skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see how long it takes, and indeed whether it happens at all, for UbuntuBSD and Ubuntu on Windows NT's Linux subsystem (which currently defaults to Ubuntu 14.04, although people have already installed things like Fedora on it) to catch up.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326457

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542089

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415985
> Worst of all, many women enter into CS majors only to find that they are already hopelessly behind as they discover that their male counterparts already know the material from tinkering in their childhoods.

My college experience was quite different. I never tinkered with computers or electronics during my childhood, and I had no problems getting up to speed. In fact, I'd say most of my peers at the community college I went to had zero programming experience. The instructors didn't assume any prior knowledge, either.
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PyPy isn't useless, Python 3 is.
Where are the rest of the releases?
I know plenty of non-PhD technology people in government who are well-respected. They aren't paid nearly as highly as Silicon Valley ($50-70k would be typical salaries) but they're often just as smart, and the government will fund their education.
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It's always fun to pile on, but what I got out of ASJ's post was "love your job for whatever hours you are there."

Negativity begets negativity, but thinking positive and thinking big is just as contagious.
Ooh Python! Check out https://github.com/mrocklin/multipledispatch which is a little more fleshed out than Guido's implementation. From the author of toolz and dask so you know it's good ;)

I also find that multiple dispatch is something that's occasionally handy, but single dispatch is truly everywhere. I think if you broke down multipledispatch uses in languages which embrace it (e.g. CLOS), the mix is like 95% single, 5% >single. For single dispatch in python, check out https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.s... which was added in to the Python 3.4 stdlib. The alternative is the OOP subclassing style, which works but IMHO isn't very readable.
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>First you must put a GPS in each device

A gps costs under $1 today:

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/gps-chip-price.html

>Also, the forbidden areas may vary

It's mostly airports that we need to worry about, and they don't tend to change much. Sure, TMA boundaries might vary occasionally, but that's not really much of a worry, because most drones won't be up at 1000+ ft.
I think for that the rule 1 would have to state: "You don't hire female engineers. End of rule 1."

There are some rules about male engineers but that doesn't preclude hiring women engineers. It just might have been that it's harder to form rules for them because of historically smaller sample to learn from.
Do you know any other "imaginary points" that are scarce and can be transacted in an open system?
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And Colbert said it right to George W. Bush's face in a speech at a White House Correspondents' dinner.
Don't people do that with converted toaster ovens?
> Coffee too hot? Jackpot.

That is a bad example of a frivolous lawsuit. The coffee in question was served much hotter than industry standard and they had been repeatedly warned that their coffee was dangerously hot. If you spill coffee on yourself, you expect to get burned. You don't expect it to instantly melt your flesh. They were very rightly held responsible for the extra damage that they caused by serving their coffee at a dangerously high temperature.
I do not think this seems fairly established at all. I have friends who are male nurses, friends who are male teachers, and the type of behavior they dealt with on a day to day basis was not harassment, they did not deal with coworkers who were constantly checking them out, they did not have people doubt their competence. Were people less quick to invite them into their groups? Sometimes. But they were still able to cultivate friend circles without an actively hostile percentage of the population.

The one place that I agree with you on this however, is childcare. I've dealt with a large amount of bullshit while staying at home with my newborn, and male caregivers are typically assumed to be incompetent.
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I don't understand - how does his advice hurt anyone? It seems very benign. He's free to run his business how he wants.

1/ I'm from a 3rd world country. Street children here would give everything they can to get into the work force. They're not allowed to work anymore because companies get too much flak for hiring them. Instead they starve on the street and resort to crime. It's easy to say 'no work for children!' from your comfy home.

2/ Looking after an employee's wife and trying to find Asperger graduates to employ is not illegal. The environmental test cheating is only having a negative effect because it is illegal, dishonest and fraud. None of the things mentioned by Alex are any of those. He's very up front about it - he's giving presentations on it while his employees are present.

3/ Not necessarily evil. A company could pay $100 to dump some waste in their own country with full regulations, or pay a poor country $10 to dump the waste there. If that $10 means better schooling for children there, then I'd say accepting a bit of waste that can be cleaned up later seems satisfactory. It's actually worked out quite well in some countries.

Basically - you're applying 'justice' that makes you feel better, and not justice that really solves anything. Making people like Alex stop bringing together teams that create things we use every day isn't helping us.
I wonder if this could be used to improve the proposed color prediction in Daala, or if the memory and CPU requirements are too high to put into a video codec.
Interesting. Are you sure about this? I typically only use a credit card. They can't tell there's no debit capability?

