skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Soghoian isn’t optimistic. “The FCC is sort of caught between a rock and a hard place,” he says. “They don’t want to do anything to stop the devices that law enforcement is using from working. But if the law enforcement devices work, the criminals’ devices work, too.”

It's telling that law enforcement priorities work out this way. They're not terribly concerned about what hijinks highly-educated hackers get up to or the occasional tech-savvy stalker, they would much rather be able to nab the untrained- the working-class dropouts who own a cellphone but don't know how it works- as quickly and efficiently as possible. Nevermind that the average citizen is much more concerned about identity theft than someone smoking weed on a street corner.
As a human, I'm pulling for the human. As a computer programmer, I'm pulling for the human. As a romantic, I'm pulling for the human. As a fan of science fiction, I'm pulling for the human. To me it will matter even he can pull off a 3-2 loss over a 4-1 loss.
Not specifically "software" but this piece of Haskell code is the most beautiful code I've ever seen:

quicksort [] = []
quicksort (x:xs) = quicksort [y|y<-xs,y<x] ++ [x] ++ quicksort [y|y<-xs,y>=x]
Imagine the submitted article had video.

Do you think we wouldn't have people saying things like "there seems to be something off about this. We still only have one video, and it doesn't show what happened before the guard maced the homeless person. Maybe they were being aggressive?"

We see similar comments in every thread where someone alleges injustice. (Often for good reasons - we don't want an uninformed pile on based on one person's account.)
I hardly think that vaporware constitutes a valid counterpoint.
If it really was about money, I don't think he would have spent so much of his life dedicated to Go ...
> Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

This was written in 1993 so 30 years makes it 2023. That may not be too far off.
Tips for debugging and writing good ML
This Beauty! I mean that in terms of code aesthetics.
http://www.ioccc.org/2011/eastman/eastman.c

(winner of the 20th International Obfuscated C Code Contest)

Nevertheless once you run it, you will have a sweet surprise.
The part about exit values is a bit misleading. You don't include anything about liquidity preference or anything else that would be taken off the top before common shares are bought out.

And if shares are diluted or liquidity preference is added later after some fundraising, do you always go back and share all of the specifics of all of that with all employees? Kudos if you do, but if not it kinda renders the initial transparency less impressive or useful.

I've generally found the advice here [0] to be a much better proxy for hypothetical exit calculations.

One other thought: isn't it odd that you're willing to provide a distribution over salaries to argue for the salary you offered, but you just pull a number out of thin air for the possible exit?

Why not provide a distribution on exit values (and evidence for why you believe it), and then show the expected value along with risk, under that distribution.

At the very least, this way if your distribution over exit values isn't a severe power law drop off with uncomfortably low expected value, the candidate knows you're blowing smoke and can walk away.

Instead, you deny the premise that an expected value calculation is useful towards the end. Wow, that is absolutely walk-away-immediately stuff right there. "The distribution over outcomes is unknown..." Right, so of course you should make zero attempt to gather data about it and model it. That's one of the most bananas things I've ever seen, and it's right in the offer letter!

Picking a number like 77MM is almost like a dirty in-app purchase priming trick or something. (And no, it's not the least bit redeeming to add a tiny line at the bottom of the chart stating that it's just an example and not a forecast.)

If you personally, actually believe no one should engage in an expected value calculation regarding their start-up compensation package, then why not simply omit any slides about what the options will be worth? The 77MM thing is a red herring, and surely you would agree that in the absence of enough evidence to put together a crude approximate distribution, it can hardly been viewed as a better alternative to just make shit up out of thin air ...

Pointing out the 77MM example is basically saying "Hey, look at this number! It might not be related to your shares or your life at all, but look at it anyway!" On the other hand, if you believe that 77MM is "reasonable" in some sense, well then you are absolutely talking about some approximate notion of a prior distribution on your exit value.

[0] http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/11/how-much-are-startup-...
I think there is one simple answer to this:::

Many people go their whole lives without questioning themselves "Maybe there is a better/different way/thing?"

