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If Albanian should be connected to any Slavic languages, though, it should be connected with Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian, the languages that it neighbors, and which have exerted mutual cultural influence on each other. The point the commenter above was making is that choosing Slovenian specifically to be the linking language to Albanian in the sprachbund is very arbitrary.
Recently I've started using letsencrypt to generate certs for our web servers. Even on FreeBSD, which LE considers an "experimental" platform and not yet fully supported, using LE was a breeze, and worked without a hitch.

This project looks interesting, and seems like it should be pretty simple to set up. Since it appears http.createServer() and auto-sni.createServer() have the same interface, there shouldn't be a problem using it, assuming no significant glitches show up.

Currently our node servers run behind nginx, which has effectively managed http->https redirect, establishing TLS connections, etc. Depending on the situation, conceivably doing it all in node itself could be a reasonable approach.
Exactly Facebook is not useful anymore. The core users started moving away from Fb anyway.
But isn't the company too big to die.
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We are the Bing Core Relevance team responsible for retrieving and ranking organic results for given search queries from hundreds of billions of indexed web documents. On top of that, we are also aggressively evolving Bing search engine from key word search centric system to a set of more general intelligence (AGI) capabilities that can help solve broader intent fulfillment, knowledge retrieval and task completion problems. Apart from the 10 blue links, we also power the instant answer for queries like "why is the sky blue" on bing.com.

Our core drivers are large scale machine learning, including DNN based technologies, along with analyzing, inferring and experimenting with truly big data. As part of the team, you would be driving relevance projects through their entire life-cycle from idea creation through implementation, experimentation and finally to shipping. We also closely collaborate with Microsoft Research on joint projects.

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“Our research shows that if a part of the brain does not grow properly, or if the global geometry is disrupted, we may not have the major folds in the right place, which may cause dysfunction in the brain.”

Causes dysfunction, or has common cause with dysfunction?

Super cool research.
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Thanks dude!
They mostly use the AI to try to convince you to buy shit. It may be an uninspired use of artificial intelligence, but it's still artificial intelligence.
Have you ever seen a video of Steven Seagal or similar Aikido masters performing seemingly effortless take-downs against waves of opponents? This bird program is very similar: impressive in a demonstration and totally useless in real life.

The key is that in the demonstration, only willing opponents are used. Notice that the drone in the video is completely motionless? In real life, if the pilot sees the bird coming at the last moment, it will tilt the drone to try and accelerate away. This is highly, highly likely to result in the bird's outstretched feet getting lopped off.
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Their search seems really unreliable to me. It doesn't find things that you can find by just scrolling up.
Even within the last six months I've seen very confident posts here to the effect of "an AI that is worth a damn at go is still at least 10 years off".
The way you figure out the answer to those 3 questions is, very often, by pursuing the other 99% of callings. What else are you going to do with your time? Work in a cube? Sit around twiddling your thumbs?
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UX: How MSN went for beauty and got it dead wrong
MSN Money redesigned their stock charts a couple of years ago. They're beautiful - interactive, deep data archives, very nice chart styles. However, when they did the redesign, they removed key features that are necessary for financial data. The most glaring example is the lack of logarithmic display in the current revision. Since financial asset prices grow exponentially, logarithmic display is critical to providing a meaningful view of the kind of excellent long-term data that MSN has. Along with the utility downgrade of the charts came a downgrade of the stock summary pages - specialized but necessary indicators, like bid and ask, were removed from that page.

Just curious if HN has any other examples of major sites that have destroyed their utility in the pursuit of beauty? I think that the key issue in many of these cases might be UX designers who understand what makes for a good design, but don't understand the data that they're designing for.
Huge. Between webpack and Babel, JS is quickly progressing towards becoming a powerful language that is easy to write, read and reason about. I'm currently in the process of moving an inherited "minified by hand" codebase to ES6, and the difference is incredible. Not only are linters catching hundreds of previously unknown edge cases and bugs, but the end result is more performant and smaller in file size. It's very satisfying, makes me not mind coding in JS again.
It looks like it was because of stale product data in shopping

>We believe that having a commercial relationship with merchants will encourage them to keep their product information fresh and up to date. Higher quality data—whether it’s accurate prices, the latest offers or product availability—should mean better shopping results for users, which in turn should create higher quality traffic for merchants.
My ideas for dealing with excessive 401k fees
Check out https://home-assistant.io similar but with some extra home automation focus.
Could you elaborate or suggest any references? It sounds like you are saying something that appears chaotic forms some coherent beautiful image?

