skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that according to the article you linked it seems that the Dual-N-Back game is no different than any other brain training game which seems to differ from the authors view on it.

However, I don't think that debunks the main points of the authors article (the last 3/4 of the article).
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This is fascinating. I grew up about 30 miles from the Salton Sea, which is in the middle of the desert of Southern California. We get tons of sun. I'd be very interested if these researchers are communicating with those investigating how to best clean up the Salton Sea. While those efforts are still in their infancy, there could be some overlap in application of the research.
Yes, that's called 360 feedback. It suffers from some intrinsic drawbacks, though.

First, nobody has an incentive to provide negative feedback except for serious cases (i.e. you cannot work with this person) or for political reasons. It's a prisoners dilemma with indefinite iterations, so each player's incentive is to provide positive feedback.

Second, in my experience, it's only reviewed by one person rather than by a management team, which opens it up to an array of biases on the manager's part. If a manager thinks that someone is a great team-player, and a reviewer says that that person is a petty tyrant, they're likely to doubt the reviewer's motives rather than updating their beliefs.
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I worked for Intel years ago, and a lot of things in this thread applied there: really awful institutional performance review processes (they called it "ranking and rating"; I think it's been changed a lot since I left though), and also hiring first and doing allocations later (I had no idea what exactly I'd be doing when I got hired, but I was only a couple years out of college so I was very junior anyway).

Working there had its ups and downs. I will say, that company could actually produce stuff, unlike some places I've seen. It was also really, really nice to have a cubicle, but they were "compressing" those when I left. I have no idea if they've moved to the stupid open-office plan or not since then, but I kinda doubt it actually. I really miss having a cubicle... I used to think they sucked, but after years of other office arrangements, I now long for a cubicle again (though a walled office would of course be much better, just like it'd be nice to live in a $10M mansion and have a private jet).

Anyway, the interview process at Intel back then was grueling and ridiculous, with a bunch of managers coming in and grilling me with questions on all kinds of stuff, a lot which I had no idea about (like device physics). But a couple years ago I interviewed with Google. That was probably the worst interview experience I've ever had.

Lastly, I've interviewed at and worked with some other large companies. Their interviews were nothing like Google's.

Google's interviews are not like other companies', and are not representative of large companies at all. Google's interviews are unique to Google, and have been roundly criticized by many.
Aside from the data usage - that will suck the battery life from your devices as well
Thanks for letting me know. That makes sense. I'd actually love work with HN to flush out perception management behaviours.
For the time being I would assume you would notice the 360 degree camera making its way through your house.

That is, until we work out using a stable wormhole as the means of observation.
It worked really well with the M-19. This is the movement that took over the Justice Palace once. And now they are part of the democracy, being a strong and necessary opposition party to current and past governments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_of_April_Movement#Demobil...
A couple things:

1) There is no evidence that the recent giant DDOS attacks on Brian Krebs used IP Spoofing. In fact, there is every reason to believe that they did not since the generators of the packets were low powered IoT devices. There is increasingly little reason for attackers to even bother with IP spoofing given how easy it is becoming to capture giant herds of low power IoT devices. The attackers don't care if some of their herd gets taken offline due to effective attribution.

Amplification/reflection attacks which will still require IP spoofing. What I'm curious about, and only time will tell, is how much IP spoofing will continue to play a part in lsrge DDOS attacks? Why bother spoofing IPs if your botnet herd is already large enough to bring someone offline?

2) Go and download CAIDA's Spoofer application. Test it and give them bug reports. I gave them one a few weeks ago.
https://www.caida.org/projects/spoofer/
She wrote a book on this topic.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674032262
You are right, but an important part of providing insights from data is actually providing the insights, meaning the interface problem between the data science and users is crucial.

For many industries, this problem is not well-solved at all. And it's not trivial. It's one thing to have great models, it's another to have a good way of making people smarter with it.
The confusion stems from the idea that Burning Man is still a cultural phenomenon rather than just entertainment/art installation. An erroneous belief that the promoters seem to have internalized to their own confusion. Indeed, part of the entertainment value is the perception that just showing up in costume means you are engaged in significant culture production. So easy!

Disappointment stems from attendees expecting a cultural phenomenon and getting a show; the expectation that Burning Man is still important but finding it's just a show. You don't get this problem at Disneyland because and talk of 'Disney spirit' is tongue in cheek.

Here are some more substantial questions than the sort of feel good straw-man in the article. What new ideas have come out of it in the last 15 years? How do you create culture by showing up for a weekend to a catered camp ground and show? Is there any overlap at all to what attendees think about the meaning/point of Burning Man? So if you come west just add it to the Vegas-Disneyland circuit because that is all it is now.

