skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty surprising for a tidally locked and that small of a body.
I agree. Found myself liking Uber more after the first couple of questions.
> Developers always benefit when marketplaces are open and initial cost of access is low - in money, if not necessarily in time

I don't agree. The open market platform for mobile devices has resulted in a race to the bottom.
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Is mono going to be fully merged into .net _something_ (core? standard?) at some point in the future or it will remain separate?
Well, it's very difficult. Good and interesting content can appear anywhere & anytime. I may not always read everything I follow but I try to have a glance. Interesting is subjective anyway.
If I really had to pick, I'd chose
- iOS Dev Weekly newsletter
- Follow Natasha: a blog, a newsletter, a conference and active figure on Twitter
- Epic length tutorials on Ray Wenderlich. They have a great team.
- OSS by Artsy. Checkout their engineering blog.
- I'd follow some of iOS developers and their blogs. I believe that surrounding yourself with better people makes us better.
Nice work! A good, minimalist solution.

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My personal favourite is Strict Workflow [1], which is a Chrome extension. It has the added benefit of preventing idle website browsing during a work phase.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strict-workflow/cg...
>>>> The rate of increase in autism is pretty much exponential

That chart shows the rate of increase in autism diagnosis, which is not the same.
>> allow developers to have their wallets bound to profiles >> strange this isn't a native function..
There's one thing worse than the government regulating a market: a company regulating it :)
It has highly eccentric orbit, tidal forces must be enormous.
> It's completely reasonable to expect a CS student to have experience programming.

If you say so. I neither see the reason nor the advantage. Don't get me wrong: I had experience in programming before entering a CS program, but I had fellow students who never did any programming before and they did just fine, while others with programming experience failed. And I'm pretty confident that all of them who managed to stay through the introductory year were/are able to do FizzBuzz.
What does it mean by "Methane can self-pressurize"?
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Too bad it didn't stop the bias in my Google interview :/

Passed through all the on-site interview problems and then they silently dropped me. No "we're sorry, you're not a good match." No emails, no phone calls. Nothing.
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Should have called it Project Shelbyville instead.

BTW, title should perhaps indicate this is a security-centric fuzzing tool. Possibly a bigger deal than it might seem from the name.
India is a vigorous democracy that has sent an orbiter to Mars. Yet its children are more likely to starve than children in far poorer nations in Africa. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/opinion/half-these-kids-ar...
> However, the lawsuit specifically alleges that, in one example case, the qualified application pool was 73% Asian.

My question is how the government is determining the "qualified applicant pool."

Not everyone with a CS degree is qualified to develop software. In my experience, only a minority of CS graduates are qualified to program.

I'm guessing there is some confounding variable here which predicts both ethnicity and poor qualifications. Perhaps being a master's student looking for a visa sponsor.
I haven't researched the BB in a while. Are there any BLOBs that remain (graphics?). Last time I checked it was the freest alternative I found.
OpenVPN on the bastion host, and ssh over the VPN. If you don't control the bastion, then you need something that 'phones out' (could use a reverse ssh session for small scale stuff)
There isn't really a C family maybe a not-quite c family that includes c++/java/c# languages(but not c). C isn't very statically typed. C++/java/c# are object oriented (or sort of for c++) with generics/statics/inheritance, a few functional features, limited type inference. Similar looking syntax.

Rust syntax isn't really that close to c, I think it's close to ml.
Less Money ? Already ISRO's budget is a tiny blip in the government's annual outlay. About $1.5 billion

http://www.isro.gov.in/budget-glance

Should ISRO be run as a private organisation to achieve better efficiency ?

I don't think so, because, despite being a government organisation, the bureaucracy in ISRO is next to nothing. The organisation hierarchy is relatively flat for that size. There are six or seven levels between the lowest grade scientist and the chairman. I think Scientist B to H. The chairman reports directly to the Prime Minister. Even the defence heads don't get this privilege. If you imagine any private organisation of that size, there are a lot more inefficiencies in their org structure and the general operations. I'm not able to draw specific comparisons at the moment.

ISRO has also not net produced a Falcon 9, yet. That I think is mostly because of their budget constraints and not because of organisational inefficiencies.

Now, can a new private company do better than ISRO? Specifically, can a private company build a Falcon 9 like rocket more efficiently than ISRO can? In theory, absolutely. In reality, probably no.

Per ISRO's budget estimate, you are looking at raising at least $3-4 billion for a 2 year runway. Even if you start small you are looking to raise in the $100 million range for your seed round. Unlikely that any domestic VC in India will foot this bill.

