skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone is in it because they love it. If you are then there's no reason not to be able to continue at it well into the "golden years." It's not like we have to swing a pick or tote a bale. I think the work itself keeps your mind young.
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It is a purposely vague document outlining the basic form of government leaving out all important detail and deferring that to said government and courts; it is by design intended to be interpreted by qualified individuals. The notion that it's some clear simple document anyone can read and properly understand is simply contrary to history and contrary to how law operates even back then. It was never the supreme law of the land so much as the supreme framework of the law to be later implemented by the land.

> If it were all a matter of interpretation we wouldn't need an actual written constitution.

That sentence quite literally makes no sense; all writing is a matter of interpretation, writing something down doesn't remove interpretation without great effort; in fact that's what legalese is, an attempt to remove all possible interpretation (which still fails continually; thus judges) and the constitution is not written in that manner because it's a general outline, not an attempt at really creating practical law.
Have you found that your salary followed a trend of increasing ~10%/year? (I read that somewhere as the target amount you should receive as a raise annually.) Give-or-take fluctuations due to lay-offs, taking opportunities over salary, etc.
Just wanted to repost this from the other thread on TensorFlow, since I joined the party a bit late:

I think some of the raving that's going on is unwarranted. This is a very nice, very well put together library with a great landing page. It might eventually displace Torch and Theano as the standard toolkits for deep learning. It looks like it might offer performance / portability improvements. But it does not do anything fundamentally different from what has already been done for many years with Theano and Torch (which are standard toolkits for expressing computations, usually for building neural nets) and other libraries. It is not a game-changer or a spectacular moment in history as some people seem to believe.
just for fun...

import itertools
colors = ["brown", "red", "green", "yellow", "yellow", "brown", "brown", "black"]
dict([(color, len(list(grp))) for color, grp in itertools.groupby(sorted(colors))])

or

dict([(color, len(filter(lambda c: c==color, colors))) for color in set(colors)])

...because sometimes job security is important too.
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A 1960s experiment on the effects of isolation
Maybe too much whitespace isn't right; it's too much clutter. I don't know how to describe it; I'll attribute my indecision on being under the weather. Let's stick with "clean": I like Dokuwiki's layout, categorical hierarchy and linking system better than Confluence.

I agree that team members not adhering to doc standards is a human problem.
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actually numpy would be a brilliant starting point - but I'm not able to find any popular ones that dont use matlab (or some dialect thereof).

disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I do know that coursera and stanford courses are the oft cited ones and they use matlab/octave.
Ok, it's not that simple:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/closuresleak/index3....

The last example is a good demonstration that. Sure, at the end of the day it's all about not cleaning the references. All I'm saying is that it is super easy to accidentally not clean the references. In other languages or even in javascript itself without the DOM, it's not nearly that easy.
Check the voting patterns for areas in the Valley to discover what tech workers think. They pretty much line up with the results displayed regarding founders. I noticed it myself while living there.
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I kinda miss when computers looked like this.
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Is there anything an "early" programmer like myself can do to play around with this stuff without a background in the related math?

I'm dying for this stuff to be dumbed down enough where Joe WebUser can feed in arbitrary data in a csv or point an app at a data source and get some sort of meaningful results.

It truly seems like an area where once the barrier to entry is greatly reduced, the creativity of laymen will lead to some truly amazing executions.
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I suspect that elderly people don't move to one of these places because they are tricked into thinking that it will be better than living with family. I think your comparison is disingenuous.
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Why doesn't Y-combinator have such, I always wondered. Small bedrooms and small offices, I mean. It would save a lot of money for startups and it would also let them mingle a lot, maybe too much :)
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The problem with granular privileges is that programs want too many of them. See any Android flashlight app. Theo is getting good results on tightening up the classic UNIX command line tools. Has he tried EMACS yet?

Also, a bigger problem than system calls is what parts of the file system the program can access. The concept that a program has all the privileges of its owner is the biggest single problem with permissions.

