skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming tests amplify modality because they require success on multiple items to succeed.

Consider teaching N skills. Success is binary, uncorrelated and everyone randomly succeeds some high percentage P on each skill. Scoring is the number of binary successes. You'll get a Gaussian distribution. That's most of education.

Now suppose scoring is 1 if all N skills are learned. You'll get a bimodal distribution. That's programming tested on whether the program runs.
Your dismissal of actual science is quite absurd.
I would still not count anyone who takes of the shelf batteries and soldered them together a scientists, maybe an engineer in the broadest sense of term.
I've seen nothing of this guy that makes me think that he is even remotely qualified to design a battery that would go into an aircraft.
I can't imagine how this would deal with damage. A large amount of Tesla's safety comes from each cell having a micro-fuse connecting it to the module bus, so a failed cell simply disconnects itself. Large single battery plates might be lower-resistance, but they'd be incredibly susceptible to damage.
There may have been some crossed wires. My earlier comments may have indicated that I'm unhappy with my job. My real reason for commenting was to highlight our work arrangements do not always reflect our 'stuff vs. time' preferences. For what it's worth, I would prefer to stay where I'm working and also work fewer hours at this same workplace. So I do want to work less/have more free time, I'm just not prepared to work for any company that doesn't push our society forward to get that. That's why 'quit your job' isn't applicable in my case, I'd rather turn my existing job into something closer to my ideal job.
Apparently a third and more sensible way is possible in the Indian market though, with the HP DeskJet GT printers, which have refillable reservoir tanks (not even disposable!)

Yet somewhow they aren't offered for sale in Europe?

Instead we get the subscription model, which involves yet more data (printer usage, ink levels) disappearing off to someone else's servers.
Electric car boom raises pollution fears
Mind if I ask where you went and whether you found it valuable (in terms of both knowledge gained and screens passed)?
I hate when people judge machine translation progress by looking at Google translate. Google translate is really old and is no longer state of the art. But the best neural network based systems like this are much too expensive to use in production, at least for free. They say their new neural network ASICs will make it more practical, at least.

Anyway the scale of these neural nets is quite incredible. Google is getting far ahead of what any individual researcher with a few consumer GPUs can do.
What challenges does Twitter face that Disney doesn't already have to contend with via ownership of or stakes in ABC News, ESPN or Vice?

Twitter doesn't host video of substantial duration or audio, and comment threads everywhere are already the same mess (just at a different scale w/r/t twitter).
Do you know otherwise?

If we are talking about the U.S.: Jews were widely excluded from society. I know an American man who is Jewish and went to college in the 1950s. His whole family changed their last name so he could get in; many colleges barred or put quotas on Jewish applicants. Jewish lawyers couldn't work in many leading 'white shoe' firms. Jewish people couldn't join the country clubs and other social organizations where serious networking and business took place. Remember also that the KKK and similar groups preached hate against Jewish people as much as against black-skinned people.

I don't know the answer in greater detail than that, and my impression is that a person had much more opportunity believing in Judaism than being black-skinned, but clearly there was plenty of discrimination and much more, I expect, in some areas of the U.S.

Even to this day, has any leader of a major country been Jewish? Any country besides Israel? (A quick search found a couple French Prime Ministers.)
Ready, Set, Hacktoberfest
The source are the Apple developer forums and WWDC sessions.
Dell isn't a brand people commonly associate with printers, but I highly recommend their Color Laser printers. You spend $300-$400 upfront, but then you get a machine that talks PostScript and PCL (industry standards -- so no worrying about Linux support or installing special printer driver packages) and can be hooked up to the network (using Ethernet or Wi-Fi, depending on the model), and where each color of toner can be replaced independently.
> Can you square that circle for me and explain what you're doing to be an activist while eschewing the social sphere?

