skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a native speaker, it's a poorly written headline.

One term for this form of misleading / confusing sentence (and especially headline) is a "crash blossom".

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/fun-with-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity
It fails (in K-12) because it misidentifies the problems. A school filled with iPads cannot solve:

- poor nutrition

- a home or neighborhood situation wracked with neglect, abuse, or addiction and the associated stress and anxiety that goes along with them

- impoverished relatives that are forced to move frequently for new, low-paying jobs

- general situational instability and lack of access to money

The school's money could fix the underpaid teacher/poor facilities problem (but that only helps in cases where students can afford the schools in the first place, obviously.) In our system, we use phrases like "problems with K-12 education" as a laughable shorthand for "enormous societal problems we're not even trying to tackle in a serious way because they would require lots of work, taxation, redistribution, and government 'intrusion'." The people starting these schools would never have done so if they'd realized this; there is no silver bullet for the problem. It requires major systemic changes (and many of these things apply just as much to higher ed as well.)
> Dylan went on driving. After a while, he told Cohen that a famous songwriter of the day had told him, “O.K., Bob, you’re Number 1, but I’m Number 2.”

> Cohen smiled. “Then Dylan says to me, ‘As far as I’m concerned, Leonard, you’re Number 1. I’m Number Zero.’ Meaning, as I understood it at the time—and I was not ready to dispute it—that his work was beyond measure and my work was pretty good.”

Pretty fitting after today's Nobel prize award. Cohen is definitely up there with the greatest songwriters and poets of this generation.
I don't see it as Apple doing any wrong here. They recently received a lot of bad press for terminating the Dash developer's account for some unknown reason. Turns out there was a good reason after all, and would like the originator of the bad press to now present the actual details of the "why". And he doesn't have to admit to any wrongdoing.

From the way I understood Dash and Apple's conversation, Kapeli helped another developer become a fully registered in Apple's dev program. He helped by paying the $99 on his own credit card and letting the new developer do testing with his hardware, thus "linking" the accounts in the eyes of Apple (same CC, same hardware devices). And it was actions by the new developer that appeared fraudulent.

Apple isn't asking him to admit involvement with the new developer. They just want to get the word out that it wasn't some blackbox heuristic that singled out Kapeli for some unknowable reason.

Basically a case of guilt-by-association. And because of that, I really think they should have contacted him about it before bringing out the ban hammer.
The endowments were created by the cumulative donations of alumni, largely with the intention of keeping monetary influence out of the university. If you remove that connection, you'll eventually kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, as a for-profit institution inevitably embraces the values of the agora rather than the acadame.

In other words, people gave money because they felt these universities can educate more freely when money isn't a factor. When they no longer feel that way, there will be no more donations.
Best i can tell, Microsoft wants to get rid of Win32. But their attempts are hopelessly hamfisted.
The Web always wins
I know you are joking, but I hear this sentiment all the time.

SV is just as corrupt as wall street, and would be just as willing to take bailouts if they were offered.
just prepend "cache://" to the url
I dont like this route. The only value for the WoSign keys for a whole year would be issuing certificates with a doctored notBefore date, and they can't do that publically.
I don't disagree but it must be noted that most HN have high level of English while I doubt all but a few that are not Thai have Thai language skills.

There are a ton of US news sources while there is less reporting on Thailand and it is hard to get nuance when you don't speak the language.

Even people who are native English speakers but are not from the US don't understand politics in the US.
This isn't a deterrent, this is a PR nightmare. Apple fans are forced to dig up dirt on a developer to show how Apple is in the right, the developer is still raising very public hell about the whole situation, and consumers of Dash are stuck without access to a tool they need.
Control timers in JavaScript
> I'll give you a hint: it's not because of resources or good land or good people

This is a bold claim which you don't really back up. If they can't put together a functioning state where the economy can prosper then they most certainly have their fair share of bad people too, many of them in powerful positions in the state, offsetting all of the good ones.

Just look at the disappearances of people and kids in the country which the state was complicit with. This and other lawlessness destroyed tourism in Acapulco which used to be a primary tourist destination there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Iguala_mass_kidnapping

Or the foreigner-owned hotels taken over by armed thugs and corrupt judges: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/world/americas/mexico-tulu...

Or entire towns being taken over by vigilantes because of police corruption: http://www.naturalnews.com/039808_vigilantes_Mexico_armed_ci...

Their all-out war with the cartels hasn't done much to reduce the flow of drugs either, it mostly created a series of power vacuums for the next round of poor kids to take over. The failures in enforcement makes the police/army v cartels comes off as two parties with a very thin line of morality separating them. That's not helping the situation and the opposite of leading by example.

