skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing a few advantages:

* Automatic ability to integrate into environments designed for humans. Think doorknobs, ladders etc.

* All the advantages of legged locomotion over wheels.

* Once you have legged locomotion down you might as well do it on two legs and add some arms, and voila you have a humanoid robots.
At the very least, I imagine standing for long periods of time burns more calories than sitting.
Useless clickbait. Nobody ever claimed that the one and only benefit of standing is to "burn excess calories".

Personally I had developed back pain from too much sitting. When I stand, I have better posture and so I don't get the pain.
I find it funny that he was basically bragging/venting about a lot of quasi-illegal things in order to seem cool in front of some college kids. This kind of stuff happens all the time between friends, but come on man, you don't need them to validate whatever insecurities you have about not having a cool/exciting job or whatever. You build rockets!
Google shares software network load balancer
> As easy to integrate as any analytics API

Seems equally easy to circumvent, if you are a malicious user. Just block the analytics from loading.
> Increased minimum wages should buy you better employees who are more productive

I disagree. I think an increased minimum wage, presumably above the market clearing price for a person with that set of skills, allows the manager to introduce non-economic factors into his decision making. This includes personal biases and encourages nepotism. It's also worth remembering that the minimum wage law had less than noble intentions

> The business-friendly National Center for Policy Analysis points out “the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, requiring ‘prevailing’ wages on federally assisted construction projects, was supported by the idea that it would keep contractors from using ‘cheap colored labor’ to underbid contractors using white labor.”

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2014/04/29/on-th...
HushMail... wow, that's some history right there. Anyways, they got in bed with feds, and that was pretty much the end of that..

http://www.wired.com/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai
not sure how many of those were acquired, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...
I don't get depressed because of the success per se. I get depressed because most of the ideas that get funding / traction / press are awful and unimaginative and only further drive people in tech to seek out money and fame as the end result rather than helping to make the world a better place.
I think the US government would make it very difficult for this company to operate in the US and sell their services there (maybe blocking transactions?).

But with bitcoins...
Thanks for sharing tue situation with us. I live just across the ditch in New Zealand and somehow managed to remain oblivious about it.

The developments makes me feel somewhat uneasy since NZ is highly reliant on hydroelectric power and we have been shutting down thermal plants because they are no longer required. Whilst there is excess capacity now we have had problems during the droughts in 2004 so the risk of another shortage is real.

Also, why is the internet affected? Is the communications cable laid next to the HVDC cable?
In Silicon Valley, a place he calls “obsessed with status and pedigree,” could someone’s ideas get traction when it wasn’t clear if the speaker was a state-school dropout or someone with a $100 million checkbook?

That sounds very different than the meritocracy narrative. It would explain why women and most minorities are so excluded.

I know the next sentence says he succeeded, but that's just one Twitter account and doesn't represent a broader trend.
> How can we know it does what it says it does?

How does being open source help with that?
Their product is advertising, their delivery mechanism is television content.
I have a desk that I can move between standing and sitting with the touch of a button.

I love the versatility -- I am certainly more alert while standing. That being said, I feel no more or less healthy, but the alertness impact is immediate and noticeable.
Afair Lavabit handed over the private key. It was shut down subsequently to avoid user compromise.
Sure. I think what I meant to say is, this isn't my area of expertise and I don't have the information available to judge what is correct or not. I am discussing the concepts on a broader level.
Teledildonics
Analyzing Stocks with Linear Regression
How Pirates and Hackers Worked Together to Steal Millions of Dollars in Diamonds
It's quite likely the latter, who in the world can / will pay more than Google?
The new government will also be corrupt. And they have agreed to repay questionable old debt by taking on new loans, and will probably receive kickbacks from the vultures.
I think your do-while suggestion is kind of cool, but I think that this program may do different things under a current C compiler and one which includes the feature you suggested.

int x = something();
do {
const int x = somethingElse();
...
} while (x != 42);
There is obviously inherited factors for all basic cognitive abilities. Humans varies.

But cultural factors, bias, training is what start to have impact at birth, what we can leverage. The scientific consensus seems to be that culture/education/context/opportunity is the major factor when concerned with two standard persons (average cognitive abilities at birth).

I didn't personally read any cognitive science studies that validated the existence of some people having superior cognitive powers. It appears to be quite grouped at the center, with outliers with very specific talents ("savants").

So let's use the Ockham razor and go for the most likely explanation when learners struggle with any subject: they are not given the right learning process.

It has most probably nothing to do with how their brain is wired, because statically, it is most probably very similar to any other brain picked randomly. (As is our genetic code apparently. Two random humans on earth have a very closely similar genetic code, more than was expected at first).

