skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the late reply, I work in integration. I say I'm a Java dev but I don't write much Java, I've specialised for the past 3 years in an ESB called Mule.

The need for the tech seems to be rising around the world and I just happened to pick it up on my first job (have been working "professionally" for 4 years). Didn't really start fully understanding the quirks and good ways of doing things with it until this year, but I was charging $80/hr 2 years ago.

Seeing as you're already familiar with monoliths, I don't think it would be a very far jump for you if you were interested in the tech. You can get certifications for <$200USD with Mulesoft (a unicorn startup) which would guarantee you a decent salary, contracting on the other hand is a networking game.

Write a blog, give talks, goto meetups and find companies that need your skills. Don't undervalue yourself, if you set your rate too low - your clients aren't going to like it in a years time when you've realised you're worth 2X and you start charging them 2X.
Or private internet access VPN (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/07/pia-adds-...)
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> It's the CB radio of social media

Amazing analogy, far better than any other metaphor I've previously heard applied to Twitter
Apparently, NERD aka Nintendo European Research and Development developed a new emulator.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/08/nes_classic_edition...
What+are+the+Works+of+Computer++Networking++Engineers
Well I would agree that undefined behaviors are unavoidable. Indeed, if you insert checks into your code to completely rule out UB, that will have a huge impact on performance.

On the other hand, I don't agree passing tests is enough. No matter how many tests you run, you can't guarantee there's no bug in your code. This is important especially when security is a critical requirement.
People still use RoboGuice?
So charging for an IDE which requires hundreds of thousands of man hours of development and maintenance means they're evil and you won't use their products, open source or otherwise? Got it.
I never said career. But it pays better than other common working holiday jobs, like bartending.
Is the gender bit really useful data?
Every time someone brings up a national ID card (unique key), everyone gets really upset, unfortunately.
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... shows it as 'gold' for the currently highest 32 bit version.
One can be fully vested in options that amount to next-to-nothing.
Why would people lie on the internet? - my mom
Its risky to speculate on fuzzy analogies stacked on fuzzy analogies but another one I've seen is the water balloon, or balloon over an open piece of pipe. So some voltage pressure pushes the current into the balloon and the balloon kinda sorta works to keep a constant-ish pressure/voltage on the pipes.

Now if that was too easy try an inductor analogy. Something like a waterwheel hooked up to a very big flywheel so it works hard to keep the watercurrent flow constant.

The best thing about learning by analogies is eventually they get so hairy and crazy that reality is simpler in comparison...
Delaware District Court

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/32vhjo5i9/delaware-district...
[I would edit this onto my comment above, but it's too late so I'm just adding it as a reply.]

I realize this is going to go far beyond the thoughts of a toddler learning about fractions for the first time via the pizza analogy, but I think it demonstrates that even the seemingly obvious pizza analogy is more nuanced than it seems.

I've never bothered thinking about this before, but it seems obvious to me now. Using just a straight-edge and compass, it is not always possible to cut a pizza into N standard-shaped slices for all positive integers N. Doing so is equivalent to constructing a regular N-gon, and this is only possible when N takes on the special form

N = 2^k * p_1 * ... * p_M

for some nonnegative integer k and some sequence of distinct Fermat primes (that is, primes of the form 2^(2^j) + 1).

Thus, you cannot slice a pizza into 7 slices using a straight-edge and compass. So in the pizza analogy the number 1/7 corresponds to something that is not physically achievable with standard implements.
http://www.appsloaded.com/2016/11/what-are-works-of-computer...
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I can't imagine them not doing that integration work if they add the railgun. Even if we assume it's just a technology demonstrator, they'll want to know how well it works against missiles.

OTOH, only the third one is getting the railgun if it happens at all.
First, it's NCEES who creates and grades the PE certification, not the government.

Second, with the exception of civil engineers other disciplines have no problems getting jobs without licenses. The license just opens more doors and makes finding work easier.
Local vs. National: does it matter for influence?
I really don't like your tone about female CEOs. UBeam and Theranos are terrible examples. Far more companies have been run into the ground by male leadership.

PS - I'm a dude
It's absolutely not a Windows problem, my dad managed to click through some "malware" (i didn't see it, but i'm thinking it was a cleverly crafted web page) and give his credit card to someone... on his iPad.
Not really.

Electrons do have mass, but a device powered by an electric current will generally have the electrons flowing out at the same rate that they flow in.
Facebook too
Scammers ruin the reputation for the whole sector. You want such companies to fail as quickly as possible, so that they don't poison the market.
Blockchain won’t save the music industry, and Imogen Heap wants to spyware you
> this does not even account for 1% of tax spending.

