skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a T-Mobile customer for about two years, and they've been doing it for at least that long as far as I can recall. It hasn't bothered me that much since it's not very often that I mistype a URL while using my phone without wi-fi, so I've only seen that stupid search page a handful of times, but yeah… they do it.
Have vapid puff pieces been on the rise in the past couple years?
The first video in the article was created with their actual technology and filmed with a Black Magic camera. The second video is just CGI
People used to believe lightning was what happened when the gods became angry. Now we know the source of lightning is an electrostatic discharge.
Well, Google was the No. 1 employer last year.
Jeff Henry, Verrückt, and the men who built the great American water park
>There's a feeling that I shouldn't be alive let alone here in this workplace or surrounded by good people, a feeling that I don't quite belong.

Funny. I've never been homeless, and that's how I feel a lot of the time.
In this case, "sin" doesn't quite mean "not being Christian enough." Other religions (and ethics in general) often advocate very similar behaviors, so it wouldn't be surprising to see a Christian who is more of a sinner than a non-Christian.

The argument is that violence comes when someone has convinced themselves that they are already righteous enough to override the sin inherent in the violence.
You may also be interested in http://www.amazon.com/All-Nonparametric-Statistics-Springer-... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)
Slava @ RethinkDB here. Thanks for all your awesome work on the driver!
Google Mao's works on cells and guerilla warfare and Manhattan project secrecy.

In short, you don't give anyone the big picture, have a vote cadre of leaders committed to the cause, have enforcers watching/misdirecting/culling the herd.
A bifurcation of society on the order of 4% over 45 years seem slow enough to not worry about...
If this doesn't raise any flags, I don't know what else will.
All they have to do is ask them in the phone screen "So what did you contribute to Swift?"
I actually will like to see them do something novel and great with their technology.

As a developer, occasional FPS gamer, and musician, I'd like to see them tackle adaptive generative music that is actually convincing. I want music that takes cues from the gaming environment without obvious loop splicing points and without feeling mechanical.
The title of the paper is:
GOOD JOBS ARE BACK:
2015
College Graduates Are First in Line

and the first listed funding source is the Lumina Foundation, whose first line on the about page says:

> Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
Just the opposite:

If they don't make you write any code, do not work there: you might end up working with people who can't write code---because the application process doesn't filter those bozos out.

(Doesn't have to be `write code on a whiteboard'. Whiteboarding is actually pretty artificial. Just make sure they do make you write code at all.)
I really hate any post that says "you don't really need this tool, this one does that job just fine for us"

You don't know my workload. You don't know my requirements. It is ok to make a post saying that a specific tool is wrong for these use cases, or that you believe that many people using a tool don't need it or would be better off with a different tool..... But don't act like you know my workload.
That happened to me as well. Apparently, worn-off sealant can create tiny gaps and cracks that are difficult to clean and accumulate bacteria.

The only thing a dentist can give you that actually lasts a lifetime is a gold crown. Everything else needs to be fixed at least once in a decade.
Where ed/tech goes next, as seen by EdSurge
> I'm operating under the assumption that most people have a definition of simplicity that's similar to mine.

Perhaps you shouldn't assume that. But whether you're right or wrong in assuming that most people have a definition of simplicity that's similar to yours, it's another step to say that Donovan and Kernighan's definition is wrong. It's that second step that I'm criticizing you for.

Plaugher has been very clear about what he means by "simplicity" in Go. (I suspect the same is true of Donovan and Kernighan, though I haven't read their intro.) So, yes, the word "simple" has a clearly defined meaning for them. It also has a different, perhaps less clearly defined, meaning for you.

Again, it's fine for you to disagree. But to say that their definition is wrong? That sounds both arrogant and childish. More to the point, it seems unlikely that you are right that their definition is [objectively] wrong.

[Edit: Where did Go come from? It came from trying to solve the problems of working on ten-million-line code bases for a decade or two. That experience gave them definite ideas about what "simplicity" means. It's fair to say that most people don't have that definition. But you don't have the right to say their definition is wrong unless you've worked in that environment long enough to know what the problems are.]
10^8 is a lot.
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I've been working on AR and related technologies for almost the last decade and I've been part of the first handful of people working on Google Glass. Bottom line I've seen a lot of promising AR technologies come and go.

My personal take on this is that they may indeed have some very good, if not revolutionary, display technology. However: The big, big obstacle to delivering credible AR is latency. Contrary to VR, true see-through AR needs to have total latencies (device motion --> display photon hits the retina) of no larger than 10 - 15 ms max. The reason is that in see-through AR you're essentially competing against the human visual system in latency and the HVS is very fast.

