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Thank you for sharing this. Do you think it can handle multiple parses ?
When I was taking a class in Statistical Inference, we used a combination of Statistical Inference (Casella and Berger), Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (Hogg and Craig) and Probability and Statistics (Degroot and Schervish). If you're still interested in learning about Fisher Information and the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound, you can refer to pages 514 - 521 of Probability and Statistics 8th Ed. It has a number of proofs which you can skip if you're not interested but it also provides a number of examples using different distributions to calculate both the Fisher Information and the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound.
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>Stand ups are bad - Let's be frank, I'm belting out code so quickly that staying on the same page as everyone else is just not worth the time anyway (at the speed I'm going it'll be done tomorrow anyway).

Could you elaborate on this? I find standups most useful when we're working on small widgets of feature work precisely because we move so fast. Standups keep the business side in sync with the code we're putting out (e.g. features x, y ready to release, expecting z next week). It gives them a tighter feedback loop in case they need to manage expectations or coordinate with other groups.

If we're working on meatier chunks that take longer then we back off to a pull model. When someone wants to know they ask, but daily standups aren't very helpful when updates sound like "Working on <huge_feature> for the forseeable future"
This should probably have a (2011) in the headline. Still a nice code review though.
Open offices and headphones are the Uber model of facilities. We aren't paying for a quiet environment, you have to buy your own tiny office and wear it on your head.
My politics lead me down the path of thinking about how one's social graph could help them find things, either in an automated fashion, an explicit "hey, help me figure this thing out" fashion, or something inbetween.
tabletop football is mandatory for hipness.
Very much a rosy financial analysis. First thing I'd say about this is that if you are paying $3k/mo (remember cost to employ someone >> their salary, so you are paying "bottom $" there), then you will certainly not have someone who has a deep and good understanding of network security. You have hence proven the parent's point.

Source: I run a small WISP in my copious spare time and have been involved in the WISP online scene since it began.
Until you need sudo access to fix ntp
Is there a list of tech employers who do open plan, low cube, high cube, shared office, private office, private big office (to have people work together temporarily), remote-only?
Make your case for not eating meat, but you can't do it from that passage in the Bible. The Bible's forbidden fruit was unambiguously fruit from a tree, not animal flesh. Adam and Eve's taking of it was direct rebellion against God. Turning Earth back into heaven requires atonement for that rebellion against God. It has absolutely nothing to do with eating meat. In fact, one of the very first things that God does in Genesis 3:21 after Adam and Eve take the forbidden fruit is provide animal skins as clothing for them, partially to foreshadow the system of animal sacrifices that would be instituted by God in the book of Exodus for the nation of Israel.
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Most european languages are bound to disapear if Europe wants to achieve anything in common. You just can't if people don't understand each others, and if people all have to speak a common language, within a couple of generations, French, Spanish or German will be that old dialect that some old people insist on speaking but that new generations don't understand anymore. Everything has a begining, a peak and an end. Languages too.
Given that corporations have now gotten more powerful than the governments that regulate them, I doubt we'll see this happen nowadays (but it desperately needs to happen, to Comcast, Google, etc)

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11544016
(and pretty much the whole cable lobby, VW scandal, etc)
> I believe the GP comment wasn't too far off.

"The tech is already available, only introduces a small increase in cost"

vs:

"have done promising research and intend to have a working prototype this year"

I consider that quite far off. They don't even have a prototype to show that it even works, let alone cost information for "a small increase in cost".
my startup idea that someone else should totally build:

Sell a soundboard recording of the show I went to for $25 on the spot as I leave. I went to the show so I now have an emotional connection to that particular performance. Will this get shared? Sure, but the majority of people downloading bootlegs own the artists' oeuvre anyway.
Inflected and irregular languages are more complex than uninflected and regular. That's one kind of weirdness that it's difficult to dismiss.
Although intended as a critique, a blog post I wrote earlier this week might help explain some of it: http://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/slock-it-dao-paper/index.htm....

And the original proposal for "The DAO" can be found here: https://download.slock.it/public/DAO/WhitePaper.pdf.
But I want to talk to the rest of the team fairly frequently.
Degree matters.
The world has needed this.
> The open plan office itseld is slightly prolonged and has long "corridor" areas cutting through it. I can only guess why they want to maximize the number of developers whose backs and monitors are turned towards everyone who passes by.

I remember watching a video about Pivotal's offices and work routine. The distinct impression I got is that Pivotal is a very regimented sweatshop with rigid working hours - everyone is expected to show up at 8am for breakfast, and pair-programming and a "panopticon" style open office layout are there mostly to prevent procrastination and force people to at least try to code. The good part is that the developers there have a set 8 hour workday and leave earlier in the afternoon. It obviously works for them because they can just churn out sort-of working apps and let some other suckers deal with maintenance/rewrites later.
I think these kinds of decisions, including recognized reduction of productivity, has to do with how desks and offices are taxed and depreciated, what has to be written into accounts, and the fact that death marches are free.
English grammar is also easier or you can use simple subset of English. However that can not be said for Italian, German, French or Russian. They have gender rules that confuse foreign learners in the beginning. The hardest subject for English is "tenses" and you can also use small subset of them.

I also agree with the economic and social capital argument.
First house I lived in, you could go out to the front yard and see the Sweetgrass Hills, up straddling the Canadian border, 90 miles away. Look to the west, see the mountains, shining in the morning. Unless you couldn't see them, in which case you better be indoors.
Surely nobody mistakenly thinks they have a satellite phone, and I've never heard the phrase 'going to space.' Do you really know people who believe that? Are you sure they aren't joking?
I've seen this before but have always wondered how they made the bytecode part of the game. Did they have an editor or just plot things out on paper and then test in the virtual machine?
After a decade or two in open offices, many software developers probably end up conditioned against privacy enough that they no longer see how offensive spyware/tracking is to most people.
Anything with measure theory, though you will regret it :)
There are many things that are present in assembly but lacking in C. For example, how do you detect integer overflow in C without resorting to compiler extensions?
The classical Winograd schema as a Turing test is effectively the voight-kampff test: one could imagine that the council advocated violence, and surreptitiously sought to create say a false flag, but our mirror system and sense of morality make that interpretation less palatable.
But a floral arrangement can be of various shapes, laid out in a wreath or across a table right? At least as I've heard it used, bouquet doesn't really refer to a wreath or other designs. Maybe I'm splitting nonexistent hairs.
Here is a list of compilers that can generate C code for different languages:

https://github.com/dbohdan/compilers-targeting-c
This begs the question of what would be better - to compile your favorite language to C and use something like Emscripten to make JS, or to compile your code directly to JS?

So far as my experiments went, a 3000 native score Dhrystone test compiles to C at 1300, and that C compiles to 850 worth of JS. Which suggests that a direct-to-JS compiler might be worth the efforts...
Ask HN: Languages for safety-critical embedded work?
I'm interested to hear from the HN crowd what's out there in terms of languages / frameworks for doing safety-critical embedded development on commonly-available hardware like the ESP8266. Think at the safety level of implantable medical devices or flight control software.

My usual Google skills aren't getting me anywhere on this one :)
That's exactly the point... German speakers have "Bauchweh" where English speakers have a "tummy ache", but both "compile" their code.
I mean this in the nicest possible way ... Are you sure they want to talk to you ... frequently?
Is the Internet of Things a scary proposition for organizations?
I never thought about the UBI in those terms but I think the article makes a convincing case. I am always unnerved by the very common perception that those who benefit from government services somehow give up some of their liberties. Such policies include drug testing welfare recipients, and regressive taxes on sugar and cigarettes. A UBI would certainly change the scope of meddling by politicians.

I also think it's naive to assume that all the other government welfare agencies would step aside quietly. The patch-work of programs wasn't an accident and a UBI will likely by another patch in an ever-growing bureaucracy.
I see lots of French milleniums writing each others in english on social networks. I don't think because they want to be understood by a foreign audience. Just because english has become the language of the internet, english expressions are becoming a sort of habit.
No, I'm talking about making a HTTP request to the device (ok, two or three, but no ninja stuff) -> getting a root shell. Not intended, but not really hard to find. And it's way less replaceable than a router, so I haven't found any better than to sit on it.

About TR-069, criminals don't do BGP hijacking to pop a few routers (yet?). Still, why the hell is that not encrypted. (I know why, it's just that I'm sad.)
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Where can we find the source code for the AGPL modules from Redis Labs? I checked https://github.com/RedisLabs?tab=repositories but didn't see them.
As far as I can tell, on all the axes that LLVM excels as an intermediate language (ease of getting started, debugging support, many backends, optimization, flexibility), C is even better. C is easier to get started with, has easier debugging support, has more backends, better optimization, and more flexibility.

To take a simple example, I have here a 2428-line C program generated by compiling Linus Åkesson's Game of Life in BF (http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/brainfuck/) into C using Daniel B. Cristofani's dbf2c.b (http://www.hevanet.com/cristofd/brainfuck/dbf2c.b), which is a BF compiler written in BF. Compiling these 2428 lines of C to machine code using tcc 0.9.25 takes 20ms on my 1.6GHz Atom netbook. Most of this is about 16ms of tcc overhead (startup and shutdown time); the rest is compiling several hundred thousand lines of C per second with tcc. You should get several million lines of C per second with tcc on a modern machine.

This isn't optimized code, about equivalent to gcc -O0, typically about 3×–5× slower than optimized code. But that's enormously better than interpretation overhead.

(Using decent optimization levels with GCC makes it take several seconds to compile, because GCC's optimizer doesn't deal well with enormous functions.)

dbf2c.b, the C-generating BF compiler, is 892 bytes of BF code when stripped. Now, I'm not saying you should write your compilers in deliberately obfuscated programming languages in as few bytes as possible; I'm saying that the fact that this is even possible at all should give you really good feelings about how easy it is to compile things to C.
I don't know about "Another World", but at least LucasArts had a compiler (written with Yacc and Lex) for their adventure games on SCUMM engine.
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The crux of the article: "Under a basic income, citizens could potentially be prevented from spending their state earnings on fatty or sugary food"

I'm not aware of any basic income proposal that includes such measures; the point of basic income is exactly the opposite: to let people spend their money however they choose. Some governments (California and New York come to mind) are already regulating unhealthy food, but I don't see any connection to basic income.

The article also points out that people who currently receive "nothing" from the government (other than the aqueduct, and sanitation, and roads...) would probably become dependent on their basic income to some extent and thus could be influenced by the threat of taking that income away. Governments already have so many ways to reward/punish people (e.g. tax policy) that I have no idea whether this would be better or worse than the current status quo.
This game was hard. So hard. I dont play games much anymore but I suspect that modern games don't punish the players the way another world does.

Wonderful title.
I think many of us learned the other way 'round.

(1) Start off by making changes to a program that someone/some book gave us as a basis and blindly stumble through some changes and compiler/interpreter/runtime errors.

(2) Take a step back, absorb what we've learned from the errors.

(3) Read more about the principles of the programming language/OS/API/operating environment.

(4) Internalize concepts behind the language/OS/API/operating environment.

(5) Goto (1).

It's only after many iterations through this process that I can now see similarities among different processors (CPU/DSP/GPU/etc), operating systems, APIs, programming languages. So many classes of problems can be solved effectively without ever understanding these details, so it makes sense for those new programmers not to learn the details at first. IMO, this is at least an intermediate-level text.
Really out of my realm but maybe Rust?
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I always say that the crash comes after the last skeptic buys in. I honestly don't have any anecdotes to specifically back that up, but plenty of people at cocktail parties have nodded in agreement.
Excellent! I have actually seen your blog on HN before. We will be in touch.

I'm not too worried about the future of the world anymore either. Even if the there is wide adoption of UBI (or even more radical socialist ideas), it is not likely sustainable and, in the long-run, humanity will be fine.
IMO, the fact that they're cheaper is only a justification. After all, most places are open-office rather than remote.

The big reason why management likes open office is, in my opinion, that those environments make them feel like they've got more oversight and control.
But in most cases you don't have a pick of which extra language to learn.

People learn English because they want to speak with Americans (and earlier the British). Everything else is irrelevant.
A "clustered CA" system that corrupts data sounds like a AP system.
The DAO is essentially a 'Smart Contract' (read: a computer program which runs over the blockchain) between the willing investors to collectively fund various projects (in exchange of a certain return).

People are investing in this because they want to participate in the future blockchain/non-blockchain projects which will seek funding from the DAO.

Others can submit proposals to this smart contract, and community can vote on it (in proportion of their investment).
Not only have they hosed the reputation of the brands they've bought, but they're diminishing their own as well. I know it's nowhere as popular as the ThinkPad, but I have been a ThinkStation fan for years. I bought my first one in 2005. I bought another in 2014 and the new one was an identical case with different components inside and a few different labels outside. I was blown away by this because it's exactly what I've always wanted -- I don't care at all about the gimmicky chassis updates -- and I told everyone about it, probably resulting in a couple other people getting one. Unfortunately, I won't have a chance to reproduce this experience as they discontinued the model and no longer seem to have a comparable machine.

I started out building my own machines because that was how you did it to save money and get good components, then vendors eventually became good enough where that wasn't necessary or desirable, and now we've come full circle and it seems likely I'll build my next machine, whenever this one finally gives up the ghost.
The point is to highlight common practices in this industry today that result in effective sabotage.
At least for Springsteen's current tour, this is almost the case (modulo a couple of days). I think livedownloads.com is the backing entity.
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Comcast I get but why Google? and who's etc exactly?
Bubble != valueless.
I think this is tricky. I was exposed to 8086 assembly having only previously seen a couple flavors of BASIC, and I have to say that it mostly went over my head. It was hard for me to see the bigger picture, the useful functionality that we were painstakingly working toward with our little instructions moving bytes around and taking different paths based on flags. I remember system calls (which are covered early on in the OP) seeming especially confusing and magical. On the other hand, when I dove deeper into (m68k) assembly a few years later, after getting some C and C++ under my belt, it was an amazing eureka moment that made both the earlier assembly exposure and what I had learned of higher level languages click into place. So I do think learning assembly early on is great, but I'm not sure it's such a panacea to learn it first.
"Do Not Enter" street signs are useful.
It's nothing but an investment medium on the blockchain (Ethereum specifically). The Ethereum community is very interested in seeing great things being built on its platform, so someone came up with this idea to create a blockchain app which allows it's members to direct funds towards building of other blockchain apps.
I think managing a factory counts as working in it (working in the office rather than on the floor). With respect to the idea that there should be no private property, it seems to me that there's no reason that this implies that a factory should be managed by factory workers. By all means hire managers to manage the factory, it's what they're best at. But managing a factory (i.e. being the person that coordinates the business side of the company) isn't the same thing as owning it or controlling it. You can imagine, for example, a factory that is managed by a manager but ultimately owned and controlled by a worker collective (which includes the manager). The most important decisions of the factory could be made democratically (supported by data gathered by managers) whereas the day to day business decisions would be made by people who manage the factory.
I'm confused. The wikipedia article says Ivanpah has greatly under performed, but the linked article says electric companies are investing in a whole bunch of STF plants, including from the company that built the Ivanpah plant. So is this good idea or not?
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Once you've made someone a 1st degree connection on LinkedIn you can add a note to their profile [0]. You can either expand the same note in the future or keep adding new ones.

Otherwise, you cannot beat a good old spreadsheet on google docs or local machine. (LI allows contact export) That way when you are looking for a new gig, you can create a new sheet with all your contacts and outline your applications plan with warm leads.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/43370/adding-n...

If I were you, I would use LinkedIn, and keep a 3 month old copy of their spreadsheet locally.
Perhaps there is a solution in a number system other than base 10. (I'm too lazy to pursue such a proof out of simple curiosity.)

From the problem statement, you know that 0 and 9 exist, so that eliminates binary through Base 9. But perhaps this hints at a more broad question: can 9000 be arrived at in any numeric base (> 10)?
> Is it a blockchain-centred crowdfunding platform?

Yes. It's a blockchain powered crowdfunding platform. Except it isn't just a medium to pre-order cool projects online(like Kickstarter is).
I call this work about work.
How exactly would the government control our purchases? If they expanded the food stamp program (I'm from the US) to include everyone then that wouldn't be a basic income because you couldn't use the money to pay rent or utilities or for a car. Basic income is about removing barriers to assistance. I feel this article is FUD directed a libertarians to scare them away from supporting basic income.
> They have gender rules that confuse foreign learners in the beginning.

I learn Spanish and Portuguese and I'm not the slightest confused by the gender rules - it's rather what I'm used to, since I speak German as native language.

TLDR: YMMV, but I don't think this holds if you come from a non-English background.
Very much so, but only once. Usually every screen has a well defined way to kill you - once you've figured that out, the game maybe takes half an hour to beat start to finish.

That first time through is killer. I have no shame in admitting that one of the first things I looked up when I got internet access as a kid were hints on it...
DuckDuckGo (Bing) and Startpage (Google) work fine for me 90% of the time. To keep things mixed up, my new browser tabs use Startpage, while DDG is the homepage. The !bang syntax at DDG can be especially handy, and Startpage provides a proxy for every link. Both search engines allow you to set up a personal URL, or cookie, with your custom settings (appearance/features/privacy/etc.). Simple and handy, not a giant Orwellian beast that's tracking my every move.

Like others have said, Google doesn't seem all that great these days (better flush that browser cache before searching!). The 10% of the time that the others don't provide adequate results, Google doesn't either. I've gone from instantly hopping over to Google when the alts don't provide good results, to adjusting my terms a few times before finally trying Google.

Google still works best when I want to buy something, which isn't surprising.
Nobody said yet, so here's mine: "Guess the Number" [1].

My 4 year-old loves it. He learned to count to 100 and got a lot better in understanding higher/lower numbers by playing GTN with Alexa.

It quickly became our favorite pastime when outside; we now turns on who'll be Alexa :)

[1] http://echoskillstore.com/Games/Guess-The-Number/76

(ps: unfortunately it's buggy as hell. I'm considering developing a new one, just to fix it)
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