skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, when she single handedly destroyed starkiller base after very limited training that was just unbelievable.

Wait, I must be thinking of a different film, nevermind.
cool, I'll try to integrate it to my own software: https://github.com/nraynaud/webgcode
I know plenty of valid alternatives but your 'non programmer' restriction is kind of severe. That said, I'm not actually familiar with any non-programmers that do manage to install drupal to the point that it works but can not program enough to add some functionality (and usually in a dangerous way...).

An extremely customizable cms for non-programmers as far as I know does not exist, including drupal, so we don't actually agree, it's just that you've limited the scope to the point where there is only the one alternative left and that alternative suits your particular use case.

Agreed that drupal is a more interesting environment than wordpress, many of the same restrictions and gripes apply to both platforms and drupal seems to attract the occasional wordpress user because of increased flexibility.
it'll still work fine in linux, so no worries.
It makes their job far too easy, which is of course precisely the point. It also makes doing things that are not "their job" at all quite easy, which is the other part of the point.
I do not claim to know all the details here. Note that India has lot of unique problems (e.g. low purchasing power x poverty x scale). My guess is that the fund will go to start-ups which will help solve big problems of India and not the ones likes of Airbnb or next E-Comm platform. The prime minister mentioned and urged entrepreneurs to also focus on agriculture, healthcare for masses, etc.
Wise thinkers throughout history have been saying it too :)
Lots of people lose money because of scams, cards getting stolen/scanned/photographed, etc. - in a lot of cases, the banks just cover the cost and can rollback transactions because everyone has agreed that's how the system works. It is not because people do not have money stolen from their bank accounts due to various breaches.
I hadn't come across the term "practical effect" before, and Wikipedia defines it as meaning no use of computer generated imagery. Jurassic Park used a lot of CGI for the dinosaurs so I'm not sure what you mean by your comment.
I haven't seen any non-programmers do this either. What I have seen is the programmers for certain drupal systems ending up cleaning up vast messes made with drupals extensive customization abilities because the people making the changes did not foresee the effect these changes would have on the application as a whole.

There is a whole eco-system around drupal of consultants who know just a little bit more than their clients to get them back out of the trouble they're in.
> It's as legitimate to take seriously and criticize as the myths of the gods would have been to ancient Romans.

No, it isn't. Ancient Romans actually believed that stuff.
Some people really are evil. Some psychopaths, for example, know that what they're doing is negative and do it anyway. (Many more cover it up and try to do the right thing, of course.)

But of course this doesn't apply to terrorists or most criminals. The occasional serial killer fits the bill and not much more.

What really gets me is that if you start taking about terrorists like this, saying you should understand what makes them tick, that they think they're doing the right thing, etc., people freak out. I just think we should understand them better so we know how to stop them, but any attempt at understanding is taken as justification for what they do.
The overuse of CGI in the prequels have made them age badly. All the environments are starting to look like video games.
I think he meant an ideological attack on our choice of tools.

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Look at what happened in the UK with the IRA - for years we had the approach of refusing to talk to them. Eventually we did, found that they had some legitimate complaints and when those were addressed we eventually got an end to the Troubles.

Now we have people like Martin McGuinness, a former IRA leader, as active politicians in Northern Ireland.
There's also the Seek Thermal cameras: http://www.thermal.com/thermal-cameras/

I have one of the Compact model, and I think it's paid for itself with a few repair jobs around the house.
cgroups are Linux-specific - they're not relevant for a OS X/NetBSD tool.
What interface are you talking about? Something in the slide content? The interface for the slides themselves?

If you are talking about the latter, I think it's from reveal.js

If you hit "?", it will give you shortcuts.

How much of an interface do you want on your presentation app?
" I’ve issued a challenge for anyone out there to come show us even one scene in the latest flick that was not an homage to earlier Star Wars episodes. "
I hate it when people give these pseudo-challenges. There were quite a few, and I fear I run the risk of some easily mocked nerd rage if I attempt to list them.
I do this all the time. I really wish you could change your vote.
No, tardigrades have no lived past all previous mass extinctions; there were mass extinctions that predated tardigrades.
Why are Brits so obsessed with buying their own homes?
Measuring perceived video quality at Netflix
They support Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, Redshift, and Oracle I believe.
What would they feed on when they land? They need detritus or plants.
I don't know why you would think that killing innocent people isn't evil.

If you delibrately disturb harmony, or deny someone their rights, or take away something by force that isn't yours, you need to be stopped. Because one thing would lead to another and life as everyone knows it would become a living hell.

Step back and look at oppressive regimes over the course of history. They all have traces of evil in them. It's that simple. I admit that good for one might be evil for another, but there's a basic set of things, I guess, the majority can agree on about what's good and what's not.
He obviously has the right to his own opinion, but it would help if he actually gave the impression of watching the films thoroughly.