I don't eschew the social sphere, but I strongly lack charisma/am socially rather clumsy and rather the kind of person who has difficulties forming friendships, thus I'm not very social.
CNBC “Who Won the Debate: Online Polls” Easily Hacked with Scripts
Painless a new scripting language
I feel the same as you. Completely unmotivated and burned out.

I wish I had some good advice for you, but I'm still trying to figure it out myself.
Sparklyr – R interface for Apache Spark
Google Station wifi ecosystem
Because this isn't linguistics work. It's AI work. We are bypassing the impossibly hard problem of natural language processing. Instead we build AIs that can do the hard work for us, and much faster and better than any human linguist ever could.
If I were German I would feel pretty good that my government was willing to stand up for my privacy. In an era when both civil liberties and expectations of reasonable privacy seem to be falling by the wayside, even in countries that purport to espouse such principles I think this is pretty awesome.
If /s means sarcasm and you are correct, then GP is intending the opposite of what they say. That unsignalled irony will be missed by 95% of readers, and is probably ill-advised. I certainly didn't pick up on it, and I'm usually decent at that.
We were taught a bit of different story on the morality of President Lincoln https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pX6FBSUyQI http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/12/26/sham-tr...
auto-regression, cyclical, and yes - apply your own via machine learned or manually specified
Professional outrage generators is a great term for it. There's way too many people online whose job is essentially this right now.
Isn't POSIX just a specification?
I don't understand what you mean. A Dvd player is specifically build to play copyrighted material.

A computer can, but is not specifically build to play copyrighted content.
How 401k Plans Are Losing Your Money by Investing in Mutual Funds
A fascinating use of Leaflet is in LibreOffice Online. LOO uses Leaflet to load pixmaps of the document on demand.

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/community-news/libreoffice-o...
Or just live underground. There should be zones at around room temperature not too far off the surface.

Colonizing Mercury makes more sense than colonizing Mars. Much more abundant energy, reasonable gravity, plenty of water at the poles, and to avoid radiation you'd have to live underground in either place. The only drawback is the higher delta-V to get there.
Not necessarily, in many GC enabled systems programming languages you can also allocate outside GC heap.
Watches originate in the military?
Your electric company. Running two or more sets of power wires to every house so you can have competition on provision of electricity at the last-mile level doesn't really make sense.
Almost all the discussion is in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12575166
Does Lee agree that the US patent system is flawed and if so what would be a good way for people to get involved to promote reform?
Getting your democratic government to legislate protections is doing something.
There are certain things I definitely did not get in the beginning. But after working very hard I got them.

I am curious what percentage can make the jump as I did. Clearly there are certain "epiphanies" to be had. I almost immediately understood "for" loops, but took several years to get pointers and polymorphism each. I know of people who get some or all of these concepts instantly.

There is clearly the appearance of bimodality here, even in just my experience with just how I learned things.
From the data provided, it seems likely that OBD is reporting any speed while reversing as 0, so you could probably guess that when the engine speed is changing slowly (while above idle), and OBD reports vehicle speed as 0, the car is reversing.
In case you missed it, check the source on that poll. This script is explicitly voting for trump repeatedly with parallel requests. If you change the script to swap the ResultId with "5806a3da-00fc-4ad4-a801-4a4cf3a6a459" and it will automatically vote for Hillary.
Every Disney media property cross-promotes every other Disney property.

