skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair. Still, though, to formally make the accusation public knowing the severe diplomatic and geopolitical risks of lying about it means they're willing to withstand counter-evidence from Russia's own intelligence agencies and potentially huge political setbacks. Counter-evidence has yet to be provided.

All signs point to Russia; no signs (currently) point away from Russia; the public and private sector are in agreement; Obama is ballsy enough to call them out on it to their face; Russia has plenty of motive and more than enough talent to do it; it's probably Russia.

I'm not saying I trust the current administration or the intelligence community at all. I also wouldn't put it past Clapper to lie to other countries about various matters (just as he repeatedly lied and probably will continue to lie to the American public and Congress). Their job is to lie. I'm sure they lie about a lot of things.

But it would be dumb of them to make this particular accusation formal without pretty good proof, and all other independent analyses published support the accusation.
> 1.) you're assuming voting for hillary is automatic war with Russia. and would vote based on that single fallacy.

No, I'm assuming that hillary would be very similar to obama and bush. You're the one making the wrong assumption.

> 2.) You, being "single issue" voter, ignore that trump is a psychopathic, women-hating, racist, tax-dodging, russia-affiliated antichrist who will bring shame and destruction to America.

Like I said above, I don't ignore any of the things you mentioned, as I've been following the subject extremely closely. In all likelihood I'm better informed about how flawed Trump is than you are.

> 3.) You are so afraid of Russia (they're failing economically, politically, and technically) that you would vote a madman into the US office (doubtful you're american anyways)

I'm not afraid of Russia, I'm afraid of war. War isn't "we win they lose". More likely, we both lose. In any case, you're mistaken in saying that they're failing in any of the categories you mentioned. Russia was failing in the 90s. I guess you haven't been keeping with the world outside of your bubble since then.

> You are the type of people that would vote in Hitler.

Aright buddy, just lost interest :D
"Quick, we need higher cyclomatic complexity scores for our unit tests!"
I've become a Cal Newport fan and I'd recommend you read at least some of his blog (http://calnewport.com/blog/) or his book (Deep Work) since he'll be able to explain things much better than I can.

In knowledge work, it's important (for most people) to get into deep focus to solve hard problems. Anecdotally I've seen huge gains by setting aside an 1:30 in the morning to WFH completely disconnected and then another 1:30 in the afternoon to hide away from my open work area. It's incorrect to claim that development of soft skills is at odds with the ability to get into a state of deep work with offices and / or working from home.

As for your question about being hard to focus on some work, yes it definitely is. I'd recommend you look into attention residue. In addition, I'm afraid your perception of your own possible output is probably much less than what you're actually capable of because you've learned to live with constant distraction. If you can't go more than an hour without checking email/texts/talking to coworkers/being interrupted, I'd argue that (as a knowledge worker), you're operating well below your capabilities.
That's at best off topic. We're discussing the actions and trustworthyness of a currently trusted root CA here.
Partially related - has anyone worked on natural language queries with time expressions in it? Imagine analytics queries, where you want to count the number of events/unique users, given certain conditions, and in a certain time window. i'm particularly interested in the time aspect of it.
Ironically often any PR is good PR. So many people who otherwise would not hear about hackerrank will now hear about it and many will use it regardless.
Likely because they're detecting their own signals.

It's pretty clear by now that for instance the "color revolutions" were instigated in a large part by the US government; social media manipulation was a prominent attack vector.
The safest way would be to embed an interpreter written in JS and remove any sort of I/O or FFI capability from the interpreter.
There has always been a fight in genomics between bench-types and computational biologists. Traditionally molecular biology yielded very binary yes/no answers requiring little mathematical analysis -- even when I was in grad school in the 1990s, I had a professor say in all seriousness "If you need statistics to understand the results of your experiment, you did the wrong experiment". Things are changing and many of the current generation of grad students are becoming hybrid bench/computational biologists, which is a good thing.
I'll send the link to my engineering director for a squiz. On a superficial scan I think we hit many of these criteria, but not all. Of interest, we're neighbours -- the Cloud Foundry Foundation is also managed by the Linux Foundation.

The one I'm happiest to exceed is the 60 day CVE-fix window. Our policy is to release updated versions of our buildpacks and rootfs within 48 hours of a high-severity CVE being patched upstream -- usually within the same day, actually. Only possible because we have very extensive testing and build automatic.

For internal reviews and teaching, one idea that one of my colleagues floated was having a red team with engineers rotated through that team. The idea being that it's easiest to think like an attacker if you have, for some time, been an attacker.