Example: Php developers, sports, music, religion, mac (why is mac so popular in NL???) etc.
IMHO in the UK teeth straighting is perceived as extremely vain. So in the UK straighting teeth is more a taboo than not.
Iris: fastest go web framework
Voila.
This and securing food. Both being delayed or sublimed.
Which is odd, because it doesn't install without permission.

Even if you can't see how to avoid installing it (ie you can't read or miss the small type that says "Click here to change upgrade schedule or cancel scheduled upgrade") then you can simply decline the EULA.

However, the level of technical expertise on reddit is noticeably lower than reddit users think, so it may be a much more common problem: PEBCAK ;-)
I started with C (and got pretty good at writing some cryptography in it), then studied Perl (a bit), then Python (2.6 to 2.7), then PHP (5.4 to 5.6) and now I'm totally into JavaScript and CoffeeScript.

Am I a n00b?

Just don't pay any attention to some pseudo-elitist old farts that try to tell you what's Ъ (true) and what's !Ъ (false). Do the things you, not others, consider awesome in the first place. Don't catch along with the progress, move the progress yourself.

And you'll just watch and laugh how others will try to build an app in 2 months in "manly" C that you can build in a week in "unmanly" Python or CoffeeScript.

Not everyone must target microcontrollers, cryptography or system kernels these days. In other fields, C appears as a pretty inefficient approach. Even console, let alone GUI, text editors are built in Node.js now - see Slap and Atom for an example. Are Slap or Atom developers n00bs? I don't think so.
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The only equipment here that might be an issue for most people is the laser scanner. I'm not sure where I'd find one of those outside a university that's accurate enough. The Makerbot one is pretty shitty.

Everything else could be pretty easily sourced. Shapeways can 3d print with very good resolution. You can buy a vacuum forming machine from Ebay for 100 bucks for exactly this purpose, or make one yourself with a heat gun, wood, and a shop vac (there's tutorials on youtube).
Cool, that's an idea I'd had in the back of my head for some time too. Good to see someone's gone ahead and done it, and proven the concept. :D
Media mogul plans to live forever by uploading his personality to a robot
Private Tracker Member Data Leaked via BBCode Exploit
This film has been out for some time. I saw it a while back. The ideas sounded interesting but most of that film sounded infeasible and it would have been interesting to hear from the business/production side instead of Jodorowsky talking about all his crazy ideas for the film.
Check for the Beautiful Code book. It has some examples in it.
and http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/parsing_the_solved_prob...
Can we see a transmission and what "Background images that matches your own type" means?
An introduction to LLVM in Go
Why Is Smart Beta greater than Alpha
We have two offices, one in Palo Alto, one in SOMA. Our product teams are based in Palo Alto, but client services, customer success, etc are based in SOMA. We want a lot of cross-pollination between those groups and our product teams, so we commute to the main office once a week. It works pretty well – sometimes talking face to face is more effective than through Hangouts or Slack.

Obvious disclaimer: engineering at eShares.
Harmful software, and less harmful alternatives
The way ruby uses instance_eval. I didn't pay attention at first, I just enjoyed the beautiful interfaces. But when I saw how they use instance_eval behind the scene and how simple is, I was in awe.
I'm not sure an IMSI catcher would be needed. Cellphone companies CAN triangulate his location for E911 purposes with reasonable accuracy. All LEO would need is to put the apartment block under surveillance for a few days and figure out which resident is home when the laptop connects to the network. This is even easier if he moved around with his laptop.
AlphaGo's mid game today was really strange. Many experts have praised Lee's move 78 as a "divine-inspired" move.

Add to that the moves where AlphaGo basically threw away stones by adding to formations that would be removed from the table. Even I, a complete, lousy, amateur, could see that they were a mistake.
Agreed. I personally would prefer if offers had, as a standard, 2 weeks or 4 weeks severance. If the company is not hiring a high percentage of people it needs to fire or lay off, it's not a problem. This of course provides more security to their employees.