If Disney buys Twitter, every star in their stable will likely be required to tweet out a certain amount of content every day. Freshface McSongbird and Heartthrob McCleancut will tweet about going to see Rogue One in theaters, for instance.
It's a mistake to blame the rules. Litigation in USA is mostly supply-driven. We have several times the number of attorneys that a society like ours can safely have. The profession of law has created this surplus, and the rest of the nation hasn't reined them in. The only effective solutions would be Shakespearean.
Downvoted for asking for clarification? So I could participate in the discussion better? Awesome.
17 Amazing Blogs on Insider Threats You Should Be Following
Great to see Google splintering off into single duty compartments instead of spreading itself so thin that nothing gets done with the same amount of focus. Alphabet was a true design decision, and a mature one at that. One thing that crossed my mind recently was the notion of Google and its long relationship with hardware: we have this thing called the Blockchain now, and it could do with some of Google's hardware to run on, instead of independent factions of people spending their pocket money on their own hardware. It kind of makes me jealous and annoyed that so much could be spent for what effectively is sometimes just a data center for storing people's holiday snaps on Google Plus, when it could be used to host micro democracies and change the direction of finance. I suspect all that hardware will eventually be re-purposed many times throughout the course of the Google experiment and probably will eventually be given away at some point to the blockchainers who need it. I can picture the scene: dreadlocked decentralists rejoicing at their new hardware gift from Google, 25+ years from now. The ultimate redemption from their years of slavishly handing their personal information over to Google in exchange for a decent search experience. A true revenge for consumers of Google. Meanwhile Google would have entirely switched to SSDs and are probably using post-quantum chips, but at least we can host multiple different blockchains now without spending our pocket money on them. The blockchainers can start to get rich and blockchain can really flourish. Also, Google needs to create services which are for a post Snowden world. Allo is cute, but entirely inferior to things like Signal which addresses the problem of encrypted private chat head on. Google needs to create things like its own VPN service, perhaps?
They are both perfectly acceptable under certain circumstances yes. Though if you put them under a microscope they are pretty different. Epson's engineers designed their inks for Epson ink delivery systems. HP engineers did the same for HP ink delivery systems. They have very interesting and subtle differences which can cause different performance. However, their compatibility is relatively high, yes.

Knock off ink with less engineering on the other hand doesn't mimic HP OR Epson ink nearly as well as they mimic each other.
"Feed in energy" - that energy has to come from somewhere. The point of this subthread is where does that energy come from thermodynamically? The answer is orbital or rotational kinetic energy via tidal forces, which of course do affect both crust and water.
The solution to reversing a linked list should be self-evident to anyone who makes an attempt.

#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct Node Node;
struct Node {
int data;
Node * next;
};

Node * reverse_linked_list (Node * node) {
Node * prev = NULL;
Node * next;
do {
next = node->next;
node->next = prev;
prev = node;
} while ((node = next));
return prev;
}

int main () {
Node * node;
Node nodes[3];
nodes[0].data = 0;
nodes[0].next = &nodes[1];
nodes[1].data = 1;
nodes[1].next = &nodes[2];
nodes[2].data = 2;
nodes[2].next = NULL;

node = nodes;
do {
printf("%d", node->data);
} while ((node = node->next));

node = reverse_linked_list(nodes);
do {
printf("%d", node->data);
} while ((node = node->next));

return 0;
}

Or something thereabouts.
I believe most of the top has been with mozilla since before Firefox.
Why not just block http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html from the corporate firewall?
> It is often thought that humanity will leave no trace of its existence for the next civilization that will come, say, 20 million years

We have pretty good Trilobite fossils from 400+ million years ago. Why would they leave a trace and humanity not? (given all the stuff we produce: cities, cars, etc.)
You just cited a nation who has been in a population decline.
GitHub Hacktoberfest 2016
I'm not interesting in committing suicide, but obviously assassinating people isn't likely to yield a long life for the assassin. The other reality is that "sacrificing my own life" while very symbolic, is totally useless, so I have to wonder why you're so focused on that one point to the exclusion of literally everything else.
I installed it, and without consenting to sending any notifications or whatever, I started getting Signal messages from long-forgotten people who apparently had ME in THEIR contacts. It apparently notified THEM that I had installed Signal, which I absolutely did not want.

This included a few folks who I wish to distance myself from in every way possible, and have deleted from my contacts. Apparently they still had me in theirs. This also included a few folks who I keep in my contacts only so I'll recognize the number if it rings and know not to answer. Obviously the last thing I want is to remind these people that this I still exist and this is my current number.

