skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SICP is an introductory text, and is usually taught to first-year undergraduates. We don't even know what sort of educational background this friend has, but if he can do algebra, then he'll be able to do the exercises in the first chapter and check his answers. Furthermore, because Scheme uses the substitution model, doing the exercises on paper is possible. It'll take care and attention to detail, but every Scheme expression can be expanded and reduced according to simple rules, just like in algebra. The same cannot be said for most other languages.
What are the mechanisms of those channels?

What the resume-in-pizza-boxes channel offers over, say, the resumes-in-email channel, is a lot fewer resumes. You've got some intention signalling in the RIPB version (it's expensive in terms of time and other committments), but low informational signalling otherwise as to overt qualifications, outside some general concepts (hustle, motivation, time availability / opportunity costs, charisma, confidence, or simply having heard of the trick somewhere).

There are a bunch of selection hueristics whose primary benefit is they eliminate a large component of the choice process. You'd do fairly well in simply randomly sampling from amongst the submissions, or applying some very rudimentary filters to eliminate the most obviously bad choices.

This is why mechanisms such as racial, gender, age, and cultural bias are so common. They're easy to apply, aren't entirely wrong (relatively homogeneous groups tend to operate better than nonhomogeneous ones, though there are many arguments about resilience and creativity/diversity), and hugely reduce the decisionmaking costs of the selector.

Unfortunately, knowledge / infotech / creative work hinges hugely on intangibles which are quite difficult to effectively communicate, especially to someone (say, an HR flunky) not intimately familiar with the field.

Toss in a ton of employer biases and control incentives (e.g., anti-poaching, anti-union, and similar concerns) and the situation starts getting messy quickly. Sure, there might be some alterative opportunities created as a result, but these tend to have far less commercial/financial potential and viability.
The key is that 'higher status', in this context, doesn't mean what it normally means. It took me a long time to figure that out. 'Higher status' means 'building muscle, confidence, ability to speak calmly and confidently, dressing better than average, treating women as humans, not as princesses.'

Being a multimillionaire is not 'higher status' when it comes to meeting women (unless you make it to the hundred-millionaire state')

Being a founder or a corporate exec is not 'higher status' when it comes to meeting women (unless you are C-suite at a fortune-500)
That's like learning astronomy without a telescope: not as fun, much more difficult but very possible.
This is interesting - I just posted a comment about being prescribed Depakote to handle Migraine (which has completely eliminated my bi-weekly attacks for the last two years).

I haven't paid particular attention to this kind of effect (and now that I know about it, I am certainly able to fall into placebo). Frankly, I haven't noticed any side effects from the medicine[0] other than a minor one of no longer enjoying the effects of alcohol -- though I was never a heavy drinker, I haven't drank at all since I started taking it because the relaxing, positive effects of a glass of wine are no longer present.

[0] I've stuck to a rule about side-effects for medicines like this. My wife reads them thoroughly and I explain anything "different" that I might be feeling when taking the drug and allow her to make the judgement call as to whether or not I need to call the doctor/pharmacist. Because these medicines have such a huge list of side-effects, I'd find myself expecting to get one or more of them so much that I'd manufacturer them in nocebo effect style.
Ruby folks are more open minded than JavaScript folks.

_ducks_
great timeline on a transformative individual and the technology he's chosen to transform right now

looks like he has overcome great lack of good fortune from a young age

realistically, also, the Intel scholarship in 2000 is such a rare form of (well-deserved) good fortune that very few other scientists will ever have the ability to leverage something like that

sadly, as recently as 2009 - 2010 it also looks like a very temporary slight lack of institutional political good fortune could very well have derailed the whole thing

if nobody had "sung his praises" and/or nobody had listened at the time, there would have been no breakthrough nearly as advanced by now

the best of science can easily become worthless in an institutional environment without a high level of political good fortune

transformative science is more common than you think, what's really rare as a unicorn is a breakthrough-capable scientist with an unbroken chain of political and/or financial good fortune

especially in labs that are unique, expensive, hazardous, controversial, etc.
Same goes for a lot of music journalism
The city governments set them.
Not the only IBM product to use Prolog, either. A large chunk of the relationship extraction code for the Jeopardy! Watson DeepQA system was written in Prolog as well[1]. Obviously something of a natural fit for the language.

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[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6177727/, if you've got an ieee subscription
What a coincidence: I actually just started grad school this year at GT but in ECE! Awesome, it's good to hear that the online MS is running smoothly. I don't think the CS department here is as large as Stanford's though, but I'm not totally sure.
Take a job, or a gig, or a ticket that is beyond your skill level, and don't give up until you solve it.
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My laptop has a pair of NVMe drives that can easily read at that rate.
Back in the 90s this was a wet dream to many people. Like the article mentioned, this could have been done on a native token (btc/eth) but best of luck with the experiment.
What is racism? I was under the impression there is no scientific validity to the concept.

