skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find these rankings to be really arbitrary. They should really have them split into categories like they have them for types of schools people like to go to (engineering schools, big city schools, hipster schools, ivies, facing-saving schools for ivy rejects etc.),

Perfect Places for A Personality People also Like Cults (Amazon, Bridgewater Associates)

Places for people who like to Chillax and Still Get Paid (Lucrative BigCo with flex-time, summer hours, no morning standups, WFH)

Places for parents (BigCo with generous maternal leaves, daycare or benefits for families)

Places for brogrammers (Genius formerly known as RapGenius)

Places for 'Silicon Valley' Show Lovers (Company mission statement that includes the phrase "change the world," Nerf Guns part of office deco, uncompromising nature to adopt the latest cool tech like Node.js)

Places for introverts (Places with offices for employees, not open office plans, WFH options; in fields that are less sales-oriented and more academic, niche research companies)

Curious if anyone else has any ideas on the 'ecology' of tech companies and what 'animals' are best fit for which one!
The Stories That Held You the Longest in 2015
I did about a year ago. It's been wonderful.
Thanks. I forgot to mention that I live in Singapore. So getting the NVIDIA tablet or the Nexus 9 locally is difficult (no direct distributor).

I may take a look at the Asus ZenPad.
Hannah Montana Linux
> A gun is a fairly complex device to make.

Not really. People were making guns on the American frontier in the early 1700's.
Audiobooks have begun to outsell print
This is thankfully something of a possibility now, if well recorded via audio. Previous languages recorded only in writing cannot be fully reconstructed. Even with audio there is probably some loss of subtlety that would only be learned through conversation with native speakers, but it can probably be pretty close.
Is there any job at any company in any industry where "putting in your 8 hours" pushes you to the top?

There are anecdotes about amazing contractors who can work 8 hours a week showing up pointing out problems and offering smart solutions but almost all of them can do that because at some point they were putting in 100 hours a week.

If you care about moving upward yes you will need to do more than show up for 8 hours.
1. I think he meant https://tower.im. There's also https://www.teambition.com/ for project management. They're respectively clones of Trello and Basecamp (haven't used either of them).

2. Honestly, rather than looking for alternatives, I'd invest in a good VPN. We've tried a lot of different setups and services (individual VPN, smart routing in and out of our office...), but Astrill (https://www.astrill.com/) has been consistently good (save for a couple times when the internet was simply slow in all of China regardless). We pay for individual "VIP" accounts for our employees and use everything we need (Gmail, Google Docs, Twitter, ...).

3. We are however considering running an npm proxy at the office to speed things up a little.
Some of the things they label "gun violence" aren't gun violence at all, like when a Police Officer shoots an armed robber. That's Justice not Violence.
Interesting. That doesn't scale though, because you can't upload the same clip to YouTube without it being flagged. Having rights to backing music is not great as a differentiator for a social network.
Macros (not necessary at all, just use regular functions and enable laziness), ints/strings/bools/lists/etc and all their hardcoded features (you can encode all that neatly on the λ-calculus). Every single addition that Scheme makes on top of λ-calculus is harmful in some sense - algorithms on list, for example, don't fuse because of that, making Scheme less performant than the λ-calculus; multi-argument functions make the whole language segmented and are much less convenient than curried functions... etc., etc.

R5RS, the simplest used spec of Scheme, takes dozens of page to merely describe the language. The λ-calculus can be described and implemented in a paragraph. That makes it much easier to create new backends, for example.
If your only goal is to prevent terrorism, sure.

Guns should be reconsidered because they kill so many people every single day in "normal" violence. It's sad that it takes a bunch of affluent white people getting killed for us to have a discussion on gun control.
> The advantage of threads is that it makes easier to share data

Sharing of data is of marginal benefit when you have to pay the cost of duplicating all of your data to begin with. Perl also has modules that make forks just as easy to use as threads.[1] This is doubly so when most libraries have little to no regard for thread safety because perl's threading support it so bad.

> Also it is less costly to create a thread rather than a process.

Not unix because of copy on write processes [2][3]. Perl threads copy not just the interpreter but all local variables. [4] The only place threads are useful is on windows where the cost of a fork is higher than a thread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10708168&goto=item%3Fi...
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/16658623/2863146
[3] http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=306089
[4] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlthrtut.html#Performance-consider...
Good news: changing mode of /usr/local/bin/f2py to 755
Successfully installed tensorflow six numpy
Cleaning up...