The worst part was, for the ones who weren't in my contacts, I had to ask the stranger "Umm, forgive me for asking, but who is this?" in order to ascertain that, nope, I really didn't want to interact with them.

Shit shit shit shit.

Uninstalled it very quickly.
But not, apparently, ahead of what you can do with 8 consumer GPUs
If that zeitgeisty soft morality issue changes I pray to god that our acceptance of flaws and realistic human behaviour from our political class changes too.

Because in a world with no privacy, the only people who are going to be squeaky clean are thoae whose lives have been curated from day 1, either through privilege and iron-fisted parent s or through single-mindedness verging on psychosis.

People who should in no way be taking power.
How to get teams addicted to your Slack bot: A teardown of Howdy
Great point. To go further, I'd argue biases are crucial for efficient decision making as biases are a form human judgement essentially boiled down to priors and used to make complex decisions quickly based on limited data. Without effective biases we'd all probably starve to death arguing. Of course the fatal flaw (the modern age?), is an unwillingness to both critique biases while not outright dismissing them just for being biases.
Too dangerous.

If the wing got smacked up a little and got bent, thus the positive and negative surfaces touch, you would have a massive short circuit, then heat-up and very possibly ignition of the electrolyte with a fire that is worse than a jet fuel fire.
I hope you've got your checkbook out, then.
From a user perspective, the purpose of YouTube is to play out videos. Time spent in YouTube's user interface is a means for getting to the videos. But from Google's perspective, the revenue comes from time in the user interface, where the ads are.

"Reimagined" probably means "more ad slots".
Fewest vulnerabilities: I suspect that Chrome and Firefox being open source is a factor here. Thus it seems possible to me that they actually have fewer vulnerabilities than Edge—Edge’s just haven’t been found yet.

This is pure speculation on my part; I have no evidence nor any investigation, deep or otherwise.
Ah interesting, I didn't realise they had an office in London. Are there any engineering vacancies at the moment?
From the doc comments:

/// Accesses the `Pointee` instance referenced by `self`.
///
/// - Precondition: Either the pointee has been initialized with an
/// instance of type `Pointee`, or `pointee` is being assigned to
/// and `Pointee` is a trivial type.
public var pointee: Pointee

So, `a.pointee = 42` is fine since we all know that `Int` is a trivial type.
My laser printer has a replaceable toner cartridge and a replaceable drum unit that needs replacement far less often. The market can certainly handle the complexity of separately replaceable printheads and ink.
But even after the device has detected the (B)SSID, you have to enable either Wi-Fi or your mobile data connection for the device to communicate with Google's servers. Still, just as worrisome.
I don't think it's really a secret, the "unmeasurable mitigating factors" are society-wide discrimination issues that make life in general harder for black people. You don't have to pretend there's a secret conspiracy, affirmative action colleges are openly trying to correct for the effects of structural racism that they have no control over. This is certainly a debatable idea, but you don't need to act like it's something colleges are trying to cover up.
I've been hearing good things about Brother, but all their (and AFAIK everyone else's) laser printers are still pretty hefty compared to inkjets, aren't they?

Being very space-constrained (London) and looking at very occasional use (I've managed without owning a printer at all so far) that's a bit offputting.
Paul from Realm here:
The Developer Edition of Realm Object Server is free forever, and we're committed to adding new features and making it more powerful over time, but at the moment we haven't made any decisions about making it open source. We do have a strong history of open sourcing the things we build, so it's definitely something we're thinking about.
But if binodality is really strong in early level classes for that reason, it sorta suggests that maybe you should split into a fast and slow track, letting the experienced people maybe do 2 semesters in one class. Then the students with no experience but raw talent don't just drop off because they are having trouble keeping up with peers who have been programming since they were 11.
Which law are you referring to? This law contains, in plain language, assertions that laws enacted to encourage repair are considered "public good"? I'll believe it when you post a link.