So you'll need foreign money. Given the security concerns around space programs, govt will not let foreign money fund such programs. Even if they did, it'll subject the foreign investors to so much red tape that the investors will get fed up and decide not to invest.
What's the use case for this ? I understand that most users are using embedded SQLite in their apps. Not sure how a cloud edition would fit here.
> Really it was Protestant, heterosexual white men, and maybe some other parameters applied too, but let's keep this simple.

Really? You don't think Jews had good jobs in 1950?
> I'm not sure how they got in or are able to graduate

I can't speak for elsewhere, as I went to university in Australia, but down here we have a MASSIVE foreign student population as a percentage - International education is currently Australia's third largest export overall - mostly from India and most parts of Asia (kinda our closest neighbours).

My personal, very anecdotal experience is that Indian students were either amazing, or very much not very good. The route seemed to be do ANY degree in India, followed by a (one year?) Masters in IT in Australia. This then legitimised their IT bonafides.

The Indian culture also has a different attitude to cheating - it is seen as much worse to fail than to be caught cheating - and I saw this play out a fair few times, to the point that in one exam 5 Indians had to be physically separated for passing paper back and forth. We also had one girl who said to her lecturer "I don't see why it matters, I'm never going to work. I just need a degree so I can go home and marry a good man".

Now, to answer the quote, the reason this continues is due to the Australian need for the foreign $$$. As a result, very few foreign students are (or is it were?) disciplined for these infractions. Several times it has been a massive scandal down here (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/mymaster-essay-cheating-scandal-mo... although it seems common: http://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-students-seen-cheating-m...), and many locals worry it devalues their own education.

On the flipside, the very best students in my year were foreign, and often Indian, so this was not a one-size-fits-all situation.

YMMV, but the Australian universities need for foreign student $$$ has lead to MUCH lower standards for foreign students passing than locals, at least in the past.
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Not the current one, that was Yamani, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zaki_Yamani

I agree that the the price of oil is more likely to increase. It's common sense: The oil companies prefer to develop the cheapest (simplest, most accessible) fields first, so every time a field empties they replace its output with oil from a more expensive field, or not if the new field seems too expensive at the current price level.

But that doesn't that indebted car owners are safe. Oil producers can't cut production all that much (geology doesn't work that way) so the price can certainly drop in the short term. A few years later it'll have increased again, but in the meantime the bank might have impounded the car.
Should every node's value be printed out exactly once and if so, are there nodes which have two parents?

If so, I would keep the pointers in a set to mark nodes as processed but is there a more elegant solution?
> His latest tweets are a bit hard to interpret but they say target thrust is 3x Merlin, and 3x chamber pressure, meaning they look similar size if they have a similar area ratio.

Does it mean three Merlin engines can be replaced with one Raptor engine?
As in better technology than fossil fuels is now available which will cause less oil demand over time. I have seen a lot of articles recently mentioning how several countries have a significant portion of their energy needs met by renewables. IIRC Costa Rica was one...
sizeof(double) is not specific to any one programming language or architecture; it's determined by IEEE 754, an international, cross-language, cross-platform standard. Non-IEEE floating-point implementations are exceedingly rare nowadays (although they do exist).

You're right about it being engineering, not computer science, but IMO it's reasonable to expect someone applying to a programming job (assuming this is what it was) to have at least some software engineering experience.
We had another applicant just last week with a shiny spiral-bound resume that looked good, but couldn't do FizzBuzz.
> LuaJIT bindings

Well... somewhat. FWIW I was present at q66's talk at the lua workshop last year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_hlbjj_9-Q). From what I recall it was more of a full application framework rather than a library usable from existing processes.

I did try to give them a go at some point, but could never get things working.

Aside from this, the reliance on luajit makes this a no-go for me. (though perhaps you can use luaffi (https://github.com/facebook/luaffifb) to alleviate this?)
Apparently the author was involved with an iOS app, but from this description it sounds like it's not the same codebase: http://fract.al/team
Dup (15 h): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12583795
I think you shouldn't be offended at interview questions around skill unless you've been on the other side of the table. It's eye-opening, the range of people that apply for these positions.
I don't think so. With their half-life they'll never be able to overrun much of the world. And thing is, we'll never know now. It's your opinion vs my opinion.
You could use your own OpenVPN Access Server (https://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/download-openvpn...).

Configuring an access server isn't extremely difficult (https://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/docs/quick-start...)
Please don't take these comments personally.

I've seen lots of very incompetent Indian applicants. That doesn't mean I won't happily interview another Indian developer because I also know that there are lots of very competent Indian developers. Some of the best coworkers I've ever had were Indian.