Yes, but there are a few other areas that take a major portion of the take spending which we forget to acknowledge in such discussions because it does not affect us muddle-class / affluent people directly - Defense, subsidy of urea and other rural benefits programs (yes, agriculture is in a mess and a lot more can be done but with the introduction of Aadhaar and Jan Dhan, things are looking up)

> Indian governments (current & previous) has failed its people and its most undeserving of taxes.

Yes the previous government had really fucked up (I tend to think UPA did a decent job in it's first term, it's the second term that they really got greedy and hence their state now), but we should give credit to the Modi government for a lot of the economic reforms of the past couple years.

Please note, I'm pretty neutral on politics and do not stick to one or the other camp. This govt. has messed up on a lot of the social issues (Beef bans and communal tensions, JNU student protest situation, Kashmir violence and many more).

However, on the economic front, India is really moving in the right direction - Focusing on Startups and business friendly policy changes, making brand India attractive to the world (FDI), passing the GST (massive task and looking to be implemented pretty quickly come April), introduction of UPI [1] (this will definitely move the country forward to a more cashless economy), integration of all the digital services (Aadhaar, Digital Locker, etc), black money declaration schemes and prosecutions (The situation on the ground is actually changing, people are much more scared of hoarding black money now) - These are just some of the things off the top of my head (Credit to both the Govt and the RBI).

Don't also forget the aggressive change in stance on how to deal with issues coming from across the border.

Again, there's always going to be a million other things that can be done better. But you have to admit this government is doing a much better job than a lot of previous ones

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-will-the-UPI-interface-of-NPCI-cha...
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> wouldn't you prefer to actually get it direct from the source and not via twitter?

Unless you can meet the source in person every time you need a medium to get information, and Twitter serves that purpose.
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As far as I know the DF-21D doesn't have decoys. It doesn't have a MIRV bus, so they won't be easy to add, either.
This may not be true of everyone, but my own criticisms of Signal are meant as a constructive critique, and not as "bashing." Signal occupies a valuable spot in a new market, and we all win if it continues to improve.

Think about what is at stake. Many people working in politics, law, human rights, and other areas absolutely need a way to communicate securely, especially when their causes don't align with the interests of those in power. If you're wondering why people are so passionate about having a more secure platform, that's why. In this case, it's important to be forgiving if people seem hostile or overly critical.
Yes, this guy is a world-class lawyer. He's not always on the same side as me (or you), but he's a damn fine mind in the courtroom.
Yeah, Google provides that service and many manufacturers sell the products which make use of it. (chromebooks)
I have a plugin I use for that [1]. I enter copy mode, either by scrolling with the mouse or hitting Prefix + esc. I have the copy mode key bindings set up in vi mode (as is my shell), so I navigate around, hit V to enter visual mode, select some text and hit y. Now that text is in the system clipboard.

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
Not sure if this is HN quality/subject but still cool none the less.
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You are basically implying that if someone does due diligence and decides not to invest, that the company is invalid.

Its okay, that is a common sentiment.

Incorrect though
>replaced from circulation almost 80% of the value.

Not only replacing 80% of the value, but also added 220 Million bank accounts in a span of 15 months. 2/3 of the US population.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5btovy/indian_ru...
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Someone once told me that this is how Apple Maps works so that they can maintain a high privacy standard - though I'd be curious if someone else could verify.
char doesn't have to be 8 bits in size, true, but C basically doesn't give you any way to address memory smaller than a char.
It's a shame the Intentional Software crew have been nearly silent for the a decade or so they've been in business. They've been doing projections-of-ASTs based programming for a very long time. They bragged a lot about it early on and I haven't heard much of anything since.

Here are a couple of demo vids from well over 10 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnnfUj1XCQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZDwB4-DPXE

Here's an interview from 2009 where one of the crew members talks about an annotated S-expression as the core code representation (IIRC, it's been a long time since I listened to it) http://www.se-radio.net/2009/12/episode-151-intentional-soft...
The PDF you linked to looks like crackpot work to me. I just skimmed it but it is written in a style very different from serious [physics] papers.
As I get older, I don't really buy the "see a problem" step. I'm not sure Facebook really solved any problem. Or Slack, or Twitter, or Snapchat. Or a lot of software startups, for that matter.

I'm sure I could write something contrived about either of them though, something using my 20-20 hindsight glasses: Snapchat solved ephemeral communication. I mean, yeah, I guess it did. But really, it caught on as a pseudo-sexting app. You could say Slack helped "corporate teams communicate better in real time" but we've had chat apps for like 20 years now.. it's basically a carbon-copy of IRC, anyway.

I think a lot of people put way too much stock in trying to find a problem™. Just build something cool, or fun, or useful; and execute it well. IMO, execution will always trump the idea.
To be fair though, if they released them all two years ago no one would remember it at election time. The great unwashed masses tend to have an attention span and memory that can be measured in seconds.
Yeah, I suspect that you're absolutely correct.
Erudite Erlang
He also joined with Theodore Olson, opposing counsel in Bush v Gore, to argue Hollingsworth v Perry.
How do they explain the genetic factors that cause predisposition?

