skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... visitors were elite pilgrims, local leaders from far-flung parts of the Central Andes. These people were looking for justification to elevate their own status and their positions of control in society. After their experiences at Chavín, they would use the experiences to more adroitly disseminate messages of authority to their own people, the researchers said.

Just like visitors to Burning Man, Coachella and Davos
Why would the first phone read the file and execute it? ( this is an exercise for the reader, not an actual question )
Nothing Twitter is doing is working
If it's anything like where I work, some people come in for more ruthlessness than others. Some are more equal than others, if you will. New people or those deemed unworthy will receive the full brunt of scrutiny, to the point of bare-faced pedantry. Those who are golden are given the benefit of the doubt. You can probably tell which one I am. It gets really old to see this time and again, and to see the team pat themselves on the back for being "ruthless".
What very few employees understand, even some interviewers don't consciously understand, is that people are hired based on race, gender, TV shows, hobbies, school pedigree, all that stuff. The "prove P=NP on the whiteboard in 30 minutes... go!" routine exists to not_hire people.

So the fix is in and the bosses nephew is going to hired or your frat bro you watched south park episodes with. HR makes you interview multiple people to make it look fair. Obviously its going to be a hostile interview experience. Maybe if you're a clone of Knuth and totally wow the interviewer, the bosses nephew will get kicked to the curb, or if you're cooler than the interviewer's frat bro, well, thats a strong maybe. But basically if you walk into an interview and they ask you about algos that a dog whistle you're not getting hired. Either the fix is already in, or you're a minority, either way you're not getting hired once the questions about red-black trees get unleashed. The interview is already over at that point unless its a 1 in 1000 meteorite strike, it does happen, just almost never.

There are way too many skilled programmers for way too few positions or else the system would collapse if just one employer defected. That hasn't happened, therefore there are too many applicants for too few positions.

The reason you hear nonsense about "not enough skilled programmers" is because they didn't mention they have to be white or male or members of the interviewer's fraternity or fans of the same TV show. There's no shortage at all of excellent programmers who happen to be minorities or unrelated to members of management.
It makes me wonder if the engines would be this sophisticated if they weren't for cheating?
I do indeed!
My prediction - AAPL stock will repeat performance in late 2012. Management just needs to be more aggressive like FB in M&A instead of sitting on the $100B+ cash pile which investors will punish them for. Apple should have bought Oculus. Not FB.
> "Liverpool when they're 2-0 down in Europe"

Know what you mean, I missed seeing it but I heard that Europa league game you're referring to was amazing. I still think the best game of football I've ever seen was the 2005 Champions League final, I have nothing but respect for Liverpool for pulling that off.
They are valuable, except for the fact that machines can now do the disinfecting aspect of the job (the most important part) better and faster than they can.

See: http://tru-d.com/

And to the point someone else made in this thread, they are easily replaced; not requiring a significant amount of training or onboarding resources.
"Like the CEO of sony, who spoke about the end of innovation in smartphones a few months ago."

The only innovation was the original iphone. There has been zero innovation in the smartphone space since then.

Every single smartphone is just a touchscreen slab. They are, in terms of design, indistinguishable from the original iphone.

Sure - thinner, a curved edge, a different button ... but those are just trivial details.

The original iphone was a different thing than, say, a moto razr or a candybar phone or a treo. That was innovation.

I haven't seen any since...
Off the top of my naive head.

Have 3 or 5 or a dozen copies of the thing running in parallel. As many as it takes.

Every action calls for a vote among the copies. Majority rules.

Periodically validate the data. Again, majority determines what's valid.
NAT sucks, that's why.
The problems with a WebKit monoculture on mobile are as much Apple's fault as they are Google's. Neither did anything to stop it until far too late.
I think this is good advice in general. But I doubt that the most effective way to follow it is to devote evenings after your 200k+ corporate job to studying.
They can view and change information in transit, yes. Don't login to anything on their network because they see (and possibly log) it all. The workaround would be some sort of VPN, but my guess is that they've done their best to prevent that.

I would discuss it with administration at your school. Get them to give you an answer "in writing" about why or even if they do it. Then take that to some professors. Maybe you could find some that would be offended by this whole thing, and maybe they could do something about it.

Alternatively, take it to the student newspaper. If that falls through you could try other news outlets. That could be a big win, or it just go nowhere. Hard to say.

But I would definitely let people know about it. There are people exposing information that they probably don't want to. Not only are there privacy concerns, but there could be concerns such as HIPAA, credit card security and possible political and safety issues for students communicating with friends or family in other countries.
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Some containers/jails do, but not the entire server.
> I see it in my company too, where the InfoSec team is basically given free reign

I think I'm leaving your company soon. It's definitely too much to be dealing with.
Like this puff piece?

"Five Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World"

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/12/t-magazine/eli...