What if there was a large company, RomeRepairCo, already operating in Sweden? Wouldn't they then have a claim to some form of protectionist angle to this law?

Do you see where I am going with this? You say "it is in the law", yet you are neglecting the fact that court cases hinge on the interpretation of law.

Why are laws designed to nationalize (ahem) national resources not qualifying as "for the public good"? When do governments enact any law that is not (ostensibly, at least) "for the public good"?

The history of ISDS law shows that the validity of "for the public good" is determined by these corporate courts^Wroom of corporate lawyers and according to their own corporate interpretation. This is why the outcomes they have so far produced run so contrary to any non-libertarian interpretation of a moral society.
I think this must vary a lot between schools.

In my school, SE ended up weeding out quite a few people who couldn't actually program. They were fine at math and "theory," but when it came down to actually programming, they produced garbage which only eventually worked through trial and error.

For most other classes, grading was based entirely on test cases so they could still pass with their frankenstein programs. SE was the only course which required the development of a large application and where grading was substantially based on actually looking at the code.

For the record, there were 0 essays in my SE class and lots of large, in-depth projects.
Betterment adds tax-coordinated portfolio feature
You can't point to the "industry" when the industry is composed of individuals with distinct roles. The scope of influence of the average employer, for example, begins with the receiving of applications - they have less control of who chooses to study the subject.
I recently found out that as of February 2016, an exempt employee working full-time in CA must be paid a minimum salary of $41,600/year. It's 2x the minimum wage.

I support raising the minimum wage in itself, but if that goes up anymore, I simply will not hire certain positions (entry level positions, assistants, maybe even jr devs) because it doesn't make sense at 2x for their skill level and/or role.

I understand what they are trying to do, but if business owners can't make a profit in this state with rules like the 2x one, they'll move or outsource as much as possible (offshore, staffing company, etc).
Microsoft has not taken a step back from GC, rather WinRT is built using COM, which requires RC to make C++ happy.

Android GC has been quite behind the state of the art from what production embedded JVMs like Aonix and Websphere Real Time are capable of. Actually Dalvik was left in limbo for quite awhile before they eventually came up with ART.

So it is easy to just generalize GC vs RC without regarding what algorithms are actually being used, and the qut of said implementations.

There are military weapons control systems and factory robots using real time GC implementations of Java in hardware much more constrainted than a smartphone.
Awesome. The one thing that is missing in the open source mapping community is a good geocoder.

Once we have that, adoption will come in waves. At the moment, nothing beats Google Maps, and their terms require you to use their maps.
What does this look like for a car with continuous variable transmission, like a late model Nissan Altima?
The days that I frequently need logs are the days that I need to prove that a particular application did a particular thing -- handled a particular transaction, sent a particular message, responded to/triggered a particular event, and so forth. Faults in these areas are applications software faults (often not even fatal ones), and are unlikely to affect the logger process at all, especially since it is insulated from the applications softwares by each running under the aegis of its own dedicated unprivileged user account.

Crash diagnosis is but one use for logs.
> So housing alone almost completely wipes out your extra income.

I guess it depends on ownership v. rent. Over the long term, housing is a forced savings account.

Even 20 years out, that $7,200 per month is going to be worth a lot of money. Sure, you paid $1.7M in mortgage payments, plus property tax and maintenance. But you also have a place that probably kept pace with inflation and at best, doubled in value. If value climbed at a modest (for SF) 4% per annum, that house would be worth $3.8M in 20 years.

So, in 20 years, you're looking at an additional $2MM (3.8M - 1.7M) increase in network by living in SF. This is assuming your compensation does not include stocks/options, which are rare in the midwest, but very common in SF.
If that's all they want from it, then they don't need to buy Twitter to gain the ability. Freshface McSongbird could be required to tweet without Disney having any ownership stake in the company.

They could exploit the 'promoted tweets' more, but you could buy an awful lot of promoted tweets for less than 20bn.
IoT Is Now Easier with Particle and Google Cloud Platform