Indeed there is one advantage to Vegas and Disney, the cops don't shamelessly hassle gay people.
It would be unfair if there was no reason to believe Google's interview process is flawless. But it isn't.

The rest of your post is speculation.
The dog would see a big 360 degree camera in front of him and it would presumably light up when it was on to let him know he was part of a background that was being used/viewed by others.

So as long as you don't see any cameras around, you can be pretty sure that you're not part of the background of some weird earnings report that needs to be hosted in times square, at the bottom of the ocean, or inside a volcano.
"This was debunked."

Where exactly?

No one claimed Tor was sending DDoS attacks -- plenty of other malicious traffic comes out of Tor however.
>> a shortage of "experts"

In such situation, wouldn't using standard tools would benefit companies, but also benefit employees. And from the tecchnical point of view, this seems achievable , because many companies do similar stuff.

But instead we get the currrent situation(one example is javascript frameworks). Why ?
Did you use sbt incremental compilation?
> Boost variant has no performance penalty...

I have a big project that uses boost::variant. The runtime performance may be fine, but I swear that just compiling the header took about 5 seconds.

Pre-C++-11 fake variadic templates are just painful.

(IMHO two of the major missing features in Rust that are really need are integer generics and varidic generics. Without integer generics, arrays over 32 elements don't work correctly, and that's really annoying sometimes.)
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To wake up the audience and emphasize the message :) Also, to divide the presentation sharply between: problem statement and the solution.
SOME Silicon Valley engineers are fairly highly paid. Especially so if you only read HN, where there's always someone who's brother's girlfriend's roommate knows someone at Google who makes $250K, therefore this must be an average salary.
> where workers are actually commodities that are measureable and interchangeable

If you work for someone else, I have bad news for you ...
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Is there any data that shows that? I mean, Tiobe index has Java as the #1 most used language this year.
The end game would be decrypting it in the display device (better have a movie conglomerate approved video card and display device so everything supports the drm!) + one of the many solutions lately that can cause recording devices to (voluntarily at the device level, not at the user level) turn off.

Then of course you just use a non-broken recording device and record it but it'd be potentially very hard to get a purely digital signal out of a system like that (unless they mess it up, which they will).

And in the end pirates will continue getting to it an alternative way or cracking the drm and as you say, users are the ones inconvenienced.
Any stats on Java losing ground? Java 8 is awesome with Lambda, Streams and Completable futures (Promises).
I've used :has in uBlock filter declarations and it's perfect.(uBlock implements its own :has for its filters)

It should be relatively trivial to isolate the elements targeted by :has and incur the performance penalty only for them instead of the whole dom.
I think the fact that we'really starting to make native apps using Web technologies speaks to the progressadele for webapps.

The whole HTML rendering pipeline with advanced scripting support is really an innovation in itself. The downside is speed, but that's where we innovated the most, VMs for JavaScript.

Hopefully Web Assembly will really show the improvement we've made.
SecurityDriven.Inferno (.NET crypto library) has been audited
Because it is a video game, which are usually not OS, and is available on all platforms. It it was OS, you would know, and the maker wouldn't be charging for it on Steam.
I hate to admit that I sympathize with the slightly critical comments, I was left with a feeling of "really, that's it?" from the demo. I think it's just a case of managing expectations though, I would have been impressed if this was done by a couple of college kids, but I thought that FB was betting big on VR and was going to wow everyone with something new.

I'm probably just being ignorant and not appreciating the amount of effort that went into the app.
For a while. Eventually we abandoned SBT in favor of pants which is, imho, a much better build tool. It also supports incremental compilation but it was still slow.
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But it definitely isn't anywhere near as functional as Scala, which this article completely misses. Seems like the author basically does not even know what functional programming is.
I don't meditate, actually, I was just including that in re some other thread that was mentioning it. I'm saying that yes, Chess does improve strategic thinking skills, but it probably won't help you be more strategic in other situations unless you're good at the "skill of skill transfer."
> But instead we get the currrent situation(one example is javascript frameworks). Why ?

Each time you use or refuse to use a particular Javascript framework you make a democratic vote on the situation. So the existence of lots of JS framework is a result of a democratic election.
This is a really different perspective than I've ever heard, and I'm intrigued. I've built up a lot of skepticism especially toward the Nevada authorities and their own good will (maybe not so much BLM) after hearing so many anecdotes of them making unreasonable demands and disinterest in even trying to integrate with the broader community.