What might work is having a few general classes of programs, with appropriate restrictions. Consider, for example, permission set "game, single player":

- Can read anything in its install package.
- Can read/write only to working directory associated with product/user combination.
- Can go full screen, use audio output (not microphone), access mouse/touch, etc.

That seems reasonable. Angry Birds could run under those restrictions. For some games, the DRM won't work, the anti-cheating won't work, the ads won't work, the in-game purchasing won't work, the updater won't work, and the social leader board won't work. Still, it would be reasonable to require in an app store that games still work locked down to that level, even if some features are disabled.

One way an app store might make this work is that programs which require very limited permissions are easy to get into the store. Programs which require extensive permissions go into the "adults only" section of the store, or have to go through a source code audit at the developer's expense.
Because I think whitelisting the syscalls at init and only being able to drop syscalls is a great idea.
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Hi All,

I need help finding a monitor setup for coding and home use. I haven't had a monitor in years and don't know what's good quality wise versus what's the most bang for the buck.

Specs:

I have a Macbook Pro with two thunderbolt ports.
I don't FPS games or any games for that matter.
Budget $400-$1000

1. Older model 30" Apple Cinema Display - $300 Craigslist
2. New 27" model Apple Thunderbolt Display - $1000
3. Dual Dell UltraSharp U2414H 24-Inch Screen LED Monitor - $460 w/o stand Amazon
4. Other???

Thanks!
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Switched to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Where do the opportunities come from? How do you market yourself?
Sometimes the front page is too busy or something doesn't take. Don't worry about it - they're just internet points. No point linking to it unless there are comments that might also be interesting to readers of these ones, right?
Building App Container Images with Nix
My uncle is a 65 year old COBOL programmer who has never been out of work.
Thoughts on the MacBook
"Specifically, it shows a dynamic graph in which each vertex is an author of a computer science research paper, where there is an edge between two authors if they have co-authored a paper..."

This is an exact copy of the "Erdős number" concept (just replaces "math" with "computer science" and "Erdős" with "Turing"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number
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The posting with commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535994
Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance
Sharepoint is many things, it has a basic Wiki system included.
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Congratulations to the Kubernetes team! That blog post read like a wish list come true (Ingress: swoon). I can't wait to kick the tires on the new release.
> it's futile

I agree. I've mostly (99.999%) given up on participating in American politics for the betterment of society.

> People are HEAVILY biased towards the version of the "truth" that lets them do what they want.

I just have to point out that by taking the stance that you and I are taking, we're doing the same. I'm biased towards the version of truth that lets me live as we want. In other words, I could massively disrupt my life as Snowden did, and that actually might make a difference. However, I convince myself that it wouldn't, so I can just work, make money, and pursue my usual definition of happiness.
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It's better (by default) to optimize for programmer time and succinct expression unless something else takes priority, like running time, memory use, image size, etc.

The TXR version of the iterative approach:

1> (let ((h (hash)))
(each ((c '(brown red green yellow yellow brown brown black)))
(inc [h c 0])) ;; (inc (gethash c h 0)) can be used
h)
#H(() (black 1) (yellow 2) (green 1) (red 1) (brown 3))

Or:

2> (let ((h (hash)))
(mapdo (do inc [h @1 0])
'(brown red green yellow yellow brown brown black))
h)
#H(() (black 1) (yellow 2) (green 1) (red 1) (brown 3))

I toyed with porting some loop macro implementation to TXR Lisp. I looked at some historic sources and just went "gack". Followed by, "what am I thinking".

I think in the end I would go for something like iterate, but even more Lispy. (Iterate still has "for x in y" type syntax in the clauses, just with parentheses around it; I would drop the infix "in" cruft and just have a symbol followed by nothing but semantic arguments)
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Once upon a time I made some timelapse software for building videos of hackathons (ludumdare, specifically). It got pretty good traction and the quality/quantity of the timelapses in that community went up, which was really great to see. Now it is fairly obsolete (and so ugly!), but over its lifetime it saw about 50,000 downloads and helped build timelapse videos for everything from game dev hackathons to professional car engine builds to medical research.
i could careless - i was under the impression HN had URL dup algorithms to make sure you cant double submitted within a few months of the OP
Many great businesses were started by founders aged 50+.