To quote:

"The force was only a little bit about talent and more about training: Obi-Wan offers to teach it to Han"

This simply does not happen anywhere, neither in the films nor in the now de-cannoned EU.

He also gets the plotlines of Ep. II and III quite mixed up in a few paragraphs about Yoda, and fails to realise that the Republic is hardly modelled on a modern-day parliamentary democracy but rather the fatally flawed Weimar Republic.

While this doesn't necessarily invalidate his trains of thought, it certainly makes their basis scientifically dishonest.
I just want to say, well done on giving your notice.

To someone who's never experienced it, it might seem like having no work would be great, but it's actually terrible for our sense of self-worth in my experience. A surprising number of people are too afraid to leave a position even if they feel it's soul-sucking. It takes serious guts to leave a steady job even if it sucks.

Good luck finding a more exciting position!
When Kylo killed Han, how was that an homage to any earlier scene in a SW movie? No character in any Star Wars move had ever killed their parent-Anakin's mom was killed by the Sand People, and Vader/Anakin succumbed to injuries sustained by Palpatine's force lightning, that shorted out his circuitry.
Amazing list. Surprisingly short list at the end of stuff people solved:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p...
Thanks. It's a known problem... we're currently in product work and haven't been dealing with marketing at all. It's just a cert problem - http://congruence.io still works.

And yes, once it's working, it will be able to detect such issues.
There are 2 subplots this article has yet to unfold, which will only be revealed on the other side of the hiring process, after landing a seemingly desirable job.

1. HR's fortifications, subversive booby traps and
no-mans-land designed to repel applications by
way of sinister salary negotiations, that leave
behind a simmering animosity even after getting
hired.

2. On the other side of the wall, all of your co-
workers turn out to be fantastically retarded,
including your own boss and boss' bosses, largely
due to HR's low-ball tactics, leaving you with
the startling realization that the job description
and hiring interrogation (ahem! interview) was
all smoke and mirrors.

See also:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Ummm, the purpose of creative people is to take the world, look at it from different angles, and share that with people. That includes looking at fiction. Brin's playful provocation might not be your taste, but he's not the one taking something too seriously...
A free software implementation of SystemVerilog for hardware guys. Hardware development is rapidly growing and the ways to over come its complexity in verification all requires proprietary software tools.
That's not a framework but a function being customized. Calling everything a framework is smelly.
>what would you have them do, block ISP traffic?

Forbid businesses from accepting BTC. It's that simple.
The article is also talking about the software tools that glue everything together.

> Open source infrastructure refers to all the tools that help developers build software. On a deep level, it includes physical things like servers, but closer to the surface, it also includes things like programming languages, frameworks, and libraries.

I also don't follow the AWS -> not open logic.

I lease resources in someone else's data center. I use proprietary software services when they make building my business software easier.

AWS is not an turtles all the way down open stack, but their docs are good, have open source clients for all their APIs, and offer up standard Linux and Docker systems.

Convox is open source software. It makes setting everything up easy and ensures total access and visibility into your resources. It also adds open protocols like we hooks and syslog to integrate with your other systems.

You can't get the source to AWS to run it yourself, and you have to accept Amazons pricing, but it's still a very open ecosystem.
Ask HN: How much does code-commenting cost your organization?
In time spent for developers to re-learn, re-understanding an existing code base?
this is very nice!
That takes Zappos’ turnover rate for 2015 to 30 percent, which is 10 percentage points above their typical annual attrition rate.

When a 20% attrition rate is normal for a company, an act designed to raise attrition taking it to 30% isn't really surprising or necessarily problematic...management looked at 20% attrition and determined it wasn't high enough. Having worked in large organizations, I would say it is not uncommon for 30% of people to be either suffering unhappiness and/or actively looking for something better.

average severance paid out was about 5.5 months pay when we last analyzed the data

If a person can line something else up, the economics of the buyout are pretty good even for someone who is moderately content.
"They say the Force can do terrible things to your mind. It can wipe away your memory, and destroy your very identity!"
—Carth Onasi
What if you kill innocent people in retaliation to the other side killing innocent people? As happened, say in 9/11?

Is that evil? Or is that justified?
Because when C++ appeared, its standard library was basically C.

Then you had the early adopters that were basically the same developers that were still writing C with lots of inline Assembly.

So each developer, or team, had to write their own library, because they knew better.

It took all the way up to ANSI C++ (1998) to finally have a proper minimal library. Minimal, because C++ needed to cater to the C mentality that the OS is the runtime.

Then you had almost a decade until the C++ vendors were able to catch up the standard.

Mind you that in the mid-90's there were still quite a few C compilers that were K&R only.