Also, on some rare occasions when I use my debit card, the PIN entry pops up without prompting. If I don't trust the place or don't want to divulge my PIN to prying eyes, I have to hit a cancel button to process as credit. I've never seen a PIN prompt show up when swiping my credit card. If they can't tell, how does the terminal prompt for PIN only when a debit card is swiped?
Exactly, it's short term vs. long term thinking. I remember listening to a German Businessman once talking about the new eastern (former USSR) countries - and he said, "What these people need to learn is that you can cheat somebody once, or you can do business with them for the rest of your life".

Not just the easterners, methinks.
I can't use PyPy until it implements a real Python 3 version, i.e. one that supports asyncio, which is the real future. Until then, I will just be reading about PyPy on Hacker News and just sighing...

Edit: For everything I use, I try to find an asyncio version - Slack client [0], SSH [1], etc.

[0]: https://github.com/gfreezy/slacker-asyncio/

[1]: https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh
I thought his posts on the subject were a mix of pragmatism and satire? A "this is how the world works, you've got this, here's what you'll face".

Was it not meant to be satirical? Was he genuinely advocating squeezing what you can out of people until they burn out and then tossing them aside?

I guess from the tone I thought he was trying to poke fun at the POV he was espousing? But the only thing I know about him was that he went around evangelizing DirectX at Microsoft Developer conference a long time ago so I could've completely misread.
It's also what the government can afford. :-)
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Yup, same experience. Nerdy stuff is "white" stuff and peoples into gaming and tech were harassed and ridiculed by other immigrants.
Consensys is constantly implementing lots of useless solutions for attention grabbing subjects to try to drive the price up on the cryptocurrency they hold a lot of. Almost all of their ideas do not actually work in the real world.
I mean liberal elites vs. conservative elites, not elites vs normal people, obviously :)
> First you must put a GPS in each device, I think the cheaper drones don't have one.

The cheaper ones are frequently controlled by a smartphone app, which can do the geofencing for it.
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Maybe, but I have a very hard time buying the idea that there's engineers out there who don't want to do any engineering, and just want to take things apart and document them, and are also very talented engineers.

I do realize that not all engineers want to do development: that's why we have test engineers. I've dealt with test engineers before; they're a special breed, and have a real talent for finding weaknesses and enjoy that challenge a lot. That's rather different than just disassembling something and documenting it. There's no challenge there, like there is in testing something to its breaking point and finding its weaknesses so you can make it better.
I suppose it was also due to circumstances beyond their control that Benjamin Franklin was not a woman?

I don't really care. I find the whole business to be slightly off-putting to begin with, and this is just a reminder that other people control all the money we use. But this is the turd you step in when you choose to honor specific individuals on your notes, rather than sticking to the eidolons. By putting specific people on the money, you are implicitly saying that everyone else was not good enough to make the cut.

Putting Tubman on the $20 just seems an awful lot like Mitt Romney showing off a token black friend at a campaign event, or thumping on one of his "binders full of women". They're not fooling anyone. We know they're still hard at work, desperately trying to sell the post-2008 "recovery" that only ever seems to show up on paper, but not in paychecks. This is a sideshow--a distraction.

Can we maybe get some money without the blatant political manipulation? Crap like this is the only reason I have any interest in Bitcoin (et al.) at all. We are all simply dying to have a currency that is immune to at least one form of all the financial bullshittery that we have traditionally been subjected to.

Who is honored by cryptocoins? Satoshi, but no one knows who he really is. Doge--a meme dog. Kanye West, in what appears to be a satire of some sort, though this may be covered by Poe's Law.
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This is great, good job! One application of this interface is for companies to use it as a front-end style guide for their own site/web app. Just like people use bootstrap as the starting point for their front-end, and then customize fonts, size, color, etc. This could be a starting point for front-end/template user guides, which is why I was hoping I could simply fork this in github, customize it to our front-end rules and make it available internally so that all front-end coders use the exact same conventions. Thanks for making this available. Any plans to open-source the project?
It isn't newsworthy.
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IMO, prototype may have very different look and feel vs. the mockup. An Excel spreadsheet might be a reasonable prototype for core functionality.

Demo is where you combine look and feel with core functionality. It can still be very hacky under the hood and use pre-rendered output etc.

Granted, this assume complex functionality. If your reusing a common pattern like website with checkout then it's a non issue.
Yes. Always. You'll find hijacking the back button is one of the most frequent first/top complaints in HN threads. :)
This reminds me a lot of the development of aircraft carriers during WW1 and the interwar period.

