skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, there is no doubt that Windows laptops are seeing a resurgence around Silicon Valley compared to MacbookPro's. Personally I think it is due to their overall superior compatibility with new technologies/hardware (graphics cards for VR and CUDA developers, FPGAs, Arduino, Intel RealSense3D) and better workflows for virtualization/cloud-computing vs MacOS which has become harder to virtualize because of closer binding to the AppStore and withdrawal of access to old OS versions.

As an outsider, I also think Apple seems to have spread their best technical minds thin, by adding the platforms watchOS and tvOS. While I understand the rationale behind watchOS, without the ability for developers to create the watch faces, it's not that exciting a platform, it's too controlled. Anyhow, the result of this talent dispersion, is that they have failed to maintain the MacbookPro's status as the most exciting development platform, which it had been IMO throughout the 21st century.
A screen saver (w/ require password & possible full hibernation with memory flush)?
I haven't made this assumption. I have only confirmed that (most) philosophers are no longer capable of following the latest trends in physics. Strictly speaking that's an empirical hypothesis in need of further confirmation. But it doesn't seem implausible to imagine that most contemporary philosophers would fail a written test that examines whether they have the mathematical skills to understand string theory and other advanced contemporary physical theories to a degree that is sufficient for making valuable contributions.

Regarding the assumption, you're not far off though. I'm willing to assume a way stronger claim (without proof):

Everything that can be explained, can be explained using mathematical models.

I have many reasons for accepting this claim, but I'm also sure that not all of my colleagues would agree with it.
Lightning fast left-right movement in Vim
The article is called "the idea of Lisp" conveying the broad concepts. It's mean as something that can be digested as a newsletter or an email. He even mentions his email list in the article.

I don't think it was meant to be an encyclopedic reference on the language.

I think its odd that you spent that much effort tearing it apart. I for one enjoyed reading it while I was waiting for a coffee.

Who actually wrote the machine code is arcana that's lost to the dust bin of history anyway. What isn't lost are the high level ideas presented here.
I'm very confused by this conversation. What taxes are you guys talking about? They don't exist as far as I'm aware. I am aware of some subsidies, but not taxes on specifically carbon/coal/etc.
At least Adwords is a mostly B2B service. Google doesn't do this on their consumer-focused services.
Nokia to Acquire Deepfield
After harsh light, a cheaper version of EpiPen from Mylan
The president doesn't have to conspire with anyone else to block legislation; he has the veto.

I would argue that any president is entirely within his rights to exercise the veto (as President Obama has done repeatedly), but it is a tool of obstruction.
>Shouldn't you just be doing this anyway if you want to be a good computer scientist?

Rather depends on the material. Writing code to learn something new, yes. Writing the same linked list inversion routine over and over, so that you can do it flawlessly on a white board during an interview not so much.
A configuration with a 3 year old SoC, lower end RAM setup and a very small disk (because Chrome OS is supposed to be stateless, unlike Android) might not provide a good environment to run Android in, especially if there's some overhead in having two display managers around that need to be coordinated.

Also, there might be additional requirements for the GPU - all that map-Android-display-to-Wayland stuff that is used to get Android output into Chrome OS windows requires a bunch of capabilities that aren't necessarily efficiently implemented on older SoCs. Rendering to offscreen buffers is a feature that GPU designers provided and improved bit-by-bit and only with lots of market pressure.

A couple hundred hours of work to bring the kernel forward (and test that it doesn't introduce regressions) for a feature that will only frustrate users (because it's there, just not practically usable) may not be a good investment.
>You're begging the question by assuming that the activity a whistleblower reports is illegal.

In this particular case, we know that (some of) the activity reported was illegal. The fact that, even with this being known publicly, the "watchdog"'s response is still to explain why the activity is okay is a problem.
We're well into the Age of the Personal Brand Gospel. Accepting that fact makes things like this easier to understand.[1] You may want to pick up a copy of Infinite Jest to help guide your transition.