"The average and median age of U.S.-born tech founders was thirty-nine when they started their companies. Twice as many were older than fifty as were younger than twenty-five."

Cites: https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/older-entrepreneurs-... ; http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/research/2009/04/educatio...
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I doubt the NSA needs to instigate much. There is so much bad code in the world, and it just keeps growing, they would be in business forever just sitting on their thumbs.
Is it a coincidence that Kubernetes 1.1.1 also came out today, or did you plan it that way?

Either way, I am looking forward to playing with this and thanks for making the Kubernetes ecosystem even better.
Hi shostack,
You can try out ThatNeedle API. http://www.thatneedle.com/nlp-api.html . While it is only catering to retail for now. The underlying capability is broader and generic.
If you have specific needs, let's get in touch and discuss. You should at least take a look at the gif demo on the site.
OMG! Comic Sans again.
I guess it depends what your priorities are.

Personally I find MacDown to be a great replacement for Mou, LightPaper may also be appealing to some people.

All of these are native apps, i don't see what this app could offer that would make up for being non native.
> and I fear it will introduce the Halting Problem in to a lot more areas.

This is the part of your post where I concluded that you were deeply confused and stopped reading. The didactic part of me wants to teach you what the halting problem is, but I'm not even sure what it is you don't know at this point.
That's a strong opening salvo.

And so far it's only from one nation. Much of Europe shares a stronger belief in things like privacy and data protection than the US, and much of Europe has law in place to defend such things if the political will is there. Facebook can't afford to face fines at significant multiples of that scale, and even if it could, it's just asking for more severe action if it tries to force the issue.

The nightmare scenario for FB is probably losing access to parts of Europe for a while and as a result losing their critical mass of users so a rival social network can gain a foothold. With the digital native generation already far less attached to any one social network than their predecessors, that could become an existential threat to Facebook itself. As such, it seems highly unlikely that they will try to hold their position indefinitely on this one.
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I'm dying for this stuff to be dumbed down enough[...]

It kind of already is. Have you read the docs/examples? I don't think your mentality is fruitful. Having argued with people who shared your point of view, it seems there will always be something too difficult that prevents them from being good at X.

There's no substitute for sweat. Have fun with the code they gave you and see where you end up!
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What exactly is vague about this?

"No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen."

or this?

"All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills"

or this?

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Now, I agree in portions such as this:

"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

That what comprises "public safety" is open to some degree of interpretation.

But the document, as a whole is not that opaque.

The intent is to be a transparent set of rules. Ones that you and I, as participants in a democracy can view and insist are followed. We can't just say "oh, judges know better" and leave it at that. That isn't a democracy, isn't representative and leads to a very bad place. We have to demand representation and a rule of law. We can't allow the law to be bent to the point it really isn't law anymore. We, as citizens, must be in control of our government. To do that, we must individually be able to read and judge the rules and ascertain if they are or are not being followed. And elect those who agree to uphold rather than subvert the process.
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> Not if the ad scripts are mixed in with the content-rendering scripts, in which case you'll need to do some on-the-fly modifying of scripts.

This is true, but it's not problem unique to WASM. In fact, your proposed pattern matching AdBlocker seems like it would be much easier to produce targeting WASM.

It's also worth nothing what an edge case this is. Some sites might do this, but large enough sites to be worth doing this will likely be large enough to inspire site-specific workarounds. Smaller sites will be unlikely to couple their ads to their rendering so tightly.
Supposedly several writers for the Simpsons are formally trained mathematicians. I've often wondered why they haven't gotten together to make videos about math. Perhaps something like the Khan Academy, but done by folks who have the perfect combination of academic knowledge, story telling ability, great writing skills, access to animation/production, lots of money, etc.
This is for the landlord-tenant relationship. My understanding is that it's legal for people to advertise for roommates (with whom they share living space) based on pretty much whatever they want.
I'm curious how the performance and scalability compares with Theano and Torch. I'm thinking the reason Google built this is that they wanted to scale computations to really large clusters (thousands, tens of thousands of machines) and the other options didn't really cut it.
It seems somewhat absurd to blame the existence of bugs and zero day vulnerabilities on one language, especially when that language is one of the best supported and most powerful. Unless you can figure out a way to remove humans from both the creation and use of software, I anticipate we'll have issues like these for the foreseeable future.

