981 was the year IBM introduced the IBM PC and a lot of people realized that bespoke CPU architectures were a luxury they could no longer afford.