For example I have a deplorable sequential memory: I can't really well memorize songs or karate katas. I blame my total lack of musical and dance education. I never really trained for memorizing sequences… Of course I could point to some innate genetic flaw, but this seems like a less likely explanation given what we know about the brain plasticity.
RTFA

>The extra calories you burn from standing over sitting for a day are barely enough to cover a couple of banana chips.

>"But you're going to burn more calories standing than sitting. I know it's not a tremendous amount." Still, he says, "those calories every day over many years will add up."
In Windows NT 4.0 in 1999 they found this when Microsoft accidentally released the debug symbols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Who you believe is up to you.
Really depends on what you click on. Twitter and Facebook both have most clicks keep you in the context of the feed with modals or in place expansions. But every now and then some action they haven't fully accounted for takes you to a different page and then bam you've lost your scroll history.

But regardless of what they do, a lot of our content in our feeds doesn't lend itself well all the time to modals and expansions. People want to click into something and check out their contacts history, do some kind of work, etc. and still get back to the feed at the right place.
Well, the problem is on annotating types, when you only actually care about behavior.

Duck typing isn't a bad thing. In fact, it's great. You just need to annotate the ducks instead of the types. For a great example of how to do it, look at Haskell's type classes.

(In fact, Haskell's easyness of integrating generic code is visible even to a beginner, but I never notice that this is because the entire language is based on duck typing.)
So so many words to say nothing but "someone in the tech industry has a sense of humor, was anonymous for a while"

> “But there just aren’t that many people who are in the industry who will respond to you if you have 500 followers, you know? They’re just like, ‘Who the f--- are you? Leave me alone.’ ”

Ugh, Twitter.
They may have glanced at it and decided that it was highly likely to be wrong, and therefore not worth anybody's time to pin down exactly how it was wrong.
It used to work with Jabber, it doesn't work now.
> The increase in development speed is driven by the innovation of re-using existing blocks. Basically, developers don’t need to reinvent the wheel every day.

In the 60's, when TTL integrated logic chips appeared, the digital hardware world took off. Anyone could design at a higher level of abstraction. For many years people said that there needs to be a TTL of software. It seems we might be getting there.
Please make the page readable on mobile. The 4 columns of text overlap and look entangled.
My grandmother ran a store and was on her feet all day long. She had really bad vericose veins when she was older. That is a real problem with standing.
A wonderful little comment.
His advice became a hit for one reason, his handle. Far too often is the name of something downplayed as not being important, but it is. Its catchy, a gimmick, and people love it.
There's a huge difference between being "honest" and "sincere". This buddy and Trump for the matter, they both sound sincere when they voice their opinions but that doesn't mean necessarily that they're being honest or speaking the truth.

They're just being frank and open about the train thoughts in their head but this doesn't mean that these thoughts are valid, true or sound.
Very true. The comments I have made in this thread already feel to me as they've crossed a line I shouldn't cross, and I haven't said anything all that meaningful or impactful. That's the fear of being truthful at all.
By training people, of course. If you want good welders, you need to set up a welding training course, hire people who can't weld, and teach them to weld properly. There's a corporate mindset that companies should have a "flexible workforce" available to them. This means expecting people to show up with the desired skills at some arbitrary location for a job with no job security and pays slightly above the minimum wage.
Let me ask your own question back at you: what's there to understand with WordSpec or Cucumber-style tests? It's just a tool, you just use it as documented... just like you don't need to even look at JUnit's implementation in order to use it.

Yes, when a WordSpec test starts failing, junior devs know how to fix it without my assistance. I haven't noticed any difference in dev effectiveness between ScalaTest and JUnit.
Obligatory "correlation != causation"
The quote itself isn't, but just posting a link to the Wikipedia article without explaining how they think it applies here is pretty much a wholesale rejection of statistics.
The US had a lot of debt to "Vulture Funds" after the Revolution. The US paid.

Like the US, Argentina's decision to pay its debts will enable the country to borrow, which is useful if you want to invest in stuff which will improve your economy.
He might've developed a sensitivity to it in the meantime; that sort of thing happens.
And this is why we have the term mens rea.

