skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I suggest you update it to revise this spectacularly misleading statement:

"If you have a global presence then getting your content close to users if very important for performance. Azure currently serves more regions than AWS."

Azure regions and AWS regions are not cardinally comparable. Their functions and availability properties are not isomorphic. AWS would prefer that you compare AWS AZs to Azure regions, and then they get to claim the larger number. But I don't suggest that either, and the matter of content delivery is another comparison again. The distinctions between the two platforms are significant and well documented, so on reading this my trust in this source declined rapidly.

I also flatly disagree with this article about the evils of lock-in. Exploiting a rich platform is a recipe for high productivity and opportunities. Re-hosting an application is rare, fraught with pitfalls, and doesn't create any value. So why optimise for it? In my experience, it's better to choose the platform best oriented to your organisation's culture and principles, and adopt it wholeheartedly.
I have tried using take-home tests before. The level of plagiarism was astonishing. And that's just the plagiarism I could detect.

Even with a problem that's unique to my organization, I don't know how I could trust that the actual candidate themselves was the one who completed it, and that they completed it without unfair assistance (e.g. from other people). Similarly, I have a habit of looking over someone's resume and picking a few random technologies they mentioned to discuss. I'm surprised how often candidates claim experience with a technology and can't really describe what they've done with it or discuss it intelligently. The level of dishonesty is high.

For all of the downsides of interview-based hiring, at least I know what I'm getting (modulo error bars on assessment efficacy).

> I couldn't remember/figure-out-on-the-spot the iteration condition for estimating square roots by the Newton-Raphson method, and I was not willing to cheat by looking it up on Wikipedia while I was on the phone

I don't ask the kind of questions that require obscure knowledge. I just ask questions that you can problem-solve with regular rational thinking, with questions that usually admit a "naive" brute-force style solution that can be improved upon. If you did want to look up some algorithm that would be fine with me, but I am more impressed by a quick and confident reasoning through the problem followed by a fluid implementation of the naive solution, than I am of sophisticated solutions with better algorithmic performance or accuracy.
I wish the browsers moved on with the support as fast as Node so that we can get rid of stupid hundreds of MBs dependencies to transform a arrow function.
What is the parallel between automation and gross negligence/corruption?
The main take-aways are: 1) Use a firewall between your Internet connection and your IoT devices, and 2) disable UPnP support on your firewall.

It's disturbing how many devices enable telnet and/or ssh by default, make it difficult or impossible for a user to actually change the default password, and subvert firewalls using P2P protocols. At the end of the day, to secure your network you really do need to run nmap regularly against your subnet checking for devices with open ports, and tcpdump between your gateway and your devices, monitoring what connections they are actually making.

For ordinary users, the situation is truly hopeless. They are pwned by default if they buy into IoT.
Perhaps the problems are with the way the Java program is written and run?

Back in 2012:

"5) The idea is to help you understand that you aren't comparing what you say you're comparing.

If your intention is to compare time taken to grow a list, then shouldn't you start with lists that are the same size, and start with program heap that's the same size, and use the same max heap size?

user+sys for your Java program = 20.56s

But change

ArrayList<Integer> s = new ArrayList<Integer>();

to

ArrayList<Integer> s = new ArrayList<Integer>(8192);

and run with

java -Xms1G PrimeNumbersBenchmarkApp

user+sys = 6.9s

I don't think you're comparing what you say you're comparing."

http://www.famzah.net/download/langs-performance/java-discus...
How a seed-stage company can run a simple and effective board meeting
The moment you disagree with someone's free speech is precisely the moment when that freedom needs to be defended the most. You can disagree with the contents of the speech, but not with the freedom to express ones self.

Shame on Marco, but I'm proud he has the right to speak his mind.
Right, which is why I am _not_ saying that the EU is in any way homogeneous. What I am saying is that _neither_ the EU or the US are homogeneous. And the same treatment that is applied to the EU when claiming that a certain culture describes "Europe" needs to be applied to the US.
Maybe his goals include more than just preventing Trump Presidency? I mean, it may be that somebody thinks literally nothing is more important than preventing Trump from becoming President - after all, there was already a guy who tried to assassinate Trump - but I think claiming that's only possible way to think is going too far. There might be other priorities in life too.
Just to provide a reference for what you say: to have a "war", one does not need a nation state. And the Geneva conventions on laws of war do apply to armies and militias regardless of whether they are of a recognized nation state. The conventions apply in civil wars, too.

The Daish (IS) fighters are in gross breach of laws of war even though no one recognizes their "state".