And of course there's the standard argument that while BM should have leverage, they're also so wedded to the site they're essentially a captive audience. And all the authorities know this. So I'm not sure they really have so much natural power.

Anyway, I'm open-mindedly curious about your own perspective. But I still remain really skeptical about the natural good will of local law enforcement and especially that there was anything reasonable about them jacking up usage fees (e.g. the new Nevada live entertainment tax), which just feels like a plain old power play fleecing at heart.
The first two years of math in any engineering curriculum should cover these topics. Look up the books, lecture materials and videos from various universities online. It is important to try out the homework exercises to absorb the knowledge.
Sounds pretty much like my experience with Google. I'm an embedded programmer with a EE degree, not a CS degree, and they hammered me with a bunch of algorithm questions like you said. I'm not even interested in (nor qualified for) heavy-CS type work; I thought maybe they'd want me for more low-level stuff or doing some kind of work with hardware, custom OS or driver development, etc.

But as I said above, don't paint all big companies with the same brush. Google's interviews are not at all like the interviews I've done with a bunch of other big companies. In many big companies, the different groups work entirely differently anyway; when I interviewed at Freescale, it wasn't any different than interviewing at some small company really, and the small workgroup I ended up working in was a great team to work with, and again didn't deal that much with the rest of the company anyway. It was a great experience except for upper management screwing it all up after a couple of years.
Yea, I use the "I want a $10K Ferarri = shortage of Ferarris" example but it's the same thing. The word shortage is meaningless without stating the asking price.
What language(s) do you use for writing code on your hardware?
I'd take Corewars for that. It's even more realistic than TIS-100, the last game by the company that made this, which focused on programming assembly for an imaginary computer with an instruction set designed by evil jerks, build specifically for massively parallel computation.

So, yeah, Corewars, if not actual asm.
Why JetBrains, why? Can't we all just be friends?
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With Glastonbury tickets on sale this Sunday, what determines what HTTP connections go through on a highload server from a technical standpoint. There's loads of tips online about opening multiple tabs but I can't see how that would help.
Yes, quality is a function of quantity. This applies to all kinds of things besides games such as the relationships between friends and family members. The more time you spend with someone, the more likely a certain percentage of that time will be of high quality.
It's using your laptop fan to simulate the sounds of the hurricane.
From a hiring side, the current industry standard of job-hopping within two years has a significant negative affect on junior hires. The ROI on training someone really isn't there if the their employment expectation boils down to dine-and-dash.
Meh, not all the great programs are on the coasts. Any Big 10 school (carrying on with the football reference lol) is going to be at least decent, and a few are world class:

Carnegie Mellon (not a Big 10 school I know) #1 globally
Michigan
Illinois
Northwestern
Purdue
Wisconsin
Ohio State

to name a few.
"AI is just around the corner, everyone, it'll be replacing humans within a few years."
That's where peer-review comes in. Hopefully you aren't committing to master all by yourself these kind of changes.
What a load of crap. Lightbend released Lagom for Java because... drumroll.. Lagom is meant to bridge the gap between microservices and legacy Java monoliths.
You and your ideas
Most programs that existed before (lets be real.. programs were replaced with web apps now) defaulted to being offline only, or would sync. I miss those days.
The simple truth is that 99% of the time when browsing is spent on that "rectangular area".

Maybe the term "skin" is not adequate, but IMO the features added by Chrome and Firefox on iOS are not that significant for the browsing experience compared to the "rectangular area". Thanks to Apple, WKWebView based browsers are always going to be second class citizens.

Personally I never understood why you decided to move to iOS. I think you should have stick to your guns.
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It there a term for this phenomenon, where a researcher publishes an extraordinary result, some how gets past peer review, and then avoids pursuing the research further, to avoid embarrassing themselves and losing the fame and credit?
Often there is a bonus step where they create a company to commercialize a product based on the conclusions.
As someone who has never coded Scala (I did try out Odersky's course briefly), I can't comment on this myself.

However, a lot of people seem to not believe the author, but I am not sure what the complaint is.

1. Do you believe Scala did not have a fall?
-- if so, what is the explanation for the data presented?

2. Do you believe the fall is for different reasons?
-- I think everyone would be curious to know what those reasons are.