All the tech companies are talking about a shortage of skilled workers, but outside of management the terms of employment are still biased toward minimizing the company's potential costs. If there were a real shortage we'd see contractual changes.
Given the 78 was a "divine inspired" move, and Demis tweeted that AlphaGo's mistake was move 79, my guess is that Black 78 was not in AlphaGo's search tree at all. It had pruned that move as being too "unlike what a human pro would do", and had not considered play beyond that point. Then it had to suddenly backtrack, drop its entire search tree, and start rebuilding from scratch. It took only a couple minutes to do so, but that's still not enough time to build up the depth and breadth of a tree that it had been constructing up to that point in the game. So it ended up playing a suboptimal move simply because Lee Sedol played a move that was simultaneously brilliant/strong and novel/unexpected, and it had to respond somehow.
Taulman Nylon 680 FDA would probably be suitable too, for anyone using a more generic 3D printer. :)
My favorite (obliquely) anti-Vanguard argument is the "research" that goes around every few years purporting to demonstrate that a few companies "control everything":

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/22/the-147-co...
Out of sheer curiosity: Does anyone know/suspect if Netflix is actually using techniques in addition to blocking IPs of known proxy/vpn/unblocking services? Because I would imagine that is a bit like fighting a hydra, very labor- and cost-intensive, yet they are getting excellent results (apparently, still, the sample of people who complain and thus get media coverage is pretty biased).

Is anyone with a 'homegrown' vpn tunnel experiencing issues? I could also think of a solution involving cookies/fingerprinting that detects if someone's geolocation moves around quicker and more often than is physically possible.

I'm sure the technology is under tight wraps, and I'm also sure that other companies will be dying to license this from Netflix if they get it right, even if it's just a lengthy list of IPs (e.g. the BBC for iPlayer).
Quick fix: open a command prompt as admin (Ctrl+Shift+Enter) and type:

net stop "windows update"

That will stop it until you reboot....

After that, uninstall KB3035583 (choose to reboot later when prompted), then run the Disk Clean up tool and select the Clean up system files after the initial scan. Select the Temporary installation files for deletion. Longer version: http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/prevent-windows-10-upgrad...

If you are up to editing the registry via regedit, the key is:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
DWORD value: DisableOSUpgrade = 1

See: How to manage Windows 10 notification and upgrade options
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351
I'm in Norway, I never have to wait more than a few days unless I ask for an appointment at a specific time of day.

Last time I went to my dentist it was because of a cracked filling (old amalgam), not in any pain, just a bit sensitive so not urgent, waited about four days.

Dentist declared that a crown was necessary but they didn't have a slot just then so would it be alright if I came back after lunch to have it fitted. The crown is manufactured on site using three d imaging and a fancy milling machine.
No more risky than changing your car's brake fluid (risk of death if you do it wrong). A lot of services that we have been conditioned into thinking need to be administered by specialized professionals with N years of expensive schooling, can probably be DYI'ed with access to the right equipment / tools.
Less demanding??? I would gladly trade meetings time for hardcore programming work, anytime.
While I don't have a solution that lets you reassign the CSS root to other elements, I do use a plugin in my own work that lets me use scoped styles, as well as element queries. It solves a lot of problems.

You should check it out, the learning curve is small, and it is even supported well in unterbrowsers: http://elementqueries.com
If he had made a dumb move in response then we would be talking about how he made a really really dumb move, that even an amateur could have seen.

The moves made by AlphaGo there were very bad.
Mining a few consecutive blocks isn't enough. All it itakes is one known block to cancel all the witheld blocks. Additionally, the attacks you can perform by extending a known chain a few more 'fake' blocks are minimal.
Initially, a power inverter/car setup. If the lifestyle suits me I'll buy one of the quieter honda generators.

