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I can explain if you want to (ironically) list some way for me to contact you - I'm not participating in this thread anymore. (Obviously I'll treat the address with respect, I don't mean that I plan to demonstrate it dramatically, I'm just tired of the downvotes.)
Truth lies in between. We're not for faster AND lower quality, mostly for less absurd resistance in the flow of knowledge. Granted that in some domains, a paper stuck in a waiting queue means death for people. Let's hope this kicks discussion and adaptation.
I have a plan for overhauling/replacing Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. The way it's done now consumes way too much design time, and honestly is a bit silly considering the inputs and outputs of the system.

I'd like to talk to someone with experience interfacing with factories in China about how the current approach could be replaced. Any suggestions?

Also, if I developed this tool-chain, what is the best way to attach to the market?
Don't you have armed police/military who, while a blessing in some instances, are in others a curse?

Occasionally. This is why I keep bringing up Northern Ireland. However that is a situation in which armed civilians fought back against having their civil rights violated by the state, resulting in a >30 year civil war and bombing campaign.

I don't even understand what you're saying should have happened instead in New Orleans - should people have been shooting back? Surely the right answer is everyone being less trigger happy?
I've seen the performance improvements in PHP 7, which look awesome, and it's good to know that there are modern frameworks available now, so it's entirely possible the PHP universe has improved markedly since I was there last.

But what kills PHP for me (and Rails and Django, for that matter) is the lack of native support for asynchronous operation and poll/epoll.

If you're stuck with one thread per user, then you can't scale beyond a couple thousand concurrent users on one system without latency getting terrible.

You can just do so much more on one server with Node it's not even funny. 70k queries per second with low latency are not uncommon; add in some work and that goes down, of course, but a well written app can have 20k+ queries per second of throughput.

Even PHP 7 with WordPress in cached mode only brags of ~5k queries per second. You could likely do 4x that in Node without trying -- and possibly even without caching.
To be fair, the article literally links to that and mentions it as a possible solution.
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Not much. I'm not evangelistic about my ideals. Variety of thought, values and philosophy is a survival boon. We just need enough people to think this way, all of us would not be good.

I don't want to save my ideology, i want to save the existence of any ideology.
submit the original source and not some crazy page wrapping another (http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/13/google-research-sugg..., that also isn't the original source) in an iframe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Asking to be paid during an interview seems too much but a 4-8 hour interview doesn't seem too much? The average interview length across all industries is 40 minutes. Asking interviewers to spend 4+ hours on the hope of a job offer seems a tall demand. I think asking to be paid seems a fair counter to what is otherwise a very unfair ask.
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That's brilliant!

I wonder what the effort would be to take an existing turing test bot and apply it to my spam folder.

Of course once this technique is used the spammers will be forced to deploy their own AIs to deal with the increase in response rates. Which of course this act will come to be called our first AI War. :P
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Good to know. So it doesn't implement any of the ES6 concepts then I take it.
wow, this is terrific. It's something often discussed with friends that someone needs to do this - but we never offered ourselves up due the absolutely massive undertaking it would be. Super excited that someone's done this though.

I hope the site keeps growing - It'd be great to have some of the suggestions already made to be part of it.

the "top 250" would be interesting and for me personally, I'm not sure how much faith I'd put into it: I'm quite finicky when it comes to podcasts. I have a couple of podcasts that I listen to religiously, but I also have some podcasts that I subscribe to, but would only download depending on the guest for that episode, and then there's some podcasts that are right up my alley, interest wise, but something as simple as one of the person's voices/accent is so off-putting that I disregard it completely. With movies, it's easy to say "that movie isn't for me, but I can understand the praise it's receiving", but I don't think podcasts really work that way
Jaap van den Herik (https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Jaap+van+den+Herik) predicts that, within 20 years, a computer will beat humans at playing Diplomacy.

I think that is a quite interesting challenge, but high profile? too few people know that game.

