skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
spoiler alert
I wouldn't say this necessarily points to the "main" character, as its just one measure of a character's significance. Littlefinger (Petyr on this diagram) is rather small and on the edge - but he's ultimately responsible for a huge amount of what goes on.
What.

If someone perceives "FizzBuzz" to be a "trick" question, he's exactly the kind of person FizzBuzz question should weed out as fast as possible.
"Gun culture" is a big thing, and it has a commercial component, but it can't really be reduced to that. In my immediate family, we probably own fifty firearms, none of them purchased within the last five years.
This online game gave scientists new insight into quantum computing strategies
> Salting and hashing isn't going to help you much if you're prone to using one-character passwords

Why not? OK I'm no cryptographer, so I'm probably talking out of my arse but why not store a random salt PER user, and the hash of (password + salt)? To an attacker, a one character password will be as hard to crack as a complex one.
Shh, you can't possibly suggest that different people might have the slightest difference of innate aptitudes! That's super-extra-double-badthink!

You don't want to be the subject of the next Two Minutes Hate?
The author is missing some crucial facts that a) not everyone lives in a big city with public transport, so they've no alternative; b) even if you live in a big city, it's often much faster or more convenient to take a car; c) without a car you can't get to 99% places outside the city, so say goodbye to weekend road-trips. No, that's not absurd at all - that's the invaluable freedom of movement.
Well pids should be pid_t not int. System calls should really return two values, return value and errno, but C doesn't handle that very well either.
I am from Brazil.

We are having a similar problem for a long time now, and it is obvious how the situation also creates a huge amount of wealth inequality:

In São Paulo, several times in the last 15 years, rent managed to be more expensive than several first world cities (like Stockholm).

Housing prices are ludicrous, and the mayor office estimated they have a shortage of 200.000 homes right now, with 200.000 families (not 200.000 people!) living on the streets.

When I lived there, I spent 80% of my income in rent, I ended getting in debt after some hiccups with a contract, and got kicked out, I am still in debt to pay the rent, and I still have rents to pay too! (ie: defaulted rents).

The interesting thing is: THE BUILDING where I lived, not just the apartment, the ENTIRE BUILDING was owned by a single guy. I found out that guy owns SEVERAL buildings, and that he is NOT one of the city top10 richest, it is "normal" for the city "onepercenters" to own 50+ housing units, many of them own hundreds, or even thousands of housing units, many that are empty, because noone can afford the crazy rent, neither the crazy price to buy something.

One of the investors of my startup is a foreigner, and bought a apartment and a house in Brazil, he later told me he was surprised, by how much lucrative it was, the apartment value DOUBLED in 1 year.
> Try copying a number from Safari iOS into Google Hangouts Phone dialer. There's no paste option

The paste option is there, however it's very tricky to get it to appear. You have to hold your finger down over the space where the number appears, but sometimes you have to try it 5-10 times to get the paste option to actually appear. Before Google Voice shut off external integration and ruined it I had an app called Talkatone which worked with Google Voice, Hangouts has never been as good as that app.
Agreed. I lived in Canada like 5 months or so with some friends. The country is so big that we used private airplanes to move around, which was very normal there.

The prices on Toronto smells Bubble so much that feels dangerous to be near that when it does pop.
Electronic voting machines, which somehow end up re-electing the chief of the Senate Intelligence Committee, as well as chief NSA cheerleader?

But I'm sure that's just a coincidence, and Feinstein is just that loved in California. After all, US is a democracy, not some banana republic!

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2012/1026/Could-e-vot...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/03/21...

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
CAN and it's automatic retransmit is actually pretty good example of how simple transient problems can quickly overgrow into global system failures. On typical CAN the bandwidth headroom is small enough that when all colliding/failed telegrams would be blindly retransmitted the collision rate would skyrocket and thus only high-priority traffic will make any progress, and as on CAN priority and purpose is intrinsically linked together, from the global point of view nothing will make progress. That's why most CAN controllers have configurable retransmit behavior per packet (drop/retry/raise error and application deal with that) and partially why today's cars have multiple CAN buses.
For anyone interested in the raw dataset: https://www.putdat.com/hnJwrwM
The part GP highlighted wasn't the museum, or restaurants, or the lake. It was the short commute to work. Slashing the commute from 1 hour to 10 minutes gives you at least 1 and a half hours more each day, or about 10% more life. If you count it in "time spent with the family"(subtract work hours, personal time and various other engagements), it's anywhere from 20-50% more time spent with the family. Is a house worth that much time? Well, it probably depends on the people.
Your plugin doesn't automate tedious task of doing static analysis. Your
static analyzer does that. Your plugin merely calls the static analyzer for
you, and there's high chances that you don't actually know[+] how to call it by
yourself. I saw this with programmers that were so deep in their IDEs they've
never seen the compiler running in command line.

