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I think the best thing to focus on is how much value and happiness you can bring to others. Not something self-centered such as expertise that perhaps nobody else would even notice because it's meta. Expertise should not the end goal, but instead a facilitator to value creation.

For example, if you're making a song, your thinking should be "I can't wait until people hear this song!", not "I can't wait to slightly increase my skill".
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From what I've seen, there's one division between programmers that's hard to overcome. Some see it as a tool to get certain results for a job. Some of them are bad, some of them are lazy, but most of them are good enough to get to their objective.

Others see programming more as an art. They take care to make the code not only efficient but also elegant. They'll read up on new and interesting algorithms and incorporate them in novel ways. They might often be behind deadlines, but when they are, they create things like GNU Hurd that inspire a lot of interest and lead to interesting results, maybe even teach people a few things. Their code is interesting to read. They tend to write the libraries that the first group uses.

Both groups contribute a lot, but it's not easy to get them to understand that about each other.
It really isn't surprising. It started with the wind up to the turn over of Hong Kong and only continued after that. I wanted to move to Vancouver, but lack of tech scene (Dick Hardt doesn't count) played a big role during the late 90s/2000s.

I continued to visit for various reasons at lead a week a year until just a few years ago. What started in the late 90s only continued.
This company was past the point of no return as far as convincing goes. The founding CTO quit for the same reasons. We built an amazing product that nobody wanted. The tech was impressive, but customers don't see the tech, they see (or don't see) how it helps them solve a problem. When the sales didn't come in, the investors wanted answers, and the CEO blamed tech for building a bad product when really it was lack of product market fit. The founding CTO tried to convince the CEO that it was bad marketing and a flawed product vision that was to blame, to no avail. When he quit, I was promoted to director of engineering, but I didn't have any more success convincing them. Engineering was buried under a boatload of feature requests that sales anecdotally heard customers wanted.
The burden of proof that facebook can see months into the future would be on the poster. No evidence is needed to simply disbelieve this.
I don't think he is talking about the "inability to tinker" but about the "necessarily to tinker". Most Android phones a loaded with bloated crab ware.

I have an Android and I made sure before I bought it that it runs Cyanogenmod. I don't like the locked-in systems from Apple but sometimes I miss something that runs out of the box.
^^ Nice, sane point.
The simplest defeat is to require the key ping round trip to complete in N microseconds, where N is sufficiently low. Researchers have demostrated that this is a practical solution.
The only reason this wasn't happening in the days of J Edgar Hoover, was due to technological limitations.

Echelon dates to the late 1960s.

COINTELPRO went on for two decades starting from 1956.

Privacy and rights abuses have been rampant among the three letter agencies since their originations. Today, they can scale the privacy invasion. That's the sole difference from their side. Previously they'd just violate someone's rights and go about their business, good luck proving it or fighting it at a small scale as a specific target of one of these agencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
I've never used this type of key, and I don't known if I would have noticed the flaw. But, um, nineteen different manufacturers gave drivers devices that try their best to unlock the car every minute of every day, and not one engineer asked what could possibly go wrong?
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Well, I suppose this was the only possible outcome. It took you a day to corrupt the chatbot, internet.

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712810635369656320
Sydney would be similar. Median house price is over $1M - and that is for something that needs to be demolished.
The only thing that counts is money...... keep selling. Sell it all. Sell sell sell.

Who gives a toss for community or society or cohesion. Sell everything.

As long as property sellers can take all that lovely cash and buy more and bigger homes then what else matters?

Ordinary middle class people and the young - make em rent! Why the sense of entitlement that people should be able to afford to buy a home, what are you a communist? Whose country do you think this is?

In fact put one giant price on the whole of Vancouver and sell it ALL in one big job lot.
9 months ago for Portuguese, the amount of effort required for building a language model is too great.

Voice recognition was supposed to have been a cherry-on-top, but ended up taking out one of our senior developers for the duration of the month-long project, and we were ultimately unable to get it working in the time that we had available

A glimpse of what's involved:
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutoriallm
Excellent synopsis!

Every x milliseconds, probably ;)
Well it has always been like this. In early 2000s most developers I knew would simply copy-paste code from all over the Internet.

