skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's not because of resources or good land or good people: all of which it has in plenty.

Land-wise, Mexico's got real issues. Its core territory is limited, encircled by mountains, the country has massive desert and jungle areas that make imposing central leadership difficult, and it offers very little in the way of internal or external defenses. Mexico City is shockingly easy to invade via Veracruz, and the US Navy is about the only entity preventing anyone from blockading their primary port.

Mexico's geography isn't awesome.

A lot of their economic limitations are self-imposed, e.g., the 1917 constitutional nationalization of the country's mineral resources killed foreign capital investments of exploration and production.

Oil revenues fund government programs instead of funding Pemex's growth. The state needs its oil revenue to function, which is a major limiting factor.

> Mexico should be booming due to NAFTA.

Despite all the above, it is: http://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iDpyf7X2wzkM...

And that's just the on-books economy, which excludes a significant amount of cashflow coming both from remittances, and the narcotics industry which funnels a massive amount of cash into the Mexican economy. The most conservative estimates are staggeringly big: it's a significant percentage of their cash economy.

It's the world's 11th-largest economy. It was 13th just a few years ago.

Their exports are skyrocketing: https://www.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/stratfor...

Foreign direct investment, while obviously highly driven by fluctuations in the US economy, is on balance far higher than they've ever been: https://www.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/stratfor...

> So much of this development we now see in East Asia could have very easily gone right across the border if it had a working political system.

East Asia saw such an influx of investment precisely because their wages were relatively low, thanks largely to their poverty.

You can't have it both ways: either the economy gets to be stable and robust with a functioning government that can control crime, or it gets to have low labor costs, which is what drove the investment in East Asia: relatively lower labor costs.

The narco trade is the one thing probably suppressing wages in Mexico the most, and is, in a very unusual way, driving the shift of manufacturing from East Asia to Mexico. (As is automation.)

But I agree that building a city on the border won't change much (if anything).
>computerphile isn't really for developers. It's for non-developers to get a glimpse into the world of developers. Everything they explain there is extremely elementary.

This is true for the most part but there are some videos which are interesting still, like the interviews with Brian Kernighan.

Below are said videos in the order they were published. I don't remember but I think parts of one video might be duplicate from one of the other videos.

These videos are for historical perspective, not for learning, so depending on what you are looking for these might or might not be for you. I think most users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix family operating systems will enjoy watching them.

The Factory of Ideas: Working at Bell Labs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFK6RG47bww

"C" Programming Language: Brian Kernighan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de2Hsvxaf8M

UNIX Special: Profs Kernighan & Brailsford - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_J6xc-Az0

Unix Pipeline (Brian Kernighan) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzonnwoR2I
It's relatively easy to be considered nice when there are strict laws forbidding anyone from saying anything to the contrary.

Given media control in Thailand, there's no doubt plenty of incentive leading those in the media to go out of their way to praise the royal family (deserved or not).
Apple Poaches Imagination Technologies COO and Graphics Engineers
My layman guesses. The ratio of baryonic and dark matter remains unchanged because the new galaxies come with their own dark matter and we can determine the ratio from looking at individual galaxies. The amount of baryonic and dark matter in the universe goes up by a factor of ten unless the new galaxies are exceptionally small or large which would change this factor accordingly. Finally the amount of dark energy goes up to yield the observed expansion rate, no idea if that also means a factor of ten in which case the relative composition of the universe would remain unchanged.
I started out by downloading a very minimal Slackware distro on a 2400baud dial up Internet connection. A few months later I bought Slackware (full) on about 50 floppies - I felt like a rich man having all of Slackware available. Good times.
Computers are any thing that computes. People are quite capable of computing. To restrict the concept to machines (and only certain classes) makes it difficult to talk about the fundamentals and models of computation.
> The people are totally right to refuse to be fooled again.

So are you saying we should just give up on the issue? We tried something and it didn't work. We should try again. The solution isn't "build a wall".

> The funny thing is that the people beating the drums of climate panic tend to be the same ones that are opposed to nuclear power, which is the easiest and most obvious solution that doesn't require crippling our economy.

I agree, I think it's idiotic to vilify nuclear power. Catastrophes have happened, we learned from them.

> The government should certainly not favor one religion over another, but the religions are the source of our moral values, even for most of the non-believers among us.

We agree to disagree then. I believe religion is a highly personal issue that has no place in public discourse. I do not see Christianity's influence on our culture and morality as a positive thing.

> Drugs like heroin and meth and cocaine rob people of their agency, of the will to direct their own lives. They should not be available for purchase.