Moreover the HVS is also extremely good in separating visual content into "layers". Whenever two things in your field of view don't move in perfect continuity with their surroundings (as it is when there AR content overlaid with latency) your brain will immediately separate them from one another, creating the impression of layers, and, in the case of see-through AR, breaking the AR illusion.

So right now I'm a semi-believer. Iff they can sort out the latency problem and deliver stable yet ultrafast tracking in a wide variety of conditions (also by far not a trivial problem) then this has a bright future.
Is there any actionable information in this post or is this just an ad?
What do you mean by revolutionizing computing? I assume you mean the way we interact with computers, not something like computer processing speed.

I definitely agree that AR has huge potential in changing how we interact with the world. Although I'm much more interested in technology that leverages things like projects to augment my reality without having to wear a headset. Very related things though.

How do you feel about headset vs no headset AR?
I think you're putting words in her mouth, so to speak. That paragraph begins by repeating a statement about God being found in the cracks between knowledge. I know I've read this elsewhere, it's not a new idea. The rest of the paragraph just restates this in a way that I think is very fair.

My direct answer: yes. IMO divinity is just magic backing a particular narrative. As we discover and accept alternative explanations for why things are the way they are, that magic disappears and the narrative loses power.
Theranos has raised a little less than $90m according to crunchbase. These folks have already raised $592m.
Not necessarily. My last internship paid my relocation expenses, they just mailed me a visa gift card with the money a month or two before I started.
The guide explicitly says to use Earl Grey, which is a bergamot oil infused Assam. Both of these loose-leafed teas, as well as typical British loose-leaf blends such as English Breakfast, are brewed at 100 C, and taste awful (bitter and slightly mealy in the mouth) when brewed at a lower temperature.

A cheap blended tea such as you'd find in a tea bag of PG Tips are much better at brewing (in seconds!) from non-boiling water.
There have been a number of flying cars over the years, such as the Model 59H AirGeep II. They're just expensive and impractical, so nobody ever builds more than a handful of them.
Sure, if that were the only change.
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Apple can't deprecate the URI standard. It sounds like they've simply stopped using it for links between apps. The actual article title is "iOS 9.2 Update: The Fall of URI Schemes and the Rise of Universal Links," which is a lot less breathless.
Excellent digging -- thanks!
Hooking libc using Go shared libraries
Curse of knowledge
While that may have worked with you, I think that approach would sink a lot of kids. Kids need direction because their innate biological scaffolding or propensities could not have anticipated the hotness of some domain of ability. Left on their own, some kids would find learning on their own, and most would sink themselves.

I think religion is an even worse example. I'm pretty sure that religious views are better explained by parents than by a child's personal inclination. I doubt the Christian children of America were Christian because of personal investigation.
"Lets not worry about the banks, the failed surveillance state, government supported terrorism, corruption or sound money supply. Nor should we focus on affordable living, tax evasion by corporations or decreasing unemployment through sound policy. Lets focus our attention on the entertainers!"

Fun times we live in. Speaking of, wonder what the Kardashians are up to..
When and how did you evaluate PostgreSQL? Can you comment on PostgreSQL's horizontal scale?
> Google has been losing margin (hence profitability) in its search advertising business that powers everything it does fairly rapidly over the last 6 years. They have kept revenue/cash flow going/improving over that same period by putting more and more ads on their properties, dumping things which aren't making money, and trying really hard to push many of the moonshot projects into profitability.

Google is trying to pull off a Saudi Arabia: make as much profit as they can and pour said profits into R&D (tourism) so that when the time comes and people are not interested as much as now in AdWords (oil), the "moonshot" investments will have unlocked new sectors where profit can be made.
MySQL may work well for this small data set (200GB). Start working with 10s of TBs of data and you will start to understand why NoSQL stores were built.
That finally makes this make sense to me; a bet on the future of smartphone UI.
> For predicting college performance, its a very weak predictor of college grades

That's interesting. Naively, I would expect SAT correlated with IQ, and that correlated with success in university. Are there better predictors of college grades?

> where the measure reflects disadvantage of circumstance rather than lack of merit

Hm... I can hardly imagine how a bad score on the math SAT would not indicate that you lack merit in math.

> I never said they were.

Well, then it doesn't much matter which definition of merit (who is better) you take (as you claim in your original response to me)...
I'm not sure it's true that a larger, more mature company has a harder time keeping employees happy.

I get that pre IPO companies have that advantage, but a company like Google which makes absurd amounts of money also has its advantages, like being able to afford giving their employees high salaries and also better work life balance. I am not sure that Google gives its employees that though, at least not the latter. Plus, a more mature company should have its processes already ironed out and no more growing pains.
Post-money valuation of $3.7 billion. It's from the forbes article, not sure why TC didn't include it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2015/12/09/secretiv...