At first, all aircraft carriers were converted tankers/freighters/cruisers/etc, and aircraft were only used for scouting (much like drones here will be used as tankers). Then came the converted battlecruisers - the capital ships of the day, much like the USS Carl Vinson is now. Even then, people didn't trust carrier-based air power: Lexington and Saratoga had a full suite of 8-inch guns, in case they ended up in a surface engagement. It was only in the run up to war in the late-30s that major parties started commissioning purpose-built aircraft carriers, and then only in small numbers.

I predict that in the next major conflict, aircraft carriers will be utterly useless, most of our big flat-tops will be sunk in the first couple months, and the bulk of combat will fall to a large fleet of inexpensive drones. And then the AI controlling them will gain sentience and we'll be forced to send one of these drones back in time to save John Connor so that he can become the leader of the Resistance as they take over humanity...
Those SIM cards are also banned in Bulgaria, but people find all kinds of way to buy hundreds of cards that belong to retired or mentally ill people, and others or import cards from abroad.
I'd rather get rid of the bankers and advertisers (for starters) and keep the car thieves.

Actually, I'd rather we get rid of the cars...
I like this framework–it captures different levels of autonomy in different development jobs. As my career has advanced, it's definitely moved from implementer to problem solver, with occasional elements of problem finder. I have a lot of autonomy, but still get to spend most of my time writing code (or rather, thinking about code.)

I don't think I want to be a problem finder, at least not yet. Being given business problems and solving them feels like the point where my brain can really engage without feeling like my work is either too vague or too controlled to be important.
I never knew how smart they were until I saw them at a small zoo and the keeper gave a talk.

Apparently they will setup bait in their cage for other smaller free birds so they can capture and eat them.

They also sometimes trade their treats with birds on the outside. Thug life.
I do, it was actually developed by Digital Research for Intel.

And it was better than C in terms of safety.

What influence did Intel have on the design, besides paying for it?
The tone of it was more like: love your job for whatever hours you are there, even if it's 80 hours a week, and if you don't love it, you're not a real engineer, you're in the mediocre majority, and you don't deserve to be there anyway.
Thank you, this is beautiful and has caused me to finally sign up for an account after years of lurking.
Do you have a link to the bot running in Messenger? The https://www.facebook.com/gdY7MU/messages/ link in the repo appears to be broken.
Goodhart's law in action. Diesel engines get scored based on their performance in very specific circumstances, so they get built to score well in those specific circumstances.
>Planes spend so little time within flying/control range of commonplace drones that

It depends where you're talking about. Close to airports is the major issue. 2nm from the runway planes will be at 600ft, which is well within the range of drones.

>Instead it will enable mission creep as more places get banned because embarrassing things, like protesters getting beaten, happen there.

We're talking about voluntary geofencing here, by the companies themselves.
Fables are crafted to convey the moral, rather than deriving the moral from natural circumstance.

I recall reading a tale with animals interacting with a human. There was something about the chicken wanting to be saved from the wolf, so it gave the human its eggs. The cow wanted to be saved from the wolf, so it gave the human its milk. The horse wanted to be saved from the wolf, so it gave the human its strength and speed. They all end up slaughtered and eaten by the human and his "dog" (a.k.a. the wolf) when they were no longer useful in any other way. The chicken stopped laying. snap The cow stopped milking. slice The horse went lame. bang The moral of the story was essentially, "hahahaha, you stupid animals got played!"

On a side note, any animal story where the dog does not side with the human is clearly bunkum. And in any animal U.N., clearly, the human is a veto-wielding permanent member of the security council, so the mosquito, the North Korea of unpopular animals, was just sucking up to a major power to get more food aid. And in that case, we should let the mosquito go pound sand, because they will never stop being annoying little jerks.
I didn't say it's just digging and pecking.

What I'm contending is that the conflation of complex behavior with intelligence is anthropomorphization of the worst kind.

1. We are aware of very complex systems that are definitely not conscious, or even animal. (See natural selection, robots)

2. We're also aware of complex behavior which is probably not conscious, given the lack of a proper brain (see Bees, Ants, and other insects).

3. We are aware of very complex behaviors that humans may do without being conscious of them (unconsciously answering questions, sleep walking/talking, complex muscle-memory activities like driving, doodling).