Just as the humans who eat too much sugar can more easily get type 2 diabetes, some humans who are exposed to 'X' can get mental diseases. (X is unknown or it varies). What if some humans are just more 'evolved' to live in the modern world than others?

10-12,000 years of living within dense populations, under despots, with periodic plagues, and in near constant war probably applies a lot of evolutionary selection pressures. Some of us whose ancestors were assimilated later probably have more genes that haven't been 'weeded out'.

I've read some research that human brain size has decreased over the last 100,000 years. The theory is that as humans began to become less independent, they had less need for certain types of brain functions. Since the brain is an extremely resource intensive organ, less brain means less energy requirements. So, humans quickly lose areas of the brain that are less necessary.

There are correlations between intelligence and depression. There are correlations between intelligence and sensory and spatial abilities. Maybe some of these things are related.
I'm not sure how EM and Gravity could be unified as a single force, especially since the best theory of gravity that's out there describes gravity as curvature in spacetime, not a force.
> The startups are not to blame, but their business models are.

That's kind of like saying it's not the robber who killed, but the blade of his knife, therefore the robber should not be blamed.

Business models don't just appear out of thin air to strike at unsuspecting people. They're willingly created and perpetuated by people in the process of running their companies, and thus the people (and the companies) are ultimately responsible for the consequences.
Think of the behavior of RF transmission lines. RF is after all just long wavelength light or EM waves.

So obviously a piece of pipe is a circular waveguide and it works more or less like optical fiber.

It helps if you know how optical fiber works, across a boundary with a big enough difference in speed of light in the material, you get total internal reflection and it bounces back in.

Now people are pretty chill with circular waveguide as a transmission line, but there are numerous other schemes and eventually you end up with microstripline or twin-lead that TVs used to use or eventually one wire Goubau line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_transmission_line

Once you're chill with a zillion small steps from circular waveguide to G-line, wait, G-line is what your prof said that initially sounded ridiculous, but its not so ridiculous after all, with some new perspective.
That one looks really cool, I wish you could use two of them at the same time
Startups failing is a healthy effect of the market differentiating good ideas from bad. Of course we all want it.
> Like, yes, it's workable and usable. It's okay. But the user experience is absolutely awful

Sure it needs a bit more love on the UI side but it's not that bad. The Twitter Website is btw. not that great, too.

> especially on mobile.

I use Twidere [1] for both Twitter and GS, works well.

[1] https://github.com/mariotaku/twidere
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The order of evaluation in such an expression is entirely unspecified. There are points in C programs that separate a "before" and an "after". The semicolon is a typical such point. There are others. Now between two adjacent points anything goes.

In this particular example the evaluations and effects are allowed to be interleaved:

pre = I + 1; // evaluating the pre-increment
post = I; // evaluating the post-increment
I++; // effect of pre-increment
I++; // effect of post-increment
return pre + post; // evaluating the sum

Simply put, pre and post-increment are allowed to occur "simultaneously".
Darktable is where it's at. I also haven't used Lightroom for more than 5 minutes, but Darktable covers all my RAW developing needs. If you're not shooting for money, it should suffice. (If you ARE shooting professionally, it might(?) fall short, but I only shoot for myself.)
I'm probably in another country on another continent (Italy) but web development, both back end and front end, is a Mac business here. There are some Linux laptops (me too), many Linux VMs on Macs, very few Windows. But we're developing for Linux servers so why should we be using Windows? Every time I get to work junior devs out of university with Windows laptops I advise them to install a Linux VM or be prepared to suffer and google alone how to fix things there.

People are using Macs because it gives them a preconfigured and stable Linux like environment, almost 100% compatible with the server. Windows tend to have different toolings and different quirks. It doubles the effort. In my experience it's OK if you're using Java, which mostly hides the OS and it's obviously a must if you go with .NET. Basically only large companies use those two technologies, and not all of them. Everybody else is on scripting languages, JS, PHP, Python, Ruby. Btw, Java is almost always deployed to Linux too.

So, it could be a bubble but it's a large one.
Assuming CHAR_BIT is 8, of course.
I wish we'd consider a multi-billion dollars company as "a wild success".
The right answer to all this questions is:

"Nobody in their right mind should use code like this in production".

You should avoid code like this at all cost. If you want to use this code because you feel smarter, you will be creating enormous amount of problems in the future and you are actually dumb.

The way to win the game is not playing it. Specially if you are programming nuclear plants.