Batteries seem adequate for working during day hikes.
German state elections: Success for the right-wing party
Former neuroscientist here. Please take this article's pop science proclamations with a grain of salt.

1) "Additionally, we process words much faster than we process colors". Wrong, I'm pretty sure areas V2/V4 received information much faster than the visual word form area, especially given that it may require a saccade to take in a long word. Not sure where this claim comes from.

2) "...we instinctively jump to luminous or high contrast colors with our eyes, interrupting reading a program in a more standard way..." Half-true. There are well-known pop-out effects, but it's unlikely we read programs the way we read prose, so it's not clear it's an interruption at all.

3) "When syntax highlighting is on you also are spending cognitive energy (which is finite) on item-specific processing rather than organizational processing." No evidence offered. I could just as easily make the counter-claim, that syntax highlighting frees up the brain to more organizational processing, since there's less load necessary to figure out item-specific properties. Not necessarily wrong, but needs to be tested.

I think the biggest mistakes in the article (and perhaps what he got from talking with his friend in the cognitive sciences) are equating prose with code, and not accounting for novelty effects. I have no doubt that coloring random words in prose disrupts things, since it's novel and captures attention. But it doesn't automatically follow that people experienced with syntax highlighting experience similar effects.

It would be cool to see more actual research in this area.
I believe this often has more so to do with the hardware/os. You can also alter delay of audio/video in OBS studio to sync things up better. I regularly stream and the only lag I have is due to a weird setup I have.
There's 32-bit ARMv8 - AArch32. This is running in ARMv7 mode.
This article struck quite a chord with me. I spent most of my childhood playing (but rarely finishing) a lot of RPGs and action-adventure games (chief among them Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, etc. etc.)

I've been going back over the past couple years and replaying them. For a couple of reasons: there's the sense of closure of having finished something I started a dozen years ago (shouts to Turtle Rock, which Elementary School Justin did not have the fortitude to complete). More, though, I just wanted to see if these games which I spent so much energy and imagination on a while back were worth the investment.

I've been struck by how mature and powerful these games were in their own right:

- Earthbound is this dense, bizarre paean to Western culture also wrapped up in this story about losing your innocence and the creepiest final boss fight ever;

- Link's Awakening forces players to answer the difficult question of why you'd want to wake up from an amazing dream;

- Even Final Fantasy has a narrative device that I've yet to see replicated since, of having the main villain straight up win, and then forcing you to deal with the fallout and rebuild from the literal dust and ashes.

These things are for sure enhanced by nostalgia, and a common argument against these games are that you're looking at them "through rose-tinted glasses" (the implication being that their luster is gone without my memories of playing them as a child). I'm not so sure that's true -- but, more importantly, I'm not so sure that matters.

In a lot of ways, it feels like having gotten coffee with an old friend after a long time apart, and remarking on how both you and they have matured so much. If you have fond memories of video games, I recommend you blow the dust off of the proverbial cartridge and treat yourself.
"I'm going somewhere else"

= popcorn time.

Not sure how that helps Netflix or the media industry tho.
Doom.

At the time I had never heard of Binary Space Partition Trees. Beautiful concept for a monument of a game.

http://fabiensanglard.net/doomIphone/doomClassicRenderer.php
Every so often I find myself searching for a BBS to telnet into to play a few hours of Galactic Empire or Trade Wars. Loved playing those games as a kid, and definitely eeriely drawn back to them from time to time.
What It Feels Like to Be an Octopus
Compilers are complicated things -- too much to attempt to cover in a single quarter.

There is a followup course, CS243 which focuses on the optimization aspect.

http://suif.stanford.edu/~courses/cs243/
Do they have a document talking about what they did to achieve those speeds?
FMOD [1] sound framework provides one of the best C API's in industry : stable, works everywhere, clean and beautiful. Please find API example at [2].

