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Torvalds, 46, can point to Linux and say "I made that, over half a lifetime ago".

Stallman, 63, can point to GNU Emacs or GCC and say "I made that in the 1980's". Not necessarily the most recent version of it, but that hardly matters.

Gerald Sussman and Guy Steele can point to Scheme and say, "we made that".

John MacCarthy was able to point to Lisp and say "I made that", right to the day he died and we can continue to say it for him.

Make the right stuff; then you can bask in it for longer and be a kind of living saint to a few generations after you.
This is a area I like to work.

I have seen local companies working for months/years to finally use his BI package but the trouble at the step 1 is big (and also, to put the data in a "nice" schema).

The problem is that enter in this space is hard. Years ago I was at a company that have a niche product (in foxpro) for this kind of task, and I have dreamed about build something like this based in my experience, but get the funding for this kind of "boring" task is hard (more in my country, Colombia).

P.D: If wanna help, we can talk. I can't give a magical solution but at least I find this kind of "boring" jobs compelling ;)
SELinux, Seccomp, Falco, and You: A Technical Discussion
Making a slightly better answer here. Your last observation seems to misunderstand what I'm saying. I only mean that it is common for people new to a field (in this case undoubtedly the art-science formerly known as philosophy) to imagine that they have discovered new territory of investigation.

In a sense I'm saying the opposite of what you think I am. I'm saying that the whole topic under discussion has been broadly under discussion since the beginning of recorded civilisation. So saying "strangely, the topic as a whole is never addressed" seems a tad like a new minted programmer saying "strangely no-one has addressed the entire topic of OO programming".
Giving away money earmarked for employee appreciation to charity doesn't get Google points with the press, or their staff. This isn't a good move by Google.

Employees don't depend on Christmas gifts, but they are certainly nice. It's a great time for the company to say, with a simple little gesture, "Thanks, we really appreciate you."

The company can also give money to charity... not like Google has a shortage of money.

But yeah, this... it comes off as telling the Google Employees, "You're a bunch of ungrateful, over-privileged, spoiled brats... so I gave your gifts to people who would appreciate them more."
Intfact: mature version
> Since everyone knows what they're getting into with a tech interview, I don't see why it's such a bad metric. Many companies purposefully give you a rubric/criteria to study.

It's often so broad that to really cover everything that might come up you've got to have time to make the studying a part-time job.

And even then you might get hit with one of those "you almost have to have seen the trick before" questions, like detecting a cycle in a broken linked-list with O(1) memory.
BTW, http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/9583/how-to-treat-u... may be able to help.
Here's an example from recent memory where AR would be far more useful than VR.

I'm repairing an automobile engine. There's a certain component I need to remove, but I can't see anything like the photo in the manual because it's hidden below a maze of plumbing and cables.

An AR application that could align itself to reference points on the motor and show me an overlay of exactly where the device is and where I should place a wrench to unbolt it, and perhaps what other parts need to be removed first, would be a godsend in a case like that.

Now extend that use case to something similar, but the technician is working in the cold and dark on an unfamiliar version of the same motor and there's even more value.
What about the fact that you can't be compelled by courts to reveal a password that you have memorised, but you can be compelled to hand over physical keys.
Follow-up: MS-DOS lives on after all
UX is now undestroyed.
Yeah I saw them but didn't quite understand the ones at the bottom e.g."eval". I get the weird type conversions at the top, not how they magically become function calls at the bottom.

Edit: Wikipedia article explains - you can call functions by name with that "filter" thing.

This should be pretty easily blockable though - if you block "eval" then just block most of the obscure jsfuck constructs too.
Auditory processing disorder sums up a lot of what you are describing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
Well... the US did stop selling some stuff (steel, rubber, gasoline, and maybe a bit more) to Japan because of what they were doing in China. That was a factor in Japan deciding to go to war with the US.

So I don't know if you count that as "little done to stop them". That was what we could do, short of war, and even that helped precipitate war.
Do you have a low voice? I think that's why I have the same problem. Lower voices don't seem to cut through noise as well as higher voices.
Are those hearing aids linked together like the hearphones are? It seems to me that a large part of being able to cut down on ambient noise and boost local conversation is because local conversation is more directional than ambient noise.

Do you think they'd be worth getting just for the ambient noise cutting abilities alone? My daughter has complete hearing loss in one ear and normal functionality in the other. Normally she's fine, but in a crowd she's completely lost.
I'm a lawyer and a programmer and run a legal-tech startup. The largest issue I've found with lawyers and technology is that they don't understand it, and there is a lot of fear around it.

