skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to use a Leap at my previous job, and have an Embody at home. I tried the Aeron at a store prior to purchasing, didn't see what the fuss was about.

Overall I like the Leap and Embody a lot. From what I can remember about using it, the Leap v1 had a few more adjustment points than the Leap v2. Both v1 & v2 were comfortable, had all the adjustments I needed to get proper ergonomics. I ultimately picked the Embody for home because while the Steelcase was good, I didn't want to spend 8 hours in the work chair and come home to sit in the exact same chair.

The Embody is definitely more of a flexible chair, you feel it move when you move in it. This has the side effect of feeling like you'll tip over if someone stands behind you and puts weight on your chair back (e.g. shoulder surfing and resting on your chair back). I don't like the arm adjustments as much as the Steelcase v1 Leap, there's no angling -- it just gets closer to you as you raise them up higher. Overall the Embody is very comfortable, and with working from home I use it 8-10 hours a day now. It holds up great.
And part of the reason why cops are armed to the teeth is because the citizens are. It would require real total mutual disarmament of citizens and police to change anything in the USA.

So I don't see it changing any time soon.
I am not trying to make an argument. I am trying to understand why people react the way they do to different risks.

I said banning guns because that is what the Guardian article was arguing for, or seemed to be.
This might make a good "Show HN". From the landing page:

"Mobirise is free for both personal and commercial use. You can download and use Mobirise for your own or client's websites without restrictions."
It looks like the servers they make use of are purchasable, part of the Dell DSS series - the DSS7000: http://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/dss%207000_dss%2075...

90x 3.5in disks, 2x compute nodes with 2x E5-2600v3 CPUs.
Well, no, not really. Use of encryption is growing because the things people want to do with their computers and networks can't be done safely without it. Governments could certainly abuse their powers by forbidding encryption, but they would necessarily make all their subjects' computers and networks less valuable in the process. There is thus a strong financial incentive for tech companies to resist bad encryption policy: their ability to grow is limited by the potential utility of their products.
The thing is, when the gov goes crazy it is usually against some group of people. If you are not part of that group then you may actually believe the gov is quite sane.

Also, all it takes is some really bad times for nice people to elect a tyrant. We've seen it before many times in history.

Trump phenomenon fueled on xenophobia, racism, and authoritarianism, which is scary for minorities, is an example of a gov that could go crazy.
ICQ also was very popular in Europe. I still remember my ICQ uin, even after not using it anymore since the rise of facebook and whatsapp.
I read this as "8 hours at my day job". I.E., he worked a normal day and then went home to complete the interview challenge
Before you comment, please consider whether you'd prefer to vent your frustration in online message boards with like-minded people, or spend that potential energy in other ways:

"What you can do about it:

-- You can contact the Obama White House online to comment on strong encryption.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/webform/share-your-thoughts-onstr...

-- You can contact your state Senators and Representatives via the contact information supplied by ContactingTheCongress.org.

http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

-- You can specifically contact Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to express concerns about their bill intended to force companies to weaken or work around encryption under court orders.

http://www.contactingthecongress.org/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?sit...

http://www.contactingthecongress.org/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?sit...

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/03/09/proposed-senate-bi...

Express yourself with the honesty and clarity that the government's charm offensive is lacking."

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/03/14/take-a-stand-again...
I think I paid £12 for X-COM when it came out on iOS. It was great and totally worth every penny.

I don't really see the problem here; nobody is preventing games companies (or app makers in general) from charging more. The problem is they want to have their cake and eat it too; they want huge numbers of downloads and huge profits, and unfortunately that means they may actually have to put some WORK into it; not only in the content they produce but in determining the best price point.

But apparently, as a potential customer, thats MY fault. I think there is a misplacement of entitlement here.
That's some good points about Lisp.

I did know about the fact that code is data (everything is a list) and so Lisp programs can write programs, parse their own code more easily than other languages can, etc.

Didn't know the reader was programmable. Do remember reading a PG article, where I think he said in Lisp, reading can be done compile or run time, compiling at read or run time, and so on - all 3 possibilities. Not sure what the uses of those are though, since I don't know Lisp much. Find it interesting, though, for sure. I've read some of Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel, and parts of a few other small tutorials. Do you have any other recommendations? Also, what Lisp would you recommend for someone learning it, in the early stages?

Didn't know about the backquote facility or that point about the Lisp condition system. Will check it them.

Thanks for all the info.
On-Demand: It’s About the People, People
I would love to have a thoughtful, Civ-like game on my phone. Its a Samsung Galaxy 5 with a 128gig micro-sd card. I know its powerful enough, but if its out there, I haven't found it. I, and many others, happily pay for such games on PC and gaming platforms, but on phones and Web, it seems oddly taboo.