[1]: Yes, still weird.
52M Americans under 65 have uninsurable preexisting health conditions
The name of the sea having the word "China" in it doesn't actually make it Chinese territorial waters.
> Think about it again - AAPL are also paying two shitheads to insult female employees and lower productivity.

I read the article, and I missed the part where productivity was lowered.

> And how often did your team make fun of you, deride you on the job or act in an uncivil manner toward you in general?

An IT-related MOS in the military comes with a LOT of making fun, derision, and things civies generally don't understand. In that light, maybe that's my problem with this: "I don't understand" the world those civies work in, and am incapable of relating to them or feeling empathy towards them.
The sub-Antarctic islands are home to strange 'megaherbs'
Prices for electricity depending on the brand of the manufacturer. For X dollars you can power Bosch, Philips and Electrolux. For additional XX dollars you can power Amica and Whirlpool products. If you have cheap noname brand toaster, sorry no service for you. or pay extra. We are sorry but we no longer support Samsung products in this plan, would you like to upgrade your plan?
Thank you! It has "time until empty" indicator (%r) http://imgur.com/a/74qLJ
I'm so confused. This article appears to have nothing to do with Snowden?
The H1B visa system needs to be overhauled or done away with entirely. It's truly sickening to see how we as a society tolerate indentured servitude in the 21st century.

Companies use the system to purposefully depress wages. It needs to end.
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That's maybe a bit harsh, but I'm pretty much with you. It's passed the tipping point where it's inevitable it takes on the mold of a soulless megacorp. its really obvious that so many people just "need" to get into Google because it's validation for their ego. "I told you I'm a special snowflake genius!" Google is awesome, and I'm at Google, so you know I'm awesome...yada, yada. The inauthenticity is palpable; you just know these same people wouldn't be busting their ass to work on the cutting edge in No-Name software shop because they wouldn't have that big shiny feather in their cap.
I think Net Neutrality is bad for consumers, because it entrenches dependance on eg. Comcast. Instead, if we'd just let Comcast do whatever it wants with its networks (yes, we have stupidly built a lot of laws/rules around network sharing, that enable nasty behavior by Comcast, et. al.), then they'd jack up the price for whatever they want and (in a handwaving way) we'd have a market for citizen built mesh-networks.

Those are great things.

as a further stretch of the imagination... Fuck Video Bandwidth... why are we encouraging more Netflix with Net Neutrality? Do we really want more television?

Fuck codifying anything about Comcast's business into legal frameworks (laws/regulations/etc...)... let's do what humans have done for many many thousands of years, and communicate among ourselves, instead of through the king's network.

And, to be sure, Comcast is King. Well, money is... Or we wouldn't be worried about FCC chair change-over.

/rant

[ edit - thanks for the down votes ]
Google is a multinational corporation just as interested in exploiting everything as any other conglomerate. Form determines function at that scale.
Sure, but just because everyone else is doing also doesn't make it false. Touche!
>they've reduced their total holdings by ~139 billion

That hardly constitutes "dumping hundreds of billions of usa bonds". The net change in foreign ownership over the past year was only ($60BB).
This is like preparing for an iBanking or Management Consulting interview: undergrads and bschool students alike will spend months preparing for those.

And it's "worth it", if they really have what you're after. For banking and consulting, analyst training is truly great. The signaling after those few years when you're a bright kid who studied history in undergrad, is pretty good too. And with Google, you can't deny that they're one of the highest paying employers around for tech.

It's not for everyone but I think it's fine for folks who have those priorities.
(Sorry, late.)

These companies don't seem to tend to think long-term, at least not at this level. It's all about growth acceleration/hacking.
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> Can't we do something to increase the competition in the "cloud" area

More than AWS & Google Cloud & Microsoft Azure???

Do you realize there are 3 of the biggest tech companies, investing thousands of people and billions of dollar to fight each other?