Anyone who lazily dismisses you because "Asian people cheat" are themselves incompetent interviewers. In my experience, it's actually incredibly cheap/easy to suss out the competent people with a quick 15-minute phone screen.
The actual quote is roughly "the stone age didn't end for lack of stones, the oil age won't end for lack of oil", and he was saying that the oil age would end when the price of newly developed oil fields rose above the level where consumers would choose to spend their money in other ways.

I think he also said that "there'll always be a trickle of oil being produced at $1000/barrel" but maybe that was at another time.
> Once you get rid of human drivers, anyone can build a ride-sharing system. It just takes enough money to buy enough cars, and the ride sharing app, and that's it.

Cars have to be cleaned. A small percentage of people leave trash behind. A driverless car won't know or care that the last passenger left their odor in the back seat...
The PC developer boom was only big when comparing it to previous state: almost nothing. The mobile has order of magnitude more users (basically everybody on earth) and also developers. Also, no, not everybody could ship a product on a CD or a floppy, distribution of software had huge costs. Unless you consider that giving floppys to your friends as distribution.
Which means it's important that they try really hard to avoid being detected.

They probably can't do it, but it's still got a better chance of success for them than staying in business for a year with no sales.

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Edit: When I think a moment more about it, my point is silly. I realize how inconceivably impossible it is for them to avoid detection. If they sell backdated certs, one easy way to detect this would be to buy one.
I really like this workflow, but my major grip is that the autogenerated merge commits are terribly ugly and uninformative. I'm sure you can override them, but no one seems to every do it. The workflow is awesome at visually segregating your logically separate pieces of work, but you never actually end up giving it a proper label like "Added feature" (which took a refactor and 10 commits)
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Noob question. Aren't the moons of Jupiter and Saturn also tectonically active? With the immense solar pull, Mercury would have some heavy sheer forces causing plates to move.

I am sure I am missing something. Please enlighten me.
> It's common practice, but that doesn't make it ok.

It's inevitable, and it happens from both ends of the hiring funnel. When I decided it was time to look for a new job, the first thing I did was to look at where people I'd worked with before had ended up. I knew those were places where I would be qualified to work, would be likely to advance my career, and where I would be happy on a daily basis. This is incredibly valuable information for me as I live my life.

(This is in addition the business's gain of being able to save dozens of engineer-hours discarding junk candidates from the hiring process, thousands of dollars in job advertising, and tens of thousands on recruiter fees.)

Asking everyone to destroy this information and waste resources on alternative sources in the service of a more valuable but vague, distant and nebulous goal is... impractical. Pursuing it any regulatory manner would either be a joke or carry a crushing burden on the ability of business to actually conduct business and might very well violate Constitutional protections on the freedom of speech. It would fuel backlash and resentment. It cannot possibly be the best way to do things.

If you want to fix this then we need to find a world where individual self-interest and the pursuit of this goal are at least roughly in alignment with each other. That means making hiring for minorities and the poorly-connected better, rather than making it worse for everyone else - and, from a human perspective, is about making connections between human beings rather than trying to sever them.
> Nobody can watch television more than 24 hours per day.

You're forgetting about picture-in-picture. ;p
This is addressed in the document as well:

WoSign/StartCom could back-date certificates to get around this restriction. And there is, as we have explained, evidence that they have done this in the past. However, many eyes are on the Web PKI and if such additional back-dating is discovered (by any means), Mozilla will immediately and permanently revoke trust in all WoSign and StartCom roots.

If the CA really goes that route, it will be clear malicious behavior and therefore a good reason to permanently ban the CA.
Well..

C and C++ offer a wide variety of arithmetic types.
Double precision is not required by the standards
(except by the optional annex F of C99, covering
IEEE 754 arithmetic), but on most systems, the
double type corresponds to double precision.
However, on 32-bit x86 with extended precision
by default, some compilers may not conform to
the C standard and/or the arithmetic may suffer
from double-rounding issues.
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But the idea to generate that huge HTML by javascript to display source is weird. Especially when it takes half a minute for a big web page.
Using statistics is one way, but is suboptimal. An optimal system would use the cameras to adjust to each situation like a traffic cop would. Though I bet even a modest adaptive light system could do better than a cop, for the simple reason that lights could coordinate with their neighbors.
Take a look at peecho.com, they ship worldwide, are cheaper and don't require you to make it PDF/X-3 compatible.
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Mercury has a 3:2 rotation vs orbit resonance (it's "day" appears to last 2 years).
How many cores does the CPU have? I can't really figure it out from the stats.
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Google makes great doodles : https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2016/googles-18th-birth...
I’ll take a look! Thanks!
I am CTO of a company that handles these kinds of problems. We work with investors and operate as a start-up incubator. Not every company is the same, and I can't speak for others - But we don't take a project we don't believe in and i'm intimately involved with every project. We don't actually assign people to it - they kind of choose it themselves. So there's always passion.