Another source shows they were seeking to raise $1b at around a $4.5 billion valuation. This one is dated two months ago though.
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/morning-edition...
Love Priceonomics blog posts. Always high-quality. Always interesting.

I've also been using Tracker since the soft launch. It's a nice clean snapshot of day to day blog performance.

I'm interested to see how the Priceonomics Data Studio concept mentioned in the handbook intro works. It sounds like a good idea, but I do think there will be challenges with outsourcing the Priceonomics content marketing strategy to other businesses.

Someone from Priceonomics can chime in here, but it seems like they have the luxury of identifying diverse topics that are likely to go viral, then go out and acquire data specifically for that topic, tell a story, then move on to the next topic (and perhaps even a different audience).

Other businesses are less flexible. They have to start with a limited amount of data, then use it to tell many stories, week after week.

Not saying it won't work. I'm sure it will. Just interested to see how the data gathering, analysis, and storytelling sides of things all come together in the Priceonomics Data Studio offering.
That's an unusual analysis of high school dynamics and the persistence thereof.
Quick question - I'm confused about the comment "The nested query syntax ensures that we are doing only one round-trip to the database to run both SQL queries". Why is the nested syntax better than a regular join in this case?

Seems like a join would allow the query planner to decide how to carry out the query.
Google stopped caring about degrees a few years ago.

(Interviewing is still somewhat silly.)
Need OpenCL support. Please don't contribute to maintaining CUDA monopoly.
Kudo's on getting the "spaces" in the number correct. It is amazing (and sad) how many sites have the "no-spaces" restriction on CC numbers.
This article is flawed while the original paper might not, if it does exist. In this article, the author didn't mention the core methodology of how he managed to find out the reason behind each violence, by interview, court record, or newspaper? How he interpreted the description of motivation from his sources? How he distinguished motivation and excuse (or self justification)? I think it's meaningless just to state his hypothesis.
In what specific ways is their technology better, from what you've heard? Hololens supposedly has a narrov FOV and you need a relatively dark room due to the additive display. Have they really solved these problems?
Programming as a Mindset
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You do get chefs to cook.
The JSON field isn't being indexed or reasoned about - it's just a text blob. This is a pure KV model.
I can't speak for the other poster, but I reckon someone who liked both Python AND Scala would have a pretty good handle on the pros and cons of different type systems.
If he put all of that in the article, then the article would just BE their paper.
Greenspun's blog seems to mostly be getting testy about society today and also alimony.
You seem to be suggesting that we should actively use racial and other demographic characteristics as part of a predictor.

Suppose we run our linear regression or random forest, and it turns out holding all else equal, black people underperform others. I.e., same SAT, same GPA, the black guy is likely to perform worse. (Please read your source and note the sign on the black/hispanic coefficients.)

You seem to be advocating that we should then penalize the black guy even though his grades are identical. Is that a fair statement of your post?

I don't have a strong opinion on this, though I definitely have a negative emotional reaction to it.
Yes, which is precisely why it bothers me. All I see in my head is a flat line on a graph.
Well, GP wasn't talking about pulling out all his teeth and replacing them with implants today. It's just an idea for future biotech.

It's certainly conceivable that once we've figured out exactly how teeth affects the health of the jaw and gum, we'll be able to create implants that emulate the effect when combined with some sort of drug and/or regular treatment.

Besides, we'll need to do that sooner or later if we're going to aim for an average lifespan of 100 years or more. Biological teeth just don't last long enough.
Reminds me of:

http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql
The article is just stating the middle class is shrinking - and inequality is therefore increasing. And increasing inequality is a problem.

The problem with increasing inequality is not necessarily decreasing mean incomes. Inequality is a problem because of the increasing class-based polarization of society, the power differential between different families, and a host of other factors. All of which can be present and problematic regardless of whether mean incomes are increasing.

This article isn't even implying that mean incomes are decreasing.

I'm not clear why this article does the discussion a great disservice.
What are some of these principles that you've learned?
I never claimed merit = math ability, except of course perhaps for the job of math professor.

The fact that our predictor is imperfect doesn't mean that it magically becomes better when we attach racial weights to it.

Between one person who is better at calculus and another that's better at chess, which is more meritorious?

Depends on whether he's applying to a chess or physics program, no?
I found this remark from the linked pdf[1] very interesting:

"...it has also been shown that for the class of problems used in initial benchmarks,the performance of the devices also correlates well with a classical(meanfield) approximation of quantum annealing [4],which raises questions about whether the devices can outperform classical optimizers."