Most of the time I spent selling my software was assuaging the risk-averse mindset that exists in the profession, rather than advertising the benefits. I actually gave a TEDx talk on this point as I think it's an enormous issue in the industry.

So the ease of creating the software isn't the issue, it's the culture. That said, legal tech now has a pretty healthy ecosystem which is a delight to see!
The hum you hear is actually double the mains frequency (100/120 Hz) with emphasis on odd harmonics going up. Magnetostriction gives you two expansion/contraction events per wavelength, effectively doubling the frequency. (If everything is perfect, spherical cow in a vacuum, &c.)
Psychiatry in America is an ongoing "crime against humanity". The third world gets better results for their mental health patients because they can't afford the pharmaceutical industry's FDA-certified psychotropic medications.

In October 2016 I found videos of my friend before the first hospital. She quipped about alcohol and drugs, but sounded "normal". We were frying donuts.

About two weeks after the videos were filmed, my friend ran out of alcohol. Her mother called the "crisis team", who took her to the hospital. I don't know what happened, exactly, but I assume they treated her with Haldol, an old cheap "tranquilizer" that is sold to patients as an "anti-psychotic".

But... It's been known since the late 1970's that anti-psychotics make psychosis worse over time. Robert Whitaker wrote "the case against anti-psychotics" [1] to provide as succinct a case against this class of drugs' use as possible.

[1] https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/07/the-case-against-antips...

After being given this psychosis-provoking drug, my friend was diagnosed as "persistently disabled." This diagnosis (professional opinion) is disproved by my videos, but these have never been viewed by any judge.

Anti-psychotics are also known to make cocaine users more likely to use cocaine, which is known to cause psychosis. Alcohol withdrawal is also a known cause of psychosis [2]. My friend told the psychiatrists that she'd been drinking 2 bottles of liquor a day (methadone side effect, I think), and using cocaine, but they gave her anti-psychotics anyways.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance-induced_psychosis#IC...

My friend escaped briefly from her court-ordered medications in March 2016.... Then she was given an SSRI "anti-depressant" in May 2016, which caused much anxiety, which led to her getting arrested... She's now being forced to take tranquilizers again.

I'm still trying to protect my friend from her doctors. When a petition to the court is dismissed "without prejudice" it means that you can correct the errors and re-file. I've re-filed twice, but I don't think the judge even read the second and third petitions. I guess I'm going to the court of appeals next... <sigh>

edit 1: clarification...
edit 2: added the paragraph about getting ordered by the court to submit to psychiatry.
edit 3: added sentence about the third world

edit 4: Oh my... This buzzfeed article is about "Universal Health Services". My friend stayed at two of their locations: http://www.uhsinc.com/locations/uhs-facilities-map-usa/

edit 5: I actually went to talk to an investigator with the state attorney general's office this morning - his department was "health fraud and abuse". He was not optimistic of being able to find something to investigate. I'm going to print this buzzfeed article and take it over.

edit 6: forgot to include link for [1]
burntwater is absolutely correct.

The human brain is remarkably good at filling in the blanks.

I rely on context, plus lip-reading, plus the sounds I do hear to figure out the rest.

For context - I'm not severely hearing impaired - I only have a mild-to-moderate loss in both ears, but it's enough to hamper me in normal conversations, particularly in group settings or noisy environments. I use Siemens hearing aids at work, at church etc. - basically, anything that's not 1:1, or where I can't easily ask them to repeat things constantly.
So hire people that already know the industry?
Not a month—originally a week, but we ended it early:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13133855

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251

While I have you, though, please don't post things like "Whoa calm down there Karl". That's patronizing and uncivil, and primes the other person to react negatively. Instead, please post civilly and substantively. Your comment would be fine without the first sentence (along with an s/month/week/ of course).
Not really. JS has no true concrete design patterns, no built in state handling, no built in tooling. Going straight into React/Redux isn't the best, because you miss out on learning JS fundamentals, but it will produce a far more maintainable project due to the assumptions it makes and enforces. It also makes it easier for others to just jump in and make changes, given that they know x or y framework. You could not know any vanilla js and still probably make more long term maintainable code just based on how the framework is designed.

Vanilla js would require the engineer to set patterns and make assumptions, something that junior devs might do incorrectly. You will reinvent the wheel and probably do it inefficiently unless you are a seasoned vet. Not only that but others who are not familiar with whatever homebrew stuff you have cooked up will not be able to just dive in and start putting pieces together without a fair amount of reading. It's not impossible, but hard with a large dev team.