Obviously there is much more to conspiracy than "talking about a murder," or Stephen King would be locked up in Supermax. It's as if Comey is asking for the right to review every murder mystery or horror novel before it hits the shelves. If he wants his job to be that easy, he should send his resume to North Korea.
I would suspect that many of the grunt Javascript jobs would have been grunt VB6 jobs 20 years ago.
I think you mean tencent/ wechat
First time I've seen a headline mention Alphabet, and it feels forced -- like either Alphabet PR demanded it in exchange for the exclusive, or NYT editors felt they couldn't get through the lede without referencing the connection to Google.
Are guaranteed livable wages a relatively modern phenomenon?
Are you saying people who designed the secure chip card have no say in the terminal technology. I don't know the details but I suspect that the terminal also needs to have sufficient security mechanism isn't it ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe a product is something produced. They produce a search engine, they serve ads on the search engine. Advertisers produce the ads. The ads are a product other than googles unless it is a Google ad.
I can verify that's not true for electricians, at least in WI -- father is an electrician. For his generation, it was true. For the current generation, it's no longer the case.
I could imagine Mark Zuckerberg yelling into a phone that "Privacy is NOT A PRODUCT !!!".
In the consumer space, which is what we're all talking about, right? Unless by 'robots' you mean giant arms that put cars together, but that's 1970s technology there.

Gates/Jobs couldn't sell you a basement mainframe with a house full of terminals, and for good reason.
It used to be on someone's blog. It got moved to AoOO for posterity, I guess.
SimpleVisor: a simple, Intel x64 Windows-specific hypervisor
How about the big and worth billions companys pay for it, it is their share for the future at last? Just talking out of my ass here, but the american educational system is flawed big time in that regard, let education and teaching be free, everybody profits in the end.
But then again, a well schooled and open minded citizen is not needed in the big scheme of american things. Who will fight their wars then??? /s
> your "male fragility".

Bullying someone for an opinion you don't agree with? Classy.
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I think it's better to invest in figuring out ergonomics of your sitting desk, chair, arm rests, wrists, keyboard position, monitor position, etc etc. Combine with regular breaks, walks outside, etc and you're getting improved energy and less burnout. Ideally your employer invests in a good office as well, with excellent ventilation, plants abound, and lots of light -- but this is rare.
You're not wrong, but I don't think organic shopping with other strangers is under any threat (currently). For example, I just sold my PS4 to some stranger for cash. I would be intrigued if a company could beat them there because that would likely be the final blow.
Not per second - I think you misread my post.
"Natural names allow every reader, novice or expert, to reason by analogy. Reasoning by analogy is a powerful tool, especially when our software models and interacts with the real world. Synthetic names defy analogies,
and prevent novices from understanding even the basic intent behind your
code. Use them sparingly."

I'm not sure that I completely agree, but this is a great conversation to be having!
yeah but, airing your dirty laundry in front of an audience? i and most non-sociopaths wouldn't even do that on an inter-personal level, i don't know why people here are lamenting that you shouldn't do it for business relationships.
> Natural names allow every reader, novice or expert, to reason by analogy.
> Reasoning by analogy is a powerful tool, especially when our software
> models and interacts with the real world. Synthetic names defy analogies,
> and prevent novices from understanding even the basic intent behind your
> code. Use them sparingly.

I'm not sure that I completely agree, but this is a great conversation to be having!
Are they more competent than you?

If they are not, you have little to worry about. If they are, they deserve your job.
we are going to measure who is fastest. In the one corner: Human, all of 175 pounds of extremely well trained runner. And in the other corner, a Formula 1 racecar with a remote control running down a straight track.

Over what distance? I think it's generally accepted that a human sprinter is faster than the car if the race is short enough.

I can't find an example of human vs F1, but here's a fast sprinter vs a standard car:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/news/a21802/olympic-...

And here's a slow sprinter versus a much faster Indy car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seNRu5JjpDM

The obvious comparison would be to a "blitz game" in Go, where I think that humans still have the advantage. Would a shorter (or longer) time be somehow inherently "fairer"?
source announcement discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11300406
I don't.
Grey on white ... and no(!) margin left.
sigh
Nomad has a "raw" execution mode where you can run arbitrary commands in your cluster (it can schedule more than just containers). Using this, you could run the Docker command you want with the right flags. This might include setting --volumes-from or whatever. But you shouldn't really be using persistent volumes on a node level (since the whole point is to be resilient to node deaths), so if you can hook it up to some networked and redundant storage you can access it anywhere in your cluster. In principle you can already do this, by making a volume plugin. I'm just interested to see how Nomad will deal with volume plugins.
Nuclear power stations require a high initial capital input. AFAIK nothing of this sort has been happening since Chavis became president. They have essentially starved their own energy industry of necessary reinvestments to get a quick buck.

This is of course, ignoring the risks that the government claiming that they will take over the nuclear plant and put a high school dropout in charge.
> The app is a good example that even if they government forces US companies like Apple to create backdoors, users will still have communication options that the government can't crack. If you're interested, it's now available for Android, iOS or the web.