"Since dropping out of Stanford’s School of Engineering during her sophomore year in 2004, she has spent nearly every waking moment working on bio-engineering breakthroughs in diagnostic testing and persuading lawmakers"
I'll keep writing in the language it compiles down to. Which would be JavaScript, of course. But keep telling yourselves that if you must...
Right, and without roaming it's kind of pointless.
1 Minute of All-Out Exercise May = Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate Exertion
that pressure comes from shareholders who want to make money on their ownership stake, whether the company is traded on public markets or not. it's not carl icahn pushing 5-year exit strategies on startups.
But can't we agree that the numbers don't tell the whole story here? Whether it's because of consumer demand or diplomatic pressure, Japan doesn't have the freedom to manage its economy solely on the basis of what's best for Japan.

Also, you're entirely correct about weak management. The quality of Japanese society depends heavily on good stewardship due to the willingness to fall in line. It is basically a feudal arrangement played out in the business realm instead of political.

Take for example, the area where I live, Nagoya. It is home to Toyota, which is mostly a success story in this respect. Mitsubishi, too. When you read about the emissions scandal this week, remember that Mitsubishi also rolled out the X2 stealth fighter this month, and is gearing up for the MRJ regional jet program. These companies operate on a scale that is similar to nation states.

Meanwhile, the local universities are winning the Nobel Prize for little innovations like blue LEDs.

Everywhere I look, I see people living a higher quality of life than I see in America. My Japanese friends range from people who work very hard for very little money to people whose family sits on epic fortunes. When I go to the grocery store, the prices are less than half what they would be in any coastal American city, and the products are vastly higher quality. I bought my car (which gets 80PMG) for about US$10K...new, and it came with an in-dash TV/GPS, four cameras, autonomous stop radar, and regenerative brakes. US$10K off the lot. I never visited the car dealership...they sent a dealer to my house and I count him as a trusted friend now. He comes and picks up the car from time to time to have the fluids changed. Insurance for the car is a few hundred dollars a month, and fuel is about $26 per month for light city commuting. Most of the time, I ride my bike or ride the subway.

I own an apartment in New York City that is worth millions of dollars, but I choose to live here. I understand that there is an article in Bloomberg that shows a picture of a homeless person in Tokyo, but it's just simply not consistent with the reality of my life. You can (fairly) tell me that I'm insulated and willfully ignorant and that I lack data, but I'm still going to represent my perspective because it is at the end of the day more "real" than whatever Bloomberg is saying.
> Uber and the like has basically proven that case.

No they haven't. Not all regulations are equal. Most of the regulations Uber has ignored are probably examples of regulatory capture and shouldn't exist in their current form. The regulations Theranos ignored are important, even critical, for patient safety and the integrity of medical testing.
It's not ironic, it's very much by design. It's a bit like the Army. In theory anyone of any age and background can join up, but the physical requirements and "culture fit" does a very good job of selecting for young males.
Infrared FLIR cameras are being used to help spot the cheaters.

http://hackaday.com/2016/04/25/cyclists-use-tiny-motors-to-c...
One option for HTTPS is to just stick CloudFlare in front of it.
Building RESTful JSON Apps in Swift
Anyone who disagrees with your "The author is stupid" statement is either ignorant (of the article) or "not very smart"?

That logic forces you to ignore all disagreeing arguments without consideration...
That's a failure of your team lead. Tough code reviews are important, but I don't tolerate people being petty or nasty. We actually train new employees on how we like to do reviews.

If I see people being given the benefit of the doubt, I call out other senior engineers. If I see people ganging up on a new person, I do the same.

A quote I've always heard, is generally when someone talks about how "brutally honest" they are, they enjoy the brutality more than the honesty. I filter for the latter, and come down hard on the former.
I wouldn't be so sure - you know the joke about fool proof designs and nature inventing bigger fools ;).

Few years ago, Westinghouse tried to kick out Rosatom from VVER power plants in Eastern Europe as a supplier of the fuel. They pulled very heavy levers to do that, but in the end, they were still refused due to their pellets not being up to the task and being a security hazard.

And yet they still try that in Ukraine...
But overall the process is tremendously successful at accident reduction, no?
Sorry it looks like a flooding, but to add to that, having program self-check itself is also unnecessarily ties the program to its usecase in the radiation environment, it creates unnecessary strong dependency to its execution environment, and that just goes against all the good principles of design. It's like having a software for clock in the microwave machine be aware that it is placed in the microwave machine.
Just for the information: Jim Jagielski, the director of Apache Foundation, who won't miss any opportunity to say how he hates nginx, and how bad nginx is. Well done!
> You absolutely do not need a PhD for industry unless you want an R&D job in a handful of domains.