I agree. When I rail against the War on Drugs, I specifically refer to the stance of incarceration rather than rehabilitation as a solution to the drug problem.
Erm, you can't calibrate out Boltzmann noise.
Affecting SoundCloud, though I'm not seeing any ssl issues on my end.

http://status.soundcloud.com/day/2016/10/13
Kung Fu Chess was fantastic!
If you're looking for a modern strategy game, Check out Arimma - designed to be difficult for computers, easy for humans
I don't think our evidence for dark matter comes from interactions between galaxies but within a galaxy - the interaction of matter within the galaxy and the amount of lensing observed because of the amount of observed matter in a galaxy - in other words I dont _think_ that this will do much to the dark matter calculations - but I am not certain and hope someone knowledgeable will come along and set us straight.
The echo chamber is becoming even worse this election season. I've seen numerous friends post "If you support Trump -- you are an awful human being, please unfriend me". Personally, I at least like to see what other people are thinking.
Soylent Bars recalled after some customers get sick
"E12e likes 2016" is probably even stronger and easier to remember
> Upon drinking all the liquor I could find in the house, the room began to spin and I didn't like the feeling of not being in control so I found the nearest couch and passed out.

I don't know that evaluating drinking alcohol by getting hammered is really going to lead to a reasonable analysis. Most alcohol consumption is within reason.

> I often wonder if I am programmed differently than other people. Peer pressure has never really had any effect on me. When people would try to convince me to drink, I would grab a root beer and relish in the joy of drinking something that not only tastes great (not having to acquire a taste for) but did not result in a loss of my inhibitions.

It sounds like it has more of an effect on you than you realize, just in the opposite direction. You come across as feeling superior for your choice to not drink alcohol and instead "drink things that taste great" (implying that people drink alcoholic beverages despite disliking the taste) and that "don't result in a loss of inhibitions" (as if this is universally a bad thing). Honestly, it sounds like you started out with your conclusions (alcohol is bad/dumb/whatever) and went out in search of evidence supporting that conclusion ("drinking all the liquor I could find in the house").

People drink alcohol for a variety of reasons. Peer pressure, wanting to fit in, and feeling cool plays roughly zero part in it once you get past high school. People enjoy the flavor of cocktails, liquors, beer, wine, and other alcoholic beverages. People enjoy the "social lubricant" effect of moderate consumption. And yes, people think it's fun to get drunk (news flash: it is, at times!).

If you don't want to drink or don't enjoy drinking, good for you. Do your own thing. But damn do you come across as feeling better than others for making that choice.
MSFT Program Manager here.

Would love to learn how to better make products for mobile developers.
Is this what you have in mind? https://www.buycott.com/
Didn't know this is your safe space. You could move to a country where only one ideology is allowed.
C++ is an expert's language, no doubt about it. But wielded properly, it does deliver on its promise pretty well, especially with recent language evolution.

C++ lets you use a bump allocator if you want. malloc()/free() are just functions that you don't pay for unless you call them. That is the point! And as others have pointed out, many common data structures let you swap out the calls to malloc()/free() for something else if you want to.
Agreed. I interviewed a few QA candidates at a previous company that used a term completely differently than we did. When I rephrased the question from defining the term to "what kind of test would you run in this situation" I got the kind of answers I would expect. It's far more important that a candidate understands the concepts needed to solve a problem, than that they have memorized a term.

Hell, someone could be able to define MVC and explain how you would use it, but have no idea how to actually implement something using it for a given programming language.
one of the ok-ish usecases of laptops with touchscreens.
More like "don't take things at face value, unless those things were provided by groups I support politically."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960 - by Bobby Fischer
Am I right to understand that you think you couldn't behave like this without alcohol?

Even if drugs may help in the short term to act ‚more open’ — everything you do when you're drunk is because of you and not caused by the drug!

Be concious and open and people will be open to you. The world around you is a mirror of yourself!
sum_and_stringify(nums: List[int]) -> str:

This looks so bad. I think Python is making a big mistake with this.

The commented version is much more acceptable.
Possibly your Safari had already cached an 'ok' result for the intermediate?
This Robot Can Do More Push-Ups Because It Sweats
I'm curious about any compelling reasons I should use something like Dokku or Flynn if I already prefer to manage my own infra with something like Ansible or Salt. Serious question, not a sarcastic rhetorical remark about this type of tool :)
Ok will do thanks!
If that is the case, we should consider splitting the country up into more homogenous chunks
And yet, perhaps an equally-apt word is infamous, because 'priming' effects appear often among those psychological research results that fail-to-reproduce:

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Power-of-Suggestion/136907/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Well I had the first call with a recruiter this Monday about a Google SRE-TPM role, and I got the exact same questions – granted, presented as a warm up.
> 1) Again I'm not talking about verification of whoever is on the other side of the conversation, its about hijacking the account (whether by breaking into the Tel-Co system or having access to it using a court order).

What do you imagine happens when someone hijacks "the account"? They don't get access to your past conversations, they don't get access to your contacts. All that happens is that they can impersonate you, which your friends will notice when they are notified that the key changed.