This is why when Java appeared, many of us C++ devs that cared also about safety, jumped into it. As it provided a more portable experience.
> so they printed their books on newspaper-paper

That's called newsprint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsprint
Did you have a new job lined up or leap into the unknown? If you had a new job, was the pay higher, lower or same? I guess I'm asking if people are willing to take less pay for less boredom.
I linked the official webassembly design page where the authors said compiling from JavaScript to WASM is not possible now.

"jfbastien commented on Jun 24, 2015
JS → wasm will only really make sense once wasm supports GC, and most likely JIT compilation too, which is still quite a while away. This would basically be equivalent to implementing the JS engine in wasm! I mentioned this recently and @BrendanEich accused me of having been taken over by horse_js.

To be clear, wasm's goal isn't to replace JavaScript, it's to supplement it. It's therefore not really a goal at the moment to support JS → wasm, but the features we want to implement will make it possible. I'm not sure it'll be that useful from a developer's perspective, though. You may get some size reduction, but that's about it. From a browser's perspective it may be interesting to have the JS engine implemented in wasm from a pure security perspective."
First of all, well, spoilers.

I think it's a perfect parallel of the scene when Vader kills Obi-Wan: Evil Jedi-turned-bad kills an important figure of his past, while the untrained future Jedi can't do anything but watch how a father-like figure and source of inspiration dies.

The fact that it happens while sabotaging the new new Death Star and it involves the new Vader drive the point even more.
There are recent new religions, why do the followers believe them? Who's to say that in 200 years people can't separate myth from reality of the Star Wars universe.
That scene was overt homage to the "I am your father" scene in V. With a number of inversions, of course.
I'm in the exact same camp. I call it "two-language programming". Python+C beats the heck out of any single systems language, especially C++. And thanks to the amazing bloated complexity of the C++ language, the cognitive overhead of Python and C combined is way less than C++ (unless you stick to a tiny subset of C++ in which case you're just doing C-only, with slightly cleaner syntax).

I'm still deciding on the best approach for the interface between Python and C. I don't like ctypes/cython etc because they require you to modify python code. I'd much rather create CPython extension but there is too much boilerplate. I'm looking into swig.
A bit off topic, but was anyone else disappointed that a sanatation trooper was able to have a decent light saber fight with a Jedi!!?? Unless Finn has special Jedi powers that we don't know about yet. That would be like my Luddite artist friend taking an hour of code and beating out Linus in a hackathon.

(Still the movie was very special).
> So why is using something non-standard and non-universal like <czmq.h> not perceived as a "dialect" of C?

Somehow many fail to acknowledge that many write in compiler dialects, and think "my compiler == C language".

Yet commercial compiler vendors are always criticized for their language extensions or having other interpretations for the parts not defined in ANSI C.
Fair point, but actual C++ frameworks would benefit from the ideas in this post. Almost all of them provide a list of ICustomizationPoint interfaces to derive from. That approach complicates client code more than the framework authors probably appreciate.
If I wanted to understand a culture via their movies, I would not reach out exclusively for their serious dramas, historical pieces, and solemn biopics. I would certainly rope stuff like Star Wars in.

The way I see it, there was a fascinating trend in action movies throughout my life, when the hero went from plain good 100% hero (say, a late 80s hero), to a grizzled guy that's ultimately got his heart in the right place (Wolverine types, Die Hard types), to fairly despicable people that "go out like men" doing epic stuff (Walter White), to completely messed up manipulative people that are triumphant and that's it (House of Cards dude).

People find this kind of analysis very non-rigorous, but I often feel like the fact that these were successively popular with American audiences matches pretty well the changing self-image of America-the-nation. From pretense of full-righteousness to cynical "realism" and taking pride in "somebody has to do it" to "at least we're on top".

So, I think extremely deep reads of fairly shallow but resonant fiction are often very worthwhile.

edit: Of course, someone will point out that these are popular with different demographics and whatnot, that my cohort aged, etc.- I'm not going to turn this into a rigorous statistical analysis. It's just musings.
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I remember when the last tech bubble popped, in my area there were literally no entry level development positions -- 3-5 years minimum experience required or no call back. This percolated up the experience tree to the top. You'd see job postings asking for more years experience with a certain technology than that technology had even existed.

I actually ended up changing careers into something else it was so bad and finally in the last few years moving back in to pure tech work.

From the hiring side, I understand why the plethora of job descriptions: companies are usually forming job openings where they're having current pain. They take the skillset of the team they have, look at what's missing, shove a title on top of those things and post it out in the world. Quite often they don't really know what they want so all kinds of craziness ends up in the posting.
The proper security measures are so simple and easy. Yet this keeps happening... hmmmm.
> I am no way a pro-modi supporter or something , but he ..