The hardest part is communication. You solve that, as we have, and you're golden.
Congestion in an inner city can reach a point where fiddling with the lights won't accomplish anything. But in moderate traffic areas, big improvements should be possible and practical.

After all, once an adaptive system is created, it could be installed on most intersections.

I keep thinking of adaptive car fuel injection systems that Ford uses. It's so adaptable that they're pulled off of 90's Mustangs and installed on Mopar V8's from the early 70's, despite being a completely different engine with different firing order, etc., and people have reported great results.
Source HTML even, so whatever javascript changed is not there.

But for fun and laughs I saved js-generated source of a pretty big web page, opened it, and then pressed CTRL-U. It took 50 seconds to generate and render the source view. No wonder...

> document.getElementsByTagName('*').length

< 956632

(should be fun to go deeper and save this html, and then go ctrl+u on that)

edit: Tried it and it's been choking on the next "level" for the past 9 minutes. The tab is at over 1.5GB memory, I'm going to kill it.
Yeah, yeah, get me the EGA card/memory update that includes the Dallas real time clock!
I never understood the interior layout of subways in Paris... they have seats positioned right at the door, where people would stand normally. It seemed to me like everyone was always stepping on each others toes, and on each stop the whole train was shuffeling around for people to get in and out.
How is it different from having to convey a thought over multiple sentences?
I could do vintage computer and electronics restoration all day...if it paid my bills!
By the way, this is if you want to sell books through their API's. If you just want to order something for yourself they have a separate service where you can upload & buy: http://www.simpleprintservice.com/
There are instructions here regarding how to set up an RPi3 to boot from USB:
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Anyone know of a service / app like these or Zipcar that could be used to share a car between a group of friends & associates? My city is way too small for Zipcar but I could probably round up a car sharing group if it wasn't too much hassle to administer.
I do that too, sometimes even more frequent.

You really don't need an app for that, there are tons of videos on YT serving exactly this purpose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb49mTBTFR8
The main problems I've experienced:

* SVG's performance degrades sharply after a few hundred objects, then you have to use canvas or WebGL, or prerender to images
* browser differences

otherwise good
What about Standard ML? [http://www.smlnj.org/sml.html]

Much simpler than Scala, OCaml etc.. Many would say much better designed. It is the god father of many languages. There are several very good compilers available. [http://www.smlnj.org/] [http://mosml.org/] [http://mlton.org/]
Io, Jupiter's innermost moon and
the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is interesting because its source of heat is believed to be tidal heating: Jupiter's gravity pulls Io inwards while Jupiter's other moons pull Io outwards. This leads to a weird, eccentric orbit, which in turn means changing levels and directions of gravity leading to movement
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I think because it's so hard to do VR well that they'd have to reject almost all the apps.

They'd have a choice between a terrible first impression for users, or a terrible first impression for developers.
That's a bit like my old soldering iron - the heating element was soldered to its wiring, so you needed a soldering iron to fix the soldering iron.
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At ANU I took one of our (quite few) digital electronics courses that taught me how to design simple digital logic on FPGAs. It ended up being probably one of my three favourite courses of my degree.

I think what I got out of it was similar - I'm obviously not nearly as knowledgeable as a fully fledged electronics engineer, but I have some basic knowledge which allows me to cross the gap between software and hardware and truly appreciate the fact that it is actually possible to get from just having a pile of logic gates to having something resembling a processor.

To anyone reading this who's currently a CS major - if you have the opportunity to do a course in digital logic design I'd highly recommend it. Regardless of what layer of the stack you end up working in, it's a lot of fun and very satisfying to understand how this stuff works. If you do end up working fairly low in the stack it's particularly helpful - after uni I ended up working on kernel development at IBM where even though I don't work in hardware engineering I've found it helpful to have some of the background knowledge.
For the Mandelbrot set, I'm familiar with the proof that says that if |z_n| > 2, then 0 iterates to infinity regardless of c. The proof depends on it being an analytic function. How do you know that's also true for this equation?
Elixir and Erlang were built with a purpose. OCaml kitchen sink is due to use in prod btw. Like Erlang, it is a language that evolved with industry needs more than due to "research"
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Gateway the ethernet from yours to the one in the museum? After all, they are supposed to be networked workstations...