> If you are using this app, you are forced to give up a copy of all you contacts and also the app is scanning for new contacts several times every hour!

I'm pretty sure it asks you and you have to give it permission. And again, most people WANT to find their contacts. What's the point of having a messenger and no one to send your messages to?

> If this was an opt in option

It is opt-in, no one is forcing you to use WhatsApp. It's not like people don't know that they will be able to contact their friends through WhatsApp and are shocked and dismayed when they find out that's the case. You do realize not every app in existence has to follow your requirements right? You're free to use something that does, but the reason the majority use WhatsApp is that it doesn't. That's not a bug, it's a design choice that you happen to disagree with.
The number of galaxies is always for the observable universe - about 92 billion light years in diameter if I remember correctly - not the entire universe. From the observed flatness of the observable universe we know that the entire universe is at least about 100 times larger in volume assuming it is isotropic.
The visible universe is not infinite, and it is both shrinking and growing at the same time.
Very cool, I have been playing around with this idea for a little bit now and your implementation looks solid.

Looking forward to giving this a shot on my next side project.
As long as you don't mind working on "boring" projects, there is TONS of small businesses in need of custom work to be done. It's very lucrative, because most people like you said, turn their noses up at the thought of it.
Then, as a sort of encore, he published a three-page note in September containing the most famous equation of all time: E = mc2.

I can't believe the New Yorker can't typeset superscripts. The equation might be the most famous of all, but sometimes it's also the most misinterpreted and mistyped.
My favorite Linux desktop TODO list:
http://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.th...
Me too! We've been considering migrating off Lambda native to serverless or Chalice[1], but I keep thinking kubernetes is perfect for self-hosting this (or could be? Maybe?). I have one thing bookmarked in this direction, funcktion [2], and another that looks less... mature, open lambda [3] but would love to hear thoughts/other options if anyone has tried any of these.

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/chalice
[2] https://github.com/fabric8io/funktion
[3] http://www.open-lambda.org/
There is also Asch experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
I'd be able to write HTTP request by hand, I've done that quite often, however I would not expect that to be a common skill. Looking at something, even often does not in any capacity mean that you would be able to reproduce that from memory.
Perhaps, as of yet, Google isn't living fully by their own principles ("automating themselves out of a job"), maybe because the tech isn't quite there yet or maybe for other reasons. It remains to be seen if the ultimate solution to bureaucracy is AI/ML or if it will just be a further extension of these same mechanisms.

The problem with simple "skills tests" is they lack depth, and of necessity due to time, always will. The problem with performance tests is the opposite: they may take too long to reach a conclusion in human terms, during which time significant money is lost.

Recruiters seem like a great candidate for replacement by AI. [edit: and I should add, most middle managers too]
When I interviewed at Google for a Ads Solutions Engineer, I had some of these questions asked as well. (I got an 8/10 and was pushed to the next round).

I assume they have a massive list of questions (for various positions and have a minimum cut off - 7/10 I'm assuming as a few of my friends who got 6/10 and were not moved forward) and are asked to all applicants without consideration of experience/skill/previous work as well explained by Max Howell[0]).

[0] https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
There is no such thing as unbiased news.

Best thing to do is to read news from left and right media or in country relations, say US and Russia, from both sides. Usually the truth lies somewhere between.
LTS – I don't have time to fool around upgrading and taking my system down. Maybe I can budget time for this yearly, but only if it takes a couple hours max.

Background updates – don't prompt me unless it's a breaking change; do it over night, lunch, any time I'm not actually using the app/library.

1-click backup – give me a brain-dead simple way to configure automatic backups to an external HD, Amazon S3/Glacier, etc; provide built-in support for MySQL/MariaDB backups, and similar sensitive applications.

Actually keep up with patches! For instance, I set up PHP/Apache and PHP is still on patch-level 15 — when p43 is available. Actually keep up. I don't have the time necessary to build my PHP versions from source just to keep them patched.

Sane defaults. Fast boot. Make it work out of the box with few choices, and simple to add on development environments.

Just some scattered thoughts for y'all. (Thanks for asking.)
If I understand it right, this gives companies ability to shift their services to and from AWS relatively painlessly. Do other cloud provides offer anything comparable?
Regarding Olbers' paradox, the explanation that the article gives contradicts what I heard elsewhere...

I heard that the nighttime sky is dark simply because the universe is to young for the whole thing to get filled with light, though that will happen eventually.

Crap, I can't remember where I read that. Somewhere linked off of HN. Nautil.us?
Soylent to Immediately Cease Selling Food Bars Following Claims of Vomiting
I have no doubt that many or most do actually love their former king.

The problem is that it's probably not well-founded, given the laws you mentioned ensure virtually all media coverage of the king & royals is never less than glowing.