If you see this code what you have to do is replace it, not understand it. It works today but when you change the compiler or the architecture 10 years from now, it will be such a huge pain in the ass to find all the bugs and undefined behavior it creates.
Interesting! I'll have to try and figure out what happened with it—sounds very similar to what I'm thinking of. Thanks.
yes - my question is whether escape velocity is necessary to leave a gravity well.

and if it's not, taking that to its logical conclusion - why do we NEED to go faster than the speed of light to escape from inside the schwarzschild radius of a black hole? can't we leave under constant thrust at 1 m/s?
So, someone more clever than me do the math: Can I take some solar panels, and a few of these babies and head on over to Mars? Or is this still impractical given the "micronewtons per kilowatt" levels we're talking about?
But even then it's not the same because you can't actually see the electricity. You can only see second order effects.
As a software developer who has had to answer the tough question of "how do we identify our users?", a tiny part of me wishes every human had a UUID tattooed on.

Our DNA is actually one heck of a unique fingerprint, but it's currently still quite hard to read... when that changes things will get interesting.
I think you're confusing language openness with freedom of choice for consumption.
This is why the whole startup space drives me mad!

You can do a whole lot of naval gazing, and then what are you left with?

First movers are hard, because (as you've described) you have to educate the market, and then give a reason to buy.

Think about the marketing effort of Lotus-123 vs Excel.

Or Twitter vs Facebook

Or Dwarf Fortress vs Minecraft

This is why I think Scott Adam's book "How to fail at almost everything and still win big" is brilliant. He suggests focusing on the process (get the process right) and the goal will look after itself
You really think that the Low/Middle class is the target here? Are the people hoarding crores in cash low/middle class?

Low/Middle class is indeed saving 30p per rupee. But they aren't storing them in 1000 rs notes, they are spending that to better their lives. This is really against Medium to big businesses, and rich people like jewellers, goldsmiths and builders.
"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Information has mass. Not much. Surely charge on a dram capacitor is s bit (oh the pun) of energy and energy is mass.

An excellent example of electron movement is a DC current in a metal plating tank or refining tank. Every atom of aluminum or copper or plated anything took the movement of precisely one electron (simplification because there are some non-electroplating methods for some base/plate combos, but yeah pretty much aluminium is a block of solidified electricity)
How to recognize a terrible quizz in any programming languages?

Simple. It keeps asking code questions about undefined behaviors that MUST NEVER be used in real world programming.

#StandUpAndLeaveTheInterview
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Chromebook ($200)+ wifi printer ($50) is still cheaper and smoother than a workable Windows laptop.
It's also worth noting the context: the media/large segments of the population were (still are) clamouring for women in STEM. Holmes emerged as a woman in STEM, who was a college drop out, dressed like Steve Jobs, apparently had the work ethic of Elon Musk, came from a well connected family, all while also being some sort of science prodigy who found a way to defy the physical rules of biology.

They ate it up and anyone who asked any questions was immediately labeled a misandrist, so I think it's quite easy to understand how she got this far. Virtually everything was stacked her way and she was immune to criticism.
How significant is this when you work at the level of Coulombs (high count of charges) ?
Don't justify your skirting the laws. Why don't you spend the tax you don't pay to the government to a charity?
Sorry to crush your dreams bud:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson–Morley_experiment
Lisp source code is built around structures of lists built on cons pairs (and numbers, symbols, string literals, other kinds of literals, ...). (COBOL source code is just characters.)

Lisp data structures are varied. CLOS objects, multi-dimensional arrays, hash tables, strings, bit fields, ...
Anyone interested in building real-time views on data should use this election night in the US as an opportunity to reflect on the importance of incorporating priors into visualizations, while also making it clear when you're visualizing your prior vs. when you're visualizing ground truth.
Not at all for the performance of the CEO. I suspect it might be an indicator of funding if the VCs feel that would be a positive signal for them. I would love for a study to be done, but I suspect secrecy is going to be problematic for anyone studying this time period in history.
It's a LIGO paper that you link now but it doesn't support any of your old claims, sorry. I still have an impression that you don't understand the physics, especially as you claimed before the "variable speed of light," it looks that you throw around something you remembered but never understood. So I'm more interested what's that "war with Russia"? Why next week? Is there a new conscription wave in Ukraine going on? I thought this was the latest state, only professionals:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/179487/ukraine-removes-la...
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The controller you use can make a difference in perceived responsiveness, too. If I plug an xbox 360 controller in to my Lakka box, I can't get past Piston Hondo in Punch Out (inaccurate dpad) and run off of ledges constantly in Mario (dpad issues again, plus too-slow switching between A and B buttons). Feels like it's lagging, but my PS3 controller, even over Bluetooth, eliminates the problem. Even do fine at High Speed, which is very latency-sensitive.

[edit] fix street fighter/punch out character name mixup