It would be difficult to find the right tempo, though. It'd take a few weeks to get a grip on common attack types and then start hunting for flaws, and we'd be struggling to find the balance between rotating as many engineers through as possible vs maintaining ongoing feature work and maintenance.
Doesn't that make getting an MRI really really dangerous?
Get to the core, and stay there
What if Ben Laden was the instrument of the CIA like the contras were? What if no jounalist dares to investigate it after what happened to Webb?
Work, I gather, though the game also includes a bunch of (to laymen) dense schematics, one of which is indeed in (what looks like) chinese. So.

All of this talk about how miserable embedded development is makes it sound like these guys need more automated tools. Is there not a fuzz testing machine for embedded electronics prototypes?
It's really good to see Webb's story reaching a broader audience. I imagine the current generation may never even have heard of it.

For those interested in further reading, Narco News[1] has been an invaluable resource over the years continuing on with muckraking reporting on the drug trade. They broke two big stories over the years with Banamex and with the "house of death" in Ciudad Juarez. Kudos to Al Giordano and others who have carried on exposing the players behind the trade in the spirit of Webb.

[1] http://www.narconews.com/
It seems to me that you and Dang may not agree on Dang's statement. You say that any words are allowed on HN, while Dang said: "I think the casual slur of 'minorities' counts as flamewar material." and I would still like clarification as to whether the word itself - minorities - is considered a slur and inappropriate to HN, or whether it simply considered a 'slur' in this context. If the later, I would like clarification on that.

I'm not aware of any quality studies that address this issue, but it may indeed be a matter of fact that in 2016 in the US, black men engage in a disproportionate amount of 'street harassment'. Its still unclear to me whether HN posters are forbidden from discussing this possibility.

Edit: I find the suggestion that certain demographics should be targeted for anti-harassment training offensive in the extreme and can see why many people would prefer not to have this kind of content on HN. I just think we should strive for objective rules and apply them evenly.
Rethink joins aren't consistent (in fact, no Rethink multikey transaction guarantees any degree of consistency), so even though the original conversation was about Firebase IMO it is just as applicable to Rethink.
I don't get it either. In particular, if a test isn't failing, there is no reason to change it--i.e., no maintenance cost. Sometimes tests are written such that they test the implementation rather than the behavior (as is the case with egregious mocking), so changes to the implementation cause the test to report false negatives--but this is a matter of faulty testing practice adding unnecessary maintenance costs.

Provided you're following good unit testing practice, I can't imagine an organization whose best investment is removing excess unit tests.
I remember reading an articulation that it is odd that we are taught to program differently to how we are taught to play music.

With music, we are taught to read before we write.

With programming, we start out writing.

This seems like a great chance for your friend to try out the music learning approach. Send them books of excellently written programs, and allow them to read before they write.

[As a side note: What is their goal? To program to become a software engineer? To program to build web applications for fun? To program to learn how to build products to produce a profit for themselves? The goals will inform the process.]
So far as I'm aware, we don't go into references. If not, I don't know whether it's because we don't like to or don't have the bandwidth available.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657576
Else Heart.Break() has definite aesthetic charm, but the programming required (as far as I played, at least) is pretty shallow- geared towards clever highschoolers, I suspect.

A collaboration between them and Zachtronics would be lovely.
Has nothing to do with syntax.
A la Charlie Munger, develop a latticework of mental models.

See: https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-use...
Show HN: QryGraph – Graphical editor for PigLatin(BigData/Hadoop) queries
What was the definition of code coverage at your shop? Does it mean testing every line of execution?
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I think most people don't understand how dirty the business world is. Lots of customers and vendors will deny delay and defend out of force of habit alone. I've had to threaten lawsuits a number of time. It was obvious I'd win so they'd settle last minute, but it's just how many people do business. It's much easier to build in something that will atrophy and let them know it'll fall apart if you don't tell them where it is. Much easier restitution. No fuss. Good clients go bad all the time, just like good marriages go bad. You can't rely on a filter. Most of the time there is no option but to work with certain people if you want to be in a particular industry. They're the worst. Just today I have a monopoly supplier that won't fix a very simple but show stopping bug, despite our contract, unless I pay them a lot more money which significantly eats into my margins. It will basically mean I'll be working for them for free, which is exactly how they want it. I have to make out that I'll go out of business, walk away, and they won't make anything. I'm sure we'll end up somewhere in the middle and we will both make a lot of money. If not I will have to go borrow a lot of money from a bank to build the component in house which will upset their monopoly. Just another day it the life of a start-up.
Absolutely. CS students should at least know the fundamentals and applications in the beginning of their studies so that they are exposed to it and can decide if it's something they want to look into further. In my CS education, no professor mentioned machine learning once. It was all classic software engineering and theory of comp.
Uber's lobbying chief is Obama campaign manager in 2008 and of course money talks.
What an awesome project. I love that you leveraged android devices. Has everything you need for execution. Well done!!
Pondering #5, assertions.