I know alpha refers to many things but one of those is the fine-structure constant. There's some remarkable beauty in it because it unites electromagnetism, relativity and quantum mechanics. And this is why many thought the reciprocal of alpha (137) would become as important as 0 and Pi.

I am assuming though none of that relates to fractals and that alpha in this context refers to the angles?
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On second thought, the one advantage which this does have over alternatives (like throwing a net to foul the props, or using a microwave canon to disable the electronics) is that the drone won't plummet into the crowd below.

If you can rely on the assumption that a drone which loses control signal will hover in place or slowly descend (or some similar "safe" maneuver), you could combine the bird technique with a jamming device. The jamming device keeps the drone still just long enough for the bird to snatch it out of the air safely.

Similarly, you could train the bird to expect the drone to start free-falling just moments before it arrives, such that the bird compensates and catches the drone in free-fall. You could then deploy the bird against a drone and use a focused microwave cannon to take out the drone's electronics just before the bird arrives.
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Every tech company is a bit of a stretch. Get out of california more.
CCCP has worked great for me on Windows for the last 10+ years.
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Isn't the expected distance (undirected) given by E[|d|], while sqrt(n) is the value of sqrt(E[d^2])?
Me: There's this thing called GPS. It would cost about $100 to have the train "know" where it is.

You: In a rational world, people wouldn't suggest that a $100 off-the-shelf GPS is all you need to retrofit a train to be automated enough to remove the human overseer.

And I'm the guy with the lighter and the pile of straw?
I still go with VLC out of habit, but switch to MPC to play 4k videos.
I was going to say: an example that's fairly reproducible, any video recorded with Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is playable in WMP but not VLC.

However, I just tried it is fixed already, I love VLC.
This makes sense. I stopped using google shopping a long time ago precisely because it seemed like so many of the results were junk for whatever reason (staleness is a likely reason). "Junk" meaning the search result did not lead to an option to actually buy the product I was searching for. I haven't tried it since then, so I can't comment on if it's actually better now or if it's due to these changes.
You have to take into account that McDonalds is a franchise, so the system company doesn't actually sell much food. (The individual restaurants do.)
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You must think first, before you move."
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Hm... is such a party both a) deductible as a corporate expense and b) not treated as employee income?

If so, the choice is really between "$100 worth" of partying and $65 of after-tax cash.

For that matter, do corporations pay sales tax? If not, it's more like $100 of partying vs $58 of your choice of any consumption.

(Hence why it's not always as simple as "just give me the money".)
right, fair points. i agree market rate is usually code for bullshit. a year or 2 ago vmware was a competitor. as far as salaries, I can say something about the range we paid. I thought it was high for a startup. an intern might make 75k (I know google and msft pay more), a person with a few years (~5) of exp makes 130k and a senior engr makes 150+. a very senior eng. or lead might make over 180k. sure, google pays more. but these are decent salaries.
You're still not getting it.

It's just a business.
Let's see if i can make 40k in a month. Starting with $0
> if...fi, anyone?

And here I thought everyone wanted ALGOL-like syntax...
> Currently our node servers run behind nginx

I was going to ask about this, in our current setup Nginx or an F5 in a DMZ handles TLS termination and everything inside the trusted network is unencrypted. I guess direct termination on the app server would be nice if you don't have a DMZ.
Well I think back then she was the alternative for turning the company before it sank, but couldn't cut/steer fast enough

Columns from cringely paint a interesting, changing picture over the year http://www.cringely.com/tag/yahoo/page/2/
You're very perceptive, my friend...
This looks cool, definitely gonna try. I think it should support python 3 also.
I spent a year maintaining 90k lines of bash. I've written some beautiful bash code and some horrendous bash code. Bash is a pretty poor programming language; it's an amazing user interface.
I think there's a dramatic difference in search 10 years ago compared to now, due to better natural language understanding, which is very much an "AI" technology IMHO.