These are just some recent examples. In this environment it's no wonder they haven't developed a thriving (legal) economy. Maybe they should focus on letting the good people run things and take a good hard look at the people they are letting hold power...

There seems to be a culture of turning a blind eye to people in power not following the laws and this is only something they can solve internally by holding up their representatives to a higher standard.
My first college roommate* and I played chess a couple of times. He beat me within a few moves both games. After winning the 2nd game he said to me (in jest): "That's called the Fools Mate. You know why it works on you?"

I haven't play since. This Really Bad Chess looks like it could be fun though...

(*) Bob P.: If you read this, I miss ya buddy!
Sensor cooling can lead to moisture appearing in the camera, so the D5500a Cooled uses a special anti-dewing system that uses targeted heat to avoid dew drops appearing.

I'd like to hear more about this.
Thinking is already computation. Computational is redundant.

We just need to incorporate what we've begun to understand through computer science into our own common sense.

This is the correct approach, except, it is the only approach and is and will happen anyway. It happened as we better understood objectivity and subjectivity, as we understood mathematics and logic, and as we understood science and factuality. With computers, it's abstractions and execution of languages, expressions of logic, etc. The beauty of it is it's more relevant to how we compute, so it's like understanding how we understand. And that's the field of AI.

Give kids a computer and things to build, and they will naturally learn from the experience. No need to bring up the term thinking, or science, or even computers. We think, we learn, we understand. Saying we need to somehow do these things is redundant. Encouraging more open source open hardware computers in classrooms is what we need to be doing.
I'm surprised when people are surprised that Google's interview process is obnoxious. That's pretty well established by this point, both by Google employees and others.
+1 for FunFun Function, even though it's mostly about javascript or web development he talks about general development issues in a very charismatic way
Is TCP/IP Illustrated still the gold standard of books on the subject? I read it fifteen or twenty years ago and would like to finally own a copy (I borrowed it from the library), but not if there is something better.
> However, as an indie, my platform preference is primarily market-driven.

What do you mean? Where craigslist entrepreneurs and seed stage startups want iOS apps?
> but not one test on knowledge of languages, architecture, design, or actual real-world problem solving

Maybe they fail to do so but I do believe the goal is to test real world problem solving. However, I think they stray from specific language or domain knowledge because they want you to be able to work in different roles, since you don't have to interview again to switch teams.

From what I've read, the idea is to hire people who would be smart enough to learn any specific domain knowledge necessary, because the expectation is engineers might have to tackle problems they wouldn't have seen elsewhere. I don't really know whether thats true anymore as my impression is now Google just has a bunch of overqualified people though..

> The problem with that approach is you end up with a very homogenous team of really smart, logical people, but without the balance of more creative, empathic types. Ideally, a well-functioning team will have both, and will have people from many different backgrounds and educations, because that's when you get true collaboration and innovation: by mixing unrelated disciplines.

Can't disagree with you there, but its a weird assumption to say that people who are logical are not creative or empathetic. I do think that they hire for "Googliness" whatever that means, which may lead to a monoculture though.

In any case, I guess you can call me a Google fanboy. I don't agree with everything they do but I feel like bashing Google's (or most other company's) interview process is the cool thing to do here, but most people don't seem to have tried to understand why it is the way it is, and thus don't offer any true alternatives that meet the same goals nor do they reject the goals in the first place.
I've been enjoying Jon Blow's (creator of Braid & The Witness) programming language talks and demos. He's making a new programming language for games, and it's very interesting to watch. I think he's even hired a developer to work on the compiler.

Here's the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmV5I2fxaiCKfxMBrNsU1...
Meta: Vouching for this solely because seeing it prefixed with [dead] seemed.. inappropriate. Continue to flag if considered inappropriate for the site, obviously.
Discussing Cryptotoken Best Practices
From my reading: because it was only E&Y HK that was found to be delinquent in their obligations, and there isn't evidence that it's a systemic issue. IMHO: there should be a full audit of E&Y practises globally in order to continue to perform services pertaining to the certificate process.
> Reductio ad 'X' means assigning guilt by association to X.

Not really. Reductio ad absurdum is a common proof strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
Ubuntu has done that a long time if there's a problem with graphics drivers. Don't know more specifics for your issue, since I haven't run Ubuntu in a VM in years.
Regarding buying food on an airplane, what about the effect of simple politeness?

I'm not sure I would call it "peer pressure," when I feel uncomfortable about eating food next to someone who doesn't have any. Maybe it's a cultural thing, but I would rather wait to eat until the person next to me also has food.