Also, measuring that the computer is better will be problematic, as humans (or, for that matter, computers) could conspire to let one of their own ilk win.
I wonder if it would make sense to have a data centre in Gatineau for the feds to take advantage of the way cheaper electricity in Quebec than Ontario.
So it was put online without peer review? Papers can always be submitted by the author to PMC using NIHMS if the journal doesn't do it. However the paper must go through a journal because they arbitrate the peer review.
If that [part of history] was a brush with law, taking time out to deal with personal problems, or being caught up in a failed business endeavor of some sort -- you can always spin it out as a learning experience, and say some variation of "It wasn't the best choice make, but I think that going through it made me a better, more mature person."

But not knowing what exactly that [part of history] was about, of course we can only speculate.
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I'm looking forward to the day when no one remembers what quirksmode was. Not the site mind you, but where the site's name originated.
Dude looked white to me. Not sure what your point here would be.
From my brief research digital ocean only provides credits to YC companies unlike Microsoft, Azure, and even IBM's SoftLayer. I'd just like to point that out. That immediately disqualifies DO for large cloud products due to their pricing and product offerings.
Cuckoo needs double space, and even if you add those two tables one after the other, it begs for cache misses with larger arrays, besides needing a much lower fill rate than leapfrog, which only needs 2 bytes extra.
leapfrog looks really promising
Some high level pros have stated that they would need a 4 stone handicap to beat the "perfect player", i,e "God of Go", so that would probably put a skill ceiling on this.
History shows when you forked from somewhere, not copypasta.
Luckily, the designers of WebAssembly imagined those things before you.
It is actually quite hard to predict which papers will become hits and which become misses. If I look back over my own papers there were a few I knew were going to (minor) hits, but quite a few of the papers I thought would be of interest were ignored while others I thought were pretty minor attracted a lot of interest.

One area I have never understood (apart from editor laziness) is letting the authors write the article title and abstract. So many great papers are overlooked because the authors wrote a boring or misleading title or abstract.
If I need a level of control over the text that Markdown doesn't offer, I break out the HTML+CSS. I cheat by using made up context-specific semantic elements so I don't have class="foo" everywhere, and the result is pretty structured and not hard for a clueful novice to understand.

It's also not that hard to move from Markdown to HTML incrementally, and generally unnecessary at all for long prose sections if you're not averse to having mixed HTML/Markdown source.

To me, RST smells very much like XML for people who don't want to admit they're writing XML. It superficially has the appearance of being "normal" plain text writing, but that illusion is fragile if you're not familiar with the language. IMO, it's akin to COBOL or SQL in that way.
I'd quite like to see some HDL innovation. You can compile to Verilog just like people compile to Javascript to run in the browser, but it's not the most convenient way of doing it.
Why is that?

If certain tales of the dark net are to be believed, it has enabled an unprecedented level of communication between abusers of children. Seems like an obvious "con" of widely-available secure communication.

If you believe the "pros" outweigh it, say so, but don't pretend it isn't relevant.
When they started they were cheap meals under $10 out in Berkeley or Oakland (I forget), and they did raise prices after they started expanding into SF. The problem was most of their customers were use to the lower price point of the service.
Call it what it is then. It's not a challenge but a weed-out. I know full well that that's what your company is screening for, but that also means that I know that I don't want to work for you. My time and contributions will not be appropriately valued by such a company and I won't like working there. My skills/value are not commodity. I don't want to start out a hopefully multi-year relationship on dishonesty.

I imagine though that if you explicitly call it a weed out that a sizable percentage of the quality talent pool won't apply...unless they're a referral, and then why are they doing a code challenge anyway?

On that note: giving code challenges to employee referrals, especially hiring to their own teams, is a clear indicator that you don't trust your employees.
Even if it's easier to obfusfate WebAssembly, does that matter? If you run the 2MB+ JS libraries in se today through uglify.js it becomes almost impossible to understand the macrostructure just by reading the code.

It's only through dynamic tools that we can even begin to understand minified JS today. Those are actually quite excellent: just try by starting the react or relay tools on facebook.

That ecosystem is hopefully not changing, so what remains is simply that the format is now binary. I agree that that makes me somewhat uncomfortable but realistically it doesn't really change anything.
Neat idea!

Missing some pretty obvious data: probably should make sure Adam Curry and Dave Winer's stuff is complete, for example.