[+] Not you in particular, just general "you" as in people using tons of
editor/IDE plugins.
...apparently written by an apartment dweller who wants to 'nerf' the entire world.

The market or job isn't always 2 blocks or even 2 miles away.

...The Absurdity of an Atlantic Article.
From "The Martian":

> Fortunately, I have water. But not as much as I want. To be viable, soil needs 40 liters of water per cubic meter. My overall plan calls for 9.2 cubic meters of soil. So I’ll eventually need 368 liters of water to feed it.

> The Hab has an excellent Water Reclaimer. Best technology available on Earth. So NASA figured “why send a lot of water up there? Just send enough for an emergency.” Humans need 3 liters of water per day to be comfortable. They gave us 50 liters each. There are 300 liters total in the Hab.

So if the soil already has 35 liters per cubic meter, he would have actually needed just 46 liters of additional water and wouldn't have needed to muck about with hydrazine.
Asians Make More Than Whites – What Should We Do About the US Racial Pay Gap?
Nimblecode: Type code and race your friends in JS, Python, and Go
Government serves its people.

Period.

We are not surfs, we are not subjects.

Without the trust of its people, a government is not legitimate, has no "right" to look at its people's behavior, is simply afraid of losing power.

If instead of spying, governments focused on increasing overall goodwill there could be trust, not suspicion, on both sides of this encryption line.
Oh, we're still paying attention to Sean Parker?
MaxCDN One: Web Performance Resource Center
It might as well be called "The Absurd Primacy of Not Living In Cities"
I don't see any movement towards the OCI spec by the LXC/LXD team. Canonical isn't shown on the list of members (https://www.opencontainers.org/about/members).

This answer from Mark Shuttleworth seems to sum up their position: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/268502
Launch your private Jenkins server on Hyper_ in 60s
You should watch those cppcon again, because Stroustrup and Herb are saying there many times that smart pointers are NOT should be use instead of raw pointers. Use smart pointers where It's about ownership. You should watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OEu9C51K2A
There is a cryptographic tool called a "fuzzy extractor" that solves this problem (c.f. Fuzzy Extractors:
How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics
and Other Noisy Data, by Dodis, Reyzen and Smith [0]). At enrollment time, you compute some (non-sensitive) data P = Enroll(biometric). Then every time you compute Recover(P, biometric') you will get the same (high-entropy) output, as long as biometric' is close enough to biometric.

[0] https://www.iacr.org/archive/eurocrypt2004/30270518/DRS-ec20...
> the Apple "person with folded hands" shown in the article clearly represents prayer to me, whereas the original Google one looks kind of creepy with its screwed up face

I don't think Google's version of the character is supposed to represent prayer, but rather asking for a favor (which seems much more useful):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PlaWxKgYl60/TSvvov-JHbI/AAAAAAAAAB...

http://stat.news.ameba.jp/news_images/20150114/10/9a/z1/j/o0...

http://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/images/fotolife/r/ranmaru-24me...
By this rhetorical implication, you're saying that not only are current demographics in tech (majority male, white, upper middle class) that way because those demographics are more skilled than other demographics, but also that any studies implying as such as stomped out by political pseudoscience proposing less effective diversity measures.

And of course, I can't ask you for a source that studies are getting stomped out by political pseudoscience, because those sources will also have been stomped out. So I should instead ask you: how did you get this impression?
I maintain LuaJIT syscall bindings https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall - they cover quite a lot, namespaces, netlink and so on. I spent quite a bit of time making them more intuitive than the raw bindings, with consistent error handling, also namespacing constants and so on. It is definitely useful to have these types of interfaces not in C.
> Both technologies have their advantages and disadvantages.

I keep seeing this, but no one ever lists the Rift's advantages. Even in your post, you hedge on everything that might give the Rift leverage. At best it seems it will reach parity with the Vive when (if?) the Touch controllers ship, but even then I do think the Vive's fundamental tech is better designed.

So, what is the Rift better at than the Vive?
>If popular Java toolchains are the most complex you can imagine, I assume you have never encountered autotools, or really any toolchain for a large C++ project.

The point was about Java, so I was responding to that, but yes, I steer clear of C++ (when possible) for the same reason.
Hello HN, this is Mark and Rick from nimblecode here. 4 of us built this application over the last month and we'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions. Bug reports are welcome - it is still very much a WIP! Thank you.
Or perhaps the people who understood recursion in a week had been writing code since they were 12, and those that didn't were new to it. Or something else we haven't thought of, that is still not innate aptitude. Or the people who understood recursion easily will not be the same people who understand, say, continuations easily.

Still, I'd assume that with programming like I assume for most skills (music, athletics, lawyering, foreign language, whatever), some people start out with more aptitude than others, and find it easier than the others. I wouldn't assume it's a markedly more pronounced or separated distribution in CS/programming than for other things though.