Nowadays you use NPM search instead of Google search

The fact is that lazy programmers are lazy. The methods change but the principle remains the same.
In 90s people typed in code from magazines and books.
Either of those would be preferable to what our company had, which was 3) Poor sales guy with no concept of technology. Even the engineers were were begging for basic marketing concepts like focus groups, A/B testing, user personas, etc. We actually got in trouble for wasting time thinking about marketing instead of doing our jobs.
> "I think that was one of the mistakes that God made," Ebeling says softly. "He shouldn't have picked me for the job. But next time I talk to him, I'm gonna ask him, 'Why me? You picked a loser.' "

This hits me so hard every time I read it. Sometimes in this cruel world, we are given one of the few real good guys. And we waste them.
This blog has 1058 pages of material. How? Each post has a fairly clickbaity title and seems to summarize someone else's work/research, but is it really all one guy working full time on getting this material together? Is he farming it out to contractors?
I think there is a truth here about the importance of luck in making it to the top of the pyramid at a company. If you ask (almost) any top executive they will claim it is their ability/hard work. Very few are honest enough to describe the several points of good fortune they had along the way. Being the right person in the right place at the right time is a big factor.

I have worked at more than one company where some high up boss is very young. Then you discover they started with the company when it was starting out and have therefore risen as the high growth occurred. Sure they worked hard, had to learn and grow into the new roles. But the majority of people never luck into that kind of golden opportunity.
Grow up and argue with people's ideas instead of banning them from conferences unrelated to said ideas. You stop bad ideas from proliferating by showing how they're wrong, not by acting like children and banning what you don't like.
I work in support. I love it. I graduated with a CS degree, but personally I get more value in life out of helping people

At my company we really to value our support team and are working to make it possible to promote within the team. Yeah sure we have people go to our doc and QA team and other parts of the company, but having people who are passionate about support is something that is extremely valuable to us and to me.

We try to hire people with the same attitude towards support and it shows. The level of support we provide because everyone really cares is awesome.
Talk about 0-100 real fast in terms of media. I wonder how long they were in development for before this.
what are you talking about? This isn't about replay attacks. The car sends a message to the key, which is 200 feet away. This hack merely amplifies the signal so the key acts like it's only 2 feet away. The amplifier is a man in the middle, but it need know nothing about the contents of the signal. Encryption is powerless against this.
> Fish and oh-my-zsh both take about 5 seconds to init though. If you don't like that you should be using prezto (which is the fork he mentions in the article)

You must have a lot of expensive stuff crammed into your config.fish file, for me fish takes < 1 second to init.
I can't stop laughing. I think you have to admire the elegance of the concept as performance art though: this is cheap insanity. In fact, I've got to hand it to them, this is the most fun I've had looking at something programming related in a while. I recall the opening lines of SICP,

> I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

Quoted in The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Hal Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman (McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 1996).
The trouble with using software as an example is that software is so damn fluid and ever changing whereas notes on saxophone will always be played in the same fashion within the same tonal range. It;s measurable; software is always a work in progress.

You can go to a pool and master all four swimming strokes: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle in about a year but you would not be a Michael Phelps. However you would be able to swim better than at least 80% of all of humanity and be considered a master.

The word master needs to be better defined. You can quickly master many things in a year or less.
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I've linked this so often it hurts: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/tiemans.htm...

I'll try to keep it short this time :-). Michael Tiemmann was one of the founders of Cygnus software, which was started on $6K and was sold to Red Hat for $600M. Tiemmann went on to become CTO of Red Hat and is currently (I think) VP of Open Source Affairs.

The key quotes from this link. When looking at the GNU Manifesto, "Suffice it to say that on the surface, it read like a socialist polemic, but I saw something different. I saw a business plan in disguise."

Later he goes on to say: "I would explain how freedom to share would lead to greater innovation at lower cost, greater economies of scale through more open standards, etc., and people would universally respond 'It's a great idea, but it will never work, because nobody is going to pay money for free software.' After two years of polishing my rhetoric, refining my arguments, and delivering my messages to people who paid for me to fly all over the world, I never got farther than 'It's a great idea, but . . .,' when I had my second insight: if everybody thinks it's a great idea, it probably is, and if nobody thinks it will work, I'll have no competition!"

IMHO opinion, Red Hat's best idea was acquiring Cygnus and buying into Tiemmann's ideas. The result is what you see now.