I know Phd.s at {MSFT, Google, Uber, Deepmind, GE, P+G} research divisions. I don't know anyone who works at those who does not have a doctorate. So I would say this applies to more than 'a handful of domains' -- If you want to do research, you should plan on having a doctorate, even in industry. The majority of data scientists I know have doctorates, even if that strikes me as (generally) overkill.

Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your statements.
LendingRobot machine-learning bot to automate Peer-to-Peer Lending investments
Yeah exactly. It'd be like thinking we can trace "fire" to a single location. These things arise with "need". The right conditions present themselves and these things (inventions, discoveries processes, rituals, etc, etc) arise to fill in the vacuum. Just like this archeologist probably feels some pressure to produce something exciting during his fellowship at the center.
Regarding teams: a team is composed of individuals, who will obviously benefit from things like speedy muscle fatigue recovery and being able to train harder for longer periods of time. I don't buy that argument. Also, Lance Armstrong was the ringleader of getting his team of cyclists to take EPO. So the team argument doesn't have merit.

> to imply that's the reason for Leicester's success this season is indeed controversial, and as far as I can see, without merit.

There's indeed no evidence, but you have to ask yourself: do I want to believe that Vardy burst onto the scene at 29, or is there the slight possibility that something else is going on?

Wenger has said in the past: "sport was “full of legends who are in fact cheats” as he called on Uefa to improve its drug testing programme. "Honestly, I don’t think we do enough [on doping tests],” he said. “It is very difficult for me to believe that you have 740 players at the World Cup and you come out with zero problems. Mathematically, that happens every time."[1]

It's publicly known that Barcelona paid for Messi's treatment of a growth hormone disorder with human growth hormone[2]. Can you honestly say you would be surprised if they also use HGH to help their players recovery from injury? They were implicated in the Operation Puerto case, but there was deliberately no further investigation in that case[3].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/10/arsene-wenge...

[2] http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1492546-lionel-messi-and-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Puerto_doping_c...
Mandatory Simpsons quote:

Homer: "NUC-U-LAR"! IT'S PRONOUNCED, "NUC-U-LAR."

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S09E19/665197/m/Ik5VQy1VLUxBUiIhCk...
Is there any other company who cares as little as their customers as Comcast?
> they failed because their tech sucked

And in the process likely led to harm to their clients. Healthcare is one of those things that you don't fuck with, because the failure mode of bad tech isn't just that you go out of business and inconvenience a bunch of people, it's that you actually cause potentially irreparable damage to people (in Theranos's case, by providing incorrect information about people's health which they depended on).
If you want to address the problem at the software level, you could probably write a compiler for this. But that would be a massive undertaking...
except that one
BFS is a 4 line algorithm that doesn't need to be memorized. I wouldn't trust a developer who can't even reason this out with understanding runtime order complexity.

bool bfs(int x) {
q = new LinkedList<Node>;
q.push(root)
while (q.size != 0 && q.peak() != x);
return q.size ? true : false;
}
This is why we can't have nice things. https://webkit.org/blog/6131/updating-our-prefixing-policy/
Like other compile-to-JS languages such as coffeescript, I don't think it has enough to offer over plain JS to justify its existence. Coffeescript was great because it drove a bunch of language features into consideration for ES6, but actually writing in it seemed like more pain than it was worth.

Consider being in the situation of being in charge of a large coffeescript codebase, today. No thank you.
There is a map to track vessels: http://www.marinetraffic.com/
Persistence is a pain in the arse if you have to spend 1.5 hours every Hackerrank challenge (plus you are likely to want a warm up of at least half an hour). Say you have to do ten of those. Why can't employers ask you to bring in some previous work and discuss it? Surely that is a lot more relevant than algorithmic stuff that you likely haven't used for years.
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The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011)
Doers
This may be the best way to measure gun violence in America
They do not have that much cash on hand. Apple already has over $100B in common and exotic debt that has been used to pay for both dividends and this buy back program. So that pile of cash sitting overseas? On its way to being mostly spent. And if the Congress critters start pressing companies to repatriate, a big tax bill looms too.
If the motor was installed by a family friend, why would that person need to conceal the switch?
I believe the discussion in the other comment thread is correct in that GCC generates better binaries.
Mossberg: Vivaldi is a new desktop browser for power users
What you say doesn't change anything significantly, which means it doesn't change the way we type on mobile phones--you still need to look at the screen. Also it's a bit of a stretch thinking because it works on a game controller with limited number of inputs, it will work on a keyboard with way more keys, isn't it?

As I mentioned above, I explored into building a mobile device that you can type into without looking, and my first hypothesis was "tactile feedback is key". And turns out there are many many other factors at play. Even if Apple built something like you say, that won't make more people buy iPhones, it's just an incremental innovation that doesn't significantly change any user behavior for the better.
Yes, but probably also very demanding on the battery.
The inside story of how Madden NFL became a video game dynasty
why aren't we holding our leaders to some kind of moral standard?