When doing "dynamic" programming (Java + Spring + Maven, Python, anything JavaScript), I feel compelled to write more unit tests. Because the sand shifts under my feet and my crap breaks in surprising ways.

I despise most modern development, where entropy continues to creep in and nothing stays done.

Maybe more assertions would help mitigate my feelings of hopelessness and despair.
First of all, Zachtronics puzzle games are beyond amazing. I put Infinifactory in my top 3 games of any genre of all time, and I don't know anybody who doesn't love Space Chem. Second, TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O are assembly language programming, full stop. Surely you realize that x86 is not the only assembly language? There are myriad machines with myriad assembly languages. Just because the machines in TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O are imaginary doesn't mean they aren't assembly languages.
the ruby versions isnt shorter though; you just included things you dont need: semi colons and 'let'
He's a subject matter expert: Julius Kivimaki.
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I'm not sure which part of my reply you think is not possible - if it's the "guaranteed transparency" bit, that is very much possible and is the end-goal for Certificate Transparency. There is no way to "bypass" this with laws.

Most CAs that operate today are located in countries where mechanisms exist that could very well be used to force a CA to hand over private keys and/or sign certificates, not to mention that some intelligence agencies (or other actors) might use not-so-legal means to achieve the same thing. So why bother trying to enforce some kind of "NSLs (&co.) are bad unless you're one of The Good Guys" rule rather than embracing a mechanism that guarantees that CAs will be caught when they engage in such behaviour (willingly or not)?
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You can directly call lambdas since PHP-7, actually:

$ php -r '(function($v){echo $v;})(phpversion());'
7.0.11
Have you studied Prolog? Its matching (logical unification) capability may give you some more ideas.
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Cyanide is carbon based. Kills you quick. Aromatic hydrocarbons like benzene will kill you slower.

It's like the "all natural" misnomer. Coral snake venom is all natural, but I don't want any, thank you.
Jesus, that patent is incredibly stupid. The standard for getting a patent thrown out needs to be much lower (since we clearly can't expect a higher acceptance standard from the USPTO).
A customizable, distract-free writing app on the web
Possibly because I'm brand new (I'm not, I'm a very long time lurker and one time failed YC applicant).
>hillary would be very similar to obama and bush

lol you lost my interest here too. anyone who thinks obama and bush are the same has no clear grasp of reality
RJ Hillhouse wrote a book, "Outsourced", that comes close at time to advancing this point-of-view.

https://www.amazon.com/Outsourced-R-J-Hillhouse/dp/078616957...
oh man totally. neither brendan eich nor palmer luckey have gotten any work ever since they were blackballed by silicon valley.

oh wait. they weren't was blackballed. and one has his own startup, the other is basically set for life.

oh wait. has either one of them appeared in from the a senate committee to defend themselves for false accusations of subverting the u.s. gov, or committing treason? without any evidence?
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Beautiful! If you have pictures and one day blog a few lines about this encounter, I'd be delighted to read it!
I feel so proud of - line pull requests. Especially if I added a test too.
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Ask HN: Is it still safe to use Firebase?
I'm working on a side project and using Firebase would save me a lot of time and reduced technical overheads.

But Firebase is now owned by Google, who - lets face it - has a reputation of dropping paying clients without notice and with having less than optimal customer service.

I'm thus unsure of developing the foundation of my app on a service that might not be reliable.

Would Firebase still be a reliable service for the foreseeable future? Am I paying too much attention to the SAAS(and Google in particular) naysayers?
Along with Dwarf Fortress
> I've never met someone who was extremely good at these questions who turned out to be a dud after hiring.

I have. More than once I've brought on folks who aced algorithm questions but turned out couldn't handle complex business logic. They could basically only understand code that fit on a page / screenful. Anything beyond that and they floundered.
(I assume this thread will be flagged and removed, but:)

Am I the only one who thinks this recording isn't that bad compared to all of the other horrible things he's said and policies he's proposed? He didn't seem to be saying he kisses/gropes women without their consent.

The other NYT story (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/opinion/sunday/donald-trum...) is far far worse and alleges full-on sexual assault, but it seems the victim's credibility may be questionable there, as explained in the article.

Again, no Trump fan here whatsoever, but I feel like calling Mexicans rapists or banning/deporting Muslims is worse than what he said in that recording.
Grade or middle school, really. "Clever highschoolers" are writing their own bare-metal OSes these days.
On just a quick glance, the breadth of the topics covered here is stunning.

I also liked this quote from Lecture 23.

> A lot of times we ... confuse value with complexity.

> And many of the things that were the simplest in this subject are actually the most powerful.