The thing that fascinates me is that Tiemmann still has no competition because nobody thinks it will work.
Ten Thousand:
https://xkcd.com/1053/

Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.
I'm pretty sure the NUC is overpriced, but I didn't really care enough to optimise any further.
I don't think writing letters to senators do anything. High level elected politicians will likely have access to some kind of political consulting firm that looks at contentious districts or groups with strong get-out-to-vote organization in places that matter. Letters aren't going to fool a political consulting firm into thinking the needle of district opinion has moved somewhere.

Perhaps the software workers of America should consider organizing a professional association, just like the AMA? It would have all sorts of benefits beyond organizing political action.
Mossberg is getting grumpy, could this mean Apple is nearing an apex creatively and technologically?
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case in point: NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798
That doesn't fix this exploit at all: This is merely an analog device amplifying other radio waves.

The only way to secure against the described exploit is to measure round-trip-time from the car -> key -> car and ensure it's under, say 5 light-meters: aka 16 nanoseconds, plus the carefully calibrated time it takes the key to compute its response.

16 nanos is a very short amount of time, and it'll be tricky to measure that reasonably accurately.

The real solution is to require the user to interact with the key in some way, like pressing a button, or perhaps moving it around (as would happen as you walked with it in your pocket).
Curtis Yarvin is a professed fascist who has written about his belief that some races are more suited to slavery than others.

That _does_ matter; it makes large swaths of the potential talk audience (and other attendees) feel unwelcome. How can you engage in polite, respectful discussion with someone who believes that you're more suited to be a slave than a free man?
"this bike is a pipe bomb"

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/3011586006_42403e0788.j...

It was a folkie punk band ;) With that promotional sticker. I had one, but didn't put it on my bike.
I was going to make the same observation.
CentOS has been officially part Red Hat since 2014
http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_centos_trademark
Most interesting to me was that the gender gap was so much more pronounced in SV than outside

non-SV male median: 97000

non-SV female median: 90000 (92% of male)

SV male median: 137120

SV female median: 99187 (72% of male!)

Unless there's some external factor here, things look pretty damning in SV...
What is a quiet room?
Shouldn't the docs mention that alt-space already does something on windows? Or is it assumed that whoever doesn't know about the default functionality won't miss it? Or maybe everyone knows?
And what's worse, we don't even know their names. Ebeling's name is everywhere, but the people who are at fault? Just "management."
I would be curious to hear about it. I live in SF. Can we meet? simone.brunozzi -at- $google's_email_service
I feel you but... McCarthyism. Watergate

The list of rationalized extensions of the US Government into what becomes in retrospect a blatant abuse of power would be an interesting one.
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slight correction to the above: there is no second boom heard by the listener when the aircraft is flying away from the listener faster than the speed of sound. The listener the would simply hear no sound.
At this time, CMU Sphinx or Julius are good choices, not great but worth a look.
It is easy for this to become an "interview" and it can make people uncomfortable. I've never found the best balance between exploring their story and sharing relevant parts of my own.
as a Canadian, your post is resonating with me...
>This blog has 1058 pages of material. How?

He probably spent 10,000 hours at it. I'm just guessing though.
The way I see it, after Obama lost the senate he felt the need to seem relevant, which ended up with him forcing Wheeler's hand on the net neutrality issue (he publicly pressured him to support net neutrality). As a result, Wheeler burned his bridges with his telecom friends and now he just has nothing left to lose.
Not a bad idea...When the bubble pops buy it all back. Meanwhile, rent. That's equivalent to shorting the bubble.
The ACM exists, but it'd be nice if it collaborated with the EFF more often for causes that impact the industry such as this.
We're selling our souls, in a very real way, to the highest bidder.

This ain't going to end well.
Do you think the people buying these houses are so poorly off that they will sell when times get tough or do you think they incredibly rich and will laugh off market fluctuations?
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>Mossberg: the iPhone 7 had better be spectacular

Else what? Pundits have been "bored" with the iPhone ever since the original iPhone... Apparently it didn't have enough pizazz either...

>But these latest iPhones and iPads don’t break much new technology ground.They are derivative products —

As they're meant to be. Was the nth iPod breaking much "technology ground", especially it's cheaper, lower margin, variaties?
"How can I protect my car?"
Some keys have a "sleep" mode. For Toyota: hold down the lock key, press the unlock key twice, the key should blink 2 times, short pause, 2 times (total of 4 blinks).
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If you can get a good toolkit for writing a GLR parser, then people will write their own tokenizers, BNF formal grammars, and plug it into your parser. It would take a single person about two to six weeks to get something thoroughly polished in JavaScript along the lines of what is described. However I think that without some form of centralization, (perhaps a subreddit? idk) it will be difficult for the standardization and namespace organization process to take place. If it is just one person, there is no question of standardization; if it is multiple people, the question of who is in charge of the namespace becomes relevant. Who is in charge of the namespace in this particular experiment?
"Include all! White supremacists, non-white... If a few people (say non-white) feel uncomfortable and don't want to come, we're OK with that 100%!