P.S. I'm not goving up my blockers on my computer browser. They aren't "ad" blockers; they're malware protection. Too many nasty or stupid sites out there.
"50/50 divided" means "nobody knows"
I've seen numerous times people complaining that crime statistics are recorded differently from country to country and the differences being used strategically to prove an argument. I've seen such spikes used to prove and disprove the same arguments before.
It's not a conscious entity, but it's a network good at what it's trained for. Since the network is frozen, it doesn't really learn anything or trying to "outplay" anyone (let alone it doesn't know there's an opponent). While it's impressively crafted machine learning, we shouldn't rush to call it AI. It seems like it's showing the right direction though, and, who knowns, the "intelligent conscious agent" part may one day be built on top of this, with the same building blocks.
> Despite this excellent explanation by wtbob, despite Moxie's blog posting, despite EFF, Snowden, Poitras, Schneider supporting it, I distrust Whispersystems for persisting Signal must have access to the addressbook by refusing to work without.

The mechanism I explained would permit Signal to work without uploading one's address book to the Signal servers. It would, of course, still require access to the address book itself in order to perform contact discovery. I personally don't mind allowing access to the address book itself; what I mind is uploading its contents.
It definitely is pretty, or elegant. Compact and yet powerful, I can see that even though I only know a little of it.
agreed. And actually for me, the pictures are nearly indistinguishable from what I've seen in India and Thailand. nothing shocking about minimalist infrastructure in a 3rd world country unless you have never been out of the 1st world.
So, how does it turn out for people who shoot at the police? I'm sorry but you are living in libertarian cowboy fantasy.
Bad stats, there is no actual nationwide tracking of gun ownership in the US making such numbers pure BS.

Further, crime rates need to be adjusted for poverty or they become meaningless.
Desktop software always had a friction that the web didn't.

Desktop software was fine, until you were in an internet cafe, at a friend's house, or most importantly, at work, where computers were locked down.

You couldn't use msn messenger at work, you could use facebook because it was just a web page.
You don't :/

There were external services providing that, but I'm not sure if any are still active.
Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse [C#] programmer (2006)
WCM777+Ponzi+Scheme+Up-Date+-+2+Minute+Video+Maker+Auto+Submit+Tool
"To read this content, please pay $0.01"

Yeah. That wouldn't at all be abused.
Dunning–Kruger_effect – unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law
Yeah, somehow I missed a couple of zeros, it would be 2.7 million.

Such a salt wouldn't tighten up the window though, for contact discovery to work, all the outputs have to be available to whatever is doing the matching.
... I am so happy I don't code in C right now. That's icky.
Thanks. Of the ones you mention, in the past, I've explored Scheme, very little, Tcl a little, and Prolog a little. Did not know about Kernel and Kitten. Kernel looks very advanced. Will check out Kitten. I thought you were kitten me at at first - about the name :)
Also an interesting variation on hash tables is the Cuckoo Hash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_hashing). However, I don't think it makes a lot of effort in keeping marching keys near to each other, so I suspect Leapfrog probing might cause less cache misses.
"I’m seriously questioning the idea that all content on the web ought to be free."

It shouldn't, and it isn't. But free and good enough is going to beat any cost and better by any amount for most people most of the time.

"The expectation that everything online is free is an entitlement, an unearned privilege, on the part of consumers. There’s nothing inevitable about it."

Looking at the huge, swollen, abusive and sclerotic layers of our entertainment, publishing and news industries, I do see quite a bit of entitlement, but not on the side of consumers.
The real problem here isn't coding interviews; its how we (hiring managers) approach the entire question.

The goals of a technical interview should be:
- Confirm the credentials presented aren't complete BS
- Validate they know enough to be immediately helpful
- Assess their long term potential (brains, social skills)

Coding challenges tend to be good at the first two points but very questionable for the third. Incidentally, given that I'm seeing a 50% washout rate from a basic SQL code question (supported by confessions from candidates that they fabricated credentials/experience), you would be silly not to include some form of practical test.

The third point (potential) is best measured by talking with them about a project they really cared about. For those who cannot share work examples, pick a good side project. Don't get hung up on the content - focus on their passion. You'll get a better view of my capabilities if you chat with me about building an ad server, mobile optimization, or SEO analytics (real world projects I care about) than with a contrived example.

As for the github profile of code shrugs why? Seems like a bit of a cult to me. I'm happy to sharing anything that's useful (and do so on my blog) but don't have the free time to spend developing code for the sake of "work samples". My work samples run on production servers as commercial projects, thank you very much..... Suspect many other good candidates are the same.
I wasn't aware there was anything more to syntax highlighting than what you are calling "lexical highlighting" - what I think of as "syntax highlighting" consists of coloring comments, string literals, and reserved words differently than identifiers or punctuation marks. So, I gather that there must be some editors which use more complicated schemes; can you point me at an example?
A startup in Berlin gave me a code challenge that would take at least 20 hours, I had even to deploy in specific version of the libraries, they give the datasets and etc.