The collection of the Geneva conventions is available in many places, here is the site of IRCR:

https://www.icrc.org/en/war-and-law/treaties-customary-law/g...

There used to be a nice, simple presentation of the laws of war at http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ but now you get 500 Internal Server Error for the archives.

However, to be "at war with terrorism" is unfortunately a very difficult position. Definition of terrorism if by necessity quite vague and problematic. (What is "freedom fighter" for one party or at one time may be a "terrorist" for another or at another time).

-- Edit: I see you sourced the ICRC site for conventions yourself.
I wonder if the people who accuse Obama of Fascism have ever even looked up what it means. Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

"Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism. Fascism opposes liberalism, Marxism and anarchism and is usually placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum.

Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete, and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. Such a state is led by a strong leader—such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party—to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society. Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature, and views political violence, war, and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation. Fascists advocate a mixed economy, with the principal goal of achieving autarky through protectionist and interventionist economic policies."

What does that sound like to you? Far-right, encourage violence, strong leadership, protectionism. Obama? HARDLY! Trump in a nutshell!
Common knowledge is by definition not evidence.

> The data for public salaries generally has very good availability in the Information age.

The salaries don't seem particularly high, and in some cases (construction workers and bus drivers, top quarter) seem particularly low. Of course a lot more goes into job satisfaction than Salary but I agree, this is not common knowledge.

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/construction-worke...

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/bus-driver/salary
trial by combat was formerly abolished by Parliament in 1819
lol snopes
>how long before we see an Occupy Sand Hill Road?

I say it in every "Rage against the system!" thread on these boards: there are many people here who are "the system" as far as the proletariat are concerned. As SV rises in power and its players become engrossed in politics, that becomes more evident. So be careful when you wish for revolution. You might find yourself on the wrong side.
well said ;)
I guess you need to go through JEP list and check all marked for 9 either "F	Com	9", "F	Clo	9".

The proposed ones "F	Pro	9" might just make it on 10.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/0
Good question - a dumb bayes script could get rid of this, think I can hack something together with sklearn in a few hours.
I don't have time for that. Nobody wants to spend their evenings working on exams. I'd prefer a few hours of onsites any day.
It'd been a while since I'd read the article, and you're right, I oversimplified in my memory. I appreciate the counterpoint (though I can't watch it at the moment).
The vast majority of projects, at my employer. I personally upgraded several hundred JVMs running several dozen services - upgrading was simple and almost entirely painless.

In addition to benefiting from the new features, being up-to-date is good for recruiting. You tell someone they'll be working with Java 6 and (in the absence of other evidence) they'll assume it's a legacy product suffering from chronic under-investment. Not exactly the impression you want to give job seekers!
The last company I worked at was pretty flexible with using whatever programming language made sense for the job, as long as everyone working on that project was comfortable with it. As far as I'm aware, they've kept this attitude to this day.

The biggest downside would appear to be the risk that new developers won't be able to contribute to a project, but I've found this isn't really an issue; most developers that I've met are pretty excited by the chance to use a new language. That excitement may also offset the inertia from using a new language.
Am I missing properties? Dear god it's 2016, with Java8, and we still don't have real, language-defined properties? I mean you can use Lombok (and if you're not, you should be!), but that's something that really need to be built into the language. C# has them, Python has them, Ruby has them .. even other JVM languages like Scala have them!

I'm really glad I get to do Scala development full time. Even with all the recent improvements to Java 8, I feel the future of Java isn't the language, but the JVM and all the other languages that run on top of it (Scala, Groovy, Clojure, JRuby, etc.)
Browsers already support arrow functions (and did before Node), but there’s no reason to break compatibility with old browsers just to get arrow functions.

If that’s the only thing you’re transforming, my advice would be to stop and just use function () {}.
Pixel uses UFS storage which is significantly faster than the flash storage in most phones. The Samsung S7 also has UFS. But not as fast the NVMe interface in recent iPhones.
Wow. I admit it. I went all these years without actually knowing the meaning of the word "reactionary".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary

It's one of those words you think you can derive meaning from using context clues, but in this case I was wrong.

That is really not the word I thought I was saying.

The word I should have used is "impulsive".

Thank you for correcting me and teaching me something new.
A bit late? Things started to move slowly at Apple, Siri, Apple Pay... becoming more of a hardware company
You cannot be serious. I have no sympathy and absolutely pure hatred for white nationalist nazi types on Breitbart. That is justified. I can't wait for all the racist old whites to die out in 3 to 4 decades resulting in world peace.
>No, my position is based on the fact that our treaties on the treatment of prisoners of war apply to nation states.