So, given the wealth of data showing that complex behavior can be completely unconscious, in the absence of proof we ought to remain skeptical. When claiming that a complex behavior is conscious or intelligent behavior, even among apes, the burden of proof lands on the person making the claim.
This crosses into religious flamewar, which is not allowed here. We ban accounts that comment like this.
I think 2 and 3 make for strong moral arguments (though there are some valid counterpoints), but 1 is a poor example. Child labor is usually the best of a very poor set of options for both the child and their parents, and not allowing the child to work will probably worsen their situation. It may feel like paying children to do work is 'exploitation', but passively forcing them to starve, or suffer the ravages of preventable diseases conveniently out of sight is much worse. If you end child labor by providing a financial incentive for the kids to go to school, I will appluad your achievement, but banning them from working does not necessarily help them.
Thats what the winners at the table did, Walmarts, Nikes, Foxconns etc. have done. The only thing they do is have some nominal QC team and outsource all the stinky stuff to sub-contractors. In US that is how you hire "illegals/undocumented" by Big Ag or Big Logistic.
The #4/ to you list, have an structure for "plausible deniability".

If you go deep in the supply chain if you will find all the above.

I am not condoning his advice, nor do I practice these. But reality is not that pretty.
Indeed. The extent of my programming knowledge entering collage was basic HTML/CSS and making and making a form in Visual Basic that swapped the positions of the "Okay" and "Cancel" buttons whenever you moused over one of them.

I knew much less than many of my peers and our school specifically had an introduction to CS class that was geared towards 0 knowledge students. A lot of the CS majors skipped it and went straight to the 2nd class, which I took the following semester.
Yeah, I've had a similar experience. Programmers who show that they care about the business tend to get a lot of trust, and therefore a lot of autonomy.
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The most surprising fact to me was that she is just 22. Rebelling against parents isn't uncommon at a young age, but writing a full-blown public takedown is uncommon at...any age.
> One got banned, and Quora lied about why it banned him, damaging his professional reputation.

While this is quite troubling, I'm puzzled by the idea that Quora has even the remotest influence on one's professional reputation. Is this really a thing? Please pardon my naïveté, I don't move in these circles.
In all cases the warnings presented to the user instructed them to whitelist the site in their adblocker – or go away.

And the answer from the visitors seems to be clear: we'll go away.
Definitely not satirical! His own daughter is criticizing him after all.

> Was he genuinely advocating squeezing what you can out of people until they burn out and then tossing them aside?

I don't see this in the presentation at all. Do you mean where he says to churn through employees until you find the ones which fit? Seems like what all companies do, they just don't word it like that. Why else do we have trial periods? He's saying that you get in some employees, give them too much work, get rid of the ones that don't cope and reward the ones that do. Sounds like standard practice in every company I've ever been at.
Sure, I do like it much more than any UNIX alternative and it is the only widespread shell that is closer to the experiences I was referring to.

But that REPL could be improved, that is what I mean.
Well, don't over think it! I'm more just curious how something like this is done. I won't judge you over your source code! :P haha Thanks again, though, for putting this all together. It really is an awesome site/cheat sheet.
I'm with you: plus the plastic wrap is a small self-contained tool that sort of does one job half-well.
A lot of germans I know are concerned about the new representation of extremist parties in the last elections.

My perspective is continually that the existing government fails to represent the people, and any polar opposite party will force the existing government to compromise in their plans, and create policies that do more accurately reflect the will of the people.

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It does indeed. However compression may cause problems for future beings discovering or understanding the data.
It's better you say nothing at all just read and leave or the down voting brigade will sink you for your freedom of thought or umm speech. There's no tolerance for antidiscipline up on here
This is quickly shaping up to be another "War on Drugs"... It's hard to determine whether UK lawmakers actually think bills like this will make them more secure, or if it's just one incremental move in a long term strategy to remove any assurance of privacy.

Either way the UK gov is looking highly incompetent.
Is IBM involved in PyPy at all? Seeing PPC64 and s390x on a list of supported targets is unusual for a language runtime.
Seriously! Especially for a company as big as facebook!
Because browsers are from 10 to 50, jQuery is from 1 to 2.
As soon as drones are required to have geofencing, you will find they become useless for monitoring the police, factory farms, pollution, "black" sites, etc. Humans die because of those things, while no practical benefit to aviation safety has been proven. And yeah, controlled airspace has been used to prevent monitoring of police, in Ferguson, for example.
It was apparently not meant to be satirical.
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I never moved to mint, but I did recommend trying it to some people who really didn't like unity. I pretty much stopped doing that when they had the security issues last year. Is that what is prompting you to look at switching back, or are you just more reconciled to unity in general now?
I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, but after reading through this it was pretty damn hard to justify any benefit of the doubt:

http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/download/Recruiting%20Giants.pd...
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Wow. A sincere, well executed apology can do wonders in patching up one's reputation. This just makes him seem like an even bigger buffoon.

There was a lesson to be learned here and it seems like he's uninterested in learning it. Or even pretending to.