I've had to un-learn my search query habits from the past. I used to attempt to express queries in ways that I thought would help the search engine (limit it to keywords, suppress keywords that are likely to produce false positives, etc.). Now, it seems better to put in sentence fragments, and the old way of a few specific thought out keywords is actually worse at producing the result I want.

The difference is small to the average HN user (most of us are just as capable of expressing queries both ways, and we'll find what we're looking for) but the latter kind of query is far more accessible to the average person.
I'd be interested in the answer for std::unordered_map, then.
That seems to be the case, I do wish they'd made this requirement clear up front. There is no getting around sychronised quiescence being a blocking event, but in this case they essentially hope that either 1) you're already using a kind of scatter gather thread model like the mentioned game example - which implies an iterative discrete world, or 2) the set of threads (or tasks) interacting with the collection is simply bounded and sychronised, and/or 3) the performance is still better in aggregate even with infrequent world blocking events.
I used to have a ton of issues with reliable syncing but I haven't had any issues with it in the past year or so.
Matt Levine has quite a talent for describing markets in plain English.
It was a long convoluted argument. It went something like, "if all of those communists hadn't just made all that stuff for free then lots more people would have jobs building it". Also it all violated patents and was inherently inferior (but by its dastardly and audacious existence, prevented the better commercial stuff from being made). As well as costing the jobs. ???

It was about as coherent as cooked spaghetti.
UT Austin has a top 10 CS program.

It's just below MIT/CMU/Stanford/Berkley. Typically just as well regarded as UW/Cornell/Princeton/UIUC/Georgia Tech/Caltech.

Dijkstra used to be the department chair in the 80s and early 90s.
Is UCB "elite"? It has a student population the size of the whole Ivy League combined.
A few months ago. They re-organized the structure so that Alphabet became the parent company and Google became the subsidiary. Larry Page heads Alphabet while Sunder Pichai heads Google.

Some of the companies purchased by "Google" became subsidiaries of Alphabet as well.
> Except for links to images. I can never freaking remember those.

They work like standard Markdown links (text in square brackets, followed by link in parens), except you add a bang in front of it. The bang looks like an upside-down "i", the first letter of "image".

Edit: read too fast; _links_ to images use image instead of text in a link, so you just replace the text with text in square brackets with the syntax of Markdown image. I've never struggled too much with this one, so I don't have any useful mnemonics, sorry.
That seems more historical than anything. I don't know the last time one of them has gone to jail for much of anything, you're very right about inflation/nepotism, as well.

And I don't really think anything is career-ending for that matter. I mean, look at the mess there was after Carly Fiorina and she's found other things to do.
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Ask HN: why there are no email apps with Touch ID/passcode support on iOS device
Emails do contain sensitive and/or personal information. Email Apps on iOS devices (be it default Mail app or Gmail/Outlook app) don't have support for Touch ID or Passcode. Why so?
Yeah. And ending up playing a game of "useful or malware"
I have a theory that I call "just one small fix". I think FOSS media players can handle more video files (not just formats) because most of the times the errors that makes them unplayable are just small mistakes in the way things are encoded.

Does a certain camera produces only even timestamps? Let's check for that fix it, it is "just one small fix: one if and a division". Is that MPEG encoded with swapped croma? Let's detect it and fix it, it is "just ome small fix: one if and a swap".

Over the time FOSS projects accumulate all these fixes and one day you realize that they can read practically everything as if a single person sat down and wrote that super-robust code in one go. Proprietary software cannot benefit from this kind of drive-by contributions.
Please ask the question in a straightforward manner instead of using a clickbait headline. You are not doing your otherwise good question justice.
> often-closed OS code.

If you use GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SmartOS, OpenIndiana, OpenSolaris, etc this isn't a problem.
For the most part, this opportunity is wholly irrelevant to undergraduates -- they aren't ready to benefit from it.
The reason why universities do not teach welding, is because it would become too clear to everybody involved that the teacher is not particularly a good welder. If he were, he would be welding and not teaching. The same holds true for programming.
If your editor supports editorconfig[1], you could set it to not strip newlines for .md files. :)

[1] http://editorconfig.org/
I had two monitors that were x1200 but sadly they both stopped working for mysterious reasons. It was great for online poker as it allowed a perfect number of tables at a decent size (Stars, FTP). In the end I played only 4 on each as that was my sweetspot for paying attention to all details but for massgrinding 12 on each was doable (iirc, I could never play more than 8x2 without going insane).