This is why frameworks exist, no? Don't get me wrong I hate the framework bloat and pace of frontend engineering but these frameworks do serve a very legitimate purpose. But this definitely goes against the JS hate trends as of late.
> Pick technologies with a steep learning curves, don't try to compete with 20-year olds doing Javascript Bootcamps - go five steps deeper.

Wanted to call that one out, don't think I've thought about it before, but it's good advice.
Your first line is basically the same as my motivation--"Why on earth would you be interested in that?" I want to understand people and the world around me better. There's a lot out there that I know nothing about, and I like hearing about passionate peoples' interests. I love it when people get excited about the things they love, because they're also often excited to share that joy with others.
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> I think self driving cars are a MAJOR leap forward for man kind, and something we all SHOULD be having parades for. If it reaches the market, it will be the most widespread, and profound application of artificial intelligence that mankind has developed yet. Without argument, it will be the first time a machine learning application has saved lives on a grand scale. It may well mark the dawn of the Machine Learning age, welcoming in a new era where software transcends the trivial 'app' in a big, practical way. Think about that

I agree completely with this line of thought, but humans aren't wired that way. The rise in ubiquity of machine-learning powered software will improve our lives greatly....and do so mostly behind the scenes while the average person isn't giving it much thought. In fact, unfortunately, eventually and inevitably, even with self-driving cars, people will still find new reason for road rage.

> We can argue all day about why people aren't inspired by self driving cars. In truth, there are probably hundreds of reasons.

There's really just one. People aren't interested in watching machines execute code. For example, would you really want to watch two AI's play LoL, DotA2, or chess against each other. Many kids aren't going to watch. Similarly, I've learned this the hard way. Perhaps 95-98% of users will not care about how you implemented an app even if you revolutionize the field of Algo's and Data Structures. They will just look at it and say, I guess it's pretty fast, but I really like this parallax when you scroll down.

Even though I found it hugely inspirational that we made an object that has now left the solar system (and it was created 40 years ago with all the processing power a modern, ChiFi pedometer), most people are only going to find it inspirational if a human leaves the solar system.

For better or worse, that's what we prioritize.
Really? A cartoon about the Jeane Dixon fallacy is a response? I think you're going to find the next years very surprising indeed. Even now, using tor is de facto grounds for a wiretap[1]

And I apologize in advance if my evidence is actually on topic and doesn't have funny pictures.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/05/section-702-mohamud-appeal...
Please name one other way you can logically interpret that statement because I certainly see no other meaning whatsoever.
I share your frustration with the inflammatory discussion we can sometimes see here at HN. If this is something you care about, there are things you can do. Participate in discussions constructively and charitably. You're right about writing a comment and expecting someone's mind is going to be changed. I try to keep in mind that it's not necessarily about "changing people's minds", it's at least partly about understanding and making yourself understood first. Encourage good comments by up-voting them. Gently and neutrally point out behavior that's not acceptable on HN. Flag and down vote inappropriate behavior. For particularly egregious behavior, email the mods. That's part of being part of the community.
>I read these comments from people that are 36, 40, 40+ and shake my head.

I'm 47 maybe there's hope for me yet.
This is from 2014. Here is the 2016 version: https://github.com/paf31/24-days-of-purescript-2016
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Product development engineer here. In the early stages of a project it can be useful to have CAD models of a competitor's product when analyzing how to improve upon them. Recently we had an intern reverse engineer a competitor's product, and we've used some of these CAD models as the basis for our new designs.
In the cases of Germany and Japan, we won very thoroughly, and then re-did their government and society very thoroughly. In the case of Iraq, we won very thoroughly, and then decided that we should not re-do their government and society. There may not have been the political will to do anything else, but that turned out to be less than effective at transforming Iraq.
How did the guy to whom I replied validate his broscience? I'm not going to write a PhD thesis in a HN comment box. At least I cited a source. If you don't feel that my comment is relevant you're free to ignore it and move on with your life.
True, streaming is not a baked-in feature of Cap'n Proto. Streaming can, however, be implemented on top of capabilities, as with this ByteStream interface: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/v0.197/src/sa...
Contrast this with say Japan, where people kill themselves and suicide doesn't have quite the cultural stigma that it does in the US. They also have less individualism, more collectivism. Yet people kill themselves there too.
I have a Commodore Pet 8032 which is one of the most powerful pet machines. I found an ethernet adapter for it. I believe the microcontroller on the enthernet adapter has more computing power than the computer it connects it to. Still though it's cool as all heck.
The book "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation"[1] is a must read for those interested in Shannon and the history of Bell Labs.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovatio...
Where's the Sand Hill gang territory?
Yes exactly.