Thanks!
Im good to go now, thanks!
The problem with inequality is the polarization, the haves and the have nots with no in between. That leads to a more brutal society where there is no ground for agreement.
Yeah it is, but in the scheme of things it's pretty benign. I couldn't purchase the rights to use the song even if I wanted to, and I'm only using a portion of the track, so I'm not actually denying them income.
According to your source, SAT, GPA and AP/IB courses are all positive and statistically significant predictors of performance.

Am I correct that according to you, the main gap between an SAT/GPA based metric and meritocracy is applying the appropriate penalty to blacks/hispanics and the appropriate bonus to females, as per the regression table in your source?
Atlassian IPO sets high bar for tech peers
The open source vacuum would be a really cool project. I imagine you could pick a cheap vacuum on amazon.com that could serve as the init project and then slowly evolve from there to one day replace all the plastic parts.
No, originally Apple just provided huge patch sets. Here is some history from 2005, a few months before WebKit moved to a public CVS repo: https://blogs.kde.org/2005/05/13/webcore-khtml-firefox-know-...
I've read your post history. It's fairly clear that you're either a troll or have a serious axe to grind.

What you have said here is simply not true. I know MANY people who maintain an extremely solid work life balance and are doing just fine, career wise. I would include myself on this list. I work a 9-5, I take all of my vacation, and avoid opening my laptop outside of the office. I don't keep my corporate account on my phone. I'm well compensated, I've been promoted without incident, and never once received feedback that I wasn't showing enough leadership or working hard enough. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Please stop assuming that what you think you know about Google is true (or universal to the Google experience).
Are we gearing up for an alien invasion?
> A gun is a fairly complex device to make

All you need is a little hammer to strike the cartridge primer and a barrel to guide the bullet down.
Minority students may be better off going to lesser schools
*Google centers phone interface for tablets
Is your have tons of disposable income and you blow it on toys, you aren't lower class. You're just really bad at managing your money.

It's absurd to try to define middle class by behavior rather than means. Someone making 100k/year is absolutely not lower class, regardless of whether they blow all their money on frivolous stuff.
You're right, I added plumber and kqueue after writing the comment, forgot to revise the text. (edited) It was more about corba/xpcom being rather heavy. Sure, kqueue is different, but it is a kind of local event/message (yeah, I'm aware it's a stretch).

Sure, 9p can be available pre-init, but it doesn't provide sender verification. (i.e. you can't map the message to local uid) It could be added to the attributes of course, but it's not standard at the moment. Is that not right?
Anything that evolves fast also will have stability issues. Part of the draw of CPAN is the stability that comes from mature codebases.
That's really cool. How is the IO of rendering "recorded"? I don't know lua well enough to tell - i suppose it must be that each pixel color is being recorded, and the replay simply blit it back?
Not really. As in, I wouldn't start from zero and try to learn enough to get a day job at it, at this stage.

There are still so many negative tradeoffs in Perl 5 -- especially, and most crucially, for new adopters -- that I don't think it will ever make up the ground it has steadily lost to Python/Ruby/PHP over the last 15 years. P6 has addressed many of P5's most notorious faults, while perpetuating others, and quite likely introducing a whole family of newer, far subtler traps and pitfalls. All while being not particularly fast, poorly document (last I checked -- about a year ago), and like Perl 5, just plain.... zany.

That said, there are a lot of incredibly bold -- we might even say, "ahead-of-their-time" ideas in Perl 6 (just as there were in Perl 5, in its time), and I sincerely hope many of these will be carefully studied -- and I won't be surprised if some of them are incorporated to whatever "lingua franca" that ultimately emerges and ends up burying Python, hopefully not too long from now.
How is it a failure of NICS?
Choose semantics over wordplay.
Switching between the BSDs is very easy, and FreeBSD has the most resources for beginners. In any case, I don't think Hubbard's going to get much traction with his plans.

And the Gentoo devs are big fans of systemd, so while technically you can use it without, given how many tendrils systemd has got into things I think the amount of work it'll be to maintain the USE="-systemd" flag is going to mean it's a second-class citizen. Slackware will keep chugging along, though, as always.
Propaganda is used to create the moral outrage needed to rationalize the violence needed to acquire the resources.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~paul20i/classweb/AFP2008/oilandwa...