Plus the cheaper company Digital Ocean / Linode who are catering to a different market, and are eating the food of GoDaddy/OVH...

The cloud war is actively ongoing. Maybe we should have more articles to show it.
How many Micky or Donald cartoons by Disney would be popular, if not for Micky or Donald? And the graphics of Mario Run are really excellent and thus a very important part of the gameplay experience. Also, the further I play the game, the more I see very carefully hand-crafted levels, which are an important reason, why Nintendo games are as successful as they are.
How often does the justice department say "Oh, we were wrong, let's make it right."? Ever? Pardoning Snowden(whether right or wrong) is not going to happen.
https://danthedev.com/2015/09/09/lisp-in-your-language

A Lisp implemented through JavaScript arrays.
And this incident in particular happened 100 miles off the western coast of the Philippines, where the US has a sanctioned naval base. That's far closer to the Phillipines than anywhere else, even the disputed Spratly Islands.
For the person/persons downvoting this, can you explain how it does not contribute to the conversation? I'm being very factual and on topic.

If you'd like, we can go over the text of UNCLOS, Cairo and Potsdam Declarations and SF Treaty.
I found this while reading my stock market updates. It will ve wonderful to do trading of stocks with bitcoins. My thinking is that the buying and selling could be instant and free. Like what robinhood does but better.
It's hard to reconcile your logic with Hamilton's from Federalist #67:

The ordinary power of appointment is confined to the President and Senate JOINTLY, and can therefore only be exercised during the session of the Senate; but as it would have been improper to oblige this body to be continually in session for the appointment of officers and as vacancies might happen IN THEIR RECESS, which it might be necessary for the public service to fill without delay, the succeeding clause is evidently intended to authorize the President, SINGLY, to make temporary appointments "during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session."

Given the joint nature of appointments, and that the legislature is a co-equal branch of government, it seems reasonable that if the Senate would prefer to remain permanently in session so as not to diminish its authority, it's within its right to do so. And that an executive trying to make a recess appointment in this case is exactly the sort of "regard[ing] rules as an obstruction to be got around" that you seem to be railing against.
I have noticed gcode for cnc / 3D printing spits out melodies via the stepper motors.

Seems like music might even be a more pragmatic means of communication than numbers.
Doesn't it require an internet connection/cell service? not ideal for subway commuters.
Will Alien Life Be Recognizable?
Is the color red? If so, this; otherwise, that.

It's a little tricky, because in the above, the `if` keyword appears after the question mark.

Is the color red? Yes-- this: no-- that.

Trying to make a parsimonious English sentence while maintaining the syntax elements : P
An article[1] published 4th November 2016 states that

>Where is Kim Dotcom now?

>He could face 55 years in prison if Dotcom convicted. All his assets would be handed over to pay for the alleged $500 million in damages to the entertainment industry.

>But for now, the internet mogul continues to live in his £15million mansion with his wife and five children in Auckland.

[1]: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2115443/
"In the (very unlikely) event of the victim being untruthful, the matter should be dropped, not blow back on the reporter -- or nobody will report real problems for fear of being unfairly punished themselves."

What? Apparently, being untruthful about reporting harassment could result in the untruthful reporter being _unfairly_ punished?

Sounds like an all-win situation. Report harassment, true or not. If it helps your lot in life/work, great. If not, even if proven false, it gets dropped, non-consequentially. After all, it would be unfair to punish you...
…and not an "unknown," perhaps laid-off, looking for work, correct?
More than anything, the movie drove home how much he is "one of us". Everything down to the dorky jokes (his "mantle of power") reinforces that he comes from the same subculture, and he's just another hacker. In a lot of ways he could have been someone you or I know.
It clear from the surrounding comments here that wasn't the right choice.
I agree with the distinction you're making, but I don't see at all how it supports the "almost never teasing" lead-in. I'm making a general point, and there are plenty of workplaces where "different subjects and people laugh at themselves also" is a perfectly good summary.

