skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because something is outside something else does not mean it is causally disconnected.

The computer program runs inside the computer. The computer is outside the program. But nevertheless the computer's hardware is causally connected to the program. Further still, the programmer is outside the program, but he very much can influence it. Indeed, he brought it into being.
> I actually don't mind being a human machine.

> My weekend plans always consist of building another project of my own. A place that will let me code all day, give me a nap room, a shower, some salary, and food sounds like a dream.

So what, you don't have any other hobbies?
I have different priorities than you. In terms of IDE quality, debugger quality, flexibility (ability to use actual threads if you want them!), performance... in my opinion .NET Core is already so far ahead of Node.JS it's embarrassing for them.

The only thing I might stack in Node.JS' favor is their NPM package manager. Maybe. Possibly.
Does this submission's title look anything like those examples?
One more for your collection: The car always has the right of weight.
Seems like unions benefit just the insiders and seniors. One reason why I am skeptical when people say unions built the middle class. Employer competition probably does more for that than unions.
Ask HN: What have you achieved in 2016?
Let's do HN retrospective and see where we stand.

About me - left a falling titan of the Internet and moved to Seattle to work for another tech company. Weather sucks here in winter.

Fallback - I wasn't able to get girlfriend or any woman interested me this year as well. I don't drink or smoke and lack of hobbies contributed to it. I am getting lonely a lot lately. May be because I am 31 now.

What about you?
No it doesn't; he didn't say most individuals with psychiatric disorders are violent. He said they are more violent than people with non-psychiatric disorders, which the article supports (especially if they also have a substance abuse problem).
Maybe public transit officials are undermining public transit? In singapore, one can get across the island for ~75c in a vehicle that is fast, clean, efficient, and almost never delayed.

Maybe it’s time to quit discussing public transit officials and bureaucracies as though they were improving the world in a permanent way, and as though they will necessarily make cities better for everyone. We already know that’s hasn't been true.
>What's your test?

Please go stand at the base of an escalator into Civic Center Station on a warm summer day when it hasn't rained for a while, and take some deep breaths.

I refuse to be ashamed of my desire to avoid inhaling other people's piss and shit on a daily basis.

This country isn't ready for public space. We have too much work to do, to care for the people who will reliably show up to public space they have access to and turn them into urine-soaked, beggar-laden wasteland, before we can reasonably be indignant at the desire to avoid spending time in public space.

Like public bathrooms, for one thing. What must SF spend on its (futile) attempts to keep stations clean? Surely that could fund one public bathroom somewhere in the city to redirect some of the mess.
Do you really believe that engineers working in Uber's self-driving division sign the same contract as the guy who's moonlighting with his Prius?
Yeah, completely agree on how it is unrealistic to expect them to correct in such a situation.

I would think, though, that they'd still be smart enough to put someone competent in there. Because if there is an accident, it is still going to look bad on them and the tech. (and of course this supports what you are saying, that it simply isn't reasonable to expect them to do that)
I agree with the author. You can't judge the passion of someone by his behaviour, that's silly. You can be as well a passionate programmer when you don't code home than when you do.

However, coding home has one - big - perk: it's almost the only way for you to code something from scratch. Alone. You and your code. You and your progress rate. You and your bugs. You and your choices. You and your mess. Nobody to smooth any angle.

I believe coding from scratch - alone - makes you a completely different kind of programmer indeed. But it has nothing to do with passion. Nothing at all.

I think (I can be wrong, still trying to validate that) that "number of projects from scratch" is the metric that tells the ultimate level of a programmer. In other words, if you've almost never coded anything from scratch (below say 40-50 projects), I do believe you are not very good at programming. Conversely, I know from experience (my own) that coding from scratch can make you so good, that you would find Amazon SDEs complete novices (I know from my own experience at amazon) and this before your 30's. It can make you better than principal engineers before your 30's. It can make you so good that TDD, OOP and agile development sounds like novice exercises to you. It can make you a programming master and beyond.

Could you be as good without coding from scratch really? Well, ultimately maybe but not as fast. Coding from scratch is so painful, so hard, so stressful, so frustrating that maintaining code or adding small to medium sized features is a baby step in comparison. Now of course, if you add something pretty big to an existing code base or make a god damn big refactor, you're doing the same thing as coding from scratch basically. The thing is that it's rare you 1) add that big a feature to an existing codebase 2) alone, in a big company.

I'm pretty sure the author has passion for programming, probably as big as anyone else. And balanced life is good for skills as feeling great makes you more creative amongst other thing. It's just that coding home makes you write a type of code that is 100 times more difficult than the one you do in big companies. Paradoxically, I'm pretty sure interviewers don't, at least consciously, know that.
That reminds me of how I've always refused to allow pizzahut.com to store my credit card because they have some ridiculous password rules that make you choose a less secure password and therefore make me mistrust how they store data in general.
Paypal should work. I routinely use Paypal to pay for international vendors. I know this is not the preferred option, but they are well integrated with our Indian banks. As far as I know, Stripe and other similar options don't work in India.