Because I don't care about their morals. Be as corrupt as you want, as immoral as you want, that doesn't (for this example) make the air dirty. However, if we catch you not meeting the standards put forth, the hammer will fall swiftly and hard.

But suppose we publish a moral standard to be met. Who's chosen deity do we use? Because for the majority of people, there's at least a nod to some form of god when aligning our moral compasses. In some cultures, a little corruption is just part of it. From my POV, most of our systems of laws have a little morality baked in, but those systems are more concerned about outcomes. "Don't do this, or punish shall befall you." "If you manufacture these, they must meet a minimum standard, or you will be fined."
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Tinder launches group dating feature – and exposes you to Facebook friends
For one, that forces you to change the code and recompile all the time. And some projects have huge recompile times.
There is a series of lectures on stego at Oxford [1]. The lecturer uses simple machine learning (average perceptrons I think) and achieves 99% accuracy with little effort although that was for LSBR[2]. Later he discusses problems with the graph approach [3]. Simply put whilst it preserves 1st order histograms it will probably mess with 2nd or 3rd order histograms.

[1]https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/advsec/
[2]https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/materials15-16/advsec/advse... p48
[3] ^ p58
False. There is enough press about this - Apple has already spent a large chunk of that by issuing debt to pay for current buybacks and dividends (and avoid US taxes).
And a nice way to run multiple compilers easily is by using a tool like Travis CI with their compiler matrix support.

https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/c
I envy the person who has both the drive and the free time to have read 100 programming books (and I'm assuming, if this is a true "Best Of" list and not simply "100 programming books I've read", he has probably read closer to 300 or more).
The Halfword Heap Emulator (2011) [pdf]
Can red compile GUI apps in MacOS? I just tried and it errored out..
Personally, I'm more excited about Flow because it introduces a modern type system into ES6/ESNext without me having to sacrifice Babel.

With regards to types: TypeScript has only recently added support for any kind of Algebraic Data Types whereas Flow was built upon Unions and Intersections from day one. That to me speaks to their priorities.
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“We had a client before we had a product” – Story of YC14 alum Pretty Instant
"It was controlled by a Bluetooth switch installed underneath the handlebar tape." (in the article)
One thing that makes a huge difference is the plugin ecosystem. TypeScript, as far as I know, doesn't have any while Babel has a whole myriad of them by various people.

I recently built a Babel plugin that solves a lot of my module import pathing issues (namely the `../../` hell)

https://github.com/AntJanus/babel-plugin-namespaces

This and other plugins are just not possible on TS. The best way to look at Babel vs TypeScript is to realize they do different things. As far as Babel ES2015 transpiling vs TypeScript, maybe TS wins out. But Babel is a whole platform for transpiling. In fact, you can use both Babel and TypeScript together!
I agree with you. The author's inability to write a breadth-first-search under stress, for example, very much highlights this, in my opinion.

I sort-of agree that these specific tasks shouldn't be used as an indicator of programming skills, but a breadth-first-search is really quite simple. It's mode of operation is in the name, and even if you haven't implemented one in a while, you should be able to derive some valid pseudo-code after a while. Especially if you do as much coding as this person claims, and thus are confronted with problems to solve on a regular basis.
... won the disposable syntax sugar of the month.

next month people will want memory protection in JavaScript and JavaScript developers being JavaScript developers will create a new project from scratch with new syntax, just like Babel did from coffee and like typescript did from Babel.

meh.

this is all needed because you have a team that doesn't know how to agree on coding style or something. yes, it would be nice to have type errors detected before runtime. but we have responsive devs so we never had those errors to begin with. and we're way past 80k lines. adding a transpiler would be more annoying than helpful.
I can accept that we don't fund the agencies, therefore they fail; what I can't accept is that they have no responsibility for their tests being so easily defeated because the responsibility of bad people is to not try and defeat them. Funding can be fixed with a change in priorities. That magical worldview cannot.

If we're to trust in morality to keep people from defeating tests, we could replace the entire agency with a mail merge: "Do your vehicles comply? If yes, reply to yes@epa.gov, if no, reply to admittingtoacrime@epa.gov"
Designed to weed out experienced engineers that know how to build production ready systems?
The ability to programmatically generate methods/classes can be really powerful and, as far as I can tell, impossible with Typescript (and most statically typed languages).

Back in my Backbone + CoffeeScript days, I reimplemented Rails style has_many/belongs_to "class methods" on Backbone.Model, and it was incredibly useful. But would've been doubly so if I could have had it statically checked somehow.
"Write a maze solving algorithm" I just solved that in less than 3 seconds. Here is the solution in a Fiddle[0] and the discussion on Stack Exchange.[1]Sorry, I'm too busy solving problems which haven't been solved yet to bother with problems that have been solved.

[0]: http://jsfiddle.net/5g7se8qL/7/

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16173259/javascript-maze-...