I was very suspicious of being an actual feature development. I've said I would only do that if they would pay me to.

They answered that they feel very sorry for me because a lot of the candidates feel the coding challenge very challenging because they can learn new stuff and they love it

go figure
That can be true, but it's still a waste.
For promising candidates, we ask that they complete a pre-specified project in their own time. The project takes most candidates 2-3 hours to complete.

The difference is that we do this as paid work. Whatever their going rate is, we'll match it.

A surprisingly high number of candidates interview quite well and look promising on paper, but fail horribly in a "real world" coding test.
Would you rather Some Co. just hire you and try you out for a few months simply based on your resume?
I got laid off recently and was applying for all the jobs I could find. So I had to do a bunch of these programming projects. I don't mind them per-se, but it takes so long to do each one and you have to be ultra-clean with each one. I don't think companies take into account that you might not have that much free time. It's particularly stressful when you don't get through.

On pair programming tasks, I had a pair programming session with a guy, he gave me an empty project and a poorly specified brief, verbally, then gave me 15 minutes to crank something out. It was pathetic. I didn't get the job and the feedback was, "he didn't know some of the keyboard shortcuts I'd expect." In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't get that one but at the time things were getting desperate.

The best process was the one where I finally got a job. We talked on the phone for an hour and a half and by the end you could just tell we had that, "developer bond". His approach was the best I'd seen. He just talked through some of the problems he had, I proposed solutions and we talked through pros and cons. He treated me as an equal from the start. After that we had the face-to-face HR questions (how do you resolve conflict, etc.) which they have to ask because it's a big company, and another one with another manager but by then it was pretty much a done deal.

And I think that's the way to do a decent hiring process. Don't behave like an authoritative dick, and use phone interviews to screen candidates. Programming projects don't work because it's going to take you forever to review them, and pair-programming doesn't work because there's not enough time, and it's kind of horrible for the candidate.
Robotics narratives: Birth of the bots
There are more toddlers in the USA than terrorists in the USA. This is pretty inconsequential.
Far Left-Far Right Protectionist Dreams
Hey nailer, i use Adalyz (www.adalyz.com) and they have a pretty sleek UI. It also helps to get a unified view across different ad networks. Has helped me a lot so far.
How the FBI plans to get into iPhone #fappening
>> Corporations are much better at selling whatever they do as "useful", which
isn't such a good thing in the long run.

Yep. There's a grave risk that funding to AI research ends up being slashed just
as badly as in the last AI winter, if people start thinking that Google has
eaten AI researchers' lunch with its networks and there's no point in trying
anything else.

Incidentally, Google would be the first to pay the price of that, since they
rely on a steady stream of PhDs to do the real research for them but now I'm
just being mean. The point is, we overhype the goose that lays the golden eggs,
we run out of eggs.
"Something inevitably has to put shit in to the DOM." - 91bananas 2015
American citizens have always been armed to the teeth, so to speak. American police departments were not, this is a more recent phenomenon. It's partly due to the Federal level programs that are equipping the police with surplus military hardware. I find it doubtful that a regular street cop is going to encounter a situation in their day-to-day to justify the level of armament as if they were on the SWAT team.
Yes, now if only the government would let me buy that cocaine I want.
Guns are regulated. You must be at least eighteen in most states in order to buy a gun. In many places (most?), there is a waiting period. You pay one day, you come back another to pick it up. Concealed carry is either illegal or requires taking a class, registering, and getting a permit. Open carry is legal in some places, illegal in others.

It is harder to get a concealed carry permit than a driver's license, at least past the age of 21.

I'm not saying that there aren't more regulations that could be passed that would make gun ownership safer. I think there probably are. But to hold that car ownership is more regulated than gun ownership is not a tenable position.
Cayman Companies Plead Guilty to US Tax Evasion, Handing Over American Accounts
dead wrong. The majority of people do as you say, but the majority don't understand the balance. Security means protecting a few targets. Privacy means protecting the freedom of every single person.

With that kind of reasoning, you'll favor research for medicine against rare 100% lethal diseases instead of 20%-lethal cancer...
> Further, by abiding by a set of standards, Google and others can trust the content will load quickly.

It's only a "standard" from the viewpoint of Google.
The Origin of QWERTY
Try different types of guns for what? The only primary purpose of a gun is to inflict a lot of damage to something.