I also remember using Amazon payments a couple of years back but that was to pay an US provider not Australia, so your mileage may vary.
There is one other interpretation of Pilot Wave theory that is sort of the "inverse" of Pilot Wave. and to me makes more sense. The PW may be correct but the particles are not following a wave that is moving around them. What is happening is that each particle is 'emitting' (spherically and radially outward from itself) a wave of its own. It is the interaction of all other waves that cause the particle to move. Just like a particle with mass distorts the spacetime around it, in a 'static way', perhaps charged particles distort spacetime in a way that is directly tied to the speed of light, and thus distort spacetime in a 'dynamic way'. But the fact that the slit experiment "works" even when we know only a single particle at a time is being sent thru, it just makes more intuitive sense that the particle is neither interacting with itself, nor with other universes (copies of itself). So what i'm saying is PW theory is FAR more intuitive than Copenhagen many-worlds to me. I believe there is genuinely one particle going thru the slit experiment when we think there is, and it follows the path thru in a way that is statistically determines much more by a PW-type theory than any other theory.
I realize and appreciate the very unfortunate situation that many poor and mentally ill [0] people are in. I want them to have access to health care, public transit, job opportunities, etc. I don't like when people cavalierly express the desire to be spared the sight of these people.

But the thing is, (living and working in downtown San Francisco) I see a lot of what I can only describe as harassment or assault committed by apparently mentally disturbed/ill [0] people. I genuinely don't know how to solve this problem, but I do think that people have a reasonable expectation to not encounter these situations in well-traveled public places.

[0] "mentally disturbed" and "mentally ill" are probably not the most precise or appropriate terms to use here. I do not know the correct terms but I appreciate any corrections.
Nope, you can get around that with superselection rules (which give you a mathematically rigorous thing that sort of looks like many worlds). Pilot wave and Einselection are the two most promising avenues into making sense of apparent wavefunction collapse, in my opinion.
That's not necessarily true. Companies certainly like to advocate for the idea that they automatically own any work you do that's relevant to any of their business interests, even if that work isn't relevant to your particular job. But that doesn't mean it'll hold up in court. Just a couple of days ago I was reading something about how courts regularly side with employees instead of employers in disputes like this, how they tend to interpret that as only applying to work relevant to the employee's job and not to other parts of the company. Unfortunately I don't remember where I was reading that, so I can't go find it again.

Of course, take this with a massive grain of salt. I'd certainly prefer not to have to go to court to try and figure out if this is actually true.
Oracle will become the new SCO :)

That said, the article is a bit fuzzy.

For example, if you want to use Flight Recorder you have to explicitly enable commercial features UnlockCommercialFeatures.

This is however free for non-production use. That is "designing, developing and testing"

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/...

> A. COMMERCIAL FEATURES. You may not use the Commercial Features for running Programs, Java applets or applications in your internal business operations or for any commercial or production purpose, or for any purpose other than as set forth in Sections B, C, D and E of these Supplemental Terms. If You want to use the Commercial Features for any purpose other than as permitted in this Agreement, You must obtain a separate license from Oracle.

> B. SOFTWARE INTERNAL USE FOR DEVELOPMENT LICENSE GRANT. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and restrictions and exceptions set forth in the README File incorporated herein by reference, including, but not limited to the Java Technology Restrictions of these Supplemental Terms, Oracle grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to reproduce internally and use internally the Software complete and unmodified for the purpose of designing, developing, and testing your Programs.
"syntax doesn't matter, only semantics!" is what I classify as geek machismo. I used to see a lot of that over at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org in its heyday.
a) It's extremely hard to defend against variants of social engineering, especially given the combinatorial proliferation of attack surfaces

b) the NSA doesn't really care about that aspect much
Yes, of course a dev with > 3 years experience should be able to fizz-buzz in their sleep! That's the point!

It's not devs with > 3 years experience or even > 6 months. failing fizzbuzz. It's people _pretending_ to be devs with > 3 years experience. Or folks who started in programming years ago and drifted so far they can't get back to nuts and bolts. Or people who know the principles but can't express them. Or any number of other cases.

Like other folks have posted here in response, I've seen some really sad fizz buzzes in my day, often from people who had no business being near a computer let alone interviewing for a tech job, but somehow landed a phone screen.

And let's never forget the best/worst fizz-buzz ever: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Fizz-Buzz-from-Outer-Spa...
Bat Bomb
Go here, search for "news": https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/search (it's linked to from the page).