That is immensely misleading. If some adversary has a backdoor in the OS/platform, then in many cases no amount of encryption will save you.
Inside Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Fight With the FBI
#2 is off. The article says "the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that we don't need many more software developers" but the link provided (https://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/we-need-to-prod...) says we need loads of software developers, but not as many programmers.

From reading the BLS descriptions and some discussions on the programmers stack exchange I'd say programmers as far as the way BLS describes it are essentially intern/entry level software devs. They need someone else to give them direction. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/4951/what-are...
As far as I can tell, the other sites listed implement only a subset of reddit's functionality.
I agree with the comparisons given here until we get to Facebook. I think the main difference here is the increased saturation the internet in developed countries and the market penetration FB has obtained. Facebook has achieved 1.6 billion users a month compared to Myspace's 76 million at its peak. It will be hard to supplant such a behemoth that's willing to absorb the obvious threats it perceives (e.g. Instagram and WhatsApp).
keep people poor so poor people can afford to eat, got it
BigDog uses hydraulic actuators, and is powered by a two stroke gasoline engine. Not so good indoors.

Stationary industrial robots, the only real success story of robotics, have great speed and power, at the cost of incredible weight and power consumption.

Consider the Motoman EPX2050.

http://www.motoman.com/datasheets/EPX2050.pdf

15Kg payload, pretty okay, (Try holding a 15Kg weight at arm-length) but it masses 540Kg and has a rated power consumption of 5KW. (Three-phase power, of course) And that's just the arm! The NX100-FM controller it's specced with masses another 120Kg.

Mobile robots hate weight. Cutting weight forces a lot of other compromises, in speed, power, and cost.
Search is not a product, users are. The product they sell is searcher eyeballs. That product is sold to advertisers.
Why would this be on the students?
The learning experience for Clojure is superb. Coming from C/Python languages, it really put things in perspective to learn to think more in terms of composing primitives than wrangling syntax.

OT:
Does anyone know of other projects in the spirit of Pixie? To be more specific I'm looking for existing work on a clojure->rust project, would contribute or start one if none exist.
Sorry for the offtopic!
Ya, I'm a libertarian, and I find myself flinching a bit while reading Atlas Shrugged.

What's even funnier, though, is seeing real life unfold in front of my eyes that matches it, almost so perfectly that you'd think the politicians were following it as a script!
This is why I usually Ctrl + click to open link in new tab when scrolling through an infinite scroll.
Un-entangled :)
Wildcard 2.0 shutting down
There are probably a lot of good answers to this question, but why not just use velcro? If velcro isn't strong enough then I'm sure that designing better velcro would be easier than designing this.
Except... They can demand injection of backdoored code.
Yes, I've been following that! GitLab Deploy is also looking like it could be exciting. I was disappointed though that the merge request that added Kubernetes support to the GitLab CI MultiRunner was rejected. Right now Jenkins is usually the default choice for our customers that use OpenShift, but being able to dynamically provision testing containers would be an amazing feature.
That is actually a great idea.
Students will always be younger than you. The foreign aspect doesn't change it.

If we had solid immigration programs that gave an easier route to permanent residency and didn't make work visa applicants indentured to their employer foreign engineers would be demanding higher salaries and the wage gape would reduce. The current system makes it easy to kick out foreigners so they know their savings are going back to their home country so they don't care as much. Also, they can't play the job market because their visa status is largely tied to their employer.

If we introduced some simple policy reform (and overhauled the H-1 program) the whole foreigners cutting wages issue would go away.
The current min wage is no wage for an adult. It's untenable. Admittedly, I imagine it will benefit modestly educated Americans (including white, black and Latin) but will likely be detrimental to low skills (minimum education) immigrants (and some locals) as there is no price advantage to hiring them, given their deficits.
What search features are you missing?
Surely a good book. But it would be nice to see the complete TOC... Leanpub says it's 25% complete?!
Data is the remaining elephant in the room. Containers have made code and config ephemeral and trivially replicable. But then you get to data, which represents billions of actually valuable magnetized bits of platter or flipped nand gates or whatever. It's like butterflies and battleships.

One approach, as another reply suggested, is to mount external volumes into the container, i.e. a persistent disk on GCP or Amazon EBS (or even a GCS or S3 bucket). This works, but of course the container, hosting the software that makes the data meaningful, is now bolted to a physical thing. It can no longer be moved, auto-scaled, etc. It can be monitored and restarted and you still get all the benefits of dependency isolation and repeatability. I'd still much, much rather run a DB this way than installing it directly onto an instance, but there's no use pretending that we can do with data what we can now do with code and config. It's still a cement block chained to our ankles.
Moderation in all things.
Why I love the new Instagram feed [Medium Blog]
Taxes (in Sweden at least). Works pretty well.