(Also, I have actually been programming since I was 12, and additionally believe I do have some aptitude for it that makes it easier for me than for some others, I'm pretty good at it -- and I still remember how hard it was for me to understand pointers in Pascal when I first learned them, which seem so straightforward to me now I have no idea why it was challenging at first! And I'm glad I had good teachers in formal coursework.)
you are right but the aim is to find who the writers consider the "main" character and not who had the most impact on the GoT universe. If we take it in that sense the white walkers are probably the most significant.
Thanks for sharing, this is a great video. It packs a lot.

What has happened in the last 8 years is that central banks have attempted to stimulate asset prices at all costs. Real deleveraging is painful and there is no way around it. It has to happen.

Central banks have short circuited the natural process and cut the deleveraging cycle early. In doing so, it has caused the economy to limp on in a heavily burdened, leveraged state without real growth. This is why we still have near zero interest rates, and why Europe and Japan are still on negative rates -- LOWER than the GFC!

Take a look at this chart of mortgage debt: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MDOAH

You can see that the natural deleveraging cycle has been short circuited by insane injections of money. There is still too much debt to income, and deleveraging is going to happen again.
I simply do not believe this.

I believe it is thriving because it was well-designed, by extremely influential individuals, and the early library work was stellar. Also, several other experienced and influential programmers tried it, and expressed something along the lines of "programming is fun again!"

Inside Google, the two main programming languages are C++ and Java, not Go (at least when I left, in September). The Go tooling is generally less capable, but the interfaces smaller, and often nicer: they have the dual benefits of hindsight, and a small but very smart team that really cares about conciseness and clean APIs.

Of course, it's undeniable that the Google name helps a bit. And paying a team of very experienced (and presumably very expensive) developers to work on it makes a huge difference. But I think it would be as successful if those same developers were sponsored by Redhat, or Apple, or just about anyone.
I believe that is someone hacked into the senate systems and exposed some secret data, maybe they would change their mind about this law?
Please watch Tested's head-to-head analysis. It's excellent. [1]

In case you don't watch, they assert that the Rift headset is much better than the Vive headset. They say a bunch of other things, too - but that's the most important comment they make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBieKwa2ID0
I wonder if Feinstein's relationship with the CFR has anything to do with her strangely strong stances on technology. It's weird that an 82 year old senator is so focused on technology issues.
Frederick the Great's "potato marketing" is a pretty great story. He was convinced the potato would help grow and nourish the population so he tried to enact it as "people food" via law. The people did not take to it. He then devised the genius plan of having potato fields guarded by soldiers who were secretly told to take naps and/or sleep at night and let people steal the potatoes. People being people some citizens figured it must be valuable and great stuff if it's guarded and the "hot new food of kings" spread pretty quickly.

There's usually potatoes on his grave to this day :)
"More than 80 cents of every dollar spent on gasoline is squandered by the inherent inefficiencies of the modern internal combustion engine"

actually the inefficiencies are spent on taxes rather than the engine itself.

its really hard to read through the extremely biased article. it literally admits airplanes are more inefficient but cars are worse because they are used more. That's a special kind of logic there.

I myself live in Philly which is one of few places you can exist in america without a car. I also give up a lot of freedom. it means not being able to go hiking in the woods, or pretty much anything outside the maybe 5 or 6 places in america with enough population density to warent a good mass transit system.

cars in many situations also save copius amounts of time. A trip to north east philly is about an hour and a half by mass transit, 25 minutes by car. time savings that would eclipse any theoretical 10 years of life expectancy loss from cars.

cars have done wonder's for economy as well.
No, the Oculus server process that does the actual webcam analysis and communication with the HMD and graphics hardware has always been closed.
In my experience if a tech hiring person is playing with "trick" questions during an interview you should very quickly start wondering if this would be a place you really need to work.
> If five people go to a restaurant, it's probably in 4+ vehicles

That's just crazy! It means five people can't drink. All that's needed is maximum one car for five people, maybe two if traveling from dispersed locations. Keep designated drivers to a minimum.
The current state of affairs did not happen by accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
Not sure how FizzBuzz is a 'trick question'. Given these instructions at an interview:

'Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.'

It spells out in words what needs to be written in code.

String reverse is: Write a method/function that returns the reverse of it's argument. Would be interested to learn how these are trick questions.
I would love to rid myself of all the hassle of a vechicle. Ironically, a week ago I had a terrible time getting my vechicle to pass smog. I literally got to the point where I considered giving the vechicle up. I wasn't having a great time psychologically, and wasen't thinking like I usually do. I usually don't fret about a vehicle because I went to automotive school, and can work on most vechicles, but I was just having a bad week.