Also...

http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/corpus/

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/

http://www.nltk.org/nltk_data/
Your best bet is probably to use the OpenJDK build for Windows. It's an MSI file and it doesn't have any of the Oracle crap attached to it.

https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview/
> Apparently, there would be approximately 5 people to stamp your visa.

I'd say that this is still the case. Last time I visited India, when I was exiting the parking garage at the airport, there was an automated machine to let you out. Give them the ticket, put money in, the barrier opens, and you drive out.

But there were also five people by this machine. One to take the ticket, another to take the money, and then another three to watch this process.

And it wasn't just that instance - there were quite a few instances during my travel when I noticed significantly more people assigned to a job than required.
https://madnight.github.io/githut/
San Francisco is almost unique in this. Of the entire set of cities in the world I have seen, none have a problem like this on a comparable scale. Perhaps it's more useful to ask what led to this situation in this one city, and look for constructive things to do to remedy it. It's certainly possible to have open, public transit that is clean and functional.

Walk around Berlin right now and count how many "screening" checkpoints their are in the train stations. Spoiler: there aren't even doors on all the entrances. Somehow, as if by magic, trains are clean and run on time. The strongest smell is from the food vendors in the attached mall.

Civil services are possible.

And they certainly don't require any draconian "screening" processes.
> it's a steady upward slope, even through down times.

Exactly what Madoff's returns looked like. I googled the guy behind Fractalgo, Rich Clifford. Looks like he's been through some shady dealings.
> But that's because Sweden has open carrier fiber network

The last mile isn't some nationwide open carrier network like Australia's planned NBN. In some places there are municipal open access networks, in some places it's co-ops of homeowners, but in many places it's all private networks (in every apartment I lived in in Malmö, it was all private fiber - either Telia, Tele2, Ownit, etc). But even though it was private it was better than what you can get in most US cities.
Who is Fourier? That taught me to think of calculus and mathematics as a form of human language rather than something that I had resisted before I got into computing, at the time i was a poet and performance artist I didn't see the value in pre-calculus, trig and statistics, now complex math is a basic part of my every day work doing training of machine learning AI.
Contains a link to a great FRP article:

https://medium.com/@stephenbunch/innovation-at-scale-why-git...
I wonder if people will actually get documentation for these, unlike many of their other devices. I'd hate to see server kerenels end up as much a wreck as phone kernels.
You can reproduce entanglement in a number of local theories. I always mention Einselection in these sorts of threads, because it's a very clean way to get something that looks like many-worlds but isn't hand-wavy and can reproduce entanglement via local mechanisms. In particular, contradictory measurements may take place, but they are forbidden from interacting via superselection rules (such that <x|A|y> = 0 for any observable A for contradictory states x and y). The math isn't as developed as Pilot Wave theory, but it's at least as aesthetically pleasing (deterministic, local, etc.). I guess it gives up definiteness, but in a less objectionable way than many worlds.
If the public majority want to favor the environment over cheap rides that's fine. I just want the public to decide unanimously with their dollars. If pollution becomes a large enough problem to sway the public at large to reallocate their dollars I firmly believe they will react in each individual's best interest.
Reputable VPN services use custom DH keys. At least 2048-bit. And they change them periodically.
There ain't a place in the world where a new 911 costs $33k USD.
I thought it was me. But now I see each job as a place where I grow my skills. I actively pick projects where I gain more technical skolls over those where I develop internal company knowledge.
Or:

Most people will get the advertised 10 hours, and now people won't think they're not because of an inaccurate estimate.
Show HN: Logoglyph, a random SVG generator written in Lua
> A single rail line can transport 20 times more than a freeway lane

It can do that because its riders are forced into miserably packed standing room.

Private vehicle transport can also be much denser if we give up such requirements as "sitting" and "personal space." You could pack, like, 20 people into a Camry and it'd still be far more pleasant than BART between 5-10am or 4-9pm. Of course, some of them would be in the trunk and others tied to the roof rack.
Three capitalist pigs were in a jail cell in the USSR. They were chatting, when the subject of their incarceration came up.

The first said, "I charged less than the market, and found guilty of dumping."

The second says, "I charged more than the market and was accused of gouging."

The last responded, "I charged the same as everyone else, and was accused of price fixing!"
Redditor got Bill Gates for Secret Santa
I believe it's because llvmlite is now suggested.

The llvmpy page mentions:

> Warning

> This project has been deprecated and is no longer being actively developed. We strongly suggest migrating to llvmlite.

http://llvmlite.pydata.org/en/latest/
NSA is just the US Foreign Intelligence and Government protection agency [1][2]. They do nothing, and are expected to do nothing, to protect domestic civilian assets.