No, they do not apply only to nation states. They apply to combatants, whether of a nation state or not. See the Geneva conventions.
It's you, and you're in arrears on a tax obligation.

Did I get it right?
The guidelines ask us not to complain about downvotes in the first place, but to introduce an absolutely baseless accusation of racism is beyond the pale. Please do not do this.
The original source is not an FBI report and you are completely misinformed. An unknown blog which contains nothing but right-wing hit pieces claims to have anonymous sources in the State Department. Until I hear this quote echoed by professional journalists with the integrity to verify their sources, I will take it with the grain of salt it deserves.
Yes, the problem is when you as a developer have zero value for the company IT and have to make the application run on the servers that IT configured for the whole enterprise, not just our snowflake application.
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. (1978, 16)

Such liberty should exist with every subject matter so that we have “absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, practical or speculative, scientific, moral or theological” (1978, 11). Mill claims that the fullest liberty of expression is required to push our arguments to their logical limits, rather than the limits of social embarrassment. Such liberty of expression is necessary, he suggests, for the dignity of persons. If liberty of expression is stifled, the price paid is “a sort of intellectual pacification” that sacrifices “ the entire moral courage of the human mind” (1978, 31).

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/#JohStuMilH...

Also, throughout all your comments, it is more than critical analysis of Thiel, Altman, et al. You seem to be calling for social or economic punishments for a political view. I doubt Mill would agree that ba[c]king a major political party's candidate is grounds for the kind of societal justice you claim is warranted.
SD Cards are nothing like internal storage that typically use high performance ssds. They are much cheaper and also much much slower than ssds.
I could learn to see past an insurance file for WikiLeaks and still regard them as journalists, the idealized WikiLeaks is struggling in an asymmetric conflict with nation states and could probably use some insurance.
I applied to a mid-tier research institution for graduate physics and I believe they liked the amount of research I did as an undergrad, which amounted to every summer having a research internship and my last full year being advised by a professor. No publications came from undergrad btw.

As a grad student I did lag a big behind in classes but I joined a research lab my 1st year and published some well-cited papers in Physical Review Letters, a top Physics journal[1]. In my grad application I reaffirmed my passion for research as being the reason I wanted to attend a graduate school.

After that I took a postdoc at a top-tier international research lab and again published well-cited papers in Journal of the American Chemical Society, another top journal[1]. So from the grad school's perspective, I should classify as a 'good' hire :).

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=e...
Oh just realised you only have 3 posts none tech related. Back to DailyStormer for you my friend.
And they're still not calling them Microsoft Surface tablets.
Actual Thiel quote is "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,"[1]. It is nice to see that capitalism is equated with freedom, that's the right mindset but not what Thiel actually said.

If one is forced to choose between freedom and democracy, I don't see any moral choice but to choose freedom. After all, when slavery was democratically supported in the US, was it still wrong? I think it was. Do you think it is a "despotic" opinion?

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/...
> More specifically, I'm hoping they drop the strict requirement to pretend to be a fundamentalist Christian lunatic in order to have a real shot at running as a republican.

This is how we got to Trump in the first place.

> Partisan politics are destroying us.

I absolutely agree, though I don't see how all this demonizing of conservatives is going to help.
And a celebrity's Tweet to 10 million followers is speech so large it would be impossible for the vast majority of Americans to rival. Doesn't mean it's not speech, and doesn't mean it shouldn't be protected—legally and socially.
>Does Hillary encourage violence at rallies?

That's what "community organizations" are for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY
Copy the title.
Perform a Google Search.
Click the first link.
Read full article.
I can't really speculate on what might have happened 5 or 10 years ago, but I've read the book and have been following Cal Newport for a while (I read his previous book too) and it doesn't strike me as an attempt to capitalize on the "deep learning" trend.

I mean, it's not even tangentially related other than that the author happens to be a computer science professor (who works on distributed systems, not AI).
Right, he leaked a bunch of random Turkish peoples email's just because they used the word "smile". That's the truth, and none of us should have any problem with it. Just like I'm sure you're fine with posting all of your emails on some site so we can all read them to see what you've been up to.
>Thanks for catching my mistake, I was referring to the first link when I said it "requires the prior knowledge of a bug hit rate".

Odd, since the rest of that sentence discussed a blog post, and the first link is a Wikipedia article, while the second is a blog post. Nothing in the German Tank problem corresponds to prior knowledge of a rate of any kind. The word "rate" does not even appear on the page. It does appear in the blog post.