I think this whole idea of race should be put down, euthanised. I like to mock it by comparing people to dog breeds. We don't call the English Pointer and the Miniature Shar Pei different races, but they have distinctly stronger difference than English compared Chinese people.

In an effort to reclaim my preferences I can often be hearding saying things like "I don't mean to sound racists, but could you pass the salt" at the dinner table.
Jihad isn't obligatory, that's a perversion of the verse. The only obligations are the 5 pillars of Islam - Belief in the Oneness of God, Salah (Prayer), Hajj (Ritual Pilgrimage), Charity and Fasting during the month of Ramadan.

Also, Jihad doesn't refer to a violent battle. Jihad means struggle, struggle to follow their faith. Violence is only the last step and often only in self-preservation. Even then there are rules of engagement and not a barbaric manner as depicted.

Struggle for self-preservation to follow Islam is no longer applicable IMO. The West doesn't limit their citizens or visitors from following their faith. Freedom of religion is a fundamental right, and as such no Muslim can claim to be fighting for their religion when killing Innocents which is one of the biggest sins.
that worked well for lavabit
Linux Bcc/BPF Run Queue (Scheduler) Latency
Nir and Far
Be like Malcolm X and read every programming book he can get. Send him PDF copies. I'm self-taught. I obviously had a computer but I spent a ton of time just reading and studying other people's code. There was a time as a kid when I wanted to play the Sax but my mom made me wait a year. I bought a book and learned the fingerings and played by air for a whole year and took first chair the next. If he is really motivated, he can do it. In fact... I'll contribute and send him books as well as advise on how to get there. Send me a message and I'll help you help him.
Using publicity stunts and showing up at people's offices with food are both classic job seeking tactics. But sneaking into people's offices dressed as a delivery person is a terrible idea. Some people might be receptive to it, but a lot of other people are going to feel unsafe and like their physical space has been violated.
Perhaps I fell well outside of the normal patient in this case but I've been taking a small-ish dose (500mg/day) for about two years for treatment of Migraine. As my previous comment states, I make it a point not to read the side-effects (that's my wife's "job") and haven't noticed anything unpleasant about the medication other than it reducing my anxiety and making drinking alcohol less enjoyable.

Perhaps my dose is particularly low. For the first couple of months I was at 1000mg/day and asked to have it reduced because the stark difference in going from mild-moderately anxious to zero anxiety made me not feel particularly like myself (reducing anxiety also reduced excitement and the enjoyment that came with it, so I felt a little too "leveled out") but even at that dose it was very tolerable and I would have been fine if I had to go back up to it to manage my symptoms.

On the flip-side, I haven't suddenly been able to learn a foreign language (something that I calculate would require a lot of neuroplasticity for me -- I've struggled to learn any language beyond English most of my life) and my pace of learning -- which is something I'm inherently passionate about -- doesn't seem to be any better than it was two years ago. So while I wouldn't agree with the assessment of it being unpleasant and having a high incidence of side effects in my particular, anecdotal, case, I also wouldn't recommend self-medicating with it in my particular, anecdotal, case, unless, of course, you have suffered from Migraine for a couple of decades and have problems with the common medications prescribed for treatment.

It's an interesting drug. When I started taking it, there was no information on WebMD/drugs.com indicating that it could be used for the prevention of Migraine. Forum posts throughout the interwebs abounded with anecdotal tales of people being surprised by the sudden elimination of symptoms. I, like them, was prescribed the medicine for a different purpose (though, in my case, I didn't have the disease it was prescribed for), but after seeing an expensive headache specialist that I had already had an appointment on the books for (made six months prior), I was told that he sometimes prescribes it for that purpose and it "either works or it doesn't" in his experience. It was a hit for me. And as of a search a few months ago, the more mainstream sites indicate that it is sometimes prescribed for Migraine. That it might have other benefits is great as far as I'm concerned, especially since I think I pay a little over a dollar for a 1-month supply.
The idea of logical programming has much promise. Not for programming, but for running queries on a knowledge base.

You might want to take a look at Datalog [0]:

Datalog is a declarative logic programming language that syntactically is a subset of Prolog. It is often used as a query language for deductive databases. In recent years, Datalog has found new application in data integration, information extraction, networking, program analysis, security, and cloud computing.