Just curious. Is there something like an anti-modi supporter?
>We can't wipe cities like LA off the map and start over.

We can, and must. Human life is going to change dramatically in he next few centuries; we can't allow ourselves to be mired by the errors a few shortsighted planners made in an unfortunate decade. Rebuilding cities to be livable is a clear imperative; we need to seek good long term solutions and not small temporary ones (that, incidentally, come with many other prices attached).
I agree with your general explanation of the challenges.

I like the example Automattic sets. They give away the WordPress engine, but also run it as a subscription service.

Running software is hard, and there are plenty of people that will exchange money for an SLA, both service availability and support response time.
India does not have any unique problems you mentioned. China has almost all of those. Africa has low purchasing power and poverty. Europe has language and cultural issues. Unemployment is high in almost all of the world since "Personal Computers".
I was once in a similar position at a startup in the early 00's that was trying to "pivot" to a service model that was more profitable. Like you, it was hard for me to keep my boredom and lack of work productivity from spilling over into other areas of my life. I was starting to worry that it was going to damage my work ethic and ability to focus. I eventually got laid off and found another job that was more fast-paced and challenging and was relieved to find that I was able to jump right back into it. I hope the same is true for you!
GPUs prefer premultiplication
Oh well. If MS wants to completely reverse the direction they've been going for the last 30 years, shooting themselves in the foot is of course their prerogative.
> There is no particular reason to believe that the companies would have a procedure for that

This is where you go off the rails. There's little reason to believe that the companies would have a procedure for doing this for the first time, there's a little more reason to believe that they would have a procedure for doing this the second and third times, by the sixth and seventh times they want do do this, it will be surprising that they don't have a procedure, and by the tenth and eleventh times it will be negligent that after all this time, they haven't managed to put a procedure into place.

By the 30th or 40th time, there will be a police issued Android app to send in GPS coordinates and request a radius, and at headquarters, someone will type that into an app running on Windows XP and then click "OK."
That's useful info, I may sign up for a demo then.
Yes, you can read "The Design and Evolution of C++" and the "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual" aka C++ ARM.

There you will understand why C++ is the way it is, when you are trying to sell a safer language with higher level abstractions to hardcore C developers at AT&T, with zero friction with existing C toolchains.

Many like me hate the C underpinnings of C++, but if it wasn't for them, most likely no C vendor would ever have adopted it.
They trivialized them in Episode I when they came up with midichlorians.
What happens in your version when someone needs to get data onto their system from a USB stick?
Are you familiar with the Trolley Problem? [0] It's a simple thought experiment, which is intended to make you re-think whether murder is always an evil act.

Suppose a trolley is barelling down a track towards five tied-down people. If it continues, it'll kill them. But, you have access to a lever which would send the trolley down a side-track instead. But the side-track also has one person tied to it. By pulling the lever, you are effectively murdering that helpless, innocent person -- but you would save the other five. If you don't touch the lever, then you are just an innocent bystander who happened to see a quintuple homicide.

In this case, if you insist that murder is evil, and you refuse to be evil, then you have no choice but to let the five people die. But if you allow that murder is sometimes okay -- which is a utilitarian perspective, in the sense that you care more about the ends than the means -- then it becomes much fuzzier whether murder is inherently evil. Indeed, as soon as you give an explicit definition for evil, it becomes very difficult to defend it. The fact of the matter is, the good/evil dichotomy is false and artificial.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Well, this is why I said I struggled to understand the piece. On the one hand he says "[t]he apotheosis of Darth Vader was truly disgusting", while on the other he says "Does entertainment have to have an outcome? We were doing it for fun". The two don't sit very comfortably together.

I think it's important to study the cultural impact of significant works of art and fiction, and I'm sure Star Wars counts as significant (I'm less sure if it's had much cultural impact beyond encouraging 30+ years of children to play with lightsabers). But I have no real idea whether this guy actually believes Lucas - and Yoda! - are really evil or if he's just enjoying a bit of self-aggrandising publicity.
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The 6502 is relatively popular in some embedddd devices. The Tamagotchi used it: http://hackaday.com/2013/05/24/tamagotchi-rom-dump-and-rever...
I agree with you that it's more nuanced than the binary thinking often advocated. But I also think that "evil" exists in the world: ISIS is evil, the Nazis where evil, serial killers are evil, and so on. I think the question of "do they think they are doing good or bad" is an interesting question as well.

There's also, like you say, people who do things we perceive as "bad", but it often comes down to misunderstandings of motives, imbalances of power and so on. If somebody steals bread to eat, it's not a good thing, but I can't condemn the act either. As somebody who likes to think they're a force for good, I should probably see what I can do to improve their situation so they don't have to steal in the future.