(Although I guess you're an old foggy podcast listener when you search for the "Daily Source Code"...)
Well, you raise a good point. But my "worry" still stands: nobody, today, would trust a Microsoft appliance in their internal IT.
A blog post giving background is at http://www.nature.com/news/crowdsourced-research-many-hands-....
I fell in love at first sight. Since it was in wide use at Facebook I got my team to take a look at it. Now they love it. Once you start breaking up things into small mostly reusable components, the true power of JSX shines through. And since most files never end up being very large with well reasoned interfaces between components, it's much easier to reason about your user interfaces.
Bluespec is SystemVerilog extensions, so it still falls under Verilog support. Bluespec compiler spits out Verilog RTL for it to be fed into other tools, like Xilinx's synthesizer. So yes you can use Bluespec with Xilinx/Altera tools today.

It also is new and thus not known and used by thousands of RTL coders everyday.
England? Because its hard to get a driving license there, for anybody.
Does anyone have a recommendation for how to go about WEEE [1] compliance across Europe apart from registering in every country individually?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electro...
A little disappointing this has been going on for approaching 4 hours now. Services like this, Slack, and GitHub, have a big impact on businesses when they're down.
That's not the same at all.
An adult male needs around 2500 kcal per day. This works out to 2906Wh. The battery in a Nexus 5 is around 8Wh, for comparison. The question then becomes: how many hours would the battery last running the Komodo 9 engine full-out?

That would be an interesting matchup. I bet a grandmaster could play slow enough to kill the battery on the phone. A human could go a day without eating no problem. There's no way the phone could go a day without charging while running 100% CPU.
You're free to your opinion, but, you probably should be. Any company that deems your time worthless for the interview probably feels the same way about your time during the work week. Maybe 60-80 hour death marches are your thing, but, that's not a perk I am (and I suspect many others are) looking for.
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London just "filters" lower incomes out completely...
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1) jbrooksuk's answer, only one assignee.
2) Assignees are the person owning the changes, not the person reviewing.
3) There is no status associated with it, you can't say "checked" vs "unchecked", and certainly not unreviewed/accepted/rejected.
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When I say "illegal" here, read "undefined behavior." Since undefined behavior is so potentially disastrous, I consider it basically illegal.
Depends on what the goal is.

If your Mars colony is just a PR^H^H national pride game - you've got a handful of people, some high-school kids' plant experiment and the Little Box with the Antenna some TLA agency asked you to leave behind - then sure, it would be no more expensive than the SDI, the Libyan war or any other stupid boondoggle we can apparently afford.

If you want an actual self-sufficient colony, you've got a much bigger project. I don't think we know what is actually required to create a self-sustaining technical culture in space, because we've only really done it by accident and not in space. But this: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/insuffic... is as decent a hand-wavey starting point as any. And it is quite a bit more resource-intensive than a few kilopeople/few percent of organized human output.
AlphaGo is still a monstrosity in terms of the hardware it requires. Improvements in AlphaGo will be reflected in the fact that it or something like it will soon sit on a tiny little computer near you. See also: what happened after the chess world champion lost to a computer.
1) Like it or not PHP is still one of the top 5-10 languages used today.

2) The separation of concerns argument is completely invalid. They aren't separate concerns, they are separate languages.
A choice quote indeed, at the end of the article:

The firm does not have a strong track record with women either on its team or in its investment portfolio – of twelve partners, only one is female. When asked about the lack of diversity in December, Sequoia partner Michael Moritz – who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2013 – said he wasn’t prepared to lower his standards for women.

“Oh, we look very hard. In fact, we just hired a young woman from Stanford who’s every bit as good as her peers, and if there are more like her, we’ll hire them. What we’re not prepared to do is to lower our standards,” he said.

He continued: “If there are fabulously bright, driven women who are really interested in technology, very hungry to succeed, and can meet our performance standards, we’d hire them all day and night ... Our job is to field the very best team.”
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Yes, I've seen the explanations in the paper but it's still confusing.