[1]: http://www.fmod.org/
[2]: https://github.com/fmod/ue4integration/blob/master/FMODStudi...
"Another World" There's a very interesting write up here: http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/

The game itself has an amazingly beautiful vector style. The engine is remarkably tiny, 20kb. I decided years ago if I ever find time to build a game I'd like to architect it like "Another World".
Well, for me at least it is because I depend on Windows machines to do my day to day work. Any time I spend dicking around with an OS that's actively trying to screw me (I can't run the software I need in win 10) is time I'm not earning money to pay bills.
Well, in any case, I've never heard of a government software project being overdue because their proxy cache contained spaghetti code :)

To be clear, I'm not trying to denigrate this project in any way. I'm just saying that the complexity of the problem should be taken into account here.
As the author himself points out (though after making an argument that implies the opposite), code is not prose. Prose has its own base elements, such as phrases and titles, and it does use visual cues to point them out, such as capitalization and larger fonts.
DST is about the compromise between two reasonable scheduling systems: in one you use a 24 hour day with a clear landmark (noon, when the sun is highest in the sky). In another model you use sunrise as a natural beginning to the day.

Sunrise is a bit complicated, and in winter it compresses the afternoon more than many people would like. Also hard to build the necessary clocks. So we simplify things and make a compromise between the two systems, and we get DST.
People in the 1950-60s said The Beatles and Bob Dylan were trash. It's called change, get used to it.

Pretty confident Kim Kardashian will be considered an icon some day in the same sense as Marilyn Monroe, Madonna or whoever else was considered crap during their peak by the old guard. Heck, Donald Trump shows she might even be President if she wants to.
Needs more Jello
There are some dentists out there that are still like this.

Last fall I finally went in for a cleaning after several years of putting it off. At one point I asked the dentist about teeth whitening and he told me that they can do it, but the over-the-counter whitening strips work fine and I should save my money.

Refreshing to hear an answer like that.
Yes, the starting kernel of its learning this time was a collection of human games. This has caused the Policy Network (which says "given this board state, these moves are worth investigating in more detail") to be biased towards more human-like moves.

But they're already working on a new version of AlphaGo which isn't trained on any human data at all. It starts by making truly random moves and improves from there. This will require much more processing time and probably an order of magnitude more "self-play", but it will probably result in truly novel strategies that aren't part of the current human metagame.
Nobody mentioned git?
Kay's power tools
Netflix may well win this, but then everyone just goes pirate and Netflix loses masses of subscribers. These companies just do not get it....
You are ignoring that the 12 core Xeons are still relatively cheap at $2000 which means it's still affordable to just buy four of them and put them into a single server.
Wow! Incredible! Now we know that they have a chance against each other. I would say that this was a very major point... otherwise we wouldn't know whether AlphaGo's powers have progressed to the point where no one can ever beat it. Now I take what Ke Je said much more seriously: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1219091...
Internet-based companies want borders when it benefits them, and want the network to be without borders or geographic locations when that benefits them.
13" Late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro. 2.4 GHZ,i5,8GB.

Haven't had any major (or even minor) issues. I've enjoyed using the trackpad (and learning about it, sometimes by accident!) and the backlit keyboard is nice when I would use it outside in the evening. Light and very portable, far more comfortable on my lap than my previous machines. Only real complaint is the lack of a cd/dvd drive.
Maybe it has never been in a losing position before?
I up-voted your comment but to add a little more. Not only is the title very misleading, even the first paragraph is somewhat misleading. It isn't until well into the article that you actually get the details of the study result that the title is referencing. So for up to 10 days those who only got 6 hours of sleep per night were "holding their own" and not reporting particularly high levels of sleepiness. It was after 10 days of 6 hours a night that their cognitive performance fell off to resemble that of someone missing 2 nights in a row.
I'm not imposing anything on anyone. I'm expressing my vote to the contrary of someone saying "people prefer it that way".

If you are sure a majority of people dislike it, then go and get it changed. Best of luck to you.

And saying I am "supposing that everyone else..." is a straw man. I specifically noted that other people feel the opposite to me. Back off, man :)