(Analogy coming to mind is North Koreans shedding true tears for their former leader.)
Image Recognition in Python with Keras
Why not just use Heroku and actually build your product?
Hey!

We found it to be very difficult to get started with Relay. At Graphcool we are building the dashboard, a core component of our product with Relay, so we had to become experts. Now we have turned this into (what we hope to be) a compelling getting started tutorial.

We would love to get some feedback, and if you have any questions about Relay or GraphQL in general I'm happy to answer. :)
> For example, a Republican in the US will perceive "liberal bias" in any story that doesn't present Republican politicians in a positive light, regardless of its veracity.

I think this is a bit of an exaggeration.

There are some Republicans who continue to criticize trump freely, after he won the nomination, even if some of these might still prefer him to Hillary Clinton.

Though some republicans would probably interpret almost any criticism as bias.

Did you mean most republicans or just at least some?

Maybe you meant things that criticize republican politicians as a group? To me, that seems likely to be more true.
The language is not beautiful, it is full of signature and func naming inconsistencies [1] it inherited from C. The devs are ultra-conservative and stubborn to cause BC even at major version bumps (like the forever-incorrect ternary associativity [2][3]). But PHP7 is both fast and productive with many modern first-class features. You can in fact write excellent code without much effort that will handily outperform Python, Ruby and even Node.

The Wordpress codebase [plugin api included], though, is utter garbage.

[1] http://www.phpsadness.com/

[2] http://php.net/manual/en/language.expressions.php

[3] https://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg7196... (yes, i asked for this in 2014)
If you had literally the same questions, worded the same, there's something horribly broken (or you got the same broken recruiter). I think you're remembering similar questions (e.g. they asked the one about the potato) but the details make a huge difference.
It is a common misconception that typing makes stuff more complicated and inconvenient. Some type systems are quiet bad (not powerful enough, so they do more harm than good), but that does not mean that the idea of typing itself is bad, but their implementation is. In my opinion Python kicks ass, because of world-class libraries for nearly anything, and not because it's dynamic (a broad term, I would say it's strongly typed) und you do not have to declare types (which can often be inferred).

You listed 4 specific languages, but the following things are each inconvenient in them:

- C: it's inconvenient to implement a quick prototype
- Ocaml: it's inconvenient that the stdlib is so small
- Go: it's inconvenient for scientific/numerical code
- TypeScript: it's inconvenient to run server-side

Obviously you can do everything in any language (Turing, blabla), but the question is, how much effort (time) does it cost.

Python rocks in all of them (edit: the big exception being frontend webdev), in particular for quick prototyping. I think mypy is an exceptional and fine contribution to the eco-system and I really appreciate their effort.
This sort of reminds me of how TypeScript got started. Bracing to hear about TypePy in coming days :P
Wow, that's as good a history of camouflage as I've read.
Facebook now lets cast videos to your TV
Google to separate mobile/desktop search indexes, make mobile the primary index
I'm sure imperialism helps a little --but it's uncertain how much. Sweden, is pretty rich, so is Equatorial Guinea, and Spain and Portugal are somewhat have-beens despite being the epitome of imperialism.

What matters more is good governance _at this time_. Singapore, Taiwan, Equatorial Guinea (despite the "dictator"[1]), Iceland, etc. Poorly governed places with huge natural resources reserves like Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico are doing relatively poorly despite their advantage and potential. They simply need better governance.

[1] Dictators can be economically beneficial (if they execute well) despite the repercussions to open government. Same for S Korea (up until the 90s)
> apparently safe enough for the U.S. to consider Thailand among its staunchest asian allies for the past several decades

Maybe the US found a friend, given that its military also killed college students in the same era; students using their democratic right to protest?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Ah, if only people backed Dokku monetarily[1]. I'd probably get my ass in gear and release the multi-server functionality I prototyped over the summer.

Nice to see that others are finding Flynn useful though, there is plenty of space for PaaS offerings, and I truly hope they are financially successful.

[1] My experience in this area is that it's hard to get peple to pay for something that is free, which dis-incentivizes work/releases. I'm not surprised that many use the free version of Flynn, or that there were a ton of Heroku users that left once they stopped getting free resources 24/7. Dokku does take donations - https://opencollective.com/dokku - but to be quite honest, it's almost certainly nowhere near even 1% the amount of money we've saved our users.
> When we tell people they're wrong for pursuing their own projects and instead should contribute to existing efforts, we're just encouraging them to develop in secret where nobody will critizie them.

I think most people criticizing think that:

FOSS and contributing to existing efforts > FOSS and pursuing your own project > FOSS and developing in secret > proprietary

So you're basically saying "it could be worse, so please stop criticizing at all" ;)
At least Safari and IE, it seems.