An example of this in real-world use would be in Rich Hickey's Datomic [1]:

Datomic is a distributed database and implementation of Datalog on Clojure. It has ACID transactions, joins, a logical query language—Datalog.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datomic
sure except their paper just describes the issue and their solution is "pay us money". Not really up to the same standard as even a bad academic article, more like the paid talk track at a conference, you know, the kind lots of people avoid.
Yeah! It has pretty much the same goals as normalizr, except when it comes to data access.
After normalizing:

const { result, entities: clerk } = normalize(data, Character)

This evaluates to true:

clerk.character[1].location[1] === clerk.location[1]

So, you can still access your data directly via your reducers, while accessing it via nesting in your components.
The proposal (as it will be written on the Florida ballot) starts off:

> This amendment establishes a right under Florida's constitution for consumers to own or lease solar equipment installed on their property to generate electricity for their own use.

I wish that the article would have talked a bit more about how misleading this sentence is. It makes it sound like Floridians are gaining the ability the own or lease solar panels, when in fact we (I'm a new Floridian) already have that right! It is just a statutory right, not a constitutional one. But reading this, a voter who doesn't know better might think that this is some new right that Floridians didn't previously have.

It seems like this bill has a pretty broad list of opponents. How often do you see opponents such as the Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida, the Libertarian Party of Florida, Sierra Club and the Green Party of Florida all on the same side of an issue?

So with conservatives, liberals and libertarians against this amendment, it seems like the only real supporters are the power utilities who had to fight before the state supreme court to get the misleading wording accepted. But given the misleading wording, I'm wording that this just might get passed.

More about this here: https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Solar_Energy_Subsidies_and_P...
Great! Good luck for your grad school journey.

I am mostly finishing up with my degree. And yes I have heard that CS department is not as large but the OMSCS is scaling up very quickly.
This is the correct approach. It excels in certain domains. If you need something that is suspiciously close to some kind of rule engine then prolog is the way to go.
That's going to get fixed.[1] Li Keqiang doesn't like China's quality problems.

Japan had that problem around 1970. It got fixed.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2015/12/10/world/why-cant-china-...
a surprising number of languages contain embedded interpreters for it. Mostly Lisps.

Also, Smalltalks (seriously).
When I was 11, I learned to code BASIC by reading a programming language manual that came with IBM PCs by writing out programs in a notebook. It was many months before I actually touched a real computer (which was a learning experience in itself, but didn't change what I had picked up too much).

So definitely possible.
Deep Learning with Tensorflow in R from RStudio
Thanks man! I wish you the best as well :)
I'm sure that has inspired more than one raised middle finger from people working on Linux-based IoT stuff.
After some reading [1] I found out that electrophilic ketones are better than valproic acid as histone deacetylase inhibitors. Maybe this is the source of the enhanced state-of-mind that people on a keto diet [2] report (me currently, reporting in).

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone_deacetylase_inhibitor#...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet
Nevermind Moore's Law: Transistors Just Got a Whole Lot Smaller
> Suffering (and ritual suicide, too) is very much a part of Taoism.

Interesting, it's certainly not found in the 'classics' of Taoism. Where exactly does it come from?
Not OP but I think you're correct. Older people trust the government but the younger crowd trusts corporations.
i almost said somethijng

not sure why i care...i don't consider anythyijng less than 150
You're an idiot if you do anything less than $150k in stl. louis
You should have it on your number keyboard. Sometimes you have to quickly tap one button multiple times to get ":". It reads "-/:" on Android 5.0.1.
always gotta make at least 80/hr
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12661187

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12669543
Um it's completely wrong, the purple line doesn't run west.
I would go with the unplugged books that were mentioned by many, or help him learn introduction to digital electronics. When I went to school in 88 we didn't use a computer for designing our circuits. Designing a vending machine controller was the final project.
Is there a problem-solution fit for Alertify- on-premise alerting system?
"The original document prints out at over 100 pages." - for reference
I second this. I particularly like how they have an in depth section on how to mathematically derive the O complexity of code, and how to build up the proof from there. It't not necessary, but a fun exercise in learning how different algorithms get their complexity defined.
Hi guys, we have built a box, which can be used to deliver alerts when something happens. Becuase we only have working prototypes, I did not post to <show>, but I would really love to hear from you and get some problem-solution insights. Alertify.io can call people (regular phone call), send SMS messages, emails, and push notifications. It works via GSM or a SIP gateway. It supports escalation and can be controlled with a simple REST API. We can also add MQTT. The main difference between this system and cloud-based solutions (Twilio & co.) is that Alertify.io is a box :) and it works even when the internet is down. We are planning to launch an Adwords campaign to test its product-market fit, however, first things first- we are now exploring Alertify's problem-solution fit. What do you think? Would you find this product useful? Why (not)? Thanks a million & have a nice day.
The first programs I wrote were written in TI-82 basic language. It's possible to create simple interactive text prompt UI and even Gameboy-like GUI programs. Since the TI-82 memory didn't survive battery replacement, I'd "save" programs by transcribing them on to paper. Since memory was limited, it became a fun challenge to find concise ways to write programs.
Thank you for expanding on this, I appreciate it
Can someone explain why people hate this reply so much? This is a perfect subreddit describing this very scenario, and my submission there is now #2, indeed making this relevant r/nottheonion material. Is this just generic reddit hate or what?
Not really. At worst you get arrested for trespassing and Postmates sues you. But the unlikelyness of both seems sky high to me. It's not like impersonating a police officer.
You should write more about this topic, as you seem to have thought about a lot of vectors in this category for some time.