Everyone should feel included! Racists, homophobes... Respect the beliefs of everyone, like believing there is a god, or that white people are superior, or believing you are being discriminated, or believing people will insult you or assault you at a whim for who you are, or believing you belong in a community full of racist assholes. It's OK 100%, all beliefs are equal, so we shouldn't discriminate people based on that!

That would be even worse than racism if you think about it."

I'm sad and disgusted.
How well does this work with conversational speech? Any benchmarks?
Fuck. Yes.
IBM has a similar API as well as part of their Watson APIs but I really wanted to use Google's.
Appearently some real estate agents have targeted ads in Facebook for "Googlers in San Francisco". I clicked on an ad I saw the other day. This is the listing:

http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/pmf,pf_pt/house,townhou...

I could never afford it with my Google income but the real estate people who put up the ad believe a Googler in SF should be able to afford it.
I'm in Hanoi for three weeks and it's scary how similar the Vietnamese driving patterns are to these autonomous intersections. People stop only for the largest of intersections, although the average crusing speed is much lower.
Amazing advice from the man himself: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1056774

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Maybe there is a way.... Let’s say every person gets a public and private key. Private key is only known to the individual. The only exception: your private key is immediately encrypted with public keys of large number of random strangers (10K?) and in its encrypted form sent to some government registry.

You encrypt all of your content with your own public key and have reasonable expectation of privacy as long as at least one of those 10K people feels you deserve your privacy.

If you happened to be a terrorist and the consensus of 10K strangers who encrypted your private key is to let the government snoop on you, they can choose to decrypt your private key and turn it over to the government.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11347006, where the discussion is, although this appears to be the earlier post.
"Spinal Singularity wants to tap into the $2 billion urinary catheter market ..."

Well played, TechCrunch. Credit where due.
"Naturally, Atzberger's career took off after that. He went to Japan and China, helping SAP grow in those markets, eventually becoming a senior VP in China."

Oh, come off it. I'm sure the guy did a great PowerPoint for his boss, but I'm equally sure he's an astute and motivated political operator, and no doubt he had some luck, too.
Microsoft LUIS is almost identical to the intent classification and entity extraction in the Alexa Skills Kit, but it's easier to use because you can pipe in your own text from any source instead of having to use a specific speech recognition engine. LUIS also has a pretty nice web interface that prompts you to label utterances that it's seen that it had trouble with.
It's interesting - the company I work for (non-US, consulting) did analysis of gender pay gaps internally and noted that on average, females get 70% of male pay. However, within the same role, the difference was just 3%. Their focus is now on flexible working and figuring out why women are excluded/not interested in particular roles.
An easy solution would be to have both padStart and padLeft, with a note in tbe changelog saying padLeft is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
Monomorphisation is the name of the technique of producing a different version of the code for each set of type parameters that are used in the program. C++ and Rust use monomorphisation instead of doing runtime checks because they're trading off slightly bigger binaries for greater speed.

By not doing runtime checks you get to skip that work at runtime, obviously, but you also get to enable other optimizations like inlining the monomorphised version.
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> Last sold: Aug 2015 for $1,250,000

Current listing price:

> FOR SALE $1,899,000

That's absolutely mind-blowing. What a disgusting market.
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http://fisherman.sh/ is the prezto of fish shell. Works great and is blazingly fast.
Nothing out of the box as far as I know. You'll have to DIY.

Have a look at CMUSphinx/Pocketsphinx [1]. I wrote a comment about training it for command recognition in a previous discussion[2].

It supports BNF grammar based training too [3], so I've a vague idea that it may be possible to use your programmming language's BNF to make it recognize language tokens. I haven't tried this out though.

Either way, be prepared to spend some time on the training. That's the hardest part with sphinx.

Also, have you seen this talk for doing it on Unix/Mac [4]? He does use natlink and dragonfly, but perhaps some concepts can be transferred to sphinx too?

[1]: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174762
[3]: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/doc/sphinx4/edu/cmu/sphinx/...
[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI