skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're not reasonably separable

They are very reasonably separable. If they weren't, countries like Korea couldn't have switched their orthography (which they did).

Also Japanese people enjoyed playing games like マザー２. This is part of "actual native media", and Japanese writing could look like this:

https://youtu.be/F_UrqsO2JQ0?t=10m15s

(Notice the native narrator has no trouble reading the kana-only writing.)

It's true that much of current native media still uses kanji, but they aren't "immediately necessary". There are books/manga with furigana and software tools like Rikaichan/kun for online articles.

People should be able to learn whatever they want outside of the classroom, including kanji (being able to recognise commonly used characters certainly helps in understanding native media). It's just that grammar, vocabulary, etc (real language) are much more important than kanji for beginners.
Hooli strikes me as a Google-sized Uber.
You're preaching to the choir :-) I lived in Santa Cruz for 13 years, and I would love to go back -- except that commuting to Sunnyvale would be hell.
Worth noting that the Allegro library also has a shader API:

http://liballeg.org/a5docs/trunk/shader.html
It's probably based on the results of this study[1], and the giant raft of stories that followed it over the last decade.

[1] http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ734402
You're missing the point. When there isn't a market for $AAPL shares at $100, but the government steps in to offer $100 to prop up the price of $AAPL stock, there is a problem. That is the issue with housing prices, stocks, bonds, debt, and everything else on the world stage. This central bank interference destroys price discovery and disrupts prices everywhere, including Palo Alto, even if they aren't directing bidding on homes there.
While the origins and order from millions of years ago may remain unclear what is clear is that by the time individuals had achieved the pathetic defensive and offensive weapons of the modern human body something else had to be going on.

A single modern human on the plans of Africa would almost instantly succumb to the carnivorous interests of any number of hungry beasts. Modern humans in their modern bodies alone have just nothing to inspire fear in anything bigger than a koala bear.

One aspect is clear, humans living in groups are more viable, but that gets you only so far. A whole group of humans facing the local lion with just their bodies alone would just be chomped down one by one.

While throwing is not bad for hunting it's particularly devastating when combined with stones and a group of humans for defence. Humans with a bit of practise are stunningly accurate with throwing stones at speed. Imagine a group of lions (or any other predator really) facing 20 or more humans throwing stones with deadly intent. Humans in this circumstance are instantly transformed from the neighbour weakling to a defensive force of undeniable leathality and terror.

The real beauty of it is that the human doesn't have to be near the target to impart the stinging blow. Other natural weapons red in tooth and claw require the aggressor to make contact with the prey and possibly suffer injury. Thrownn rocks avoid this danger entirely.

Hunting requires many different strategies of which stone throwing may be one. Defence in the dark of night from a closing dread predator would be best effected with a hail of well placed stones every few seconds. Very few predators would be willing to risk it for very long.

Luckily for humans, herds of elephants only eat vegetation.
Good job trying a more capable tool!

A key reason Excel is the default is that people have access to it, while Matlab is prohibitively expensive.

One way to break that trend is to choose GNU Octave, the open source alternative to Matlab. The more widely GNU Octave gets used (or similar free tools) the more likely we are to move beyond an Excel by default engineering culture. GNU Octave covers a large percentage of Matlab features and is able to run Matlab code. https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

There are other tools, like SageMath, that are built on Python and may make an even better Excel alternative for organization that aren't dependent on legacy libraries of Matlab code.
Type safety & all that jazz. Swift is a much more powerful language than javascript (and typescript) is.
js_of_ocaml and BuckleScript both do a very good job with OCaml.
http://www.abinitio.com/en/

Wikipedia:
"Ab Initio maintains a high level of secrecy regarding their products. Some people working with their product, even those who work for organizations who use Ab Initio, operate under a non-disclosure agreement which prevents them from revealing Ab Initio technical information to the public."
> Do you think that calling your mom is the same thing as visiting her in person? Do you think you could be a good parent via Skype? Of course not. So why do you think that business relationships are any different?

Because familial relationships are not transactional in the same way that business relationships are?
I'm curious what the context of the original post is. Is the OP just wanting to share the SE Handbook?
A Peek Inside the Moonshot Factory Operating Manual
I visited 42 in Paris a while ago and chatted with some students. It's impressive. Technically, the program is really good. They start with some pretty low level stuff (they learn C and reimplement bits of the std lib) and go from there.

But the most impressive thing was the potential of the school as a "social elevator" (ascenseur social) as we say in French - meaning a way for people from lower class backgrounds to land middle / upper class jobs. One such story that stuck with me was a guy who used to work construction jobs. Then he landed a job as a sales guy at the French equivalent of Best Buy. There he heard of 42 and signed up for it on the demo computers in the store (he had no computer or internet access of its own). When I met him, he was halfway through 42's program, and he's probably working a pretty nice job now. Truly an inspiring story.
Cyber war is much preferable to real war. Letting Putin throw the secrets of his enemies into the light to influence an election is probably going to stoke a retaliatory response but another generation of humans will grow up without total war upon them.

Mutually assured destruction is a hell of a deterrent.
> I don't buy into the whole 'everyone is getting spied on'.

They are. At least the NSA is doing it at a global scale —thanks Mr Snowden for turning this "conspiracy theory" into an established fact.

> There is nothing interesting about an average person

Until there is. At that point, all they have to do is a nice search query into their ludicrously deep archive, so they can dig up whatever wasn't exactly average about that particular person. There has to be a trigger of course, but if you set one off, you'll be put on a watch list for higher scrutiny —at best.
I think it's accurate that most will fail and few will succeed. But this is mostly a result of a small percentage sticking with it much longer than the rest.

I left my job a corporate job I was unhappy at 7+ years ago. I pursued my passion for art and design and struggled for years. I often thought I'd made a huge mistake. In fact, I was sure I had made a mistake. I was the dude living a pipe dream.

And then just when I thought I was an idiot it all started to work out. It just took me much longer than I thought. Today I get more fulfillment, more freedom, and more money doing something I'm passionate about. I'm so glad I didn't give up.

Is this path right for everyone? No way. But what James says has merit.
"How can 42 be free?

42 is free thanks to the financial support of Xavier Niel, a
French entrepreneur and the founder of the telecommunications
company ‘Free’ in France."
When I was a kid, the biggest barrier to working on my car was I had no money for proper tools, and was always making do. Having good tools makes things much more fun, and I get better results, too. A lift falls into that category, it makes working under the car fun rather than a painful bitch. It's especially bad as I get older and I am not able to move my head back and forth to get what I'm looking at in focus :-) And I am tired of setting my hair on fire with the lamp (fortunately, that at least isn't a problem anymore as my hair has decamped for the fjords).

Getting the car up on jack stands takes about 10 minutes, off is another 10 minutes. It just takes away from the fun, whereas a lift is boom! it's up.

So it doesn't really matter how much I'd use it, a used one isn't that expensive and I am willing to spend the bucks on it.

A piece of advice - never ever support your car on brick. It can crush unexpectedly and then the car falls on you, you die. I once used cinder blocks to hold the car up (making do), and they suddenly turned to dust and the car fell, fortunately before I got under it.

Now I use two sets of jackstands (the extra set as backup), and I give the car good shoves before getting under it.
Would an electrically powered, computer-controlled turbo be silly?
Kevin's French Fry Emporium
Palo Alto has the problem that people don't leave.

It used to be a college town. University Avenue had four bookstores. But then people stopped moving away. About a decade ago, Palo Alto did a survey of residents to find out how long they intended to live where they were. Most said they intended to live there for the rest of their life. This implies Palo Alto becoming a retirement community.

University Avenue now has zero bookstores.
Pulling fiber itself is very expensive and slow process. So any new entrant (like Google Fiber) is facing a very long term investment. In the current investment mindset it's a very difficult task. Today it's all about short term gains, not about long term ones.

And if you want to avoid duplication, you need to enforce local loop unbundling[1], which current monopolists also oppose very strongly. It even was required in the past, but those regulations were gutted, thanks to corrupted lawmaking driven by monopolistic interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling
> For now, think of turning the Peninsula into tall buildings, concrete and asphalt.

No, the opposite. Urban density reduces sprawl. The more people you can accommodate in the city core, the less you need to spoil the surrounding countryside.
>Many cities near Palo Alto have houses at a reasonable price

LOL
Re 2. if it makes you feel better even a competitive market won't do much to fix this. Even a small ISP is is always going to be big and connected enough to fear having some license or service yanked if it does not toe the line.

Re 3. a diverse market for ISPs might improve this a bit though. Depending on the whims of the courts. A "renegade" ISP might decide to make a name for itself by getting into trouble for not helping out in spying.
We're dealing with larger than mountain lion scale beasties here. Fun fact about hippos: they can't jump. Like at all, unless they're submerged and can use the buoyancy of the water. The same is true of just about any modern tetrapod within that size range. If you're a tetrapod the size of a mountain lion or even a bengal tiger, you can still have speed, agility, and the ability to spring, pounce, and grapple with the forepaws. At T. rex scales, the square-cube law has something to say about that.
I learned about Funspot from King of Kong. Great to see them still making it. Hopefully the parts situation gets resolved.
As a VeraCrypt user, I'm in support of this type of thing happening more for potentially critical open-source projects like this.

It'd be pretty cool if larger security consultancies with cryptographic expertise would band together and come up with a way to easily work with these types of projects, that way they could crowdfund exactly what they'd need to complete audits like this for themselves. I'd give a good chunk of change to projects that I used if they had a crowdfunding page for their cryptographic audit efforts that didn't expire ever.
The problem with the "will of the people" is outlined here pretty well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/10/why-c...

A small minority of NIMBY homeowners can capture and control a city council fairly easily. When you are well off (and are retired or independently wealthy and don't work...) and you're in a town of 65,000, that really means there are maybe at most 1000 people actually going to City Council and paying any attention to it. That means that if you've lived there for 30 years, you know all of them and your networks are very deep. So, a small minority who has time and resources can effect a lot. And meanwhile young people, working people, people with young kids, people working 2-3 jobs, etc they're not paying attention, they don't have those deep networks, and frankly they only show up to vote in presidential elections. Plus, people who like how things are going, don't really dig into this stuff and have no reason to think anything is wrong. If you think Palo Alto "is on fire" and "going to hell in a hand basket" because you have to drive by a new apartment building, then you show up to council and you show up to vote. But if you have no issue with new buildings, you've got no reason to show up and you're far less concerned with voting. So, problem #1 is that people who are most affected are not paying attention or do not know that they should be paying attention.

Problem #2 is as outlined in the article above. When every city council is captured by existing homeowners, no town decides to add housing. Every town prefers to add jobs that bring in tax revenues but thinks they have little to gain from allowing more housing, because of the attendant infrastructure costs (like new schools). And so collectively, they make choices that drive up the cost of housing, drive people away from jobs centers, create homelessness, and which contribute to income inequality as people spend more and more money on housing because of an artificial constraint on housing supply. Added together, this stuff hurts our economy and it's killing off the middle class.
3 of the 4 cofounders of 42 have previously worked at Epita, a private French computer science school that I attended and graduated from in 2003. Specifically, Nicolas Sadirac was the key director-level person in charge of pretty much everything: designing the extensive computer labs and networks used by all students and staff for everything (NetBSD and SunOS workstations, OSF/1 servers, NNTP newsgroups, a custom internal instant messaging system "Netsoul", etc... aah memories), selecting which classes to teach, hiring professors, and as a true hacker himself I believe he was even writing/designing (at least initially) the various programming tests, including those used during the famous "piscine". As to Kwame, he was working closely directly under Nicolas. I remember him as being also very talented, jovial, and very loud :) Florian, I don't remember him personally. I am less sure what connection Xavier and Nicolas have, but they seem to have known each other for a long time. Xavier appears to have not attended our taught at Epita? I could be wrong.

Epita was very successful thanks to its insanely intense focus on fundamentals: algorithms, programming, OS/compiler/DB design, low level stuff (reimplementing the standard C library, a 3D engine, a UNIX shell, etc). I absolutely loved all of this. However its investors and other directors wanted to change the school to have more general/non-programming courses in order to be recognized by the CTI (commissions des titres d'ingénieur, basically to give Epita's diploma more credence in the eyes of mainstream employers). But Nicolas disagreed and believed keeping the focus on fundamentals was key.

So in 1999 he left and started his own school called Epitech. For a while Epita and Epitech shared buildings and even some professors.

Eventuality Epitech became as successful as Epita (even more in my opinion). It gained a great reputation and graduates are courted by many employers.

I have been following the progress of 42 over the last few years, and I am really excited for them. They have the right team to succeed, that's for sure.
I'm confused. You've never even seen a hash table come up before? What sort of front-end work are you doing?

I just find this extremely unlikely if not borderline impossible. Hash tables are one of the most universal data structures in practical software development. This is just as true in JavaScript for front-end work as it is anywhere else.
Don't advance ignition timing so far at 14:1 compression, and DI helps.
McMansions seem rather well designed for their brief (at least compared to smaller modern suburban homes). Pseudo-principles such as "balance" don't actually matter all that much -- people spend remarkably little time in the position those images are taken from. The principles that might suit, say, Chatsworth House laid out in picturesque English countryside (which really can be seen in all its glory from its surrounds) do not apply to a large suburban home on a relatively small plot. Most of the time, the observer is not far enough back to see the whole house at all. They are in a garden, not very far outside one of the doors, or inside the house.

What many McManions do quite well is that if you travel around the house a short distance outside it (say 5m from the wall), it shows you a variety of interesting partial aspects. You can never see the whole thing but if it's well done then wherever you are in the garden will look fairly pleasant, and will feel slightly larger as the lack of continuity means you don't have a visual reminder of how short a distance you have travelled. And meanwhile, the many different secondary masses means you have different aspects from inside the house onto a small set of grounds.

Feeling bigger and more luxurious than it is, or than it costs, close-up (rather than looking glorious when seen from a good distance) is the brief of a McMansion.
> what kind of 'some applications'?"

All apps that request this feature in their manifest.

See here for details:

https://developer.android.com/preview/features/direct-boot.h...
Unless you're working in the Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare Device, or Automotive industries this will continue to be a problem for some time.

It's okay to use equivalent language when seeking out jobs. Try looking for "product design" or "product management" roles that emphasize technical competency.

Reach out to INCOSE and IISE professional organizations for help. Those organizations exist to represent your skill set to industry. Challenge them to improve recruiter and human resources recognition of the term "Systems Engineer".
Cool, but what does the "nested" part mean? That handlers can themselves be interrupted?
> Possible issues with this design could be:

Let's also recognize that shortblock costs will be much, much higher with this design when you need a rebuild. Many engine builders won't touch this, and I'd suspect the Nissan OEMs will say that these engine shortblocks are "factory replaceable only". Who is going to make aftermarket bearings for the multilink setup? How does the engine operate under actuator failure?
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This is true, but mathematical jargon is more broadly applicable. (Though at this level of detail I would roll stats in with probabilty and hence pretend it is part of maths).

I've been a physicist and am now a software engineer. I can use the maths based jargon in both those fields, but not vice versa.

That's partly because everyone in a STEM field had to learn at least some maths. But more importantly: maths is about the logical interconnection of things, while the things themselves are substitutable. So it is no suprise that its jargon can be applied in many fields.
It does not matter, the 'supply being constrained' point.

Let's say that Palo Alto allows high-density housing. Will that solve the housing supply issue?

No. You missed the point about the east coast having been settled first in the USA. And the point about LA.

Both of those regions allow high density housing. Would Palo Alto housing drop in price?

NO. The only way to solve Palo Alto's housing problem is -- MAKE IT NO LONGER A DESTINATION. Turn it into a non-destination locale, like -- say -- Stockton. Or Vallejo. Or Compton. Or Watts. Or Detroit.

The desire to live in 'destination cities' like back east, or LA, or Palo Alto is UNQUENCHABLE. It doesn't matter how much supply there is -- IT'S A DESTINATION.

People shun Stockton -- at least compared to Palo Alto. Stockton has cheap housing. Many fewer people want to live there.

If Palo Alto could suddenly pop up a few skyscrapers of apartments and condos, that supply would be taken up quickly. The same is true for San Francisco.

The desire to live in a destination city is like the desire to date a hot young gal. Unquenchable. If one hot young gal moved to Man Jose, the sausage fest of the South Bay, and ran a short TV ad, "I'm ready for dates and I won't be picky, just be nice" guys would come from outside San Jose to get access to that 'destination.'

Stockton is a plain, unattractive object of desire. Palo Alto is a gorgeous, extremely attractive object of desire. Adding more housing to beautiful Palo Alto will increase the number of eligible suitors dramatically -- and the added supply will not save this crybaby lawyer at all.

>"There is no free market in housing."

Not true. Go visit large geographic areas that are not 'destination cities' like Stockton; Modesto; Vallejo.

The entire state of Wyoming has a total population of only 564,000 people. Wyoming has an extremely free market in housing.

And there are free markets in housing in Destination Cities too. The City leadership is smart enough to know that a 'Destination City' has an unquenchable demand and faces a choice of:

- median home price of $2,700,000 with current population

- median home price of $2,700,000 with (current population + all those new arrivals who will quickly buy any new housing)

City leadership knows that adding supply will NOT lower housing prices. It will just make Palo Alto more crowded and grouchy.
> Whining about not being able to afford to live in a neighborhood where multi-millionaires want to live is not very productive.

You make it seem like solely a demand-driven problem, but supply is being artificially restricted, which is a form of protectionism that is unbecoming of the otherwise highly capitalist homeowners of Palo Alto.

The point has been made well here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/col...

"The people who bought their homes a long time ago lucked into a windfall and they resentfully lash out at anyone trying to cut in on that windfall. But notice how un-American these claims are. The current residents want to protect their gains by telling other people how they can use their property. When a new restaurant starts to take patrons from an old restaurant we generally don’t think that the old restaurant–the long-term resident–has the right to prevent the new restaurant from opening. The same is true, by and large, for new technologies and ways of doing business. Yet when it comes to residential land we give the old residents a veto on the new."
quite interesting, would like to give it a try,

but it only says "soon", what's the ETA?
I'm also on a premium account and get disconnected and reconnected at least once a week from OFTC - I thought I also got disconnected from Freenode, but now I'm not sure.
Now that's waterfall design. Show that to your scrum master.

Really. This is a manual for waterfall design of large, complex, one-off or small-quantity systems. Bridges and buildings are designed this way. It's slow, but it works. Errors in the requirements are really expensive to fix.
You make the supposition that the choice is obvious between the two but you don't acknowledge that the NY times unabashedly supports HRC. So, once you adjust your prior to that information? The choice becomes a lot less clear.