Once I was on a train, and the woman next to me offered to share some of the sandwich she brought with her. I said, "no thanks, I was about to go get some food from the dining car." I got my own sandwich and brought it back. I understood completely what was behind her offer, and I am sure we both felt more comfortable eating together, even though we didn't know each other and would never see the other person again.
This is the first time I have come across hexagonal city planning. A search on Google reveals this is a well established and researched principle, but I have not really found any actual cities planned this way.

I am just thinking about the the intersections of hexagonal systems. In locations where you have 4 roads intersecting, the roads are not 90 degrees. This is not ideal in intersection design. Second, at locations where you have these diagonal streets coming together, it seems like traffic bottleneck/nightmare. Currently existing intersections like this have been now simplified into roundabouts or simpler 3-way intersections.

I am going to continue pondering on this subject, but these are my immediate thoughts.
One interesting thing I saw recently was that it might be the case that students in "better" education systems might also be doing well because they were going to do well regardless.

From a semi-recent slatestar link thread[0] (Tyler Cowen is Marginal Revolution):

"Tyler Cowen makes the case that Denmark’s institutions aren’t that great because Danes in the US do better than Danes in Denmark, suggesting Denmark is a successful country mostly because of Danish culture (Cowen didn’t mention genes, but should have)."

[0]:https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-16/denmark-s...
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Please refute my "facts" and not just don't down vote. I replied to a person saying I was in error and I replied back with the actual numbers.
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> They just want to get the word out that it wasn't some blackbox heuristic that singled out Kapeli for some unknowable reason.

So, why didn't they just do that? Instead of this roundabout "we screwed up and you screwed up, so you need publish our comment for us", why not just come out and comment on the circumstances, and reinstate the account. Boom. Whole thing is resolved, muck stops being slung, developers are happy because Apple appears responsive to problems, and customers can once again download Dash.
Reading further into the article, that chart is a setup for the "new times are smaller than the old error bars" punch line.
>This actually is democracy working as designed - people being free to bullshit one another

They aren't free to bullshit one another. Facebook, Google, and co. regularly censor their users.
> ordinary site maintenance position

Seems you don't know much what Google's SRE job is about.
Youtube.com/thenewboston something very soothing about his videos and humor
Thank you very much for the pointers--these are quite helpful!
I half agree. They are definitely giving him an out, but I don't consider his recording the call as defiance, more like just being practical. I'd record the call, too.
Why is it up to him to write that blog post? What makes his word more credible than Apple's?
Revocation doesn't work (18 Mar 2011)
Archived version: http://archive.is/2Fj58
What's interesting to me is that in the picture of the Library that opened in 1914 there are stains dripping down the facade from the windows and some other places. I would think that would take at least several years for something like that to appear. I wonder if the date is off on that photo.
You can know the technical level of your audience and adjust your explanations accordingly, yet still completely fail to achieve your intended result because your focus on what you want has blinded you to your misunderstanding of what they want.
I believe that Unity 8 currently does not work with VirtualBox but is functioning in VMware Workstation.
You unintentionally screw with the timing? (I had the same happen)
You have some valid points in critiquing government, but you're doing them a severe disservice by the way you present them. Context-appropriate facts, not rhetoric.

> In the late 19th century, when there was less government intervention, America saw the most rapid rate of economic growth.

The late 19th century of American history featured a large number of one-time-only economic improvements and wholescale pillaging of large amounts of natural resources.

The completion of a transcontinental railroad (completed 1869 with government sponsorship via the Pacific Railroad Acts), Pennsylvania oil rush (1870s), the settling and harvesting of the West (1850-1900), and implementation of manufacturing economies of scale on the back of the new rail system.

Additionally, unrestrained consolidation of competition into cooperative trusts gave rise to monopolies that Theodore Roosevelt spent considerable political capital resolving in the early 20th century via lawsuits under the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890). See Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1903) and Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States (1911).
This reminds me of my mother wishing her neighbor happy birthday on April 20th because his Wifi network name had 420 at the end of it.
Most likely a "today I learned" sort of thing.
It was obvious since the last referendum results were published that SNP will push for another referendum whenever they see that as politically benefical, this time riding on the anti-tories wave that partially helped the Brexiteers. And the independence campaign may even be successful. Even if it isn't, it will help SNP to gain a majority in local government in 3 years time...
The questions are fine for SRE. The problem is the behaviour and the expectations of the interviewer.
Joe is part of the society, to which you're "giving back". Hypothetically, it's impossible to separate hypothetical Joe from hypothetical Jane who was recently born with severe disabilities and also didn't contribute jack shit, or a WW2 veteran, who is now unable to work. So you "give back" to all three.

Not hypothetically, and noting that you explicitly stated you didn't want to discuss factual reality, nonetheless: such hypothetical Joes are rare to nonexistent in the US post Clinton welfare reform.
Pull up a chair and let me tell you a story about life before the internet, when people had far fewer reading choices and but time to savor the good ones... oh, wait, you don't want to hear a story.

tl;dr Gödel came up with an alternate model of the Universe but Einstein didn't like it. Gödel starved himself to death after Einstein died.
This is blatantly false.