The Sun, is a terrible, terrible source of 'news';
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3062107/Getting-hi... (you can safely ignore any of the red tops in the UK)

I can understand the deep interest in guns, for instance I thoroughly enjoy FPS russia. But I do not think as a society we can manage the general public having guns, Australia and the UK are a very good example of how new laws have come into place.
Leaving the definition of "clean" ambiguous does give you some useful information, though, because the context implied by the answer shows you something about the interviewee's priorities. Of course their code is "clean" according to whatever metric is important to them - but what's their metric? What are they focusing on as they work?
It goes right back to the spec. The W3C drones on and on for 132 words as to what "NO CONTENT" means. But devotes merely seven words to commerce. From that, all that follows.

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec1...
Very Nice.

I want to understand how Linux Container works, started to study the cgroup code in Linux kernel and LXD. Here are couple of notes on Tracing the code of CGroup in Linux kernel and LXD I took.

http://www.srcmap.org/sd_share/7/0cc46512/LXD_Code_Trace.htm...

http://www.srcmap.org/sd_share/7/060b8d61/Linux_Kernel_CGrou...
...because the criminals are. And therein lies to fatal flaw of gun control - only people who are law abiding would comply with the new laws.
When I open my mouth to talk to my neighbor, I am not producing "content" - I am communicating. The Web is a communication medium. The lack of commercial functionality baked in the communication medium is a feature not a bug.

Whoever uses the word "content" betray his bias as a commercial publisher.
"Home invasion" is not a category known to UK crime reporting; the same PDF says

There has been a general downward trend in police recorded homicides over recent years. If
the provisional figure of 642 homicides is confirmed when the final figures from the Homicide Index are published, then this would represent a fall of 19 per cent in homicides since
2001/02."

and

"The BCS shows that the number of violent incidents increased gradually through the 1980s
and then increased sharply after 1991 to reach a peak in the mid 1990s. The number of
incidents then showed steep decreases in the late 1990s. Since then, despite non-statistically
significant year-on-year changes, there has been an overall decline."*

The decline in violence is actually somewhat global and not really anything to do with firearms either way. What the gun ban does unambiguously reduce is the opportunity for mass shootings.

(Did you mean compare rates within the same country, or rates between the UK and US? The UK's overall murder rate is comparable to that of two or three US cities. Sadly this PDF only goes back to 2000/2001 and doesn't cover the 90s.)
With today's aggressive and impatient drivers, the 2 second rule is very hard to maintain because they'll just pass you and fill the spot, every time.
The Arria 10 GX can do up to 16x 30Gbps transceivers and 96x 17Gbps transceivers - I can't imagine they'd turn off all of these, since that is the selling point.
I really don't care why they chose to do this hijack-update.

When I'm lied to about updating, and it takes bloody forever normally, it pisses me off. When you start trying to hijack my machine for your purposes "for Win10", you can collectively fuck off.

I'll set on my Windows Machine (yes singular, all others are Linux variants) for No-update Windows 7. And I'll also switch everyone I know to no-update as well.
> Tcl a little

Actually Tcl more than a little, in the context of Expect, and also some with Tk (and Tkinter in Python, though that is about the toolkit, not the Tcl language). Tcl definitely is mind-blowing in its dynamic nature. So are the capabilities of Expect, actually. I read most of the Expect book by its author, Don Libes. He goes very deep into it. Fascinating. Even his writing style is unique.
Simulators should be fast, sure, however that they should be deterministic to be fast is something I do not believe. We have millions of programs already that make use of pseudo random generated numbers, and they don't seem to be suffering performance problems because of that.

And about the state and memory concern, mcts does not care directly about it, since for it the simulator is used as a black box and its internals are irrelevant to it. Instead, as long as any environment configuration can be described in terms of state (essentially a unique state->number conversion must be possible - and even then not always) mcts will work. And since it also does not care about the size of the state space, the concern that having memory as one of the factors in the state would be problematic is also unfounded.

I also disagree on the specificity of AlphaGO. Mcts has been used successfully in many fields after its initial usage and tuning for Go. I did my thesis on similar algorithms. In the same way, it does not matter whether AlphaGO can be directly used on other problems. What matters is the new idea of using NNs in order to improve substantially and with little overhead the value estimations used by mcts to explore the decision tree. This is the true breakthrough. The fact that the first implementation of this idea is a Go playing program is irrelevant, it's more like a showcase of the goodness of the approach.
Correct.

Major versions make more sense when you create a release based on the content. V8 is creating its releases based on time (~6 week cadence). So a 'major' version is nothing special anymore. In 4.9 we greatly expanded our ES2015 support which was huge but only incremented the minor version because of the same reason.

Disclaimer: I work on the V8 team.
I did say it had a placebo effect and yes placebos are "effective for particular problems". Other than that the science isn't as solid as you seem to think it is.. the same is true of chiropractic "medicine", homeopathy and vision quest duck rubbing.

Here is a good overview:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2...