Often they don't have the tech skills or desire/will to start something themselves, but are happy to join you if they recognize that it's a big enough problem.
Even if you did that I think there are a lot of ways to identify you, using everything from your browsing patterns -- what sites, when and for how long -- to even just the account creation process itself; you'll still need to complete the captcha and with the "click all images that match" captchas that Google is currently using on reCAPTCHA (which btw was quite a bait-and-switch; they originally got a lot of people to use reCAPTCHA because the original purpose was to help book scanning, "read books, stop spam", remember?) as far as I've come to understand continuously sends your cursor position to Google servers, and with the movement data and the order and the timing that you press the images I would not be surprised if there was a pattern that uniquely identified you there.

Likewise websites that stream your input key by key instead of submitting the text when you press the submit button should in theory be able to easily identify you by the timing of your keypresses. I've only heard of a couple of instances of sending keys as-you-type but I think that if someone made the kind of project you spoke of above, then we would start seeing more tactics like the kinds I mention in order to counter that.

Even if you then proceed to disable JavaScript globally and only browse the web in 1.0 style with user-initiated GET and POST, the way that you write has some uniqueness to it that might be possible to identify.
Sorry, what were you saying? I fell asleep waiting for the C64 version of Total Eclipse to render a new frame
I think the public doesn't care for a good reason; no one has articulated a realistic, tangible cost to quality of life caused by letting Google track you. Lots of people talk about it being 'creepy' and dreaming up possible scenarios where it WOUDLD be costly, but for most people, the costs simply aren't actually felt.

I am trying to think about it for me personally, and I can't come up with a single time that Google tracking me has had a negative impact on my life. I know people have examples for themselves, but none resonate with me as being something I am at risk for.

Seriously, though; how is my life negatively impacted (in actuality, not hypothetically), in a way that I can notice the difference, by letting Google track me?
Do you know what has been tried before or references to other attempts?
This is what happened to remarkable this week.
Indeed you have skewered me there. But really I'm not dismissing his work. I'm doing what slushpile readers might call editorial triage.

Based on his opening will I read this? No.
Not my thing. But it is Knuth. And the one thing that guarantees is that it will be interesting.
I thought you had to be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident to get TN-1 status.
Where exactly are the $BNs in this tech? Also, any datasets? I'd love to experiment.
Is Information on Government Websites at Risk?
We've already asked you to please comment civilly and substantively, and to avoid making unfair generalizations about the Hacker News community, so we've banned this account.
try again: your link goes to 10 seconds. (Might be an issue with HN link detection algo.)
jsnell's correct, and I'll add that reposts are ok on HN if an article hasn't had significant attention yet. 23 points and no comments (which a previous submission had) would normally count as significant attention, but we sometimes relax the criteria when an article is substantive and seems likely to interest the community.

When we put stories in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and earlier posts linked from there), we try to pick the original submission as the one that reaps the benefit.

I've marked this off-topic; now somebody post some relevant comments about operating systems and memory allocation so it has a bottom to sink to :)
I am totally bothered by noise in the bars. Or the fact that you go to sports bar, but you cannot hear the audio. I was thinking of building on Pi something that would plug to TVs audio output, and then broadcast that to local Wifi in the bar. So that smartphone that's connected to same wifi could receive the audio and you could listen to it on your smartphone. Turns out there is someone already doing it: http://www.limeonair.com
Paris just made all public transportation free to decrease air pollution
When I was at Rutgers, Dyson once came to give a talk. Most of the time when someone very famous comes and gives a talk, they try and give a talk in the general style of TED talks - light on content, big on catchy insightful seeming phrases.

The entire department showed up to the mathematical physics seminar that week. Everyone besides the math physicists was very disappointed when Dyson gave a talk about some semiconductor crystals he really liked, together with their energy band diagrams. No "meaning of life", no discussion of free will, just a clever math trick for understanding a particular kind of crystal.

It was one of the very few famous guy talks I really enjoyed (the other was Stephen Wolfram).
Mine are not linked and don't have real direction control but you can definitely get aids with that capability. It's certainly worth a shot. I'm not sure if she's wearing ha's yet, but many places will let you try a pair for 30 or 60 days to see if she likes them.

I would probably find it annoying to swap out my ha's for the hearphones regularly, but might be worth the annoyance if it allows here to converse more normally!
Whether you want to opt out of tracking is irrelevant to the BS claim that it's difficult to create a google account. StevePerkins was specifically responding to the difficulty claim.
Nap time is the best time of the day
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