I am all for complaints but they're more interesting when the reasons are divulged.
The first one looks too blurry to me and the second too sharp; did you try an intermediate one?
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It's a misinformation. Scala never fell on TIOBE. The whole premise of "fall" is this paragraph, and it's a lie:

> The TIOBE index (www.tiobe.com) of software language popularity ranked Scala at #13 in 2012; now it’s fallen to #32 in August 2016

From what I can find, TIOBE for Scala was actually #46 in May 2012:

https://www.scribd.com/document/94860678/TIOBE-Programming-C...

That means it grew 14 points since 2012, not fell.

More debunking here:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5df1f1f6c6b6ebbb4dc67b2bc4...
> I wouldn't do it by standing at a whiteboard racking my brain for the details, and I certainly wouldn't set a one-hour timer.

That...
You answered your question there. Without spoofing, only the largest botnets can launch a successful DDoS attack. That's a big barrier to entry, and if the police were effective on this area, would be a huge boom to fighting those attacks.
Thank you for your feedback... My original comment should have said "this post..." instead of "this effort..." to make specifically what I was addressing more clear.
What was the value proposition of pants? I'm no fan of sbt, but having sunk the cost of getting comfortable with it, what can pants offer?
A query optimizer might do a lot better with a native integer type than a user-defined one cobbled out of int32's. It knows all the mathematical properties of the type and add things in any order, knows that x < y implies x + 1 <= y, etc.
It's why I drive if it's ever one day away. It ends up being hours longer, but I get an adventure, not a migraine. It's time well spent.
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It is unfortunately a political problem being actively prosecuted with technology.

Red Hat would like SystemD to be the init system of record and have - for years now - been subsuming other utilities, daemons, logging, su, etc. in order to make it the obligate choice.

Any technical gains from the integrations seem secondary to the control this gives them over the direction of Linux as a whole.

This is obvious dirty pool.

If they'd gotten where they were on the merits, I think people would be a lot quieter.

Beyond the political stupidity, systemd has made itself a single massive and opaque point of failure, especially since it ate logging.
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How is your company doing overall?
>It's hard to make a case against Bill Gates being a massive player in the astounding success of personal computing without delving deeply into emotional reasoning

The only thing he really did was not get in the way of making billions.

If not for MS, other companies would have filled its place (DR-DOS?)

If not for IBM creating and then opening up the PC market?
"Shortage" means that even if you payed absurdly high prices you will not get any/not enough, though you would immediately be willing to pay that price.
Isn't Harambe hate speech now? Or was that Pepe?
Small compilation units (generally a single directory of files) and a bottom up acyclic specification of dependencies between them.
This is indeed a "fun" project which showcases the technology and provides (I think) fairly relevant comments (trust me - a random generator is much worse, we had terrible comments at the beginning of the project).
The other technology modules you describe (face recognition etc) are indeed requirements for a semi or fully automated curation system.
Do you know specifically how your play changed?
So when called with null for a required parameter, return a null result directly instead of calling the lifted function.
This seems like a misleading title. The SVLUG isn't closing, it's just their last meeting at Symantec. It seems they don't have another meeting place set up formally yet, but I see no indication that the group is actually closing at all.
Actually diet and exercise are pretty much completely ineffective at long term weight loss.

"Why can’t an average person make those kinds of gains as well? Or even more gains, considering they don’t have the additional challenge of an autism spectrum disorder?"

This betrays a complete lack of understanding of the body of knowledge around intellectual improvement. No one would say "we took this broken Honda and were able to get a 100% improvement in it's speed, and gas efficiency by just fixing the leaky gas hose, if we can make these kinds of gains with a broken car imagine what we do with a new Honda". This would of course be as silly.
I wonder if part of the reason brain training appears to have little benefit is similar to the reason most people who visit the gym make little gains in athleticism; because they don't push themselves hard enough. A lot of people feel like simply showing up is all that's required, and they don't break a sweat.

This is supported by the fact that many of these brain training apps/games often have addictive traits, similar to other video games. This might lead to their usage being met with undue reward.

I used one of them, and the goal (unduly rewarded) was simply to come back and, essentially, play each day. It didn't matter how hard I worked.

This could be tested by measuring brain activity during brain training (compared to some control activity) and seeing if the delta positively correlates with increased cognitive function.
Scala is >12 year old. Excluding libraries /frameworks, there are couple of popular Scala projects like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka. Other than that I am not aware if any big/popular open source projects are using Scala. May be it is used more in internal software development at companies.

So I think Scala is more or less steady in usage. There is no rise or fall of Scala.
Yup. (And it would just figure that, the one time I describe something based on a half-decade-old recollection and don't throw in an "as I recall" qualifier, it'd be the time I misremember in a significantly erroneous way.)
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