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~paul20i/classweb/AFP2008/nativeam...
Foundry Group Next
SC Justices' comments on Affirmative Action
why do you think it is that there aren't anything to unseat excel in those areas, when clearly, excel isn't very good at any of those things you mentioned (other than graphs, and may be business intelligence/model making)?
GBPUSD+Faces+Further+Bullish+Offensive+On+Rally
Extensive discussion of police raid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701785
German Proxy
I would like to renew my periodic proposal to replace all names with UUIDs. For example, the York in England could be renamed to E4D24E55-D779-402A-90D4-9EBE41FB2AA4. England itself could become 62F2B833-2462-4F64-A071-2887FF46105A. The "New" York in the colonies could be renamed to D6EE5383-2D68-4CC2-BCED-CDBB2B7661E0. This would eliminate all confusion.
From the data I've found Pandora pays around 0.2 cents per stream. I'd be more than willing to pay that (or even 10x as much) to use a track on a video that a couple of hundred friends might see.
Are Australia's gun laws the solution for the US?
If your only claim is that different fields require a different sort of merit, I agree. Obviously merit for medical school differs from merit for chess camp.

I fail to see how this supports the claim that an admission system is non-meritocratic simply because some people are unable to pass it due to bad life circumstances.
I've already seen those. Have you seen this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480684

There's a reason I asked MCRed. He has a unique perspective on this that I value.
Thanks for this post. It's really comforting as a young adult.
While I agree with you that they are not more readable, there are some other notable cases like that in the language,
for example:

map { row => $_ } $db->get_rows
> incorporated to whatever "lingua franca" that ends up burying Python, hopefully not too long from now.

Sincerely, at this point (Dec 2015) I feel like python is well too far along to be buried. As you state, if something better comes along I too would welcome it, but, and correct me if I'm wrong, python has been around for 20+ years, I don't see it being buried anytime soon.
Good example! And yes, KHTML's license requires Apple to release the source code for their changes, but it doesn't require them to do so in anything like a nice fashion. You can comply with the (L)GPL with tarballs and silence-implying-raised-middle-fingers rather than public repositories and bug trackers.
My sole implication is that a system can fail to solve all your pet problems, but still be meritocratic.

Similarly, a meritocratic college admission system doesn't cure cancer.
Rising Skyscrapers Are Sentencing Hundreds of Millions of Birds to Death a Year
>For example, the San Bernardino killers apparently took out a massive loan and emptied their bank accounts prior the attack.

This happens quite frequently when people are going to make a big purchase or pay off another loan with worse terms. It's not as much of a red flag as you would think.
Control Your GoPro Hero Camera Anywhere with HTTP Protocol
So they updated it slightly to match other devices. Is that news? This feels like blogspam.
I really, really doubt that we'll be forced to choose between Clinton and Trump. Clinton, yes, but the Republicans aren't that insane.

In any case, saying that a broken system forces us to choose the lesser of two evils is quite different from saying that most Americans support one of these two candidates.
People are running petabyte-sized (1000TB) databases on SQL. One example is from Nasdaq, https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?rec...

Meanwhile, NoSQL does not mean "10s TBs of data" automatically. Check this slideshow explaining challenges of MongoDB (poster NoSQL database) "scaling to 100GB and beyond"

http://www.slideshare.net/mongodb/partner-webinar-the-scalin...
I understand the difference between the two(yay, CS degree! and/or wikipedia), but from what I could read of the two posts, there is no indication that the asymptotic performance was being measured to any significant extent.
Greatest instance of the 'cloud-to-butt' translator I've seen.
DEF CON 23 Hardware Hacking and Lockpick Playlist
As the connectedness of the world increases, we are all going to have to improve our epistemological immune systems.
> it has no irregularities

I don't believe this is true, because I've heard linguists state otherwise. Maybe someone could come in and verify this, because I'm no expert.

Here are some possible Esperanto irregularities:

http://zompist.com/kitespo.html
cperciva wrote a piece on this a while back:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-10-inequality-in-equ...
Going Public Isn’t Selling Out, It’s the Best Way to Stay Alive
You seem to be from the UK. I'd move to London, Berlin or SF before considering China if what you're after is a big salary. Keep in mind that things are not as easy as they used to be for Visa either (you need a certain level of education and 2 years of professional experience relevant to your diploma).

If you're determined to move to China, I'd recommend you avoid Beijing (super polluted, hard to get around and cold as f*ck in the winter). Kunming sounds good, so does Chengdu. I personally like Xiamen, but not sure there's any real tech community there. Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou are also options.

Shameless plug; for anybody interested, we're hiring in Shanghai. We work mostly with React, Node.js, Swift, Golang, Android, Python, Docker, Ansible. We build apps that matter: https://wiredcraft.com/about/#jobs
From what I could tell, various branches of google fit all the "places" you listed in your post.
An $800,000,000 investment in an unknown company called Magic Leap shows that some people have no sense of irony
We have plenty of gun laws and methods of checking criminal history already; additional restrictions and laws don't change the fact that criminals are willing to be criminals.