Standard x1080 didn't work well at all especially back in the day when the tables weren't resizable :D
> What you don't get is a "better education". (Edit: Some have pointed out rightly that I should differentiate here between top non-elite instututions and the ones that are diploma mills, so to be clear, what I'm saying doesn't apply to the diploma mills.) You do the same work as the folks at the less elite institutions.

It's not just diploma mills (unless every uni outside of the top ~10 is a diploma mill for you). In my opinion you are completely wrong. Quoting myself from a similar thread:

> I'm at a mediocre university and watching MIT lectures has made me realize I'm missing out on literally mountains of knowledge. Never mind the qualification process, spending several years with intelligent people (both students and faculty) [also] makes a huge difference.
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I don't know why I never thought about this, but this would be so helpful.
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If your magazine starts handling ads in every other publisher's magazines too and then starts handling ads in TV and then starts putting up billboards by the highways, I'd say the answer isn't so obvious.
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CCCP was amazing when it first came about. The last time I wanted to watch something, though, KCP was recommended over CCCP. Things are forever going to be a bit of a mess with playing anime since there's a long tradition of being on the bleeding edge of encoding.
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Why does everything have to be monetized? It seems pretty clear from the article that they spun up a test project until they didn't want to, and they provided a whole two weeks more lead-time than they needed to on taking it down.

I'm not sure why there's this expectation that someone should do a bunch more work for something they wanted to kill off, just for the sake of monetization.
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That's because computer science (programming jobs) is getting lumped in with biology jobs that pay half as much and the same everywhere you come from.
How did you make this transition? Did you take the necessary course work in school, or take time off of work? Where do you get meaningful recommendations after leaving school?
To further enlighten our younger programmers, I only had BBS access for the first time on a summer job internship just before going to the university. No way my parents would pay for a modem on those days nor for the regional phone rates.

That BBS was the only one in a probably 80 KM radius and with a maximum of 4 connections.

So yeah, learning to code meant demoscene parties, magazine listenings, get programming books as gift or being able to find something at the local library (usually from the 70's and early 80's).

As for development software, we would either type the compiler/interpreter ourselves from those magazines and books, or use one of those bundled tapes/disks if lucky to find them.

Also during those days, the local street markets where a common source of software.
btw, they recommend checking custom params via DH_check() (https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Diffie-Hellman_parameters...) but, appparently, neither apache nor nginx do this...
Sure they are - that is what separates AdWords from other advertising platforms.
With change inevitably and regularly hitting technology, everybody in the field will end up becoming self taught. The ones who are not, will sooner or later have to leave. A demonstrated ability to self teach is therefore the number one requirement for anybody who considers a career in programming. In other words, you could as well start right away like that. If you fail early on, you should pick another field and you will have saved yourself a lot of misery in the future.
If you are smart enough to enjoy reading Hacker News, you might be smart enough to learn programming.

Decent programmers are still very much in demand, no matter what nation-wide crisis you are talking about.
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I thought it was proven to be trancendental? Or were you saying that this property of trancendental numbers is only conjectured?
What's good for the shareholders and what's good for management are two separate things.
One might ask the question: what is the probability that you will return to your starting position over the course of an infinite random walk? On a 1 dimensional or 2 dimensional lattice, that probability is 1. What's crazy though is that for a 3D lattice, the probability is not 1 — it's about 0.3405.
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If I remember correctly you always needed to do a DIM or REDIM at some point before really using them.

But it is so long time ago and I never really used QBasic, by the time it came out I was already into Turbo Pascal, leaving Turbo Basic behind.

I did however spend long evenings trying to understand it, as QBasic was one of the first languages I tried to implement a compiler for.
True, it's not a perfect analogy. Popcorn is additive to the experience. Even if theaters could survive sans popcorn sales, they'd still keep it because it's part of the experience.

Although originally theaters wanted nothing to do with popcorn:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-do-we-eat-pop...

I was just referring to the fact that theaters make most of their money from concessions, but you wouldn't then call them a concession company. No one would go to a theater just for the concessions. They would (and do) go just for the movie though.
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