Your repeated intellectual dishonesty makes further discussion pointless. You are bizarrely resistant to admit there is an entire field called software defect estimation, or that future trends for bugs are not independent with current bugs. I give up like everyone else in your thread.
I appreciate that, even with this "fast" pace I still need to target Java 7, and I am aware of projects in even older versions.
You are recapitulating Descartes. Consciousness appears to be immeasurable. You can only know that you are conscious. It is polite to give others the benefit of doubt.
I work for a small company (< 20 people) and I'm an integral part of the team, yet I take 3+ week vacations with no problem. If my boss ever said the above to me, my only answer would be "Fuck you," before I left.
I believe that Trump is uniquely unfit for office, more than any major presidential candidate I've seen in my lifetime.

I believe, though I cannot prove, that should Trump be elected, he stands a well better than average chance of being an existential threat to our republic. So I do not take this election lightly at all.

That being said, I believe Mr. Thiel may say has he likes and spend his money where he likes, though his choice of candidate, like for many Republican voters, disappoints me greatly. I do not believe he speaks for YC in doing so, and I do not expect YC to terminate their relationship with him for him doing so.

I see no shame in this.
I agree the calculation probably worked by measuring the kinectic energy of that half-shell by measuring its velocity*thickness directly using pieces of paper.

But I wouldn't count the ideal gas law out (see http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/43696/will-ideal-...). My guess is that the huge temperatures involved will work in favour of an ideal-gas approximation.

Perhaps the more important thing is that things are happening on very short time-scales, far enough from equilibrium and temperature might not even be well defined.
What do you think the chances are that Philips is working on this?
SJWs, in other words.
You should first start reading these great slides from Carl de Macken (ITA Software co-founder, the thing that now powers Google Flights) http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...

…and then decide if you still want to pursue this.
Hart's OLF:

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/54707/1/WRAP_Hart_S144678871200014...

is an interesting variant. Like Caroline mentioned, you won't have any success with this on properly formed RSA keys, but Hart's OLF will very quickly factor some poorly made ones, and works quite a bit better in that respect than standard Fermat. It not only quickly finds N=PQ where P=Q+x for a small x, but also where P=kQ+x for some integer k and small x. Again not something any proper RSA key generation method will produce, but the ways people can screw things up is pretty high, and it might be worth giving it a few seconds just in case.

For small values, unlike Hart I find SQUFOF to be faster, but this is implementation specific. HOLF is also, like Fermat's method, extremely simple to implement.
Wit so I'm supposed to be enraged because Y Combinator won't cut ties with an associate who supported a candidate some people don't like? There's no shame here. Hillary's got her own dirt too so should everyone who associates with either candidate be ashamed?

There's nothing heinous or shameful about supporting a presidential candidate; I don't want either to be President but it's ridiculous to hold Y Combinator accountable for an associate's political choice, those people expecting otherwise should be ashamed.
The President of the United States is not commander in chief of the country or even the government.

He is commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States

US Constitution, Art 2. Sec 2.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii#section2
Thanks for Crash Bandicoot.

How did you go from games to developing airlines reservation and fares software?
If the net effect of the override is that users routinely click through the warnings, then the security of the whole system depends on how well we can educate random end-users on the TLS security model. That's not going to work.
> they'll assume it's a legacy product suffering from chronic under-investment.

Or Android.
OP: "There is a slight proclivity to conduct technical interviews within the companies that comprise the community."

The companies constitute the community. The community comprises the companies.
Will Google Flights tell you if prices are going to decrease in the near future too? You would generally think if they can predict one direction, then they can predict the opposite. However, telling someone that a cheaper flight may exist in the future is going to convince them to leave the site and possibly not come back.
The word "privilege" quite literally means "private law".
Ah I see. It's true, but there's a good chance these optimizations would be discovered independently, progressively and percolate into the ecosystem. Turning to ASIC was an "optimization" that was replicated and copied. It's true that there is a lot more secret sauce to optimizing a SNARK, but if mining drives improvement in SNARK efficiency, I would call that a win.
"If the Secretary of Defense does not concur, then the President may in his sole discretion fire the Secretary. The Secretary of Defense has legal authority to approve the order, but cannot veto it."

Two people (in one branch) to authorise, but still one'a decision needed.
It depends on who you ask, but I personally don't think hard certificate validation failures are a bad thing.
The funny thing is that data deduplication storage systems work on sha-1 hashes to identify identical data blocks (two blocks are considered equal if the hash is equal - most systems don't care to check for collisions); they kept telling that the likelyhood of collisions is so astronomically small [1] ; i wonder if this statement is still considered to be true.

[1] https://pibytes.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/deduplication-inter...