2.2) New construction should depend on population growth not population levels. In table 1, the population growth rate varies between 20% and 100% per mission, so it's hard to see the ratio (new construction)/population staying constant.

3) This assumes that a) all oxygen is produced from the atmosphere, none from the soil, plants etc. b) there will be no oxygen demand from manufacturing etc. Both assumptions seem quite tenuous.
HDL is a very different paradigm than Javascript. You aren't writing a program. You are describing hardware which is why it is synthesized into gates and not compiled. They are apples and oranges. The closest analog I can think of is vector graphics vs raster graphics, i.e. Adobe Illustrator vs Photoshop. They're meant for different purposes.

Verilog/SystemVerilog are pretty great at what they do. People are pretty happy with them. The problem is those who get into FPGA (from CS background) expect to write "code" which isn't what you are doing in the hardware world.

There is also SystemC when you want to write test benches, or Bus-Functional-Models. Those is also used pretty extensively in the hardware flow.
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When AlphaGo does lose, it seems to happen when outright bugs cause it to make moves that are readily recognizable as mistakes. It doesn't seem to happen because it's not quite "smart" enough, or because its underlying algorithms are fundamentally flawed.

That's a big difference. Bugs can be identified and fixed. By the time AlphaGo faces another top professional (Ke Jie?) we can safely assume that whatever went wrong in Game 4 won't happen again.

Consider how much stronger the system has become in the few months since the match against Fan Hui. Another advance like that will place it far beyond the reach of anything humans will ever be able to compete with.
Your first two links are the same but your description for each is a bit different.
After many Medium posts of uninformed, not very insightful complaints about react and the state of JavaScript I am becoming inclined to just avoid Medium posts about JavaScript in general.

Medium has become the analog to Tumblr posts for opinionated engineers to whine about things that don't really impact development in ways that matter.

Really all this developer had to do was talk about Hyperscript in a positive way and I would have found this post interesting instead of rolling my eyes paragraph after paragraph. Oh poor you and your angle brackets, such a burden! Putting HTML directly into my JavaScript is awesome and I never want to go back to separate template files ever again. It's wonderful and results in great code that works well, is readable, and is easy to test.
> Most cyrillic-writing countries have both a "typewriter" and "phonetic" keyboard variants.

No, only Bulgaria uses the (insane, IMO) 'phonetic cyrillic qwerty' keyboard layout.
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I will never understand why latex devotees think everyone else should be really into typesetting as a hobby. It's like sneering at photographers who don't want to mix darkroom chemicals.
Better markup DSLs have already been written, which "mingle" better in code: HAML and Jade. Unfortunately reactjs-jade never gained any momentum it seems.

Hyperscript seems like a "reasonable alternative" to JSX. I won't say "better" because you're trading <angle brackets> for `h([ , ])` symbols that also contribute to line noise. And other common pain points like "you can't put an `if` block inside your markup" still persists.
Huh. Well, my only defense is that I would never even try to write JSX like that anyway - the actual JS in my JSX templates is basically just Array.map calls.
Various states have laws that amount to information about the candidates past or current conditions that should not be used for job decisions. HR is there to protect the company, so they often will tell people what they can consider. Think of it as the human equivalent of not being able to comment on crime data when selling a home.
I think this person is impressed that the founder of Tarsnap would respond to the question of a novice.
Exactly this. Can someone explain to me what do people see in JSX way of creating components? What happened to good ol' code vs template separation and what's now wrong with having two separate files - .html (or jade, or whatever) and .js?
You're absolutely right. I haven't really read through many of the DO use cases, so maybe I can start there. But, Microsoft also has a separate program for YC ($500K instead of $60k I believe for startups outside of YC). And I know Amazon and Google both have programs that are not exclusive to YC ($100k both). I'm very curious to see how hardware companies are using cloud, and if these incentives are even working.
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Hey – as a self-declared food-nerd I resent you comparing me with this self-important JS-luddite.
Fair enough. Thanks for the reply. My high school had a target shooting club that satisfied much of the curiosity for my friends and I at that age and taught us gun safety. Since moving to the US I've definitely noticed that some gun owners here are much more lax about safe/secure storage.