Source: I work for Google.
Our daily schedule is packed with meetings and we try to be as on time as possible, interviews (which are something that everybody should be doing) work exactly the same, we don't try to screw people over with bad timing just to "test" them. Sometimes it happens that people miss interviews and somebody else has to show up, this is unfortunately a problem and it shouldn't happen but sometimes it does (accidents and unforeseen things happen). It's not done on purpose.
Reading about this story reminds me of a great Murakami novel, Kafka on the Shore. There's something slightly eerie yet appealing about being able to wander around an empty library.
I'm going to use this opportunity to list some relatively unknown yet excellent software dev related channels that I've come across over the years.

* Derek Banas (https://www.youtube.com/user/derekbanas): staggering amount of content on a huge variety of programming topics; tutorial-style; this guy is so productive it scares me sometimes :(

* Mark Lewis (https://www.youtube.com/user/DrMarkCLewis): CS professor; lots of videos on general CS, functional programming; focus on Scala

* VoidRealms (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYP0nk48grsMwO3iL8YaAKA): excellent C++-focused content, great Qt series

* mathematicalmonk (https://www.youtube.com/user/mathematicalmonk): great ML and probability videos

* mycodeschool (https://www.youtube.com/user/mycodeschool): general CS, algorithms, data structures

* HandmadeHero (https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive): excellent series by Casey Muratori that explains a huge number of topics related to game dev, gfx programming; has a really long series of videos documenting how he's building an indie game from the ground up i.e. custom engine

I will update once I think of others :)
I wish I could replace my OS's certificate store with Mozilla's.
Just a general comment, again anecdotal. There seems to be a trend of recruiters performing bait-and-switch in SV currently.

For example, you may be hired for a technical role, but you end up doing manual work or bash script maintenance.

Another tactic (this one is pretty hilarious) is that hiring managers will continuously interview new people for the same job description, without any intention of hiring them, in order to keep the slot open. Sad, but true.
Why “V” Instead of “U” Is Used on County Courthouses
You're correct, I misread what he said the recruiter's answer was.
How to quickly turn your mobile responsive website into a beautiful app
I am glad this is happening. I have lost all trust in StartCom when they blatantly ignored the issues surrounding Heartbleed, refusing to renew certificates, despite every other CA doing so.

I hope their learn their lesson, and try to be more honest in the future!
>Activists would do quite a lot more good by demanding better from their own government.

Easier said than done.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/10/mexican-activi...
This costs money. As long as Google receives plenty of acceptable candidates, false negatives are free.

(Assuming they get no false positives, which, thinking about it, is a big assumption)
You've missed out the rotational modes, which matter hugely. A fraction of a degree on a long telephoto lens is a huge part of the frame. (If you're focusing at infinity the translational modes theoretically shouldn't matter at all)
In summary: "Recruiter: that's not the answer I have on my sheet of paper."
About 8 years ago I had the same questions.
I'd use AWS Lambda
I like that pithy statement, Facts can't stay hidden forever. I have big dreams about big data proving various forms of rhetoric false and enumerating all the counter examples. For the time being I think we'll have to manually aggregate the examples like Heather MacDonald often does.
This might be interesting; the original, Swedish/English/French/German-language announcement, including audience reaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ybJQs8_rs

(Yeah, the "permanent secretary of the Swedish academy" is showing off her multilingual skills quite a bit...)
Show HN: Epic Step Battles ! code 'VIPHACKER' to skip the waitlist
Just a nitpick: There are versions of quicksort that perform well, O(n*log n), on already sorted data. But there is always some worst case scenario where it can be O(n^2).
I don't think they have dedicated pages, but searching for the classics Dan Friedman and Gerald Sussman is guaranteed brain tease. The minikanren relational interpreter is still high in my top videos ever, and Sussman watch engineering talk was packed with surprises.
Because Apple's position has been the same all along, that they detected fraudulent activity on his accounts. They just want him to confirm, publicly, that there was indeed fishy stuff going on with one of his accounts. Seems totally fair.
George Hotz on machine learning for self-driving cars, ML at Berkeley [video]
Actually, I would. There are not too many left, but I worked with a couple of people who did not have a college degree. They were certainly competent enough.
> Its average case is O(n log(n)). Its worst case is O(n^2). Which do you call its big-O?

I know this is irrelevant to the larger point of your post, and I'm sure that you know this already, but the worst case is the big-O. This is just another reason why "big-O" is not the most helpful thing to discuss in practice.