In other words, if you ran a simulation of this device on a normal computer and gave it the same problem to solve, you will get basically the same efficiency.

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/troyer.pdf
> If there is an equal increase in upper class population for every loss of middle class population, that just means that our incomes as a population are increasing.

> Yes, that is a decrease in the middle class-or-better bucket

Huh? Wat? Ignoring your contradiction completely, 1.5-2 million people dropped.

2% of ~100million working people is ~2 million people. 2 million people dropped out of the middle class to the lower class. 2,000,000. Two-million individuals. Two commas. Not to mention their kids. Or their retired parent(s).
"Do not perform table alter commands. Table alter commands introduce locks and downtimes. Instead, use live migrations."

You know what avoids alter? Going schemaless.
I would think that Simplicity would also have to include 'readability'. In other words Simple for humans Write and Read.

You give a great example of Euler's 1st problem (https://projecteuler.net/problem=1) but if someone wasn't given the context of the problem, or even if they were are unfamiliar with the syntax you used, they would not call you solution 'simple'.

That being said transfer of knowledge is a key component when reading. Going to your point about the decimal system (which I believe you were talking about the arabic numberals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals)). Sure it is faster and shorter to use than Roman Numerals, but then again the knowledge transfer that you could do with Arabaric numerals is much greater than Roman.

I would say for programming languages, ever time we, programmers, innovate on one we are trying to make a process simpliar to the user (I believe 'abstraction' would be an appropriate word to use).
Lots of it, pertaining to their app. Maybe RTFA?
Measuring "class" by income distribution measures like this kind of misses the point; more accurately this is "Most Americans no longer fit a particular definition of 'middle income'".

Class distinctions are about significant qualitative distinctions, not points on a simple quantitative distribution. A reasonable upper/middle/lower class distinction could be made where the upper class has capital assets that they can and do live off the proceeds of while increasing the value and annual proceeds of the assets, the middle class has capital assets that they could (whether or not they do -- they may still work at wage labor) live for at least some months on by depleting, and the lower classes are entirely dependent on wage labor (and one could make further distinctions within these groups).

This would roughly correspond with the traditional ideas of "class".

EDIT: Which is all not to discount the potential significance of an ongoing increase in income inequality -- which almost certainly has some real impact in terms of the kind of things that would reasonably define class.
I think it's more than that. It's when the logic of their position means that the violence is right. (In doing so, they usually go off the deep end even within the framework of their chosen ethic...)
they are more concerned with the fundamental computational complexity nature of the speedup (is it superlinear/exponential?) not the actual realworld hardware results.

All throwing more hardware at a problem does is (at best) is a linear increase.
> spread and Vsync/ISIS both struck me as perfect examples of the meme of poor quality academic code.

I was about to say that academic code is almost always poor quality, but that should never, ever apply to distributed systems code. If there's one thing we should see from academic distributed systems research, it's principled, well-constructed, solidly tested libraries, rather than wannabe commercial databases written by graduate students.
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ESPN is sort of an odd case. It probably should be a premium network. Most people never watch it. But there are chunk of people who only buy cable for ESPN and other sports networks. Those people are paying a lot to just use ESPN.
Khaos – a super-simple way to scaffold new project
Understandable Cause for Alarm
Or using a more appropriate RDBMS that allows for online and transactional ALTER commands?
Unfortunately I already use CareerCup.com and aced my algorithms final when I was in school. However, it's not like you can just memorize the stuff you see on CareerCup since it's unlikely you'll be asked a question you saw on there, unless it's a relatively easy/popular one.
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How to get the most from the Internet of Things
I prefer that they posted it as an HN comment. Scrolling isn't difficult, and mobile users rarely click on links. I probably wouldn't have read it if it was in a pastebin or linked to a source.
Let's not pretend perl threads solve concurrency issues in dynamic languages.

The third item in the threads perldoc, after the table of contents and the version, is a big, fat warning about how you shouldn't use them [1]:

> The "interpreter-based threads" provided by Perl are not the fast, lightweight system for multitasking that one might expect or hope for. Threads are implemented in a way that make them easy to misuse. Few people know how to use them correctly or will be able to provide help.

>The use of interpreter-based threads in perl is officially discouraged.

> Perl 5 has an interpreter instance per thread, so it doesn't have a global interpreter lock. It will have other problems with threads though - you can easily run into deadlocks for example.

Which makes threads more expensive than processes on *nix because you don't get the advantages of copy-on-write processes. Also most of the librarys that use perlxs modules aren't thread-safe.

[1] http://perldoc.perl.org/threads.html