NIST [3] is possibly the closest agency I'm aware of that exists to disseminate knowledge and standards to civilian organizations, but they're more interested (per their website, anyway) in simply advancing US business to be competitive in the global marketplace. That, and we've seen that they will bend to the NSA over such critical things as which elliptic curve ought to be recommended for use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

[2] https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/

[3] https://www.nist.gov/about-nist
Hello! I did this to learn Lua, figured it would probably help to get other people critiquing, harshness fully expected. I know it's probably fairly clumsy, it's my first time doing anything in Lua, and also my first time writing anything that emits SVG or other XML.

So, what do you think?
"fuck the game, don't let the game fuck you"
Maybe this is just a regional thing, but why in the world are you trying to pay for takeout with PayPal? If I'm with friends, one of us pays with a credit card or cash and the rest of us give them cash or square cash/venmo/bitcoin/whatever is mutually agreeable.

Half the point of a credit card is that transactions are repudiable for like 6 months, so if some careless food joint gets your credit card info stolen, it's not a huge inconvenience. You just call your bank, reverse the transaction, and get a new card in the mail in a day or two.

The real solution, of course, is to have push-based rather than pull-based digital payment systems, but consumer finance moves slowly.
There's actually some interesting discussion about making Clippy suggest ? instead of try: https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-clippy/issues/1361
I agree with this, but I suspect the bigger factor in the election result was that the "straight" news media had stopped going through the nonpartisan motions. They forgot that the tradition of the appearance of objectivity is more for the benefit of the news media than for the public. Once no one has a halo of open-mindedness, there's no reason to listen to Brian Williams over Ed Schultz or Sean Hannity. They could push a more conservative or independent public slightly to the left or to the center, but only slightly, and only when that's all they tried to do. This time they pushed too hard, and the whole edifice collapsed.

Frankly the news media seems not to have learned this lesson. If anything the last few weeks have seen them even further off the reservation. When in a decade it's clear that the institution of journalism is completely dead, this episode will loom large in explanation. "Journalists" are seriously arguing that providing relevant information about political candidates is an "attack on the nation". They're mortgaging all their credibility for the latest unsourced meta-analysis of months-old public information spoon-fed to them by petulant spurned spooks. Every day they come up with something goofier, and yet they can't escape the impression that we've heard this all before.

What stands out the most is the complete lack of objectivity. If a Republican candidate were crying about losing due to anonymous (even if vaguely Slavic...) revelations about her banal tawdriness, they'd be falling over themselves to laugh at her.
A decent system of psychiatric hospitals and available housing for the mentally-ill would solve the problem.
You sound like a massive jerk.
In my intro cosmology class, we modeled dark matter as a perfect fluid with some classical density field that interacted with everything else until some very short time after the Big Bang and then stopped interacting except by gravity. We set the equation of state to match that of normal matter: if you put 1 gram of dark matter in a box and slowly expand the box to double its volume, you still have 1 gram.

What makes fermionic dark matter be preferred over (massive) bosonic dark matter? I'm not sure why it should make any difference.
>Sounds exactly like whataboutism.

Nope. This is simple inductive reasoning.

> Look, Bush knew confidential information that no one outside the government could and still made those decisions.

Yes, and they were probably reasonable decisions, given what he knew at the time.

>Stop trying to deflect this with some unrelated person who wasn't in the government, had no security clearance, and had nothing to do with the invasion. It's simply irrelevant.

It would be irrelevant if people who also don't have information no one outside the government could are using the Iraq war to draw conclusions about Bush's intelligence.
Do you have any recommendations for books for managers written by managers? The last book I skimmed on this topic was "The Alliance," by some people at linkedIn. According to one of the reviews on amazon it mainly just talks about industry-wide blacklists for employees if they leave their jobs for a better one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13196431
4 questions to ask about artificial intelligence in your business
All of that was prior leadership. Satya has largely reversed this trend (which wasn't limited to Microsoft) and has gone the polar opposite of open source licensing a-la BSD/Apache licenses (no strings attached) and joining the Linux foundation.
OpenJDK is fine.
Landed my first side project and it has been a blast. The commitment you feel for your own project is completely different than my work projects.
Evaluating Points on Surfaces and in Volumes Using the GPU Texture Sampler
A Political Cartoon and a Markov Chain
Amen to sunlight! Why is that such a hard thing for companies to understand?
Think about scale.
Agreed upon by whom? I certainly didn't agree on this.
If someone is the type of person that gets nervous in an interview, these are the people that really need to do good side projects.
This happens to me at least once a year but I still consider it a huge inconvenience. Two days is an eternity, especially to be without my primary card. I don't wait that long for socks from Amazon. One day is generally my expectation at this point and for a lot of things it's same day. I'd really like to see banks/card companies step up their game in getting new cards out to people.