I also agree that teasing really shouldn't tread on race/sex/etc - even if it's innocently meant it can easily be a topic too raw for human, and too similar to not-at-all-innocent comments.

Which is why your last line is jarring - it's almost exactly the sort of comment that you and the original post are objecting to!
It seems that the Vietnamese media bubble does the same, then. As does the Philippine media bubble, the Malay media bubble, the Brunei media bubble, and everyone else in the region who has just watched China annex the ocean off their shore.
The very fact that "preparing for 8 months for a Google interview" is a thing highlights all the things that have gone wrong at Google and their widely panned bad recruitment practices.

The process has become about recruiting people that are good at the silly process and not about recruiting the best people. Probably OK if Google is in 'megacorp looking to feed more skillled cogs into the machine' mode (which it mostly is), but unlikely the process finds the person that builds the next Google.
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Ask HN: The New GOTO? 'require spaghetti.php'
Are endless 'require' and 'import' statements the new GOTO? I've been trying to read the code for WikiPedia's "MediaWiki", and there seems to be an endless amount of 'require thisorthat.php' statements. Index.php requires/imports two other php scripts, that each require 20 other php scripts, forever and ever... Everything else was really easy to read and well commented. But I've been noticing the 'require spaghetti' phenomenon a lot lately, and was wondering if anyone else feels my pain.
When did they know?
Exactly. This was a key part of company culture throughout the 80s and 90s and at the time it was viewed as a signficant productivity win. ('Peopleware' discusses it, IIRC). By the 2000s, with space crunches, they got away from it as a general policy.
My 2003 VW Golf has a gas gauge that shows percentages - the individual markings represent 12.5%, not individual remaining gallons (it's a 14.5 gallon tank, not an 8 gallon one) My mother's 2009 Jetta has similar. Whether or not the instrument cluster implements a multi-function display that shows instant/average MPG or miles to empty, every car I have ever driven, from the 80s clunkers of my youth to brand shiny new rentals has had such a fuel gauge.

Such a style is cheaper to implement. Resistive float sensor in the tank, run a wire to a mini 90 degree needle gauge in the instrument cluster, done. Instant/Average MPG and miles to empty are additional fanciness that up until recently, came standard only on higher-end cars, or was part of an optional package that may or may not be avail on lower end brands/models.
Ha ha, I guess I'm screwed as I work in a job shop where no project lasts longer than 6 months. I love it though. Better that than the same project for several years.
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Background: I used to work on these UUVs.

When CNN says "oceanographic research", what they actually mean is building a sonar ray caustics model of the environment, because sound bends just like light does when the medium transmission speed changes, and the speed of sound in water changes noticably with depth,salinity,temperature.

When CNN says "unclear motivation", what they mean is that the motivation is actually pretty clear. China doesn't like that the US is building underwater surveillance infrastructure in their backyard.
He was working for "Defcon" or Blake Benthall (his roommate in the story). Defcon was running Silk Road 2.0 after the second "Dread Pirate Roberts" left.

Blake had been working for SpaceX, and left to work on Silk Road. This is his HN account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blakeeb
Why did the silk road want a data visualization app?

The "live demo" in the linked github doesn't seem to be very "live", in that it seems to be totally static. The post talks about "drawing correlations" but all it does it make a graph. http://sciview.herokuapp.com/#/data-sets/0
The lines between 'took', 'let go' and 'gave' are blurred.

Is this less blurry:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/16/china-steals-us-unde...

"We call upon China to return our [unmanned underwater vehicle] immediately, and to comply with all of its obligations under international law," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook responded.
This is a good comment, but slightly complicated and took my a while to figure out what you were saying. I think your point is that he said "alphabet" but meant "language".

Basically, you can't really figure out English pronunciation from the way a word is written at all, because English isn't phonetic (e.g. Polish and polish, and many, many more).