Unless you just want to take guns away from all civilians forever, and in that case I don't think we can have an actual rational dialogue.

edit: I don't mean "you" specifically, I mean the general "you". I can see how that could read wrong.
this could disrupt the recruiting industry. its a matchmaking service and it matches your personality to the company. someone make this please.
I never knew about Khyber Pass guns. Interesting Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass_Copy

I loved this part in particular:

"It's not uncommon to see Khyber Pass rifles with numerous errors and particular identifying factors, notably: Spelling errors in the markings (the most common of which is EИFIELD for ENFIELD)"

It's just like Chinese knockoff electronics, except instead of phone accessories it's deadly weapons.
I'm really looking forward to seeing long haul trucking automated. A few of the big brands are working on the systems, so I don't see why we won't see it on the roads in the next 5 years. Some of these drivers will shift into more of the last-mile work (manually driving a truck from the highway through the city / town to the factories) but most of them will be out of a job.
Same situation but for french, I live in Quebec. Earlier today I was trying the voice detection to say a direction, I tried to say the street name in the normal french accent, I tried to tell it in a mangled English accent, I tried to read it literally as if it was an English word. Nothing to do, Google directions was making ridiculous interpretations of what I was saying or sending me to locations on other continents. :/
I see what you mean, but I think it's a technicality. There's no good definition that I know of that wouldn't be called either insufficient or scope creep. Can you come up with one that includes interface to date/time, connected devices (with access control), virtual-or-physical screen resolution, packages, system and user services, etc. ? They're not even all administration actions. My best description here is "all system things" even if it's poorly defined - simply because I don't have a better one.

As for syscalls - they can carry a lot of data. That doesn't make it rich, structured information. Sure, everything is just writing/reading bytes at the end of the day. But there's a reason we've got open() function and don't use syscalls directly - rich interfaces are nice. Syscalls are definitely low level (they're defined in the cpu specs, how much more low-level can you get?).
This article omitted one interesting part of the story, which is how AMD led the way to the x86_64 architecture while Intel was attempting to migrate to a conceptually radical architecture in its own products (Itanium). As I understood it, AMD's success in the early 2000s was largely due to their leadership in 64-bit, and Intel had to play catch-up to adopt AMD's approach. (But when they did, they reclaimed the throne.)
I mean sometime in the future will probably be pretty far away for Obj-C developers.

“Objective-C is not going away. We still love Objective-C as a language; we still very much depend on Objective-C and do a tremendous amount of work in Objective-C here internally at Apple,” Federighi told Ars. “We’ll be supporting Objective-C and continuing to evolve it as necessary to fit into this evolving world. We do think that Swift is the language that we recommend for new developers to our platform who are investing for the future and building new apps. We think Swift is absolutely the right place to start. But we’ll continue to maintain, advance, and support Objective-C for as far as we can see.”

From http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/12/craig-federighi-talks-o...
that mapping from routes to sites seems also great to be stored in a Memcached machine, as it is probably set once and then stays the same for months if not years. Memcached and MySQL is always a great combo
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...that is less true (and eventually the opposite of the case) for blacks with higher SAT scores.

From the cited article: "Blacks with the highest SAT scores and high school GPAs...are those underperforming the most.

Do you have have data showing the opposite? Note that your source on the other thread did linear regression, so it can't possibly capture this effect.

No, my real critique is that the assertion that without AA, existing admissions would be meritocratic is unsubstantiated...

Your sole evidence for this is a source stating that SAT and GPA are good predictors of college performance, but SAT and GPA plus a penalty for black people is even better.
A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
Baidu hits the road with autonomous car
It depends on the condition of the roof. If the manager manages to keep it up long enough to liquidate and get some value from the merchandise that would be lost in an imminent collapse, then that's a level of success.
>If you have to work for a living, your life is similar to everyone else who has to work for a living. Sure you may have more toys than others, but the things you think/worry about from day to day are similar.

The things I worry about have very little in common with someone who's working a minimum wage job. Someone on minimum wage with a child probably needs food stamps to even feed their child reliably. I spend more on daycare for my child every month than most of the people working at the daycare probably even make. Very different worries.

Lower class people are worried about making rent, putting food on the table, and what happens if they lose their jobs. I'm not worried about any of those things except the last, and I'm not particularly worried and that.

We do not have the same worries.

It's true that I cannot live off my assets indefinitely, but it's inaccurate and misleading to pretend that my worries are the same worries that low wage workers have.