> So be careful about confusing simplicity with triviality and thinking that something can't be important unless it's complicated and deeply mathematical.
I actually thought about doing this; however, I realized given the (lack of) type system in Tcl, the potential performance gains would be minimal. Also, this sort of dynamic compilation can lead to memory consumption issues that are very hard to address (i.e. due to being unable to unload the dynamically generated assemblies from the AppDomain). Additionally, it would limit the portability of the library, since some platforms do not permit JIT compilation (e.g. iOS).
Definitely. The metaphor breaks down at some point.

> Another difference is that there is no machine code for the brain. There isn't some set of primitive instructions programmers could target to instruct the connectome.

We don't know this yet. But what we do know is, by directly stimulating certain parts of the brain, we can recreate certain sensations.

I looks to me like this is close as close to some "primitive instruction set" as we've come.
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> And worst of all, extraneous lawsuits targeting companies attempting to share helpful information with workers regarding taxes, insurance, and retirement accounts, are punishing the very individuals these groups falsely espouse.

David Loeper's book has a few citations of surveys about how "helpful" the information about 401k plans actually is: https://www.amazon.com/Stop-401-Rip-Off-Eliminate-Improve/dp... tl;dr - 401k plans are a Reagan-era privatization scam; almost no one understands what to choose, which makes it easier for plan management companies and funds to charge ridiculous fees.

David Belk lectures on medical insurance plans (https://www.youtube.com/user/davidbelk46/videos I recommend starting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAY15p2DN4). Same deal - deductible, copays, caps, lifetime caps, what to choose? A lot of these plan details deliberately obfuscate the fact that you would spend less paying for medication and procedures directly than the insurance co-pay!

This article is privatization scam propaganda disguised in free-market jargon. Not surprising when you consider the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert
Well, they're very different in terms of domestic policy, but not in terms of foreign policy.
You are joking, right?
Correct. The Medicaid discount comes off of the average manufacturer price (AMP) which includes most of discounts offered to customers. In other words if my list price is $1, but on average I sell it for $0.80, the the Medicaid price is $0.80 minus the Medicaid discount.

However, I assume that they were only paying the wrong discount and that otherwise the calculation included AMP and the price increase penalty. Makes me wonder if there was a penalty applied as well.
It's optimizing for writeability rather than readability.
What an oddly helpful but unhelpful site.

Hiding the symbols behind videos means I can't see what the symbol is as the people haven't made it yet, unless I play the video.

Couldn't they have at least one sketch or marked up jpeg showing the symbol or gesture?

Weird.
Ask HN: How do you debug code?
For a given algorithm, I find myself placing debug logs all over to print values of variables.

I even find this quicker than using breakpoints.
They're saying that Tunisian movements are unlikely to spread to the US, but movements in the UK/Canada can spread to the US.
He/she probably used a tool to capture the coverage %.
> He may write programs on paper, and send them to you to type them in, compile them, and print out a listing with the errors. You then send back the listing, and he will correct his program and repeat.

Reminds me of this Reply All podcast episode
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/64-on-the-inside/

"For years, Paul Modrowski has been writing a blog from inside a maximum security prison. Only thing is, he was arrested when he was 18 and has never seen the internet."
When you look at a problem

* relate it to other problems you have solved or seen solved

* break the problem down into parts. Some of those parts may be things you have previously solved or have seen solved

* research the problem

* after completing one problem, reflect on it and learn from it
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Have you had any reports where the algorithmically snapped-to-OSM route maps diverge from the actual bus/train routing, and if so, how do you handle that?
thanks bro! we appreciate the feedback
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Nice observations. The trade off is he doesn't go too deeply into anything, but it's a great survey. Especially for people not acquainted with AI outside of ML.
thanks dude! we put a lot of work into it
Prolog looks really useful for solving real world problems. Why doesn't it get used more?

And can you interface to it using Python or some more mainstream languages?
Would like to see this applied to a page of text.
New research suggests that social mobility in America may be more limited
I do know algorithms, it's just that I don't use it in my day to day activities. When confronted with an online challenge with time constraints I seem not to cope since I hardly use algos in my day to day automation it isn't right on top of my fingertips!

Without time constraints I am able to solve the problems.

Timed Algo assessments are very similar to exams u write in universities.. u need to keep practicing to complete those assessments in time and get a "pass mark".
HoloLens - King of CG Realities: Why one developer decided to go for it
Interesting, any chance you have a link to a writeup of that?
Stereo vision: Automated background blur
Exactly. This happens when formal definitions of these "common things" are absent, or ignored in the argument. He's genuinely right in calling out naive conclusions about the brain based on current computing.
Awesome material. I really love automated renderings that attempt to approach handmade quality.

A couple years back I attempted to automate our production planning. The effort failed alas (complexity and feature creep killed it) but I did make nice visualizations along the way.

Example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jxiareohe0wi4z9/planning-example-1...
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