Of course, HN commenters like you probably think if we all switched to Go or Swift there'd never be any bugs ever again...
We too brother, we too.
How about we learn to deal with the fact that they're not storing data that is yours in the sense of ownership, but only in the sense that it's about you?

We have learned to deal with it. In Europe, we have for the most part decided that allowing large organisations to compile personal data without either the data subject's consent or some other acceptable reason is not a good thing, and we have passed laws that forbid it.

I have the right to a little black book.

Sure you do, but in Europe you don't have the automatic right to keep personal data about me and millions of other people in it, and if you do then we might punish you for it.

I have a right to free speech, and sometimes your name is on my lips.

Not in Europe, you don't. In fact, legally speaking you don't have that absolute right anywhere else in the world that I know about either.
The frat incident happened two days after the email that provoked the ire, for what it's worth. Also, the email seemed to be the main point of contention in the videos on 11/5: https://www.thefire.org/yale-students-demand-resignations-fr...
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Yep the internet makes it possible to learn on your own - I am a totally self-taught developer. I tried to teach myself back in the 80s as a teenager and it was near impossible.

I still remember trying to write assembler back then by memory poking to speed up the inner loops of my BASIC programs. The crazy thing is occasionally I would get it to work despite having (almost) no idea what I was doing.
Legacy code buried in enterprises will always need supporting skills. With aging workforce that coded for mainframes, COBOL will pay more in near future IMO.
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I'm 44. I got my first 'real developer' job at 40 :)
Hey we are in Palo Alto, and have hosted and currently live with many Y combinator startups and engineers. We all live together in this awesome community near Stanford and University Ave. We want to invite more like minded people!
To install
http://tensorflow.org/get_started/os_setup.md

They have some general walkthrough tutorials
http://tensorflow.org/tutorials/mnist/beginners/index.md

and a nice overview on machine learning.
you will need to setup an account.
It is free and very informative.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/home/week/1

hundreds of resources for machine learning can be found here
http://www.machinelearningsalon.org/assets/the-machine-learn...
We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

https://archive.org/details/EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtRe...

https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-...

Surveillance is not an end toward totalitarianism, it is totalitarianism itself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/europe-24385999
I often wonder how much of the forgetfulness is the environment, myself.
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I definitely find it wild. Recent developments make me very optimistic that I might see useful domestic robots within my lifetime, maybe even something like Data.

It definitely seems way less far-fetched now that we have machine learning techniques for semantic segmentation, object and face recognition, reasoning, voice recognition and synthesis and even translation, extracting useful meaning from text/speech.
You can solve this to some extent by learning a few different specialties, the real problem is all the tacit knowledge you need. There are a lot of areas I know all the theory, but I would not be able to get an experiment working as I just don’t have the experience at the bench in those areas.
An in-between option is the http://lobste.rs model of having tags on stories, and letting users filter on tags. Allows me to ignore a few topics I just don't care about, without really splitting the community (some of the community opts-out of a few topics here and there, but it's by and large one community).
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I detest the idea of living in a space where I could not open a window. I barely tolerate it in an office environment.
Seems like it was hastily launched to coincide with Google's?

I guess now we have platform wars even on something so niche...
Isn’t the problem with COBOL not that learning COBOL is hard, but that you need so much domain knowledge about how the legacy code work?
One of the first things that sysadmins at my last place of work would do is turn off SELinux on new installs of RHEL.

There were too many times that SELinux would cause issues for them because they didn't understand the built-in policies and where to place stuff. As a security conscious person, it is a HUGE pain in the behind and I've spent many hours debugging SELinux and it's policies.
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I think the biggest reveal here is this was built for a browser based version of Napster linked on the site. Now that's nostalgia.