That said, where I live, giving up my vechicle would be like just giving up in life. I need a car in the suburbs. I honestly don't know how people do without them, unless they live near good public transportation.

And yes, I guess America is very vechicle centric, but for good reason. They built it so spread out. They built most of our infrastructure like the 50's would last forever. A home, and a car for every American. We would always buy American products. We would never have to live like the rest of the world?
Mid-20s American here. I'll try to explain my mindset.

I've lived in Switzerland and all over Asia without owning a car. Loved public transit and never wanted a car.

- Public transit in the US sometimes feels like riding a rolling homeless shelter. I know it's a chicken-and-egg thing, as most people have cars. I have no issue riding public transit in the US, but I couldn't see my parents taking public transit. So having a car is part of becoming like my parents.

- Being able to drive a car (auto or stick) has practical advantages for emergencies. So there's a provider element.

- Having a car is a symbol of independence. People who have cars in the US sometimes have friends asking to bum rides. So not have a car is seen as not being independent.
Go GC since 1.6 openly claims <=10ms STW pauses. Does any open source Java GC offers that? Also Go uses an order of magnitude less memory for running process compare to something similar in Java so I do not see how optimizing compilers in Java are doing any better job.

In my experience Java brings a mindset that there must be some complex way to solving a problem so lets find out that.
> I think in this instance this is a case of you assuming ignorance where malice is far more likely

I doubt it because (1) this would involve a wide-ranging conspiracy, and (2) they won't achieve their goal. If they were informed, they would know they will fail. As it is, Obama, Comey, etc will go down in history as asking technologists to perform magic. Nothing about this law helps them catch terrorists, and it hurts the US government's relationship with technologists going forward.

> they don't care about criminals who would write their own, they just want always-on access to everyone

That will not happen without a fight from companies like Apple. Ultimately, this just brings more awareness to users. It is not hard for companies to convince their users that backdoors for government make their data less secure. Tim Cook already took the first step.

More likely, I think, is technologists view government as lying about everything. We are iconoclasts seeking to break down cultural conservatisms. Also, we generalize too easily. We see government being disingenuous about one thing and assume they're dishonest about everything.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if certain members of government are lying or not. We should be educating the public and our representatives about the fact that we can't force criminals to use government-mandated encryption.
yeah it's supposed to be the typical Japanese "pretty please?" pose. Extra reason why I really don't get what apple was trying to accomplish with the prayer hands.
in other words "Don't program like a designer"
How I Build for Proprietary Platforms and Sleep at Night
Fizzbuzz or string reverse aren't something to remember. They are small logic puzzles that programmers should be able to easily figure out in an interview, even if they have never heard of them. Unless, perhaps, the candidate gets so stressed that they lock up and fail to think straight, which is of course totally plausible.
How much money would you need to buy a modest home you and your partner would be happy with? Is it truly out of reach?

Or is it something that will take a long time?

Also, how much money would it cost to buy a modest home a very short commute from where you're likely to work for the remainder of your life?

And what sort of work could get you there?

Are you a programmer?
Do you know, I simply don't remember - maybe it was 1.0, but I have a feeling that I downloaded a beta and was overjoyed at being able to scrap all my hoaky c++ sockets / CORBA code and reimplement in something amazingly easy called RMI !

Not sure why I thought 0.7, perhaps I was wishful thinking wrt. how much change happened in early Java, but I think that the conventions of version numbering hadn't settled in the same way as they have now.
Essentially to get published you have to give away all the publishing rights for the work you submitted. I'd prefer open access journals, but the people who decide if I get my phd don't value those like I do.
> The part GP highlighted wasn't the museum, or restaurants, or the lake. It was the short commute to work. Slashing the commute from 1 hour to 10 minutes gives you at least 1 and a half hours more each day, or about 10% more life. If you count it in "time spent with the family"(subtract work hours, personal time and various other engagements), it's anywhere from 20-50% more time spent with the family. Is a house worth that much time? Well, it probably depends on the people.

While true on paper here's what really happens to most people:

1) They spend the extra time working instead of what they would otherwise consider family/fun/relax time.

2) If buying a place costs X and renting costs Y, they end up spending (Y-X) frivolously and getting accustomed to that level of spending.

If nothing else, owning a home tricks/forces/cajoles people into saving money. Sure you can argue, "I'll save the difference and invest it at Z% ... Win!" but that's not what the VAST majority of people will do.
That blows my mind. I believe you it's more like what are people learning with these degrees?

I code for fun mostly and I feel like even my 'basic' level knowledge should be able to outline code for a simple problem like fizzbuzz or string reversal.
There was never any serious privacy in the U.S. but if that bill would pass even the fig leaves would vanish.
do you find when you sync-settings:Restore onto a new box, the atom app completely freezes up as it tries to suddenly download all the packages?