For phonetic languages, the correlation between spelling and pronunciation is close to perfect (i.e. words are pronounced the way they are spelt [or spelled - wtf English]) - but only for the sounds in that language. Hence it may be possible to transliterate most English word to Devanagari. Most famously, e.g. English into Japanese doesn't work, even though Japanese itself is also phonetic but is e.g. missing the 'r' sound. The reverse is also true, unless you use extra punctuation to signify syllable boundaries or stress. E.g. Asakusa is 浅草 Asa-kusa and thus the stress changes and it's pronounced AsaKSA, not ASAkusa. I guess you could also transliterate it close enough with asaxa and people would probably get the stress right, further proof than English isn't the best tool for this.

(I think all the explanation of the previous paragraph is encompassed by "phonemes", which I had to google and still don't quite understand.)

The only "language" that can handle transliteration of any language is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which isn't a language because it doesn't have grammar or vocabulary or really anything except well-defined glyphs/symbols and the corresponding pronunciation.
I think it's just you.

They don't want to disable that, because it's an easy and free way for them to rank higher in search engines.
What would be the point of photographing the driver?
> Complaining about identity politics is how white men practice identity politics

i despise identity politics, and i'm not a white man.

so... did you just assume my race and gender, shitlord? or do you have some tidy explanation for why i, too, am privileged without knowing it? (of course you do)
> It fascinates me the extent to which he regrets not getting a Computer Science degree, and says it impacts how hireable he is. Obviously, data point of one here, but I don't have one and it hasn't come up once in my career.

Same here, except for when I interviewed at Google. :) I was interviewing for a frontend position, and I got through the interviews ok and was passed along to a few departments. Payments was interested in hiring me, so I got passed back to the "hiring committee" who has the final say. I started receiving emails from the Google recruiter (who was the go-between between me and the hiring committee) with specific questions about my degree (Anthropology from Berkeley), the timeframe I attended and what my GPA was. In the end, they decided not to hire me, even though the Payments team had expressed interest in hiring me, even saying "we'd love to have you on board." I can only conclude that it was specifically because of my education (or lack thereof).
For anyone wondering why "girls" is a loaded term, think about how it used to be ok in the US for white people to call adult black men "boy". Would you call your coworker or boss "boy"? No, it would feel terribly terribly wrong, especially if they are black. It would be a gross microaggression and bullying behavior.

That's what calling women "girls" is like. It's a pejorative that maintains bias and prevents us from seeing a class of people as active and capable.

Men get tied up and abused as prisoners of war and they're heros. Women get tied up and abused by men, they're victims. Women as "girls" is part of this false socially constructed narrative about female "impotence."
skate by without a proper understanding of algorithms and design patterns

In your estimation, what are the most important algorithms and design patterns to know for web development?
That his post is on a website called freecodecamp.com and he is promoting his googleyasheck.com website, yet hasn't actually interviewed at Google yet, does strongly suggest he is looking to build a training service. If he doesn't get hired at Google, he can pivot and say he can "make a bigger impact helping other people learn" with his training service.

Here is another promotional post from two months ago:

https://startupnextdoor.com/introducing-googley-as-heck/
For purposes of bullying all that matters is that you are standing out and are weak. This can be taking all sorts of forms:

- younger

- older

- skin

- gender

- introvert

- education

All that matters is there is an abuser that for whatever internal reasons completely out of your control is acting out against you. That acting out is persistent as such persons are driven by internal irrational mechanisms often related to their broken attachment system.

The environment is either going along with it if it is a gang leader or are passive standing by. For bullying at the workplace to take place often the management level above has to be either endorsing or more likely ignoring it (conflict of interest, fear, ignorance, distracted by crisis).
No, but how would the US react to China doing the same in international waters right off the coast of San Francisco?
Yup: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/14/13290460/coen-brothers-si...
Are we talking datacenter or big company network or SMB gear?
In case you hadn't noticed, "Embrace, extend and extinguish" is from 1995, 21 years ago.