What's your contact details, BTW?
The 85 was okay, but the 89 was much harder to program without the aid of the computer-based IDE.
> I think this is a poisonous feature, that will eventually turn HN into yet another echo chamber if left unchecked.

Given that the downvoting system is about as old as HN itself, I'm reminded of the story where someone tried to warn Voltaire about his coffee consumption by saying that coffee was a slow poison, to which Voltaire replied "It must be very slow."
Taking up a new algorithm each day is the best way I can think of to be sure you don't know any algorithms well. Learn what the various algorithms are, what problems they solve, and what the general classifications of them are, then move on. You are then empowered to dig deeper into the correct one once you have the actual need for one, you know if it exists or not, and how to begin.
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Not to mention that experts in the field of interrogation have openly stated that the 'ticking time bomb' situation simply never exists, and that's the one that's always used to defend torture.
I wonder if Postmates after years of data will be tempted to pull an Amazon and start offering their own products in a very limited fashion. Of course it is much harder to create a restaurant than to offer your own USB cables but maybe they could contract out for their own doughnut shop or basic goods.
Do carbon nanotubes biodegrade?
Cage was influenced by Zen teachings and other post-modern notions such as the obliteration of the dualist subject. Reading his famous debut book Silence, one gets the impression that his provocations were done almost in a state of exigency, as a means of speeding up a necessary progression. And, as the article makes a point of, music in his case is perhaps best seen as a metonym for the creative process, and perhaps life, at large.

I think it's interesting to engage in Cage's work with the view of Cage as a technologist. Today, our means of synthesizing sound, imagery and even intelligble content I think dwarf those to which Cage was ever exposed. Cage's urgency, however, is as relevant as ever.
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In Christianity, the devil lies. God tortures.
Do you have a link to any reading about this? I'm curious.
Non-religious morality
Consider AGPL.. so if a prisma-like clone comes along, they cannot use it without also releasing web code.
Programming Problem: Adjacent Coins
Don't fall into the trap of polarised good guys vs bad guys. It doesn't describe humans, and it is the kind of thinking that leads to accepting torture ("it's okay to do bad things to bad people").
Sorry, missing word.

Currently, DDoS doesn't require compromised hardware, because of spoofing.

But if there were no spoofing, compromised hardware would be a requirement, and we're one step closer.
I saw a similar video recently called Code Without Keywords which was quite interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG-ozmTnhdI
Ask HN: Why no tax breaks for non meat eaters without cars?
The two things that contribute to carbon emissions more than anything (from what I've come to understand) is the energy needed to fulfill the demand for cars and the energy needed to fulfill the demand to to grow, kill and eat cows (See the documentary named "Cowspiracy").

The U.S. has tax incentives for citizens to buy electric cars even though every car made contributes to the problem regardless if it stores energy in a battery or a gas tank. If you refuse to own a car and truly abstain from contributing to the problem in the first place - you do not get a tax break.

Are their any groups striving to encourage strong government enforced financial (or other)incentives for people that truly live a simple life and abstain from contributing to many of these problem at their roots? I mean is the shit even on anybody's radar ?

This post is part satire but it's rooted in an honest question. Its a novelty post to see what people say. I like this kind of thing.
While silent truncation is of course bad because it limits the potential entropy of a password, if implemented consistently it's technically not any worse than a limit that's presented to the user. But just wait until the new hire doesn't know about it and implements a form without it, and then all of the sudden users are entering the same "long" passwords they always have and scratching their heads when it fails.
the first 3 didn't have anything too cryptic. know nothing about seattle and only joke I think I missed was the uff da sticker
Huh? Safari is the only browser I ever use. Apart from these super-experimental sites that occasionally show up on HN, the entire web works just fine.
Why: WWII wage controls & Risk pools.

I agree that US health care should catch up with 20th century advanced nations.
A good post but (2013)
San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
Scala world 2016: Compilers are (in memory) databases
List of Non Supported Whatsapp Phones from 31st Dec 2016
Essentials of Metaheuristics
Cisco warns of critical vulnerabilities in CISCO Nexus switches
From the article:

'“We click the pens that’ll be sold in China only once, because Chinese consumers are more price-conscious,” explains Huang. “The pens that’ll be exported to Japan? We click them twice. They’ll pay twenty cents more for a better pen.”'

As Chinese consumers get richer, their tastes will get more discriminating, and you should expect quality to improve.